After five years, this is the final episode of The Alchemist Inkwell.

This isn't an ending born from a fight, a falling out, or something going wrong. In fact, that's part of what makes this moment so strange: sometimes something can still feel good while no longer feeling like the right path forward.

In our final conversation, we're looking back at five years of The Alchemist Inkwell — the trips, interviews, books, synchronicities, technical difficulties, strange recording spaces, huge life changes, and the people we've been lucky enough to meet along the way.

We also talk about why we're choosing to follow where life is taking each of us next, how you can continue following our work, and pull one final set of cards for the community we've built together.

The podcast isn't disappearing. The entire library will remain here for you to revisit, share, and hopefully keep finding something useful in whenever you need it.

Thank you for listening.
Thank you for traveling with us.
Thank you for making magic with us for five years.

And, one last time:

Go make some magic.

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Emily Dexter — @likerofwords
KristaLyn Sofia — @KristaLynSofia

You can also continue following both Emily and KristaLyn through their individual YouTube channels, Patreon communities, social platforms, trips, classes, lives, and everything still to come.

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Sometimes moving forward means being willing to start over.

In this episode of The Alchemist Inkwell, we finally sit down with the legendary Malcolm — the guide behind some of our most unforgettable trips to Greece — to talk about travel, intuition, starting over, chosen family, and what happens when you trust the path even when you have absolutely no idea where it’s taking you.

After years of guiding travelers, Malcolm is beginning a completely new chapter of his own life: trading tour buses for boats and working toward becoming a captain in Greece.

We talk about why starting from the bottom again doesn’t mean you’re moving backward, how travel can completely change the trajectory of your life, why strangers can become family in a matter of days, the unexpected moments that transform us, trusting your gut when there’s no obvious “right” decision, and why sometimes the bigger mistake is never taking the chance at all.

Plus: people accidentally left behind on buses and ferries, the strange energy of Delos and Renea, Malcolm’s dream of sailing around with a rescue dog and cat, and the origin of one of our favorite travel sayings:

“You come as strangers and you leave as family.”

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Instagram: @mac_and_gr

CHAPTERS

00:00 Sometimes you have to start over
00:20 Meet the legendary Malcolm
04:47 Malcolm’s new life in Mykonos
05:44 Why starting over isn’t moving backward
08:47 Scared to travel? Malcolm’s advice
10:48 Taking the risk can change your life
12:37 The tiny moments that change everything
16:44 How Malcolm became a travel guide
19:28 Creating experiences beyond the itinerary
20:46 Travel stories & accidentally losing people
24:04 Life on the catamaran in Mykonos
24:41 The mythology and energy of Delos
27:58 Why some places keep calling us back
30:16 Why travel creates unexpected breakthroughs
32:34 Malcolm’s dream life on a boat
38:33 Where The Alchemist Inkwell is traveling next
40:31 “You come as strangers and leave as family”
42:48 Trusting where life is taking you
44:56 The bigger mistake is never trying
46:33 Follow your path even when you don’t understand it
47:19 Go make some magic

The Alchemist Inkwell is a spiritual podcast for grounded people exploring astrology, intuition, magic, personal growth, travel, spirituality, and all the strange ways life pushes us toward becoming who we’re supposed to be.

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An 11-year-old wants to legally change her birthday because she wishes she had a different zodiac sign. Then a tarot reader asks whether he’s wrong for questioning his friend’s animal telepathy business—and refusing to support her spiritual MLM.

In this episode of What in the Woo Woo, Emily and Krista unpack two Spiritual Reddit AITA stories involving birth charts, animal communication, tarot, pyramid schemes and the complicated line between respecting someone’s beliefs and enabling bad behavior.

Can someone actually have a “bad” zodiac sign? When does an astrological birth chart officially begin? Is it ethical to give astrology readings to children? Does charging money make a spiritual service less legitimate? And are you obligated to pay your friend to telepathically communicate with your pet?

CHAPTERS

0:00 A Child’s Zodiac Sign and an Animal Psychic
0:20 Welcome to What in the Woo Woo
1:13 Can You Legally Change Your Birthday?
3:11 When Does an Astrology Chart Begin?
5:03 Are You Always Born at the Right Time?
5:16 There Is No Bad Birth Chart
6:39 How to Spot a Bad Astrologer
8:22 Astrology, Children and Self-Discovery
9:18 Should Minors Receive Astrology Readings?
10:51 The Animal Telepathy Reddit Story
11:51 How the Animal Psychic Business Works
14:14 Does Charging Make It a Scam?
15:29 Spiritual MLM Red Flags
15:58 Paying a Friend to Read Your Pet
16:59 Is She Actually Communicating with Animals?
18:03 Why Spiritual Work Is Treated as Illegitimate
19:21 Fortune-Telling Laws
21:44 The Final Reddit Verdict
22:13 Go Make Some Magic

What’s your verdict? Would you ever pay an animal communicator to read your pet?