Podcast
Dream Chasers and Eccentrics
Hosted by Paul Trammell · EN
Dreams can't be caught unless they are chased, and eccentricity is but a symptom of brilliance.
I interview extraordinary people who forge their own path, make their own rules, and live outside the norms of society. Together, we can learn from each other. Remember, foolish people keep making the same mistakes, smart people learn from their mistakes and successes, and extraordinary people learn from the mistakes and successes of both themselves and of others. That is what Dream Chasers and Eccentrics is all about!
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Margaret Bryden, Poetry in Therapy
5d ago01:08:22Tap to summarizeMargaret Bryden is a licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, author, and founder of Sage Insight Therapy. She works with individuals and couples navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction and life transitions. Margaret is the author of "How I Understand It: A Bad Poet's Guide to Mental Health & Resilience," where she introduces "bad poetry" as a powerful, accessible tool for emotional processing and insight. Through her work, she helps people start understanding themselves in a way that leads to real connection, clarity and resilience. We talk about using poetry in therapy, getting patients and clients to write poetry, writing bad poetry, how therapy and poetry help clients discover things about themselves, hope, boundaries and how this is defined, consequences, her book, what poetry is, she reads two of her poems from the book, birds, codependency, marriage, resiliance, self-awareness, communication, publishing, artificial intelligence and the value of writing poetry without it, mind hacks to increase productivity, television, nature, art, and more. links are on the podcast website support the show through Patreon
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Native American Author David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Wisdom Corner
2w ago01:07:29Tap to summarizeDavid Heska Wanbli Weiden is an award winning author, professor, and an enrolled citizen of the Sicangu Lakota nation. He received his MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts, his law degree from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. He's professor of English and Native American and Indigenous Studies at Stony Brook University and also serves on the faculty of the Cedar Crest Pan-European MFA Program. He lives in New York and Colorado with his family. Hw is the author of Wisdom Corner, forthcoming in July, 2026 from Ecco/HarperCollins. He's also the author of the national bestseller Winter Counts (Ecco, 2020), which was the winner of many awards, and was a New York Times Editors' Choice, an Indie Next pick, main selection of the Book of the Month Club, and named a Best Book of the year by NPR, Amazon, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, The Guardian, and other magazines. The novel is included in Time magazine's list of the 100 best mystery and thriller novels of all time. We talk about his book Wisdom Corner, Native Americans, his book Winter Counts, the broken criminal justice system on Indian Reservations, Native American boarding schools, the word "Indian" and whether or not it is offensive, the Sicangu Lakota Nation, Native American history, bison, life of the Indians before Europeans came, the slaughter of the bison, passages from the book, religion, Buddhism, Lakota spirituality, treaties made and broken, the future of Native Americans, football, writing a best seller as a first novel, the role of fiction in bringing about social change, teaching creative writing, writing dialogue, books, short stories, favorite authors, movies, the Native American Literary renaisance, and more.
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Antiauthoritarian Psychotherapy, Lincoln Stoller
3w ago01:17:51Tap to summarizeLincoln Stoller is a quantum physicist, neuropsychologist, hypnotherapist, clinical counselor, psychonaut, mountaineer, author, and educator. His approach to psychotherapy is unique and antiauthoritarian, combining science, spirit, economics, and mental health through an understanding of the hard sciences, the psyche, and the behavior of groups. We talk about quantum physics, psychotherapy, moutaineering, traveling and visiting other cultures, education, hypnotherapy, length of life, racism, ADD/ADHD and how it's diagnosis is abused, the problems with modern education, how psychotherapy started as a political tool, modern quasi-slavery, alternative schools, ecology, indigenous Panamanians, hope for the future, depression, Caribbean society, unemployment, schizophrenia, family structures, Spanish and English languages, dreams, past lives, inherited personalities, empathy, war, and more. Links are on the podcast shownotes page Support the show through Patreon
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Past Lives and Forgiveness, Dr. Anthony Emmett, remastered
4w ago01:11:56Tap to summarizeThis is an episode I published in February of 2024, and it is so good that I remastered it to remove background noise and improve sound quality. Even if you listened to it two years ago, it is well worth a second listen. Dr. Emmett is a retired surgeon, sculptor, and author. He has a vast and unique knowledge of a level of consciousness that most of us don't perceive. We talk about self-image, the subconscious, intuitive knowledge, immortality, consciousness, meditation, telepathy, past lives, working with clairvoyants, the source of knowledge, the creator, history of religion, karma, the purpose of life, UFO's, near-death experiences, other dimensions, the power and importance of forgiveness, the energy field of creation and love (God), why we should be planting more forests, why we shouldn't get angry, how to be more forgiving, hypnosis and autohypnosis, Buddhism, and much more. Links are on the podcast shownotes page Support the show through Patreon
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Anthony Horowitz, Author of A Deadly Episode
May 2800:53:57Tap to summarizeAnthony Horowitz is a British novelist and screenwriter who has written over fifty books. He started with children's books and first found success with the Alex Rider seires, which has sold over 21 million copies and was made in to a TV series on Amazon. As his readers grew up, he began writing mysteries, including Magpie Murders, which initiated a series on BBC Television. He has also written for the Sherlock Holmes and 007 estates. He has written several television series including Foyle's War and Midsomer Murders. He was on this podcast in 2025 talking about his book "Marble Hall Murders." His latest book is "A Deadly Episode." We talk about reader feedback, reviews, work and time spent working, swimming in the river Thames, blending fiction and reality, solving the crime in the book and how difficult the author wants this to be, scripts and adaptations, other books and authors, elaborate setting descriptions, settings and characters, immersion in the book and characters, writing with a pen vs a computer, fountain pens, writing a mystery within a mystery, word puzzles, keeping the mind active, poetry, social media and phones, keeping up the motivation to write before breaking out, self-publishing vs traditional publishing, mediocre writers and great writers and what separates them, a connection to something greater than us and cultivating it, his favorite of his own books, advice for writers, and more. Links are on the podcast shownotes page Support the show through Patreon
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Cornucopia, a Sci-Fi Short Story by Paul Trammell
May 1400:38:02Tap to summarizeCornucopia is a short story about a mission to colonize another planet, written and narrated by Paul Trammell. Subscribe to paultrammell.substack.com to get a freee short story in your mailbox on the first of each month. Support the show through Patreon.
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Phyllis E Leavitt, a Spiritual Journey and America in Therapy
May 701:08:50Tap to summarizePhyllis E Leavitt graduated from Antioch University with a Masters' Degree in Psychology and Counseling in 1989. She co-directed a sexual abuse treatment program called Parents United in Santa Fe, New Mexico until 1991 and then went into private practice full time. As a psychotherapist, she treated children, families, couples, and individual adults for 34 years, and has worked extensively with abuse and dysfunctional family dynamics, their aftermath, and some of the most important elements for healing, including the intersection of emotional wellbeing and spiritual healing and connection. She has written three books, "A Light in the Darkness," "Into the Fire," and her latest book, "America in Therapy: A New Approach to Hope and Healing for a Nation in Crisis." In this interview, we talk about visions of a divine love consciousness, finding a path to divine guidance, poetry, our souls and what they are doing here, operating as a soul-consciousness in our human bodies, receiving messages, moving away from an ego-consciousness, past lives and reincarnation, tuning in to our highest source, her books, injury to love and safe belonging, healing and shedding negative beliefs and coping mechanisms, family dynamics, the family of America and how it resmbles an abusive family, her book "America in Therapy," division in America, sobriety, and more. Links are on the podcast shownotes page Support the show through Patreon
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Phil Borges, Shamans, Schizophrenia, and CRAZYWISE
Apr 3001:04:01Tap to summarizePhil Borges is a photographer and flimmaker dedicated to documenting the lives of indigenous cultures, and their shamans in particular. His work is exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide and his award winning books, which have been published in four languages, include Tibetan Portrait, Enduring Spirit, Women Empowered and Tibet: Culture on the Edge. He has hosted television documentaries on indigenous cultures for Discovery and National Geographic channels. Phil also lectures and teaches internationally. During his work, he noticed similarities between shamans and the people we label as mentally ill - specifically schizophrenic or bipolar. His documentary Crazywise dives into this subject and focuses on two individuals in America who suffer from psychotic episodes and how they tried to deal with their mental difficulties. CRAZYWISE explores the relevance of Shamanic traditional practices and beliefs to those of us living in the modern world. CRAZYWISE centers around a young man struggling with his sanity, world renowned mental health professionals, and a gutsy survivor-led movement...all challenging a mental health system in crisis. In this interview, we talk about growing up in the Haight-Ashbury, becoming an orthodontist, interviewing hippies on the street, becoming a photographer/interviewer, becoming a professional photographer, documenting tribal cultures, Tibet, watching the Dahlai Lama's kuten go into trance and channel an oracle, an interview with the kuten discussing how he got the job, things shamans have in common, schizophrenia, ego disolution, psychadelic experiences and the neuroscience behind them, what happens when our identity anchors are taken away, near-death experiences, our view of reality, making the film CRAZYWISE, Vipassana, pharmaceuticals, trauma, ayahuasca, psilocybin, how to talk to people having a psychotic episode or paranoid hallucinations, the stigma associated with psychotic diagnoses, advice for people with schizophrenic freinds, the importance of maintaining the relationship, and more. links are on the podcast shownotes page support the show through patreon
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Race Relations in the South and How they have Changed, Melvin Edwards
Apr 2101:05:19Tap to summarizeMelvin Edwards is an author, journalist, and podcaster. His latest book is "Nuremberg Mississippi." We talk about how laws affected blacks differently from whites and were used as tools of opression, such as not being able to use the front door of stores or to eat inside restaurants or for a black man to be driving with a white woman or to be black and in town after sunset in "sundown towns," segregation, the "Negro Motorist's Green Book," where racism comes from and how slavery started it and perpetuated it, why it's nearly impossible for Blacks to trace their ancenstors in the USA prior to emancipation, his book "Nuremberg Mississippi," how the current administration emboldened racism in America, racist organizations in America, why people join racist organizations, PTSD, what we can do to promote friendliness between races, Jim Crow - where the name came from and what it means, his podcast "Stories from Real Life," and more. Links are on the podcast shownotes page Support the show through Patreon
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Space Man, a Short Story
Apr 1600:29:04Tap to summarizeSpace Man is a short story by Paul Trammell, published April 1 on paultrammell.substack.com The story is narrated by the author. Links are on the podcast shownotes page support the show through either substack, if you want more short stories, or Patreon
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