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Submitted by Douglas Newsom on 19 April 2021

Headlined Guests

Guest Occupation: Inspirational workshop facilitator, Singer, Inner peace connection and self care practitioner
Guest Biography:

CHRIS PAN

I was born in Taipei and moved to Cincinnati when I was 7, not speaking a word of English. I had a lonely childhood as I couldn’t communicate for 2 years and was bullied often as the only scrawny Asian kid in my class. The local Chinese church was my refuge and I discovered my love for group singing there, and I ended up learning guitar and leading weekly services.

After college, I focused on my career and stepped away from music until I was working at Facebook where I started a cover band with colleagues in 2009. It brought me so much joy.

After I left Facebook and went through a terrible break-up in 2013, I ended up at an intense personal growth retreat called the Hoffman Process where we surrendered our phones and immersed ourselves in 15-hours of deep inner work each day.

I played for the first time in decades and found myself releasing a lifetime of sadness, stress, and anxiety. I felt true joy for the first time ever. I felt for the first time. I had numbed most of my life as a way to protect myself.

On the last day, we were invited to set an intention for our next chapter. Mine was to bring this magical experience of connecting with our true selves to those who didn’t have a week and $5k. That was the vision for my next chapter – a safe space for inner work and connection, and make it fun and accessible for everyone to enjoy.

After the retreat, I was still in a world of pain. I would wake-up and karaoke for an hour to soothe. Songs like “Let Her Go” and “When I Was Your Man” allowed me to release my feelings. I remember hearing “Don’t You Worry Child” and thought how powerful that message was and how cool it would be to sing that together with others.

When I moved to LA in 2013, I started hosting gatherings at my house called SpiritSundays where we would sing, move, paint, play, and make intention bracelets. I am not a jewelry guy. But I loved the conversations asking someone their WORD would spark, and the connection we would have when I stamped someone their WORD.

For the past 9 years, I’ve been trying different forms of therapy, and have found embodiment work to be the most powerful for me as a lot of our stress and traumas are stored in our body. Talking alone is not enough for me.

I’ve been leading inspirational workshops since I was in college, and a lot the past 9 years with MyIntent. So VoMo is just the next evolution of my workshops with a lot of live music and vocal activation to take people on the journey of a lifetime – from their head to their heart where they find their true intention.

Vision for VoMo & MyIntent:
The world in harmony, living with intent.Through intentional movement of our bodies and voices, we create joy and gain freedom. These self-care practices enable us to feel loved and inspired to serve. Find your clarity. Live with purpose. Use your voice.All are invited. Come as you are and feel at home. This is a safe and judgmental-free space for play, discovery, and connection.We’ve never been so isolated, stressed, and divided.As we arise together, we will be the change for our generation.

With service,

Chris Pan

Guest Category: Arts, Entertainment, Health & Lifestyle, Love & Relationships, Philosophy, Emotional Health and Freedom, Mental Health, Self Help, Spiritual
Guest Occupation: Musical and visual content creator, Musician and Performer
Guest Biography:

AARON SINCLAIR

Aaron Sinclair is a musical and visual content creator, raised under the starry Sierra Nevada Mountains. By weaving together sounds of his cello (and several other instruments), with fun and imaginative videos captured from his camera, Aaron is able to create his own unique sonic and visual ‘worlds’ within each of his original post-genre compositions.

Aaron seeks to spread awareness on climate change by creating music and eco-art that highlights and informs audiences of the unsung beautiful exchanges that exist in mother nature. His ocean awareness composition Ocean Sky was premiered at L’Hemisferic in Valencia, Spain, and recently it was performed at Wisdome LA.

Aaron has performed at Disney Hall, Benaroya Hall, Stanford University Frost Amphitheater, Mondavi Arts Center, Lincoln Center, and has been featured on Classic King FM 98.1 and on PBS’ A Celebration of Music. He has performed alongside Arturo O’Farill, Perico Sambeat, John Legend, and Yo-Yo Ma.

Guest Category: Arts, Entertainment, Music
Guest Occupation: Singer and Songwriter
Guest Biography:

MARINA JOYCE

Based in Calgary Alberta, Marina Joyce is a little bit of everything. Through her music, this singer/songwriter tells relatable stories that connect to listeners on personal and social levels. With an undeniable voice and unique sound, Marina pulls you inside her heart to take you with her on a journey of music you never knew you needed. 

Guest Category: Arts, Entertainment, Music
Guest Occupation: Author, TedX presenter, Medical Doctor, Teacher, and Spiritual Practitioner
Guest Biography:

ERICA M. ELLIOTT, M.D.

Erica was born into a large family with a Swiss mother and an American father. Throughout her childhood, Erica moved with her family from one part of the world to another due to her father’s work. She began her schooling in England, graduated from high school in Germany, and then studied art in Florence, Italy, before returning to the States to attend college.

The seeds for becoming a medical doctor were first sown when she spent a summer in Switzerland learning from her uncle, an eccentric and brilliant medical doctor. It took many years before those seeds sprouted.

Erica came to medicine later than most medical students, after pursuing other careers and interests, including teaching grade school and herding sheep on the Navajo Reservation, mountain climbing in the Andes while serving in the Peace Corps in South America, teaching Outward Bound students wilderness survival in the Rocky Mountains, studying spiritual practices, and traveling abroad.

After graduating from the University of Colorado Medical School and completing her residency in family practice in Denver, Erica worked in Cuba, New Mexico, where she fulfilled her National Health Service obligation. From there she worked in a number of settings including a clinic for indigent care, a local emergency room, a women’s clinic, a multispecialty clinic, and finally, in 1993, Dr. Elliott opened her own private practice in her co-housing community, The Commons, which she helped found in the early 1990s.

Dr. Elliott’s unrelenting curiosity has led her on many eye-opening and heart-opening adventures. The years she spent living in foreign cultures, both as a child and an adult, enabled her to bring a fresh perspective to her life’s work.

 

Dr. Elliott specializes in family practice and environmental medicine. Her private medical practice grew rapidly and soon she was treating patients who came to her from other parts of the country, as well as local patients. She has been nicknamed the “Health Detective.” She finds deep meaning and purpose through helping her patients find relief from their suffering.

Over the years, Erica has given radio talks, interviews, webinars, workshops at Esalen and Omega Institutes, and a TEDx talk about living in co-housing. She is the co-author of Prescriptions for a Healthy House, and the author of Medicine and Miracles in the High Desert: My Life among the Navajo People.

Guest Category: Education, Health & Lifestyle, Kids & Family, Medicine, Psychology, Personal Development, Self Help, Society and Culture, Spiritual
Guest Occupation: spiritual counselor, intuitive, medium, teacher
Guest Biography:

Raven Many Voices is a well-known and gifted spiritual counselor, intuitive, medium, and teacher. She has been providing spiritual guidance to people seeking wisdom for more than 25 years. 

Her ability to access the many traditions and spiritual realms lead her to become a Voice for Spirit – incorporating healing modalities from around the world into an easy and accessible format for those exploring spiritual healing, spirit guides, and soul communication.

Raven is highly attuned to both the Ascended Masters and Angelic Realms, and to the Ancestors and Earth Spirits, in the service of healing ourselves, our community, and our planet.

She applies these teachings through writing, energetic and gemstone healing, spiritual counseling, online classes, and sacred ceremonies.

Website: http://www.ravenmedium.com/

Raven offers this FREE GIFT for Listeners: https://youtu.be/igz1V_i1FDU

Email: raven@ravenmedium.com  
Website: www.ravenmedium.com
Classes: www.learnitlive.com/Raven

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzCgywoqIKUhVK5-1I8p3_Q

Guest Category: Courses & Training, Kids & Family, Physics & Metaphysics, Personal Development, Motivational, Spiritual, Access Consciousness, Medium & Channeling, Psychic & Intuitive
Guest Occupation: Dr. Steven Greer is an American ufologist who founded the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence and the Disclosure Project, which seeks the disclosure of alleged classified UFO information.
Guest Biography:

This episode features a conversation with the world's foremost authority on UFOs and ETS.  My guest is Dr. Steven Greer, one of the world’s foremost authorities on the subject of UFOs, extraterrestrial intelligence and technologies, and initiating peaceful contact with interstellar civilizations. For over 30 years, Dr. Greer has provided briefings for senior government officials across the globe, conducted numerous media interviews, and delivered hundreds of lectures. He has also written five books and produced 4 feature film documentaries that have been seen by hundreds of millions of people. Dr. Greer’s relentless efforts towards the disclosure of classified UFO/ET information have inspired millions of supporters around the world.  youtube.com/drstevengreer55

Guest Category: Earth & Space, History, News, Paranormal, Physics & Metaphysics, Politics & Government, Spiritual, Technology, Theory & Conspiracy
Guest Occupation: Internist, Pediatrician, lifestyle medicine physician and author and host of the book and podcast, Conquering Your Fibromyalgia.
Guest Biography:

“I want my patients concerns addressed and enjoy helping care for both routine and complicated problems in children and adults. I also love working with patients in both treatment and prevention of diseases through healthy lifestyle involving a healthy diet, exercise, sleep and stress management. I incorporate the wise use of medications when appropriate. I want my patients to be the healthiest they can be and try my best to work with them to achieve their goals. The reason I chose pediatrics and adult medicine is because I enjoy seeing families — from newborns through adulthood. Caring for children and adults also makes it convenient for parents to have both their concerns and their children’s concerns addressed with the same doctor.”

Guest Category: Health & Lifestyle, Kids & Family, Medicine, Self Help, Variety
Guest Occupation: Author, Educator, Philosopher, Blogger
Guest Biography:

Joseph J. (JJ) Dewey, born Feb 1945, has been a student and writer of philosophy, metaphysics and the spiritual path most of his life. He has taught numerous classes and seminars since 1989 on a variety of avant-garde subjects while earning a living with real estate and marketing. 
Dewey is a prolific author and is best known for his trilogy of books known as the Immortal series. Dewey draws from many true-life experiences to create novels that present unique and mystical teachings in a way that captivates the imagination. What is true and what is fiction? That is for the reader to determine. The trilogy consists of The Immortal, Books I & II in one volume, The Lost Key of the Buddha and Eternal Words.  Mr. Dewey has taught one of the most active discussion groups on the internet for a remarkably long time now called The Keys of Knowledge. His writings have been collected and archived at www.freeread.com. There the seeker can find over 5000 free articles written by him as well as a number of books. He may hold the record for the most original free articles on the web offered by a single person. These are not the ramblings of a blogger talking about trivial matters but new insights on life changing philosophy.

Guest Category: Literature, Education, Courses & Training, Philosophy, Physics & Metaphysics, Emotional Health and Freedom, Personal Development, Self Help, Spiritual
Guest Occupation: Astronumerology, author of The Power of Home Numbers and All About Numbers, provides consultation on the numbers in your life!
Guest Biography:

My guest is Jesse Kalsi who is a world-renowned numerologist. He specializes in residential and business numerology and provides valuable insight on the power of numbers and how they affect our lives. In his books, The Power of Home Numbers and All About Numbers, he combines his Eastern upbringing with his Western experience to bring awareness and understanding of this phenomenon. Over the past twenty years, Jesse has consulted thousands of people and affected their lives positively. His clients include prominent business people and extremely successful communication and entertainment companies. Jesse has appeared on many radio and television shows in the U.S. and his unique perspective on Numerology has amazed his audience.  A successful real estate broker by trade, Jesse is also a Certified Federal Aviation Administration Flight Instructor and holds a commercial pilot’s license. He received his bachelor’s degree in India and holds an LLM in International Legal Studies from Golden Gate University in San Francisco, California. Jesse graduated from the National Defense Academy of India and pursued advanced studies at the Indian Military Academy. He served as a Captain in the 1st Battalion, 3rd Gurkha Rifles, formerly called “The Queen’s Own.” Intending to devote his life to military affairs, Jesse left the army when he was informed of his true life purpose while posted at the Jammu-Kashmir frontier. He originally came to the U.S. to learn to fly, but eventually returned here to make his home in California, where he lives today with his family.

Guest Category: Business, Entertainment, Health & Lifestyle, Kids & Family, Paranormal, Physics & Metaphysics, Psychology, Self Help, Spiritual
Guest Occupation: Firefighter Spouse and Trauma Therapist Specializing in Responders and Families
Guest Biography:

Caryn Czarnecki’s husband of 20 years, Kevin, is a Captain in a Connecticut Fire Department with 34 years of service: 27 career and 7 as volunteer. They met at the fire dept 32 years ago.  Caryn is an elementary school teacher, teaching for 26 years at the same elementary school where she went as a child.

Linda Rost, LCSW, has been working in the field of psychological trauma for 35 years. She maintains a private practice in Wilton, Connecticut where she works with adults and adolescents. She is a Certified EMDR therapist, as well as an Approved Consultant in the same therapy. She is currently one of the coordinators of the Fairfield Country Trauma Response Team, providing education, training and treatment for first responders.

Guest Category: Health & Lifestyle, Kids & Family, Love & Relationships, Relationship Counseling, Psychology, Emotional Health and Freedom, Mental Health
Guest Occupation: Author and Speaker, business coach
Guest Biography:

Pragito Dove M.A., is a global authority on Expressive Meditation and founder of the #1 Expressive Meditation Training School in N.America. An internationally recognized Author, Hypnotherapist, Coach and Speaker with over 20 years experience, Pragito helps spiritually-conscious entrepreneurs, leaders, CEO’s, teachers and healers align their mindset to allow more peace, time and financial freedom. 

Featured in media including TV Shows, Telesummits and top-level Podcasts, Pragito shares powerful tools for wellness, meditation and personal growth. Her new book  is #1 Amazon bestseller “LUNCHTIME ENLIGHTENMENT: Expressive Meditations for Manifesting Peace, Prosperity and Passion”.

Guest Category: Courses & Training, Entertainment, Health & Lifestyle, Kids & Family, Philosophy, Psychology, Self Help, Spiritual, Meditation
Guest Occupation: An expert on a broad range of therapeutic techniques, he offers clients a unique and powerful synthesis of psychotherapy, somatic therapy, hypnotherapy, shamanic healing, EMDR, Tapping, and oracle card readings.
Guest Biography:

This episode features a conversation about spiritual wisdom on Spirit Animals.  My guest is Dr. Steven Farmer is a licensed psychotherapist, soul healer, and author of several best-selling books and oracle cards, including Animal Spirit Guides, Earth Magic, Earth Magic Oracle Cards, Children’s Spirit Animal Cards, Healing Ancestral Karma and the recently released book Animals: Personal Tales of Encounters with Spirit Animals and the oracle cards Shaman’s Path.

Guest Category: Health & Lifestyle, Kids & Family, Paranormal, Pets and Animals, Physics & Metaphysics, Psychology, Self Help, Spiritual, Variety
Guest Occupation: Founder and President of COPLINE and Psychotherapist working with first responders
Guest Biography:

Stephanie Samuels is a psychotherapist who works exclusively with first responders, mostly law enforcement in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Oklahoma. Ms. Samuels has lectured all over the country on PTSD and vicarious trauma, including undiagnosed PTSD and the fallout from departmental silence after officers are involved in critical incidents.

Ms. Samuels began her career as one of the founding teens of Teen Line Cares, a mental health help line for teens. Ms. Samuels recognized that teens only trusted and confided in other teens. With this same concept in mind, Ms. Samuels went on to create two law enforcement officer hotlines. She is currently the Founder and President of COPLINE, Inc., the first Confidential National Law Enforcement Officers' Hotline in the country manned by retired officers.

She is the general partner of The Counseling and Critical Incident Debriefing Center, LLC, which specializes in debriefing and long term counseling of first responders and their families. She taught at the Monmouth County Police Academy for 16 years and has been a guest lecturer at The FBI Academy in Quantico. Ms. Samuels was hired after the Boston Bombing as the Clinical Director of the Boston Police Department Peer Support Unit and co-founded the LEADER (Law Enforcement Active Duty Emergency Responder) Program at Harvard's McLean Hospital and continues to work with the Boston Police Department in a different capacity.

Ms. Samuels has co-authored Under the Blue Shadow: Clinical and Behavioral Perspectives on Police Suicide with Dr. John Violanti and a chapter entitled "Police Trauma: Past Exposures and Present Consequences" in the book Managing Traumatic Stress Risk: A Proactive Approach.

Guest Category: Education, Psychology, Emotional Health and Freedom, Mental Health, Society and Culture
Guest Occupation: Lawyer
Guest Biography:

Maurice Emmer was the first person to declare his candidacy for Aspen mayor in the May 2015 election.

Guest Category: News, Politics & Government
Guest Occupation: psychic, astrologer
Guest Biography:

Sandy has been a professional psychic and astrologer since 1979. She holds a B.S. degree from Adelphi University and has teaching certifications in several fields. In addition to teaching, Sandy has worked as a Safety Engineer, and owned her own small bookstore for many years before retiring to become a fulltime psychic counselor, writer and teacher. Sandy’s writings include books on Astrology, Kabbala, and Tarot, as well as psychic development. Internationally renowned psychic channel Sandy Anastasi has established herself as one of the preeminent teachers of our time. With more than 30 years of experience, Sandy is a leading expert in Psychic Development, Astrology and Tarot. Through Sandy’s classes, workshops, lectures and appearances, she is able to share her knowledge to help people enhance their lives. Sandy was a significant contributor to psychic medium John Edward’s Web site, InfiniteQuest.Com, which launched June 12th, 2009, and provided valuable insight alongside some of the nation’s top metaphysical teachers for three years. Sandy has also appeared on many radio and television shows over the years, most notably Crossing Over and Cross Country – both television shows hosted by her good friend and former student, John Edward.

Infinite Quest by John Edward – “This book is dedicated to Sandy Anastasi for helping me harness and train my ability, and shape and develop my teaching.” — Psychic Medium John Edward

With more than 30 years of teaching experience, Sandy Anastasi has been successfully training students, teachers, and professional psychics worldwide how to open, develop, and master their psychic abilities. Created from her live workshop material, the Anastasi System of Psychic Development is ideally suited for the aspiring psychic, channel, or psychic medium. I’m so pleased that Sandy has agreed to join me the second week of every odd month right here on Luminescence, Common Sense Spirituality Radio show.

Guest Category: Courses & Training, Entertainment, Kids & Family, Paranormal, Spiritual, Access Consciousness, Tarot & Other Cards, Astrology, Psychic & Intuitive
Guest Occupation: PhD, RDN, CD, PSYCHOLOGIST, NUTRITIONIST, WELLCOACH & MINDFUL SELF-COMPASSION TEACHER
Guest Biography:

I’m Dr. Ellen, the Grow and Glow Coach. I’ve been a Registered Dietitian for almost 25 years, and I’m also a PhD Psychologist, Certified Professional Health and Wellness Coach and Reiki Master. I currently have an international coaching practice where I empower women at midlife to live vibrant, meaningful, balanced lives. I also run a private nutrition practice in Vermont focusing on helping my clients make peace with their bodies and food and reach the highest level of wellbeing possible. In addition, I’m the Chair of the Nutrition Entrepreneurs, Coaches Specialty Group where I mentor and coach other dietitians.

As a nutrition expert and educator, I’ve appeared on Extra, the Food Network and NBC World News and been quoted in Psychology Today, Eating Well and USA Today. I’ve written for SELF, Better Homes & Gardens and Good Housekeeping. The author of four books and the former online Nutrition Expert for Women’s Health, Men’s Health and The Abs Diet, I’ve helped thousands of women overcome negative body image, emotional eating and change of life challenges.

 

Guest Category: Health & Lifestyle, Kids & Family, Self Help, Variety
Guest Occupation: Counselor, Certified Hypnotherapist, Business Coach
Guest Biography:

Daniel John Hanneman has an extensive background as a professional counselor and certified hypnotherapist with combined business and professional backgrounds in energy scanning, energy clearing, spiritual life coaching, intuitive business coaching, channeling, metaphysics, Religious Science, hypnosis, psychology, motivational techniques, and personal/business development systems.  

From a best-selling book series, Daniel has co-authored the book, Wake Up Live The Life You Love – Living In Abundance, which featured internationally renowned legends including Anthony Robbins, Dr. Wayne Dyer, and Dr. Michael Beckwith.   Daniel is the creator of the Your Sacred Purpose that is unleashing the hidden greatest potential within world changing empaths, healers, and spiritual entrepreneurs by loving all of themselves including their full power, their greatest gifts, their truest purpose, and the ability to deepen the awakening of consciousness on the planet while enjoying profound money success.    
 

Guest Occupation: CONJURE QUEEN an international Public Speaker, Spiritual Advisor, Holistic Healer, and Mentor.
Guest Biography:

This episode features a conversation about Magick and Spirituality.  

My guest is CONJURE QUEEN, an international Public Speaker, Spiritual Advisor, Holistic Healer, and Mentor. With her controversial discussions, compassion for her community, and carefree down to earth Brooklyn attitude, people naturally gravitated towards her message and her YouTube channel exploded! Today, she integrates her own spiritual journey and personal life experiences to help inspire, motivate, and educate millions of people around the world towards truth, wisdom, freedom, and love. https://www.iamconjurequeen.com/

Guest Category: Business, Entertainment, Health & Lifestyle, History, Paranormal, Physics & Metaphysics, Self Help, Spiritual, Theory & Conspiracy
Guest Occupation: Executive Director, All Hazards Psychological Trauma Responder and Subject Matter Expert
Guest Biography:

Mr. Cole is K9FR's subject matter expert and thought leader. He has 39 years experience in the security, crisis management and investigative professions.

A responder to the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy, deployments include United States Capitol incidents, Pittsburgh, PA synagogue shooting, Boston Marathon bombings, Las Vegas concert massacre, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting as well as peer support for public safety. He was deployed to Smyrna, DE to assist in the aftermath of the 19 hour prison siege, hostage taking and homicide.

Certifications include Active Shooter/Hostile Event Response (ASHER) Program Specialist, Psychological First Aid (PFA), Post Traumatic Stress Management (PTSM), Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM), and Mental Health First Aid (MHFA).

Guest Category: Military, Pets and Animals, Politics & Government, Psychology, Mental Health
Guest Occupation: Author, co-founder of two leading international non-governmental organizations fighting corruption.
Guest Biography:

Frank is the co-founder of two leading international non-governmental organizations fighting corruption -- Transparency International and the Partnership for Transparency Fund (Frank is the Chair of the PTF Board).  He teaches at Georgetown University, writes regular "blog" articles on corruption for theGlobalist.com and lectures extensively.  Frank is also a specialist in international economics and finance with more than 50 years of experience in these fields - first as an international journalist, then as the Director of Information & Public Affairs at the World Bank official and, from 1990 to 2017, as the president and CEO of a consulting firm, Vogl Communications Inc.

Frank is the author of seven books, including his latest entitled,
THE ENABLERS: How the West Supports Kleptocrats and Corruption — Endangering Our Democracy.

Guest Category: History, Kids & Family, Politics & Government, Self Help, Variety