Dreams and Detours

Susan speaks about the crisis that is loneliness, and how being lonely isn’t just about being alone. It is a source of widespread depression impacting all of us. By reestablishing our connectivity to one another instead of our devices, we can find our way back to life as it was meant to be lived, together.

Susan shares her thoughts about Being Enough, and how the negative chatter inside our head builds up over time. It is no coincidence, now more than ever, that we feel disconnected from one another. The pain is real and it is creating is a crisis for all of us.

Christine LaFroscia joins the show to explore the other side of quitting: when it’s over. Christine and Susan discuss being part of a lay-off, broken up with and friendships abandoned. They each share when it has happened to them and if that informed them of the way in which future ‘break-ups’ should be managed. Most important they both see the sudden and unexpected clearing as an opportunity to welcome in the new.

Susan returns with part 2 of her Love series. We all just want to be loved, but we all learned to love in different ways. This episode features several special contributors responding to these questions: What does love mean to you? How do you know when you are loved? What did love sound like when you were growing up? What does love look and feel like in your life today?

Susan talks about love, how the word itself is overused to describe objects and not spoken enough to the people in our lives. A big fan of The 5 Love Languages, Susan shares why it is important to love yourself and know-how you need to be loved. Tune in to hear how her 5 love languages rank.

Alison Bull joins Susan to talk about the recent NYTimes essays titled: I Quit. Friends for over 20 years, Alison and Susan explore moments in their own lives when quitting was hard, appropriate, freeing or lifesaving. They talk about quitting jobs, cigarettes, people, and food. Most important they both share the importance of not quitting on your real dreams and passions.

Susan Montanaro, host of Dreams & Detours, gives her take on kicking off the new year and how we can stay focused on all the great changes we want to make. Life is hard enough on any given day, committing to transforming ourselves and reorganizing our lives is easier said than done. Susan shares a few ideas that can help you focus on making those resolutions and intentions stick.

Michelina DiSibio is a Health & Prosperity Coach, and creator of ‘Lettuce Be The Good’, a community dedicated to helping women get more out of life to unleash their inner greatness, achieve better health, financial security, and independence. Jolted by a traumatic loss at age 5, Michelina has had to push through fears, doubts, and insecurities of all kinds on her way to successful entrepreneurship. She can help you to do the same.

We find ourselves in many places, and the journey can be a long winding road. SJ Martins slow and steady path to self-recognition took her on quite the ride, when she discovered her calling just across the way from her home. Tune-in to hear how SJ faced her own pain and recreated life to be in harmony with her true self.

Susan Montanaro, host of Dreams & Detours gives thanks for this show and the guests that shared their stories. The upcoming year will include more around loneliness and the ways in which we can all contribute for the better, along with stories of inspiration and success.

In this episode, I sat down with Allan Wolk to hear his life story about not giving up. From a young age Allan learned that life would have giant hurdles, both academically and socially. Against early odds, Allan would prove to overcome these challenges and thrive in ways no one may have thought possible. His determination to push forward and never give up rewarded him with the life he dreamed possible. Tune-in to hear that it’s never too late to follow your dreams and become the best version of yourself.

Bev Ehrlich is a certified transformational coach helping people to get clear on what it is they really want by guiding them into deeper self-awareness. Her approach is to help clients get out of their head and into their real life, to drop down into their bodies and feelings through contemplative, meditative and prayer practices. We discuss our theories on best practices as coaches and how that differs from conventional therapy.

Susan Montanaro, host of Dreams & Detours talks about courage, and what that looks like in both our professional and personal space. By being true to ourselves, we dig down into our deepest parts in order to live the life we desire. Being brave can be hard, but the alternative is to betray oneself, and others close to us.

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