An invitation

“You should do a podcast show about dreams,” said Belinda, a self-confessed geek friend, ten years ago.

I groaned. Podcasting was only vaguely on the periphery of my awareness, and the thought of getting my head around yet another kind of technology for my business felt overwhelming. I was already doing quite advanced html work developing my website – which had originally launched back in 1998 – and was preparing for the inevitability of adding Skype consultations to my repertoire. The ‘blogging’ word was being flung around, and I was successfully dodging that one at the time. I preferred the simplicity of organising my business around phone consultations, writing books, and talking about dreams in the media. All that was to change.

“Podcasting would really suit you because you’re confident on radio,” Belinda added.

I resisted. She persisted.

Then she sent me a list of people offering podcasting platforms, and highlighted one face, James Williams, because she thought his profile read well. I looked and noticed that one of James’ clients was a friend of mine, astrologer Jessica Adams. So I enquired, and, naturally, it all began from there.

My husband, Michael, learned the technical side of podcasting, assisted by James’ expertise, and off we went. The Dream Show was born in May 2009. Now here we are, about to celebrate ten years of podcasting. We’re going to dedicate episode 216, due out on 26 April, to our tenth anniversary.

Little did I know that starting The Dream Show was only the tip of the technology iceberg. By the end of 2009 I began blogging, and in 2017 launched my online learning platform, built by the very same James Williams.

One of the things that we value about The Dream Show is keeping it real and raw. We don’t edit, other than to add some music to the beginning and end. I enjoy knowing nothing about our guests or their dreams until we hit the record button, and then getting to know them and their lives through their dreams. It has been such an honour and a blessing to walk with our guests through their dreams and to share the experience with our listeners. When our guests explain how the dream interpretations relate to their lives, when they share their intimate stories, that’s where the magic happens, for me, for our listeners, and for our guests.

As well as our episodes featuring guests asking about their dreams, we do our ‘talkie’ episodes, where I share information about dreams in, I hope, an entertaining fashion. Our listeners asked for this addition to the format, and we responded.

For our 100^thepisode we invited people to send in messages that we read out, or audio clips to include in the show to celebrate.

I’d love to invite your thoughts, messages, and audio clips for us to include in our tenth anniversary episode.

Please leave your comments here, or email me privately. If you’d like to send in an audio clip/mp3 (perhaps saying what you love about the show, or what was most memorable to you), please include your name and which city or country you’re from in the audio.

Thank you. Don’t be shy. Let’s make this a lovely celebration.

I was sorting through my files this week and found this little piece that I wrote as an introduction to one of our newsletters last year, when we were preparing to leave Brisbane for our interstate move to Hobart. It feels like it fits into this blog:

I don’t know whether you have this in your city or country, but in Australia each street has an annual kerbside collection. It’s a week where you put all your oversized garbage and things you’re not allowed to put into regular garbage or recycling out in front of your house for the council to come and collect and dispose of. People put out old furniture, mattresses, defunct electrical and white goods, and various odds and ends. It was our street’s week this week, which was brilliantly timed considering our imminent move. You don’t know how much stuff you’re hanging onto until you move house do you?

As I was writing this newsletter introduction, the council truck picked up our stuff – I have a nice street view from my office – and I felt a lovely lightening as the last pieces were lifted into the truck. The metaphor for dreams is obvious, of course: in dreamwork we discover what we’re hanging onto, what (beliefs and attitudes and so on) we can let go, what can lighten our life and our spirit.

The reality of our kerbside collection system is quite community oriented. We started with a huge pile, including some good usable stuff. People drive by, sort through, and pick out stuff to take home or to recycle in entrepreneurial ways. Everyone gains, and the resultant landfill is reduced. This morning, our last bits and pieces that the council truck picked up amounted to very little.

I’m looking for the analogy to dreams and dream work, and one thing that pops into my head is listening to guests exploring their dreams on The Dream Show. As listeners, we pick over the details of a guest’s dream, what’s ‘let go’ or released, finding treasure and value we can apply in our own lives.

What treasures and value have you found through listening to The Dream Show – or through being a guest on the show?

Do please share for our tenth anniversary. Send me an mp3 or a message. It doesn’t need to be long. A minute or so to share the joy will be perfect.

Thank you.

 

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