The Dandelion Effect
The Dandelion Effect podcast is a space for organic conversation about the magic of living a connected life. Just like the natural world around us, we are all linked through an intricate web, a never-ending ripple that spans across the globe. Here, we explore the ideas that our guests carry through the world, remember who and what inspired them along the way, and uncover the seeds that helped them blossom into their unique version of this human experience.
Episodes
48 episodes
Ode To The Feathered Pipe Ranch: Dandelion Effect Podcast Finale
Today’s podcast episode is the final episode of the Dandelion Effect Podcast as we know it. We are tying a beautiful ribbon on a project that began in the fall of 2020 as an avenue for continued positive outreach and community engagement in the...
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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1:04:50
Optimistic Realism with Effie Baldwin
Effie Baldwin is a U.S. Army veteran, Positive Discipline Educator, Associate Member of the U.S. Golf Teachers Federation and the founder of Believing in a Better World LLC. After earning her Kemetic Yoga Certification in Egypt, she became an i...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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1:03:04
A Yogic Lens on Animal Conservation with Alison Zak
Alison Zak is an author, yoga teacher, environmental educator and anthropologist, and in her self-written bio, she also adds, importantly, that she is an animal. Her new book Wild Asana launches June 27th and is a delightful mix of wildlife sci...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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1:08:13
Advocating for Youth Mental Health with Susan Reynolds
Susan Reynolds has over 20 years of experience in digital wellbeing, youth leadership and mindfulness. In 2019 she co-founded LookUp to discover, empower, and mobilize youth leaders who are taking action to raise awareness and design a healthie...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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59:44
Nature as the Antidote with Adam Schumaker
Adam Schumaker is co-founder of Gray Bear Lodge, a rustic retreat center in Hohenwald, TN, 80 miles southwest of Nashville, that hosts experiential workshops to promote growth, fulfillment and the joy of learning. He’s a certified Watsu aquatic...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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1:09:32
Rising from the Segregated South with Dr. Helen Benjamin
Dr. Helen Benjamin is the president of HSV Consulting, a company that provides board and management development, strategic planning, and equity, diversity and inclusion services to community colleges. She’s had a long career in education: With ...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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56:11
The Mystically Untamed Within Us with Stefanie Tovar
Stefanie Tovar is a healing artist, a singer, a yoga teacher, a racial healing facilitator—and so much more. She has over 14 years of facilitating wellness offerings and 20 years of presenting as an international and local performing artist, ...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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1:04:31
Prioritizing Joy with Dr. Edie Resto
Dr. Edie Resto is a distinguished Chiropractor, Naturopathic Doctor and bodyworker. She is a graduate of the Institute of Psycho-Structural Balancing, and she got her start as a massage therapist at the Feathered Pipe Ranch before heading off t...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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59:58
Reclaiming Indigenous Food Systems with Danielle Antelope
Danielle Antelope is a member of the Blackfeet Nation and Eastern Shoshone (shu-show-nee) Nation. Born and raised in Browning, MT, she graduated from MSU with a bachelor’s degree in Sustainable Food & Bioenergy Systems, where she deeply stu...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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59:55
Creating Connection in the Workplace with Don Rheem
The landscape of work has shifted dramatically in the last several years. From layoffs and furloughs during the pandemic to record numbers of people quitting jobs in the United States—to the tune of 4 million people per month—people are engagin...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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1:08:25
A New Narrative for Healing Autism with Kara Ware
Kara Ware has been on a 17-year journey with her son Zachary, who was diagnosed with Autism just before his third birthday. With this news came the advice from the doctor: “There is no treatment for Autism. Medicate him to help with tantrums, s...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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1:09:14
Beyond Bulimia with Lauren Lewis
Lauren Lewis is a CO-based yoga teacher, plant-based chef and culinary educator. She headed west from Pennsylvania in 1999 to attend The University of Colorado, Boulder, and quickly fell in love with the mountains, the community and the lifesty...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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1:05:03
"Best of Season Two" Episode
The Feathered Pipe Ranch is a world-renowned retreat center that hosts weeklong yoga and wellness workshops from June through September, and as of this recording, we are smack in the middle of the season. Every retreat is full of amazing people...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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49:53
Self-Healing with Energy Medicine with Donna Eden
Donna Eden is a pioneer in the field of Energy Medicine, and she was born with the gift of literally being able to see the body's energies, in the forms of colors and geometrical shapes. After five specialists told her she had 9 months to 2 yea...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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52:55
A Teacher's Guide to Lifelong Learning with Tim Sloffer
Tim Sloffer happened upon the Ranch last year while he was applying for a Lilly Teacher Creativity Grant from the Lilly Endowment, a program that began in 1987 as a way to help Indiana elementary and secondary educators renew their commitment t...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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53:42
Seeking Balance in the Digital Age with Dave Morin
Dave Morin is an entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist, born and raised in Helena, MT. Currently, he is Co-Founder of Offline Ventures, an investing and inventing company focused on the creation of humanist technology and serving founder p...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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1:05:08
Living Without a Map with VJ Supera
In the days of digital nomads, geo-tagging and endless sources of technological communication, it’s sometimes hard to believe how people traveled without knowing anything about the places they were visiting. With no blog posts or reviews to rea...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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1:11:11
Taoism for a Sustainable Future with Amory Lovins
Physicist Amory Lovins is Cofounder and Chairman Emeritus of Rocky Mountain Institute, an independent, non-partisan, nonprofit organization working to transform the global energy system to secure a clean, prosperous, zero-carbon future.H...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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59:37
Healing Trauma in Native Communities with Linda Kinsey
Historical trauma is a new model in public health that suggests that populations historically subjected to long-term, mass trauma—such as slavery, the Holocaust, forced migration, and the violent colonization of Native Americans—exhibit a highe...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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58:43
The High Cost of Cheap Food with Bob Quinn
Bob Quinn is a scientist, farmer, out-of-the-box thinker and savvy businessman who has dedicated his entire career to regenerating food systems and educating the public on the connection between land and soil preservation, nutritious food, robu...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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1:09:01
Exploring Beginner's Mind with Rodney Yee
Rodney Yee is an internationally recognized yoga teacher, co-founder of Urban Zen Integrative Therapy (UZIT), and the author of two books: Yoga: The Poetry of the Body and Moving Toward Balance: 8 Weeks of Yoga with Rodney Yee...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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1:04:26
The Way of the Female Warrior with Jessica Bugbee
Jessica Bugbee is a U.S. Army combat veteran, wellness director at Hudson Valley National Center for Veteran Reintegration, and co-founder of TRIBE, a non-profit that teaches yoga and meditation to the active duty military community. She’s also...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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49:02
We are One at the Table with Chef Claudia Krevat
Claudia is a chef, a writer, an ambassador with Hola Montana and a lover of all things culture, food and community. She was born and raised in Barranquilla, Colombia, a tropical city on the country’s northern Caribbean Coast, where she grew up ...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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54:47
The Law of Attraction with Tom Ryan
Tom Ryan was the caretaker of the Feathered Pipe Ranch for 33 years, originally coming to the Ranch in 1975 for a part-time job–and as the story goes, he fell in love and stuck around. Tom has been around the retreat center longer than almost a...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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58:11
Trusting the Body's Wisdom with Judith Hanson Lasater
Judith Hanson Lasater is an American yoga teacher and writer who is recognized as one of the leading yoga teachers in the country and throughout the world. Judith’s resume is nothing short of impressive: Not only has she been teaching yoga for ...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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1:00:57