Dear Spin Sisters...
The Dear Spin Sisters podcast began at the height of the pandemic with the purpose of sharing women's stories and has evolved into a record of a seven year journey filled with personal insights, mistakes we would laugh about and lessons learned.
Updated in 2026, Dear Spin Sisters takes an honest look at what it means to search for meaning and to strive for your higher purpose. There is no magic potion except the willingness to be gentle with yourself and others and to accept that we all have the genetic capability to evolve beyond our current reality.
It is our hope that you'll gather with friends, savor stories of your own and linger a while in the bliss of real human connection.
Episodes
37 episodes
A Story About Ayahuasca
The tables are turned in this episode as Teri Hirss takes the mic and interviews Jayne on her first experience with the ancient plant medicine Ayahuasca. In November, Jayne attended four Ayahuasca ceremonies that changed her life.<...
Let's Talk About Psilocybin Research!
Jayne and Teri go deeper into the discussion regarding psilocybin recreational and therapeutic uses referencing the current research to make a case for using this plant medicine to help people break out of old patterns and beliefs.Learn...
Psilocybin Journeys: An update from two clinicians!
Join Jayne as she welcomes back Teri Hirss to continue the conversation about their adventures with plant medicine, specifically psilocybin medicine and why "set and setting" are critical to the journey and the outcome.During this episo...
Our First Psilocybin Experience
Join my special guest, Teri Hirss as we venture into our first plant medicine experience. This year's podcast will focus on connection - connecting to the earth through plant medicine and ceremony, connecting to each other at a time on this pla...
CJ & Roxy Together Again 2022
CJ welcomes Roxy back as a guest on the Dear Spin Sisters Podcast. This episode covers a broad range of topics from the celebration of their completion of Nena's Bones, a screenplay based on their book Shut Your Mouth
To Nurses! A Happy New You in 2022
This episode is dedicated to the front line, to the nurses who have stood by thousands of patients who died of COVID in 2021. The host, Jayne Van Brunt, talks about burnout, her fear that nurses are leaving in droves and...
Christmas 2021
Jayne aka CJ (Calamity Jayne) updates the listeners on the screenplay and tells a funny story about asking for help and learns an important lesson regarding shadow selves. The episode focuses on naming feelings, and that there are more than thr...
CJ Turns 59!
On this episode, CJ talks about setting yourself up for a year where your dreams come true by answering a few clarifying questions and by creating a vision board. Jayne also tells the listeners what she's worried about because of the Covid vacc...
The Mandate
Jayne Van Brunt aka Calamity Jayne describes her emotions surrounding the recent WA state mandate which has effected her and those around her. The first episode without Roxy is difficult as CJ realizes collaboration is much more fun than going ...
Hello Again from CJ & Roxy
CJ & Roxy are back following a break to work on their screenplay. They share exciting news about Roxy and update listeners on their plans to finish out 2021!
What's New in CJ and Roxy's World
Join Calamity and Roxy as they discuss this week's favorite movie, books, and podcasts. Find out what's happening with the Big Emma screenplay and take a few minutes to think about how you're doing moving towards the big dreams you set for 2021...
Mother's Day Special: A Daughter's Interview w/Roxy
Roxy interviews CJ's daughter, Taylor as a gift for Mother's Day.
CJ & Roxy What's Happening
On this episode, Roxy admits to yelling at a traffic cop and both talk about why it's so hard to take a pause before reacting to an external stimulus, despite all efforts to do otherwise.They also announce the closing of their Facebook ...
CJ & Roxy Weekly Update: Screenplay On Location!
Join Calamity Jayne and Roxy on location for the first time in months as they continue their journey towards producing an actual screenplay! Listen in as they discuss the steps they've taken so far to put ideas and scenes on paper....
CJ & Roxy Weekly Update: Screenplay Adventure Continues
Listen in as CJ & Roxy talk about how they've managed to fit their desire to write a screenplay into their normal and busy lives. They discuss how choices are important and managing the drama that is life in order to focus on what they want...
CJ & Roxy Weekly Update: Screenplay Adventure
What's new for Calamity Jayne and Roxy this week as they continue to learn more about writing a screenplay. Join the discussion as they consider different ways to join the stories of three women spanning multiple generations. Weigh...
CJ and Roxy Screenplay Update
There is so much to learn about the tips and tricks to telling a great story! CJ and Roxy talk about last week and the lessons learned about being screenplay writers. They also play with ideas about the best way to adapt the book to the screenp...
CJ and Roxy Screenplay Update
Join CJ and Roxy as they share updates on their progress towards completing a screenplay adapted from their book, Shut Your Mouth!Come along for the journey as they learn tips and tricks to putting together a screenplay that will...
Here's What We Learned_2
CJ & Roxy offer their weekly update on learning to write a screenplay adapted from their novel, Shut Your Mouth. As they mention, while the listeners may not be interested in writing their own screenplay, the tips to setting out go...
S2E2 CJ & Roxy Interview Mothers & Daughters
In the second season of Dear Spin Sisters, Calamity Jayne and Roxy begin exploring other women's familial stories by asking questions about the important female figures that helped to shape them. During this first of many monthly event...
Season 2 Launch: Executing 2021 Plans
Join Calamity Jayne and Roxy as they review season one, introduce season two plans, and discuss their own vision to create a screenplay and treatment for their book Shut Your Mouth: Advice I Ignored, Lessons She Taught by October 17, 2...
Screw New Years Resolutions
Calamity Jayne and Roxy explore 2020, the good things they learned from a very unique and complicated year, and the experiences they will let go of as they bring in the New Year with you. They share a few tips on ways to create a new yea...
Let It Go
Calamity Jayne and Roxy explore why it's sometimes so difficult to let go of the judgements that cause us ongoing pain and sometimes bitterness or self-loathing. They talk about not only the blame and hurt others may place on us but how often t...
Judge Judy
In this episode, Calamity Jayne and Roxy explore the various ways we judge and have a little fun with their own rules for life. When in your life did you feel judged harshly or wrongly for your actions? When did you judge others in a similar ma...
Hope Smells Like Warm Bread
Calamity Jayne and Roxy explore reasons to be hopeful at a time in our lives when many traditions surrounding the holidays have been put on hold one more time. In this episode they remember some simple examples of what hope meant to them ...