Season 3, Episode 54

Sara Im has life lessons and gained wisdom that impacts others due to her experience of surviving the mass genocide of Cambodia. Her inspirational Award-Winning Book " How I Survived The Killing Fields” was honored in 2015. As a Speaker, she shares how tenacity, perseverance , and faith are required values to conquer fear and reach success.

00:00 Meet Sara Im, author of "How I Survived the Killing Fields"

00:54 Sara's story

17:00 Interview with Sara Im

23:04 How Sara's mother and brothers survived

24:57 Sara reflects on what 'change' means to her, answers questions from the Change Hub Ibble community and more.

39:42 Final thoughts from Sara Im

41:44 Final thoughts from the host

You can purchase a copy of Sara's book here: https://www.saraim.com/book

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Season 3, Episode #53

Allan J. "Alonzo" Wind is a retired Senior Foreign Service Officer from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), having worked on and off with the Agency primarily overseas on diplomatic assignments from 1990 to 1992 and 1999 to 2019 in the Peru, Nicaragua, Angola, Nigeria, Iraq, Afghanistan and South Africa and the Southern Africa USAID Regional Missions. He provided oversight to U.S. government foreign aid development and humanitarian assistance, and supported U.S. Ambassadors as their senior development officer on multiple U.S. Embassy Country Teams.

00:00 Meet Alonzo!

02:04 Allan J. "Alonzo" Wind's story

05:53 Interview begins with the question "Where in the world are you right now AJ?" (hint: somewhere in the Middle East...)

07:31 A discussion of the historical and current political climate regarding the Israeli/Palestinian conflict

20:50 Is peace in the middle east possible?

24:20 AJ's life as an explorer: when you call so many places home, where does it feel like home-base?

26:10 AJ's dip into Science Fiction Writing

30:15 How our moments that change us shape our view of the world and of our selves

33:00 AJ's thoughts on what it takes to change people's minds

41:25 Oversimplifying solutions to big problems/Actively seeking to shift your own perspective.

47:22 Final thoughts from guest, AJ "Alonzo" Wild

49:23 Closing thoughts from the host

• Visit Alonzo Wind's website to read AJ's blog, get a copy of his recent memoir Andean Adventures and more.
• Watch Fauda on Netflix
• Read John McWhorter's controversial book, Woke Racism

@galacticemp on Twitter

Allan "Alonzo"'s Facebook page

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Season 3, episode 52

This episode I'm talking to model, actor, & film maker Bo Roberts

From the pages of GQ, Cosmo, and Esquire, to the silver screen ("300: Rise of an Empire", "Mindy Project," etc.), Indian-born, ISU-grad, former corrections officer/CERT Team member, filmmaker Bo Roberts elevated his photography hobby to a career as a filmmaker. The director/cinematographer's debut (short) feature film (60min), "The Great Awakening" is a thriller with science-fiction elements. 

0:34 meet Bo Roberts

1:43 Bo Roberts Story

8:33 An interview of Bo Roberts, beginning with some discussion of recent film project, The Great Awakening. Our discussion includes how he came to choose that particular title and more.

17:09 Bo talks about moving from in front of the camera as a model and actor to behind the camera as a film maker.

26:23 Bo's reflection on the meaning of change

28:49 The perspective shifting experience of working as a corrections officer

34:43 Grandpas, Ghosts, and making sense of the supernatural

41:07 Final thoughts from Bo

44:07 Final thoughts from the host

Watch Bo's Works:

The Great Awakening on Tubi TV

Follow Bo!

@MrBoRoberts on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram

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