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.
Ben is an author of middle-grade novels, and had recently published his fourth book, The Einsteins of Vista Point. His previous work is the Winterhouse trilogy which has been translated into ten languages and even received notice from some state, national, and international awards. Visit his website at href="https://benguterson.com/" target="_blank"https://benguterson.com/. Song List: The Earth and the Eagle by David Hunt Blessed is the Spot by The Humming Birds The Light Of Thy Love by Nabil Moghaddam The Light Of Unity by Luke Slott
The tragic death of Vivian's brother when he was a teenager was the impetuous to Vivian and his mother searching for a spiritual reason for this traumatic loss that led them to the Baha'i Faith. Vivian is now retired from being a secondary school teacher. At the end of 1999, he got involved in a youth empowerment program started by the Baha'is in Swindon, England that was transformative and successful and was instituted in a number of schools there. He wrote about the experience in his book Nurturing a Healthy Human Spirit in the Young. Vivian wrote a 2nd book entitled Navigating Materialistic Minefields. He had a dear friend who was an atheist and they would have wonderful deep conversations and after his friend passed away, Vivian decided to write this book dedicated to his friend that would answer some of the questions from a different perspective than the one his friend held.
Carolyn is a professional musician, published author, and painter. She was principal viola with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, based in Edinburgh and a member of the BBC orchestra. She wrote a play called Threads which she was able to produce, which then turned into a book called " href="https://www.bahaibookstore.com/Half-of-it-Was-Never-Told-P8352.aspx" target="_blank"The Half Of It Was Never Told: Three men . . . three continents . . . one passion". She has also written two children's books called " href="https://www.bahaibookstore.com/Little-Acorn-P10407.aspx" target="_blank"Little Acorn"nbsp; and " href="https://www.bahaibookstore.com/Abdul-Bahas-Little-Brown-Cat-P10385.aspx" target="_blank"Abdu'l-Baha's Little Brown Cat". 1. Tell The Rich by Eric Dozier 2. Refresh and Gladden My Spirit by JB Eckel (The Badasht Project) 3. The Balance by Taraz Nosrat 4. The Bird Which Soareth by Elika Mahony 4. One World by The Children's Theatre Company nbsp;
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.
Dorothy is a professor at Columbia University, author and playwright. She served as advisor to the US Ambassador of the Czech Republic and was a delegate to both the United Nations Economic and Social Develop Summit in Copenhagen and the UN Commission on the Status of Women. She is the author of 15 books, and we talk about three of her books in the interview. From one of them she created a musical production that had 3200 performances in over 70 cities. You can find her work at href="http://www.drdorothy.com/" target="_blank" http://www.drdorothy.com/ Song List: 1. Sweet Singing Birds by Gustaff Besungu (album The Flight) 2. Sweeten Their Souls by Elika Mahony (album Infinite Bounty) 3. Spiritual Revolutionary performed by Tallis, Karim, Jose, Jomei (album Badasht Vol. III - Visionaries
Mary was born and raised in the west of Wales and has worked for eight years in Africa - in Lesotho, in Uganda where she became a Bahaacute;'iacute;, and in Cameroon where she met and married Richard Gray, an American astronomer. She is an author, poet, and storyteller. Mary has focused on writing books, in simple English, on the history and teachings of the Bahaacute;'iacute; Faith. Her first title, href="https://www.amazon.com/Bah%C3%A1%C3%AD-faith-Mary-Perkins/dp/0706239393/ref=sr_1_1?crid=27XBDG3WFUMNMamp;keywords=The+Baha%27i+Faith+Mary+Perkinsamp;qid=1651523300amp;sprefix=the+baha%27i+faith+mary+perkins%2Caps%2C671amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank"The Bahaacute;'iacute; Faith, was co-authored with Philip Hainsworth, published by Ward Lock Educational in their series on Living Religion in 1980, and subsequently translated into Danish, German, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Russian and Braille. In 2016 she created a volume of her poetry titled href="https://www.amazon.com/Turning-Toward-Home-Mary-Perkins/dp/0957185618/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2VDV9LCOFY7D2amp;keywords=Turning+Toward+Home+Mary+Perkinsamp;qid=1651523577amp;sprefix=turning+toward+home+mary+perkins%2Caps%2C79amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank"Turning Toward Home. We have a friend of Mary's read two of her poems near the end of the interview. Mary is currently working on a book on storytelling. Song list: 1. Sorrow Not - ninepointedstarmusic(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrJVF...) 2. Strive (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3Hj9...) 3. Suffer Me by Nabil amp; Karim 4. Sweet Neighbors Come in All Colors - adapted from Dick Grover's song Good Neighbors... by Sweet N all Singers (httpswww.youtube.comwatchv=f1M_XaqJD8U)
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
Zarrin is a journalist and one who as worked in international affairs, As part of her attraction to the world#39;s wisdom and spiritual traditions, she created The Soul Salons podcast and href="https://thesoulsalons.com/" target="_blank"website showcasing teachers and works that she wanted to learn more about and passages that inspired her. We talk about her podcast and play one of her episodes in the interview. Sands Of Time by Tadia (Poems of Tahirih) Say by Eric Harper Say Say Say by Kiskadee Service by David Hunt Moth to a Flame by Shadi Toloui-Wallace nbsp;