The Dream

The Reality TV World Summit

This week, host Jane Marie talks to veteran television producer Danny Vikram Bell about the odd history and evolution of Reality TV. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 15, 2025•40 min•Ep. 39

Ever wonder who makes those beautifully shot, inspirational videos of MLM founders riding around on jet skis they launched from the dock at their mansion in Florida? Scott, that's who. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 07, 2025•34 min•Season 4Ep. 38

Satanic Panic!

Hey Dream listeners! First of all, we want to thank everyone who's joined our supercast channel over the last few weeks (only $5 a month for ad free episodes!) It helps us so much and keeps us from having to overload the Dream feed with more ad spots than we already have. When you join the Supercast channel we become more independent and less beholden to advertisers we don't know and often don't know about! If you haven't joined yet, please consider it and know your support means the world to us...

Oct 31, 2025•32 min•Ep. 37

Just A Bunch Of Nerds Who Want To Help

Hey Dream Listeners! We are so excited to announce our new Supercast channel, The Dream Plus! For only $5 a month you can now get every episode of The Dream (including our back entire back catalog) ad-free, along with bonus content and a new for the show AMA chat board, where you can ask Jane and Dann questions, suggest ideas and bring The Dream Plus community together! Click the link below to join The Dream Plus Supercast channel for only $5 a month: https://thedream.supercast.com This week hos...

Oct 24, 2025•37 min•Ep. 36

Teensy Tincy Trucks & Rails

Hey Dream Listeners! We are so excited to announce our new Supercast channel, The Dream Plus! For only $5 a month you can now get every episode of The Dream (including our back entire back catalog) ad-free, along with bonus content and a new for the show AMA chat board, where you can ask Jane and Dann questions, suggest ideas and bring The Dream Plus community together! Click the link below to join The Dream Plus Supercast channel for only $5 a month: https://thedream.supercast.com This week hos...

Oct 17, 2025•36 min•Ep. 35

Magnets: How Do They Work?

Hey Dream Listeners! We are so excited to announce our new Supercast channel, The Dream Plus! For only $5 a month you can now get every episode of The Dream (including our back entire back catalog) ad-free, along with bonus content and a new for the show AMA chat board, where you can ask Jane and Dann questions, suggest ideas and bring The Dream Plus community together! Click the link below to join The Dream Plus Supercast channel for only $5 a month: https://thedream.supercast.com This week we'...

Oct 10, 2025•41 min•Ep. 34

My Family Just Moved In Upstairs

Hey Dream Listeners! We are so excited to announce our new Supercast channel, The Dream Plus! For only $5 a month you can now get every episode of The Dream (including our back entire back catalog) ad-free, along with bonus content and a new for the show AMA chat board, where you can ask Jane and Dann questions, suggest ideas and bring The Dream Plus community together! Click the link below to join The Dream Plus Supercast channel for only $5 a month: https://thedream.supercast.com This week, ho...

Oct 03, 2025•43 min•Ep. 33

Malynda Hale

Hey Dream Listeners! We are so excited to announce our new Supercast channel, The Dream Plus! For only $5 a month you can now get every episode of The Dream (including our back entire back catalog) ad-free, along with bonus content and a new for the show AMA chat board, where you can ask Jane and Dann questions, suggest ideas and bring The Dream Plus community together! Click the link below to join The Dream Plus Supercast channel for only $5 a month: https://thedream.supercast.com This week, ho...

Sep 26, 2025•51 min•Ep. 32

W. Kamau Bell

Hey Dream Listeners! We are so excited to announce our new Supercast channel, The Dream Plus! For only $5 a month you can now get every episode of The Dream (including our back entire back catalog) ad-free, along with bonus content and a new for the show AMA chat board, where you can ask Jane and Dann questions, suggest ideas and bring The Dream Plus community together! Click the link below to join The Dream Plus Supercast channel for only $5 a month: https://thedream.supercast.com This week, ho...

Sep 19, 2025•28 min•Ep. 31

Outlawed Feed Drop! Tension of Opposites

Hey Dream Listeners! We are so excited to announce our new Supercast channel, The Dream Plus! For only $5 a month you can now get every episode of The Dream (including our back entire back catalog) ad-free, along with bonus content and a brand new AMA style chat board, where you can ask Jane and Dann questions, suggest ideas and bring The Dream Plus community together! Click the link below to join The Dream Plus Supercast channel for only $5 a month: https://thedream.supercast.com This week mark...

Sep 12, 2025•43 min•Ep. 30

Introducing The Dream Plus! And A Short Oral History of The Dream...

Hey Dream Listeners! We are so excited to announce our new Supercast channel, The Dream Plus! For only $5 a month you can now get every episode of The Dream (including our back entire back catalog) ad-free, along with bonus content and a brand new AMA style chat board, where you can ask Jane and Dann questions, suggest ideas and bring The Dream Plus community together! Click the link below to join The Dream Plus Supercast channel for only $5 a month: https://thedream.supercast.com In the meantim...

Sep 08, 2025•33 min•Ep. 29

Remembering Hurricane Katrina

This week host Jane Marie reunites with fellow This American Life alum and pulitzer prize winning journalist, Lisa Pollak, to listen to, and discuss, the stories they produced for This American Life while traveling to Houston to cover the experiences of people living through the aftermath of one of the worst disasters in US history. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aug 29, 2025•49 min•Ep. 28

The Importance of Feminine Forever By, Oh God... Robert Wilson?

This week, host Jane Marie talks to NYT journalist Danielle Friedman about something WE DON'T TALK ABOUT. Menopause. Well, actually, around here we do. Quite a bit. Because it's incredibly important and an awful part of our medical system (current and historical) that both doctors and, subsequently patience, know so little about women's health in general and menopause specifically. So, let's ALL dig in to this rich and interesting conversation... right fellas? You can find more from Danielle her...

Aug 22, 2025•36 min•Ep. 27

Anthill Garnets & Glorious Gold

This week, host Jane Marie talks to Bay Area jeweler and sustainable mining activist Ana Brazaitytė about where and how we get our precious metals and gems. You can find more from Ana here: https://trussandore.com/ Instagram: @trussandore Tik Tok: @trussandore And don't forget that in a few weeks (August 29th!) we'll be offering a whole new way to listen to ad-free episodes of The Dream AND get some radical bonus content. We'll keep you posted! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inf...

Aug 15, 2025•42 min•Ep. 26

Hyperfixed Feed Drop! "Two Birds, One Hundred Stones"

This week The Dream presents a very special episode of a show that we adore - Hyperfixed. Here's how the wonderful people at Hyperfixed describe it: "Keenan always had this question about his mom's past, and he turned to us for help. And then we turned to him for help. A very special episode of Hyperfixed." You can find more from Hyperfixed here: http://hyperfixedpod.com/join If you are a Hyperfixed member, you can see some supplementary photos for this story by following this link. Hosted on Ac...

Aug 08, 2025•49 min

Striving Is Bad For Your Health

This week we are going into the archives to one of our favorite episodes from The Dream Season 3... Who does coaching work least well for? Turns out it’s the exact people who could benefit most from it, according to the industry. Dr. Sherman James and Dr. Arline Geronimus discuss the downsides of positive thinking, bootstrapping, and mindset culture. For some people, striving has negative impacts on health and happiness. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Aug 01, 2025•35 min

Which Lords Work?

This week, host Jane Marie talks to Julie Jo, a former top MLM distributor who found herself one rung from the top of the pyramid and realized that was too far to fall. You can find more from Julie Jo here: YouTube: @juliejo Instagram: @walkin_on_lexapro Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jul 26, 2025•37 min•Ep. 25

The Wellness Institute

On this week's episode, host Jane Marie talks to someone who called into our tipline! We listen to all of them folks, so keep 'em coming. Chae is a clinical social worker and therapist who was intrigued by a continued ed class in hypnotherapy and the ways she could use hypnosis as a trauma modality in her practice. The class was taught at a place called "The Wellness Institute" and, if you know this show at all, you know that it won't take long for the wheels to fall off a Hypnosis class offered...

Jul 18, 2025•34 min•Ep. 24

The Dream Team

This week, host Jane Marie talks to former elite level Juice Plus distributor turned psychotherapist and anti-MLM activist, Brandie Hadfield. You can find more from Brandie Hadfield and here: Substack: https://brandiehadfield.substack.com Instagram: @brandiehadfield For more on Anti-MLM resources, visit: #antimlm resources ⬇️ linktr.ee/brandiehadfield Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Jul 11, 2025•43 min•Ep. 23

The MVP Of NLP

This week we are re-running an episode from season 3: Neuro-linguistic programming, or NLP, is the communication technique used by coaches and cult leaders alike. John James Santangelo—a fan of Napoleon Hill— is an NLP expert who gives Jane a crash course. Jane is mesmerized, and according to Santangelo, might've even been hypnotized. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Jul 04, 2025•28 min

DINKS

This week, host Jane Marie talks to two old friends that made a delightfully impactful choice about how to live their lives together. You can find more from Josh Gondelman here: Website: https://www.joshgondelman.com/ Instagram: @joshgondelman Bluesky: @joshgondelman.bsky.social You can find more from Maris Kreizman here: Website: https://www.mariskreizman.com/ Instagram: @mariskreizman Bluesky: @maris.bsky.social Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Jun 27, 2025•40 min•Ep. 22

Vibrational Emersion

Former Arbonne member and Direct Marketing coach, Jennifer Rajala joins host Jane Marie to talk about life after MLM. You can find more from Jennifer Here: @jennifer.rajala Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 21, 2025•50 min•Ep. 21

Austerity Posterity

This week, producer Dann Gallucci (filling in for host Jane Marie) sits down with journalist and author, Mary O'Hara, to talk about our big, beautiful - and shrinking - social services in the US, from the perspective of a UK transplant who's 2014 book "Austerity Bites" (10th anniversary version is out now) looks at the impact of the austerity measures put in place in the UK after the 2008 global financial crises. Spoiler - they we're and remain terrible for the average UK citizen. Perhaps a less...

Jun 14, 2025•37 min•Ep. 20

Do Cults Like Us?

Jane Borden has written a book all about cults, the key thesis of which is that Pilgrims, Puritans, etc. were part of a doomsday cult and that manner of thinking was what founded the United States. You can find more from Jane Borden on Instagram: @janeborden Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 07, 2025•44 min•Ep. 19

Bad Boys Get Bean Bags

This week, host Jane Marie sits down with journalist and author, Fortesa Latifi (rad name), to talk about the unholy marriage of perfect moms and child exploitation… family vlogs. You can find more from Fortesa Latifi here: Website: https://www.fortesalatifi.com/ Instagram: @hifortesa TikTok: @hifortesa Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

May 31, 2025•43 min•Ep. 18

Sunscreen And Vaseline

This week, host Jane Marie talks to licensed esthetician, writer, and co-founder of the skincare brand Dieux Skin , Charlotte Palermino. Together, they try and suss out the topsy turvy world of beauty and skincare. Anyone know what skincare ingredients are actually good for your skin? Are all the parabins and petrolatums and chemical sunscreens really bad for us, or is it all just marketing? I'll give you a hint, It's all just marketing. Oh, and Charlotte gives Dann a free skin consult, sooooooo...

May 23, 2025•46 min•Ep. 17

The Canard of Epidemic Denial

This week, host Jane Marie talks to Senior White House Correspondent for The Independent, Eric Garcia, who was recently charged with covering the Secretary of Health and Human Services, RFK Jr's, autism press conference. Eric, who is himself autistic, breaks down the pseudoscience and misinformation RFK Jr has been using the power of his office to disseminate, as the two of them search for the motives behind his crusade. You can find more from Eric Garcia here: Instagram: @ericmgarcia14 Twitter:...

May 16, 2025•47 min•Ep. 16

Take A Few Steps Just To Make The Devil Mad

This week, host Jane Marie combines two of her favorite things - magic and scam debunking - in an interview with mentalist and known psychic-skeptic, Dustin Dean. You can find more of Dustin's work here: TikTok: @dustindeanmentalist Instagram: @dustindeanmentalist YouTube: @DustinDeanMentalist Website: https://www.dustindeanmentalist.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

May 09, 2025•41 min•Ep. 15

Death Of Gawker, And An Ego

About 10 years ago, Jane Marie was doing pretty damn good for herself. She was on her own, had a new baby and was working hard as an editor at the feminist website, Jezebel . Then, it all came crashing down when an editor at Gawker, the umbrella site Jezebel was published under, released a story about a recently discovered Hulk Hogan sex tape - including footage . Enter Peter Theil, who had been looking for a reason to settle a score with Gawker when the Hulk scandal fell squarely in his lap. Th...

May 02, 2025•35 min•Ep. 14

So Much Better Than A Wedding Registry

This week Olivia Howell joins host Jane Marie to talk about divorce, what support really means after a breakup and Olivia's company "Fresh Start", which offers a Divorce Support Network featuring a Divorce Registry, Resources, Education, and Support for Every Step. To learn more about Olivia and Fresh Start: https://www.freshstartsregistry.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Apr 24, 2025•48 min•Ep. 13