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Erica Ensign

Erica Ensign

Award-winning podcast producer and co-host for Uncanny Magazine and Verity!, and communications professional based in Edmonton, Alberta.

Jul 30, 2026

63:33
Are there any thoughts from the audience on long-term planning? How you plan? Why you don't plan?
63:41
No pressure.
63:43
I will start since I have the microphone.
63:45
I feel like this is a great thing to say in this place, Alternity, which is so very, it's kind of woo-woo in a very lovely way.
63:53
Don't talk about Portland like that.
63:56
But as I was growing up, my dad was he was also very and still is very woo woo.
64:02
And one of the people that he read a lot was Ram Dass, who had a book called Be Here Now.

27 MINS LATER

90:37
Yeah.
40:52
Yes, we love that.
40:54
Uh, m- well, I guess mine hasn't happened either 'cause I'm pretty sure my connection was to have a good time in Toronto and not do too much touristy stuff and come home sick.
41:06
So pray for me, everyone.
41:08
That's all I have to say.
41:09
But... [laughs]

23 MINS LATER

63:56
[laughs]
63:56
But as I was growing up, my dad was, he was also very, and still is, very woo-woo.
64:02
And, uh, one of the, the people that he read a lot was Ram Dass, who had a book called Be Here Now, and that was just, like, a mantra that he used all through my life growing up.

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