The Dream
Dream fans....WE ARE BACK!
We're reimagining The Dream as a weekly interview podcast with guests and segments about, I don't know.... whatever we want? Don't worry! We'll still be focused on the "American Dream" and all the assholes that make it infinitely harder to achieve. We'll just have a bit more freedom in how we present it.
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Episodes (77)
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Your Call Is Important To Us
It's Spring Break and Jane and I are taking the week off along with our kids. This week we're bringing you a rerun of Episode 8 from Season 2 - Your Call Is Important To Us. We love caller episodes,...
Please God. Do Not Do That.
It's science season! I made that up, but after talking to physicist Dr. Liam Bollmann-Dodd on last week's episode, this week host Jane Marie sits down with Dr. Chem Thug, a PHD chemist trying to do...
Banned In The USA
This week, host Jane Marie talks to particle scientist and friend of the show, Dr. Liam Bollmann-Dodd, to talk about the Trump administration's war on words and the effects the banned word list will...
The Ambition Monster
*THE DREAM AUDIENCE SURVEY LINK* http://bit.ly/thedream-surveyOn today's episode, host Jane Marie sits down with Jennifer Romolini, podcast host - Everything Is Fine - and author to talk about...
Health vs Wealth
Former Los Angeles mayoral candidate and current single payer healthcare advocate, Gina Viola, joins host Jane Marie to talk about what keeps her motivated to do good work.You can find out more about...
Dirty Dirty John
In 2018, the podcast turned Bravo / Netflix series "Dirty John" was ubiquitous - at least in LA, where you couldn't go two blocks without seeing a billboard for the show. This week, the survivor of...
Women's Work
In honor of the newest member to host Jane Marie's family, a little munchkin born over the weekend, this week we're revisiting Episode 2 of The Dream Season 1.Jane takes us back to her hometown,...
Babies Not Having Babies
This past year Charlotte Isenberg, a once-popular teen anti-abortion activist, found herself switching sides in this national debate. What happened to her next is unprecedented and a warning for...
Drowning In The Conspira-Sea
How a few bad seeds became a movement. Over and over and over and over and over... - dann g 2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
MAHA Forever
Five years ago, in season two of this show, we invited Mother Jones senior editor Anna Merlan on to talk about the rise of dangerous health conspiracies in the U.S. and now that a famous anti-vaxxer,...
Creepaholics Anonymous
This week, host Jane Mare interviews Amanda Lee about her struggles with addiction, her involvement in the Washington DC based "Midtown" Alcoholics Anonymous cult and, ultimately, her path to...
Turns Out Brains Are Important. Who Knew?
We've known about it for almost 20 years and yet there is still very little being done to combat Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy - more commonly none as CTE. And if you think this only affects NFL...
How Is This legal?
"How is this legal?"That question has been haunting host Jane Marie since the day she started researching Multi Level Marketing seven years ago. Since then, it feels like every company, industry or...
Multi-Multi-Level-Marketing
How do you rebuild your life after 13 years and 6 companies worth of Multi Level Marketing indoctrination? The Dream (we're back!) host Jane Marie talks to former MLM devotee and current anti MLM...
The Dream + New Format Trailer!
The Dream is back! Starting Monday, January 20th, we'll be releasing all new weekly episodes.The Dream as a weekly interview podcast with guests and segments about.... whatever we want! We'll still be...
We Are Back! + Outlawed
Dream fans....WE ARE BACK!We're reimagining The Dream as a weekly interview podcast with guests and segments about, I don't know.... whatever we want? Don't worry! We'll still be focused on the...
Selling the Dream
A chapter from Jane Marie’s forthcoming book. Preorder at jane-marie.com.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Bonus 2: Caller Episode
The Dream listeners called in to share their own experiences with life coaches: the good, the bad and the absurd.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See...
Bonus 1: Coaching or Culting?
Sarah Edmonson publicly left NXIVM, a life coaching MLM made famous by the HBO documentary, The Vow, in 2017 shortly after being branded with the founder's initials. Jane and Sarah sit down to discuss...
S3 E10: We Die The Way We Lived
Days after the debut of this season, Jessie Lee Ward, who was featured in episodes one and nine, passed away after a short battle with cancer. Jane reconnects with Erin Bies to discuss her former...
S3 E9: Coaching the Uncoachable
To our surprise, the OG coach Jessie Lee Ward agrees to an interview. She seems surprised to find out that Jane is not a fan of her work. It turns out that the feeling goes both ways. After ugly...
S3 E8: Striving Is Bad for Your Health
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...
S3 E7: The Inmates Running the Asylum
Who becomes a life coach? Jane talks to Patrick Sheehan, a researcher who has found a surprising answer: many coaches couldn’t find success elsewhere. Why do people who can’t do teach? We also learn...
S3 E6: The MVP of NLP
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...
S3 E5: I Never Said Hate
Now a life coach herself, Jennifer Rajala is lauded at Rankmakers; she’s a hustler who can inspire others to buy coaching packages better than just about anyone else. That is, until she realizes she’s...
S3 E4: Think and Grow Duped
Napoleon Hill, ever heard of him? He wrote "Think and Grow Rich," one of the favorite self-help handbooks of all time. His fans include Tony Robbins and life coaches of all stripes. But Napoleon Hill...
S3 E3: The MLM-to-coaching pipeline
Jennifer Rajala got sucked into the MLM-to-coaching pipeline. A social worker from northern Michigan, Jennifer rose quickly through the Arbonne ranks. She earned the right to lease an Arbonne branded...
S3 E2: What Ever Happened to Happy Jane?
Despite regular therapy, Jane is in a funk. She and Dann discuss what's happened to them, and what she hopes (and fears) life coaching might do for her — or teach her to do for herself. Jane embarks...
S3 E1: Becoming a #Boss
What's it like to hand your life over to someone who claims they’ll make it better? Jessie Lee Ward, the self-proclaimed “#1 network marketer in the world,” charges her coaching clients thousands of...
Coming Soon...The Dream Season 3
From Little Everywhere and Pushkin Industries, and hosted by Jane Marie, comes the third season of The Dream. Past seasons of this award-winning investigative podcast looked at pyramid schemes and the...
S2 E10: Caveat Beware
Who do you trust in a world with little information?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S2 E9: Drowning in the Conspira-Sea
How a few bad seeds became a movement.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S2 E8: Your Call is Important to Us
These Shills and Sugar Pills will make you feel better. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S2 E7: Green Eggs and Scams
Influencing a new generation of wellness. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S2 E6: Magnets: How Do They Work?
The road to wellness is paved with particles and protons.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S2 E5: Birthing a Bad Dream
Welcome to one of the cutest cults of wellness.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S2 E4: Take With Caution
What happens when no one is looking out for you?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S2 E3: Magic Little Pills
Can powders, pills and juices deliver on the promise to live longer and look younger?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Revisiting Women’s Work
Opportunity might still be knocking… we’ll be back with new episodes in January.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S2 E2: A New Kind of Party
Take a walk and find a crystal. Who knows, it might just heal you.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S2 E1: What’s Your Frequency?
Products and cures you can’t find at the doctor might just be the medicine you want.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Coming Soon...The Dream Season 2
Oils, crystals, juices and more have been said to bring us eternal happiness and health- but how much of that is based in truth? Who benefits and loses from the wellness industry as a whole? We’ll be...
BONUS 4: How to Fire Your Boss
Leaving an MLM can be the hardest part of the business. This is 4 of 4 bonus episodes we’re releasing as additional reporting from season 1.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted...
BONUS 3: Dream Stealers
There’s no better way to build a loyal downline than with a magnetic atmosphere and a magnetic leader. Creating devotion to the cause is one technique that keeps the recruits flowing and the pipeline...
BONUS 2: Humble Beginnings, Lavish Endings
The unbelievable origin story of LulaRoe. This is 2 of 4 bonus episodes we’re releasing as additional reporting from season 1.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See...
BONUS 1: Overpriced and Underwhelmed
What happened when LulaRoe tried to save their business by operating less like an MLM? Exactly what you think if you’ve been listening long enough. Although this time, there are people in power that...
S1 E11: And That’s When I Woke Up
When a job becomes a hobby.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S1 E10: The American Way
The dream of our founders is alive.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S1 E9: Leave a Message
A wise woman once said, “You need to go.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S1 E8: Destination Amazing
The road to success is paved with convention tickets.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S1 E7: Lazy, Stupid, Greedy or Dead
What’s holding you back from reaching your full potential?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S1 E6: How a Dream Becomes a Nightmare
Be careful what you wish for, unless it's debt.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S1 E5: Do You Party?
Friends are the family you choose to add to your downline.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S1 E4: The Mind is a Fertile Field
If you dream it, you can (probably?) achieve it.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S1 E3: Yes, I Would Like To Swim In Cash
The fortune you seek can be yours for just $169 down.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S1 E2: Women’s Work
When opportunity knocks, open the front door.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
S1 E1: Wanna Swim in Cash?
There’s nothing as intoxicating as piles of money, unless the Feds are watching you count it.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...
Coming Soon...The Dream
We’ve all got that friend or cousin who steadily hawks some overpriced miracle drink, leggings, or shampoo on social media. They aren’t just trying to sell you something, but would like to offer you...
About this Podcast
Copyright
Little Everywhere
Language
en
Categories
Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Business