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Arts Alive In Santa Maria, Sarah Raines (Program Coordinator with Youth ARTS Alive)

Sarah Raines is a graduate of NYU in classical voice. Central coast locals may have seen her on the stages of The Great American Melodrama, Opera Santa Barbara, or SLO Repertory Theater. She is also a theater director, credits including: The Lion King Jr. at Los Berros Visual and Performing Arts Academy, High School Musical Jr. with Lompoc Youth Theater, and South Pacific at the University of Great Falls. She further honed her Read more…

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Cultivate More Compassion

Joan Marie is an Artist, Conscious Touch Educator and owner of Compassion Central, An Educational Sanctuary for Peace in Carmichael. She is the cofounder of Compassionate Capital Region, an Ambassador of Compassionate Sacramento and on the Compassionate Arts Council. Part of the Charter for Compassion Women and Girls, and steward of the Red Tent here in the Sacramento area and she helped create the V2020 webinar series. She produced the local Day of Read more…

By wonheart1@gmail.com, ago

Big Transformation During This Summer Solstices

Heather Green is an intuitive, channel, animal communicator and energy healer for humans and animals. She brings through messages from the Pleiadian High Council, Angels of the Elohim, and animal collectives to assist others with navigating their lives during these times of accelerated change. Heather has provided her intuitive and healing services worldwide since 2009. She authored, “For the Love of Horses: An Animal Communicator’s Guide to Helping Our Horses and Healing Our Read more…

By wonheart1@gmail.com, ago

Finding Your Gift By Being Authentic

Interview not available. Gage Bock (MA, PCC Coach) values authenticity, nature, making a difference, courage, independence, growth, having fun/play, creativity, and this absolutely magical and magnificent planet that we get to call home.  Her path to where she is today has been a long and winding one. For example, before becoming a coach in 2013, she worked as a waitress, a tour leader, a curatorial assistant, a personal assistant to a well known Read more…

By wonheart1@gmail.com, ago

Can We Begin To Heal After Racial Injustice?

Gail lives on the Central Coast of California with her husband, daughter and son. She has a BA from San Francisco State in Broadcast Communications and has served 33 years in local government.  She’s a writer, director, actress and very active in her local theater community where she wrote a play called “Waking Up” which was featured in the Actor’s Theatre 8Tens@Eight – 25th Annual Play Festival in early 2020. Gail also DJs Read more…

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Covid 19 Local Organic Farm. An interview with Kate Mahoney (Assistant Manager for Blosser Urban Garden)

Kate’s passion stems from being raised on an organic farm (she was actually raised in her family’s historic farm house otherwise known as the BUG property). Her background is in public health and sustainable agriculture where she’s been involved in many different components of the food system. Currently she’s the healthy retail specialist for the County of San Diego focusing on projects to improve healthy food access to under resourced communities by working Read more…

By wonheart1@gmail.com, ago

Covid-19 Backyard Garden for Health and Wellbeing? – An interview with Felicity Lazo (Creator of Santa Maria Backyard Exchange, Central Coast Green Team and Nipomo Gardeners).

Felicity was born in downtown Los Angeles 75 years ago. Living with her grandmother off Wilshire Blvd she can remember wheat fields all the way down to Santa Monica. After the war her family settled and moved to Whittier where she had plenty of room to roam the hills and orchards of Southern California. She’s been gardening since she could walk and her first job at 8 years old was helping in the Read more…

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Opportunities To Create A Healthy Family. Whine or Wine?

Becky Corey has been a Food, Wine and Hospitality Industry Leader for the past 30 years. She successfully ran several wineries in Arroyo Grande and Santa Maria from 1992-2005. From there she started a wine company with her husband in 2003 called CORE Wine Company in Santa Maria, Ca. where she handles all aspects of their wine business both wholesale and retail. She also teaches part time as a Chef Instructor at Allan Read more…

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How Our Children Are Doing during shutdowns.

Alejandra Mahoney works for Peoples’ Self-Help Housing which has a mission to build permanent, supportive housing with site-based services that offer opportunities to change lives and strengthen communities, Peoples’ Self-Help Housing is the longest serving nonprofit housing organization on California’s Central Coast. They support low income families, farmworkers, seniors, and veterans and provide welcoming environments for those living with disabilities and for the formerly homeless. Along with building and managing beautiful and accessible Read more…

By wonheart1@gmail.com, ago

Chronic Disease And How To Recover

Jean Jones has a passion for guiding clients to live in exquisite health. Her life-long interest in science and wellbeing resulted in her certification as a Functional Medicine Health Coach. Functional Medicine is a systems-based approach integrating a person’s genetic history, lifestyle and environmental influences that contribute to chronic disease. She collaborates with her clients to create a comprehensive plan of nutritional, supplemental and lifestyle changes to restore the body to its optimal Read more…

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