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Fishing Without Bait 253: Mindful Bits

July 28th, 2020  |  11 mins 40 secs

anxiety, cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, perspective, time travel

Jim Ellermeyer is live from Highland Park in Pittsburgh, PA to review some bits of wisdom from over the years, including: Moving the Mountain, Time Travel, Time as Currency, Perspective, Your Life as a Movie, Abracadabra and Uncertainty Leads to Anxiety

Fishing Without Bait 252: The Mindset of Quarantine Culture

July 21st, 2020  |  17 mins 19 secs

coronavirus, covid-19, fake news, fear, mindfulness, quarantine

Jim Ellermeyer and Producer Mike are taking a look at this time of the Coronavirus from a mindset 30 years from now, the lack of information leading to minds of uncertainty leading to minds of anxiety, worry, and fear, finding good sources of information that will help navigate through the developing information and trying to understand other perspectives.

Fishing Without Bait 251: Keeping the Faith with Maureen

July 14th, 2020  |  37 mins 9 secs

depression, disability, legally blind, marine biology, mindfulness, texas

Jim Ellermeyer continues his conversation with Marine Biologist Maureen from Texas. She discusses her issues with the church around her disability and coming back around for Confirmation and restoring her Faith, interpreting faith and prayer, taking on failure and overcoming obstacles in her Master’s Degree, scuba diving, and in live in general, dealing with depression during the COVID-19 Quaranteen era, and more!

Fishing Without Bait 250: Self Worth with Maureen

July 7th, 2020  |  31 mins 10 secs

disability, legally blind, marine biology, mindfulness, texas

Jim Ellermeyer begins his conversation with Maureen from Texas, how she was inspired by the ocean and a teacher to pursue Marine Biology, growing up legally blind and contending with unintended social consequences of being different due to her disability and needing to use the assistive technology, redefining herself in college, seeing the world in a different way, friends and allies, and more!

Fishing Without Bait 247: A World of Change with Liss Victory

June 16th, 2020  |  31 mins 58 secs

black lives matter, coronavirus, covid-19, george floyd, lockdown, mindfulness, new york city, pandemic, pittsburgh, quarantine

Jim Ellermeyer continues his conversation with singer/songwriter Liss Victory as they continue their discussion about her experience in New York City around the Coronavirus, confirmation bias, we talk about how she got to New York City to be a part of The Lit Room, where the group is repurposing a closed thrift store to a music venue and recording studio, “pulling weeds” in your life, the George Floyd Black Lives Matter Protests and what life will look like after all of this.

AwesomeCast 498: Pissing Fire

June 10th, 2020  |  1 hr 36 mins

ai dogfights, apple, black lives matter, bluetooth remote shutter, businesses, covid-19, headspace, iron man vr, mindfulness, need for speed heat, playstation 4, razr kishi, social media, temperature sensor

This week the crew gather on a light news week to dig into some Awesome Tech Things.

Fishing Without Bait 246: A Change of Scenery with Liss Victory

June 9th, 2020  |  30 mins 49 secs

coronavirus, covid-19, lockdown, mindfulness, new york city, objectively tragic, pandemic, pittsburgh, quarantine

Jim Ellermeyer welcomes back singer/songwriter Liss Victory to the show as we discuss her recent move to New York City in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.  How did a realization of being “objectively tragic” helped make a the decision for her.  We talk about her trip out and traveling from Pittsburgh on a train during the height of Coronavirus just before lockdowns and finding compassion on the way, readapting to the New York life, and the zeitgeist of New York during lockdown, her own experience being a denier, and we begin a conversation about what qualities of Governor Andrew Cuomo that instill trust. 

Fishing Without Bait 239: Breaking News

April 21st, 2020  |  20 mins 38 secs

breaking news, cognitive bias, confirmation bias, mindfulness, proactive, toxicity

Jim Ellermeyer and Producer Mike are talking bout the influx of information and “breaking news” we deal with on the daily basis. How do we validate how we feel about the events going on, using news sources that we can trust, and being aware of your own cognitive biased and confirmation biased sources. We also look at productivity in their quarantine down time, and giving yourself a pass. How hard is it to be proactive in a situation?

Listen to Your Parents: Let's Go Fishing

April 16th, 2020  |  51 mins 49 secs

birthdays, coronavirus, covid-19, home schooling, mindfulness, parenting, podcast

The Listen To Your Parents podcast is a show where parents come together to talk about their experiences living and working amidst the Coronavirus pandemic.

On this episode, we talk with Jim Ellermeyer from the Fishing Without Bait podcast about mindfulness and other lessons that can help parents maintain a healthy outlook during these difficult times.

Matt and Jen are also joined by fellow parents Chris and Alanna from Buffalo, NY and Dave and Tina from Elizabeth, PA.

Fishing Without Bait 238: Shock to the System

April 14th, 2020  |  22 mins 2 secs

choice, cover-19, mindfulness, positivity, quarantine, wellness

Jim Ellermeyer and Mike Sorg are talking about the quick moving change in many people’s lives in the wake of the Coronavirus Quarantine, reassessing their purpose, reconnecting with technology, appreciation to the service industry essential workers that help make this easier for us, too much bad news, and detoxing from information.