Where Dreams Come From
Where Dreams Come From features brief conversations hosted by professor and documentary filmmaker Sanjeev Chatterjee. These intimate conversations, with diverse individuals, attempt to track the origins and evolution of following a dream in life. Occasionally, Chatterjee speaks with experts who provide commentary and opinions on what it takes to pursue dreams.Where Dreams Come From is produced by Media for Change, a Florida based non-profit organization founded by Sanjeev Chatterjee that is focused on using stories as bridges in a divided world.
Episodes
19 episodes
Deirdre Barrett (English)
So far in this podcast, most of my guests have told us about their aspirations in life and their quest to achieve their dream. My guest today, Deirdre Barrett, is different. She studies dreams. She writes books about the dreams people hav...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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24:48
Jeremy Sherman (English)
Jeremy Sherman set out, fairly early in life – to be a hippie. He now asserts that science is his spiritual path. Possessing a naturally questioning mind, Jeremy abandoned the quest for undefined enlightenment to seek out answers to higher trut...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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26:19
Michael Smolens (English)
Michael Smolens has been a serial entrepreneur all his life. He says he went with his gut at every stage. The motivation was never money, it was to do things that were never done before. Even when he fell down, he just continued. Now, approachi...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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26:17
Ruby Hembrom (English)
Ruby Hembrom is the founder of Adivaani – a platform for indigenous people’s expression in India. She, has been awarded the Asia Foundation Development Fellowship and an Atlantic Fellowship – among other honor...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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23:21
Ruth Jeannoel (English)
Ruth Jeannoel’s mother fled the oppressive Duvalier regime in Haiti and settled in Boston, Massachusetts where Ruth was born. From all accounts, it was hard to be a single mother, without knowing any English and never having had faced the bruta...
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Episode 15
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22:58
Bijayini Satpathy (English)
Bijayini Satpathy, came of age as a classical Odissi dancer at Nrityagram – a dance village in South India, founded in 1990 by the socialite and danseuse Protima Gauri Bedi.When Bijayini decided to leave Nrityagram and strike out on her ...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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23:35
Ulrike Reinhard (English)
Imagine you are walking along a road in rural Central India, in the state of Madhya Pradesh. A place where infrastructure is sparse and people continue to live in poverty, many excluded by circumstance to fully participate in India’s heady econ...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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23:54
Rahul Ram (English)
Almost four decades ago, while still in college in India, I played bass in a rock band. My guest today, Rahul Ram, was the bassist in a rival band. Then we lost touch, until one day, in the early 2000s, the song Bandé by the band India...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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25:01
Loretta Long (English)
In November 1969, when Sesame Street premiered on Public Television, my guest Dr. Loretta Long was there. As we will hear, based on her fortitude and thinking on her feet, she had landed the role of Susan Robinson - a housewife. Later, her char...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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25:39
Steven Lavine (English)
Steven Lavine spent 29 years of his working life as the president of California Institute of the Arts – CALARTS. Having grown up in a small Wisconsin town, Steven could not wait to go out into the world. As he puts it, invoking his distan...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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23:23
Rahul Banerjee (English)
Trained as an engineer at the Indian Institutes of Technology or IIT, my guest Rahul Banerjee gave up the securities of an Indian middle class life to serve his country. He threw his lot behind the indigenous Bhil tribal folk in central India. ...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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24:49
Amy Lehman (English)
Amy Lehman, my guest today, trained to be a surgeon to be a better doctor than the ones who treated her when she was younger. She found her passion in working with underserved communities along the shores of Lake Tangayanika in the Democratic R...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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23:20
Sarnath Banerjee (English)
Sarnath Banerjee, is best known for his incisive portrayal of South Asian characters in his graphic novels and serial graphic publications. But a conversation with him quickly reveals his multifaceted search for purpose and the right medium to ...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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24:36
Pablo Corral Vega (English)
Pablo Corral Vega is an Ecuadoran photographer and winner of many accolades including a Neiman Fellowship at Harvard University. From a childhood balanced between a patient and practical lawyer father and a very creative mother – as he tells it...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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23:57
Mitchell Kaplan (English)
From an early age, Mitchell Kaplan was afforded the freedom to go explore life and discover possibilities. For him, finding an exact focal point for his passion for a literary life came in stages. It took from being and English major in Colorad...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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28:36
Peter Zuccarini (English)
Peter Zuccarini started dreaming of becoming an underwater cameraman early. Starting his life in Key Biscayne, Florida, he pursued his dream with a passion that clearly went beyond a way to make a living. Ultimately he did reach the peaks in a ...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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23:07
Shahidul Alam (English)
Shahidul Alam is a Bangladeshi photographer, activist and institution builder. In 2018 he was put in a Bangladeshi jail for speaking truth to power by openly criticizing the government of Bangladesh for its ruthless suppression of student prote...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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25:58
Maggie Steber (English)
Thinking about the outstanding career of photographer Maggie Steber, the words Resilience, Persistence and Faith in the World – come to mind. Having found photography quite by chance, Steber has followed her passion ...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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25:25
Isaac Prilleltensky (English)
Dr. Isaac Prilleltensky is Vice Provost for Institutional Culture. He speaks here to Media for Change founder Sanjeev Chatterjee about his very humble beginnings in Argentina and his dream of a world that cares about community and happiness. Dr...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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23:40