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We are happy to welcome Rehgert and Vanessa van Zyl to The Hamilton Review Podcast! Rehgert discusses how and why he founded Aleph Surf International in 2007. Vanessa shares about her background in fashion design and how she has been working as a fashion designer, creating jobs for marginalized women in communities in Uganda, Rwanda, Congo, South Africa and Jordan.

Together, they live in Jeffrey's Bay South Africa and are using Aleph to assist people who lack opportunities in Africa, Mexico, the Middle East and beyond. Don't miss this delightful couple's story about helping those in need.

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Aleph Surf was founded by Rehgert van Zyl in August 2007 after completing his Bachelor Degree in Humanities and Anthropology. After college, he took a job as a community worker for a Dutch NGO in George, South Africa. This NGO focused on assisting children living on the streets. Through this experience, Rehgert quickly realized that his focus needed to be on prevention rather than rehabilitation. Knowing about the complexities of race and class systems in South Africa, he began to think of ways that he could connect to the multiracial youth that he wanted to serve and mentor.A common ground was needed through which to meet these street kids. Being an avid surfer, Rehgert used the foundations of learning to surf as a metaphor for teaching important life lessons. It was "learning by doing." And so, Aleph Surf was founded in South Africa in 2007 and it has now expanded to assisting people who lack opportunities in life in Africa, Mexico, the Middle East and beyond. Rehgert met his Californian wife Vanessa in the US through mutual friends. They realized that their desires and interests aligned from the start, so the decision to get married came quickly. Vanessa had been living in Africa 3 years prior to meeting Rehgert in 2010. Over the past 15 years she has been working as a fashion designer, creating jobs for marginalized women in communities in Uganda, Rwanda, Congo, South Africa and Jordan. Using her experience in design and pattern making she has enabled hundreds of women to empower themselves to become a vital financial provider for their families.

Rehgert & Vanessa believe in the restoration of all things and that we are called as human beings to play a part in restoring the world back to the Creator's original design through the giftings he has given us.

Restoration through Recreation

ALEPH SURF INTERNATIONAL

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Aleph Surf International on Instgram

Aleph Surf Website

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Dr. Bob has a meaningful conversation with Michael Schneider, founder of Streets for All, an organization that fights for transportation equity on the streets of Los Angeles.

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Michael Schneider is a serial tech entrepreneur based in Los Angeles. His most recent company (sold April 2020) was Service, which saves money as you travel‚ automatically. Prior to Service, Michael founded Mobile Roadie (an app making platform) and Nesting.com (a social network for moms). Michael is politically active in his community; he sits on the board of the Mid City West Neighborhood Council, the Metro Sustainability Council, and the Los Angeles Bicycle Advisory Committee. He is the founder of Streets for All (streetsforall.org), an organization that fights for transportation equity on the streets of Los Angeles.

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Streets For All - website

Michael Schneider on Instagram

Streets For All - Twitter

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Dr. Bob sits down with Katy Bowman, a biomechanist and bestselling author of 9 books, including "Grow Wild."

In this conversation, Katy shares why movement for children and families is so important.

A must listen episode!

Katy Bowman is a biomechanist and bestselling author of 9 books, including Move Your DNA, Grow Wild, and her latest coming out in May, Rethink Your Position. Named one of Maria Shriver's "Architects of Change," Bowman is changing the way we move and think about our need for movement. Find out more at NutritiousMovement.com.

How to contact Katy Bowman:

On Instagram: https://instagram.com/nutritiousmovement?igshid=NzAzN2Q1NTE=

Website: https://www.nutritiousmovement.com/

Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/100057508005756/

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Dr. David E. Hayes-Bautista, is a Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture (CESLAC) at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and current board member for the Historical Society of Southern California.

In this conversation, Dr. Hayes-Bautista shares about Latino culture and history in California and his role in the Historical Society of Southern California.

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Dr. David E. Hayes-Bautista is a Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture (CESLAC) at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and current board member for the Historical Society of Southern California. He has spent 40 years working to improve public understanding of Latinos and their health, history, culture, and contributions to California and the nation.

Dr. Hayes-Bautista is a native of Los Angeles. He graduated from UC Berkeley in 1970, when there were only 25 Latinos on the entire campus, and completed his doctoral work in Basic Sciences at the University of California Medical Center, San Francisco. After receiving his PhD, he served as the founding executive director of La Clínica de la Raza in Oakland, California. Dr. Hayes-Bautista also served on the faculty at the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley until 1987, when he took his current position at UCLA. In 1992, he established the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture in the Division of General/Internal Medicine at UCLA.

He serves as the faculty director of the Latino Leadership Institute of the UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management. This leadership training and professional development program helps Latinos in leadership roles explore management issues from a Latino perspective.

His research into the Latino Epidemiological Paradox led him to analyze links between culture, behavior, and health outcomes. This research has expanded to include the formation of Latino population and society in California during the Spanish colonial, Mexican Republic, and U.S. statehood periods.

Dr. Hayes-Bautista's academic research appears in a variety of journals, including Family Medicine, American Journal of Public Health, Family Practice, Academic Medicine, Salud Pública de México, California History, and Southern California Quarterly. His published books include The Burden of Support: Young Latinos in an Aging Society (Stanford University Press, 1988), El Cinco de Mayo: An American Tradition (University of California Press, 2012), and La Nueva California: Latinos from Pioneers to Post Millennials (University of California Press, 2017). Dr. Hayes-Bautista also writes columns for the Los Angeles Times and La Opinión, and often provides opinion pieces, in both Spanish and English, for radio and television.

For the past five years, he has been chosen one of the 101 Top Leaders of the Latino Community in the U.S. by Latino Leaders Magazine. In 2012, he received the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Herbert W. Nickens Award for his lifelong work on the educational, societal, and health care needs of underrepresented groups; and also the Ohtli Award from the Mexican Government in 2016.

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Dr. Craig A. Anderson, a Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts & Sciences at Iowa State University, sits down with Dr. Bob to discuss the impact that violent video games have on children.

A must listen conversation for parents, teachers and caregivers.

Craig A. Anderson, Ph.D. (Stanford University, 1980) is a Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts & Sciences at Iowa State University, Past-President of the International Society for Research on Aggression, and Editor of the International Society for Research on Aggression journal "Aggressive Behavior." His 270+ publications have received over 61,000 citations. His 40+ years of publishing on aggression and violence is highly related to Dr. Weiss's goal of searching for ways in which world peace could be attained. This is especially true of his General Aggression Model, and of his related work on rapid climate change and violent behavior. Recent publications on these two topics (e.g., Anderson & Bushman, 2018; Miles-Novelo & Anderson, 2022) can be downloaded from: http://www.craiganderson.org/wp-content/uploads/caa/recpub.html The General Aggression Model (GAM) is a bio-social-cognitive developmental model of human aggression and violence that unites a host of individual difference, social, developmental, biological, and cognitive models of social behavior. The 2002 Annual Review of Psychology article that detailed the General Aggression Model has been cited over 6000 times. GAM has been applied to clinical, social, personality and developmental psychology; pediatrics; criminology; war and climate change, among other fields. In 2017, Dr. Anderson received the Kurt Lewin Award from SPSSI. The corresponding 2018 article updated GAM. Dr. Anderson's 2022 Oxford University Press monograph with then Ph.D. student (now Assistant Professor) Miles-Novelo presents a broad GAM-inspired model of three ways that rapid global warming increases violence. It summarizes multiple biological, social, sociological, and political factors involved in climate change and violence (including war); it also offers multiple interventions at individual, social, societal, and political levels needed to avert the worst violent consequences of climate change, and thereby contribute to world peace. His earlier empirical and theoretical work on heat and aggressive/violent behavior (e.g., Anderson, 1989); attributional processes and effects (e.g., Anderson & Weiner, 1992); human inference and decision making (e.g., Anderson $ Kellam, 1992); media effects on antisocial and prosocial behavior (e.g., Anderson et al., 2003) contributed greatly to the development of GAM, and to the understanding of direct effects of heat stress on violent behavior. As GAM expanded in scope and clarity, it was used to explore possible effects of global warming as early as 1998 (Anderson & Bushman). The first full integration of GAM and climate change was published by Anderson & DeLisi (2011). As noted earlier, the 2022 Miles-Novelo & Anderson monograph goes well beyond merely demonstrating myriad ways the rapid climate change is increasing violent behavior at multiple levels; it also summarizes social psychological, sociological, and political factors that contribute to this violence enhancing effect and offers science-based interventions that should be taken minimize these harmful effects while increasing world-wide peace and individual security and well-being. In sum, Dr. Anderson's career has made numerous contributions to understanding world violence from a multidisciplinary perspective. He is now using that perspective to address one of humanity's most dangerous existential crises, that of rapid climate change and prospects for world peace or world violence. His publications can be downloaded from www.CraigAnderson.Org.

How to contact Dr. Craig A. Anderson:

Dr. Craig A. Anderson Website

https://www.commonsensemedia.org

https://childrenandmedia.org.au

https://www.israsociety.com/special-statement

Free pdf version of my 2020 book: Game On! Sensible Answers about Video Games and Media Violence.

Note that the URL for the Game On! Book is: http://www.craiganderson.org/wp-content/uploads/caa/GameOn%21book.html

My newest Book: Climate Change and Human Behavior (Cambridge University Press)

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Dan Solin is the author of "Ask: How to Relate to Anyone." In a world saturated by social media and millions of people desiring to be looked at, how do we become the most interested person in the room instead of the most interesting? A must listen conversation, Dan Solin and Dr. Bob discuss how asking questions and listening to others may be our most important work.

Dan Solin is the New York Times bestselling author of the Smartest series of books which include: The Smartest Investment Book You'll Ever Read, The Smartest 401(k) Book You'll Ever Read, The Smartest Retirement Book You'll Ever Read, The Smartest Portfolio You'll

Ever Own, The Smartest Sales Book You'll Ever Read and The Smartest Money Book You'll Ever Read. He is also the author of Does Your Broker Owe You Money? His latest book is Ask: How to Relate to Anyone. The website for Ask is: https://www.askdansolin.com/

Dan is a regular blogger for Advisor Perspectives.

Dan has taught The Solin Process℠ to thousands of executives in North America, Europe and Australia.

Dan graduated from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

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Dan Solin on Twitter Dan Solin on Facebook

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Chris Lefevre, a Los Angeles based travel industry executive is on the Hamilton Review to talk all things family travel! Chris has traveled domestically and internationally with his wife and four children over the years with great success and a lot of fun.

Don't miss this informative and engaging conversation with Chris and Dr. Bob about planning and preparing to travel with your children joyfully.

Chris Lefevre is a travel industry executive whose personal background naturally led him to building a career in the field. Born in a multi-cultural family and having lived in France, Canada, and the US by the age of 9, travel is in his DNA! Currently Vice President for BCD Travel and Advisor to the Board of Directors at the Los Angeles Business Travel Association, Chris' primarily responsibility at BCD is the success of his corporate clients' travel needs and of his team members who support them. He started his career as a leisure travel agent in Venice, California, and to this day is always excited to guide his family and friends in booking their next trip. Chris is happy married with Diana, who was born and raised in Italy, and the proud father of 4 children who are growing too quickly. He and his family enjoy taking trips to surf warmer (sometimes colder!) water, camping, skiing, hiking, and visiting families in Europe.

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Dr. Bob sits down with Alison Hagoski, a patient advocate and concierge nurse, about the life changing work of going on mission trips all over the world with Lighthouse Medical Missions.

Helping those in need in underserved countries is an incredible experience - don't miss this moving conversation with long time friends Alison and Dr. Bob.

Alison Hagoski is currently a patient advocate and concierge nurse. Born and raised in New Zealand, married a local Santa Monican, moved to Santa Monica in 1977, and has raised a family of five while working as an RN. Beginning in 2002 Alison has joined Dr. Bob on over 25 medical missions to West Africa, Guatemala, and Asia. She is passionate about helping others and showing the love of God through medical missions.

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Dr. Bob sits down with Melissa Francis - journalist, author, child actor (best known as Cassandra on "Little House on the Prairie") and head of her own production company, "Sailfish Productions."

An in depth and riveting conversation, Melissa shares intimate details about her book, "Diary of a Stage Mother's Daughter" and her path from child actor, to Harvard graduate to news journalist.

Melissa shares the highs and lows of her childhood life and successful career.

Friends, this is a must listen conversation!

How to contact Melissa Francis:

Melissa Francis WebsiteMelissa Francis on Instagram

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Dr. Bob sits down with Evan Schneider, father to eleven year old twin boys. A fun conversation about fatherhood that you will not want to miss!

Evan Schneider; Stock Market Investor, Mortgage Loan Originator

Live Business Anchor for KWHY TV for a financial segment as well as Celebrity interviews with Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Dennis Hopper, David Spade, Kelsey Grammer and more.

Steeped in the Stock Market from a young age has been Evan's profession as well as his passion. In this most recent work, Evan hob nobs with the two biggest stars of his career, his fraternal twin boys; Ethan & Jude now 11 years old. Learning as he goes by the seat of his pants, Evan has a natural innate sense about interacting with them and resolving issues. Grounding isn't always the go to!

The gift of gab enables Evan to share all relevant and funny experiences that he has encountered along the way.

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