What Nobody Tells You

What if the key to feeling better isn't trying harder, but learning how to let go? In this episode of What Nobody Tells You, James Ferrigno speaks with Hale Dwoskin, New York Times bestselling author and teacher of the Sedona Method, a practice focused on releasing unwanted emotions, thoughts, and beliefs.

Hale shares how his search for enlightenment led him to the Sedona Method, and how letting go changed his experience of life. He explains five approaches to releasing, demonstrates a practical exercise you can try while listening, and explores why trying to force emotions to change can sometimes keep us stuck.

They also discuss anxiety, fear, grief, self-criticism, limiting beliefs, and the difference between allowing an emotion and identifying with it. Whether you're new to emotional awareness or have explored personal growth for years, this conversation offers a different way to think about letting go and finding greater ease in everyday life.

Hale's latest book is Already Safe: Freedom from Anxiety, Fear and Stress with the Sedona Method.

Learn more about Hale and the Sedona Method at https://www.sedona.com/

Disclaimer

This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical, psychological, psychiatric, or mental health advice, diagnosis, or treatment. The views and experiences shared by the host and guest are their own and may not apply to everyone. The Sedona Method and the exercises discussed are not guaranteed to produce specific results. Emotional experiences, including grief, anxiety, and trauma, can be complex. Do not feel pressured to process difficult emotions on your own, and seek qualified professional support when appropriate. Do not delay or discontinue professional care based on information in this episode. Nothing in this episode establishes a professional client relationship. You are responsible for your own decisions and actions.

Time Codes

00:00 Introducing Hale Dwoskin and the Sedona Method
 00:24 The Search for Enlightenment
 02:23 Discovering the Sedona Method
 03:04 What Happens When You Begin Letting Go?
 06:32 What Is the Sedona Method?
 09:09 A Simple Way to Understand Letting Go
 12:34 The Difference Between Letting Go and Pushing Emotions Away
 15:14 The Power of Awareness
 18:56 A Guided Releasing Exercise
 19:01 Five Ways of Letting Go
 21:21 Practicing Contraction and Expansion
 24:12 The Benefits of Releasing Stress and Tension
 25:14 Hale's Book, Already Safe
26:21 What If Your Emotions Keep Coming Back?
28:52 Why We Feel We Need to Fix Ourselves
30:06 Letting Go of the Need to Change Everything
34:00 Understanding Attachment
35:34 When Releasing Takes Time
38:01 Letting Go of Control and Trusting the Present
39:11 Where Do Our Thoughts Come From?
42:58 Are Your Problems Happening Right Now?
49:12 Releasing Emotions and Limiting Beliefs
52:39 What If You're Afraid to Feel Painful Emotions?
54:50 Grief, Love, and Letting Go
57:27 Advice for Anyone Who Feels Stuck
59:00 Where to Learn More About the Sedona Method

What determines how we experience our lives, and what can we do to change things for the better? In this solo episode, James Ferrigno explores five interconnected foundations of personal growth: awareness, presence, grounding, embodiment, and self-love.

James explains how trying to force change can sometimes keep us stuck, while becoming aware of our patterns can open the door to new possibilities. He shares practical approaches to becoming more present, working with anxiety, connecting with the body, and building self-love through a simple mirror exercise. The episode offers a different perspective on personal growth, shifting from pushing ourselves to change toward understanding ourselves more deeply.

Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical, psychological, psychiatric, or mental health advice, diagnosis, or treatment. The views expressed reflect personal experiences and perspectives and may not apply to everyone. Practices discussed, including grounding, emotional release, and mirror exercises, are not guaranteed to produce specific results. If you are experiencing anxiety, depression, or other health concerns, consult a qualified healthcare professional. Do not delay or discontinue professional care based on information in this episode. Nothing in this episode establishes a professional client relationship. You are responsible for your own decisions and actions.

Time Codes

00:01 Introduction: What Determines Our Life Experience
 01:28 The Five Foundations of Personal Growth
 03:10 Why Awareness Is So Powerful
 04:24 How Trying Too Hard Can Keep Us Stuck
 06:18 The Difference Between Awareness and Attachment
 08:00 Becoming More Present in Everyday Life
 09:40 Goals, Focus, and Taking Action
 11:12 Grounding and Letting Go of Unhelpful Patterns
 13:25 Getting Out of Your Own Way
 15:10 How Grounding Supports Embodiment
 18:24 Self-Love and Compassion
 21:48 The Mirror Exercise for Building Self-Love
 24:12 How Self-Criticism and Blame Affect Us
 25:12 Practical Ways to Develop Awareness
 26:00 Closing Thoughts

Why do we get stuck in life, and how do we begin to move forward? In this solo episode, James Ferrigno shares practical approaches to common challenges involving anxiety, depression, work, money, dating, and relationships. He explores grounding, emotional awareness, taking small actions, and the importance of connecting with others.

James also discusses a deeper principle that affects all these tools: how attachment, avoidance, and resistance can keep us stuck. Sometimes, rather than trying harder to force change, we can begin by becoming aware of what is happening, allowing it to be there, and approaching ourselves and others with curiosity and compassion.

Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical, psychological, psychiatric, or mental health advice, diagnosis, or treatment. The views expressed are based on personal experiences and perspectives and are not necessarily supported by scientific evidence or applicable to everyone. Grounding, emotional awareness, emotional release, and other practices discussed are not guaranteed to produce specific results. Anxiety, depression, and other mental health concerns can require professional care. Consult a qualified healthcare professional about your individual needs, and do not delay or discontinue professional treatment based on information in this episode. Nothing in this episode establishes a professional client relationship. You are responsible for your own decisions and actions.

Time Codes

00:00 Introduction: Why We Get Stuck
 01:28 Grounding for Anxiety
 02:32 Moving Through Sadness and Apathy
 04:40 Taking One Step and Getting Support
 05:49 Getting Unstuck in Your Career
 07:36 Starting Over and Finding Direction
 10:14 Making Time and Reducing Overwhelm
 12:39 Emotional Awareness, Money, and Taking Action
 13:40 Getting Unstuck in Dating and Relationships
 15:10 How Judgment and Blame Affect Relationships
 17:50 The Power of Awareness
 18:30 Attachment, Aversion, and Why We Get Stuck
 21:00 Allowing Instead of Forcing Change
 23:30 The Power of Being Seen and Heard
 25:30 Curiosity, Compassion, and Connection
 27:30 Resistance as Part of Transformation
 29:00 Letting Go Without Giving Up Action
 49:00 Closing

James Ferrigno talks with John Nadler about relationships, communication, intimacy, authenticity, men's work, and personal growth. John shares his journey from more than 30 years as a mechanical engineer to yoga, men's work, Human Awareness Institute workshops, and helping people develop deeper connection.

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They discuss learning to communicate honestly, active listening, finding the strength to speak up, emotional intimacy, sexuality, boundaries, knowing what you want, and the challenge of asking for what you need. John also shares how men's work helped him become more authentic and connected to himself, and how deeper connection can change our experience of relationships.

Time Codes

00:00 From mechanical engineer to relationship facilitator
 02:16 What is Human Awareness Institute?
 04:00 Learning communication and active listening
 05:49 John's men's work journey
 06:30 Finding strength and learning who you are
 10:14 Working with the father wound
 11:52 A painful lesson in leadership and finding his strength
 14:06 Repairing conflict and strengthening relationships
 15:10 Why communication is so important
 20:00 Staying connected to yourself and others
 24:38 Creating a "bubble" for intimacy
 26:30 What people misunderstand about intimacy
 27:21 Emotional intimacy, sexual intimacy, and communication
 29:12 Authenticity and knowing what you want
 31:05 Learning to ask for what you want
 33:00 Tantra, pleasure, and connection
 36:27 Experiencing energetic connection
 37:17 Feeling other people's grief and emotions
 41:49 Men's work and learning to feel
 44:45 The importance of self-love
 45:48 Closing

Disclaimer

This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical, psychological, psychiatric, or mental health care. James Ferrigno and his guests share personal experiences, perspectives, and opinions that may not reflect established scientific or clinical consensus.

Nothing discussed should be considered diagnosis, treatment, or professional advice. Different personal-growth, relationship, spiritual, or therapeutic practices work differently for different people. If you are experiencing significant emotional or mental health concerns, consider consulting a qualified professional.

The podcast does not create a doctor-patient, therapist-client, or other professional relationship. You are responsible for your own decisions and should use your own judgment when applying anything discussed on the show.

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In this solo episode of What Nobody Tells You, James Ferrigno talks about his own journey of learning to recognize, feel, and work through emotions that he had spent years suppressing.

James shares how being disconnected from his emotions affected his relationships, decisions, work, and eventually contributed to a devastating period of anxiety. He talks about the different approaches he explored over many years, including therapy, grounding, somatic work, embodiment, emotional release, EMDR, and self-love practices.

The episode also explores why emotions can become buried, how fear and grief can sometimes emerge as anger, why emotional awareness can affect the choices we make, and several simple practices you can begin using yourself.

James also explains four tools he recommends as a starting point: grounding, emotional awareness, emotional release or allowing, and the mirror exercise for building self-respect and self-love.

Time Codes

00:00 Introduction: Personal growth and working on yourself
 02:15 Why different tools work for different people
 04:00 Why emotional work matters
 05:00 Forgiveness is ultimately for you
 06:00 When buried emotions affect decisions
 08:00 Understanding fear, grief, anger, and other emotions
 10:00 What happens when you suppress your emotions
 11:45 James's experience of emotional disconnection
 14:00 The anxiety attack that changed everything
 17:00 Beginning therapy and searching for answers
 19:00 Discovering grounding and embodiment
 22:00 Emotional release, EMDR, and other approaches
 25:00 Staying grounded during intense situations
 29:00 Becoming aware of emotions in everyday life
 31:00 Why emotional awareness matters for relationships and work
 33:00 Four tools to begin working with your emotions
 34:00 Grounding and emotional awareness
 35:00 Emotional release and allowing
 36:00 Self-respect, self-care, and self-love
 37:00 The mirror exercise
 39:00 Forgiveness and releasing emotional weight
 40:00 Final thoughts

Disclaimer

This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical, psychological, psychiatric, or mental health care. James Ferrigno is sharing his personal experiences, observations, and perspectives, and guests or referenced approaches may reflect individual opinions or experiences rather than established scientific or clinical consensus.

Nothing discussed in this episode should be interpreted as a diagnosis, treatment recommendation, or guarantee of results. If you are experiencing significant anxiety, depression, trauma, emotional distress, or another mental health concern, consider speaking with a qualified healthcare or mental health professional. If you are experiencing a medical or psychiatric emergency or are in immediate danger, seek emergency care.

Different therapeutic approaches and personal-growth practices work differently for different people. Do not stop, start, or change prescribed medication or treatment based solely on information discussed on this podcast.

By listening to this podcast, you acknowledge that you are responsible for your own health and decisions and that no doctor-patient or therapist-client relationship is created through this podcast.

In Part 2 of my conversation with Dr. Jacqueline Chan, we explore intuition, energy, healing, spirituality, and what it means to reconnect with parts of ourselves that may have been shut down or ignored.

Dr. Chan's Book Regenerate Your Brain: A Breakthrough Plan To Restore Your Brilliant Mind:  https://a.co/d/0aYEIdyu
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Dr. Chan shares how she learned to distinguish intuition from imagination by keeping a journal and tracking what she sensed against what actually happened. She describes some of her own experiences with dreams, intuitive warnings, and what she considers meaningful signs from nature.

We also talk about what it can mean to develop intuition safely, including the importance of being present, creating a sense of safety, having guidance, and taking responsibility for the information that comes through. Dr. Chan explains why she believes intuition is something humans naturally possess and why many people may have learned to suppress or ignore it.

The conversation then moves into energy medicine, skepticism, healing, the human spirit, surrender, play, music, singing, and the ways people can reconnect with joy and a deeper sense of themselves.

Dr. Chan also talks about what decades of working with patients have taught her about human beings, including her belief that people are remarkably resilient and that beneath conditioning, fear, and suffering there is an inherent desire to feel whole.

We close with a conversation about where someone might begin if they want to become healthier in a more holistic sense, including education, self-reflection, journaling, and becoming more open to discovering what their next steps might be.

YouTube / Podcast Time Codes

00:00 Distinguishing intuition from fantasy and wishful thinking
00:46 Learning to test and track intuition
01:24 Dr. Chan's first powerful intuitive experiences
03:42 How intuition can feel different from imagination
04:35 Becoming present and creating space for intuition
06:18 Journaling intuitive insights and building confidence
07:36 Energy healing experiences and unexpected reactions
08:09 Keeping a journal as a system of checks and balances
09:01 Intuitive warnings and trusting a feeling in the body
09:40 Intuition as a potential warning system
10:35 Angels, guides, signs, and communication through nature
12:38 Recognizing signs and meaningful experiences
13:22 Blessing water, toning, and an unexpected experience in nature
15:19 Do we naturally have intuitive abilities?
16:21 How Dr. Chan learned to develop her intuition
16:49 Permission, responsibility, and trusting what comes through
18:25 The courage required to follow intuition
18:30 James shares his experience of shutting down his intuition
20:21 Why intuition can be difficult to explore in our culture
21:40 Retrieving parts of ourselves and becoming more whole
23:13 Intuition, unseen realms, and the importance of safety
24:27 Why Dr. Chan believes guidance and guardrails matter
25:57 Working with people who are skeptical of energy medicine
27:18 What decades of working with patients taught Dr. Chan
28:14 The human spirit and the desire to feel whole
29:21 Healing through softness, surrender, and receiving
30:29 Moving beyond conditioning and reconnecting with joy
32:14 The beauty and resilience of the human spirit
33:45 Joy, music, and powerful transformative experiences
34:31 David Hawkins, Power vs. Force, and emotional states
35:21 Triumph, joy, and shifting emotional energy
36:16 Play, the nervous system, and healing
37:20 Singing as a way to shift emotional states
38:23 Sound, toning, Qigong, and emotional balance
39:13 Purging, balance, and what we can learn from nature
39:49 Where to begin if you want to become healthier holistically
40:47 Journaling, education, and asking for guidance
41:32 Closing thoughts on openness and discovering your next steps

Medical and General Disclaimer

Medical Disclaimer: The information discussed in this podcast is provided for general educational and informational purposes only and is not intended to be medical advice, diagnosis, treatment, or a substitute for consultation with a qualified physician or other licensed healthcare professional. Dr. Jacqueline Chan is speaking from her own professional experience, personal perspective, and areas of practice. Statements made during this conversation represent the views and experiences expressed by the guest and should not automatically be interpreted as established medical facts, accepted medical standards, or the position of the medical profession as a whole.

This episode includes discussion of holistic medicine, energy medicine, intuition, energetic healing, the nervous system, trauma, emotional states, spirituality, consciousness, chakras, subtle energy, astral realms, guides, angels, signs in nature, and other spiritual or metaphysical concepts. Some of these concepts are matters of personal belief, spiritual practice, individual experience, or areas of ongoing investigation and are not established medical treatments or scientifically established explanations for illness or healing. Personal experiences and anecdotes, including experiences described by the host or guest, do not by themselves establish scientific evidence of effectiveness or causation.

In this episode of What Nobody Tells You, James Ferrigno talks with Dr. Jacqueline Chan, an osteopathic physician whose approach to health brings together conventional medicine, functional and integrative medicine, the nervous system, emotional awareness, and energy medicine.

Dr. Chan's Book Regenerate Your Brain: A Breakthrough Plan To Restore Your Brilliant Mind:  https://a.co/d/0aYEIdyu
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Dr. Chan shares the unexpected path that took her from studying philosophy and working on Wall Street to becoming a physician. She explains why she chose osteopathic medicine and why she believes the body needs to be understood as an interconnected whole rather than simply as a collection of separate symptoms and diagnoses.

She also talks about her book, Regenerate Your Brain: Creating a Breakthrough Plan for Your Brilliance, and why she believes the brain and nervous system are central to understanding overall health. The conversation moves into stress, emotional regulation, relationships, co-regulation, and the importance of experiencing safety.

This is a wide-ranging conversation about medicine, the nervous system, emotional regulation, spirituality, intuition, and the many different ways people understand health and healing.

00:00 Introduction
01:42 Dr. Chan's journey from philosophy to medicine
05:18 Why she chose osteopathic medicine
09:47 Conventional vs. functional medicine
14:32 The nervous system and whole-body health
19:06 Regenerate Your Brain
24:15 Stress, safety, and emotional regulation
29:41 Conscious witnessing and co-regulation
34:18 Intuition and energy medicine
38:27 Chakras, the auric field, and spiritual experiences
41:15 Past lives and spiritual sovereignty
42:00 Closing

Medical and Health Disclaimer
This episode of What Nobody Tells You is provided for general educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only. It is not intended to provide medical advice, psychological advice, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, or a substitute for consultation with a qualified, licensed healthcare professional.
The discussion in this episode includes conventional medicine, osteopathic medicine, functional medicine, integrative medicine, supplements, peptides, laboratory testing, nervous-system regulation, mental and emotional health, energy medicine, intuition, spirituality, and other health-related subjects. These topics are discussed for educational purposes and should not be understood as individualized medical recommendations.
The views, opinions, interpretations, experiences, and claims expressed by Dr. Jacqueline Chan are her own and do not necessarily represent the views of James Ferrigno, What Nobody Tells You, or any medical, scientific, academic, or professional organization. Statements made during an interview are not necessarily statements of established medical consensus or conclusions supported by high-quality clinical evidence.

Some portions of the conversation discuss energy medicine, psychic energy, chakras, energetic cords, the auric field, astral experiences, past lives, in-utero experiences, spiritual sovereignty, and related concepts. These subjects are presented as Dr. Chan's personal experiences, interpretations, spiritual perspectives, or beliefs. They are not established medical diagnoses or treatments, and their inclusion in this episode does not constitute a claim that they have been scientifically demonstrated to cause, diagnose, prevent, or treat a medical or psychological condition. No particular spiritual or energy-based practice should be assumed to be effective or appropriate for an individual based solely on this discussion.
The podcast does not establish a doctor-patient, therapist-client, or other healthcare-provider relationship between the listener and either the guest or the host. Neither James Ferrigno nor What Nobody Tells You is evaluating the listener's individual medical circumstances.

Ultimately, each listener is responsible for determining what information is appropriate for their own circumstances and for seeking qualified professional advice before acting on health-related information discussed in this episode.

In Part Two of James Ferrigno's conversation with Caroline Casey, the discussion moves deeper into the emotional and personal dimensions of Caroline's philosophy.

Caroline Casey https://www.coyotenetworknews.com/
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Caroline is an astrologer, visionary activist, author, and longtime host of The Visionary Activist Show. Her approach combines mythology, astrology, spirituality, politics, psychology, nature, and what she calls the art of participating consciously in the world.

The conversation explores an unusual range of subjects—from learning from animals and the wisdom of nature to grief, manipulation, spiritual communities, individuality, political divisions, and the importance of cultivating our ability to respond rather than simply react.

One of the most powerful themes is grief.

James discusses a model of emotions that places experiences such as apathy, fear, grief, anger, courage, acceptance, and peace on a spectrum. Caroline challenges the idea that grief belongs among the "negative" emotions.

For her, grief is fundamentally connected to love.

She describes grief as a potentially unifying force and distinguishes it from sentimentality. Her experience with her beloved coyote, Stella, helped her understand that grief can actually increase our appetite for life, rather than imprisoning us in the past. 

The conversation then moves into the dangers of flattery, pride, celebrity, and spiritual specialness.

Caroline shares a memorable warning:

"When people flatter you, they're paying you for what they're about to take."

She describes her experiences with spiritual groups that told newcomers they were "special" and explains why she eventually came to reject the idea of specialness.

But she makes an important distinction:

Everyone may not be special—but everyone is unique.

And uniqueness matters because every person has something different to contribute. 

That leads into the idea of initiation and the question of what modern society has lost by failing to give young people meaningful ways to discover their unique contribution.

Learning From Animals

Caroline describes the importance of observing animals and borrowing qualities from nature.

She tells a remarkable story about an owl's extraordinary hearing and ability to focus its attention, suggesting that human beings can learn from the intelligence of other species rather than assuming that human intelligence is the only form that matters. 

She also tells the story of her coyote, Stella, encountering a praying mantis.

The mantis successfully prevented the coyote from getting behind it. After trying unsuccessfully for approximately thirty minutes, Stella eventually bowed in respect and walked away. 

It's a funny story, but Caroline uses it as an example of something much larger:

Nature can teach us strategies for living.

Becoming an Artist of Atmosphere

One of the most practical ideas in the conversation is Caroline's concept of becoming an "artist of atmosphere."

She tells a story about a woman quietly using a simple calming practice while sitting in a taxi with an increasingly frustrated driver.

Rather than arguing with him or trying to change him directly, she changed her own internal state.

The driver's mood eventually changed as well.

Caroline describes a similar experience involving activists who had been arrested. By changing the emotional atmosphere, the interaction with the police officer changed too. 

This connects closely with one of the larger themes of your podcast:

We don't always have to control the other person in order to change what happens between us.

Sometimes changing ourselves changes the space we're both occupying.

Grief as a Form of Love

This is probably the most emotionally compelling section of Part Two.

Caroline describes grief as a "huge, vast, loving, painful thing" and contrasts it with sentimentality, which she calls a "toxic mimic." 

Her story about Stella is especially powerful.

After the death of the wolf dog they had lived with, Stella clearly grieved—but Caroline experienced the lesson as:

"I love you so much that I'm gonna live."

Rather than withdrawing from life, the grief increased Stella's appetite for it. 

That's a beautiful and unusual way of talking about grief.

Disclaimer: The information and perspectives shared on What Nobody Tells You are for educational and informational purposes only and are not intended to diagnose, treat, or prevent any medical, psychological, or mental health condition. The experiences and opinions expressed by the host and guests are their own and should not be considered a substitute for professional medical, psychological, legal, financial, or other qualified professional advice. If you need professional assistance, please consult an appropriately qualified professional.

00:00 – Star Trek and the Power of Fear

02:10 – Dissolving Grievance

06:27 – Grief vs. Sentimentality

07:53 – Flattery vs. Praise

08:30 – Uniqueness vs. Specialness

09:57 – The Calm Weaver

11:11 – Grounding in Action

12:45 – Becoming an Artist of Atmosphere

13:42 – The Antidote to the Escalation Trap

17:40 – Talking the Bully Down

18:45 – Talking Demons Back to Innocence

19:56 – The Wizard’s Initiation

21:25 – Becoming the Stream

24:28 – The Power of Connection

25:35 – Guiding People to Their Own Power

27:15 – The Eagle and the Snake

29:29 – The Path of Desire

33:39 – Composting Harumphitude

35:41 – Strong Enough to Be Gentle

36:49 – Finding Allies Across Divides

37:47 – The Freedom of the Unexpected

38:45 – Cultivating Inner Discipline

40:28 – There Is No Prison for the Unexpected

41:23 – The Capacity for Human Transformation

43:09 – Discern, Diagnose, But Don't Judge

43:44 – May They Meet Themselves

44:09 – A Fount of Blessing

What if mythology isn't just about the past? What if the stories we inherit are still shaping the world we live in today?

In Part One of this conversation, James Ferrigno talks with Caroline Casey, astrologer, visionary activist, author, and longtime host of The Visionary Activist Show.

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Caroline describes herself as an "anarcho-entheo-astroanimist" and brings together mythology, astrology, spirituality, politics, science, psychology, and activism in a conversation that goes in some unexpected directions.

They explore why mythology matters, what ancient concepts like hubris might tell us about modern technology, the surprising relationship between science and magic, the wisdom of older generations, and what nature can teach us about human behavior.

They also discuss why slowing down can sometimes help us move faster, why different spiritual traditions may have more in common than we realize, and the value of the inner heretic—someone willing to question established beliefs and cross-pollinate ideas.

This is Part One of a two-part conversation with Caroline Casey.

Disclaimer: The information and perspectives shared on What Nobody Tells You are for educational and informational purposes only and are not intended to diagnose, treat, or prevent any medical, psychological, or mental health condition. The experiences and opinions expressed by the host and guests are their own and should not be considered a substitute for professional medical, psychological, legal, financial, or other qualified professional advice. If you need professional assistance, please consult an appropriately qualified professional. 

Part 1 — Timestamps

00:00 – Caroline Casey and the Visionary Activist
 00:53 – Why Mythology Still Matters
 02:16 – What the Odyssey Can Teach Us
 04:13 – Mythology, Technology, and the World on Fire
 05:50 – A Cool Head and a Warm Heart
 07:47 – Ritual, Magic, and Cooling Down Conflict
 09:10 – Energy Vampires and the Power of Astonishment
 11:16 – Slowing Down to Move Forward
 12:48 – What Humans Can Learn From Animals
 15:09 – Caroline Casey and Joseph Campbell
 17:51 – Our “Time of Useful Consciousness”
 20:21 – When Science and Myth Meet
 22:08 – What Orcas Can Teach Us About Elders
 24:17 – Grandmothers, Democracy, and Our Stories
 27:05 – History, Shadow, and the Stories We Inherit
 29:10 – Can Science Be a Form of Magic?
 31:09 – The Sacred Purpose of Western Culture
 35:58 – Following Your Yearning
 39:19 – The “Simspora”
 41:25 – Becoming a Heretic and Escaping Dogma
 42:43 – When Spirituality Becomes Organized
 44:19 – Storytellers Change the World

What Nobody Tells You About Political Power: You Have to Build a Community

Former San Francisco Board of Supervisors member Chris Daly joins James Ferrigno for a wide-ranging conversation about San Francisco, politics, housing, activism, community organizing, and political power.

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Daly talks about his path from community organizer to elected official, the first dot-com boom, housing affordability, rent control, his unusual day as acting mayor of San Francisco, and what he learned about speaking truth to power.

They also discuss America's two-party system, political labels, the changing Democratic Party, the current political environment, and why community organizing may be more powerful than simply holding political office.

Most importantly, Daly explains why people who want to create change need to find their people, build community, engage, and act on their beliefs.

In this episode of What Nobody Tells You, James Ferrigno talks with Chris Daly, former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, about San Francisco politics, housing, activism, community organizing, political power, and what it actually takes to create change.

Daly served on the Board of Supervisors during a period of enormous change in San Francisco. He became involved in politics through community organizing and fights over homelessness, housing, affordability, and the displacement of working-class residents during the city's first major dot-com boom.

Looking back, Daly reflects on what San Francisco was like when he entered politics, what has changed, and what he believes has been lost.

But the conversation goes well beyond San Francisco.

Daly talks about why community organizing may be more important than holding political office, why political candidates shouldn't necessarily be the starting point for people who want to make a difference, and why finding other people who share your concerns is essential.

He also tells the story of the unusual day when he served as acting mayor of San Francisco and used the authority of the position to make appointments to the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission—appointments that Mayor Willie Brown attempted to reverse when he returned.