Deep Dive with Jamie Stein

Jamie and Piper explore the unlikely bond between Heather Gay, Meredith Marks and Jen Shah as The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City comes to the conclusion of its third season.

Jamie welcomes back What Else Is Going on? host Taria S. Faison to dig into the nuances and details of the controversial fight between Mia Thornton and Dr. Wendy Osefo on the latest season of The Real Housewives of Potomac. 

Jamie welcomes Emily Hanks of She Speaks Bravo to dismantle all of Heather Gay's inconsistencies on this season of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City and to see what it might reveal about her inner landscape. 

In this supersized episode, Jamie and Piper tackle the Lisa Rinna, Kathy Hilton and Kyle Richards Aspen drama heard around the world. What is underneath Lisa Rinna's driving need to expose Kathy Hilton? What was underneath Kathy Hilton's breakdown? What does this convoluted drama reveal about the sister dynamics between Kathy and Kyle Richards? And, most important of all, what might we learn about Lisa Rinna and Kathy Hilton's soul journeys in this lifetime? It's all happening and it's all here.

Jamie welcomes back fellow podcasters Taria S. Faison from What Else is Going On? and Chanel Creating from We Was Dragons for a roundtable discussion of the season-long conflict between Kenya Moore and Marlo Hampton on The Real Housewives of Atlanta. 

Jamie welcomes Jerri Manthey of "Survivor" fame for a live intuitive reading regarding a recent romantic break-up and then takes viewer questions about what it brought up for them. 

Jamie and Piper tackle listener questions in response to previous Deep Dive episodes - how to handle it when you find yourself being shut down by others much like Crystal Minkoff gets shut down by the rest of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills cast; if you find it hard to "read" someone like Erika Jayne, does that speak to a block in her or a block in you; how to go about undertaking work as an intuitive healer. It's a multifaceted conversation that mixes Housewives with deeper topics such as navigating conflict with others, what it means to work with clients in a healing capacity, how to effectively deal with your triggers and much more.

In this latest outtake, Jamie drops into Shereè Whitfield to find out the exact nature of her unconscious resistance to finally bringing She By Shereè into the world. 

In this bonus ep, Jamie drops into Marlo Hampton's angry response to Kenya Moore feeling too sick to attend Sheree Whitfield's "Feel Better" party on The Real Housewives of Atlanta.

In this solo ep, Jamie drops into Lisa Rinna's unconscious landscape to find out what is driving her unrelenting rage toward Sutton Stracke on this season of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (hint: it has a lot to do with Garcelle Beauvais). 

Jamie welcomes Danny Roberts, one of the breakout cast members from both The Real World New Orleans and the more recent The Real World Homecoming: New Orleans, to discuss the deeper spiritual meaning of his journey as an unlikely reality TV star. Their conversation weaves through the last 22 years between both shows - including early experiences of being antagonized and abandoned by production, how The Real World played into his predestined dark night of the soul, the way in which Homecoming unwittingly became the reckoning between "old" vs "new" reality TV and, most important, how this latest project helped Danny reclaim his original experience in a way that coalesced deeper themes, patterns and lessons that he was meant to master in this lifetime.

Jamie and Piper welcome Radical Aliveness founder Ann Bradney to explore the psyche of YouTube spiritual guru Teal Swan. They've consumed a copious amount of Teal Swan content - including the hit Hulu docu-series The Deep End and various interviews with key figures from Teal's past - and seek to understand the driving forces underneath Teal's highly popular work. What is fact and what is fiction when it comes to Teal? Where exactly is the line between Teal's genuine power and her seeming delusions? What is the connection between Teal's possible wounding and the wounding she might now be inflicting on others? Teal is a complicated and oftentimes confusing woman - a perfect opportunity to explore themes of blind spots, what it means to be special, different flavors of trauma and much more.

Jamie and Piper kick off Deep Dive season three by dismantling the convoluted drama that ensued when Crystal Minkoff used the word "dark" to describe last year's conflict with Sutton Stracke on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Attendant topics include why Kyle Richards gets so triggered by any voice that goes against her own personal viewpoint, why Garcelle Beauvais spearheaded the campaign to question Crystal's issues with Sutton in the first place, why this season feels so generally impenetrable and much more. 

Jamie welcomes Emily Hanks of the She Speaks Bravo podcast and Instagram account to jump into all things Teresa Guidice and The Real Housewives of New Jersey reunion. Plus a quick detour into Teddi Mellencamp.

Jamie welcomes Arissa Hill from The Real World: Las Vegas for an intuitive reading.

Jamie invites Hot Takes & Deep Dives host Jess Rothschild to delve into the recent spate of docuseries about con men, scam artists and hustlers. They explore why people sometimes fall prey to such far-fetched schemes, what is underneath the cultural fascination with high-end frauds, their own judgments about the victims, and much more. 

Jamie welcomes Chelsea Fagan, creator of the multimedia platform The Financial Diet, and Orange County native Piper Sample to dive into the deeper waters of Heather Dubrow and the role of money/wealth on the franchise that started it all - The Real Housewives of Orange County. Topics include Heather's relationship to acting/creativity, her actual (unconscious) feelings toward money, her marriage to Terry Dubrow, why she gets so triggered by Shannon Beador and much more. 

Jamie and Piper wrap up the bizarre second season of "The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City" by touching down on the reunion highlights - including Heather Gay's vitriol, Lisa Barlow's frantic method of defending herself, why the entire cast tiptoes around Jen Shah's (alleged) crimes and much more. Plus, Jamie makes up for a technical difficulty with a "Love is Blind" solo journey into Natalie Lee and Shayne Jansen's fraught relationship. 

Jamie invites Tom Hamlett, co-host of "Dumpster Dive" podcast, to briefly touch on the Katie Maloney/Tom Schwartz separation heard around the "Vanderpump Rules" world and to then sound off on the cast division at the heart of this season of "The Real Housewives of New Jersey." The exploration digs into many timely RHONJ issues - including the real reason why Melissa Gorga gets so triggered by Jennifer, the difference between Teresa Giudice's "Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip" and New Jersey personas, Margaret Josephs' unwillingness to feel the impact of her actions on others, how Jennifer's higher self may have been guiding her journey this season, and much more. 

"The Real World" occupies a legendary place in the annals of reality TV, and so it is only fitting that Jamie should welcome two legendary podcasters - Taria S. Faison of "What Else Is Going On?" and Ryan Bailey of "So Bad It's Good with Ryan Bailey" - to break down this latest season of "RW Homecoming." Our intrepid trio navigates a wide range of topics including the exact moment in which this cast tends to sabotage its very desire for deeper connection, the underground energy (both personal and systemic) fueling the past and present conflicts between Tami Roman and David Edwards, whether Jon Brennan has fulfilled or sidestepped his life's calling in his role as a humble pastor, whether we should fully trust the public face presented by Irene Berrera-Kearns, and much more. Consider this The Deep Dive's love letter to "The Real World" - truly, the show that started it all.  

Jamie sits down with multifaceted animal communicator Sarah Lea to discuss not only her ability to speak for our beloved pets but also her skills as a medium, an empath and a vessel for psychic information. The inquiry into Sarah's specific line of work soon evolves into a larger conversation about how all people might consciously cultivate their own intuitive gifts, how to create safety through strong energetic boundaries, what it means to take empowered self-responsibility for the circumstances of your life without victim-blaming yourself, the different roles played by destiny and free will in the fulfillment of our spiritual life tasks, and much, much more. 

Jamie and Piper honor the completion of this latest season of Vanderpump Rules with a deep-dive into the complicated and oftentimes polarizing Tom Sandoval. Together, they explore the unconscious energy behind his over-obsessive attention to detail, what's at the heart of his tendency to go above and beyond for his friends, his ambivalent relationship to masculine and feminine energy both inside and outside of himself, how Lisa Vanderpump just might be recreating long-standing dynamics with his mother and much, much more. The conversation concludes with a tarot card pulled for Tom. 

With cults becoming a hot topic in the Housewives universe, it seemed like the right time to drop this previously-unreleased episode: Jamie welcomes good friend of the pod Piper Sample and founder of Radical Aliveness Ann Bradney for a roundtable discussion of HBO's The Vow, Starz's Seduced and their combined depiction of the NXIVM cult led by Keith Raniere. The conversation kicks off with the question, "How do intelligent, successful people like Mark Vicente and Sarah Edmonson end up susceptible to a cult in the first place...?" and then develops into a broader exploration into what exactly constitutes a cult, ways in which we're willing to defer our personal power to the leaders in our lives (and why), what we must be willing to tolerate in order to shatter the type of binary thinking that helps cults to thrive, contemporary politics, and much, much more. 

Happy holidays! Jamie celebrates the end of the year by inviting friend of the pod Piper Sample to unpack all the surreal goings-on of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. It's a season where it feels like the bulk of the drama is in everything that's not being said - including Lisa Barlow's intentions in bringing Cameron onto the show, why Heather Gay and Whitney Rose seem so intent on bringing Lisa down, the source of Meredith's rage towards Jen Shah (not to mention her ardent defense of Mary Cosby) - and our Housewives intuitives do their best to roll up their sleeves and bring the SLC unconscious landscape out into the snowy light. 

Jamie welcomes Taria S. Faison, host of the popular What Else is Going On? podcast, to deep dive Candiace Dillard and her polarizing effect on both her fellow cast members as well as the audience at large. They navigate Real Housewives of Potomac topics both current and historical, including the real reasons why Candiace was so bothered by Ashley's initial pregnancy journey, the emotional energy underneath Candiace's notoriously vicious attacks, why Candiace has difficulty drawing firmer boundaries with her mother and the inner workings of her relationship with Chris. Of course, no journey into the Potomac universe would be complete without a detour into the psyche of Le Grand Dame herself, Ms. Karen Huger. 

In this bonus solo episode, Jamie airs his thoughts on the manner in which Meredith Marks handled the conflict between her son Brooks and RHOSLC villainess Jen Shah. The exploration digs into Meredith's relationship to her latent rage, which only seems to be building in the wake of Jen's arrest, and provides some deeper insight into her tendency to "disengage" from more heated conflict.

The time has come: Piper Sample returns to the pod to help Jamie deep dive the emotional energy underneath Jen Shah's conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Together, they're intuitively dropping into Jen's attitude toward her victims, how she justifies her actions in her mind and why she holds the idea of an honest living in such deep contempt. Additional topics include Jen's social media presence since her arrest, how her relationships to her ancestry and the Mormon church have possibly influenced her deceptive acts and the level of Coach Shah's awareness of her crimes. The pod also tackles larger philosophical topics such as why both Jamie and Piper had previously overlooked Jen's more problematic behavior as well as the underlying creative energy that lives inside even the most destructive impulses.

The ongoing feud between Garcelle Beauvais and Dorit Kemsley on season 11 of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills has gone in circles, it's been hashed and rehashed, and yet it has never found truly meaningful resolution - leading many viewers to wonder "Just what was this fight really about?" Jamie invites astute Housewives intuitive Piper Sample back to the pod to dig into this very question. Together, they feel into Dorit's underlying need to insert herself into conflicts that have nothing to do with her, what Dorit's insertion brings up in Garcelle, and what Garcelle's own insertion then brings up in Dorit. It's a merry-go-round into themes of what it means to feel like an outsider, how (and why) we make bids for relevancy, the sometimes futile attempt to be heard in a larger system that simply doesn't want to hear you, and much more.

In this solo episode, Jamie sounds off on the lion's share of blame being leveled at Candiace Dillard on The Real Housewives of Potomac and questions Mia Thornton's refusal to accept her part in a situation that she had a large hand in creating. Jamie makes several key drop-in's along the way - including why Candiace has been doubling down on her cruelty in lieu of exercising compassion toward Mia's mother, Mia's true opinion of Candiace, why Mia had such a disdainful response to Candiace's video shoot and, perhaps most important, what compelled Mia to buddy up with Dorothy Dillard in the first place. It's a deep exploration of what it means to take true self-responsibility for our actions and how that willingness (or lack thereof) ends up playing a key role in what we manifest in our lives. 

….and we’re back! Jamie kicks off Deep Dive Season 2 by inviting good friend of the pod Haneefah Wood to jump into all thing The Real Housewives of Potomac - most notably, the conflict between Dr. Wendy Osefo and controversial newcomer Mia Thornton. Jamie and Haneefah dig underneath both the stark differences and also the surprising similarities between these adversaries - a journey that covers their relationship to their bodies, how they each handle interpersonal conflict, their mutual need to get ahead of the narrative, and much more. And no Potomac conversation would be complete without a look at Gizelle and Ashley’s messy behavior, and consideration of the thin line between being a good Bravo employee and pathological denial of your true negative intentions.

Jamie welcomes Piper Sample back to the podcast to see what Erika Jayne's current scandals might be revealing about her inner emotional landscape. Together, they explore Erika's relationship to the very nature of performance, the blurred lines between her actual life and the roles she has played on stage and screen, the hollowness of the "Erika Jayne" persona, how past conflicts with Dorit/PK and Teddi Mellencamp energetically predicted what she is going through today, the refusal to feel a core humiliation that is perhaps powering all of her internal divisions, and much, much more. Though it all, Jamie and Piper continually seek to answer the questions, "What is Erika meant to learn from all this...?" and "How can Erika use this ordeal as a gateway to her truer, higher self...?" 

Jamie welcomes actress, writer, comedienne and Montage Queen Deanna Cheng to the pod for a two-for-one special: first, they roll up their sleeves and dig into this latest difficult season of "The Real Housewives of New York City" - the lack of cast cohesion, the severe emotional limitations of several of the OG's, Bershan's role as the surprising catalyst for individual and group revelation, and much more; they then pivot for an odyssey into Sonja Morgan's inner landscape - her covert entitlement, her latent need to be rescued, how she feels about JP Morgan today, her relationship to the townhouse and, oh yes, the revealing lawsuit that never quite gets explored with any clarity or specificity (until now).