Inner Truth

Maura James McNamara is a filmmaker, writer, and visual artist devoted to exploring the healing, expansion, and sovereignty of consciousness. She is the host and producer of the Unbroken Chain Podcast, where she seeks out voices often overlooked or suppressed by the mainstream and whose lived experiences reveal ways of being that might take us out of collective trauma and toward reconnection.   After spending a decade working in independent documentary and television production in New York City, Maura became a full-time nomad in spring 2019, traveling the country and living alongside the people who are her subjects and teachers. She is currently in post-production on a documentary she shot while seeking out medicine women and transforming a broken heart in 2018, and she is beginning production on a documentary about survivors of the American machine in the rural south and the pulse of trauma and underground healing taking place in response.   In this episode we talk about our personal experiences smok