Life Changes Show, April 16, 2018
Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure
“Overcoming Inner Smallness,” with Guest Award-Winning Keynote Speaker and Author, Peggy O’Neill, and Musical Guests Violinist Marina Manukian, Violist Karie Prescott and Violoncellist John Walz on The LIFE CHANGES Show
GUEST: PEGGY O’NEILL and MUSICAL GUESTS: MARINA MANUKIAN, KARIE PRESCOTT and JOHN WALZ
Guest, Peggy ONeill
PEGGY O’NEILL
“Peggy O’Neill is the messenger and the message. She exemplifies walking tall!” so spouts FedEx co-founder, Frank Maguire. Peggy is an award-winning keynote speaker and author. For over thirteen years, she has inspired powerful positive change in corporate and women’s groups across the US with her unforgettable, dynamic, and humorous keynote speeches and trainings.
Coming from the field of psychotherapy, and drawing from her extra-ordinary experiences triumphing over the many trials- being a little person living in a big world- Peggy lends her expertise in the areas of personal empowerment, celebrating diversity and enhancing professional performance.
Peggy has presented to over 100,000 people in organizations such as FEMA, Chase Bank, Diversity Works, Texaco, US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Lucent Technologies, Ball Aerospace, Lockhead Martin and many others.
Peggy has authored two books: Walking Tall: Overcoming Inner Smallness, No Matter What Size You Are, and Little Squarehead, an illustrated children’s book. Featured on the cover of Speaker Magazine, Peggy is also a contributing teacher in the films The Opus, and Tapping the Source. Additionally, Peggy serves young students, offering anti-bullying and self-esteem programs.
Happily, Peggy brings real solutions to audience members and their hosting organizations. She celebrates her daily life in Ojai, CA, a small town near Santa Barbara.
“We’ve had the nation’s top speakers. Your delivery and message for this audience surpasses them all!” – K. Druck, Founder, Jenna Druck Foundation
Guest, Marina Manukian
MARINA MANUKIAN
She has been featured as a soloist with numerous orchestras, chamber music concerts and recitals. Her passionate artistry has been heard and embraced worldwide, including throughout Europe, former U.S.S.R. and the United States. She is the winner of numerous music awards and prizes including the 1st prize for National Young Artist Competition, in former U.S.S.R., Aspen International Music Festival and Herb Alpert Music Award from A & M Records.
The Los Angeles Times identifies Marina Manukian as “a violinist extraordinaire…whose virtuosity is exceeded only by her calmness and confidence, working through the intricacies with masterful grace and strength”.
Since 2006 Marina has been the Artistic Director and Concertmaster of The Enlightenment Chamber Music Series which presents concerts performed by the selection of expert chamber musicians, soloists and recording artists from around the world. In addition to her solo and chamber music performances Marina has recorded for over 700 television and motion picture scores.
Guest, Karie Prescott
KARIE PRESCOTT
Guest, John Walz
JOHN WALZ
In 1979, Mr. Walz, along with pianist Edith Orloff, founded the Pacific Trio. Now performing with violinist Roger Wilkie, this renowned ensemble has played more than 900 concerts throughout North America and Europe. In addition to his solo and chamber music duties, he is currently the principal cellist with the Los Angeles Opera, a position he previously held for 20 years with the Long Beach Symphony.
His ever expanding discography includes recordings of the concertos by Dvorak, Haydn, Shostakovich, Bloch, Martinu, Vivaldi, and trios by Brahms, Dvorak, Smetana, and the newly released Pacific Trio CD featuring Beethoven’s Triple Concerto and Archduke Trio. He is on the faculty of the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program and Academy.
Life Changes Show
Come and join the conversation about what's going on and what we can do together about it, with it, and for it. We have the choice, we have the power. We can do magic if we just believe!
A show about the changes going on in us, to us, around us, and because of us. Therefore, it's technically a show about "Everything," only with a how to make it better, see it better, be better.
In the show, there is talk about, and with, people who have either been through major changes, are helping others with major changes, or people who are changing the world for the better in a major way.
The show is a one-hour talk show format with a monologue by the host, a 30 minute interview with a guest of note, capped by a "Producer's Wrap" segment, in which Filippo and Co-Host Mark Laisure, and sometimes surprise guests, bring it all home for the listeners in a sometimes humorous and sometimes touching, but always entertaining conversation.
