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12,000 Dreams
by Larry Stevenson
Listen to my weekly audio podcast that includes interviews with people who achieved their dreams, tips to make your dreams come true, and how to resolve limitations that may prevent your success. 12000dreams.substack.com
Episodes
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Dating Dreams--An Interview with Dr. Darren Johansen
I rebroadcast this episode because Dr. Darren Johansen gave great advice when I interviewed him during my first season. Dr. Johansen counsels individuals, families, and others on financial and relationship matters. He served as president of the Mountain West Chapter of the National Speakers’...
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Dreams of Travel, Giving, & So More--Interview with Michele (Reprise)
Michele inspired me so much with how well she lets her dreams work to travel, give, do so much more that I decided to rebroadcast her interview from my first season. Professionally, she purchases jewelry for a high-end catalogue. She also travels multiple times a month. In addition, she…
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Created Their Own Iron Man
This is a story of an event I attended with three previous podcast guests. Dora and Daphne decided they wanted to compete in an iron event. Existing (or sanctioned) events did not interest them. The dream included putting the whole thing together: mapping the swimming, biking, and running routes....
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Dreams of a Sixteen Year Old
My grandson Jack shares how others (optimizing connections) helped him achieve many dreams to * Compose music for computers games and a fugue * Sing in the Indiana All-state Choir * Perform the role of Harry in his high school performance of Mama Mia * Write a book and adapt an episode from…
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Interview with Dora Requena (reprise)
This is a repeat of the interview with Dora Requena from my first season. Dora works for Shriners Medical helping physicians understand the benefits of referring disadvantaged patients to Shriners. She also travels to see exciting places like India and more. In addition, Dora lifts others in her...
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Dreams of Salt Water Taffy
James Glade established the Glade Candy Company at the turn of the last century. The produced salt water taffy, hard candy, chocolates, and other candies. In the 1990s his sons David, Vernon, and Bud decided to focus their efforts on producing outstanding tasting salt water taffy using a unique...
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HAVE a More Professional Speaking or Singing Voice (Reprise)
This repeat of episode #63 shares my interview with Anjanette Mickelsen on how to improve your singing and speaking voice. Anjanette has coached singers who appeared on American Idol, America’s Got Talent, and other shows. She explains techniques to improve your voice range, improve the timber of...
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Musings on Self-Imposed Limitations
Today’s fast-paced environment of torrential information, saturated stimuli, and frustrating situations send us to our reptilian mind where we either fight, flee, or freeze. Another limitation many encounter involves facing too many options in life and allowing the FOMO (fear of missing out) of…
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Dreams of a Nine Year Old
Listen to a nine-year-old describe the science birthday party involving learning about fire, pressure, dry ice, volcanoes and more. This is outlines 4-5 of our 12,000 dreams effort. If you enjoyed this podcast, you may consider reading my other publications: * 12,000 Dreams Podcast (Mondays) *…
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Overcome Real Health Limitations
This episode describes people who encountered very real limitations related to poor health and how they overcame the limitation to move forward with their dreams. If you enjoyed this podcast, you may consider reading my other publications: * 12,000 Dreams Podcast (Mondays) * Life Lessons Learned...
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Seeing Thousands of Dreams Burn
The wildfires in Los Angeles County, my hometown, destroyed thousands of homes, caused hundreds of thousands to evacuate, and traumatized a nation. This episode shares my feelings of seeing places I visited in my youth disappear. If you enjoyed this podcast, you may consider reading my other...
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A New Season of 12,000 Dreams Podcast
This episode introduces the fourth season of my podcast. We modified our theme music and thumbnail art. We still provide advice and guidance on how to use our life-changing model to let your dreams work to BE, SEE, DO, HAVE, and GIVE More. We’ll include more guests to share their successes,...
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Sarah's Dream to Earn Her SAG Card
I met Sarah while attending the Michael Jackson musical in the Neil Simon Theater in New York City. She ushered us to our seats. She exhibited greater than usual service and kindness. During the intermission I took time to talk to her. She shared her story of working as a legal assistant, getting...
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Act Consistently Rather Than Scheme
My very successful brother-in-law describes people who constantly talk about, plan for, or obsess with their dream—but never act upon them—schemers. Scheming about your dreams creates frustration rather than results. This episode shares examples of schemers and how acting consistently and...
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How Identity Limits or Enhances Dreams
Each of us have multiple identities: origin, relationship, professional, and more. Those identities may enhance or limit our ability to let our dreams work. This episode explores several identities (health, student, and job seeker) may limit our abilities to achieve our dreams. They may also...
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The American Dream as Seen Through Ellis Island
The multiple exhibits on Ellis Island inspired me with how many people immigrated to the United States over the last two centuries. They contributed their diverse cultures, traditions, and perspectives to what we perceive as today’s United States. They passed stringent medical and “desirability”...
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Dream of New Year's Eve on Times Square--Done!
This episode describes how optimizing connections, acting consistently and small miracles combined to let my daughter’s dream of being on Times Square as the ball dropped on New Year’s Eve. * She generated the possibility of being in New York City on New Year’s Eve * She optimized connections…
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Generate Possible Dreams During the Holiday
The end of the year provides time to generate possibilities for your dreams for next year. You may follow these simple steps to enrich your life and enhance your success: * Identify the roles in your life that you wish to improve * Review the possibilities you generated last year that you want to...
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Death, Grief, and Faith
I lost a 94 year-old friend, a 49 year-old neighbor, and my cousin’s teenage son all in 3 weeks. Their deaths reminded me that Kubler-Ross’ work on grieving correctly identified the stages of grief. However, the nice sequential pattern she identified only works with a few survivors following…
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My Youngest Child Turns 40 with Big Dreams
My youngest child, a daughter, turned 40 today. She pursued her dreams throughout her life, including seeing all 7 Disney resorts. She pursued her professional dreams to work on as a youth counselor on a cruise ship sailing the Hawaiian islands. Currently, she works as Title 1, Special Needs, and...
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Strategy for Optimizing Connections
Optimizing connections enhances and accelerates the achievement of your dreams. This strategy will help you take full advantage of people you know and people you don’t know. These three steps will guide you to optimize your connections: * Connect with people you know or don’t know who already...
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Avoid the Limitation of Overscheduling
This episode describes the downsides of overscheduling yourself in the pursuit of a dream. My dream of being a better father and grandfather leads me on what one person describes as the Larry Stevenson Tour of 2024. The overscheduling began, three months ago, when we * Booked airfare to visit our...
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BEing More Calm and Less Angry
I describe how optimizing connections and acting consistently helped me, over years, to reduce my anger and terminate my temple (mostly). Anger abounds in today’s world. Stress, lack of control over vital issues of life, and hostile environments trigger tempers. I hope this helps others to BEing...
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Decluttering Helps the Soul
Periodically our family rents a 40 foot trash dumpster to declutter our home. We stripped our garage of all the clutter, 40 year old cheap bookshelves, and other stuff. The serenity and peace that I derive as I pull the car into our clean garage surpasses description. Through life we accumulate...
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When to Adapt to Changing Times--Not To!
A recent experience gutting our garage and a storage room highlighted how much some activities have changed over the last few decades. The experience emphasized to me the importance of adapting to change in our practices and methods for pursuing our dreams. It also reinforced the need to ground…
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Dreams in Sharon McMahon's The Small & The Mighty
Sharon McMahon has been called “America’s government teacher” for work in the classroom and podcasts. She recently released her first book, The Small and the Mighty Twelve Unsung Americans who Changed the Course of History. The book shot to number one on the New York Times Best Sellers List in…
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Limitations Affecting Dreams of Motherhood
This episode addresses many of the limitations women encounter, both desired and undesired, affecting their dream of motherhood (for those who dream of being mothers). * The very real, undesired limitation of not marrying or bearing children * The real, undesired limitation of being married and…
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Interviewing Practices Affecting Job Search Dreams
Changes in job interviewing practices frustrate many people. Others, who have to seek new employment more frequently, recognize and adapt to * A longer period of time in the interview process * More interviews than in the past * More digital interviews with less in-person interviews * A broader...
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Don't Confuse Actions for Dreams
A good friend reminded me of the importance of recognizing that dreams are the end result. Actions constitute the means to achieve those ends. Many people will outline the action as the dream. For example, they may dream to improve their mind and decide that the action to achieve that dream is to...
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Reminder of Walt Disney's Focus on Dreams
During my latest visit to Disneyland I saw a shirt that said “Dreams Really Do Come True.” The shirt reminded me how often Walt Disney emphasized the power of dreams. This episode reminds us of Walt Disney’s focus on dreams as exemplified through the lyrics of famous Disney songs. I hope you take...
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Achieve Your Dreams Before the Year Ends
As we begin the fourth quarter of the year, you may wish to accelerate your efforts to let your dreams work this year. This episode suggests what you * Review the dreams you decided to pursue this year with those that you achieved * Decide which ones you will pursue this year and which ones you...
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Update on Our 12,000 Dreams Initiative
Bryan Waldon Pope and I began an initiative to help 12,000 people achieve their impossible dream—that dream which from where they stood seemed unachievable. Since then we have seen hundreds of people successfully pursue both their personal and business dreams. This episode shares information…
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Examples of, & Gratitude for, Optimal Connections
Optimize Connections describes the second life-changing step in our model to let your dreams work. This episode outlines a few situations that may provide you with optimal connections: * Managers and supervisors at work * Peers, co-workers, and subordinates to you in various organizations *…
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Dreams Still Work to Get Scholarships
Several recent clients did not receive scholarships. I felt discouraged and ready to abandon any assistance with scholarships assuming that my knowledge and practices had become obsolete. Instead, I studied what prevented success and discovered that * Clients focused drawings that appeared as...
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Let My Dreams Run Wild for 2 Months
I went on vacation from writing or podcasting for 2 months. I let my personal dreams run will during those 2 months. I took the opportunity to * BE More connected with family at a 3-day family reunion on my father’s side and a 1-day reunion on my mother’s side * BE More of a grandfather when my...
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Jennifer's Dream to BE an Influence on Children
Jennifer dreamt of making a positive influence on children, especially small childhood. She began with her own children when prior to attending school. She expanded her influence by starting a pre-school in her home. Not just a pre-school where the director basically babysits a lot of children.…
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My Parents' Benefits to GIVE More
My parents dreamt of giving generously throughout their lives. When someone asked my mother what her biggest dream, or wish, would be stated “to more money so that I could give more money to others.” Throughout her life, my mother diligently looked for people each month that she could bless with...
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Reflections on My Dreams to Improve Society
I established a dream when I was 9 years old to spend my life working for an organization to improve society that was not motivated by profit. I spent part of my teens drafting communities of friends that shared recreation space and did not divide by fences. I spent 38 years working for just such...
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Avoid Frustrations About Your Dreams
Whether your dream of better relationships, better job satisfaction, or having that key purchase; you may encounter factors that inhibit or prevent the realization of your dream. This episode explores how those frustrations may lead to anger or aggression. I also share three possible solutions: *...
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Achieve Your Dream to BE a Writer
This episode explores the resources and actions that will help you achieve your dreams to BE a writer. I outline a few steps to help make your dream come true: * Generate possibilities for what you wish to write: fiction or non-fiction; articles, essays, or books; what genre within each category…
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Let Your Summer Dreams Live
The summer provides an excellent opportunity to enrich your life, find respite, and follow adventures. This episode outlines steps you may take to let your summer dreams live: * Generate possibilities of what you wish to * BE: relaxed, refreshed, rejuvenated, calm, excited, or restored * SEE:...
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Update on Previous Guests to This Podcast
I have interviewed some exciting guests in the past 3 years. These people act consistently to let their dreams work to BE, SEE, DO, HAVE, and GIVE More in life. This episode updates you on what these people have done since their interviews: * Michele continues to SEE More through cruises and GIVE...
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Make Graduation Dreams Work
As students—of all ages—graduate from high school or college, many know what the next step in their lives will be. Many more head to college because someone told them that we the path to follow, yet, the struggle with a purpose for their college journey. This episode explores 4 paths one may…
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Financial Dreams Become Nightmares
Many people make choices that turn their financial dreams into nightmares. The nightmares may arrive in the form of credit card payments, lack of retirement funds, and mortgage payments into their 60s and even 70s. You can avoid these nightmares by optimizing connections with Dave Ramsey, Suze...
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Dream to Become a Better Nurturer
Many people fill the role of nurturer: parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings, and even work subordinates. Nurturing should lead to great self-reliance and independence in the people we nurture. Instead, some nurture in such a way that results in co-dependency. This is a public episode.…
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Medical Dreams Become Nightmares
Various challenges, including COVID, exhausted medical professionals generating early retirements among doctors. The shortages from people leaving the profession have created delays in people receiving medical attention. A few changes in lifestyle can help prevent our medical dreams from becoming...
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Optimize Professional Associations for Career Dreams
Professional associations, or unions, provide excellent connections to people, information, training, chapter meetings, and national associations. This episode outlines the benefits of membership in professional associations and how to find the best professional association for you. Art courtesy…
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Tips to Achieve Dreams of Career Improvement
Do you dream of improving your career without leaving your current organization? If so, this episode will help you implement 5 tips to impress management of your own department or others. These proven practices provide power to achieve your career dreams for more money, more influence, and more...
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Economic Trends Affect Career Dreams
This episode explores 4 economic trends that affect career dreams. We discuss their impact and how they may affect your workplace. * Demands & requirements of the agricultural, industrial, and info/technology ages * Shifts from defining ourselves based on industries, job titles, and skills you…
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Why I Haven't Posted in 2 Months
I have not been able to record a podcast since January due to a hospitalization, rehabilitation, and ongoing physical therapy (especially since my studio is in the basement and I couldn’t walk stairs). While the experience scared me with how much we can lose in just 4 days, it confirmed that our...
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Listen to my weekly audio podcast that includes interviews with people who achieved their dreams, tips to make your dreams come true, and how to resolve limitations that may prevent your success. 12000dreams.substack.com
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