The Robin Smith Show

Robin rambles about life lately, from Halloween and neighborhood happenings to morning breathwork and his first experience with Dolores Cannon's Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique (QHHT). He explores the unexpected past-life experiences that emerged, the role his skeptical parts played, and some surprising parallels with IFS.

Plus, an update on donating his grandfather's macaque skull to George Washington University's Department of Anthropology, his sixth year of Movember fundraising, thoughts on the 2026 midterm elections, and a little appreciation for Spiral Orange, the new album from Hammer No More The Fingers.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Movember fundraising: https://us.movember.com/donate/details?memberId=14654248#amount
• Center for Engaged Compassion: https://www.centerforengagedcompassion.com
• GWU Department of Anthropology: https://anthropology.columbian.gwu.edu
• Hammer No More The Fingers, Spiral Orange: https://hnmtf.bandcamp.com

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Today on the show I sit down, in costume, with my guests:

Bianca Stevens
Nicholas Trietsch
Leigh Tyberg
Will McHenry
Jess Schutz
Adam Weinstein
Joe Ramienski

We cover:

• The history of Halloween
• Halloween stories and movies that traumatized children of the 80s and 90s
• Most creative costumes we’ve ever gone as
• The origin story of the Jack-o-lantern (google turnip carving)
• Recommended Halloween movies
• And more...

And don't forget to google "Pluto goes to hell"

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Dr. Ifeanyi Olele returns to The Robin Smith Show to explore personal growth, clinical evolution, the business of mental health, and how auditing our lives across eight dimensions can foster real alignment and well-being.

Dr. Olele is a board-certified psychiatrist and the founder of Genesis Psychiatric Solutions and Genesis TMS and Wellness. His work centers on providing comprehensive psychiatric care, integrating medication management, psychotherapy, and advanced modalities like Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) to support individuals struggling with treatment-resistant depression and complex mental health challenges. Dr. Olele is the author of The Wellness Mindset: The SWOT Analysis of Your 8 Dimensions of Wellness, where he applies strategic business principles to personal health, helping busy professionals, parents, and leaders examine their internal strengths and weaknesses alongside external opportunities and threats.

Robin and Dr. Olele talk about his journey expanding clinical practice across the DMV, the science and experience of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), and why proper sleep reigns supreme at the top of physical health. They also dive into internal vs. external accountability styles, the power of core beliefs, deep inner child healing, and what it means to pursue your unique calling with conviction while chronicling your life’s unvarnished journey.

Genesis Psychiatric Solutions: 

https://www.genesispsychiatricsolutions.com/

Genesis TMS and Wellness: 

https://www.gentms.com/

The Wellness Mindset: The SWOT Analysis of Your Eight Dimensions of Wellness by Dr. Ifeanyi Olele

https://doctorolele.myshopify.com/blogs/news/welcome-to-the-wellness-mindset 

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Robin rambles about the October breathwork challenge, a monkey skull, the Washington Commanders, Ovechkin’s final NHL season, and a disastrous attempt to install a Walmart bike rack. He also has a new Insight Timer track, a Light the Night fundraising update, and plans to try Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique.

Featured music

“BWRAMPH” by No Pterodactyls, from Next Thing I Know.

https://nopterodactyls.com/

Light the Night DC

Robin's fundraising page: https://pages.lls.org/ltn/nca/WashDC26/rsmith

Insight Timer

“Meeting the Part That Doesn't Want to Change,” Robin's new track: https://insighttimer.com/robinsmith/guided-meditations/meeting-the-part-that-doesn-t-want-to-change

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October Breathwork Challenge

“10-Minute Morning Breathwork Routine: The Key to Happiness,” from Breathe with Sandy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb9YxCC5WBw

Jessica Dibb

Listen to Robin's conversation with Jessica Dibb in Episode #237. Jessica also offers free daily breathing sessions on Zoom at 8 AM Eastern: https://myemail.constantcontact.com/-Daily-Free-30-minute-Breathing-Community-.html?soid=1116515521145&aid=h6YpQzRam3g

Universal Breathing Declaration: https://universalbreathingdeclaration.earth/

Next week's guest

Dr. Ifeanyi Olele, psychiatrist and author of The Wellness Mindset: The SWOT Analysis of Your Eight Dimensions of Wellness.

https://www.lulu.com/shop/dr-ifeanyi-olele/the-wellness-mindset/paperback/product-v87kzyz.html

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Jessica Dibb joins Robin to explore breathwork, psychotherapy, consciousness, and the ways conscious breathing can connect us with psychological, embodied, relational, and spiritual experience.

Jessica is the author of Breathwork and Psychotherapy: Clinical Applications for Healing and Transformation. Her work centers conscious breathing, synthesizing depth psychology, consciousness studies, science, and somatic, emotional, and cognitive energy and wholeness. She advocates for powerful, safe, multi-dimensional Breathwork to access our deepest potential. Jessica is the founder and director of Inspiration Consciousness School, and is the Global Professional Breathwork Alliance founding co-director and ethics chair. Jessica develops innovative processes for embodying wholeness using Breathwork, alongside established and emergent wisdom teachings, to cultivate presence, wisdom, and love throughout our lifespan, in relationship with all life and this breathing planet.

Robin and Jessica talk about the relationship between breathwork and psychotherapy, individualized practice, preparation and ethics, expanded states of consciousness, and the connection between breathwork and IFS. They also explore what it might mean to welcome difficult parts into the breath rather than trying to fix them, and Jessica offers a simple experiential practice near the end of the conversation.

Jessica Dibb / Inspiration Consciousness School

Inspiration Consciousness School and Community:
https://www.inspirationcommunity.org/

Jessica Dibb's Book

Breathwork and Psychotherapy: Clinical Applications for Healing and Transformation by Jessica Dibb:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DK45SYBC?lv=shuf&language=zh_TW&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback

For a 20% discount in the U.S.:
https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393712001?promo=DIBB20

UK, Ireland, Europe, the Middle East, India, Pakistan and South Africa:
https://wwnorton.co.uk/books/9780393712001-breathwork-and-psychotherapy
Promo code: WN286

Group Breathwork Sessions

Virtual Breathwork Sessions:
https://conta.cc/4yyjWgX

Women's Breathing Sessions at Inspiration Consciousness in Maryland:
https://conta.cc/4xrUBEF

In-Person Breathwork Sessions in NYC:
https://conta.cc/3TqEedu

FREE Daily Breathing Sessions on Zoom every day at 8 AM Eastern:
https://conta.cc/499WU5Q

Sign up to receive news, events, and class information from Inspiration Consciousness School and Community:
https://visitor.r20.constantcontact.com/manage/optin?v=001hVeN8HUUPDUMikHkGOH63oLvoQqaGHtRQoeLboCZ_57s1rgjmRPt0xkGeDA397MvyhUvELQuygiEqiK3KE4Te4Ca9iA2IlI1e1Kzq6hG9L8%3D

Sign the Universal Breathing Declaration:
https://universalbreathingdeclaration.earth/

Be part of co-creating a world where all can breathe safely, freely, joyously!

To request a Breathworker trained by Inspiration Consciousness School, contact:
[email protected]

Jessica Dibb / Social Media

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/InspirationCommunity

Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/inspirationconsciousnessschool/

LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-dibb-2581167b/

Inspiration Consciousness School and Community:
https://www.inspirationcommunity.org/

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Robin rambles about the monkey skull that has been sitting in his office, its mysterious family history, the possibility that it might be cursed, and his eventual attempt to find it a new home.

He also catches up on the October breathwork challenge, the Washington Commanders and Capitals, the latest from No Pterodactyls, the ongoing Renaissance Festival ticket saga, and the increasingly ridiculous story of how trying to replace one missing piece from a Martha Stewart desk somehow resulted in three desks.

He also previews upcoming conversations with Jessica Dibb and Dr. Ifeanyi Olele, and shares an update about his upcoming fundraising efforts with Blood Cancer United.

Featured Track - Lick the Salted Wound by No Pterodactyls (Album: Next Thing I Know)

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Note: This is a wide-ranging and sometimes difficult conversation, including discussion of childhood sexual abuse.

Robin welcomes Robert Falconer back to the show to talk about his book, Self Unbroken: The Foundations of Bob’s Healing from Childhood Sexual Abuse.

They talk about what it means to remain “unbroken” after profound trauma, the parts of us that protect access to difficult experiences, and a metaphor of an inner library with gatekeepers deciding which books we're ready to open.

The conversation wanders through dissociation, memory, shame, spirituality, altered states, the body, relationships, and the strange ways healing can unfold before we have any framework for understanding it.

They also get into a difficult question near the end of the conversation: what do you do when someone has memories of possible abuse but isn't sure what actually happened? Bob talks about why he believes we shouldn't automatically validate or deny those memories, and about the importance of therapists doing their own work.

Robert Falconer is best known for his extensive involvement with Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy as a practitioner, teacher, and writer. 

For the past decade or more, Bob Falconer has devoted himself full-time to IFS work. In that time, he has attended all levels of IFS training offered, and has been at many workshops and events with Richard Schwartz both as assistant and participant. In addition to studying with many of the other senior IFS trainers, he also co-authored a book with Richard Schwartz entitled Many Minds, One Self. 

His other books include The Others Within Us, When You're Going Through Hell ...Keep Going, Spirit, and the recently released Self Unbroken: The Foundations of Bob’s Healing from Childhood Sexual Abuse. (July 2026). His focus is now on the study of spiritual presence experiences.

https://robertfalconer.us/self-unbroken-book/

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Robin rambles about moving the annual breath work challenge to October, mourning some favorite cultural icons, watching horror movies in bachelor mode, returning to Ocean City with his family, and more.

Don't miss upcoming conversations with Bob Falconer, Dr. Ifeanyi Olele, and Jessica Dibb.

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Chris Hancock joins Robin to explore what happens when experiences don't fit neatly inside the rational frameworks that we use to understand ourselves and the world. They talk about spiritual emergence, skepticism, synchronicity, the limits of conventional therapy, and what happens when those questions become personal during a live IFS demonstration.

Chris Hancock is a licensed clinical social worker, therapist, and founder of Therapy Outside the Box. Through a variety of holistic and integrative approaches rooted in connection, clinical and personal experience, Chris incorporates more spiritual practices into his counseling work blending dynamic, relational, intuitive, energetic, transpersonal Internal Family Systems, quasi-shamanic, modern mystical, creative and practical approaches. Chris helps awakening souls discover all parts of Self, heal & release what doesn’t serve, transform breakdowns into breakthroughs, and embody greater wholeness, purpose, vitality, authenticity and awakened empowerment. 

Learn more about Chris: 

therapyoutsidethebox.com

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Robin rambles about grocery store karma, a junk drawer turned prize box, flooding the basement, and discovering that a sprained toe doesn't necessarily mean you get to rest.

Don't miss upcoming conversations with Chris Hancock, Jessica Dibb, Bob Falconer, and Dr. Ifeanyi Olele.

Community Spotlight:

The Grow Group for Women with Sarah Boone, MS, LCPC, NCC

A six-week women's growth group integrating nature-based practices and Enneagram-informed insights beginning this September.

Learn more:
www.sarahboonecounseling.com

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