Crazy Amazing Humans

Have you ever felt frazzled, overwhelmed, and just plain tired from all the things you juggle in your life? If so, then we think you are going to love this episode! Our guest is an expert in this arena, Mallika Chopra--mom, media entrepreneur, author and public speaker. Listen as we discuss her book "Living with Intent" and apply it to taking on any social situation and/or gathering this holiday season and beyond with grace and calm. Mallika, daughter of Deepak Chopra, even leads us on an impactful and centering guided-meditation that you don't want to miss. Her wit, insights and authenticity makes what she shares extremely helpful, inspiring and fun!

You don't want to miss what Mallika has to say in this episode; from the numerous books she has written such as Living With Intent: My Somewhat Messy Journey to Purpose, Peace and Joy, and her charming children's books Just Breathe, Just Be You, and My Body Is A Rainbow to her expertise in all things mindfulness and meditation. she is a fountain of insight when it comes to discovering purpose, peace, balance and joy in your life. Mallika unpacks her four main principles from her book and helps us answer the questions "Who Am I?", "What Do I Want?", "How Can I Serve?" and "What Am I Grateful For?"

Also, since we thought you may be attending some upcoming holiday gatherings with family, which can be challenging even in the best of times, we apply her principles to equip you to be able to be intentional and mindful and to help steer the overall experience to make sure it can be a positive one for you and your families. We can let life come at us and just react to what comes our way or we can be intentional and mindful with a purpose on how we enter gatherings of any kind, holiday or otherwise.

So as a reminder let's do what's best for us and others by entering our upcoming social situations with mindfulness, being thankful, and be in the moment. Thanks so much, Crazy Amazing Humans, we think you are awesome!

Meet James Kanoff, Ben Collier, Will Collier and Aidan Reilly. Learn how they created The Farmlink Project to combat hunger and heal the planet by linking farmers to food banks. The nonprofit, grassroots organization run by 250 volunteers, was just awarded the 2021 Congressional Medal of Honor Service Award. Due to the effects of COVID-19, over 54 million people were experiencing food insecurity. At the same time, the four founders read an article in the New York Times and learned that fresh food was going to waste on farms and food banks were running on empty, so they decided to do something about it. The Farmlink Project connects farms that have a surplus of fresh, nutritious produce to communities in need with the added bonus of decreasing greenhouse gas emissions! Hear how they are addressing challenges of food waste, food insecurity and the environment--incredibly inspiring. As seen on Today Show, CNBC, Washington Post and more.

Are you ready to live a happier, healthier and more vibrant life? Then this episode is for you! We're talking with health guru and certified clinical nutritionist Lauren Rashap of Lauren Living Healthy who shares her invaluable wisdom, knowledge and advice on how to help us achieve our health goals through her unique, organic and holistic approach to wellness and integrative nutrition. With over 20 years of applied study and experience, Lauren Rashap is a certified clinical nutritionist who has health and wellness written in her DNA. As the third generation in her family to study, practice and teach the art of longevity, Lauren helps clients all over the globe lead healthier lives and now she's sharing her insights and easily accessible advice with the Crazy Amazing Humans community, too!

Listen as Lauren teaches us how to "hijack our genes" so that we can fit in our jeans -- ha! In this episode Lauren motivates us with her fact-based advice and shares a myriad of optimal ways to boost health through the power of healthy foods. Learn surprising facts about PUFA's, The Hateful Eight, TOFI and more. Don't know what those are? Then definitely tune in, find out and get motivated!

In honor of Father's Day, a moving, insightful conversation with Dr. David Kuhl who focuses on the health, integrity and well-being of men to create a more equitable, compassionate and sustainable world. David co-founded Blueprint.ngo that strives, through research, service and influence to impact society positively. Helping men to be more self-aware and integrate all aspects of themselves into their own unique authenticity, Blueprint is allied to all genders to positively influence the culture of men. Get informed and inspired as we hear how Dr. Kuhl and those at Blueprint have uncovered surprising insights about the impact of fathering and that of being fathered, discovering how fathers' behaviors, values and norms affect their children and those around them for a lifetime.

This podcast is all about you! We're sharing our conversation with resilience and emotional intelligence expert Kristin MacDermott who says anyone can learn resilience, emotional intelligence and conflict management and she shows us how. She is the founder and President of the MacDermott Method, which provides resilience-based resources for individuals and organizations. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist with over a decade of research in resilience. Her resilience-training programs have been validated in four studies with researchers from the Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke Cancer Institute and the National Institutes of Health. They have also been published in peer-reviewed journals, and her methodology has been shown to improve key mental health and resilience outcomes, including anxiety, depression, distress, conflict management and PTSD.

We think you'll agree she part of the Crazy Amazing Humans (CAH) tribe because she has taken her expertise and applied it to help others by designing resilience-training programs for some of the highest-performing people on the planet and beyond; including Navy SEALS, LAPD, schools, corporations, non-profits, and mentors who support at-risk kids. Kristin is the co-founder of Pathfinders, an Aspen-based nonprofit dedicated to improving the lives of people living with cancer as well as those experiencing grief. She also helped start Zero Hour Expeditions, a nonprofit that helps combat veterans reintegrate into civilian life and overcome the effects of PTSD by experiencing 30-day wilderness trips.

Kristin is the author of It Takes Two Minutes to Shift Your Mindset and Build Resilience, a book that breaks resilience down into bite-size skills you can apply to your life immediately. She has recently launched two online courses for parents, one called Resilience-Based Parenting and the other called Parenting Through Divorce. She has a private practice in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida where she lives with her husband of 28 years and her three children.

Tune in and have fun listening! Please feel free to share it with anyone you know who would benefit from this episode. Remember that every small kindness has the potential to create a Crazy Amazing Human experience, one person at a time. You have the power to create that every day. And we, at Crazy Amazing Humans, are in your corner, we're rooting for you, and really appreciate you as part of our community and we think YOU are crazy amazing!

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We are excited to introduce you to Bonnie Abaunza. Bonnie founded Artists for Amnesty at Amnesty International, led the Social Action arm of Participant Media for seven years, directed the philanthropic foundation for Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer and consulted for the United Nations' International Labour Organization all before founding the Abaunza Group. Her social impact campaigns have raised awareness about critical issues including genocide with Hotel Rwanda and The Heart of Nuba campaigns, conflict diamonds with Blood Diamond, abuses by the food industry with Food, Inc., campus sexual assault awareness with the Lady Gaga song "Til It Happens To You" from The Hunting Ground as well many many others. Most recently Bonnie is spearheading an awareness campaign in relation to the Oscar-nominated film The Trial of the Chicago 7 for the 2021 Academy Awards.

Bonnie Abaunza has dedicated her life to humanitarian work, human rights and social justice advocacy. She develops and executes campaigns to help films move the needle on critical social, political and cultural issues. Bonnie's work has brought hard-hitting campaigns and major celebrity engagement to issues as diverse as child slavery, human trafficking, environmental justice, girls education and much more.

From behind the scenes at the Academy Awards to Artists for Amnesty to consulting with the United Nations, Bonnie leverages the momentum created by things like films, music and more to make a huge impact in the world for good. Bonnie has been referred to as the "Wizardess of Oz" because when you pull back the curtain to many philanthropic efforts emanating from the entertainment community, she is moving the levers to make things happen.

Tune in and listen and we think you'll agree that Bonnie is definitely a crazy amazing human rights warrior! Please feel free to share Bonnie's inspirational story with anyone you may know who could benefit from it. We want to thank you so much for being part of our community. We think YOU are crazy amazing!

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Join us for an inspiring "two-fer" episode with Leeza Gibbons from Leeza's Care Connection and Wendy Marantz Levine from Beauty Bus. Leeza Gibbons, Emmy-Award winning TV journalist and NY Times bestselling author and Wendy Levine, named one of 50 women who inspire and make an impact in Los Angeles by L.A. Magazine, share how their personal tragedies have fueled their commitment to reach out to others who are hurting. Both Leeza and Wendy, through their separate endeavors, provide free resources and guidance as they deliver loving-kindness and support to seriously ill patients and their caregivers.

Leeza and Wendy's powerful stories transform pain into purpose and show how their personal tragedies have fueled their commitment to reach out to others who are hurting. In Leeza's case, it was when she was hosting the television show "Extra" and her mother was diagnosed with Alzhiemer's disease. And for Wendy Levine, it was when she was Director of Litigation spearheading the international Holocaust Services Justice Network at Bet Tzedek where they provide free legal services for Holocaust survivors and her sister was diagnosed with a rare form of ALS.

Both Leeza and Wendy, through their separate organizations, provide guidance and resources that you will find extremely helpful.

We hope that you will then take this information and share it generously with anyone you know who could benefit from it...it could even be you!

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Join us for our first anniversary episode with Nicholas Kristof, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist with the New York Times, best-selling author and a regular CNN contributor. We share an insightful and intelligent conversation about various subjects of his columns such as Darfur, The Heart of Nuba in Sudan, the Kevin Cooper story and current political and economic factors. Learn about Kristof's passions, motivations and renowned "Annual Gift Giving Guide" that raised more than $9.3 million for underserved people in 2020.

Listen as our co-hosts wrap up 2020 and give you some ideas to hold on to as we move into 2021--mindfulness, gratitude, forgiveness, & self-care. LIVE from the studio, Katrina (guitar, vocals) and Jefferson (keyboards, vocals) dedicate the gift of live music to YOU as a way to express their gratitude to the Crazy Amazing Humans community. Their original songs "You are Christmas" and "End of December" will get you in the holiday spirit. Let's take the lessons we've learned and make 2021 as Crazy Amazing as we can!

Randy Lioz of Braver Angels ignites a conversation to help us and all Americans understand each other beyond stereotypes, form community alliances, and reduce the discord that can poison our civic culture. Listen to Randy's story and how in discovering Braver Angels he found a way to fulfill his passion to build bridges between conflicting viewpoints. Braver Angels sponsors workshops where people from differing political opinions come together, hear each other out, build bridges between each other and ultimately foster a sense of understanding and respect. Learn how to start off by deciding to listen and then trying to understand the other person's perspective. See how you don't need to try to change them. You may find, like many others, that there is some common ground to build on.