She evaded Wolves, stayed clear of Grizzly Bears, endured the most extreme of weather and landscape conditions. Dyana Carmella joins America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres, to complete her emotional and inspirational journey through 1200 miles and 71 days solo on the Pacific Northwest Trail. Though she doesn't want her mother to hear this, she now admits that she should've died multiple times. The power of the human spirit is greater than we even know until we are tested and have no option to fail. W...
Oct 14, 2021•1 hr 1 min
Have you ever camped in the woods? Not in an RV or hotel, but down and dirty in a tent? Most people would have trouble for one night. Dyana Carmella did it alone, for 71 days and 1200 miles, through uncharted wilderness. She shares her emotional and inspirational story with America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres. Living with Grizzly Bears, Wolves, Snakes and other wildlife. Overcoming the most extreme and unexpected weather conditions, from flash floods, snow storms and lightning. She hiked the Pacif...
Sep 24, 2021•34 min
Rafael Davila was found in the gutters of a back alley street in Washington D.C., by his two young children. He had hit rock bottom, didn't have the balls to take his own life, didn't want to feel anymore, hoping for an accidental overdose. He had lost his father years prior, and now his mother was dying of cancer. Rafael lays it all out for America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres, and shares his rollercoaster ride through addiction and to recovery. Some say addiction is genetic, but his twin brother ...
Sep 15, 2021•39 min
Rafael Davila and his twin brother grew up in a middle class suburb of Detroit, raised by a single mother. They didn't grow up in poverty or lacking love, their mother was a school teacher who provided all they needed. However, Rafael shares with America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres, how drug addiction can hit anyone, regardless of color, financial status or education. He started hanging with the wrong crowd and to overcome his insecurities, he fell into a life of drugs. His Mother, desperate and h...
Aug 31, 2021•34 min
Ellie Shoja makes us think about our own consciousness and discusses with America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres, our decreasing inability to communicate with one another and be comfortable in our own skin. We are becoming to reliant on our devices to be our representative and we feel safer using a cartoon avatar as our spokesperson instead of being who we truly are. Ellie is no stranger to personalities and identities, she spent much of her childhood in refugee camps and on the run with her father w...
Aug 17, 2021•37 min
He was charismatic, highly intelligent and extremely resourceful. But he also had a dark side. Ellie Shoja joins America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres, to share her journey as a young girl living under the reign of a certified International Con Man. Her and family were always on the run, from city to city, country to country, hideout to hideout. Changing names, identities, countries of origin and trying to keep one story straight as opposed to another. This was no life for a young 12 year old girl, ...
Aug 10, 2021•40 min
Prison and being behind bars can mean much more than a physical incarceration in a jail cell. Jeremy Gilbreath takes us through the series of life events that helped him create his own prison, in his mind. After decades experiencing abuse as a child, he shares with Kurt Caceres, for the very first time, how it effected him decades later as an adult, and how he tried to kill himself twice and almost over-dosed on drugs numerous other. Child abuse is an epidemic much greater than anything our soci...
Jul 27, 2021•45 min
He tried to take his own life, drank away most of the prime years of his youth, and caused unintentional heartbreak to so many around him. But was it his fault? Jeremy Gilbreath sits for the first time and shares his gut wrenching life story, exclusively with America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres. Growing up watching his parents fight daily, not with words, but with fists, choke holds and beatings. Then when he came of age, the beatings were redirected towards him and his siblings. His father was a ...
Jul 20, 2021•51 min
With the long awaited release of Fast & Furious 9, America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres, brings on one of the franchise biggest fans, to debate it's place in cinema history, and if it even deserves a mention. With names like Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris, John Cena, Jordana Brewster, Nathalie Emmanuel, Kurt Russell and Charlize Theron, it has no shortage of blockbuster Hollywood names. But are celebrities enough to give a film respect? Why 9 films? Will it ever end? Wh...
Jun 22, 2021•47 min
If people came with a warning sign, what would be yours? America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres, tackles the modern day question about Red Flags and it's effect on romantic, friend and work relationships. We have all been hurt, let down or backstabbed by someone close to us at least once. But could we have avoided that pain ahead of time? As we get older we start to learn how to see the warning signs in advance. Experience shows us personality traits in others that we could not see in our youth. When...
Jun 08, 2021•48 min
All humans use their hands to communicate, whether they are aware or not. No one ever talks with their arms hanging stiff at their sides with no movement, it just doesn't happen. America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres, helps us understand the true meaning of communication through our hands and our ability without the use of words and language. Have you ever given anyone the "bird"? Pointed at someone to get a "point" across? Waved your hand as a greeting? Well chances are you use an array of hand ges...
May 26, 2021•45 min
Rewind It!!! SMH! Dial the Number! LMFAO! These are all mainstream terms, but one is a sentence and the other a jumble of letters called an acronym. America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres, takes us way back to where many old sayings originated that are still used today. The millennial culture uses these terms without knowing from where they derived, all as they've fused the use of shorthand and acronyms into our daily language. The problem is that no one is writing letters by hand anymore. Now everyo...
May 18, 2021•38 min
The film Nomadland won a total of 5 Oscars at the Academy Awards in 2021. Best Picture, Actress, Director, Screenplay, Cinematography and Editing. However, America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres, had already talked about "Van Life" with Journeyman, Kevin Burke, a year before the record setting night Chloe Zhao won the historic award. Kevin lives by the motto "Once in a Lifetime", and the lyrics from this song by the Talking Heads. He said Van Life is a lifestyle, he meets new people everyday from all...
May 11, 2021•38 min
We all get embarrassed, no one is immune to humiliation and self-doubt, that is part of being human. However, many things that make us blush are unnecessary and the only one laughing at us, is ourselves. America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres, takes us down a comical path to figure out the most embarrassing things one must purchase as consumers in a commercialized economy. The line is building behind you at the market, people are getting restless, your palms are sweaty, heart beating, and everyone is...
May 06, 2021•43 min
Michele Harper sits one last time with America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres, to delve deep into helping us traverse relationships and the method behind color therapy. But first she gives us tools to help those that battle daily with anxiety and depression. She says that "the key to helping a person is to be a friend, non judgemental, if they are going to sit there in that mindstate, well then I'm going to sit here with you". As long as we are breathing and our hearts are beating, there is always a ...
Apr 29, 2021•49 min
Michele Harper is a Hypnotherapist, Holistic Aesthetician and Spiritual Coach who sits with America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres, to help us discover and understand our own personal powers, on our way to ultimate transcendence. Most have only heard this word in relation to the 2014 Johnny Depp film of the same name. However, when she starts talking about ANTS(Automatic Negative Thoughts) that steal our mind, she instantly gets everyone's attention. With terms like past life regression, color karma ...
Apr 27, 2021•56 min
What has over 300 million users and is worth over $2 Billion dollars? If you haven't yet heard of it, America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres, introduces us to the world of Quora. What is Quora you may ask? Well, it's just that, a question and answer universe where anything goes. The most obscure, abstract and outlandish questions are asked and users answer with facts, fiction and opinions. Many answers are based off research, expert opinion, experience and science. However, a majority of the answers ...
Apr 24, 2021•43 min
TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram and Facebook. The standard from which all things are measured, including validating ones purpose in this world. America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres, attacks with force, the toxicity surrounding our obsession with social media and it's dangerous and utterly annoying habits. You ever posted your legs on the beach? The plate of dinner you made this evening? Selfie of you working out? Like anything, the key is moderation, but to many have been sucked into the belief that th...
Apr 12, 2021•54 min
Everyone has heard the term, "One Night Stand". Not everyone has experienced one, and most don't know the proper etiquette involved. America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres, brings in a panel of female and male experts to talk about terms like "walk of shame", "beer goggles", "hookup" and "ghosting". Now with modern day dating apps, it is easier than ever to find someone willing to have one dirty night at the click of a button and swipe of a profile. It is a global phenomenon where only 2 of the top 1...
Apr 05, 2021•1 hr 15 min
Jamaican born, Jozanne Marie, returns again with America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres. She was a prisoner of child abuse from the age of 10 to 16, until she escaped to live homeless on the streets. At the time of this recording she said that Child abuse is reported every 10 seconds. 5 to 6 children die each day as a result of child abuse or neglect. In an era where we are concentrating on the wrong pandemics, child abuse always gets forgotten in favor of priorities with political and corporate agen...
Mar 25, 2021•31 min
When people hear the word Jamaica, the first thing that comes to mind is Reggae and Bob Marley. However, the true story behind the country, is a visceral will to survive the often harsh lifestyle and seek salvation elsewhere. Jozanne Marie shares her immigrant story with America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres, moving to New York City at only 10 years old. Her father abandoned her before her first birthday and her mother had mental health issues, so she was raised by her grandmother, who pushed her to...
Mar 23, 2021•49 min
Dr. Nigma Talib joins America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres, to divulge her secret alter ego, a Vampress, who performs Vampire Facials on her clients, taking their own blood and rubbing it all over their face. Just Kidding! Though it has taken on the moniker of "Vampire Facial", she calls it "IPL Skin Resurfacing", and it is the rave of all the celebrities and anyone wanting to look and feel younger. Men are the fastest growing segment in the Aesthetics industry, almost 400% faster than women. Dr. N...
Mar 08, 2021•49 min
Celebrity Naturopathic Doctor, Nigma Talib, sits with America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres, to talk about helping each individual according to their genetic expression, and not a "one size fits all" model. She says that diagnosing the root and core of the problem is essential for peoples survival and living a happy comfortable life. Instead of just telling people to "pop pills", she says the answers all lie in our Gut. As an example, she uses the four faces of health to help us understand a good pl...
Mar 04, 2021•41 min
America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres, gathers the gang for a special Valentines edition, filled with interesting history, trivia, jokes and limericks. But it's not all love and romance, because they breakdown the truth behind the foundation of the most romantic day of the year. Thousands of years ago it was started with a dark past, filled with scandal and murder, but now it's contemporary is fed by commercial consumption with 2 Billion dollars spent annually on this day worldwide. With a balanced ...
Feb 13, 2021•1 hr 16 min
LIVE and interactive from the DTLA Pink Dungeon, America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres, observes as Mistress Lady Lila Stern locks Tony Frost in a cage and ties Jason "Folding Chair" Galindo to a device called a "St. Andrew's Cross". "Little Dick Shaming" is a real fetish shared by many men who are willing to pay a lot of money for this service, especially if performed by a "vanilla" female, not the Dom herself. She does see herself as a therapist and healer of sorts, and treats all her clients and ...
Feb 04, 2021•44 min
America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres, takes the show on location for the first time, to the Pink Dungeon of Mistress Lady Lila Stern. Like most things shadowed in mystery, people fear the unknown. It is not Porn. The life of BDSM, Bondage & Discipline, Dominance & Submission, is surrounded in negative stigmas. It has been taboo in most cultures and societies as far back as it began, thousands of years ago. But is it really what we thought? Is it truly dirty, sinful and left only for heathen...
Feb 02, 2021•49 min
America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres, delves into the timeless struggle of Alcoholism. He is joined by three cohosts who may or may not teeter on the boundary between a possible problem or self salvation. They are joined by special guest, Stacy. She has been five years sober and is an active participant in "the program", that being Alcoholics Anonymous(AA). With a year like 2020 testing the mental fortitude of our citizens, the rates of depression and suicide have increased, resulting in an abundan...
Jan 27, 2021•1 hr 20 min
The Social Progress Index (SPI) measures the extent to which countries provide for the social and environmental needs of their citizens. Fifty-four indicators in the areas of basic human needs, foundations of well-being, and opportunity to progress show the relative performance of nations. America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres, talks about these global trends and how the United States continues to fall lower in perceived quality of life. However, are these perceptions just "First World Problems"? In...
Jan 14, 2021•52 min
At a time more than ever, we need to find connection to our roots and the foundation of our lives. That is Home. Not the home you currently live, but where you came from and where it all started. America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres, takes us on a journey of nostalgia and down the back country roads of our memories to help us reconnect with a more simple time. Innocence, child's play and nostalgia. Everyone has a different upbringing, different set of experiences from which we all came, but most ca...
Jan 04, 2021•1 hr 2 min
America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres, takes us on a journey through Christmas past and present, with a group of festive and comedic friends as his little elves. They talk about the top rated films, songs and traditions of all time, as well as holiday memories from childhood to adulthood. It's a ride through nostalgia as well as trivia, jokes and interesting facts about Santa Claus and other holidays celebrated during the winter solstice. What starts as a wholesome episode full of good cheer, escala...
Dec 24, 2020•1 hr 24 min
