Psychedelic Women
Episodes
Psychedelic Women: Smuggler Family Album Ep 8: Greed, Loss and Psychedelic Robin Hoods
20 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
You can’t buy your way into the inner circle counterculture - you behave your way in; plus what’s difference between outlaws and criminals? In t...
Psychedelic Women: Smuggler Family Album Ep 7: Truth is the Only Thing I Remember
27 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Don’t everyone’s parents have smuggler friends who disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle? In the subculture host, Rainbow Valentine grew up in, yes,...
Psychedelic Women: Conversations with the Women of the Counterculture: Ep 11: The Dancing Detective
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Before she was a 17 year old groundfloor member of the 1960's San Francisco counterculture, Rosie McGee was the child of French Holocaust survivors w...
Psychedelic Women: Conversations with the Women of the Counterculture Bonus Ep 7: The Astrologer's Daughter
30 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cults! Kidnapping! Concubines! This epic bonus episode of the Radiate story (Eps 1 - 6) with Rainbow Valentine and her Zelig artist mom, Kathy Mason...
Psychedelic Women: Conversations with the Women of the Counterculture Bonus ep 6: The Psychedelic Breast: Deep Diving with Dr. M on ep 10, The Psychedelic Healer
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this bonus episode host, Rainbow Valentine, continues to put the psychedelic puzzle pieces of her culture together as Dr. Maria Mangini, PHD, co-fo...
Psychedelic Women: Smuggler Family Album Ep 6: Go For It, Mr. Ungovernable!
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“You can smuggle anything except for drugs and guns…” These were the rules laid down by a Brazilian beauty queen to her Uraguyan Jewish husband,...
Psychedelic Women: Conversations with the Women of the Counterculture Ep 10: The Psychedelic Healer
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How many counterculture brides can say that Janis Joplin sang at their wedding? At least one and her name is Nicki Scully and host, Rainbow Valent...
Psychedelic Women: Smuggler Family Album Ep 5: The True Saga of Goldfinger PART 2
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What do you call a deranged smuggler who asks you to stash a brick of gold under your pillow for 6 months? A friend or an acquaintance? Rainbow Va...
Psychedelic Women: Smuggler Family Album Ep 4: The True Saga of Goldfinger Part 1
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When your parents tell you about a real one-handed smuggler named Goldfinger who lost his hand in a smuggling trip gone wrong, there’s only one thin...
Psychedelic Women: Conversations with the Women of the Counterculture: Bonus Ep 5: Surprised not Surprised: Deep Diving with Dr. M on eps 5, 8, 9 and Bonus 2.
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A lo-fi, stripped-down convo with Rainbow Valentine and Dr. Maria Mangini, PHD, co-founder of the Women’s Visionary Congress, Hog Farm Member & psyc...
Psychedelic Women: Smuggler Family Album Ep 3: High Society
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Don’t everyone’s parents small-talk about MDA chemists bleeding out while fine dining or argue about which LSD chemist had a live/work space in a ...
Psychedelic Women: Conversations with the Women of the Counterculture Ep 9: The Acid-Rock Radio Pioneer Part 2
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Can you imagine process-serving the Beatles? Raechel Donahue, SF's acid-rock radio pioneer, was a psychedelic second away from doing just that becaus...
Psychedelic Women: Conversations with the Women of the Counterculture Ep 8: The Acid Rock Radio Pioneer Part 1
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine life without free radio. If you lived in America before 1967, that was reality… there were no free radio stations until a group of misfit ...
Psychedelic Women: Conversations with the Women of the Counterculture: Radiate Bonus Ep 4: Everybody Can but Do They? Deep Diving on eps 4, 5, 6 with Dr. M part 2
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Part 2 of a deep dive into Radiate episodes 4, 5 and 6 with RV and Dr. Maria Mangini, PHD, co-founder of the Women’s Visionary Council, nurse practi...
Psychedelic Women: Conversations with the Women of the Counterculture: Bonus Ep 3: Everybody Can But Do They? Deep Dive with Dr. M on Eps 4, 5, 6 Part 1
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Part 1 of a deep dive into Radiate episodes 4, 5 and 6 with RV and Dr. Maria Mangini, PHD, co-founder of the Women’s Visionary Council and member of...
Psychedelic Women: Conversations with the Women of the Counterculture BONUS Ep 2: Radiate: Dizzying Revelations
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a very intimate bonus episode to the Radiate story, RV’s mom shares what she calls “the gritty stuff”, revealing never-before-heard, shocking...
Psychedelic Women: Conversations with the Women of the Counterculture BONUS Ep 1: Deep Diving with Dr. M into Radiate Eps 1, 2, 3
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A deep dive into Radiate Eps 1, 2, 3 with RV and Dr. Maria Mangini, PHD, co-founder of the Women’s Visionary Council and member of the Hog Farm Com...
Psychedelic Women: Smuggler Family Album Ep 2: Beat Poets, LSD Chemists, MDA & Murder
20 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In behind-the scenes convos with her former pot-smuggler parents, Rainbow Valentine takes a walk down counterculture memory lane with stories about be...
Psychedelic Women: Smuggler Family Album: Juanita the Bordello Chef
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a new branch of Psychedelic Women, Rainbow Valentine presents Smuggler Family Album, conversations with her counterculture smuggler friends and fam...
Psychedelic Women EP 6: Convos with the Women of the Counterculture: Radiate Part 6: The Psychedelic Lightworker
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the final non-bonus episode of RV's mom's story, Psychedelic wisdom galore is dropped as Kathy Mason Lerner dishes more trippy stories from her dec...
Psychedelic Women Ep 7: Convos with the Women of the Counterculture: Psychedelic Eve: The First Woman on Earth to Take LSD
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On June 12th, 1943, Susi Ramstein became the very first woman on planet earth to take LSD and she took the tram home (while tripping). To commemorat...
Psychedelic Women Ep 5: Convos with the Women of the Counterculture: Radiate Part 5: Do You Believe in Magic?
06 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The late 1960’s in San Francisco unfold and it’s tumultuous. In 1967 the Summer of Love brought 100,000 wannabe hippie teenagers to the City hopi...
Psychedelic Women Ep 4: Convos with the Women of the Counterculture: Radiate Part 4: Kathy Sturdy, Psychedelic Bling Builder
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There’s an 1980’s song by the Jefferson Starship (formerly the Jefferson Airplane) called “We Built This City on Rock’n’Roll” and it’s a...
Psychedelic Women Ep 3: Convos with the Women of the Counterculture: Radiate Part 3: The Psychedelic Grace'n'Beauty Tutor
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the early to mid 1960’s in San Francisco and the folk music scene is shifting to acid rock; the burgeoning subculture of psychedelic art, mus...
Psychedelic Women Ep 2: Convos with the Women of the Counterculture: Radiate Part 2: The Bellydancing Bohemian
16 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After being unwittingly radiated in the biggest secret nuclear meltdown in America, Rainbow Valentine’s mom fled to San Francisco, landing in Beat...
Psychedelic Women Ep 1: Convos with the Women of the Counterculture: Radiate Part 1: North Beach Babe
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1959 Los Angeles there was a nuclear meltdown larger than 3 Mile Island that was covered up and never cleaned up and its tragic fallout propelled h...
Introducing...Psychedelic Women: Conversations with the Women of the Counterculture
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Producer/Host, Rainbow Valentine was born into the inner circle of the San Francisco counterculture which didn’t seem unusual until she grew up and ...