Fishing Without Bait

Jim Ellermeyer is back with Producer Mike to discuss how we can make better choices.  What does that mean?  How do we develop our intuition and beginner’s mind to assess situations in our lives with your gut feelings.   Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Music, TuneIn or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher!

Jim Ellermeyer is back with Producer Mike to discuss BOREDOM.  What happens when we are left to our own thoughts when we’re making bad decisions and are surrounded by individuals that are encouraging bad decisions and are emotionally needy. How do we attach to better people and places that will help elevate us.   How do we deal with boredom and share people.  Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Music, TuneIn or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher!

Jim Ellermeyer is joined once again by Natalie Bencivenga to continue their conversation as they begin to look at the awareness to the world around us due to the extra time from COVID-19 leading to the George Floyd, Me Too, and other Social Justice protests, considering how to be an ally as a white person, White Privilege, entitlement, the mask debate, journalism falling apart, fake news, the police, and how losing loved ones helped motivate her leaving the Post-Gazette. Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Music, TuneIn or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher!

Jim Ellermeyer is joined once again by Natalie Bencivenga to catch up with the changes in her life, and coping with the changes due to Covid-19 Pandemic to discuss the zeitgeist, thinking in ideologies and ideas, hero worship, the common needs people want in their lives we seem to disagree on, slowing down during the pandemic to rebuild and accept the situation, escaping busy culture, and the rapid fire of social justice issues. Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Music, TuneIn or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher!

Jim Ellermeyer is live once again from Highland Park in Pittsburgh, PA to review some bits of wisdom from over the years, including: Buy the Ticket, Words Are Forever, The Five Minute Rule, Naming and, Identify, Immediacy, What We're Not Going to Talk About, What Not to Do and I Choose. Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Music, TuneIn or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher!

Jim Ellermeyer is live once again from Highland Park in Pittsburgh, PA to review some bits of wisdom from over the years, including: Minds of Uncertainty, Pulling the Weeds, The Requirements to Be With You, Argument Party, Cast a Net, and two Buddha Stories: Cutting the Limb and a Package of Resentment. Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Music, TuneIn or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher!

Jim Ellermeyer is live from Highland Park in Pittsburgh, PA to review some bits of wisdom from over the years, including: Moving the Mountain, Time Travel, Time as Currency, Perspective, Your Life as a Movie, Abracadabra and Uncertainty Leads to Anxiety Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Music, TuneIn or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher!

Jim Ellermeyer and Producer Mike are taking a look at this time of the Coronavirus from a mindset 30 years from now, the lack of information leading to minds of uncertainty leading to minds of anxiety, worry, and fear, finding good sources of information that will help navigate through the developing information and trying to understand other perspectives. When your mind, your heart, and your intuition align, you know the path. Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Music, TuneIn or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher!

Jim Ellermeyer continues his conversation with Marine Biologist Maureen from Texas. She discusses her issues with the church around her disability and coming back around for Confirmation and restoring her Faith, interpreting faith and prayer, taking on failure and overcoming obstacles in her Master’s Degree, scuba diving, and in live in general, dealing with depression during the COVID-19 Quarantine era, and more! “God gave us free will so he doesn’t have to be the ‘helicopter parent’” Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Music, TuneIn or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher!

Jim Ellermeyer begins his conversation with Maureen from Texas, how she was inspired by the ocean and a teacher to pursue Marine Biology, growing up legally blind and contending with unintended social consequences of being different due to her disability and needing to use the assistive technology, redefining herself in college, seeing the world in a different way, friends and allies, and more! Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Music, TuneIn or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher!

Jim Ellermeyer continues his conversation with singer/songwriter Toria Susan about a positive outlook, recognizing feelings, romanticizing the past, signing with Digisonic Records, and more. You can listen to Toria Susan’s music at https://soundcloud.com/toriasusan. Toria is a newly signed artist with Digisonic Records. Diamond Days:I’m blinded by the memoriesOf my brighter daysMy diamond days, they still shineIt’s the rocks that clutter my mind Self Love:What do I want?What do I need?Why do I ask with the world at my feetI worry day in and I worry day outBut what do I even have to worry about?  Do you have a story of recovery you would like to share? Tell us on our Twitter (@withoutbait) and Facebook page! Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Music, TuneIn or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher!

Jim Ellermeyer is joined by singer/songwriter Toria Susan as they discuss how she came to music and growing with entertainment and dancing, finding her voice, being positive, building confidence, pleasing others, and more! You can listen to Toria Susan’s music at https://soundcloud.com/toriasusan. Toria is a newly signed artist with Digisonic Records. “If you say so” You say I’m like a chameleon  My face an optical illusion  Sometimes I don’t recognize myself Am I looking at someone else? Do you have a story of recovery you would like to share? Tell us on our Twitter (@withoutbait) and Facebook page! Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Music, TuneIn or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher!

Jim Ellermeyer continues his conversation with singer/songwriter Liss Victory as they continue their discussion about her experience in New York City around the Coronavirus, confirmation bias, we talk about how she got to New York City to be a part of The Lit Room, where the group is repurposing a closed thrift store to a music venue and recording studio, “pulling weeds” in your life, the George Floyd Black Lives Matter Protests and what life will look like after all of this. Follow what Liss Victory is doing in New York City on The Lit Room Twitch Channel at www.twitch.tv/videos/646309774 Listen to Part 1 of our conversation on Fishing Without Bait 2 You can check out Liss Victory’s music and follow her starting at www.lissvictory.com ! Do you have a story of recovery you would like to share? Tell us on our Twitter (@withoutbait) and Facebook page! Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Music, TuneIn or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher!

Jim Ellermeyer welcomes back singer/songwriter Liss Victory to the show as we discuss her recent move to New York City in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.  How did a realization of being “objectively tragic” helped make a the decision for her.  We talk about her trip out and traveling from Pittsburgh on a train during the height of Coronavirus just before lockdowns and finding compassion on the way, readapting to the New York life, and the zeitgeist of New York during lockdown, her own experience being a denier, and we begin a conversation about what qualities of Governor Andrew Cuomo that instill trust.  Stay tuned for Part 2 of our conversation! You can check out Liss Victory’s music and follow her starting at www.lissvictory.com ! Do you have a story of recovery you would like to share? Tell us on our Twitter (@withoutbait) and Facebook page! Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Music, TuneIn or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher!

Jim Ellermeyer continues his conversation with singer/songwriter Tim Vitullo as he discusses interfacing with his fellow musicians in the Tim Vitullo Band, writer’s block, capturing the human condition, writing the music to go with his thoughts and lyrics, his influences, and a live performance of “Running Out of Time” ! Check out episode 244 for Part 1 of our conversation! The introduction to this episode features the title track to the Tim Vitullo Band’s new album “Running Out of Time” releases on Jun 16th. You can find more information about them at www.timvitullo.com. Do you have a story of recovery you would like to share? Tell us on our Twitter (@withoutbait) and Facebook page! Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Music, TuneIn or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher!

Jim Ellermeyer is joined by singer/songwriter Tim Vitullo as they talk about being an “Introverted Extrovert”, his introduction into music starting at 14 years old, being an independent artist, being his own small business with the band, dealing with failure and being told “no”, coping with discouragement, band touring as a group with day jobs and making mistakes. Tune in next week for Part 2 of our conversation! The introduction to this episode features the title track to the Tim Vitullo Band’s new album “Running Out of Time” releases on Jun 16th. You can find more information about them at www.timvitullo.com. Do you have a story of recovery you would like to share? Tell us on our Twitter (@withoutbait) and Facebook page! Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Music, TuneIn or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher!

Jim Ellerymeyer is joined by singer/songwriter John Cihon as they conclude their conversation this week. We talk about choosing to fixate one parts of the world, focusing on other’s failings against our own, what he chooses to do every day to influence his life, and romanticizing what could have been with things in his life that never came to be, exploring the cause of what brings one to addictive behavior, and talks about bonding with Perry Farrell over shared testicular cancer diagnosis and why he’s playing “Tahitian Moon” by Porno for Pyros. Follow John Cihon at www.facebook.com/johncihon. Do you have a story of recovery you would like to share? Tell us on our Twitter (@withoutbait) and Facebook page! Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Music, TuneIn or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher!

Jim Ellerymeyer is joined by singer/songwriter John Cihon. We chat about the things in his life that made him angry when younger from testicular cancer, marrying young, substance issues. We talk about deep in this episode about his relationship issues, fears, and how his son is currently dealing with his upset job and internship opportunities very well. “Instead of happening to me, things are happening for me…we only grow through difficult things”

Jim Ellermeyer is back to talk about counseling. What does one experience when they attend? At what point does one need to determine if the need to go? How is counseling like Yoda from Star Wars? How do you build a relationship with your counselor that creates a safe place you may not have in day to day life, what is takes to become a licensed therapist, and we talk about what we want to do when the COVID-19 Quarantine ends. What are you going to do for your perfect first day when the “all clear” is sound for the end of quarantine? Tell us on our Twitter (@withoutbait) and Facebook page! Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Music, TuneIn or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher!

Jim Ellermeyer and Mr Mike are discussing the Zeitgeist, or general feeling, of today’s environment in the era of Covid-19 and quarantines. We talk about finding trusting news sources to help determine information and navigate these choppy waters, confirmation bias, being quick forgetters, and considering what you can do today. What do you think the Zeitgeist of today is? What is the general feeling around you today in your community? Tell us on our Twitter (@withoutbait) and Facebook page! Further Reading: Six questions that will tell you what media to trust https://www.americanpressinstitute.org/publications/six-critical-questions-can-use-evaluate-media-content/ Subscribe to our Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Music, TuneIn or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher!