Jim Ellermeyer and Producer Mike discuss the New Year season and the significance people put on it.  How can you have a better year than the gyms on January 1?  What are you doing today? And can you use this time to take an inventory of your life? 

Jim Ellermeyer and Producer Mike discuss the expectations that cause anxiety around Christmas and the misnomer of Jesus’s birthday.  We discuss why we established December 25 as the holiday. What is important in this season when we are missing our loved ones? 

Jim Ellermeyer continues his conversation with our friend and clairvoyant Santina Grace as we talk about what these angels can protect us from in our lives. Being an angel. Dealing with distractions in our monkey mind.  What is our illusion of connectivity around Social Media? 

Jim Ellermeyer continues his conversation with our friend and clairvoyant Santina Grace as we talk about what these angels can protect us from in our lives. Being an angel. Dealing with distractions in our monkey mind.  What is our illusion of connectivity around Social Media? 

Jim Ellermeyer welcomes our friend and clairvoyant Santina Grace back to the show for her 4th year.  We go back to how Santina discovered her abilities to communicate with the spirits and the reactions from those around her. How to stay positive in a world of divisiveness. How do we ask for help from spiritual energy and “out of work” angels. 

Jim Ellermeyer continues the conversation with our friend and cancer survivor Katie “Dudders” Dudas as we continue to discuss her life after breast cancer and getting her “groove back”.  We talk about her trip to hike Mount Zion with Project Athena. How did she interact with loved runs around her when diagnosed? 

Jim Ellermeyer continues the conversation with our friend and cancer survivor Katie “Dudders” Dudas as we continue to discuss cancer and the inequities she’s seen with her treatment against others.  How and why does she continue to tell her stories and elevate others as she works with adult youth cancer groups. 

Jim Ellermeyer welcomes our friend and cancer survivor Katie “Dudders” Dudas back to the show as we begin to discuss the effect the United States healthcare and Medicaid system worked for her and not work for those she has lost.  

Jim Ellermeyer and Producer Mike are talking about the hate and vitriol being leveled on those of the Jewish faith in 2022. Where did the Jews come from in history and religion? Where did the hate for the Jews come from in the early Gospels of Christianity. 

Jim Ellermeyer and Producer Mike about becoming a Podcast.  What does it take to start a Podcast.  The topic.  The audience.  What should you set your expectations to be and what do you need to consider to weather the storm?  And why do we still do this?

Jim Ellermeyer and Producer Mike talk about Cereal?  But more so we talk about getting older and dealing with the concept of death.  How do we deal with our those that pass around us and our own mortality? What can we value in our lives? How can we lead a life with no regrets? 

Jim Ellermeyer and Producer Mike talk about the concept of “Sobriety Day” in the 12 step recovery world and why Jim doesn’t celebrate that day in his own recovery.  How does that declaration become an ego boost when it should be bringing others up. 

This week we go back in our time machine to Episode 325!

Jim Ellermeyer and Producer Mike talk about validation and how it can help or hurt.  Are we transitioning into focusing ourselves or helping others process? What are some validating phrases you can use?  What is your job to help someone when they are in pain? 

Jim Ellermeyer and Producer Mike talk about ego and empathy.  What are the different kind of empathy?  What is Cognitive Empathy, Emotional Empathy and Compassionate Empath? How does this apply to the media and “team picking” in media, politics, wokeness and the pandemic.

This week we go back in our time machine to Episode 328!

Jim Ellermeyer and Producer Mike talk about understanding the words we use and hear from day to day.  What do the terms “fascism” “socialism” and “communism” actually mean?  How are people misusing these words to impose their morality in our society.  What are Puritans vs Pilgrims?  How Jesus was the proprietor of Socialism.  What is being “woke” and how are all of these words weaponized?

Jim Ellermeyer and Producer Mike talk about moments of Unmindfulness in their lives.  Jim explains his latest trip to Florida where he made a few travel mistakes including booking flights and losing your car like in Seinfeld. Mike discusses some of his unmindful moments in video production and live streaming from being distracted by his environment.  When is it ok to say “I don’t know”? 

Jim Ellermeyer continues his conversation with singer/songwriter Tim Vitullo as they talk about developing consistency in his musical growth and his experience during the Covid pandemic as a musician and going back to the joy of songwriting after the grind of the road. Tim also discusses finding session work for other artists. 

Jim Ellermeyer continues his conversation with singer/songwriter Tim Vitullo as they talk about the communication in their band, deciphering guitar and your own voice, and musical influences, opening for BB King at the Benedum Center for the Performing Arts and the experience in performing on stage.