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Jeffrey speaks with classical new age pianist and composer Jon Schmidt about his life long passion for creating beautiful music, his families inspiration and support, working with music as a language, and the joy of performance.

Jon performs live at many major concert halls and has worked with wonderful musicians such as David Arkenstone, John Tesh, Kurt Bestor, Lex deAzevedo and Peter Breinholt. Among his many CD’s and albums Jon released his debut album August End in 1991, Walk in The Woods in 1993, A Day in the Sunset and Jon Schmidt Christmas in 1994 and To The Summit in 2000.

Listen to a gifted composer and performer reveal his heart and soul and his life long passion to create powerful and exhilarating piano music. At the end of the show we are privileged to an unedited version of his musical masterpiece Waterfall.

The Omni Art Salon theme music, When Angels Smile, is provided courtesy of Back To Earth

 

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Jeffrey interviews Leah Roland of Aspen, Colorado a recovering incomplete quadriplegic from a skiing accident where she broke her neck. Quadriplegia refers to the paralysis of all four limbs — both arms and both legs, as from a high spinal cord accident. Incomplete refers to Leah’s success in defying complete paralysis, as she has regained some use of her limbs.

Inspired by her friend Amanda Boxtel, who recently became the first United States citizen to receive human embryonic stem cell therapy, Leah is also planning on going to India to work with Dr. Geeta Shroff’ in the spring of 2008 to receive similar human embryonic stem cell therapy. To date, over 70 other spinal cord injuries have been successfully treated with no adverse side effects.

In this interview Leah talks about her excitement and nervousness about the work she has ahead as she is anticipating success but also feels a little apprehensive about giving her body to science.

Music is provided courtesy of Back To Earth playing their musical piece When Angels Smile.

 

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Jeffrey has an enlightening conversation with Elsie Maio, President of Maio and Company and Counselor to top executives in Europe and North America for the past 25 years.

Referred to as the guru of values based branding, Elsie guides multinational policy makers and their operating teams to integrate profit-and social-impact priorities to secure market advantage and improve their presence and purpose in the world. The SoulBranding methodology for building high performance enterprises of social integrity is the result of 10 years of research by Maio and Company, presaging that global trend. Elsie is currently writing a book about this focus of interest and samples of her published works can be seen at the Maio and Company website.

Elsie brings a global perspective to the trends in conscious awareness in business and the special leadership role that American business’s play and where they are behind the trends.

Listen to a Soul centered thought leader speak about her passion and mission to bring a deeper awareness and more truth based consciousness to the world of business.

Music is provided courtesy of Back To Earth playing their musical piece When Angels Smile.

 

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Jeffrey interviews author, intuitive life coach and sea shell reader Michele “Shelly” Hanson about her amazing journey to becoming a leader in understanding and gathering wisdom from reading seashells. Shelly has developed a set of cards and literature called Ocean Oracle: What Seashells Reveal about Our True Nature™ published by Beyond Words Publishing. This boxed set includes a deck of 200 seashell cards depicting the shells discussed in the companion book. Together, the book and cards enable the reader to work with his/her own divination messages.

Shelly embraces seashells as tools to enable us to speak with our subconscious life and knowingness, allowing that inner true self to communicate the information it selects as most valuable for our growth at the time of the reading creating a sort of inner mirror and road map.

“Softly the Ocean whispers her gentle flow of truth and compassion as we heed her crystal words, and embrace her wisdom, we find enlightenment in The Ocean Oracle”

In the Ocean Oracle card set and guide, each card presents a picture of the shell on the front, and its name and meaning on the back. Once the shells are selected and arranged, it is simply a matter of turning over the cards to obtain the message.

This conversation with Shelly reveals a devoted lover of these little gems of the ocean that can impart wisdom, realization, self understanding and become real friends as we get to know them with an open heart and mind.

Music is provided courtesy of Back To Earth playing their musical piece When Angels Smile.

 

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Jeffrey has a great conversation with Karen Humphries Sallick the host on the Voice of America network for Embracing the Journey, a weekly Internet radio program. Her program explores what it means to be spiritually fulfilled in business and how to integrate spiritual direction into a career. Expert guests, authors and inspiring speakers join Karen every week to discuss such issues as honesty, compassion, generosity, ethics, and integrity in the workplace.

Karen is also the President and founder of The Priority Group which was founded with the primary business goal of offering highly personalized service to companies who not only need strategic thinkers, but more importantly, need strategic facilitators to assist them with their Customer Relationship Management goals. It was also founded with the primary personal goal of offering an environment where family and spirituality were balanced with career to support happiness and life satisfaction.

Music is provided courtesy of Back To Earth playing their musical piece When Angels Smile.