The Dandelion Effect podcast is a space for organic conversation about the magic of living a connected life. Just like the natural world around us, we are all linked through an intricate web, a never-ending ripple that spans across the globe. Here, we explore the ideas that our guests carry through the world, remember who and what inspired them along the way, and uncover the seeds that helped them blossom into their unique version of this human experience.
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Claudia is a chef, a writer, an ambassador with Hola Montana and a lover of all things culture, food and community. She was born and raised in Barranquilla, Colombia. Through her love of fusion foods, Claudia has built a business as a private chef, leading cooking classes, hosting pop-up dinners, catering large events, and always looking for new and exciting ways to collaborate with local farmers, creators and chefs of different backgrounds. Listen Here
Tom Ryan was the caretaker of the Feathered Pipe Ranch for 33 years, originally coming to the Feathered Pipe Ranch in 1975 for a part-time job–and as the story goes, he fell in love and stuck around. Tom tells stories about going from Navy communications specialist to hairdresser to pipe fitter to caretaker of the Ranch. We talk about the Law of Attraction, what it’s meant to him to be given the gift of fatherhood. Listen Here
Judith Hanson Lasater is an American yoga teacher and writer who is recognized as one of the leading yoga teachers in the country and throughout the world. In this conversation, we talk about the right-hand turn that changed her life, her personal understanding of the word ‘spiritual,’ how the body is a storehouse for wisdom, and her favorite memory from the Feathered Pipe Ranch over the years. Listen Here
The "Best Of Season One” episode is a taster to hear pieces of all 22 Dandelion Effect Podcast episodes, inviting you go back and listen to the ones that you missed. These conversations explore a range of topics including post traumatic growth and healing, music therapy, food systems and soil, refugee resettlement, mental health and suicide prevention, nonviolent communication, transgender healthcare, cultural preservation and so much more. Listen Here
Today’s episode is the last interview ever conducted with India Supera, the Feathered Pipe Ranch founder and visionary. For 44 years, India Supera floated around the property at the Feathered Pipe Ranch, welcoming new guests like old family and sharing stories in front of the stone fireplace. Stories that included tales of her travels in the 1960s and the extraordinary circumstances that led to her vision for America’s first healing center of its kind. Listen Here
Wilmot Collins is the Mayor of Helena, Montana. Born in Liberia, West Africa, he and his wife fled the country when a dangerous civil war erupted, killing 250,000 people and displacing over a million more. We shared many, many tears as he walked me through the unbelievable circumstances that he has survived, a barrage of hurdles, one after the next, that nearly defeated him on his path to freedom and reconnection with his family. Listen Here
Nat Kendall is a San Francisco-based Bhakti yoga teacher and musician who hosts weekly classes in the Bay Area, annual retreats at Feathered Pipe Ranch and has produced numerous albums with different collaborators. This is a deeply personal conversation about truth, vulnerability, commitment to self love, and life as the ultimate practice of yogic philosophy. We talk about seeing our teachers as humans, not people who are perfected beings or enlightened masters. Listen Here
Howard Binkow, author, publisher and currently CEO of the We Do Listen Foundation, is an old friend of India Supera. At 88 years old, his life is dedicated to the subject of listening, and he has been a listener in training for 28 years. In today’s conversation, we focus on the two pillars of listening that he learned from author Steven Covey: “Seek first to understand before being understood” and “be present.” Listen Here
Jim Barngrover has over four decades of experience in organic gardening, regenerative farming and marketing local and fairtrade products. In his young adult life, he serendipitously stumbled into the Feathered Pipe Ranch. Jim speaks to the chemically-dependent industrial farming complex in America, the reasons why he farms with organic and regenerative practices, and the lessons that he’s learned from working in harmony with the land. Listen Here
Dr. Sidhbh Gallagher is double-board certified in general and plastic surgery, and is a leader in the field of gender affirmation surgery, serving the transgender community through her private practice in Miami. Today, Sidhbh joins us for an inspiring conversation about her path to becoming a surgeon and how she works to support people on their journeys to feeling comfortable and complete in their own bodies. Listen Here
Of Navajo-Ute heritage, R. Carlos Nakai is the world’s premier performer of the Native American flute. has released more than 50 albums in his career, earning Platinum status with his album Canyon Trilogy. He speaks of the flute as a vehicle for telling your authentic story, the self expression that allows you to put yourself in the center of your life, to realize that the gifts and tools you were born with are exactly what you need to be who you are meant to be in this world. Listen Here
Lauren Walker is the founder of Energy Medicine Yoga, a highly intuitive, simple healing method that marries yoga with the transformative power of energy work. Today, we cover a topic so relevant to what we’re facing on a collective and an individual scale: trauma. This conversation aims to be a safe container where we unpack and give context to the word that’s become so common in mainstream vernacular. Listen Here