Roll Call -with Kurt Caceres

She evaded Wolves, stayed clear of Grizzly Bears, endured the most extreme of weather and landscape conditions. Dyana Carmella joins America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres, to complete her emotional and inspirational journey through 1200 miles and 71 days solo on the Pacific Northwest Trail. Though she doesn't want her mother to hear this, she now admits that she should've died multiple times. The power of the human spirit is greater than we even know until we are tested and have no option to fail. We are so used to our comfortable first world life, with all the amenities, that we are never faced with the obstacles that will truly show us the great feats that humans are capable. Once you tap into your potential, you will never fear anything again. She found her appreciation for simple things like food, at one point in her journey having ran out and forced to starve and only live off wild berries in the middle of nowhere. She reminds us that we don't need much to live a happy life. On the contrary, its the gluttony and over indulgence that actually makes us unhealthy and unhappy. Mother Nature is real, her energy omniscient and power unwavering. Once you become one with that source, it will change your life forever.

My recent short film on solo exploring I did in partnership with Chaco and Women Who Explore:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwo9fxM1wFI

Video of "Goodbye Letter to the PNT". (This sums up the hike in about 3 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMZRIRS92vo

Same letter but in writing:
https://www.allwomenalltrails.com/a-goodbye-letter-to-the-pacific-northwest-trail/

Link to an Essay I wrote on the reason I did the PNT.
https://www.allwomenalltrails.com/the-twisted-reason-i-wanted-to-tackle-a-thru-hike/

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Have you ever camped in the woods? Not in an RV or hotel, but down and dirty in a tent? Most people would have trouble for one night. Dyana Carmella did it alone, for 71 days and 1200 miles, through uncharted wilderness. She shares her emotional and inspirational story with America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres. Living with Grizzly Bears, Wolves, Snakes and other wildlife. Overcoming the most extreme and unexpected weather conditions, from flash floods, snow storms and lightning. She hiked the Pacific Northwest Trail, one of only 20 people to do it that year, one of only 3 women that year, and she was the only to do it solo. There is no trail. No map. Just using an old fashioned compass and navigating with the stars, she tells us that the girl she was when she started, is not the woman she is now once she completed. She is quick to say that humans when forced to face fear, with no other option, will find things deep inside themselves they never knew possible. Humans will find what we are truly capable of. "Imagine what you could accomplish if fear wasn't an option", says Dyana. Everyday we often times choose the path of fear and run the other way, but Dyana didn't have that choice, and Mother Nature put her to the highest of tests. Three times she remembers wanting to quit more than any other, pushed to the brink of exhaustion, as close to death as is humanely possible. Knees filled with fluid and swelling from to many days of walking, her feet rotting from weeks of moisture, she is about to face one of the biggest feared regions of the journey, "The Lions Head Bushwack".

More from Dyana:
My recent short film on solo exploring I did in partnership with Chaco and Women Who Explore:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwo9fxM1wFI

Video of "Goodbye Letter to the PNT". (This sums up the hike in about 3 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMZRIRS92vo

Same letter but in writing:
https://www.allwomenalltrails.com/a-goodbye-letter-to-the-pacific-northwest-trail/

Link to an Essay I wrote on the reason I did the PNT.
https://www.allwomenalltrails.com/the-twisted-reason-i-wanted-to-tackle-a-thru-hike/

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Rafael Davila was found in the gutters of a back alley street in Washington D.C., by his two young children. He had hit rock bottom, didn't have the balls to take his own life, didn't want to feel anymore, hoping for an accidental overdose. He had lost his father years prior, and now his mother was dying of cancer. Rafael lays it all out for America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres, and shares his rollercoaster ride through addiction and to recovery. Some say addiction is genetic, but his twin brother never fell into it. Others say it's all about environment, but they were raised by a loving mother in an affluent middle class suburb. Rafael tells us without hesitation, the main reason people fall into drug and alcohol abuse and addiction. It's a simple emotion that we all have to cope with and deal at points in our lives. But why does it take some, when others find a way to break free? This is the true story of a man who saw the end of his life, was ready to no longer feel, but then found the light and now is a daily servant to help others be saved from their own demons.

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Rafael Davila and his twin brother grew up in a middle class suburb of Detroit, raised by a single mother. They didn't grow up in poverty or lacking love, their mother was a school teacher who provided all they needed. However, Rafael shares with America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres, how drug addiction can hit anyone, regardless of color, financial status or education. He started hanging with the wrong crowd and to overcome his insecurities, he fell into a life of drugs. His Mother, desperate and helpless, contacted their father, whom they had never met, and he entered into Rafael's life for the first time at 16 years old. He was beginning to build a relationship with his father, which helped him shake his substance addiction. They were becoming a real family, his father now being Grandfather to Rafael's two children. But then the tragedy of 9/11 arrived, and his father just so happened to be a paramedic in lower Manhattan. Though his father survived this historic catastrophe, he lived with PTSD and himself fell into a life of addiction to morphine and other drugs. One day he slammed to much and overdosed. Rafael spiraled from losing the father he had just met for the first time in his life. He ended up in the streets and gutters of Washington, D.C., a raging drug addict, barely holding on to life. Until his two children found him on the street, and the look on their faces changed his life forever.

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Ellie Shoja makes us think about our own consciousness and discusses with America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres, our decreasing inability to communicate with one another and be comfortable in our own skin. We are becoming to reliant on our devices to be our representative and we feel safer using a cartoon avatar as our spokesperson instead of being who we truly are. Ellie is no stranger to personalities and identities, she spent much of her childhood in refugee camps and on the run with her father who was an international con man. She had to speak different languages, claim different countries of origin and put on a false mask at a moments notice and play a character who she was not. It got to the point where she no longer remembered her true self. Is that happening in our society today? We are choosing to be someone we are not, because we feel it's safer and we will be more accepted. But is this a dangerous pattern that is taking us down the wrong direction?

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He was charismatic, highly intelligent and extremely resourceful. But he also had a dark side. Ellie Shoja joins America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres, to share her journey as a young girl living under the reign of a certified International Con Man. Her and family were always on the run, from city to city, country to country, hideout to hideout. Changing names, identities, countries of origin and trying to keep one story straight as opposed to another. This was no life for a young 12 year old girl, and the trauma it's done to her the rest of her life is one she has worked daily to overcome. Having spent months in a refugee camp after her father was finally caught and arrested, her mother found a way to escape and they were able to flee to the sovereignity of the United States of America. Author, motivational TEDx speaker and life coach, "Shoja" is here to share her true story right out of a Hollywood movie.

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Prison and being behind bars can mean much more than a physical incarceration in a jail cell. Jeremy Gilbreath takes us through the series of life events that helped him create his own prison, in his mind. After decades experiencing abuse as a child, he shares with Kurt Caceres, for the very first time, how it effected him decades later as an adult, and how he tried to kill himself twice and almost over-dosed on drugs numerous other. Child abuse is an epidemic much greater than anything our society deals with, and the worst part about it, all the victims are innocent. If the victims are lucky enough to escape the life and stay alive, they must endure a lifetime of PTSD and trauma inflicted by the adults who put them there. Jeremy tells us how he escaped the abuse, but then continued to abuse himself, desperately seeking love, he found nothing but despair and darkness. Fortunately for him, salvation came in the least expected way, and helped change his life forever. He is one of the lucky ones. This is his story.

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He tried to take his own life, drank away most of the prime years of his youth, and caused unintentional heartbreak to so many around him. But was it his fault? Jeremy Gilbreath sits for the first time and shares his gut wrenching life story, exclusively with America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres. Growing up watching his parents fight daily, not with words, but with fists, choke holds and beatings. Then when he came of age, the beatings were redirected towards him and his siblings. His father was a Vietnam veteran who had never experienced abuse himself as a child, but came back from the war a different man. No one knew what happened to him over there, but the tyranny he rained upon his family was never ending. Thousands of children experience this same abuse daily, and the cycle continues. But somehow Jeremy found salvation in empathy, standing up to the bullies growing up, standing up for the underdogs, instead of himself passing on the tradition of violence. Now with children of his own, this is the true real life story of a man who grew up in the shadow of tyranny.

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With the long awaited release of Fast & Furious 9, America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres, brings on one of the franchise biggest fans, to debate it's place in cinema history, and if it even deserves a mention. With names like Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris, John Cena, Jordana Brewster, Nathalie Emmanuel, Kurt Russell and Charlize Theron, it has no shortage of blockbuster Hollywood names. But are celebrities enough to give a film respect? Why 9 films? Will it ever end? What about the script? Character development? Substance? Story? Quality acting? No one is disputing the global draw of the fan base and it's multi-billion dollar revenue stream, but is that great film making? Is this a film that will be taught decades from now in film school or will it be used as an example of what "not to do"? There is great debate between success in any profession and the quality of it's output. Is the future of film trending towards big budget blockbusters, or can our youth still handle story driven, complex character arc and brilliant acting, for the next generation.

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If people came with a warning sign, what would be yours? America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres, tackles the modern day question about Red Flags and it's effect on romantic, friend and work relationships. We have all been hurt, let down or backstabbed by someone close to us at least once. But could we have avoided that pain ahead of time? As we get older we start to learn how to see the warning signs in advance. Experience shows us personality traits in others that we could not see in our youth. When do we reveal to much about ourselves to others and how deep do we analyze and question someone new in our life? Is it better to dive right in haphazardly into every new relationship or proceed with caution and scrutinize every word or action others make? There is a list of the most popular Red Flags to look for in others, but they are also subjective to each individuals tastes and dislikes. What are you willing to tolerate and what exactly can you absolutely never have in your life?

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