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Today’s show, “Beauty from Within” was my initiation to KPCRadio.com. I had a great chat with nutritionist and author, Ken Babel about maintaining natural beauty and his most recent book, “Mushrooms for Health and Longevity.” We gabbed about mushrooms, powerful ways to eat and how to improve “hanky panky” while living a beautiful life.
John Savage talks about his decades in film from Hair, Dear Hunter, his lifetime achievement awards, and his most recent films this year in Africa, China, and Japan.He also shares his expieriences about giving back to the community and the greatness of education.
James Hermon the program director for KPCRadio.com talks about directing the program and working in the studio. Jacob Keyser a videographer also talks about “life in the studio” at KPCR. It is an in depth interview of what it takes to run a radio station at Pierce College in Woodland Hills.
Today, Dr. Angeles Arrien, cultural anthropologist and award winning author who speaks internationally, shared her insight into Gratitude, explaining how every culture has ways to say “Thank You”. Dr. Arrien spoke about the gratitude practices, perennial wisdom (multi-cutlural wisdom), and the four universal portals to gratitude. She also discussed overcoming the obstacles to gratitude, and shared insight into “grateful seeing”. Her book “Living in Gratitude” is a must read if you are interested in cultivating gratitude into your daily life!
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Today in studio founders, the executive director, and volunteers came in to speak about their experience with the Village Gardeners, an organization committed to restoring a stretch of the Los Angeles River that runs along Valley Heart between Fulton and Coldwater Canyon, in the San Fernando Valley. The inspiration of two individuals dedicated to planting along the walkway, blossomed into hundreds of volunteers offering their time and assistance in helping this stretch along the LA River to thrive!
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“Parks Make Life Better” is the newest slogan from the California Parks and Recreation Society, an organization dedicated to promoting the benefit of parks, and the professions associated with park and recreation departments. Patty Ham, Supervisor for the Borchard Park Community Center in Conejo Valley, CA, spoke about how parks build community, provide leisure and recreation opportunities, and even help with community conflict resolution.
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Borchard Park Community Center
California Parks and Recreation Society
National Recreation and Parks Association
Each year in Los Angeles County approximately 1400 foster youth “age out” of the foster care system. Many of these young adults are ill equipped to support themselves and navigate being on their own. In an effort to assist these young adults, the Southern California Foster Family Adoption Agency (SCFFAA) created the Foster Youth Alumni (FYA) Co-Mentoring Project, a program that puts willing, supportive and committed adults together with transitioning young adults. This innovative program provides mentoring in a non-traditional way, offering a “family style” experience whereby both the young adults, and the adult co-mentors benefit from working together. Lianne Goldsmith, Program Director of the FYA Co-Mentoring Project spoke about her program, and how individuals can get involved.
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Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky joined me via phone today to discuss her research on happiness, her book “The How of Happiness”, her upcoming book “The Prepared Mind” and her “Live Happy” and “Gratitude Stream” apps. Sonja shared why it’s important to study happiness, how we measure happiness, the different happiness activities we can engage in, and how we have the power to be happy!
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