Transformations with Tara

Tara Sutphen will interview Mark Plotkin - Author & Ethnobotanist. Dr. Mark Plotkin, President of the non-profit Amazon Conservation Team (www.amazonteam.org), is partnering with indigenous people to conserve biodiversity, health, and culture in South American rainforests. Plotkin, a renowned ethnobotanist and accomplished author (Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice, Medicine Quest) who was named one of Time Magazine's environmental "Heroes for the Planet," has spent parts of the past 30 years living and working with shamans or witch doctors of the Amazon region. Their knowledge of healing plants may hold the cure to some of today's most devastating diseases. "We've been practicing Western medicine essentially for 200 years," he says. "These people have been practicing their shamanic medicine for 50,000 years, so certainly there's something we can learn from them."

Allie Cheslick - She is a Professional Spiritual Medium, Healer & Intuitive. She has been a consultant to a national and international clientele and a sought after guest on many national and international radio programs. She is known as a Psychic's Psychic.

Julia Holland has devoted her life to music, exploring and performing many genres from classical to jazz and blues, from rock to musical theater. She now finds herself at a point of radical change where she is seeking to revolutionize her own sound and music by exploring layered harmonics and the music of the spheres. Along with meditation, Julia uses the voice as a tool of healing and awakening, inspired by the radical shifts happening around the world. She is now discovering her own evolving essence. She runs a busy vocal studio in Malibu, California and is a guide and teacher of others, using music to inspire personal development for people of all ages, types and levels.

Tara Sutphen will interview Monte Farber- Author - Quantum Affirmations. Monte uses his remarkable abilities to offer guidance and hope. In his 40 best-selling books and tools, he shares his expertise in the ancient arts of Divination, Intuition building, and manifesting using the Law of Attraction. Monte provides insights from his psychic experiences and his own life that he hopes will help people to trust their own instincts and look inside them selves to find all the answers they need. He collaborates many projects with his Soulmate wife, Amy Zerner.

Tara Sutphen will interview Scott Grossberg - Author & Motivational Magician. Scott is a success thought leader. He has followed a lifelong study of symbols, metaphors, images and meanings that life shows us everyday. Scott has also achieved extraordinary success in the business world as a business owner, entrepreneur, and lecturer. Having earned both a degree in Philosophy and a doctorate in law. Scott has released three bestselling and critically acclaimed books with one more on the way! He'll tell us all about it! The other books are: "The Masks of Tarot," "Bauta: Betraying the Face of Illusion," and "The Vitruvian Square: A Handbook of Divination Discoveries." "The Deck of Shadows" - his oracle/divination cards contain a "soul" of their own.

Tara Sutphen will interview Angelica Perman & Evan Perman - Shamanic Sound Healers. Along with their music, Angelica is a Psychic Medium and Fire Priestess. She shares her expertise in Addiction Recovery and Spiritual Development. Evan takes World Music to a new level as he adds Transformational Rituals to his work. Together they are called "Sound Shrine" and they are innovative in using Sound to help elevate the human spirit and restore one to find purpose and renewal.

Tara Sutphen will interview Cameron Steele - Top Psychic, Medium & Media Expert. He is the owner of Contact Talk Radio Station, it is “Consciousness in Action”. As a Psychic he is phenomenal at getting names and conveying important messages. An entrepreneur at heart, Cameron weaves his business acumen with gifts that keep on giving! Cameron never ceases to share his knowledge and gives all of himself for the purpose of facilitating change that starts from the inside and is realized in our world.

Tara Sutphen will interview Alan Weisman - Author. His latest book is Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?, published in 2013 by Little, Brown & Co, winner of the 2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the 2013 Paris Book Festival Prize for Nonfiction, the 2014 Nautilus Gold Book Award, and a finalist for the Orion Prize and the Books for a Better Life Award. His last book, The World Without Us (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, for the Orion Prize, for the Rachel Carson Award, and for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize. It was named the Best Nonfiction Book of 2007 by Time Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, and the National Post (Canada); a Best of 2007 Media Pick by Mother Jones Magazine; the #1 Nonfiction Audiobook of 2007 by iTunes; one of the top five nonfiction books for 2007 by Salon, Barnes and Noble's Best Politics & Current Affairs Book of 2007, and winner of the Wenjin Book Prize of the National Library of China. Alan Weisman has many other books and he's been published in 34 languages. His articles have appeared in Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, Orion, Vanity Fair, Wilson Quarterly, Audubon, Mother Jones, Discover, Condé Nast Traveler, and in many anthologies, including Best American Science Writing and Best Buddhist Writing. A senior editor and producer for Homelands Productions, his reports have been heard on National Public Radio, Public Radio International, and American Public Media.

Weisman has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar (in Colombia), the John Farrar Fellow in Nonfiction at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and a contributing editor to the Los Angeles Times Magazine. Among his radio awards shared with his Homelands colleagues are a Robert F. Kennedy Citation, the Harry Chapin/World Hunger Year Award, and Brazil's Prèmio Nacional de Jornalismo Radiofônico. He also received a Four Corners Award for Best Nonfiction Book for La Frontera, a Los Angeles Press Club Award for Best Feature Story, and a Best of the West Award in Journalism. His book Gaviotas was awarded the 1998 Social Inventions Award from the London-based Global Ideas Bank. He has taught writing and journalism at Prescott College, Williams College, and at the University of Arizona. He and his wife, sculptor Beckie Kravetz, live in western Massachusetts.

Eric Allaman is an American composer who has worked in Film, Television, Theater and Ballet. His career as a film composer began when he co-composed the score to Ridley Scott’s, “Legend” with Tangerine Dream. That opportunity led to Eric re-scoring the silent classic, “Battleship Potemkin” which was re-released in Europe and featured at the Berlin Film Festival. With over 30 films and 500 episodes of television to his credit, Eric is the epitome of the working composer. Born in Missouri, he grew up in Southern California, and spent several summers in his mother's native Norway. Eric credits this time in the land of Ibsen, Grieg and Munch for awakening his creative calling.

Tara Sutphen will interview Kaitlin Robinson – Guidance Counselor & Life Coach. Kaitlin is a graduate from Antioch University with a Master's in Clinical Psychology. She is an advocate for conscious living. She encourages improvement of one's lack of self-awareness and self-confidence. Many times in life we feel we don't have the energy or motivation to move in a direction of helping ourselves. Kaitlin's gentle guidance lets you express your feelings, helping you develop personal plans again. She will lead you to get better and better, no matter if you've been confused or exhausted. She aids her clients in identifying their strengths with workable solutions and opening again to their dreams and aspirations. Step by step, you go back toward a healthy mind and attitude. She is available for Consultations and Counseling, Re-patterning Sessions and teaches Personal Development Classes.