Show Date: 06/14/08
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Be inspired by two young Nashvillians who have connected the dots between people and environment and are
doing something about it. Moses Maxen, cofounder of www.greenernashville.org, talks about his website
connecting events, merchandise, conservation efforts and green groups throughout the city, followed by
Laurel Staples, owner of Ecology clothing store in Green Hills. She talks about her journey from mechanical
engineering to sustainable, organic clothing. Learn the benefits of organic clothing. Were you aware that
in 2000 alone, 84 million lbs of chemicals were used on cotton grown in the US alone? See www.ecologyfashion.com
and check out last week's guest, The Green Bag Lady, at www.greenbaglady.org. Her cloth bags have taken
off and she's seeking seamstresses to assist in this revolution.
In hour two, author Kent Keith discusses "The Paradoxical Commandments" which he wrote forty years ago
as a student but surfaced ten years ago as far away as Mother Teresa's home when she passed.
Two of them are: "People are illogical, unreasonable and self-centered. Love them anyway. The good
you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway." Kent shares beautiful stories of common folk
doing amazing things and encourages us to ask what truly gives us meaning. Go to
www.paradoxicalcommandments.com to learn more and download the "Anyway Challenge."
Show date: 06/07/08
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Many factors prevent family gatherings today, but it's never too late to deeply see those on our family tree.
Carol Edmonton shares steps for "Mining the Gems" in one's family, as she shares how she came upon
fascinating parallels in her life and her uncle's Syd Hoff, the noted cartoonist and humorist.
See www.SydHoff.org as well as www.SacredDoodles.com for more.
Show date: 05/10/08
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In hour 1, Rachel Sumner talks about No Spray Nashville's work related to looking at safer options for
mosquito management. Read more at www.nospraynashville.org and learn about simple steps you can take
to protect yourself without harmful chemicals!
In hour 2, Scotland Native and NYC resident, Ariane Burgess talks about the many labyrinths she's created
in NYC, the benefits, as well as teaching in the Findhorn community in Northern Scotland. Check out
www.caminodepaz.org for stories, photos, and inspiration related to Ariane's creations in Battery Park, the Bronx, and more.
Show Date: 07/28/07
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Fast forward to minute 38:00 for "Look Within" by Philip Daniel, followed by Gary Witkin
who talks with us about the misplaced heart in our society.
Show Date: 04/12/08
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Do you have a radical heart? If so, don't miss Dawn's interview with Ross Falzone, activist and artist
as he discusses his music, motives and mission to teach area youth about the importance of radio.
Learn more about Ross at www.rossfalzone.com.
In our second hour, Matthew Gilbert, Director of Communications from the Institute of Noetic Sciences
joins us to discuss the Shift Report and IONS work in the world. For more check out www.IONS.org
and www.shiftinaction.com. IONS is offering membership for one month, for $1 so you can check out their site.
Show Date: 04/05/08
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Radio Free Nashville is three years old this month. Today's show covers artists and activists from our prior three years.
Beth Nielsen-Chapman's "God Is In" and Steve Conn's "If I Were King" top the hour, followed by Bernie Ellis of
Gathering to Save our Democracy. Go to www.votesafetn.org to be linked to your legislator and voice your support
of the TN Voter Confidence Act (House bill #1256) supporting verifiable voting ballots for this fall's election.
At 28:00 hear Rich Flanders song "Water" from his cd "Yonderings" followed by "Miracles Denied", a poem by Russ Peery
(www.russpeery.com) at 32:00. Around 35:00 hear "Let's Hold Up the Mountains" words by Louisville's Margaret Stewart
performed by New Jersey artist Rob Wortzel.
At 40:30 Dawn is joined by Dorie Bolze, executive director of Harpeth River Watershed Association, who updates us on successes
and challenges related to Tennessee's streams and rivers. While listening, go to www.harpethriver.org and ask legislators
to support legislation protecting Tennessee's streams. The hour ends with Denis Solee's "It Don't Mean a Thing" from
his cd Sax & Swing.
Hour 2 - Denis Solee is followed at 2:50 with laughing with Luther & Susan Ludwig's Laughter Yoga group at Back in Touch Wellness Center.
Luther covers the origin, process and benefits of laughter yoga as well as a closing "roller coaster" laugh.
See www.laughteryoga.org or www.backintouchwellness.com for more. At 12:00 Dawn reads Russ Peery's poem "Got Got in My Bathtub."
At 16:00 Gerry Dignan does a soulful version of "This Little Light of Mine" followed at 21:20 when we catch up with
Dickson senior Ellie Morse, founder of a Schools 4 Schools program from Uganda's Invisible Children. Did Ellie meet
her $10,000 goal? Did she win a trip to Washington? What's next for Ellie? Check out www.invisiblechildren.com.
The hour concludes with local songwriter David Kinnick's "We Are Connected" and Steve Conn's "Great Big Beautiful World."
Note: all musicians' work is available in stores or on-line. Thanks for checking us out and Wake Up to your life. It's waiting.
Show Date: 03/29/08
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Is it merely coincidence that in these times when sex is suggestively used to sell things, the media regularly reveals the sexual secrets
of persons of prominence and sex addiction as well as sex trafficking is soaring that we're simultaneously hearing of the return
of the Divine Feminine, the healing the Divine Masculine as well as Sacred Sex and Sacred Geometry? If we're all connected
as research in quantum physics suggests, how might each of us owning our sexual shadow potentially heal the world?
Dawn and her guests Dorothy Marcic and Leslie Blackburn begin to bring sex out of the shadows while listening for the sacred.
Dorothy Marcic, a former Vanderbilt business management professor and author of many books including managing with the Wisdom of the Heart
was one of 6,000 women in attendance at the UN recent 52nd Commission on the Status of Women. She shares her experience at the conference
in relation to the billion dollar business of sex trafficking, a business which brings 500,000 girls into Europe each year.
Dorothy shares stories of hope. (Learn more about Dorothy at
www.drdorothy.com and her acclaimed musical www.respectthemusical.com)
In the second hour, Dawn is joined by Leslie Blackburn of Dearborn, Michigan. An engineer by training, Leslie is also an artist, yogini and Tantrika.
She combined her management skills with her creativity and passion for the spiritual path to form One Space
(See www.onespaceconnected.com)
a teaching/learning community where she teaches Sacred Geometry and Sacred Sexuality. We'll explore these topics along with healing
the masculine and feminine in hopes of discerning the potential interconnectedness of these topics in these times.
Show Date: 03/22/08
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Spring is upon us and today's show is filled with seeds of inspiration and restoration. We start with a tune from jazz artist Denis Solee
then talk with author John H. DeVault about his book, Unum: Questions for Reclaiming an Indivisible American. Is it possible to return
to the dream of the founding fathers? Listen in and buy Unum at lulu.com where two chapters are available for reading.
John's interview begins at 4:00. At 37:25 find out how Denis Solee came to jazz as well as the musical experience
that's stayed with him for twenty years. Denis now teaches at the Nashville Jazz Workshop and Blair School of Music.
He's played with Ray, Aretha and Liza (as in Charles, Franklin and Minelli). His music is available at
Green Hill Music and Village Square Music.
Hour 2: Denis' interview concludes just into the 9:00 hour. Then hear Beginning to See the Light at 7:00
prior to Dawn's talk with Lisa Shively, editor of Nashville's new magazine, Local Table. (see www.localtable.net)
Lisa and Dawn connect the dots between the benefits of eating locally, the environment, the economy and our bodies.
At 45:00 hear another tune from Denis before Dawn checks in with former guest and locavoire Marty Johnson (47:25).
Marty committed to a year of eating locally. She shares what it's been like thus far to eat within a one hundred mile radius
of her home Mendocino, CA.
Show Date: 03/15/08
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Join us as we explore and restore our relationship to the earth through music, poetry, and dialogue.
In our first hour, we talk with Carol Ohmart Behan from upstate New York about the upcoming World Water Day,
consciously using intention and attention to change water using Dr. Masaru Emoto's work, and Onondaga Lake,
the historical home of the Peacemaker and once one of America's dirtiest lakes. See www.worldwaterday.net
and go to www.hado.net and here for photos of Dr. Emoto's water crystals and more.
See www.onondagalakepeacefestival.org for more on Onondaga Lake.
At 9:00am, we use music, poetry and dialogue to devote time to the mountains of Appalachia, the second most biodiverse
area of the world. Margaret Stewart of Louisville, KY talks about www.ilovemountains.org and her journey to Mountaintop Removal,
what it is, how we contribute in our own homes to the painful destruction of mountain tops and what we can do to help
heal and reclaim these mountains. This is an ongoing issue in TN too. See www.tnleaf.org for legislative efforts
to protect Tennessee's mountains. Other resources include the books "Lost Mountain,""Strange as this Weather Has Been," and the dvds
"Lost Kilowatt Hours"
and "Black Diamonds." In addition, don't miss Kathy Mattea's upcoming cd "Coal" out in early April.
Show Date: 02/26/08
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Jim Garrison of Wisdom University, a graduate program offering study in the wisdom of the world's
spiritual traditions,talks about the ways of knowing through religion and science, what wisdom and
the Socratic way offers us in this time of systemic challenge and breakdown. He also discusses the Cultural Creatives
and the New Chartres Mystery School outside Paris. www.wisdomuniversity.org is a site not to be missed.
Their monthly newsletter via email is filled with gems and free to all.
Show Date: 02/09/08
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Acclaimed songwriter just back from a sold-out tour in the United Kingdom, Beth Nielsen Chapman
shares the journey of "Prism", her new cd featuring songs of devotion from Buddhist, Jewish, Sufi
Shaker, Negro-spiritual, Hindu, Catholic and Protestant traditions. Beth talks of the journey of
Prism's seed-like beginnings sown in the late 90's and fertilized by Bishop Desmond Tutu
on 9/11/2002 at the National Cathedral where Beth also sang. Once she got out of the way and into the flow,
the process took off as did Beth, traveling around the world learning multiple languages for the songs
as well as recording in South Africa. Tidbits of several songs are included. www.bethnielsenchapman.com
Show Date: 01/26/08
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"Riding Into Your Mythic Life" - Listen as Trish Broersma talks about the possibility offered us
through horses to awaken to a greater, or mythic, life. Horse ownership not required to enjoy this book
or interview! Check out www.trishbroersma.com.
Show Date: 01/19/08
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"Five Wishes" - How could one simple question, asked by a stranger at a party, change your life?
Author and co-founder of Spiritual Circle Cinema, Gay Hendricks, talks about this in his new book
"Five Wishes", and yes, how one question brought his life into focus creating greater consciousness.
Show Date: 01/12/08
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"Back from Bali" - Katie Doyle and LJ Ratliff talk about the Balinese weaving of art & spirituality into
daily living, our lives as offerings and more. For future trips and more, check out "The Queen of Heavy Mental".
Show Date: 01/05/08
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"Swamp Gravy" - Joy Jinks shares how the process of story collecting transformed her dying town
and is now transforming communities throughout the U.S. and the world.
Swamp Gravy is more than a play. Swamp Gravy is a movement. www.swampgravy.com
Show Date: 12/22/07
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Author, teacher, philosopher and researcher Jean Houston, joins Mike and Dawn from her Ashland, OR home
to talk about the times in which we're living, including steps one can take to engage more deeply and meaningfully
in these mythic times. (Go to www.jeanhouston.com for info on Jean's 25th year of Mystery Schools,
Social Artistry, and her audio library filled with talks from the past year.)
Show Date: 12/15/07
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Nashville resident Connally Penley epitomizes the title of our show, "Wake Up & Live" through her involvement
with Ten Thousand Villages, a global art cooperative representing 100 artisan groups from more than 30 countries
as well as her work with Magdalene, the area's recovering program for prostitutes, and being a board member
of the Tennesse Scenic Rivers Association.
Check out www.tenthousandvillages.com,
www.paddletsra.org, and
www.thistlefarms.org
Show Date: 12/01/07
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Deborah Plummer of Irvine, CA discusses Give a Jump Start, an NGO giving women in Zambia a jump start.
(Check out www.giveajumpstart.org for more information.)
Part 2 concludes Deborah's interview, then we speak with former Nashvillian, now Canadian Teresa Harris
about her travels to Ghana and her work with the troksi, women who as children were given to religious
leaders to pay for "sins" committed by the family. (See www.innetwork.org for more information.)
Show Date: 11/17/07
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Olivia Barham of Los Angeles talks about personalizing funerals and her business Sacred Crossings.
(More at www.sacredcrossings.com)
Show Date: 10/06/07
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This show begins with "If I Were King" by singer/songwriter Steve Conn.
( www.steveconn.com ) Steve talks about his writing
process and the influence of Social Activist/ progressive Baptist minister Will Campbell regarding the song, "Love Everybody".
Next, learn about East Coast Mystery Schooler and upstate New York resident Carol Ohmart Behan's pilgrimages
to Glastonbury England. For more, check out www.MeadowMuse.com or www.goldenspiraljourney.com .
(Carol has links to the newborn white buffalo calf in her area at her site.)
The second hour begins with the song, "Artistry" by Nashvillian Sharon Mounu Riddell. (The week after Dawn returned
from Social Artistry in 2006, she synchronistically met Mounu. Mouno had written "Artistry" twenty years prior,
and had often thought it was the perfect song for Social Artistry.)
Then hear Joyce Mcnamara on Social Artistry and about her recent venture into creating "The Social Artist's Companion,"
a monthly E-Zine connecting Social Artists. For more on Social Artistry, go to
www.jeanhouston.org .
To receive a free copy of the first issue of the Companion, email Joyce at joycemm@peoplepc.com .
Did you know the average meal travels 1500 miles to reach your plate? Marty Johnson, of Mendocino, CA
talks about the importance of eating locally grown foods, and sustainability.
For more on Nashville's local food movement, go to www.localtable.net .
Show Date: 08/25/07
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Dawn and Mike talk with Anjela Dale from Allentown, PA about The Pachamama Aliance,
an organization birthed to protect indigenous cultures, and Awakening The Dreamer,
symposiums awakening us from our industrial, consumer nightmare to the possibility
of living in deep relationship with the Earth and one another.
To learn more, go to www.pachamama.org
and www.awakeningthedreamer.org
Show Date: 09/08/07
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If there's another way, today's hour holds seeds of that possibility presented
through music, movie, and poetry. Hear "Peace is Sexy" by Clifford Browder,
"There's Another Way" by Jan Garrett and JD Martin (www.idreamedofrain.com)
and an interview with LA writer and producer, Olivia Barham, who's working on
the 2008 movie "The Science of Peace". (www.scienceofpeace.com)
Show Date: 09/22/07
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Dawn talks with Norman Ober and Rich Flanders. Previously an atheist,
Norman Ober, the author of "Anita's Heaven", talks about his wife of
nearly fifty years making contact with him via automatic writing,
and the changes this initiated in his life and beliefs.
Later, Dawn talks with Rich Flanders about his recently released cd, "Yonderings"
a colection of western inspired songs honoring nature and the heart.
Rich shares his experience of things coming together once he set his intent.
The interview begins with his song "All Wild Things". For more, go to www.richflanders.com
Show Date: 05/19/07
What similarities do dentistry and songwriting share?
Creativity, presence, and Rob Wortzel.
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Check out his CD HERE.
Show Date: 09/16/06
Victoria Castle, author of, "The Trance of Scarcity",
talks about how biology, belief, and autopilot contribute to the trance,
as well as how we can shift our insides, thus the world.
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