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Dare, Dream, Do: Remarkable Things Happen When You Dare to Dream Aug 09, 2016

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I’ve been thinking about dreaming. Not the kind of dreaming we do in our sleep, but the kind we do while we are wide awake, with our eyes wide open. The kind that paves the way for our future and governs our every action and choice. The kinds of dreams that can sit on a shelf for a lifetime or create a life of expansion and self actualization. The kind that can terrify us or comfort us as we we move through the days, months and years of our lives. Innovative thinker and author, Whitney Johnson guides us through the process of daring and dreaming in a constructive manner, so that we may do to our heart’s content.

Website: whitneyjohnsonbooks.com

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Darrel Harris on Green Dot, Bullying and the Advocates Aug 08, 2016

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Today my guest is Darrel Harris. She is the Education and Prevention Coordinator at the Advocates in Hailey, Idaho. She has spent the last thirty odd years doing what she can to end all power based personal violence, including bullying. Four years ago, she experienced a crisis of faith; but, her resolve and motivation have been reignited by a promising new program called Green dot. With this extremely well researched and detailed and comprehensive and meticulous program behind her she is once again hopeful and determined in her, and our, power to make a meaningful change and create communities that foster and support healthy relationships.

Website: theadvocates.org

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Creating Good Prose and the Art of a Working Friendship Aug 08, 2016

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What makes a good story? And what elements must come together in perfect unison on the written page to make the eager reader sigh at the beauty of the passage? Well, Pulitzer Prize Winner, Tracy Kidder and acclaimed, editor Richard Todd have the answers – not only to the art of producing good prose, but to successful collaboration and maintaining a satisfying, life long relationship.

Website: tracykidder.com

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Chris Baty Knows how to Gather a Crowd and how to Write a Novel in 30 Days Aug 08, 2016

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Chris Baty is the “accidental” founder of NaNoWriMo and the author of “No Plot? No Problem!: A Low Stress, High Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days” and co-author of “Ready, Set, Novel.” And if you’ve ever wondered if you have a novel in you, thought about what drives the creative process and what halts it in its tracks, he’s got the answers.

Website: chrisbaty.com

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Multi Media Artist Phil Hansen Aug 07, 2016

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Artist Phil Hansen is a multi media creative daredevil of Ted Talk fame. He challenges himself, and his audience, to spark creativity by thinking inside the proverbial box. His theory is that by embracing limitations we can soar further than ever imagined. Early in his career, Hansen was challenged to embrace his limitations or walk away from the production of art entirely. As a pointillist artist experiencing neurological damage in his hands, he determined to embrace the shake. By embracing limitations and then going even further to self impose a few of his own, just for the fun of it, he has embarked on a prolific creative joy ride to see where being in the box can take us.

Website: philinthecircle.com

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Hip Hop Artist Andrew Fig Figueroa Mixed Race Mix Tape Aug 07, 2016

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Andrew Fig Figueroa is an artist and performer. He is an up and coming Hip Hop artist, theatre maker and arts educator. He is the son of a Mexican father and British mother. Andrew, a graduate of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, created for his thesis project a work he wrote, produced and performed, a Hip-Hop theatre piece entitled, “Mixed-Race Mixtape.” The show explores the formation of Latin identity in the United States. The perspective is autobiographical and showcases Fig’s own ongoing struggle with developing a cohesive identity in the midst of a lifetime of funny, confusing and sometimes frightening interactions growing up “ambiguously brown” in America.

Website: mixedracemixtape.com

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Traveling Emergency Room Physician Dr. Meeta Patel Aug 06, 2016

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Dr. Patel is a traveling Emergency Room Physician. She has traveled to India and Uganda to provide relief for underserved children and medical support to the underserved with Project Helping Hands. As a college student, Dr. Patel joined medical volunteer trips to Mexico, traveling to Acuna and Saltillo, Mexico. Upon competing her medical residency, she set off for New Zealand in the hopes that, “this is a start to a giving and rewarding life!”

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Tally Abecassis of First Day Back Podcast Aug 06, 2016

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Tally Abecassis shares her experience of transitioning from a focused, successful documentary filmmaker to an unanticipated, full time role as a stay at home mom. With sensitivity and honesty, she exposes the constant struggle between balancing self, identity and devoted motherhood. Tally lets us tag along on her personal journey through her top rated podcast, First Day Back. Through her raw self reflection and her illuminating conversations with others, she conveys the intense social and internal pressure put upon working and stay at home moms, and the reality that each individual must find their own balance and peace.

Website: firstdaybackpodcast.com

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Cate Cox on the Empowerment of Women Aug 06, 2016

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Cate Cox is an advocate for women’s empowerment. She is a Reiki practitioner, holds a Masters degree in Transpersonal Psychology and has been working as a professional Jazz singer for half a decade. She shares her thoughts and unique perspective on the modern era of empowered women and how they, and she, move through the world.

Website: catecox.com

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