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Lisa is a musical composer, performer, teacher, and film scorer. In 2001 she put together her earliest piano compositions and has since produced 4 other CDs. When I asked Lisa to select six musical pieces to feature on the interview, she did something I had no other musical artist do, she selected pieces that were created by others that she found as an influence to her musical career. And I have to admit, the pieces she selected are amazing. She selected two pieces that she composed, "Brocaded Tent" and "Light Revealed", which we feature at the end of the interview, and are also very beautiful. You can visit her href="http://lisahaesesmith.com/LHS/Home.html" target="_blank"website.

KC is an American record producer, singer-songwriter, arranger and composer. He was nominated for more than six Grammy Awards and winner of 1, and winner of two Latin Grammy Awards. His father is the famous arranger href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Porter_(record_producer)" target="_blank"Bob Porter. KC has selected a number of songs to feature in the interview and explains the significance of each. One in particular is La Pared (The Wall) which became an href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTHN09ikV_Q" target="_blank"animated video. You can find his work on his href="https://www.kcporter.com/" target="_blank"website.

href="http://www.shameemmusic.com/" target="_blank"Shameem is an Australian singer-songwriter, whose diversity in heritage (her father is Chinese-Malaysian and her mother is Iranian) influences her eclectic approach to music. She has produced a number of albums and she has selected songs from three of them for the interview. The three albums we feature selections from include the self-titled album, Shameem, her next album after that, The Second City, and her most recent album, Time Does Not Reverse.

Gary holds Bachelor#39;s and Master#39;s degrees in Cultural Anthropology as well as a degree in Law. He has been involved in international development projects in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, and Australia. Gary now has a private consulting and training company specializing in federal assistance law and other areas related to assistance agreements. Song list... Make My Prayer by Shoghi Agbortoko and Max Weigert The Covenant by Smith amp; Dragoman Something More by Martin Kerr Radiant Within by Janet Kayzer href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3Hj9" target="_blank"Strive Soon Love Soon by Vienna Teng

For over 10 years Tara has worked in all aspects of digital media, from videos, social media to podcasting. Working as a podcast producer, she has connected experts and entrepreneurs with podcasters to promote and educate listeners across the globe. In her work she has told the stories of people escaping persecution and violence, inventors and entrepreneurs in the east and the west, and the influence of youth working on community building all over the world. One of the podcasts she worked on is called href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg26v5XZmMoCpQtWZWFLkJ-jPj9WQotN8" target="_blank"Baha'i On Air which is an extension to the original New Zealand YouTube series href="https://www.youtube.com/user/bahaionair" target="_blank"Baha'i On Air. Tara has also started an individual podcast initiative entitled href="https://shows.acast.com/who-was-she-podcast" target="_blank"Who Is She?, featuring the stories of Baha'i women historical figures. Musical Credits: href="https://music.aliyoussefi.com/track/rise" target="_blank"Afshin Toufighian amp; Ali Youssefi - Rise;nbsp; href="https://bahaimusicstore.com/tadia-solace-of-the-eyes" target="_blank"Tadia - Poetry of Tahirih - Rise Up and Sing;nbsp; href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0gaS_S80W8" target="_blank"Mooji (Embrace 2) - River of Love

href="https://www.sharmitchell.com/" target="_blank"Shar, holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Indigenous Studies and has travelled to more than 40 countries, including being a guest of the Berber nomads in the Spanish Sahara, the Aborigines in far northern Queensland, Australia, and the Bribri in Costa Rica#39;s rainforest. Shar has worked in various media for 20 years including documentary film production for Canadian Broadcasting Company Radio and TV, and feature newspaper and magazine writing. She is author of the memoir " href="https://www.sharmitchell.com/book-2" target="_blank"The Bridegroom from Baghdad", which we feature in this interview.

Serge is an accomplished jazz pianist, arranger, composer and educator. Serge has an early education bi-lingual school based on the arts called Affinity Arts International School {https://www.affinityarts.com.br/}, which we talk about in the interview. In the interview we play a number of Serge's original compositions. You can find links to Serge's music at his Instagram page href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B5LQVisFCNc/" target="_blank"@SergeJazz. From there you can find his YouTube href="https://www.youtube.com/c/SergeVF" target="_blank"channel.

When Eric was 7 years old he was in the kitchen doing the dishes when a song came on the radio. He doesn't remember which song it was, but he does remember the feeling that song gave him. He immediately stopped doing the dishes, quickly ran into the living room and stared at the stereo system. His sister called him back to finish the dishes, but he couldn#39;t move. He was transfixed, mesmerized. He literally couldn#39;t take his eyes off the stereo. He was so moved by emotion that all he remembered thinking was ldquo;I want to make people feel like that!rdquo; Since then Eric has studied classical guitar in Portugal, was in a band in LA with his brother playing fusion of rock with flamenco, and scored the music for the movie Waiting Alone. He has produced four solo albums and a number of current released singles. We feature his music in the interview You can find his href="https://ericharpermusic.com/" target="_blank"music here.

Wade grew up in a dysfunctional family in which he lived with a drunken mother after his parents divorced. He was then kidnapped by his father and then later returned to his mother again who was still in the same dysfunctional state. He ended up living again with his father and it was then that he became involved in the Worldwide Church of God, traveling the world and preaching the coming of the Messianic return of Jesus. Wade tells the story of his spiritual journey that ultimately led him to the Baha'i Faith in a href="http://wadefransson.com/the-people-of-the-sign/" target="_blank"3 volume series, each volume having its own specific title. He is now owner of an author-driven publishing company called href="https://soopllc.com/" target="_blank"Something or Other Publishing.

Linda's ancestors are from the city of Nayriz in Iran and accepted the teachings of href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A1b" target="_blank"the Bab and later became Baha'is. The Bab was the prophet forerunner of Baha'u'llah and Baha'u'llah is the prophet-founder of the Baha'i Faith. She received her PhD from John Hopkins University School of Public Health and worked in the field of public health teaching at Johns Hopkins and Emory University. She is a children's book author and we discuss her two children's books in the interview: href="https://www.bahaibookstore.com/I-Love-My-Name-P9889.aspx" target="_blank"I Love My Name and href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/together-even-when-were-apart-anna-myers/1138492370?ean=9781736222003" target="_blank"Together Even When We're Apart: My Neighborhood's Stories of the Covid-19 Pandemic.

Andrea was born and raised in Qeqertarsuaq (Disco Island) Greenland and her heritage and culture is Inuit. She is a journalist and works with a radio program on the national radio station href="https://knr.gl/en" target="_blank"Greenlandic Broadcasting Corporation (KNR). The program covers cultural and spiritual topics in the native Inuit language. She has been a Bahaacute;'iacute; for almost four years. She conveys most clearly in the interview that spirituality is very important for her. We talk about her journalistic work and her goals for the future in the interview.

Andrea describes herself as a poet, mother and world citizen. Her published poetry works include href="https://www.amazon.com/Will-You-Break-Silence-Practical/dp/B089M43484/" target="_blank"Will You Break The Silence, Poetic Practical Steps Toward Race Unity and, href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B086PLBTY4" target="_blank"To Mother. She also hosts a podcast called href="https://tomother.buzzsprout.com/" target="_blank"To Mother with Andrea Hope. We talk about all three in the interview. Her website is href="https://www.andreahope.org/" target="_blank"https://www.andreahope.org/.

Peter is a writer, educator, poet and musician from Australia. He has a degree in philosophy and likes to delve into the deeper aspects of life and express his insights. He is the author of href="https://books2read.com/apathtoseek" target="_blank"A Path to Seek and href="https://www.bahaibookstore.com/Search.aspx?k=Gyulay" target="_blank"The Baha'i Approach to Spiritual Transformation: Walking the Mystical Path with Practical Feet. We feature both works in the interview. We also feature Peter reading one of his poems and we play one of his musical pieces. His website is href="https://www.petergexpressions.com/" target="_blank"www.petergexpressions.com.

Jean conducts participatory research to build cohesive communities throughout the world. Her href="http://www.buildingresilience.global/research.htm" target="_blank"doctoral dissertation was on emergency preparedness learning through community radio in North Indian villages. She hosted a podcast series called " href="https://ebbf.org/ebbf-podcast-copy/" target="_blank"Discovering How" for the organization Ethical Business Building the Future or ebbf, which people can still listen to on the ebbf website. She talks about how her interest in radio began and her experience as program producer for href="http://www.rfpi.org/" target="_blank"Radio for Peace International in Costa Rica. She is now the online program director for the href="https://drbi.org/" target="_blank"Desert Rose Baha'i Institute. She describes some of the online programming that has been developed

Klare is a singer-songwriter whose style draws from her traditional roots of Papua New Guinea combined with elements of Jazz, Ramp;B, World and soul music. She refers to her style as ACOUSTIC SOUL/JAZZ MUSICIAN. We feature her music including the audio from a video she helped produce. You can find her href="https://klarekuolga.com/" target="_blank"music here.

Walter is a singer-songwriter who uses principles based on the oneness of mankind for inspiration, with influences from his Christian upbringing for his songs. The ones we feature on the interview are songs inspired by the Baha'i writings. You can find his music on the website href="https://9starmedia.com/walter-heath-praise-his-name?zenid=8ag7qsekuiak7vmeqh15c13s04" target="_blank"9StarMedia.com.

Earl has written several books on the Baha'i Faith published through the UK publisher href="http://www.grbooks.com/content/search.php?words=Redmanamp;submit=Search" target="_blank"George Ronald. Two of his books are about Abdu'l-Baha. Abdu'l-Baha is one of the central figures of the Baha'i Faith and is the son of the prophet-founder of the Baha'i Faith, Baha'u'llah. Earl explains why Abdu'l-Baha is an important figure to Baha'is and tells a number of stories about Abdul'l-Baha in the interview. Earl's wife, Sharon O'Toole is an active participant in the interview who tells her story about her spiritual search and reads excerpts from Earl's stories about Abdu'l-Baha.

Susan is a singer, song writer, and author who has now written two books for the Baha'i Change Maker Series. The Change Maker Series is a series of biographies targeted toward middle schoolers. Her first one is href="https://www.bahaibookstore.com/Robert-Sengstacke-Abbott-eBook-ePub-P9594.aspx" target="_blank"Robert Abbott who founded the Chicago Defender newspaper. Her most recent, to be published February 8th of this same year, is " href="https://www.bahaibookstore.com/John-Birks-Dizzy-Gillespie-P9872.aspx" target="_blank"John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie: A Man, a Trumpet, and a Journey to Bebop". We talk about Dizzy Gillespie's life and I feature recordings of Dizzy Gillespie in the program.

Rosamond is an accomplished keyboard artist, composer, and teacher. She studied organ and harpsichord in Europe and earned a PhD in music history from Brandeis University. She taught piano to students of all ages for 35 years and worked as an organist and choir director. Still going strong at age 88, she has recently record her 5th CD of original piano compositions, inspired by the writings of the Baha'i Faith. In the interview, we feature compositions from her 5th CD, "Divine Revelation: Loving and Uplifting Steps to Unity and Bliss". For each piano composition, Rosamond describes her interpretion of specific writings of the Baha'i Faith to the piano composition that we play on the interview. The manner in which describes the relationship between the specific writing and the piano composition is quite remarkable. The Baha'i texts that she refers to are printed on the CD cover. You can find her music on href="https://9starmedia.com/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_resultamp;search_in_description=1amp;zenid=f4f50abb5db7fd9f1a8b75b000648d0aamp;keyword=brenneramp;x=27amp;y=13" target="_blank"9 Star Media.

Jack is a writer and a child survivor of the holocaust. His first book was entitled " href="https://www.amazon.com/HOLOCAUST-SEEN-THROUGH-INNOCENCE-CHILD-ebook/dp/B07QMB5PQG" target="_blank"Through the Eyes of the Child: Survival of the Holocaust". He just released a new edition of the book and renamed it to "The Holocaust As Seen Through the Innocense of a Child" . We talk about the book and he reads a moving excerpt from it. In total, Jack has href="https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Jack+Vefferamp;i=digital-textamp;ref=nb_sb_noss_2" target="_blank"published five books. His other four books we talk about in the interview.