Fishing Without Bait 189: Identity with Emily
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Fishing Without Bait 189: Identity with Emily

Jim Ellermeyer is joined by Emily for the next few episodes to discuss her path to recovery. We look at her self esteem and identity growing up, getting into drinking and doing drugs at a young age, reacting to his brother’s death, and losing herself.

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Fishing Without Bait 187: Waterfall With Natalie Bencivenga
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Fishing Without Bait 187: Waterfall With Natalie Bencivenga

Jim Ellermeyer spends some more time catching up with Natalie Bencivenga about working with time as they do a time traveling exercise, talk about resetting your lives like our computers using exercise and yoga, applying action and effort, not worrying about what people think about her, and the cleansing energy of walking through a Waterfall.

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Fishing Without Bait 186: Miss Macross vs Batman
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Fishing Without Bait 186: Miss Macross vs Batman

Jim Ellermeyer is joined again by musician and writer Sheena Carroll and her band mate Steve Banks to continue their conversation about working together in a band, social anxiety, Sheena releasing her chat book Miss Macross vs Batman.

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Fishing Without Bait 185: Helping Girls Write with Sheena Carroll
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Fishing Without Bait 185: Helping Girls Write with Sheena Carroll

Jim Ellermeyer is joined again by musician and writer Sheena Carroll and her band mate Steve Banks as we touch base with Sheena about Girls Write Pittsburgh and making a difference and helping build empowerment, working through the fear of creating, modeling behavior, and more!

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Fishing Without Bait 183: New Perspectives With Natalie Bencivenga
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Fishing Without Bait 183: New Perspectives With Natalie Bencivenga

James Ellermeyer is joined by Natalie Bencivenga to continue their conversation about her path, including leaving medical school at 22, the influence of her grandmother and strong women in her life, reading a poem about her grandmother in her earlier life and the new perspective it gave her, being ok with being uncomfortable and working through it, and how going to school to become a social worker had changed her.

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Fishing Without Bait 182: Transformation With Natalie Bencivenga
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Fishing Without Bait 182: Transformation With Natalie Bencivenga

James Ellermeyer is joined by Natalie Bencivenga who is excited about changes in her life. We discuss her upbringing including going to medical school and the pressures she put on herself, listening to yourself, the lessons of integrity and creative arts, influencing young women that deal with similar issues, taking care of yourself, not allowing people to evolve and grow, and more!

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Fishing Without Bait 181: Off to India with Liss Victory and Krish Mohan
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Fishing Without Bait 181: Off to India with Liss Victory and Krish Mohan

Jim Ellermeyer is rejoined by friends singer/songwriter Liss Victory and comedian Krish Mohan discuss technology that doesn’t help people, subliminal messaging, media controlling emotions and group think. We also discuss their upcoming trip to India including the language and culture, making friends and connecting on the road, and how to connect.

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Fishing Without Bait 180: Different Ideas with  Liss Victory and Krish Mohan
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Fishing Without Bait 180: Different Ideas with Liss Victory and Krish Mohan

Jim Ellermeyer is rejoined by friends singer/songwriter Liss Victory and comedian Krish Mohan discuss Ikigai, Krish talks about his style of comedy and ending a set, dealing with criticism of his material and in life, keeping from allowing money to guide your art, living how you want to be remembered, getting ready to go on their honeymoon to India, toilets, sharing experiences and information, and more!

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Fishing Without Bait 179: Taking a Chance with with Liss Victory and Krish Mohan
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Fishing Without Bait 179: Taking a Chance with with Liss Victory and Krish Mohan

Jim Ellermeyer is rejoined by friends singer/songwriter Liss Victory and comedian Krish Mohan as they give advice for people looking to become a musician and get in front of people, deciding to stick with music over journalism, dealing with expectations and stereotypes in music and comedy, choosing to be a musician, working harder to get better, getting enough attention that someone is criticizing you, dealing with criticism in a healthy way, creating a series of goals, fame, and more.

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Fishing Without Bait 178: On Tour with Liss Victory and Krish Mohan
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Fishing Without Bait 178: On Tour with Liss Victory and Krish Mohan

Jim Ellermeyer is rejoined by friends singer/songwriter Liss Victory and comedian Krish Mohan as we catch up with their touring and album releases and preparing for those events, expecting audiences, the wear and tear on being on the road for an extended amount of time, DIY touring and production, and more!

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Fishing Without Bait 176: Future Self with John Rodin
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Fishing Without Bait 176: Future Self with John Rodin

Jim Ellermeyer is joined by professional wrestler John Rodin to talk about putting in the work to create opportunities, the sacrifices he puts into pro wrestling, showing passion to help other people, and becoming your future self.

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Fishing Without Bait 175: Making Changes with John Rodin
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Fishing Without Bait 175: Making Changes with John Rodin

Jim Ellermeyer is joined by professional wrestler John Rodin to talk about turning his experiences into inspiration for others, how he came to the realization to change things, how unrecognizable his former self is, setting goals in professional wrestling becoming a trap, changing your perspective, and one of the biggest leap of faiths in his pro wrestling career.

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Fishing Without Bait 174: Wrestling With Perceptions with John Rodin
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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!

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Fishing Without Bait 172: The Humanity of it All
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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.

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Fishing Without Bait 171: Good Will Toward Men
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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.

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Fishing Without Bait 170: Buddha Stories
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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.

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