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Popp Talk with Mary Jane Popp

Popp Talk with Mary Jane Popp

Written by: Mary Jane Popp
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 POPP TALK! A fast-paced Magazine-style Show dedicated to keeping you on the cutting edge of today's hot button issues. The show is high energy, upbeat and entertaining. It gives you the tools to feel better, reach for that brass ring, and live longer and happier. It's Fun! It's Fascinating! It has guests from politics to health, to the stars from La La Land. It's Radio with sizzle!Copyright 2026 Mary Jane Popp Alternative & Complementary Medicine Hygiene & Healthy Living Parenting Relationships Social Sciences
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  • Popp Talk, October 31, 2026

    Popp Talk, October 31, 2026
    Nov 1 2026
    Popp Talk with Mary Jane Popp Responding to Life's Difficulties and Healing Wisdom from the Afterlife with Selina Maitreya and Alexandra Leclere Mary Jane Popp talks with spiritual teacher Selina Maitreya about choosing love over fear and anger in daily life, then welcomes medium and author Alexandra Leclere to explore signs, dreams, and messages from loved ones who have passed. A Tease For Love, Nature, And Little House Mary Jane Popp opens Popp Talk promising an unusual show, saying if something sounds unusual she's "going to go for it." She teases several topics for the hour: the way of the wild woman and nature for women, healing from the afterlife, and a planned visit from Dean Butler, who played Laura Ingalls Wilder's love interest Almanzo on Little House on the Prairie. She adds that the show will also explore the word love, saying listeners need to "use a lot more" of it and promising to explain why. After a block of ads for hearing aids and walk-in tubs, and a performance of "Love Will Keep Us Together," Popp returns to ask whether people can respond to the world's hostility and division with love instead, setting up her first guest's take on the subject. Selina Maitreya Defines Spiritual And Love Popp introduces Selina Maitreya, a spiritual teacher, creator of the online Clarion Call conference, and author of Raise Your Frequency, Transform Your Life: How to Respond with Love to Life's Difficulties. Asked to define "spiritual," Maitreya says it is the inner frequency of love within the body, distinct from the physical world people move through daily. Popp presses on whether anyone can really respond with love when someone wants to hurt them, even someone who might "spit in your face." Maitreya answers that although people differ in politics, history, and experience, everyone shares the same underlying energy of love, the same divine spark people recognize in children, pets, and loved ones. She says kindness tends to breed kindness, the way a driver who gets cut off instinctively reacts from fear, while someone who extends love usually receives it back, which she says is reason enough to keep offering it outward regardless of the response. Compassion, Revenge, And A Mother's Pain Popp asks how anyone can love someone who wants to hurt them emotionally, not just physically, and invokes the idea of turning the other cheek. Maitreya says she would never stand and let herself be struck, but she would walk away blessing the person and offering compassion rather than anger. Popp shares that her own mother was deeply negative, always predicting disaster before any trip, and Maitreya replies that her mother was similarly negative, and, she reveals, died by suicide at sixty after years of pain from Crohn's disease and a belief in the right to choose how one dies. Popp also raises revenge, noting how often politicians seek it, and Maitreya says she goes instead to source, asking what a difficult moment is meant to teach her, since responding to chaos with more chaos only creates more of the same in the next moment. Frequency, Breath, And A Path Forward Maitreya explains that frequency is simply another word for energy, with low frequency showing up as pain or depression and the energy of love as the body's highest, most natural state. She says her book lays out a process for noticing which frequency a person occupies and shifting it in real time, including a practice called Open to Receive for people who struggle to accept love, and another called the Breath of Light, a five-minute practice of deep nasal breathing that she says reliably moves people out of a low frequency and into peace. Popp asks whether she ever helped her own mother raise her frequency, and Maitreya says no, since her mother died before Maitreya became a teacher. Before the segment ends, Maitreya gives the book's full title again and directs listeners to her site, practicalspiritualitywithselina.com, thanking Popp for helping spread love into the world. Alexandra Leclere's Path From TV To Spirit After a break, Popp introduces Alexandra Leclere, a former president of an international television production and multimedia firm who became an energy healer and medium over the past twenty years, and author of Healing Wisdom from the Afterlife. Leclere explains her shift began when fibroids and severe blood loss left a doctor warning she might drop dead in the street without a hysterectomy; instead, she visited a healer named Penny Leisen, recovered without surgery, and set out to make a documentary about healing. Auditing a healer's workshop, she attended a ceremony for a deceased woman named Evelyn and found herself seeing Evelyn's spirit comforting a grieving relative, a vision later confirmed by the family as accurate. From there, Leclere says, people kept asking her to help them find closure with loved ones who had died, until she accepted that her gift needed to be shared rather than hidden. Feathers, Balloons, And Life After Death ...
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  • Popp Talk, October 24, 2026

    Popp Talk, October 24, 2026
    Oct 25 2026
    Popp Talk with Mary Jane Popp Mental Health's Silent Pandemic, Souls Crossing Over with Philip DeClercq, Caroline Cory, and Father Nathan Castle Mary Jane Popp talks with Philip DeClercq and Caroline Cory about their book The Silent Pandemic and the hidden mental health crisis facing teenagers, then welcomes Father Nathan Castle, author of Afterlife Interrupted, to describe twenty-five years spent helping people who died suddenly cross over to the other side. A Tease For Two Powerful Conversations Mary Jane Popp opens Popp Talk promising an extraordinary hour, teasing her second guest first: Father Nathan Castle, a Dominican priest who has spent twenty-five years helping about five hundred people cross over to the other side, especially those whose traumatic deaths, from accidents to suicides, leave them stuck and unable to move on. She jokes that her first question for him will be blunt: are the people he talks to actually dead, or still alive? Before that conversation, Popp promises to tackle what she calls a silent pandemic, a mental health crisis she says the country has never fully reckoned with, even after emerging from the other pandemic everyone already knows about. She teases that listeners need this information, then runs through a block of advertisements for hearing aids and walk-in bathtubs, plus a Sinatra tune, before returning to introduce her first guests of the hour. Introducing The Silent Pandemic Authors Mary Jane Popp introduces Caroline Cory, an award-winning filmmaker, author, and consciousness researcher, and Philip DeClercq, who comes from Ireland and blends religion, science, and psychology, as co-authors of The Silent Pandemic. Popp asks why mental health, long present but rarely discussed, has become such an open topic now. Cory points to a stubborn taboo, especially among boys taught not to admit depression or anxiety, and argues the digital age has made things worse, with teenage suicide rates climbing and antidepressant use becoming almost universal. Popp pushes back, wondering aloud whether society has simply gotten softer, recalling pioneers who crossed the prairie by wagon, buried children along the way, and kept going. DeClercq answers that those pioneers survived together, while today's isolated households replace real connection with social media, an illusion Cory says only deepens a teenager's sense that everyone else's life looks amazing while their own feels unbearable. Social Media, Drugs, And Instant Gratification The conversation turns to how media and medication shape young minds. Cory describes a culture of instant gratification in which children are quickly prescribed pharmaceuticals for ADHD or anxious nerves, normalizing antidepressant use by age fourteen or fifteen. DeClercq, whose own daughter is fifteen, says the shows and content teenagers consume glorify perfect bodies and perfect looks, so any child with acne, extra weight, or a slower pace becomes a target for trolling at school, in the play yard, and in stores. Popp, who says she was bullied for being chubby decades ago, notes she at least never faced social media piling on afterward. Cory agrees platforms exacerbate everything, pushing kids toward cosmetic fixes and plastic surgery as young as twelve, and DeClercq adds that teenagers now discuss anxiety, depression, and suicide daily, almost as routine small talk, because they only have peers their own age to process it with, rather than adults who might offer real perspective. Suicide, Purpose, And Three Age Ranges Popp raises the hardest subject, suicide, admitting she once privately thought of it as cowardly before learning better. Cory, who works with mothers who lost children to suicide, describes the guilt those parents carry as some of the most excruciating pain imaginable, and explains that the human spirit has no natural self-destructive drive, so something interferes with that survival instinct, whether trauma, emotional wounds, or forces she calls external energies. She notes schools teach sex education but never address who a child is as a human being, leaving teenagers unequipped when a classmate dies. Popp recalls DeClercq's story of his fourteen-year-old daughter's friend group discussing anxiety and suicide as daily routine. Cory explains the book, The Silent Pandemic, ultimately grew to address three distinct age ranges, since teenagers, adults, and older adults each face different struggles and need different solutions. She directs listeners to thesilentpandemic.com, where preorders bring an autographed copy ahead of the May 27th launch, and Popp promises to have both authors back. Father Nathan Castle On Stuck Souls After a musical break, Popp introduces Father Nathan Castle, a Dominican priest who for twenty-five years has helped more than five hundred people cross over, work he describes in his three-book series Afterlife Interrupted. He explains that most of the souls he encounters died suddenly and violently, in car crashes ...
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  • Popp Talk, October 17, 2026

    Popp Talk, October 17, 2026
    Oct 18 2026
    Popp Talk with Mary Jane Popp Celebrity Impressions, Hollywood Stories, and a Vision for Humanity's Next Era with Jim Meskimen and Cynthia Rivard Mary Jane Popp talks with character actor and impressionist Jim Meskimen about his decades of celebrity voices and his mother, Happy Days star Marion Ross, then welcomes spiritual teacher Cynthia Rivard to discuss her book Hope for a New Era and raising personal frequency to help humanity's next chapter. A Lively Tease For Two Very Different Guests Mary Jane Popp opens Popp Talk promising a dynamite show, then teases her first guest, a man of countless voices who keeps adding new ones, before moving into a lineup of audio impressions: Robin Williams's manic energy and gratitude, Ron Paul sounding utterly sincere, Mitt Romney's eager-to-please tone, and a Newt Gingrich voice edging toward The Godfather. Popp interrupts, laughing that she never knows who she is speaking with, and introduces Jim Meskimen properly, noting his more than thirty years as a professional actor in films including Apollo 13, The Grinch, and Frost/Nixon, and television shows such as Friends, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Fresh Prince, and Castle. She hints that Meskimen's mother, Happy Days star Marion Ross, may have something to do with his career before welcoming him properly to the show and promising listeners a second half built around a new chapter of human evolution. Growing Up In Marion Ross's House Of Accents Meskimen tells Popp his mother, Marion Ross, is doing well at home enjoying a rare sunny stretch after a rough year of fires, rain, and fog, and that she still mentions him proudly to friends. He credits her less with any direct showbiz advice and more with simply watching how a working actor builds a career and survives the long stretches between jobs, lessons he says kept him from quitting over his own thirty-plus years in the business. Meskimen recalls his mother playing a Polish grandmother on Brooklyn Bridge and an Irish maid in an early live television broadcast of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, and remembers a childhood home where doing an English or German accent at the dinner table was always welcome. He credits her sharp ear for dialects with passing down, as he jokes, "on a molecular level," the same gift for voices that now defines his own career as an impressionist and actor. Narrating Writers Of The Future With His Family Popp and Meskimen turn to the Writers of the Future contest, founded by L. Ron Hubbard forty-one years ago, where Meskimen served as a presenter this year, working in a Patrick Stewart impression and a run of dad jokes to fit the evening's science-fiction theme. He explains that he, his wife, and his daughter once again narrated the anthology of prizewinning stories released at the gala, their third time doing so together, tackling accents and voices for characters that sometimes are not even human. Meskimen calls it one of the only writing contests that is completely free to enter and can lead to publication and a cash grand prize, noting its international reach; Popp recalls meeting entrants from Australia, the UK, Hungary, and China. Meskimen remembers attending an early ceremony at the United Nations alongside science-fiction legends like Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl, and both point listeners to writersofthefuture.com for details. Jeff Goldblum, The Blue Genie, And Jimpressions Asked about his toughest voice, Meskimen names Jeff Goldblum, a figure known more for his look and persona than for a distinctive voice, calling the challenge fun. He says Robin Williams remains the most enjoyable voice he performs, recalling that Williams himself approved his casting as the blue genie for Disney parades and games, work Meskimen still performs after roughly fifteen years and calls a genuine workout. He touches on his training as a realist oil painter in Northern California and Spain, his early improv commercials for grocery chains, his 1990s appearances on the British version of Whose Line Is It Anyway? before Drew Carey became famous, and performing impressions for six thousand people at Radio City Music Hall on America's Got Talent in 2013. He tells Popp he is polishing a screenplay, a comedy thriller about an impressionist, set to begin filming this fall, and directs listeners to jimmeskimen.com for a free link to his one-man show, Jimpressions. Cynthia Rivard And The Case For A Golden Era After a musical interlude, Popp introduces spiritual teacher, business strategist, and environmental advocate Cynthia Rivard, author of Hope for a New Era: Turning the Tide, Love and Leadership through Turbulent Times. Rivard argues humanity is in a necessary decluttering phase, comparing today's chaos to the mess that surfaces when someone finally reorganizes a cluttered closet, insisting the turbulence is entirely human-made and that real change starts with aligned action inside each person's own sphere of influence rather than waiting on governments or ...
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