Hosts: Armand DiMele

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Finding Work with Nick Papadopoulos Undated

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Linda Vanella, Nick Papadopoulos
Category: Communication & Conflict, Personal Growth & Change

Desperation is the biggest obstacle in a job search, and the antidote is a sense of abundance. Nick Papadopoulos, Success Counselor, joins Armand and Linda Vanella, LCSW-R, to share practical tools: defining your dream job by twelve characteristics, reading communication styles before a word is spoken, and showing up with intention rather than fear.

Finding Your Path with a Heart Undated

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Angela, Gina, Steven, Sue, Vincent
Category: Identity & The Self, Personal Growth & Change

What does it mean to live a life that actually fits you? Armand DiMele draws on Carlos Castaneda’s concept of “a path with a heart” to argue that most people lose their authentic selves in childhood and spend adulthood on paths that quietly weaken them. Callers share their own struggles with direction, unfulfilling relationships, and the search for meaning.

Why We Tell Ourselves Certain Stories Undated

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Diane, Dr. Carol Dweck, Giullian Gioiello, Jennifer, John Valerio, Kelly, Rick
Category: Identity & The Self, The Mind & Neuroscience

Neural activity, not psychology, drives the stories we construct about our lives. Armand DiMele argues that the brain manufactures narratives, jealousy, ambition, grief, romantic obsession, to exhaust excess electrical energy and restore equilibrium. Co-host Giullian Gioiello joins as callers test the theory against real losses and life patterns.

The Female Brain with Dr. Loren Brizantine Undated

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Dr. Loren Brizantine, Lauren Sykes
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Identity & The Self

Drawing on Dr. Loren Brizantine’s research, Armand DiMele and co-researcher Lauren Sykes walk through the biological roots of women’s emotional sensitivity, hormonal cycles, maternal bonding, perimenopause, and how these forces shape behavior across a woman’s entire lifespan. Callers share vivid personal stories.

The Pain of Growing Up with Lawrence Gonzalez Undated

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Lawrence Gonzalez
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Personal Growth & Change

Avoiding pain keeps men stuck in boyhood. Armand DiMele argues that the passage to manhood runs straight through emotional pain, not around it, connecting chronic stress, rage, addiction, and anxiety to a single root: fear of separation. Author Lawrence Gonzalez joins to discuss curiosity and survival.

When Delusions Feel Real with Dr. Sherry Siegel Undated

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Sherri Siegel
Category: Identity & The Self, The Mind & Neuroscience

What separates a fixed false belief from reality, and when should it be challenged? Armand DiMele and Dr. Sherry Siegel, M.D. walk through the psychiatric anatomy of delusions and hallucinations, from delusional jealousy to Lilliputian visions in Parkinson’s patients, using vivid case stories to show how the brain constructs and distorts the real.

Competitive Cooperative and Dominant Submissive Love with Dr. Peter Hogan Undated

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Dr. Peter Hogan
Category: Identity & The Self, Love & Romantic Relationships

Which relationship style actually lasts? Armand DiMele draws on research by Dr. Peter Hogan using a train game experiment to map three relationship modes: competitive, cooperative, and dominant-submissive. The counterintuitive finding is that clearly defined dominant-submissive pairs outlast the rest.

Finding Your Voice with Naz Hussaini Undated

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Naz Hussaini, Ora Yemini Morrison, Stephanie D'Ambra
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Identity & The Self

The voice as a gateway to the self: Gestalt therapist and musician Naz Hussaini demonstrates live in the studio how sound bypasses words to surface buried emotions. Armand DiMele, Ora Yemini-Morrison LCSW, and Stephanie D’Ambra LCSW all participate, revealing how tone, breath, and resonance expose fear, grief, and joy that language alone cannot reach.

Why Men Marry Their Mothers Undated

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Ben Starr, Linda Vanella, Ori Amini Morrison
Category: Family & Parenting, Love & Romantic Relationships

Trauma-induced intimacy disorder shapes who we choose to love. Linda Vanella, LCSW-R, and Ora Yemini-Morrison, LCSW, join Armand to unpack why men unconsciously replicate the mother bond in romantic partnerships, why women do the same with fathers, and how early boundary failures drive fear of commitment, enmeshment, and the mama’s boy pattern across cultures.

Love and Pain as Partners Undated

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Love & Romantic Relationships

Love cannot exist without pain, and accepting both is the only way to play the bigger game. Armand DiMele reflects on preparing a wedding ceremony speech and argues that conflict, loss, and disillusionment are not failures of love but built into its nature, using caller stories to illustrate the point.