Fresh Leaf Forever

Meet Shobha Swamy, a returning guest on the show. Shobha talks about how one can heal themselves while on a plant based diet.
Many individuals, she highlights here,  with chronic illnesses like heart conditions, diabetes, auto immune conditions and several others have tremendous results changing to a plant based lifestyle. Shobha shares some success stories of her patients who have encountered such transformation in their lives and how they healed their body giving emphasis to eating a diet rich in whole foods, plant based life style.
She's a huge advocate of cooking without oil and explains the detrimental role of fat and gives her suggestions for adopting a no-oil based diet.
Her website is www.Annapoorna-Nutrition.com  and she may be reached via the Contact form there.
Shobha suggests users to check out the following resources as they may be helpful:
Books "The China Study" by T.Colin Campbell and Thomas M.Campbell II, "Starch Solutions" by Dr.James McDougall, " Dr.Neal Barnar'd Program for reversing diabetes" and Dr.Esselstyn Jr. on "Prevent and reverse heart disease".
This episode is information only and is not to be construed as medical advice nor is it a substitute for in person or individual medical advice. Please consult your physician and dietitian for case to case basis and needs.

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For anyone passionate about gardening and growing their own vegetables, fruits and herbs, this is the episode.
Guest Stephanie Hafferty is an organic no dig kitchen gardener, plant based cook, award winning food & gardening writer, small scale homesteader .
She’s the author of 2 great books “No Dig organic gardening with Charles Dowding” and “Creative Kitchen”. In this episode, Steph talks about how one can start a garden, what vegetables to grow in the different seasons of the year, how to build a garden.

She also gives tips on building an ecosystem, warding off pests and rodents and discusses how one can take care of their garden against predators. How to invite predators to take care of other bugs and common garden issues one encounters. Steph talks about composting, natural manure and growing a pesticide free vegetable, flower and herb garden. Poly tunnel, green houses and idea of year round planting and being involved in gardening is something she highlights in this conversation with host Vai Kumar.

Stephanie Hafferty's website is https://www.nodighome.com and her Instagram handle is @stephaniehafferty. Her books are available on Amazon and on her website.
Steph discusses growing charts and planting seasons in this episode which may be referenced from her blog
https://www.nodighome.com/blog
and Charles Dowding's website.
https://charlesdowding.co.uk/sowing-timeline-for-vegetables/

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 Youth change maker Divya Nori is an internationally-recognized scientific researcher, and founder of Safer With STEM, an organization that works towards gun violence prevention by applying science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. 
Divya is a high school senior and  talks about her mobile app development and the idea behind it in combating gun violence in schools and in the community and making it a safer place to live. 
She's passionate about creating novel solutions to public health problems through scientific research and community leadership, and by leveraging her strengths in biochemistry and neurobiology, she strives to effect change through innovation. She has won awards and has several talks and publications to her credit. Divya's focus is in developing low cost, genome tailored therapeutics and minimize disproportionate rates at which minorities experience adverse effects to medication.
Highly inspiring story of this Tedx speaker's role in society, that's sure to make several young men and women worldwide want to do more !!

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In this episode, meet our guest Dethra Giles, an international consultant, book author, host of a thriving podcast  and keynote speaker.
Dethra talks about the importance of self esteem, building one's own brand as an employee and how successfully one navigates the journey in their career as an "employee-preneur".
She's the guru in teaching one to not feel stuck in their careers and has authored the book "Unstuck  Discovering career limiting actions". Dethra tells listeners what signs to look for in getting their career path straight and how one can position themselves for growth in an organization.
Dethra is the CEO of ExecuPrep(www.execuprep.com), and is available on Instagram @dethra.giles and her website is www.dethragiles.org.
She's available on media extensively and her appearances are featured on her website www.dethragiles.org. 

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Special guest Hannah Testa is a High School Senior in Ga, USA and is extremely passionate about several causes that impact our daily lifestyle. She's not just an advocate for causes that are impactful to humans, but Hannah also takes pride in voicing her part towards animal welfare. She has been instrumental in bills at State and Federal level for all her causes, including making the situation better for animals and in them being treated properly.

In this very engaging discussion between someone so young and passionate about her cause and host Vai, a mother of a teen the same age, one can derive inspiration to act and address some of the most critical causes significant to society.
Hannah talks about her role in animal welfare, combating the plastics crisis, how our environment and health are impacted due to all of these factors in play. She relates well to what we eat matters and her own lifestyle changes. Not to miss conversation for youth and adults alike !!
Hannah Testa is a book author, Tedx speaker, world traveler advocating for her causes and most importantly, is a fun and confident young lady. She's the founder of Hannah4change and is involved in supporting the cause of marginalized students via book sales. Please check this out at www.hannah4change.org and let's join hands with Hannah in helping secure our environment and make the world a better place to live   -  not just for us, but for future generations too.

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This episode features the story of Radhika Murari and how her personal needs evolved into a business that is now popular and successful. She's the CEO of OmMadepb, a company that she named combining the essence of her product and her culture highlighting her roots from  India, that she's so proud of. Radhika discusses her journey navigating her career from the IT industry to running businesses, moving subsequently to non profit organizations and volunteering, before she found her niche in creating her artisan peanut butter brand. An insightful conversation highlighting her success story and making adjustments to the business to increase her presence in a pandemic driven situation. When survival in the business world was a huge challenge to many, Radhika tweaked her strategy and talks about how she rose up to the demands of the situation.
Her website for the business is www.ommadepb.com and the Instagram is @ommadepb.

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Dr.Roy Benaroch is a renowned Pediatrician in the Atlanta, Ga area in USA. He's board certified in Pediatrics, has written two books, is a pediatric expert on WebMD and has his blog  Pediatric Insider on his website www.pediatricphysicianspc.com. Dr. Roy is on Twitter @PedInsider; www.pediatricinsider.com is the website for his blog.
 
 In this SPECIAL & INFORMATION ONLY episode, Dr. Roy discusses with Host Vai Kumar the following aspects relating to COVID-19:
 [DISCLAIMER: THIS EPISODE IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR INDIVIDUAL MEDICAL ADVICE. PLEASE CONSULT YOUR PHYSICIAN FOR SPECIFIC NEEDS].
 
 1. Preventive measures, hygiene, different scenarios with COVID, isolation times
 2. Differentiating COVID from normal sicknesses
 3. Immunity with natural illness and immunity from COVID vaccines. COVID and immuno- compromised children
 4. COVID in children and Multi Symptom Inflammatory conditions and COVID impact on people of color.
 5.Effectiveness and timing of testing, places of contamination, reasons for infection
 6. New variants, vaccination, what's in the vaccines
 7. Dietary supplements and any help, children and sports, teenagers and vaping - everything as it relates to COVID-19.
 
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In this episode, my guest Chris Ruttle has this very important conversation that's always a perplexing topic to many students and parents alike.

Host Vai Kumar and Chris Ruttle engage in a dialogue on several aspects that makes a student well rounded and ready to face the challenge that high school, college and career presents versus what a student faces in elementary or middle school. Factors like being independent learners and balancing schedule for maximum productivity and results are highlighted in this highly useful and insightful episode.

Chris Ruttle is the owner of two of the Best in Class Education Centers, north of Atlanta in Milton and Johns Creek, GA. Chris's family - his wife Molly, son Carter, daughter Allison are all part of this family owned and operated center that fulfills the needs of so many high school and K-12 students in the area. Chris has served in executive roles as CEO in Rathkeale Ventures LLC and Vumii Imaging and as CFO at General Electric’s industrial systems business and as Senior VP of Sales and Marketing with AO Smith’s Electrical Products Group.

Throughout his career, Chris has demonstrated an effective global mindset developed during extensive assignments across the globe.Chris volunteers with church and civic organizations, and also mentors individuals one-on-one. 

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Our guest Dr.Jayne Morgan is the Clinical director COVID-19 Taskforce at Piedmont Healthcare, Atlanta, GA . She’s a  cardiologist by background, has several certifications on pilates, is well known and recognized for -

• Spearheading early innovation and device development
•  Leading robust clinical development programs to innovate scientific platforms and create novel compounds and devices
• Vetting new inventions
• Leading robust medical affairs, clinical, and commercial programs to create scientific platforms, support novel compounds and devices, and develop and execute brand strategies.

Dr.Morgan discusses aspects about research on corona viruses, behind the scenes knowledge of the family of viruses based on years of research and answers several questions relating to the COVID-19 vaccination. HIGHLY INFORMATIONAL EPISODE, answering and providing insights on matters pertaining to the science and development and administration of the vaccine.
As always, please consult your physician for individual case to case needs and more specific consultations. This is an awareness forum and this episode is informational.
Dr. Morgan is also certified in pilates with multiple certifications and is on Instagram @pilateswithjayne. She actively engages on LinkedIn.

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Our guest Melvyn Williams is the  managing partner and director of Human Performance for the Infinite Sports Performance Group since 2003. Melvyn has trained and consulted over 200 professional athletes across the NFL, NBA, MLB, ATP/WTA and several Olympic athletes.
He holds advanced certifications in performance enhancement, strength and conditioning, behavioral science, coaching and corrective exercise.
In this episode, Melvyn discusses with host Vai the importance of -
1.understanding an athlete's goals and allowing them to express freely to be successful in what they do. 
2.Benefits of playing multiple sports, choosing the right path to focus and be able to achieve.
3. Importance of Identity in Sports and how society and peer level handles this factor.
4. Scenario across the globe as far as developmental factors in a junior athlete
5. Psychological aspects involved, juniors balancing school and sport and so much more!

Melvyn Williams is on Instagram and the handle is @andiamo76 and the website for his academy in Atlanta, GA is www.itpelite.com.
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