Roll Call -with Kurt Caceres

THE WILL TO SURVIVE - with Dyana Carmella - Part II

She evaded Wolves, stayed clear of Grizzly Bears, endured the most extreme of weather and landscape conditions. Dyana Carmella joins America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres, to complete her emotional and inspirational journey through 1200 miles and 71 days solo on the Pacific Northwest Trail. Though she doesn't want her mother to hear this, she now admits that she should've died multiple times. The power of the human spirit is greater than we even know until we are tested and have no option to fail. We are so used to our comfortable first world life, with all the amenities, that we are never faced with the obstacles that will truly show us the great feats that humans are capable. Once you tap into your potential, you will never fear anything again. She found her appreciation for simple things like food, at one point in her journey having ran out and forced to starve and only live off wild berries in the middle of nowhere. She reminds us that we don't need much to live a happy life. On the contrary, its the gluttony and over indulgence that actually makes us unhealthy and unhappy. Mother Nature is real, her energy omniscient and power unwavering. Once you become one with that source, it will change your life forever. My recent short film on solo exploring I did in partnership with Chaco and Women Who Explore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwo9fxM1wFIVideo of "Goodbye Letter to the PNT". (This sums up the hike in about 3 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMZRIRS92voSame letter but in writing: https://www.allwomenalltrails.com/a-goodbye-letter-to-the-pacific-northwest-trail/Link to an Essay I wrote on the reason I did the PNT. https://www.allwomenalltrails.com/the-twisted-reason-i-wanted-to-tackle-a-thru-hike/XXPlease Follow and Subscribe to the Podcast. Email: podcast@provenanceroom.comYoutube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJMf11IH83gaOfRq9TxsaOwHost Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/kurt_caceres/Podcast Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/rollcall.podcast/Podcast Twitter:https://twitter.com/rollcall_pod?lang=enPodcast Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/rollcall2020/Producer:https://www.instagram.com/provenance_room/Website:https://www.provenanceroom.com/rollcall

WALKING with the GRIZZLY - with Dyana Carmella - Part I

Have you ever camped in the woods? Not in an RV or hotel, but down and dirty in a tent? Most people would have trouble for one night. Dyana Carmella did it alone, for 71 days and 1200 miles, through uncharted wilderness. She shares her emotional and inspirational story with America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres. Living with Grizzly Bears, Wolves, Snakes and other wildlife. Overcoming the most extreme and unexpected weather conditions, from flash floods, snow storms and lightning. She hiked the Pacific Northwest Trail, one of only 20 people to do it that year, one of only 3 women that year, and she was the only to do it solo. There is no trail. No map. Just using an old fashioned compass and navigating with the stars, she tells us that the girl she was when she started, is not the woman she is now once she completed. She is quick to say that humans when forced to face fear, with no other option, will find things deep inside themselves they never knew possible. Humans will find what we are truly capable of. "Imagine what you could accomplish if fear wasn't an option", says Dyana. Everyday we often times choose the path of fear and run the other way, but Dyana didn't have that choice, and Mother Nature put her to the highest of tests. Three times she remembers wanting to quit more than any other, pushed to the brink of exhaustion, as close to death as is humanely possible. Knees filled with fluid and swelling from to many days of walking, her feet rotting from weeks of moisture, she is about to face one of the biggest feared regions of the journey, "The Lions Head Bushwack". More from Dyana:My recent short film on solo exploring I did in partnership with Chaco and Women Who Explore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwo9fxM1wFIVideo of "Goodbye Letter to the PNT". (This sums up the hike in about 3 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMZRIRS92voSame letter but in writing: https://www.allwomenalltrails.com/a-goodbye-letter-to-the-pacific-northwest-trail/Link to an Essay I wrote on the reason I did the PNT. https://www.allwomenalltrails.com/the-twisted-reason-i-wanted-to-tackle-a-thru-hike/Youtube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJMf11IH83gaOfRq9TxsaOwHost Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/kurt_caceres/Podcast Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/rollcall.podcast/Podcast Twitter:https://twitter.com/rollcall_pod?lang=enPodcast Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/rollcall2020/Producer:https://www.instagram.com/provenance_room/Website:https://www.provenanceroom.com/rollcall

NUMB - with Rafael Davila - Part II

Rafael Davila was found in the gutters of a back alley street in Washington D.C., by his two young children. He had hit rock bottom, didn't have the balls to take his own life, didn't want to feel anymore, hoping for an accidental overdose. He had lost his father years prior, and now his mother was dying of cancer. Rafael lays it all out for America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres, and shares his rollercoaster ride through addiction and to recovery. Some say addiction is genetic, but his twin brother never fell into it. Others say it's all about environment, but they were raised by a loving mother in an affluent middle class suburb. Rafael tells us without hesitation, the main reason people fall into drug and alcohol abuse and addiction. It's a simple emotion that we all have to cope with and deal at points in our lives. But why does it take some, when others find a way to break free? This is the true story of a man who saw the end of his life, was ready to no longer feel, but then found the light and now is a daily servant to help others be saved from their own demons.XXPlease Follow and Subscribe to the Podcast. Email: podcast@provenanceroom.comYoutube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJMf11IH83gaOfRq9TxsaOwHost Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/kurt_caceres/Podcast Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/rollcall.podcast/Podcast Twitter:https://twitter.com/rollcall_pod?lang=enPodcast Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/rollcall2020/Producer:https://www.instagram.com/provenance_room/Website:https://www.provenanceroom.com/rollcall

SURVIVING ADDICTION - with Rafael Davila - Part I

Rafael Davila and his twin brother grew up in a middle class suburb of Detroit, raised by a single mother. They didn't grow up in poverty or lacking love, their mother was a school teacher who provided all they needed. However, Rafael shares with America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres, how drug addiction can hit anyone, regardless of color, financial status or education. He started hanging with the wrong crowd and to overcome his insecurities, he fell into a life of drugs. His Mother, desperate and helpless, contacted their father, whom they had never met, and he entered into Rafael's life for the first time at 16 years old. He was beginning to build a relationship with his father, which helped him shake his substance addiction. They were becoming a real family, his father now being Grandfather to Rafael's two children. But then the tragedy of 9/11 arrived, and his father just so happened to be a paramedic in lower Manhattan. Though his father survived this historic catastrophe, he lived with PTSD and himself fell into a life of addiction to morphine and other drugs. One day he slammed to much and overdosed. Rafael spiraled from losing the father he had just met for the first time in his life. He ended up in the streets and gutters of Washington, D.C., a raging drug addict, barely holding on to life. Until his two children found him on the street, and the look on their faces changed his life forever.xxPlease Follow and Subscribe to the Podcast. Email: podcast@provenanceroom.comYoutube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJMf11IH83gaOfRq9TxsaOwHost Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/kurt_caceres/Podcast Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/rollcall.podcast/Podcast Twitter:https://twitter.com/rollcall_pod?lang=enPodcast Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/rollcall2020/Producer:https://www.instagram.com/provenance_room/Website:https://www.provenanceroom.com/rollcall

WHO ARE YOU? - with Ellie Shoja - Part II

Ellie Shoja makes us think about our own consciousness and discusses with America's Podcaster, Kurt Caceres, our decreasing inability to communicate with one another and be comfortable in our own skin. We are becoming to reliant on our devices to be our representative and we feel safer using a cartoon avatar as our spokesperson instead of being who we truly are. Ellie is no stranger to personalities and identities, she spent much of her childhood in refugee camps and on the run with her father who was an international con man. She had to speak different languages, claim different countries of origin and put on a false mask at a moments notice and play a character who she was not. It got to the point where she no longer remembered her true self. Is that happening in our society today? We are choosing to be someone we are not, because we feel it's safer and we will be more accepted. But is this a dangerous pattern that is taking us down the wrong direction?XXPlease Follow and Subscribe to the Podcast. Email: podcast@provenanceroom.comYoutube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJMf11IH83gaOfRq9TxsaOwHost Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/kurt_caceres/Podcast Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/rollcall.podcast/Podcast Twitter:https://twitter.com/rollcall_pod?lang=enPodcast Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/rollcall2020/Producer:https://www.instagram.com/provenance_room/Website:https://www.provenanceroom.com/rollcall