Nothing Happens Until You Dream

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! Join Rick Thomas and Tammy Trujillo for the Finale chapter of Rick's best-selling book The Tiger Whisker.  Over the last year and a half, Rick has shared many of the details of his life and journey as he reached his dream of performing with majestic tigers in Las Vegas.  In this finale episode of Nothing Happens Until You Dream, he takes...

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! Yes, everyone really does have a story to tell and while many people don't think their story might be that important, it possible that it could have a lasting impression on someone.  In this final chapter of world famous magician Rick Thomas' book The Tiger Whisker, Rick tells Tammy Trujillo about how he has learned that something a...

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! Sometimes we all feel alone - even if there are people all around us.  But world-reknown illusionist Rick Thomas says that's not really the case.  In this episode - based on Chapter 54 of his book The Tiger Whisker, Rick says we're actually all in this life together.  He tells co-host Tammy Trujillo that although he still gets a bit...

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! Everything does come to an end - not that we really like to think about it.  But that's what World Famous Illusionist Rick Thomas talks with Tammy Trujillo about in this episode based on Chapter 53 in his book The Tiger Whisker.  Rick has been thinking for the past few years about what happens when he no longer is preforming his grand il...

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! People can do amazing things...and in this chapter of his book, The Tiger Whisker, World-Renowned Illusionist Rick Thomas talks about some of the amazing people who have influenced his life and career.  Along with co-host Tammy Trujillo, Rick talks about how the dreams of others are all around us and improve and enhance our lives.  For exampl...

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! Mowing the lawn has been a big deal for World-Famous Illusionist Rick Thomas for a long time.  In his book, The Tiger Whisker, Rick explains how his Dad told him that no matter how successful he became, mowing the lawn would always be his responsibility.  In Chapter 51 of the book, Rick tells Tammy not only his secret to mowing those enviable...

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! In magic and in life, not everything is what it seems and that's what this episode of Nothing Happens Until You Dream is about.  Based on famed illusionist Rick Thomas' book The Tiger Whisker, this week's chapter pulls back the curtain on just how unglamorous the life of a celebrity can be.  Imagine being in Korea with your cre...

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! Communicating can be tricky and in this epsiode - based on Chapter 49 of world famous illusionist Rick Thomas' book The Tiger Whisker - he explains a rather unique way his family had of making sure everyone in his family got his or her say in group discussions.  He tells Tammy Trujillo that it really does work - unless you try it with a...

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose!  From Chapter 48 of world-famous illusionist Rick Thomas' book The Tiger Whisker, Rick tells Tammy Trujillo what it takes to be a winner...and it might not be what you think.  Rick talks about the secret to success and how to recover from failure so you can continue to follow your dreams.  WINNER...

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! Everything has a price and in Chapter 47 of his book The Tiger Whisker, world-famous illusionist Rick Thomas talks about how high that price can be.  Rick talks with Tammy Trujillo about the phrase "Be careful what you wish for" and an interview that with actor Keanu Reeves that got Rick thinking about the time we all have left here...

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! World-famous illusionist Rick Thomas knows what it is have the rug pulled out from under him.  When the pandemic hit, theaters across the country suddenly closed and that meant all the shows on his calendar vanished.  In this episode from Rick's best-selling book The Tiger Whisker, Rick talks with co-host Tammy Trujillo about what it was...

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! Throughout the Rick Thomas' book The Tiger Whisker, Rick's talked about having a Plan B, which is great advice.  But when the pandemic hit, there was very little time to think about what was coming next.  In this chapter, Rick talks with Tammy Trujillo about how Branson didn't want to close it's theaters but there was no c...

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! Magic has been Rick Thomas' life since he was about 7 years old and performed his first illusion of many for his mother.  Since turning professional at the age of 17, Rick's magic has taken him all over the world, but Las Vegas was his Plan A!  And he made it - performing for more than 15 successful years there.  But life can be unp...

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! 2020 started out as a very good year for world famous illusionist Rick Thomas.  He had just embarked on an extended tour but like for so many people, in March of 2022, the world as we knew it simply shut down.  In Chapter 43 of his book The Tiger Whisker, Rick tells Tammy Trujillo about how he and his crew and dancers traveled three days to t...

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! What happens when you achieve your dream and then lose it.  That's what happens in Chapter 42 of Rick Thomas' book The Tiger Whisker.  World famous illusionist Rick Thomas talks with Tammy Trujillo about his difficult decision to leave Las Vegas,  the place he had dreamed of performing since he was a child. As Rick says, outside for...

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! In this episode of Nothing Happens Until You Dream, world famous illusionist Rick Thomas talks about a woman who waited 80 years for her dream to come true...and about one of his own dreams that almost came true and one that is about to come true! This episode is based on Chapter 41 of his book The Tiger Whisker.  Some years ago, Rick actuall...

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! You've heard the phrase, but what does it really mean?  In this episode of Nothing Happens Until You Dream - based on world-famous magician Rick Thomas' book The Tiger Whisker,  Rick explains how others influenced him in his career and that helped him to achieve his dream. He tells Tammy Trujillo about one magician who refused to wa...

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! Sometimes we are so focused on a goal that we don't really appreciate what happens along the way in reaching it.  In this episode, world-famous magician Rick Thomas tells Tammy Trujillo about how he learned that it pays to be in the moment and enjoy yourself wherever you are, even if it is not where you think you should be.  Rick recalls...

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! We all know about potholes...they can ruin your tires or even your car.  But in this  episode, based on Chapter 38 of famed illusionist Rick Thomas' book The Tiger Whisker,  he tells Tammy Trujillo about potholes he saw that are unlike any you have probably ever encountered.  He saw them during a visit to his wife and co-star in The Mans...

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! Have you ever had something relatively simple happen to you that changed you in a big way. That's what this epsiode based on Chapter 37 of  Rick Thomas' book The Tiger Whisker is all about.  Rick tells Tammy Trujillo about several experiences in his life that have had a lasting impact on him, even though they were really quite simpl...

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! They say imitation of the most sincere form of flattery...but is it really.  In this episode, based on Chapter 35 of Rick Thomas' book Nothing Happens Until You Dream, Rick tells Tammy Trujillo about how learning involves copying when you start something but at some point, a person needs to take what they've learned and begin creati...

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! When you're three and your parents are in their 30s, that gap is huge.  But as we get older (and our parents do too) that gap seems to narrow and change.  In this chapter of world renowned illusionist Rick Thomas' book The Tiger Whisker, Rick talks with Tammy Trujillo about how that relationship changes but at the same time, stays t...

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! We've all been inspired by someone at sometime in our lives and in this episode from Rick Thomas' book Nothing Happens Until You Dream, Rick tells Tammy Trujillo about some of the famous magicians who inspired him to create his own magic and his master illusion Mansion of Dreams which he currently performs in Branson, Missouri.  Ric...

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! We've all heard the phrase - Practice Makes Perfect.  But does it? World famous magician Rick Thomas started his performing career in ballroom dancing and along with his sister Tamara, were champions.  You can bet he heard that line a lot.  But in Chapter 33 of his book The Tiger Whisker, he tells co-host Tammy Trujillo that it wasn&apos...

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! The mind is a very powerful thing. Just ask World-Reknown Illusionist Rick Thomas.  Everything that you see in his amazing stage show - Mansion of Dreams - started as a thought in his mind and through his magic, he has made them become reality.  In this episode from Rick's book The Tiger Whisker, Rick tells Tammy Trujillo how, as a child...