Episodes
Today we’ll feel and experience Julian featuring an interview with amazing Michael and Janessa Cotugno! Michael C. Cotugno, Esq., M.A. in Spiritual Psychology, founder of Conscious Divorce Michael has been a practicing attorney in California since 1996, and a trained mediator since 1998, focused almost exclusively on family law. He obtained his Master’s Degree in Spiritual Psychology in 2011, during which time he transformed his way of practicing law from primarily an adversarial based,...
Published 12/08/23
Today we’ll feel and experience Helms Bakery District in Culver City featuring an interview with incredible Bernhard Mairinger! The first thing you notice about Chef Bernhard Mairinger is his height, for at 6’8” tall, he is arguably the tallest toque you’ll ever encounter. His towering size matches his culinary creativity, which has made him a standout chef since his career began in his native country of Austria nearly 20 years ago. In the years leading up to Mairinger’s Winter 2023...
Published 11/24/23
Today we’ll feel and experience Sunland-Tujunga featuring an interview with wonderful Lila Bassior! Lila Bassior is an LA-based sound bath facilitator and 500-hr certified yoga teacher with over eleven years of teaching experience. Lila loves creating mindful, relaxing and restorative experiences for people by helping them celebrate all kinds of events or by using thoughtful, instruction to help them navigate their bodies, minds and the world we are living in. In addition to providing sound...
Published 11/10/23
Today we’ll feel and experience multifamily housing in Los Angeles and Santa Monica featuring an interview with amazing Frances Anderton! Frances Anderton is the author of Common Ground: Multifamily Housing in Los Angeles, published by Angel City Press, and winner of a Gold award for best Regional Nonfiction from Foreword Reviews. Common Ground has been covered in a number of publications, including the New York Times, the Guardian, Capital & Main, and the LA Times. She has co-produced...
Published 10/27/23
Today we’ll feel and experience the history of murals in Los Angeles followed by an interview with wonderful Rio Diaz! Río Díaz is a Curator and Painter with a deep passion for social representation in Public Art. Her murals adorn schools in Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley. She has curated exhibitions at The Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, UCLA’s Powell Library, the Los Angeles Mexican Consulate, The Venice Family Clinic, and The Social and Public Art Center (SPARC). Under the direction of...
Published 10/13/23
Today we’ll feel and experience the Garden of Alla followed by an interview with incredibly gifted Romy Nordlinger! Romy is an NYC based Actor, Playwright/Screenwriter and Audiobook Narrator. Some recent TV roles include guest and co-starring roles on Bull, Manifest, FBI and Law & Order (Officer Talbor). She can be seen in numerous independent films, most recently as Agent Farrow in The Good Egg. Recently she wrapped the lead role in the soon to be released short film, The Feeling Part,...
Published 09/29/23
Today we’ll feel and experience the artful spirit of Los Angeles followed by an interview with legendary Joan Agajanian Quinn! Joan Agajanian Quinn, a Los Angeles native, is a journalist, curator, collector and arts advocate. She was appointed the West Coast Editor of Interview magazine by Andy Warhol, and was Society Editor of Hearst’s Los Angeles Herald Examiner. Joan, with late husband, attorney John J. Quinn, and twin daughters Jennifer & Amanda, has been a supporter of the arts for...
Published 09/15/23
Today we’ll feel and experience South Pasadena and the Garfield House followed by an interview with amazing Alex Winter! Alex Winter is a director, writer and actor who has worked across film, television and theater. Winter entered show business as a child actor with co-starring roles on Broadway in The King & I and Peter Pan, and came to prominence in movies such as Warner Bros’ hit The Lost Boys and the wildly popular Bill & Ted franchise. As a filmmaker, Winter’s narrative features...
Published 09/08/23
Today we’ll feel and experience iconic Los Angeles landmarks followed by an interview with incredible Carolyn Hennesy! On television, Emmy Award winning actress Carolyn Hennesy has dazzled as the deliciously vicious Penelope Ellisa on ABCs critically acclaimed series REVENGE. She also joined the cast for the fifth season of the sleek vampires-meet-world saga, TRUE BLOOD, and fast become a fan favorite as Rosalyn, the ageless vamp with a Texas twang. Prior to REVENGE and TRUE BLOOD, Hennesy...
Published 09/01/23
Today we’ll feel and experience Brentwood followed by an interview with wonderful Kelley Raleigh! Kelley is an unschooling mother, Intuition Coach, Certified Brain, Trainer and the Founder of KINDbrain Body & Brain Spa. She has had a soul nourishing career as a Director of various youth programs across the country and a Family Coach for teens/parents for over 20 years. She knows the challenges of new mom-ness, feeling scattered and healing from traumatic events so she can thrive in her...
Published 08/25/23
Today we’ll feel and experience Schindler House followed by an interview with amazing Tom Engle! Born and raised in suburban NY. First part of career Tom spent working on Madison Ave in advertising in magazine publishing working for Details, Esquire and Vanity Fair. After burning out on NY and advertising Tom relocated to Miami. As a Spanish speaker who majored in Latin American Studies he liked the Caribbean vibe and got into design working on the launch of David Sutherland Showroom in...
Published 08/18/23
Today we’ll feel and experience Los Angeles and what it is like to be an actor in Hollywood followed by an interview with incredible Lee Purcell! Multi Emmy nominee, Lee Purcell, has done her director and producer hat as well as starring in virtual productions benefitting The Motion Picture and Television Fund (a 501 C3 charity). Ms Purcell just announced that friend and colleague, Leeza Gibbons, will be stepping in as the next celebrity host for the Hollywood RadioPlayers, following the...
Published 08/11/23
Today we’ll feel and experience Silver Lake followed by an interview with wonderful Charles Fleming! Veteran newspaper, magazine and television journalist Charles Fleming, most recently automobile and motorcycle reporter for the Los Angeles Times, is author of the bestselling Hollywood exposé High Concept, the novels The Ivory Coast, After Havana, The Studio Kill and others, the urban hiking books Secret Stairs, Secret Stairs East Bay and Secret Walks, and co-author of the New York Times...
Published 08/04/23
Today we’ll feel and experience Freedom Farms in Creston, CA followed by an interview with amazing Dr. Marilyn Kroplick! Marilyn Kroplick MD is president of In Defense of Animals, a board-certified psychiatrist, and award-winning socio-political photographer. Since 2011, Dr. Kroplick has led In Defense of Animals’ powerful campaigns to end the dog meat trade, advocate for elephants, strengthen animal cruelty laws, and save animals in need around the world. Her groundbreaking program to mentor...
Published 07/28/23
Today we’ll feel and experience Universal Studios followed by an interview with magnificent and inspiring Nina Parker! Nina Parker is an American television journalist, television presenter and fashion designer. Parker co-hosts Nightly Pop on E!, a late-night entertainment news show that debuted in 2018.Nina was raised in Sacramento, California. She received her bachelor's degree in broadcast and electronic communication arts from San Francisco State University. Nina began her entertainment...
Published 07/21/23
Today we’ll feel and experience San Francisco and the Painted Ladies followed by an interview with remarkable Ruth Todd! Ruth Todd, FAIA, is a former president and board chair of the San Francisco–based Page & Turnbull, an architecture, planning, and preservation firm founded in 1973. Ruth studied at Clemson University and held a Richard Morris Hunt Prize fellowship in France before becoming associate university architect for Stanford University. After a dozen years there, she joined Page...
Published 07/14/23
Today we’ll feel and experience Irvine followed by an interview with wonderful Biff Baker! Biff (Harold) Baker grew up in East Providence, Rhode Island, with a love for languages, literature, and places. His Ph.D. dissertation in Comparative Literature was on representations of landscape in narrative and painting. After twenty years in education including a stint teaching Russian at UCI, he joined ALEKS, a tech startup focused on developing an artificially intelligent online system for...
Published 07/07/23
Today we’ll feel and experience Boyle Heights followed by an interview with amazing John Padilla! John E. Padilla is a stand-up comedy show producer and film producer from Boyle Heights, CA. John is currently producing a docuseries entitled Joking G’s in collaboration with video production company Chicano Hollywood. The series is about previously incarcerated and formally involved gang youth from the Homeboy Art Academy who have enrolled in John’s comedy workshop, Stand-Up & Be Heard:...
Published 06/30/23
Today we’ll feel and experience Marin County featuring an interview with legendary Ken Cook! Ken Cook, president and co-founder of Environmental Working Group, is widely recognized as one of the environmental community’s most prominent and influential critics of industrial agriculture, U.S. food and farm policy and the nation’s broken approach to protecting families and children from toxic substances. Under Cook’s leadership over the past 20 years, EWG has pioneered the use of digital...
Published 06/23/23
Today we’ll feel and experience Alhambra featuring an interview with incomparable Yolanda Gonzalez! Yolanda was born into a family whose artistic heritage dates back to 1877. Her world is one of curiosity, demonstrating her love of people and their surroundings. González’s travels in different countries, the bonds forged with individuals in those places, and the resulting transformative experiences are reflected in her art and her life. She is known for her strong, bold brush strokes of color...
Published 06/16/23
Today we’ll feel and experience Mid-Wilshire area of Los Angeles featuring an interview with incredible Patti Lewis! Patti Lewis is a yoga student and teacher, mom to a human and a dog, married to an Italian, and loves hiking, the beach as well as snow. Patti wishes she was a better gardener, loves to read and loves eating brown rice and chips but not together, although maybe. Yoga has seen Patti through many life changes, good and bad. It is the thing she consistently comes back to. It...
Published 06/09/23
Today we’ll feel and experience Musso and Frank Grill featuring an interview with wonderful Andrea Scuto! Andrea has the honor to serve as the General Manager for Musso & Frank Grill and has been with the company since 2018. He considers Musso’s the pinnacle of his career as a restaurateur. Andrea Scuto was born and raised in Rome, Italy and moved to Los Angeles in 2006. Interestingly enough, Andrea’s background is in music, he used to be a professional guitarist and very early on in...
Published 06/02/23
Today we’ll feel and experience the Beverly Hills Hotel followed by an interview with legendary Yona Kunstler Nadelman and her incredible daughter Celina Nadelman! Yona Kunstler Nadelman was only 5 years old when the bleak years of World War 2 began and Nazi Germany occupied Poland. Separated from her parents, Yona left Poland, grew up in Paris, came to Los Angeles in the mid-fifties and created a new life as a fashion designer. She also represented actors and writers in the film industry...
Published 05/26/23
Today we’ll feel and experience Culver City followed by an interview with magical Helane Anderson! Helane Marie Anderson is a transformational voice coach, singer, pianist, sound healer, musician, composer, energy healer, author, multi-instrumentalist and teacher. Her unique style of working with sound blends her years of studying healing modalities with contemporary music & sound healing. As a sound healer and meditation teacher, Helane regularly presents sound baths and guided...
Published 05/19/23
Today we’ll feel and experience Riverside and the Mission Inn Hotel followed by an interview with wonderful Sharon Newby Gilbert! Sharon was born and raised in Riverside. She spent some time away in Las Vegas and Orlando, Florida, but returned to Riverside in 1987. She loves the beauty, history, architecture, and fabulous location! Sharon has led a colorful and fascinating life. Growing up in a musical family, Sharon has played the piano by ear and sang since she was a child. Her dad, Ken...
Published 05/12/23