Ep 125 - How to turn your wounds into the wisdom you’re here to share
WITH tad hargrave
On the Secret Witch Show today, our guest is Tad Hargrave. Tad is a hippy who developed a knack for marketing (and then learned how to be a hippy again). Since 2001, he’s been weaving together strands of ethical marketing, Waldorf School education, a history in the performing arts, local culture work, anti-globalization activism, an interest in his ancestral, traditional cultures, community building and supporting local economies into this work of helping people create profitable businesses that are ethically grown while restoring the beauty of the marketplace.
In this episode, we explore how our deepest wounds often point toward the wisdom we’re here to share with the world as healers. Tad offers a refreshing lens on marketing as healing - showing how integrity, honesty, and right-relationship can become sacred acts of service. We speak about transforming our wounds into our gifts, learning to share our magic without manipulation, and reclaiming business as a soulful exchange that honours both the Witch and the world.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
Coercion is everywhere - from birth to business - but healing begins when we choose integrity over manipulation
We are branded by life - marked by our wounds in ways that show where our true medicine lives
Our wounds show us the terrain we know best - the places we can now guide others through with humility and heart
True marketing is love in action - remembering that business can be a sacred exchange, not a performance of persuasion
Credibility doesn’t come from certificates - it comes from ‘heft’: the weight of having lived, healed, walked the land and returned with wisdom to share
When we turn our wounds into architecture - creating real offerings rooted in what we’ve healed - our work becomes medicine for the world.
Resources and Things that We Spoke About:
Tad’s Links:
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/hippymarketer
Instagram - @marketingforhippies
You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/user/radicalbusiness
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Resources:
Derick Jenson - A Language Older Than Words / The Culture of Make Believe - https://derrickjensen.org/language-older-than-words/
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