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NASA Astrophysicist Ariel Boursi Levi: Exploration of Space

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The stars in the sky seem so close when you look at them, but that is a trick. In fact, they are so far away that when you look at a star, you see it as it was lights years ago – not how it is in the present moment. In cases like this –  you cannot even believe your own eyes.

We have with us as a guest today someone who has dedicated his life to the study of the stars and skies and space so that he knows what his eyes can believe and what they cannot believe. Cosmetologist and astrophysicist Ariel Boursi Levi has been working for NASA since 2015 and is going to discuss some of the deep secrets of space with us today.

Topics we are going to touch on include: what does an astrophysicist do? Why does he hope we never visit another planet with intelligent life on it and that aliens never come to Earth? Does he believe in God? What does he think is beyond the universe? Will we see time travel in our lifetimes? How much times does he spend on Instagram, where he has over 100,000 followers?

You can learn more about Ariel and contact him via Instagram: instagram.com/traveltomultiverse

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Prima Ballerina Iana Salenko: Behind The Stage Curtains With The Dancing Star

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Watch Iana in-person in the interview, filmed at the Deutsche Oper

5-time gold medalist Iana Salenko is one of the most famous and established ballerinas in the world. Today she is going to talk to us about her childhood in the Ukraine, about facing anorexia and a miscarriage, how she became a top prima ballerina despite a back injury,  what it is like to be both a mother and ballerina and why she misses dancing with her husband on stage.

Born in Kiev, she studied at the Pisarev Ballet School in Donetsk before becoming a principal dancer at the Royal Ballet in Kiev. She is currently a guest artist at the Royal Ballet in London and a principal dancer at the Berlin State Ballet, where she dances in things such as Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Onegin, Romeo and Juliet and more. She has been dancing at the Berlin since 2005! She has two sons together with her husband Marian Walter, who is also a principal dancer of the Berlin State Ballet.

You can learn more about Iana and contact her via her Instagram: instagram.com/iana_salenko

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Quantum Physicist & Ballerina Dr. Merritt Moore: Beauty & Brains, Plus AI & Outer-space

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What do you get when you mix ballet shoes with physics lab coats? Quantum Ballerina Dr. Merrit splits her time between scientific research and professional dancing and wants to be the first person to perform ballet in space.

“Everyone can put in hard work for an hour but can you put in hard work for days, months and years for hours, not knowing if it’s going to work out?”  Merritt graduated from Harvard with cum laude honors in physics and obtained a PhD in Quantum Optics from Oxford. As a professional ballet dancer, she has danced with the Zurich Ballet, Boston Ballet, English National Ballet and Norwegian National Ballet and more performing things such as The Nutcracker and Swan Lake.

Recently, she was awarded a spot on Forbes 30 under 30 and was one of the final 12 candidates chosen to compete to become an astronaut in the BBC Two series, “Astronauts: Do you have what it takes?” She was invited to be the featured speaker at Forbes Women’s Summit in New York, has also appeared a panelist for the U.S. Embassy at the ‘Women in STEM’ panel in London.

Merritt works with a team of artists and researchers to synthesize science and art into breathtaking stage performances. She is famous for a romantic duet she performs with an industrial robot, a topic which she began to research at Harvard’s ArtLab. One of her interests is researching AI machine learning together with dance.

Why did Merritt became a physicist and a ballerina and ignore the people who told her she could not be both a scientist and a dancer? How she handle rejection, why does she invite critiques, and what are her plans for becoming an astronaut and dancing in space?

You can learn more about Merritt and contact her on her website physicsonpointe.com

Merritt’s Instagram

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Life with Type 1 Diabetes with Fatima Gloria Shahzad: Blood Sugar, Needles & A Positive Attitude

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Fatima is a petite, radiant and beautiful 32-year-old with loving parents and a loving husband plus a great job. But there is more to the story that is hidden just beneath the surface.

If you look at Fatima you would be very surprised to hear that she has an illness so serious she could die anytime if she makes a mistake or loses access to her medicine, insulin. She needs to wake up every single night to check her blood sugar and eat something to regulate it.

Fatima is now 32 and has had diabetes since she was a teenager. Together with host Caitlin Arnould she discusses the following topics. How does a healthy teen, neither of whose parents have diabetes, develop diabetes and go on to life a healthy and happy life? How will the affect getting pregnant and having children for her? How does she stay positive despite near-death experiences and the need to be constantly vigilant?

Contact Fatima on her Twitter here & on her LinkedIn here

Fatima’s recommendations:

Book: The Discovery of Insulin by Michael Bliss

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Ancient Egyptian Queen Nefertiti with Dr. Joyce Tyldesley: Beauty, Fame, Power & a Death Shrouded in Mystery

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The last dynasty of Ancient Egypt may have died out over two thousand years ago, but the legacy and mystery of the circa three-thousand year period lives on in the hearts and imaginations of those enchanted by it, as well as in the fascinating pyramids, beguiling sphinx and immortalized bust of Queen Nefertiti. No one knows where she came from or when or how she died, but everyone knows her bust.

The basic anatomy and physiology of human beings has changed little since Queen Nefertiti’s life. They say that history repeats itself, so if modern humans are physically similar to those in Ancient Egypt, it makes sense to investigate what we can learn from them.

Queen Nefertiti lived from an estimated 1370-1335 BC. She was the wife of the Pharaoh Amenhotep IV during one of the wealthiest periods of Ancient Egypt in which they moved the capital from Thebes to Amarna. Although enemies of her husband tried to erase him from history, ironically, she instead became one of the most famous women to emerge from Ancient Egypt. Nefertiti’s bust is currently in the Neues Museum of Berlin. Talk about Eternal Beauty!

Joyce Tyldesley is a British archeologist and Egyptologist, academic and the author of over 20 books about Ancient Egypt including the female Pharaohs Hapchepsut, Cleopatra and Nefertiti. Joyce teaches at the University of Manchester, specializing in Egyptian historiography and the role of women in Ancient Egypt. She teaches online degrees in Egyptology – so if you are listening, you can actually study under her!

She is the author of the books, “Nefertiti: Egypt’s Sun Queen” and the more recent book “Nefertiti’s Face” which focusses on the Berlin bust of Nefertiti.  We are talking to Joyce today, one of the world’s leading experts on Nefertiti, to un-earth and unbury information about Egypt’s elusive queen from the mouth of one of the world’s leading experts on her.

Joyce studied archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean at Liverpool University, before getting her doctorate in prehistoric archaeology at Oxford University focussing on handaxes used by Neanderthals. She holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Bolton and is a Research Associate of the Manchester Museum. Prior to joining the University of Manchester she taught prehistory and Egyptology at Liverpool University.

You can read more about Joyce and contact her on her website http://joycetyldesley.co.uk.

Study Egyptology with Joyce

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Dr. Kara Cooney on Ancient Egyptian Female Pharaoh Hatshepsut: Lessons From the Woman Who Was King in a Man’s World

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Last year I visited Hatshepsut’s Mortuary Temple, known as Deir el-Bahri, in Egypt, and was profoundly awed by the scale, beauty and symmetry of the structure. It made me wonder – who is the woman who had the power to create this monument around 3,500 years ago when kings were almost always men? I turned to the world’s leading expert on Hatshepsut to find out more about this extraordinary female Pharaoh.

Dr. Kara Cooney is one of the most famous modern faces of Ancient Egypt. She is an Egyptologist, archeologist, author and professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture at UCLA. She has hosted TV shows on the Discovery Channel including Out of Egypt and Egypt’s Lost Queen and written top-selling books including the 2018 book When Women Ruled The World and the 2015 book, “The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut’s Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt,” which focuses on the subject of our podcast today – Queen Hatshepsut.

Hapshetsut created the tallest obelisk in the world at the Temple of Karnak, which still stands in Rome! Hatshepsut lived from roughly 1507 – 1458 BC and ruled Egypt from an estimated 1478BC until her death.  How and why did she come to power when typically only men ruled? How did she keep her power? What sacrifices does a woman who wants to rule have to make? What can we as women learn from her about our modern world?

Kara has Irish-Italian heritage and grew up in Houston. She obtained a Bachelor in German from the University of Texas and then a PHD at John Hopkins University in Egyptology. She co-curated the exhibition Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2005. Her specialties include economies, craft production and coffin studies in ancient cultures. She has spent years at excavations sites in Egypt studying things in person. Kara currently lives in LA with her husband Remy.

Some of the courses she teaches at UCLA include Women and Power in Ancient World and Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt, Predynastic Period to New Kingdom – so if you happen to be a current or future UCLA student – you are in luck! 

She also has an upcoming 2020 National Geographic live tour of the US to discuss When Women Ruled The World.

Learn more about Kara and contact her directly on her website: http://karacooney.squarespace.com

Kara’s UCLA profile

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The Honest Guys Siân Lloyd-Pennell: Creator Of Magical Guided Meditations For Healing, Peace & LOTR Fans Watched 300 Million Times + Special Appearances By Kev & Rick

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We all have the power and nature within us to be strong, beautiful and loving beings, but sometimes pain, trauma and chaos overwhelm us and prevent us from being our best selves. One of the magical things about our modern era, is the power for positive messages to be shared remotely around the world in the blink of an eye, and for those who would help us to truly step into our light and embrace our best qualities to find a way to do so.

Today I have a guest who is very dear to my heart though I never once met her in person, because the messages that she has helped to create have deeply touched me, helped me through many painful and desolate moments, and inspired me daily to tap into my strength and core qualities while choosing to face and release negativity. In other words, the woman I will interview has magically impacted my life for the better and I want to share her message today so that she may perhaps touch the hearts of others in the same way. “Suffering can have a lot of different causes but the suffering is still the same.”

The Honest Guys originally began as a youtube channel 10 years ago to review different self-improvement products and methods, and then slowly became what it is today – a channel with a huge variety of guided meditations and music to help listeners improve their lives with meditations that have been played around 300 million times. 

They have meditations meant to help you fall asleep fast, to calm anxiety, to face and reduce negativity, to start your morning with positive thoughts and energy, to reduce stress and relax, meditations involving white light, chakra meditations, and even fantasy guided meditations including themes with elves, wolves, unicorns and fairies. The Honest Guys is comprised of three people – Kevin, Rick and Siân, who is the sole woman in the trio and with whom I am speaking today, although Kev & Rick were in the room during the interview and do make cameos! “People must think that they’ve got me chained up in the attic, feeding me bread and water.”

Siân writes the scripts for the meditations, and has been writing since she was 10 years old. She comes from a long-line of teachers interested in holistic medicine. She loves reading and especially Lord of the Rings, as perhaps evidenced by the THG’s meditations that delve into Lord of the Rings places including meditations that occur in the Hobbit Shire, Green Elven Wood, Rivendell and more. 

Today Siân is going to talk to us about what it means to her to create guided meditations, from where she draws inspiration, how her own physical and mental pain has made her want to help others, how much time and energy THG put into speaking to their listeners & why the law of attraction works.

Learn more about Siân and contact her directly on The Honest Guys website thehonestguys.co.uk

Siân’s recommendations:

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Intuitive Healer Natasha Tomè: Queen of Dragons On Raising Your 12 Chakra Vibration With Angels

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With enough strength and grace, one person alone has the power to create changes that ripple across the world. Meditation can transmute energy from negative to positive, healing can change a painful bleeding wound into a scar with a story, and forgiveness can soften a rock into a river.

Natasha Tome is an intuitive healer, reiki master and psychic medium based in Canada. I first discovered her a few years ago through one of the guided meditations on youtube called Raising your vibration with the Angels, which has more than 2.2 million views and countering. She is going to talk to us about how everything is energy, our human experience as souls,the pain women store in their solar plexus and sacral chakras, guardian angels roles in our lives, why we actually have 12 chakras instead of 7, connecting to dragons in their realm and how meditation and healing can transmute energy just like magic before our eyes.

Natasha has drastically improved my life experience as well as the experience of millions of others, and she did it virtually and without asking anything   in return for it – she did it by putting something made from love into the universe. I am hoping to make others aware of who she is so that she can also have such a positive impact on them.

 She “came out of the spiritual closet” in the last couple years ago. Natasha was a naturally spiritual child who shut down her connection to spirit at a young age, only to slowly re-open herself to it after a physiotherapist recommend she see an energy healer for a physical ailment in 2004. She slowly began to embrace a new path, eventually leaving behind a corporate career to help and guide others along their spiritual paths. You can book a one-on-one session with her in one of the many different types of healing sessions she offers at natashatome.com.

Learn more about Natasha and contact her directly on her website natashatome.com

Natasha’s recommendations:

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Divine Healer & Hay House Bestseller Calista Ascension: Connecting to the Female Archangels aka Archaea 

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“The best way to connect to the angels is to be an angel, to be more virtuous in your life.” 

Calista is the Hay House author of Unicorn Rising: Live Your Truth and Unleash Your Magic, a kundalini yogi teacher, international speaker and mother to three. Today she is going to talk to us about unearthing issues and dis-ease for our highest healing with the female archangels to reach our true nature, which is that of love. We are going to answer questions such as who are the female archangels? How do we connect to them? What is the link between them and 11-11-2011?

Calista comes from a long-line of spiritualists. She grew up in the UK playing in the fields and believing in faeries and elementals. As she grew up, she went on to study Medical Biotechnology and worked as a Cancer Research scientist. Feeling in her heart that something was missing, she began taking a reiki course and became certified as a teacher. From there she went on to open her own spiritual centre called Ethereal Light, which she eventually took from being an in-person school to an online school, where you can now find all of her manifold teachings.

On her website calistaascension.com – you will find various courses, soul sessions and meditations including the spiritual courses courses: Angel Healing®, Atlantean Crystal Healing and Unicorn Healing® that support soul ascension and empowerment.

Host Caitlin Arnould has been a fan of Calista ever since discovering her guided meditation, “12 Chakra Meditation For Oneness Unity and Truth.” 

Learn more about Calista and connect to her directly on calistaascension.com

Calista’s recommendations:

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Special Forces Commander Mykel Hawke: Hero, Green Beret & Badass on His Childhood, Using Love & Hate as Motivation, and Why Survival Skills Matter

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“The secret to life is to figure out what your weaknesses are and work around them and what your strengths are and work with them.” Mykel Hawke became a survivalist while still a child – in order to survive.

Born in 1965 in Fort Knox, Kentucky, Mykel spent 20 years in the US Army and attained the rank of Captain in the US Army Special Forces, known as the Green Berets. He held three Special Forces Military Operation Skills (MOS) including Special Forces Medic, Special Forces Communicator and Special Forces Intelligence Operations. In case it is not clear, Mykel was taught to be a killing machine and has been trained to survive any scenario.

He has trained UN Peacekeepers in Africa while fighting rebels and been active in search and rescue missions in Colombia during the drug war. He studied biology for his undergraduate degree and family counseling for his graduate degree.

Mykel has starred in over 50 TV shows as well as the programs he created including Man, Woman, Wild and One Man Army for Discovery Channel as well as Lost Survivors for Travel Channel and Elite Tactical Unit for Outdoor Channel. He has black belts in aikido and judo.

He has written books including but not limited to The Quick and Dirty Guide to Learning Language Fast, Hawke’s Green Beret Survival Manual, Hawke’s Special Forces Survival Handbook: The Guide to Getting Out Alive and Family Survival Guide: The Best Ways For Families to Prepare, Train, Pack and Survive Everything, which you can check out on his website mykelhawke.com

Every year, he works as a judge at the International Warrior Competition in Amman, Jordan in addition to being a Professor of Survival at the American Survival Guide University in Florida.

Caitlin Arnould is talking to Mykel today to learn more about how he survived a rough childhood and what inspired him to become one of the most accomplished and famous survivalists on the globe. Was he driven on by ambition to do his best or to be his best? After achieving so much, what drives him further on? What does life mean for him?

Learn more about Mykel and contact him directly on his website mykelhawke.com

Hawke’s Green Beret Survival Manual

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