The Healing H.A.C.K. (formerly The Healing Home)
Welcome to The Healing H.A.C.K. Podcast
HEALING - ABUNDANCE - CONNECTION - KNOWLEDGE
About Us: A podcast exploring how people stay resourced, connected, and spiritually alive. Join Wilma Mae Basta for unscripted conversations with practitioners, thinkers, and creatives building real spiritual practice. Evolving from the work of DRK Beauty Healing and Sordoe, we explore spiritual health through personal ritual—no gurus, no shortcuts, just grounded wisdom.
Our Mission: We aim to help our community build a practical spiritual toolkit by exploring what practices actually do, how people work with them in real life, and how to discern what belongs in your own daily or seasonal rituals. Each episode guides you through Healing, Abundance, Connection, and Knowledge—offering tools you can test, adapt, or leave behind.
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- Authentic Conversations: Unscripted, in-depth discussions with practitioners, thinkers, and creatives across healing traditions.
- Practical Wisdom: Learn what spiritual practices actually do and how to work with them in real life.
- Agency & Discernment: Build your own toolkit based on what resonates with you—no prescriptions, no belief systems required.
- Grounded Spirituality: Explore embodied traditions and lived experience from people doing the work.
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The Healing H.A.C.K. (formerly The Healing Home)
Ep6: Michelle K. Gagnon | Bio Alchemist, Natural Perfumer, Aromatic Designer, Scent Therapist
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Michelle K. Gagnon is the founder and chief bio alchemist of Bio Alchemy Olfactive, an aromatic design lab exploring the sensory intelligence of plants to cultivate deeper human-earth connection. Her work blends ancient tradition and modern design with a focus on sustainability, botanical storytelling, and ethical sourcing. She partners with farms and artisan distillers globally, creating formulations and scent experiences that engage memory, emotion, and embodied presence.
Core Focus Areas:
- Botanical sensory intelligence and scent design
- Wildcrafted/organic ethical sourcing
- Aromatherapy as ritual practice
- Fragrance as memory and embodiment
- Collaboration with global artisan communities
- Sensory education and olfactory awareness
Compelling Interview Questions:
- When you talk about plants as “master communicators,” what does that mean in a real, felt sense for someone listening?
- Most people understand scent through preference. How do you shift someone into relating to smell as a tool for self-awareness?
- You work closely with ecosystems and indigenous traditions. What has that taught you about your own relationship to place?
- Walk us through the alchemical arc from raw plant material to something that can shift the nervous system.
- Where does scent intersect with the nervous system in ways other healing tools don’t?
What surprising insight about consciousness has emerged from your work across cultures?
If all industry frameworks fell away, what is the purest essence of the work you want people to remember?
What’s the difference between “smelling” and “sensing,” and how does it transform presence?
Signature Closing Question:
If you could leave people with one shift — one thing they can do today to become more present, more resourced, or more themselves — what would it be?
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