Emilie Baltz is a non-traditional creative who works at the intersection of education, design, performance, and the visual arts to create experiences that provoke new connections between the senses. As a personal passion, she uses the eating experience as a lens for cultural reflection and creation, working to reframe, re-question and remind us of the fundamental place food occupies in our lives. Baltz holds a B.A. in Film Studies from Vassar College and an M.I.D from Pratt Institute. She is an...
Leading executive coach shares insights about how we become liberated when the pain of where we are exceeds the fear of the unknown. She discusses how we get in the way of our own efforts to improve our health, careers, romances, and other priorities — and shows how adopting a childlike openness can start the virtuous cycle of improvement. Debi Silber MS, RD, WHC, FDN The Mojo Coach®, CEO of Lifestyle Fitness, Inc. and founder of www.TheMojoCoach.com and www.DebiSilber.com is a recognized health,...
by Angela Wilcox on September 2, 2016
A physician and brain imaging researcher, Dr. Keener is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and the CEO and founder of Emodt health design. Emodt is the world’s first emotional digital therapeutic firm, where doctors, designers and big-data researchers alike, work together to design emotional health in multiple dimensions of our lives. The human emotional experience immeasurably enriches our lives, and conversely can cause debilitating suffering. Previously thought...
by Angela Wilcox on August 31, 2016
Eckhart Tolle discusses the decisive shift from identifying with a feeling and simply observing it in your energy field. ...
by Angela Wilcox on August 29, 2016
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Most of us know we should eat better, but we don’t do it. We are increasingly confused over nutrition with so many conflicting views, and we give scarce thought as to how we eat or our relationship with food. We can only bring about real change when we end this confusion and bring the joy back to food. Adopted by the nation as an honorary Aussie, Dr Joanna McMillan’s ever-growing following is the result...
by Angela Wilcox on August 25, 2016
Dr. Sean Richardson takes lessons learned from the professional athlete’s locker room to provide an overview of the subtleties of human brain & behavior function to facilitate overcoming the normal & predictable human barriers to success. ...
by Angela Wilcox on August 22, 2016
Echart Tolle is a spiritualist, and author of the New York Times best-selling book, The Power of Now. ...
by Angela Wilcox on August 20, 2016
5 Simple Steps to Building a Better Self-Confidence 1. Personal Grooming 2. Think Positively 3. Act Positively 4. Get Prepared 5. Setting small achievable goals ...
by Angela Wilcox on August 18, 2016
In this deeply personal talk, writer Amy Bickers shares the challenges she faced following a traumatic incident, and the insights she took away from it. She shows how the cinematic structure of the stories we’re raised on isn’t the right way to look at the structure of our own stories. Amy Bickers writes frankly and often humorously about such topics as grief, post-traumatic stress, and the antics of contestants on The Bachelor. A former newspaper journalist and associate editor at Southern...
by Angela Wilcox on August 16, 2016
Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British-born American philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. Pursuing a career, he attended Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, where he received a master’s degree in theology. Watts became an Episcopal priest in 1945, then left the ministry...