Passing4Normal

Sharon Weil engages with author/activist-awakener, Paul Rogat Loeb. Paul Loeb wrote the book on citizen engagement and activism in Soul of a Citizen, The Impossible Will Take a Little While, and several other seminal books. A true awakener, Paul discusses the simple steps one can take towards greater, effective, grassroots involvement in social action for important issues – leading from the heart to help change the world, one action at a time. Loeb says, “You do something…and you don’t know where it will lead.”

If you like this conversation, you might enjoy "Get Out the College Vote" with Paul Rogat Loeb. http://soundcloud.com/sharon-weil/get-out-the-college-vote-with-paul-rogat-loeb

Passing 4 Normal Podcast, hosted by Sharon Weil, is a show about Change. Her guests are remarkable, everyday heroes who create and adapt to change in their own unique and inspiring ways…and inform how you can too! Join us for lively discussions, fascinating insight, and valuable information about the one certainty in life…Change.

This acclaimed podcast has inspired the book, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change (available on amazon)

Sharon Weil talks with Ann Gentry, founder/owner of Real Food Daily restaurants in Los Angeles, California about plant-based diets, and how she elevated vegetarian cooking to high cuisine. They talk about the role food plays in our lives, and how changing the way we eat can literally change everything about us. Their lively discussion sorts out confusion over which healthy diet to follow, food fads, and the truth about gluten-free eating. Author of several cookbooks, she shows us how to create a healthy, meat-free diet you can live with that is delicious, nutritious, and accessible.

Sharon Weil, and movement artist and educator, Fred Sugerman, speak a common language when they talk about the space between performing arts and healing arts, and how they are connected. Both teachers of fluid movement (for Sharon, Continuum Movement, for Fred, it’s his creation, Medicine Dance), Fred discusses how authentic, fluid, and expressive movement can cultivate “presence”, and lead to self-discovery, change body dynamics, and can create beautiful and empathic art. Fred tells us how to be a shape-shifting artist of change, led by Nature, curiosity, and the sensations of the unseen.

Permaculture Designer and Educator, Penny Livingston-Starksays, “We have the technological solutions, why aren’t we using them?” She’s talking about solutions for climate health; organic food, water collection, and soil/carbon sequestration. Sharon Weil talks with Penny about some of these solutions, as well as her guiding solution; a deeper heart connection with nature, with one another, and recognizing the Earth as our Mother.

Sharon Weil and Rebecca Mark, writer, poet, professor at Tulane University, delve into her unique practice of unearthing the Muse. Hers is a whole body approach to writing, one that moves seamlessly from words, to movement, to drawing, and back again as a way of generating deep creativity and giving voice to the unexpected. Using Continuum, the result is a fluid, magical unfolding of imaginal realms; the process itself is the real discovery. For writers, artists, and deep dreamers, alike.

Sharon Weil talks with Michael Stocker, bio-acoustician, naturalist, and musician, about water, oceans, natural sound, and human-generated noise pollution in the ocean. His organization, Ocean Conservation Research, studies the impact and finds solutions to its detrimental effect on marine life. Did you know that dolphins call each other by name? Sound and sound perception are ways in which we locate ourselves in place, and underwater noise pollution is creating stress and dislocation in whales and dolphins. Michael is a fascinating and passionate advocate for natural sound, and all the beautiful creatures and environments that produce it.

Passing 4 Normal Podcast, hosted by Sharon Weil, is a show about Change. Her guests are remarkable, everyday heroes who create and adapt to change in their own unique and inspiring ways…and inform how you can too! Join us for lively discussions, fascinating insight, and valuable information about the one certainty in life…Change.

This acclaimed podcast has inspired the book, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change (available on amazon)

If you like this episode, you might enjoy "So No One Faces Cancer Alone" with Julia Forth and Dr. Shannon La Cava. http://soundcloud.com/sharon-weil/so-no-one-faces-cancer-alone-with-julia-forth-and-dr-shannon-la-cava

Sharon Weil talks with Jacques Verduin about his transformational programs with incarcerated men in San Quentin Prison. Guiding Rage into Power (GRIP) provides the tools that enable prisoners to create change from the inside out and "turn the stigma of being a violent offender into a badge of being a non-violent Peacekeeper” They discuss some underlying causes of violence, and how mediation, community, and forgiveness practices can bring about a change of heart in a very tight space. Released inmates who have graduated from the program work with challenged youth and are models and teachers to their brothers and sisters who are still incarcerated.

Sharon Weil talks with Corinne Bourdeau, social change media producer and marketer, about how a captivating issue-oriented film can have a huge effect on the beliefs, hearts, and actions of the public. Bringing her innovative expertise to such films as: The Cove, Fuel, Bottle Shock, Buck and the current release, Boyhood, Corinne knows what it is to seed change on a large scale with a small budget!