Twice 5 Miles Radio welcomes Maya Christobel to the microphone. Maya is a filmmaker, screenwriter, ghostwriter, and entrepreneur. In this lively conversation, Maya talks about how masks have changed our identities. She discusses the value of collaboration and what it means to ghost- write.

By golly she should know! Maya is a Harvard Psychotherapist having done her Masters and Doctoral work at Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her career has always focused on helping people “unpack and transform their story.” She has been writing screenplays, ghostwriting novels and coaching writers for the past 30 years. From medical books to true crime or self-help articles, Maya has contributed to countless books, novels and scripts.

Twice 5 Miles Radio welcomes Rober Bonair-Agard to the microphone.

Poet and spoken-word artist Roger Bonair-Agard was born in Trinidad and Tobago and moved to the United States in 1987. His collections of poetry include Tarnish and Masquerade (2006); Gully (2010); and Bury My Clothes (2013), which was a long-list finalist for a National Book Award. He contributed to the collection Burning Down the House (2000), a selection of poems from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. He is a two-time National Poetry Slam champion and has appeared on programs such as HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and the PBS NewsHour, among others.

A former Cave Canem fellow, Bonair-Agard performs his work and leads workshops internationally. He has been a writer-in-residence with Vision Into Art and a poet-in-residence with Young Chicago Authors. He is the co-founder and artistic director of the louderARTS Project and teaches poetry at the Cook County Temporary Juvenile Detention Facility in Chicago.

James Navé here. It’s my pleasure to welcome ocean rower and environmental activist Roz Savage to the Twice 5 Miles Radio microphone. In 2007, when Roz Savage stepped on the Sheridan Opera House stage 8,750 feet above sea level at the Telluride Mountain Film festival, I had never considered that you could row solo across the Atlantic Ocean. I soon learned that you could indeed row solo across the Atlantic Ocean if you have enough grit and determination like Roz. During her talk, I learned she had plans in the works to row solo across the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

Roz and I had excellent conversations during the film festival. She told me that she believed that her act of rowing over 15,000 miles with 5 million oar strokes, over 500 days in a 23-foot rowboat, would give her the sea-creds and public attention to promote her more critical leadership goal of global climate activism for the rest of her life. Roz said, ” “not only can we all make a difference — we all have to.”

This show was aired first on WPVMFM, 103.7, Asheville, North Carolina.