Free love

Love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny.

How can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little state and church-begotten weed, marriage? Free love? As if love is anything but free.

Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love.

Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love.

You talked about sheltering versus preparedness.

Well, in the advent of the Free Love movement, Woodstock, the hippies, that countercultural generation in the '70s, there was this big backlash.

This was your Bill Gothards, this was your, uh, on the political side, the moral majority.

There was lots of people who looked at what was going on and they said, "I've got a great idea.

Meanwhile, a clairvoyant spiritualist, healer, and financier, Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman to open her own firm on Wall Street with her sister.

Led by the advice of her spirit guides and a little help from the Vanderbilts, Victoria uses her wealth to break barriers in free love, equal rights, politics, becoming known by the press as the Bewitching Broker.

I think to start with Victoria's story, we've got to start at the beginning.

Essentially, she was born in 1838 in rural Ohio to Roxy and Buck Laughin.

seriously.

Yes.

And this is kind of the origin of her in the free love movement, which

definitely,

It's not just that the Bolsheviks are, you know, seizing the means of production.

It's that they are proselytizing free love.

And so it's this era when everyone's reinventing relationships.

And yeah, so the three of them are in this sort of love triangle and then unexpectedly Guido marries somebody else.