Feisworld Podcast

Anne Jablonski is the Board President at The Feathered Pipe Foundation (@Feathered Pipe), an organization based in Helena, Montana that helps people "cultivate awareness of their truest selves, enrich spirit, mind, and body; explore the world’s wisdom and discoveries."

As one of the oldest centers for conscious living and yoga retreats in the country, Feathered Pipe is surrounded by millions of acres of forest and mountains. Guests from around the world come lounge, stretch, laugh, stroll including gurus, teachers, celebrities including Joseph Cambell, Dr. Andrew Weil, Rodney Yee.

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On the same day I found out that Donald Trump will be the leader of the free world, the country I've lived in for half of my life, I was also informed of the death of my cousin, Mike, at the age of 37.

This is an emotional and important part of my life. 

Katie Clark (aka @InsightsGal on Twitter), is a hybrid market research manager, social media diva, project manager based in Portland, Maine.

She revealed that she was adopted, as well as several other family members. After finding out that Katie wasn't going to have children of her own, she began pursuing adoption. The journey of adopting a child was no straight line. It is also complicated and incredibly expensive with no guarantee.

In this episode, Katie explains the trial and error she had experienced even before finding the right agency to work with. Her two identical twin girls are no short of a miracle. Before they became candidates for adoption, the twins made headline in the news in Beijing in 2013 (Here's one of many articles). Two Chinese celebrities were involved in donating to the twins' medical needs and making their surgery possible.

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Khim Teoh is a music teacher and Assistant Director at AMB (Academy of Music for the Blind) helping blind children ages 4-19.

Academy of Music for the Blind  is a non-profit school of music founded by Director David Pinto. AMB is dedicated to "addressing the unique talents and challenges of blind youth by developing their musical, creative, cognitive, physical and social skills through education in music and the performing arts."

How do visually impaired students learn to play music? What are some of the mechanism, structure and workflow AMB had established and proven to work? How does this learning experience impact their current students and graduates, whether or not they choose to pursue a career in music?  How do students themselves feel about the unique learning opportunity?

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Polly Chatfield is a teacher, poet, and winner of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for her topic "Patterns of Simile in The Divine Comedy". I met her during the 2016 Merrill Speakers Series at the Commonwealth School.

For over twenty years, Polly taught various subjects at Commonwealth. Associate Producer of Feisworld, Adam Leffert, fondly recalls Polly as one of his favorite teachers of all time. He is not alone. Decades after graduation, many of Polly's students still walk up to her at the school, on the street and express how she changed their lives, for the better. I met a few of her students including a Senior Producer from the New York Times and a Judge at the US Circuit Court.

If you didn't know anything about the Commonwealth School (Boston, MA), they are an independent, coed day school for grades 9 through 12, enrolling about 150 students in four grades. They are "academically rigorous, catering to bright, curious students who enjoy intellectual adventures in classes often taught at a college-level".  With nearly 75% of graduating seniors recognized as National Merit Finalists, Semifinalists, or Commended Students, and some 35% recognized by the AP Scholars program, Commonwealth School is one of the most recognized and successful private schools in the country.

David Anttony is a veteran IT and SEO expert who founded companies, worked around the globe before he settled down in Northern Philippines.  He and his partner opened up an organic farm called Happy House Farm that has welcomes hundreds of visitors from around the world. Their message and business model "Just relax and hang out in our nature-abundant organic farm, combine with a lifestyle program, or help out casually on the farm as you feel."

David welcomes guests to be part of his family. "There is a lot to do", he tells me "Nature walks abound, relax, fish at the farm, have a massage, walk to the beach (and get lost on purpose), catch a fish and have a BBQ, learn about organics."

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David Stewart (@WeAreAgeist) is the founder of Ageist, a website filled with beautiful photography and interviews with successful, vibrant people, generally over the age of 50. David's mission is to better understand of this inspirational, influential but underserved generation.

Popular marketing and advertising campaigns relentlessly and exclusively chase after young millennials, even centennials (born after 2000). Yet as a generation, the over-50s control two-thirds of the world’s wealth.

How should we live our lives after the so-called prime time? Is it inevitable to associate negativity, constant fear with aging? David challenged himself to a better question: What are we doing about this?

David decided to dedicate his life's work to seeking out, interviewing and photographing people over the age of 50 who are living lives that we should all be aspiring to. Furthermore, "Agiest is a place where an alternative templates of aging are created for generations to come."

Helen Chin Lui is a Certified Reflexologist, Certified Energy Medicine Practitioner and teacher. She specializes in helping people of all ages to to provide chronic digestive relief, chronic pain relief and balance hormones naturally. In 2006, Helen founded the Healing Place in Medfield, MA.

When Helen isn’t healing she is researching, teaching and writing. She also coaches self-care, self-healing Reflexology, Reiki and Chakra Balancing workshops. As part of Helen's education program, she will be presenting for the fourth consecutive year (started in 2012) at the largest New England annual Natural Living Expo on November 13, 2016, in Marlboro, MA. This year she will be presenting topics on “Are Your Emotions Eating You? Stop Negative Energy from Sabotaging Your Digestive Health.”

To learn more about Helen and the Healing Place, you can visit their webiste and Facebook Page.

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Will Collins (@WillumsFillum) is the screenplay writer for the Irish animation Song of the Sea, about a young Irish boy named Ben, and his little sister Saoirse, a girl who can turn into a seal, go on an adventure to free the faeries and save the spirit world.

Immediately after the film, I reached out to Will Collins, the screenplay writer for the film. Will took me on a journey of his own, from the inception of the idea for Song of the Sea, to how Will was introduced as a writer, working closely with Tomme Moore, co-founder of Cartoon Saloon, director and illustrator for the film.

When Song of the Sea was nominated to win an Oscar, Will was invited to join a luncheon with the world's greatest filmmakers and artists. He sat down next to Richard Linklater, the director for Boyhood (A Moving 12 Year Epic That Isn't Quite Like Anything Else in the History of Cinema). To Will's surprise, Linklater had to share a family story of his own with Will, related to Song of the Sea.

Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) is a writer, comedian and creator of satirical blog The Cooper Review, which attracts more than 500K page views per month. Her work has appeared on The Washington Post, Fast Company, Business Insider, and Huffington Post. Sarah has over 15 years of experience in the corporate world including Yahoo, Google, before leading to her first viral article, “10 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings”. Her first book, 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings, was released on October 4, 2016.