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

My name is Gordon and I shall be your host.

This week we are speaking to Ivy Bromius.

Ivy is a magician and writer with a specialism in project management.

She writes about the how and the why of these two topics and how they blend at Circle thrice.

And that is also what she joins us today to discuss.

Ivy, welcome aboard.

Thank you.

Happy to be here.

Yeah, yeah, I'm very much looking forward to this one and quite looking forward to question the first, Ivy. You were you a weird kid.

You know, I knew you're going to ask and I thought about it a little bit and I was going to dissemble a little bit but the truth is yes I was actually a really weird kid

Sort of unhelpfully oddly weird so I should just admit it and get it out there. Yeah it's fun

when people sometimes will go I don't think I was and then get halfway through a

story and go oh my goodness I actually was a weird kid.

So it's important to own it at the beginning, but specifically why were you weird?

Well, so I've always had super weird interests. would play witch and I've always been fascinated by you know cryptids and

aliens and alien abduction stories and ghosts and psychic powers as far back as I

can remember and then famously according to my mother my

first word when I was a tiny baby was moon. Oh that's cool. Love it. So do you

remember what your early childhood witch influences were?

Where did you, where did you derive your kind of look and character from as a toddler witch?

Well, I think that bewitched was actually a big influence and I was always a

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