Interviews with Innocence

About Interviews with Innocence

My name is Marla Hughes. I have worked with children my entire life. I have a Master's degree in Exercise Physiology. I have worked in the pediatric transplant unit at UCSF Hospital in San Francisco, teaching children about exercise, good nutrition and relaxation. I also worked at the Center for Attitudinal Healing with its founder, Dr. Gerald Jampolsky, using art and music therapy to help young children who had life threatening diseases or who had a parent or loved one who was severely ill. My greatest teachers, however, have been my children. I have never experienced a love that deep or profound. I created this podcast because I am intrigued by how children can help us reconnect with our spiritual selves. I believe the young are our teachers; after all they are the masters of living in the moment, enjoying the messiness of life and curious about the universe in all it's dimensions. They are not concerned with ego or comparisons. These young souls enter life with driblets of heaven clinging to them, still in touch with their memories of past lives and the people and places they had known before. I want to explore and share this wisdom.

Publisher

Marla Hughes | Podcast Host

Category

kids & family · religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

21 Nov 2019

Latest episode

27 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

3 of 278 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   27 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Episode 254 - Learning, Growing, and Loving: Lessons from the Other Side

   Host Marla interviews near-death experience survivor Stephen Weber about profound lessons learned from his coma and life review.

2. 

   13 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Episode 253 - When Spirit Holds Us: Healing, Compassion, and the Passing of My Beloved Pet Daisy with Brooke Grove

   In this deeply meaningful episode of Interviews with Innocence, we welcome Brooke Grove—a complex trauma survivor-thriver, near-death experiencer, former psychotherapist, author, and multidisciplinary integrative healer working in co-creation with Spirit. Brooke's journey bridges both the scientific and spiritual worlds. With advanced degrees in Clinical Psychology, Marital and Family Therapy, and Clinical Art Therapy, she spent years working within traditional psychotherapy before being called into a more expansive path of healing that integrates consciousness, energy medicine, and spiritual guidance. Her work today draws from an extraordinary range of training and experience, including Shamanic Energy Medicine, Quantum Fieldwork, Transpersonal Neuroscience, trauma-informed psychedelic therapy, and psychedelic-assisted integration. Through this multidimensional approach, Brooke helps people explore, transmute, and transform deeply rooted emotional and energetic patterns. During our conversation, Brooke shares how profound life experiences—including trauma and a near-death experience—expanded her understanding of consciousness and opened the door to a deeper partnership with Spirit in her healing work. We also explore the emerging field of psychedelic-assisted healing and the importance of ethical guidance, integration, and spiritual awareness when navigating expanded states of consciousness. In a very personal moment during the episode, I share how Brooke supported me during the passing of my beloved labradoodle, Daisy. Her compassion, presence, and spiritual perspective brought comfort during a tender and emotional time, reminding me that healing and connection often appear when we need them most. This episode is a beautiful exploration of resilience, spiritual awakening, and the ways we can transform life's most challenging moments into opportunities for growth, compassion, and deeper connection. Brooke's upcoming memoir, The Beauty in the Broken Glass, shares her powerful story of trauma, transcendence, and the journey toward healing and light.

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   26 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Episode 252 - Seven Days in the Desert: A Psychic, a Mine Shaft, and a Missing Dog with Eric and Laurie Kirkland

   In this unforgettable episode of Interviews with Innocence, Marla sits down with Laurie and Eric Kirkland to share a story that feels almost cinematic in its intensity — and yet, every word is true. Forty years ago, while camping in the Calico Mountains, Laurie and Eric's beloved dog Jesse vanished without a trace. What followed was a week of heartbreak, relentless searching, radio ads, flyers, and a 500 dollar reward. And then… a psychic entered the story. What she revealed would guide them to a shocking discovery — including a mysterious collapsed mine shaft, a "big green rock," and a desperate race against time. Seven days after disappearing in open desert surrounded by coyotes, Jesse was found alive. In this episode, we explore: ✨ The emotional toll of losing a beloved animal ✨ Why they decided to call a dog psychic ✨ The details she described that proved eerily accurate ✨ The moment she screamed, "He's out!" ✨ The meaning of intuition and unseen guidance ✨ How this experience shifted their view of psychic ability ✨ Eric's later experience with medium John Edward ✨ Signs from loved ones in spirit This conversation is about devotion, persistence, and the mysterious ways hope sometimes answers back. Sometimes faith looks like searching one more canyon.

Inside a recent episode

Episode 254 - Learning, Growing, and Loving: Lessons from the Other Side

Published 27 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And I had to guess who they were. And so at first I relied upon their physical experience appearance or their mannerisms. But after a while, I felt that energy and we feel that energy every day. You walk down the street, you say, oh, wow, that person has really good energy or that person has not so good energy. But I've learned to really tune into that to the point that I didn't even have to see the person is that I could just feel their energy. And once I could feel that energy and everybody and everything, I scaled the world around me and I saw everything much differently because now I could sense what people are thinking, what's going on. […]

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

46 ratings

Spotify

4.5 / 5

12 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 69 / 100

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Quality

84

Social presence

94

YouTube

0

Engagement

90

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