Eyedentity Talk with Janna Lopez

Lisa Schroeder is Executive Chef and Owner of Mother’s Bistro Bar, in Portland, Oregon. She is a mother, grandmother, chef, restaurateur and author devoted to providing better-than-authentic renditions of traditional home-cooked dishes at her popular, award-winning restaurant.

While at the Culinary Institute of America, she was selected as one of the Top Ten Student Chefs in America by Food and Wine Magazine. After graduating with honors in 1995, she continued honing her skills at two four-star restaurants in New York City – Lespinasse and Le Cirque. Her education continued with apprenticeships in Provence, France, at Roger Verge’s Moulin des Mougins and at Mark Veyrat’s L’Auberge de L’Eridan in Haute Savoie.

In 2009, Schroeder released her critically acclaimed cookbook, Mother’s Best, and appeared on the Today Show, QVC and more. She is the recipient of the IACP Chef/Restaurateur Award of Excellence, National Restaurateur of the Year from Independent Restaurateur Magazine and the Woman of Achievement Award from the Oregon Commission for Women. Chef Schroeder nurtures her community as well as her guests. She participates in numerous charities and causes including Share Our Strength, Basic Rights Oregon, Americans for Gun Sense, Our House, the Raphael House and the Bradley Angle House.

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Johnna Wells is propelled by momentum and a heartfelt call to cultivate connection and champion for community. As a second generation Auctioneer, Artist, and Advocate, Johnna partners with change makers, empowering each along the way to be the change they wish to see in the world. Founder of Benefit Auctions 360, Johnna is motivated to create moments that champion community and celebrate one's connection to place and purpose.

Guided by seventeen years as a Professional Fundraising Auctioneer, Johnna has utilized her internationally acclaimed style of event-based fundraising to raise more than 275 million dollars for Nonprofits throughout the country. Through her signature storytelling, public speaking platform, creative call to action, and acclaimed art of fundraising model, Johnna Wells crafts moments that inspire a sense of place and purpose, generating community engagement, and propelling philanthropic support.

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Brandon Cook is a multi-talented guitar player for major rock bands including Black n’ Blue, Dilana, The Loyal Order, and State of Balance. The recent song, “Ready for Dead,” by the Loyal Order, has over 1 million video views, and the debut album is released July 2020. Aside from being an amazing artist, Brandon is a seeker of deep meaning, self-awareness, and actively engages on the path of uncovering his identity.

www.brandoncookmusic.com

https://www.facebook.com/brandoncookmusic

The Loyal Order: Ready for Dead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slua80kJ8zA

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A skipping stone from Portland, to Michigan, New York City, and back to Portland. It was theatre and dance worlds in Manhattan. In Portland, total immersion into the radio broadcasting world (KGON, Q105, The BEAT, and KINK), more dance, theatre, art, and endless music. For the last several years, an official “work from home-r” in my at-home studio where I voice commercials as my freelance work, and continue to interview artists, musicians, and anyone that catches my interest. Along the way, I’ve met some of the most influential people in my life. Some becoming friends, and others just a brush-by with greatness and ideas. At anytime, it seems we all get caught up together in the same cultural, political, social feelings, views, ideas, and passions. But there’s always something else out there. Any day or night can reveal something brilliant and big or very small and potent. Feels like riding a wave. And advocating for the next one.

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Kelly Carlin, daughter of the brilliant comedian George, is a thinker, writer, talker and doodler. She’s funny, serious, silly and deep. Her fascinations range from discovering how to live a deep life, to freedom of expression, to the evolution of consciousness and the American psyche. She’s a practitioner of Zen Buddhism, has a Masters in Jungian/Archetypal psychology and comes from a family steeped in comedy, big ideas and warm hearts. Now that she’s found her voice, she’s figuring out how to use it for good while having a shitload of fun.

Lately Kelly’s focus has been centered on teaching and coaching women to find their voices and essential selves through her year-long program Women on the Verge. In 2015, her best-selling memoir, “A Carlin Home Companion: Growing up with George,” was published and her honesty, keen insight and humor were on full display. Jay Mohr summed up the power of her work by saying, “For anyone that has ever not been sure who they are, this book is for you. There is a landing spot. Let Kelly Carlin be your beacon.”

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Kalani is a gifted storyteller, songwriter, musician, poet, philosopher, priest, political satirist, and peacemaker. A Hawaiian practitioner and cross-cultural facilitator, he has experience promoting social justice through conflict resolution. His lectures inspire, challenge, and entertain while calling all to be their greater selves. His native roots allow unique perspective of the collision of two worlds: one steeped in traditional culture, and the other a juggernaut of new morality and changing economic and political persuasion. He is a messenger of integration and collaboration in a world rife with exclusion, oppression, and hopelessness. His work in behavior modification research, leadership, and political strategy gives him generous insights into group dynamics and systems of governance. Kalani is the Founding Director of the Olohana Foundation, a non-profit focused on building community capacity, cohesiveness, resilience, and emergency preparedness around food, energy, water, and knowledge systems. Kalani is also a Coastal Community Resilience Trainer with FEMA Consortium member, the National Disaster Preparedness Training Center at the University of Hawaii. He serves as a cultural competency consultant for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Visit www.mkalani.com

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Sandi is the founder of Activating Happy, an integrative conference that brings together experts in medicine, psychology, and science to explore remarkable advances in brain science to rewire your brain to activate optimum living. She’s been a PR/marketin professional for over 25 years working with notables including Academy Award winning filmmaker/animator, Will Vinton, Moonstruck Chocolate, to the Emmy Award winning producers for the television series Babylon 5. Sandi has a master's in Anthropology & Folklore from University of Oregon, loves to ride motorcycles, and believes that through the power of love and vibrational understanding, all things are possible.

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Robert Romanus is an American film/television actor and musician. He played ticket scalper Mike Damone in the 1982 comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), and Natalie Green's boyfriend Snake on The Facts of Life (1979). Robert originally came to Los Angeles to become a singer with the possibility of having a band. He became a singing busboy at a restaurant and met Steve Feldman, another singing busboy. The two hit it off and created their own group, Papa's Kitchen.

Romanus starred in the 1983 series The Best of Times as Pete Falcone. He also starred in the 1985 film Bad Medicine. Romanus has appeared on soap operas—Days of Our Lives and The Young and the Restless and guest starred on many shows, including CHiPs, 21 Jump Street, Alien Nation, MacGyver, Will & Grace. Romanus directed the 2008 drama Grapefruit Moon. Romanus has three children.

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Bill Persky is a 5-time Emmy Award winning writer, director, and producer for such shows as the Dick Van Dyke Show, That Girl, Sid Caesar, and Kate And Allie. He is a guest lecture at NYU Film School and Yale University, and teaches comedy writing at The New York Film Academy and The University of New Haven. He is what I consider true Hollywood royalty, and his circles include Carl Reiner, Marlo Thomas, Goldie Hawn, Fred Astaire, Cary Grant, and Dick Van Dyke, and has amazing stories to share. It is my esteemed honor to introduce my guest Bill Persky.

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KAREN KARBO is the author of fourteen award-winning novels, memoirs and works of non-fiction including the best-selling “Kick Ass Women” series. Her 2004 memoir, The Stuff of Life (2004), about the last year she spent with her father before his death, was a New York Times Notable Book. Her short stories, essays, articles and reviews have appeared in Elle, Vogue, O, Esquire, The New York Times, and salon.com. Karen is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, and an Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. Her latest book, "Yeah, No, Not Happening" was released May 2020.

Visit Karen at: www.karenkarbo.com

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