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Guest Occupation: Sheldon Epps is the all-time most influential African-American theatre leaders, as well as a prolific director of television
Guest Biography:

My guest is Sheldon Epps who is one of the all-time most influential African-American theatre leaders, as well as a prolific director of television. He’s directed on Broadway, the West End, and is the director of the upcoming BET+ movie Christmas Party Crashers. He received the NAACP Community Service Award and the prestigious James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award for his many accomplishments. His new book, a memoir, is titled: MY OWN DIRECTIONS A Black Man's Journey in the American Theatre. Mr. Epps is a long-time member of the Executive Board of the Society of Directors and Choreographers and served as Chair of the SDC Foundation Board of Trustees. He is also on the board of the Ten Chimneys Foundation. Mr. Epps is a two-time recipient of the Theatre Communications Group/Pew Charitable Trust National Theatre Artists Residency Grant. Currently, he is honored to serve as Senior Artistic Advisor at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, DC.

Guest Category: Arts, Entertainment, History, News, Psychology, Society and Culture, TV & Film, Variety
Guest Occupation: Retired Police Officer, Master Law Enforcement Instructor, Resilience Coach and Published Author
Guest Biography:

Rodger Ruge is a retired police officer, master law enforcement instructor, resilience coach and published author. Rodger took his diagnosis of complex post-traumatic stress disorder into his own hands and 'cured' what most psychologists say can only be managed by taking a deep dive into every alternative modality he could discover. Rodger now shares his discoveries with other first responders to empower them to the grandest expression of their human potential.

Guest Category: Health & Lifestyle, Psychology, Emotional Health and Freedom, Mental Health, Personal Development, Self Help, Inspirational, Motivational
Guest Occupation: Former State Senator
Guest Biography:

Over 100 years ago my grandparents settled on a farm between the towns of Joes and Cope on the eastern plains of Colorado, where my mother was born and raised. After she met my father, they moved to Denver, where I grew up. I graduated from John F. Kennedy High School and received a BA degree from Rockmont college (now Colorado Christian University) in 1974.

For the past 37 years I have owned and operated a media and video production service. It was my privilege to serve on the Board of Trustees for Colorado Christian University for many years, and to help found Christian Home Educators of Colorado in 1990.

Government has been a strong interest for me for all of my adult life. I was chosen to participate in the Colorado Republican Leadership Program in 2000. In that same year, Governor Owens appointed me to serve on the Colorado Commission on Family Medicine. Two and a half years later I was elected to the Colorado House, where I served until, in 2009, I was appointed to a vacancy in the Colorado State Senate. In 2010 I was elected to my first full term in the Senate and reelected for a second term in 2014.

With a deep love for our beautiful state, I have backpacked all across the Colorado Rockies, including a 700 mile trek along the Continental Divide. In 1997 I fulfilled a lifetime dream of building a solar and wind powered home, which we continue to live in today.

Guest Category: History, News, Politics & Government, Society and Culture
Guest Occupation: Certified Emotional Freedom Techniques,(EFT-Tapping) Practitioner, Author
Guest Biography:

Monique Verpoort is a registered social worker and trainer who has worked in the field of children’s mental health for close to twenty years. She is a certified practitioner in the modality of Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) with NeftTI and previously with EFT International.

Monique has been on a path of personal development and spiritual enlightenment for as long as she can remember. Her desire for wholeness rather than perfection has resulted in a major shift in her process of transformation. Freedom from judgment, self-imposed or externally based, has created space for greater love, laughter and life fulfillment.

Her experience working with both clients and professionals as well as doing her own personal work over the years has provided her with a unique perspective on the way in which self-regulation techniques such as EFT coupled with focused action, can transform limiting beliefs into peace of mind, increased joy, positive transformation, and a life of unexplored possibility at any age. Monique has seen lives radically change for the better when subconscious limiting beliefs are transformed into empowered ones, and she continues to dedicate her life to helping women become emotionally free.

 

Guest Category: Education, Health & Lifestyle, Kids & Family, Self Help, Variety
Guest Occupation: TV and Film Director
Guest Biography:

Anthony Werhun is a television, film and commercial director who development the award- winning Comcast series, “Voices of The Civil Rights Movement” and feature documentary “James Hemings: Ghost in America’s Kitchen.”

Anthony directed two award-winning documentaries in 2004 and 2006 before taking a position with NFL Films in 2009. In 2010 Anthony joined Cornerstone Pictures, where he has produced and/or directed projects for commercial clients such as Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Starkist, Chesapeake Energy, Hersheypark, Turkey Hill, and Conair, while collaborating with Comcast for nine years on the expansive civil rights multi-platform docuseries, “Voices of The Civil Rights Movement,” which is the most watched Comcast original programming to-date.

In 2017 Anthony partnered with Chef Ashbell McElveen to create a documentary about the life, legacy, and erasure of America’s unknown culinary founding father, James Hemings. “Ghost in America’s Kitchen” debuted at The Roxbury International Film Festival in 2021, winning Best Feature Documentary.

Anthony is currently directing documentary projects based in New York City while supporting the recently released Hemings documentary and delivering 10th anniversary segments of “Voices of the Civil Rights Movement.” He looks forward to creating compelling and impactful documentary programming for years to come.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3010955/ 

Guest Category: Arts, Entertainment, History, Society and Culture, TV & Film, Variety
Guest Occupation: Hand Analyst, Coach, Storyteller
Guest Biography:

ABOUT Leslie Zemenek:



For three decades Leslie has been decoding the life story in people's fingerprints and hands, helping them break through their blocks and write their happy endings. After her own hero's journey divorcing a narcissist and ending lifelong patterns of wrong choices and abuse, she wrote her own happy ending, and called in her perfect soulmate.



Now she has made it her my mission to teach others who are ready to do the deep work necessary, how to fall madly in love with who they are, so they can call in their soulmate and find true, healthy, and everlasting love.



More here: including hand reading videos...

https://lesliezemenek.com

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Guest Category: Arts, Business, Education, Health & Lifestyle, Physics & Metaphysics, Psychology, Science, Self Help, Spiritual
Guest Occupation: Full-time volunteer at Diviners, Psychologist
Guest Biography:

NGAN JASMINE NGUYEN (Nguyễn Thúy Ngân)

Ngan Jasmine Nguyen is a full-time volunteer at Diviners. Jasmine was featured on national Television and press for winning 3 prestigious scholarships from 3 billionaires to start multiple community projects. In former lives, as a Watson fellow, Jasmine traveled solo for 15 months to 10 countries across 4 continents with one purpose: to support the growing movement of business which prioritizes people and planet over short-term profit maximization.

During her Watson fellowship, she collaborated with local social entrepreneurs, accelerators and incubator programs, government agencies, universities, think tanks to gain a systems perspective that could nurture a movement of social initiatives for youth.

After her fellowship, Jasmine became Regional Manager Asia Pacific Region at AngelHack for 2 years, where she engaged its diverse community of 160,000+ developers, designers, and entrepreneurs in Hackathons, accelerator programs, and various innovation initiatives.

Jasmine graduated Cum Laude from Macalester College in Minnesota with a degree in Psychology.

Guest Category: Business, Psychology, Society and Culture, Technology
Guest Occupation: Pianist, Singer, Actress
Guest Biography:

ALISUN SOLIS

ALISUN (Alison Solis) was born in the United States and is proud of her Latin roots, Cuban on her mother’s side and Mexican on her father’s side. The love that her parents have transmitted to her for cultural expression of both countries is reflected in her passion for music and artistic expression.

Since she was very young, she developed her talent and dedicated herself to taking piano, vocal, acting classes and also showing her heart in her compositions. From an early age she has enjoyed the stage and has always dedicated herself to perfecting her skills by participating in endless plays and live musical performances.

In recent years, thanks to her artistic abilities and dedication, she has received the invitation to be part of important tours, as was the case with Camila, in which for more than a year she toured the United States and all of Latin America, showing that she was born to dedicate herself to the scenarios.

On January 21, 2022, ALISUN presented her first single with which she formally began her solo career in the world of music, a song of her own inspiration in English entitled “HYPOTHERMIA” within the indie/pop genre, in which she worked not only in the composition but also in the arrangements and production, and which will be part of her first studio album.

ALISUN has defined her music as a magical and immersive experience, and to give continuity to her project, on April 1, 2022 the magic continued with the premiere of a new song “THEY LIVE IN AND AROUND US”.

“THEY LIVE IN AND AROUND US” is her second promotional single and listening to it, we can once again feel that the essence and sensitivity of the young singer-songwriter, where she expresses with unusual subtlety and exquisite talent her purest feelings and lofty ideals when it comes to composing and interpreting.

Guest Category: Arts, Entertainment, Music