Changemakers Without Borders

Dr. Ritu Saluja-Sharma has been at the Johns Hopkins Medicine-Sibley Memorial Hospital in Maryland for 15 years, dealing with every life-threatening condition you can think of. She has since been investigating how we can prevent these very conditions. We delve into epigenetics, what affects our health and longevity the most, and how we can live better, healthier lives as active people who make a difference in the world, but don't always have time for ourselves. 

In this episode, we get into what made Rambhai the out-of-the-ordinary teacher, how he lives with his family & extended family in one house, what he saw in his childhood and if overuse of technology is worse or better than drug addictions.

In India, many families have drug addictions; young fathers and males die of drug overdoses or alchohol related cancers and diseases. After retiring, Rambhai Patel began an anti-addictions educational program, and rode buses all over India to teach hundreds of thousands of underprivileged children about the dangers of drug use and addictions so that their families have a chance to stay strong and healthy. Both his sons join to translate Rambhai’s Indian Gujrati, his native tongue; Dhaval Patel is a software engineer at Bloomberg and started a data science Youtube channel with 400K subscribers to teach youth tech after being diagnosed with an incurable autoimmune disease, and Bhavin Patel was a student who was told he won’t succeed in life, but now has a multi-media marketing company he built that employs some of India’s best university graduates and has contracts with US companies. 

Writing a review on Changemakers helps more people hear about initiatives like these that people are creating to make our society a better place. Contact me on Twitter @TheMayCooper. This is also on community radio, CFUZ Peach City Radio in British Columbia and CKWR 98.5 in Waterloo, Ontario with a reach of more than 1.5 million people.

In India, many families have drug addictions; young fathers and males die of drug overdoses or alchohol related cancers and diseases. After retiring, Rambhai Patel began an anti-addictions educational program, and rode buses all over India to teach hundreds of thousands of underprivileged children about the dangers of drug use and addictions so that their families have a chance to stay strong and healthy. Both his sons join to translate Rambhai’s Indian Gujrati, his native tongue; Dhaval Patel is a software engineer at Bloomberg and started a data science Youtube channel with 400K subscribers to teach youth tech after being diagnosed with an incurable autoimmune disease, and Bhavin Patel was a student who was told he won’t succeed in life, but now has a multi-media marketing company he built that employs some of India’s best university graduates and has contracts with US companies.

As seen on BBC, The Times of Israel, and other outlets, co-founder Gabi Arnovitz with Uriel Shuraki started a social tech startup that teaches seniors in a practical and powerful way how to use everything from google suite apps to Apple products and android phones, so that seniors (and now also people with disabilities) will have a chance to participate in the online world in a better, more effective way. The startup garnered much attention fast, with 600 hundred seniors joining the first week. Today they're helping thousands of seniors manage their apps with more confidence and they’re growing, and planning to reach millions. 

Contact Gabi here: [email protected] and see his website: smartphonelessons.net. Writing a review on Changemakers helps more people hear about initiatives like these that people are creating to make our society a better place. Contact me on Twitter @TheMayCooper. This is also on community radio, CFUZ Peach City Radio in British Columbia and CKWR 98.5 in Waterloo, Ontario.

In which Rabbi Moshe Goldman discusses the history of Chabad's founding father, a man who was given a posthumous award in 1994 for his "outstanding and lasting contributions toward improvements in world education, morality, and acts of charity". Among filling more than 200 volumes of teachings, in 1978, the Rebbe's birthday was designated by President Jimmy Carter as the national Education Day in the US. In this episode, Rabbi Goldman talks about the contributions the Rebbe made to charity, to our education, and to our culture--spiritually and morally. You can check out Rabbi Goldman's podcast called The Parsha Podcast here https://apple.co/3hgDr8Z

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In Part 2, Dr. Meir Schneider tells us riveting stories about people with debilitating diseases who came to his school and were able to change their life around by working on their mobility and flexibility with determination and a will to become different, healthier people. Dr. Schneider himself was born with a serious disability and yet is often healthier and with more physical abilities than some of his colleagues born with none; since creating the School for Self Healing, he's able to help hundreds of people reverse a spectrum of debilitating conditions, and gain not only their eyesight, mobility and health back--but their independence and dignity.

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From being born blind with macular degeneration to having an unrestricted drivers license, Dr. Meir Schneider worked for 13 hours a day as a teen to get his eyesight back even when no one believed he would be able to, and since has developed a method that helps people from around the world to recover their eyesight, avoid invasive eye surgeries, and become independent people. Schneider is a healthcare visionary, pioneer therapist, international health educator, author and founder of the San Francisco non-profit ‘School for Self-Healing’. Dr. Schneider continues to develop his unique therapeutic healthcare system providing solutions for a variety of physical and visual disorders which are often considered beyond medical help. 

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In Part 2 with Uketropolis founder James Hill and his wife Anne Janelle, we explore the power of allowing children to compose, throwing a song into many different genres and exploring the unknown in music. Uketropolis supports music teachers all over the world to teach ukulele in the best, most effective way possible—and to inspire and support generations of children to become great musicians. Leave a review on Apple podcasts or Podchaser. Tweet @themaycooper or insta @maycooperproductions to get on the show! http://www.changemakerswithoutborders.com/

James Hill, "possibly the best ukulele player in the world" (Waikato Times) is the person behind Uketropolis, the megaworld of ukulele for music teachers around the world, the only rigorous teacher-training that allows musicians and teachers alike to become more effective and inspiring ukulele teachers for all ages. James describes the journey of building Uketropolis and what is has become today, since his young days playing ukulele in Langley, BC, and his wife, Anne Janelle–"a cellist of true beauty"(Ottawa Citizen) shares her experiences, like working with organizations that allow children to get involved in orchestras, and what exactly is the importance of music in life. Leave a review on Apple podcasts or podchaser, and you can write an email to [email protected] @themaycooper and http://www.changemakerswithoutborders.com/ 

In Part 2, we get to hear a more personal side to the Spanish Flu from a unique collection that was given to Professor Kandace Bogaert in one of her lectures by an audience member. As an award-winning researcher, she talks about what we can learn from it, as well as allows us a glimpse inside the lives of the heroes in those barrack hospital wards--both those who lie in their beds hoping to recover, and those who give them treatment, and write to the patient's families in the dead of the night, to keep the hope alive.