Open Loops with Greg Bornstein: Conversations That Bend

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COMMUNICATION SKILLS A public speaking coach so good, he makes Greg lose his words by the end of the interview? Yes, it's very possible.  Brenden from MasterTalks does the impossible:  Talks about a very common issue for people but still expands Greg's mind.  Wanna communicate well? Listen up.  -------------------------------------------------- Brenden's Links: https://www.mastertalk.ca/ MasterTal...

MUSIC INDUSTRY  Where does doing coke in your dressing room meet Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs? What's the difference between a filling career in entertainment versus a fulfilling career?  Is there another Holy Trinity in pop music that doesn't involve Madonna on her knees?  Host of Bones of Giants podcast Alan Currens shares years of insight from all aspects of working full-time in the entertainmen...

FEMININE/MASCULINE POLARITY  Bow chicka wow wow.  Pleasure is healing.  Don't believe it?  Tantric coach, sexual alchemist, and magic woman of the divine feminine Maya Kova joins Greg to ruffle some feathers and share the essential truths of the polar energies, male and female.  No sex toy is sacred.  ----------- Maya's Links:  Instagram: www.instagram.com/consciously_transform/ Facebook: www.face...

HYPNOSIS  Lynn Louise Larson ain't your grandma's hypnotist. Also...your grandma had a hypnotist?! Why didn't she tell anyone...? Transformation of sexual trauma becomes transcending into the highest spiritual archetype of self-improvement.  That's hypnosis times 100.  And there's a shapeshifting sorcerer that guides her in her dreams.  Trance into greatness. With Lynn, it's required.  If you enjo...

NLP (NEURO-LINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING)  Here's what happens when a New York City-based change worker decides to create an app that'll change everyone's lives forever.  NLP meets AI meets the human soul.  Tony Petrozza brings it.  Says you can shoot him dead if it doesn't work.  Support his Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/catherineschutten/perficio-a-smart-digital-coaching-app/?r...

HYPNOSIS Tim Seitz, the Happy Hypnotist, is one of the most creative practitioners of hypnosis, NLP, and mind arts in the field.  Today, he comes on Open Loops with his mentee, Lina-Marie, to talk about and demonstrate hypnosis.   At first, Tim talks about virtual reality, Inception, the Matrix, and The Holodeck. And how he's making those things happen in REAL LIFE.   But then he demonstrates with...

THE PARANORMAL It's Halloween! This episode fits right in.. Open Loops, of course,  is a theme park for the intellect and imagination.  Just consider this our Fright Fest.  Stephanie Bingham (as seen on SyFy and The CW) joins Greg for a riveting discussion on everything from corporeal shark-teethed violent children to how hard it is for an exorcist to date men in Kentucky. She's a paranormal resea...

MAGICK  Emily Davis has natural psychic abilities, she sees spirit guides, she has a performing background and most importantly, she cohosts the metaphysical comedy podcast, Perceptionists Anonymous!  If you go to Emily's website, https://www.damselnomore.com/, the first thing you discover is the blunt truth.  "You are magical as @#$%."  This definitely caught Greg's attention. In her first appear...

HORROR Greg meets the author of The Vampire Series of Extreme Horror novella series, Todd Sullivan.  Todd denies that his brain is that sick-minded and twisted.  Greg doesn't believe it.  Can he get Todd to confess to all the weird things inside his head?  Will Todd's martial arts discipline win the battle to keep his answers cogent while Greg pokes around to explore the horrific depths of his cre...

SPIRITUALITY  In the previous episode, you met Eesha Patel , the creator of Origin Activation (ie. the real-life OA).  She channeled Origin Activation, a healing modality that ranges from reiki-style clearing of core wounds via your chakras to connecting to your Source energy telepathically via guidance from space aliens in all 13 dimensions.  You know. Depends on what the job requires.  In this e...

SPIRITUALITY  Today's guest can shift around energy grids globally with her consciousness, but also can shift around yours just by looking at you.  Eesha Patel is an international channeller, intuitive healer and entrepreneur. Eesha is the founder of Origin Activation Method, a powerful multidimensional energy healing modality currently being taught to world-class coaches, speakers and entrepreneu...

RELIGION Exorcisms, possessions, witches, Satan, Sodom and Gomorrah. David Daniel Gonzalez returns!  David's is a radio host, producer and researcher who explores diverse topics such as alternative history, ancient mysteries and the Bible. He's an author of several books in the Raiders of the Unknown series, including  Demonology of Ancient Israel: The truth about demons, possession and exorcism ,...

Why Trump needs to come on Open Loops, the snake oil of the acting and podcasting business and Greg makes a huge mistake but hopefully doesn't get sued.  -------- If you enjoy this podcast, please leave a review at ratethispodcast.com/openloops  Let Greg know how you like the show. Write your review, soliloquy, Haiku or whatever twisted thoughts you want to share at https://ratethispodcast.com/ope...

UFOS  Ah, yes. Robert Emerson has been hypnotizing people to get in touch with their past lives for over forty years.  And he casually was abducted by aliens.  This episode is an intergalactic head trip that ranges from regular sightings of Flying Saucers in Middleton, Massachusetts to embodying the spirit of deceased Nubian Princesses. All within the span of five minutes.  And did this guest tell...

SHOW BUSINESS  Addie Doyle met your host Greg when they were both in college at NYU Tisch School of Drama doing the Summer 2010 Commonwealth Shakespeare Apprenticeship in Boston.  She was Cleopatra. He was the comic relief. Figures.    She's now an LA-based actress and filmmaker whose work has been featured at the Oscar-Qualifying LA International Short Film Festival, New York International Short...

GHOSTS  Finding out the woman you love regularly communicates with her blood relatives on the other side.  Dealbreaker?  Not for this guy.  He hosts a podcast about it instead!  Greg welcomes Ben Axe, host of Paranormal Axetivities , a podcast on the All Everything Entertainment network.  Ben explores all things paranormal and he joins Greg to talk about what he's experienced that makes him just t...

SHAMANISM Put on your 7D glasses for this episode. You'll need 'em.  (Just take two pairs of IMAX glasses and wear them on top of each other, and then put those on top of your regular prescription lenses, and mathematically that should work, right?) Anyways... Greg brings on a fantastic guest, and they're talking lucid dreams and astral projections and slipping in between realities by accident!  A...

NLP and HYPNOSIS  WARNING: DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE WHILE DRIVING OR OPERATING HEAVY MACHINERY.  If you've ever wanted to experience hypnosis, this is THE episode to listen to.  This entire hour is designed to transform all your lives at the unconscious level.  It won't sound like hypnosis, on the surface. But that's just a testament to how skilled our guest (and Master Looper) Jocelyn Bellow...

PSYCHIC MEDIUMSHIP  Yeah, yeah, Open Loops brought you a psychic, and of course, we ask about the election... But that aside: Dean McMurray, the world-renowned Military Medium, joins Greg this episode to discuss if we should hand psychics military-grade weaponry, but also if we should spend time during Basic Training teaching soldiers how to align their chakras. And of course, your host Greg gets...

LOVE & SHOW BUSINESS  Jessi Jordan is a dynamic musical force.  Beyonce, Pink, and Jessica Simpson, all of whom she's done releases for, definitely think so.  She's also has an amazingly fun podcast called #LoveTalkTuesday where she goes live, takes questions from the audience, and spills the honest truth about love with her closest friends from all over the world.  She also released a new single...

LAW OF ATTRACTION  Greg's not into sports, but he knows when he's lost a game.   Casey Edward, Life Coach, Podcaster, Entrepreneur, Meditation Junkie, Avid Adventurer, and Manifestor-Extraordinaire joins Greg in a discussion where despite his attempt to connect with her "on the level"...he just doesn't.   One strike. He's out.   Among other things:   -Casey gives Greg's subconscious "girl advice."...

She taught Greg about existentialism before he even knew he was having an "existential crisis."  Ricki directed Greg in plays and musicals in high school.  He was her Mayor of Who in Seussical, her Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple, and when she directed Les Mis Greg's Junior year, Greg played the Master of the House.  Also Greg once wrote a musical number to Catcher in the Rye because of her class....

MANIFESTATION  Around ten years ago, Samantha Colicchio used the Law of Attraction to manifest an iPod out of thin air in a New York City taxicab.  Now she's not sure if there's an evil cabal in charge of enslaving the masses or if meditation is the stuff of Satan.  One thing's for sure: she's one of Greg's best friends from college. And if there's anything these two aspire to have, beyond enterta...

ROCK N’ ROLL Podcast Paul is his name. And making Greg feel guilty about the temptations of living the rockstar lifestyle is DEFINITELY his game.  He plays it well.  Paul was a local celebrity in a rock band. Paul told Greg the conversation could be about anything, as Paul studies religious philosophy.  What do we cover?  Drugs, sex, self-destruction.  Welcome to Church.  -------------------------...