- Podcasts -
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text is the flagship podcast of Not Sorry Productions. With over 16 million downloads and six seasons and counting, Harry Potter and the Sacred Text allows listeners to find meaning through a secular text that they love.
Vanessa Zoltan, founder and CEO of Not Sorry Productions, co-hosts each episode with Casper ter Kuile, where they go chapter by chapter through the Harry Potter series.
Hot & Bothered premiered in July 2019. The first season was co-produced with Spoke Media. With guests including Julia Quinn, Alyssa Cole, and Emily Nagoski, Vanessa Zoltan interviewed her friends as they embarked on the process of writing their very first romance novel. Through writing and friendship, this podcast seeks to explore what imagining Happily Ever After means, and how writing can help people explore what is sacred in their lives.
Then, during the uncertainty and quarantine of coronavirus in Spring of 2020, we introduced Hot & Bothered: Twilight in Quarantine. Vanessa and Julia Argy, frequent co-host of Hot & Bothered, jokingly decided to read the Twilight Saga while quarantined and make it into a podcast.
As jokes between friends sometimes do, it turned into a real thing, recommended in the New York Times as a top podcast for quarantine, “Because isn’t now the time to turn to the survival lessons of Edward Cullen, that sparkling telepathic vampire who only escaped the Spanish influenza by becoming undead?”
Throughout Harry Potter and the Sacred Text, Vanessa has dedicated herself to blessing a woman at the end of every episode. In Women of Harry Potter, we bring this practice to the center of each episode. Once a month in this Patreon exclusive podcast, Vanessa and Ariana Nedelman, Executive Producer of HPST, and now Brigid Goggin, longtime friend and fan of the pod, alternate picking a woman from the Harry Potter series to bless, and they spend time lifting up these women’s successes and struggles.
- Pilgrimages -
Common Ground pilgrimages integrate reading, walking, and chaplaincy so participants can make space for wisdom and meaning in their lives. The first pilgrimage took place in June 2018 where Dr. Rev. Stephanie Paulsell and Vanessa Zoltan led a small group through South Downs National Park in southern England. They are an attempt to, through the ancient practice of pilgrimage, have meaningful experiences that we take back with us long after the trip is over.