The Modern Crone

Danielle Van de Velde

The Modern Crone podcast explores story, insights and experiences from my life as a spiritual teacher, energy healer, seer and medium. In each season of The Modern Crone, I bring the real-deal magic-makers to the table to chat about their lives, bridging the worlds of the visible and invisible, spirit and matter. I share my own stories of people, pilgrimage and paranormal, with the intent of redefining what it is to live a modern spiritual life.Real people, real stories and a whole lot of mind-blowing, spirit-stirring conversations. I hope it inspires! read less

The Modern Crone: Season 4: Creative Spirit with Chris Edwards
Aug 15 2023
The Modern Crone: Season 4: Creative Spirit with Chris Edwards
Creative Spirit with Serial Entrepreneur and Content Community Queen, Chris EdwardsChris is a serial entrepreneur having started her first business in 2008 at 28 years of age — a lifestyle media platform: Honeycombers.  Honeycombers is now the go-to lifestyle resource for locals, expats and tourists alike across Singapore, Hong Kong and Bali.  She has also created a parenting platform called HoneyKids Asia.  Collectively there are over 1 million unique readers of Honeycombers content across South East Asia every month. Chris started coaching entrepreneurs, and from this experience she saw the need for a community for conscious entrepreneurs, so she created Launchpad in 2022.  Launchpad is an entrepreneurial community, designed to help small businesses thrive through community, peer mentoring and coaching. Launchpad today has over 450 members from across 6 countries.  Chris now runs 4 companies across 4 countries and hosts a weekly podcast called Good Business where she interviews impact-led founders. Chris spends her time split between Singapore, Hong Kong, Bali and Byron Bay, Australia, where she lives with her husband and three kids. Join us as we explore the role of creative expression in the generation of business ideas and growth, the need to slow things down to gain traction, how to intuitively identify potential niches and trusting your gut to take risks, Chris’s ability to envisage offerings that don’t currently exist, and the importance of trust,  how having her third child compelled her into art school…and so much more! You can find out more about Chris at:https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisedwardshoneycombers/  www.thelaunchpad.group
The Modern Crone: Season 4: Creative Spirit with Simone Heng
Jul 19 2023
The Modern Crone: Season 4: Creative Spirit with Simone Heng
Creative Spirit with Speaker and Author Simone HengSimone Heng is a human connection specialist and former international broadcaster for, among others, Virgin Radio Dubai, HBO Asia, and CNBC. She is one of the youngest female Certified Speaking Professionals in the world. With over fifteen years of experience as a communicator on air, on stage, and one on one in different countries, connection has always been her life’s work. As a speaker, Simone inspires people to connect in a world thirsty for connection. She has spoken to thousands, and often for Fortune 500 organisations. Her clients include Google, ByteDance, Spotify, Salesforce, SAP, Meta, the United Nations, and many more. Simone and her work have been featured on CNN and in Forbes, SCMP, TEDx, Vogue, Elle, and Harper’s Bazaar, among others. Simone is based and was born in Singapore but has also studied in Switzerland, was raised in Australia, and worked in the United Arab Emirates. She has a communications and cultural studies degree from Curtin University of Technology. Her latest book “Let’s Talk About Loneliness” will be published by Hay House on June 27th.Join us as we explore the role of creativity in Simone's journey, how trauma and hardship can become fuel for creativity and how she perceives her creativity as a guiding light that links her to the universe. Beautiful! You can find out more about Simone here:www.simoneheng.com www.linkpop.com/simonehengwww.instagram.com/simoneheng
The Modern Crone: Season 4: Creative Spirit with Samantha Hickman
Jun 22 2023
The Modern Crone: Season 4: Creative Spirit with Samantha Hickman
Creative Spirit with Art Psychotherapist and Author: Samantha HickmanSamantha qualified as an Art Psychotherapist from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore and holds a BA (Hons) degree in Fine Art from University of Plymouth, UK.Born in Beirut, Lebanon, prior to the beginning of the civil war, Sam was brought up between the Middle East (Morocco and Saudi Arabia) and the UK, before her family moved to Asia where she lived for a total of 23 years (Hong Kong and Singapore).Sam became an art psychotherapist to integrate her own creative practice into working with others and covers a wide spectrum of reasons for therapy from depression, stress, and anxiety, to anger and grief and loss. She completed her clinical placement with the Singapore Cancer Society, working with adults living with cancer, and went on to employment with the organisation before relocating to the city Bath, UK, in 2019, where she now works as a socially engaged artist alongside her private practice. Sam has exhibited in Singapore and the UK, has delivered workshops at international conferences and universities, and is a published writer on art therapy, practices and processes. She is a member of the British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT) and the Australian, NewZealand and Asian Creative Arts Therapy Association, (ANZACATA), and HCPC registered. She is also DBS approved.Her multicultural exposure and love of art mean that she brings a wealth of life experience into the therapy space, where she empowers others through the process of creativity, providing therapeutic guidance and support along the way.Join us as we explore Samantha's beauitful process of creative expression as a form of guidance and respite; her varied and prolific mediums; her work with cancer patients and art as a healing medium. You can find out more about Sam here:www.instagram.com/hopearttherapyhopearttherapy@gmail.com The Modern Crone team:Theme music and season intro tracks:Sam Joole: www.samjoole.comCover design and photographyLuana Suciuhttps://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/Luanasuciu@gmail.com Voice editing:Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studiosmaskmusicstudios@outlook.com
The Modern Crone: Season 4: Creative Spirit with Life Expressionist Mishell Leong
May 26 2023
The Modern Crone: Season 4: Creative Spirit with Life Expressionist Mishell Leong
Creative Spirit with Professional Artist - Mishell LeongMalaysian born Artist, Mishell Leong is a life expressionist; passionate about communicating her love for life through her use of vivid colours and bold techniques found in her iconic artwork.Mishell’s signature style is a credit to her ever expansive and evolving nature. She has liberated herself from the constraints of traditional techniques and preconceptions of what and how art should be, using her distinct style and vibrant colours as an avenue to communicate her inspirations and messages to the world.As a multiculturalist who has lived all over the world, Mishell very much identifies with Western culture and way of life, as much as she does with Asian culture. Mishell started out her professional career as a Chartered Accountant in London which quickly transported her to New York, Korea, Germany, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Singapore and beyond. Mishell’s journey in the world of finance came to an end in 2012 when she gave into her true calling of expression and has not looked back. As all great stories often tell, life has taken her one full circle and she now finds herself residing back in Switzerland beside stunning Lake Zurich creating more than ever.Mishell taps into life’s energetic flow drawing on love and the beauty of each given moment & all that surrounds us to create her new collection.Mishell Leong is proudly represented by International Artist Management and Art Consultancy firm Curate International – with a presence in London and Singapore.Join us as Mishell shares her journey from corporate career into professional artist, how she works with colour and form in every aspect of her life, some unusual sources of inspiration (which include being spanked), how she interweaves spiritual symbolism into her works and so much more.You can find out more about Mishell here:www.mishellleong.com www.curate-international.com/mishell-leonghttps://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=mishell%20leong%20arthttps://www.instagram.com/mishellleongart/https://www.linkedin.com/in/mishell-leong
The Modern Crone: Season 4: Creative Spirit with Adrian Van de Velde
May 11 2023
The Modern Crone: Season 4: Creative Spirit with Adrian Van de Velde
Creative Spirit with Film Director, Musician, Commercial Advertising Director - Adrian Van de VeldeBorn with prodigious music and technical talents, Adrian started writing music and pulling apart household appliances at the age of five. A theme which has since underscored his approach to almost everything he turns his attention to. After graduating from the prestigious Australian Film, Television and Radio School Adrian was immediately snapped up by Commercial Music Powerhouse Song Zu Sydney as a composer of TVCs, TV and Film, while moonlighting for Fox Studios Australia, screenwriting an original SciFi TV Series. He has won the coveted Australia Guild of Screen Composers award twice, and has been nominated for a Motion Picture Association of America 'Technical Oscar' for his short film Rock et Man. Adrian’s love of the moving image soon took hold and in 2000 he started his Commercial Directing career. Adrian has been directing TV Commercials ever since, and has been a regular with some of the biggest brands in South East Asia for over 10 years. In 2004 and 2007 he founded two of the most successful Production Companies in the Asian TVC Market - Great Guns Bangkok and Bullet Production. After divesting his shareholding in both companies he founded Indigo Asia Production. Indigo is the envy of the industry. A busy hothouse of creativity with TVC Production, Indigo also has Feature Film and Digital Media projects in development.Join us as we explore Adrian's creative journey, the artist's need to create balance, the non-linear nature of time, the difference between commercial and personal creative projects and the innate human dynamics of both creativity and spirituality, the role of mystery in the human experience and how the subconscious mind connects us with oneness consciousness.You can find out more about Adrian here:https://vimeo.com/adrianvandevelde/https://indigoproduction.comhttps://www.instagram.com/adrian_vandevelde/https://vimeo.com/339041543
The Modern Crone: Season 4: Creative Spirit with Professional Artist Julie Williams
Apr 28 2023
The Modern Crone: Season 4: Creative Spirit with Professional Artist Julie Williams
Creative Spirit with Professional Artist - Julie WilliamsJulie Williams was born an artist, passionate and creative as a little girl. She was drawn to esoteric practice as a teen, a full-blown Hippy in the early 70’s and then became a dedicated Biba follower of fashion in London.  After studying art and ceramics at school she wanted to go to Art School in Brighton UK but her plans were thwarted so she went to Paris for a year in 1977. There her true passion for in Art and the History of Art developed, she returned home and completed a BA in business studies, tourism and law to appease her parents and shortly after emigrated to Sydney Australia. Finding love and becoming a mother at 24 left no time for developing her artistic passion. She immersed herself in ‘Looking at Art’ until the age of 41 when she finally achieved her dream and enrolled at the National Art School in Sydney in 2000.  Since then Julie has been in numerous exhibitions in Sydney, Regional Australia, and Singapore including a satellite exhibition during ARTJOG in Jogjakarta Indonesia in 2018. It was whilst living in Singapore for five years that Julie also developed her esoteric practice and deepened her Spiritual enquiry that really shifted her creative practice. Her paintings are conceptual, based on an idea and constructed with attention to her craft, but lately she has felt drawn to clearing her mind of all thought and trusting her Spirit to pull her through a painting. A painting is an illusion of space and it is this playing with space through shape, form and colour that keeps Julie painting. Join us as Julie shares her unique journey into claiming her creative expression fully later in her life, how her process feels as she nurtures concept to finished work, and how important her spiritual practice is for staying in flow and aligned with the truth of her works.You can find out more about Julie here:www.julie-williams.comwww.Artchisg.comArtChisg@gmail.comwww.instagram.com/juliewilliamsartist
The Modern Crone: Season 4: Creative Spirit with Anastassia Selezneva
Apr 13 2023
The Modern Crone: Season 4: Creative Spirit with Anastassia Selezneva
Creative Spirit with Creative Director - Anastassia SeleznevaAnastassia Selezneva first began her creative exploration as a painter in her youth, and transitioned to jewellery design as a new medium in 2012. The desire came spontaneously when she walked into a jewellery supply store on Queen St in Toronto.  This chance encounter ignited an immediate curiosity. Anastassia taught herself basic goldsmithing techniques late into most nights and early mornings. Moving between her kitchen counter and her makeshift studio, she experimented with wire wrapping gemstones, fusing metals, and stone setting.  Her life began to form a duality; she was a business analyst by day, and an artist by night. The pull to be immersed in creativity was clear and in 2015, Anastassia quit her job, began training as a professional goldsmith at George Brown College and simultaneously, launched her line, Anastassia Sel Jewelry.  Synonymous with her roots, Anastassia’s collection is handmade in Toronto, using 100% certified Canadian gold and ethically sourced materials.  Since then, Anastassia’s work has been featured in Vogue, Elle, Wedluxe, Brides, among other publications, has walked the New York, Milan and Toronto runways, and can be found in select boutiques in Canada, US and online. Join us as we explore Anastassia’s journey into her full creative expression, how our greater purpose keeps finding us until we respond, her incredible melding of spiritual travel and downloads into her jewellery, and how working with gold as supreme medium.  You can find out more about Anastassia here:www.AnastassiaSel.comInstagram: www.instagram.com/anastassiasel/Facebook: www.facebook.com/AnastassiaSel/
The Modern Crone: Season 4: Creative Spirit with Luana Suciu
Mar 31 2023
The Modern Crone: Season 4: Creative Spirit with Luana Suciu
Creative Spirit with Creative Director - Luana SuciuLuana Suciu is a Creative Director with a multi-disciplinary background in design, art direction and photography. Born and raised in Romania, Luana studied Marketing Communications with a focus in Advertising and Photography at Emerson College, Boston and started her career in New York City. Over the past 13+ years Luana's creative expression took various shapes, from designing brand identities, experiences, websites, publications to conceptualising and directing global advertising and PR campaigns for fashion, lifestyle and luxury brands. She has worked and lived in Boston, Brussels, Toronto, New York, Singapore and Gothenburg — long enough to call all home. Travelling and moving countries has opened her heart to the new and unfamiliar and helped her develop holistic and intuitive ways of seeing and creating. Luana’s clients include some of the world’s biggest brands, including, Anastassia SelSephora. Condé Nast, Bottega Veneta, Puma, Ray-Ban, Heineken, The Macallan, Durex, WWF and Meta.Alongside her personal bodies of work and her commercial creativity, Luana also manges her ongoing projects of Host and Organiser, Creative Mornings Singapore, (https://www.instagram.com/creativemornings.sg/), and, Art Director, Return Trip Magazine(https://www.instagram.com/returntripmag/)Join us as we learn about Luana's creative process and evolution; how her spiritual process informs her creative expression and the perception that spiritual energy and creative energy are one and the same thing. You can learn more about Luana here:Website https://www.luanasuciu.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/luanasuciu/
The Modern Crone: Season 3: Afterlife with Kerry Alderuccio
Dec 14 2022
The Modern Crone: Season 3: Afterlife with Kerry Alderuccio
AFTERLIFE with Author and Psychic Medium - Kerry AlderuccioKerry Alderuccio’s introduction to all things of a psychic nature came to her relatively late in life. It was after the loss of her adored 19-year-old son, Sam, that she realised that the instinct that she had always had, might be something more profound. Throughout her life she has always been aware of changes in the energy around her, naively assuming that everyone felt such things. But as her loved ones gradually passed away, she always remained very aware of their presence.It was after Sam’s untimely passing that Kerry decided to act on this instinct and look for answers as to where Sam was and how contact could be made. She began her mediumship studies initially by sitting in circle in Melbourne and then attended Arthur Findlay College in the United Kingdom, where her psychic and mediumship gifts became very apparent. Kerry’s studies continue at Arthur Findlay College with yearly visits for two weeks at a time. Kerry believes that knowledge and learning have no ending, just like life itself. It is Kerry’s wish to work with and help as many people as possible to assist them in coping with their own grief, whether that be through simple conversation, a mediumship reading or a tarot reading, where she can gain insight into them in a psychic way. Contact info:https://kerryalderuccio.com/about/kerry-alderuccio/The Modern Crone team:Theme music and season intro tracks:Sam Joole: www.samjoole.comCover design and photographyLuana Suciuhttps://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/Luanasuciu@gmail.com Voice editing:Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studiosmaskmusicstudios@outlook.com
The Modern Crone: Season 3: Afterlife with Biba Logan
Nov 30 2022
The Modern Crone: Season 3: Afterlife with Biba Logan
AFTERLIFE with Intuitive Artist, QHRT Practitioner and Psychic Medium- Biba LoganBiba Logan is an intuitive artist who began painting after a vision she received in a dream. She began painting with the understanding that she is not the artist, but the vessel that the spirit of creativity needs to be expressed through.Biba attunes to what she describes as ‘golden access to the light’ which contains all the information she needs as an artist and intuitive and all that we will all ever need. Her focus is learning to attune to that energy and allow it to be. She began to understand that her paintings are healing in nature. They are encoded with frequencies that are assigned to the people that are drawn to them. Each piece is created for a specific person and when that person receives the painting, the light information within the painting sets a frequency within their environment and they will be able to communicate with their spirit team and receive the healing that they need. They are multi-dimensional paintings and so the healing and connection is multi-dimensional.After several months of non-stop painting and much success with acknowledgements which was not her initial intention, Netflix took several of her paintings for one of their tv shows being made in Ireland.Painting released in her a deeper awareness of the way the mystery works. Biba knows how to paint and how to communicate with those in the unseen realms and bring messages of hope and love to those seeking solace, guidance, love and healing.She has since qualified as a Quantum Healing Hypnosis Practitioner and has begun to write a book about her journey to discovering the mystery within. It’s to help people enquire and discover their connection to a greater power of light and love within. As within so without  Contact infohttps://www.thebibafrequency.com/https://www.facebook.com/TheBibaFrequency/
The Modern Crone: Season 3: Afterlife with Bronia West
Nov 17 2022
The Modern Crone: Season 3: Afterlife with Bronia West
AFTERLIFE with Psychic Medium, Tarot Consultant and Crystal Healer - Bronia WestBronia West is a Spiritual Psychic Medium, Tarot Consultant and Crystal Healer who studied with the Spiritual Venturers Association to obtain her Diploma in Crystal Healing. This was founded by Edmund Harold who was a trance medium and linked the clear quartz crystal to trance mediumship. She is also a member of the Affiliation of Crystal Healing Organisation. Bronia believes that our own personality and the uniqueness of our very being, allows us to open and expand the mind, body, and spirit, awakening and igniting the flame within our souls. It is the very essence of the divine spark that gives us the zest to search for knowledge, truth and understanding. If we do not understand our own awareness, the energy of our own spirit, we cannot begin to understand the awareness and energy of others, both on the physical plane and those who reside in the spirit world.She is a great believer that our sensitivity and heightened awareness is contained in the very core of our being, within our soul of personal belief system -  this is the unique universal energy and power of your spirit.Since her journey’s unfolding in 1990 (and well before then as she can recall events that she experienced in childhood), Bronia has found that there is always something new to experience through our sensitivity of sight, feeling, sensing, and knowing. She is a great believer in unlocking the awareness of the spirit and she has produced an inspirational card deck, “The Awakening of Your Spirit” where each card can be a focus and message for what you truly seek. You can find out more and connect with Bronia here:https://www.broniawestclairvoyantmedium.co.uk/about-me/The Modern Crone team:Theme music and season intro tracks:Sam Joole: www.samjoole.comCover design and photographyLuana Suciuhttps://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/Luanasuciu@gmail.com Voice editing:Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studiosmaskmusicstudios@outlook.com
The Modern Crone: Season 3: Afterlife with Sharon Harvey
Sep 22 2022
The Modern Crone: Season 3: Afterlife with Sharon Harvey
AFTERLIFE with Trance Medium and Teacher, Sharon HarveySharon is a tutor at the Arthur Findlay College where she is known for her lively, humorous approach.Sharon is from a travelling family who only settled in a permanent home following the tragic death of her Grandmother's children. Following this, her grandmother would not move far away from where they were buried and so they settled down. She never forgot her roots and kept the barrel top caravan in her garden. Her Grandmother was a great influence on her and was well known for her 'gifts' especially in healing, including animals.As a child Sharon was always drawn to God and would skip school to sit in churches and graveyards where she felt close to him. As a teenager she saw spirit but didn't understand it and it frightened her.Eventually however her interest was aroused again and she began reading Tarot cards and doing sittings. Her real love was to be found at the Arthur Findlay College where her proper mediumistic development began.Her great inspiration was Mavis Pittilla, and Sharon joined every course of hers that she could. Mavis once said:"The Spirit World is Sharon's World and she has to be a medium."These words have meant everything to Sharon and have inspired her through good and bad times.Sharon's love of life is infectious and she enjoys sparking the interest of new students which she does with ease. Her favourite expression is "God doesn't want you to be miserable", and she certainly practices what she preaches.Sharon is married with three children and four grandchildren, some of whom already exhibit her mediumistic traits. Sharon's grandfather was also very psychic and he used his abilities in a very enterprising way.Earlier this year I spent a week at The Arthur Findlay College in Sharon’s Trance Mediumship class…which was incredible on so many levels.You can find out more about Sharon here:http://sharonharveymedium.co.ukThe Modern Crone team:Theme music and season intro tracks:Sam Joole: www.samjoole.comCover design and photographyLuana Suciuhttps://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/Luanasuciu@gmail.com Voice editing:Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studiosmaskmusicstudios@outlook.com
The Modern Crone: Season 3: Afterlife with Christine Morgan
Sep 8 2022
The Modern Crone: Season 3: Afterlife with Christine Morgan
Christine Morgan CSNU is one of Australia’s foremost Spiritual Mediums and teachers of the Spiritual Arts, based in Sydney Australia. Her natural mediumistic ability stems from a long line of natural intuitives and a heritage of mediumship which has been honed through classical training. Christine is also a Certificate holder of the Spiritualist National Union in Public Speaking and Demonstrating Evidential Mediumship (CSNU), as well as a Tutor and Course Organiser at the prestigious Arthur Findlay College of psychic science and spiritual mediumship in the UK.Christine has worked for 32 years in the field of Spiritual Mediumship and the Intuitive Arts, throughout Australia as well as internationally, including the USA, Canada, Europe and England.Through teaching and demonstrating, Christine endeavours to achieve and maintain the standard of true Spiritual Mediumship as defined by the great pioneers of Spiritualism bringing a contemporary approach to the work.In high demand for her knowledge and talents by various and diverse organisations, as well as the business community, Christine is available for educational workshops, seminars, as a guest speaker, demonstrations of mediumship, as well as private consultations, grief support and personal coaching.You can connect with Christine here:Christine Morgan CSNU - Spiritual Medium | FacebookChristine Morgan CSNUwww.instagram.com/indiki1962The Modern Crone team:Theme music and season intro tracks:Sam Joole: www.samjoole.comCover design and photographyLuana Suciuhttps://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/Luanasuciu@gmail.com Voice editing:Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studiosmaskmusicstudios@outlook.com