Stephanie Doran is a recognized pioneer and national authority on dream therapy. She is a top-rated radio talk show host in the Sacramento, California area with her tremendously popular show, “The Dream Weaver.” Maintaining a private practice since 1980 with clients both nationally and internationally, Doran opens minds and changes lives, one dream at a time.
Doran’s radio career was born in 1992 with one guest appearance on the “The Chris Collins Morning Show” on Sacramento’s top-rated KSFM 102.5 FM. When callers jammed the phone lines, and her 30-minute guest spot turned into two hours and 30 minutes, Collins invited her back the next day. Arriving at the station at 6 AM, Doran was greeted with all the phone lines lit and callers clamoring to find out what their bizarre dreams meant. By 8:30 AM, “The Dream Weaver” had become a regular player on KSFM’s morning team!
In early 1993, Doran left KSFM to pursue hosting her own program. She promoted her idea to the Program Director at TALK 650 KSTE with, “I have the only talk-show topic that renews itself every 24 hours; this one is so obvious that you’ve probably slept right through it!” Several weeks later, on May 16, 1993, Doran had her own show, one hour on Sunday nights -- and the phone lines were jammed. Six weeks later, the program was expanded to two hours, and eight weeks later, the program was expanded to three hours. In January of 1995, the program was expanded to a four-hour show on both Saturday and Sunday nights -- and the phone lines were jammed.
"Dream Talk" with "The Dream Weaver" has magnetic appeal for people of all ages with a particularly dramatic following by women, as documented by her consistently high ratings in the most-coveted “Women 25 – 54” and “Women 35 – 54.” “The Dream Weaver” gets people through the night, translating dreams that tantalize and nightmares that torment, into astonishing insights and answers about the callers’ most personal waking-life problems, situations, and secrets.
Observing Doran work is like watching a 911 dispatcher piloting a roller coaster. Emotional tides rise and fall, hearts surge and sink as Doran decodes callers’ dreams and strips bare their most private waking-life realties that, from call to call, move listeners from tears to laughter. Maintaining that truth is always stranger than fiction, Doran proves that demystified dreams reveal waking lives far more shocking and bizarre than their dream depictions. With uncanny instincts, Doran cuts to the chase and to the heart of each call, stripping away the mystery and the terror of the dreams and starkly revealing the shocking and touching naked truth of the callers’ waking lives.
The award-winning Sacramento Bee has featured Doran in numerous, full-page, color-photo articles which report her rare ability to impact people’s lives by translating dreams, and credits her with saving the life of a seriously-suicidal caller in an intense, gripping on-air call.
Doran’s potent talents are dramatic and diverse. A polished public speaker, she has co- presented with Robin Norwood, author of the best-selling book, Women Who Love Too Much, to raise money for the Breast Cancer Fund, and has sparred with San Francisco’s Mayor Willie Brown (then Speaker of the California House) as a featured guest on his one-hour TV talk show on Channel 3, KCRA in Sacramento. With little advance publicity, callers overwhelmed the TV station’s switchboards.
In 1997, an unpublicized two-hour guest appearance on KGO radio in San Francisco broke station records for calls. Doran continues to be the “back by popular demand” guest on all the television stations in Northern California.
When she’s not on stage with celebrities or matching wits with politicians on TV, Doran is “hands on” at work in the community, counseling battered women and abused children, personally feeding the hungry, and being a success coach for teenage offenders in the juvenile justice system.
Doran’s zest for life and zeal for people broadcast both on and off the air. With passion for her work and compassion for her callers, “The Dream Weaver” combines the program with a purpose and The Host with a Heart! She’s tough, and she’s tender, the talk radio teacher of dreams, life, death, and dimensions beyond.
With common sense, comedy and with class, Doran inspires people “to be all that they can be.” Her style, sincerity, and sizzle ignite the night and produce compelling calls and riveting radio. She’s bright and bold, she’s witty and wise; people love her and trust her. She reaches out to her audience, and they reach back!
So how does Doran describe her program, its universal popularity, and success? “Simple” she says, “I found a need, and I filled it. Dreams inspire people, and dreams terrify people. Everybody dreams, and everybody wants to know what their dreams mean.”
Nationally syndicated by Talk America Radio Networks in February of 2000, Doran had gained 94 radio affiliates when September 11, 2001 rocked America. The radio world was not exempt when the stock market plunged, jobs disappeared, and businesses, both large and small, were financially impacted.
Undaunted, Doran borrowed the money to build her own radio broadcasting studio, with state of the art electronic equipment and furnished with gorgeous Victorian antiques. The purpose and presentation of Studio 22 exemplify Doran as the entrepreneur for education and excellence that her thousands of clients, radio callers, and listeners know her to be.
Raised in Sacramento, California, Stephanie Doran continues the legacy that her ancestors began in their pioneer settlement of California. Doran is also a pioneer, continuing to make new history in dreams, radio, and the internet -- she is a natural talent following her dream.
Doran’s radio career was born in 1992 with one guest appearance on the “The Chris Collins Morning Show” on Sacramento’s top-rated KSFM 102.5 FM. When callers jammed the phone lines, and her 30-minute guest spot turned into two hours and 30 minutes, Collins invited her back the next day. Arriving at the station at 6 AM, Doran was greeted with all the phone lines lit and callers clamoring to find out what their bizarre dreams meant. By 8:30 AM, “The Dream Weaver” had become a regular player on KSFM’s morning team!
In early 1993, Doran left KSFM to pursue hosting her own program. She promoted her idea to the Program Director at TALK 650 KSTE with, “I have the only talk-show topic that renews itself every 24 hours; this one is so obvious that you’ve probably slept right through it!” Several weeks later, on May 16, 1993, Doran had her own show, one hour on Sunday nights -- and the phone lines were jammed. Six weeks later, the program was expanded to two hours, and eight weeks later, the program was expanded to three hours. In January of 1995, the program was expanded to a four-hour show on both Saturday and Sunday nights -- and the phone lines were jammed.
"Dream Talk" with "The Dream Weaver" has magnetic appeal for people of all ages with a particularly dramatic following by women, as documented by her consistently high ratings in the most-coveted “Women 25 – 54” and “Women 35 – 54.” “The Dream Weaver” gets people through the night, translating dreams that tantalize and nightmares that torment, into astonishing insights and answers about the callers’ most personal waking-life problems, situations, and secrets.
Observing Doran work is like watching a 911 dispatcher piloting a roller coaster. Emotional tides rise and fall, hearts surge and sink as Doran decodes callers’ dreams and strips bare their most private waking-life realties that, from call to call, move listeners from tears to laughter. Maintaining that truth is always stranger than fiction, Doran proves that demystified dreams reveal waking lives far more shocking and bizarre than their dream depictions. With uncanny instincts, Doran cuts to the chase and to the heart of each call, stripping away the mystery and the terror of the dreams and starkly revealing the shocking and touching naked truth of the callers’ waking lives.
The award-winning Sacramento Bee has featured Doran in numerous, full-page, color-photo articles which report her rare ability to impact people’s lives by translating dreams, and credits her with saving the life of a seriously-suicidal caller in an intense, gripping on-air call.
Doran’s potent talents are dramatic and diverse. A polished public speaker, she has co- presented with Robin Norwood, author of the best-selling book, Women Who Love Too Much, to raise money for the Breast Cancer Fund, and has sparred with San Francisco’s Mayor Willie Brown (then Speaker of the California House) as a featured guest on his one-hour TV talk show on Channel 3, KCRA in Sacramento. With little advance publicity, callers overwhelmed the TV station’s switchboards.
In 1997, an unpublicized two-hour guest appearance on KGO radio in San Francisco broke station records for calls. Doran continues to be the “back by popular demand” guest on all the television stations in Northern California.
When she’s not on stage with celebrities or matching wits with politicians on TV, Doran is “hands on” at work in the community, counseling battered women and abused children, personally feeding the hungry, and being a success coach for teenage offenders in the juvenile justice system.
Doran’s zest for life and zeal for people broadcast both on and off the air. With passion for her work and compassion for her callers, “The Dream Weaver” combines the program with a purpose and The Host with a Heart! She’s tough, and she’s tender, the talk radio teacher of dreams, life, death, and dimensions beyond.
With common sense, comedy and with class, Doran inspires people “to be all that they can be.” Her style, sincerity, and sizzle ignite the night and produce compelling calls and riveting radio. She’s bright and bold, she’s witty and wise; people love her and trust her. She reaches out to her audience, and they reach back!
So how does Doran describe her program, its universal popularity, and success? “Simple” she says, “I found a need, and I filled it. Dreams inspire people, and dreams terrify people. Everybody dreams, and everybody wants to know what their dreams mean.”
Nationally syndicated by Talk America Radio Networks in February of 2000, Doran had gained 94 radio affiliates when September 11, 2001 rocked America. The radio world was not exempt when the stock market plunged, jobs disappeared, and businesses, both large and small, were financially impacted.
Undaunted, Doran borrowed the money to build her own radio broadcasting studio, with state of the art electronic equipment and furnished with gorgeous Victorian antiques. The purpose and presentation of Studio 22 exemplify Doran as the entrepreneur for education and excellence that her thousands of clients, radio callers, and listeners know her to be.
Raised in Sacramento, California, Stephanie Doran continues the legacy that her ancestors began in their pioneer settlement of California. Doran is also a pioneer, continuing to make new history in dreams, radio, and the internet -- she is a natural talent following her dream.
