Tending to Dreams
Podcast Overview
What is the magic that moves people to take the wildest ideas from their imaginations and bring them to life in the real world?
On this podcast, we interview people whose ability to manifest from the mind awes and inspires us. We often see podcasts interviewing business people, entrepreneurs, individuals that build monetary empires. Tending To Dreams is interested in speaking with people that have a true ability to imagine and manifest a better world through art and organizing. We are shifting the culture to revere makers over money.
Join us as we journey through the depths of the imaginations of organizers, writers, and creatives to hear the intimate stories of what it takes to overcome fear, limiting beliefs, and bring life to the ideas that transform our world.
The core goals for this podcast include:
Creating space for organizers, artists, and healers to share story of how they brought things from their imagination to life
Inspiring people to bring things in their imagination to life (to move through fear, limiting beliefs, to create in the world, for it’s what the world needs!!)
Building community around long term vision of retreat center at intersection organizing, art, wellness
A lot of the inspiration for this podcast stem from a long-term vision I have of building a retreat center & collective at the intersection of art, organizing, and spirituality/wellness. Read more about the retreat community idea here and on Dejah’s blog here.
And we’re raising funds for this … if you want to donate, check out the GoFundMe here!
Paola is an actor, writer, voiceover artist, activist, and an undercover woo girl living in New York City.
After training in Chicago, she moved to NYC and has worked on workshops and productions with New York Stages and Film, Primary Stages, New Dramatists, INTAR, Playwrights Realm, all starting after her off Broadway debut in 2017, joining the original cast of Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves (#25) at Lincoln Center. Her TV credits include Chicago Med, Madame Secretary, The Code, and Law and Order SVU.
She has been featured in sketches produced by Jefferson White’s Means of Productions, written and performed in multiple live sketch shows, and co-created a special show entitled “Nearly Dying”, a show about laughing through our grief over everything dead or dying, which premiered at Brooklyn Comedy Collective this past year. She was a part of Gen180’s inaugural Climate Comedy Cohort, working to bring more comedy to address the climate crisis. She is also an organizer with Sunrise Movement NYC, working to mitigate climate change through political activism and create millions of good jobs in the process.
Paola was a co-host and creator of Study Buddies, a podcast that breaks down research articles for the everyday person. She is also the host of The Failed Podcast Project, a crash and burn run in podcasting (surprise, it failed!).
Visit the link here, to learn more about Paola!
Dejah (she/her) is an organizer from Chicago based in Brooklyn with Sunrise Movement, a youth-led movement to stop the climate crisis and create millions of good jobs. Dejah has a fierce commitment to building a multi-racial, cross-class movement that will win Green New Deal legislation federally and locally.
Dejah is currently the Membership Director for the National Organization of Sunrise Movement. Though an organizer, Dejah has a deep interest to tell the stories, through writing, photography and film, about the young Black and Latine organizers in the fight for climate justice and the Green New Deal.
When she’s not dreaming & scheming to turn her visions and dreams to life, you can find her playing tennis, writing (check out her blog!), rock climbing, taking pictures or going out dancing to her favorite DJ in NYC.
Visit the link here, to learn more about Dejah!