Return to Weird is a space for curious, sensitive, and creative humans who feel called to expand, go deeper, and live from their inner truth. Hosted by Jessa, the podcast explores embodiment, consciousness, and soul-aligned living through reflections and conversations with creatives, healers, and visionaries.
This is an invitation to fully inhabit who you are and embrace the weirdness that makes you uniquely you. It's time to Return to Weird.
Feminine Magic, Motherhood & Reclaiming Your Voice with Alicia Corey
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Jessa sits down with Alicia Corey to explore feminine magic, motherhood, the good girl archetype, and what it means to come home to yourself after years of self-abandonment. Alicia shares her traumatic entry into motherhood after giving birth prematurely while living on a remote island in Alaska, and how years later she realized how much of herself she had lost in the process of becoming “the good girl,” “the good wife,” and “the capable woman.” As a mother t...
15 May 2026
Why Your Body is Wiser Than Your Willpower: Breaking the Binge/Restrict Cycle with Stefanie Michele
Send us Fan Mail In this conversation, Jessa sits down with Stefanie Michele to explore the deeper roots of body image, binge/restrict cycles, and recovery beyond food. Stefanie shares her personal journey of almost seven years of recovery after decades of struggling with eating disorders, and how her work now focuses on what sits underneath symptoms: nervous system patterns, cultural conditioning, and identity formation. The conversation moves through the tension between body acceptance and ...
4 May 2026
Reclaiming the Truth the Patriarchy Tried to Silence with Francesca Raffa
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Jessa speaks with Francesca Raffa, feminine liberation mentor, intuitive channel, and vocal alchemist, about the feminine path as a spiral of remembering, deconditioning, and embodied reclamation. Together, they explore the wounded maiden, mother wound, dark feminine, womb healing, cyclical wisdom, difficult relationships as initiations, and what it means to return to the body, voice, and feminine truth in a world built on disconnection. 00:00 Introduction to...
14 Apr 2026
Ritual as Remedy: Intuition & Feminine Power with Mara Branscombe
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I sit down with Mara Branscombe—author of Ritual as Remedy, ceremonialist, spiritual coach, yoga teacher, and meditation guide—to explore what ritual really is and why it matters now more than ever. We talk about attention as a form of power, the difference between instinct and intuition, and how modern life disconnects us from both. We also move into the feminine path—people pleasing, self-abandonment, the void state, and what it means to come back into your...
24 Mar 2026
Feeling Blocked? How to Fully Step Into Your Soul Mission with Ken Franceschi
Send us Fan Mail In this conversation, Ken Franceschi shares a different perspective on why those blocks keep resurfacing. Instead of something being “wrong” or unfinished, he introduces the idea that these patterns are part of a deeper blueprint—something your soul chose as a path for expansion. We talk about what it actually means to move through these patterns (not just manage them), the difference between treating symptoms vs. addressing the root, and how his modality—trans-quantum energ...
17 Mar 2026
Folk Herbalism, Earth-Based Spirituality & Learning From the Plants with Zoe Schapira
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Return to Weird, I sit down with folk herbalist Zoe Schapira to explore plant wisdom, earth-based spirituality, ancestral healing, and what it means to reconnect with the natural world in a culture that keeps us disconnected from our bodies. We talk about what folk herbalism actually is, how Zoe learned to listen to plants through the wise woman tradition, and the profound healing that can happen when we return to relationship with the earth. We also explor...
10 Mar 2026
The Hidden Pattern Running Your Life (And How to Change It) | Michael Boyle
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Return to Weird, Jessa sits down with psychotherapist and coach Michael Boyle to explore the hidden patterns that keep us stuck in survival mode. After surviving a catastrophic injury that left him unknowingly living with a six-inch rupture in his diaphragm for 24 years, Michael was forced to become a master of nervous system regulation while his body remained in a constant state of alarm. Through that journey, he developed a framework for understanding how...
24 Feb 2026
Voice as Medicine: Expression, Safety, and the Path Back to Self with Talitha Ferri
Send us Fan Mail In this conversation, Talitha Ferri discusses the significance of the voice as a medium for connection and self-expression, and how disconnection from one's voice can manifest in various ways. Talitha shares her journey of vocal awakening, the impact of relational trauma on expression, and the necessity of building nervous system capacity for personal growth. The conversation also touches on the balance between individual growth and collective service, the complexities of sur...
17 Feb 2026
Why Discipline Feels like Freedom with GianMarco Ricchiari
Send us Fan Mail GianMarco Ricchiari is an entrepreneur, videographer, marketer, biohacker on a quest to remind people how powerful they really are. In this conversation, GianMarco Ricchiari shares his journey of self-discovery, exploring themes of meditation, mindfulness, and personal growth. He discusses the importance of surrounding oneself with inspiring individuals, the role of biohacking in health optimization, and the significance of gratitude in achieving happiness. GianMarco em...
10 Feb 2026
Disordered Eating, Control & the Female Nervous System (with Emma Duncan)
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Return to Weird, Jessa sits down with women’s health coach Emma Duncan for a raw, grounded conversation about food, control, nervous system regulation, and coming back into the body. Emma shares her personal journey from disordered eating, anxiety, and performance-driven fitness into a more regulated, embodied relationship with movement, food, and herself. Together, Jessa and Emma explore why slowing down can feel more threatening than pushing harder — espe...
3 Feb 2026
The Gene Keys: Why Your Shadow is the Key to Love, Purpose, and Genius (with Elijah Parker)
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Return to Weird, Jessa sits down with Elijah Parker — Gene Keys Guide, Ambassador, and Co-CEO of the Gene Keys — for a grounded, embodied conversation about shadow, relationships, grief, and what it means to stay open in a time of collective change. Together, they explore how the Gene Keys reframe shadow not as something to fix or transcend, but as a living intelligence carrying hidden gifts. They talk about relationships as mirrors, gentleness as a radical...
27 Jan 2026
Channeling, The Energetic Feminine, and Lemuria (Mu) | with Gita Rose
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Return to Weird, Jessa sits down with Gita Rose (and the channel known as Bella) to talk about what most ET / starseed conversations miss: the body, ancestry, Earth, and the organic human blueprint. We explore why the “alien DNA” narrative can become another form of spiritual bypassing, how longing for “ascension” can subtly keep us rejecting the present moment, and what it actually looks like to come home to ourselves. Gita shares her path into channelin...
20 Jan 2026
Empaths, Entities & Energetic Boundaries with Biba Logan
Send us Fan Mail In this conversation, Jessa and multidimensional hypnotherapist Biba Logan explore what it means to grow up intuitive, empathic, and aware in a world that teaches you to doubt what you know. Biba shares the childhood moment that awakened her connection to a higher guidance — a voice that spoke to the essence of who she is — and how that moment shaped her entire spiritual path. Together, they explore: ✨ Empathy, "knowing," and growing up highly sensitive. ✨ Addiction, depressi...
13 Jan 2026
The Moment Most People Quit (Right Before Everything Changes)
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Jessa explores the part of personal growth no one talks about — the contraction that shows up right before everything changes. If you’ve been feeling resistance, fear, hesitation, or like you’re “backsliding” right when you’re about to move forward, this episode is for you. You’ll learn why your nervous system doesn’t register expansion as growth — it registers it as uncertainty — and why that’s exactly why the moment before a breakthrough can feel like pani...
5 Jan 2026
Robert Falconer on The Porous Mind, IFS, and Spirit in Healing
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Return to Weird, Jessa sits down with Robert Falconer — pioneering IFS teacher, author of The Others Within Us, and one of the boldest voices expanding the boundaries of Internal Family Systems therapy. They explore the porousness of mind, unattached burdens, ancestral and collective trauma, and the essential role of spirit in psychological healing. Falconer shares the moment he first encountered something “not from a client’s system” and how that experienc...
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