The Dream Catcher Podcast

[Interview] Activate Your Superhuman Potential and Turbocharge Your Life (feat. Jerry Sargeant)

Would you like to wake up every day with joy, health and vitality as your natural default state and be able to step fully into your power?

According to my guest, Jerry Sargeant, we can make this our reality because we each have the ancient power to heal and transform within us. He’ll share his recipe based on advanced soul technology to help unleash our full potential.

Jerry Sargeant, known as ‘The Facilitator,’ is the founder of Star Magic Healing. He’s a powerful motivational speaker and an international bestselling author. He is world renowned for healing people, creating rapid shifts within them, and transforming their lives on the mental, physical, emotional and spiritual planes.

In this interview, Jerry presents specific protocols and modalities, including connecting with and harnessing extraterrestrial light frequencies to energize, uplift and consciously empower your own life, others and the planet.

Intrinsic Motivation: How to Unlock Your Inner Drive For Success

Intrinsic motivation refers to the internal desire to engage in an activity for its own sake rather than for any external reward. You're driven by enjoyment, curiosity, or the satisfaction of mastering a skill. 

Many of us struggle to find the motivation to get certain things done. It can often feel like we're spinning our wheels and not progressing. 

Find out how intrinsic motivation works and how you can harness it from within yourself to make measurable strides that get you ahead on the road to success.

[Interview] How to Boost Your Happiness by Developing Healthy Mental Models (feat. Dr. Srikumar Rao)

Original airdate: December 28, 2021

Mental models are our perceptions of external reality and they determine our attitude and our choices in life. That’s why they’re critical to our success and wellbeing.

My guest, Dr. Srikumar Rao, has been teaching people all over the world about how to develop healthy models for many years.

Dr. Rao is a speaker, former business school professor, and head of The Rao Institute. He has taught at several leading business schools, including Columbia and the London Business School, and trained executives in top firms like Google, Microsoft and Merrill Lynch. He’s been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The London Times, and several others. 

During our conversation, Dr. Rao offers his insight into the mental models we habitually use and how we can become aware of them. He provides techniques and strategies to shift negative beliefs and cultivate healthier ones to experience more happiness and satisfaction.

Consistency in Relationships: The Missing Link to Lasting Love

Consistency in relationships means consistently showing up for your partner or friend, being reliable and fulfilling your commitments. 

In today's fast-paced world, where everything changes at lightning speed, consistency in relationships is diminishing in importance, and it’s become more challenging to find people who maintain a steady and predictable pattern of behavior. 

With these strategies and frameworks, you can cultivate consistency in all your relationships, develop lasting, loving connections, and identify people who can do the same.

[Interview] Amplify Your Personal Power and Speak with Courage (feat. Vasavi Kumar)

Self-talk is your inner voice. It's part of your stream of consciousness that allows you to process and understand what's happening around you.

My guest Vasavi Kumar says that how you talk to yourself matters. It sets the tone for every experience in your life and will bring you either closer to or farther from the truth of who you are. Today, she'll share how we can step into our power and say it out loud.

Vasavi Kumar is a life coach and licensed therapist with a myriad of in-person, print, televised, and social media experience. A first-generation Indian American growing up on Long Island and diagnosed with bipolar disorder at the age of 19, she learned to become highly self-aware and take action to create the life she wanted for herself.

In this interview, Vasavi offers insight into how we can tune into our inner self to hear our self-guidance and wisdom. She teaches us how to start talking to the voice in our head with compassion and acceptance rather than be influenced by those around us.

Competition With Yourself vs. Others: How to Find the Right Balance

Competition exists in most areas of life. You’ll encounter it in any situation with limited opportunities, whether in money, career, education, prestige or relationships. 

But can the drive to outperform others harm our growth and impact? Some people believe that we should strive to compete with ourselves more than we do with others. 

However, we can maximize our potential when we balance both forces. These steps help you harness the power of competition with yourself and others.

[Panel Discussion] The Ugly Truth: Does Pretty Privilege Give People an Unfair Advantage in Life?

Life is far from equal—and the evidence for that is endless. But one bias many of us struggle to accept, let alone talk about, is pretty privilege. It suggests that conventionally attractive people benefit in many areas of life because of their looks.

So, in a world that remains highly fixated on outward appearances, how can we nurture our sense of self-worth and play to our strengths despite the unfair advantages better-looking people often have? 

To tackle these issues and unpack solutions, I invited fellow podcasters Sami Dandachi and Tarek Abou Chakra from the Anything Everything Podcast and Mahreen Munir from Karak with Mahreen on the show.

Join us for this exciting and uplifting discussion.

Follow panel members:

Sami Dandachi and Tarek Abou Chakra @aethepodcast : https://podcasts.apple.com/ae/podcast/the-anything-everything-podcast/id1693128301 

Mahreen Munir @KarakWithMahreen : https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/karak-with-mahreen/id1707351232

Seline Shenoy @SelineShenoy : https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dream-catcher-podcast/id1336013258

Discussion points:

• What is pretty privilege and why are we psychologically subject to this bias?
• The impact of culture on beauty standards
• The commodification of people based on physical appearance
• The homogenization of beauty and social media contributes to these aesthetics
• The fickle nature of beauty standards and why we shouldn’t base our self-worth on it
• Beauty bias in the workplace
• How to keep your halo effect bias in check
• How to put your best foot forward
• Caveats in the body positivity movement
• How the media and society impact our perception of beauty
• The impact of beauty standards on men and women
• Why do you need to wrap your identity around other aspects of yourself
• The role of beauty in dating
• The wrong messaging of trophy wives, Only Fans, etc.
• The impact of beauty standards on men and how women view them
• Dating attractive people out of our age groups
• The importance of dating with intention
• How do we raise confident kids
• The benefits of body positivity movements 

How to Create a Success Mindset to Win in the New Year

A success mindset is more than just positive thinking or wishful dreaming. It is a mindset deeply rooted in belief and expectation. 

Whether you aspire to excel in your career, improve your relationships, or enhance your personal growth, cultivating a success mindset can give you the power to make it a reality. 

If you’re determined to get the most out of the new year ahead of you, these action steps and habits will help you develop a success mindset to accomplish your goals and vision.

[Interview] Braving loss, grief and pain when life falls apart (feat. Kris Carr)

Almost all of us have experienced losses or unexpected life changes that are so big you don't think you'll survive them, and if you do, you'll never be the same.

Things like divorce, accidents, losing a job or grieving the death of a loved one. Whatever it was for you, it was a moment when your world stopped.

My guest, Kris Carr, believes that even the worst upheavals can reveal the path to our next chapter of fully alive living. She's here to share her insights based on her story of transformation through pain.

Kris Carr is a New York Times bestselling author and a 20-year cancer thriver. Kris teaches people how to take back their health and live like they mean it. She's been called a "force of nature" by O Magazine and was named a "new role model" by The New York Times. Kris is also a member of Oprah's SuperSoul 100, recognizing the most influential thought-leaders today. Her work has also been featured in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Glamour, the Today show, Super Soul Sunday, OWN, and The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Kris shares ideas and practices to help you navigate those times when we go through challenging transitions. She reveals how we can find deeper meaning and purpose in whatever chapter comes next in life and use that as a catalyst in our transformation.

Surviving Culture Shock: How to Navigate a New Place with Ease and Openness

Arriving in a new country or environment can be an exciting experience, but it can also be accompanied by a wave of culture shock. 

Culture shock is a psychological and emotional reaction that occurs when individuals move to a significantly different environment. Whether it’s understanding new customs, behaviors, or the local language, it can leave you feeling frustrated and lonely. 

With the right strategies, it is possible to navigate a new place. These five steps will equip you with the necessary tools to thrive in a foreign environment.