| 'Igniting Imagination with Nellie Jacobs' Internet Talk Radio - Season 1 |
All Season One's guests and their creative topics are featured below.
To listen to their inspiring interviews, just turn on your speakers and click on the 'click here' at the end of each episode description.
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* Episode 1-Michele Mele
Never Too Late to Follow Your Passion
| Episode 2-Harry van Bommel
Personal Experiences=Opportunities
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Singer/Songwriter. As a mother of four teenagers finally finding her true path while working around her busy family schedule and obligations - many self-imposed - Michele's gone into full swing developing her music career. Born into a family of professional musicians, Michele has released three albums, including the soundtrack of her performance of 'Naked on the Rocks'. She sings her own jazz and rock songs in a cabaret style. Michele has just returned from appearing at Greenwich Village at the Bitter End club in New York. To read more and to listen to this revealing interview, click here.
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Speaker. Trainer. Author. Self-Defense Instructor. Song-Writer. Author of over 35 books, many of which are offered free on his websites, Harry has presented to over 10,000 people. He is the Executive Director of Legacies Inc., a not-for-profit organization providing free or reasonably priced publications and services in four areas: home and hospice care; community development; endowment fund and trust fund creations. For more information and to listen to this inspiring interview, click here.
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Episode 3-Karen Fraser
Making Opportunity Knock
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Episode 4-Neil Doctorow
Perseverance
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Entrepreneur. Founder, Women Like Me. Author. TV co-host. Trend-setter. Karen's ability to accurately translate emerging trends into opportunity has made her a sought after consultant on the women's market. She founded the first women's business network in Canada and The Canadian Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Award was her concept. Irreverent, sharp and funny, Karen shares delightful and moving personal experiences and offers suggestions to create opportunities, particularly in these trying times. To read more and listen to this inspiring interview, click here.
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Managing Director: PEAC School for Elite Atheletes. How does a person who was an elementary and high school student with multiple suspensions and expulsions grow up to become co-founder and managing director of an elite athletes' private school? What factors turned this failing student into an "A" university honours graduate? What insights did he learn about himself? Why did he become a teacher? Why did he keep quitting his teaching jobs in the public school system? To read more and listen to this revealing interview, click here.
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* Episode 5-Marci Segal
Optimizing Your Creativity
| * Episode 6-Wendy Woods
Laughter: The "Ha! Ha!" That Lead to "Ah! Ah!"
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M.S. (Creativity), CEO Creativityland Inc., Motivator, Lecturer, Author, Co-founder World Creativity and Innovation Week (CIW) April 15-21. In between dropping out of high schools, Marci Segal travelled overseas. Having had no family support whatsoever, Marci shares how she managed to sustain herself, find and follow her passions, and blaze a truly unique trail. Who were her mentors? What roadblocks did she overcome - and how did she turn them into the foundation of her professional life? To read more and listen to interview, click here.
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Co-founder and Principal, Watershed Training Solutions. Certified Laughter Coach. Wendy talks about the road she has taken, how she has analyzed her situation at turning points in her life and makes decisions when she's ready to move into another direction, about the background, philosophy and evolution of Laughter yoga and how/why she chose to become qualified to lead it - and leads us in a few exercises. To read more and listen to interview, click here.
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* Episode 7-Kevin Loberg
Putting "It" Out There
| * Episode 8-Sandy Naiman
The Power of Possibility
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Real Estate Broker. Co-founder Millionaire Mastermind Group. Kevin shares some 'secrets' to his survival; life-changing epiphanies he's experienced; how and why his attitude changed; his strategies for success; his support systems; the new purpose to his life; Project Trampoline; his far-reaching humanistic goals; the massive shift he believes is happening amongst people worldwide and what he means by "putting 'it' out there". To read more and listen to interview, click here.
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Journalist. Mental Health Advocate. Within moments of conversation with Sandy Naiman, it's very evident that she loves what she does. When Sandy takes on a job, she flies with it. She's a well-known journalist (with awards too numerous to mention), crusading mental health advocate (also award-winning), in-demand inspirational speaker and now, enthusiastic community college professor pioneering her own courses. To read more and listen to interview, click here.
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* Episode 9-Marlene Walker
The Curiosity Factor
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* Episode 10-Martin Lager
Collaborate/Network
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Author. Nature Photographer. Newspaper Columnist. Property Manager. Nature Retreat Host. Public Speaker. Marlene has an enormous Curiosity Factor. Every person she meets, every conversation she has and every experience she encounters fuel the personal and professional directions she takes. Marlene has two Master's degrees, the first in Social Work and the second, in Zoology with her research focused on genetics and birdsong. Early in her career, she worked as a social worker and then as a private consultant. To read more and listen to interview, click here.
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Writer/Producer. Executive Story Editor. Creative Consultant. In the performing arts business from the age of three, Martin Lager has been eye-witness to and active participant in the development of live theatre, film and television in both Canada and the United States. During his lengthy career, he's performed across North America, written successful plays for stage and radio, acted on television, worked as writer/story editor, teleplay writer, screenwriter and as Executive Producer of Drama (CTV Television Network). To read more and listen to interview, click here.
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* Episode 11-Moira Sutton
Living Your Passion
| * Episode 12-Marla Lukofsky
Re-Inventing Yourself
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Media Television Host and Producer. Motivational Speaker. Lifestyle and Success Coach. Sailor. Certified Reflexologist. Certified Aromatherapist and Reiki Master. Remote Viewer. Ordained Minister. 'Intuitive'. Know of a study that followed the careers of people who demonstrated a specific interest or talent in their early childhood? Moira Sutton is someone who listened to her heart and passion lifelong. Her multi-diversified career path reflects her passions, as well as her curiosity. To read more and listen to interview, click here.
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| Comedian, Actor, Writer, Speaker and Columnist. Also the voice of Good Luck Bear on The Care Bears, this thirty-year veteran comedienne and actress, has performed stand-up in every major North American city. Briefly a member of Second City, Marla has reinvented herself as a speaker across North America, telling her personal story in “I’m Still Here and So is My Hair” about her experience with breast cancer. For more info and to listen to this revealing interview, click here.
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* Episode 13-Sandy Offenheim
My Life as a Song, Book and Game
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Celebrating
Completion
Season One!!!
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Songwriter. Poet. Teacher. Performer. Singer. She was 'just' a young housewife who made up songs for her children. She used to call her ditties "dumb little nothings," not realizing how great they were and their impact on other people. With the 1974 launch of her first songbook "If Snowflakes Fell In Flavours" and the recording of these songs in her first album of the same name the following year, Sandy Offenheim became a trailblazer for children's songwriters and entertainers. Over 30 years later, CD orders still pour in. Sandy shares how she went from stay-at-home mom, to songwriter/singer with four best-selling CD's (the basis of two television specials), to concert performer on stage with her family, why she left the limelight and the careers she's had since. to read more and listen to interview, click here.
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