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

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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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Season 3, episode 51

The multi-faceted Gigi Rowe was called "fantastically talented" by the one-and-only Jay Z. The singer, songwriter, children's book author and children's podcast creator was formerly signed to Island Def Jam Records by the legendary LA Reid. Gigi was the first-ever recipient of the Songwriter Hall of Fame Buddy Holly Prize (from Songmasters) and she has had songs featured on the globally-adored interactive video game Just Dance.

Gigi is the voice of summer TV on Netflix and Amazon, with two songs prominently featured on Amazon's new Prime Video dating series The One That Got Away, that premiered in late June and Netflix series Boo, B***h, which premiered in early July. Gigi Rowe's debut album Laura is out September 30.

In this episode Gigi shares her experience being signed to Island Def Jam records, only to be dropped before she could pop. We bond over a love of wigs. She goes into great depth about her collaboration with Tik Tokker Claybaby

01:36 Gigi Rowe shares her story

08:24 We move into my interview of Gigi Rowe

11:40 Some indulgent bonding time over a couple of wigs

21:34 Lonely Together

23:17 The wig comes off...

23:48 Gigi talks about collaborating with TikTok star Claybaby

40:49 How Laura Warshauer came to know and understand Gigi Rowe

43:05 All about Gigi's latest album Laura

45:12 The story of a magical recording moment on a farm in New Jersey

48:15 Gigi's thoughts on change, personal evolution and shifting how you think about things

54:33 A few closing thoughts from the host

• Gigi Rowe + Claybaby = Song: So Iconic! - Here's one of the absolute best songs ever! It's the brain child of Tik Tokker Clababy and Singer Gigi Rowe: So Iconic
• Lollipops music video on YouTube - Speaking of bonding over wigs... this is the music video where Gigi's love of wigs became completely apparent!
• Laura - The Latest album from Gigi Rowe - Listen to Gigi Rowe's latest release.

Want to connect with Gigi Rowe?

Gigi's Website

@hellogigirowe on Twitter

@hellogigirowe on Instagram

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Amelia and I are so excited! Our first conversation is finally available for you to listen to!

Maxwell is 7 years old and lives in Texas. He loves animals, video games, imagination games, dinosaurs, and chocolate!

And... he is actually the reason we are even doing this project!

That's right! The whole idea came from a conversation Maxwell had with his mama, who then made a joke that became the best idea in the whole wide world.

In this conversation, we learned that:

• Kids know a lot of stuff
• That you can be brave even when something scary (like falling off your bike happens)
• That sometimes grownups are more scared than kids (according to Maxwell, the fun stuff in particular!)
• And our co-host, Amelia, discovered that she actually had a lot in common with Maxwell, even though they live far apart.

Amelia says: "You can learn a lot in one hour. For the time we recorded, me and maxwell both got hungry afterward!"

You may have heard of Wade McCollum. As an American film actor, stage actor, composer, and musician, Wade is best known for his roles as Hedwig in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and Ernest Shackleton in Ernest Shackleton loves me for which he won the Norton Award for Best Actor and was nominated for the Lortel Award in the same category.

These days, he can be found buried in his neuroscience textbooks as a student at the University of Pennsylvania.

Wade is truly remarkable and multi-talented, so it may be no surprise that like previous guests Maraya Brown and Lou Radja, Wade is also an alum of Ashland High School. Like many of the programs at Ashland High School, The drama program at AHS is one of the best (thanks to the brilliant thinking of Betsy Bishop marrying the program to the prestigious Oregon Shakespeare Festival, which continually attracts some of the world's top talent).

All of that is to say that any time I get to sit down and talk with Wade McCollum, it carries simultaneously that sweet feeling of the relief I associate with what is most familiar, AND the excitement of what's new because both of our lives are filled with shifts, changes, and curiosity. There is just so very much to talk about!

This may just be my favorite interview of the season!

• How this actor's brain handles memorization
• Why Wade wasn't able to be part of season 1 as originally planned
• How having and recovering from Covid effected Wade
• A rich discussion of human adaptation
• Why #youchanged would make an excellent complement to give!
• The incredible contrast of human interpretation. My mundane can be your profound, and vice versa
• How our earliest experiences shape our assumptions about what other people's lives should look like
• How we digest other people's stories to represent profound meaning to ourselves as humans
• Two stories that demonstrate how our expectations and understanding of reality aren't always well met.
• A glimpse into the exciting realm of Medical Music and why Wade is now studying neuroscience after decades of making a living as a performer.

"I'm up there thinking, you know what, there's 3000 people watching the show right now... they're having that fulcrum experience where they may never be the same. And I'm literally at my office job. The juxtaposition of that is so incredible"

"When you're born into something, the assumption is that's life. That's life, and there's no other, you know, there's no other way to do it, because that's the way it's done."

"They said, 'We're the, we're the different ones. Most people live in a house. And they stay there. And most people don't move around like we do and go from town to town.' Everything just went boom, and suddenly I was the anomaly. And it was so fundamental, I could feel my brain change."

"Humans as a species are like story eaters. Rather than, throw the story up, this is a gross analogy, our tendency is to digest it. And in that...

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Dr. Ian Brooks started off working in a clinical psychology ward eventually transitioning to work with "higher functioning individuals."

Over the span of his 25+ year career helping people move forward. He's worked with clients that include Netflix, Shondaland, Bank of America, Guitar Center, Nike Inc. Sony, and Warner Brothers.

Most recently, Dr. Brooks is the author of Intention: Building Capabilities to Transform Your Story which integrates research and personal journey that drives readers toward introspection and action.

His contagious smile and upbeat demeanor might fool you into thinking achieving Transformation is easy! And it is! But also, it's challenging, it's hard work, and it absolutely takes intention. Our conversation weaves through the ins and outs of intentional transformation, what the nuances are between transformation and change, and the difference that intention makes throughout all of it.

• The differences in getting patient compliance in a closed setting, like a lockdown facility vs the open setting of the general population
• The difference between achieving personal transformation, and making personal changes
• The relationship between fear of change and the power of belief when it comes to transformation
• Why Ian doesn't cry anymore
• How Dr. Brook's book, is really a second draft, which serves as an excellent reminder that failure isn't always failure and that we have a choice about how we move forward from setbacks
• How easy it is to let challenges stop us from doing the good and important things in life
• Ian's personal fork-in-the-road story from a moment when he was in a motorcycle accident
• How living with purpose and intention does not mean that you don't get to also enjoy spacing out, eating chips, and lazing on the couch watching Netflix

"We only have 24 hours in this day. We were only promised the next second. That's it. And I can't tell you what I'm going to do with that next second. But I can tell you that it's going to be done with purpose. I don't want to waste time."

"If you want to kick your feet up and eat a whole bag of potato chips and watch Netflix all day, you're doing with that purpose, whether you realize it or not. Now, if your purpose is really to go out there and exercise, well, then that's a different conversation. But you're still doing what you're doing with purpose because you are doing it intentionally, and that's okay. It isn't always necessarily outcome-based. Sometimes that purpose is: I just need to get lost in my thoughts."

"I can do more than what I'm defined by in this motorcycle injury or otherwise."

"The power of the mind is very interesting. As we think about fear, and the reasons why we don't do certain things, or even potentially the reasons we do, it's very interesting in the context of specifically, this idea of change. Because we do things quite a bit out of fear, not necessarily providing the context around, how do we actually move forward?"

"Change is: I can get someone to do something one day, in a particular moment in time, and just taking very targeted steps to do something different. That's a lot different than transformation, which I think a lot of people are really reaching for. And that is building it into your fabric of who you...

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