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Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy Lee Donahue
Featuring Interview Guest, Broadway Actor, Performer, Spiritual Guide, Author, Speaker, and Founder of True Kings Academy, Seth Stewart;
Featuring Performance Guest, Broadway Veteran, Performer, and Entertainer, Raymond Patterson,
All this on The Life Changes Show, Episode 863 Interview Guest: SETH STEWART; and Performance Guest: RAYMOND PATTERSON
Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy Lee Donahue
Featuring Interview Guest, Co-Producer, BRAINWASHED, Founder & President of StoryAction, LLC, and Founder and Former Director of Global Media Center for Social Impact, Sandra de Castro Buffington;
Featuring Performance Guest, Multi-Instrumentalist, XR Immersive Experience Designer / Producer, Music and Sound Director, Composer, and DJ, Celeste Lear,
All this on The Life Changes Show, Episode 862 Interview Guest: SANDRA DE CASTRO BUFFINGTON; and Performance Guest: CELESTE LEAR
Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy Lee Donahue
Featuring Interview Guest, Mental Health Therapist, Substance Use Disorder Clinical Supervisor, and Executive Director of Baptist Service Corporation, Dr. Mary Ann Ross;
Featuring Performance Guest, Virtuoso, Songwriter, Singer, Producer, and One of the Leading Ukulele Players in the World, Taimane
All this on The Life Changes Show, Episode 861 Interview Guest: DR. MARY ANN ROSS; and Performance Guest: TAIMANE
Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy Lee Donahue
Featuring Interview Guest, Global Peace Ambassador, Author, Performing Artist, Activist, Founder of the Show Me Arts Academy, and the UnGUN Institute, Dr. Marty K. Casey;
Featuring Performance Guest, R&B / Pop Singer / Songwriter, BIG MO, aka Morgan Taylor
All this on The Life Changes Show, Episode 860,
Interview Guest: DR. MARTY K. CASEY; and Performance Guest: BIG MO, aka MORGAN TAYLOR
In part 1 of this 2 parter, Dr. Frances Rahaim — The Money Doctor — welcomes back Dr. Kucherov from Illume Fertility to talk about the emotional, medical, and financial sides of family building. Together they explore treatment timelines, realistic expectations, and how proactive financial planning can make parenthood dreams feel achievable instead of overwhelming.
General Practice & Sports Medicine Specialist
I have been in Family and Sports Medicine for 20 years serving patients and athletes of all ages. I have taken care of athletes ranging from High School, College, Semi-Pro and U.S. Olympic levels (soccer and Rugby). I have a special interest in concussion management and non-operative joint pain care as well as all sports related injuries and illnesses.I am currently in practice in Geneva where I have been for the last 2 years.
Broadway Veteran, Performer, Entertainer
Raymond Patterson’s work has been evidenced in most areas of the entertainment and performance mediums. A Broadway veteran, Raymond has received accolades performing in leading roles in several long running productions. A very successful production included the two and a half year stint in the Broadway National Touring Company where he starred as “PONTIUS PILATE” and as “JESUS” opposite Carl Anderson.
The phenomenon MISS SAIGON was a vehicle where for nearly five years in his career, he performed onstage, first in the Broadway National Touring Company where he starred as “JOHN ,” and then later joining the Broadway company, having had the opportunity of sharing the stage with original cast TONY AWARD winners, Jonathan Pryce, and Lea Solanga in the final months prior to the landmark musical’s closing there in New York City. Raymond later reprised the “John” role in the majestic St. Louis MUNY production.
Raymond’s other Broadway credits include HAIR ( ’77 revival), where he sang the anthem “Aquarius,” COMIN’ UPTOWN, ROCK ‘N’ROLL; THE FIRST 5,000 YEARS, THE THREE MUSKETEERS, SENATOR JOE and the National Tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s STARLIGHT EXPRESS. His numerous stage credits include the world premiere of Rodger and Hammerstein’s STATE FAIR, Dr. Arthur Janov and music impresario, David Foster’s SCREAM, The Mark Taper Forum’s THE FIRST PICTURE SHOW, Shakespeare’s THE TEMPEST, FAUST, ARTURO UI, a world tour of THE ARCHITECT & THE EMPEROR OF ASSYRIA, JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, DANCIN’ IN THE STREET, KING (as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.), I THINK I KILLED MY WIFE, ELEGIES, DE OBEAH MON, Alan Menken’s BATTLE OF THE GIANTS, and the CTG workshop production of Berry Gordy’s AIN’T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH, directed by Kenny Leon.
Performing live onstage is a distinct joy and he has performed several daily shows for thousands in Disney’s California Adventure, ALADDIN, The Musical Spectacular, in the Hyperion Theatre, for six and a half years, countless times as the villain, “JAFAR.”
Raymond’s feature film credits include the smash hit, CHARLIE’S ANGELS (acting opposite Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu, Bill Murray and Ned Bellamy), starring in THE FIRST TIME (aka DOIN’ IT), MR. WRITE, UNDERCOVER, MY DEMON LOVER, SCORPION, CAMERON’S CLOSET, the featured role of “Mr. Nordy,” teacher of Jenna Ortega of “Wednesday” fame, in Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020) with director, McG, NetFlix release, and the short film SINK.
He made his prime-time television debut in HILL STREET BLUES and has since appeared in OUR HOUSE, EASY STREET, HARD COPY, ROOMIES, THE LAW & HARRY MCGRAW, SUPERIOR COURT, THE TRACEY ULLMAN SHOW, BEVERLY HILLS 90210, BEVERLY HILLS BUNTZ, WHAT’S HAPPENING NOW!, FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER (pilot), DRAGNET-THE 90’S, NIGHTINGALES, ON THE TELEVISION (Nickelodeon), SISTERS, V.I.P., movie’s of the week, SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER, BASED ON AN UNTRUE STORY, as a principal soloist in the live television broadcast of LEONARD BERNSTEIN’S MASS AT THE KENNEDY CENTER on PBS, DHARMA & GREG, THE GUARDIAN, THE TRACY MORGAN SHOW, and the comedy hit EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND. He also appeared in a number of soap operas, including, THE YOUNG & THE RESTLESS (recurring role), THE GUIDING LIGHT, DAYS OF OUR LIVES, CAPITOL and TEXAS.
Raymond’s work on stage and in TV and Film show a range of versatility, equally adept in comedy as well as drama. In between stage engagements, television and film appearances, he keeps busy with concerts (including several appearances onstage at Carnegie Hall with the most recent being the historic (’14) Black Stars of the Great White Way tribute concert), club acts, numerous television and radio commercials, commercial print modeling, freelance writing, guest lecturing, yoga, song writing and recording engagements, where with his love of music, he utilizes his wide range of three octaves in a variety of styles. Raymond has had the great fortune of working with such distinguished talents such as Stevie Wonder, David Foster, Kenny Loggins, Luther Vandross,Carl Anderson and Marc Shaiman.
One of his proud accomplishments was singing the national anthem at Dodger Stadium (’01) for a winning game against the SF Giants. His song “Lonely Tears (Love Is Here)” resulted in the title selection of Rosylyn Burrough’s 1985 Sunnyside Records debut album and also “Lonely Tears,” and “Bittersweet” on the 1993 Traumton Records release entitled THEO & KIRK. Raymond has sang on several albums released by Columbia Records, New York City Records, and Rock-It Science Records. His CD’s include, “NEW BEGINNINGS” (’00), and “JOURNEY”(’04) jazzy “Time & Again” (’06), the exciting “Ray Ray” (’08) and accompanying Bonus CD. A partner with CurbsideVision he is constantly songwriting, recording and co-producing music and pursuing opportunities in the evolving realm of the entertainment industry.
It can truly be said that RAYMOND PATTERSON is the personification of the multi-talented performer entertainer.
Broadway Actor, Performer, Spiritual Guide, Author, Speaker, Founder of True Kings Academy
From the stages of Broadway to the depths of the jungle, Seth Stewart is a bridge between worlds.
As a performer and creator in the entertainment industry, Seth has played the world’s largest stages, performing major roles in some of Broadway’s greatest hits- including the original, Tony Award-winning productions of “In the Heights” and “Hamilton”- and before tens of thousands of fans alongside artists like Madonna, Jay-Z, Jennifer Lopez, Mariah Carey, and Ne-Yo.
Driven by more than artistic expression, Seth followed a deep spiritual calling that led him from the spotlight to the silence of the forest. For over a decade he studied with shamans, participated in sweat lodges, vision quests, plant medicine ceremonies, and leadership retreats. Devoted to his calling, he retreated into nature and introspection, building an off-grid cabin in the forest where he spent three years immersing himself in and reconnecting with the ancient wisdom of nature.
Emerging with a renewed purpose, Seth has since been guiding others toward personal healing, clarity, and unity in a world undergoing profound transformation. Today, he is the driving force behind True Kings Academy, a transformative program for men seeking spiritual embodiment, soulful leadership, and deeper connection. He also mentors emerging artists through Performer’s Edge, blending performance discipline with wellness and an entrepreneurial mindset to cultivate holistic excellence.
Seth’s memoir, Follow Your Vision. Live Your Truth, which chronicles his journey from Broadway to spiritual guide.
Certified Psychic Medium, Award-Winning Author
Connie is a highly evidential and respected certified Psychic Medium with a gift for bridging the gap between the physical and spiritual realms. For over two decades, she has been helping people connect with their loved ones on the Other Side. She’s had a fascinating journey, with conscious memories of spirit communication beginning at the age of four. Connie has first-hand knowledge of the Afterlife through three near-death experiences that intensified her connection to the Other Side and led to her soul’s true destiny of becoming a Psychic Medium.
Connie is certified by the Forever Family Foundation (FFF), a non-profit organization that is featured on the Netflix series “Surviving Death,” and Helping Parents Heal (HPH), an organization that supports parents who have lost children. She is the award-winning author of YOU ARE SOUL BEAUTIFUL A Unique Perspective into the Soul’s Quest for Its Destiny, the Recipient of the 2024 Speak Up Radio Firebird Award and 2024 Global Book Award. Connie has made guest Medium appearances on Signs of Life Radio.
Connie's work is all about providing meaningful messages from loved ones who have passed, and she is known for her exceptional accuracy and compassionate demeanor. Her readings are truly life-changing, and she’s helped countless people around the world find healing and solace by connecting them with their loved ones in Spirit proving the bonds of love are eternal and unbreakable. Whether it’s through private readings, group mediumship or public speaking events, or in person/online workshops, Connie’s gift is all about spreading love, light and hope and helping people navigate the complexities of the spiritual realm. She looks forward to sharing her gift and a Meaningful Message with you.
Independent Business Associate with WCP Solar Renewable Energy & Social Media Specialist.
Sports Performance Consultant and Mental Trainer, Author
Robert B Andrews - The Institute of Sports Performance
Robert Andrews works with Olympic, professional, college, high school and junior high school athletes, and attended the Beijing and London Olympics where he worked with USA and international athletes. He works with minor and major league baseball players and MLB All Stars. Robert helps athletes achieve peak levels of performance by integrating sports performance tools to increase mental and emotional toughness.
His area of specialization is helping injured athletes overcome the mental and emotional impact of sports related injuries and teaches the mental keys to peak performance in baseball.
He has worked with Olympic Gold, Silver, and Bronze Medalist, Olympic teams, athletes, and hopefuls; helped USA athletes win 13 medals, including 7 Gold Medals at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Also work with World Champions, NFL All Pros and MLB All Stars, NBA players, NBA All Stars, Heisman Trophy winners, Ray Guy Award finalist, NCAA All Americans & Champions, State Champions, All State athletes, college, high school and junior high athletes. Attended London Olympic Games. Worked with USA and International athletes in gymnastics, trampoline, and track and field. Worked with U. S. A. Men's Gymnastics at 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Key note speaker at 2017 Navy Seal Foundation Impact Summit.
Robert implemented a cutting edge model for treating the mental and emotional impact of sports related injuries. This process accelerates the recovery process dramatically. Athletes return to play confident and free of the fear of re-injury. Especially effective with ACL injuries, Tommy John recovery, broken ankles, and concussions. Seeing athletes before surgery is critically helpful.
He was the Lead sports performance consultant for U.S.A. Men's national and world gymnastics team and national, world, and Olympic team coaches as they prepared for the 2012 London Olympics. Also worked with USA Trampoline in preparation for the London Olympics. Worked with top track and field sprinters and other top track and field athletes. Their times have improved dramatically by implementing mental skills training into workout and competition regiments.
Helps college football players prepare for the NFL Combine. Evaluates talent for the NBA Combine and Draft.
Specialties: - Helping athletes reach their peak potential and reach new levels of performance
- Assist injured athletes in over-coming the mental and emotional blocks that limit their confident return to play after injury-Help organizations create a positive winning culture.
Author of 'Champion's Mental Edge: Turning Winners into Champions' on Amazon.
Multi-Instrumentalist, XR Immersive Experience Designer, Producer, Music-Sound Director, Composer, DJ
Multi-instrumentalist DJ Celeste Lear’s unshakable love for music, tech and performance has led her to spend over two decades of disciplined study and practice in the art and science of music production, sound engineering and DJing in her continuing quest to be able to take her listeners on an irresistibly exciting & inspirational, next level sonic journey.
With a knack for creating track after track of sophisticated, yet eclectic music, and with a diverse repertoire of 80+ releases, Celeste is a tenacious and visionary artist with an unquenchable thirst to both produce, engineer and DJ inspiring new music – and the twist – she is completely deaf in her right ear from a car accident.
Since age 16, has defied the odds, broken the rules, persisted through struggles unique to the hearing impaired and learned to DJ, write & engineer music on her own terms… in a stereo world, she has adapted and learned to “hear” music and sound with her other senses.
Celeste is proud to represent today’s modern female in the entertainment, music and tech industries including the XR (Extended Reality) world where she has spent the last 6 years designing & producing cutting edge, futuristic concert performances in Unity 3D environments as an avatar in Virtual Reality and has become a strong voice as a community leader and creator in the “music in the metaverse” immersive technology space.
Her music has been featured on So You Think You Can Dance, has had hundreds of placements in film and television since 2008 and has been likened to Zero 7, Bonobo, Imogen Heap, DJ Shadow and CloZee.
Co-Producer of BRAINWASHED, Founder & President of StoryAction, LLC, Founder and Former Director of Global Media Center for Social Impact
Sandra de Castro Buffington is a global leader, executive and producer in social impact entertainment and conscious media. Sandra’s groundbreaking work with Hollywood and international creative capitals has ignited new narratives of transformation and innovation worldwide. She has worked in 50 countries over 20+ years on behalf of women, girls and families.
Sandra is Co-Producer of an important an award-winning film entitled, BRAINWASHED:Sex~Camera~Power, directed by Nina Menkes with an all-female producing team, which had its 2022 premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, the “Berlinale” Berlin Film Festival, and CPH-DOX in Copenhagen. Using key scenes from A-list films and cult classics, the film reveals how shot design – framing, lighting, camera movement, angles – contributes to the twin epidemics of sexual abuse/assault and employment discrimination against women.
As Founder and President of StoryAction, LLC; Founder and former Director of UCLA’s Global Media Center for Social Impact; and former Director of USC’s Hollywood, Health and Society, Sandra has worked with film, television and emerging media professionals to accurately and consciously reflect the most important topics of our time from rape culture to human trafficking, immigration to mass incarceration, health to sustainability, nonviolence to mindfulness.
Working extensively with Hollywood, and creative communities in India, Egypt, and Brazil among others, has given Sandra a global perspective on the profound impact storytelling has on consciousness and behavior, and the limitless possibilities for the role media can play in transforming culture worldwide. She leads research to measure the impact of prosocial storylines on viewers’ knowledge, attitudes and behavior, and has published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, such as Health Communication, Global Public Health, and American Journal of Media Psychology.
During Sandra’s tenure at UCLA’s Global Media Center for Social Impact, she launched her signature Story Tour series to take writers and producers into communities to learn from real people on the ground about solutions to rape culture, human trafficking, mass incarceration and more. In partnership with the Writers Guild of America West, she created a 10-year series of panels to inspire stories about racial justice, immigration, sexual consent, trans youth, and more. Sandra’s groundbreaking work led to social impact storylines including a Grey’s Anatomy (ABC) episode on rape that resulted in a 43% increase in calls to the National Sexual Assault Hotline (RAINN). For her work, she was awarded the GWEN Luminary Social Impact Award in 2025, World Film Institute’s American Riviera Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2014, The Female Eye Film Festival’s Honorary Maverick Award in 2015, and a Presidential Citation from the Society for Public Health Education in 2016.
As the former Director of USC’s Hollywood, Health & Society, Sandra provided resources to Hollywood with the goal of improving the accuracy of health-related storylines on top television programs and films, resulting in 565 storylines that aired on 91 television shows across 35 networks from 2009-2012. Her work inspired a 90210 (CW) multi-episode story arc on breast cancer and the BRCA gene, resulting in 11.9% of viewers reporting they had scheduled screening appointments with their doctors.For her work, Sandra was named by PODER Hispanic Magazine as one of “The Nation’s 100 Most Influential Hispanics” in 2012.
Sandra created a global network of centers for social impact entertainment, with Hollywood as the hub. In India, she launched the first global center in collaboration with the Asian Center for Entertainment Education in 2011, which served as a resource for accurate health and impact information for Bollywood’s film and TV industries, and a center in Nigeria to work with Nollywood. Sandra created, on behalf of UNFPA/Egypt, the “Conscious Media Award” for the Cairo International Film Festival, the longest running festival in the Middle East, Arab world and Africa, and presented the prestigious award in 2018 and 2019.
Formerly Vice President of the Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA), Sandra guided the flagship Women Lead program to equip, mobilize and empower women globally and nurtured a network of 5,000 alumni in 140 countries. With the Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs, Sandra launched an award-winning vasectomy promotion TV campaign in Brazil, earning seven international advertising awards in 1989-1990, including a Bronze Lion at the Cannes Lion Festival, Gold Medal at the London International Advertising Awards, and Bronze Medal at Television and Cinema Advertising Competition in New York, and increased vasectomies by 80% in Sao Paulo.
Sandra earned a Master of Public Health degree from The Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor of Science from the College of Santa Fe, graduating Magna Cum Laude with a scholarship for women in science. She completed fellowships with the Population Leadership Program of the Public Health Institute and the Johns Hopkins University Health and Child Survival Fellows Program. Among her numerous honors, Sandra received the USAID Maximizing Access and Quality Outstanding Achievement Award and Brazil’s Award for Leadership in Bahia State in 1997.
Sandra was nominated a member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle, founded by Deepak Chopra, in 2018, and serves on the Advisory Board of the Waterfront Indie Film Festival in Mumbai and Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize and Social Achievement Prize. She is former associate faculty at The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and a past Board member of the Pan American Health and Education Foundation. She is Co-Founder of the Evolutionary Leaders Bridging Synergy Circle to embrace differences and cross divides, and a “brain trust” member of the Center for Entertainment and Civic Health to reduce partisan polarization She served on the boards of Harvard Medical School’s Personal Genomics Education Project, Venice Arts, Women @ The Frontier, and the Foundation for Conscious Evolution. Sandra is Brazilian-American, fluent in English, Portuguese and Spanish, and proficient in French. Sandra seeks to elevate consciousness, and improve health, justice and well-being through storytelling and impact campaigns worldwide.






