Dream Chasers and Eccentrics

Matt O'Neill is a happiness expert whose work has positively impacted the lives of over 100,000 people worldwide. He's the author of the "Good Mood Revolution" book, and host of the "Good Mood Revolution" podcast. Matt teaches us that happiness is a choice, even when life gets tough. His teaching isn't just theory, it's tested in the real world too. Matt has 4 young children and runs two successful businesses with over 80 employees.

We talk about gaurdian angels, near-death experiences, nature as a cure for depression, memories, drugs and addiction, true joy, love, the highest level of happiness, the 8 positive and 8 negative emotions, the importance of gratitude, the present moment, meditation, yoga, prayers, intuition, stopping negative thought patterns, forgiveness, humility - the foundation of all good moods, and more.

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Ronika is an award-winning screenwriter. She also directs, and runs the Wicklow Stories Film Festival. Having placed highly in both the Academy Nicholl Fellowship as well as the Austin Film Festival in 2019, she has since expanded her slate to contain more than 22 feature-length scripts.

She has lectured at Griffith College in Dublin, Ireland and has given multiple workshops in Ireland and the UK. Her latest work, Matriarchy is a film and TV adaptation of Mary Mackey's best-selling novel series "Earthsong," which is being produced by Chainsaw Europe.

She is also the artistic director of the Wicklow Stories Film Festival, which was launched in 2022 and was funded and supported by Creative Ireland.

Her textbook for Irish Screenwriters "The Hustle" is now available on Amazon or can be purchased directly from her. An addition and expansion to this work, titled "Navigating Hollywood" can be purchased through the New York Script Awards. Her poetry collections "I Love You, Dave Taylor" and "Joy Clings" are available on amazon.com, with her new book "She," coming out in April 2024. She has consulted on projects in the US, UK, South Africa and Australia.

We talk about Ireland, growing up in a tribal community in India, the importance of community, religion, screenwriting, writing nonfiction, trying to write novel, creativity and where it comes from, creative burnout and how to deal with it, defining your own success as an artist, cultivating creativity, writing poetry, empathy, an much more.

Ronika also reads her poem "Nobody's Daughter."

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Lion Goodman is founder of the Clear Beliefs Institute. He is a professional certified therapeutic coach with 40 years' experience as an executive coach, teacher, healer, and Subconscious Pattern Detective. He is the creator of the Clear Beliefs Method for deleting limiting beliefs, healing childhood wounds and resolving traumas from the past.

We talk about wanting to fit in as kids, practicing telepathy, studying consciousness, near-death experiences, getting shot in the head and surviving, shamanic studies, the difference between real and fake shamanic retreats, psychadelic drugs and the danger of their recreational use, shadows, connecting with the aliveness of the Earth, exploring other worlds and bringing back gifts for this life, existing as multideminsional beings, original sin, religion, addiction, and more.

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David Buck is the author of "The Time-Optimized Life." He has over 35 years of organizational and time-management experience, which led him to start Kairos Management Solutions, and the Infinity Lifestyle design program. David empowers business professionals to overcome the struggles of a lack of flexibility in life. He helps his clients craft a strategy to optimize their time that defines a lifestyle focused on meaning, purpose, and joy.

We talk about all sorts of ways to optimize our time so we can be more productive, waste less time, set better goals, be more happy, and make more money.

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In 2018, while sailing in The Bahamas, I had a terrifying encounter with an oceanic whitetip shark, a known maneater, and one of the most feared sharks in the ocean. I described the encounter in my book Journey to the Ragged Islands. In this episode is a chapter in the audiobook, where I read from the book about my time at Cat Island. I encountered the shark while on a paddleboard at the north end of the island. In the following days, I sailed south to New Bight and hiked up Mt. Alvernia to the Hermitage of Father Jerome.

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A short story about a magical island, based on a real place - Isla Escudo de Veraguas, read by the author.

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Martina is the author of the book Hello Flower: A real life story of narcissistic love and invisible abuse.

We talk about living in Italy, learning foreign languages, teaching and building schools in Nicaragua, selling coffee, falling in love with a covert narcissist and suffering narcissistic abuse, defining a narcissist, avoiding them, the importance of seeking your own happiness, and more.

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This episode features the first two chapters of the audiobook Journey to the Ragged Islands, by Paul Trammell, as read by the author (and the host of this podcast).

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Brodie Farber was a professional Mixed Martial Arts fighter from 2002 to 2018.

We talk all about fighting, various martial arts and which ones work, training, injuries, preventing injuries, what it's like to be knocked out, the benefits of learning a martial art, travelling, and much more.

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Aiden Gabor was recruited into the mafia at a young age, led a life of crime, and became an enforcer. He was later coerced into being an informant for the Department of Justice, who convinced him to become a police officer in order to bring down corrupt cops. He wrote a book about his life, Conflicting Loyalties, which I read in three days since I didn't want to put it down.

* If you are offended by violence, you might want to skip this one.

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