
Fishing Without Bait 174: Wrestling With Perceptions with John Rodin
Jim Ellermeyer is joined by professional wrestler John Rodin to talk about perceptions of things you don’t understand, like pro wrestling, perceptions on Social Media, John’s perceptions working at a prison, using his negative energy to fuel something positive, leaving a relationship after 9 years, negative thoughts and more!

Fishing Without Bait 173: New Year’s Anti Resolutions
Jim Ellermeyer looks at New Year’s Resolutions, making intentions instead of resolutions, setting up a “not to do list’, dropping the rock, things coming back to you, natural time, and more!

Fishing Without Bait 172: The Humanity of it All
Jim Ellermeyer is gearing up for the holidays as we discuss the hurried nature everyone is in, we go back and look at what humanity means. Treating others with compassion regardless of how you know them or your pre conceived notions.

Fishing Without Bait 171: Good Will Toward Men
Jim Ellermeyer has some fun with Christmas and disconnecting from television before we take on a topic from our Twitter friends. We discuss tendencies to not help others in our world, whether it be people in front of us that look different or what you can do to help the world.

Fishing Without Bait 170: Buddha Stories
Jim Ellermeyer comes to us this week with a coming to us with a collection of stories from the Buddha. Stories about creating instead of destroying, giving to others, and a reminder that time is always moving and we are always changing.

Fishing Without Bait 169: Tattooed - “I Am” and “I Choose”
Jim Ellermeyer is here this week to talk about his new tattoos “I am” and “I choose” and the importance of those phrases and how we can trick out brain into positivity. Also, when we present quotes, and communicate the meaning to you behind them, being honest about how your day is, finding your authentic self.

Fishing Without Bait 168: Coming Out of Desperation with Joe Marchesani
Jim Ellermeyer continues his conversation with friend and yoga instructor Joe Marchesani about how he was covering his sexuality, learning to love, self compassion, working through his recovery, the gift of desperation, and his life today.

Fishing Without Bait 167: The Journey with Joe Marchesani
Jim Ellermeyer continues his conversation with friend and yoga instructor Joe Marchesani about being heard, Mr Rogers, “I Am” statements, starting the journey to discover yourself and finding that other individual you can be safe with, being pulled from all of his safety zones at a young age, discovering the spirituality inside us, the power of going for a walk with another person, slowing down and living in the present moment, and more.

Fishing Without Bait 166: Discovering Yourself with Joe Marchesani
Jim Ellermeyer is joined by yoga instructor Joe Marchesani about his relationship with himself, his wanting to be better than other people, learning how to speak to yourself, the feeling of the need to be cared for, and more!

Fishing Without Bait 165: Finding Perspective
Jim Ellermeyer and his producer are talking about looking at perspective in your life. Producer Mike does this by talking with people when he drives them home on Lyft. We discuss learning to take advice, lessons from Jack Black’s Shallow Hal, and more!

Fishing Without Bait 164: Mindful Social Media
Jim Ellermeyer continues to explore the Hivemind and the motivations behind it. Producer Michael Sorg talks about the positive side of Social Media and privacy, some big tips for protecting yourself online, determining what part of you is online, and how what you say relates to free speech.

Fishing Without Bait 163: Exploring the Hivemind
Jim Ellermeyer is discussing the hive mind concept and how it applies to recent events, which dives into the positives and dangers of Social Media with producer Michael Sorg, and how to deal with the negativity, diving into the group think on the internet, the “reality distortion field” and more!

Fishing Without Bait 162: More Good Vibrations with Janelle Burdell
Jim Ellermeyer and drummer Janelle Burdell continue their discussion about changing the frequencies in our lives and converting those into action, moving to what she’s doing now, zen drums, recording, making sounds, riding the wave of emotion, vibration and buddhism and more!

Fishing Without Bait 161: Rhythm and Vibrations with Janelle Burdell
Jim Ellermeyer and drummer Janelle Burdell continue their discussion about loneliness of our artists and those in these “social” technologies online, fixing the person instead of their environment, the importance of rhythm and vibrations to energy, and more!

Fishing Without Bait 160: Voice and Attention with Janelle Burdell
Jim Ellermeyer and drummer Janelle Burdell continue their discussion about getting familiar with your own voice, being heard, growing up as a drummer, getting out of the expectations set upon girls to not be loud, detaching from our cell phones and multitasking, active listening, not being heard, connecting to the light, and feeling so alone.

Fishing Without Bait 159: Being a Girl Drummer with Janelle Burdell
Jim Ellermeyer is joined by drummer Janelle Burdell to talk about her journey in drumming and discovering the healing properties of sound. She discusses working with Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart to develop his Ramu drums, working in San Francisco, being a woman working in drums starting at the age of 9 and self identity, and more!

Fishing Without Bait 158: Becoming a Singer with Nick Eiben
Jim Ellermeyer is joined by singer/songwriter Nick Eiben talk about things he wants to work on, awareness, discusses becoming a singer when he only intended to be a song writer and work in other bands, and we listen to track from his most recent music video “Roses”!

Fishing Without Bait 157: Bullying with Nick Eiben
Jim Ellermeyer is joined by singer/songwriter Nick Eiben as he talks about overcoming the bullying over his stuttering condition, advise for those going through trying times in school, being a friend, using humor and we listen to track from his first music video “You Make Me Smile”

Fishing Without Bait 156: Creating Music with Nick Eiben
Jim Ellermeyer is joined by singer/songwriter Nick Eiben to chat about about poetry and lyrics in context , embracing creativity, influences with Elvis, the joy of dancing, resonating music such as Metallica and Nirvana, going ahead and starting to learn to play to a Metallica song book and being your own cheerleader.

Fishing Without Bait 155: 12 Steps Part 4 - Walking the Walk
Jim Ellermeyer takes us through the next 3 steps of the 12 Step Program where we discuss taking an evaluation of our life, asking for the energy to carry out what must be done, sharing your experiences to keep yourself fresh, being consistent and walking the walk.