Soul Stories

On this episode of Soul Stories, Dr Randall has a fascinating conversation with Meg Heppner. Meg is a life coach, Hypnotherapist, blogger and event host that is passionate about walking with people who want more out of life than just the status quo!

She believes that life doesn’t have to work out exactly the way we think it “should” in order to be enjoyed and that people don’t have to be perfect in order to be loved.

She believes that we all have the voice of truth inside of us but sometimes it can be hard to hear. And most importantly that we must live between the tension of accepting the things we cannot change and taking massive action on the things we can!

Meg creates spaces where women can slow down and process all the things that are influencing and controlling their lives - their everyday thoughts, emotions, and the stories they have been telling themselves. Spaces where they can look at their inner world, gain valuable insight and then reclaim their personal authority, and make conscious decisions that transform the way they experience their lives!

Through one on one coaching, group coaching and workshops, Meg helps women show up in the world with more love, and less ego, more compassion, and less judgment, more vulnerability, and less shame, more emotional agility and less fear!

Meg is also on the Board of Directors for Happy Healthy Women Global
Meg lives in BC with her husband of 21 years, two teenage boys and their little dog Charlie. To learn more about Meg visit her website www.megheppner.com

Another fabulous episode of Soul Stories!

This Episode of Soul Stories features Marvel Heroine Superhero, environmental activist and research scientist Dr Tracy Fanara!

Dr. Tracy Fanara is an environmental engineer, research scientist, and communicator with a BS, ME, and PhD from the University of Florida’s College of Environmental Engineering. In research, Tracy has developed water treatment technology, designs for hydrologic restoration, and citizen science programs with over 1.6 million users to obtain publicly available environmental data.  

Tracy has international media recognition due to her expertise in hydrology and harmful algae blooms during the Florida Water crises. Tracy is now the Coastal Modeling Manager for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) where she manages US coastal ocean modeling efforts to gain a better understanding of our earth systems and threats to human lives and livelihoods in a changing world. Tracy co-produces a STEM comic book called “Seekers of Science” and runs the STEM Camp, Mission: Tampa Bay.  You may have seen Tracy on Science Channel, Weather Channel, Fox or CBS; in Marvel's Unstoppable Wasp, or as  Xylem YSI’s Mission Water, Water Hero. 

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Soul Stories Podcast hosted by Dr Gayle Randall features Bob Yehling, literary genius, founder and CEO of Word Journeys Literary.

Listen to this intriguing  21 year long story of how these two visionaries came together from different worlds. Having in common great knowledge and love for our earth and strong spiritual practices to collaborate and become the vehicles for bringing forth one of the most crucial books of our times- Dr Randall's Soul Doctoring Heal Yourself, Heal the Planet.  This book (pre-order on Amazon!)  will help humanity and the planet “look up” and resolve the personal and planetary crisis facing us all right now!

Dr Randall’s more than 40 years experience and futuristic thought and research demonstrates the path of hope through regeneration.  A critical mass of people taking small steps can bring about great changes for our people and out planet and leave a shining legacy for those that follow!

Get inspired with Dr Randall and Lewis E. Mehl-Madrona! Lewis is the author of the Coyote trilogy. (Five books) His work discusses healing practices from Lakota, Cherokee and Cree traditions, and how they intersect with conventional medicine. Mehl-Madrona has been writing about the use of imagery and narrative in healing since the 1980s.  

His focus arises out of a desire to celebrate indigenous culture, particularly that of North America, and to show how contemporary health care practices can be enriched through the inclusion of the ideas of indigenous culture into contemporary work.  He speaks about traditional healing, about how psychotherapy and medicine can be modified to include the insights of traditional healing.  He is interested in narrative medicine as a means for which storied indigenous practices enter contemporary medicine and psychology.  Also in dialogical self theory and therapy as a contemporary parallel to the self-theory of indigenous cultures.  He is interested in how we can train new doctors to be simultaneously humanistic, narrative, and evidence-based.

Lewis graduated from Stanford University School of Medicine and trained in family medicine, psychiatry, and clinical psychology. He completed his residencies in family medicine and in psychiatry at the University of Vermont College of Medicine.  He has been on the faculties of several medical schools, most recently as associate professor of family medicine at the University of New England. He continues to work with aboriginal communities to develop uniquely aboriginal styles of healing and health care for use in those communities. He is interested in the relation of healing through dialogue in community and psychosis. He is the author of Coyote Medicine, Coyote Healing, and Coyote Wisdom, a trilogy of books on what Native culture has to offer the modern world.  He has also written Narrative Medicine, Healing the Mind through the Power of Story: the Promise of Narrative Psychiatry, and, his most recent book with Barbara Mainguy, Remapping Your Mind: the Neuroscience of Self-Transformation through Story.

Kellie Stecher is an  OBGYN and Co-Founder and President of Patient Care Heroes, as well as the Governor of the 7th district of the American Medical Women’s Association, and advisor to multiple other companies focusing on patient and staff safety, and mental health.  She has won the Minneapolis/St. Paul Magazine’s Top Doctors' Rising Star award for the last three years, and she was recently runner up for The Sharp Index: Physician Well-being Leader of the Year.  

Her work has made her an invaluable contributor to both local and national publications, news, and podcasts. Her focus is on advocacy and policy change, centering around safety and equity. She is the author of the book, "Delivering", which is out now.  The book is meant to empower women, mothers, working women, women in healthcare, and to inspire women!

Her admirable passions are safety at work, safe reporting systems and the need for medical education to change especially with regard to working women & women in medicine. Another passion of Kellie’s is 

to address and improve some of the toxic culture that has been adopted for the treatment of women in medicine-in need around childbirth, sexual abuse and adequate time to deal with children and families. 

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On this episode, Dr Randall sits down with the "King of Networking" Shalom Klein!

Dr. Shalom Klein is a well regarded community activist and entrepreneur. Shalom is a published author who hosts the popular "Get Down to Business" radio show in Chicago and serves as an Officer in the US Army Reserves (Military Police) as well as the Chairman of the Village of Skokie Economic Development Commission. He is known as the King of Networking.

Shalom holds a doctorate in educational leadership and a masters degree in Jewish Professional Studies with a concentration in non-profit management. He is on the executive committee and active leader for the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR).

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Dr Randall sits down with the Minstrel of Malibu Jacqui Hylton!

Jacqui Hylton singer, songwriter, composer continues to captivate her audiences locally and through her recordings. Having earned the moniker, The Minstrel of Malibu, her work as a jazz singer includes gigs at the most reputable venues: Catalina’s, The Baked Potato, Beverly Hills Hotel, The Mint, Genghis Cohen, Ford Amphitheatre to name a few.  As a songwriter, her sound is an acoustic blend of pop, jazz, classical and blues. Ms. Hylton recently recorded one of her original songs entitled “Beautiful” alongside Oscar nominated composer, arranger and conductor David Campbell and his 22-piece orchestra ensemble. Notable musicians on this recording also include bass player Nathan East (member of group ToTo, Eric Clapton, Barbra Streisand, Celine Dion), Vinnie Colaiuta (Sting, Frank Zappa) and pianist Tamir Hendleman (Barbra Streisand, Natalie Cole, Michael Buble).

Ms. Hylton lures audiences with lush vocals and composes vibrant melodies, generously supporting songs that touch the heart of human experiences. She was classically trained on piano at a young age through the Royal Conservatory of Music which grew into a love for jazz after being introduced to her father’s jazz collection which featured Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald. These legendary musical influences spurned a love for writing, singing, stage performance and frequenting jazz clubs. After relocating from Toronto Canada to Los Angeles, she became a student of voice builder to the stars Gary Catona and vocal coach Annette Warren Smith. Ms. Hylton currently resides in Agoura Hills CA. Ms. Hylton has created a following in the Malibu and Beverly Hills communities performing at Savory Malibu, Sage Room, Malibu Music Festival, Malibu Golf to End Cancer Benefit Concerts, Sofitel Hotel with Ryan Cross, DOMA Beverly Hills, Beverly Hills Rotary Club and Nic’s Beverly Hills.

Ms. Hylton has shared the stage and performed with accomplished musicians bassist Reggie Hamilton, saxophonist Katisse Buckingham, drummer Joey Hereida who are members of multi Grammy award winning Billy Childs' band. 

2016-2019, Ms Hylton continues to perform in the greater Los Angeles Area at distinguished jazz clubs and abroad and is a volunteer member of Maria Newman’s Westwood Choir and Orchestra. Vocalist Annette Warren Smith, 95, shadow singer for Lucille Ball in Fancy Pants and Ava Gardner in Show Boat presented Ms. Hylton as a special guest performer at Catalinas jazz club in Hollywood. Ms. Hylton also joined the stage with Multi Grammy winning double bassist/orchestral arranger James Leary (Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr, Count Basie Orchestra) at The World Stage Theatre.

On Dec 15th 2018 Jacqui Hylton & Friends performed a jazz concert and Holiday Toy Drive to benefit The Children's Lifesaving Foundation at Aldabella's in Westlake Village. Musicians included) Katisse Buckingham-sax and woodwinds (associated acts Herbie Hancock, Billy Childs, the late Prince), Chris Cadenhead on keys, (associated acts the late Prince, Fourplay, Justin Bieber, Tony Moore Drums, (Norman Brown, Jeff Lorber ) John Hart bass (Gladys Knight). The evening featured original compositions by Jacqui Hylton as well as jazz covers.

Jan 2019- March 2020  Jacqui Hylton secured a residency at The Hilton Checkers Hotel in Los Angeles

    In Feb 2021 Ms. Hylton performed a virtual concert for MJCS'  annual Purimspiel in Malibu, CA. 

    Beginning Sept 2021, Ms. Hylton created Jazz Sundays, performing weekly on Sunday nights at Nonna Restaurant in Westlake Village CA.

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In this exciting episode, Dr Randall sits down with Felicia Tomasko.

Felicia Tomasko is a lifelong student of the arts and sciences of Yoga and Ayurveda. She combines a deep understanding of the intersection of the modern western biomedicine and traditional yogic philosophy. She is a registered nurse who has current clinical experience in mental health and integrative wellness and a 30-year private practice of Yoga Therapy and Ayurveda. Her study includes a number of yogic and Ayurvedic lineages, offering her a broad perspective on the depth of the practice. Her work includes service/seva and giving back in many ways.

In an eclectic career path, Felicia has served as the editor in chief of LA YOGA Magazine sharing stories about yoga, the yoga community and yoga practitioners. She spent 9 years volunteering on the board of directors of the California Association of Ayurvedic Medicine and the National Association of Ayurvedic Medicine. Currently, Felicia volunteers on the board of directors of Yoga Gives Back, which unites yoga practitioners around the world to give back to grassroots-based empowerment and educational programs in yoga's birthplace of India.

A longtime educator, Felicia is the advisor for the Yoga Therapy program at Loyola Marymount University where she is also on the teaching staff and she has been a teacher teacher for more than 20 years in programs around the world including for YogaFit. As a teacher, she has led classes on the Santa Monica Pier, taught workshops in a variety of settings, and facilated groups in addiction and recovery, to name just a few.

Currently Felicia works in mental health with adolescents and young adults combining her skills and background as a nurse with her work in yoga therapy and meditation and mindfulness.

Her teaching weaves together humor and insight and her intention is to empower modern students with a practical understanding of how these philosophies can be relevant today. She applies these teachings in her own life for her own health challenges being diagnosed with cancer and going through a year of cancer treatment combining conventional medical treatments with integrative practices and yoga therapy techniques as well as living through the grief of a partner dying from cancer. Felicia believes in the positive power of practice to help build resiliency in all areas of life.

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Tune in to this intriguing episode of Soul Stories with the wonderful Pam Castillo.

It’s a New Year and….THOSE WHO MAKE A HABIT OF CONSISTENTLY ACHIEVING THEIR GOALS- do so because they have the behaviors that are needed to complete do all the tasks needed to cross the finish line to achievement.

If you need help changing poor behaviors like fear, procrastination or a host of others, or want to develop new behaviors like focus, confidence, and others that have been lacking in you, NLP, Neuro-Linguistic Programming guided by NLP Trainer Pam Castillo is my prescription for the new year, new you.

To sweeten the New Year 2022, we choose to re-present the amazing uplifting Soul Stories podcast featuring  Michele Hebert, yoga master, inspirational meditation leader and author of award winning book ‘The Tenth Door’ - hosted by Dr Gayle Randall.

MICHELE HEBERT is a  master educator, yoga and meditation teacher, award-winning author and speaker who has devoted her life to living and teaching consciousness-based practices for personal and professional transformation.

She was personally trained by Raja Yoga Master Walt Baptiste who instilled in her the philosophy ‘from a sound base upward’. She has studied extensively with Swami Veda Bharati of Rishikesh, India and H.H. The Dalai Lama. 

Former media representative for the American Council on Exercise in the area of Mind-Body Integration, Michele pioneered the principles of yoga and meditation within the Health and Fitness Industry. These principles can be found in her multi-award winning book The Tenth Door: A Yoga Adventure.

During her 35 years of international teaching experience she developed yoga/meditation programs and consulted with international spas in Egypt, Sweden and Guam as well as in the US: The Chopra Center, Esalen Institute, University of California at San Diego, Kripalu, and Scripps Institute. She taught Stress Management for the Dean Ornish Program at UC San Diego Health. She has a been associated with Rancho La Puerta and The Golden Door since 1987 as a teacher and guest presenter. 

 Currently Michele is the creator of the blog Spiritually Speaking and leads a popular zoom course entitled Meditation and the Inner Practices of Yoga.
Michele’s mission is to inspire others to reflect deeply and make a conscious decision to grow and live from their highest ideals.

Get inspired!