56. Real Talk on Marriage, Plants, Kids, Business - My Husband, Owen Lindsay
Medicine Stories
Amber M Hill
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2019
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Owen never thought he’d be a dad, neither of us planned on getting married, and we had no idea that our love for plants would play such a big role in sustaining our relationship. Here’s a peek into how we make our lives together work...
IN THE INTRO:
- Elderberry & Motherwort
- Three things that make our marriage work
IN THE INTERVIEW:
- How we met and then, six years later, got together (St. John’s Wort oil played a role)
- Why we pretended we weren’t falling in love even when we clearly were
- What we were doing before we got together, and how we’ve changed and grown together
- How Owen, who never thought he’d have kids, transitioned first into the role of stepdad and then new father
- How we find balance and prioritize our marriage while sharing kids, land, a home, and a business (spoiler alert: we don’t)
- What roles we each take on within the family and the business
- Ramblings on getting married and raising kids in middle age
- Parenting a teenager and a threenager
- Adulting, we hate it but it brings us closer
- Our reaction to our unexpected pregnancy
- How we became homeowners and married people, two things we never envisioned for ourselves
- What’s growing in our gardens, what tending our land looks like
- Sustainable wildcrafting (and pivoting away from wildcrafting)
- Why plant communication has been heavy for Owen lately
- What Owen thinks about my activism around the issue of vaccine mandates
- Civil uprising is the only option left to us on so many fronts, so many issues, as big businesses continue to destroy environmental and human health in the name of profit
- What we’ve learned from our fights
- Envisioning the future of our business and family
LINKS:
- Our website MythicMedicine.love (herbal medicines & more!)
- Medicine Stories Patreon
- Amber’s/Mythic Medicine’s Instagram
- Owen’s Instagram
- Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz
- Medicine Stories Facebook group
- Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The things we wanted to do in life were really aligned. |
| 0:03.0 | Which we didn't even know yet at that point. |
| 0:05.0 | No. |
| 0:06.0 | At that point it was just like one another's soul and body and mind. |
| 0:10.0 | You were still sling in vintage and I was DJing and playing in bands. |
| 0:14.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:15.0 | I mean, we needed to do plant work. |
| 0:18.0 | Only six years ago when we were so young. We're Hi friends and welcome to the Medicine Stories podcast where we are remembering what it is |
| 0:32.2 | to be human upon the earth. This is episode 56. I am Amber Magnolia Hill and today I'm talking to my husband, Owen. |
| 0:43.0 | I hope that you enjoy this peak into our lives. |
| 0:48.0 | It's unlike any previous interview. |
| 0:52.0 | Very casual, of course. |
| 0:55.9 | And I had no outline, nothing plan. |
| 0:58.1 | We're just talking about how we make our life together work. We work together from home every single day, |
| 1:06.7 | raising kids, doing the house, work, and running this business. So it's an intense and intensive relationship but it was |
| 1:18.2 | really nice to just relax and talk for a while and definitely the most stress-free interview I've ever done. |
| 1:25.0 | Even when I'm interviewing a friend or someone I feel really comfortable with, |
| 1:29.0 | there's just a little more planning and preparation and stress involved. |
| 1:34.4 | So this came at a good time for both of us, for me in this podcast journey, |
| 1:39.0 | to just kind of like relax into it and put something out there that we hope people find interesting. |
| 1:45.0 | Today or this week sometime we have released two new medicines in the Mythic Medicinals online shop. |
| 1:55.6 | One of them is our extra potent algebraic, year four, year four of selling the Cylksaur I believe. |
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