Dr Deborah Show

Alan Kozlowski is known for his artistic vision, deep understanding and love of music and cinemotography. Alan has been at the forefront of innovation in film making for which he has received extensive recognition. He has produced and directed many music documentaries featuring artists Ravi Shankar, Jackson Browne, Kenny Loggins, and Lionel Richie.

His passion for music began while studying guitar in Spain with legendary gypsy flamenco guitar virtuoso Diego del Gastor. Alan was Director Of Photography in the visually stunning film "For Us The Living: The Medgar Evers Story" and the Telluride Mountain Film Festival Best of Film award winning film, "Travellers and Magicians".

Alan directed, shot and edited the HBO special Lionel Richie's "Dancing On The Ceiling" and was Director of Photography, co-produced and edited the ACE Award for "Best Music Special of the Year" and Disney documentary "Jackson Browne: Going Home". Alan also was Director of Photography, co-produced and edited for Kenny Loggins documentary "Live from the Redwoods" for PBS.

He began studying music with Pandit Ravi Shankar and performed with Ravi worldwide at Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, and London's Royal Opera House. He documented the major milestones of Ravi's life and managed his visual archives including commemorating Ravi's 75th birthday, where Alan co-produced with George Harrison "In Celebration," a four-CD collectors edition of Ravi Shankar's works.

Alan also directed "Ravi Shankar: The Concert For World Peace" performance at London's Royal Albert Hall, released world-wide by A&E. For Ravi's 80th birthday, Alan produced and edited "Sangeet Ratna", a documentary of the life and work of Pandit Ravi Shankar featuring interviews with Phillip Glass, Zakir Hussain, George Harrison.

In 1981 Alan developed a new technology where he filmed and directed a 360-degree, 70mm film for Envirovision Theaters. He innovated, filmed and edited a simultaneous 10-screen feature presentation of Chinese culture for "Hawpaw Village" in Singapore. Alan co-founded Pacific Ocean Post, a leading film and television post-production studio in Santa Monica, California employing more than 300 special effects, animation, sound, and editorial professionals, and breaking new ground in the integration of digital technology and visual expression. Pacific Ocean Post helped bring home the Visual Effects Oscars for Independence Day (1997), Titanic (1998) and What Dreams May Come (1999). POP was acquired by Liberty Media in 1999 facilitating Alan's return to his artistic pursuits.

In 2001 Alan directed, filmed and edited the breathtaking "Return to Dzongsar" which documented Khyentse Norbu's/Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche return to his native land and monastery in Eastern Tibet. Alan's love for Tibet, Nepal and India allowed him to travel, film and photograph the people, lands and cultures of these immensely beautiful lands creating a stunning visual archive.

He published a book "On The Path-Tibet" featuring photography from his many journeys. Alan also created On The Path LLC, a performing arts center, gallery, and multimedia production facility in Santa Monica. He recently worked with Jackson Browne on a documentary focusing on master percussionist and composer Luis Conte's return to his native land of Cuba. Alan also worked with Jeff Bridges and T-Bone Burnett to capture ancillary material for Jeff's 2009 movie "Crazy Heart" starring Jeff Bridges, Colin Farrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Robert Duvall with music by T-Bone Burnett. Through his continual travel, deep exploration, extensive relationships, vivid imagination and unending curiosity Alan Kozlowski remains to this day…On The Path of discovery.

Dr. Deborah is joined by Jay Reid, who lost his 14 year old son to suicide. Reid is from Murrieta CA, a community that shares some similarities with Santa Barbara – affluence, protected isolation.

The world premiere of the documentary film TELL MY STORY, which is about teen suicide screens this Friday at 10:00am at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

Kevin Taylor was appointed Fire Chief of the Montecito Fire Department in July 2019. Chief Taylor came to the Montecito Fire Department in February 2015 after serving the prior 25 years in the City of Paso Robles Fire Department. Chief Taylor has a Bachelor's Degree in Fire Administration and a Master's Degree in Emergency Management.

Chief Taylor was a founding member of the Santa Barbara County Type 3 Incident Command Team and served as an Incident Commander for several years prior to promoting to Fire Chief. Chief Taylor was one of the Unified Commanders of the 1‐9 Debris Flow event in Montecito and remains actively engaged in community resilience.

Dr. Deborah is joined by KCSB News reporter Kaitlyn B to speak about mental wellness and suicide prevention among students. Then, later in the show, Kaitlyn interviews Dr. Deborah. 

William Arntz started his professional career as a research laser physicist, working on "Star Wars" high energy lasers. He then moved on to software, writing "AutoSys"–an automated job control system currently in use by most Fortune 500 companies.

He sold that company, retired, but then decided to make a film: creating, producing and directing What the BLEEP Do We Know!?, an exploration of spirituality, quantum physics, neurology and outrageous possibilities. The film and the companion book, with editions in over twenty languages, were international hits.

William and his wife, mystic visionary Deirdre Hade, have collaborated on the new coffee table art book The (not so) Little Book of Surprises. As the Mystic and the Physicist, they are touring the country speaking on the power of surprise as an undiscovered key to awakening in this, the Age of Surprise.

His most recent book How to Suffer: in ten easy steps takes on the self-help genre with the only "How To" book that actually delivers: No one wants to suffer, but everyone does, so it MUST be easy to do.

Emmanuel Itier is an experienced and successful feature film Producer, Music and Film journalist for both Rock Magazines, French TV networks and various websites for the last twenty five years.

His movie and Peace documentary 'The Invocation' is narrated by Sharon Stone, staring Desmond Tutu, HH The Dalai Lama, Deepak Chopra as well as many worldwide peace activists. The movie, 'Red Passage' won many Awards and another inspiring documentary Celebrating Women around the planet: 'FEMME-Women healing the World.' This Documentary earned over 20 Awards around the World.

His third feature Documentary: 'Shamanic Trekker', is about shamanism in Peru and also "Making Peace, One movie at a time." These films are part of a series called 'The Oneness Collection: Documentaries for a conscious Humanity.' These include, 'The Cure: Healing The Mind, Healing The Body, Healing the Planet' and the politically loaded Doc: 'We The People: A Re-Evolution of Economics and Politics'!

Emmanuel is planning on directing a biopic about the poet Charles Bukowski, starring Sharon Stone, his producing partner for over a decade. Itier has been a buyer for many French and American Film distribution companies for the last twenty years. Emmanuel is a recipient of the '2018 Global Citizen Award' United Nations Association and named President of The Year 2018 by the Rotary EClub of World Peace, sat on the board of directors of the Santa Barbara Film Festival for a decade Currently, Emmanuel sits on the board of Directors of 'Darfur Women Action Group', is founding President of the Rotary E-Club of World Peace and part of the U.N Association, Santa Barbara chapter and World Council of Wisdom.

Mr. Itier grew up in France and he moved in the USA thirty years ago. He resides in Santa Barbara, California with his wife and three sons.

Santa Barbara-based psychologist, Dr. Deborah Foster, speak about trauma - how it's caused and how to help heal from trauma.

Rudy Westervelt has spent nearly 30 years with The Kroger Co. in key positions across the U.S. His consulting company, Power in Learning, helps organizations achieve operational excellence through leadership training, managing change and making effective use of all resources.

He was a member of the Rotary Club of Lake Arrowhead Mountain Sunrise, club president and Rotarian Action Group for Peace. He is currently a member of the Rotary E-Club of World Peace, D5330 and president of Solutions for Peace Foundation Inc.. His Rotary involvement has been in youth service, leadership training for Rotarians, strategic planning and efforts to better understand and create peace around the world. Rudy is a trained mediator and member of Mediators Beyond Borders International. Rudy served as Rotary District 5330 Governor in 2015-16. During that year, Rudy convened the Rotary World Peace Conference 2016, a Rotary International Presidential Conference. The conference had nearly 1800 attendees, over 100 solution-based breakout sessions, and set the standard for future peace conferences. He was also programs chair for the Pre-Convention Peace Conference at the Atlanta Rotary International Convention and advisor to the six Rotary International Presidential Peace Conferences for 2017-18. Rudy is Convener and Chair of the Rotary World Peace Conference 2020, which will be held on January 2020 in Ontario, California.

Rudy is passionate about peace, motivating Rotarians and others to join together to create peace in their communities around the world. He believes in one humanity, where each person has a right to live in peace. Rudy holds a BA from Cornell University and an M.S. from the University of Connecticut.

Rand Rosenberg most recently held the post of senior vice president of corporate strategy and development at PG&E Corporation. PG&E is recognized as an industry leader on climate change and the importance of reducing man made greenhouse gases. Prior to his work at PG&E, Rand spent several years in investment banking. He was a partner of Montgomery Securities and held senior positions at Goldman Sachs and Salomon Brothers, where he was a managing director and head of Global Telecommunications Investment Banking.

Rand also served as executive vice president and CFO of InfoSpace, an Internet search engine enterprise. He currently serves on the boards of an emotional intelligence enterprise developed within Google, Search Inside Yourself Learning Institute, and a slavery and trafficking organization, Human Thread Foundation.

Dr. Deborah Foster, Santa Barbara-based psychologist, speaks about stress- the health impacts and how to reduce stressors in daily life.