Arupa Tesolin | Spark & Ting

August 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Interview with Arupa Tesolin [11:08m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Arupa Tesolin is a Speaker, Trainer & Innovation Leader for using intuition and true creative vision as a fuel in today’s organizations. Many people are becoming more curious about their intuitive power and creative capabilities. When these capabilities are more fully developed by individuals, they become transformed and can then contribute more powerfully and meaningfully in any team or enterprise. Understanding how to use intuition, imagination and creative power have become essential skills for Innovation, Success & Performance.

Arupa is the author of the international business book ‘Ting! - A Surprising Way to Listen to Intuition & Do Business Better’ rated 4-Stars (the highest) by Training Magazine (US), the upcoming new book release (April 2007) ‘Spark - Raise Your Mind to the Power of Infinity & Create Anything’ and more than 100 articles in leading training and management publications internationally; including HR Innovator, Chief Learning Officer, Workplace Performance Magazine, HR.com, Training & Development Magazine, Training (US), HR Reporter, Workplace News, HR Professional (HRPAO) (Canada) & Training & Management Magazine (India). Arupa has over 20 years of strategic management and organizational learning experience, is the creator of Intuita training programs, and the leader of Learning Paths International Canada.

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Marcus Wells | Body Thermodynamics

August 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Interview with Dr. Marcus Wells [18:22m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Dr. Marcus Wells’ book revolutionizes ways on how to energize the body without radically changing your lifestyle. Thermogenix reveals “hidden” cellular potentials that restore, rejuvenate and rebalance your life. In a growing aging society, how we’re to maintain a balanced metabolism will be more important, but also will become more problematic. Dr. Wells’ incredible idea blends both a strong scientific basis towards understanding energy with a natural pursuit of it. This demonstrates so many ways that have been overlooked or misunderstood that we can now achieve what is often call the “super burn” effect of metabolism. This method helps you recapture “latent potentions of energy” necessary to live a more productive happier and healthier life. Dr. Wells was educated and trained in western medicine in the U.S.A. Upon receving his Doctorate of Medicine (MD), he continued his medical education at the world’s premiere bio-medical researchcenter, the National Institute of Health (NIH) where he trained with the nation’s most notable scientist in the areas of heart, lung, blood, and metabolic diseases.

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Carolyn Herring | Elusive Real Thing

August 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Interview with Carolyn Herring [15:44m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Caroline Herring digs deep—deep into the rich soil of American roots music for her sound, and deep into the recesses of her own consciousness for her themes. The musically understated, psychologically intense songs of this Atlanta-based Mississippi native ponder the eternal verities while probing the complex nature of contemporary existence; she delivers them in a fine-grained alto replete with the residue of hard-earned insight. On Lantana, her beautiful and eloquent third album (Signature Sounds), Herring fills the listener’s heart with hope one moment and sends a chill down the spine the next. This pivotal album, which documents a personal and artistic crossroads for its author, cements her status as a truth teller, and no matter how bitter or disturbing the story leading to the truth may be, she approaches it clear-eyed and straight-on, getting down to the nub of it with quiet tenacity. No wonder fellow artist Dar Williams, who co-headlined a European tour with Herring in 2006, described her as “the elusive ‘real thing.’”

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Georgia Weithe | Facing Death

August 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Interview with Georgia Lang Weithe [11:16m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Georgia Weithe has found her muse in the word reflection and it has informed all of her professional and personal choices. Reflection, with its dual distinct meanings: meditative—the inner and spiritual journey she takes with her clients. And as in the world of physics: light striking back against a surface—her personal quest for the source of the light that illuminates her path through this life.Georgia’s work shows her commitment to healing, both in the field of education and in her private practice. She is a certified teacher, and since founding the Reflections Educational Consulting Firm in 1988, she has appeared as a guest speaker presenting workshops on a variety of topics to professionals in the fields of education and health care. Most recently she has enjoyed a ten-year affiliation with the Center for Courage and Renewal’s Courage to Teach Program, created by the Fetzer Institute.Georgia is a certified Well-Springs Facilitator, and has a private practice in which she incorporates the Well-Springs massage, Reiki and Healing Touch.She could not have foreseen that all of her professional experiences would have a common theme: guiding people back to themselves. Her courage in exploring her own inner landscape has made her, for others in her life, a pilgrim spirit—a colleague and friend who journeys into the unknown and beckons others to travel with her. It is this quality of spirit that led her to write her book, Shining Moments—Finding Hope in Facing Death.In all of her life’s work, Georgia offers up a remarkable degree of reflection about things that matter. Not surprisingly, having accompanied her father on his final journey to his death, she uncovered some rare observations about the art of living.When not otherwise engaged, Georgia creates her own line of Reflections Jewelry. She has been married for more than 30 years and has two grown children.

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Charles Jacobs | Retirement Writing

August 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Interview with Charles Jacobs [10:54m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Some 50 years ago, Charles began his career

as a stringer and reporter for the

New York Journal-American to help

put himself through Columbia College

and earn a Masters Degree

at the University’s famed

Pulitzer Graduate School of Journalism

Charles’ credentials reach from coast to coast.

He rose to the prestigious position of

Publisher/President of the Alameda Newspaper

Group in the San Francisco region, and later

served as CEO of the Garden State Newspaper

Group, publisher of the North Jersey Herald &

News and Editor-in-Chief of FOCUS, a million

circulation magazine in New Jersey.

He has served as a consultant to magazines and

newspapers, has ghost-written several

books and is the author of

the published novel Blood Bond

Charles has taught classes in writing for magazines

and newspapers and has served as guest speaker

for a variety of organizations and at writers conferences

sponsored by the National Writers Association

More than 750 of Charles’ articles have appeared

in magazines and newspapers throughout the country

from the Los Angeles Times on the West Coast to

the New York Times in the East, as well as in Canada

Travel publications throughout the United States

and in Canada have carried Charles’ articles.

He has written for Grand Circle and Overseas Adventure

Travel, and has served as Editor-in-Chief of

Travel World International

Charles’ writing has been honored

with numerous awards

from the Society of Professional Journalists,

New Jersey Press Club, Working Press Association

And the North American Travel Journalists Association

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Laura Duksta | I Love You More

August 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Interview with Laura Duksta [33:26m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Laura enjoys nothing more than sharing her story with others, inspiring them to know that if she can do it so can they. Laura has presented her program, “Self-Esteem through Love: Empowering our Children to Shine” to 1000’s of students, educators and administrators across the country. She is able to sprinkle her story of becoming an author with bits of wisdom that people of any age can use to achieve any dream. She speaks to all types of women’s auxiliary groups, charitable foundations, support groups, etc., at which she shares how her biggest challenge, losing her hair, eventually became her biggest blessing. This helps people see what might be possible when they bring love to what’s being experienced as a challenge or a negative situation. She inspires marketing and sales teams to know that there’s nothing that can’t be accomplished with a plan, a few prayers and a lot of love. And, she of course speaks to aspiring authors and publishers sharing her story of how she went from bartender to best-selling author. She prepares her audience for what might be at times a roller coaster of ride, but certainly one that’s worth it.

Laura has spoken for The Learning Annex, The National Alopecia Areata Foundation, The Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, The National Association of Women’s Writers (Florida chapter), Gilda’s Club, Xango New School (network marketing event where she shared the stage with Keynote T. Harv Eker), emceed the South Beach Wine and Food Festival Kidz Kitchen (with Rachel Ray, Alton Brown, Emril and Giatta), as well as having had presented dozens of school visits and author workshops across the country.

Laura believes that love is the answer. She sees the world as a classroom where we have chosen to come and grow ourselves to the next level of awareness.. This world is one of duality and when we learn to embrace both the happiness and sadness, the good and bad, the war and peace, the challenge and opportunity, we will no longer be stopped by our circumstances but will be inspired to co-create with our Higher Selves. It is in this state that we are grateful for the events and experiences in our lives because we are able to see how they all serve our own personal growth and add to global evolution. What would happen if we understood that life is happening exactly as it was meant to, so that we may learn lessons of compassion, understanding, wisdom and contribution. If everything “worked” the way that we might envision that it “should” there would be no room for growth. We would no longer have to be here-you might say we would become “enlightened,” when that happens we will have transformed into The Light. This is not to say that we are not working towards transforming and healing our planet, but when we do this from the space that there is something wrong we come from fear and force and things aren’t necessarily transformed they are changed or fixed. Yet, when we can create and come from a place of love we will cause quantum leaps in consciousness. Love has the ability to heal the planet, though it will take a group of committed individuals to create a vision and take action. We are the ones and now is the time!

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Peter Webb | Rainbows End

August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Interview with Peter Webb [8:22m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Peter Webb grew up in England with five other siblings during the Second World War. During the Blitz on London the government recommended evacuation out of the target area, so he with two brothers and a sister moved to North Wales. They returned to their home in Upminster after the firestorm was over. At eighteen he served in Her Majesty’s Royal Navy during the Suez crisis. At twenty-seven he emigrated with his young family to Canada in 1964 and six years later he and his family adopted Canada as their permanent home and became Canadian Citizens. This was the beginning of a journey that exceeded their dreams. Rainbows End is his fourth book that captures this amazing journey through life to retirement when he began his long promised hobby of writing novels.In Rainbow’s End, the writer invites the reader to join him in tracing his life story from the earliest recollection at two years of age through to retirement. It describes a traumatic experience, a number of trials and unexpected and unwanted early responsibilities throughout his teenage years. There were times of heartache and disenchantment suffered through witnessing his siblings being torn apart through his mother’s extreme pride and almost fatal obsession. Then in his late twenties, having the courage to emigrate with his own young family to Canada to escape a depressive and negative environment that seemed to feed on itself. They left the security of a home and a good job for an unfamiliar lifestyle in Canada. This proved to be the right decision, as changes occurred that sent them on an incredible journey full of opportunities and challenges that they could not have imagined. The life in their adopted country has exceeded their dreams. Find out more information on the web at www.outskirtspress.com

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John Straley | Alaska & Mystery

August 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Interview with John Straley [18:00m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Novelist John Straley has worked as a secretary, horseshoer, wilderness guide, trail crew foreman, millworker, machinist and private investigator.He moved to Sitka, Alaska in 1977 and has no plans of leaving. John’s wife, Jan Straley, is a marine biologist well-known for her extensive studies of humpback whales.John’s first book, The Woman Who Married a Bear, was published in 1993 and won the Shamus Award for the Best First Mystery of that year. His third book, The Music of What Happens Finn. You can also find the Straley family on their sometimes second home, the Phalarope.Visit his website at www.johnstraley.com for more information

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