When Betty’s tech-savvy grandson noted her one-on-one healing work deserved a bigger reach, the path for Two Crones and a Microphone crystallized. Blending Betty's medical expertise with Linda's teaching insights, spiritual goddess wisdom, and herbal therapy prowess, this soulful duo began broadcasting their complementary take on holistic wellbeing.

Bi - monthly Podcast

Recording bi-monthly over the last year and a half via Zoom, the podcast continues to blossom by inviting fellow Crones to share their perspectives. What started as intimate discussions between two longtime confidants has grown into a community of consciousness guided by their compassion.

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Betty deMaye-Caruth

With over five decades as a registered nurse and decorated educational background, Dr. Betty deMaye-Caruth is a foremost expert in integrating traditional and holistic medicine. Her fascination with therapeutic modalities began in the early 1980s after profound experiences studying Therapeutic Touch with Dr. Dolore Kreiger and Native American healing with mentor Oh Shinnah Fast Wolf.

Since then, Dr. deMaye-Caruth has become a lifelong student across healing practices - from Reiki to Aromatherapy and more. Blending her strong medical foundation with natural wellness wisdom, in recent years, she opened the Minerva Educational and Wellness Treatment Center. This hub promotes holistic options through Reiki courses, Kinesiology workshops and customized wellness programs informed by over 40 years of expertise.

Outside Minerva, Dr. deMaye-Caruth lends her visionary leadership to organizations like Honesdale Rotary Club and Wayne Business and Professional Women. All while co-hosting the popular podcast, Two Crones and a Microphone.

Through diverse community roles and speaking engagements, her mission shines through: empowering people of all ages and stages to unlock their fullest health potential. Dr. deMaye-Caruth walks the talk of the life-changing healing she teaches.

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Linda Shreve

Linda Shreve is a teacher, ceremonialist and lifelong student of movement, stories, music and the sacred in everyday life with over 40 years’ experience in a wide range of holistic modalities. She teaches a class “The Feminine Wisdom Series” immersing us into the Stories of various Goddesses at Minerva Educational and Wellness Treatment Center. Linda explores goddesses from the world pantheon in an intimate monthly class called “Goddess Within Us Through the Wheel of the Year” program at Twin Star Herbal and Energetics School in New Milford, CT, which is now available in an online form as 12 Pillars of the Goddess at twinstartribe.com (under the Trainings tab) and just completed its seventh year in 2023 covering over 50 goddesses to date. 
She is a trained community herbalist and flower essence practitioner, a singer and chant leader, meditator, Reiki Master and movement designer.  She co-created and led “The Sacred Path of the Black Madonna,” a 14-day tour of France and Spain in 2019 and is deeply committed to acting as a spiritual midwife in this time. Her books outweigh her crystals in her house, but that could change at any time.

Sally Rothacker-Peyton

Drawn to the work of Oh'Shinnah Fastwolf, Sally worked and studied with Oh'Shinnah and other native women, for many years. She is a nurse educator/teacher (retired university professor) and has a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP). With over 40 years as an advance practice nurse (Psychiatric Clinical Nurse Specialist and then Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner), she has published articles on trauma informed education and the impact of stress on nursing students, practi cing nurses, and nurse educators as well as presentations and publications related to evaluating DEI in nursing curriculum.

Sally is a Reiki Master, Therapeutic Touch Practitioner, and wisdom seeker who strives to integrate learning from multiple traditions. She facilitates classes on a wide range of topics including allopathic Western Medicine (mental health) related topics as well as alternative strategies such as Tapping (EFT). She counsels’ people in the use of ancient medicine ways to improve health and well-being, not only with crystals but other indigenous modalities.  She is a practitioner and teacher that has performed various ceremonies over decades, walking the sacred path of the feminine to restore balance, healing, and truth.


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