Welcome to Roon Soup, a podcast about magic, culture and the paranormal.

My name is Gordon and I shall be your host.

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Today on Roan Soup we are speaking to writer, teacher and activist Lissara Fire Fox Allen. Lissara is the author of Jailbreaking the Goddess which was released this summer.

Lissara, thank you very much for your time.

It's my pleasure to be here.

I'm totally excited to talk with you.

Well, I am as well, and not least because if I look at the bio in your latest book I think you might have a

particularly good answer to the traditional first question Lissara were you a weird kid?

Indeed I was a weird kid.

I was actually a pretty serious kid.

I definitely

and I and I liked standing up for my younger siblings and you know I

I never got into any really big trouble, but I definitely didn't let anybody step on anybody else

I like it. So the so the justice has always run strong with you. Yeah, I have had an overweening sense of responsibility

for everyone's well-being for my whole entire life. And it's my understanding

you grew up in a pagan family? I did. I grew up in a back to the land

hippie family that found paganism when I was very young and so I was raised in multiple enclaves of the counterculture in you know 70s,

70s, 80s, California.

Well, are there any particular stories that jump to mind about that?

Because that is at significant variance

with my regional Australian childhood in a house. Right, it's at

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