Fishing Without Bait: A Full Impact Mindfulness Podcast

It's about living a life without definitive expectations and learning to fish without bait.

About the show

A mindful exercise. A look at ourselves. We recommend rest and relaxation. One way you can do this is to take up fishing. And for a truly mindful experience, try fishing without bait.

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Episodes

  • Welcome to Fishing Without Bait | Classic Episode 1

    June 7th, 2022  |  15 mins 59 secs

    In this introductory episode, Jim Ellermeyer shares some of the principles in our practice including a Human Being vs Human Doing, knowing how to analyze a situation in your life, how we all time travel in our minds and how we can live in right now.

  • What You Resist Persists with Vinnie Borelli | Episode 339

    May 31st, 2022  |  22 mins 29 secs
  • Positive Pillars with Vinnie Borelli | Episode 338

    May 17th, 2022  |  21 mins 5 secs
  • The Path with Vinnie Borelli | Episode 337

    May 10th, 2022  |  21 mins 44 secs
  • Energies with Thalia Gray | Episode 336

    May 4th, 2022  |  15 mins 20 secs
  • Acupuncture with Thalia Gray | Episode 335

    April 26th, 2022  |  14 mins 14 secs
  • A Path to Chinese Medicine with Thalia Gray | Episode 334

    April 19th, 2022  |  16 mins

    Jim Ellermeyer welcomes Thalia Gray from Pittsburgh Healing Arts who practices in Chinese medicine.  We talk about her journey in medical writing and background in archeology before finding her way to her practice. 

  • Fear and Forgiveness With Dr Fred | Episode 333

    April 12th, 2022  |  12 mins 7 secs
  • The Mindset of Joy With Dr Fred | Episode 332

    April 5th, 2022  |  21 mins 19 secs

    Jim Ellermeyer continues his conversation Dr Fred Moss of WelcomeToHumanity.net as they discuss “I don’t know”, being heard, the 12 step world, joy as a mindset, separating from the medicine mindset and authentic listening.

  • Addicted to Being Afflicted With Dr Fred | Episode 331

    March 22nd, 2022  |  22 mins 27 secs

    Jim Ellermeyer welcomes Dr Fred Moss to the show.  Dr Fred discusses his transition from Dr Moss to Dr Fred and going from prescription writing to “undiagnosing” people and learning about communication and bringing it back to psychiatry. 

  • Keeping Hope Alive with Katie Dudas | Episode 330

    March 22nd, 2022  |  20 mins 24 secs

    Jim Ellermeyer continues his discussion with breast cancer survivor Katie “Dudders” Dudas to the show for an update.  What did she do to cope.  What were the biggest helping things people could do for her during the time.  Realizing she had a bucket list.  Her experience with the Pittsburgh Penguins and Pro Wrestling. With all of the changes to herself, how has she kept the fun in her life? How had this expanded her mindset to live life and take care of herself. 

  • Not Giving Up with Katie Dudas | Episode 329

    March 15th, 2022  |  17 mins 37 secs

    Jim Ellermeyer welcomes back breast cancer survivor Katie “Dudders” Dudas to the show for an update.  We discuss the early days when she was disclosing her diagnosis, how working with her care team gave her the information she needed to process, looking back on the process of dealing with being immunocompromised as Covid 19 was beginning to take hold, returning to normalcy after both Covid scare and recovery, and accepting the victories in this process.

    You can see our past chats with Katie when we talked about her time with a haunted house (episodes 112 & 113) and earlier on in her breast cancer journey (episodes 278, 279 & 280).

  • Joy and Pleasure | Classic Episode 305

    March 8th, 2022  |  14 mins 41 secs

    Jim Ellermeyer and Producer Mike are starting their conversation on Joy and Pleasure.   What is the joy between the low points?  What is the difference and which is more healthy to seek?  Why does our producer receive joy from wrestling?  Why is there “emotional theater” on social media? 

    Tune in next week for the second part of this conversation! 

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  • Acceptance To Counter Anxiety | Episode 328

    March 1st, 2022  |  17 mins 36 secs
  • Thank You For Your Concern | Episode 327

    February 23rd, 2022  |  10 mins 45 secs

    Jim Ellermeyer is talking about dealing with aggressive reactions in social media and in personal relationships and delivering an opposite emotion reaction. 

  • Classic Fishing Without Bait 8: Take The Brain Off Cruise Control

    February 15th, 2022  |  13 mins 57 secs

    Jim Ellermeyer discusses separating our brain from our mind.  How do we learn to take our minds off autopilot? How do we remove judgements from our thinking? 
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