Building your business with Sara Troy and her guest William Lazerman, on air from September 1st.
Over the last two years, William has made it his mission to help people make the content they want to create. Through Lazerman Productions, William has helped dozens of clients with their podcasting goals. Now, he is focusing on the Art of Storytelling. Storytelling is something innate in humans, and something that is built into us so subconsciously, we sometimes don’t even know how much we know about communication. William wants to help people from all walks of life be able to tell their stories, and communicate with people better.
As a podcaster for over 10 years, William has fallen in love with podcasting and the people who create in the industry. As the current host of A Hint of Fiction, William has found a love for storytelling, strange anecdotes, and good fiction. He currently lives in Colorado with his wife and son. When he’s not podcasting, you can find him in the movie theater, on a hike in the Rockies, or playing video games. Promotion: Working on a story or just need help with storytelling in general? William is offering 30 minute free consultations.
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Their Story Matters with Sara Troy and her guest Dr. Patti Ashley, on air from July 28tth
Many of us are experiencing grief as we navigate the current world circumstances but it doesn’t have to paralyze us with fear or inaction. How can we heal our wounds and return to love and grace as we emerge from the chaos and not only survive but THRIVE?
Best-Selling Author, International Speaker, and Psychotherapist Patti Ashley, Ph.D., LPC, discusses how we can emerge with hope and transform grief and fear into love and grace.
Dr. Patti AshleyPsychotherapist, best selling author and international speaker Patti Ashley, Ph.D., LPC brings unique insight to the identification and treatment of trauma, shame, grief, and dysfunctional family patterns. Her signature Authenticity Architecture model creates long-term changes in the brain and central nervous system, breaking through ingrained barriers to personal freedom and authentic growth, and excavating the truth of self-love, belonging, and connection.
With over 35 years of experience, Dr. Ashley has counseled myriad individuals, couples, families and groups in mental health agencies, psychiatric hospitals, and private practice settings. She is also responsible for having developed and taught continuing education courses for physicians, hospital wellness programs, universities, and several private organizations.
Patti holds a Ph.D. in psychology from the Union Institute and University. She is the author of Living in the Shadow of the Too-Good Mother Archetype (2014), Letters to Freedom (2019) and the upcoming Shame-Informed Therapy: The Art and Architecture of Reconstructing the Authentic Self (scheduled for release July 7th 2020).
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Their Story Matters with Sara Troy and her guests Angel Hamilton and Lester Alfonso, on-air June 30th
We all have some kind of Birthmark we have and look to as our identity.
Private may not be the opposite of Public. What is arts-creation combined with social science research? Auto-ethnography, creative anthropology, and other research methods in BIRTHMARK.
ANGEL HAMILTON emerged from the video aisles at Blockbuster where she worked as a clerk (obtaining valuable research) and dove right into assisting to remount Global Visions Documentary Festival in Edmonton. A graduate of Anthropology at Trent University, she worked as a producer’s assistant at Red Storm Productions and Purple Productions in British Columbia and then went on to obtain a certificate in documentary production at Capilano University Bosa Centre for Film & Animation. Her passion for food justice was sparked by working with the Britannia Community Centre to help mount the Stone Soup FoodFilm Festival. She directed personal films and produced a number of student productions before moving back to her hometown of Peterborough in 2012 where she co-founded Media Arts Peterborough to produce a web series called WHAT IS ART? about local artists. A three-time honoree of Trent Film Society’s Snowdance Film Festival, she maintains a passion for transformation through creative response and she works invisibly in the background facilitating art and expression in all forms. Most recently, she worked as a co-producer on Lester Alfonso’s creative nonfiction project BIRTHMARK. She is also the co-producer for the documentary project CIRCUS BOY that premiered at ReFrame Film Festival 2020 These days, she’s exploring new ways to tell stories through video projection art. She is working on Mystery Father for the summer of 2020 and will be released online on her website.
Awakened to the power of moving images by Spielberg’s Jaws as a kid, LA was transformed by Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil when he saw it as a film student at York University. Best known as a filmmaker and a multi-media artist. His award-winning films include Twelve, for the National Film Board of Canada, about twelve Canadians who give advice to their twelve-year-old selves, Trying to Be Some Kind of Hero, a documentary tracing the footsteps of his missing grandfather, and This City Has Wings with timeless portraits of random passers-by as angels.
Lester Alfonso (LA) also creates podcasts, takes 35mm photographs, plays the ukulele, and constructs site-specific multi-media installations for festivals and performances.
In May 2019, he was a finalist in the Peterborough Arts Awards for the Mid-Career Artist category in Media Arts, he received the Public Energy Performing Arts Silver Jubilee Award for outstanding contributions in its first 25 years, and he updated his collaboration with Deepti Gupta’s performance and choreography of Static, then — mashed-up 25 years of dance footage for the afterparty.
In autumn of 2019, his first full-length feature film, BIRTHMARK, received a Making a Difference Award — Honourable Mention from Comfest Global Film Festival where it screened for a Toronto audience for the first time and screened at Bagnani Hall at Trent Univesity accompanied by a speaker’s panel of university professors.
In 2018 he performed a live film mix with the Art of Time Ensemble, created a site-specific video spectacle that transformed Peterborough Public Library for Artsweek, and premiered BIRTHMARK his first feature-length creative nonfiction film.
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Their Story Matters with Sara Troy and her guest Alyssa Bigham, on-air from June 16
My cousin-in-law Darius Brubeck was struck down with Covid 19, isolated from everyone, fighting for his life, the CaringBridge kept us informed daily as to his progress, which was comforting and very supportive. This kind of serves creates a connection to our loved ones no matter where they are and they are a service of love and caring.
From the launch of the very first CaringBridge site, we’ve been working toward a single vision: a world where no one goes through a health journey alone. In order to turn this vision into reality, we’ve made it our mission to build bridges of care and communication providing love and support on a health journey.
Alyssa Bigham is a Development Officer at CaringBridge and has been in the nonprofit industry for over 10 years. A sociology graduate from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, a passion of hers has always been helping others. On the fundraising team at CaringBridge, Alyssa and team members strive to keep CaringBridge online, free, for anyone who needs CaringBridge anywhere during a health journey.
Alyssa first started using CaringBridge for her family when her father was battling brain cancer in 2010. When a position on the fundraising team opened, Alyssa pursued and joined the team in 2015. When Alyssa isn’t working at CaringBridge she enjoys spending time with her husband and two dogs in Minneapolis, MN.
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Their Story Matter with Sara Troy, and her guests, Erica Ramsey-Bowen, and Barrett Clemmensen Powell, on-air from June 9th
We speak to the lack of representation of Black children in books as bright, adventurous and capable children. What do they have to be inspired by when they do not see themselves in any books?
“From both my personal experience as well as data compiled from various sources on the subject, it has been demonstrated time and time again that from an early age, children infer from the lack of diverse protagonists that there is a limitation to their abilities and potential. If the sight of the white cisgender Christian able-bodied protagonist keeps appearing in the majority of children’s books (and for me, particularly in fantasy literature), then there is an unspoken understanding that children of color, children who identify as a gender other than a cisgender male, children who are of a different religion than Christianity, and children who are differently-abled ARE NOT SEEN. Every year, an infographic is produced and shared showing the statistics for diversity in this country compiled by Sarah Park Dahlen and every year, children of color consistently have a much smaller percentage of children’s literature starring THEM vs books with a hero who is white, male, Christian, heterosexual, BUT there are ALSO MORE books featuring an animal as the protagonist versus children of color, or another gender, or religion or physical ability. So, just to be clear, a polar bear or a talking cat OR a naked mole rat can get more validation, if you will, of their abilities to be the hero in life than any of these other groups of human children. And last but not least, let’s examine this from the flip side: from the white, cisgender, male-identifying, Christian, physically-abled point of view if you are accustomed to literally seeing yourself as the hero and focus of most adventures, would that not shape your attitude towards the worth of others different than you that you never see in those same pages? It’s no wonder there is a broad unspoken assumption of that white male able-bodied Christian is always to be on the pinnacle, the indisputable top of the heap.
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