http://jari.podbean.com Interviews with living luminaries and mavericks Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:36:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en She studied with Robert Motherwell, lived with the Magritte family, and hung out with Jasper Johns. In 1966, Suzi Gablik had a one-woman show of her collage paintings exhibited and catalogued in New York. She later brought a prodigious and caring voice to art criticism, as a respected reviewer of ... http://jari.podbean.com/2009/11/01/interview-with-suzi-gablik/ "We need to bring down civilization, because it's killing the planet," says our guest, author and activist Derrick Jensen. Formerly a college professor and a commercial beekeeper, Jensen's prolific career as an author has given us A Language Older Than Words, The Culture of Make Believe, Endgame, Listening to the Land, ... http://jari.podbean.com/2009/10/01/interview-with-derrick-jensen/ State-run schools don't educate; they inculcate. They dumb people down! John Taylor Gatto gives us a stunning synopsis of his tireless scholarship and long-term experience as an award-winning guerilla educator in New York City public schools. John Taylor Gatto resigned from school-teaching in the op-ed pages of The Wall Street Journal, ... http://jari.podbean.com/2009/09/01/interview-with-john-taylor-gatto/ Sex and pleasure expert, Stella Resnick, PhD joins us to encourage, inform and delight you! Dr. Resnick is author of The Pleasure Zone: How We Resist Good Feelings and How to Let Go and Be Happy. She is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Beverly Hills, CA and ... http://jari.podbean.com/2009/08/01/interview-with-stella-resnick/ Listen in on an illuminating conversation with science writer and author Jonah Lehrer as he shares insights on the work of eight historic creative geniuses and how contemporary neuroscience can lead us to more conscious and fulfilling lives. Lehrer is author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist and How We Decide ... http://jari.podbean.com/2009/07/01/interview-with-jonah-lehrer/ We are honored to welcome back artist advocate, coach and author Caroll Michels! Her classic handbook How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist: Selling Yourself Without Selling Your Soul, has just been released in its 6th edition by Henry Holt & Co. We talked about: What is new in the world ... http://jari.podbean.com/2009/06/01/interview-with-caroll-michels/ Our society suffers from an urgent need for greater empathy, for citizens with the emotional capacity to “feel with” others and sense what life is like for people in circumstances different from their own. Thought leaders, authors, and futurists Howard Gardner, Riane Eisler, Daniel Pink, and many others, have all ... http://jari.podbean.com/2009/05/24/everybody-wins-through-contact-volunteering/ Radical Simplicity! The Living Hero program presents an interview with author, educator, and activist Jim Merkel. Jim began as a military engineer. Just after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989, Jim quit his job and took immediate personal responsibility for his own part in global problems. This meant taking radical ... http://jari.podbean.com/2009/05/01/interview-with-jim-merkel/ The healing power of doing good! The Living Hero program is honored to present an interview with author, lawyer, non-profit executive and altruistic leader, Allan Luks. Allan’s steadfast commitment to improving the lives of disadvantaged youth in New York City, and his extraordinary contributions to the success of Big ... http://jari.podbean.com/2009/04/01/interview-with-allan-luks/ Integrative medicine as a creative force! The Living Hero program is delighted to present an interview with holistic health advocate, homeopathic practitioner, and healer, Dr. Lauri Grossman. Originally trained as a chiropractor, Dr. Grossman is an expert in integrative health care, specializing in homeopathic medicine. She is a graduate of ... http://jari.podbean.com/2009/03/01/interview-with-dr-lauri-grossman/ The Living Hero Podcast proudly presents an interview with environmental lawyer and public health advocate, Carolyn Raffensperger. Carolyn is executive director of the Science and Environmental Health Network, where she has worked since 1994. In 1982, Ms. Raffensperger left a career as an archaeologist in the desert Southwest to join ... http://jari.podbean.com/2009/02/01/interview-with-carolyn-raffensperger/ The Living Hero show is honored to present an interview with author, speaker and thought leader, Riane Eisler. She is recognized as one of the most original minds of our time, and has been included among the world's 20 great thinkers and peacemakers. She is president of the Center for ... http://jari.podbean.com/2008/12/01/interview-with-riane-eisler/ The Living Hero program presents an interview with celebrated neuroscientist, Dr. Richard Davidson. Dr. Davidson is a William James and Vilas Research Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He directs the Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior where he conducts research on the short- and ... http://jari.podbean.com/2008/11/01/interview-with-dr-richard-davidson/ The Living Hero podcast welcomes our distinguished guest, clinical psychologist and bioenergetic analyst, Scott Baum, Ph.D. Dr. Baum is a licensed Clinical Psychologist and a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology. He is also a certified Bioenergetic Therapist, and a member of the Faculty of The International Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis. He has ... http://jari.podbean.com/2008/10/01/interview-with-dr-scott-baum/ The Living Hero show is very proud to present an interview with Marcy Axness, Ph.D. Dr. Axness is an early development specialist who writes and speaks internationally on parenting, society, and the needs of children. She is an authority in such wide-ranging fields as neurobiology (brain development), prenatal and ... http://jari.podbean.com/2008/09/01/interview-with-dr-marcy-axness/ At an old-fashioned soda-pop style lunch counter in Bowman, North Dakota, I met Scott Parsons. He was eating pie in black, white and pink spandex with a smattering of corporate logos across his chest. After he had learned that his friend's daughter Mikyla had been diagnosed with Rett syndrome, Scott ... http://jari.podbean.com/2008/08/01/interview-with-scott-parsons/ With great pleasure the Living Hero program presents an interview with author and cultural historian, Morris Berman, Ph.D. Our interview includes conversation about: ● What motivated Berman’s writing of the trilogy on human consciousness ● The mind-body split and the creative process ● The decline of America ● The dialectical ... http://jari.podbean.com/2008/06/17/interview-with-morris-berman/ Sometimes the mind and tongue go quiet for a stretch, precipitated by an event or experience, or just because. This time, for me, it was the BBC video series entitled Planet Earth, a monumental piece of work that brings us, as never before, into the wilderness areas of our planet, as ... http://jari.podbean.com/2008/06/04/silenced-by-planet-earth-sex-surrender-death-and-the-l-word/ Living Hero is pleased to present an interview with entrepreneur and inventor, John Green, who is domestically manufacturing an alternative vehicle, The Ecofueler, which runs at high speeds and extremely low emissions on compressed natural gas. The interview includes conversation about: The Ecofueler’s economic, design and safety features ● The business history ... http://jari.podbean.com/2008/05/18/an-interview-with-john-green-imagine-driving-an-ecofueler/ In our movement toward wholeness and maturity, perhaps the most fundamental challenge—and our goal—is the acceptance and embrace of our freedom. To live as sovereign individuals, so that our highest authority is our own sense of what is right, and knowing that we hold the wisdom to assess for ourselves ... http://jari.podbean.com/2008/05/12/freedom-or-power-whats-your-will/ To live your life as a creative artist, everything you do and experience is invested into vision, meaning and insight; and in this, there cannot be a separation between self, work and life. Successful creation is a distillation of many hours of time alone just sponging things in and ... http://jari.podbean.com/2008/05/01/solitude-and-solidarity-to-be-whole-and-healthy-we-need-%e2%80%98em-both/ It is my distinct pleasure and honor to present a conversation with author, coach, entrepreneur, speaker and process designer Maria Nemeth, Ph.D., MCC. Maria is a heroic personality whose work actually centers around teaching and encouraging people to become heroes to themselves. Our interview includes conversation about: ● The transcendent ... http://jari.podbean.com/2008/04/16/interview-with-maria-nemeth-seeing-life-as-a-heros-journey/ I am writing to you from The Ragdale Foundation in Lake Forest, Illinois, a lovely northern suburb of Chicago. Ragdale is an artist residency program that grants support to working artists by providing work/live space and meals (the chef is great here!) so they can concentrate on creating new work. ... http://jari.podbean.com/2008/04/07/out-of-chaos-composition-in-tranquility/ The celebrated psychiatrist and author, Alexander Lowen, says that “the loss of faith is the key problem of modern man.” Are we in a crisis of faith? If we are, what are we supposed to do about it? The astonishing scientific discoveries of the late 19th and 20th centuries have repeatedly ... http://jari.podbean.com/2008/03/28/are-we-in-a-crisis-of-faith/ With great pleasure and enthusiasm I bring you this interview with Caroll Michels, artist advocate, coach and author of How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist: Selling Yourself Without Selling Your Soul, now in its 5th edition. The interview includes conversation about: Artist and art dealer relationships ● The self-esteem of ... http://jari.podbean.com/2008/03/17/interview-with-caroll-michels-survive-and-prosper-as-an-artist/ The question, where is your money invested? is experienced by many as a violation, a pointed finger jabbing at them. Well, this gets our backs up precisely because this is where we have compromised our hearts, where we really don’t want to look and listen, where the worm of hypocrisy ... http://jari.podbean.com/2008/03/11/hear-no-see-no-speak-no%e2%80%94what/ When you focus and hold your attention on a single object or on your own mind-body processes, you are meditating. An age-old metaphor for thought, captured in the phrase “a train of thought,” can be helpful in differentiating thought from meditation. If you are riding inside a train of thought, ... http://jari.podbean.com/2008/03/08/the-quiet-station-of-meditation/ Our fingerprints and faces tell us we are each “sui generis,” (one-of-a-kind), although most of us were raised to conform to, and fit into, a social structure, rather than being encouraged to discover and display our distinctive gifts. I often wonder about and imagine what a world of people brought ... http://jari.podbean.com/2008/02/29/chop-sui-generis/ Living Hero is pleased to present an interview with author and futurist Daniel Pink • The increasing value of right brain skills and capacities • The global forces giving rise to A Whole New Mind • The one cognitive skill common among corporate star performers • Reckoning with unfulfillment • Dan’s ... http://jari.podbean.com/2008/02/19/interview-with-daniel-pink-a-whole-new-mind-at-work/ For the sake of this exploration, let’s just agree to use the word holic for an addicted, compulsive, obsessed individual. In spite of knowledge (a holic knows what is healthy, reasonable and good) she “loves” stuff that is ultimately self-destructive and cannot forsake indulgences for health or well-being, cannot manage, ... http://jari.podbean.com/2008/02/13/holic-or-holistic-hows-the-love/