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There are people out there in the world who make good things happen. The good things you see on your news feeds - not the doom scrolling.
The good documentaries you might have watched, the projects fighting climate change, AIDS, human rights abuses and the like - its often easy to forget that there are actual individuals behind the scenes making these things happen, then helping them get out to the audiences that need them, and finally leveraging those projects into actual change both at a policy level and for real lives of real people living in those conditions.
Ginny Jordan is one of these behind the scenes individuals - whether it was pioneering alternative education in the USA, helping women and children - first in Africa, and then all over the world living with HIV to form businesses, through Bead for Life and Street Business School, whether it was bringing Climate Change to cinemas and televisions around the world through the groundbreaking movies Chasing Ice and Chasing Coral, and then helping to support the organizations finding the solutions to these pressing issues of our times, or whether...well you'll have to listen to find out what she's up to now.
It can sound like a grand litany of successes, but in ever self actualized life there is, well, a life. Ginny has battled multiple bouts of cancer, crippling fights with Meuniere's Disease, and has had large parts of herself cut away. She knows what it is to be a mother battling these challenges and at the same time trying to make sure the kids are OK.
Bottom line, Ginny Jordan is one of the most effective people on the planet, while at the same time living daily with the very human realities of frailty and physical limitation. How do people like her do it? Listen on and be inspired.
Books, Films, Causes & Contact:
Social DilemmaChasing IceChasing Coral
Book: Clear Cut. It's by Ginny Jordan
Bead for Life: www.beadforlife.org
[email protected]
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That the Carradine family is a Hollywood dynasty is common knowledge.
Less known is that one of its scions - Kansas Carradine, daughter of legendary actor David Carradine (Kung Fu, Kill Bill et al) has become possibly one of the most self actualized people of her generation and is going around the world helping others to do the same.
Kansas Carradine is an amazing talent: a professional trick rider and rope since her childhood, a stunt rider and actress, a therapist with the legendary HeartMath Insititute which conducts research into the electromagnetic fields of hearts and how this affects the human nervous system, brain and immune system, a diplomat and peace broker with the G20...as well as a wife and mother.
Kansas Carradine is that rare thing - someone who has come through the maestrom of celebrity life without their ego going supernova, and who has emerged an approachable human being in service to the common good in a level that is frankly breathtaking. Listen on and learn how to look at life through the lens of the heart - it will change your reality.
Contact Kansas
https://www.circuscowgirl.com/
https://www.facebook.com/circuscowgirl/
https://www.fyera.org
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Many of us dream about - or at the very least wonder about - the phenomen of becoming a YouTuber. Actually making a living out of content creation. Many of us also dream of being able to positively influence the lives of others this way and spread knowledge of healing and well being for the common good while, well being successful. Sukie Baxter, whose work on explaining the autonomic nervous system and how it can be harnessed to work more efficiently for health and happiness, has done just that. Her views on YouTube have gone into the millions without having to resort to gossip, trolling celebrities, car crashes or even cute dogs riding bicycles. Sukie's work is just flat out good - helpful, easy to understand and implement and actually helping one feel and do better.
It wasn't always this way - Sukie's path to Self Actualization was, like everyone's - hard earned. Becoming a Rolfer (a lesser known but highly effective form of bodywork) in her early 20s she built a practice over almost two decades that while successful, became stressful, over scheduled, and eventually drained her of energy. Then Covid hit and in one instant her whole business evaporated.That's when, born from a desire to do something productive in that time of universal suffering, Sukie began to put out informative YouTube videos on how to make your body and nervous system your friend not your foe. Now, four years later, Sukie has achieved an enviable level of freedom by doing good.
But that isn't all. In this fascinating podcast she shares with us not just her personal and professional journey but also how the autonomic nervous system actually works, what the nuts and bolts of human happiness are, and even how to make YouTube videos that actually get seen. Listen on people, Sukie has much to teach us.
YouTube Tools mentioned:
Keywords everywhere
TubeBuddy
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https://wholebodyrevolution.com
https://youtube.com/sukiebaxter
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Have you ever dreamed of being a filmmaker, a producer? A storyteller of the screen? We all have at some point -anyone who consumes screen entertainment hankers at some point to be the one making the content. Yet how to even get started? Even in these days of YouTubers and independent film making platforms where movies made on cell phones get sold to TV, we know its hard. How do you get the finances, the actors, the costumes, the scripts? How do you put it all together and make a go of it, a successful career of it?
Diana Elbaum knows how. Starting as a confused young Belgian girl with a naive desire to tell stories, her two companies, Entre Chien et Loup (between wolf and dog) and Beluga Tree have produced well over ninety films of all genres. She’s done the Hollywood thing – her groundbreaking movie The Congress featured Robin Wright, Danny Huston and Harvey Keitel. But Diana has also explored a side of film that many of us in the English speaking world are largely unaware of – the thriving French, Belgian and European cinematic and television world which produces billions of dollars a year and many works of great quality – a goodly number of which then get bought by Hollywood and put into English language versions.
Diana has won a string of awards, started the EP2C Workshop which helps young film makers from around the world – or even older ones – get started. Maybe she can help you.
So listen on, if there was ever a woman who has self actualized, and at the same time helped dozens of others do the same, it's Diana Elbaum.
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Have you ever heard of the Grand Tour? If you haven’t, you’ve certainly benefited from it – in the 18th and 19th centuries young artists, composers and aristocrats from northern Europe, most especially England and Germany, used to tour the great cities of Renaissance Italy, adventuring in all sorts of dissolute ways but also learning the Classics along the way, not to mention witnessing the great art of Venice, Florence and Rome, and bringing this Enlightenment firmly into our modern consciousness. Byron, the Shelleys, Goethe – all found their muse on the Grand Tour. We would have no Frankenstein, no Childe Harold, no Faust if their authors had not had their artistic world view split wide open in the Uffizi, the Vatican and The Grand Canal Even Mark Twain, that great alderman of American letters, was by his own admission greatly affected in his writing by having made this rite of passage.
Today, a small British outfit with the succinctly appropriate name of Art History Abroad is helping people self-actualize by making the Grand Tour in our post-modern age. Can this old aristocratic tradition be democratized? Could deep immersion into the realm of art and beauty still be part of making a young (or indeed any age) person, a more rounded, more effective, indeed more empathetic individual, better able to tackle the vicissitudes of our own times?
Nick Ross, our guest on this edition of Live Free Ride Free, has demonstrated that yes, art, beauty, the Grand Tour can indeed set us free, Despite battling an early paralysis, endless setbacks and the perhaps inevitable - you cant make a living doing something so old fashioned – nay-sayers, has spent the past thirty five years dramatically opening up the world view of countless Brits, Americans and others, helping them find themselves through art – and its timeless, peerless wonder. Nick Ross has, one could say, self-actualized through helping others do the same. The arts, it seems, can connect us with the divine with ourselves. Listen on, for in many ways Nick has, frankly, pulled off the impossible.
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https://www.arthistoryabroad.com/
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To live free and ride free you don't have to be a celeb. You don't have to be changing the world in an obvious way. The non-obvious, the non celebrity pathway is just as powerful but oft overlooked. With that in mind I feel it's very important to balance the extraordinary ways in which we have seen guests on the podcast live self actualized lived with equally extraordinary tales of a more ordinary path. Ordinary circumstances is perhaps a better way of putting it. But what extraordinary response to those circumstances. Jill Cohen, of Santa Cruz, California, is one of these extraordinarily self actualized ordinary people. Like you, like me, changing the world in ways more subtle. There is much to learn from Jill.
A Jewish mother, who runs a healing practice so effective that her waiting list is miles long - yet you've never heard of her. Five times married, sailed around the world, an equestrian, always self supporting. A self-proclaimed hippie flying that freedom flag high, who began to earn her living as a potter at the age of 15. never compromising her independence, not for society, not for any man, and making a go of it.
But there's more. In this episode we ask, is it possible to self actualize and change the world through quiet service? Jill is grandmother to an extraordinary but challenging autistic young man, Sequoia. Giving up her freedom to co-create a safe environment in the California Hills for her granddaughter, daughter and parent, Jill sacrificed a lot, took on the role of sole breadwinner and equal care giver, but achieved great insights and great joy. No sooner had that adventure run its course than her own mother, declining with dementia, needed the same care and with the same immediate, unthinking courage, Jill rose to that occasion too. The freedom to move at will, go where she wanted, how she wanted with whom she wanted now replaced with years of service to these demanding family members, and at the same time developing and deepening her mastery of the healing arts, Jill has never lost her sense of humour, her perspective, her deep and quiet joy. Can we learn from tribal elders like Jill? Indeed, we can, and must, if we are going to self actualize in our daily, our ordinary lives. For this of course is where we are closest to the diving. So, listen on, to hear Jill is to love her. And you'll never regard your seemingly ordinary life as quite so ordinary again.
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Have you ever gone looking for treasure. And found it? Like many who go looking for gold, the first clues came through offhand comments, snatches overheard conversations that somehow struck a resonance, a chord, in the gut. I had embarked upon a journey to the centre of the Old Masters tradition of dressage. At first, I didn't know that was what I was doing. My quest was to understand more about how to truly and softly collect a horse _ and not for the usual reasons. You see, I had stumbled into something; when riding with my then four-year-old autistic son Rowan I had noticed from the first ride that when the horse was more collected, he spoke more. Intrigued, I set out to find out why. Consulting with neuroscientists. it was explained to me that the soft rhythmic hip rocking experienced when riding a horse this way feels so good ( and we all know it does) because it causes the body to produce a hormone called oxytocin, which is in itself a sort of Holy Grail. >For it is the joy hormone. Its also the hormone of communication.
So, what has this to do with my guest for this fascinating podcast, Sofia Valenca? Well, realizing that I needed to know more about collection so as to be able to produce more oxytocin and therefore get more communication from my son and the other young autists with whom I was starting to work as part of what is now Horse Boy Method, I realized I needed to learn more about dressage. Now, anyone who knows anything about horses knows that dressage, real light dressage, is a complex and difficult skill to learn, and takes about 500 years or so. I didn't have 500 years, and I found the first dressage lessons I took unclear, unfocused even punitive, with the instructors barking orders but not really explaining how....
I consulted with dressage professionals I knew, What would you do if you were in y position, I asked, and needed to learn this impossible skill not in centuries or aons, but in as efficient and enjoyable a way as possible, Go ti Portugal they all said. Why, I asked? Because that is where they still use dressage for the original purpose of war, so they don't mess around. They teach you on schoolmaster horses that know all the fancy stuff, and at the same time teach you the in-hand work, where you learn it from the ground and also create a balanced horse underneath you that fully understand the work. that made sense, but wait, I said, Portugal isn't at war with anyone, right? No, it was explained to me, its about the mounted bullfight - Portuguese bullfighters don't try and kill the bull, as happens in Spain. Instead, they learn to dance around it on horseback. One doesn't want to bullfight of course, but to learn those martial arts skills with the horse, well, that's true dressage.
So down I went to Portugal and found this was indeed all true. I also began to hear, not just in Portugal but in the UK, the USA, France, elsewhere a certain name began to come up over and over again. Valenca.
The whole Valenca family - headed by Mastre Luis Valenca, his three daughters Sofia, Phillipa and Bea and now his granddaughter Ines are legends in the dressage world. Not bullfightes, but equestrian artists, the family is a hidden treasure that many have heard of, but few have found. Which is strange because you couldn't find a nicer, more open, more approachable bunch. The first five days in their Picadoro (the small inside arena they use in Portugal) I learned more about horses and horsemanship than i had learned in years of lessons elsewhere. I also saw a family dedicated to joy, to art, to self expression and self actualization, who were dedicating their lives to helping others set their dreams free, Its no wonder that the family produces the incredible horses that perform the fantasy sequences in the massively successful equestrian theater spectacular Cavalluna, which tours Germany six months of the year. It's about turning dreams to reality. How do they do it? Well, listen to Sofia now. You may be into horses, you may not, but this family, which truly comprises one of Europe's national treasures, can teach as all a thing or two about the art of whispering one's dreams into being. Listen on.
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https://valencaequestrianacademy.com
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Living free and riding free - it's one thing to do it. It's another thing altogether to provide a whole universe that allows others to do it. Castle Leslie in Ireland is that place. A thousand acres and a castle, an equestrian tourism paradise, a place people go to disappear into the hills and forests of the border region, a research and learning site for climate and soil science, a treasure house of baroque and renaissance art that you can live in, the sort of place that rock stars go on honeymoon, and special needs families can find healing in. Sammy Leslie has created that world - a sort of Hogwarts for the soul - from the ancient seat of the family of the same name.
Yet this is not a story of an aristocrat inheriting and then repurposing the old estate with canny business acumen with a bit of altruism thrown in. Sammy Leslie did not inherit the estate. The illegitimate daughter of the Jewish mistress of the estate owner, whose hippy commune at the castle during the sixties and seventies provided fun and fantasy but little in the way of sustainable income, Sammy went to the local school, roamed the wilds of the estate, forged her own career as a riding teacher and hotel manager in the UK and further afield, and finally, when her father died, instead of inheriting the estate decided to buy it, piece by piece, with an entrepreneurial flair matched by a complete and total lack of capital. Yet she did it and created one of the world's most legendary heritage resort hotels. That would have been enough, but Sammy's deep love of the land, of the nature, of the paradisical estate led her to forest management, soil restoration and environmental activism and education.
Everyone has struggles as they build their professional worlds - Sammy added cancer and MS to those - allowing them to inform her desire to make the estate not simply a playground for the rich and famous, or the ecologically minded, but also for those vulnerable people who would not normally have access to such a world.
How does one create such a universe, overcome such odds, both build and run an insanely complex business without burning out completely? How does one in fact cope with the inevitable burnouts that such an intense live free, ride free journey must entail?
Well, a sense of humor helps. Sammy, as you will find out as you listen to this edition of Live Free Ride Free, is herself excellent craic, as they say in Ireland.
There is much to learn from Sammy Leslie, much to be inspired by and laugh with. Best of all, once you're done listening to her incredible story, you can pack your bags and go experience the world she has created first hand. If you're looking for a place to live and ride free, Castle Leslie is it, and Sammy is its chatelaine.
Enjoy.
Links and books mentioned:
Dear Daughter Campaign
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World - Michael Polland
Omnivorist Dilema
God is an octopus
https://amzn.to/3OUFFvEContact Sammy
Leslie Foundation lesliefoundation.ie
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Film Festivals are something one reads about all the time. We accept them as institutions that drive the movie business in the same way that we take for granted music festivals and literary and other arts festivals, as things that exist almost as geological features of the landscape. Or at least the cultural landscape.
What many of us don’t know is that the festivals that come to accept as institutions in and onto themselves, were all started by someone with an idea. This includes such behemoth such as Sundance, which was the idea of the actor Robert Redford. The Cannes Film Festival, which was the brain child of a French man called Jean Zay, who with a couple of friends decided to set up, what has become to be the defining festival of the entire movie industry.
The Lollapalooza Music Festival was the idea of musician Perry Farrel. The list goes on.
I have often wondered what it takes to really get a festival off the ground and make it successful. Lisa Diersen, who conceived the Equus Film Festival – a niche festival, specializing in equestrian based subjects is one of the few people I know who has made a go of it.
Starting with an idea based around one documentary – The Horse Boy – it quickly grew and has now become self-sustaining and a stand alone within the myriad of festivals out there. It’s boutique and it’s unique and it works.
In this episode we talk to Lisa about how she conceived it, got it off the ground, and made a success of it and how she keeps the whole thing going.
She is also a horse breeder and horse trainer and makes a go of that too. In terms of living free and riding free, Lisa is right up there. Let’s find out how this extraordinary lady does it.
Films to check out
Healing HorsesRiding my way back – Robin RosenwellThe Mustang Discovery Ride ProgramLady Long Rider https://www.endeofthetrail.com/ Unbranded https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3020666/ A Man A Mule America https://www.pbs.org/video/our-state-mule-rider Return of the horse https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2076314/ Equus Film Channel https://filmfestivalflix.com/festival/equus-2-2/Equus Film Festival http://www.equusfilmfestival.net/Contact Lisa:
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Linda Tellington Jones is a true legend. In the horse world, in the world of human healing, in the world of dogs, in the world in general... TTouch, an easy, effective way of resetting the nervous system for animals and humans, is a global movement. Linda's 22 books on the subject have been translated into multiple languages and have sold uncounted copies. Those who have tried TTouch, whether for animals or humans, all report massive improvements in both physical and emotional conditions. Now in her 80s, Linda still travels the world teaching, inspiring, constantly developing new aspects to her method = and also learning, never resting on her laurels, always curious to know more.
But who is Linda Tellington Jones? How did she go from a farm girl in far northern Alberta and the Northwest Territories to becoming one of the leading horsewomen in the world, to becoming one of the most sought=after neuro-reprogramming mentors in the world? What exactly is TTouch and how did it develop into one of the leading healing modalities currently in use today?
The journey takes us from Canada to California to Germany via Russian gypsy horse whisperers, through mentorship under the legendary Moshe Feldenkrais, to struggles with her own health and happiness, and how Linda has had to learn to use the techniques for her own conditions of Hashimoto's Syndrome, Long COVID and brain fog = forcing her to rise to the maxim of 'physician heal thyself'.
Linda is candid = how what some people would regard as failed marriages and abuse were transformed into opportunities to open her mind and heart to ever widening possibilities. How the power of love and forgiveness =including that most elusive of Holy Grails = self-forgiveness, lies at the center of self-actualization.
Any time spent with Linda Tellington -Jones is inspirational, educational, enlightening. Join us to hear her story and learn how her journey can benefit our own.
Books mentioned:
Strike a long trot Legendary Horsewoman Linda Tellington-Jones https://amzn.to/3qDVIEH Training and Retraining Horses the Tellington Way: Starting Right or Starting Over with Enlightened Methods and Hands-On Techniques https://amzn.to/45YJmad getting in ttouch with your dog https://amzn.to/3J9Pgvo TTouch for Healthcare: The Healthcare Professional's Guide to Tellington TTouch Paperback https://amzn.to/3X1p4sB Man on his nature Sharrinton https://amzn.to/3P3C6E2 Emotional Intelligence book Daniel Goleman https://amzn.to/43D4a5F the code of authentic living cellular wisdom https://amzn.to/43Oi6tm The Biology of Belief 10th Anniversary Edition: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles Bruce Lipton https://amzn.to/3Jbj7DT Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There From Here Dr. Bruce Lipton https://amzn.to/3JavYWL The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief Gregg Braden https://amzn.to/3oXZHeJFind Linda:
Learn TTouch: https://learn.ttouch.ca/ TTouch Zooms https://learn.ttouch.ca/product-category/interactive/Quotes from Linda’s podcast:
I wanted to have the horse have as good a time with me as I was having with him.Feel your perfection through my handsAnd, one of the reasons that our, our horses were so good is the fact that I never allowed a person to ride a horse unless they liked the horse. And if they didn't like that horse, they would not get on them. Because horses know when you don't like them and they want to work for you/Find our other Programs and Shows:
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John Mitchinson is a true man of mystery.
You may have been hanging out with him for years and don't know it. Many of you out there have been watching TV, reading books, discovering stories that John Mitchinson has created, or published, or influenced, or written...without his name being on them.
Have you watched the hilarious, clever, cult BBC Show QI (which stands for Quite Interesting), presented by the redoubtable Steven Fry and now in its bazillionth season? Well, chances are John Mitchinson wrote every word that delighted you. He also conceived the show in a magical pub in a magical village in the most magical part of the English countryside - the part that Tolkien used as his inspiration for the Shire, CS Lewis for Narnia, and Lewis Carroll for the Wonderland and the world Through the Looking Glass.
If you've become engrossed in the QI books.. John wrote them.
If you've read any of the great foreign classics like the Master and Margarita (often touted as the best book ever written), or By Night Under the Stone Bride, or if you've ever discovered the great American writers Raymond Carver,or Richard Ford in a UK edition - John published them.
If you've ever been in London or Oxford or a dozen other English cities and bought a book at Waterstones..it was John who helped grow that company into the household name it is today. If you've encountered the cutting edge story telling platform of best sellers created through the crowdfunding site Unbound...well, that´s John.
The power of Story - that´s what John is about, and he´s made millions of lives richer for it. But his own story begins very humbly - in working class Sunderland, the ship building, coal mining, economically dying town in Britain's Northumberland, where the love of a grandfather and the wandering of the locals hills and riverbanks, and the strange industrial margins of city and country, where legends old and new meet in a twilight zone of their own.
From there to being a lost boy adrift in New Zealand after his family emigrated, to being back in an England that he never quite fitted into, yet whose stories he felt in his bones...Join as on a fascinating adventure into self actualization through the power of Story, and meet one of the world´s gentlest, most brilliant, most charming, and funniest Minds. Once you meet John Mitchinson, your life is forever enriched.
Books mentioned:
So Long See You Tomorrow William Maxwell
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
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If there is someone who typifies what it means to quite literally Live Free and Ride Free, it is online equestrian and nervous system celebrity Jane Pike.
Born in Australia, and growing up first on woolly ponies in Tasmania, then on the Australian show pony circuit, Jane has taken a circuitous route through many branches of life, all of which culminated into her Confident Rider and Joy Ride Programs, which help uncounted numbers of people around the world to achieve functionality in their bodies and brains, whether in the saddle or in their daily lives.
Currently living on a beautiful part of the coast of New Zealand’s south island, Jane trains her horses, homeschools her boys and helps the world from her computer – achieving the self-actualization that many of us aspire to.
It wasn’t always like this however.
A decades long journey, through the athletic and therapeutic forms of Yoga – studying under and then teaching for some of the great masters in India; post-tsunami human rights work in Sri Lanka; some ‘lost years’ in which she had to rely on pure faith and finally a deep study of the autonomic nervous system and how it effects everything we do and much of what we think, have build up a store of wisdom we can all benefit from.
Parallel with all this Jane has continued to work as a horse professional and general seeker of the equine mysteries.
In this interview she leads us through her story of how she achieved her current independence and includes some really practical tips on how online businesses are build as well as sharing many of her insights both scientific and esoteric that have created the Confident Rider and Joy Ride online worlds.
Join us for a fascinating and liberating ride.
You can find Jane at confidentrider.online or drop her a line at [email protected]
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A legend and ueber-influencer in the horsemanship community, in the years since COVID Warwick Schiller has become much much more. In addition to creating one of the first and most successful online libraries of horse training videos, Warwick’s Journey On Podcast exceeded a million downloads quite a while ago and is on it’s way to stratospheric heights.
In addition Warwick’s activities of late have expanded far beyond the horse world. His own personal pilgrimage to find his own inner emotional healing after years of shut down (his words) has lead him to explore the healing art in all their many forms.
From bravely dreading the world of psychedelic hallucinogens under the guidance of professionals, he has also explored the synaptic confluences of neuro science and emotion. His explorations into the shamanic and inspirational spheres run parallel with all this, and he makes the whole thing accessible to the general public for free.
Warwick still runs horse training clinics all over the world and his Journey On Summits – conferences that bring people from all these diverse worlds together – often sell out hours after tickets go online.
How has Warwick done it?
To say that this is a self-actualized life is an understatement. Both in term of economic and personal fulfillment – not to mention public service.
Join us as we pick Warwick’s brain, find out the journey he took to put all this together and what we can learn from him as he goes forward to the next level.
To find Warwick online check out the following links:
Journey On PodcastOnline Training LibraryLike always, find out more about our shows and programs at the links below:
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Sir Tim Smit is a legend. Knighted for his ecological and economic contribution not just to Great Britain, but the international community at large. Sir Tim is famous for having founded Cornwall's Lost Gardens of Heligan, and the Eden Project in which the public can visit working rain forests under glass domes and truly learn the importance of ecology and how it effects their daily lives, while at the same time being entertained and contributing to the economies of otherwise depressed areas.
What many people don't know is that the Eden Projects are now going global with locations around the world and that Sir Tim is at the cutting edge of how governments and economies are finding real solutions for the changing climactic times in which we live.
What is also little known about Sir Tim is how he came from a strange mix of Dutch working class and British Bohemian gentry, navigated his way into the music industry, became successful as a producer and then gave it all up when he discovered a door in a wall that led to a forgotten magical kingdom in Cornwall, that no one had thought worth bothering with for century. It's a story of faith, business savvy, common sense and vision that has lessons for us all as we navigate our own doorways into the hidden kingdoms of our lives.
Join us as we adventure into the unknown. And remember to subscribe and share.
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Here on our pilot episode of the Live Free Ride Free Podcast, we talk about the nature of success and self-actualization - what this means, not just in terms of money and career, but in terms of personal happiness and fulfillment.
Our host Rupert Isaacson, tells his story from doing manual labor as an illegal immigrant to running his own successful writing career and businesses as well as his charity and human rights advocacy work.
We set the tone for the exciting guests to come: people who have achieved the pinnacles of their potential, often from rather unlikely beginnings.
What can we learn from considering these questions on the true nature of human fulfillment and how it sets us free.
Join us for this Pilot and remember to subscribe and share!
