Deep Dive with Jamie Stein

Jamie and Piper welcome Radical Aliveness founder Ann Bradney to explore the psyche of YouTube spiritual guru Teal Swan. They've consumed a copious amount of Teal Swan content - including the hit Hulu docu-series The Deep End and various interviews with key figures from Teal's past - and seek to understand the driving forces underneath Teal's highly popular work. What is fact and wh...

Jamie and Piper kick off Deep Dive season three by dismantling the convoluted drama that ensued when Crystal Minkoff used the word "dark" to describe last year's conflict with Sutton Stracke on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills . Attendant topics include why Kyle Richards gets so triggered by any voice that goes against her own personal viewpoint, why Garcelle Beauvais spearheade...

Jamie welcomes Emily Hanks of the She Speaks Bravo podcast and Instagram account to jump into all things Teresa Guidice and The Real Housewives of New Jersey reunion . Plus a quick detour into Teddi Mellencamp. Follow @shespeaksbravo , subscribe to She Speaks Bravo . Follow @jamiestein and check out more of his work at hollywoodreadings.com . --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jamie-stein...

Jamie welcomes Arissa Hill from The Real World: Las Vegas for an intuitive reading. Follow Jamie @jamiestein and check out his work at hollywoodreadings.com . Follow @missarissa . --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jamie-stein/support Support the show

Jamie invites Hot Takes & Deep Dives host Jess Rothschild to delve into the recent spate of docuseries about con men, scam artists and hustlers. They explore why people sometimes fall prey to such far-fetched schemes, what is underneath the cultural fascination with high-end frauds, their own judgments about the victims, and much more.  Follow @jessxnyc and subscribe to Hot Takes & Deep Di...

Jamie welcomes Chelsea Fagan, creator of the multimedia platform The Financial Diet, and Orange County native Piper Sample to dive into the deeper waters of Heather Dubrow and the role of money/wealth on the franchise that started it all - The Real Housewives of Orange County. Topics include Heather's relationship to acting/creativity, her actual (unconscious) feelings toward money, her marri...

Jamie and Piper wrap up the bizarre second season of "The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City" by touching down on the reunion highlights - including Heather Gay's vitriol, Lisa Barlow's frantic method of defending herself, why the entire cast tiptoes around Jen Shah's (alleged) crimes and much more. Plus, Jamie makes up for a technical difficulty with a "Love is Blind&...

Jamie invites Tom Hamlett, co-host of "Dumpster Dive" podcast, to briefly touch on the Katie Maloney/Tom Schwartz separation heard around the "Vanderpump Rules" world and to then sound off on the cast division at the heart of this season of "The Real Housewives of New Jersey." The exploration digs into many timely RHONJ issues - including the real reason why Melissa G...

"The Real World" occupies a legendary place in the annals of reality TV, and so it is only fitting that Jamie should welcome two legendary podcasters - Taria S. Faison of "What Else Is Going On?" and Ryan Bailey of "So Bad It's Good with Ryan Bailey" - to break down this latest season of "RW Homecoming." Our intrepid trio navigates a wide range of topic...

Jamie sits down with multifaceted animal communicator Sarah Lea to discuss not only her ability to speak for our beloved pets but also her skills as a medium, an empath and a vessel for psychic information. The inquiry into Sarah's specific line of work soon evolves into a larger conversation about how all people might consciously cultivate their own intuitive gifts, how to create safety thro...

Jamie and Piper honor the completion of this latest season of Vanderpump Rules with a deep-dive into the complicated and oftentimes polarizing Tom Sandoval. Together, they explore the unconscious energy behind his over-obsessive attention to detail, what's at the heart of his tendency to go above and beyond for his friends, his ambivalent relationship to masculine and feminine energy both ins...

With cults becoming a hot topic in the Housewives universe, it seemed like the right time to drop this previously-unreleased episode: Jamie welcomes good friend of the pod Piper Sample and founder of Radical Aliveness Ann Bradney for a roundtable discussion of HBO's The Vow , Starz's Seduced and their combined depiction of the NXIVM cult led by Keith Raniere. The conversation kicks off w...

Happy holidays! Jamie celebrates the end of the year by inviting friend of the pod Piper Sample to unpack all the surreal goings-on of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. It's a season where it feels like the bulk of the drama is in everything that's not being said - including Lisa Barlow's intentions in bringing Cameron onto the show, why Heather Gay and Whitney Rose seem so int...

Jamie welcomes Taria S. Faison, host of the popular What Else is Going On? podcast, to deep dive Candiace Dillard and her polarizing effect on both her fellow cast members as well as the audience at large. They navigate Real Housewives of Potomac topics both current and historical, including the real reasons why Candiace was so bothered by Ashley's initial pregnancy journey, the emotional ene...

In this bonus solo episode, Jamie airs his thoughts on the manner in which Meredith Marks handled the conflict between her son Brooks and RHOSLC villainess Jen Shah. The exploration digs into Meredith's relationship to her latent rage, which only seems to be building in the wake of Jen's arrest, and provides some deeper insight into her tendency to "disengage" from more heated...

The time has come: Piper Sample returns to the pod to help Jamie deep dive the emotional energy underneath Jen Shah's conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Together, they're intuitively dropping into Jen's attitude toward her victims, how she justifies her actions in her mind and why she holds the idea of an honest living in such deep contempt. Additional topics include Jen's social...

The ongoing feud between Garcelle Beauvais and Dorit Kemsley on season 11 of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills has gone in circles, it's been hashed and rehashed, and yet it has never found truly meaningful resolution - leading many viewers to wonder "Just what was this fight really about?" Jamie invites astute Housewives intuitive Piper Sample back to the pod to dig into this ve...

In this bonus episode, Jamie welcomes Lara Marie Schoenhals, host of the iconic Sexy Unique Podcast, to take an unflinching look at Randall Emmett's directorial debut Midnight in the Switchgrass. They break down the movie to see what it has to say about Randall's views on art, humanity and women - as well as what it reveals about his relationship with Vanderpump Rules star Lala Kent. Fol...

In this quick-hit bonus episode, Jamie jumps into the Winter House premiere and explores Kyle Cooke's relationship to alcohol - an energetic inquiry that takes us into the possible flavor of Kyle's childhood and how those past experiences might connect to his deep indignation over the bedroom selection process. Follow @jamiestein and learn more about his work at hollywoodreadings.com.---...

In this solo episode, Jamie sounds off on the lion's share of blame being leveled at Candiace Dillard on The Real Housewives of Potomac and questions Mia Thornton's refusal to accept her part in a situation that she had a large hand in creating. Jamie makes several key drop-in's along the way - including why Candiace has been doubling down on her cruelty in lieu of exercising compas...

….and we’re back! Jamie kicks off Deep Dive Season 2 by inviting good friend of the pod Haneefah Wood to jump into all thing The Real Housewives of Potomac - most notably, the conflict between Dr. Wendy Osefo and controversial newcomer Mia Thornton. Jamie and Haneefah dig underneath both the stark differences and also the surprising similarities between these adversaries - a journey that covers th...

In this special crossover event, Jamie and Hot Takes & Deep Dives host Jess Rothschild officially review House of Hilton, the 2006 expose of the Hilton dynasty that heavily features the backstories of Kathy Hilton, Kyle & Kim Richards and their mother, Big Kathy. Together, they explore Big Kathy's quest for men, money and Hollywood, and the ways in which she projected those dreams ont...

Jamie takes a break from the Bravo universe to share this unofficial "first episode" of the podcast (recorded three years ago!) and welcomes gifted astrologer/dream interpreter/therapist Dr. Michael Lennox to share his insights on how to work with astrology in a grounded, practical way. This cosmic deep-dive explores actionable spiritual hacks for making clear decisions, getting your unc...

Jamie welcomes Piper Sample back to the podcast to see what Erika Jayne's current scandals might be revealing about her inner emotional landscape. Together, they explore Erika's relationship to the very nature of performance, the blurred lines between her actual life and the roles she has played on stage and screen, the hollowness of the "Erika Jayne" persona, how past conflict...

Jamie welcomes actress, writer, comedienne and Montage Queen Deanna Cheng to the pod for a two-for-one special: first, they roll up their sleeves and dig into this latest difficult season of "The Real Housewives of New York City" - the lack of cast cohesion, the severe emotional limitations of several of the OG's, Bershan's role as the surprising catalyst for individual and gro...