0067 Nathen Aswell on Music and Spirituality.

November 17, 2013March 7, 2018Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast 3 Comments

Positive Living Vibrations interviewed by Sara Troy with guest Nathen Aswell. Originally aired 11-24-2013.

Nathen Aswell is a gifted speaker, performing songwriter and musician based in Vancouver, Canada, and he believes that his calling in this life is to inspire and heal through his talks and his heart-centered music-making. His CDs “Little By Little” and “YES” are powerful realizations of this calling, fully intertwining his two passions of music and spirituality and joyously reminding us that LOVE is all there is and that we are all ONE.

Nathen honours his calling by talking and performing at Conferences, Concerts, Chanting events and Church Services in both Canada and the United States, presenting his “Conscious Pop” music with his voice and the NS Stick (an 8-stringed electronic instrument that can be plucked like a bass, strummed like a guitar, or tapped with both hands like a piano).

Nathen is a proud supporter of Seva Canada, whose mission is to restore sight and prevent blindness in the developing world. (Nathen donates 10% of all performance fees to Seva Canada.)

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0068 Thirty-four kids are missing from the mountain town of Spurlake B.C.

November 13, 2013August 17, 2025Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast 2 Comments

“Positive Living Vibrations” with Sara Troy and Sam Hawksmoor.Aired 11-26-2013

We speak on his books like The Repossession and The Hunting with the new book The Repercussions of Thomas D . Sam is a Joint winner of The Wirral ‘Paperback of the Year’ + Bronze winner of the Amazing Book Award + Finalist for The Leeds Book Awards 2013 Sam has a wide audience like bears and from teens to adults.

THE REPOSSESSION An intense, edgy thriller for readers who love suspense, action and romance P’Six weeks, four days, sixteen hours and twenty minutes since the jail door had slammed on Genie. Seven weeks since the school broke up for summer. God had got her into this room but it would take more than prayers to get her out…. ‘ Thirty-four kids are missing from the mountain town of Spurlake B.C. No one ever hears from them again. The town community is considering electronic tagging all their children. Meanwhile, Genie Magee (15) is imprisoned behind bars at home by her mother, who claims her soul is possessed by the Devil. The Reverend Schneider leads all-night vigils to pray for the missing kids’ souls, to stop a sickness in the town that seems to drive the kids away. Genie has almost given up. She has seen no one, does anyone even know she’s up there, starving herself to nothing? She knows she is slowly going crazy, seeing visions. She is beginning to think she is as mad as her mother thinks she is. As storm clouds gather over the mountain town, Rian, Genie’s boyfriend, has not forgotten her. He plots a daring attempt to break her out and steal her away from Spurlake forever.

Sam on About Becoming a Writer:

Writing stories has always been my thing. From early beginnings as a kid concocting adventures in Spain as I listened to my big sister’s classical music – Manuel de Falla and Rodrigo mostly. I had never been to Spain so they must have been quite strange stories. All I remember was dusty streets and strange wistful girls dressed in black, longing to be somewhere else. But I loved reading, stories that would take me far away from my boarding school and mostly into the future. The future was exciting and scary. I always wanted to go into space and remember writing to Buzz Aldrin the astronaut and being shocked he personally replied. I eventually got to see the shuttle launch in my twenties and was amazed at the terrifying noise that shook the air. Sure as hell wouldn’t want to go into space now. We know too much about the damage it will do to human flesh and bone. Radiation mostly. Ridley Scott and Philip K Dick got it right in Bladerunner. The future of space exploration is for intelligent robots.

The Family on the Move

My family moved around a lot after my Pa died and we went to South Africa for a while and then back to Canada. Each time it meant saying goodbye to friends and then having to make new ones. Maybe that’s how one becomes a writer – the need to invent new friends who’ll come with you wherever you go. That and a dog, of course. A boy should have a dog. Helps you learn to care about someone else and as long as you keep throwing that stick they’ll love you forever. I guess that’s why there’s often a dog in my stories. That’s Koko in the water who lives in Pitt Meadows with my sister Sara Troy.

After careers that involved travel and photography and jointly editing a long-running web magazine www.hackwriters.com, it’s pretty much all been about writing. (Add a smattering of gold prospecting in B.C. & Nevada whilst researching a novel) and teaching at University, (Running Masters Programmes at Falmouth & Portsmouth Universities). Somewhere back there also writing radio drama (About 35 plays), I starting teaching ‘Writing for Kids’ which proved to be one of the most popular courses I ran. From there started writing my own stories and it was great having key individuals reading them and offering advice. My heart belongs to Vancouver, no matter where I am at any present time. The shift of historical gravity has already moved to the Pacific Rim (not be confused with the monster movie) because of the growth of China and Vancouver is one of the lucky cities that reflects that huge change in the buildings and people that flock to live there. This is one of the places where the future is visible and a place unshackled by the past. I love to set my adventures there. The Repossession is set in the mountain town of Spurlake. Spurlake must have been a pretty exciting place to live in around 1890. A couple of years before that no one lived there at all. It was a barren, lonely mountainside facing onto a lake. Once gold was found a whole city grew in just months. People came from all over the world to get rich or more often die poor. B.C. has a number of towns like this – overnight cities that flourished until the gold out and then slowly began to die as people drifted away.

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0071 Story Telling at its Best with Sheri Fink

November 13, 2013August 31, 2023Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast 2 Comments

Originally Aired on 12-5-2013. “Positive Living Vibrations” with Sara Troy and Sheri Fink on the liberating art of storytelling.

When I first interviewed Sheri she was still at the early stages of her journey, now 2 years later she has her own T.V show coming and more books globally being enjoyed.

Sheri Fink is a #1 international best-selling & award-winning children’s author of the books, The Little Rose, The Little Gnome, Exploring the Garden with The Little Rose, The Little Firefly, creator of ‘The Whimsical World of Sheri Fink‘ children’s brand, and an international speaker.

Sheri began writing as a child, and continued throughout her award-winning marketing career. In 2010, she decided to leave the comfort of her corporate job, and pursue her passion for making a difference in the lives of others through her uplifting stories.

Sheri’s first children’s book, The Little Rose, is an enchanting tale about a rose growing in a weedbed who learns to accept and love herself despite her differences. Published in March 2011, The Little Rose has been a #1 best-seller on Amazon for over 60 weeks. The Kindle edition became a best-seller and a #1 top-rated book in Children’s eBooks on Amazon.

Her second inspirational children’s book, The Little Gnome, was published in March 2012 and debuted at #1 on the Amazon best-seller list. Set in a Victorian garden, The Little Gnome is a heartwarming tale about an adorable garden gnome experiencing change and the wonder of the four seasons for the first time.

Exploring the Garden with The Little Rose, debuted on the Amazon best-seller list in October 2012. The story takes young children on an educational alphabetical adventure alongside the Little Rose.
Sheri’s most recent work, The Little Firefly, became a #1 best-seller 18 days prior to its March 2013 release date. The Little Firefly follows the tale of a late-blooming firefly who is surrounded by fireflies already gifted with the ability to glow. Essential themes such as love, friendship, and acceptance are highlighted in this inspiring story.
Sheri’s children’s books have won numerous literary honors, most recently including the esteemed Mom’s Choice Awards® Gold Medallion, a B.R.A.G. Medallion Award®, a KART Kids Book List Award®, and a Gold Medal in the Reader’s Favorite International Book Awards®.

Sheri’s first non-fiction book, Dreams Come True: Your Daily Journal for Maximum Success and Well-Being, was published in 2010. Inspired by The Success Principles taught by Jack Canfield, co-creator of the wildly successful Chicken Soup for the Soul series, the Journal empowers adults and teens to dream big and take daily action to achieve their goals so they can live the lives of their dreams.

In 2011 and 2012, Sheri was acknowledged as one of the top “50 Great Writers You Should Be Reading.” She is featured in several inspirational non-fiction books, including three international best-sellers, Self-Esteem Doesn’t Come in a Bottle by Kelly Falardeau, Dare to Dream: This Life Counts by Debbi Dachinger, and 1,000 Tips for Teenagers by Kelly Falardeau and Martin Presse.

Sheri is a proud supporter of organizations that make a difference in the lives of children, especially Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) and the Girl Scouts of America.

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0058 From Opera to DEROSNEC, a multimedia artist with audiovisual storytelling.

October 11, 2013February 23, 2023Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast 2 Comments

Premiering 10-24-2013. DEROSNEC is the multimedia audiovisual project of Nina Helene Hirten.

Visually, DEROSNEC is a filmmaker and illustrator. Her passion for storytelling has inspired shorts, movies, and graphic novels as well as standalone pieces of drawn or painted images. She has created everything from animated shorts, to documentary vignettes, to music videos.
Musically, DEROSNEC is a singer, performer, and composer. With her unusually low voice and wide operatic vocal range, she makes music that pulls from all genres of the musical world to create a moody, personal, and fresh sound. Her lyrics range from politics and philosophy to her own experience and feelings, and are unusually straightforward while being simultaneously laced with double meanings and word play.

She works closely with the band Model M and Everson Poe.

Nina Helene Hirten, known as DEROSNEC, is a multimedia artist with a focus on audiovisual
storytelling. Raised by an opera singer and a composer, her childhood was surrounded by music, and much of the time she found herself sitting through concerts and drawing pictures of the images that she would get from her listening experience. She was taught to sing operatically at a very young age, and soon taught herself to play many instruments such as guitar, bass, drums, and piano.

Nina released her first self produced album in grade 10, and distributed over 150 of them around her high school. She quickly became known as the “resident musician”, and when the opportunity arose later that year to join a multimedia course that worked with video, she found her calling and decided to pursue film with the intention of making music based cinema.
By the time Nina left to study Film Production at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario, she already had two short films play in various festivals around California, and had released two selfproduced
albums. Upon graduating, she moved to Vancouver, BC and started up her own production company, Oh Just Peachy Studios Productions, which currently serves as the primary vehicle for producing both her music and her film work.

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DEROSNEC is dedicated to redefining the “music video”. Pulling from the concept of “rockopera”
films such as Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” and The Who’s “Tommy”, she writes music with corresponding videos and movies in mind.
DEROSNEC is uniquely capable as a multimedia artist. Her audiovisual intentions are immediately brought into reality, ready to be shared and experienced. Thanks to years of practice as a professional video producer and independent music maker, DEROSNEC’s important themes and messages of strength, self confidence, perseverance, and emotional/spiritual growth are able to spread through a unique medium that is complemented by the needs and expectations of the digital age.

0043 The making of Synthetic Consciousness

August 10, 2013Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast 1 Comment

Premiering 09-03-2013 Synthetic Consciousness

There names are Jeremy Rankin and Cole Hausdorf, and collectively, along with Will Richardson, our PLV RADIO sound tech guy, they will make Synthetic Consciousness a new radio show produced by PLV-Radio Network for weekend listening.

We will be discussing why they love to fly high up in the sky and the correlation to their love of music. Jeramy played the Viola for years and had a choice to make, music or flying, and the wings won out. Cole has been drawn to the skies for a few years now, but understands that is is music to his heart when he fly’s.

They will be bringing you sounds of the present and the future.

We will be bringing you interviews with local musicians, artists, poets, pilots, actors and up and coming people, and more. We will be talking about spirituality and delving into peoples lives and their minds. We will talk about astrology, meditation, reiki. All that good stuff!

Cole and I are both pilots, and we have avgas in our blood, as they say. We are addicted to the feeling that flying gives us.

More than that, we both are also addicted to the feeling music gives us. Music is our lives (along with aviation) and we are non-stop listening to music.

All day, Everyday.

And we will be playing music from all over the world and a wide array of genres from reggae to 60’s soul to rap up to metal.

Cole, 23, from Ontario, Canada and Jeremy, 21, from Brisbane, Australia and both young gents moved to Pitt Meadows, British Columbia in hopes to find something more from life. More excitement.