Dreams and Detours™

It’s all in the way we respond to life. We can be defensive or anxious, and that adds more chaotic energy to the mix. Or we can breathe, remain calm and think about what we want out of the messiness that is happening. That will infuse slow and steady balance to uncertain times. Susan shares her recent dark moments and ways in which we can support each other.   Thanks for listening! It means so muc...

From poets to people, words matter. Susan opens the show with the words of Rainer Maria Rilke. These are tough times, with no shortage of detours among us. Using your time and (un)known creativity will be beneficial, not just to pass time but to also allow new substance and material to reveal itself. It just might be part of your path forward. Susan continues to offer a free session to anyone in n...

Susan is back to talk about the uncertain times we face during this virus epidemic and the isolation that comes with it. She firmly believes that our state of mind determines how we will fare through tough times. Susan also offers a free session to anyone in need.   Thanks for listening! It means so much to us that you listened to our podcast! If you would like to continue the conversation with us...

Susan shares her recent decision to go across the country to visit a friend for 10 days before heading to a conference for work. By dropping in on a busy house with kids, it was the perfect solution to the isolation that can accumulate when living and working from home alone. It is all about creating community and making life work however we need to.   Thanks for listening! It means so much to us...

Susan speaks about the crisis that is loneliness, and how being lonely isn’t just about being alone. It is a source of widespread depression impacting all of us. By reestablishing our connectivity to one another instead of our devices, we can find our way back to life as it was meant to be lived, together.   Thanks for listening! It means so much to us that you listened to our podcast! If you woul...

Susan shares her thoughts about Being Enough, and how the negative chatter inside our head builds up over time. It is no coincidence, now more than ever, that we feel disconnected from one another. The pain is real and it is creating is a crisis for all of us. Thanks for listening! It means so much to us that you listened to our podcast! If you would like to continue the conversation with us, head...

Christine LaFroscia joins the show to explore the other side of quitting: when it’s over. Christine and Susan discuss being part of a lay-off, broken up with and friendships abandoned. They each share when it has happened to them and if that informed them of the way in which future ‘break-ups’ should be managed. Most important they both see the sudden and unexpected clearing as an opportunity to w...

Susan returns with part 2 of her Love series. We all just want to be loved, but we all learned to love in different ways. This episode features several special contributors responding to these questions: What does love mean to you? How do you know when you are loved? What did love sound like when you were growing up? What does love look and feel like in your life today?   Thanks for listening! It...

Susan talks about love, how the word itself is overused to describe objects and not spoken enough to the people in our lives. A big fan of The 5 Love Languages, Susan shares why it is important to love yourself and know-how you need to be loved. Tune in to hear how her 5 love languages rank. https://www.5lovelanguages.com Thanks for listening! It means so much to us that you listened to our podcas...

Alison Bull joins Susan to talk about the recent NYTimes essays titled: I Quit. Friends for over 20 years, Alison and Susan explore moments in their own lives when quitting was hard, appropriate, freeing or lifesaving. They talk about quitting jobs, cigarettes, people, and food. Most important they both share the importance of not quitting on your real dreams and passions. Alison Bull: LinkedIn: h...

Susan Montanaro, host of Dreams & Detours, gives her take on kicking off the new year and how we can stay focused on all the great changes we want to make. Life is hard enough on any given day, committing to transforming ourselves and reorganizing our lives is easier said than done. Susan shares a few ideas that can help you focus on making those resolutions and intentions stick.   Thanks for list...

Michelina DiSibio is a Health & Prosperity Coach, and creator of ‘Lettuce Be The Good’, a community dedicated to helping women get more out of life to unleash their inner greatness, achieve better health, financial security, and independence. Jolted by a traumatic loss at age 5, Michelina has had to push through fears, doubts, and insecurities of all kinds on her way to successful entrepreneurship...

We find ourselves in many places, and the journey can be a long winding road. SJ Martins slow and steady path to self-recognition took her on quite the ride, when she discovered her calling just across the way from her home. Tune-in to hear how SJ faced her own pain and recreated life to be in harmony with her true self. SJ Martins is a Yoga Teacher and Energy Coach, working with single women who...

Susan Montanaro, host of Dreams & Detours gives thanks for this show and the guests that shared their stories. The upcoming year will include more around loneliness and the ways in which we can all contribute for the better, along with stories of inspiration and success.   Thanks for listening! It means so much to us that you listened to our podcast! If you would like to continue the conversation...

In this episode, I sat down with Allan Wolk to hear his life story about not giving up. From a young age Allan learned that life would have giant hurdles, both academically and socially. Against early odds, Allan would prove to overcome these challenges and thrive in ways no one may have thought possible. His determination to push forward and never give up rewarded him with the life he dreamed pos...

Bev Ehrlich is a certified transformational coach helping people to get clear on what it is they really want by guiding them into deeper self-awareness. Her approach is to help clients get out of their head and into their real life, to drop down into their bodies and feelings through contemplative, meditative and prayer practices. We discuss our theories on best practices as coaches and how that d...

Susan Montanaro, host of Dreams & Detours talks about courage, and what that looks like in both our professional and personal space. By being true to ourselves, we dig down into our deepest parts in order to live the life we desire. Being brave can be hard, but the alternative is to betray oneself, and others close to us. Thanks for listening! It means so much to us that you listened to our podcas...

This week’s episode is a discussion about being raised with violence and fear. In my conversation with Kim Davis, we share what that looked like and sounded like, and how our stories about our fathers are so alarmingly similar. After recovering our value and sense of self, healing the physical parts in order to feel whole takes time. Tune-in as we share what it feels like to come out on the other...

Well established in her professional life, Jesyka Simpson was informed by her physician that her health was at-risk due to enormous stress that her job had on her physical being. While this wasn’t the first time being advised of a trend toward illness, this time Jesyka was told to take an immediate leave of absence. Her journey to heal from the inside out would prove to be the awakening she desper...

Susan Montanaro, host of Dreams & Detours shares her perspective on being who you were meant to be and not letting life bury you. When our fire has been dampened by another or self-sabotage, our lives are often filled with discomfort and dis-ease. We are meant to bloom naturally, and when we don’t allow ourselves that freedom, it’s almost as if we are not fully breathing or living at all. Thanks f...

At age 27, Adele Anderson had a tragic accident. Trapped in a plane that was upside down in water, she made the choice to live as she began to die. Life would never again be the same as Adele found herself acutely aware of all life around her. In this episode I speak to Adele Anderson, a wellness coach, homeopathic healer, NLP practitioner. The decisions she would make and paths she would explore,...

In this episode Iris Wolk joins the show to share her story of growing up and being influenced by the social worker assigned to her as an orphan. In and out of foster homes, she was welcomed into a family when she was 9yrs old and given a second chance to be part of a loving and nurturing family. Iris married soon after graduating high school, had three children and for years supported her husband...

In this episode we hear from New York native Daniel Joshua Rubin that life in Hollywood is not all it’s cracked up to be. Expressing his creativity was a principle Daniel was encouraged to do from a young age. Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, he learned early that if you’re going to do something, do it right! This included having an Orthodox Bar Mitzvah even though his family were not religious. D...

Dreams and Detours is a show about the life we thought we were going to have vs the the one we are living. We all have a story. I share mine and I speak to others about following their dreams, or getting derailed entirely. And then getting back up again. Life is hard and messy and joyful. The choices we make in our 20's and 30's are not always the ones we want to stick with in our 40's or 50's. In...