Me & My Ai

As people on the journey of Life, we can all gain useful insights and life wisdom from Joseph Campbell's, "The Hero with a Thousand Faces". Chris Vogler's "The Writer's Journey" - inspired by Campbell's work - is told from a screenwriter's point of view and uses popular movies to explain the journey. In this episode, Lisa explains how studying the Hero's Journey can serve as a guide as we go on our own "dreamer journey".

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Friends & Family who support our dreams are like healthy soil. They encourage us, they support us, they are happy for us. They ask us how it's going. They support our posts on social media. They are genuinely happy for us because we are happy and that's what friendship should be all about. But what if they don't support us? What if we always have this weird feeling when we spend time with them? What if they NEVER ask us about our dream? What if they NEVER like any of our posts on social media about our dream but like our other posts? (Passive-aggressive much?) In today's show, I talk about all of the ways the people in our lives either show us support or how they let us know that they don't support us. We need supportive people on this journey. Or at the very least, we need not to have people who outright don't support us to be in our inner circle. This is very important.

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When is the first time you remember knowing you wanted to do the thing you want to do? Let's talk about the "Call To Adventure"

Waking up from a dream that rocked your world, and changed the course of your life's path...

The death of someone close to you...

A medical diagnosis...

A nagging feeling...

Getting fired from a job....

These are all things that can service as a CALL for us to go deeper in life, to get onto a path of Meaning. Joseph Campbell called this stage in the journey, Call To Adventure. Let's talk about what your call was, if you listed to it, or if you pushed it away and ignored the call.

If you don't listen to yourself all along the path for when you need a break, you will be headed for a burnout. I know because it happened to me. I now listen to myself when I need a break. It usually manifests as fatigue, body aches, and mental confusion/cloudiness. I'm in the middle of one of these phases right now but I didn't want to not talk to you this week so I just talked to you about what I'm experiencing! I hope you get something from today's show. Thanks for listening.

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No matter what it looks like or feels like, nothing is the same as long as we are alive. It may feel like Groundhog Day but we can change our circumstances at any moment, even if it's just a thought, actually, it all has to start with the thought. When we break out of just reacting to things and instead become aware of ourselves in THIS MOMENT, that is when we will embrace our true power.

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In today's show, I interview Tracey Adlai of The Valley Film Festival in Los Angeles, CA. Tracey is the Founder and the Executive Director of the festival. She's down-to-earth and kind AND a huge source of knowledge about the world of indie film in the Valley. The Valley Film Festival is going on it's 19th year!! If you haven't been to a film festival before - or a smaller, community film festival - I HIGHLY recommend you attend this festival. It's so intimate. You can really rub elbows with the filmmakers and other festival goers. And if you're a filmmaker, I also highly recommend you enter your film into this festival. It's a safe, artist-focused festival in the heart of the filmmaking industry, North Hollywood. You never know who may attend your film screening or who you may bump into at a mixer. Go for it! Tracey will help you get through it and in the end, it will be a totally positive experience.

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We can view the obstacles we come up against on our Hero's Journey towards the manifestation of our dreams just like a seed that is banged around on rocks in the river. The banging around is necessary for the seed to lose its tough outer shell in order to germinate. This process with seeds is called "scarification". Another method of seed scarification is fire. The Sequoia tree requires fire to release the seeds from its cones and the opening of the canopy that the fire creates also helps the seedlings grow. For some of us, the bad things that happen to us in life are the things that had to happen to break us open to our deeper purpose.

"Scarification in botany involves weakening, opening, or otherwise altering the coat of a seed to encourage germination. Scarification is often done mechanically, thermally, and chemically. The seeds of many plant species are often impervious to water and gases, thus preventing or delaying germination." - Wikipedia

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Welcome to the very first episode of I Have Dreams Dammit! - a podcast about the realities of going for your dreams. Your host, Lisa Murray, has a background working in the film and music industries, and she also had a blogging channel on YouTube when YouTube first started. Tragic personal loss took her offline for a while but she's back to share with you what she has learned, and she's bringing her professional artist & creative entrepreneur friends with her to help motivate, educate, and inspired YOU!

New shows will be uploaded every week!

Books mentioned in this podcast:

The Alcheimst, by Paulo Coehlo

The Writer's Journey, by Chris Vogler

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