Life Changes Show, September 25, 2023
Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy
Guests, Pilot, Entrepreneur Erik Lindbergh and, R&B Collaborative EnSPirits's Victoria Theodore and Dave Tweedie, Ep 756
Featuring Interview Guest, Pilot, Adventurer, Artist, Entrepreneur, Founder and Executive Chairman of VerdeGo Aero, and Chairman of the Lindbergh Foundation, Erik Lindbergh; and Performance Guests, Alternative Jazz /R&B Collaborative, EnSPirits, with Multi-Hyphenate Artists / Composers / Producers Victoria Theodore and Dave Tweedie, on The LIFE CHANGES Show
Interview Guest: ERIK LINDBERGH; and Performance Guests: EnSPirits with VICTORIA THEODORE and DAVE TWEEDIE
Guest, Erik Lindbergh
An avid pilot, Erik holds commercial, instrument, flight instructor, and glider ratings.In 1996, he helped launch the XPRIZE Foundation in St. Louis. In 2002 Erik retraced his grandfathers epic 1927 New York to Paris solo flight – raising over a million dollars and 500 million (pre-social media) media impressions for XPRIZE.
This 9-year “overnight success” story helped to jump-start the private spaceflight industry and is detailed in the NY times bestselling book: How to Make a Space Ship by Julian Guthrie In 2011 Erik awarded the Lindbergh Prize for Quietest Aircraft at the NASA Green Flight Challenge and inspired by the potential for aviation, created Powering Imagination to help accelerate the development of the electric aircraft industry and inspire the next generation of innovators.
After nearly a decade working on this industry Erik and his partners have started a new company called VerdeGo Aero to build propulsion systems for the emerging electric aircraft industry which will transform the way people move around the planet. Erik’s story is one of triumph over adversity. He won the Washington state gymnastics championship all-around at age 11 and excelled in water-skiing, and alpine and telemark ski racing during his teens.
After climbing and skiing Mount Rainier at age 21, he was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and by age 30 was completely disabled. Total knee replacements and a breakthrough biotechnology drug gave him a second chance at living a physically active life. After years of patient persistence Erik has rebuilt his physical fitness and is now bonafide member of the OGR’s (#OldGuysRockin) as an expert mountain biker and backcountry skier. On the creative side, he has been creating unique furniture and sculpture designs for over 25 years.
Committed to a life of service to future generations, Erik is a passionate public speaker and Co-Host of The Lindberghs Podcast. Mr. Lindbergh also serves as Chairman of the board for the Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation, as a Trustee of the XPRIZE Foundation, and served as a founding director of the Aviation High School in Seattle which is now ranked the #1 school in the state.
Guest, Victoria Theodore
Victoria Theodore is a Composer / Pianist / Singer who’s toured the world with Stevie Wonder & Beyoncé. She’s the pianist for the Oscar winning Best Motion Picture CODA, featured in Stevie’s DVD “Live At Last”, in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s debut film, “Tick, Tick, BOOM!”, and in the Oscar winning documentary “Twenty Feet From Stardom”. She was pianist & singer for the 2013 Arsenio Hall Show and is a composer for two Broadway-bound musicals: MARIAN & CO-FOUNDERS
EnSpirits is a Los Angeles based collaborative Alternative Jazz /R&B project between multi-hyphenate artists Victoria Theodore & Dave Tweedie, the result of their creative minds blending their original Alternative R&B / Contemporary Jazz / Dance Pop music with the timeless songs of world renowned genius artists EnSPirits has worked with.
Guest, Dave Tweedie
Dave Tweedie is an award winning Composer, Producer, Songwriter & Multi-Instrumentalist. He’s composed for Hulu’s Dear Santa (2022), Disney’s Pick Of The Litter (2019), NOVA’s The Impossible Flight (2018), Warner Bros BatKid Begins (2015) & FOX’s So You Think You Can Dance (Seasons 3-6). He’s produced for NoDoubt, Akon & FlipSyde, played / recorded with Earl Slick, Eric Martin, Angelo Moore, Alex Skolnick, Richie Kotzen, Greg Howe, Les Claypool, Michael Manring.
EnSpirits is a Los Angeles based collaborative Alternative Jazz /R&B project between multi-hyphenate artists Victoria Theodore & Dave Tweedie, the result of their creative minds blending their original Alternative R&B / Contemporary Jazz / Dance Pop music with the timeless songs of world renowned genius artists EnSPirits has worked with.
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.
