What Dreamers Do

About What Dreamers Do

Hi, I’m Carla Gover, an Appalachian musician, flatfoot dancer, mama, and DREAMER from Kentucky. I'm on a mission to share fierce love, good humor, and inspiration to help you live a life of creative freedom. I decided to start the What Dreamers Do Podcast to help answer the question: How can we use our gifts and talents to build a better world, and have fun along the way? You’ll also find musings about Appalachia as well as interesting conversations with songwriters, poets, dancers, educators, world-changers, social justice warriors, and other people like you who are working to make a difference using their art, their skills, or just the way they live their lives. On every episode, you’ll hear ideas, conversations, and actionable items to help you unlock your creativity and live your purpose. Grab a mason jar full of sweet tea (or something a little stronger) and pull up a chair, cause it’s time to get YOUR dream on!

Publisher

Carla Gover

Category

arts · arts · music

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

10 Sept 2021

Latest episode

11 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

42 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   11 Aug 2026

   Women in Kentucky Music History: An interview with John Harrod

   In this episode, Carla Gover is joined by traditional Kentucky music legend and archivist John Harrod to discuss the vital role of women in traditional Kentucky music. Through stories, life experiences, and shared memories, they explore the often-overlooked impact of female musicians in the state and the ways community and place shape traditional music. John Harrod highlights influential women musicians he has known, and discusses the importance of preserving and elevating marginalized voices...

2. 

   9 Jun 2026

   The Wilderness Road: Stories, Songs, and Dance in Kentucky’s Past and Present

   Long before Daniel Boone was hired to widen it for the Transylvania Company, the path now known as the Wilderness Road existed as the Warrior's Path — a route traveled for centuries by Cherokee, Shawnee, and other Indigenous nations. In this episode, I follow that trail from Cumberland Gap (just a few miles from where I grew up in Whitesburg, Kentucky) all the way to Lexington, where I live now. This is a story about music, memory, and what it means to be a tradition-bearer who holds grief an...

3. 

   26 Apr 2026

   You Are the Light: A Guided Meditation with Geoffrey Bullington

   What if the simple act of remembering joy could change the world? In this luminous meditation episode of What Dreamers Do, my friend Geoffrey guides us through a meditation that gathers our most tender memories and sends that energy out like a spider's web touching every living thing. We invite you to get comfortable and settle in for a gentle and uplifting meditation. You are the light. You always were. Note: We don't recommend doing this meditation while driving. Support the s...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

17 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 33 / 100

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Quality

39

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

71

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