Dream Chasers and Eccentrics

Frank Healy is one of 100 people in the entire world who has hyperthymesia. He remembers every day of his life, starting at six years old. He is now 64. He is also an author and a therapist, and we talk about memory, his obsession with weather, school, social life, how to control and minimize bad memories, astrology, OCD, controling emotions, reliving fond memories, emotional intelligence, forgiveness, meditation, his therapy practice, and much more.

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Clouds, thunderstorms, cool rain, surfing, life and death, strolling through the jungle. My poems are influenced by the natural world around me, as I live on my sailboat in Bocas del Toro, Panama. In this episode, the inner working of my mind are on dislpay for all to hear as I read my original poetry.

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Shebana Coelho is an award-winning writer, performance artist and facilitator of workshops. Her work is about expressing our creativity to liberate us from fear and other colonizations and to celebrate our passion. She received a Fiction Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and a Fulbright grant to Mongolia.

We talk about travel, and how it rchanges the way we think and act, overcoming fear, solitude, Tierra del Fuego and Ushuaia, designing a new life, planning to have no regrets in the afterlife, solo traveling, the artic and polar bears, cultivating creativity, and much more.

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John Guiver is the author of the book "To Play the Game," the story of the aeronautical disaster of flight 571, which crashed in the Andes in 1972, and involved cannibalism in order to survive.

John Guiver's lifetime interest in the 1972 Andes Flight Disaster led him to travel to the site of the accident in January 2013 in the company of one of the sixteen survivors, Eduardo Strauch. Through him, he met many others connected to the story, including survivors Pedro Algorta and Coche Inciarte, whose memoirs he translated. Over the years, he conducted numerous interviews within the close-knit passenger community, and delved deeply into various archives, including that of Piers Paul Read who wrote the best-selling 1974 account of the tragedy, Alive. The detailed information he amassed persuaded him to write a comprehensive history of this iconic event. "To Play the Game" retells the story both on and off the mountain, giving an in-depth look at the world from which the passengers came, and an analysis of the possible causes of the accident. The account is enriched by the stories of those who didn't return from the mountain, related through the eyes of their families, bringing much-needed balance to a history which has largely focused on the survivors.

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Kamoka Pearl Farm produces pearls from oysters grown in the nutrient-rich lagoon of Ahe Atoll, 300 miles northeast of Tahiti. They are known for adhering to the strictest levels of sustainable farming in the pearl world and have pioneered many eco-farming techniques that not only help the environment, but also improve the quality of their pearls.

We talk about living in French Polynesia, sailing there in a ferocement sailboat, Bernard Moitessier, starting the pearl farm, learning from the Japanese pearl farmers, how pearls are cultured, working with the local ecosystem and letting the local fish clean the oysters, living off-grid on an atoll, storms, making jewelry with the pearls, and more.

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Jennie Milton, aka Adrena-Jen, is an Australian kitesurfing and snow kiting champion, and all-around hardcore adventurer.

We talk about getting chased by a polar bear, Alaska, kitesurfing, kiteskiing, generation X, the Red Bull Ragnarok kiteski race, staying in shape and combating the aging process, fear, and courage. We also discuss the relationship between the desire to use recreational drugs and the desire to do extreme sports, and why sobriety is better.

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Following a thirteen-week hospitalization for schizophrenia, after being "extracted" from Dartmouth College, Dale Walsh was in a private psychiatric program where he was hospitalized nine times over five years. He then moved into his own unsupervised apartment and returned to college at Fairleigh Dickinson University, from where he graduated magna cum laude in English Literature. Diagnosed 45 years ago, Dale has been episode-free for the past 29. His mental health journey has evolved from total psychosis to a miraculous recovery. He has lived independently for forty years.

Dale Walsh is a coach for the families of those diagnosed with schizophrenia. He has been coaching these families for three years and is the creator of the LIVELOVE method to help his clients. He is guided by the mantra "Recovery is Always an Option."

We talk about the paradox of beliving one is God and all of us being a part of God, living in a reality that wasn't conceived on earth and trying to integrate his vision with that of general culture, spreading a message of hope and recovery, the role of drug use in becoming schizophrenic, psychadelic drugs, an obsession with Emmylou Lou Harris, divine insights, recovery, the inability for schizophrenics to understand that there is anything wrong with their mind, an alter-ego, using love patience and faith to deal with schizophrenic friends or loved ones, medications, homelessness and mental illness, quitting smoking marijuana, keeping hope alive, and more.

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Britton Kelley is a personal trainer living in Medellin Colombia.

We talk about travelling, living in Medellin Colombia, being a gringo, doing your own thing, Costa Rica, lifestyle change, Thialand, fitness, personal training, not having children, OMAD (one meal a day), MRSA, pain, Covid, not watching television, and more.

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Jeremiah Beck is the author of the new novel Recollection, which I read and enjoyed enough to invite Jeremiah onto the show.

We talk about finding the inspiration to read and write, authors we love, learning to write, finding an editor, cultivating a creative mindest, talking to your characters, rituals, begging for the muse, marketing a book, guilt, forgiveness, being tormented by our own mind. I also read highlights I took while reading Recollection and Jeremiah comments on them. Jeremiah also reads from a new novel he is working on.

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Amelia Huckel-Bauer is a Bronx based actor and teaching artist, currently producing and acting in an on-going production of John Ford Noonan's, "All She Cares About is the Yankees," coming soon to the Bronx. She is a company member with Emit Theatre, bringing immersive Shakespeare to schools, roles ranging from Gertrude in Hamlet, to Malvolio in Twelfth Night. Other theater credits: Hunter in Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, Chick in Crimes of the Heart; Red Monkey Theater Group, Sally in Tally's Folly; Bagaduce Theater, and Flannery in Mrs. Schrodinger's Cat; NYC Fringe Festival. She holds a BFA in Acting from Tisch, NYU and a MA Educational Theater from Steinhardt, NYU.

We talk about her one-woman show, becoming an actor, method acting, calling up emotions on stage, agoraphobia, the mechanics of putting on a play and the people involved, cultivating a creative mind, living in New York City, and Amelia recites a scene from the play, which is HILLARIOUS!

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Amelia's website is http://www.ameliahuckel-bauer.com/

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