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Thom Dharma Pollard hosts inspirational, intimate and unfiltered Stories That Inspire with guests and drawing from his own adventures around the world. The Happiness Quotient: connected, engaged, passionate people who inspire us.
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Recent Hosts, Guests & Topics
Here's a quick summary of the last 5 episodes on The Happiness Quotient.
Hosts
Thom Dharma Pollard
Previous Guests
Professor Sam Vaknin
Professor Sam Vaknin is a psychologist and author known for his extensive work on narcissism. He has written over a dozen books, including 'Malignant Self Love: Narcissism Revisited' and 'The Narcissist on Instagram: Epigrams and Observations'. His research focuses on the psychological aspects of narcissism and its impact on relationships and social media. Vaknin is also known for his YouTube channel where he discusses topics related to narcissism and mental health.
Professor Sam Vaknin is a psychologist and author known for his extensive work on narcissism. He has written over a dozen books, including 'Malignant Self Love: Narcissism Revisited' and 'The Narcissist on Instagram: Epigrams and Observations'. His research focuses on the psychological aspects of narcissism and its impact on relationships and social media. Vaknin is also known for his YouTube channel where he discusses topics related to narcissism and mental health.
Melissa Arnot Reid
Melissa Arnot Reid is a celebrated American mountaineer and author known for her groundbreaking achievements in the climbing world. She has summited Mount Everest multiple times, becoming one of the few women to do so without supplemental oxygen. Her memoir, 'Enough: Climbing Toward a True Self on Mount Everest,' chronicles her journey of overcoming personal struggles and the challenges she faced in her climbing career. Reid's story is one of resilience, as she navigated the complexities of her personal life while achieving remarkable feats in a male-dominated field. She has established herself as a prominent figure in the climbing community, inspiring others with her candid reflections on self-acceptance and the pursuit of one's true self.
Melissa Arnot Reid is a celebrated American mountaineer and author known for her groundbreaking achievements in the climbing world. She has summited Mount Everest multiple times, becoming one of the few women to do so without supplemental oxygen. Her memoir, 'Enough: Climbing Toward a True Self on Mount Everest,' chronicles her journey of overcoming personal struggles and the challenges she faced in her climbing career. Reid's story is one of resilience, as she navigated the complexities of her personal life while achieving remarkable feats in a male-dominated field. She has established herself as a prominent figure in the climbing community, inspiring others with her candid reflections on self-acceptance and the pursuit of one's true self.
Seth Walker
Seth Walker is an American blues guitarist, singer-songwriter, author, poet, and painter. He has been touring since the mid-90s and is known for his soulful music that often reflects his life experiences. Seth wrote a book during the COVID-19 pandemic titled 'YOUR VAN IS ON FIRE,' which includes poetry, art, and anecdotes from his life. He grew up on a commune and has lived in various cities including New Orleans, Austin, and Nashville. Throughout his career, he has played with notable musicians such as Alain Toussaint and Willie Nelson, and his music is characterized by its depth and emotional resonance.
Seth Walker is an American blues guitarist, singer-songwriter, author, poet, and painter. He has been touring since the mid-90s and is known for his soulful music that often reflects his life experiences. Seth wrote a book during the COVID-19 pandemic titled 'YOUR VAN IS ON FIRE,' which includes poetry, art, and anecdotes from his life. He grew up on a commune and has lived in various cities including New Orleans, Austin, and Nashville. Throughout his career, he has played with notable musicians such as Alain Toussaint and Willie Nelson, and his music is characterized by its depth and emotional resonance.
Jost Kobusch
Jost Kobusch is a renowned mountaineer known for his daring solo climbs in extreme conditions. He has gained recognition for his attempts to summit Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, particularly during the winter months. Kobusch's passion for climbing and testing human limits has led him to push the boundaries of endurance, achieving significant heights in some of the most challenging environments on Earth. His journey is marked by a relentless pursuit of adventure and a deep understanding of the mental and physical challenges faced by climbers.
Jost Kobusch is a renowned mountaineer known for his daring solo climbs in extreme conditions. He has gained recognition for his attempts to summit Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, particularly during the winter months. Kobusch's passion for climbing and testing human limits has led him to push the boundaries of endurance, achieving significant heights in some of the most challenging environments on Earth. His journey is marked by a relentless pursuit of adventure and a deep understanding of the mental and physical challenges faced by climbers.
Topics Discussed
social media
narcissism
negative emotions
toxic environment
anger
malicious envy
trolling
violence
Mount Everest
Melissa Arnot Reid
memoir
climbing
self-acceptance
personal demons
overcoming challenges
Covid
content creator
inspiration
support
encouragement
touring musician
life on the road
blues
Seth Walker
music
poetry
art
anecdotes
commune
New Orleans
Austin
Nashville
Everest
Jost Kobusch
human endurance
solo climbing
winter expedition
mental battle
physical battle
Here's the recent few episodes on The Happiness Quotient.
0:0040:30
The Everest-sized Problem of Social Media and Narcissism w/Professor Sam Vaknin | Social Media are Engines of Negative Emotions
Hosts
Hosts of this podcast episode
Thom Dharma Pollard
Guests
Guests of this podcast episode
Professor Sam Vaknin
Keywords
Keywords of this podcast episode
social medianarcissismnegative emotionstoxic environmentangermalicious envytrollingviolence
A vast number of those under the age of 35 spend between six and eight hours a day using computer simulated games, essentially in a world far from reality. And, what's worse, the vast and expanding realm of social media are designed to bring out and leverage the worst in their users, all negative affects such as anger and malicious envy. It is a toxic environment. The core philosophy of social media is asocial. They want you divorced or with no friends. They want your eyeballs on the screen at all times....more eyeballs, more advertising, more money for them.
There is malice in social media platforms, they leverage elements of narcissism and violence, that is why there is so much trolling and hatred.
Today I have with us Professor Sam Vaknin, professor of psychology and author of over a dozen books on narcissism including Malignant Self Love: Narcissism Revisited, The Narcissist on Instagram: Epigrams and Observations, and Toxic Relationships: Abuse and Its Aftermath.
Prof. Vaknin's youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@samvaknin
How I "Became" a Narcissist by Sam Vaknin: https://samvak.tripod.com/narcissisticroots.html
Put everything down, especially that tiny screen in your hand, and listen.
If you've been enjoying the podcast and find value in the content, we'd be incredibly grateful for your support. Your monthly contribution helps ensuring that we can continue delivering great content for you to enjoy.
Here are a few ways you can help support us: Patreon for access to exclusive content: https://www.patreon.com/everestmystery
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Tip Jar for anyone who would like to help support us: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/EverestMystery
A vast number of those under the age of 35 spend between six and eight hours a day using computer simulated games, essentially in a world far from reality. And, what's worse, the vast and expanding realm of social media are designed to bring out and leverage the worst in their users, all negative affects such as anger and malicious envy. It is a toxic environment. The core philosophy of social media is asocial. They want you divorced or with no friends. They want your eyeballs on the screen at all times....more eyeballs, more advertising, more money for them.
There is malice in social media platforms, they leverage elements of narcissism and violence, that is why there is so much trolling and hatred.
Today I have with us Professor Sam Vaknin, professor of psychology and author of over a dozen books on narcissism including Malignant Self Love: Narcissism Revisited, The Narcissist on Instagram: Epigrams and Observations, and Toxic Relationships: Abuse and Its Aftermath.
Prof. Vaknin's youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@samvaknin
How I "Became" a Narcissist by Sam Vaknin: https://samvak.tripod.com/narcissisticroots.html
Put everything down, especially that tiny screen in your hand, and listen.
If you've been enjoying the podcast and find value in the content, we'd be incredibly grateful for your support. Your monthly contribution helps ensuring that we can continue delivering great content for you to enjoy.
Here are a few ways you can help support us: Patreon for access to exclusive content: https://www.patreon.com/everestmystery
EVEREST MYSTERY Membership for access to perks and exclusive content: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEk3e_XGyNnqwK2ZlxH7fEA/join
Tip Jar for anyone who would like to help support us: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/EverestMystery
0:001:12:38
The Fight Within: No Oxygen on Everest - ENOUGH, Climbing Toward a True Self on Mount Everest w/Melissa Arnot Reid
Hosts
Hosts of this podcast episode
Thom Dharma Pollard
Guests
Guests of this podcast episode
Melissa Arnot Reid
Keywords
Keywords of this podcast episode
Mount EverestMelissa Arnot Reidmemoirclimbingself-acceptancepersonal demonsovercoming challenges
She woke in the dead of night, unsure if she’d succeed, fail… or die. Because the last person to attempt what she was doing did die. Melissa Arnot would be walking right past one of Everest’s most infamous bodies—Sleeping Beauty on her sixth, but most perilous climb, of Mount Everest. She was climbing without bottled oxygen, a feat only a handful of women have ever accomplished.
In this inspiring interview with Melissa Arnot Reid, she discusses her beautiful memoir - Enough: Climbing Toward a True Self on Mount Everest - a journey into the soul of one of the world’s great climbers, from the rarified heights of Chomolungma to the dark depths of her personal demons. It's a story familiar to anyone who has struggled to find compassion for themselves.
About Enough A searching, uplifting memoir by the celebrated, groundbreaking climber: a journey of overcoming where the mountain’s highest peaks can only be reached by traversing the dark crevasses of the soul
At twenty-seven, when Melissa Arnot Reid accepted a tank of oxygen just short of the summit of Mount Everest, she felt ravaged by defeat. Driven by a relentless, lifelong quest to prove to herself, her family, and the world that she was enough, she had set herself an incredible goal—to become the first American woman to summit Everest without supplemental oxygen. The failure battered her spirit and left her struggling to keep her tenuous grip on hope.
In the candid and adventurous spirit of Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, Enough is a story of a life in which the most dangerous mountain faces became a refuge—until suddenly they, too, no longer seemed safe. From a childhood marked by conflict, betrayal, and predation, Reid propelled herself to the top of the mountain climbing world, summiting and guiding on the world’s most challenging peaks and establishing herself as a woman unafraid to throw elbows in a milieu dominated by men. And yet for every summit she reached, her valleys of inner turmoil—over her estrangement with the family she believed she’d destroyed as a child; over relationships that cycled through deception and infidelity—grew deeper and more self-destructive. Eventually, she could not keep these worlds from colliding, especially after a series of tragedies at dangerous elevations took the lives of her mentors and friends. Forced at last to face herself, Reid made her most perilous climb yet—toward the uncertain promise of forgiveness and self-acceptance.
A beautiful, aching memoir of a journey with life-and-death stakes on the mountain and off, Enough bares the soul of one of the world’s greatest climbers, from the rarified heights visible only at thin-air altitudes to the dark depths home to demons familiar to anyone who has struggled to find compassion for themselves.
If you've been enjoying the podcast and find value in the content, we'd be incredibly grateful for your support. Your monthly contribution helps ensuring that we can continue delivering great content for you to enjoy.
Here are a few ways you can help support us: Patreon for access to exclusive content: https://www.patreon.com/everestmystery
EVEREST MYSTERY Membership for access to perks and exclusive content: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEk3e_XGyNnqwK2ZlxH7fEA/join
Tip Jar for anyone who would like to help support us: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/EverestMystery
She woke in the dead of night, unsure if she’d succeed, fail… or die. Because the last person to attempt what she was doing did die. Melissa Arnot would be walking right past one of Everest’s most infamous bodies—Sleeping Beauty on her sixth, but most perilous climb, of Mount Everest. She was climbing without bottled oxygen, a feat only a handful of women have ever accomplished.
In this inspiring interview with Melissa Arnot Reid, she discusses her beautiful memoir - Enough: Climbing Toward a True Self on Mount Everest - a journey into the soul of one of the world’s great climbers, from the rarified heights of Chomolungma to the dark depths of her personal demons. It's a story familiar to anyone who has struggled to find compassion for themselves.
About Enough A searching, uplifting memoir by the celebrated, groundbreaking climber: a journey of overcoming where the mountain’s highest peaks can only be reached by traversing the dark crevasses of the soul
At twenty-seven, when Melissa Arnot Reid accepted a tank of oxygen just short of the summit of Mount Everest, she felt ravaged by defeat. Driven by a relentless, lifelong quest to prove to herself, her family, and the world that she was enough, she had set herself an incredible goal—to become the first American woman to summit Everest without supplemental oxygen. The failure battered her spirit and left her struggling to keep her tenuous grip on hope.
In the candid and adventurous spirit of Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, Enough is a story of a life in which the most dangerous mountain faces became a refuge—until suddenly they, too, no longer seemed safe. From a childhood marked by conflict, betrayal, and predation, Reid propelled herself to the top of the mountain climbing world, summiting and guiding on the world’s most challenging peaks and establishing herself as a woman unafraid to throw elbows in a milieu dominated by men. And yet for every summit she reached, her valleys of inner turmoil—over her estrangement with the family she believed she’d destroyed as a child; over relationships that cycled through deception and infidelity—grew deeper and more self-destructive. Eventually, she could not keep these worlds from colliding, especially after a series of tragedies at dangerous elevations took the lives of her mentors and friends. Forced at last to face herself, Reid made her most perilous climb yet—toward the uncertain promise of forgiveness and self-acceptance.
A beautiful, aching memoir of a journey with life-and-death stakes on the mountain and off, Enough bares the soul of one of the world’s greatest climbers, from the rarified heights visible only at thin-air altitudes to the dark depths home to demons familiar to anyone who has struggled to find compassion for themselves.
If you've been enjoying the podcast and find value in the content, we'd be incredibly grateful for your support. Your monthly contribution helps ensuring that we can continue delivering great content for you to enjoy.
Here are a few ways you can help support us: Patreon for access to exclusive content: https://www.patreon.com/everestmystery
EVEREST MYSTERY Membership for access to perks and exclusive content: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEk3e_XGyNnqwK2ZlxH7fEA/join
Tip Jar for anyone who would like to help support us: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/EverestMystery
0:0037:46
Possibly My FAVORITE Interview EVER: Troubador & Musician Seth Walker - Life On the Road Devoted to His Muse
Hosts
Hosts of this podcast episode
Thom Dharma Pollard
Guests
Guests of this podcast episode
Seth Walker
Keywords
Keywords of this podcast episode
touring musicianlife on the roadbluesSeth WalkermusicpoetryartanecdotescommuneNew OrleansAustinNashville
Nothing says life on the road and all that comes along with than the life of a touring musician. It’s not Leer jets and posh hotels, sold out auditoriums. The music you hear pouring out of small bars and music houses, cafes come from people like you and me, passionate, driven, inspired…..they drive 8 hours from gig to gig, sleep in modest hotels - or behind the bar after it closes. They set up their own kits and amplifiers, collect their hard-earned cash after the gigs, get up the next morning and do it all over again.
Here's a bonafide troubadour. Seth Walker, touring since the mid 90’s. Seth is an American blues, guitarist singer songwriter….author, poet, painter…..has followed the song of his soul. He wrote his own book during covid called YOUR VAN IS ON FIRE...poetry, art, anecdotes from life - he grew up on a commune - and on the road, like playing with Alain Toussaint, Willie Nelson...he’s chased the vibe his whole life, lived in New Orleans, Austin, Nashville...he wanted to eat, sleep, drink and breathe every single note he could possibly hear until it flowed through him, like osmosis.
You know that kind of musician when you hear one.
I caught up with Seth from his hotel room in Chicago*. By now he’s probably half way to Minnesota where his next gig is.
Seth is more than the sum of his parts. His music is soulful, bright…., sometimes dense, ’’that’s his word...like his song Inside, written during a trip to Cuba right after Fidel Castro died.
If you've been enjoying the podcast and find value in the content, we'd be incredibly grateful for your support. Your monthly contribution helps ensuring that we can continue delivering great content for you to enjoy.
Here are a few ways you can help support us: Patreon for access to exclusive content: https://www.patreon.com/everestmystery
EVEREST MYSTERY Membership for access to perks and exclusive content: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEk3e_XGyNnqwK2ZlxH7fEA/join
Tip Jar for anyone who would like to help support us: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/EverestMystery
Nothing says life on the road and all that comes along with than the life of a touring musician. It’s not Leer jets and posh hotels, sold out auditoriums. The music you hear pouring out of small bars and music houses, cafes come from people like you and me, passionate, driven, inspired…..they drive 8 hours from gig to gig, sleep in modest hotels - or behind the bar after it closes. They set up their own kits and amplifiers, collect their hard-earned cash after the gigs, get up the next morning and do it all over again.
Here's a bonafide troubadour. Seth Walker, touring since the mid 90’s. Seth is an American blues, guitarist singer songwriter….author, poet, painter…..has followed the song of his soul. He wrote his own book during covid called YOUR VAN IS ON FIRE...poetry, art, anecdotes from life - he grew up on a commune - and on the road, like playing with Alain Toussaint, Willie Nelson...he’s chased the vibe his whole life, lived in New Orleans, Austin, Nashville...he wanted to eat, sleep, drink and breathe every single note he could possibly hear until it flowed through him, like osmosis.
You know that kind of musician when you hear one.
I caught up with Seth from his hotel room in Chicago*. By now he’s probably half way to Minnesota where his next gig is.
Seth is more than the sum of his parts. His music is soulful, bright…., sometimes dense, ’’that’s his word...like his song Inside, written during a trip to Cuba right after Fidel Castro died.
If you've been enjoying the podcast and find value in the content, we'd be incredibly grateful for your support. Your monthly contribution helps ensuring that we can continue delivering great content for you to enjoy.
Alone on Everest*. No Oxygen. No Support. No Limits....IN WINTER!
Jost Kobusch is redefining the boundaries of human endurance. In the dead of winter, with temperatures plunging to -40°F and winds howling through Everest’s infamous West Ridge, he set out on a nearly impossible mission: to climb Everest solo, without supplemental oxygen, on one of the most dangerous routes in history.
Doubted by the world’s top climbers—some giving him just a 0.1% chance of success—Jost pushed higher than any solo winter climber before him, reaching 7,537 meters (24,727 feet). In this exclusive interview, he reveals the mental and physical battle of facing Everest alone, his obsession with testing his limits, and what it truly takes to survive where few dare to go.
If you've been enjoying the podcast and find value in the content, we'd be incredibly grateful for your support. Your monthly contribution helps ensuring that we can continue delivering great content for you to enjoy.
Here are a few ways you can help support us: Patreon for access to exclusive content: https://www.patreon.com/everestmystery
EVEREST MYSTERY Membership for access to perks and exclusive content: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEk3e_XGyNnqwK2ZlxH7fEA/join
Tip Jar for anyone who would like to help support us: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/EverestMystery
Alone on Everest*. No Oxygen. No Support. No Limits....IN WINTER!
Jost Kobusch is redefining the boundaries of human endurance. In the dead of winter, with temperatures plunging to -40°F and winds howling through Everest’s infamous West Ridge, he set out on a nearly impossible mission: to climb Everest solo, without supplemental oxygen, on one of the most dangerous routes in history.
Doubted by the world’s top climbers—some giving him just a 0.1% chance of success—Jost pushed higher than any solo winter climber before him, reaching 7,537 meters (24,727 feet). In this exclusive interview, he reveals the mental and physical battle of facing Everest alone, his obsession with testing his limits, and what it truly takes to survive where few dare to go.
If you've been enjoying the podcast and find value in the content, we'd be incredibly grateful for your support. Your monthly contribution helps ensuring that we can continue delivering great content for you to enjoy.
