The Courage To Move Forward with Paola di Floria
The Trauma Therapist
Guy Crawford Macpherson
4.5 • 581 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Since then, they’ve developed and consulted on numerous projects exploring spirituality, science, and healing, including Infinite Potential and the award-winning My Father, The Healer.
A board member of the Illuminate Film Festival, DiFlorio has spoken at Stanford, NYU, UC Berkeley, USC, and The Shift Network’s Visionaries Summit. With Rader, she founded Source to Screen, a creativity and spirituality incubator offered at Esalen and film festivals nationwide. Counterpoint’s upcoming slate includes a remake of a Hollywood blockbuster slated for 2026.
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| 1:18.8 | incummental.com. That's I-N-C-U-M-E-N-T-A-L.com. Welcome to the Trauma Ther's podcast. My name is Guy McPherson, and I interview incredible people |
| 1:30.1 | who share the story of how trauma has shaped their lives. And a big thank you for sponsoring |
| 1:35.5 | today's episode goes to my guest and our sponsors. |
| 1:49.5 | So five, four, 3, 2, and 1. |
| 1:51.6 | Our folks, welcome back to the podcast. |
| 1:53.8 | Very excited to have us my guest today. |
| 1:55.1 | Paola DeFlorio. |
| 1:56.0 | Paola, welcome. |
| 1:57.7 | Thank you so much, Guy. |
| 1:59.1 | I'm really pleased to be here. |
| 2:00.0 | Thanks for the opportunity. |
| 2:06.3 | You are welcome. So, Paola is an Oscar and Emmy-nominated filmmaker and co-founder of Counterpoint Films with her husband, author, and filmmaker, Peter Rader. Their breakthrough documentary, |
| 2:11.7 | Awake, the Life of Yogananda became one of the top-grossing indie docs of 2014 and 2015 and set their mission to create media that, quote, |
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