A new podcast from your favorite witch.

Listen to Voices in the River on Apple Podcasts & Spotify.

Produced by Theo Balcomb

Rebecca Auman created the show with journalist Theo Balcomb. She and Rebecca dive into how they’ve channeled these conversations, what they’ve learned since they began, and why loosening up can teach us everything doesn’t have to be so hard.

SaraJo Berman is a healer but her healing practice has nothing to do with her. She and Rebecca discuss how it's all about “the object or the person or the living animal or the tree” that she’s with, offering a space in which they are safe, and able to heal themselves.

Artists Murielle Elizéon and Shana Tucker join Rebecca to dive deep into chosen sisters, ancestral journeys, and generational trauma.

Elizabeth Greenwood is a writer who questions things that other people don’t necessarily think about. She’s now diving into writing a book about intuition, a process kicked off by becoming a mother. She and Rebecca discuss how becoming a parent showed her a new sense of knowing, how manifesting can be hijacked for capitalist gains, and how giving birth and using psychedelics are surprisingly similar.

Jordan-Marie Smith is holding a lot: growing up in a traditional, Seventh-day Adventist community, finding power in tarot, maintaining a belief in God and in herself, finding joy in what she manifests, and fear about what might happen if it all works out. She and Rebecca talk about holding the divine god within us and, as Jordan-Marie puts it, "hobbling and cobbling" your own religion.

After they first met, Rebecca and her friend Meredith Emmett were creating a conspiracy of success for each other. Then they didn’t speak for 18 years. How did they find their way back?

Listening to your intuition is at the core of Rebecca’s teachings. Together, she and Emily Lerner, a coach for leaders across industries, discuss what intuition feels like, how it’s often like a radio station, and how you can tune into it yourself.

How do science and mystery coexist? For Dr. Sarah Laszlo, her intuition informs her work as a cognitive neuroscientist. She and Rebecca discuss what it’s like to be an experienced, smart, big, loud woman in a place of power, how to keep yourself whole when you start a new job, and the idea that how we learn to read is magick.

When Rebecca was dreaming of who to feature on the next episode of Voices in the River, one image kept resurfacing, asking to speak with her: It was her stage actor friend, Kate Eastwood Norris, playing Lady Macbeth. Now Rebecca and Kate finally get that chance to talk. The two of them discuss the different identities we all play like theater roles — whether or not we’re actors — and how we can bring them all together to become whole.

Rebecca feels as if she’d be a bad witch if she didn’t have at least one conversation about nature here. Enter Keri Rosebraugh, a critically acclaimed artist who brings nature into every one of her creations. She and Rebecca discuss the role that nature, the shadow and the sublime play in making art. What if our shadow work -- what we repress or do not like to acknowledge -- is really our brilliance?

Katie Harbath is an edge walker. She walks the line between the Midwest and East Coast, and between being a good Catholic and a wonderful witch. A single woman in her 40s, working at the intersection of tech, elections, and geopolitics, she contains multitudes -- which don’t often match up with the expectations of family and society writ large. In this episode, Katie and Rebecca talk about learning how to trust themselves and find comfort in just being -- oh, and how Katie uses AI to generate images from her shamanic journeys.

Rebecca Auman has been using tarot to make life decisions for over 30 years. But this episode’s guest, Emi Kolawole, only recently turned to tarot as a way to help her “tell a different kind of story.” She explains how tarot opened a window on what she had been hoping to find: who she was without work, and what it was she really wanted. They discuss how something as simple as paying attention to your internal knowing can be such a disruptive force.

So many people, many of them women, have been punished for speaking their truth. What if one of them was your ancestor? In this episode, Rebecca talks to Amy Gorely about her shamanic journey to the underworld, and the lengths she went to in order to bring her great-grandmother back into the light of family memory. *This episode contains references to suicide.

Rebecca Auman helps women remember who they are and become leaders of their own destiny. In this episode, your devoted witch tells us how she got here — her background, her initial hesitations making the show, and what she hopes it will achieve.


What people are saying about Voices in the River

ACTUAL BRAIN BALM

Lpmnhnyc, 11/01/2023

“The mere sound of Rebecca's voice makes me unclench every muscle in my body. And as if *that* wasn't reason enough to listen, her discussion of women reclaiming their power (!!!) is a void yet to be adequately filled in the pod universe.

So now you can stop doom scrolling and instead, absorb content that inspires a sense of wonder, curiosity and (all too rare that days), hope.”

A powerful and beautiful production

Redheadhmw, 11/05/2023

“The words are reflective and the score is stunning. Love hearing voices of intuitive women. Bravo! Can’t wait to hear more.”

Lean into the woo

Sara McCrea, Writer and Audio Producer

“I really enjoyed both episodes! The first one was especially moving. I love that the theme throughout is how this kind of witchy activity gives women who have been silenced a voice, and how women are using these practices now as reparative acts for those who came before and who were shut down by stigma. This through-line (with the pilot giving a eulogy for a silenced ancestor and with the tarot episode talking about the importance of seeing women in power on the cards) lets the series lean into the woo without losing authenticity, even finding authenticity in the woo. 💕 Rebecca is a great talent!!”