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Random Acts of LivingHow to change the world one bicycle at a time..Aloha, and welcome to Random Acts of Living! In this episode, I talk about getting back home to Molokai, setting up my new/old life, going back to school, and I finally going back to my values of living simply am riding my e-bike everywhere. It's a little nerve-racking as there are really no bike lanes so there's no barrier between me and vehicles racing past at 60 mph.. luckily there is not a great deal of traffic and everyone is pretty good at sharing the road! I am doing it because it is important that people see me out the...2022-05-1517 minRandom Acts of LivingRadical Love with the amazing and divine Aubrey YeeHappy Valentine's Day gentle listeners! I know that not everyone gets into this day and it can be hokey or require way too many expectations around relationships but I do like the idea of setting a day to celebrate love.. really celebrate love, big love like Radical LOVE! "To be loving is to be open to grief, to be touched by sorrow, even sorrow that is unending.” Writer, scholar, and trailblazing feminist bell hooks wrote these words in her 2002 book, All About Love.I have been thinking about these words by bell hooks and the id...2022-02-1336 minRandom Acts of LivingAuthentic Leadership with Chris BlockWelcome to Random Acts of Living, dear listener! We have a super episode for you today as Chris Block and I talk on the last day of 2021 about all things large and small then we settle on authenticity in leadership- more specifically how to bring that part of ourselves the most vibrant, the truest self that is needed to be in the public eye - how do we lead with authenticity???? How do we integrate authenticity to change the big overarching systems??? Also, Chris points out that really a majority of the people we share the planet with wa...2022-01-3031 minRandom Acts of LivingHello season 2- truth, belonging and deepness bring it on!Aloha gentle listeners welcome to season two of Random Acts of Living, with me your hostess with the mostess Emillia Noordhoek! It’s been a bit of a wild ride the past few months, when we last spoke I was just getting settled into my new place in Amsterdam exploring, getting my residency, I thought setting down roots in my ancestral home with my people, ah but it was not to be so easy. My father passed away three weeks after my arrival and that...2022-01-1414 min
The Chakra Way Meditation PodcastChakra Chat - Sacral Chakra with Emillia NoordhoekWelcome to my second in my mini series of chakra chats! This episode is focusing in on the creativity that lives in our sacral chakra and explores what being creative means and how significant it is in our lives.I am in conversation with Emillia Noordhoek, who is an artist and founder of a wonderful course, The Creative Leader - Leading with Imagination and Artistry. She also has a podcast called Random Acts of Living which are stories and conversations that are a really great listen. Emillia sees being creative as an essential part of who we all...2021-10-2143 minRandom Acts of LivingLast Episode season one :) moving to AmsterdamAloha gentle listeners and welcome to the last episode of Season 1 ! WOW! Thank you so much for tuning in and not dropping out! In this last episode, I have made it to Amsterdam after a full year and a half of living with my parents, when I am not freaking out over the move I have made I am enjoying bike riding, running. learning Dutch getting my paperwork done and submitted for permanent residency and well enjoying the sights and sounds of my ancestorial home... I know maybe it has been a little rough going as I find...2021-07-2417 minRandom Acts of Livingtalking story about family history- to know it, to understand, and finally to be freed from it.In 1970, James Baldwin wrote a letter to Angela Davis in which he said, “What has happened, it seems to me, and to put it far too simply, is that a whole new generation of people have assessed and absorbed their history, and, in that tremendous action, have freed themselves of it and will never be victims again.” Aloha gentle readers and welcome to the latest episode of Random Acts of Living! So the above sentence by James Baldwin caught my attention because well I am wondering if really it is true? If we understand our history on a m...2021-07-1823 minRandom Acts of LivingRandom Act #2- I'm leavin' on a jet plane ,Don't know when I'll be back again... la la lalalalaRandom Acts are small, short vignettes of unedited moments and thoughts - I hope you enjoy this one! 2021-07-0711 minRandom Acts of LivingA rather frightening story of women being bullies in nature, and why we should always carry a phone with us! Aloha gentle listeners and welcome to the last month of season one!! July will be the last month of the first season, woohoo and so much gratitude to you for listening to the stories that I have loved sharing. This week's story comes from an experience I had the other day while out walking the dogs, my dog, and the two littles my parent's dogs.. Walking all three on leashes can a handful but we do our best and mostly we are good unless there are other dogs that maybe have owners who don't pay attention or just assume all...2021-07-0216 minRandom Acts of LivingTalking to my dad about getting old.. and how to talk to each other about a lot of things.Welcome to another episode of Random Acts of Living! We are winding down our first season ( woo-hoo and amazing! ) I recorded several episodes with my dad when he was in the hospital and this is one. IT occurred to me that we really do not have a very good conversation on the caretaking of the elderly in the US and as it is fast approaching that I will be taking care of my parents and that they will need some type of support from their family I decided to take advantage of my dad sitting in the hospital.. I thi...2021-06-3033 minRandom Acts of LivingRandom Act of love 1I am trying out an idea that I want to be a small mini-podcast during the week.. there. sometimes is so much that goes on in our lives I forget all the little things that are a gesture of love or intent yet really important to living in the present ..I want to be in the moment upload for my community sharing something special or deep or funny, but not an entire episode with no or very explanation in the show notes... it is a surprise so here is the first "Random Act" ! 2021-06-2307 min
Random Acts of LivingWe are a work in progress with Belgium artist Jonas VansteenkisteAloha gentle listeners, I am so excited you could join me for this amazing episode of Random Acts of Living! Today we are talking story with the amazing artist and human, Jonas Vansteenskiste from his studio in Belgium. I met Jonas when I was an artist in residency at the European Keramic Work Center, Oistervik in the Netherlands in the summer of 2019. We fell into an immediate friendship and of all the people I met that summer Jonas is able to make me laugh and felt so young at heart, I remember fond...2021-06-2026 minRandom Acts of LivingWe are all shooting stars: an inspirational story from an inspiring woman, Mikico Tashima!Aloha gentle listeners and welcome to the latest episode of Random Acts of Living, with one of my favorite badass women Mikico Tashima!I met Micki when I was an artist in resident on Aso in Japan in the fall of 2019, as her company was handling the marketing for the Artist is Aso program which included translations. Even before I met her, a dear friend of mine had mentioned that she had met this woman who was a very unusual Japanese woman she is a DJ, a bar owner, a cat lover, and overall badass living her life on...2021-06-1939 minRandom Acts of LivingWe are greater than the sum of our parts; talking story about hair with the amazing Sheridan RuthAloha and welcome to the latest episode of Random Acts of living! This episode is an amazing conversation I was able to have with a young woman Sheridan Ruth who is absolutely a lovely badass woman changing the world! I love these conversations so much as they give me hope as we all come out of the pandemic, that there are women and men who are working to change the destructive course we have been living in and will do this wk for decades to come! Sheridan is a world traveler, women’s empowerment advocate, yogi, and Yoga...2021-06-1331 minRandom Acts of LivingWe are a work in progress with Belgium artist Jonas VansteenkisteAloha gentle listeners, I am so excited you could join me for this amazing episode of Random Acts of Living, today we are talking story with the amazing artist and human Jonas Vansteenskiste from his studio in Belgium. I met Jonas when I was an artist in residency at the European Keramic Work Center, Oistervik in the Netherlands in the summer of 2019. We fell into an immediate friendship and of all the people I met that summer Jonas is able to make me laugh and felt so young at heart, I remember fondl...2021-06-0628 minRandom Acts of LivingChris and I talk about just every thing one can think of in 20 minutes, Amazing!Here we are once more with our very favorite Chris Block talking about everything from, being vaccinated and getting to the steam baths, to how we look at work and meetings post-pandemic. So much to talk about... How do we do meetings now that we know we don't always have to meet in person but meeting in person allows us to create community quicker, quoting Peter Block ( no Relation) From his book, The Structure of Community, "Every time we meet is an opportunity to create the world we want to live, " given that how do we the...2021-05-3023 minRandom Acts of LivingLaura Jean McLaughlin and Schlumpy Funk, which came first?Laura Jean McLaughlin and Schlumpy Funk Gentle listeners, I have the most wonderful artist to introduce you to on this week’s episode! Laura Jean is a sculptor and an artist that I met in Denmark in 2013, at a very interesting ceramic conference full of larger-than-life personalities and intrigue and of course. ceramics! Laura Jean stood out to me, with her amazing talent and what I have come to realize is her true love of creating work, wherever and however she can. I appre...2021-05-2324 minRandom Acts of LivingDeja vu breakdowns and other things we learn on road trips...Once more I hit the road gentle listeners this time due East to visit friends and artists in Philly and Pittsburg... I go through Gettysburg to try to understand our American past so that I. might be able to negotiate the present better... and of course, the universe throws situations at me that seem not to be related but maybe are at the heart of understanding the current temperature in the US..2021-05-1628 minRandom Acts of LivingTalkstory with Sheva - A conversation about sovereignty & psychedelicsAloha and welcome to Random Acts of Living! This episode is amazing because I get to introduce and talk with the most amazing badass, rockstar, changemaker woman, Sheva Pekar! I met Sheva through our mutual friend on the epic road trip when we stopped in Denver to visit her, and well her stories just blew my mind.. When she started talking about her career or calling, with cannabis and psychedelics compliance, that she and her husband have spearheaded the legislation for psychedelics not to just decriminalize but to democratize, I knew I was speaking to a visionary leader, I had...2021-05-0235 minRandom Acts of LivingCan we PLEASE do more than TALK about our white privilege??? Action is required..So in this episode, I could no longer ignore the issues around white privilege and racism, and as a white woman who is a feminist, social rights activist, and community organizer in communities of color I feel it is time to turn to the very. difficult topic and try to create healthy discussion that can springboard into action.. I know this is not an easy issue and I think for me the best way to address it is to make it personal and to delve into my family history the good, the bad, and the ugly, and see i...2021-04-2517 minRandom Acts of LivingThe great COVID escape Part one: The Death of ART VAloha gentle listener! Well, I am back from my expedition to the southwest, it was a truly life-changing journey and like most "Sheroes" journeys it was chalked full of the unexpected, several mishaps, lonely wandering, and joyous celebration- not to mention the beginning where it seems the sheroes may not set off at all... When something happens that takes all one's capacity to decide to move forward in spite of the lack of vessel to carry you forward... We had it all indeed Homer would no doubt be in awe of the reality of our...2021-04-1821 minRandom Acts of LivingThe Pandemic Campaign Trail With DaveAloha and welcome to another episode of Random Acts of Living, this week has been a real doozy! I had planned an epic road trip in the ART V with a good friend to Moab, Arches, and Zion.. and just when I thought the world was looking a little brighter, my parents had the first dose of the vaccine, the first day out on the road bad luck struck and the engine kind of blew up and all the coolant came pouring out only 120 miles from home!!!???? Oh but wait, gentle listener, it gets better because then my father cal...2021-03-2835 minRandom Acts of LivingCoaching your Date part 2Hello, there gentle listeners! Welcome to the new episode of Random Acts of Living, Coaching your Date: part 2! It has been a couple of months - Uhm or 6 since I have really. delved into the dating in the midst of the pandemic topic, mostly because well, there hasn't been much as I am trying to stay safe but someone emailed me after listening to the "Coaching your date and other games in 2020!" and I realized that there was an update so here it is! No spoilers from me but there has been some connec...2021-03-2115 min