LIFE CHANGES NETWORK

“Reinstilling Dignity,” with Guest, Urban Sage and Lead Community Outreach Worker, Christopher Mack, and Musical Guest,  Songer-Singwriter, Adam Bradley Peek on The LIFE CHANGES Show

GUEST: CHRISTOPHER MACK and MUSICAL GUEST: ADAM BRADLEY PEEK

CHRISTOPHER MACK

Christopher Mack has been a lead community worker on skid row in downtown Los Angeles for 15 years. He works for Wesley Health Center, one of the largest healthcare systems in the county. The latest project he is proud of is called the Refresh Spot, giving the homeless a place to clean up and get information for services available to them.

Christopher is one of the few who has been honored with his portrait in the Skid Row Museum, acknowledging all the work he has done.

He has a unique understanding of community and what it involves and how best to work with individuals, always leaving them with their dignity.

More About Christopher Mack at www.facebook.com/christopher.mack.5811

“Reprogramming Your Brain,” with Guest, Award-Winning Rocket Scientist, Author, Professor and TV Host, Olympia LePoint, and Musical Guest, Tigran Martikyan, Award-Winning Composer / Performer and Founder and Musical Director of the Martikyan Music Center, on The LIFE CHANGES Show

GUEST: OLYMPIA LEPOINT and MUSICAL GUEST: TIGRAN MARTIKYAN

OLYMPIA LEPOINT

Modern-day “Hidden Figure,” award-winning rocket scientist and author Olympia LePoint overcame poverty, gang violence, and failing marks to eventually launch 28 rocket missions to space. Olympia is now applying the same math and science that she used at NASA to show audiences and readers how anyone can remap their own thoughts to remove fear, unleash their brain power, and change the course of their life.

Olympia is the author of Mathaphobia, a book on how to overcome your fear of math, and is currently a popular college math professor and motivational speaker. Her newest book, Answers Unleashed, which unveils her Brainpower Unleashing System, was released September 19th, 2017. 

Olympia’s highly popular TEDx talk, “Reprogramming Your Brain to Overcome Fear,” has garnered nearly 1M views worldwide.  She hosts her own weekly radio program, Answers Unleashed, and has appeared on NBC, CBS PBS, and CW network stations across the country. Her story was recently featured in People Magazine, in news across Canada, on the KTLA morning show in Los Angeles, and most recently, with Tom Bilyeu on Impact Theory.

More on Olympia LePoint and her book “Answers Unleashed” at  www.OlympiaLePoint.com

and www.AnswersUnleashed.com

 

“From ‘Us Versus Them,’ To We,” with Guest Alain Lagger, Former Police Officer turned “Director of Happiness,” Speaker and Guide; and Musical Guest, Honey Pig, a Country/Folk/Pop Singing Trio, on The LIFE CHANGES Show

GUEST: ALAIN LAGGER and MUSICAL GUESTS: HONEY PIG (DEBI DERRYBERRY, NINA HERZOG, BRENNA LARSEN)

HONEY PIG – DEBI DERRYBERRY, NINA HERZOG, BRENNA LARSEN

Honey Pig NBD is a trio with fun and impressive 3 part harmonies singing country/folk/pop originals and covers. Debi Derryberry, Nina Herzog and Brenna Larsen are all Los Angeles based singers and voice actors. Debi is best known for the voice of Jimmy Neutron and also Maureen and Phillip on Netflix’s F is for Family.  Nina Herzog has sung with Universal Music, and she just had her debut in the world of voiceover as the role of The Swan Princess for Sony Animation. Brenna is recently off the National tour of nikelodeons Peppa Pig Live, she is now back in LA working with VO clients around the world. Also joining the trio is Andrew Russell who is recently off the national Broadway tour of Jersey Boys, and is now an active VO artist here in LA.

More About Honey Pig at www.facebook.com/honeypigNBD/

 

 

“Wake Up Laughing,” with Guest Swami Beyondananda, The Cosmic Comic, Alter Ego of Writer, Humorist, Performer and Uncommontator Steve Bhaerman; and Musical Guest, Musician, Singer, Composer, Producer and Multi-Instrumentalist, Ben Carroll on The LIFE CHANGES Show

GUEST: SWAMI BEYONDANANDA (STEVE BHAERMAN) and MUSICAL GUEST: BEN CARROLL

BEN CARROLL

Ben Carroll is a Los Angeles musician – singer, composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist. His various studio and live projects range from Soul to Classic Jazz to upbeat sunny California Surf Pop, and more. He has played and does play around the world. He writes for commercials, TV and film. Write him and say hi: [email protected]

Ben Carroll. You know him, right? That’s the feeling you get when you hear his music. He’s the guy next door who you’ve seen come and go and wondered about…There’s something to him that’s kind of special—kind of magical and connective on a level that you can’t quite put your finger on. There’s a slew of hidden worlds within this one man.

When you hear Ben’s music, you feel like you are really being sung to. Ben makes it personal for you, like he’s sitting in your living room with a guitar on his lap. And on the tunes when the whole band plays, it sounds like they’re playing just for you, the music creating an atmospheric presence that invites you in and gently closes around you.

Such is the experience on “Letter From Memphis,” the fifth cut on Carroll’s latest record, the independently released Lighting Bonfires. The rolling, twangy fingerpicked guitar, ticking drums with a steady shaker, and country blues double bass resound a lullaby that is both uncomfortable and settled. As he sings the opening lines, Ben’s sense of a home scattered throughout the world is painted like a postcard for you, evoking the emotions he felt while writing the song on tour in Memphis. For Carroll, home is less of a place and more of a connection shared with others:

It’s 9:26 in Budapest but here the stars are out

And the Memphis skyline’s flickering like it never deals with doubt

And it’s certainly an interesting way to pass the time

Two heartbeats closely listening for a reason and a rhyme

The son of two Grammy-winning parents (“Afternoon Delight,” 1976), Carroll’s power of craft comes fully to light on “Child at Heart,” track two on Lighting Bonfires. With a two-step stompy groove that drives the song, Ben defiantly declares his penchant for whimsy as he sings:

I live a dream like children

Above your sullen law

I celebrate the live-long day

By riding a see-saw

Later on, you hear Ben’s super-ego kicking in, giving a window into the artist’s search for balance between the heart and the head. Says Carroll about “Child at Heart,” “You can show up on time, do what you say, and still fly over mountains dressed like Dr. John in a headdress, sucking a lollipop and clapping your feet.”

I will do my deeds with honor

I will show up there on time

But the story’s not a goner

The laughter’s not a crime

The juju is the joy now

The dance is still the dance

The whisper is the pow-wow

And recess is romance

Lighting Bonfires was recorded almost entirely live in one take, without autotune, at the famous Magic Shop recording studio in New York City. The album was produced by Adam Levy (Norah Jones, Amos Lee) with Emily King (R&B Grammy nomination, John Legend tour) joining for backup vocals on “Precious Precious” and “Wanna Be Me” and Nicholas Britell (Woody Allen’s New York, I Love You composer, SXSW Grand Jury Prize composer) writing and arranging the string parts on “Grace,” “O Sarah,

“Sheltering Animals,” with Guest, Animal Rights Attorney, Activist and Rescuer, and Founder and President of ARME, Shannon Keith; and Musical Guest, Pianist, Composer and Musical Director, Alby Potts on The LIFE CHANGES Show

GUEST: SHANNON KEITH and MUSICAL GUEST: ALBY POTTS

SHANNON KEITH

Shannon Keith is the founder and president of ARME. As an animal rights attorney, Shannon represents animal rights activists in the courtroom, defends dogs on death row, and goes after animal abusers. As a filmmaker, she focuses on stopping the problem at its roots through educational documentaries and has won several awards for her groundbreaking films exposing animal cruelty. As an activist and rescuer, Shannon personally saves animals from abuse, neglect and imprisonment and organizes campaigns against animal exploiting industries. Shannon formed ARME in 2004 and formed ARME’s Beagle Freedom Project in 2010, a mission dedicated to rescuing animals from laboratories.

ARME’s mission is to eliminate the suffering of all animals. This goal is achieved by rescuing unwanted and homeless animals and by educating the public of the vast extent of the suffering animals endure in our society. Through its actions and words, ARME advances the freedom of all animals.

ARME’s EIN is: 55-0882647

ARME is a 501(c)(3) organization which relies on the kindness and consideration of the public’s donations.

RECOGNITION

ARME has earned the GuideStar Silver level for demonstrating its commitment to transparency as a non-profit organization. We are driven by the mission to eliminate the suffering of all animals. Thank you very much for your continued support!

ARME has earned a spot on the 2016 Top Rated List again this year! It could not be done without continuous help from our ARME supporters. Thank you!

ARME has earned a spot on the 2015 Top Rated List. Our heartfelt thank you to ARME supporters who shared their inspiring stories about your work!

ARME has been awarded a Gold Eco Certification for showing our eco responsibility by striving to be an environmentally sustainable organization and for educating the public about animal suffering, and supporting those who are on the from lines fighting against animal abuse and bringing the horrors of animal abuse to the forefront.

A copy of our Articles of Incorporation and 990’s are available through GuideStar or upon request. To obtain a copy, please submit your request via email, specifying which documents and any pertaining year, to:: [email protected]

“How To Survive The Holidays With Family,” with Guest, Spiritual Leader and Founder of Energetic Alchemy, Dorothy Lee Donahue; and Musical Guest Singer / Songwriter Gold Man on The LIFE CHANGES Show

GUEST: DOROTHY LEE DONAHUE and MUSICAL GUEST: GOLD MAN

DOROTHY LEE DONAHUE

Dorothy Lee Donahue’s journey to LIFE CHANGES was a difficult but necessary one for who she became and what she now does in the world. Scholastically tested and recognized as a genius as a child, her intelligence was less than appreciated in a “look good,” “proper” traditional Texan family in Texas City, Texas. During a time and in a place when and where a woman’s place was in the home or at the Bridge Club, Dorothy’s prowess to read books and study was frowned upon, teased and basically had no place in her family or town.

Despite her conditioning, programming and life circumstances, Dorothy finally “escaped” Texas, her family, her husband, and sought a new life for herself. Long before the “Self-Help” Industry existed she sought help for herself and learnings outside of everything she had ever learned. She studied the various religions, the mystics, the philosophers, the physicists and the spiritualists alike. And the more she learned the more she learned that she was once again on the fringe of now her new community. Dorothy was able to acclimate herself to conventional society for awhile by entering the Mortgage Business and quickly moved up the ranks, even as a woman on the fringe, into Management and the Upper Management and Branch Manager and… until she couldn’t take it anymore.

Not long there after, Dorothy realized that there are many people in the world who have suffered or are still suffering the trials and tribulations of the kind of hypocrisy or ignorance that surrounded her. As author, radio host of her own show, Spiritual Teacher and Workshop Leader, she has made it her mission to help people through their life changes on their way to them accepting themselves and loving themselves and each other. Among many other things, Dorothy has also founded and teaches Energetic Alchemy and Conscious Co-Creation courses Internationally.

More About Dorothy Lee Donahue at www.DorothyDonahue.com or www.EnergeticAlchemy.com

 

“Learning To Love Yourself,” with Guest Gail Michael, Writer, Poet, Sculptor, and a Deep Thinker; and Musical Guest, Singer / Songwriter, Katherine Terrien on The LIFE CHANGES Show

GUEST: GAIL MICHAEL and MUSICAL GUEST: KATHERINE TERRIEN

GAIL MICHAEL

Gail Michael is a writer, poet, sculptor and a deep thinker. For the past 4 decades, she has been on an eternal search to understand the meaning of her life and to heal her deep childhood wounds. She finally realized that every being and situation that comes before us has a message and this is where the healing begins.

Her career in corporate America spanned 20 years when she realized she had to resign and follow a dream to the Island of Capri to write a novel. So she did. Once on this enchanting island in the Mediterranean and alone with her thoughts, old memories, fears and anxiety bubbled up. She had to address them to forgive her innocence and release them. Only then was she able to step off the island and travel throughout Italy and Greece. Her internal growth and clarity and this picturesque backdrop created the character Roxanna and the story in her latest book, Unveiling Rosanna. Roxanna’s story is loosely based on Gail’s experiences and adventures.

From 1983 to 2003, Gail’s poetry was published by the International Library of Poetry, Noble House and the Amherst Society. In 2002, her first nonfiction book was published, I Am a Thousand Winds That Blow, the Healing Power of a Remarkable Death, the story of her mother’s battle with cancer.  In 2005, she was invited to co-author in the Giving Gratitude Series, Wake Up – Live the Life You Love with Deepak Chopra, Dr. Wayne Dyer, Greg Scott Reid and others.

The Passions of Roxanna was released in 2008 after Gail’s time in Italy but she eventually pulled it from her publisher to rewrite it and change the story from the place where she is today. “We can only write from what we know,” she says. “I could never have written this revised story before because I had not healed all those parts of me that needed attention.”

Her desire has always been to inspire and entertain others with her books, articles, poetry and sculptures.  Her life experiences have taught her loving kindness, compassion and empathy for others and finally herself. She is now enough.

No matter where she is in her day, Gail continues to pinch herself and asks, “How does it get any better than this?”

More About Gail Michael at:

https://www.gailmichael.com/

Gail’s son is also a successful author of horror. His books can be found at: https://felixblackwell.com/

“Sextraordinary Living,” with Guests, Sex Educators and Somatic Sexual Healers, Dr. Heike and Jonathan Hudson, and Musical Guest, Recording Pop Artist, Singer and Songwriter, Marina V on The LIFE CHANGES Show

GUESTS: DR. HEIKE and JONATHAN HUDSON and MUSICAL GUEST: MARINA V

DR. HEIKE and JONATHAN HUDSON

A Divine Union with a big promise and an even bigger purpose

Let’s start with the miracle, the unthinkable, and yet unavoidable…

Before Heike and Jonathan met they both had made a secret vow to never again commit to a relationship yet marriage. They both had come out of a very intense and painful marriage and years later they were not only happy singles but were simply done with the experience of pain and suffering in the name of “love”.

Well, fate had a different plan for them. When they met they fought the extremely palpable sexual attraction and deep love they instantly felt, they resisted the concept of relationship and would only commit if there was a complete new and working structure in place. Each step, each word, each action became a conscious choice and exploration of what works and what doesn’t work.

It became very clear right from the beginning that Jonathan and Heike were not only meant for each other but also to be the inspiration, the living example, and the key holders of changing the way men and women experience relationships and sexuality today.

Dr. Heike and Jonathan Hudson have committed their lives to creating a new paradigm of relationships and sexuality. This couple is passionate about throwing outdated concepts overboard and create new working systems. They are striving to be a living example of what a deep loving and conscious relationship can look like. Heike and Jonathan’s passion is to guide and educate men and women in releasing anything that is in the way of experiencing the closeness and depth we all desire in relationships. What they have named, “Sextraordinary Living”, is the modern and healthy blueprint to live a truly turned on life, in and outside the bedroom, without the past experience of pain or drama.

As San Diego’s preeminent sex educators and somatic sexual healers, Dr. Heike and Jonathon are the creators of Sex and Love Unplugged Meetup, and The Pleasure on Purpose™ Healing System used in their signature programs for men and women.

Together, they have created a master blend of spirituality and sexuality that they teach and embody in their own lives. With over 25 years of combined expertise in Human Sexuality, Somatic Bodywork, Naturopathy, Spiritual Counseling, Energy Healing, Explosive Sexual Healing, and Neuro-Linguistic Programming, clients from around the world experience extraordinary shifts in their relationships, sex and love lives, businesses, and health.

Heike and Jonathan promise that you CAN be fully sexually expressed, have deep connection and authentic communication, and finally find true lasting love without ever attracting the wrong partner again, or feeling sexually frustrated and pleasure deprived.

Together they create Sextraordinary Lives and Relationships!

More About Dr. Heike and Jonathan Hudson www.sextraordinaryliving.com

Free Gifts:  www.pleasureupgrade.com

 

“End Body Shame,” with Guest, Holistic Fitness & Lifestyle Coach,  Author and Host of Fit 2 Love, JJ Flizanes; and Musical Guest, Singer/Songwriter Tom Goss on The LIFE CHANGES Show

GUEST: JJ FLIZANES and MUSICAL GUEST: TOM GOSS

JJ FLIZANES

JJ Flizanes is a Holistic Fitness & Lifestyle Coach, Empowerment Strategist, author, and the host of The Fit 2 Love Podcast. She is on a mission to transform the meaning of the word “fitness” to include not just the state of a person’s physical body, but the emotional, mental and spiritual states as well.  She is the author of Fit 2 Love: How to Get Physically, Emotionally, and Spiritually Fit to Attract the Love of Your Life and most recently The Invisible Fitness Formula: 5 Secrets to Release Weight and End Body Shame which is coupled with a robust online coaching program. She was named Best Personal Trainer in Los Angeles for 2007 by Elite Traveler Magazine and has since been featured in many national magazines, as well as appeared on NBC, CBS, Fox 11 and KTLA. JJ advocates against “dieting” and uses customized coaching programs that harmonize all facets of internal and external fitness to provide lasting results.

More About JJ Flizanes www.jjflizanes.com

“Food Forward For All,” with Guest Rick Nahmias, Artist, Activist and Founder and Executive Director of Food Forward; and Musical Guest, Singer / Songwriter and Advocate, Alex Nester, on The LIFE CHANGES Show

GUEST: RICK NAHMIAS and MUSICAL GUEST: ALEX NESTER

RICK NAHMIAS

Rick Nahmias, Founder/Executive Director. Before founding Food Forward in 2009, Rick was an award-winning photographer and writer who focused on the faces and stories of marginalized communities. His formal training as a cook, along with his exploration of California’s agricultural workforce in his body of work entitled “The Migrant Project: Contemporary California Farm Workers” gave him a deep appreciation of and involvement in both the gourmet cooking and food justice worlds. These varied interests, along with his conviction that access to healthy, fresh, nutritious food is a human right, culminated in him coming aboard as full-time Executive Director of Food Forward in 2011.

He’s spoken internationally on food justice issues, and his work has been profiled in dozens of publications including The Guardian, Sunset Magazine, and the Los Angeles Times. Rick has been named a regional delegate to the Slow Food/Terra Madre Conference in Torino, a Ralph M. Parsons Fellow, a Good Food Champion by LA City Council, and was a solo presenter at the 2014 SXSW Eco Conference. A 2010 winner of the LA Social Venture Fast Pitch, in 2015 Nahmias was chosen from over 135 past participants to represent Los Angeles in the inaugural National Fast Pitch competition in Austin, TX and was awarded the Innovation and Audience awards. In 2016 he received an inaugural Trailblazer Award from the International Association of Culinary Professionals. Rickwas named a 2017-18 Senior Fellow at UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Policy. He serves on the Leadership Board of the LA Food Policy Council and the Steering Committee for the Los Angeles County Food Recovery Initiative. When he’s not in the kitchen or up a tree, he’s learning steel guitar with his trusty Catahoula Leopard Dog, Rufus, by his side.

More About Rick Nahmias and Food Forward at www.foodforward.org