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  • Special Encore Presentation: Carry On, Warrior—An Interview with author Glennon Doyle Melton

    Special Encore Presentation: Carry On, Warrior—An Interview with author Glennon Doyle Melton
    Jul 19 2014
    For years Glennon Doyle Melton built a wall between herself and others, hiding inside a bunker of secrets and shame. But one day everything changed: Glennon woke up to life, committing herself to living out loud and giving language to our universal (yet often secret) experiences. She became a sensation when her personal essays started going viral. A selection of them have been compiled into a book titled Carry On, Warrior – Thoughts on Life Unarmed. Each humorous chapter exposes her mistakes and triumphs, demonstrating that love wins and that together we can do hard things. Glennon’s new found fame aligned with her compassionate heart and she began inviting her blog-following friends to financially help families in need. Many people responded, donating hundreds of thousands of dollars which prompted the start-up of Monkee See—Monkee Do, a non-profit organization, of which Glennon is the President. You won’t want to miss this enlightening and fun interview with Glennon Doyle Melton.
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    55 min
  • Grief, Generosity and Love with Marianna Cacciatore

    Grief, Generosity and Love with Marianna Cacciatore
    Jul 5 2014
    Many people have come through a difficult life experience and, upon recovery, were moved by generosity and inspired to help others. Over the span of sixteen years as Executive Director of Bread for the Journey, I have observed that there is a natural relationship between grief and generosity. And if the inspired impulse toward generosity is noticed and nurtured, it leads to an experience of belonging, connection and love that is life-changing and transformative. Join me this week for a talk on Grief, Generosity and Love which will be the subject of my next book. I’d love your company!
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    55 min
  • Go Inspire Go - an Interview with Toan Lam and Kala Shah

    Go Inspire Go - an Interview with Toan Lam and Kala Shah
    Jun 28 2014
    Bread for the Journey of Marin County made a grant of $1,500 to Go Inspire Go. We funded a their Community Heroes program, which is a pilot project that works with young people, helping them to focus their inherent generosity by performing acts of kindness and community service. Kala Shah, the innovator of this program looked around and saw privileged kids living alongside people in need and yet the two were not in relationship with one another. She wanted to change that. Rolling up her sleeves, she started where she could—her own children’s elementary school. Today the program is spreading across the country. Toan Lam, the founder of Go Inspire Go, helped Kala make her dream a reality by listening to her deep need to make a change and encouraging her to create the Community Heroes project under the auspices of Go Inspire Go. Toan Lam—trained as a journalist and TV reporter—created Go Inspire Go as a way to transform media by telling inspiring stories of kindness and generosity on film, and working to leverage social media for social change. Today, Kala and Toan are the dynamic duo, working to grow Go Inspire Go and all of its projects. Join us this week for an inspiring conversation with Toan Lam and Kala Shah of Go Inspire Go.
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    54 min
  • Writing Poetry with John Fox and Marianna Cacciatore

    Writing Poetry with John Fox and Marianna Cacciatore
    Jun 21 2014
    One of the kindest things we can do for ourselves is to honor the deeper urging of the soul by bringing it to the surface and hearing what it has to say. One way to do this is through writing poetry. John Fox, Founder and President of The Institute for Poetic Medicine, recognizes the healing touch of poetry, and he devotes his life to helping people find their poetic words, to write them on paper, to express what matters to them. Marianna Cacciatore has been a writer for many years and recently has returned to writing poems, which feels to her to be the most important thing she is doing right now. This week, John and Marianna will share their own poems with each other. They will talk about what inspired each poem, why images were chosen, what surprised them, how it felt to write it, and perhaps what is happening today as it relates to that poem. Marianna and John will offer simple writing prompts, helping you put pen to paper and jot lines of your own. Please join us for this interactive show designed to encourage the poet in you to emerge.
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    56 min
  • Poetry as Healer : An Interview with John Fox

    Poetry as Healer : An Interview with John Fox
    Jun 14 2014
    There is a way in which poetry reaches down into our depths and places its finger on a healing touchstone. Something happens inside and we are changed. John Fox has devoted his life to the service of poetry as healer. He is the Founder and President of The Institute for Poetic Medicine (IPM). John works with educators, counselors and therapists, doctors, nurses and medical students, those in chaplaincy and pastoral care, cancer support, those in the field of substance abuse, hospice volunteers and staff. He brings “poetic medicine” to people who are living with cancer, who are grieving, children and young people with physical disabilities. IPM funds a range of projects that bring poetry as healer to people. Those projects include people who are homeless, immigrant and refugee youth, those living with acquired brain injury and those with moderate to severe mental health challenges. John believes that there are no limits to the places where poetry can reach to do its healing work.
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    58 min
  • The Inspired Heart ~ An Interview with Artist Jerry Wennstrom

    The Inspired Heart ~ An Interview with Artist Jerry Wennstrom
    Jun 7 2014
    “In 1979, I destroyed all the art I had created, gave everything I owned away, and began a new life…The new life that I gave myself to required unconditional trust and noninterference. I asked for nothing from any human being. I needed to know if there was a God, and I risked my life to find that out….I ate when I had food and I fasted when I did not. I accepted whatever came into my life. It was that simple.” This excerpt from Jerry Wennstrom’s book, The Inspired Heart, with an Introduction by Thomas Moore, describes how Jerry began a new life. His experiences have shaped him in profound ways and informed how Jerry has continued to live these many years. He and his wife Marilyn Strong have been friends of mine since the early 1990’s. I have stayed with them at their home on Whidbey Island several times and spent many satisfying hours in unhurried conversation about the deeper currents of life. Join us for this engaging interview where we will trust the natural current of our conversation to take us where it wants to go, spending an hour with you the way Jerry lives his life. Please take a moment to read his biography below and follow any of the links. I promise you will walk away with an inspired heart. On another note, Bread for the Journey's June Fundraising Campaign is in full swing. Please follow the link to our website and make a donation. You are the reason we exist and, as such, we cannot do our work without you. Your gift means more than you may ever know. Thank you.
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    58 min
  • Special Encore Presentation: Caring for One Another at Neighborcare Health – An interview with Tricia Madden and Mark Aytch

    Special Encore Presentation: Caring for One Another at Neighborcare Health – An interview with Tricia Madden and Mark Aytch
    May 31 2014
    The value we place on community includes healthcare for every man, woman and child, no matter their circumstances. Neighborcare Health in Seattle is an independent community clinic that uncompromisingly provides 100% access to everyone, no matter their economic situation, status of health, or insurance coverage. Beyond their 4 walls, they are on the street, in people’s homes, talking with the homeless and working to build trust among the most marginalized people in the community. Meet Tricia Madden, Program Manager, Homeless Services and Mark Aytch, Physician’s Assistant, as we discuss the day to day rewards and challenges of their work to build an accessible healthcare organization that lives up to its name–Neighborcare. It’s quite amazing to feel their love and commitment to the people they serve and know that Neighborcare Health provides medical services to 50,000 people a year. We would all be lucky to feel so loved by our healthcare professionals. Join us for this enlivening conversation.
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    53 min
  • Special Encore Presentation: Grief, Ritual and the Soul of the World - PART TWO - An Interview with Francis Weller, MFT

    Special Encore Presentation: Grief, Ritual and the Soul of the World - PART TWO - An Interview with Francis Weller, MFT
    May 24 2014
    We are replaying part two of one of our most listened-to shows—our interview with Francis Weller MFT, whose work is deeply attentive to the issue of grief. Francis writes, “For nearly thirty years I have worked with individuals in my practice as a psychotherapist and in workshop settings. The one persistent emotion that has touched everyone is grief. It may be the grief we finally allow ourselves to feel for the life we did not choose. It may be our sorrow for losses that happened early in our life, losses that we were unprepared to grieve. It may be for relationships that fell apart, friendships that have vanished, times of violation and abandonment, or for the suffering we feel for our ravished earth.” Francis is author of the book, Entering the Healing Ground – Grief, Ritual and the Soul of the World. My worn-out copy is filled with notes in the margin, underlined passages and highlighted words. It is one of the best books on grief I have ever read. Please join us tomorrow for PART TWO of my conversation with Francis Weller. If you’d like to listen to PART ONE, click here. You won’t want to miss this interview.
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    56 min