Cool Gray in Studio A: Recent Episodes
Cool Gray
I'm Cool Gray and I can be perky or quirky, kooky or spooky, serious or delirious. It's all too much for just one studio! This is creativity without boundaries! Studio A is the home of this podcast. It's about all the things in the world -- and out of it -- that fascinate me. Get yourself a cuppa and join me for casual, intimate conversations about everything from social and cultural issues to paranormal phenomena, including really interesting guests with really interesting stories! We keep things friendly around here, so pull up an overstuffed cushion and listen in! If you're wondering what's going on in the other studios, they live over on my YouTube channel. In Studio B I'm creating art and letting you in on the process with YouTube videos. I experiment constantly in the art studio, so you never know what I'll be highlighting! Watch me try things for the first time and learn along with me, or take a few tips on things I've already learned a thing or two about. In Studio C I'm cooking up favorite family recipes or brand new ones I've just discovered. Sometimes I even invite guest cooks to join me. My favorite guest is Mr. Cool Gray! Look over my shoulder and hand me the salt! Cool Gray is the color of my hair, but it's also this Boomer's philosophy on growing older. I wholeheartedly welcome you to join me on my journey where I'll look under rocks and poke stuff with sticks. 2022 brings a fresh look to the studios along with new opportunities to connect!
Heads Up: This episode discusses substance abuse and addiction. If these topics are problematic for you, please use discretion when consuming this episode and its accompanying material.
Richard Capriola spent 11 years working as an addictions counselor for Menninger Clinic in Houston, Texas before retiring in 2019. His passion for helping this vulnerable population continues through his book, “The Addicted Child, A Parent’s Guide to Adolescent Substance Abuse,” with a companion workbook containing assessments and tests for parents to use to best help their children.
In this episode, we discuss the challenges parents face in recognizing the signs their child may be struggling with substance use disorder and possible underlying mental health issues. We talk about how the COVID19 global pandemic affected adolescents, some of the experiences Richard had while working at the Meninger Clinic, and most importantly, the book he has written as a resource for parents to use if they are uncertain how to move forward with helping their adolescent child who may be struggling.
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To visit Richard’s website, click here: https://helptheaddictedchild.com/
To purchase Richard’s Book: The Addicted Child: A Parent’s Guide to Adolescent Substance Abuse,” click here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KJHJYBY
Today’s Parting Thought is titled, “A Mother’s Love Never Dies,” by Patricia Gale.
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Cool Gray in Studio A is an interview podcast that offers interesting conversations with interesting people on a wide variety of topics in hopes of inspiring deeper thought. Some of Cool Gray’s favorite topics are the arts, health and wellness, the paranormal, theoretical physics, and the mysteries of consciousness and the mind. Episodes release every 2 weeks on Thursdays. Listen on your favorite podcast platform or watch the full video version on my YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/coolgraystudios/.
Take my Listener Survey and be entered to win a prize! https://coolgraystudios.com/podcast-listener-survey/
To visit the companion blog about this episode, click here: https://coolgraystudios.com/blog/
All the links you’ll need to find and follow Cool Gray Studios: https://linktr.ee/coolgraystudios
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Music Credits
Opening Theme: “Busy City,” by Track Tribe from Epidemic Sound
End Title: “Walk Through the Park,” by Track Tribe from Epidemic Sound
Heads Up: This episode discusses nudity in art (the companion blog and my guest’s website display nudity) including some imagery of human models bound with the Japanese binding art form of Shibari. If these topics and images are problematic for you, please use discretion when consuming this episode and its accompanying material.
Randy Lagana was 6 years old when he drew his first serious piece of art. At age 13 he did his first oil painting and immediately knew that painting was what he wanted to do for the rest of his life. He has been exploring art and how to express himself through art for more than 60 years! Randy paints in acrylics using brushes, palette knives, sponge, paper, plastic, fingers, or anything else that will get the effect I’m looking for. In recent years, he has branched into photography and digital composites, applying his painterly skills to this newer medium. His photography work features nude models in both beautiful and decaying environments, which presents certain challenges when sharing on social media.
Community Guidelines on popular social platforms can be difficult to understand and may be subject to the platform reviewer’s opinion. Here, we discuss those frustrations and challenges as well as get to know Randy and his creative process. It’s an intimate look at the life of an artist over a lifetime, how his life experience has influenced his work and how his work has evolved through the years.
Randy believes art is a way to see, much like poetry is a way to speak.
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To view Randy’s work on his website, click here: https://randylagana.com.
Today’s Parting Thought is by Amy Weatherly: “Some people could be given an entire field of roses, and only see the thorns in it. Others could be given a single weed and only see the wildflower in it. Perception is a key component to gratitude. And gratitude is a key component to joy.”
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Cool Gray in Studio A is an interview podcast that offers interesting conversations with interesting people on a wide variety of topics in hopes of inspiring deeper thought. Some of Cool Gray’s favorite topics are the arts, health and wellness, the paranormal, theoretical physics, and the mysteries of consciousness and the mind. Episodes release every 2 weeks on Thursdays. Listen on your favorite podcast platform or watch the full video version on my YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/coolgraystudios/.
Take my Listener Survey and be entered to win a prize! https://coolgraystudios.com/podcast-listener-survey/
To visit the companion blog about this episode, click here: https://coolgraystudios.com/blog/
All the links you’ll need to find and follow Cool Gray Studios: https://linktr.ee/coolgraystudios
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Music Credits
Opening Theme: “Busy City,” by Track Tribe from Epidemic Sound
End Title: “Walk Through the Park,” by Track Tribe from Epidemic Sound
Melvin L Morse, MD, was an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington for 20 years and is the author of several books (along with science writer and documentary film maker Paul Perry) about the science and spirituality of near-death experiences. His international best seller “Closer to the Light” describes the near-death experiences of children and was based on his studies at Seattle Children’s Hospital under the supervision of the University of Washington’s Human Subject Review Board.
This episode contains the portion of the recorded interview that was concerned with Dr. Morse’s groundbreaking study on near-death experiences in children. The study was conducted over 30 years ago and included 27 children who had been through a resuscitation experience in Dr. Morse’s hospital after being clinically dead, as well as a control group of children who had also suffered trauma and been in the same intensive care environment, who may have been comatose, but were never deceased. The results were unexpected to the team and changed Dr. Morse’s life from that point forward.
However, our conversation went into some other areas and stretched to over 2 hours in length. So, I’ve extracted the parts of the interview that were about other topics and compiled them in a special video supplemental “minisode,” which can be found on my YouTube channel. There’s a link below. In that minisode, you can hear our conversations about:
Split Brain surgery and its effects on consciousness
Functional Neurogenesis (the concept that every thought and experience physically changes the brain)
The nature of memory and where it is stored
Dr. Morse’s latest book, “Where God Lives,” which is about Spiritual Neuroscience.
That’s a lot of great dialogue…too great to end up on the cutting room floor, so I’m grateful to Dr. Morse for that bonus content and I’m confident you will be, too!
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To visit Dr, Morse’s website, click here: https://melvinmorsemd.com.
Today’s Parting Thought is by Roald Dahl: “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”
For the special video supplement to this episode, click here: https://youtu.be/uIx8nDGzENE
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Cool Gray in Studio A is an interview podcast that offers interesting conversations with interesting people on a wide variety of topics in hopes of inspiring deeper thought. Some of Cool Gray’s favorite topics are the arts, health and wellness, the paranormal, theoretical physics, and the mysteries of consciousness and the mind. Episodes release every 2 weeks on Thursdays. Listen on your favorite podcast platform or watch the full video version on my YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/coolgraystudios/.
Take my Listener Survey and be entered to win a prize! https://coolgraystudios.com/podcast-listener-survey/
To visit the companion blog about this episode, click here: https://coolgraystudios.com/blog/
All the links you’ll need to find and follow Cool Gray Studios: https://linktr.ee/coolgraystudios
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Music Credits
Opening Theme: “Busy City,” by Track Tribe from Epidemic Sound
End Title: “Walk Through the Park,” by Track Tribe from Epidemic Sound
Welcome to Season 3 of the Cool Gray in Studio A Podcast!
Shane Thrapp is a Certified ADHD Life, Relationship, and Career Coach. Through his business, Creating Order From Chaos, he has helped hundreds of people find their paths through the chaos of life with ADHD and find their order and purpose. He is the Operations Director of the nationwide non-profit Men’s ADHD Support Group and is a public speaker who advocates for adult ADHD.
In this highly informative interview, we discuss what ADHD is and is not, what challenges those who have this neurological configuration face, and how they can successfully integrate in a neuro-typical society. Shane also shares his personal story of childhood abuse, learning he has ADHD and autism as an adult, and applying himself to overcoming the associated challenges to be successful in his relationships, his professional life, and even as a coach who specializes in helping others like him.
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To visit Shane’s website, click here: https://www.creatingorderfromchaos.com
To visit the Men’s ADHD Group on Facebook, click here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/mensadhdsupportgroup
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Cool Gray in Studio A is an interview podcast that offers interesting conversations with interesting people on a wide variety of topics in hopes of inspiring deeper thought. Some of Cool Gray’s favorite topics are the arts, health and wellness, the paranormal, theoretical physics, and the mysteries of consciousness and the mind. Episodes release every 2 weeks on Thursdays. Listen on your favorite podcast platform or watch the full video version on my YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/coolgraystudios/.
Take my Listener Survey and be entered to win a prize! https://coolgraystudios.com/podcast-listener-survey/
To visit the companion blog about this episode, click here: https://coolgraystudios.com/blog/
All the links you’ll need to find and follow Cool Gray Studios: https://linktr.ee/coolgraystudios
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Music Credits
Opening Theme: “Busy City,” by Track Tribe from Epidemic Sound
End Title: “Walk Through the Park,” by Track Tribe from Epidemic Sound
I'm on hiatus for a month between Seasons 2 and 3 of the Cool Gray in Studio A Podcast, which makes this a perfect time to reintroduce the mission and provide a few tips for how to get the most out of the programming! For starters, use this brief break to catch up on episodes you may have missed along the way. I encourage you to choose an episode or two that you didn't think you'd be interested in at first glance. I mean, that's really the whole point of why I'm podcasting. I want to introduce you to interesting people who talk about interesting topics in hopes of encouraging deeper thought. In this age of click bait and fast forwarding and under-a-minute reels, this boomer is standing up for soaking in content and engaging your brain. Join me on the journey...I'm confident you won't regret it!
Find and follow me everywhere at https://linktr.ee/coolgraystuiods
Hope to see you around the studio!
Cool Gray
Kathleen Marden is an award-winning researcher, author, on-camera commentator, hypnosis practitioner, and international conference presenter. She is the founder and past director of MUFON’s Experiencer Resource Team, and she is widely considered one of the leading UFO contact researchers of our time. Since 1990, Kathleen has researched and experienced the perplexing nature of contact with non-human entities. She has worked on three comprehensive studies on nearly 5,000 experiencers and has published six books. The story of Betty and Barney Hill is best told in her bestseller with nuclear physicist Stanton T. Friedman “Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience.”
Because Kathleen has told the story of her aunt and uncle so many times, I have narrated a brief summary of the Betty and Barney Hill Story for those not already familiar with it. This portion of the podcast is also available as a Video Exclusive Minisode on the YouTube channel (link below).
Kathleen and I discuss how this extraordinary event and the repercussions from it looked through her eyes, as she was just 13 years old at the time of the incident. She shares how the trajectory of her life was formed by the events and how she has maintained an “appropriate skepticism,” while conducting her own extensive research on this and other incidents involving non-human entities.
For more details about this episode and my personal thoughts about this conversation, please visit the companion blog for this episode on my website. There’s a link below.
This episode concludes Season 2 of the Cool Gray in Studio A podcast. Season 3 begins after a brief hiatus on June 22, 2023.
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The information presented in the Betty and Barney Hill Story portion of this episode was collected from several sources, including the University of New Hampshire’s Special Collections website and the Wikipedia page about the Hills.
To learn more about Kathleen Marden, participate in the survey for her current study, and to purchase her books, click here: https://kathleen-marden.com
This episode’s parting thought is a portion of the lyrics from the song, “Starman” by David Bowie (as Ziggy Stardust).
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Cool Gray in Studio A is an interview podcast that offers interesting conversations with interesting people on a wide variety of topics in hopes of inspiring deeper thought. Some of Cool Gray’s favorite topics are the arts, health and wellness, the paranormal, theoretical physics, and the mysteries of consciousness and the mind. Episodes release every 2 weeks on Thursdays. Listen on your favorite podcast platform or watch the full video version on my YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/coolgraystudios/.
To visit the companion blog about this episode, click here: https://coolgraystudios.com/blog/
All the links you’ll need to find and follow Cool Gray Studios: https://linktr.ee/coolgraystudios
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Music Credits
Opening Theme: “Busy City,” by Track Tribe from Epidemic Sound
End Title: “Walk Through the Park,” by Track Tribe from Epidemic Sound
Background for The Betty and Barney Hill Story Sequence: “Shaman of Europe,” by Joseph Beg from Epidemic Sound
Image Credits
All images of Betty and Barney Hill were collected via image search and are used for educational and entertainment purposes. No copyright infringement is intended.
Additional images in the Betty and Barney Hill Story sequence were sourced on Unsplash.com and are used by permission of these artists: Melyna Valle, Elis Garvey, Luwadlin Bosman, Hanna Xu, Benjamin Davies, and Artem Kovalev.
Kirstyn Petras is a Brooklyn-based fiction writer but primarily identifies as caffeine in a human suit held together by hair spray and sheer force of will. She has been published in Punk Noir, Hoosier Noir, Alien Buddha Press, City Lights Theatre Company, and A Thin Slice of Anxiety. Her debut novel, The Next Witness, was released in May 2022 by Cinnabar Moth Publishing. When not writing, she trains contortion and aerial hoop. She is also the co-host of Dark Waters, a literary podcast exploring all that is dark, dreary, and wonderfully twisted.
In this episode, we nerd out about our favorite books and films, which somehow all seem to have dystopian themes. Kirstyn’s educational background in International Relations and Global Affairs lend themselves well to discussing this topic while Cool Gray’s decades of experience writing short fiction under the wing of some of her science fiction and horror heroes have informed her views. Together, they explore why dystopia is such a prevalent theme, how it is used in some of our favorite films and books, and what we are to do with these concepts once exposed to them. It’s a spirited, lively conversation between two women who may be a little too smart for their own good.
For more details about this episode and my personal thoughts about this conversation, please visit the companion blog for this episode on my website. There’s a link below.
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To learn more about Kirstyn Petras and to purchase The Next Witness, click here: https://youtube.com/coolgraystudios/.
This episode’s parting thought is “The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry.
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Cool Gray in Studio A is an interview podcast that offers interesting conversations with interesting people on a wide variety of topics in hopes of inspiring deeper thought. Some of Cool Gray’s favorite topics are the arts, health and wellness, the paranormal, theoretical physics, and the mysteries of consciousness and the mind. Episodes release every 2 weeks on Thursdays. Listen on your favorite podcast platform or watch the full video version on my YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/coolgraystudios/.
Take my Listener Survey and be entered to win a prize! https://coolgraystudios.com/podcast-listener-survey/
To visit the companion blog about this episode, click here: https://coolgraystudios.com/blog/
All the links you’ll need to find and follow Cool Gray Studios: https://linktr.ee/coolgraystudios
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Music Credits
Opening Theme: “Busy City,” by Track Tribe from Epidemic Sound
End Title: “Walk Through the Park,” by Track Tribe from Epidemic Sound
Ryan Cuthbert is an ordinary guy. He lives in the UK and works as a control room operator on an oil rig in the North Sea. But, when you peek behind the curtain, Ryan is really far from ordinary. He’s been expressing himself in written rhyme for most of his life, but please don’t call him a poet. The internet has come to know him by his nom de plume, Mesentire, and that fellow prefers the term, “scribbler.” Mesentire made his online debut in 2017 with a Facebook page on which he has regularly shared his scribbles. Since then, he has gained a steady following and today that page has 49,000 followers. His second book, “To talk to yourself is madness, to write to yourself is therapy,” was released in 2022. Ryan prefers the attention be focused on his writing and tends to shy away from the spotlight. He told me more than once that he wasn’t at all sure he was the sort of person that would make a good podcast guest, but we had a fascinating conversation.
In addition to writing his own scribbles, publishing them on his Facebook page and collecting them in books, Ryan also welcomes interaction and feedback from his followers. He’ll even create a custom, personalized poem for you if you tell him your story in enough detail for him to feel what you’re feeling. Online poetry and inspirational memes are trendy enough these days, but Ryan takes things to the next level with this intimate way of engaging with his fans.
For more details about this episode and my personal thoughts about this conversation, please visit the companion blog for this episode on my website. There’s a link below.
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Join the Mesentire Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/mesentire
Buy the Mesentire book here: https://a.co/d/0QeUtyb
The rest of Mesentire’s Links are here: https://linktr.ee/mesentire
This episode’s parting thought is comprised of one reading from Mesentire’s collection (untitled) and one reading from Lynn Erhorn (Cool Gray), titled, “The Mourning Jar.” The authors retain all rights to these original works.
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Cool Gray in Studio A is an interview podcast that offers interesting conversations with interesting people on a wide variety of topics in hopes of inspiring deeper thought. Some of Cool Gray’s favorite topics are the arts, health and wellness, the paranormal, theoretical physics, and the mysteries of consciousness and the mind. Episodes release every 2 weeks on Thursdays. Listen on your favorite podcast platform or watch the full video version on my YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/coolgraystudios/.
Take my Listener Survey and be entered to win a prize! https://coolgraystudios.com/podcast-listener-survey/
To visit the companion blog about this episode, click here: https://coolgraystudios.com/blog/
All the links you’ll need to find and follow Cool Gray Studios: https://linktr.ee/coolgraystudios
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Music Credits
Opening Theme: “Busy City,” by Track Tribe from Epidemic Sound
End Title: “Walk Through the Park,” by Track Tribe from Epidemic Sound
My guest today is Christina Jones is a clinical hypnotherapist. After struggling for decades with her own mental health disorders, Christina found her peace through RTT® (Rapid Transformational Therapy) and vibrational medicine. Drawing from her personal experiences and using the same methods that she found healing in; Christina now guides others in transformational experiences allowing them to take back their lives.
In this episode, we talk about what hypnotherapy is (and isn’t), and why the RTT method can be so efficient and effective at identifying root causes of problematic thought patterns and flipping them to create healthy, productive patterns. We cover a lot of conversational ground, and also manage to have some fun along the way. Some of our tangents take us around the periphery of big government, big pharma, cultural and historical thoughts about “alternative” healing methods, and our own personal journeys with trauma and healing.
For more details about this episode and my personal thoughts about this conversation, please visit the companion blog for this episode on my website. There’s a link below.
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To learn more about Christina and her work, click here: http://www.christinajnl.com
This episode’s parting thought is from Richard Bandler, one of the creators of NLP (Neurolinguistic Programing): “The easier you can make it inside your head, the easier it will make things outside your head.”
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Cool Gray in Studio A is an interview podcast that offers interesting conversations with interesting people on a wide variety of topics in hopes of inspiring deeper thought. Some of Cool Gray’s favorite topics are the arts, health and wellness, the paranormal, theoretical physics, and the mysteries of consciousness and the mind. Episodes release every 2 weeks on Thursdays. Listen on your favorite podcast platform or watch the full video version on my YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/coolgraystudios/.
Take my Listener Survey and be entered to win a prize! https://coolgraystudios.com/podcast-listener-survey/
To visit the companion blog about this episode, click here: https://coolgraystudios.com/blog/
All the links you’ll need to find and follow Cool Gray Studios: https://linktr.ee/coolgraystudios
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Music Credits
Opening Theme: “Busy City,” by Track Tribe from Epidemic Sound
End Title: “Walk Through the Park,” by Track Tribe from Epidemic Sound
In this sixth and final part of my series, “Personal Paranormal Encounters,” I welcome paranormal investigator, radio host, and author Paul Eno. Paul was one of the first paranormal investigators of the early 1970s, beginning while he was studying for the priesthood. Paul graduated from two seminaries, but was expelled from a third about a year before ordination because of his paranormal work. Today, he is an award-winning New England journalist, and the author of, or contributor to, 10 books. Paul also holds a rare Ph.B degree in philosophy. Paul serves on the Research Committee of the Consciousness and Contact Research Institute and on the Experiencer Resource Team of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). He has appeared on the Travel, Discovery and History Channels. Among his early mentors are the legendary (though very controversial), first-generation "grandparents of ghost hunting" Ed & Lorraine Warren, of 'The Conjuring' fame.
In this episode, we discuss Paul’s very unique life trajectory, beginning with a tragic event when he was just 7 years old, continuing through his entering seminary training at only 14, and developing his own theory about ghosts and purgatory at 17. It was his writing about this subject that captured the attention of Lorraine Warren and began Paul’s friendship and working relationship with the Warrens.
During his years working in the field as a paranormal investigator (well before that was a trendy thing to do), Paul combined his education in theology and philosophy with his hands-on experiences and his burgeoning interest in quantum mechanics and developed an elegant, comprehensive theory about paranormal phenomena that centers on multiverse theory. We discuss this in detail here.
For more details about this episode and my personal thoughts about this conversation, please visit the companion blog for this episode on my website. There’s a link below.
A note about this series: I’m covering this topic for the same reason I cover any topic, and that is to stimulate deeper thought with these interesting conversations with interesting people. While I have a lifelong interest in the paranormal, I make no claim of truth or fiction, fact or fantasy. I simply take my guests at their word when they say they are reporting their personal experiences truthfully and offer them the same respect as any guest deserves. Honestly, I don’t know what’s up with these phenomena, but I do find them worthy of spending some time investigating before even trying to form an opinion. My opinion doesn’t matter here, and neither does yours. What I’m hoping to accomplish is to inspire a desire in you to seek more information, work your brain, and arrive at your own informed opinions.
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To purchase a copy of Paul’s book, “Dancing Past the Graveyard,” click here:
https://www.amazon.com/Dancing-Past-Graveyard-Poltergeists-Parasites/dp/0764357743/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3GPQDW18IBXZL&keywords=dancing+past+the+graveyard&qid=1679008396&sprefix=dancing+past+the+grag%2Caps%2C1101&sr=8-1
To visit Paul & Ben Eno’s website, click here: http://www.behindtheparanormal.com/
This episode’s parting thought is a well known quote from by F. Scott Fitzgerald: “It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”
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Episodes release every 2 weeks on Thursdays. Listen on your favorite podcast platform or watch the full video version on my YouTube channel:
In this fifth part of my series, “Personal Paranormal Encounters,” I welcome author and empathic medium Valerie Lofaso. Valerie is also a Reiki Master/Teacher, a paranormal investigator. She is the author of the “Tangled Web of Friends” young-adult paranormal fiction series. Though she has been an empath her whole life, she has come to understand what that means over the past twenty years through research, investigating, and field work. She co-founded of the KRI Center for Consciousness Studies which operated from 2009 - 2019; where she managed and facilitated events, lectures, and classes in all fringe subjects. She also founded her Empath Support Gathering which continues today.
Valerie talks with me about an early encounter with a strange entity at the age of four, the difficulties of growing up empathic and misunderstood by her schoolmates, and ultimately coming to understand her gifts and developing them. Her books are officially categorized as young adult fiction, but they enjoy readership of all ages. When an editor rejected the first book for publication, he offered the opinion that her writing needed “more bite,” which led Valerie to her own experiences in paranormal investigation in order to more fully understand what she had already been writing about. She is currently available for readings, clearings, and other intuitive services and can be reached via her Facebook page.
For more details about this episode and my personal thoughts about this conversation, please visit the companion blog for this episode on my website. There’s a link below.
A note about this series: I’m covering this topic for the same reason I cover any topic, and that is to stimulate deeper thought with these interesting conversations with interesting people. While I have a lifelong interest in the paranormal, I make no claim of truth or fiction, fact or fantasy. I simply take my guests at their word when they say they are reporting their personal experiences truthfully and offer them the same respect as any guest deserves. Honestly, I don’t know what’s up with these phenomena, but I do find them worthy of spending some time investigating before even trying to form an opinion. My opinion doesn’t matter here, and neither does yours. What I’m hoping to accomplish is to inspire a desire in you to seek more information, work your brain, and arrive at your own informed opinions.
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For more about Valerie click here: https://www.facebook.com/ValerieLofaso
To order her Tangled Web of Friends books, click here: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Valerie-Lofaso/author/B00B5X46YM
This episode’s parting thought is “Watching My Friend Pretend Her Heart Isn’t Breaking,” by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer.
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Episodes release every 2 weeks on Thursdays. Listen on your favorite podcast platform or watch the full video version on my YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/coolgraystudios/.
In this fourth part of my series, “Personal Paranormal Encounters,” I welcome returning guest, meet Ross Hamil of the hard rock band Labor XII. Ross and his family have a long history of ghostly encounters, so much so that it just feels like a normal part of everyday life for them! Ross shares some of the more noteworthy moments in his life and the life of his close family members. You’ll hear about simple childhood encounters, like the moments when a young Ross was playing in his grandparents’ home after his grandfather had passed away, when he could feel a little breeze like someone had walked past him followed by the distinct scent of Grandpa’s Brut cologne favorite brand of cigarettes. And, that’s just for starters! A few of these tales will surely make the hair on the back of your neck stand up, yet they don’t seem to ruffle the Hamils’ feathers much.
Stick with this episode to the end for the most unexplainable and creepy tale of all! Heck, we even manage to squeeze in some UFO and Sasquatch conversation late in the recording!
A note about this series: I’m covering this topic for the same reason I cover any topic, and that is to stimulate deeper thought with these interesting conversations with interesting people. While I have a lifelong interest in the paranormal, I make no claim of truth or fiction, fact or fantasy. I simply take my guests at their word when they say they are reporting their personal experiences truthfully and offer them the same respect as any guest deserves. Honestly, I don’t know what’s up with these phenomena, but I do find them worthy of spending some time investigating before even trying to form an opinion. My opinion doesn’t matter here, and neither does yours. What I’m hoping to accomplish is to inspire a desire in you to seek more information, work your brain, and arrive at your own informed opinions.
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For more about Ross Hamil and Labor XII, click here: https://linktr.ee/laborxii.
This episode’s parting thought is by Brooke Hampton.
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Episodes release every 2 weeks on Thursdays. Listen on your favorite podcast platform or watch the full video version on my YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/coolgraystudios/.
This series, “Personal Paranormal Encounters” began with episode 8 January 5, 2023. Subscribe now so you won’t miss another episode!
Take my Listener Survey and be entered to win a prize! https://coolgraystudios.com/podcast-listener-survey/
To visit the companion blog about this episode, click here: https://coolgraystudios.com/blog/
All the links you’ll need to find and follow Cool Gray Studios: https://linktr.ee/coolgraystudios
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Music Credits
Opening Theme: “Busy City,” by Track Tribe from Epidemic Sound
End Title: “Walk Through The Park,” by Track Tribe from Epidemic Sound
In this third part of my series, “Personal Paranormal Encounters,” I welcome returning guest, author and podcaster Nomar Slevik. The big takeaway here is simply this: Look up and keep looking up!
Author Nomar Slevik has been fascinated by all things paranormal since childhood, beginning with a UFO encounter at 4 years old. Because of that experience, his life's passion has been to research, investigate, write, and share UFO and extraterrestrial encounters from everyday people in a way that conveys the human element of profoundly strange encounters.
Some of his works include the books: “Granite Skies,” “Otherworldly Encounters,” and “UFOs Over Maine.” His podcast, “I Want to Believe,” co-hosted with his best friend Kyle Sawyer, covers a range of paranormal encounters.
Nomar has seen a number of amazing and mysterious things in his life and he shares some of the most noteworthy stories with me here. You’ll hear his accounts of personal encounters with UFOs, other strange aerial phenomena, cryptids, and more. I mention in this episode that I also interviewed Mike Stevens, the subject of his book "Granite Skies." When we recorded, I didn't know which episodes would post in which order. So, although I speak of it here as a future episode, it's actually already available as Episode 8!
A note about this series: I’m covering this topic for the same reason I cover any topic, and that is to stimulate deeper thought with these interesting conversations with interesting people. While I have a lifelong interest in the paranormal, I make no claim of truth or fiction, fact or fantasy. I simply take my guests at their word when they say they are reporting their personal experiences truthfully and offer them the same respect as any guest deserves. Honestly, I don’t know what’s up with these phenomena, but I do find them worthy of spending some time investigating before even trying to form an opinion. My opinion doesn’t matter here, and neither does yours. What I’m hoping to accomplish is to inspire a desire in you to seek more information, work your brain, and arrive at your own informed opinions.
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For more about Nomar Slevik, please use these links:
Nomar’s store for books and merch: https://slevikstore.company.site/
Nomar’s I Want To Believe Podcast https://www.podpage.com/i-want-to-believe-season-5/
More Nomar Slevik links: https://allmylinks.com/slevik
Parting thought is an untitled poem by L. R. Knost.
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Episodes release every 2 weeks on Thursdays. Listen on your favorite podcast platform or watch the full video version on my YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/coolgraystudios/.
This series, “Personal Paranormal Encounters” began with episode 8 January 5, 2023. Subscribe now so you won’t miss another episode!
Take my Listener Survey and be entered to win a prize! https://coolgraystudios.com/podcast-listener-survey/
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All the links you’ll need to find and follow Cool Gray Studios: https://linktr.ee/coolgraystudios
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Music Credits
Opening Theme: “Busy City,” by Track Tribe from Epidemic Sound
End Title: “Walk Through The Park,” by Track Tribe from Epidemic Sound
In this second part of my series, “Personal Paranormal Encounters,” I welcome internationally known psychic and television personality Jayc Ryder.
A note about this series: I’m covering this topic for the same reason I cover any topic, and that is to stimulate deeper thought with these interesting conversations with interesting people. While I have a lifelong interest in the paranormal, I make no claim of truth or fiction, fact or fantasy. I simply take my guests at their word when they say they are reporting their personal experiences truthfully and offer them the same respect as any guest deserves. Honestly, I don’t know what’s up with these phenomena, but I do find them worthy of spending some time investigating before even trying to form an opinion. My opinion doesn’t matter here, and neither does yours. What I’m hoping to accomplish is to inspire a desire in you to seek more information, work your brain, and arrive at your own informed opinions.
Jayc Ryder lives a diverse and active life, with many irons in the fire. He’s worked as an author, in corporate sales & marketing, training, and coaching. He’s also been a dancer, a television host, and a public speaker. Perhaps most interesting, and the reason I invited Jayc to be my guest today, is that he is a psychic medium.
Since he was very young, Jayc has had paranormal experiences that others initially dismissed as a vibrant imagination. As he got older he went looking for answers as he sought to balance these experiences with a normal life. Recently, he was invited to represent the many psychics & mediums in Australia on a reality TV show filmed in Ukraine, where after 6 months of extensive testing by skeptics, he was voted 3rd Best Psychic Medium in the world.
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To request a PDF version of Jayc’s book: “Jayc Ryder: A Real Psychic Medium on Reality TV,” visit his website at https://jaycryder.com/ and use the contact button to request it.
To purchase a copy of Jayc’s book in paperback, visit this link: https://www.amazon.com/Jayc-Ryder-Psychic-Medium-Reality/dp/0987162616/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2RHWCE9A5GWKD&keywords=jack+ryder&qid=1673196156&sprefix=jayc+ryder%2Caps%2C99&sr=8-1
Jayc has offered a 30 minute virtual psychic reading to anyone who purchases the book and sends a photo of themselves holding that book to him via his website.
Parting thought is an untitled poem by Topher Kearby.
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Episodes release every 2 weeks on Thursdays. Listen on your favorite podcast platform or watch the full video version on my YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/coolgraystudios/.
This series, “Personal Paranormal Encounters” began with episode 8 January 5, 2023. Subscribe now so you won’t miss another episode!
Take my Listener Survey and be entered to win a prize! https://coolgraystudios.com/podcast-listener-survey/
To visit the companion blog about this episode, click here: https://coolgraystudios.com/blog/
All the links you’ll need to find and follow Cool Gray Studios: https://linktr.ee/coolgraystudios
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Music Credits
Opening Theme: “Busy City,” by Track Tribe from Epidemic Sound
End Title: “Walk Through The Park,” by Track Tribe from Epidemic Sound
Happy New Year and welcome back to Studio A! This is the first episode in a new series called, “Personal Paranormal Encounters.” You’ll hear fascinating stories from six people who have lived with and through some extraordinary experiences. Today, I welcome Mike Stevens, who shares with us his lifelong experiences with UFO sightings, abduction, missing time, and family history connected to this phenomenon.
A note about this series: I’m covering this topic for the same reason I cover any topic, and that is to stimulate deeper thought with these interesting conversations with interesting people. While I have a lifelong interest in the paranormal, I make no claim of truth or fiction, fact or fantasy. I simply take my guests at their word when they say they are reporting their personal experiences truthfully and offer them the same respect as any guest deserves. Honestly, I don’t know what’s up with these phenomena, but I do find them worthy of spending some time investigating before even trying to form an opinion. My opinion doesn’t matter here, and neither does yours. What I’m hoping to accomplish is to inspire a desire in you to seek more information, work your brain, and arrive at your own informed opinions.
Mike Stevens is a seasoned paranormal researcher and investigator. His own experiences started around the age of three, and have been ongoing ever since. Dealing with these experiences has led him to help other experiencers overcome their trauma, as well as his own. He has worked to change the stigma surrounding the abduction phenomena by promoting public awareness of the subject and by encouraging and supporting others through his Granite Sky Services organization.
Mike has been interviewed by newspapers, television, and radio about his involvement in the paranormal and UFO communities where he lives in New Hampshire as well as internationally. He has become a trusted source for New Hampshire’s UFO history. He is also the subject of author, Nomar Slevik’s book “Granite Skies” which documents most of his experiences.
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Take the Listener Survey and be entered to win a prize! https://coolgraystudios.com/podcast-listener-survey/
To purchase a copy of Mike’s story, “Granite Skies,” by Nomar Slevik, click here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B089M2FPLX/
To visit Mike’s Granite Sky Services Facebook Group, click here: https://www.facebook.com/GraniteSky
To visit the companion blog about this episode, click here: https://coolgraystudios.com/blog/
Parting thought is a poem by Scott Cuzzo, read with permission.
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Episodes release every 2 weeks on Thursdays. Every Patreon supporter gets access 24 hours early. At the $10/month tier, you’ll get full video versions of every podcast episode and other cool perks.
This series, “Personal Paranormal Encounters” begins with this episode released January 5, 2023. Subscribe now so you won’t miss another episode!
Cool Gray is entirely self-taught in all of the technology and organization that goes into creating this podcast. She serves as writer, host, editor, marketer, and bookkeeper. She thinks that’s not bad for a boomer!
All the links you’ll need to find and follow Cool Gray Studios: https://linktr.ee/coolgraystudios
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Music Credits
Opening Theme: “Busy City,” by Track Tribe from Epidemic Sound
End Title: “Walk Through The Park,” by Track Tribe from Epidemic Sound
HEADS UP: Topics discussed in this episode include near-death experiences (NDE), drug abuse, grief and loss.
In this sixth part in the series, “Creativity Born of Trauma,” you’ll meet Pat Lewis. Pat has been a career artist in the imagination realm of Science Fiction and Fantasy illustration. Her work has appeared on the covers of books by authors like Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Ursula LeGuin, and Anne McCaffrey to name just a few. Pat has also contributed her designs for Trading Cards such as “Magic the Gathering,” “Wheel of Time” and “Lord of the Rings,” and her work has been featured in many magazines including Amazing Stories. She has worked on Projects for the Smithsonian Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Connecticut Science Centers.
She has also been a cherished friend of mine for over 35 years.
About 10 years ago, Pat became seriously ill and was placed in a medically-induced coma for two weeks. During that time, Pat found herself in what she calls a “dream state,” where she experienced a profoundly beautiful and spiritually meaningful environment. Please join me as she unfolds this fascinating story of near-death experience and how it has changed her art work.
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To view Pat’s artwork as described in this episode, please visit my blog. Your comments are always welcome there! Show Pat some love!
Pat’s parting thought was a quote from the Tom Waits song, “Come on Up to the House.” The lyric is sung as, “The world is not my home; I’m just passing through.”
Cool Gray’s parting thought was a poem by Liz Newman. Her new book, “I Look to the Mourning Sky,” can be purchased here.
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Episodes release every 2 weeks on Thursdays. Every Patreon supporter gets access 24 hours early. At the $10/month tier, you’ll get full video versions of every podcast episode and other cool perks.
Series 1, “Creativity Born of Trauma” began with episode 2 released October 6. Subscribe now so you won’t miss another episode!
Cool Gray is entirely self-taught in all of the technology and organization that goes into creating this podcast. She serves as writer, host, editor, marketer, and bookkeeper. She thinks that’s not bad for a boomer!
All the links you’ll need to find and follow Cool Gray Studios: https://linktr.ee/coolgraystudios
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Music Credits
Opening Theme: “Busy City,” by Track Tribe from Epidemic Sound
End Title: “Walk Through The Park,” by Track Tribe from Epidemic Sound
In this fifth episode in the series, “Creativity Born of Trauma,” you’ll meet music tutor and coach Emma Nottage. Emma lives in the UK, so of course I had to ask her about the British Invasion of the 1960s. From there, we get to know Emma’s background in music and have a lively discussion about how music can be a way for us to process trauma, a tool to facilitate the healing process after trauma, and simply as a fundamental element of the universe, in our shared opinion.
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For more about Emma Nottage, please use these links:
Emma’s Website: https://musicaldiamond.com/
Emma’s Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/themusicaldiamond
Excerpt from “The Velveteen Rabbit” by Margery Williams
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Episodes release every 2 weeks on Thursdays. Every Patreon supporter gets access 24 hours early. At the $10/month tier, you’ll get full video versions of every podcast episode and other cool perks.
Series 1, “Creativity Born of Trauma” began with episode 2 released October 6. Subscribe now so you won’t miss another episode!
Cool Gray is entirely self-taught in all of the technology and organization that goes into creating this podcast. She serves as writer, host, editor, marketer, and bookkeeper. She thinks that’s not bad for a boomer!
All the links you’ll need to find and follow Cool Gray Studios: https://linktr.ee/coolgraystudios
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Music Credits
Opening Theme: “Busy City,” by Track Tribe from Epidemic Sound
End Title: “Walk Through The Park,” by Track Tribe from Epidemic Sound
In this fourth episode in the series, “Creativity Born of Trauma,” you’ll meet author Nomar Slevik who will tell us about his methods of coping with the lasting effects of trauma through immersive creative activities. Writing and music have provided effective ways for him to inhabit his creative process, which has the double benefit of resulting in products the rest of us can enjoy and helping Nomar find the balance and strength he needs to face his ongoing struggles with anxiety and depression. You’ll learn a little bit about creating beats, about the publishing industry, and about the healing properties of cat videos!
HEADS UP: Topics discussed in this episode include suicide and suicidal ideation, anxiety, and depression.
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For more about Nomar Slevik, please use these links:
Nomar’s store for books and merch
Nomar’s I Want To Believe Podcast
More Nomar Slevik links
“Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep…” by Tyler Knott Gregson from “Chasers of the Light.”
If you are struggling with thoughts of suicide, please know the world is better with you in it. Help is available. In the USA, it’s now as close as dialing 988. Or, call a friend. Share your struggle.
“A semicolon is used when an author could’ve chosen to end their sentence, but chose not to. The author is you, and the sentence is your life.” Please visit Project Semicolon to learn more.
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Episodes release every 2 weeks on Thursdays. Every Patreon supporter gets access 24 hours early. At the $10/month tier, you’ll get full video versions of every podcast episode and other cool perks.
Series 1, “Creativity Born of Trauma” began with episode 2 released October 6. Subscribe now so you won’t miss another episode!
Cool Gray is entirely self-taught in all of the technology and organization that goes into creating this podcast. She serves as writer, host, editor, marketer, and bookkeeper. She thinks that’s not bad for a boomer!
All the links you’ll need to find and follow Cool Gray Studios: https://linktr.ee/coolgraystudios
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Music Credits
Opening Theme: “Busy City,” by Track Tribe from Epidemic Sound
End Title: “Walk Through The Park,” by Track Tribe from Epidemic Sound
In this third episode in the series, “Creativity Born of Trauma,” you’ll meet Dr. Tonia Winchester, a naturopathic doctor who specializes in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). Dr. Winchester helps us understand how our brains work, particularly when we have unconscious thoughts and beliefs that may be keeping us from achieving our goals or living our most productive and satisfying lives. And, we have a great deal of fun in this conversation!
Dr. Winchester explores with me ways in which past trauma can both inform and inhibit creative expression as we unpack ways in which NLP can help clear negative thought patterns and limiting beliefs so we can be free to fulfill our destiny. We’ll also talk about her book, “Smiling in the Shower.”
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For more about Dr. Tonia Winchester, use this link.
Katy A. Brown. "Pain Ends." Family Friend Poems, Oct 2016. https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/pain-ends
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Episodes release every 2 weeks on Thursdays. Every Patreon supporter gets access 24 hours early. At the $10/month tier, you’ll get full video versions of every podcast episode and other cool perks.
Series 1, “Creativity Born of Trauma” began with episode 2 released October 6. Subscribe now so you won’t miss an episode!
Cool Gray is entirely self-taught in all of the technology and organization that goes into creating this podcast. She serves as writer, host, editor, marketer, and bookkeeper. She thinks that’s not bad for a boomer!
All the links you’ll need to find and follow Cool Gray Studios: https://linktr.ee/coolgraystudios
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Music Credits
Opening Theme: “Busy City,” by Track Tribe from Epidemic Sound
End Title: “Walk Through The Park,” by Track Tribe from Epidemic Sound
In this second episode in the series, “Creativity Born of Trauma,” you’ll meet Ross Hamil of the hard rock band Labor XII. Ross discusses his personal journey through loss and grief and how those experiences led to the development of Labor XII’s 2021 album, “Monsters,” a themed project about the monsters we all face every day. After getting to know Ross and hearing about how this album was developed, you’ll hear about the reception the project received and what’s coming up next for the band. This episode closes with a track from “Monsters,” called “Everglade,” shared with you in its entirety.
HEADS UP: Topics discussed in this episode include grief, suicide, spiritual abuse and substance abuse.
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For more about Ross Hamil and Labor XII, use this link.
If you are struggling with thoughts of suicide, please know the world is better with you in it. Help is available. In the USA, it’s now as close as dialing 988. Or, call a friend. Share your struggle.
“A semicolon is used when an author could’ve chosen to end their sentence, but chose not to. The author is you, and the sentence is your life.” Please visit Project Semicolon to learn more.
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Episodes release every 2 weeks on Thursdays. Every Patreon supporter gets access 24 hours early. At the $10/month tier, you’ll get full video versions of every podcast episode and other cool perks.
Series 1, “Creativity Born of Trauma” begins with episode 2 released October 6. Subscribe now so you won’t miss an episode!
Cool Gray is entirely self-taught in all of the technology and organization that goes into creating this podcast. She serves as writer, host, editor, marketer, and bookkeeper. She thinks that’s not bad for a boomer!
All the links you’ll need to find and follow Cool Gray Studios: https://linktr.ee/coolgraystudios
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Music Credits
Opening Theme: “Busy City,” by Track Tribe from Epidemic Sound
Everglade copyright 2021 LaborXII. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
In this first episode in the series, “Creativity Born of Trauma,” you’ll meet Skip Sams, composer, performing artist, multimedia producer, and sober coach. Skip tells his story of living though years of addiction, bipolar disorder, HIV, and other struggles. His harrowing journey gave way to a tremendous tale of personal triumph and the building of his coaching business which helps artist whose spark of creativity has been extinguished by addiction. Ahead of this interview, host Cool Gray unfolds another chapter in her personal journey through trauma and healing through creative expression.
HEADS UP: Topics discussed in this episode include substance abuse, suicide, religion, sexual identity, and HIV, plus the occasional use of adult language.
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For more about Skip Sams, please find him at https://www.mysuccess.coach/
If you are struggling with thoughts of suicide, please know the world is better with you in it. Help is available. In the USA, it’s now as close as dialing 988. Or, call a friend. Share your struggle.
“A semicolon is used when an author could’ve chosen to end their sentence, but chose not to. The author is you, and the sentence is your life.” Please visit Project Semicolon to learn more.
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Episodes release every 2 weeks on Thursdays. Every Patreon supporter gets access 24 hours early. At the $10/month tier, you’ll get full video versions of every podcast episode and other cool perks.
Series 1, “Creativity Born of Trauma” begins with this episode released October 6. Subscribe now so you won’t miss an episode!
Cool Gray is entirely self-in all of the technology and organization that goes into creating this podcast. She serves as writer, host, editor, marketer, and bookkeeper. She thinks that’s not bad for a boomer!
Joanne's Macaroni Salad Recipe in Cool Gray's Studio C
All the links you’ll need to find and follow Cool Gray Studios: https://linktr.ee/coolgraystudios
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Music Credits
Opening Theme: “Busy City,” by Track Tribe from Epidemic Sound
End Title: “Walk Through The Park,” by Track Tribe from Epidemic Sound
The first ever podcast hosted by YouTube artist Cool Gray. Spend 11 minutes getting to know your host as she introduces herself and lets you know what she has planned.
Cool Gray (you can call her Lynn if you like), has been making YouTube videos on art and cooking for the past 6 years. Now, she’s expanding into the podcast world to allow for conversations on a broader range of topics and for a new level of audience participation. So, she’s organized her content into 3 studios: Studio A for the podcast, Studio B for the art, and Studio C for the cooking. These things all have one thing in common: They are all forms of creative expression -- and, that’s what Cool Gray Studios is all about.
The first series will focus on, “Creativity Born of Trauma.” Cool Gray started both the YouTube channel and the podcast as a direct response to separate traumas in her personal life. When she noticed this pattern, she thought it would be the perfect way to engage her audience for these first episodes. Her guests include other creatives (musicians, writers) who have experienced similar therapeutic benefits though creative expression, as well as professionals who use creative expression as an integral part of their methods for helping clients through difficult times. In more than one case, her guests fulfill both sides of that equation!
Following the first series will be a second series where guests will share their personal paranormal encounters. Though these topics may not appear to have much in common, Cool Gray finds them (and many other topics) to be inspiration for creativity and even just plain good for keeping your mind actively chewing on the things we all wonder about. She’s living her life out loud and welcoming you to join her on the journey.
Cool Gray is entirely self-in all of the technology and organization that goes into creating this podcast. She serves as writer, host, editor, marketer, and bookkeeper. She thinks that’s not bad for a boomer!
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Episodes release every 2 weeks on Thursdays. Every Patreon supporter gets access 24 hours early. At the $10/month tier, you’ll get full video versions of every podcast episode, like this one.
Series 1, “Creativity Born of Trauma” begins October 6. Subscribe now so you won’t miss an episode!
All the links you’ll need to find and follow Cool Gray Studios: https://linktr.ee/coolgraystudios
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Music Credits
Opening Theme: “Busy City,” by Track Tribe from Epidemic Sound
End Title: “Walk Through The Park,” by Track Tribe from Epidemic Sound
Well, hello there! I'm introducing myself and my brand new podcast to the world! I'm talking about all the things in this world -- and a few things out of this world -- that fascinate me. Get yourself a cuppa and join me for casual, intimate conversations about everything from social and cultural issues to paranormal phenomena, including really interesting guests with really interesting stories! The first five episodes make up a series called, "Creativity Born of Trauma," and I hope it inspires and encourages you in your own creative expressions, whatever that may look like for you. Agenda free, casual yet intimate, engaging, and diverse, I'm essentially looking under rocks and poking stuff with sticks and I welcome your company!
New episode released every 2 weeks on Thursday. You can listen 24 hours early and get full video versions of every episode plus even more perks as a Patreon supporter!
Music Credit: "Busy City," by Track Tribe provided by Epidemic Sound.
Find and follow Cool Gray everywhere at https://linktr.ee/coolgraystudios .