It all started with a quest for the freshest food.

I’m the co-founder of the GrowOya. I’m a certified chef with limited time to spare, but a passion for the farm-to-table movement. Learning about food systems while on the Sustainability Council at the University of British Columbia, led me to want to find the most efficient, sustainable way to grow my own food, while living in a state of "time poverty" (too many things to do and not enough time to do them) that so many of us seem to be experiencing. From this, Growoya was born!

I believe that growing a garden is the greatest act we can do for healthy communities, healthy bodies, and a greener, more sustainable planet.

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Meet Vivacious Vicki, a gardening guru with a green thumb and a knack for making
landscapes practical, sustainable and beautiful. Born in Idaho, Vicki started gardening at
age 10 and has been digging in the dirt ever since. She’s a certified expert with a Master
Gardener certification, a Bach Flower Remedy certificate, and a permaculture
certificate—She approaches all of these interests and talents with passion and respect for
the forces and patience of nature. At the age of 68 it has become very important to add wit
and whimsy to her projects because in her experience the universe often has other plans for
how things turn out and it is usually better than planned.

For 20 years, Vicki owned a garden landscape business, turning ordinary yards into
extraordinary oases. Now, she’s thriving in Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) and
consulting, and all aspects of food harvest and preservation, helping folks grow their own
veggies and create backyard paradises so stunning, even the squirrels stop to stare.
With her infectious enthusiasm and wealth of knowledge, Vicki will have you smiling all the
way to the compost pile.

Dont forget to check out Vivacious Vic's new podcast with co-host Idaho Bo!

Down and Dirty with Idaho Bo and Vivacious Vic
Join Idaho Bo and Vivacious Vic every other Sunday at 2 p.m. PT for a deep dive into
the art of organic gardening, sustainable living, and the magic of plants. From
homesteading and foraging to food preservation, plant alchemy, and crafting medicinal
and beauty products, this show’s got it all. Tune in for recipes, fermentation tips, and the
secrets of herbs and spices—plus explorations into electro-culture, biodynamic planting,
and Anastasia’s Kins Domains from the Ringing Cedars series. With decades of
gardening experience across California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Mexico, and
Wales, Bo and Vic bring practical wisdom and a passion for eco-conscious living.
Expect lively chats with guest experts and answers to the big question: Got land? Now
what? Perfect for gardeners, homesteaders, kitchen enthusiasts, and anyone eager to
live closer to the earth. Perfect for homesteaders, foodies, and eco-enthusiasts. This duo
brings practical know-how with a dash of wild charm straight from the soil to you soul.

Bryce’s mediumship has been present in her life for as long as she can remember, always guided by her deep intuition, and a strong connection to her loved ones in spirit.

As a lifelong student and learner, she has a bachelor’s degree, and a master’s degree, along with certifications as a schoolteacher and yoga instructor. While exploring the tangible aspects of life, Bryce’s curiosity about life after death led her to study with renowned mediums, thus expanding her understanding of connecting with the other side. Over time, she felt a powerful calling to share her gifts and make them available to others.

Known for her compassionate approach, Bryce offers messages filled with hope, healing, and clarity. She helps individuals connect with their loved ones in spirit, providing comfort and peace. Bryce’s work serves as a source of inspiration, reminding each client that love transcends time and space, and our connections with those we’ve lost are eternal.

Co- Host of ‘Fit After 40’ podcast with Chris & Tony.

en·tre·pre·neur, Chief Innovation Officer at Cars.com, Host of the Not Almost There Podcast and co-founder of GO Brewing, first Non-alcoholic production w/ taproom in Illinois

Keyra Conlinn: Educator, Facilitator, and Mentor – based in Vancouver BC.

"Meltdowns to Magical Moments: Parenting after Toxic Breakups." 

She is the Founder of Be the Light.  Be the Light offers family harmony facilitation to support parents of young children to bring more compassion, more curiosity, and more cooperation into their daily lives and to empower both parent and child to actively engage in helpful healing practices after challenging and sometimes traumatic experiences. Our goal is to inspire hope and be a bridge for deeper connection through new ways of communication and care.

She believes that when children are finding their way through the sometimes dark or turbulent waters of life, we as parents must shine brighter for them and lead with love and awareness!
 

PDF guide: "The top 10 mistakes parents make with their children while recovering from trauma."

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Keyra hails from Atlantic Canada, but has lived across Canada and the globe, a true citizen of the world despite her small town roots. 
 

Being both a student and a teacher of language and culture, she has seen what brings families together and what tears them apart, what aspects of child development are universal and which are based on societal expectations, and what challenges people everywhere face in feeling worthy of love and remaining true to themselves. These observations, in addition to her own lived experiences, are what fuel and inform her passion and mission. 

Today, she is a Heart-Led Guide for Healing Generations — part mentor, part nurturer, and part visionary. Her soul work lives at the crossroads of emotional healing, conscious parenting, and inner child restoration. She weaves compassion with structure, offering parents and families not just strategies, but sanctuary. 

Keyra facilitates harmony, models presence, and invites transformation. From trauma-informed care to parenting as leadership, she sees family not just as a unit, but as a living, evolving ecosystem where love can become legacy.

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Demian Lichtenstein began his career in the Entertainment Industry in the early seventies as a child actor in New York City. performing at the distinguished 18th Street Playhouse, Circle in the Square and Joseph Papp’s Public Theatre all by the age of 10. Having studied photography and film throughout his childhood, by the age of 12 Lichtenstein’s first photograph was published on the front page of a major newspaper. After he was hired as a production assistant on John Irvin’s 80’s horror classic Ghost Story,  Lichtenstein was hooked on movies, which combined his love of dramatic performances and photography.

He is currently in editorial; on his latest feature film THE RAZORS EDGE starring Tommy Lee Jones, James Franco and Charlotte McKinney which he co-wrote, produced and directed. As well as in active development on his next feature film THE RANGER: REDEMTION.

Lichtenstein graduated in 1984 from New York City’s prestigious High School of Art & Design. Where he was designated a National Honor student, a Regent Scholar, and was the recipient of the New York City Media Award for excellence and achievement in cinema and voted the number one High School Film and Television student in NYC.

Lichtenstein accepted the Helena Rubenstein Scholarship to attend New York University, Tisch School of The Arts. In his sophomore year, he was chosen by the University Chairman, Charles Milne, to be his Teaching Assistant and was able to enter the senior level film production program three years early. While still in school, Lichtenstein won the MTV Award for Best Independent Music Video and received the “Best Action Adventure Director” Award at the NYU film festival.

In 1988, Lichtenstein earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film, with a minor in Business from NYU. Upon graduating, he was immediately hired as Manager of Creative Affairs for Columbia Pictures, under the direction of Dawn Steele. Simultaneously while jumpstarting his career in the development side of motion pictures, Lichtenstein launched his own Independent Film Production company, Lightstone, and quickly became one of the top music video directors in the business. Throughout the late eighties and nineties, the golden era of music television, Lichtenstein produced and directed videos for Warner Brothers, Sony Music, Columbia Records, Epic Records, Tommy Boy Records, Universal/MCA, and many more. To his credit, Lichtenstein produced and directed over 250 music videos for Grammy Award winning artists including Sting and Eric Clapton, as well as having achieved videos ranked #1 in the world in the Pop, Rock, Rap, and Reggae genres.

During his rise to the top of the music video industry he partnered with Rebel Films, Pseudo Online Entertainment, and Film Inc. in NYC to produce a series of film and television projects. The Chairman of Sony Music, hired Lichtenstein and Lightstone Entertainment as the in-house production company for Sony Music Studios in New York City. It was here that Lichtenstein forged his business partnership with Ric Wake, Head of A&R for Sony Music Worldwide. Wake, a world-renowned Grammy and Academy Award winning music producer for artists such as Celine Dion and Mariah Carey, expanded his career into film/TV as the lead producer of the soundtrack for the Academy Award winning motion picture Chicago.

In 1997, Lichtenstein made his feature directorial debut with the film Lowball, which he also wrote and produced for the Showtime Network. Lowball received numerous awards on the independent film circuit. His entrepreneurial spirit led him into the world of film financing. Lichtenstein served as Executive Producer and Founding Partner for Film Bond International which he later sold to Frontier Insurance Group (his first exit). He next secured funding for the critically acclaimed motion picture O, produced by his then business partner Anthony Rhulen and distributed by Miramax/Lionsgate, starring Martin Sheen, Josh Hartnett and Julia Stiles.

After serving as Chairman of the New York Independent Film Coalition, Lichtenstein arrived in Hollywood where within six months, he raised $75 million dollars for his debut major studio motion picture 3000 Miles To Graceland, which he wrote, produced and directed for Warner Brothers. The film’s cast includes Kevin Costner, Kurt Russell, Christian Slater, Courtney Cox, Ice T, Kevin Pollak and Thomas Haden Church. Lichtenstein also produced the soundtrack, featuring songs by Elvis Presley, Filter and The Crystal Method. 3000 Miles To Graceland has gone on to become an international cult hit. Lichtenstein has also written scripts for RKO pictures, Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, Electric Entertainment, Crusader Entertainment, Constantine Films, and Warner Brothers.

Having worked as a producer, director, and writer, with hands-on experience developing projects for all of the major film and television studios, Lichtenstein and Wake decided to form Equilibrium Entertainment, a state-of-the-art independent motion picture and post production company created to take advantage of the technological breakthroughs in the entertainment industry where Lichtenstein served as CEO.

During this time Lichtenstein partnered with Bertelsmann Group US and Random House where he co-authored the international best-selling book then produced and directed the Documentary for Discover The Gift, an inspirational, transformational narrative that follows Demian’s personal journey for spiritual understanding and growth, featuring the Dalai Lama, Jack Canfield (author of “Chicken Soup for the Soul”), Marianne Williamson and Reverend Michael Bernard Beckwith.

Lichtenstein’s creative credits include producing and directing the independent feature Venus & Vegas, an action comedy starring Donald Faison, Eddie Kaye Thomas and Eddie Guerra. He also produced The Unseen and was Producer/Director of Photography for Love And Suicide, an inspirational character study shot entirely on location in Havana Cuba. In addition to his work behind the camera, Lichtenstein has also been mentored by James Cameron on Avatar 1.

Lichtenstein is also a writer, producer, and director in the Video Game industry, with #1 hits such as the successful PAYDAY video game franchise / Net TV series.

As the managing director and CEO of Payday Productions, LLC (video game company) and Phantom Games, LLC, Lichtenstein also oversaw the M&A roll-up of five companies under the Swedish public company Starbreeze Studios, and its United States counterpart Starbreeze LA.  

After completing the sale of his companies and several major IP’s to Starbreeze Studios, Lichtenstein accepted the position of US Studio Head and oversaw all US Video Gaming, Film, Television, VR and Major Event initiatives. After completing production on The Walking Dead VR Video Game and the John Wick VR Game, Lichtenstein resigned from Starbreeze in order to co-found First Contact Entertainment, a premiere VR Gaming company based in Santa Monica, CA. Once that company was established, Lichtenstein set his sights on the future of entertainment. Since his formative time on the Avatar Movie set and with coaching from James Cameron Lichtenstein began to develop a major Intellectual Property known today as SPACEGEN. The SPACEGEN mobile game is in active development.

During the pandemic Lichtenstein help create and launch Salesumentary, a Digital Marketing and Documentary Film company where he produced and directed over 70 marketing and sales videos for clients such as Tony Robbins, Mike Tyson and Mathew McConaughey. Lichtenstein continues to serve as the CEO of his production company Lightstone Entertainment, Inc. which has built relationships across the global entertainment business for over 30 years.

Lichtenstein is a member of the Director’s Guild of America (DGA) where he was a Co-Founder of The Directors Guild Leadership Council, working alongside Steven Spielberg , James Cameron and other A list creators to protect the rights of filmmakers worldwide by having a direct influence on domestic and global politics in the entertainment world.  He is also a member of The Writer’s Guild of America (WGA, The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Lichtenstein is the Founding Board member of New Filmmakers Los Angeles (a 501c3 Non-Profit). He is a sought-after speaker worldwide on Leadership and the Future of Entertainment. He was born and raised in NYC, and lives in Los Angeles with his wife and their two young boys.

In our increasingly artificial world, Toby Lightman’s pure and soulful voice cuts through the noise and connects with people emotionally. Classically trained on the violin and self-taught on the guitar, Lightman was unaware of her vocal talent until her high school graduation, when she performed her first solo. The crowd’s overwhelming reaction propelled her to buy her first guitar; which led to landing a major record deal with Lava Records after college.

Toby Lightman’s debut album Little Things appeared on the “Billboard Top 100” in its first week and gave way to comparisons to Lauryn Hill, Sheryl Crow and Norah Jones. Lightman received high praise from Rolling Stone, People, Billboard and others, which led to appearances on Letterman, Carson Daly, Conan, CBS Morning Show as well as extensive touring with artists such as Rob Thomas, Jewel, Gavin DeGraw, Train, Marc Cohn, and a special evening opening for Prince, an artist Lightman grew up idolizing. As an independent artist, Lightman has gone on to have over 100 song placements in films, tv shows and ads, and has also composed integral songs for the iconic Sesame Street and other shows on PBS.

Following in her idol, Prince’s, footsteps, Lightman self-produced her latest album AFTER ALL which she released in 2022. “Over the years, I have worked with only male producers because I knew of no women that were producing. I didn’t want to share songs about my journey through pregnancy, loss, and motherhood, so I decided to teach myself how to produce,” says Lightman, As one of the few female’s to enter into the world of production, Lightman is dedicated to encourage other women to do the same. Through organizations like She is the Music, Women in Music and Balance the Mix, Toby Lightman is championing women to take control of their creations as she did. “It’s extremely empowering to write a song from the depths of my soul, with feelings that

are genuinely mine, as a woman, and then bring that song to life without the help of a male producer who most likely won’t connect at all”, says Lightman. “The studio should be a safe place for women. However, we make up only 5% of all producers throughout the music business, so it’s our job to empower women who want to take control of their own creative destinies!”
Lightman is currently producing her next album slated for release in the spring of 2025 and her latest single “Higher” was recently recorded by American Idol finalist Breanna Nix, whose version reached #1 on iTunes Country Chart, iTunes Top Songs Chart and Billboard Christian Digital Songs Sales.