Welcome to Missing Witches, a podcast where hosts Amy Torok and Risa Dickens dive into the magic woven through real lives and histories. Through stories of kinship, true histories of feminist magic, and candid conversations with witches, magic-crafters, and creators, we explore the mysteries and power of the living world. Join us to discover a community grounded in care, curiosity, resistance, and re-enchantment.
The Missing Witches Podcast is lovingly created and produced by Amy Torok and Risa Dickens, with support and inspiration from our coven. Over time, the podcast has taken many weird and wonderful shapes—because, life!
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The Fall Season: Missing Witches Stories
Each Autumn Equinox, we release a new season of Missing Witches, our witch podcast dedicated to storytelling at the crossroads of biography, memoir, and magical practice. These podcast episodes explore the lives and legacies of real people who called themselves witches—or were called that by others. They encountered the unknown, shaped cosmologies, and made magic in their communities.
Amy and Risa take turns researching and telling true witch stories, centering women, LGBTQIA2+ people, and people of the global majority. We ask: what have we been missing from dominant histories of witchcraft and spiritual practice?
Each Fall, we produce a six-episode season of these witch podcast episodes. In Fall 2024, the stories focused on magic, care, and transformation and included the Cancer Episodes.
These are the episodes for when you want Amy + Risa to tell you a story—about real witches, real histories, and the real magic that holds us together.
The Spring Season: Kinship Meditations
In the spring season of our Missing Witches podcast, we offer Kinship Meditations—episodes for listeners seeking connection through a witch’s lens. These witch podcast episodes explore our more-than-human kin, often centering on a specific species of plant or animal.
Rooted in a blend of contemporary scientific research, personal storytelling, and poetic, sometimes-rage-fueled reflections, these episodes weave anti-capitalist insight with spiritual ecology. They are meditations on care, memory, resistance, and entanglement.
Each Spring, we produce a six-episode season of Kinship Meditations, as part of our ongoing effort to reimagine what a witch podcast can be.
These are episodes for when you long for kinship. ❤️
Witches Found: Interviews
Episodes labeled WF in the Missing Witches podcast feed are our interviews—conversations with self-identified witches, spiritual practitioners, scholars, artists, authors, and activists from around the world. These witch podcast episodes range from intimate one-on-one dialogues to dynamic panel discussions and seasonal Sabbat Specials.
Witches Found episodes explore what it means to practice magic, build community, and live with intention in a world hungry for transformation. We release these interviews throughout the year.
These are the episodes for when you want to listen in as we fall in friend-love with wise, magical people. ✨
Coven members are invited to attend live. After the recording ends, we open the circle—offering space for direct conversation between guests and covenmates. This is a witch podcast where community, curiosity, and shared magic are part of the ritual.
MW Rx.: Songs, Spells, and Other Prescriptions
In between the deep-research seasons of Missing Witches Stories and Kinship Meditations, Amy and Risa—two perpetual baby witches, skeptics, seekers, and celebrants—sit down to talk. These are the looser, more intimate episodes of our witch podcast, where we check in with each other and share what’s helping us make it through.
These Witch prescriptions aren’t expert advice—they’re offerings from our own lives. Spells, songs, books, movies, questions, and small rituals we’re giving ourselves as we fumble toward survival and meaning in late-stage capitalism.
Some MW Rx entries are podcast episodes, and others are newsletters—written reflections when we had something to say, but no voice to say it with.
These episodes are for when you want to hang out with fellow question-askers. It's real talk and real magic, from a witch podcast rooted in honesty, care, and community.