The Upfront Podcast

This is part 2 of this interview, if you haven't listened to part 1, check out last week's episode before listening to this.

In this episode, my guest is Sam (they/them). Sam and their family moved to Israel from California when they were 11 years old and became an advocate for intersectional disability and mental health. Sam is a writer and is currently also studying. We are talking about gender identity, disability, mental health, and how Sam handles living with cerebral palsy.

Find Sam on Instagram and on their website.
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In this episode, my guest is Sam (they/them). Sam and their family moved to Israel from California when they were 11 years old and became an advocate for intersectional disability and mental health. Sam is a writer and is currently also studying. We are talking about gender identity, disability, mental health, and how Sam handles living with cerebral palsy.

Find Sam on Instagram and on their website.
Subscribe and listen to The Upfront Podcast wherever you get your podcasts. You can find us on Instagram, Facebook and on our website.

For support, please visit https://en.eran.org.il or call *3201 (in Israel).
For support in other countries, please visit https://www.helpguide.org/find-help.htm or look up your local mental health helplines.

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Ruth Peri was born and raised in a small town in Bulgaria, close to the Romanian border. She lived in Berlin and eventually moved to Israel 8 years ago. In Tel Aviv, her roommate invited a guest over for dinner one night and that is how Ruth came into contact with Muhammed from Ramallah in the West Bank. This encounter inspired her to participate in the work of local NGOs and she discovered the commonalities of Jews and Arabs coexisting in Israel. During a visit back home in Bulgaria, Ruth was arrested and jailed for trying to help a refugee that had fled the oppressing forces of the Hamas in Gaza. Two years ago Ruth then co-founded HOLY LOCAL ALIENS, which is an organization and community that brings people of different backgrounds together that usually don’t have the chance to interact.

We are discussing the continuous conflict between Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank, which most recently has amounted to an unprecedented amount of missiles being fired towards Israel in May of last year.

Find Ruth Peri and Holy Local Aliens on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/holylocalaliens and on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/holylocalaliens/

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On this episode: Born and raised in India, Siddaq Singh first studied in India and received a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering, as well as an MBA, and then went on to do a Masters Degree in Environmental Studies in Israel. Siddaq is a thinker, educator and sustainability facilitator and currently teaches a course called Sustainability in Practice at Thapar School of Management in which the business students become sensitized to the challenges of human existence and allows them to develop positive impact projects with local communities.
We are talking about the basic principles of sustainability, how the economy can potentially hinder our collective efforts towards protecting the environment and how technologies could open up a chance for a systemic overhaul.

Find Siddaq on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/siddaq and on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/siddaq/.

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Today’s guest is Emily Katz. She was born in Israel, raised in the UK and Spain and currently lives in Israel but is planning on moving back to Spain in a few months. Emily had studied organization behavior development and now works as an Organizational and Self-Healing Consultant, a professional problem solver, on a mission to try and help heal humanity. She is working on different projects to heal the collective but is currently focusing on helping individuals with their mental health. Emily is sharing parts of her personal story, which entail harrowing events that ultimately led her to a path of self-healing, self acceptance and love.
Find Emily on Facebook at  and on Instagram @the.self.healing.consultant.
For support, please visit https://en.eran.org.il or call *3201 (in Israel).
For support in other countries, please visit https://www.helpguide.org/find-help.htm or look up your local mental health helplines.
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Today’s guest is the inspirational Roy Freeman who originally grew up in the UK in Luton, just north of London. He moved to Sydney in Australia at the age of 28 and lived there for 11 years until he moved to Israel in 2012. Roy works in High-Tech as an Instructor and in 2013 he dedicated his spare time to founding his own organization by the name of “LGBT Olim” for the LGBTQ+ community in Israel. We talk about what the organization does, what the LGBTQ+ community is still having to deal with nowadays, and how we can all contribute to a more inclusive society.
See the LGBT Olim organization website at https://lgbtolim.org/, where you can find lots of resources, support helplines, as well as their events, and much more. You can also follow LGBT Olim on Facebook, on Instagram, and on YouTube. If you’d like to sign-up for the LGBT Olim newsletter, please send an email to: [email protected] and for donations, collaborations, and other inquiries, please reach out to Roy Freeman at [email protected].

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In this episode, Nina is speaking with the fascinating Elizabeth Bass. Elizabeth was born in Russia, grew up in Bangladesh, and has lived and worked in several countries. She had studied psychology in the United States and later moved to Israel. Nowadays, Elizabeth works as a Jeweller and Yoga teacher. She is sharing a personal story that has influenced her life and journey to more self-awareness and acceptance and has inspired her to rethink the entire concept of one's intuition, self-care, and how to balance societal expectations.
Find Elizabeth on Instagram @LizkaLearns or at @NetiNetiBody.
For support, please visit https://en.eran.org.il or call *3201 (in Israel).
For support in other countries, please visit https://www.helpguide.org/find-help.htm or look up your local mental health helplines.
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On today’s episode, Nina is speaking with Dr. Eyal Dujovny, an environmental anthropologist who has lived in many different countries has then been working as a licensed tour guide in Israel for the past several years and had started a podcast for tour guides. They will be discussing Dr. Dujovny’s fascinating career, what his experience with various travel groups and different cultures has been like, the current situation in Israel regarding the last war and the handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, and a variety of aspects of the Middle East conflict, in Israel and the West Bank.
Find the “Tour Guide Confidential” podcast at https://tourguideconfidential.com. For inquiries, contact Eyal via email at [email protected] or on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/israelwitheyal.
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On this episode, Nina is speaking with Melisa Özçakir, a therapeutic self-empowerment counselor and meditation facilitator with a degree in psychology. Melisa tells us what her professional take on mental health is. She will also explain what "Toxic Positivity" is, how thoughts shape our views and how she assists people with uncovering their belief systems and thought patterns, reaching new perspectives through counseling and meditation.
Melisa is the co-founder of Alphaspace, find them on instagram.
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Welcome to the „Upfront Podcast“. My name is Nina Mueller and I am your host for this brand new weekly podcast, where you can listen to compelling stories, directly from our amazing guests. We have invited incredible people, thinkers, experts, change-makers, leaders, and community influencers from all around the world, paying special attention to underrepresented communities. We will have in-depth conversations about current events, share personal stories, and have upfront and honest discussions. This podcast will be covering topics such as mental health, politics, psychology, relationships, society, entrepreneurship, lifestyle, and much more. A new episode is being released every Thursday. Be sure to subscribe, and leave a review so that we can find out how to make this show even better in the future.

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