Each episode, I interview people who are, in some way, providing change in the world through service. Be inspired by ways of creating change that are within your reach. Learn how you can level up your contribution right away.
Linda Kohanov is an author and equine-facilitated learning facilitator whose message about non-predatory power - derived from years of studying and relating to horses in their natural social communities - could be a life-changing resource for humanity.
Andrea Leda has been called "the Life Coach Guru" and "a force to be reckoned with who truly makes this world go round." As a sought-after master coach, teacher, and mentor, she is dedicated to helping people understand that no matter where your life takes you, you are worth being brave with your life. Jena Coray is an intuitive energy worker who helps stressed-out creatives find more balance, ease and freedom from the inside out. She offers distance energy healing sessions and a one-on-one coaching program to help people learn how to harness the power of their intuition to guide them in everyday, busy life.
Andrea Leda has been called "the Life Coach Guru" and "a force to be reckoned with who truly makes this world go round." As a sought-after master coach, teacher, and mentor, she is dedicated to helping people understand that no matter where your life takes you, you are worth being brave with your life. Jena Coray is an intuitive energy worker who helps stressed-out creatives find more balance, ease and freedom from the inside out. She offers distance energy healing sessions and a one-on-one coaching program to help people learn how to harness the power of their intuition to guide them in everyday, busy life.
Chad Brown is an accomplished documentary style portrait and adventure photographer, creative director, conservationist, and founder/president of a non-profit organization. He has a strong vein when it comes to outdoor adventure travel and documenting threatened wild spaces, as well as connecting the public to endangered areas by capturing and showing the true spirit of the people of these lands. He also produces intense, raw images of stylized dramatic documentary portraits by creatively using a bold approach, unique angles, and dramatic lighting. He is deeply interested in capturing moments of passion and the human spirit. Through his striking documentary portraits and photographic exhibitions, he showcases and advocates for social and environmental justice. He studied communication design and photography at American Intercontinental University. He then attended Pratt Institute in NYC, where he earned Masters of Science in Communication Design. He has managed interdisciplinary teams as a creative director, art director and photographer for design firms and agencies as well as a freelance artist. His work has crossed into underground hip hop, fashion, and pop culture, photographing the streets of NYC and successfully presenting to one of the nation’s leading hip-hop culture business moguls, Russell Simmons, founder of Phat Farms. Brown worked directly with Run Athletics, developing creative campaigns and executing photoshoots. He is also an editorial photographer for the New York Times. His photography adventure assignments have lead him touring Japan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, and Bangladesh. He is also part of the less than 1% of world population who had been to Antartica. In fact, he has received the Antartica Service Medal for surviving more than 30 days on the Antarctic continent while he was serving in the Navy. After leaving the hustle of New York City, he is now residing in Portland, Oregon. His career paths and his life have expanded beyond the realm of the traditional creative world. Mother Nature has played a significant role in his healing from war traumas he experienced as a Navy service member. His failed suicide attempt eventually led him to the launching of a non-profit organization unlike any other, called Soul River Inc. Soul River specializes in outdoors education and cultural expeditions Brown calls deployments. It brings together at-risk youth and Veterans as mentors and takes them into threatened wild spaces, providing mission-driven experiences where advocacy and outdoor education meet. His work has lead him to Capitol Hill, advocating for our public lands and wild places, bringing youth leaders of tomorrow and giving them an opportunity to interface with Congressional members. Brown is a Boardmember of the National Wildlife Refuge Association. He has been featured on BBC, CBS, as well as in national publications such as Outside Magazine and The Drake, and in various Pacific Northwest publications. Additionally, Brown was the first recipient of the Breaking Barriers Award Presented by Orvis, as well as the Bending Toward Justice Award from Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley.
Nanci Luna Jiménez is recognized regionally, nationally, and internationally for her highly effective and insightful training, inclusive facilitation, and dynamic speaking with groups of diverse ages, industries, and cultural backgrounds. She founded Luna Jiménez Institute for Social Transformation (LJIST) in 1994 to design and deliver programs to encourage individuals in their process of personal transformation, releasing individual initiative to create a more just and equitable workplace and world. Nanci’s signature approach to social justice and healing continues the legacy of work that Dr. Erica Sherover-Marcuse, who coined the term “unlearning racism,” began and Lillian Roybal Rose, M.Ed., recognized Cross-Cultural Communication specialist, continued. This process empowers participants to take pride in their own heritage as a means of building alliances with others. Nanci expertly combines these teachings with methodologies developed by the Institute for Cultural Affairs (ICA), an international organization that provides training in participatory group facilitation processes for sustained organizational and social change. A Certified Professional Facilitator© since 2006, Nanci facilitates individuals and groups to look freshly at where they might be stuck while supporting them to make transformational changes they envision through: personal healing, cross cultural communication, group consensus, organization inclusion, and short and long term planning and implementation. In 2016 Nanci was a Fellow in the Presidio Institute’s Cross Sector Leadership Program. In 2006 she was awared a National Hispana Leadership Institute (NHLI) Fellowship where she completed the Executive Leadership Program through the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the Center for Creative Leadership in Brussels, Belgium. Of Puerto Rican and Chicana heritage, Nanci was born in Detroit, MI, and raised in Detroit and Tucson, AZ. Nanci thrives doing Bomba—an Afro-Puerto Rican dance and drum tradition—traveling, weight lifting, training for half marathons and practicing yoga—on and off the mat.
Marpessa Allen is a community leader, birth worker, and advocate for disadvantaged populations in the greater Denver area. In this conversation, we discuss leadership through the lens of oppression, and what it means to find your voice.
Kate Neligan is an equine-partnered life/career coach, writer, and speaker who is devoted to the human-animal bond. She bridges leadership strategy with spiritual psychology in her work with corporate teams and organizations to help create healthier cultures that thrive. Kate pairs her intuitive gifts with those of horses to build stronger teams and leaders through mindfulness and communication skills. She is a TEDx speaker, best-selling author, Founder of Synergy TV, and left her VP marketing role in corporate entertainment to pursue her calling in personal and professional development.
Dr. Leticia Nieto’s book Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment: A Developmental Strategy to Liberate Everyone, helps analyze the psychological dynamics of privilege and oppression, and describes ways to develop skills to promote social justice. Leticia has been working for over three decades as a counselor and educator. She is a Professor in the Master of Arts in Counseling Program at Saint Martin’s University and Artistic Director of Pasajer@s Playback Theatre. She speaks and trains on topics of diversity and anti-oppression in the Northwest, nationally, and internationally. She is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (LMFT), a National Certified Counselor (NCC), a certified Trainer, Educator, and Practitioner (TEP) in psychodrama, an Accredited Playback Theatre Trainer (APTT), and has the Approved Supervisor Designation from the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT).
Adam is an executive leadership coach specializing in working with the Smartest People in the Room. A former software developer and attorney, Adam’s learned the hard way about the costs that come from keeping your heart safe and chasing after external rewards to feel whole and complete. From love, Adam is connection, passion, presence, wit and brilliance. From fear, he is awkward, robotic, apathetic, irrelevant and arrogant. He’s learned to embrace all these parts of himself, and works with others to do the same in their own lives. Living with his beautiful wife and their two dogs (one of which is a cat) in Victoria, B.C., He is a man on a mission to bring the world to a more inspired and fully-expressed place.
Evan is a creative & social leader focused on building new solutions. He believes in collaboration & collective impact, with community-based art non-profit, I Paint My Mind at the center. In this episode, we discuss the power of art, yes, but also the power of trusting yourself and the guidance you might get from that one key person in life.
Lucy bought Alchemy of Movement (AOM) in 2010, a dance studio in Boulder, CO, after receiving her master’s degree in Psychology from Naropa University. Her Psychological background led to the birth of Dance To Be Free (DTBF) due to the therapeutic and cathartic quality of her teaching style. In March of 2015, Lucy founded DTBF along with her Board of Directors. Dance To Be Free’s mission is to share the healing power of dance with women in prison nationwide. The cathartic choreography and passionate music leads to physical, spiritual and emotional healing without the burden of talking! Their program launched at the Denver Women’s Correctional Facility in July of 2015 and has grown into weekly classes and a teacher-training program. Since their inception, DTBF has expanded to 8 states (NE, WA, HI, MS, FL, VA, TN and AR) with our Teacher-Training program, certifying over 400 prisoners as dance teachers.
Anya Hankin is a facilitator, leadership mentor, and creative catalyst. Anya is the creator of the Catalyst Leadership Immersion — an in-person cohort supporting emerging and evolving leaders as they hone their facilitation skills, uplift their unique leadership style, and build their signature offer. Over the last twenty years, Anya has experienced first-hand the abundant potential that happens when we gather — for healing, for belonging, for radical accountability, for truth-telling, for hope-filled possibility — and she knows that together we can redefine what it means to rise.
Lefford Fate is a retired Air Force Chief Master Sergeant who is now an author, Ted speaker, and life coach. He currently runs the Support Services for the city of Sumter, South Carolina, where he seeks to revolutionize the way we look at our prison system, our mental health system, and our approach to mind set.
Dorice Horenstein is a Jewish educator, turned speaker and author of Moments of The Heart: Four Relationships Everyone Should Have to Live Wholeheartedly. Horenstein was born and raised in Israel and moved to Portland after serving as an officer in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and after meeting her soon-to-be husband while volunteering on a kibbutz. She worked in education for more than 30 years, teaching more than 1,000 students in private and class settings. She received her Bachelor’s degree in English Literature, and certificates in Linguistics and Project Management from Portland State University. Today, the world is her classroom as she uses her unique communicative style and her knowledge in helping others foster the four relationships everyone should experience to live wholeheartedly! She speaks to all groups who wish to live a better, more focused and enjoyable life! A life with a purpose. She enjoys Israeli folk dancing and spending time with family and friends. Her work has been praised by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, best-selling author of more than 15 books on Jewish ethics and literacy. Telushkin states, “The book is very powerful and very beautiful. What I have read is passionate, very spiritual, and well-reasoned, three things that don’t always go together. I particularly love the analysis of the word matzpun [conscience] and its variety of related meanings, and I was profoundly moved by the journey you took and how you came to write this book.”
A true social entrepreneur, Lou Radja continues to work tirelessly to help individuals and teams thrive at the intersection of success & significance. A recognized and award winning Motivational Speaker and founder of Lou Radja Enterprises, Mr. Radja’s trainings on leadership, personal growth, diversity and service inspire and equip audiences around the world, to Be More and Give More. As Founder and Executive Director of EduCongo, a U.S. based nonprofit organization; Lou’s energy is also devoted to generating awareness and support to provide quality education for over 2,000 underprivileged children in the Congo. A graduate of Portland State University where he studied International Affairs with a focus on development challenges and opportunities in today’s globalized world. Lou is a member and Past President of the Portland Pearl Rotary Club and serves on various nonprofit boards in the community. Lou and his wife Stacy are proud parents of two boys, Yenga and Senda!
Rukaiyah Adams is the Chief Investment Officer at Meyer Memorial Trust, one of the largest charitable foundations in the Pacific Northwest. She is responsible for leading all investment activities to ensure the long-term financial strength of the organization. Throughout her tenure as CIO, Ms. Adams has delivered top quartile performance; and beginning in 2017, her team hit its stride delivering an 18.6% annual return, which placed her in top 5% of foundation and endowment CIOs. Under the leadership of Ms. Adams, Meyer increased assets managed by diverse managers by more than 3x, to 40% of all assets under management, and women managers by 10x, to 25% of AUM, proving that hiring diverse managers is not a concessionary practice. Before joining Meyer, Ms. Adams ran the $6.5 billion capital markets fund at The Standard, a publicly traded company. At the Standard, she oversaw six trading desks that included several bond strategies, preferred equities, derivatives and other risk mitigation strategies. Ms. Adams is the chair of the prestigious Oregon Investment Council, the board that manages approximately $100 billion of public pension and other assets for the State of Oregon. During her tenure as chair, the Oregon state pension fund has been the top-performing public pension fund in the United States. The top-of-class performance was made possible by a series of strategic changes, overseen by Ms. Adams, that boosted returns and decreased risk. Ms. Adams serves on the boards of directors of the Albina Vision Trust, the Self Enhancement, Inc. Foundation and Oregon Public Broadcasting, where she also serves on the investment committee. She has engaged in pro bono legal work on behalf of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, the Homeless Prenatal Program in San Francisco, and the Children’s Defense Fund. Her 2016 Ted talk — A Homegirl’s Guide to Being Powerful — about her path to becoming a more thoughtful investor and the role of investment capital in achieving social justice has more than 10,000 views. Ms. Adams holds a BA with academic distinction from Carleton College, a Juris Doctorate from Stanford Law School, where she was on the Law and Policy Review and the Co-President of the Law Student Association, and a Masters of Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she served as the CEO of Challenge for Charity. She has received many accolades, but is most proud of being named a Woman of Distinction by the Portland Business Journal in 2017.
Philip Folsom is an anthropologist, culture development expert, veteran, and CEO of Wolf Tribe a division of Philip Folsom Programs. He is also the founder of Human Kind—a holistic consulting agency, as well as SPARTA, a critically acclaimed PTSD and suicide prevention program for warriors. Philip is known for his unique Tribe workshop that focuses on the primary culture components of building healthy and high performing teams. His work regularly includes innovative adventure programming such as vision quests, caving, high ropes challenge courses, Zen archery, and workshops with real horses and wolves. Philip Folsom’s reputation in the team development world is legendary. His in person events and seminars have dramatically improved the lives of over 500,000 people. His current clients include Microsoft, Apple, Snapchat, Fox Pictures, and Space X. Philip has sat on numerous boards including Red Bull’s High Performance Department. His work is regularly featured on television and podcasts. Philip works regularly with groups from USC and is a regular contributor to Marshall School of Business, including the Masters of Business for Veterans program. He lives with his wife, daughter, and black lab in Venice Beach, California.
Kerry David is the documentary filmmaker at the helm of a ground-breaking anti-poaching film, Breaking Their Silence, which illuminates several women-lead anti-poaching organizations and their brave missions.
Scott Fauble is a professional runner with Hoka One One NAZ Elite in Flagstaff, Arizona. He recently finished 7th at the Boston Marathon, claiming the 11th-fastest time for a US marathoner ever. In this interview, Scott and I dive into the existential layers of process over outcome, performance mindset in community, and the value of pro sports in today's humanity.
Elizabeth Nye is the Executive Director at Girls, Inc Pacific Northwest, an affiliate of Girls, Inc. This organization provides after-school leadership development for girls at a time when it couldn't be more critical. This episode details Elizabeth's personal journey to leadership for the next generation of powerful women, as well as insight that might surprise you about why this mission is so important.
Alex Coren is the co-founder and chief innovation officer of Wambi, an employee recognition platform for health care environments powered by the voices of patients and their families. While Alex was the Director of Patient Experience at a company caring for catastrophically ill, medically complex patients within multiple acute-care hospitals, it was her responsibility to ensure patients and their families had the best possible experiences during their stay. Through her observations, she realized that patient satisfaction was highly dependent on interactions with caregivers. At the time, Alex also discovered that caregivers at each of the facilities shared that there was poor morale, which influenced their energy levels. In addition, administration was beginning to connect its poor caregiver job satisfaction with turnover and how this impacted patient care and their bottom line. In an attempt to improve satisfaction among caregivers and ultimately patient experience, Alex met with caregivers across each of the facilities to understand the root cause of this lack of engagement, and it became clear that it was mainly due to not feeling appreciated for their hard and life-changing work. This is when Alex decided to create and build a caregiver recognition system that would service to increase engagement, improve morale, and ultimately provide better caregiver-patient experiences. Under Alex’s vision, Wambi was created to emphasize the incredible impact that caregivers’ compassion can play within the patient recovery process. Alex believes that integrating the voices of patients, families, caregivers, and administrators into a seamless positive feedback loop will successfully bring compassion back to the forefront of healthcare. As the Chief Innovation Officer, Alex conceived of and developed the technology powering Wambi. She oversaw UI design, wire-framing, branding/ graphic development, and testing/ iteration, and worked closely with David Jones, Wambi’s Chief Technology Officer, to bring her vision to fruition. Alex’s dream for Wambi is to infuse mindfulness and compassion into the healthcare industry by recognizing compassionate care, all in hopes to elevate patient and family experiences.
Michael Welp is the co-founder of White Men as Full Diversity Partners (wmfdp.com), an organization that seeks to build awareness, skills, and, ultimately, equity within the power of white maleness. He has authored the book Four Days to Change and has produced a Ted Talk about white advocacy. In this episode, Michael shares about his journey in owning his own white maleness as well as the important opportunity white men have today to make a big impact in the world.
What exactly is "whiteness" and where did it come from?! What can be done about it in this world today? Since 2001, Tad Hargrave has been wrestling with and exploring the complicated and thorny mess that is whiteness, white privilege and white guilt. Between Sept 2004 – Feb 2006, Tad dedicated himself to learning his ancestral language, Scottish Gaelic, in both Nova Scotia and Scotland. He can speak Gaelic pretty well now. He also runs a blog called Healing from Whiteness as well as a Facebook group of the same name. He is a co-founder of the Nova Scotia Gael's Jam and co-starred in Canada's second Gaelic language film The Fiddler's Reel. He does improv comedy semi-professionally, co-runs Edmonton’s progressive community building network TheLocalGood.ca, foundedstreetcarshows.com, indigodrinks.ca, socialyogiyeg.com, and the Jams program of yesworld.org. He speaks Scottish Gaelic and helps to run novascotiagaelsjam.com and is also a huge Doctor Who nerd. Tad currently lives in Edmonton, Alberta (traditionally known, in the local indigenous language of the Cree, as Amiskwaciy (Beaver Hill) and later Amiskwaciwaskihegan (Beaver Hill House) and his ancestors come primarily from Scotland with some from the Ukraine as well. He is drawn to conversations around politics, history, ancestry, healing and how those all intersect.
Is our current therapeutic model limited? Do we, as clients, have the chance to create community while we heal and develop? These are some of the questions my guest, Alysa Romano, founder of Home Wellness PDX addresses in this interview.
Scarlett Lewis is a mom who lost her 6 year-old son, Jessie, in the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut. Listen in for an incredible story of courage and heart that has her on a path to revolutionize social-emotional learning in schools across the world.
Anna Twinney is an animal communicator and natural horsemenship trainer who has dedicated her life to raising awareness of the magic and importance of wild horses. In this episode, we discuss everything from her learning as a young unarmed British police officer to the politics of mare's urine and why you should care about all of it.
In this episode, idea platform speaker coach, Nathan Eckel shares about his experience interviewing many of the best and most successful Ted speakers out there. He shares about the power of courage, voice, and believing and refining your idea worth spreading.
Learn how one man founded a non-profit that has been changing the lives of young folks for 10 years. Ian discusses the power of music, community, and more centrally, how acknowledgment can completely change the course of someone's life.
Laura Haug is an amazing healer, but she's also just like you - a person trying to make her way through a stimulating world. Listen in and you can learn how your sensitivity can be a strength and how you can be both sensitive and healthy in today's world.
Sarah Corbett is a Craftivist - that's right, she combines art with powerful social messaging. Her campaigns have created legislative change in both the U.K. and Spain, and her approach can be used by anyone, any time, anywhere. Listen in and learn how you can do activism with respect, creativity, and influence.
Armando Cruz is a connoisseur of experiences, husband, father, adventurer, best-selling author, ultra-marathoner, lifestyle physical therapist, and legacy coach. Armando helps growth-minded, married men live happier, more connected, and more fulfilled lives through his immersive coaching program that guides them to show up powerfully in their marriage, in their health, in their business, and in creating their purposeful legacy. Armando's unique approach helps strip away the clutter both internally and externally that stops men from showing up daily as the greatest and grandest version of who they are for themselves, their family, and their legacy. He is the creator of the Cleanse & Renewal Program, the Modern Man Virtual Summit, and the R.I.C.H. Man Experience. He is the co-owner of Cruz Country Fitness & Physical Therapy with his wife, Christian. Armando has climbed mountains, run over 50 miles in a day in swamps filled with snakes and alligators, has lived out of his car, and has rollerbladed and surfed in hurricanes but his biggest adventure has been fatherhood. He is the proud dad of three amazing children and has been married for over 11, years to his beautiful wife, Christian.
Julie Akeret is a documentary film-maker discussing her latest national PBS special, G is for Gun, The Arming of School Teachers. In this episode, Julie and I explore her personal experience making such an emotionally-charged film, her efforts to present objectivity, and what this film has revealed to her about the crisis of US public schools and the middle class. https://gisforgunthefilm.com http://www.bullfrogfilms.com
ShaRon Rea is a Family Relationships Coach and Founder of a growing movement, No Judgment, Just Love. In this interview, you'll here: - How judgment and love effect relationships with self, other, earth, animals, and environment. - Three core values that break down any human-made barrier to relationship. - It's what we do after the judgment that determines whether we're more separate or more connected. - How addressing behavior change in children begins with you the parent - How our word choice can radically impact our reality and our motivation as leaders of families. nojudgmentjustlove.com
Joe Shoemaker is a Transformational Coach who specializes in working with women. His clients want to work with him because he's a man trying to do his part to support women. In this interview, you'll learn: - The how and why of Joe's belief that females may be "limitless" - The rise of the feminine - The importance of seizing the opportunity of being on the cusp of cultural shifts around gender shoemakerjoe.com http://www.shoemakerjoe.com/womensimmersion (women's immersion)
Brittany DeJean is the Creator of AbleThrive.com, a world-changing website designed to support and connect people with disabilities. Whether you identify as having a disability or not, her work is geared towards raising consciousness about how our own beliefs and assumptions may interfere with our shared interest in connection and compassion. This interview may: - Challenge your assumptions and beliefs about people living with disabilities. - Raise your awareness about how your own view of disabilities can improve your inclusion consciousness in general. - Illuminate the importance of moving from sympathy to empathy as an ally. - Encourage you to explore your own struggles with how the world sees you as a source of building empathy.
Dr. Ellis Jones is a political scientist-turned sociologist, who, for 17+ years, has been studying the power of consumer consciousness on the US democracy. He is the creator of the wildly-successful Better World Shopper app and written guide, which aims to provide objective and accurate data on the social responsibility rating of various companies. In this interview, you'll hear: - Why the ethical consumer movement is working - Where you have power as a consumer even though you may not feel powerful. - How spending an extra dollar or two on companies like Seventh Generation impacts the world. - How you can change the world without spending more money
Lea Ann Mallett is a life-long environmental activist and TedX speaker who, through becoming a mother, had to redefine what activism means to her. In this illuminating interview on the new activism, you'll hear about: - Radical Activism of Parenting - Myth that "activism is hard" - make it easy! - How to shift from "good guy/bad guy" reality into bridging
Jennifer Alyse is a unique entrepreneur - an artist who has combined social impact work with creating income. In this interview, we explore how her willingness to live a bold, less-attached life, has created the freedom for her to make more money and impact than ever.
Houston Kraft is the co-creator of Character Strong, a compassion-based curriculum now being taught in 250+ schools in the US. In this conversation we get to the heart of how teaching our nation's youth how to relate to peers with compassion could be a big key in turning the tide of adult isolation, depression, and violence.
Danielle LaRock is a Breakthrough Practitioner whose path to personal discovery and healing has lead her to a mission of helping other healers. In this interview, we discuss the critical role healers of all types can play on a disparate and divided planet. Danielle also shares from first-hand experience about how spiritual and emotional injuries can effect us physically, and why it is so important to understand and repair the self on all levels.
Morgan Rich is a life coach and passionate supporter of adolescent boys. In this episode he shares about his upbringing as a man and what he thinks the world needs now from men and in support of men.
Darcie Klassen is an educator and founder of Girls Are Heroes, a new on-line resource for parents and educators interested in empowering girls of all ages. In this episode you might learn: - Surprising messages conveyed even by media for young kids - How you can help steer your child towards media resources supporting empowered female characters - About how a former public school teacher combined personal and professional experience, sprinkled in some courage, and created a powerful resource for anyone interested in raising awareness around how women are represented in pop media.
Michael Lloyd-White never intended to be a leader of a global movement. One day while visiting a school yard, he stumbled into a calling that has lead him to be one of the world leaders of the kindness organization, World Kindness. Starting in his native Australia, he is now poised to bring World Kindness more firmly into the US. In this episode you may learn: - A more complete definition of the word 'kindness' - How acts of kindness can be acknowledged - How terrorism as an organizational model has inspired the kindness movement. - How you can be a kinder person in action today
Sonja Skvarla is the amazing creator of A Social Ignition, a non-profit mentoring and coaching program for prison inmates. In this episode, Sonja shares how her life experience lead her to working on a mission she never imagined, and how one simple approach to action could revolutionize your impact in the world.
Angie Louthan is a mother of two who started the KindFest in Seattle, WA. In this conversation, Angie relates the incredible rock bottom she hit as a working mom and how it became the bedrock for her vision to transform the world through kindness and compassion.
Jessica Williams is the creator of the Superwoman Summit, an annual event held in Portland, Oregon, designed to elevate the consciousness and empowerment of all women. In this conversation, Jessica shares deeply about her own path through adversity to empowerment and about many ways that women can activate their potential in the modern world. We also discuss how men can play a critical role.
Andrew Hinton is an Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker currently based in Portland, Oregon. Andrew’s most recent work is the acclaimed documentary “Tashi and the Monk,” a film that explores a Tibetan monk’s calling to create a school for underserved children. At the core of Andrew’s mission is for his work to provide more solutions to the world’s problems, the latter of which he believes are represented amply in film work, the former, not enough. In our episode, Andrew and I discuss: - How he was sparked to make films - What it took to go from inspiration to actualization of his dream - The theme of finding sources of compassion in the world - Inspiring people towards action - Facing adversity - His journey through the making of “Tashi and The Monk”
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