Season 3, Episode #7: Rob Sanders, Owner and Chef of Saucey’z Foodtruck and Catering, talks about his passion to be of service and create community. He also talks about his determination to persevere through dark times and create the life he was being called to live.
Season 3, Episode #6: Founder of Follow Your Heart Action Network, Curtis Reliford, talks about his passion to spread peace and love and to help those in need. Curtis also shares the moments in his life that presented inspiration for him to choose love over anger.
Season 3, Episode #1: City Councilmember and former Mayor of the City of Santa Cruz, Martine Watkins, reflects on her 4 year term and the polices and solutions she wants to build on if she is re-elected. Martine shares her approach to building community through Health in All Policies, a conceptual frame which requires us to look at every decision we make through the lens of health, equity and sustainability.
Season 3, Episode 2: Survivor, Winda, shares her story of being trafficked for sex and birthing babies, that were taken from her starting at the age of 9. Winda describes the series of events that lead her to a new beginning after she arrived at Eden's Glory, a restoration home for woman. Winda is now the Assistant House Manager at the facility and helping other woman embrace a healthy lifestyle. She also facilitates trainings with law enforcement, social services and community members.
Season 3, Episode #3: Returning guest, Spirit Medium, Jennifer Lyn, talks about the duality between light and dark energy, the influence it has on our everyday life and how creating balance between the two is key if we want to live in our power.
Season 3, Episode #5: Sonja Brunner for Santa Cruz City Council talks about her involvement with community and wanting to be a voice for positive change.
Season 3, Episode #4: President and Co-founder of High Council Foundation, Dawn Roh, shares her inspiration to create a non-profit that spreads acts of Kindness. She also gives examples of how the acts of kindness have created a positive ripple effect bringing community together.
Season 3, Episode #1: The Owner and CEO of Everyone's Music School and Host for Speak For Change podcast, Thomas Sage Pedersen, shares his perspective on “how to live bravely and commit fully” and “How you can change the world by knowing and bettering yourself.”
Episode #35: Host Tavia Avila is joined by Holistic Health and Lifestyle Coach, Sandy Jacquard, and her client, Moselle Madesko. Sandy shares her philosophy on health, which is tending to the mind, body and soul. Moselle shares how life has changed for herself since having Sandy as a coach and the transformation she continues to experience as she utilizes her services.
The Fight Against Human Trafficking series continues with the founders of Set Free Monterey Bay, Felicia and Chris George, and the Co-Founder and Co- Executive Director of Eden’s Glory, Annie Shomaker. During this episode Annie shares how the restoration home in Illinois was created, the difference it is making in survivors' lives and the inspiration it is creating for people to get involved and create more homes in the US.
Talk show host, Tavia Avila, opens up about sexual assault and the negative behaviors that have resulted from the trauma. She discloses how alcohol was used to help her get comfortable with men in romantic dynamics, and how ultimately drinking only blocked her from true intimacy.
Episode #30: The Survivors' Voices: Healing from Sexual Assault series continues with survivor, Gabriela Sofia. During this episode I share my personal experiences with sexual assault and Gabriela and I both talk about how trauma has affected how we interact with ourselves and the world. We both offer resources that have helped us as we continue our healing process.
The Black Lives Matter - It's Time to Listen series continues with the Mayor of the City of Santa Cruz, Justin Cummings. Justin shares his perspective on systemic racism and the changes that need to be made in our own communities if we want to create positive change.
Survivor, Gabriela Sofia, shares her experiences of sexual assault and offers resources that have helped her as she continues her healing process.
Returning guest, Chase Hills, talks about pursuing his music career during a pandemic and his new position as a piano teacher.
The series on The Fight to End Human Trafficking continues with one of the founders of Set Free Monterey Bay, Felicia George, and a survivor of being trafficked, Ashley Chesney. During our discussion Ashley shared a little bit about her personal experience of being trafficked, how prison saved her life and what she is doing today to help end modern day slavery. Felicia and Ashley both talked about the need to spread awareness, the signs to look for when someone is being groomed for trafficking, ...
Episode 1 of the new series on The Fight Against Human Trafficking. During my interview with the founders of Set Free Monterey Bay, Chris and Felicia George, they talk about modern day slavery and how we can all get involved when it comes to ending human trafficking.
My Series on Black Lives Matter - It's Time to Listen continues with Kelvin Nivens who makes the distinction between the Black Lives Matter organization and the Black Lives Matter Movement, and where he stands when it comes to creating racial harmony.
My series on Black Lives Matter - It's Time to Listen continues with a man who has devoted his life to helping others transform their lives through exercise and nutrition. Kelvin Nivens is the owner and head coach at fitness gym in Santa Cruz County. As conversation unfolded Kelvin shared that in order to have the conversations that are necessary to create “Real Change, Meaningful Change, Lasting Change...” in our world, we must go inward first and start the healing process....
My series on Black Lives Matter - It's Time to Listen continues with Weather Forecaster for ABC7 News/KGO-TV and former Weatherman and Co-host at Good Morning America, Spencer Christian. During our interview Spencer offered his perspective on what he believes is needed to create positive change and to end racism. He also offers ways in which we can all get involved and be proactive when it comes to creating racial harmony.
The Coastal Area Director of the NAACP, Dan Daniels, shares what it has been like being black in our society and the action we can take towards creating equality.
Holistic Health and Lifestyle Coach, Sandy Jacquard, shares her personal journey to healing her mind, body and soul, and talks about how her own experiences have given her the opportunity to connect and be of service to others.
Oncology Nurse, Mia Thorn, is back on Walk the Talk and this time to ‘Put a face to the high risk people during COVID’.
Interfaith Minister, Healer, Teacher and Founder and Spiritual Director of Fiamma D'Amore, Michele DeMoulin, joins me again for part 2 of our discussion on self-healing and leading our lives through love. Michele offers tools we can incorporate into our daily lives to strengthen our heart muscle and shares the messages she has received from the spirit world in regards to the blessings we can take from the COVID-19 pandemic. Michele ends the talk with a Global Prayer/Self-healing prayer....
Interfaith Minister, Healer, Teacher and Founder and Spiritual Director of Fiamma D'Amore, Michele DeMoulin, talks about how her near death experience propelled her towards her life purpose of guiding others to self-healing so that they can lead their lives through love. Michele also guides listeners through a 10 minute self-healing mediation and offers online resources.
Kindergarten Teacher, Alicia Romero, shares how she is implementing a homeschool curriculum and staying connected to her students as we navigate these unprecedented times.
Husband and wife, Ryan and Ashleigh O'Donnell, share how they navigated life while Ryan was diagnosed with COVID-19. They talk about how Ashleigh and their two children managed to stay healthy (for the most part) while Ryan dealt with the physical and mental symptoms.
Intuitive, Spiritual Mentor and Feng Shui Practitioner, Gina Nicole, leans into the energy of the COVID-19 Pandemic and asks a powerful question, If a virus can spread that fast, then why can’t peace, why can’t love, why can’t healing?...IT CAN.
Chief of the Santa Cruz Police Department, Andy Mills, talks about the action law enforcement is taking to ensure the safety and health for those in their community in order to flatten the curve of the Coronavirus.
Life Coach, David Couch talks about the importance of returning to the basics when it comes to caring for oneself as we all navigate the effects of the Coronavirus. David is offering free one hour coaching sessions for the month of April.
