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TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/G5gMEO3yW9gThe Conscious Man Project is dedicated to supporting men on their spiritual journey by providing platforms for them to share their experiences and challenges and a safe space to always find peer-to-peer support.to join email listhttps://www.consciousmanproject.comto join facebook grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/consciousmanproject
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/ydcuOhsEsdoJeff sits down with comedian Mona Aburmishan as she shares very deeply about her Journey in comedy, about her evolution, and about how she has connected with Source and with higher Consciousness through the performance of her craft.To learn more about Mona, her comedy, and her work, visithttps://monacomedy.comhttps://www.instagram.com/monaspix/?hl=enhttps://twitter.com/monaaburmishan?lang=enhttps://youtube.com/c/MonaComedyMona is an international comedian based in her hometown of Chicago.She performs, emcees, and produces comedy shows, competitions and events in major clubs, theaters and universities around the world. In addition to comedy, Mona is a sought-after speaker for her expertise in using stand-up comedy to bring joy and affinity to various socio-political topics in the United States, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Most notably, Mona is America's first internationally honed stand-up comedian. Similarly, she is the first Arab and Muslim woman to perform stand-up comedy in the nation's most prestigious institutions: Carnegie Hall in New York City as well as the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC as well as private events for diplomatic agencies.She has a Master's in International Development and is fluent in English, German and Arabic and performs in these languages. Living and working around the world, Mona uses her global insight and homegrown Chicago-style urban & sub-urban perspective, that offers a fresh look at shifting frustration into funny.In addition to regularly performing in the US, Canada, EU, UK and the Middle East, Mona is a sought-after headliner on the African continent. Becoming a regular in the South African market, Mona works regularly with comedians and multi-media personalities throughout South Africa's major cities: Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town. As for Northern Africa and Middle East, Mona was a featured guest on the wildly successful “Al Bernameg” with host Dr. Bassem Youssef's ground-breaking satirical news program (once North Africa's version of “The Daily Show”); as well as headlined Comedy Central's Season 2 and 3, Premier “Comedy Central Present: Stand-Up Al Waggif” filmed on location in Dubai, UAE - featured throughout the Middle East and Africa. She was the first female to headline this revolutionary series produced by Viacom.State side, Mona is a regular host and headliner throughout the Midwest, Northeast, South and West Coasts of US. While touring Mona always checks in with Chicago based media was a consistent featured guest on “Pretty Late with Patti Vasquez” Chicago's #1 late-night radio show WGN 720 Radio as well as a regular feature on Chicago's #1 daytime talk show, Windy City Live!Globally, Mona launched Class Clowns® “Comedy & Culture Series” a stand-up comedy, improv, spoken word & writing workshop for CORPORATE AMERICA looking to reinvigorate and pivot their corporate family into a productive 2021. These workshops are dual-development model whereby the same workshop will be offered to a community group, school or charity of the company's choosing.She is currently working with the University of Chicago to teach medical students comedy skills to relate better to their patients and overcome racism and income disparities“Leadership isn't just the person on stage talking into a microphone, it's everyone aroundthat person making sure the microphone is on and the person is seen & heard!”Mona is also a trained and professional medium and channeler.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/wNFhgDEGQ3oJeff sits down with intuitive artist and spiritual teacher Jo Jayson as she shares very deeply about her practice, her work, and her Journey.To learn more about Jo and her work, visithttp://www.jojayson.comhttps://www.facebook.com/JOJAYSONARThttps://www.instagram.com/jojaysonartisthttps://www.pinterest.com/jojaysonartistBritish born Jo Jayson is a self-taught, intuitive painter, teacher and author. She is internationally known and acclaimed for her work on the Sacred Feminine and is the author of the award-winning book ‘Self-Love Through the Sacred Feminine' and the accompanying oracle deck. Through her paintings she teaches self-healing, and self-development to women worldwide, and she sells her paintings, prints, guidance cards, and meditation tools internationally. She has lived in New York for over 20 years and continues to expand her work on the Feminine with a new Zodiac series in progress.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/pKMYW4Oj19oJeff sits down with Wendy De Rosa, author of Becoming an Empowered Empath, as she shares very deeply about her Journey and evolution and about some very formative lessons that she learned along the way.Visit her online athttp://www.wendyderosa.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/schoolofintuitivestudies Twitter: https://twitter.com/wendyderosa Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wendyderosa YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/wendyde8684 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendy-de-rosa-9093b2a/ Wendy De Rosa is the author of Becoming an Empowered Empath. The founder of The School of Intuitive Studies, she has been helping people develop intuition and experience personal transformation for over two decades. Wendy is a popular faculty member at the Shift Network and has filmed two programs for MindValley’s spiritual growth channel. She lives in Longmont, Colorado.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/dcccdhGziJAJeff sits down with Maja Metlicar as she shares very deeply about her Journey, her evolution as a human and Divine being, and some very impactful lessons that she has learned along the way through beginning to work as a practitioner years ago.Maja is a Source codes keeper, spiritual activator and frequency holder. Through her presence and her voice she facilitates the unlocking of dormant codes held within one’s DNA, unleashing a deeper layer of their highest embodiment potential. She feels & reads individual, collective and cosmic frequency, and works multidimensionally. LIght Language, light codes, awareness and anchoring in love as a state of being, are her modalities. That said, her service goes beyond labels. What she essentially does is create and hold a safe container for one to experience themselves in their most authentic and brilliant truth. Connect to Maja through her website:https://www.majametlicar.com
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/2ULT7ThyGO8Jeff sits down with Kimberly Palm as she shares very deeply about her Journey, her work, and about the most important realizations that she has had along the way.To learn more about Kimberly and her work, visithttps://spiritualgrowthjourneys.comhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/spiritualgrowthjourneyshttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaffyTt1JkomFs7EBXdmipQ/videos
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/0tSunw3GSsMJeff sits down with Lukaijah to hear him share very deeply about his Journey, evolution, and work with people regarding soul purpose and divine union alignment.To learn more about Lukaijah and his work, visithttps://www.lukaijah.comTo learn more about Divine Union Alchemy, visithttps://divineunionalchemy.comTo contact Lukaijah directly, emailDivineUnionAlchemy@gmail.com
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/WFJ4M7JWu-wJeff sits down with Nick de Zwart as he shares very deeply about his Journey, about his evolution, and how he has been guided to create spaces for men to become more comfortable sharing their emotions, connecting more closely with their intuition, and being vulnerable in new ways.To learn more about Nick, Om & Alpha, and The Conscious Man Project, visithttps://linktr.ee/omandalpha
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/JVZJ6Y39HqcJeff sits down with Yvonne Perry to hear about her Journey, about her evolution, and about her work with people to help them connect more deeply with their Gifts.She also shares deeply about the healing aspect of connecting with Spirit and about the energetic power of gathering together in community.To learn more about Yvonne, visithttps://weare1inspirit.comAs a celestial shaman, Yvonne Perry helps people learn to manage energy, understand soul aspects, access and anchor vibrations of higher realms, transmit their soul's unique frequency, and remember light language as a tool to create positive change in their life and the world.
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TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/ZI6Fr7id--cJeff sits down with Lorraine Goldbloom to hear about her Journey, evolution, and her work with clients and training facilitators in VortexHealing.She also shares some very inspiring and enlightening lessons learned along the way.To learn more about Lorraine and her work, visithttps://lorrainegoldbloom.comFor more information about VortexHealing:https://www.vortexhealing.orgLorraine Goldbloom is a Divine Energy VortexHealing® teacher and facilitator who has been working in the healing arts for more than 20 years. With her intensive background as a personal trainer, yoga instructor and Reiki Master, Lorraine brings forth a breadth and depth of knowledge in regards to the healing world. Her natural ability to work and support people as they experience the transformation of VortexHealing® transmissions in class is evident. With a degree from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and a background in theater, Lorraine has a natural gift for presentation. She has taught throughout the country and also internationally. Lorraine lives in Westchester with her husband.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/pPk0WamRFpMJeff sits down with Joanna Walden to hear about her Journey and evolution and about her work in helping people recalibrate back to their unique blueprint and be who they really are.To learn more about Joanna and her work, visithttps://www.joannawalden.comhttps://www.instagram.com/iamjoannawalden/https://www.facebook.com/iamjoannawaldenhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B086R7C766https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuj8UORM86vTBFleWV0Ne5Ahttps://www.linkedin.com/in/joanna-walden-83b584/https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20183464.Joanna_WaldenJoanna Walden is a consciousness visionary, transformation coach, speaker and author of The Inside Hustle: A Mystical Misfit's Travel Adventure Into The Unknown. Joanna spent twenty years working in a high flying advertising career in New York, London & Melbourne while secretly exploring her passion for the unseen world of energy, spirit and consciousness. Inspired by a series of mystical experiences in her teenage years Joanna explored everything from Transcendental Meditation to quantum physics on a global quest to find her purpose and ultimately her true self, through a process of self-realisation. Currently residing in her hometown of Auckland, New Zealand, Joanna quit her old corporate life to start a transformational consulting business, and begin sharing her knowledge and voice with the world.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/CS7GmKmD5gsJeff sits down with Ursula O'Farrell for an incredibly unique and deep conversation about her Journey and her perspective on the intersection of art and metaphysics.To learn more about Ursula and her work, visithttp://ursulafineart.comBack in the 1950s a group of painters in the San Francisco Bay Area established what came to be known as Bay Area Figurative Painting. Originally David Park, Elmer Bischoff and Richard Diebenkorn, painters who had all done abstract pictures, decided to embark on figuration which was indebted to abstract gesture painting, but looked again the world of appearances for their subjects. They even painted from the life model which simply was not done by the Abstract Expressionists. A second generation, Joan Brown, Manuel Neri, Bruce McGaw and others made this new approach to painting (or sculpting) the human figure, into their own and endowed it with a new spirit. Ursula O’Farrell can be said to represent a third generation which includes Christopher Brown and Roger Hermann. She has made this tradition as the source of her own work. It is important that she looked beyond her immediate environment. She spent a seminal year in Florence and another in Germany and she took a long look at Matisse’s paintings of women and learned how to fuse figuration with abstraction.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/7W15ZChl1ksJeff sits down with Alisha Braché as she shares very deeply and compellingly about her Journey, about very important turning points along the way, and about her service to the world through her work with people to assist them with their Spiritual Awakening and to empower them on their Ascension journeys and what it all means to her on a Divine and human level.To learn more about Alisha and her work, visithttps://www.cosmicg8way.comhttps://www.newearthchildren.orgFrom a young age Alisha was very in tune with her healing and psychic abilities. 20 years ago she started formal studies to develop her intuitive and healing gifts. Over the years Alisha trained in all forms of esoteric and energy techniques (Psychic Mediumship, Trance/Channelling, Energy Healing, Past Life Regression, Reiki, Quantum Healing & many more.)Alisha is also a qualified Holistic Living Counsellor. Since graduating she set up her own practice and have assisted hundreds of clients towards their path of self-mastery.Over the years of travels, studies and working one-on-one with her clients, Alisha formulated her own Energy Alignment techniques which assist with the relief of things like anxiety, depression, fears & phobias, trauma, past life blockages, direction & purpose, physical ailments and much more.Her work now specialises in Energy work to assist people on their own Spiritual Awakening process and Ascension journey.In particular ~ part of her work is specialised to Divine Partnership connections and the children which can come through this Union - Divine Birth as known throughout history, what she calls the ‘ancient way’ returning in various different ways.Alisha is very passionate about supporting people to their own Personal Mastery and becoming more in alignment with their soul’s purpose which assists transitioning humanity towards a better future.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/r6UqRtnY5gsJeff sits down with Prema Shakti to hear about her Journey, her work, and her evolution.She also shares about how her life has changed and what it has been like to work with clients over the years.To learn more about her and her work, visithttps://www.hibiskissayurveda.comPrema Shakti (Haley Kalb), NAMA Certified Āyurvedic Practitioner (CAP), Yoga Alliance E-RYT500, Licensed Massage Therapist and Registered Psychotherapist is a devoted practitioner and disciple of yoga, āyurveda and massage. She guides her students to explore the union of body, mind and spirit through āyurvedic principles, asana (posture), pranayama (breath work), bodywork therapies, energy healing and meditation.Prema maintains specialty certifications as an Āyurvedic Practitioner + Bodyworker, Vedic Counselor, Y12SR (yoga for 12-step recovery) leader, Prison Yoga Project, ĀyurDoula, Restorative Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Yin Yoga, Prenatal Yoga, Stand-up Paddle-board (SUP) Yoga, Reiki Master, Laughter Yoga and is currently working towards her Āyurvedic Doctor designation. Budtender certified in the state of Colorado. Current CPR & AED certified. Prema also sits on the board of COLORAMA (the Colorado Ayurvedic Medical Association) as the Treasurer and on the Seminars in Āyurveda sub-committee through the National Āyurvedic Medical Association (NAMA).Instagram Handles: @prema.shakti.guru @hibiskiss.ayurveda@ayurvedaforaddiction
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/BWxidhv_j30Jeff sits down with Micheila Sheldan to hear her share about her Journey, about her transformation, and about the most important lessons that she has learned along the way.To learn more about Micheila and her work, visithttps://www.micheilasheldan.comDuring a struggle to overcome chronic pain, Micheila awakened to her intuitive gifts, launching a journey to better understand her connection to spirit and the universe. After meeting a very special guide, Jacob, she was lead down a synchronistic path of physical, emotional and spiritual healing, leaving behind her mainstream life to uncover a mission she has brought to this planet in many incarnations. Through her connection to Jacob and many others, Micheila completely healed her pain and stepped solidly onto her soul’s path as a trance channel. She now shares channeled teachings with international audiences through live events, radio and television interviews, live courses, writings and private sessions. Micheila understands that her purpose in this life is to usher lightworkers through a very turbulent and significant dimensional shift on the earth. To accomplish this, she has access to a variety of Guides, Ascended Masters, Teachers, Philosophers, Interdimensional Beings and Collectives, including Mary Magdalene, the Pleiadians , the Council of Light and many others. Micheila channels detailed information about our history, creation, structure, ascension and transition to a fifth dimensional consciousness. She is also able to transmit light coded frequencies and vibrational healings as a vessel for crystalline light through channeled messages and activations. Micheila’s personal mission is to inspire others to fearlessly live their soul’s higher purpose. Having bridged the gap between two completely different dimensional realities, her story inspires audiences to let go of the fear holding them back from embodying their authentic selves and creating a new, more meaningful human experience. Micheila believes she also incarnated as a conduit for Lightworkers to identify and activate their collective assignment or signature imprint. She is able to relay meticulous information about the soul’s path and purpose designed to uplift and activate Lightworkers to create timelines from their higher self’s perspective. She also has the unique ability to relay detailed visions of past life experiences that may be impacting a soul’s current timeline. In conducing private readings, she has experienced astoundingly accurate results. Micheila serves as Executive Director of the Flower of Life Institute, a volunteer organization focused on raising the consciousness of the planet. In this position, Micheila works with volunteers on a variety of projects ranging from conscious action initiatives and youth programs to the organization’s international expo and magazine. She is also the mother of two very gifted teenage daughters and has a passion for meditation, dance, holistic health and spending time in nature.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/k7lTBNuATpIJeff sits down with Seth Leaf Pruzansky to hear him share recent realizations about how we can break our addictions to fear, disempowering news, and self-defeating ways of seeing ourselves and the world around us.He also shares some very nourishing reflections about how we can cultivate a deeper relationship and connection to the Consciousness within each of us.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/-Ceb-86UMzYJeff sits down with Conner Durand as he shares some recent experiences and transformation related to identity and confronting outselves about what and who we are not.They also talk about the fear and disconfort that can result when even the spiritual identity is blown apart and how both we and our lives and Consciousness just unfold and flow as we do when we just live moment to moment without believing anything about who we are, why we are here, and what this life is about.As Conner said, “it’s both the hardest and the easiest thing we can do.”From Conner-"We are the stories we tell ourselves. The views we hold of our pasts obstruct the future of which we are without those views, and this process becomes the boxes of which we all find ourselves living within. What would life be like if we were free to be and free to act without constraint of identity?Confronting ourselves where we are lends us the authenticity to know where we are being inauthentic, and in doing so, collapses the story told about our suffering or celebration. In other words, what’s possible for our lives is governed by our views of it - good or bad. No one wants to lose themselves or their identity. We are who we are with our memories, hopes, dreams and fears, and we find comfort in the mental worlds built that house our lives.In confronting ourselves and understanding where we are not, we are granted the freedom to create in a new space free from the limitation of the stories we think we are so far tied within. We are all the authors of our own stories, and whether we pay attention to this or not, it will continue to unfold – I am suffering told in the story of how Love knows and holds itself, and in as such, I am created into it.Who would you be if you were free from the stories of your past and what stories would you want to tell yourself in your future?"
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/udv_tAxPbdwJeff sits down with artist Kristin Gentry to hear her share about her role in co-curating the upcoming OVAC Momentum exhibit opening April 2nd at Living Arts of Tulsa and about her work and what it all means to hear at a deeper level.To learn more about Kristin and her work, visithttps://www.kristingentry.comBioKristin Gentry is passionate about using her art to create different ways to preserve her traditional Native American tribal culture. Kristin has exhibited her artwork in numerous juried, invited, open, and group shows across the Midwestern United States. She works as a professional visual artist in the areas of relief and monotype printmaking, painting, jewelry and photography. She also works as a writer, designer, and curator. She worked as a full time arts educator in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and now works full time as an artist. Kristin is an enrolled member and registered artist of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Kristin finished M.S. degree in Native Leadership from Southeastern Oklahoma State University in the spring of 2020.She received the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development's 40 under 40 award in 2012. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in fine arts from Oklahoma State University in 2009, and graduated as a Senior of Significance denoting the top of her class. She attained her Associate of Art in education from Tulsa Community College in 2005 as an Honor's Scholar Graduate.Artist StatementShe uses her art to educate and restore the beauty of her people's journey to where they are as Chahta Okla, Choctaw People, today. Through her art she continues to find more of her Indian Identity as a Chahta Ohoyo, Choctaw Woman, and Ishki, Mother. She understands that the need for her cultural art is necessary to the future of her daughter and her people. She works to involve her community through education and being the voice for Native American artists and Native American women in today's society. She is a writer, curator, painter, printmaker, and photographer. She often photographs families in their tribal regalia and creates designs and patterns from traditional clothing in her painting and prints. I stylistically form nature in a way that is in contrast of how many artists rely on realistic representations. Formally, I am very interested in making compositions out of the colors, the positive or negative shapes of the plants and other nature. I am interested in symmetry as it's always present throughout my tribal culture. I emphasize nature's influence by showing the floral patterns from traditional clothing. Through this stylistic approach, my work honors my culture that is found in nature based customs and traditions. I look at our designs and research how they have transformed or remained unchanged to today. I also research the influence of tribal agrarian history of gardened produce and pollination for crops' influence on Native American art and clothing. Through my art I explore how the symbolic meanings of the designs influence our cultural traditions today and influence our larger communities.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/YbYydnXY4nMLaura Hensley and Jeff sit down with Katrina Loos to hear about her life journey, about her evolution, and about her yoga practice. She shares deeply about the most formative lessons that she has learned along the way.Katrina Loos is a yoga teacher in training whose open documentation of her spiritual journey has enchanted and intrigued humans from all walks of life. Known as Yoga With Kats across social media, Katrina shares her yogic thoughts, yoga asana practices, spiritual mantras and affirmations, and her two cats, Flicker and Pumpkin Spice Latte. Follow Katrina in her journey here: @ yogawithkats
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/U_ejbtzXAOALaura Hensley and Jeff sit down with artist Jasmine Jones to hear about what he art practice means to her at a deeper level, about her experiences with Factory Obscura and the OKC art community, and about how she finds moment-to-moment presence as she experiences her own work unfolding.To learn more about Jasmine and her work, visithttps://artofjj.weebly.comJasmine Jones is a multidisciplinary artist and maker from Midwest City, Oklahoma. She has an Associate in Arts from Rose State College and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art from the University of Oklahoma. Through her art she traverses through various ideas as well as various methods and materials that she sees fit. With a form of familiarity and the everyday, Jasmine is constantly integrating areas of her life into her artwork and vice versa while working with concepts like spirituality, therapy, and interaction and materials like textiles, paper, and charcoal. Jasmine's a member of two artist collectives – Art Group and Factory Obscura. She appreciates working collaboratively to show that art can be interactive, immersive, beneficial, and more.ARTIST STATEMENTHow we both collectively and individually function and make decisions is fascinating. Interactions, connections, and experiences have the potential to happen daily - each one having the potential to be new, yet mundane. As an artist and maker, my ideas are fueled by this magic of everyday, the secrets of life, and chance. My influences are inclusive of therapy, personal and shared memory, sacredness of humanity and self, as well as complexity and simplicity in nature. I introduce those mysteries and wonders into my work through symbolism, figures, color, and pattern. Just as there are variables in life, the materials for my work are often in flux. My methods take the form of charcoal on paper to situations presented to an audience. I work to show that people can find curiosity or beauty striking at any moment, in the seemingly insignificant or from within. The potential for the cultivation of magic and wonder may help us rethink and how to differently or actively engage in the many paths of our lives.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/EZXBbd3H_0kJeff sits down with artist Sean Tyler to hear about her work and her focus on the human figure, the female experience, and expanding the boundaries of fine art with fiber arts.She also shares deeply about her recent work that is centered around exploring the female experience in "selfies" as well.To learn more about Sean and her work, visithttps://www.seantylerfineart.comSean Tyler is a painter, fiber artist, and mixed media artist from Tulsa, OK. Tyler received a BFA from Rogers State University in May of 2019. She works with mixed media formats and specializes in painting on canvas and fiber arts. While at RSU she showed multiple times in the yearly Juried Exhibition and received the Best in Show award of the 2017 and 2019 exhibition. She has shown across the United States as well as Italy. She is currently exploring new directions in fiber arts and expanding her teaching practice. Tyler splits her time between her hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma and the University of Iowa where she is pursuing an MFA in painting/drawing.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/_2tD0BCSpLEJeff sits down with artist Katrinka Booth to hear her reflect about the very deep and connected relationship between her life experiences and between each work of art that she creates. She also shares very deeply about her process, about where her inspiration comes from, and about how she got started creating works of art. To learn more about Katrinka and her work, visitFacebook/Pinterest: Wallflowers by Katrinka Booth Instagram: @wallflowersbykb Linkedin: Katrinka BoothKatrinka Booth was born in South Central Missouri and raised in Bentonville Arkansas. Her influences include her family, her love of textiles, her years spent as a seamstress of couture clothing, and the landscapes and terrain of Arkansas and the surrounding areas. Her art began as a relentless recurring dream of her stitching a wallflower on her simple sewing machine. The dream didn't stop until she stitched her first piece. Each piece of art teaches her something about the next one to come. Katrinka expresses the elation and freedom she experiences stitching these detailed, Elaborate pieces. She hopes the viewer is transported to another place, where time is suspended and you can “be free in your wildness.” Much of her work is accomplished using fabric and thread on a humble domestic sewing machine in a free hand style. Recently she shelved her art practice to make over 2,000 masks, and has invented a new method of embroidery involving yarn as paint on a canvas, having dubbed it “Neo-Embroidery”.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/bJGSOoofXikJeff sits down with veteran comedian Derek Richards to hear about what it's like to be a comedian from his experience and perspective "on the other side of the mic."A regular on the Las Vegas Strip, Derek's act is fast, fresh, and at times, fanatical. He brings the funny with tales about his Irish-Catholic upbringing, divorce, the holidays, and his child-free existence. Described on a show review as, ‘Just the right amount of wrong.'His one hour special with The Irish Comedy Tour can be seen on demand via Amazon Prime, DISH, DirecTV, iTunes, VUDU, Vimeo, Google Play, Microsoft XBOX and YouTube. You can also catch him via the SiriusXM Satellite Radio Network, Pandora, The Weather Channel's Top 10, The Tom Shillue Show on Fox News Radio Network, and The Anthony Cumia Show with Dave Landau.A veteran of several USO and Armed Forces Entertainment tours, Richards has performed at U.S. base camps in Iraq, Afghanistan and 15 other countries. His work for the military has been featured in Newsweek.On the concert stage, he's been the opening act for Motown legends, The Temptations and The Four Tops.His third comedy album, 60 MPH School Zone, garnered Honorable Mention accolades in the International Songwriting Competition.His release is sold at shows, iTunes and at derekrichards.com.In October of 2018, Derek released his first self-published book, Whiskey, Cancer & Bad Decisions, which is his twisted memoir of a comedian's journey with cancer. The release is available on Amazon, Kindle and Audible.To learn more about Derek and his life and comedy, visitwww.derekrichards.comwww.theirishcomedytour.comwww.twitter.com/comedndrichardswww.facebook.com/comedianderekrichardswww.instagram.com/comedndrichards
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/GG7ZYKoVKfwLaura Hensley and Jeff Krisman sit down with Mac Coplin as she shares very deeply and compellingly about her life journey, some very formative lessons learned, and about her evolution.She also shares about her work as a freelance photographer and about her practice of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and how these practices have been very healing for her.To learn more about Mac or to reach out to her, visityoutube.com/macluvsyou2twitch.tv/macbjjinstagram: @macluvsyou @mac.bjjphotos @vineandjude
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/36roKO1iu4sJeff sits down with artist Frida Cornelio to hear about hear artistic perspective and about how she creates art that confronts the public on social issues while promoting awareness and change. She is a Mexican figurative painter whose interest in the human figure is in what composes it aesthetically and psychologically.Frida also speaks about "Dalia," her exhibit at Liggett Studio that closed recently. Her work for this show deals with the femicide that is plaguing Northern Mexico right now due to the culture of machismo. Latin America has one of the highest rates of femicides around the world, and the cultural acceptance of this violence is linked to the culture of machismo that exists within Latin America. Through the depiction of the female portrait, Frida has brought light into this issue and empower women who have been victims of gender inequality and abuse to find their own self-worth. To learn more about Frida, visit https://www.fridacornelio.com
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/mBV73FRCVGIJeff sits down for a Conscious conversation with artist Ra Vashtar about the deep relationship between his life journey and his artistic perspective. He shares very candidly and compellingly about his process and evolution and how that has informed his craft and how his craft has brought about new insights and healing as well. To learn more about Ra and his work, visit www.artsaflame.com ABOUT RA's UPCOMING SHOW AT LIGGETT STUDIO ON FEBRUARY 12TH "LIVING EPHEMERA": This will be a one-night event showcasing an art installation and gallery pieces created out of ephemeral materials such as newspaper, junk mail, receipts, packaging, etc. The focal point of the event will be an installation of multiple rows of wire with string wrapped around the wire and through holes punched in Polaroid photographs depicting themes of nature, time, and human experience. The gallery pieces will be artwork created from/on ephemeral materials that echo themes of mortality, time, and change. No photographs will be allowed of the artwork, and all artwork is to be destroyed immediately following the event. ABOUT RA AND HIS WORK Ra Vashtar is a mixed media artist with a focus on depicting monsters as a metaphor for the internal world. Vashtar's method often involves layers of ink, acrylic paint, watercolor, found objects, and resin. He draws imagery from dreams, mythology, and the belief in the esoteric practice of creating art. Vashtar cites Junji Ito, Guillermo Del Toro, Salvador Dali, and Japanese Gaming and Animation as influences in his work. As a queer, transgender, and autistic person, Vashtar's work explores themes of mental health, neurodiversity and identity. He finds meaning in seeking to show others they are not alone in their struggles, and in opening conversations about difficult topics. Vashtar was born and raised in Ponca City, Oklahoma, and has worked full time as an artist in the Tulsa area since 2017. Vashtar graduated from CG Spectrum with a certificate in advanced concept art in 2020. He works as a freelance illustrator and sells handmade adoptable monster figurines. Vashtar is a member of the Hot Topic Creator Program and a contributor for the neurodiversity blog NeuroClastic, making comics and illustrated articles about living with autism.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/tXifEuiLfssJeff sits down with Steve Liggett, former Artistic Director of Living Arts of Tulsa and owner of Liggett Studio to hear about his life and work since he came to Tulsa in the 1970's. He shares deeply from the beginning of his affiliation with the founder of Living Arts, Virginia Myers and about some of the highlights of his career there. He also reflects about the impact of Living Arts on the arts community and culture in Tulsa.Steve Liggett has been an arts advocate, teacher and artist in the Tulsa community for over 40 years. He is the recipient of the Harwelden Award, Jingle Feldman Award, Governor's Art Award and John Hope Franklin Award for his artistic work in social justice. His own studio work has evolved from his ceramics and papermaking background to performance/video/installation work. He is the past Artistic Director for Living Arts of Tulsa and presently runs Liggett Studio.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/yfWKcz4NfywJeff sits down with Brandi Ross and Tyler Huffman to hear about their experiences in participating in the recent exhibit at Living Arts, Project Hope, Unity, and Compassion. EXHIBITION STATEMENTThroughout history, downtowns and town squares have served as the foundation of society's freedom of expression and the center of community discourse. Downtown Tulsa is certainly no different. At an incredibly tense time in our community, and in the midst ofplanning for unprecedented events, we found an opportunity to showcase Downtown Tulsa's core values on temporary canvases throughout Downtown.More than 300 artists responded to a last-minute call for art on June 18, 2020. Within hours, commissioned artists began painting storefronts thanks to permission from businesses and the generosity of an anonymous donor. Within two days, we were able to mobilize more than a dozen artists to paint murals and messages inspiring hope, unity, and compassion throughout Downtown.While the storefronts were restored and businesses reopened the following week, the conversations sparked by this art and the core values it represents continue.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/k4Nc3ZagJG0Jeff sits down with artist Krystie Bunch to hear her share deeply about her work and about how she got started creating art. She also speaks in a very heartfelt, moving, and a compelling way about the importance of community and culture and about what her experiences have been like facilitating and teaching art classes and participating in Downtown Tulsa & Living Arts Of Tulsa's recent project, Project Hope, Unity, and Compassion. Artist Bio: I'm a Tulsa-based interdisciplinary artist. I utilize art as a portal, allowing outsiders a glimpse into the beautifully complex layers of my daily existence. I'm a Black American female who lives as a lifelong creative, full-time mom, community activist, youth advocate and human who experiences a neurological disorder called misophonia/misokinesia. Life is a constant state of processing and readjusting. In my art I allow myself the opportunity to be still, heal and move in hope.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/NzyhpFgyS8UJeff sits down with artist Terren Zinbi as she shares deeply about her artistic journey, about how she got started creating art, and about her experiences since she started working as an artist full time. She shares very compellingly and in a very inspirational tone about her experiences in working through her emotions as she creates her work and about the importance of putting herself and her work out there and taking chances in her career. To learn more about Terren and her work, visit https://www.terrenzinbi.comAbout Terren: "I am a 26 year old modern artist currently calling Tulsa my home with my bf, dog, + houseplants. i am a true enneagram type 7 wing 6. i believe that variety is the spice of life + fomo is real!! i'm always looking forward to my next big adventure + making plans with people i love. i'm an eternal optimist + i think my biggest asset is being able to find joy in every little thing! Because a huge part of my life ever since i could remember. creative work is truly my passion in life and biggest outlet. i love getting to make art + designs that show a glimpse into my heart + creating things that point you to knowing + loving God more. my biggest hope in my work is that i am creating pieces that help you find joy in the little + the big things, and that they may help celebrate the everyday!"
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/TApB_QMFM1UJeff sits down with Natty Watson and Lauran Drummond with Cult Love Sound Tapes to hear about how their collective got started, about their vision and passion for supporting the Tulsa DIY music and art community, and about what their work and dedication to this community means to them at a deeper level. Cult Love Sound Tapes is a D.I.Y. community-based cassette tape, music, and art collective specializing in rare and limited releases from a wide variety of genres. They also have a large project, the Cult House, nearing its unveiling. Since the project's beginning in December, the Cult House, a 2 story 100-year old family residence, has been covered floor to ceiling in murals painted by local artists.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/tGufhM8VtuAJeff sits down with mindfulness and communications skills coach Brett Hill to hear about his work with clients, about how he discovered Mindfulness practice, and how he has evolved as a human being since discovering the benefits of the practice. He also reflects deeply about how he created a unique coaching practice blending mindfulness and communication skills and how this has impacted his life and those that he works with in several beneficial ways.To learn more about Brett and the unique coaching experience that he offers that blends Mindfulness and communications skills, please visit https://www.languageofmindfulness.com/ To receive a Free PDF on 8 Ways you can be more mindful in virtual meetings and to sign up for his email list, please visit https://www.languageofmindfulness.com/8ways/ In college, Brett decided that limits of what we can achieve and the quality of our lives is dependent on our ability to communicate well. His degree in interpersonal communication combined nicely with his fascination for technology leading to a career as a technical story-teller, author, blogger, and speaker for companies like Microsoft, Adobe, and others. But he wanted to go much deeper, so he sought out the best he could find. He has had the good fortune to study Hakomi somatic psychotherapy with the founder – Ron Kurtz, Matrix Leadership group dynamics with the founder – Amina Knowlan, and meditation with the late Audle Allison. He taught meditation for several years and founded the Quest Institute in Dallas. Other influences include martial arts, contact improvisation, and training with Gabrielle Roth As a result of this unique background, he has come to believe there no faster way to improve your communications and the quality of your life than being mindful during conversation. The Language of Mindfulness is the distillation of many years of work and inspired a TEDx talk (2021), the book and class in development.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/eOP2Vcv6PuwJeff has the honor and pleasure of being interviewed by Pam Savino of Live Authentically Podcast and spoke about his spiritual Journey and some of the most formative lessons that he has learned along the way.Pam has an incredible Gift and has so much to share about living more authentically, and to learn more about her work and her podcast, visithttps://liveauthentically.today/The Live Authentically Podcast can be found athttps://www.buzzsprout.com/570790
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/eOP2Vcv6PuwJeff has the honor and pleasure of being interviewed by Pam Savino of Live Authentically Podcast and spoke about his spiritual Journey and some of the most formative lessons that he has learned along the way. Pam has an incredible Gift and has so much to share about living more authentically, and to learn more about her work and her podcast, visithttps://liveauthentically.today/The Live Authentically Podcast can be found athttps://www.buzzsprout.com/570790
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL ON YOUTUBE OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/QVzdVzwMVGUJeff sits down with Francisco Treviño, Executive Director of Casa de la Cultura to hear about his life and work in Tulsa as he moved here in 1978 from Monterrey, México at the age of 11. He reflects about his experiences in Tulsa as a performing musical artist since his teenage years, as the former Executive Director of Greater Tulsa Hispanic Chamber of Commerce where he made it a point to collaborate with our local arts community, and about his current work at Casa de la Cultura and as a consultant with Vega & Treviño Consultants, where he helps companies reach their community engagement and diversity representation goals.He also speaks in a very compelling way about his strong belief in the undeniable link between the arts and business communities and why it's so important for him personally to be able to still get along with others even if they don't agree about the larger issues of life. The interview as Francisco also shares about what this time has been like during the pandemic for him and his family as well as for the Tulsa area Hispanic and Latin American community in general.To learn more about Casa de la Cultura and their programs, visithttp://www.findglocal.com/US/Tulsa/1440132309431997/Casa-de-la-Cultura
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL ON YOUTUBE OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/JX6DlbHRBhcJeff sits down with artist Hershel Self to hear about his work and some deeper thoughts about transition as he has had the opportunity to experience that recently and offers some very enlightening and inspiring thoughts about his experience over the past several months.To learn more about Hershel's work, please visithttps://www.hershelself.com/
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL ON YOUTUBE OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/mtIROY61xvQJeff sits down with Heather Duncan, Interim Executive Director of Living Arts of Tulsa, to hear a very compelling and very inspiring story about how she and the team there have pivoted and adapted since mid-March. She shares a very personal account of how this process has affected her, about what they have learned through this process, and about their vision and plans for 2021.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL ON YOUTUBE OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/VOSG54vTLfUJeff sits down with artist PetraBaye to hear about what her work means to her at a deep level, about how she got started creating art, and about what inspires and energizes her to continue to create work on an ongoing basis. She also shares about her beCAUSEicare Foundation and how she sells art and other items to raise money to help children in need and how it makes her feel better than anything else has in the world.To learn more about PetraBaye and her work, visit https://www.petrabayeart.com/
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL ON YOUTUBE OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/PDwDyiuly5wJeff sits down with artist and educator Larry Hefner to hear about his current work, about his career as both an artist and as an educator, and about how he and his art have evolved over the years. He also shares deeply about his early career and about some formative experiences that informed the direction of it. To learn more about Larry and his work, visit http://www.larryhefner.com Larry Hefner received his Master of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Oklahoma. He is a Professor Emeritus of Design in the Department of Design at the University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, Oklahoma. Larry is currently a professional fine artist working from his studio in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He is a multi-disciplined artist working with a variety of media and techniques. In an effort to stay on the cutting edge of the graphic design industry, Larry spends a great deal of his time researching and working on Macintosh computers and their associated software applications. His work has been exhibited in many local and regional museums and galleries winning numerous awards. For the past forty years, Larry has worked as a graphic designer/photographer, owning his own studio, The Hefner Group.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL ON YOUTUBE OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/qAO6mXDAgPkJeff sits down with OKC based artist Jaiye Farrell as he shares deeply about his artistic perspective and what informs and inspires his work. In addition, he also talks in-depth about what it has felt like for him to create very large murals at different locations in the OKC area. Jaiye also speaks about his experience as an artist and as a human being since the pandemic began and about how he has continued to build his network of fellow artists and hearing different perspectives during this time. To learn more about Jaiye and his work, visit https://www.jaiyetheartist.com/ Oklahoma-based artist Jaiye Farrell cultivated his style of painting from abstract patterns that transcend societal and cultural divides and remember the communal roots of humanity. From an infatuation with archeology emerged a creative and ambitious talent: to craft signature designs that inspire self-reflection. He describes his process in the following way, "Typically, I start with a void (black canvas) because that comes from a place of wonder and I want to explore that. When there's a void and I'm committed to exploring it, intuition becomes fluid. This is how I paint my white lines on black canvases: with intuition as my guidance. Sometimes I have an outline that I follow but it's not a boundary. I often veer into nonlinear movements because they move out of stagnancy. That's how you create a rhythm and a circulation."
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL ON YOUTUBE OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/axDo-6CL4_8Jeff sits down to visit with artist Liz Downing from her studio in Baltimore to hear her share deeply about her perspective, her process, and about what her live performance art that with "aural images as companions to visual symbols."Liz speaks about the healing aspect of her work and about the origins and inspiration for it that is rooted in her childhood and from her experiences growing up in the South.To learn more about Liz and her work, visit http://lizdowningart.com/Liz Downing creates aural images as companions to visual symbols. She collects sounds from beloved environments and embeds these sounds into a blanket for words to rest upon. If all goes well, when these words are sung they activate the symbols, which live again in the air. This is the magic of music. The visual images whom she paints and draw arise from the landscapes which she loves to manipulate into existing upon a flat surface. This is the magic of art.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL ON YOUTUBE OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/ijwuNHHsFZ8Jeff sits down with the Tony Tiger, the curator and 3 other artists from this exhibition, Antonia Belindo, Joshua Hinson, and Randi Narcomey-Watson to hear their perspective on the connection between Indigenous art and language and how it is all connected to their tribal communities and to the Ancestors.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL ON YOUTUBE OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/wxnTyImpirgJeff sits down with artist and educator Ebony Iman Dallas to hear about her work, her artistic perspective, and about how she has evolved as a result of creating and sharing her art.She also shares about how she tells stories that are often overlooked with her art and how that has impacted her at a deeper level.To learn more about Ebony and her work, visithttps://www.ebonyimandallas.com/Ebony Iman Dallas is a fifth-generation Oklahoman, second-generation Somali-American. She is an artist, writer, and founder of Afrikanation Artists Organization (AAO).Ebony received her BA Journalism Advertising and Arts degree from the University of Central Oklahoma and her MFA Design degree from California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Her thesis titled "Painted Bridges" explored ways to unify the African American, Afro Caribbean, and continental Africans through art and design for community activism. As a result, Afrikanation Artists Organization was founded as a non-profit, NGO based Hargeisa, Somaliland, and a 501(c)3 in the United States.Ebony's work has exhibited extensively in the United States and Somaliland, Somalia in group and solo exhibitions. Her artwork was included in Food Network's "Restaurant Impossible" renovation of Urban Roots in Oklahoma and she was a featured artist in the Romare Bearden Centennial Celebration in New York. Her work can be found at The Hargeisa Cultural Center, Joyce Gordon Gallery, and private collections in Namibia, Somaliland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.Ebony is a proud graduate of the Oklahoma Arts Council's Leadership Arts program and ArtistINC.*Photo credit Charlie Neuenschwander
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL ON YOUTUBE OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/TQUoCk64fdkJeff sits down with Cherokee artist and writer Roy Boney, Jr. to hear about the evolution of his art, about his life journey, and about his work with the Cherokee Nation Language Program.He also shares about how this program has adapted to make it easier for citizens of the Cherokee nation and others who are interested to learn the language to communicate with one another using popular electronic devices,Roy Boney, Jr. is an award winning Cherokee artist & writer. He grew up in Locust Grove, Oklahoma and currently lives in Tahlequah, where he works for the Cherokee Nation Language Program. His work has been exhibited across the US , Paris, and London. His writing and artwork have appeared in First American Art Magazine, Native Peoples, Indian Country Today, Oklahoma Today, and Art in AmericaHe is a painter, comic book artist, and digital media artist.He has also contributed to the graphic novel anthologies Tales of the Mighty Code Talkers, Trickster, Native Graphic Classics, and the newly released Moonshot,
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/8Bdp9UDi0T8Jeff sits down with Lokosh (Joshua Hinson) to hear about his life journey, about his work in Chickasaw language revitalization, about his artwork, and about how he integrates all of these aspects of himself.He speaks very compellingly about why the work of Native language revitalization is so important and urgent, and he also shares about the importance of community and how the Chickasaw nation is working so diligently to assure every citizen's well-being during the pandemic.Lokosh (Joshua D. Hinson) is of Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee (Creek), Cherokee, and Euro-American ancestry and is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. A conversational speaker of the Chickasaw language and an award-winning artist, he holds a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in Painting from Abilene Christian University, a master's degree in Native American Art History from the University of New Mexico, and a PhD in Native Language Revitalization from the University of Oklahoma. He makes art on the Chickasaw Nation Reservation, Ada, Oklahoma.Hinson, whose Chickasaw name Lokosh translates as “Gourd,” is of the Imatapo (Their Lean-to People) house group and Kowishto' (Panther) clan.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/XJLZNcDy1foJeff sits down with Bernadette Pleasant, the founder of Femme! & The Emotional Institute as she shares very deeply about the meaning of her work in promoting emotional freedom through movement and empowerment, about her own Journey that led her to do this very powerful work and why it matters so much to her and to those that she works with, and about the impact that it has had on others. As the conversation concludes, she shares an incredibly moving and deeply compelling perspective on the importance of healing all of the grief, trauma, pain, and challenges that we have been going through here in the U.S. and in the world. To learn more about Bernadette and her work, visit https://theemotionalinstitute.com/ Intoxicating and energetic, Bernadette Pleasant is a fiery sensual Speaker, Somatic Healer, and Creator of The Emotional Institute LLC, 400 Years: Unlearning Racism & Femme!, a mind-body wellness program. She has spent a lifetime exploring creative visualizations and celebrations of the human form, from sensual dance to somatic healing. A gifted healer, dancer, and entrepreneur, she channels her personal journeys and her radical empathy into transformative, immersive experiences that empower and celebrate people of all genders, ages, sizes, and fitness levels. Bernadette travels globally empowering all through classes, private workshops, retreats and conference engagements. With certifications in Emotions-Centered Coaching, Nia Technique, Nia 5 Stages, Ageless Grace, Pole Dance, Somatic Healing, Reiki, and Integrated Energy Therapy—and studies in African, Tribal, and Free Dance—Bernadette Pleasant promotes emotional freedom through movement and empowerment. As an experienced entrepreneur and the founder of Femme! & The Emotional Institute, Bernadette Pleasant regularly leads discussions on emotional healing, grief rituals, inclusive movement, and empowerment for all. Her authenticity, charisma, and warmth allow her to empathize with and inspire those ready for a journey of emotional exploration and affirmation. Intuitive and engaging, Bernadette Pleasant is a vibrant, sensual speaker who connects with those who have been silenced and shut down to support their physical, emotional, and healing journeys—whether in a classroom, from a podium, or one-on-one.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/dN-XDtPl_PAJeff sits down with Dustin Pittsley to hear about what his music means to him at a deeper level, how he got started playing music and creating art, and what about the last few months have been like for him as an artist and as a human being.He also offers some reflections about the inner experience of performing live for an audience both in the U.S. and abroad and the differences between that and performing online. As the conversation concludes, he also offers his thoughts about the Tulsa Sound and why the Tulsa music community means so much to him.To learn more about Dustin's music, visithttp://dustinpittsley.com/
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/KSp87R5lp1AJeff sits down with Tony Tiger as he shares very deeply about his work as an artist, educator, and curator and how important that it is to him to share not only his work and life journey with various communities, but also the life and work of others.He speaks very passionately and compellingly about the importance of his conscious and artistic connection with his ancestors and how he honors that in many different ways.As the conversation concludes, he also talks about the upcoming exhibit that he has curated with Bobby C. Martin, Speak: Speak While You Can at Living Arts of Tulsa that celebrates and acknowledges the power of indigenous languages that opens September 4th from 6:00-8:00 pm and continues through October 16th.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/69Xtj_-fAGIJeff sits down with Bea Baker to hear about her work, her artistic perspective, and about her experiences during the pandemic as an artist and as a human being.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/0tR1VUFjutoJeff sits down with Pam Savino to hear about what her work with clients means to her at a very deep level, about formative moments in her life journey, and some important and inspiring lessons that she has learned along the way.To learn about Pam and her coaching work with clients, visithttps://liveauthentically.today/Pam founded Live Authentically to help others learn to find their voice, speak their truth and live authentically. As they go through the transformative events of life, she helps them find their truths and the inner strength to live them fully. She helps people see learning and knowledge in their challenges.She encourages her clients to let go of the ideas that are holding them back. She coaches them away from behaviors based on fear and doubt, instills a healthy level of self-confidence and love, as well as a spiritual understanding of our world.Pam believes that every person is important and valuable, and everyone deserves to live their best and most fulfilled life. Live Authentically is dedicated to helping others find their own happiness, on their terms. There is no judgment.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/0tR1VUFjutoJeff sits down with Pam Savino to hear about what her work with clients means to her at a very deep level, about formative moments in her life journey, and some important and inspiring lessons that she has learned along the way.To learn about Pam and her coaching work with clients, visithttps://liveauthentically.today/Pam founded Live Authentically to help others learn to find their voice, speak their truth and live authentically. As they go through the transformative events of life, she helps them find their truths and the inner strength to live them fully. She helps people see learning and knowledge in their challenges.She encourages her clients to let go of the ideas that are holding them back. She coaches them away from behaviors based on fear and doubt, instills a healthy level of self-confidence and love, as well as a spiritual understanding of our world.Pam believes that every person is important and valuable, and everyone deserves to live their best and most fulfilled life. Live Authentically is dedicated to helping others find their own happiness, on their terms. There is no judgment.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/3uDudPt_VcYJeff sits down with Connie Brannock as she shares deeply about her music and how she got started, about her career in the military in various leadership roles, and about how she and her music have evolved over the years.To learn more about Connie and her music and latest release, Last Call, visithttps://www.conniebrannockband.com/Connie Brannock is an R&B Force of Nature! She took the Tucson music scene by storm after she retired from the Army National Guard as Command Sergeant Major, and in 2009 she re-upped as a hot-ticket bandleader and patented R&B artist with enticing authenticity. Vocalist, songwriter, percussionist, poet, she leads Connie Brannock's Little House of Funk and the Connie Brannock Quartet. Ask the robust, happy crowds throughout the Southwest—her live shows are exhilarating!Connie was an entertainer out of the gate. Serious sorties began in high school when her band Luke performed throughout the mid-Atlantic—from Philly to Virginia Beach, to the Princeton Club and William & Mary College. She trekked west in the late 70's, crooning with the Bill Brown Band in Salt Lake City and San Francisco. Back in Utah, she formed another hot tamale group, Connie and the Rhythm Method with David Jette. In demand, they toured Boise, Moab, Missoula, and performed at the Hollywood Palace in Los Angeles.In 1986 Connie Brannock won the Stroh's Superstar Talent Search and was signed by MCA Records. Caleb Ruffin, with Sounds of Success (S.O.S.), recruited her to move to Atlanta and work on a single. Instead, she up and joined the service just before her 35th birthday. Connie served admirably for 21 years and deployed twice in Operation Iraqi Freedom. A compelling leader, she has been a mentor to many young men and women and believes that leadership is an act of love.Connie's releasing her second offering, Last Call, a follow up to her popular debut album, Lady on the Bus. Last Call is an EP featuring six new tunes that reflect the uncertainty of what we are facing in today's tumultous world. She was in the middle of recording a full length album when the pandemic hit and decided to release the tunes she and her team managed to finish, with a plan to release a follow up EP this winter. Connie continues to pay tribute to the legendary artists who shaped her sound on her latest offering: Sly and the Family Stone, Laura Nyro, Carole King, Jeff Lorber and Patrice Rushen.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/eAwUMCM_sHQJeff sits down with Dashama to hear about her dharma, about her work to bring healing and increased wellness to people all over the world, and about her awakening and spiritual Journey. She shares deeply about her evolution and how her life has unfolded since the beginning.To learn more about Dashama and to sign up for her free self-love and yoga mini course including meditation, yoga practice, and EFT for gratitude and forgiveness, visit https://www.dashama.org/Dashama has impacted hundreds of millions of lives globally with her message of healing, happiness, oneness, love & flow. Since 2005 she has produced hundreds of videos, multiple best selling online courses, 32 instructional DVDs, written 5 books, lead international retreats, teacher trainings and events serving the growing demand for her high quality educational material in the meditation, yoga, health & wellness segment.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/eAwUMCM_sHQJeff sits down with Dashama to hear about her dharma, about her work to bring healing and increased wellness to people all over the world, and about her awakening and spiritual Journey. She shares deeply about her evolution and how her life has unfolded since the beginning.To learn more about Dashama and to sign up for her free self-love and yoga mini course including meditation, yoga practice, and EFT for gratitude and forgiveness, visit https://www.dashama.org/Dashama has impacted hundreds of millions of lives globally with her message of healing, happiness, oneness, love & flow. Since 2005 she has produced hundreds of videos, multiple best selling online courses, 32 instructional DVDs, written 5 books, lead international retreats, teacher trainings and events serving the growing demand for her high quality educational material in the meditation, yoga, health & wellness segment.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/znlNzbb_79IJeff sits down to visit with Karen Lamb to hear about her work, her artistic perspective, how her work has evolved.She also speaks about what her experiences have been during the pandemic and how it has informed her work.The conversation concludes as Karen reflects deeply about why Living Arts of Tulsa is so important to her and about how much the Tulsa arts community means to her.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/qKi7pULte9QJeff sits down with Peter Hay to hear about his work, his artistic perspective, and his evolution as an artist and as a human being.He shares deeply about what has informed his work over the years and some common themes that really speak to him.Peter also speaks about his current exhibit at Living Arts, "Reticulation" which is on display until August 29th.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/r8l9kAwHH74Jeff sits down with teacher and healer Nischala Joy Devi as she shares very deeply about her practice, her Journey, and some very formative lessons that she has learned along the way through living her life and working with her students.She offers a very nourishing and enlightening perspective that is so incredibly timely during this global crisis.To learn more about Nischala and her work and teachings, please visithttps://www.abundantwellbeing.com/productsbynischalajoydevi/ NISCHALA JOY DEVI is a masterful teacher and healer. For many years she has been highly respected as an international advocate for her innovative way of expressing Yoga and its subtle uses for spiritual growth and complete healing. Her dynamic delivery and deep inner conviction empower each individual, allowing the teachings to expand beyond boundaries and limitations of any one tradition enabling her to touch people's hearts.She was graced to spend over 25 years as a monastic disciple with the world-renowned Yogiraj Sri Swami Satchidanandaji, receiving his direct guidance and teachings. She also was blessed with teachings from great Yoga masters in US, India and worldwide.Originally trained in Western medicine, she began to blend western medicine with Yoga, offered her expertise in developing the yoga portion of The Dean Ornish Program for Reversing Heart Disease, and co-founded the award-winning Commonweal Cancer Help Program. Her book “The Healing Path of Yoga,” and her Abundant WellBeing Audio Series expresses these teachings.With her knowledge of yoga and her experience in assisting those with life-threatening diseases (particularly people with heart disease and cancer), she created Yoga of the Heart®, a training and certification program for Yoga teachers and health professionals designed to adapt Yoga practices to the special needs of that population.She is now dedicated to bringing the Feminine back into spirituality and the scriptures, in her book, The Secret Power of Yoga, a woman's guide to the heart and spirit of the Yoga Sutras and Secret Power of Yoga Audiobook Nautilus Book Silver Award Winner! Her two newest books are available on Amazon.com THE NAMASTE EFFECT: Expressing Universal Love through the Chakras MEDITATION IN THE YOGA TRADITIONFor more information, also visit Facebook.comNischala Joy DeviTwitter.comnischaladevi
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/r8l9kAwHH74Jeff sits down with teacher and healer Nischala Joy Devi as she shares very deeply about her practice, her Journey, and some very formative lessons that she has learned along the way through living her life and working with her students.She offers a very nourishing and enlightening perspective that is so incredibly timely during this global crisis.To learn more about Nischala and her work and teachings, please visithttps://www.abundantwellbeing.com/productsbynischalajoydevi/ NISCHALA JOY DEVI is a masterful teacher and healer. For many years she has been highly respected as an international advocate for her innovative way of expressing Yoga and its subtle uses for spiritual growth and complete healing. Her dynamic delivery and deep inner conviction empower each individual, allowing the teachings to expand beyond boundaries and limitations of any one tradition enabling her to touch people's hearts.She was graced to spend over 25 years as a monastic disciple with the world-renowned Yogiraj Sri Swami Satchidanandaji, receiving his direct guidance and teachings. She also was blessed with teachings from great Yoga masters in US, India and worldwide.Originally trained in Western medicine, she began to blend western medicine with Yoga, offered her expertise in developing the yoga portion of The Dean Ornish Program for Reversing Heart Disease, and co-founded the award-winning Commonweal Cancer Help Program. Her book “The Healing Path of Yoga,” and her Abundant WellBeing Audio Series expresses these teachings.With her knowledge of yoga and her experience in assisting those with life-threatening diseases (particularly people with heart disease and cancer), she created Yoga of the Heart®, a training and certification program for Yoga teachers and health professionals designed to adapt Yoga practices to the special needs of that population.She is now dedicated to bringing the Feminine back into spirituality and the scriptures, in her book, The Secret Power of Yoga, a woman's guide to the heart and spirit of the Yoga Sutras and Secret Power of Yoga Audiobook Nautilus Book Silver Award Winner! Her two newest books are available on Amazon.com THE NAMASTE EFFECT: Expressing Universal Love through the Chakras MEDITATION IN THE YOGA TRADITIONFor more information, also visit Facebook.comNischala Joy DeviTwitter.comnischaladevi
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/8Tq2ZGdAbP4In this episode, Jeff sits down to visit with Lauren Rainbow Lunsford at Rainbowland Art Studios as she shares deeply about her life journey and all about her process of discovering of all of the different aspects of herself.She also reflects about the years when she lived New York City and about her transformation there and how she brought back what she learned when she returned to Tulsa.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/t4oIRCVxugAJeff sits down with artist and educator Cristiana Prado as she shares deeply about her artistic perspective, her process, and how her work is informed by her memories of her home country where she grew up.She also speaks about how she is able to connect with such joy through infusing her memories of home into her work and about how important and healing that it is for her to share this with others.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/LQzVCOst5MUJeff sits down with Kerri Lake as she shares very deeply and very compellingly about her life journey, key turning points along the way, and about some incredibly life-changing, Consciousness-altering, and empowering lessons that she has learned about the importance of connection and presence.She speaks very candidly regarding what she has learned about connection and presence from working with animals over the years and how that has illuminated why she is here to work with people as well.To learn more about Kerri and her work, visitwww.kerrilake.comKerri is masterful in many ways. Utilizing her own innate gifts and abilities, she integrates wisdom, guidance and communication from every realm of consciousness to assist and accelerate your own integration, starting right where you are. She helps people and animals of all species know the sense of living in harmony and clarity. Her two published books offer a view into the formation of tools, awareness and the courage it has taken to walk through life without compromise. Kerri has blazed a new trail on the road to freedom from limitations and conditioning. On this trail, all species are welcome and integrate through frequencies of communication. The greatest gift she can give to you is her own purity of expression, sharing her own journey, to help you see that if she can do it...so can you.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/LQzVCOst5MUJeff sits down with Kerri Lake as she shares very deeply and very compellingly about her life journey, key turning points along the way, and about some incredibly life-changing, Consciousness-altering, and empowering lessons that she has learned about the importance of connection and presence.She speaks very candidly regarding what she has learned about connection and presence from working with animals over the years and how that has illuminated why she is here to work with people as well.To learn more about Kerri and her work, visitwww.kerrilake.comKerri is masterful in many ways. Utilizing her own innate gifts and abilities, she integrates wisdom, guidance and communication from every realm of consciousness to assist and accelerate your own integration, starting right where you are. She helps people and animals of all species know the sense of living in harmony and clarity. Her two published books offer a view into the formation of tools, awareness and the courage it has taken to walk through life without compromise. Kerri has blazed a new trail on the road to freedom from limitations and conditioning. On this trail, all species are welcome and integrate through frequencies of communication. The greatest gift she can give to you is her own purity of expression, sharing her own journey, to help you see that if she can do it...so can you.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/P5kTNmvYeKIIn this episode, Jeff sits down with Spencer Plumlee to take a very deep dive into her work, her artistic perspective, and what inspires her.She also speaks very compellingly and very frankly about how revisiting her own work and the artwork of her friends has been very healing for her.The conversation concludes as Spencer shares some of her thoughts and reflections about her own space where she lives and creates in and what she has in it and why it is important to her.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/HIsiDmb81lEIn this episode, Jeff sits down to visit with artist Cara Cox from her studio as she shares very candidly about her life journey and how she has learned about who she is at a very deep level through her experiences in performance art and visual art.She also speaks about how nourishing and healing it has been for her to continue to be in touch with her sense of "childlike wonder" in her creative process and how she integrates that into her artistic practice.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/GsMXPJnc_zcIn this episode, Jeff sits down with artist Linda Dunbar to hear about her work, about how she got started with her formal art practice, and how she has evolved as an artist and as a human being over the years.She also speaks very candidly about what this past few months have been like for her personally and artistically. The conversation concludes with Linda sharing about what Living Arts means to her personally and about her experiences there.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/qiYwckbYhdU
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/AEtv_vuAsi0In this episode, Jeff sits down with Diane Salamon to hear her reflect at a very deep level about her work and how it has evolved over time. She shares very candidly about her artistic perspective and about her journey as an artist and as a human being.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/sG6FGd6rf04In this episode, Jeff sits down to visit with jazz vibraphonist Sasha Berliner as she shares deeply about what her music and jazz music in general mean to her at a deeper level.She speaks candidly about why jazz is still very relevant today and about the importance of "cross pollination" with other musical genres and styles.The conversation concludes as she talks about how she discovered jazz, about some formative lessons learned, and about her own artistic journey thus far.Sasha Berliner's music work remains primarily based in New York City. In addition to performing internationally with her own project, Sasha Berliner Azalea, her recent notable performances have been with musicians such as drummer-composer Tyshawn Sorey, trumpet player Nicholas Payton, and jazz vibraphonist Warren Wolf, and drummer Quincy Davis. In 2019, she was a nominee for best vibraphonist in the Downbeat Readers' Poll and “Best New Artist” in the JazzTimes Reader Poll. She is an endorsing artist for Vater and Marimba One, and is a faculty member at the MalletLab percussion intensive, where she gives masterclasses and clinics.Sasha's full length debut album, “Azalea”, is available for purchase on Bandcamp, iTunes, and Amazon, and for streaming on Spotify, Tidal, and Apple Music. It has since been nominated for JazzTimes 2019 Readers' Poll's “Best New Release”, and has been described by critics.as “shimmering and thoughtful” (Kassel, TIDAL), “gleefully exploring various genres and headspaces” (Tremblay, CTEBCM).
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/Xqfz9h-4x5kIn this episode, Jeff sits down to visit with Kim Stanwood Terranova as she shares about what her work with clients means to her at a deeper level and about how she and her spiritual practice have evolved over the years. The conversation concludes as she speaks very compellingly about the power of intention and how important it is in our spiritual Journey. Kim Stanwood Terranova is a woman of passionate power who assists individuals with experiencing true inner greatness and unlimited, authentic joy. She has been dubbed the chiropractor of the mind, and the master teacher of intentional living. For more information about her new book The Technology Of Intention, please visit https://kimstanwoodterranova.com/the-technology-of-intention Kim holds a license as a Practitioner of Truth from The Agape International Spiritual Center in Los Angeles, and she has also earned a Bachelor's Degree in Spiritual Studies. For over three decades she has immersed herself in the application and practice of universal spiritual truth and wisdom. Website: https://kimstanwoodterranova.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KimStanwoodTerranovaALSP Twitter: https://twitter.com/kimstanwood Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kimstanwood/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kim-stanwood-terranova-alsp/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCygeK7nXvJp18ZICuWJmCeg
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/Xzumf8r1QDYIn this episode, Jeff sits down with Ora Nadrich to hear about her work as a Mindfulness teacher and Certified Life Coach. She shares about her life journey and about what moved her to begin doing this work and what it all means to her at a deeper level.She also reflects upon the transformative nature of the "feedback loop" between healing practitioners and their clients and some examples of how that has impacted her life and Consciousness. The conversation concludes with Ora speaking about the importance of cultivating Mindfulness and higher Consciousness at this time in human historyOra Nadrich is founder and president of the Institute for Transformational Thinking and author of Live True: A Mindfulness Guide to Authenticity, named in the 100 Best Mindfulness Books of All Time by BookAuthority. She is a certified life coach and Mindfulness teacher, specializing in transformational thinking, self-discovery and mentoring new coaches as they develop their careers.Ora's rare combination of insight, intuition, compassion and charisma has made her one of the most effective and sought-after coaches in Los Angeles. Her work has been featured in Women's Health Magazine, Reader's Digest, Conscious Lifestyle Magazine, Fast Company, Success Magazine, Spirituality & Health, Elevated Existence, NBC News, LA Yoga Magazine, Yahoo! Health, and many more.Ora's daily updates may be found on Instagram @OraNadrich, Facebook at Author Ora Nadrich and Twitter @OraNadrich. Other insight and quotes by Ora can be found on Instagram @OraNadrichQuotes and Twitter @OraNadrichQuote.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/Ax-2is7qrAMIn this episode, Jeff sits down and takes a very deep dive with the incredibly innovative fusion musician Jared Lowery as he shares about his musical evolution over the last several years and how he has developed his own unique sound and all original instrumental music. The conversation continues as Jared speaks very candidly about the challenges in gaining visibility and building an audience playing original instrumental music in Oklahoma.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/8Tq2ZGdAbP4In this episode, Jeff sits down to visit with Lauren Rainbow Lunsford at Rainbowland Art Studios as she shares deeply about her life journey and all about her process of discovering of all of the different aspects of herself.She also reflects about the years when she lived in New York City and about her transformation there and how she brought back what she learned when she returned to Tulsa.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/huN9Af8xPiUIn this episode, Jeff sits down with artist Brendon Williams to hear about his artistic perspective and process. He also shares deeply about growing up in Oklahoma City and about his education in art and about his work as an art teacher at Douglass Middle-High School in OKC. He also shares an intensely inspiring and highly compelling perspective about what he learned about himself and what he experienced during the period of quarantine and how it affected his art and his consciousness.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/pc99NjD6l5gIn this episode, Jeff sits down with public speaker and author Charles Eisenstein to hear some deeper reflections about his life journey and how his personal evolution has informed his work over the past several years.He also shares some deeper thoughts about how he sees the current global crisis on a human and a deeper, spiritual level.To read his recent essay entitled "The Coronation" regarding his perspective on the Covid-19 crisis and how it is affecting us on a global and local level, visit https://charleseisenstein.org/essays/the-coronation/ His work covers a wide range of topics, including the history of human civilization, economics, spirituality, and the ecology movement.To learn more about Charles and his work, visit www.charleseisenstein.org
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/5raIg6a-AcEIn this episode, Jeff sits down with Andrea Martin to hear her reflect about her art, her process, and how her work has evolved over the years due to her spiritual evolution.As the conversation continues, she shares deeply about how her work has been very therapeutic for herself and for many others as well.Andrea also offers a fresh, unique, and very compelling perspective about what her own work means to her at a deeper level and about her connection to it.