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What is Spiritual Wellness and why does it matter?
Unification of the vast journey of 2017 is calling to you as Mercury throws all of its might into this moment of Resurrected Awareness! The retrograde is actually booster fuel for this culminating month.
Now is the moment to call forward the gift of Spiritual Wellness as you REMEMBER that You are WORTH IT!
Join Sri & Kira as they share the details of this energy and how to integrate your mastery and flourish! Be sure to call in early for your soul reading requests, questions and comments!
Tune in and connect with supportive community as you gather even more tools for your Spiritual Wellness!
The first of December is World AIDS Day and our guest on Sunday is Bill McColl, an 18-year advocate for HIV/AIDS policy, drug treatment and policy and criminal justice reform. He is the Vice President and Director of Health Policy at AIDS United whose mission is to end the AIDS epidemic in the U.S. by strategic grant making, capacity building, policy/advocacy, technical assistance and formative research. His interest in HIV work began while serving as Government Relations Director at NAADAC: The Association for Addiction Professionals in Washington, D.C. where he worked on syringe exchange policy and later became Executive Director. In addition to his tenure at NAADAC and AIDS United, McColl is past director of national affairs at the Drug Policy Alliance. He is also current co-chair of the Ryan White Working Group, a convening group member of the Federal AIDS Policy Partnership. McColl is also a lawyer, currently serving on the American Bar Association HIV/AIDS Coordinating Committee.
Executive Director of The Kansas African American Museum
I'm a New York Times best-selling author with 20 years of journalism experience as a reporter, editor and columnist. I serve as a trustee at The University of Kansas school of journalism and I've been a Professional in Residence at the University of Oklahoma. I'm featured in the beat reporting chapter of the journalism textbook,
''Writing and Reporting News, A Coaching Method." I'm also featured in 'Roots and Branches: Preserving the Legacy of Gordon Parks' a documentary about WSU 's quest to acquire the collected works of the trailblazing photographer, writer,filmmaker and native Kansan.
In 2015, I co-authored ''Africa n Americans of Wichita '' with Arcadia publishing and was voted onto the Association of African American Museums' board of directors as communications committee chair. I am a member the Alpha Nu Boule chapter of Sigma Pi Phi since 2004.
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December Ascension Energy Predictions
December is the culminating month of the Trinity energy that opened with October 2017! We have called forward our breath, empowered our presence and navigated fear, chaos and more!
What is ahead? What will December bring knowing that on December 31 the “arrow” energy that shot forward onto our planet last August will “hit the mark”!
Sri & Kira will share their always spot on monthly Ascension energy forecast and this is a BIG ONE as we collectively prepare for 2018!
Gather your friends, come together with love and tune in with this Must listen show!
Performer and recording artist
BARBARA MORRISON
Originally from Detroit, Barbara Morrison’s twenty-year career as a performer and recording artist includes appearances worldwide with some of the greatest names in jazz:She has performed with artists such as; Ray Charles, Dizzy Gillespie, Buddy Collette, Joe Williams, Gerald Wiggins, Jimmy Witherspoon, Hank Crawford, Eddie Harris, Nancy Wilson, David T. Walker and Jimmy Smith. She has performed in such highly regarded venues as Carnegie Hall, the North Sea Jazz Festival, the Bern Jazz Festival and the Playboy Jazz Festival.
Consummate crossover pianist of his generation
BRYAN PEZZONE
Bryan Pezzone is the consummate crossover pianist of his generation. He has excelled in classical, contemporary, jazz, and experimental genres and is known for both his versatility and virtuosity as a performing artist, improviser and composer. Bryan performs with composers and musicians as diverse as Pierre Boulez, John Williams, and John Adams, and records on countless film and television soundtracks. He is the pianist in the group Free Flight; a crossover classical/jazz quartet.
These concerts feature many of his own compositions. In addition, Bryan has initiated a performing series that he calls “FREEDOM SERIES” which involves improvisations and verbal musings on life.
Bryan has performed with many major symphony orchestra associations, and is known in the Los Angeles area as one of the primary freelance pianists for film and television soundtrack recording, contemporary music premieres, and chamber music accompany. As a soloist, Bryan has performed with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Pasadena Pops, Santa Monica Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute Orchestra, United States International University Orchestra, U.C. Irvine Symphony Orchestra, Eastman Philharmonic and the Pacific Symphony.
Bryan has produced CDs of his own music which blends jazz and classical styles– including “Flying on Water” produced by Steve Wight, featuring M.B. Gordy on drums and Bart Samolis on bass, as well as solo piano CD’s featuring his more introspective music, including Piano Prayers, Visits with Gershwin, Hymns for Holliston, and Music Candles and Mountaintops.
In addition, Bryan has been principal pianist in the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra from its inception in 1991-1999 as well as the former chair and founder of the Multi-focused keyboard department at the California Institute of the Arts from 1987-2000. He abandoned both those positions in order to discover new paths and is passionate about continuously redefining himself and his role as an artist, musician, and person in today’s complex and eclectic culture.
Author
Mark Shaw is a former criminal defense attorney and legal analyst for CNN, ESPN, and USA Today for the Mike Tyson, O.J. Simpson and Kobe Bryant cases, Mark Shaw is an investigative reporter and the author of 20+ books whose latest is "The Reporter Who Knew Too Much: The Mysterious Death of What's My Line TV Star and Media Icon Dorothy Kilgallen." More about the book at www.thereporterwhoknewtoomuch.com with Mark's book signing presentation at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw4y3bWZWnE.
Mr Shaw, a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors and the California Bar, has also written "The Poison Patriarch," "Miscarriage of Justice," and "Beneath the Mask of Holiness." He has also penned articles for The New York Daily News, USA Today, Huffington Post and the Aspen Daily News, which he co-founded. More about Mr. Shaw, who lives in the San Francisco area, may be learned at markshawbooks.com and Wikipedia (Mark William Shaw.)
For more than fifty years, the exhaustive 18-month investigation of the JFK assassination by What's My Line? television star, celebrated journalist, and revered investigative reporter Dorothy Kilgallen has been buried due to a cover-up by those threatened with a tell-all book she was writing about the JFK assassination for Random House. When the famed journalist, called by the New York Post, "the most powerful female voice in America," was found dead in her Manhattan apartment in November 1965 of an alleged drug overdose, no investigation occurred despite a staged death scene and suspicions by those closest to her that she had been murdered.
Now the full thrust of Kilgallen's search for the truth is exposed for the first time. Relying on Kilgallen's toxic columns blasting the "Oswald Alone" theory, her flawed autopsy report and never-before-seen videotaped interviews with Kilgallen's two hairdressers, one who found her body, and Jack Ruby co-counsel Joe Tonahill, who permitted her the only interviews Ruby gave to a reporter at his trial, Mark Shaw’s book presents a true crime “whodunit” murder mystery with multiple suspects abounding including Frank Sinatra, J. Edgar Hoover, Mafia Don Carlos Marcello and a “mystery man” the What’s My Line? star met shortly before she died. While focusing on motive for Dorothy Kilgallen's shocking death, the author presents, through Kilgallen's eyes, the most compelling evidence about the JFK assassination since the House Select Committee on Assassinations investigation in the 1970s.
Most importantly, The Reporter Who Knew Too Much points to one startling verdict: Kilgallen was denied justice following her death. That is, until now.
Musician,Songwriter,Singer
URIAH HEEP LEGENDARY KEYBOARDIST & SONGWRITER
KEN HENSLEY
IS THE SPECIAL GUEST
ON THE RAY SHASHO SHOW
From childhood poet to legendary status is a long, long road and it´s hard to cut this particular story short .... so why try?
Born in London with music in his family and in his blood, Ken formed the dream of being a rock star at the age of 11 when he bribed his parents into buying him a guitar.
Armed with not much more than sheer determination he moved from step to step always looking for a way to advance his powerful ambitions.
This was achieved through bands like The Gods which went through several incarnations before recording 2 albums for EMI Records and until the formation of Uriah Heep in 1970, the group in which all of his dreams came true and which changed his life forever and in many ways.
Ken will tell you that he is a first and foremost a writer/composer/lyricist and his enormous history of world-wide hit records is testimony to this, as is his history of world-wide sales of over 40 million records.
After returning to Europe from the US, Ken began the climb back into rock & roll history and in 2007 released the acclaimed rock opera Blood On The Highway.
Steadily Ken grew back into the consciousness of his huge fan base and, either solo or with Live Fire, the live performances thrilled audiences from Norway to Russia and all points in between.
With his classic autobiography, "When Too Many Dreams Come True" printed in English, Russian and Bulgarian, the man who first made his mark in the 20th century is now clearly capturing the 21st.
With a new CD of rare songs already mixed, 2012 saw the release of another stunning solo CD, "Love & Other Mysteries" and the recording of a double live CD and DVD with Live Fire. It was also the 50th anniversary of his life on the road … "50 Years On The Job" !!!
In 2013, Cherry Red Records released a brilliant new Live Fire CD called "TROUBLE" which embodied all the lyrical and musical power of Ken´s best efforts with Heep, transformed into a 21st century classic album.
Live Fire merged some of these great tracks into their live shows as they stormed every market they visited.
2013 also saw a dramatic increase in the demand for Ken´s solo shows and this momentum rolled right into 2014, with Live Fire making its first appearance in Russia, with two sold-out shows in Moscow and Kaluga.
With tours in Ukraine, Crimea, Latvia and Russia, Ken continued to grow the audience for his solo shows and The Legends continued with two memorable concerts on The November "Rock Cruise".
Before anyone knew it, it was already 2015 and Ken began finishing a bunch of new songs for a CD to be recorded this year.
Teamed with Steve Weltman, his partner, manager and friend, they are planning (some would say "plotting") a lot of interesting projects for this year and next, so stay tuned here to get all the updates.
It has been said before and it´s worth saying again .....
Ken Hensley is a rock & roll legend with no plans to stop.
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Author, Inspirational Speaker, Awakening coach, Addiction Counselor
TJ Woodward knows people and knows how to get results. As a spiritual author and inspirational speaker he enlightens and entertains audiences around the world. Utilizing his captivating and authentic style, TJ assists people in changing the way they exist through his simple, yet powerful teachings.
As an awakening coach and addiction counselor, TJ works with individuals, couples, and in group settings, equipping people with the internal resources to lead their lives intuitively, strategically, and intentionally. With over 25 years’ experience in the fields of human potential, new-thought ministry and addiction treatment, he assists his clients in achieving brilliant results.
TJ published his first book, Conscious BEING: Awakening to Your True Nature in 2015. He is currently authoring his second book, that is expected to have worldwide release in 2017.
In 2013, TJ began working as the spiritual counselor and group facilitator at Foundations San Francisco Intensive Outpatient Program in San Francisco. He currently also serves as the spiritual care counselor and group facilitator at both Reflections and North Bay treatment programs in Marin County.
Also in 2013, he launched the Awakened Living TV and Awakened Living Radio shows.
In 2012, he received his Interfaith ministry ordination and founded the Awakened Living spiritual community in San Francisco where he serves as spiritual director. Awakened Living is a 21st century movement for people who consider themselves spiritual, but not religious, and have a deep hunger for personal and global transformation.
In 2009, the results of his work earned him a prestigious position at a top-tier, high-end addiction treatment center, where he served as a counselor and Spiritual Director until 2011. From the get-go, he got rave reviews. Clients who reluctantly came to treatment for short-term programs where excited about working on themselves and wanted more of TJ's unique approach in assisting them to live inspired lives and make a positive difference in the world.
From 2008-2011 TJ served as Ministerial Associate of Unity San Francisco, delivering inspirational messages at Sunday services, creating and presenting relevant seminars and assisting in maintaining the spiritual integrity of the community.
In 2010, TJ graduated from the Spiritual Development Program and in 2011, graduated from the Leadership Development Program, both at Unity Institute.
Entrepreneur, Technical Advisor, Finance Degree, Mergers and Acquisitions Expert
Mike Harris has over thirty years experience in manufacturing, finance and technology development. A participant in domestic and international start-ups, acquisitions and mergers, Mr. Harris founded Harris Technical Sales Inc. that became Motorola’s vendor of choice, placing over $1.2 billion of capital equipment worldwide. As Chairman of the Board of Eclipse Technology, improvements in logistics decreased Motorola downtime by 60% and decreased mean time between failures by 90%. As Chairman and CEO of TFG Acquisition Corporation, he drove an additional $300 million of value to Motorola shareholders. Mr. Harris then became the Arizona Managing Director of AMT Capital Partners LLC.
In 2006 Mr. Harris accepted a position with Support Resources International (SRI). Within 14 months, as President/COO, SRI’s annual revenue grew from $10.4 million to $27 million, transforming a $3 million loss to a $4.5 million profit. After four years of applied physics at the University of Arizona and two years of economics at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Mr. Harris received an MBA in Finance from Pepperdine University, Malibu, California. From 1995 to 2000, Mr. Harris served as a technical advisor to the Committee on Science and Technology of the U.S. Congress.
Musician and brand ambassador of 7percenter
STEVIE DUB
Stevie Dub is from Lancaster Wisconsin & for the past few years he’s lived in Los Angeles where he’s hosted numerous shows & events with his manager & CEO of 7percenter, Steve ‘Boss’ Haas.
Stevie Dub is brand ambassador of 7percenter, a movement which stands for the 7% of people in the world who have a goal & a dream who chase after their goals & inspire others along the way. Together Stevie & 7percenter have donated to numerous schools and companies through their partnered, “PathFinder” nonprofit organization.
This year Stevie Dub plans on releasing a mixtape followed by a full length concept album.
Director, producer, writer, and ac ve member of the Director’s Guild of America
GREG REITMAN
Greg Reitman is an director, producer, writer, and ac ve member of the Director’s Guild of America. Described by Movie Maker Magazine as “one of the top ten filmmakers producing content that impacts our world,” he is the founder of Blue Water Entertainment, Inc., an independent production company.
Greg produced the Sundance Audience Award-winning feature documentary Fuel (“A vital, superbly assembled documentary.” — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times). Fuel played at dozens of film festivals, won numerous awards, was released theatrically and aired on CNBC. It currently streams on Hulu.
Prior to producing Fuel, Greg wrote, produced, and directed the feature documentary Hollywood’s Magical Isle – Catalina (“A charming and nostalgic slice of Americana that beautifully recreates a sense of place.” — Andrea Harrison, American Public Radio). The award-winning documentary was shown at over a dozen film festivals before being shown nationally on PBS.
His latest film is the feature documentary Rooted in Peace (“Reitman’s authenticity is what makes the film worth seeing!” — Herbert Paine, Broadway World). The film, which features interviews with many renowned personalities including David Lynch, Ted Turner, Deepak Chopra and Neil Young, has been screened at numerous film festivals including the Hollywood
Film Festival, Montreal, and Sedona. A theatrical release is currently planned for Fall 2016.
Currently, Blue Water Entertainment has a slate of motion pictures in development including, Shaolin Kid, Zentropy, and The Ventures as well as Stars, Cars & Guitars, a pop culture, satire TV program.
Greg is also an occasional contributor to The Huffington Post and the online talk show, “On The Green Carpet.”
Prior to Blue Water Entertainment, Greg worked in technology as the Global Business Director, Media & Entertainment division for Fortune 500 company LSI Logic, Inc. At LSI, he was responsible for the creation and implementation of the entertainment strategic business plan.
Greg has a BA in History & Film from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a MFA in Film from UCLA in Los Angeles.
