Bright Side with Tekneshia

She has been working with volunteers and others and training and teaching about them for over 30 years.

Her passion is training and designing an experience that allows learners to find a process that works for them to make the changes they desire.  

She spent 23 years with United Way’s Volunteer Center, coordinating volunteers for city government, training local volunteer coordinators and board volunteers, and managing the volunteer program for United Way. 

 Before that, she taught High School English, French and Social Studies in Utica, NY and Batavia, Ohio.

Before that, she earned a BA from the University of Maine in International Relations and a Master of Arts in Teaching from Brown University.

While at United Way, she developed and managed a certificate-earning series on volunteer management with Northern Kentucky University and the Union Institute and University. She also taught both undergraduate and graduate courses in Volunteer Program Management at Northern Kentucky University. 

Her career at United Way included initiating and managing the Municipal Volunteer Program, Volunteer Cincinnati, for 15 years. She worked closely with nonprofit agencies to empower their volunteer programs and boards of trustees and served on the Executive Committee of the Cincinnati Association of Volunteer Administrators.  A major success was developing a consulting team of professional volunteer administrators who worked with nonprofit organizations in Greater Cincinnati to assess their volunteer programs and develop strategies for greater success. This resulted in changes that increased program effectiveness in the agencies.

Gloria Oren has been honing her craft since she graduated from the Long Ridge Writer’s Group’s “Breaking Into Print” course. She has a powerful perspective of finding positivity in experiences on life’s roller coaster lurches that leave many in panic. She is founder of the Facebook group WWEAP with over 6,000 members, and a member of her local Redmond Association of Spokenword (RASP) where she occasionally participates in open mike gatherings.

The author of two nonfiction eBooks, Gloria is an editor for Muse It Up Publishing where she helps authors create the best book they can.

People say she’s a woman of many hats and that’s probably true. An award-winning editor. An avid reader. A book reviewer. A writer. A daughter. A wife. A mother of three. A baby boomer. A cancer survivor. A reunited adoptee. The oldest of ten birth half-siblings combined but raised as an only child.

As a reunited adoptee, Gloria’s goal is to share her experience with others through her adoption memoir, which she hopes to have published one day.

She grew up in the Crown Heights and Flatbush area of Brooklyn, New York and attended both public and private schools. At the age of fifteen, Gloria moved to Tel Aviv, Israel with her adoptive mother who passed away in 1979. Two months later Gloria married. Her two sons are Sabras, both born in Israel; her daughter is American born and bred, like her mother.

In July 1990, Gloria battled Hodgkin’s Disease. Since radiation, therapy ended in Oct. 1990 she has been cancer free. Now, life can’t be that dull, so in Dec. 2005 she was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes. She has since been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, spondyloarthropathy, and arthritis.

 

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An award-winning author, change catalyst, corporate speaker, international facilitator, and practicing consulting hypnotist who brilliantly and skillfully uncovers the powers of the subconscious mind-body connection working through relationship and life issues with clients both personally and for business. With an eclectic background in journalism, the corporate world, and counseling, Georgina is a powerful catalyst for change – in a person, a couple, or a corporation/organization. Writing, teaching, lecturing and appearing in the media, she attracts audiences both young and old, including the 78 million baby boomers in North America looking forward to the second half of their lives and seeking insight and inspiration on life’s deepest questions. 

Georgina is an award-winning, board-certified, master consulting hypnotist and in 1997 founded the Ontario Hypnosis Centre, which within a few years became Canada’s leading hypnosis training facility and clinic.  She has since sold the OHC to focus on her writing, lecturing and client work. An accredited life coach, she is recognized as the public face of hypnosis and the mind-body connection in Canada and is a respected member of the complementary health community.

Lisa Dalton appeared in more than 200 films, television shows and commercials as an actor and stunt player in New York, Hollywood and Texas. You’ve seen her in ER, HBO’s Carnivale, Dr. Quinn and Melrose Place among her many TV credits. She was featured in the cult favorite “Berry Gordy’s The Last Dragon” as a bad gal in Sho’nuff’s Gang.

Her stunts were used in such hits as Ghostbusters, Money Pit, Crocodile Dundee, Married to the Mob, FX, Legal Eagles, and Splash. She doubled Cher, Madonna, Kelly McGillis, Grace Jones and Meryl Streep.

On the other side of camera, she is an award winning director/producer of independent fiction and documentary films.

Lisa teaches and performs in Russia, Europe, and the Americas, on stage and film, beginning in 1976 with BondST.org as a founding member. She is on the SAG-AFTRA DFW Board, President of the Tarrant County Live Theatre League, President of the National Michael Chekhov Association (www.chekhov.net); and is a John Maxwell Founders Circle Certified Speaker, Trainer and Coach.

Through the NMCA, Dalton and Professor Wil Kilroy developed the longest running Michael Chekhov Teacher certification track globally. Lisa was the 2014 SouthEastern Theatre Conference (SETC) Guest Master Teacher.

Raffaela was born in Smithtown, NY and raised in the small town of Sayville, New York on Long Island. At an early age it was obvious Raffaela wanted to perform; she could sing before she could talk. Raffaela has formal education and training with the Berkshire Theatre Group and the CAP 21 acting conservatory. She graduated from the Long Island Performing Arts and Technical High School and attended Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied liberal arts and performance as the only freshman in her year to be accepted into senior and graduate-level courses.

Raffaela has also trained at the studios of Susan Batson and Ivana Chubbuck, and has been involved in over 50 community and regional theatrical productions as an actress and singer. In 2011 Raffaela wrote and recorded her first EP with Grammy award-winning producers Frank and Christian Berman. The music video for her original track "So What" was accepted into the Dances With Films festival (2015), Rahway International Film Festival (2015), was a jury selection at the International Family Film Festival (2015), and won best song in a music video at the Hollywood & Vine Film Festival (2015). She also wrote and starred in the short film "Taking A Chance on Love" in 2014, which was nominated for best short film at Dances With Kidz (2015) and an audience choice award at the Hollywood & Vine Film Festival (2015). Raffaela is presently in development with InRage Entertainment and Sony/ATV producers & songwriters, Automatic and Ebony Vanderveers where she is in post production for her music video and single, HURRICANE, featuring artist Chris Redd (Popstar, Never Stop, Never Stopping) written by the Vanderveers and Elise Legrow.

How to Relax into Life as a Living Meditation, More Fully and Enjoyably as You: Tis is the essence of Canela Michelle Meyers’ teachings. Her cherished volume of satsang invitations supports readers in practical and profoundly human ways to awaken to the True Self. Embracing topics such as trust, love, attraction, blame, anger, self-remembrance, abundance, and many more, these “reading meditations” demonstrate how available it is to awaken more deeply to the present moment, here and now. No need to go off to a cave in the Himalayas! Every single aspect of yourself—no matter what—is benefcial in this sacred process. Since 1999, Canela Michelle has been supporting the awakening of humanity worldwide through Transformational Satsang, offering direct support for Awakening to and embodying the Truth—available to all, no matter what they know or don’t know and how long they have been looking or not looking for “Tis Tat Is.” Learn more about her work at CanelaMichelle.com.

Jeffrey R. Fidel, MD refuses to live his life medicated for Bipolar I disorder. In near complete solitude, he endured nearly a full year of intense mental anguish. Utilizing mainly the ancient teachings of Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching, he learned how to connect to a voice originating from his heart.

The “voice within” teaches him that our true identity is “beyond thought” and that we and the universe are I(One)...

Dr. Fidel is now sharing these ancient teachings to help others discover their answer inside. He says, “By quieting the constant chattering of our minds, we begin to hear the inner voice that originates from our hearts. By surrendering the ‘thought of who we are,’ we can begin to accept this inner voice as our teacher. This inner voice teaches us that we are one.”

Jeffrey R. Fidel graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree from

Brandeis University in Waltham, MA. He earned his Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree from Tulane University in New Orleans, LA. Dr. Fidel is a board certified-MRI fellowship trained diagnostic radiologist who completed both his residency and fellowship training at the University of Miami in Miami, Florida.

His hobbies include classical piano, snow skiing, math, and science. He currently resides in Florida with his son, Andrew.

For more information, visit http://www.jeffreyfidelmd.com/

Scott Frazelle is known for his work on Watercolors (2008), Richard III (2007) and Creepshow 3 (2006).

Hot off a career working on video games, Dave Zani has set out to become the next Roger Corman or Charles Band. He talks to us about his sexy horror-comedy efforts Shark Babes and Scared Topless, and his plans for the future.

Dave Zani is an award-winning film Producer, Director and Writer mostly known for his works in the Sci-Fi, Horror and Comedy genre, however his body of work ranges from commercials to children's shows. His skills include an in-depth knowledge of editing, camera work and project development.

He has written and produced two feature films with his company, Old Mill Entertainment LLC. Scared Topless (2014) and Shark Babes (2015).

In the past he has worked on video game projects such as Grand Theft Auto V (2013), Max Payne 3 (2012) and L.A. Noire (2011) in which he did animation and provided voices for characters. His most notable role was portraying the side character "Mitch" in Grand Theft Auto V.

In 2008 Dave worked closely with Actor/comedian, Richard Belzer of Law and Order fame, developing content for his website, ibelz.com with his then production company, Trah Film inc.

Aside from film and animation, Dave has a deep passion for History, Architecture, and Nature. Most of his works incorporate these motifs in some way, shape or form. He is a member of the American Society for Amateur Archaeology and the Tudor Society headquartered in London, England.

He is a graduate of the New York Film Academy (Cambridge, England campus) and Quinnipiac University, class of 2006.

I have the pleasue of chatting with actor, writer, and producer Ivan Djurovic. We will be discussing one of his new films that he produces and stars in 'It Watches,' which will be released this December