Kathleen Hallal and her partner Zen Honeycutt, who founded Moms Across America, joined me this morning!

What a show with Kathleen Hallal and her partner Zen Honeycutt! If you missed them on my show this morning, you can hear our entire conversation here.

These powerhouse ladies have three boys each, and their kids had to overcome severe health conditions by improving their diet and eliminating GMOs. They are trying to spread awareness among parents of the importance of a healthy diet in helping to overcome chronic issues with our children's health. They are sponsored by Nature's Path and recently held a premiere of the new film GMO OMG in Laguna Beach. 

Please watch this powerful trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynyB2fNn8kQ


ABOUT KATHLEEN HALLALKathleen Hallal is a speaker, activist, and mother to three boys aged 7, 9 and 11. Her sons were diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder called PANDAS or PANS. Kathleen had learned about GMOs, but never made the link between her children's health and possible side effects of eating this chemical laden food. When Kathleen learned from a farmer that livestock often suffer from similar issues, and that their health improves when taken off of Genetically Modified feed, she decided to change her family's diet to organic to see what happened. Sure enough, their health improved. She is now spreading the word among parents and the nation about GMOs so that people can get educated about this subject and improve the health of their families, too. She co-founded Moms Across America with Zen Honeycutt to plan a massive educational campaign to get the word out to everyone at parades across the nation on July 4. Supporters of GMO labeling will march in parades holding banners and passing out flyers so that everyone can learn about just what GMOs are, and to ask for labeling. 


ABOUT ZEN HONEYCUTT
Zen Honeycutt is the founder of Moms Across America, a coalition of unstoppable American Moms, and organizer of Moms Across America March to Label GMOs July 4th 2013. She is a writer, speaker and activist and OC CA mom of three boys with food allergies. One of her boy's life threatening allergies has greatly improved by going GMO free just after 4 months. She is committed to letting the world know that Moms are seeing their children's health improve when they go GMO free.--
Zen Honeycutt

Founder, Moms Across America
Empowered Moms, Healthy Kids
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"You must do the thing you think you cannot do." Eleanor Roosevelt

"Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead

"I always wondered why somebody didn't do something about that, then I realized I am somebody." - source unknown

Publisher/Creator of the Spirited Woman Directory, Nancy Mills joins me on today's show!

If you missed Nancy Mills, you can listen to the entire conversation here!

ABOUT NANCY MILLS
Nancy Mills is the Publisher/Creator of the Spirited Woman Directory: A Collection of Stories & Resources for an Inspired Life! A leading women’s visionary, she is the founder of TheSpiritedWoman.com, a global empowerment community for women and the creator of the Sisterhood of the Sacred Scarves. She is also the publisher of the popular Spirited Woman Blogger Team, and the host of the “Spirited Woman Visionary” conversation series, where she is known for her inspirational insight and her ability to inspire women. A frequent radio and TV show guest, Nancy speaks internationally on women’s empowerment issues from letting your voice be heard to her belief in the Every Woman Visionary.

American writer of memoir, fiction and essays, special guest Nora Gallagher joins me on Get the FUNK Out!

Nora Gallagher is an American writer of memoir, fiction and essays whose work, as one reviewer put it,” is renewing the language of ultimate concerns.” Her most recent book, Moonlight Sonata at the Mayo Clinic, is a memoir that explores her experience with a baffling affliction poised to take her sight. A map of illness, uncertainty, and faith that is both meditative and highly relatable for anyone who has experienced life-threatening illness or supported a loved one who has, Moonlight Sonata will be published by Alfred A. Knopf on May 21, 2013. For media inquiries, contact Elizabeth Lindsay. For speaking engagements, contact Elaine Trevorrow . Pre-order Moonlight Sonata.

Moonlight Sonata at the Mayo Clinic is part three of a quartet on modern faith as it is lived out. The quartet begins with Things Seen and Unseen: A Year Lived in Faith published by Knopf in 1998. Followed by Practicing Resurrection: A Memoir of Work, Doubt, Discernment, and Moments of Grace. Things Seen and Unseen was a bestseller and a finalist in the Spiritual category of the 1998 Books for a Better Life Awards. An excerpt was a finalist for Best Spiritual Essays.

Gallagher’s novel Changing Light was well-reviewed in the New York Times and other publications. It was chosen by the Times as an Editor’s Choice.

Gallagher learned writing on the ground in San Francisco as a stringer for TIME Magazine where she covered the Patricia Hearst trial, the Moscone and Milk assassinations, the Dan White trial and subsequent riots and the AIDs crisis. Later, she worked for Life Magazine and free-lanced, traveling to countries where she was interested in how people were living in the shadow of large events. She reported on families in Prague, just after the Velvet Revolution and the strange case of Jan Kavan, a dissident accused of collaboration. In Nicaragua during the Sandinista regime, she wrote about daily life, including a production of “Waiting for Lefty” at the National Theater.

Her essays, book reviews and journalism have appeared in many publications including The New York Times Magazine,DoubleTake, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, Utne Reader, The Village Voice, Mother Jones, The Los Angeles Times and the Psychotherapy Networker.

Gallagher is a popular speaker having given talks at Yale University, UC-Berkeley, Stanford University, and Washington’s National Cathedral. For appearance and lecture inquiries, please contact Elaine Trevorrow or visit the Random House Speakers Bureau.

Gallagher was invited to enter seminary to become an Episcopal priest but finally decided to remain a layperson. She is preacher-in-residence at Trinity Episcopal Church, Santa Barbara and has given sermons in faith communities nationwide, including St. Mark’s Cathedral, Seattle, St. Paul’s Cathedral San Diego and Stanford University's Memorial Church. She has lectured on writing and taught writing workshops at Yale Divinity School and the Festival of Homiletics as well as at other institutions with grants from the Louisville Institute.

Nora Gallagher has given readings at bookstores across the country including: Elliott Bay Books, Seattle; Bainbridge Island’s Eagle Harbor and Book Passage, Corte Madera and appeared on panels at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.

She was born in New Mexico, the daughter of Julie Walcott Gallagher, who taught herself architecture, and David Gallagher, who learned the law at Yale Law School and in practice. She was educated at St. John’s College, where she studied the Great Books of the Western World.

She is the editor of the award-winning Notes from the Field, published by Chronicle Books, 1999. A sermon is collected inSermons that Work and a poem in the anthology, September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond. Among her honors are a Penny-Missouri journalism award and fellowships at both the MacDowell Colony and Blue Mountain Center.

Her interests include the quest for meaning in our lives, how vulnerability connects us, the rights of patients, and breaking out of one’s religious tradition while maintaining integrity.

She sits on the advisory board of the Yale Divinity School. She is represented by Philippa Brophy, president of Sterling Lord Literistic, New York.

She lives with her husband, the writer Vincent Stanley, in Santa Barbara, California.

Talking with Filmmaker Logan Hendricks on Get the FUNK Out!

Filmmaker Logan Hendricks joined me to talk about his touching film "Love at a Certain Age." 

If you missed our conversation on KUCI 88.9fm, you can listen here.

Filmmakers Logan Hendricks and Kyle Clark have worked in film and television the past ten years. Together their work has been featured on numerous networks and has won several awards. Although they’ve both worked on documentaries in various capacities, this is their first feature film.

Watch the trailer here!

“Single life is not good. I’d rather have a girlfriend than be single…It’s an empty feeling. Did you ever wake up and say where am I, or where I should go, I gotta look at a telephone book. You ever get that feeling where you’re absolutely lost? I can’t explain that feeling but that’s the feeling I have when I’m not with somebody. You’ll have the same problem. I might be an old fart but still you’ll go through the same thing.”
-Gilbert Delgado, 72

Think dating is hard when you're 20? Try 70, 80, or even 100. You're old. You don't see quite as well. Hair grows where it shouldn't. You want to find someone to share your remaining days with but you're running out of time.

Gilbert Delgado just broke up with his on-again-off-again girlfriend of seven years. He's single, 72 and on the prowl. As eccentric as he is stubborn, divorced three times but still undeterred, he's unabashedly driven to find the love of his life.

Max Steinberg is a grieving widower. He loves to laugh, he loves to drive, but most importantly he loves to dance. Oh, and he happens to be 101 years old. No longer secure in the comfort of a sixty-year marriage, Max struggles to find meaning and companionship without his late wife.

When Dick Trerice met his wife Vi it was love at first sight. That was over seventy years ago. Decades of marriage have been met by struggles with health, but throughout, they’ve always had the support of each other. Now great-grandparents, and armed with a love that has only grown deeper with time, they show us love really does get better with age.

Set in sunny Florida, Love at a Certain Age allows us a rare glimpse into senior homes, fraternities, bars and community centers. The stories in this film will affirm intimacy, sex, and true love are not exclusive to the young. And that life really does begin after 65.

UCI's Dr. Sarah Pressman joins me on Get the FUNK Out! (Look at that HAPPY Face!)

If you missed Dr. Pressman on my show today,
you can hear the entire show here.

About Dr. Sarah Pressman

Dr. Pressman is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on the associations between social relationships, emotions and physical health, with a focus on the underlying physiological and behavioral processes that might connect positive emotions to wellbeing. She has published in a variety of well regarded peer-reviewed journals (e.g., Psychological Science, Psychological Bulletin, Health Psychology), and her work has been featured in top media outlets like the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CBS, USNews and many other popular magazines and papers. Among her numerous awards from psychological societies and universities, one of Dr. Pressman's papers was selected as one of the most cited and influential papers in the field of Psychiatry and Psychology.

Dr. Pressman seeks to understand if and how positive emotions are beneficial for objective physical health and longevity. She has done extensive reviews of the literature to better understand this relationship, and has more recently examined this association at the worldwide level with Gallup. Her experimental work has also focused on the possible pathways by which positive emotions, such as feeling excited, happy, or calm, might “get under the skin” to influence biology. These diverse physiological pathways have included immune function, cardiovascular activity, and neuroendocrine pathways.

Dr. Pressman is also interested in the role of positive psychosocial factors in the stress process. Is it the case that positive emotions buffer an individual’s reactivity or recovery to psychological stressors? Is this one pathway by which positive individuals have longer, healthier lives? Her current research focuses on examining the properties of both emotion and social relationships in laboratory stress scenarios, as well as in the real world with the goal of trying to better understand these resilience factors.

On the second half of my show...Nutrition Educator and Plant-Based Food Specialist Shelly Kays Detken!

Special guest Shelly Kays Detken
on the second half of today's show!

If you missed my conversation with Shelly, you can listen here.

A Bio from Shelly Detken...Nearly 7 years ago I embarked on a personal journey to address some minor yet life-altering health issues which doctors were either unable or unwilling to fix. They merely prescribed medication without so much as the question, “What is your diet like?” It didn’t take long before I was fed up with taking meds I knew were unhealthy, had undesirable side effects, and did nothing to address the underlying causes. At this point I took matters into my own hands and began researching health and disease. The information I came across consistently related to food; that our diet is most often the cause of most afflictions from which people suffer in industrialized countries, not to mention the extra pounds most people seem to be carrying. I thought I was a healthy eater, so this was very surprising to me. However, the more I researched and looked at the actual science, I realized I was consuming anything but a healthy diet.

 Long story short – once I ceased taking any medications I knew weren’t helping, and changed my diet to one that comprised of primarily whole, plant-based foods – everything changed! No longer do I suffer from migraines, sleepless nights, 3-4 colds a year (now its zero!), depression, horrible periods with an erratic menstrual cycle, and unexplained pain (diagnosed as Fibromyalgia). In addition to learning about the connection between disease and nutrition, I became sadly aware of the frighteningly deleterious effects raising animal foods has on our planet. Thus began my quest to learn all I could about nutrition and health, hopeful that I would help others by empowering them to take control of their health as I did. I LOVE cooking healthy, vegan foods and helping others do the same! A few of my favorite things: animals – apes especially; spending time with my family; cooking and eating; sunshine; yoga and fitness; hiking; books; interior decorating; sunflowers; ladybugs, butterflies and dragonflies; trees; listening to my amazing daughter Cambria singhttp://soundcloud.com/cambriadetken; traveling – especially to Hawaii; NFL – Go Broncos!; growing our own food in our Tower Garden https://plantiful.towergarden.com/ - to name a few!

Qualifications:
Certified in Plant Based Nutrition, T. Colin Campbell Foundation and Cornell University
Clayton College of Natural Health – Holistic Nutrition
Certified in Diet & Lifestyle Intervention, The Wellness Forum Institute for Health Studies
The Wellness Forum Institute for Health Studies – courses completed or in process:
Gastrointestinal Disorders
Dietary Supplements
Business for Health-Related Professions
Nutritional Issues & Controversies
Nutrition and Cancer
Women’s Health
Autoimmune Disorders

On the first half of this week's show, special guest Adam Leipzig!

On this week's show, special guest Adam Leipzig from 9:00-9:30am!

If you missed Adam on my show, you can listen to the entire conversation here.

About Adam Leipzig...

Movie Producer and Publisher

Adam shares what he's learned in the entertainment industry as a producer, writer and entrepreneur. He publishes the popular online magazine Cultural Weekly, has produced or distributed 25 movies, launched more than 300 theatre plays and performance events,written for the New York Times and other publications, designed and built 4 successful businesses, and consulted with dozens more.

Results from Disney to Penguins

Adam has worked with “Top 10” worldwide brands such as National Geographic and Disney, and some of his movies have also become household names, including March of the Penguins, Dead Poets Society and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Collectively, Adam’s projects have generated over $2 billion in revenue on $300 million production spending. Twice in his career he has been responsible for the year’s most profitable motion picture.

Creating Massive Value

Adam is expert at training people how to design ideal environments for creativity, because the ideal environment drives massive value. People and companies who work with him have achieved immense profits and growth. Adam gratefully shares his career highlights with the others who participated, because no person ever does anything alone (one of Adam’s principles is always building and supporting your team):

• As President of National Geographic Films, transforming the company into a full-service operation, and obtaining $125 million in financing.

• As Senior Vice President, Walt Disney Studios, participating in the company's growth from 6 to 20 movies a year.

• As Publisher of Cultural Weekly, launching an online magazine and lifestyle brand aimed at supporting creativity and elevating our cultural discussion.

• As an advisor, working with Rand McNally to design and develop new products for new markets.

• As Producer and Dramaturg, building the Los Angeles Theatre Center, a 4-theatre, 1200-seat performing arts complex.

• As an entrepreneur and "intra-preneur," launching and operating 4 successful businesses.

• As a producer and executive, working with great actors including Tom Hanks, Ed Harris, Saoirse Ronan, Drew Barrymore, Bruce Willis, Robin Williams, and Elijah Wood; talented directors including Robert Altman, Peter Weir, Peter Yates, Cherien Dabis, Lu Chuan, Julie Taymor, Luc Jacquet, Jon Turteltaub, and Joe Johnston; and superb writers, including Jon Robin Baitz, David Henry Hwang, Michael Frayn, William Mastrosimone, Donald Freed, Miguel Piñero, and Luis Valdez.