Episode 2: Alchemy: Turning Waste Into Gold
Alchemy Pot — Episode 2: Alchemy: Turning Waste Into Gold
Hosts: Derek Richard Thomas & Lizzie Loch
Theme: The Art of Transformation — Inner & Outer Alchemy
In Episode 2, Derek and Lizzie dive deep into the meaning of alchemy — both as an ancient art and as a modern path of transformation.
Through honest storytelling and lived experience, they explore how true alchemy begins within: turning fear into courage, anger into compassion, and emotional “waste” into wisdom.
They share how witnessing with compassion becomes the key to transformation — just as the Soil Maker turns food scraps into living soil, our awareness can compost what no longer serves us and return it to love.
Listeners will learn how to practice the 3-Step Alchemy Process every day:
Let Go — release what’s ready to die.
Gratitude — open your heart.
Create — plant what you wish to grow.
This episode bridges the physical and the spiritual — showing that nothing is waste, not in our gardens, not in our relationships, and not within ourselves.
Listen now to discover how to hold a safe inner “pot” for transformation — and how compassion, curiosity, and choice can turn life’s heaviest moments into pure gold.