The Dream

Super interesting. Always engrossing. Wonderful job. Though I do wish she would have refrained from inserting her politics into season 3 the way she did. She had alluding to her personal beliefs many times prior but never in a way that eclipsed her content. Suddenly she hit us over the head with them.

Loved season 1. Season 2, while not as strong as 1, was still pretty good & I really enjoyed it. Season 3 was rough. Really rough. I finished it because I’m a completist, but it was lacking. It seemed to lack any sort of significant editing & just meandered from point to point. It’s too bad because I think the whole life coach thing is an excellent topic to unpack & I really enjoy Jane’s conversational speaking style, but this should not have been released. Along with other folks’ comments also, ad breaks would pop up mid-sentence & are a solid 2+ minutes each.

Very well-crafted show, from audio quality to human interest content, to her professional narration.

I liked season 1 up until the end when they clearly had an agenda and kept interrupting the only person from MLMs that offered to talk to them. Season 2 went completely off the rails in episode 2. The host was so rude and condescending to her partner about his interest in more natural things. She makes a point about how crystals are just like journaling but she claims crystals don’t “work”. If she thinks journaling works because of the placebo effect then how does that mean crystals don’t “work”? She’s so obsessed with western medicine despite pointing out that western doctors have really had no solutions for her TBI. She has a very white centric view of medicine and completely dismisses very longstanding medical and wellness practices like herbalism and meditation. I agree that you shouldn’t be treating issues with unregulated supplements, but she’s really throwing the baby out with the bathwater. She points out that the wellness industry includes everything from crystals to CrossFit but doesn’t dig into the spectrum of validity in the wellness space. Sure there are grifters like Amanda Chantal Bacon and her adaptogenic dusts, but that’s such a small portion of what this space is about. Some meditation and acupuncture might actually help the host chill the F out a little bit and stop being so judgy.