Dream Chasers and Eccentrics

About Dream Chasers and Eccentrics

Interviews with extraordinary people who make their own rules, chase their own dreams, live lives by their own designs, and achieve extraordinary things, in order to help you, the listener, expand your mind, realize your own dreams, and enable you to not only chase them, but to catch them and live your best life. The host, Paul Trammell, interviews authors, actors, artists, spiritualists, psychologists, comedians, filmmakers, explorers, musicians, athletes, and experts of anything interesting, and sometimes reads from his short stories or poetry. The show's website is at PaulTrammell.com/Dream-Chasers-And-Eccentrics and there you can find links related to the episodes, books mentioned in the episodes, photos, and more.

Publisher

Paul Trammell

Category

arts · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

10 Aug 2023

Latest episode

22 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 164 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   22 Oct 2026

   Elections Simplified, a Nonpartisan AI tool to Tell You Who the Candidates Are, Shu Yang

   Shu Yang developed a website calle electionssimplified.com in order to explain ballots and let voters know who the candidates are, what their records are, what they voted on, etc. It also explains ballot measures in simple language. The website doesn't promote any candidate, political party, or agenda, and it is free. In this interview, Shu explains the website and what inspired him to create it. We also talk about his home country, China, and how that influenced his desire to promote and improve our voting system by providing the ballot information on the website, his team, funding of the website, ambitions, trying to make the world a better place, ideas to improve our election system, and more. support the show through Patreon https://electionssimplified.com/

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   15 Oct 2026

   Spiritual Intelligence, Transpersonal Psychology, and how Love is a Perpetual Motion Machine, Dr. Yosi Amram

   In his research into spiritual intelligence, pioneering researcher and TEDx speaker Dr. Amram created the first academically recognized spiritual intelligence theory along with an associated model for Spiritually Intelligent Leadership. His research has garnered over a thousand citations to date, and he has been featured on USA TODAY, Forbes, Inc. He also writes a regular column with Psychology Today. Dr. Amram serves as a psychologist, working with individuals, couples, and groups. His proficiencies encompass couples therapy, address mental health concerns, and facilitate spiritual growth. We talk about growing up in Israel, becoming an entrepreneur, transpersonal psychology, learning to use our given talents, the meaning of the word "eccentric," connecting to our divine spark or life-force energy, finding your superpower, spiritual intelligence, the intersection between spirituality and psychology, leadership, defining spiritual intelligence, being right vs doing the right thing, inner-directiveness, developing spiritual intelligence, gratitude, attention infidelity, meditation and prayer, lonliness, inspiration, planned obsolescence, business and service, his book "Spritually Intelligent Leadership, how to inspire by being inspired," and more. Links are on the podcast website https://www.paultrammell.com/dream-chasers-and-eccentrics

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   6 Oct 2026

   The Magical Life: a Guide to Building a World that Restores you, RD Ravenwood

   R.D. Ravenwood is the author of The Magical Life: A Guide to Building a World That Restores You. He is a retired CIO and entrepreneur and brings a systems thinker's perspective to a deeply human question: Why can we walk ten miles through a theme park and feel completely alive, yet feel exhausted by an ordinary day at home or work? His answer is that we are not always lacking motivation or discipline. Sometimes, the world around us is simply taking more than it gives. Drawing inspiration from theme parks, immersive environments, fantasy worlds, hospitality, sensory design, ritual, and personal identity, The Magical Life explores how we can intentionally create homes, routines, and everyday experiences that restore us rather than drain us. We talk about growing up in Oregon, dealing with corporate burnout, finding answers at Disneyland, how theme parks engineer thriving sigals into the park that energize us as we walk through, making a restorative environment, why cellphones and apps are addictive, the overregulation of our lives, death and risk, fear, sailing, geocacheing, cultivating flow states, designing the life you want, figuring out what makes you happy, living simply, poetry, Star Wars, play and creativity, fast food, peak consumerism, the evil empire of private prisons, and more.

Inside a recent episode

Intuitive Healing, Inna Segal

Published 20 Nov 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] You start to sense what steps to take. So it's not just physical health that is improved dramatically. But it's your whole life and what steps you choose in your life where you start to become sensitized, I'm going to say. And it's like, as you become sensitized, you get a lot more insight and information and guidance internally of what's healthy and what's unhealthy for you in your life. So could I generalize, would I be correct in generalizing that it's painful experiences in our past that are creating illnesses in our body now? That is a good generalization. It's definitely part of, I'm going to say that there's a combination of if let's say somebody has a sensitive digestive system and they eat unhealthy food, there's going to be an impact. […]

Who has been a guest on Dream Chasers and Eccentrics

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• Ryan
• Jonah
• Aurora Winter
• Paul Trammell
• James Goodhand

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5.0 / 5

14 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 47 / 100

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