Headlined Guests
Headlined Guests that have appeared on BBS Radio TV
LEGENDARY BASSIST KENNY AARONSON
VISITS THE RAY SHASHO SHOW
Kenny Aaronson was born, bread and buttered in Brooklyn, New York. He started playing drums at the age of eleven, following in his older brother's footsteps. Kenny switched to electric bass at the age 14 after becoming enamored by the low end of the bass on Motown records that he would hear on the jukeboxes in local pizza joints. To this day, he is still a huge James Jamerson fanatic. As a teenager, he played bass for Brooklyn based hard rock band Dust, which included Marc Bell (a.k.a. Marky Ramone), which released two albums in 1971 and '72 on the Kama Sutra label. In 1973, Aaronson joined the New York band Stories, who's single,"Brother Louie", reached #1 on the Billboard, Cashbox and Record World charts.
Kenny Aaronson went on to become a recognized world-class rock and roll bassist with his extensive touring and recording with a variety of artists including Bob Dylan, Billy Idol, Joan Jett, Billy Squier, Foghat, HSAS (Sammy Hagar, Neil Schon, Kenny Aaronson, Michael Shrieve), Brian Setzer, Mick Taylor, Dave Edmunds, Robert Gordon, Graham Parker, Hall and Oates, Edgar Winter, Leslie West Band, Rick Derringer and many more.
In 1988 Kenny was named Bassist of the year by Rolling Stone Magazine. Aaronson was also bassist in the house band for the MTV Guitar Greats Show where along with Dave Edmunds, Chuck Leavell and Michael Shrieve, he had the opportunity to back up artists as diverse as Steve Cropper, Brian Setzer, Lita Ford, Tony Iommi and Dave Gilmore. A few of Kenny's most memorable moments in his career were auditioning for the Rolling Stones, recording with George Harrison and opening for Led Zeppelin.
Kenny Aaronson supports singer song writer John Eddie. In the summer of 2011 he toured with the New York Dolls supporting Motley Crue and Poison in the US along with solo Dolls dates in Australia. In the fall, they toured the U.K. supporting Alice Cooper. Kenny has recently supported Corky Laing, Robert Gordon and Philadelphia's "In The Pocket". Kenny played with The Yardbirds in the fall of 2015.
Visit Kenny Aaronson at …
https://kennyaaronson.com/home -Official Home Page
https://www.facebook.com/KennyAaronson/ -Facebook
https://twitter.com/kennybass -Twitter
RADIO EXILE - No Pity on the Highway (OFFICIAL) video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2v3WDQLCXk
RADIO EXILE
Chandler Mogel / Lead and Backing Vocals
Charlie Calv / Piano, Keyboards
Jimmy Leahey / Guitars, Backing Vocals
Kenny Aaronson / Bass
Dave Anthony / Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals
In the post era of the FM dominated airwaves comes a new generation of classic rock, RADIO EXILE.
TRACK LISTING
1. High Road, High Price
2. Soulfire
3. No Pity on the Highway
4. Feels Like Home
5. Higher Than the Sun
6. Hang On
7. Starting Over
8. Down in a Hole
9. A Cross on Stone
Marshall Klarfeld, a CALTECH graduate engineer, benefited greatly from his 50 year career in business and politics. His current pursuit of the history of the ANUNNAKI has propelled him into the field of ancient history. His recent research has uncovered what could be a defining moment in archaeology. He believes the information in "The ANUNNAKI Were Here!" may rank it among the 10 Most Important Archaeological Finds of the 21st Century.
Marina Shamashevich is the Authentic Visibility Coach who helps spiritual women entrepreneurs be Seen, be Heard and be Valued for being themselves. She helps them get out of their own way and break through their limitations so they can build a thriving business that lights them up. Marina is a free spirit who learned that being true to who you are is at the heart of all success.
Tracey has recently written the book “The Nice Guy's Field Guide To Energy Vampires” which has been her life’s work. She is a professional psychic medium and Accredited Angel Healing Practitioner from St. Marys, Ontario Canada. Over the last 30 years, Tracey has dedicated herself to helping people from all walks of life uncover patterns at play that may be causing them unhappiness now, while helping them to find alternatives and timelines that hold the greatest potential for success at all levels in the future. Over her years of work, she has helped hundreds of people, including herself, spot and remove the draining effects an energy vampire can have on the emotional, mental, physical and spiritual bodies. Through her work, she has come to notice a pattern at play, that once you’re aware of might just help you stay out of the emotional quicksand the energy vampire likes to employ to leave folks feeling helpless as often as possible.
Medical Medium, Holistic Pharmacist:
You are Sensitive
"If you always thought you were different than the others, you were right. You are Sensitive!" - Emil Faithe
Medical Medium and Holistic Pharmacist Dr. Emil Faithe has practiced in virtually every healthcare setting over the past 30 years, honing his skills as a holistic expert, and as a psychic medium and medical intuitive. He holds a BS in Biology from the University of California Irvine, and earned his Doctorate in Pharmacy from the University of Southern California.
As “The Health Whisperer”, Dr. Faithe has helped thousands of people across the globe solve some of the most complicated and “mysterious” health puzzles imaginable.
Employing his keen intuitive diagnostic skills, he is able to detect organ, glandular, metabolic and energetic imbalances, and accurately determine which supplement, nutrients, and energy healing techniques are needed to restore physical and emotional harmony within the body. He gets to the bottom of health and life imbalances. Period.
Dr. Faithe is recognized as one of the top experts in natural medicine and medical intuition and has been a keynote speaker for a number of prominent holistic healthcare conferences. He has appeared on numerous television and radio programs, and lectures regularly on all topics of natural wellness. He is the author of “Natural Q’s; A Guide to Healthy Living”, “Extreme Clearing for Perfect Health”, his global hit “You Are Sensitive!” and his latest convention-stirring book “Hormone Lies and Thyroid Misunderstandings”.
Dr. Faithe has a special affinity for awakening, guiding, and healing the ultra-sensitive people of the planet, a large previously unrecognized group of individuals who are fast and furiously discovering their gifts and abilities, and facing their own very unique life challenges. He maintains a private practice in holistic and intuitive healthcare where he works with all health conditions across the globe. Along with his wife Susan, he is the co-founder of World Wellness Center in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Adam Apollo has offered insights on consciousness development, physics, future technology, and planetary transitions at the White House, in a United Nations summit, and at conferences and festivals around the world. He awoke to a complete library of Sacred Geometry and Metaphysical knowledge at the age of 15, and spent many years afterwards teaching and integrating this information through developing deep personal magical and martial arts practices. After being invited to hold council with Indigenous Elders from around the world in private fire ceremonies, Adam Apollo helped to organize two prayer runs for world peace across the North American Continent, and smoked the White Buffalo Peace Pipe passed down 19 generations from the White Buffalo Calf Woman. In 2005, Adam physically encountered a Galactic Ambassador from a starship, met Ambassadors from 73 Species of the Galactic Council through an Astral stargate, and recovered memories from several lifetimes before his journey to Earth.
Lorraine is an experienced energy medicine practitioner. Lorraine presents cutting edge human energy field research and demonstrates the techniques of energy medicine and self healing. She uses the latest in energetic diagnostic imaging in the emotional and physical realms and human energy field response to everyday life. Lorraine is dedicated to improving vibrancy, health and wellness using the highest quality of unique transformational products.
Lorraine Eldridge travels, sharing a message of wellness through workshops and special events. She works with doctors, scientists and others in the wellness industry advancing energetic wellness product understanding and everyday well-being and consciousness.
EVOLUTION 101 with host Edward Jones...
Edward Jones is what you might call an ordinary man although he insists he is not a man, as the word man is a label attached to the male of the species. He says, “If you declare yourself a man, then you’ll have more labels attached such as a real man or a real good man or an upstanding man or a dozen other labels, and then you’re lost in the trap of labels, of words. All these labels colour your perception and you will end seeing not the real person but an image of your own thinking, and this is the illusion we live in.”
So, if you are to meet Edward and call him a man, the first thing he will tell you is that he is not a man. Edward is meticulous with the words he speaks because this is a world trapped in words, and the words we use create the manner in which we create our lives.
Edward experienced a life altering event at the age of 36 which he later came to call a transformation in which he says he died. Everything he had been–a son, a husband, a businessman–collapsed at his feet in complete failure. It was the death of everything he had been in his life. Unlike others who have had and speak of a transformation, Edward hand no idea of what happened to him during his four hour death experience. He’d had never delved into mysticism or any kind of Eastern thought, but what he experienced was exactly what millions have searched for millennia . Edward calls it ecstasy–living with a new consciousness, one void of violence, stress, fear, and worry, one that is free.
In facing all his failures without excuse or reason and with truth, he came upon the source of all things. Because he had no previous knowledge of what had happened to him, he realized that he was the source of what had become. “There is a new consciousness born on the planet and it is available to you now.” Edward relates this message in workshops, meetings, business, online forums and to all who come into contact with him. Edward carries this one message in his daily life: “There is no love on the planet, and that is good news because in realizing that, we can dispose of what we have been calling love, which is not love at all, and create the possibility of bringing forth Love, Truth, Intelligence and Creation to our war-laden manner of existing on this earth.”
Edward in his talks recorded in his books, tells the one thing he did that brought him face to face with himself and the events that lead up to his transformation. Transformation is a possibility for everyone living on this planet, and it can be brought about by what he says is a “method that is not a method,” for it is something we use in our everyday lives–our language. We are creating our lives with the words we speak.
Edward’s books are not exactly fodder for the lazy mind or one which is seeking success, money, stature, or security in this insane world. They are for the ones who care for a transformation of self, internal peace, and world peace for the planet. They are “where the rubber hits the road.”
How My Death Revealed The Secret To Life, An Autobiography
On November 19, 1979, leaving a life of failures behind him, Edward Jones experienced a transformation which completely revolutionized the way he perceived reality. Edward’s former life of misery was now one of exquisite vibrancy. Pain lost its sting; fear no longer ruled his life. Every moment unfolded its potential as a wellspring of delight. He was permanently and irrevocably altered. The change was so complete, so profound, that afterward Edward could only say that he had died. Out of that death, a new consciousness was born. He sees and speaks of a world void of violence and suffering, and assists others in seeing the possibility of transformation within themselves and the world via online webinars, workshops, radio programs, Internet discussion rooms, videos, personal coaching as well as other books he has written. This book is his recounting of his personal journey to, and through, his self-transformation.
Create Creation – The Manner in Which Words Create our Lives
This book will present to you things you can do to catch yourself in the moment of truth as you are being it. It may be your anger, your fear, your manipulations, your sorrow, your worries or a dozen of feelings you bring forth every day. That is where your truth lies. It is hidden behind all of your feelings and attachments. This may not be an easy thing to do, unveiling the truth of yourself, as much of it is ugly, but it is the liberating feature that speaking the truth of self brings to you. Mark Twain declared, “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” Speaking the truth frees the mind to live in the moment because you’re not using all your energy to remember and live the lie. Truth is a living, vibrant thing. It lives and dies every second. Lies do not die until the truth of them is spoken.
Raising Sane – Is It Possible To Raise A Sane Child In An Insane World
Children are born pristine, and as they grow, they see us and what we do which conditions them the same as we were conditioned. If we loved our children, we would not prepare our children for the world. We would prepare the world for our children and ourselves. Within the pages of this book, you will discover the energy of linguistics when truth is spoken and that we are creating our lives from the words we speak. We have been creating a negative existence with the beliefs and lies we pass down to our children which have been passed down to us and to each generation for thousands of years. In discovering what you can do to raise a sane child, you will also discover what to do to raise the child in you. Our present behavior on this planet shows we are all acting as angry children having a temper tantrum. Within the relationship with ourselves and our children, we can transform the world into a safe and sane place to live.
Self Transformation – A New You
From his talks and workshops with others, Edward Jones speaks from the source of the new consciousness. He outlines the action needed to bring forth the first psychological evolution of the human mind. Our present consciousness is responsible for the destruction of our world. The ending of violence begins with a transformation of self, bringing forth a new you and a new world.
A New Consciousness Born – You are the Source
A hard-hitting, non-fiction book which addresses every aspect of our lives; it shows us the manner in which we are trapped in our thinking processes. The book is transcribed from live conversations with Phillip LeRoy and others. With this book’s formatting, you can be drawn into and become part of the conversation. The new consciousness that Edward speaks of is violence free, and he takes a step-by-step, simple approach that points to what we can do to bring forth peace into our lives and onto the planet.
Gloria La Riva is a labor, community and anti-war activist based in San Francisco, California. Born in Albuquerque, N.M., Gloria attended Brandeis University where she was active in affirmative action struggles.
Gloria has been a key organizer of many mass demonstrations and other actions opposing the wars and occupation in Central America, Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia and elsewhere.
Gloria has worked for decades to defend Cuba’s sovereignty and against the U.S. blockade. She was awarded Cuba’s Friendship Medal in 2010, approved by the Council of State, for her many years of Cuba solidarity, and is the national coordinator of the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five.
Gloria has traveled to Venezuela many times since the election of Hugo Chávez to president in 1998, most recently in December 2014. She has engaged in discussions with leading members of the Bolivarian Revolution, including the late president, as well as current president Nicolás Maduro.
Gloria has been active in the struggle for immigrant rights, organizing for and speaking at many mass marches in California over the past 30 years. In the early 1990s, she was the initiator of the Farmworkers Emergency Relief campaign, following a disastrous freeze that left tens of thousands of Central Valley agricultural workers with no income.
Gloria organized support for the Black Fire Fighters Association in their struggle to end racist and sexist discrimination in the San Francisco Fire Department in the 1980s.
A longtime supporter of LGBTQ rights, Gloria participated in the first National March for Lesbian and Gay rights in 1979 and subsequent national marches. She joined in the marches and rallies protesting the passage of the anti-marriage equality Prop 8 in California. She has joined picket lines defending women’s reproductive health clinics.
In 1998 Gloria produced the award-winning video, Genocide by Sanctions: The Case of Iraq, documenting the effects of the U.S./UN blockade on Iraq. In 1999, she traveled twice to Yugoslavia with former U.S. attorney general Ramsey Clark, at the height of the U.S./NATO bombing war, producing the video, NATO Targets. In September 2005, six days after Hurricane Katrina, Gloria traveled to New Orleans, producing the video Heroes Not Looters. In 2014, she traveled to Ferguson during the uprising there in the wake of the police murder of Michael Brown.
Gloria is a blogger for LiberationNews.org, where she has written extensively on Latin America and many other issues.
In 1994 and 1998, Gloria was Peace & Freedom Party’s candidate for governor of California. She ran as a socialist candidate for mayor of San Francisco in 1983, finishing third overall and second in every working-class neighborhood. She was the 2008 presidential candidate of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. She is the elected Executive Vice President of the Pacific Media Workers Guild, Communications Workers of America, Local 39521.
Follow Gloria's blogs:
https://www.liberationnews.org/author/gloria_la_riva/
Follow Gloria on social media:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/glorialariva
Larry Nichols, former 10 year accomplice to the Clintons, can now add hit-man to his list of dirty deeds. Nichols dropped a bombshell on The Pete Santilli Show when he very calmly admitted that he had murdered people, on command, for Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Mr. Nichols has been a voice crying out in the wilderness since he brought to light the sexual brutality of Bill Clinton during his reign as Governor in Arkansas. That information would eventually play a key role to Clinton’s impeachment in the 90′s. Larry says he makes no apologies.
They sent me overseas to kill people for them and told me it was for the good of the Country. So when they asked me to do it for them in the States it felt no different. The real truth is, I did it for the money and I didn’t give a s**t about the women I beat and the men I murdered.
The Clintons are bad people and I did bad things for them. I had to live with that all of these years and now I just don’t care anymore who knows it. Larry maintains the Clintons were into so many illegal activities at the time, they had to have a team of mercenaries made up of friends and state-troopers to cover it all up and keep them protected from the public finding out.
According to Larry Nichols, both Bill and Hillary were wild and out of control and both were relentless in their pursuit for money and power. From running drugs, to the rape and beating of women and young girls, both of the Clintons are guilty of the unspeakable crimes.
When Pete asked Larry about Gennifer Flowers making headlines last week claiming Bill had told her Hillary had eaten more p***y than he had Larry said that’s old news, and indeed it is … Larry had made that same statement on the Pete Santilli show early last spring.
Larry is adamant that Hillary Clinton is a “Dyke” and always has been. One thing I know for sure She did have enough sex with men to have a kid, but it wasn’t Bill Clinton’s Kid she had … Chelsea is actually the daughter of Web Hubble.
Nichols and many other insiders claim Clinton began having sex with Hubble to gain employment at The Rose Law Firm which she believed would eventually advance Bill Clinton’s chances of becoming Governor of Arkansas.
Pick up the video around the 1Hr 09Min mark.
Source: The Pete Santilli Show
Hi! Welcome! My name is Juleann Bukovchik Boyce and I work as a Soul Doctor, and dedicate my life to be in service to humanity as a healer, teacher, speaker and intuitive coach. I am an instrument of the Divine, who it is really about, who has blessed me with abilities that allow me to channel the power to heal anything as well as help people discover, increase and expand their innate abilities to the highest and best possible levels.
I give and teach alternative medicine through the science of supernatural soul healing. Healings can be given in person or long distance to anywhere on the globe for any problems including ones that even medical science cannot diagnose or heal. I also teach how anyone can self heal and help others heal too through the power of truth and love in action utilizing the empowering ancient tools passed down through a lineage of the highest eastern masters over thousands of years including Sri Sai Kaleshwar, Shirdi Sai Baba, Venkusa, Ramana Maharshi, Paramahamsa Ramakrishna in this last century along with others, through two millenniums ago and beyond with Jesus, Buddha, Babaji and many more.
In addition to giving healings and teaching this supernatural science, I am an intuitive coach and speaker and share privately and publically about my direct transformational experiences in witnessing to the impossible made possible. I help inspire others to uncover, discover, and grow the power and abilities seeded in each person. For the power of one contains the power to change the universe.
I do not take any credit for the miracles that flow through me. Countless people have and continue to experience supernatural healing that some people call medical miracles. My mom was healed of cancer because of these techniques through a distance healing Kaleshwar did with her, inspiring me to study the science of the soul and earn the equivalent of a Ph.D. as a Soul Doctor in India and then give healings, teach, and coach and empower others with these tools to transform one’s life and the lives others.
I have more than 20 years of training and experience. I earned my certification and learned how to transmit divine energy as a Soul Doctor under the tutelage of my friend, brother and guru, saint Swamiji Sri Sai Kaleshwar from Penukonda, India over 7 years. He always gave credit to his master, saint Shirdi Sai Baba who he said is a grandfather to all people. My education in the Soul University with Swamiji in India and the USA was preceded by some years with Isis in an Egyptian Mystery School, and 12 years of intuitive coaching training in the healing arts by working for and with master Mona Miller. I also consider my decade of time working primarily as an auditor for the Big 4 Accounting firms and traveling the globe serving Fortune 5 and 100 company accounts as part of my education. Above all, I am blessed with my first teachers, my loving and faithful parents who taught me through their actions. My father and mother are high priests to me and I love them deeply – my dad literally is a married priest and my mom was a nun and I have happily been raised with the belief that the highest calling is to serve others. I am blessed and ever grateful to all the bright angels in my life who have helped mold me and continue to teach me through infinite love.
One of my dreams that is coming into fruition now is the establishment and building of an international community meditation + healing center and gardens in Los Angeles, California that feeds the hungry and honors the highest heroes and masters who had and have the courage to stand for truth, love, right action, peace and the unity of all religions. If you would like to join me in the co-creation of this center, I invite you to contact me and share what you would like to contribute to further expand the co-creation of this center.
Namaste
In 1983, Jeff began an active search for more spiritual connections to life, and was introduced to Reiki trainings. The following year began a two decade immersion into a Bhakti Yoga meditation path, profoundly transforming his inner landscape. In 1997, Jeff learned the Merlin based lineage of VortexHealing, and mastered those skills quickly.
By now his own innate power to heal began to evolve, along with a developing awareness of galactic presence. A deep longing pulled him daily into this great expanse, further pushing the boundaries of his awareness. An inner dialog had begun, from which Jeff came to intuit his own healing discipline, and multi-dimensional understanding of reality. This conversation continues, as the ongoing work of our universe unfolds and each of us plays our part.
It is Jeff's wish to share his gifts of transformation and healing at the fundamental levels of our human experience through the Heart of Oneness. It is time.
A creative master craftsman, Jeff lives in southern Arizona. With 3 decades working in both custom furniture and cabinet shops, Jeff is accomplished at most phases of kitchen remodeling. His work has included full kitchen/bath design, cabinetry installation, fabrication and installation of solid surface countertops. Currently, Jeff works a kitchen/bath field measurer. With a Bachelor of Fine Arts in sculpture from the California College of Arts and Crafts, Jeff went on to expand his talents into welding kinetic sculpture and nature drawing.
Jay Hall is Assistant Mathematics Professor at Howard College in Big Spring, Texas. He has a Master of Science degree in Mathematics from the University of Oklahoma. Hall has 53 credit hours of Science courses in various disciplines. He has taught at the High School, Technical School and Community College levels. He also has experience in the actuarial field for a number of insurance and consulting organizations.
Hall has previously published Calculus is Easy: https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Easy-Jay-Hall-ebook/dp/B00B3YWYNI/182-5965211-3145837?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0 and has a paper on MathWorld:
He is also a proud member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.
You may contact Jay Hall at YoungEarthScience@yahoo.com
CHASE BELL
Chase Bell is an American pop songwriter/composer who performs his original cinematically driven pop music in LA with his sister Emma Bell and virtuosic violinist/film composer Darius Campo. Chase has also performed in Europe and Africa with his Rock/Pop band in Italy Chase Bell & White Licorish, as the Lead Singer.
In 2015/2016 Chase released a 3 song cinematically inspired pop EP called “Whatever Love Means.”
Currently Chase and Darius are performing in LA and finishing another cinematically driven EP featuring female pop singers.
Learn More About Chase Bell at:
https://chasebell.bandcamp.com/releases
Chase Bell & White Licorish website:
https://www.facebook.com/Chasebellandwhitelicorish
MARISA RONSTADT
Marisa Ronstadt, from Phoenix Arizona and a performer since the age of seven, has musical tastes that are rooted in mariachi, R&B/soul, and rock, but like many Mexican-American’s raised in the U.S., her influences range from Lola Beltran and Pedro Infante, to The Beatles and Marvin Gaye. Now Marisa calls Los Angeles her home.
In Los Angeles she has developed ties with major local talent such as GRAMMY® award winners Quetzal Flores and Martha Gonzalez of the band Quetzal, Los Lobos, David Gomez and Jeremy Keller of the band Monte Carlo 76, R&B/Soul sensation Aloe Blacc (“Wake Me Up” and “I Need a Dollar”), and the singer-songwriter/rapper Maya Jupiter. In 2009, Marisa recorded and released an album as the lead vocalist for the band Monte Carlo 76 titled Marisela, produced by Quetzal Flores and Martha Gonzalez. After touring with Monte Carlo 76, she began songwriting with band member Jeremy Keller.
ALEX PAINTER
From the banks of the Mississippi to the streets of Los Angeles, songwriter/singer/multi-instrumentalist Alex Painter reflects his multicultural background by creating a collection of storytelling songs bathed in the flavors of soul, funk, dub and electronic sounds.
Alex Painter paid his dues on the road and in the studio with the bands Sinister Dane, Section 8, Vehicle, Famboey, The Peak Show and Onostatic. Following this run he released his solo debut The Joyful Process. Currently he continues to write and perform his own material as well as collaborate with other artists.
ALEX COOK
Since 1997 Alex Cook has created over 110 murals in 15 states and 4 countries (USA, Kenya, Nigeria, Guatemala). Alex’s work focuses on community and spiritual themes expressed through nature imagery and storytelling.
In 2004 Cook founded Art Builds Community, a mural painting program for teenagers in his hometown of Boston, MA. ABC hired teens during summers, teaching them the skills of mural painting and creating many murals in the neighborhoods of Boston and surrounding areas.
Over many years Cook has taught art and creativity to children and adults in many different situations ranging from alternative high schools and court-ordered community reintegration programs, to after school programs and summer camps.
His work in education and the powerful experiences of creating art in public have caused Cook’s artwork to become deeply social. Many of his mural projects include community participation during which community members are invited to make their contribution to a larger artwork within a structure. For Cook, painting is only half of the art – the other half is creating environments in which community members feel the love of connection and creation. Past collaborations have been with community groups, schools, churches, prisons, youth organizations and many more.
Cook is also an inspired musician. Between 2008-2013 he wrote and recorded 5 albums of original Bible-based music and performed over 200 concerts in the US and abroad. Cook has brought his music ministry to churches, community centers, prisons, homeless shelters and street festivals.
Between 2007-2014 Cook served as a chaplain at the Nashua Street Jail in Boston, MA. There he led groups and individuals in Bible study, prayer, and gave pastoral care to detainees.
One of Cook’s current endeavors, the YOU ARE LOVED mural project, makes murals whose image is simply the words “YOU ARE LOVED”. It began as a mural message to students in an elementary school in New Orleans, LA, and has grown into a project working with communities all over the US to influence public conversation about self-worth and value.
Learn More About Our Guest Alex Cook at: www.stonebalancer.com and www.youarelovedmurals.com
Selected from a national pool of artists to lead a guided walk in Washington, D.C. Feb. 6, Mary Clare Rietz — a fine arts student at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture Arts and Planning — will address the issue of D.C. statehood.
The College Art Association (CAA) selected Rietz and one other artist to put together a guided walk that will take place during the College Art Associational Annual Conference.
Rietz plans to showcase the movement for statehood in D.C. by breaking it down at federal, local advocacy and eventually individual impact levels. Areas and local guides along the route will represent these levels of engagement.
Mary Clare Rietz - Who Is She?
My background in community organizing combines with my art practice to fuel a strong interest in engaging with people and materials in what I term aesthetic action. At the core of my work is an aesthetic of relationship. I am most interested in creating opportunities for people to connect who otherwise would not, or I use materials to show connections among people – and dis-connections – that might otherwise go unobserved.
My work begs the question, “How is ‘connection’ defined?” I address this in my art in two ways – first, with my own understanding of “connection,” and second by including in the design of my works ways for participants to define connection for themselves. As I see it, connection among people exists along a spectrum: from simply being together in person, in body, in the same place at the same time; to having a casual conversation; to having a more in-depth, intellectually, emotionally, politically, or spiritually engaging conversation; to approaching and breaching perceived barriers to understanding and sharing experience, even if that means risking conflict; to sharing an experience of being in active, perhaps even seemingly un-resolvable conflict. And in all of these there are scenarios where the connection is short or longer term. My work addresses various points on the continuum.
I work at honing the craft in the people processes that I design and facilitate. This calls for as much aesthetic attention as the object making I do – there is a careful assemblage, sculpting and shaping that is required for artful, effective human engagement. Questions I ask at the start of any work: To what performance of cooperation or interaction am I inviting people? Whom will I invite, and why them? What will most allure participants? What does the work offer to non-participant viewers? Scoring an interaction in the Fluxus tradition is something I have recently added to my practice – simple text that invites and gives guidance but also leaves room for participant improvisation, even fulfillment of the work completely independent of me as the initiating artist.
And I ask: What materials will I use? I do not work in any one specific medium; the envisioned interaction drives decisions about what needs to be made, of what, and how, and often the making is collaborative. My goal for the objects I design and make and the digital media I use is that they support, and conceptualize, the associated social participation. In this way, I hope that they can both be useful, and stand alone as conceptual pieces.
Currently, I am pursuing a Master of Fine Arts Degree at the College of Design, Architecture, Art, & Planning (DAAP), University of Cincinnati. A lifelong Ohioan, I have lived in Cincinnati for twelve years, with my husband Mike and our teenage daughter.
Tara and Steve Mann, are Co-Founders, CEO and President of Cancer Crackdown. Cancer Crackdown is a 501(c)(3) Non-Profit organization, their passion is to help fighters take their battle with cancer to the next level. They are unique in that they fight alongside those battling this disease. They develop plans and help fighters and survivors to be successful in following them to reach their overall health goals. They offer a wide range of resources and encouragement for those fighting, those surviving and those that wish to prevent this disease. We all have a choice in this battle against cancer, to survive or to prevent!!
Their mission is to be the trusted source of knowledge regarding natural therapies to defeat cancer and remain cancer free. We partner with fighters and survivors by supporting and navigating them through their battle. Together, they develop a unique plan that is specific to each individual and instills in them a fearless approach to winning the battle.
Cancer Crackdown started as a small group on Facebook in January 2012 with a few people who wanted to share some information on tips and best practices during chemo. Cancer Crackdown has grown and we are now serving cancer fighters all over the world!!
Cancer fighters that can no longer take chemo or choose not to are in dire need of accurate information and guidance. Due to the vast amount of information available and many untrustworthy sources on the internet, it makes it difficult for us to make decisions about what is viable information and thus dissuades many from knowing what is worth trying. We have and will continue to research topics of interest and ensure credibility of sources. We help put patients in contact with proper practitioners in their area and locate services for them that may benefit their treatment. We are in the process of building on the services we are able to provide to cancer patients that we are so fortunate to partner with during their difficult time.
Frederic Luskin, PhD, is director of the Stanford University Forgiveness Project, Director of wellness education at Stanford University, and professor of clinical psychology at Sofia University. He is author of Stress Free for Good, Forgive for Good, and Forgive for Love.
Luskin is renowned for teaching about the psychological and medical benefits of forgiveness. Research done by Luskin and others has confirmed that forgiveness can reduce anger, depression, and stress while it leads to greater feelings of optimism, hope, compassion, and self-confidence.
As director of the Stanford University Forgiveness Project, Luskin conducts an ongoing series of workshops and research projects that investigate the effectiveness of his forgiveness methods on a variety of populations. The forgiveness project has explored forgiveness therapy with people who suffered from the violence in Northern Ireland and Sierra Leone, as well as from the attacks on the World Trade Center September 11, 2001. In addition, his work has been successfully applied and researched in corporate, medical, legal, and religious settings.
Luskin’s work has been featured in Time; O, The Oprah Magazine; Ladies’ Home Journal; US News & World Report; Parade; Prevention; the New York Times; the Los Angeles Times; the Chicago Tribune; USA Today; and the Wall Street Journal.
Luskin is also a professor at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology.
He offers lectures, workshops, seminars, and training nationwide on forgiveness, stress management, and emotional competence.
