MWB Conversations

Join us this week in a conversation with Carlos López our Global Programs Director and Tom Verner our founder on how  the Empowerment part of our mission came about. We will be joined by a great supporter/donor/volunteer who is also a professional actress and an executive search professional and now a full time teacher of children with learning disabilities: Marie Rice who helped us many times in El Salvador and is responsible for setting up the MWB Scholarship fund.

Join us this week in a conversation with Carlos López our Global Programs Director and Tom Verner our founder about how it feels to see the program growing, to a new country,  giving up control in the hands of a future star of magic. We will talk about opening our education chapter in Costa Rica in Tirrases, Curridabat with our local partner La Cometa. We will be talking with our Head Local Magician: Diego Vargas about his challenges in putting this program together, and why it makes sense to have it in La Cometa, and the challenges of balancing classes with corporate performances and how the work with MWB has helped his professional career

Join us this week for a very special conversation with Carlos López the Global Programs Director of Magicians Without Borders, and our founder Tom Verner to talk about how when the El Salvador trips got started adding Mime to the mix as an awesome experiences. We will reminisce with our guest Chris Yerlig,  a performer originally from England who began performing on the streets of France and Spain. He has been performing and teaching around the world for over 20 years.  Including multiple trips with us, his solo mime and magic shows have been performed all over the US  and also on 4 continents, other notable performances: Cirque Du Soleil American Express VIP Preshow, Jeff McBride’s Wonderground, Las Vegas.

Join us this week for a very special conversation with Carlos López the Global Programs Director of Magicians Without Borders, and our founder Tom Verner to talk about the year 2020 all we went through with all the highs and lows, and a little bit of what we have planned for 2021.

Join us this week for a very special conversation with Carlos López the Global Programs Director of Magicians Without Borders, and our founder Tom Verner to talk about how we are in constant awe of how far our first education chapter in Bogota, Colombia has come. We will recount the milestones and also talk to the most pivotal part of it. Our Alumni, and now teacher of a new chapter: Tamara Jimenez. A wonderful magician that is becoming the first person on her family to go to higher education, because she is paying herself for a private university program, thanks to what she has earned doing magic, and replicating our program in her own neighborhood in the slums of Cuidad Bolivar.

Join us this week for a very special conversation with Carlos López the Global Programs Director of Magicians Without Borders, and our founder Tom Verner to talk about how when doing volunteer magic is awesome but sometimes we need to be mindful when we use it and under what circumstances. Sometimes our most good intentions can be misinterpreted. This happens a lot when you travel to places that are not used to seeing magic or hearing that magic can be used as entertainment. But that also can happen on our volunteer work or even professional client work. To further discuss this topic we will be joined by  an amazing Magician and Mentalist based in New York  Tommy Burnett who has a very interesting view on the power of magic and mentalism and who is a recurring volunteer magician in different projects.

Join us this week for a very special conversation with Carlos López the Global Programs Director of Magicians Without Borders, and our founder Tom Verner to talk about how we can use magic to empower children, and how important that is, we believe that children that are empowered can become the best versions of them selves, and to that point we are eager to be joined by Magic Tony who created the wonderful organization MAGIC BROTHERS WORLD a charity that brings magic and storytelling shows, animation and support in orphanages around the world for children and for people in need of dreams.  They have been to over 30 countries with over 100 volunteers and done more than 350 shows.

If you want to learn more about Tony's work, please visit: https://magicbrothersworld.wixsite.com/magic

In this week's show we had some tech difficulties, so we apologize for the audio quality of our guest.

Join us this week for a very special conversation with Carlos López the Global Programs Director of Magicians Without Borders, and our founder Tom Verner talk about the importance of magic and healing and how they've seen it through their work in hospitals. Plus we will be joined by David Elkin and Harrison Pravder of Magic Aid, a nonprofit dedicated to providing kind and compassionate care to patients through the art of magic.

Join us this week in a very special conversation with Carlos López our Global Programs Director and BOTH of our founders: Tom Verner AND Janet Frederiks, the duo behind this wonderful nonprofit. We will talk about how this couple: An artist and a psychologist who are also a mime and a magician, decided to go all in to this dream of filling the forgotten world with wonder, awe, laughter, amazement and smiles. We will be talking about their adventures of 20 years since the creation of Magicians Without Borders.

Plus we talk about Janet's wonderful creative carrear as an artist, and how she has kept journals of all the places she has traveled to with Magicians Without Borders, there are astonishing, please check them out and if you can, purchase the book she printed, a real beauty: janetfredericksstudio.com/travel-journals