What does it really mean to call yourself a witch in 2025?

In this deeply honest and expansive conversation, I’m joined by Maritza Schafer, founder of Bruja School and teacher of the Liberation Magic Method. Together, we explore reclaiming spiritual power, healing the witch wound, dismantling spiritual individualism, and why embodied, community-rooted witchcraft matters now more than ever.

We talk about ancestral wisdom, spiritual connection beyond religion, manifesting in a broken system, and the courage it takes to say, “Yes, I’m a witch.”

Maritza Schäfer is the founder of Bruja School, where she teaches the Liberation Magic Method. Her teachings center around a simple premise: the secret to life (and everything you truly want) is spiritual connection, free from religious trauma and new age b.s. Grounded in her Indigenous Chilean and Mediterranean lineage, Maritza blends ancestral wisdom with practical coaching. She equips people with powerful spiritual tools and real magic to create meaningful lives and bring transformation to their communities.

If you’ve ever felt the tension between mysticism and practicality… between capitalism and community… between hiding and fully owning your magic… this episode is for you.

✨ In this episode we explore:

-What it truly means to be a witch today

-The difference between spirituality and religion

-Liberation Magic and embodied power

-Manifestation without spiritual bypassing

-Why community is essential for healing

-Reclaiming ancestral wisdom

-Navigating visibility and the “broom closet”

-The collapse of old systems and spiritual leadership

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What happens when our words are no longer our own?

In this solo episode, Eileen explores the growing presence of AI in our creative and spiritual spaces, and how it intersects with the witch wound, the ancestral fear of being seen, heard, and cast out for speaking truth.

This is a raw, reflective conversation about voice, power, creativity, exhaustion, and what it means to stay human in a world obsessed with optimization. Not a manifesto. Not a hot take. An invitation to wonder.

Eileen also shares details about her upcoming free Witch Wound Masterclass on February 18th, where she will guide participants through understanding and healing this ancient wound.

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Your voice matters. Your humanity matters.

Imbolc is often framed as the start of spring—but what if it’s actually a pause? A threshold. A moment of becoming.

In this solo episode, Eileen explores Winterspring—the liminal space where winter softens and light begins its slow return. Drawing on Celtic mythology, folk wisdom, Brigid, the Cailleach, and the Wheel of the Year, this episode invites you to release urgency and honour what is quietly stirring beneath the surface.

This is a conversation about slowness, initiation, ancestral memory, and learning to trust the seasons—within the land and within yourself.

✨ You don’t need to begin yet. You’re not behind. You’re exactly where you’re meant to be.

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Burnout isn’t just about doing too much — it’s about living out of alignment.

In this episode of the Woo Curious Podcast, Eileen sits down with Hope Pedraza, functional diagnostic nutrition practitioner and human design guide, to explore the deeper roots of burnout, hormonal imbalance, and adrenal exhaustion.

Together, they unpack the powerful connection between minerals, hormones, energy centers, and motional health, why so many women feel dismissed by conventional medicine, and how understanding your energetic design can help you heal without burning out again.

This episode is for spiritually curious women ready to trust their bodies, reclaim their energy, and approach healing as a whole-body, whole-soul experience ✨

Hope Pedraza is a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, Human Design Guide, Clinical Hypnotherapist, and host of the Hopeful and Wholesome podcast. She helps high-performing, spiritually curious women optimize their energy, rebalance their nervous system, and reconnect with their body’s wisdom so they can scale their business and life without burnout. Her signature method blends functional labs, Human Design embodiment, frequency medicine, and subconscious reprogramming to create sustainable radiance from the inside out.

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✨ And remember: your body isn’t broken — it’s communicating.

What if you didn’t need to feel ready before you began?

In this solo birthday episode, Eileen reflects on growth, rest, trust, and the power of small, loving choices made consistently. Through stories of embodiment, identity shifts, and sacred beginnings, she invites listeners to pause, take stock, and choose a gentler way forward.

This episode explores rest as rebellion, listening to the body, beginning imperfectly, and reclaiming joy as a spiritual practice.

If you’re standing at a threshold, craving permission to slow down or start again, this conversation is for you.

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What if beginnings weren’t meant to be rushed?

In this solo episode, Eileen explores why January isn’t a true beginning, how urgency disconnects us from our bodies, and why meaningful change requires nervous system safety and embodied presence.

This is a conversation about sacred starts, ritual over routine, cyclical time, and learning to begin from where you actually are — not from pressure, productivity, or expectation.

Perfect for anyone feeling weary of “new year” energy and longing for a gentler, wiser way forward.

✨ A grounded reminder that you don’t need to leap — you only need to arrive.

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January 1st is often framed as a fresh start—but energetically, it rarely feels that way.

In this reflective throwback episode of the Woo Curious Podcast, Eileen March and former co-host Ellie McMillan explore why the Gregorian New Year can feel rushed, anxious, and misaligned—and what happens when we reconnect with cyclical, seasonal wisdom instead.

This conversation weaves together:
• The Wheel of the Year
• Intentions vs. resolutions
• Word of the Year practices
• Nervous system–aware goal setting
• Ritual as support, not pressure

This episode is an invitation to slow down, honour where you actually are, and begin again in a way that feels true.

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Grief doesn’t ask to be rushed—and it doesn’t cancel out joy.

In this episode of the Woo Curious Podcast, Eileen sits down with Yarrow Magdalena, grief companion and host of Grief Magic, for a gentle, honest conversation about loss, ritual, and what it means to live alongside grief in a culture that struggles to hold it.

Together they explore grief as sacred, the importance of grief literacy, how creativity and textiles can support mourning, and why connecting with land and seasons can help us feel less alone. This episode is for anyone who has loved, lost, and is learning how to keep their heart open anyway. A soft place to land. 🌑✨

Yarrow Magdalena lives on the East coast of Scotland, facilitates creative projects and gentle rituals for seasons of loss, and makes handmade grief quilts, alongside hosting the Grief Glimmers podcast.

Yarrow is excited to change the culture around grief and to normalize death so that we can explore these experiences as gateways into a softer, more embodied life.

Yarrow also runs a web design studio over at PinkWellStudio.com

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