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Joe Ellison + The Mystic Autistic

Empower Your Magical Self (S2 Ep8)

Leah Welborn
ILLUMINATION
2 min readJan 5, 2025

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Original artwork by the author. Joe Ellison photo courtesy of Joe Ellison.

Welcome to the eighth episode of the second season of my podcast, Empower Your Magical Self. I hope that it will cause you to reconsider how you’ve always seen something. Perhaps you’re missing something or seeing through a skewed lens.

I became aware of today’s guest, Joe Ellison, in the way I became aware of most of my guests — from scrolling TikTok. Joe is just a few months older than me, and in our early 50s, Joe and I are definite elders of TikTok. He’s a singer/songwriter, and his band, Run with Patience, is currently on tour in Eastern Europe — he was in Serbia when I checked in with him earlier this week to get a photo for this episode.

Though Joe’s a rock star, that’s not what his TikTok channel is about, and that’s not why I asked him to be my guest. As BrothermanJoe, his charismatic and upbeat persona brings thousands of viewers (including me) to his videos for his regular features like “3 Good Things Thursday” and “Fridays with Mom.”

Joe’s close relationship with his 96-year-old mother is one of the hallmarks of his videos and one of the many things that’s endeared him to me. While Joe’s mother lives a few doors down from him, my mother and I share a home (she’s upstairs, I’m downstairs).

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Leah Welborn
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Written by Leah Welborn

Empower Your Magical Self with me. I'm the Mystic Autistic, a writer and spiritual baddie. LeahWelborn.net.

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