The Power of Ideas

Melora Walters is a woman of many arts. She is an actress, a dancer, a painter and, apparently, a ghost. She has been in many (possibly hundreds) of hollywood film and TV projects. However, if you think she is just another actress in hollywood, think again. She has a depth likely unrivaled. Listen in as we talk about art, life, film and what it feels like to not be seen.

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My sister started a podcast and then got offered a radio show. She asked me to come on and talk about family, chosen family, astrology and life. I was honored. This is probably the most personal I've publicly ever been. I felt it would be nice to share and probably enjoyable for you guys out there. Be sure to subscribe to her podcast if you like the show! BLACK GIRL FROM EUGENE.

Montana Roesch AKA Monty is an actress who I met on the set of Low Low. Her diva was strong. She seemed to enjoy bossing me, maybe a little too much. Somehow, we became friends. I find Monty a silly, funny, passionate, smart, woo woo soul and I am very thankful that we can call each other friends even if she diva'd out on me super hard in the beginning.

She is working actress who has a YouTube comedy coming out and appeared on the last season of VEEP.

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Griff J is a man of many talents. He directed my first music video and many other music videos in the Seattle hip hop scene. He has since gone on to do videography work on shows for National Geographic and others. He now lives in LA doing work for an online yoga company. Listen in as we talk about storytelling, raplife, yoga, health and, of course, all about his astrology.

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Coley Sohn is a filmmaker out of Los Angeles who had her short film premiere at Sundance and get made into a feature. In other words, she's good. While her passion lies in film, she just so happens to have a knack for house flipping. And lucky for me, she just so happens to be a great conversationalist. Listen in as Coley and I talk about film, astrology, politics, relationships and more. 

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I met a Kate at a giant yellow castle. One day, we walked around the grounds of this castle and she improv commentated our entire journey; she was shockingly good at it.

She said, "well yeah, its my job..." Turns out she is an eSports commentator. Needless to say, I was totally intrigued. 

Also turns out that she is an incredibly interesting person with a bunch of great stories. Nerdy, articulate, pretty, witty and always in a good mood. Listen in.

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Darren is one of my best friends and simply an interesting person. He is also one of the most interesting person to talk TO. While the reason I wanted to have him on the podcast is because I have a specific theory about his unique ability to create intimate conversations with just about anyone (You have to listen to the ep for my theory!) in a matter of minutes, the episode is actually basically two buddies talking about how they became friends. (Thats us!)

It was great.

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Khristel Khalil has been an actress on The Young and The Restless for 15 years. But she's so much more. She's a mother, a hopeful healer and spiritual go-getter. 

We sit down to talk astrology (of course) and quickly find ourselves in talks of Shakra's, demons, religious fundamentalism and ayuhuasca - Whoa. 

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Artwork by Anna McNaught – Instagram @annamcnaughty

Intro music: “The Power” by Kublakai

Additional Music: “If the stars were mine” by Melody Gardo

When I met Katy, I asked for her secret "dream career." She said, "I'm doing it. I'm a nurse."

Before nursing though, she played basketball for U of O and worked for an environmental PR firm. But after witnessing nurses caring for her loved ones, she realized, rather suddenly, she wanted to be a nurse.  Listen as we discuss how her "secret career" fell into her lap. 

Intro: “The Power” by Kublakai

Promo music: sample taken from “Love and Death” by Ebo Taylor

Additional music: Sol – “Ai

This episode is the season finale!

Well, technically, this is simply the end of what I have deemed the pilot season. I'm re-tooling, revamping and re-editing all of my episodes and I will be back in a month for the "official" launch of The Power of Ideas. 

In todays Episode, I tell a story about when I think I first saw the signs of change towards this tumultuous time we live in. I recap what worked and what didn't in the last 10 episodes and I lay down a challenge for the next month.