Soul Stories

Soul Stories Season 2 premieres with a powerful first episode featuring Alan Salazar and Dr Randall.

Alan Salazar has worked in several different areas in his life. He has been a Native American consultant/monitor, a traditional storyteller, a spiritual adviser, a traditional paddler of Chumash canoes, a preschool teacher and a juvenile institution officer. He has also been a journeyman plaster since he was a young man and has been around construction most of his life. 

His family has traced their family ancestry to the Chumash and Tataviam village of Ta'apu, now known as Simi Valley and the Tataviam village of Pi'ing near Castaic, Ca. They are Ventureno Chumash and Tataviam.  His ancestors were brought into the San Fernando Mission starting in 1803 and he still continues to actively protect his ancestors village sites and tribal territories, which include the Malibu area.

Don't miss this epic episode in our brand new Season!

Tune in to Soul Stories Episode 30- the last episode of Season 1 of Dr Randall's epic podcast- featuring Sage Dammers.

Sage Dammers is the co-founder, CEO, product formulator, and chocolatier of Addictive Wellness.  Fueled by a passionate desire to help people live the ultimate life and create a better world, Sage began as a teenager seeking out information that no mainstream school could offer in the areas of nutrition and traditional herbal systems of indigenous cultures. 

He built his knowledge of superfood nutrition and traditional herbal systems, especially Taoist tonic herbalism. He has worked with and trained under the world’s leading master herbalists and nutrition and longevity experts in Costa Rica, Australia, Bali, China, and America. 

His years of experience in this unique arena have allowed him to cultivate an unparalleled combination of cutting edge nutritional and culinary expertise. He has started tonic elixir bars in 5- star luxury hotels in Paris and Sydney serving longevity elixirs disguised as gourmet treats, introducing the novel concept of healthy indulgences to the market of world travelers.

Sage has developed products internationally and given lectures on peak performance nutrition and cutting edge health technologies. 

On this latest episode of Soul Stories, Dr Randall sits down with Larry Poirier and Dr. Lucille Perreault of Essiac International.

Essiac From Canada International™ is owned by Larry Poirier and Dr. Lucille Perreault. Its mission is to help people thrive, restoring their power to heal themselves, and supporting them in their desire to overcome obstacles and live out their own legacy. Their Essiac formula honors the work of Rene Caisse,
a Canadian nurse - the keeper of the sacred formula. In 1922 she introduced the Essiac formulation inspired by Ontario’s Ojibwa nation’s traditional herbal remedies. 

She healed many people from cancers and other chronic diseases using this formula. Now because of Essiac International it is available as an herbal powder, vegetable capsule, and herbal extract, Essiac contains four simple ingredients, burdock
root, slippery elm, sheep sorrel, and Indian rhubarb.

Dr Randall has used this formula herself for cancer patients and achieve amazing results. Listen to this intriguing exchange between Dr Randall and owners and new guardians of Essiac, Larry Perreault and Dr Lucille Perrault.
 For more information about Essiac From Canada International, visit essiac.ca. 

Another fabulous episode- don't miss it!

On this intriguing episode, Dr Randall speaks with Gladys Taylor McGarey MD  who is the Mother of Holistic Medicine.

At 100 years of age, she is a powerhouse and remains to be a visionary for the health of humanity and the planet. She was the Co-Founder of the American Holistic Medical Association, the Founder of Living Medicine Foundation and is Author of five books The Physician Within You, Born to Heal, Living Medicine, Beyond Holistic Medicine.

The Mission of the Living Medicine Foundation is to create a healthier world by transforming the current medical model that focuses on disease to one that focuses on the individual's well-being and wholeness of life. Living Medicine fosters a well-informed physician-patient relationship by recognizing the physician within each one of us, our own capacity to heal and to further age into health regardless of current age and health status.  Learn more at www.thefoundationforlivingmedicine.org

An episode brimming with inspiration! 

Soul Stories Episode 27 features Reena Friedman Watts with Dr Randall! 

There's not much Reena hasn't done in her professional life. She's scoured the NPR newswire for stories. She's combed through hundreds of small claims cases.  She's worked on reality TV shows such as The Jerry Springer Show, Court TV, and Nanny 911. She's worked in Radio. She's planned mega-events for the telecom and finance industries.  She's secured sponsors and emceed. She's booked sensational and hard-to-get guests such as Howard Schultz, Barbara Corcoran, Ken Coleman, and Derek Sivers on Cathy Heller's Don't Keep Your Day Job Podcast and boosted the downloads from 4M to nearly 15M.  

Reena has a God-given talent for connecting people and building communities, and she bestows her magic on people in the most selfless and genuine way. Ideas for how people can achieve the fantastic flow out of her head as effortlessly as breath flows into her lungs. Her diverse background and skill set allow her to seamlessly weave in and out of multiple markets and find her way through doors that don't open for others.  She coaches entrepreneurs on how to get unstuck and find their first clients, she gets blurbs from influencers for their best-selling books, and she even helps them grow communities of their own.  

Reena is a questioner and a story junkie, and she's scratching that itch on her highly anticipated podcast, Better Call Daddy.  She's telling the stories that haven't been told and sprinkling them with wisdom from one of her most trusted advisors, her Dad.    

Reena is a hustler, a change-maker, and a consummate connector.  Imagine what she can do for you- Tune in to this episode to find out!

Don't miss this episode with Dr Randall and Karin Yehling!

Karin Yehling  is a certified Functional Medicine Health Coach, Nutrition Coach and Personal Trainer. She works with people on the Type 2 Diabetes continuum to help them prevent, reverse or control their diabetes through permanent dietary and lifestyle changes. She does this through her online group coaching program, called T2 Diabetes Warriors. This allows her to help more people reach their health goals while they get support from their fellow warriors.

Having reversed Type 2 diabetes in herself, Karin wants others to know that reversal is possible. There’s a lot of misinformation and debate going on around reversing diabetes and Karin wants to guide people in the right direction so they can live their healthiest life possible.

Karin played many sports and earned a college softball scholarship. Later on, she competed in racquetball and obstacle course racing.

 With competition in the rear view mirror, her playground is now in the Sierras where she hikes, camps, snowboards and paddle boards with her husband and dogs.

This episode is a fabulous discourse between two incredible women. Tune in!

Join Dr Randall and Dr. Mehrad Nazari for this enlightening episode!

Dr Mehrad Nazari is a passionate practitioner of Applied Spirituality. He believes in preserving the authenticity of ancient practices and applying them to our daily life in the 21st century.

Dr. Nazari is a corporate trainer, executive advisor, and author of the multiple award-winning book, Enlightened Negotiation: 8 Universal Laws to Connect, Create, and Prosper. He was recently recognized as one of 20 Thought Leaders around the globe by the International Leadership Association and selected to contribute a chapter to: Evolving Leadership for Collective Wellbeing: Lessons for Implementing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. 

Mehrad holds a PhD in Leadership and Human Behavior and an MBA. For three decades Mehrad distinguished himself as a business leader in San Diego with several accolades to his credit. He also served for a decade as an adjunct professor of International Business Negotiation at  US International University. Mehrad has studied with some of the spiritual masters including Walt Baptiste, Swami Veda Bharati of India, and Kyozan Joshu Roshi of Japan. 

He has been teaching mindfulness, meditation, and yoga for over twenty-five years and served on the faculty of Esalen Institute. He coaches individuals as well as corporations including Sony, Brookfield, eBay, YPO Gold and The Port of San Diego. Dr. Nazari has been a presenter at Conscious Capitalism and served on the Board of Conscious Capitalism San Diego. 

On Episode 24 of Soul Stories Dr Randall speaks with Timothy Kercheville.

Timothy Kercheville  is a full-time professional farmer and landscape artist with 10 years experience and is connected with the farmers, nursery growers, and property owners across Tennessee and Kentucky, with outreach across the USA, and design experience in 4 states (also Iowa and California). Together with property owners and managers he helps turn *any property of whatever context* into landscapes of glistening food: a harvest of sunlight and cooperative, timely action, within circular seasons of life.  He is the owner of Festina Lente Farms Inc., through which company he performs agricultural - landscape design and consulting.

Festina Lente means Hasten Slowly: that is an attitude and commitment across the seasons and life's vicissitudes.

What is the goal of Festina Lente Farms? To transform land management everywhere toward holistic design and food production, and to teach and train new farmers and gardeners into a regenerative agricultural economy.

Soul Stories- Saving the Planet one episode at a time!

Tune in to this week's episode featuring Dr Randall and Nobuko Miyamoto.

Nobuko Miyamoto is an artivist who uses song, dance and theater to explore ways to reclaim and decolonize our minds, bodies, histories, communities, and to create solidarity across cultural borders. As part of the Asian American Movement she created with Chris Iijima and Charlie Chin the iconic album A Grain of Sand (1973, Paredon/Smithsonian Folkways). In 1978 she established Great Leap, creating musicals, concerts, albums, music videos and most recently FandangObon, a festival of art, cultures, earth.  Nobuko’s new album 120,000 STORIES has just been released by Smithsonian Folkways, and in June 2021, her memoir, Not Yo’ Butterfly: My Long Song of Relocation, Race, Love and Revolution is published by University of California Press.  

Listen to these two powerhouses speak on a range of topics, including the fact that Asian American artists are still being invisible, unknown, foreign, even though some of then have been here for many generations.

Hear Noboku's story as an activist and singer for the Asian American movement, and about first album of Asian American songs (Smithsonian).

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On this Episode, Dr Randall speaks with Noah Rothschild.

Noah Rothschild is a renowned inner child and recovery expert. He offers transformational psychotherapy and powerful life coaching to help people remove their emotional and mental wounds and empowers them to show up and live their best life. He has been successful in working with individuals, couples, adolescents/young adults, and families of all ages and backgrounds.

As an adoptee, Noah has a special sensitivity to healing early childhood, abandonment, and loss issues. At the age of 21, after struggling with depression and substance abuse, Noah had an awakening. He discovered inner child work, somatic (body mind) therapy, breathwork and found his birth family. Recognizing this powerful approach to healing he became a Licensed Psychotherapist and a Certified teacher of Integrative Body Psychotherapy.

Prior to working in his full-time private practice, Noah was the lead Marriage Family Therapist at Passages Malibu, one of the world's leading substance recovery centers for over ten years. Noah is a featured author in the Alcoholism and Addiction Cure, written by Chris Prentiss.

Noah is a powerful speaker and is the creator of The Heal The Child Within Program, an 8 week virtual intensive workshop to help participants identify and rewire childhood wounds and traumas. In this workshop, participants discover how childhood stories create their present life and how to go from merely surviving to completely thriving.  In this powerful program, Noah combines life changing reparenting strategies and breathwork practices allowing participants to heal and fully reclaim their inner child so they can break free and thrive in all important areas of adult life (health, relationships, finance, and career).

Noah lives in Topanga Canyon, CA with his wife Elizabeth, two sons Jacob and Levi, their dog Bella, two guinea pigs, two bunnies, and a bearded dragon named Beardie. He is a talented singer-songwriter, and is currently writing a book on his Heal The Child Within Method. 

Tune in for inspiration and healing!