Deep Dive with Jamie Stein

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Jamie invites Hot Takes & Deep Dives host Jess Rothschild to delve into the recent spate of docuseries about con men, scam artists and hustlers. They explore why people sometimes fall prey to such far-fetched schemes, what is underneath the cultural fascination with high-end frauds, their own judgments about the victims, and much more. 

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Jamie welcomes Chelsea Fagan, creator of the multimedia platform The Financial Diet, and Orange County native Piper Sample to dive into the deeper waters of Heather Dubrow and the role of money/wealth on the franchise that started it all - The Real Housewives of Orange County. Topics include Heather's relationship to acting/creativity, her actual (unconscious) feelings toward money, her marriage to Terry Dubrow, why she gets so triggered by Shannon Beador and much more. 

Follow The Financial Diet on Instagram, YouTube and online, follow @jamiestein and check out his work at hollywoodreadings.com. E-mail [email protected] for more info about the May 8th intuitive reading event. 

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Jamie and Piper wrap up the bizarre second season of "The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City" by touching down on the reunion highlights - including Heather Gay's vitriol, Lisa Barlow's frantic method of defending herself, why the entire cast tiptoes around Jen Shah's (alleged) crimes and much more. Plus, Jamie makes up for a technical difficulty with a "Love is Blind" solo journey into Natalie Lee and Shayne Jansen's fraught relationship. 

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Jamie invites Tom Hamlett, co-host of "Dumpster Dive" podcast, to briefly touch on the Katie Maloney/Tom Schwartz separation heard around the "Vanderpump Rules" world and to then sound off on the cast division at the heart of this season of "The Real Housewives of New Jersey." The exploration digs into many timely RHONJ issues - including the real reason why Melissa Gorga gets so triggered by Jennifer, the difference between Teresa Giudice's "Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip" and New Jersey personas, Margaret Josephs' unwillingness to feel the impact of her actions on others, how Jennifer's higher self may have been guiding her journey this season, and much more. 

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"The Real World" occupies a legendary place in the annals of reality TV, and so it is only fitting that Jamie should welcome two legendary podcasters - Taria S. Faison of "What Else Is Going On?" and Ryan Bailey of "So Bad It's Good with Ryan Bailey" - to break down this latest season of "RW Homecoming." Our intrepid trio navigates a wide range of topics including the exact moment in which this cast tends to sabotage its very desire for deeper connection, the underground energy (both personal and systemic) fueling the past and present conflicts between Tami Roman and David Edwards, whether Jon Brennan has fulfilled or sidestepped his life's calling in his role as a humble pastor, whether we should fully trust the public face presented by Irene Berrera-Kearns, and much more. Consider this The Deep Dive's love letter to "The Real World" - truly, the show that started it all.  

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Jamie sits down with multifaceted animal communicator Sarah Lea to discuss not only her ability to speak for our beloved pets but also her skills as a medium, an empath and a vessel for psychic information. The inquiry into Sarah's specific line of work soon evolves into a larger conversation about how all people might consciously cultivate their own intuitive gifts, how to create safety through strong energetic boundaries, what it means to take empowered self-responsibility for the circumstances of your life without victim-blaming yourself, the different roles played by destiny and free will in the fulfillment of our spiritual life tasks, and much, much more. 

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Jamie and Piper honor the completion of this latest season of Vanderpump Rules with a deep-dive into the complicated and oftentimes polarizing Tom Sandoval. Together, they explore the unconscious energy behind his over-obsessive attention to detail, what's at the heart of his tendency to go above and beyond for his friends, his ambivalent relationship to masculine and feminine energy both inside and outside of himself, how Lisa Vanderpump just might be recreating long-standing dynamics with his mother and much, much more. The conversation concludes with a tarot card pulled for Tom. 

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With cults becoming a hot topic in the Housewives universe, it seemed like the right time to drop this previously-unreleased episode: Jamie welcomes good friend of the pod Piper Sample and founder of Radical Aliveness Ann Bradney for a roundtable discussion of HBO's The Vow, Starz's Seduced and their combined depiction of the NXIVM cult led by Keith Raniere. The conversation kicks off with the question, "How do intelligent, successful people like Mark Vicente and Sarah Edmonson end up susceptible to a cult in the first place...?" and then develops into a broader exploration into what exactly constitutes a cult, ways in which we're willing to defer our personal power to the leaders in our lives (and why), what we must be willing to tolerate in order to shatter the type of binary thinking that helps cults to thrive, contemporary politics, and much, much more. 

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Happy holidays! Jamie celebrates the end of the year by inviting friend of the pod Piper Sample to unpack all the surreal goings-on of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. It's a season where it feels like the bulk of the drama is in everything that's not being said - including Lisa Barlow's intentions in bringing Cameron onto the show, why Heather Gay and Whitney Rose seem so intent on bringing Lisa down, the source of Meredith's rage towards Jen Shah (not to mention her ardent defense of Mary Cosby) - and our Housewives intuitives do their best to roll up their sleeves and bring the SLC unconscious landscape out into the snowy light. 

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Jamie welcomes Taria S. Faison, host of the popular What Else is Going On? podcast, to deep dive Candiace Dillard and her polarizing effect on both her fellow cast members as well as the audience at large. They navigate Real Housewives of Potomac topics both current and historical, including the real reasons why Candiace was so bothered by Ashley's initial pregnancy journey, the emotional energy underneath Candiace's notoriously vicious attacks, why Candiace has difficulty drawing firmer boundaries with her mother and the inner workings of her relationship with Chris. Of course, no journey into the Potomac universe would be complete without a detour into the psyche of Le Grand Dame herself, Ms. Karen Huger. 

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