# #151 - Cara Claymore, Strength Magician Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-witch-wave-743388/151-cara-claymore-strength-magician Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-witch-wave-743388/151-cara-claymore-strength-magician.md Podcast: [The Witch Wave](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-witch-wave-743388) Published: 2025-05-28T04:01:00+00:00 Episode link: https://witchwavepodcast.com/episodes/2025/5/27/151-cara-claymore-strength-magician Audio file: https://content.blubrry.com/the_witch_wave/CLAYMOREAllEditFINAL.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-witch-wave-743388/episodes/151-cara-claymore-strength-magician Duration seconds: 4642 ## Resource Cara Claymore is a strength athlete and strength & fitness coach as well as a filmmaker, artist, writer, speaker, and Tarotist. They are a polytheistic witch and syncretic magickal operator, who subscribes to a fully enspirited worldview, and strives to play and provoke on the frontier of the human imagination. Their animist lens centers relationality at the heart of their artistic, magickal and fitness work.  They have competed and placed at the national level in the sport of strong(wo)man, and is the creator of the landmark fitness class  Mythic Strength , hosted by CrossFit South Brooklyn. They offer personal mentorship & coaching on a limited basis. Cara has written for BarBend and Refinery29, as well as developing their own film projects for their independent production company, Sunstrike Pictures. You can follow Cara on Instagram and Threads @caraclaymore , and on their Substack,  StrengthMagick.Substack.com . On this episode, Cara discusses how to develop a magical fitness practice, the power of working with avatars and alter-egos, and why taking care of one’s vessel can increase enchantment in all aspects of life. Pam also talks about infusing her workouts with witchcraft, and answers a listener question about how to cultivate a magical relationship with her body in middle-age. Check out the video of this episode over on YouTube (and please like and subscribe to the channel while you’re at it!) Our sponsors for this episode are Mineralogy Project , BetterHelp , Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab , and TU·ET·AL soap We also have print-on-demand merch like Witch Wave shirts, sweatshirts, totes, stickers, and mugs available now here , and all sorts of other bewitching goodies available in the Witch Wave shop . And if you want more Witch Wave, pl… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-witch-wave-743388/episodes/151-cara-claymore-strength-magician/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-witch-wave-743388/151-cara-claymore-strength-magician.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.