Born Aware: Stories & Insights from Those Spiritually Aware Since Birth with Diane Brandon

Diane Brandon facilitates, teaches, reaches, encourages, and inspires others, often helping others transform their lives in positive ways. She works with others one-on-one and in groups via classes, workshops, and seminars, and is an expert on Intuition, Dreams, and the Born Aware Phenomenon, a term she coined. Diane infuses her work with enthusiasm, her signature humor, and thought-provoking insights.

Born and raised in New Orleans, Diane has been spiritually aware since birth (literally), has had a lifelong interest in metaphysics, and has been an avid student of it for over 45 years. She has been a member of Intelligentsia Metaphysica, Mensa, and Institute of Noetic Sciences.

She is an alum of a high school for academically gifted in New Orleans (Benjamin Franklin Senior High School), has an A.B. in French from Duke University, did Master’s work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Radio, Television, and Motion Pictures, and attended TUTOR, a language institute in Geneva, Switzerland for French studies.

Diane hosted “Naturally Vibrant Living with Diane Brandon” on Web Talk Radio and Blogtalkradio.com and “Vibrantly Green with Diane Brandon” on Ecology.com, in addition to appearing as a guest on several radio and TV shows nationally. She regularly appeared as a guest dream interpreter on the syndicated radio show, “Your Time with Kim.” She formerly hosted “Living Your Power” on the Health & Wellness Channel of VoiceAmerica.com. Diane has facilitated a seminar on Business Intuition at the Rhine Research Center, in addition to speaking on dreams there, and has spoken on Intuition at the Mensa Annual Gathering.

Diane’s Intuitive Counseling work led to writing. She’s cited in “The 10 Most Common Nightmares Interpreted” in Business Insider and has contributed articles to Connexions (“Wholism and the New Age,” “Guided Meditation and Regression,” and “Paths to Empowerment”), Innerchange Magazine (“The Dance of Personal and Spiritual Growth: Syncing Up the Levels,” “Experiential Spirituality and Contemporary Gnosis,” “Shamar’s Journey of Love,” a children’s story, “Heart-Centeredness: A Healthy and ‘Whole’some Meeting of Science and Spirituality,” “Unwrapping the Wonderful Gift of Dreams,” “Musings On Ghosts, Apparitions & the Veil Between Realities,” “The Misguided Imperative to Be Positive,” “Intuition – An Intuitive’s View,” “Befriending Your Other Self — Plumbing Your Depths and Amplifying Self,” and “The Loss of Two Beloved Giants”), to The Art of WellBeing (“Exploring Your Dreams for Wellness”),and The Journal of Tar Heel Tellers (“Vocal Tips for Storytellers”), and is a Contributing Author to The Long Way Around: How 34 Women Found the Lives They Love (© 2000, Carolina Women’s Press) and Speaking Out! (© 2005, Insight Publishing).

She’s the author of four books: Born Aware – Stories and Insights from Those Spiritually Aware Since Birth (which endorsements called “brilliant” and “groundbreaking”), Dream Interpretation for Beginners — Understand the Wisdom of Your Sleeping Mind, Intuition for Beginners — Easy Ways to Awaken Your Natural Abilities, and Invisible Blueprints: Intuitive Insights for Fulfillment. She has also written insight pieces on “The Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina,” “Choosing Hope—Some Thoughts on September 11, 2001,” and “Disasters in Myanmar/Burma and China — Thoughts and Lessons.”

Diane is also a Corporate Consultant, as well as an Actor, Singer, Voice-Over Artist, and Voice Teacher and is included in the 1997-1998 Silver 25th edition of Who’s Who in the South and Southwest. https://www.dianebrandon.com/

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Supplement Confusion: A Deep Dive into What Works, What Doesn't, and How to Choose Wisely (Part 2)

Episode Description: Walk into any pharmacy or health store and you're met with a wall of bottles promising everything from better sleep to sharper focus to a stronger immune system. But how do you know what actually works — and what's just clever marketing? In this two-part episode of Surviving the Human Experience, Kristin Aurelia sits down with biochemist Phil George to cut through the noise surrounding the supplement industry. Together, they explore the science behind popular supplements, the difference between quality and filler products, how to read labels critically, and the questions you should be asking before you buy. Whether you're supplement-savvy or just starting to sort fact from fiction, this conversation offers the clarity and confidence to make smarter choices for your health.

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Gaea Star Crystal Radio Hour #686 is an hour of dynamic, visionary acoustic improvised music and songs by Mariam Massaro played by The Gaea Star Band with Mariam Massaro on vocals, 4- and 8-string ukulele, acoustic guitar, crystal bowl, Celtic harp, harmonica and mandolin, Bob Sherwood on piano and Craig Harris on congas and Native drum. Recorded live at Singing Brook Studio in Worthington, Massachusetts in mid-September of 2026, today’s show begins with the intense, powerful “Oh Holy Ground” before easing into the classically-inflected folk of “Many Seeds Have Fallen”, a charmingly formal song with a beautifully simple and uncolored vocal from Mariam. “Thunderbeings” is a powerful, driving storm song with throbbing Native drum and chiming acoustic guitar and “Restore” is a rich, sacred love song to the Earth and a powerful prayer to sustainability. “Spirit Of Fire” is a powerfully spiritual song from Mariam that reveres the elements with a dancing, energized rhythm built around Mariam’s driving ukulele strums and reverent, soaring vocal and featuring a gorgeous coda decorated with Mariam’s evocative Native flute. “Let’s Open To Our Own Majesty” opens as an exotic, psychedelic excursion that shifts into a pretty, peaceful song with lovely chord motifs and a lilting vocal from Mariam. Mariam strums her evocatively flowing Celtic harp over heartbeat Native drum and minimalist piano for the rich, affecting “Goodbye Forest We Love You” and “Mighty Are The Wings Of Love” is made exotic and mysterious by the minor chord figurations of Mariam’s tart, rhythmic mandolin and Bob’s modal piano work. “We Call In The Wind” is another powerful prayer to the elements originally recorded for Mariam’s “Vision Quest” LP and the band presents it with precision and power. “I Am The Mother Earth” is another “Vision Quest” track that the ensemble expands and stretches in intriguing, imaginative ways before closing today’s show with the tight, groovy blues rocker “Oh The Magical”, a driving Ray Charles-like workout with throbbing drums and chiming ukulele.

Learn more about Mariam here: http://www.mariammassaro.com