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The Secret Room | True Stories

168. Medicine Man

The Secret Room | True Stories

Ben Hamm

Storytelling, Personal Journals, Story, Podcast, Stories, True, Society & Culture

4.42.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Agatha tells us about the cult she was raised in and a trip she was sent on that included a ritual ceremony and an explosion that nearly killed her. It was an adventure of a lifetime that she can never talk about.

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0:00.0

Thanks to Athletic Greens for supporting the secret room. Athletic Greens is

0:04.2

going to give you a free one-year supply of immune supporting vitamin D and

0:08.2

five free travel packs with your first purchase. Go to Athletic Greens.com slash

0:12.8

secret to take ownership over your health and pick up the ultimate daily

0:16.4

nutritional insurance.

0:18.4

Okay, I have a straight secret. It's a little embarrassing. I very much think that

0:27.2

we should all do our best for the planet. I've got my emotional support water

0:31.4

bottle. I reuse all my plastic grocery bags as trash liners and I buy reusable

0:38.3

grocery bags because I would like to actually stop using plastic bags so much.

0:43.7

So every time I walk into the grocery store almost every time I'll buy a few.

0:47.8

They're so cute. I have so many. I have the ones that fold out into like a little

0:53.1

box. I have the ones that fold into themselves like a little ball. I've got the ones

0:57.3

you can hold into like a little square. Oh, I've got those funny papery felt

1:01.9

ones. It's like stiff. Some kind of weird material. Anyway, I got a variety of bags

1:07.6

and they are everywhere. I have some in my house. I have some in my office. I have

1:11.8

some in my car. There's even one in my backpack. Here's the problem. I never take

1:16.9

the dang reusable bag back to the dang grocery store to be reused for its

1:21.7

intended grocery stories will purpose. It's a struggle. What's like a question?

1:39.7

I haven't been so devastated in my life. Today, my guest reveals a sweeping

1:47.0

adventure she had as a teen and I thought, well, maybe this is my destiny. When she was sent

1:51.4

on an overseas trip, something happened in the middle of the night. She had

1:55.5

experiences that shaped her life. He was on the floor. He was crying, screaming. But there's

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