Ignite Your Heart and Soul with Sara Troy and her guest Ervin Laszlo, on air December 15th
How We Can Build a Better World: The Worldshift Manual, going back to who we are connecting to our divine spark of source.
E r v i n L a s z l o Author of Reconnecting to the Source and Science and the Akashic Field. Foreword by Gregg Braden
The Message We are in the midst of a global crisis. The outcome of the crisis is not foreclosed; it is sensitive to our intentions, aspirations, and actions. The crisis is not just a danger: it is an opportunity. With the new spirit emerging in the social media, in the youth cultures, and in nations.
“Now We Can Build a Better World: The Worldshift Manual is a perfect blend of rock-solid science, spiritual philosophy, and common sense woven into a practical guide to life in a more united post-pandemic world!” Gregg Braden Author of The Wisdom Code
Ervin Laszlo spent his childhood in Budapest, Hungary. He was a celebrated child prodigy on the piano, with public appearances from the age of nine. Receiving a Grand Prize at the inter- national music competition in Geneva, he was allowed to leave Hungary and begin an international concert career, first in Europe and then in America. Laszlo received the Sorbonne’s highest degree, the Doctorat ès Lettres et Sciences Humaines in 1970. Shifting to the life of a scientist and humanist, he lectured at various U.S. Univer- sities including Yale and Princeton. Following his work on modeling the future evolution of world order at Princeton, he was asked to produce a report for the Club of Rome, of which he was a member. In the late 70s and early 80s, Laszlo ran global projects at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research at the request of the Secretary-General. In the 1990s his research led him to the discovery of the Akashic Field. The author, co-author or editor of 101 books that have appeared in a total of 23 languages, Ervin Laszlo has also written several hundred papers and articles in scientific journals and popular magazines. He is a member of numerous scientific bodies, including the Inter- national Academy of Science, the World Academy of Arts and Science, the International Academy of Philosophy of Science, and the International Medici Academy. He was elected member of the Hungarian Academy of Science in 2010. The recipient of various honors and awards, including Honorary Ph. D.s from the United States, Canada, Finland, and Hungary, Laszlo received the Goi Award, the Japan Peace Prize in 2001, the Assisi Mandir of Peace Prize in 2006, and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 and 2005.
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Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Eric North, aka “The Happiness Warrior” on air December 1st
“My age is like a phone number – It’s unlisted.” – Eric North
Eric North thinks he has a genetic disposition to set things right– and regardless of what’s going on in your day to day, no matter how fraught and anxious 2020 may be for you, he wants to help you do something that, once taken to heart, will change your life. He wants you to give yourself permission to be happy. After years of entrepreneurial success with two thriving Washington DC based businesses dedicated to life changing therapies, he’s found new purpose and passion leading people to the next level in their emotional and spiritual lives as “The HappinessWarrior.”
As we see on his recently launched Instagram page The Happiness Warrior Eric is “forging a new path in a changing world.” He’s done it on the platform before, gaining a massive following on the platform for his @50redfined page, which he created in 2014, the year he turned the big 5-0. By posting pictures of his ultra-fit body (which keeps his modeling agent in NYC busy) and motivational videos, he helped change the minds of thousands about aging and showcased an alternative to just “getting old.” Driven by his long-held theory that “every seven years, we go through a positive, momentum shifting upheaval in our lives,” the lifestyle visionary is now expanding, rebranding and building momentum as a force for leading others to finding personal happiness in an increasingly negative world.
“This is a year where everyone is going through major changes, and my mindset is on what being a warrior means and redefining it a bit to be aligned with how I think,” Eric says. “Over the years, I’ve been humbled by people who have told me that my words of insight or encouragement have served to change their lives – even years later, and from things I don’t remember saying. I have become a good listener and always look for practical solutions. It’s what I call ‘naïve intelligence’ and common sense. Being ‘The Happiness Warrior’ is a way to use what I do best to empower people and raise their self-esteem.
“I’m a highly driven and motivated person but have always felt there are many people out there who need a voice, someone that’s on their side,” he adds. “The happiest people are those that help others have better lives and feel good about themselves. Most concepts that really work well are very simple and don’t need to be complicated to have the most impact. To me, it’s all very spiritual and energy is everything. Becoming ‘The Happiness Warrior,’ I’m creating expansion in my life by adding value to the lives of others.”
Putting his advocacy into personal practice, Eric says the first step towards giving yourself permission to be happy is forgiving yourself for mistakes and missteps that have hurt yourself and others and working towards the closure of long festering emotional wounds. He’s diligent about affirmations, starting his day and setting his intention by saying, “It’s going to be a great day.” His three-step morning plan is affirmation, hydration, activation (quiet time stretching and doing breathing work). His pre-bedtime ritual is similar and includes the phrase, “I had a great day today, but I will do better tomorrow.”
Eric has essential, empowering advice for those who feel dogged by anger and depression. “To get to a happier place,” he says, “find three things you love, that give you joy. It could be a favorite book, a tree in your yard or the park, your dog or cat, your son, daughter, niece or nephew. Expressing gratitude is key. Start thinking about ways to make yourself happier. It’s a healthy lifeline in a world that’s becoming more uglier with the destruction we’ve caused to our planet and the horrible sociopolitical discourse that’s been happening.”
Though his branding as “The Happiness Warrior” will include a launch of professionally shot videos in the spirit of those he created for @50redefined, Eric has higher ambitions, planning to develop a Netflix/OWN ready series concept that focuses on people around the world who have made an effort to help others be happy – and what we can learn from their stories. “The concept is about bringing more emotion and humanity into our lives by seeing how others bring joy, to counter all the negative things we hear about on the news,” he says. “Human beings need to see impactful stories that, when they’re done crying, will inspire them to do better things in their own lives. Considering the current global population, there are potentially seven billion stories out there waiting to be discovered.”
Over the past decade, Eric – who grew up in Fairfax County, Virginia and earned a B.S. in marketing from George Mason University – founded and has run two seven figure businesses that help people expand their lives and feel better physically and emotionally. Performance Rejuvenation Center (launched in 2011) is a medical practice that provides hormone optimization and anti-aging therapies. Stretch Workz, started in 2015, provides practitioner assisted stretch therapy with six DC area locations. While Eric represents the Performance Rejuvenation Brand, his husband Tom leads the Stretch Workz team
Both of these entrepreneurial success stories evolved from Eric’s bold move in his late 30s to leave corporate America – where he worked as a tech and proposal writer, among other jobs, for government contractors – and pursue his dream of becoming a personal trainer and later, a real estate professional. While his type A personality led him to thrive in both endeavors, by 42 he felt an ongoing sense of lower energy and stamina. His physician determined that he was displaying the classic symptoms of low testosterone levels – but the prescribed gels were messy and did nothing to help him.
After extensive research, he found a respected clinic in Palm Beach, Florida and became a new patient. Learning about his internal health and the power of a well supervised hormone therapy program spurred his “help all, set things right” ambition. Prompted by the head of the clinic, who said he was seeking someone younger to start new businesses with him, Eric put together a business plan and opened Washington DC’s first dedicated hormone therapy clinic. A few years later, after experiencing first-hand the long-term health and fitness value of “being stretched,” Tom and Eric launched Stretch Workz in a one room space in an office building.
Often called a “a machine” by his husband and blessed throughout his life with magical trips and serendipitous, soul-stirring encounters, Eric made an amazing friend in renowned personal transformational coach Giselle Koi when he attended the Precision Performance Summit in Austin in March 2020. Giselle’s invitation to Eric to visit her in her new home of Sedona, Arizona in August proved life-changing – even beyond the cementing of their friendship and her helping him focus on his personal goals.
“I felt like I needed this trip, and I was there as part of a journey to find out what I am and should be doing with my life,” Eric says. “One morning we hiked up a mesa and met up with a prayer circle. I was able to join in and put my hands and feet onto the rocks. I looked above me as if to seek guidance from the universe. Then I felt something shift, as if the mountain itself were speaking to me and all the knowledge I could ever need was right there to tap into. I had been waiting for this epiphany a long time. I came away from that experience changed and liberated, declaring ‘I am the happy warrior.’ I knew it was time to rebrand my life with that aesthetic. There are so many things I can do to make a difference in this world, and I’m excited to tap into people’s hunger for happiness.”
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Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Professor Caleb Rossiter, on air from November 24th
A new study shows how American clean coal technology can increase access to electricity and cut deaths from indoor air pollution
The coalition of climate scientists and energy engineers calls on President Trump to “pardon” Africa by ending ban on U.S., World Bank support ENERGY ANALYST AVAILABLE: Dr. Caleb Stewart Rossiteris, the executive director of the CO2 Coalition of 50 climate scientists and energy economists. Arlington, VA. The CO2 Coalition of 60 climate scientists and energy engineers today released a White Paper showing how American “high energy – low emissions” power plants can save lives in Africa. Only a third of Africans have access to electricity, and the World Health Organization estimates that 439,000 Africans die every year because they have to cook in their homes with wood and dried animal dung. According to a top researcher for the WHO, “having an open fire in your kitchen is like burning 400 cigarettes an hour.”
New-tech American Coal-fired Electricity for Africa: Clean Air, Indoors and Out reports on a field visit and interviews at the “Ultra Super-Critical” John Turk coal-fired power plant that serves Arkansas, Texas, and Oklahoma. The plant eliminates virtually all pollutants from its emissions.
The White Paper reviews ten challenges that the operation of such a plant would face in the African economic and political context, and calls on the U.S. government to support proposals by African governments to import the American technology. Under Obama-era policies that are based on computer models that project a future “climate crisis” from emissions of a non-polluting plant food, carbon dioxide, U.S. foreign aid agencies currently oppose coal-fired electrical generation in Africa.
As the White Paper shows, international energy agencies agree that Africa will continue to use its abundant, inexpensive coal for electricity for decades to come. Unless this American technology is exported, China will build the scores of new power plants without pollution controls.
CO2 Coalition chairman Patrick Moore welcomed the new paper and its proposals: “It is energy madness and carbon colonialism for the United States to block government financing and World Bank support for the very projects that African governments want, and can operate effectively. Access to electricity is a basic right, and the key to health and life expectancy in Africa. As the White Paper concludes, African lives matter, too.”
The principal researchers for the White Paper are the Honorable Kathleen Hartnett White, formerly Texas’ top pollution regulator as chair of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, and Dr. Caleb Stewart Rossiter, formerly a professor of statistics for public policy at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Hartnett White is a Senior Fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation and a member of the CO2 Coalition. Rossiter is the executive director of the CO2 Coalition.
Hartnett White noted: “Electrical power is the central nervous system of a modern economy and modern life expectancy. Africa’s electricity deficit translates directly into its life-expectancy deficit of 15 years per person.” Rossiter added: “The scourge of indoor air pollution I’ve seen throughout Africa can be wiped out by universal electrification from coal-fired plants. With American ‘scrubbing’ technology, African governments can also fight another killer at the same time: outdoor air pollution. President Trump should pardon Africa before he leaves office by issuing an executive order reversing U.S. opposition to clean coal projects there.” BIO: Climate statistician Caleb Stewart Rossiter is the executive director of the CO2 Coalition of 50 climate scientists and energy economists. He is also the director of the American Exceptionalism Media Project, an anti-imperialist website. Dr. Rossiter has worked in Washington’s foreign policy and academic arenas since 1981. He was deputy director of the bipartisan congressional Arms Control and Foreign Policy Caucus and then counselor to the Democratic chair of a House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee.
Rossiter earned his Ph.D. in policy analysis from Cornell University and his M.A. in mathematics from American University, where he was a professor in both the School of International Service and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. He taught courses on Quantitative Analysis, U.S. Policy in Africa, Statistics, and Mathematical Modeling. He was also a statistics professor in South Africa at the University of the Western Cape.
Professor Rossiter was originally part of the “consensus” that industrial carbon dioxide causes climate catastrophe, but began to change his conclusions in the mid-2000’s while assessing his statistics students’ papers on the studies and models cited by proponents of the consensus. Since then he has written and lectured widely on the weakness and uncertainty of climate claims and models.
Rossiter’s policy advocacy focuses on the generation and transmission of electricity in Africa, where life expectancies are low, only a quarter of households have reliable electricity, and fossil fuels “scrubbed” of pollutants are a crucial source of energy. He is a “climate casualty:” this advocacy resulted in his firing in 2014 by a Washington think tank whose funders promote the climate catastrophe hypothesis.
Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest De Sede, on air from November 10th
He is often referred to as the Mentor’s Mentor, the Coaches’ Coach and in recent months called “the most creative trainer on LinkedIn.”
Steve has spent the past two decades living, working, and studying, across the world in human performance, people management, and international strategic business development.
Over the last decade, Stephen has traveled the world, studying the evolving and developing digital and social eras.
During this period, Steve has developed and built the De Sede Group, incorporating multiple online video shows and an Academy dedicated to high performance in people.
An author, poet, video creator, his passion is the people he calls GUESTs within and across the De Sede Global Community.
I simply travel the world introducing people to their potential and teach them to be great with it.
Stephen De Sede is an influencer, an entrepreneur, a trainer, and speaker.
He is often referred to as the Mentor’s Mentor, the Coaches’ Coach and in recent months called “the most creative trainer on LinkedIn.” Steve posts to social media around 50 pieces of content every week in video, podcast, video and image quotes and his soulful inspiring Poetry of De Sede series.
Steve has spent the past two decades living, working, and studying, across the world in human performance, people management, and international strategic business development.
He has called London, Paris, Washington, Manila and Sydney his home in a professional career and personal lifestyle focused entirely on the inspiration and management of people.
Stephen has managed and consulted to global mining developers in Australia, biometric and immigration services in the U.K., EU and the U.S., as well as strategic communications, development across the U.K. and European Union.
Over the last decade, Stephen has traveled the world, studying the evolving and developing digital and social eras training with global leaders and influencers in online marketing, human behaviour and psychology.
He has worked with and addressed all levels of global corporate mentoring, leading and managing global professionals in programs across multiple continents, spanning across diverse cultural, political, and economic spectrums.
Over the past decade Steve has developed and built the De Sede Group, incorporating multiple online video shows and an Academy dedicated to high performance in people.
An author, poet, video creator, his passion is the people he calls GUESTs within and across the De Sede Global Community, covering every continent on, what he calls, planet humanity.
“To master the art of life, you must master the art of people, and the first person to master is yourself“, is a soul philosophy of Stephen’s.
I simply travel the world introducing people to their potential and teaching them to be great with it.
One of the greatest gifts Pink Lady( now 88) gives the world is how she challenges stigmas about ageing that seniors face on a regular basis. She has become a powerful voice of today’s 60+ community, that challenges skeptics and proves that it’s “absolutely possible to be vital, creative, enthusiastic, energetic, sexy, and “shout-out” fantastic.” Senior Star Power Productions produced fifteen musical reviews, including “Rockin’ With The Ages,” “The Beat Goes On” and “We Have a Dream.” These musical reviews feature the only talent that is 60+; some have extensive experience in stage, film, and TV industry; some are newcomers. Her shows are nothing short of bursting with talent!
See says “You don’t stop laughing, you still grow old because you stop laughing”
Life is a wonderful experience, and with a blueprint already to go, we can use every single second of it to our advantage. We should be grateful just to be here…now…with the ability to grow older with our friends family and all grand children, Part of Getting up and Getting Out, is learning to live again by opening new doors and finding exciting adventures and beautiful relationships. I believe the best investment you will ever make in your whole life is in investing in your self- at this time in your life.
Ester Shifren is a Poet, Artist, Musician, Author and a woman of exuberance in her young 83 years. She has written a poem every day of Covid19 and her positive energy gives us hope and lifts us up to greater heights.
When writing poems and giving vent I feel my gift is heaven sent. The saying goes, “There’s none so blind”… If I may only change ONE mind Then I’ll continue on my quest, NEVER will I stop to rest! Many are now opening eyes—-they took a while to realize. The one they worshipped, idolized, was not the one they should have prized. As long as I have words that flow, I’ll vent—my hat into the rink I’ll throw! Seek the truth that sets you free—do research–not just from me! Don’t spend your life in misery because you voted abysmally. Be strong, just change, it’s not too late—your vote can change the hand of fate. If you’re honest, have heart and brain, you’ll see these leaders inflicted pain. On many of our brethren—admit it! Change your party—bravely quit it! Please don’t miss it—make a note. November—soon—they’ll count your VOTE!
Life in a day of Ester.
No one’s coming over so I’m just not dusting much– can almost write my name on every surface that I touch! I live between two freeways and sometimes have to sneeze– the fault of dust brought in by every wayward breeze. My time is mostly hijacked by computer, iPad, phone– result of spending too much time at home and all alone! And sometimes I feel wonderful, but sometimes I do not, and then I readjust to count the blessings that I’ve got. I have friends with difficulties so much beyond repair! It balances my thinking and reduces my despair. And think of all those seniors who live on high up floors, with long and darkened passages leading to their doors. I’m lucky that my building, though convent-like, is small, and when my neighbors walk, or swim, I can see them all! The antidote for me has been, (and maybe you?), I’m certain, Creative ways of staying in touch ’til Covid’s final curtain.
I was born in China, Hong Kong to be exact We really were from Shanghai—and that’s a real fact. The Japanese were fighting the Chinese at that time My mother left to safe Hong Kong—where conditions weren’t sublime We then returned to Shanghai, but then during World War Two The Japanese interned us, our fears for safety grew! We, and other Allies, were prisoners of war And suffered deprivations we’d never had before. Three years of isolation were serious and sad So I’m comparing Covid—and both are mighty bad! But I am free, not punished, as then, enduring war. So I’ll still count my blessings—each day—and pray for more! But, just can’t understand the ones who fail to wear a mask Endangering all—and seniors. I’M NOT AFRAID TO ASK.
That day when we left China, I was just a teen. We moved to nascent Israel, to times I’d never seen. The war had stripped our family of comforts we once knew, We left with very little—our possessions were so few.
Canada refused us, $10,000 was their fee— Australia said, “Our quota’s full.” Just Israel was free. We quarantined at first, then moved into a tent, A transit camp facility—where most newcomers went. We had no running water in our tent or, later, hut. We showered using hoses—I was viewed as teenage nut! But we were free—and many strangers became friends. It was a real melting pot, all colors and all blends. Languages were barriers, but somehow we survived, Living with so many of the recently-arrived From Europe, and the Middle East, their stories full of pain… Food was scarce, and rationed, it didn’t help us to complain! But soon the Hebrew language was getting to be heard— A marvel! We shared stories, always searching for a word. And now I’ll end this chapter and continue ‘nother day. I hope that you will join me as I travel on my way.
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