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Guest Occupation: Stand-Up Comedian, Actor, Author, Writer, Producer, Transformational Speaker
Guest Biography:

Craig Shoemaker has had a career in show business, spanning over four decades as a stand up comedian, actor, author, writer and producer. He was named Comedian of the Year at The American Comedy Awards on ABC and garnered two NATAS Emmy awards. His 90-minute stand-up special, Daditude, aired prime time on SHOWTIME Network and was on the front page on Netflix for several months.

Craig Shoemaker has performed comedy for four US Presidents, four solo comedy TV specials, won Standup Comedian of the Year at the American Comedy Awards, appeared on Broadway, is a two-time NATAS Emmy Award winner, a WGA scribe, an award-winning TV/Film producer, and best-selling author of a novel and two children’s books. Craig is a prominent speaker and coach; the founder and creator of Winning With Humor live events, one-on-one coaching, and training system. Craig has written, produced, and starred in two Universal feature films, Totally Baked, and The LoveMaster. He has recurred two times on Parks & Recreation, and has guest starred in such film and TV productions as Pleasantville, Scream 2, Fuller House and Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Craig is the producer/creator/host of the Amazon Prime shows, The Wolf Pac and Comedy Kitchen.

Shoemaker has been included on the IMDB “Top 100 Stand Up Comics” list and had one of the top 20 stand up specials of all time on Comedy Central. Based on his nonprofit foundation Laughter Heals, Craig has spoken all over the world, including his acclaimed TED Talk in Ojai, CA.

Craig founded Winning With Laughter, Craig Shoemaker’s Winning with Laughter live events, one-on-one coaching and training system will help bridge gaps in the boardroom, break room, and the living room. Science has proven that laughter is indeed the best medicine. Winning with Laughter’s proven methods will give you insights how to reboot and transform from the inside out!

Craig also Founded Laughter Worx wherein he and his team help companies crack the code on workplace engagement, productivity, and well-being. Powered by their signature blend of neuroscience, laughter, and mindfulness, their live workshops and digital tools are designed to help teams ditch stress, boost focus, and actually enjoy work (crazy concept, right?).

Guest Category: Arts, Performing Arts, Literature, Education, Entertainment, Hobbies, Inspirational, Society and Culture, Pop Culture
Guest Occupation: Award-Winning Guitarist, Luthier
Guest Biography:

Awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013 by the American Guitar Society, Jack Sanders’ performances have included the Sitka Summer Music Festival, Kapalua Music Festival of Hawaii, Arrowhead Bach Festival, and solo appearances with numerous orchestras, including the Illinois Chamber Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Santa Fe, Modesto Symphony, Orange County Chamber Orchestra and South Coast Symphony.  Sanders’ final concert while a faculty member at Pomona College was To the Edge of Dream by Toru Takemitsu with the Pomona College Orchestra under the direction of Prof. Eric Lindholm.  In addition, he has performed with the St. Petersburg, Colorado, and Angeles String Quartets, the vocal group I Cantori, and the contemporary chamber ensemble XTET. Radio appearances have included NPR’s nationally broadcast “West Coast Live.”

As a Piatigorsky Foundation artist since 2005, Sanders performs throughout the United States, usually two or three tours each year.  In the 2024 season, he concertized in Georgia, Eastern and Western Texas, Montana and Idaho.

In 1984 Jack Sanders formed a duo with violinist Clayton Haslop which appeared at two Guitar Foundation of America Festivals, Merkin Hall in New York, the Oregon Bach Festival and concerts from Hawaii and Alaska to Maine. The Haslop/Sanders Duo toured for the California Arts Council, and a 1988 tour of China included the Shanghai Conservatory, where Mr. Sanders was the first U.S. guitarist to appear after the Cultural Revolution. The Duo has recorded for Centaur Records and Townhall Records. A solo recording by Mr. Sanders featuring the Preludes of Ponce, Villa-Lobos and Carlevaro was released by Townhall Records in the Spring of 2000.

Mr. Sanders has also performed with oboist Allan Vogel and flutist Janice Tipton as the Valencia Trio which appeared at the International Music Festival of Costa Rica and the Sedona Chamber Music Festival.

Equally at home performing music of all periods, he gave the American premiere of Micio Mamiya’s Sacred Spells for Guitar. Works written for him include Anthony Plog’s Animial Ditties for Guitar and Narrator, Karl Kohn’s Soliloquy, Tripartita, Concords (violin/guitar), Colla Voce (viola/guitar), and Frank Campo’s Two Studies (trumpet/guitar) which he has recorded for Crystal Records. In 1996 he gave the first performances of Las Folios D’Espana, a concerto by Louis Moyse and in January, 1999 he gave the U.S. premiere of Raymond Luedeke’s Elemental Dances with the Colorado String Quartet. In 2005, Mr. Sanders gave the premier performances of Music in Four Sharps for guitar and string quartet by Ian Krouse.

An accomplished luthier, Mr. Sanders builds classical and flamenco guitars, as well as historic reproductions of vihuelas, baroque guitars and 19th Century instruments. Sanders historic instrument copies have been commissioned by Yale University, San Francisco Conservatory, USC, UCLA, CSU Dominguez Hills, Columbus State University and others. A faculty member of Pomona College from 1980-2022, he has also taught guitar-building courses at California Institute of the Arts and Pomona College. He received his BFA and MFA degrees from California Institute of the Arts and has served on the Board of Directors of the Guitar Foundation of America.

Guest Category: Arts, Design, Performing Arts, Entertainment, Hobbies, Music, Inspirational, Society and Culture, Pop Culture
Guest Occupation: Classical Organist, Concert and Recording Artist, Rock Musician, Composer
Guest Biography:

“Christoph Bull likes to play organ music, rock music and rocking organ music.”

Christoph Bull was born in Mannheim, Germany. He improvised his first melodies on the piano at the age of five and gave his first organ recitals and rock concerts with a band at the age of twelve.

He has concertized around the world, including Europe, Russia, India, Taiwan, China, Japan, El Salvador and many U.S. states. He’s performed at national and regional conventions of the American Guild of Organists and the Organ Historical Society.

Christoph Bull recorded the first solo album featuring the organ at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, entitled First & Grand.

He performed on and co-produced an album of Irish composer Patrick Cassidy’s The Mass during the quarantine at First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, joining forces with the vocal ensemble Laude and Director David Harris.

His song “Peace” was included on the compilation album 2 Unite All which also includes tracks by Peter Gabriel, Stewart Copeland, Ricky Kej, Lili Haydn and others.

Christoph Bull has worked with conductors including James Conlon, Carl St. Clair, Grant Gershon and Edo de Waart and with ensembles including the Bundesjugendorchester (National Youth Orchestra of Germany), L.A. Master Chorale, Pacific Symphony, Oakland East Bay Symphony, Southeast Symphony and Southwest Chamber Music.

His music has been broadcast on radio stations such as KCRW, on Classical KUSC and the Minnesota Public Radio program Pipedreams.

He recorded the pipe organ parts for Ghostbusters and Transformers at First Congregational Church of Los Angeles. He also worked as organ consultant on Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report and recorded for Robin Williams’ last TV Show The Crazy Ones. He has performed with George Clinton and recorded with Bootsy Collins (both Parliament Funkadelic). Together with Lili Haydn and Satnam Ramgotra, he opened up for Cindy Lauper, and he worked with Harry Connick Jr. on his first Christmas album. Discovery and Science Channels featured him in the first episode of How to build… everything.

Venues Dr Bull has performed at include The National Concert Hall in Taipei, Shanghai Conservatory, the Shumei Temple in Misono (Japan), Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Lincoln Center in New York City, Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa, the Cathedrals of Moscow, Los Angeles, Saint-Denis and Salzburg as well as rock clubs like The Viper Room, The Roxy and The Whisky in Los Angeles.

He studied at University of Sacred Music in Heidelberg, Musikhochschule Freiburg, Berklee College of Music in Boston, American Conservatory of Music and University of Southern California. His organ teachers were Cherry Rhodes, Hermann Schäffer, Ludwig Dörr, Samuel Swartz, Christoph Schöner and Paul Jordan. He also participated in master courses with Marie-Claire Alain, Guy Bovet, Craig Cramer and Rudi Lutz.

Christoph Bull is university organist and organ professor at UCLA as well as organist-in-residence at First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, regularly playing one of the largest pipe organs in the world.

Outside of music, Christoph is interested in politics, theology, cinema and sports. He’s read the whole Bible, Koran, Bhagavad Gita and Tao Te Ching, watched every Seinfeld episode and all Star Wars movies in a row in the chronological order of the storyline. He’s run the L.A. Marathon several times and won the National German Youth Championship in Baseball with his team BC Tornados Mannheim.

Christoph Bull regularly publishes new singles and albums on Bandcamp, Spotify, YouTube, Amazon Music, Apple Music et.

Guest Category: Performing Arts, Entertainment, Hobbies, Music, Philosophy, Society and Culture, Pop Culture
Guest Occupation: Acoustic-Physics Scientist, Inventor of the CymaScope, Author
Guest Biography:

Acoustics pioneer John Stuart Reid is an Acoustics-Physics Scientist & Inventor of the CymaScope is on a mission to educate and inspire the world about the field of cymatics — the science of visible vibrations and sound. He asserts that sound is the foundation of almost all matter in the universe and was a potent force in the creation of life in the primordial oceans, thereby carrying the power to heal life.

His CymaScope invention has forever changed the world’s perception of sound by giving us the ability to “see” sound and better understand this ubiquitous aspect of life. His cymatics research, which is elevating this important new field in scientific and medical arenas, includes a study on differentiating between the sounds emitted by healthy cells and cancer cells, published in the journal Water.

His work took a transformative turn inside the Great Pyramid of Giza, where he conducted an experiment in the King’s Chamber, and unknowingly healed himself of debilitating back pain, a revelation that deepened his understanding of sound’s therapeutic potential. This personal experience ignited his mission to explore the vibrational nature of healing.

ABOUT THE SHIFT NETWORK:

Founded in 2010, The Shift Network has empowered over 3,500,000 people in 180 countries. It features teachers and thought leaders in domains as diverse as spirituality, holistic health, psychology, energy medicine, Qigong, somatics, Indigenous wisdom, sound healing, yoga, herbalism, and peacebuilding. The Shift Network launches new courses and summits several times per week, as well as a rich array of podcasts and other media offerings, including the Shift App, which is available in both the Apple and Google App Stores. The Shift Network is committed to empowering 100 million people in the next five years in order to accelerate the transition to a peaceful, sustainable, and thriving planet for all.

Guest Category: Education, Health & Lifestyle, Kids & Family, Philosophy, Science, Society and Culture, Spiritual
Guest Occupation: Entrepreneur, BBS Radio-Podcast website Founder/President, Horticulturist and Food Preservationist
Guest Biography:

I am an entrepreneur and have worked for myself, and with my family, since 17 years of age. I have started several companies, joint ventures, public & private, and helped finance, operate and manage some of those entities until they were successful. I have been an original participant in all ventures I worked on, tending to many of the tasks required for a corporate structure to operate, from inception to its fruition. This involves numerous skills and abilities that are quite diverse and encompassing. These ventures were mostly in areas of new technology, product manufacturing, internet media, natural resource mining and oil drilling.

A very spiritual yet private man that you will come to know through the course of time. He delights in helping others make their way through this Penal Colony we call Earth. He's on a mission of change, one that will promote joy, peace and love to all. Being extremely passionate he wishes to be of service to others. It is his hope that we find our higher purpose and identity with the Divine Creator - Being One with All. Your responsibility is of the highest order. As we are all mirrors of each other, there is a responsibility in being. Be the mirror for others that you would like to see reflected back at you. Allow others to see themselves through you, as they truly are, without the trappings of their physical nature. Time may change, but their perfection never will, and you have the wondrous ability to give them back to themselves. Let their higher self be the image that they see in you. Show them kindness and compassion, joy and peace. With a Christ-like reflection, can you have what you have given. Remember: No matter how often you look in the mirror, the ONLY thing reflected back is love.

Guest Category: Business, Education, Health & Lifestyle, Alternative Health, Nutrition, Spiritual
Guest Occupation: Owner of True Mirror
Guest Biography:

True Mirror Company was formed in 1992 by founder, John Walter, who first independently discovered 10 years earlier that a true image reflection was possible by putting two mirrors together at right angles. It wasn’t a new idea, actually patented in 1887, but no one ever saw it as more than a physical curiosity.

However, what he discovered was “himself”, something that he recognized as his true feeling, which at the time was pretty happy. The key was the light in his eyes when he was smiling. For the first time, it looked natural and could smile back easily. Not so in the backwards mirror where his smile (like most people’s) felt fake and strained and would fade within seconds.

He found that using front surface mirrors could remove the seam between the mirrors, and he knew that he could make a real thing with it. That seam is critical, it goes right through your eyes, which with regular mirrors, makes it very difficult to make real eye contact with yourself. With the front surface mirrors, and many, many trial and errors, he now can produce an optically perfect, seamless true image mirror.

The company is small now, but with big visions…it simply is a no-brainer that the most wonderful thing about you, your authentic self, is what should be looking back at you in your reflection. Mirrors just can't do it – within seconds we fade to a mirror version of ourselves and lose all of our personality, expressions and traits that others see and know about us. It’s still a huge unanswered question about what this society-wide distortion of self-communication has done to us…but it can’t be very healthy.

It will take a lot of time for widespread adoption, but eventually, the comparison to the artificial version in backwards mirrors will become obvious. And at some point, literally every single person in the world will probably find out that such a thing is possible and will have some curiosity about what they look like in it.

Small company, big visions. Investors are encouraged to find out more – there’s a very bright future in store for those who carry this concept to full fruition.

For now, we are filling orders to places all over the world, and wowing people in person whenever possible. We are currently backlogged about 3 weeks for shipping True Mirrors, thank you for your patience. For more information about the True Mirror, please see our FAQ page and contact us at info@truemirror.com if you have any questions.

Thanks!
John Walter
Founder

Guest Category: Arts, Business, Education, Health & Lifestyle, Kids & Family, Philosophy, Psychology, Self Help, Spiritual
Guest Occupation: Founder of Blue Fushion Technologies & President of Mac Parkman Foundation
Guest Biography:

Bruce Parkman is the Founder/Strategic Growth Development Officer at Blue Fusion, a trailblazing force in intelligence analysis solutions.

With a storied military career spanning over two decades, including distinguished service as a Green Beret, Bruce brings unparalleled expertise to the table. His journey from the front lines to entrepreneurship reflects his unwavering commitment to excellence and innovation. Bruce founded Blue Light in 2014, driven by a mission to revolutionize the i2 Analyst community. Recognized for industry-leading solutions, Blue Light empowered analysts to combat today’s most pressing threats with cutting-edge technologies. In 2018, alongside his team, Bruce introduced Blue Fusion, a patented middleware that revolutionizes data connectivity and search capabilities.

His pioneering work extends beyond business, with notable contributions to school safety initiatives and veteran entrepreneurship. A respected thought leader, Bruce has shared his insights at global summits and conferences, authored impactful white papers, and appeared on major news networks. A distinguished graduate of Methodist College and Webster University, Bruce is also dedicated to serving his community as a founding Director of the Green Beret Foundation and Chairman of the Board for the Global Special Operations Forces Foundation. With bagpipes in hand, Bruce continues to lead Blue Fusion with boundless passion and vision.

Guest Category: Health & Lifestyle, Kids & Family, Self Help, Variety
Guest Occupation: Spiritual Teacher, Counselor, Singer-Songwriter, Vocal Coach, Author
Guest Biography:

Babien Avila is a #1 best-selling author on the Mission Hope series-volumes1-4. She is a Spiritual teacher and counselor as well as an Ordained minister who serves as a Divine Angel channel as well as a published singer-songwriter and vocal coach. Her mission is to heal, uplift and guide individuals facing difficult crossroads in life, offering hope to those stuck in negative patterns or challenging circumstances. Combining her spiritual gifts with music, Babien endeavors to create joy, healing and meaning in others lives through writing, speaking, singing, teaching and private counseling. Blessed with clairaudience, clairvoyance and clairsentience, Babien transitioned from a successful music career to focus on healing and spirituality, holding a BFA in Theatre and Music and certification in Reiki healing. Currently expanding her counseling work to include musical-vibrational healing and continuing her studies in intuitive Astrology, Babien has begun work on her own book of healing utilizing these modalities for greater health and well-being.

Guest Category: Arts, Education, Entertainment, Health & Lifestyle, Emotional Health and Freedom, Self Help, Society and Culture, Spiritual, Variety