A NEW WORLD STORY...
the greatest transition drama the world has ever seen ...
will take a total SHIFT in consciousness ...

The SHIFT is happening -
and each one of us is a part of it.
There is mass awakening - and THE SHIFT MOVIE will share the message, with the intent to accelerate the shift in consciousness toward global human thriving.
Julie Ann’s ConsciousSHIFT guest, movie director Rochelle Marmorstein, calls this a MOVIE MADE BY A MOVEMENT, because what it illustrates is a Movement that is the combination and culmination of ALL the movements to a more socially just society and peaceful world.

Every one of us has a role to play and can contribute to making this a better world.

This film showcases individuals who are already making a difference with passion and a commitment to positive change, magnetizing incredible luminaries, leading-edge thinkers, evolutionary futurists, scientists and ordinary people doing extraordinary things – including Marianne Williamson, Deepak Chopra, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Desmond Tutu, Jean Houston, Lynne Twist, Peter Diamandis, Russell Brand, and activist Derrick Ashong.

Rochelle has invested her resources and her expertise as a film director into this project over the last 10 years - shooting visionary interviews, and now shooting the individual stories of the ordinary people stepping into their power to make a difference to their families, local communities, countries and to the world.

Technology and innovation breakthroughs are rapidly advancing the individuals' capability to make a bigger impact on the billions on the planet – and these stories in the film illustrate the impact that each one of us has the opportunity to create at this historical moment.

“By embracing the Inner SHIFT from powerless to powerful,
from victim to deliberate creators of our reality,
we ignite the imagination and consciousness to create the world of which we dream,” Rochelle shares.
“By SHIFTING the conversation from complaining about problems to solving them, individually and together through collaboration and cooperation as ordinary individuals do extraordinary and courageous things to move our culture into the future with peace, love, well-being and vision.”

Join Julie Ann and Rochelle to explore how THE SHIFT MOVIE shines a light on the magnificence of the human spirit and imagination to overcome adversity.

Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs

When is the work of two people together greater
than what either could do on their own?

As long as we’ve been interested in creativity,
we’ve been preoccupied by
the myth of the lone genius.

Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT Guest Joshua Wolf Shenk -
author of THE POWERS OF TWO - busts this fantasy apart,
and draws on new scientific research to show how
the pair is the embodiment of ingenuity.

On the show, we'll explore the magic of John Lennon
and Paul McCartney, the power of "hidden partners"
(even Einstein had one), and the genius of scores
of others in the fields of writing, music, dance,
science, technology, social activism, and business.

When it comes to creative success, we'll discover why
Josh persuasively argues that two is the magic number –
and why this changes everything we thought we knew
about creativity.

Join Julie Ann and Josh to discover the “secrets”
of creative pairs!

Take inner-city troubled teens + mentors
+ building ELECTRIC CARS (that's right!) = MINDDRIVE

At-risk high school students in Kansas City’s urban core travel down a new road when they remodel and convert cars - from a Lotus Esprit to antique Karman Ghias - into electric cars as part of MINDDRIVE, a nonprofit educational program geared toward teaching STEM principles through hands-on learning.

MINDDRIVE students choose from after-school and Saturday classes in Automotive Design Studio, Welding, 3D CAD, Contemporary Communication and Solar Lighting Design, and use real-world challenges of our times to learn critical thinking, creativity, entrepreneurship and how to improve their future by expanding their vision for themselves.

In the Automotive Design Studio, he autos are stripped down to the frame, then completely rebuilt. The groups are in charge of the design, ordering of parts, and building the cars – tasks that take teamwork, planning, and leadership. Adult volunteers act as mentors.

For students not interested in cars, MINDDRIVE offers Contemporary Communications, where students learn photography, videography, editing, social media, and blogging. The communications group works as an advertising agency for the auto group, publicizing its work.

That’s how last year’s SOCIAL FUEL MEDIA TOUR came about. Student’s drove from Kansas City to Washington, D.C. To raise awareness for experiential learning like MINDDRIVE, the students added a monitoring device to their electric car that "converted" social activity into energy. Through tweets, posts, shares and likes, the team had enough fuel to travel from K.C. to D.C., where they held a Congressional Hearing, sponsored by the ASME and the IEEE, to drive change in education. The focused conversation was around the impact of experiential, hands-on learning on creating a direct link to STEM-related jobs.

At the culmination of each school year, MINDDRIVE takes its students on the road trip of a lifetime. This year, the MINDDRIVE group took a road trip to northern California where they visited the Googleplex— Google’s headquarters — Twitter’s offices and a number of others.

MINDDRIVE has created an educational model that influences the student’s other core classes. The students are exposed to several new career paths and can see how the work they do at MINDDRIVE can translate into a career choice or an exploration of possibilities they'd never thought of before.

Join Julie Ann and MINDDRIVE's President Linda Buchner for a fascinating and inspiring conversation about what fueling creative thought in teens makes possible!

ConsciousSHIFT with Julie Ann Turner featuring
MARY ROCKWOOD LANE / HEALING WITH THE ARTS

Ever gardened in a community garden?
Sung a song to lift your mood?
Painted a mural with your neighbors to cover graffiti?

Each of these acts has the power to heal
your body and your community.

ART — including visual arts, dance, writing, and music —
along with spiritual practices and guided imagery -
gives us the tools to heal physical, mental, emotional
and spiritual ailments.

Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guest Mary Rockwood Lane,
co-author with Michael Samuels of
"HEALING WITH THE ARTS:
A 12-Week Program to Heal Yourself
and Your Community,"
shares with us how creativity and self-expression
pave a path to healing ... whether your personal health
or the health of your community - the ARTS
awaken the innate healing ability within each of us.

"By releasing tension and fear, by opening the mind
to passionate creativity and the forces that made us,
the inner artist and the inner healer release
the immense power of love to heal," Mary shares.
"The inner artist and inner healer as one,
is an exquisite balance of energetic wholeness.
By finding your inner artist and joining with
your inner healer, you may change your body’s
physiology and optimize healing."

Leland Kaiser, health futurist at University of Colorado,
says that the future of healthcare is a convergence
of art, spirituality, and healing.

Forty-five percent of U.S. health-care institutions
now have arts in medicine programs of some sort,
according to the most recent data by the
Global Alliance for Arts & Health.

Art and healing is now a huge field ...
all over the world, people are healing themselves,
others, community and the earth with the arts:
from women in the Middle East painting to heal their spirits
to survivors of sexual abuse dancing in the Western United States
from one women writing and singing a song for her sick baby
to another in the Philippines painting to heal the suffering of her indigenous culture
from music concerts to heal the community in Newtown, Connecticut
to women painting to heal breast cancer in San Francisco

Join Julie Ann and Mary, to discover how you can become an artist/healer.

Mary Rockwood Lane, PhD, RN, FAAN, is the co-founder and director emeritus of Shands Arts in Medicine program at University of Florida (UF), Gainesville, where she created the first artist-in-residence program of its type in the United States. At a time when art was not integrated in health care, Mary became inspired by her own experience of healing herself through art and created a program which incorporates art, music, poetry, theater, and dance into the medical profession. She directed the nationally-recognized Arts in Medicine program for over 15 years. Since moving on, she has worked tirelessly to promote this vision for a more creative and transformative nursing practice. Mary is now an Associate Professor of at College of Nursing, UF where she teaches Creativity and Spirituality in Healthcare.

ConsciousSHIFT with Julie Ann Turner featuring
MINA TRINITY CHANG / WHEN THE WORLD HURTS

From the Nigerian girls kidnapped by Boko Haram (#BringBackOurGirls) to those hurt by natural disasters and crushed by poverty worldwide,
Mina Trinity Chang and NGOs like Linking the World speak up, step in, and lead a global revolution for sustainable growth.

Attending the May 2014 World Economic Summit
in Abuja, Nigeria, Mina Chang, CEO of Linking the World, spoke out about Boko Haram, the terrorist group responsible for kidnapping hundreds of school girls, which opposes Western education - and education of any kind for women.
In this ConsciousSHIFT Show, Julie Ann and Mina will explore the reality of terrorism and human slave trade worldwide, and the role that NGOs play in creating safe haven, economic stability and inclusive growth around the globe.

A former recording star/musician and model, Mina Chang is now Chief Executive Officer and President of Linking the World International, which provides humanitarian aid and sustainable growth programs
and support in more than 40 countries worldwide.

As the eldest child of two Salvation Army Commanding Officers, Mina was immersed in inner-city social programs and world mission projects and got a first-hand look at how these efforts can save and change lives. Her childhood exposed her to the entire economic spectrum around the world.

As a child, she did not see poverty-stricken children of disaster areas as any different from herself, but she instinctively knew they needed help.

As a graduate of the University of the Nations, Mina studied development and aid practices with the goal of one day dedicating her life to becoming a full-time aid worker.

Through her experience working with large NGOs and development projects around the world, she witnessed communities taken from one cycle of poverty straight into another cycle of dependence on humanitarian aid. Mina was determined to continue her career with an organization that was in alignment with her belief that in order to break cycles of poverty, programs must scale capacity to foster resilience of local markets.

Mina has personally been involved in the disaster response operations to the earthquake and cholera outbreaks in Haiti, the tsunami in Asia, Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, and they Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. She has worked in some of the world’s most dangerous slum communities such as Kibera in Kenya and Citi Soliel in Haiti.

Mina’s giving spirit and dedication to philanthropy have earned her widespread recognition. She was named 2012 CBS Humanitarian of the Year on the nationally televised Women that Soar Awards.

Today, Mina continues to propel Linking the World forward with a global vision for the future and a deep passion for helping others by relieving suffering and breaking cycles of poverty.

In both her work and life she has committed herself to being a bridge builder, emphasizing the importance of making connections and recognizing similarities. “When [Linking the World] goes into a country, we focus on helping in a way that can be sustainable,”
Mina says. “It doesn’t do any good if we step in,
help, and then disappear.”

Mike Dilbeck believes COURAGEOUS LEADERSHIP - when someone moves beyond their fears and intervenes in a situation - is a revolution ... a movement.

A movement away from the shame, regret and guilt we all feel from being bystanders to any injustice or wrongdoing. A movement towards a whole new world where we are standing up, stepping in, and speaking out against inappropriate, abusive, and unhealthy behaviors. A movement based on a creed that challenges us, inspires us, and moves us to action.

Mike - the founder of RESPONSE ABILITY - The Revolution for Courageous Leadership (raproject.org) - believes in our ability to respond to bullying, sexual harassment and abuse, violence, fraud/corruption, cheating, discrimination, hazing, and other social situations by going beyond our fears and demonstrating courage in momentary choices. — For colleagues. For family. For friends. For strangers. — In organizations. In business. In community. In life.

With Julie Ann on ConsciousSHIFT, Mike will share how the COURAGEOUS LEADERSHIP movement is a community of ordinary people who act as catalysts for extraordinary change. A massive change in the way people treat and support each other. The kind of change that creates a world of security and acceptance. Of respect, fairness and dignity for all. Of people knowing that they matter — that each of us matters.

Across the globe, we witness stories filled with the shame and regret from not intervening in a moment of need. Each story points to the pain we carry with us for the rest of our lives ... pain that determines whether we will ever stick our neck out again. Pain that impacts our own confidence and self-esteem.

Join Julie Ann and Mike to discover how COURAGEOUS LEADERSHIP moves us past this pain and gives us permission to go from passive to powerful.

Our choices are critical - for the food we eat,
and for the way food is processed on this planet ...

Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT Guest Ocean Robbins,
co-author of "VOICES OF THE FOOD REVOLUTION" with his father John Robbins, makes the case that we can heal our bodies and our world - with food.

In fact, what you eat can avert further climate change (yes, really!),
eradicate global hunger, express your respect for animals,
more closely align you with your deepest values, prevent and reverse disease, or just help you feel fantastic and full of energy.

Currently, though, our food supply is contaminated with hormones,
antibiotics, GMOs, chemical cocktails, and neurotoxic pesticides.
Even many so-called “natural” foods are actually hazardous to our health.

Toxic food is making millions of people sick, and the costs
of treating an epidemic of illness are driving families
and even nations towards bankruptcy.

Industrialized agriculture is polluting our air and water,
treating animals with immense cruelty, and even fueling climate change.

And we know we can do better.

Join Julie Ann and Ocean to discover how to make informed, positive and practical decisions about food - and to see how your own actions matter, and how you can participate in a healthy, sustainable, humane and delicious revolution.

Ocean Robbins is co-author of Voices of The Food Revolution, co-creator of the The Food Revolution Summit 2014, and serves as adjunct professor for Chapman University and CEO and co-host (with best-selling author John Robbins) of the 100,000+ member Food Revolution Network.

What does it mean to be a global citizen?

15-year-old filmmaker Kasha Slavner is traveling
the world this Spring to document the answer
to that question, by filming people who
wake up every day with a desire
to make the world we live in a better place,
not only for themselves, but for their
communities and all life that shares this planet.

At 8 years old - after seeing Craig Kielburger, the founder of Free the Children, give a talk on the work of his organization - Kasha decided she was ready to start making a change in the world.

Kasha became quite active very quickly - joining social justice clubs, raising funds for issues she was passionate about, and participating in campaigns for a variety of charities. In March, 2013 Kasha was selected as a youth delegate by the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace to attend the United Nations for the 57th annual session on the Commission of the Status of Women.

Now, Kasha is taking a giant leap to make a difference
by starting The Global Sunrise Project
and convincing her mother, Marla, to let her take
a semester out of school to travel the world using
her love of photography, film and
change-making to create a short documentary
and book on global citizenship.

The duo is seeking support and funding
from others who believe in the project,
through their Indiegogo Project for the
documentary - "The Sunrise Storyteller©" -
which will focus on stories of hope and resilience
where people, despite what challenges they may face, are doing good things to make a difference in their own lives and in their communities -
people who are "being the change they wish to see."

She and her mom, Marla, will begin their 6-month trip this Spring. They will experience a completely different side of life from what they’re used to in their home of Toronto, Canada — the adventure will take them to corners of the globe where life isn’t always so easy, and they’ll be living out of one small bag
with just a few changes of clothes.

Kasha's mom, Marla, believes all of this experience
is part of what she calls "educaring" for Kasha -
which goes beyond just a traditional education.

Join Julie Ann as she hosts both Kasha and Marla on ConsciousSHIFT, to explore the choices we each can make to positively impact change.

How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change
It began with a question
to a small boy, begging on the streets of India.
"What do you want most in the whole world?,"
Adam asked.
"A pencil," the boy replied.

Adam Braun reached into his backpack,
handed the boy his pencil, and watched
as a wave of possibility washed over the small boy.

Adam saw then the profound power and promise brought through something as small
as a giving a pencil to just one child.

Over the next 5 years, Adam backpacked through over 50 countries.

From conversations with local parents & children, Adam realized the need for a nonprofit led on-the-ground - & he founded PENCILS OF PROMISE in 2008.

Starting with a $25 deposit, Adam & PoP have now built more than 200 schools in Africa, Asia & Latin America.

Join Julie Ann and Adam, Founder of PoP, & author of the bestselling book, "The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change" - as they explore Adam's unique “For-Purpose” approach, blending nonprofit idealism with for-profit business principles.

Everyday Addictions - you know, the little ways we all get "addicted" -
from our roles (as "mom" or "caregiver" or "boss")
to "being the one to do it all,
to our food, our work, our relationships, and more -
the small, but ultimately insidious ways we allow ourselves
to stay tethered to energy-sucking patterns that fail to serve us,
and ultimately hold us back from expressing our best self.

Julie Ann explores these Everyday Addictions
with ConsciousSHIFT Show guest Kelley Alexander,
co-director of The Sanctuary at Sedona, to discover how we can learn and adopt more healthy ways
and tools to heal ourselves and regain our power
and reach our true potential.