Featured on CNN, viralmindfulness.com, HIV Plus Magazine, The Gay HotSpot, and the cover of Positively Aware—my work as a mindfulness teacher and artist encourages you to discover your spiritual rhythm. I earned a Master of Social Work (MSW) from the University of Utah in 2003, and a Bachelor of Science from Brigham Young University (1999). During migration from a basement office (with no windows) at Salt Lake Community College’s Health & Wellness Services, I resigned from the traditional cl ...
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Work in progress noun (plural works in progress) an unfinished project that is still being added to or developed: Discovering the blueprint of up-and-coming creators and their unfinished legacy Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/work-in-progress/support
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In the Life After College Works Podcast, Jason Reid interviews past College Works alumni to pick their brains about what makes them such successful entrepreneurs. This is the perfect podcast for anyone between the ages of 18-25 to learn more about how to be successful after they graduate from college.
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Welcome to Voices of the Community, we strive to amplify solutions facing where we live through featuring residents like you, along with change makers, and thought leaders to support our fellow residents and people visiting or working in our area. “Our goal is to feature the unheard comments and stories from communities across our region in hopes to create dialogues to address our common problems and support the change of the status quo.” - George Koster, Creator/Host
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Noted author of 10 Insider Secrets to a Winning Job Search and Cognitive Selling, and Founder of TCC Learning LLC (www.tcclearning.com), Todd Bermont’s mission with Your Career Radio and his courseware program, The Careers College is to positively impact people’s lives by giving them the education, tools, and resources needed to land the ideal job. Whether people are out of work or hate their job, it negatively impacts every aspect of their life. With his books, seminars, courseware, and rad ...
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Daniel is the youngest of six children born to John and Joyce Bonham. Having moved to Tigard when he was a year old, Daniel graduated from Tigard High School in 1995, before attending Linfield College in McMinnville. Daniel met his wife Lori and they began their family the same year he graduated Linfield with a Bachelor’s degree in Business in 1998. During college, Daniel started his first business as a painting contractor and was also able to study abroad at the University of Costa Rica for ...
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Make Sit Happen: Touch The Present Moment, Explore Quality of Thoughts and Mind
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Before you dive into a longer meditation, take a moment to check in with your mind. Where are you at right now? To ground yourself in the present, it can help to ask a few simple questions, ones that bring you into direct contact with what's unfolding inside you.Here's another question and touchpoint: What is the quality of you thoughts right now? …
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Autumn's Edge 03 Finding Space (and Colours) In The "Chaos" Of Your Mind
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In this episode, I reflect on the experience of engaging in a 7-day meditation challenge, offering insights on the power of simple, short meditations and the universal struggle with meditation. I share personal experiences of how incorporating even brief, 1-minute meditations has led to greater consistency and depth in my practice this week. Drawin…
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Make Sit Happen: Touch The Present Moment, Explore Any Physical Sensations
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Before you dive into a longer meditation, take a moment to check in with your mind. Where are you at right now? To ground yourself in the present, it can help to ask a few simple questions, ones that bring you into direct contact with what's unfolding inside you.Here's the next question: Are you experiencing any physical sensations? Pain, tightness…
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Make Sit Happen: Touch The Present Moment, What Are You Feeling?
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Before you dive into a longer meditation, take a moment to check in with your mind. Where are you at right now? To ground yourself in the present, it can help to ask a few simple questions, ones that bring you into direct contact with what's unfolding inside you.Start with this: What are you feeling? Can you connect with that? It could be an emotio…
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Is Hope Sus? Why Letting Go Might Just Set You Free
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In this episode, we explore why hope, while seemingly positive, might actually be keeping you stuck. Drawing inspiration from the slang "sus" (popularized by the game Among Us), we’ll dive into how hope can sometimes feel like a trap—suspicious, even. With teachings from Pema Chödrön and Stephen Jenkinson’s Die Wise, we’ll uncover how clinging to h…
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Bash Bish Falls, Mt. Washington, Massachusetts
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In this episode I'll introduce you to Massachusetts largest waterfall. Sit next to Bash Bish Falls and listen for 3 minutes. Listen. Notice. Love. Sit. Stay until the three minutes is up.Oleh Alexander Smith | Mindfulness Teacher
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Autumn's Edge 01: Super Simple 7-Day Meditation Challenge
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Welcome to Autumn's Edge. Let's start with a 7-day meditation challenge. Super simple suggestions in this episode! Start today and finish Thursday, October 3, 2024. The next few episodes will be guided meditation tracks, also called MAKE SIT HAPPEN. More resources for your meditation practice → https://www.viralmindfulness.com/guided-meditation-sta…
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Discover the Future of Creative Work!
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"We’re living through the greatest art heist of all time. Billions of images, data, and content were scraped illegally, impacting creative jobs, and AI is at the forefront of this transformation." - Nicole Hendrix The creative economy is at a crossroads, grappling with issues of fair pay, technological disruption, and access to resources. The panel…
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"In Chinese lore, the Fifth Season is late summer, when the glare is gone and only the color of things as they are can reach us. It takes all the seasons to become this bare. All the turmoil to be worn of edges. All the loss to hold on to nothing. All the seasons to wear our hands open. Landing here, I no longer want things. I only want moments. In…
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"How Can We Possibly Be Joyful In A Moment Like This?"
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Join me for an early morning cup of coffee next to a cozy campfire in Copake, New York. We'll discuss joy as an opportunity, even a "calling -- precisely in a moment like this" (Krista Tippett). My joy dances intimately with the pain, struggle and impermanence of modern life. Can you create space to hold joy while you're navigating difficulties? I'…
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Voices of Change: "The Intersection of Art, Equity, & Economic Empowerment"
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“So if you have not tapped into community members that you are serving, that you are working with, then you are missing a large, piece of the solution to your problems”. - Heather Heslep Gentrification, displacement, the struggle for ownership... these are the challenges faced by many communities today. But what if art could be the key to preservin…
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CA Arts & Culture Summit "Arts and Health" panel
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"At the structural level, we don’t make decisions based on evidence. If we did, we would have universal healthcare and basic income. The arts can be part of this shift” - Tasha Golden Join Nefesha Yisra’el from California for the Arts as she introduces our second episode, featuring a powerful panel discussion on the intersection of arts and health.…
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The Future of Arts & Culture in California: Keynote Insights from the California Arts & Culture Summit
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"Together we can create a world where arts and culture are recognized and invested in as essential to society, embedded in community life, and intersecting with broader policy change to reshape systems towards equity and justice." - Julie Baker Join us as we kick off our second season, celebrating the vibrant and resilient arts and culture scene th…
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The Music Will Save Us In The End
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Behind the scenes of my Spring Piano Recital and Watercolour Series: Romance With Rainwater. Harvey Rose and John Harvey Cates pop in with a little audio fun from their garden in New City, NY. All things Alexander → viralmindfulness.com → Get your tickets for my recital next weekend. XXOO Yours Bluely…
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Make Sit Happen: The Life Of A Garden
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In this 20 minute guided meditation we'll explore a garden within your heart and mind's eye, as we simmer on the words of Maria Papova:"The life of a garden is a vivid reminder that anything of beauty and radiance takes time, takes care, takes devotion to seed and sprout and bloom, gardens have long been living cathedrals for the creative spirit.An…
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LIVE from Taos, New Mexico, Part 2 Conversations On Fear
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Kitty girls, squirrel friends and soul siblings! We just hit 20,000 downloads on the podcast. Thanks for the love! Are you ready to sashay your way along the trails with me? Honey, we're talking about Flagstaff, Arizona, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, serving you trail realness. As I make my pilgrimage to Taos, New Mexico, this episode is a journey pack…
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LIVE from Santa Fe, New Mexico | Conversations On Fear
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LIVE from Santa Fe, New Mexico | Conversations On Fear by Alexander Smith | Mindfulness TeacherOleh Alexander Smith | Mindfulness Teacher
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Discover the Artist Space Trust: Unlocking the Future of Housing for Creatives!
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"The interesting thing about a Land Trust is that it's a split title, we'll split the title and the land trust will own the land forever. And then we'll either sell or lease the housing or creative space on top of it to artists" - Meg Shiffler Welcome to the finale of our series on affordable housing for the creative workforce, brought to you in pa…
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It's My New Year! And Harvey Texted Me For The First Time Today!
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This is the second year I'm celebrating the New Year at the Spring Equinox. I thought March 25th, being the full moon and all, would be the perfect beginning. Do you know about my Guided Meditation Starter Kit? I'll tell you about it. Don't just take my word for it, Bryce Orvin recently left me a comment after practicing one of the guided meditatio…
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A Pause In Decades: My 21st HIV Birthday (March 17, 2024)
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Watch the CNN interview, explore pictures from my World AIDS Day Keynote (2011), and learn more about Dime Stories (today's reading) → blessyourvirus.comOleh Alexander Smith | Mindfulness Teacher
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How to Buy Your Performance Space | CAST & CounterPulse Real Estate Model
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"The resilience that we have to live through booms and busts and pandemics and continue to serve the community, continue to drive foot traffic, continue to create economic opportunities for local people to have jobs and work and express themselves is just incredible. So if you're struggling with a storefront or a vacancy or empty space, just rememb…
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Winter's Edge: My Melancholy and a Public Service Social Worker Announcement (PSSWA)
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Winter's Edge: My Melancholy and a Public Service Social Worker Announcement (PSSWA) by Alexander Smith | Mindfulness TeacherOleh Alexander Smith | Mindfulness Teacher
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In this episode I talk about my Midwinter Melancholy and how music is at the top of my "treatment plan." I read an essay I wrote in 2002 applying for an international Summer practicum in Eastern Europe (Bulgaria). It's called, MUSIC LESSONS. I got the internship and had an epic summer (circa 2002). I finish the episode offering you a blessing from …
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REP-SF’s Citywide People’s Plan for Affordable Housing
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“It's about forcing the city to make sure that they build affordable housing. And there's lots of, programs that we have in the Citywide People's Plan that can make, huge steps towards, building affordable housing” - Dyan Ruiz This episode is part of our ongoing Special Series on How the Arts and Culture sector is coming back from the covid 19 pand…
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Snotty Tales Of Mucus & Textiles
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Snotty tales of mucus, textiles (my new bedding) and cashmere of course. I've emerged from a January whirlwind. Let's start with the cold/flu/covid which drop kicked me into bed for seven days. Thank Goddess I bought new flannel sheets and two down pillows (with Mulberry silk cases) in December. I'll share a juicy quote from Katherine May's WINTERI…
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Proposition E, 2018 & Arts Impact Endowment Update & Discussion & Grants For The Arts
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"I think the action and the continuity of the coalition from Prop S to Prop E went from 40 organizations to 140 organizations. That was something that was huge” - Vin Seaman In this seventh episode of our series focusing on the arts and culture sector's recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, we bring you highlights from the Co-Production of Arts For …
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Starry Night Yosemite | Foresta, CA, 9PM PT, Sept 10, 2023
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Make sit happen under the stars of nighttime in Yosemite National Park.Oleh Alexander Smith | Mindfulness Teacher
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Starry Morning Yosemite | Foresta, CA, 5AM PT, Sept 11, 2023
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Make sit happen under the stars of an early morning in Yosemite National Park.Oleh Alexander Smith | Mindfulness Teacher
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Make Sit Happen - Forgiveness - The riddle and process known as forgivenss
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I'm not sure forgiveness is real. I like to think of it as a riddle. May this guided meditation encourage ideas related to "forgiveness." It's a process, not a decision or an event. You don't have to forgive everyone. Here are the three phrases we'll work with: 1. I forgive you for the harm you have caused2. Knowingly or in ignorance, you were suff…
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"If everything around seems dark, look again, you may be the light" (RUMI).I'm writing on Winter's Eve to remind you that your light matters.The darkness and sorrow within my life is the reason I can hold authentic joy, peace and playfulness.Lebanese-American poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran suggests "the deeper that sorrow carves into your being…
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How Do Community Based Arts Orgs Secure Sustainable Funding?
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“Bringing the scale of human life to the community again so that we can kind of start seeing our humanity and our everyday Experiences” - Melissa Abercrombie This episode is from our November 4th 2023 live event co-production with the Petaluma Arts Center, our broadcast partners KPCA 103.3fm and Petaluma Community Access TV and BAVC Media. This spe…
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Daddy Drag, My Desert Of Dementia With Cardell W Smith (My Father)
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I've been a little quiet here on the podcast as I've been processing big events, including time with Dad, in my Desert of Dementia (Arizona). He's been living with dementia since 2015 and this was our first time face to face where he didn't know who I was most of the 5 days. This episode presents in a "Blue's State of the Union Update" highlighting…
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Meredith Winner - Paint the Void & Lyzette Wanzer - Author of Trauma, Tresses & Truth
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“I think really being open minded and also really trusting artists is a really big, important factor because. Artists know what they're doing, at least when it comes to making the artwork, that's why people hire them and allow them to have the most creative freedom as possible, really. Usually allows the project to be as best as it can be or as goo…
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Fernando Pujals & Rachel Osajima- How their using the Arts for Economic & Community Development
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"So of course, the pandemic was a struggle for all of us, and so we all know the arts organizations are the first to close and last open, especially the performing arts are really still struggling" - Rachel Osajima This episode is the long form of our one-on-one interview with Fernando Pujals, the Deputy Director of the Mid-Market Business Associat…
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Regional Economic Recovery Through the Arts
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"There's been a lot of talk about, how do you make this sustainable, and there's not one answer, but one piece that is core to that, is really galvanizing and cementing around this notion that arts and culture is already right here and we need to lean into it and value it and uplift it. And in that way it won't be able to be ignored'“ - Fernando Pu…
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Revisiting Artists’ Housing Solutions
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"So looking at how do we build an ecology where affordable housing isn't just a place you stay, it's a place you stay and work and build a business and raise a family and, you know, build the economic resources,for the next step. " - Josh Simon This episode is part of our special series on how the arts and culture sector is coming back from the Cov…
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Let me intimate my response and thoughts on a few sentences from Gabor Maté's book, 'The Myth Of Normal.' Inside you. Think of your trauma as an inner injury. “Trauma is not what happens to you but what happens inside you.” Details about Late-Fall Wise Circles which start the week of November 13 and run for five weeks. Early bird discount on tuitio…
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While visiting Yosemite I did some reading about John Muir and his adventures in the Sierra Nevada, including Yosemite. I found a phrase by an author named Gretel Ehrlich that left an impression; she was referencing John's early life and his lack of "intellectual interludes." I carried the word interlude with me along the trails and rivers of Yosem…
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Ralph Remington of San Francisco Arts Commission - Interview at Arts for a Better Bay Area State of the Arts Summit
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“One of the things that I, would say to this community coming from a repressed community is let’s turn to each other, not on each other. Let’s bond together, and find our commonality, not our differences. Because the enemy, I’ve seen the enemy in Arizona, and it is not us. So when we have small differences with each other, let’s recognize them for …
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Make Sit Happen: Healing Trauma, A Guided Meditaion Journey, Written by Belleruth Naparstek
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Make Sit Happen: Healing Trauma, A Guided Meditaion Journey, Written by Belleruth Naparstek by Alexander Smith | Mindfulness TeacherOleh Alexander Smith | Mindfulness Teacher
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BLUE NOISE: Foresta Falls in Yosemite National Park (60 Minutes)
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Swap your brown noise, green, white, or violet for this unique Yosemite waterfall. Blue Noise, an offering from Foresta Falls, which is deep on the edge of Yosemite National Park (in Foresta, CA). Recorded live, on location, Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 6:02PM PT.Oleh Alexander Smith | Mindfulness Teacher
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Make Sit Happen: Crane Creek in Foresta, CA (Yosemite National Park)
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Enjoy the beautiful voice of Crane Creek in Foresta, California. On the edge, right in Yosemite National Park.Oleh Alexander Smith | Mindfulness Teacher
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May Your Life (and Pain) Carve a Yosemite-Like Canyon Within You (Inner Strength and Beauty)
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I spent last week in Yosemite National Park for 7 nights. I have some ideas I want to share with you. Details about Fall Wise Circles. Piano Recitals With Watercolour Giveaways THIS WEEK. Four to choose from. 45 minutes on ZOOM. Thursday, Sept. 21, 7PM-7:45PM PT, Friday, Sept. 22, 6PM-6:45PM PT, Saturday, Sept. 23 (First Day of Autumn), 2PM-2:45PM …
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Arts for a Better Bay Area State of the Arts Summit – “Economic Recovery in the Arts: Regaining Patrons and Artistic Engagement” Ep 3
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"It's all about partnering artists with small businesses to create site specific installations and that way create more exposure both for the business and for the artists and also to revitalize those corridors" - Vanessa Wilson This is our second episode from the co-production with Arts for a Better Bay Area of the re-launch of the State of the Art…
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And Just Like That... I Turned 50 Years Old In August
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I’m home from Summer on the East Coast, ready to begin Second Summer in Southern California (find out what this means). I talk about my big blue birthday party on Broadway and the surprise visitors who flew across the country. In this episode I welcome new listeners I met (in-person) in Boone, North Carolina through Laura McKowen’s weekend retreat …
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Maria Jensen of SOMARTS Cultural Center - Interview at Arts for a Better Bay Area State of the Arts Summit
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“This is a time when the art community's creative expertise and skills and talents are being relied upon. And finally, really seen as major contributors to the local economy.” – Maria Jensen This interview with Maria Jensen is part of our co-production with Arts for a Better Bay Area of the re-launch of the State of the Arts Summit on June 28th, 20…
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Jonathan Moscone Interview at Arts for a Better Bay Area State of the Arts Summit
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"A clean city is not what San Francisco is. San Francisco is a messy city. It’s politically messy, it’s diverse. It fights amongst itself. It is San Francisco and it’s never not gonna be. So, let’s lean into the right kind of messy of San Francisco and artists can get messy. So, let’s get messy." — Jonathan Moscone, Executive Director,California Ar…
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Arts for a Better Bay Area State of the Arts Summit - Opening & Keynotes Ep 2
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“This is a time when the art community's creative expertise and skills and talents are being relied upon. And finally, really seen as major contributors to the local economy.” – Maria Jensen This is our first episode from the co-production with Arts for a Better Bay Area of the re-launch of the State of the Arts Summit on June 28th, 2023 . This epi…
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"Muscular Hope" Your Invitation To Take An Imaginative Leap
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I'm simmering this summer with two words: MUSCULAR HOPE. Krista Tippet has inspired this adventure in idea."I talk about hope being a muscle.It’s not wishful thinking, and it’s not idealism. It’s not even a belief that everything will turn out OK. It’s an imaginative leap, which is what I’ve seen in people like John Lewis and Jane Goodall. Thes…
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COAX: My Favorite Four-Letter Word
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In a snack-size, Summer's almost here episode, I share one of my favorite four-letter words. COAX always arrives, right on time, and encourages me. Coax is like a mantra, or prayer, that influences a shift, with gentle persuasion, flattery, etc. Even cajole! Only one more rainwater poppy painting available to purchase: viralmindfulness.com/gallery…
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