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Episodes

April 11, 2024

The Power of Your Mind

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! The mind is a very powerful thing. Just ask World-Reknown Illusionist Rick Thomas. Everything that you see in his amazing stage show - Mansion of Dreams - started as a tho...

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April 4, 2024

Dress for Success

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! Costumes are a major part of a grand stage show like Rick Thomas' Mansion of Dreams. In this episode, Dress for Success, Rick and Tammy Trujillo talk about how those costum...

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Nov. 22, 2023

Never Be Satisfied

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! Everyone wants to be satisfied - but should we be? That's the question world famous illusionist Rick Thomas looks at as he and Tammy Trujillo explore Chapter 30 of his boo...

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Nov. 16, 2023

Why I Mow My Own Lawn

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! Yes, it's true! World Famous Illusionist Rick Thomas mows his own lawn at his home in Branson, MO. Not because he can't find a gardener or because he just likes to do it....

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Oct. 30, 2023

A Sad Good-bye

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! Saying Good-bye to someone special in your life is often hart. For world-reknown illusionist Rick Thomas, saying good-bye to his magnificent tigers was heartbreaking, but ...

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Oct. 6, 2023

Korea was a Turning Point

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! When you have a signed contract, you have a done deal right? Maybe not, at least not if you are in Korea. In this episode of Nothing Happens Until You Dream, we explore C...

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Aug. 23, 2023

There are Good Days and Bad Days

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! We all have them - good days and bad days. In this episode, world-famed illusionist Rick Thomas talks about what happens when a 700-pound tiger has a bad day and tells one...

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Aug. 16, 2023

When Illusions Go Wrong

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! A huge stage, elaborate set, dancers, music - what could go wrong. You'd be surprised. In this episode, World Famous Magician Rick Thomas talks about the times that thing...

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Aug. 3, 2023

Celebrate the Right Person

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! In this episode, master illusionist Rick Thomas talks about his recent birthday and birthdays in general and why he says the wrong person is being celebrated. Rick tells T...

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July 6, 2023

Let Go of the Past

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! Letting go of the past can be one of the hardest things to do. Memories of even the tiniest things can suddenly come into your mind without a bit of prompting and sometime...

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April 11, 2023

Don't Rush to Judge

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! Not everything is what it appears to be! Sounds like we are talking about Rick Thomas' spectacular magic, but not this time. In this episode, Rick talks about a night when...

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Feb. 8, 2023

The Tiger Whisker

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! This is the episode you have been waiting for - The Tiger Whisker! It's not the end of the podcast - far from it - but it is the story that propelled Rick Thomas to write ...

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Jan. 18, 2023

Traveling the World with Tigers

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! Tigers played a huge role in world-famous illusionist Rick Thomas's show for many years - not just in Las Vegas - Rick took his show all over the world. So what does it ta...

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Dec. 8, 2022

A Typical Day Working with Tigers

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! Is there really such a thing as a 'typical' day when you work with six magnificent and powerful tigers? There is if you are world-famed illusionist RIck Thomas. In this e...

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Nov. 30, 2022

The Truth About White Tigers

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! Are orange Siberian Tigers really orange? And do White Tigers really exist? What in the world is a Liger? The answers may surprise you. In this episode, world-famous ill...

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Nov. 24, 2022

Every Family Has a Scar

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! Remember the lion named Scar in Disney's The Lion King. In this week's episode of Nothing Happens Until You Dream, world-famous illusionist Rick Thomas talks about the fac...

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Nov. 15, 2022

Kaos and Feathers

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! When it comes to tigers, you never know what can happen. And that can be especially true with a Tiger names Kaos! World-famous illusionist Rick Thomas tells two stories i...

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Nov. 9, 2022

What Happens When Tigers Get Distracted

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! This week, we talk about Chapter 14 of world-famous illusionist Rick Thomas' best-selling book The Tiger Whisker. Tigers think about a lot of things, but there is one thing...

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Nov. 2, 2022

Tiger Health Care

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! Yes, even Tigers need health care! World-reknown magician Rick Thomas talks about what it's like to take a tiger to the Vet...to cap a broken fang! It's all part of how h...

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Oct. 27, 2022

Yes Teacher, She Does Have a Pet Tiger

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! Every child has a pet tiger, right? They do if their Dad is world-famous illusionist Rick Thomas and he's performing on the Las Vegas Strip! RIck tells Tammy Trujillo ab...

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Oct. 19, 2022

What I Know About Tigers

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! Tigers were an integral part of Rick Thomas' success as a world-famous Illusionist and even though they are no longer part of his show, they are a topic he still embraces a...

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Oct. 11, 2022

How Tigers Came into My Life Part 2

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! What does it mean when a tiger 'goes green'? It could mean you are in really big trouble! As we continue with Chapter 9 of World-famous Illustionist Rick Thomas' best-sel...

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Oct. 4, 2022

How Tigers Came into My Life Part 1

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! Rick Thomas is one of those few people on earth fortunate enough to work with Tigers and although he has not had tigers in his show for several years now, they are still on...

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Sept. 27, 2022

Dreams Take Many Paths

Send us a Text Message! We'd love to hear from you! Rick Thomas believes in following your dream, but doing that can take you places you never imagined and put you in some surprising situations. And perhaps your dream may n...

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