Wise Women

Wise Women - 12.06.22

NATALIE WARREN
A lifelong paddler and river lover, Natalie was one of the first two women to paddle over 2,000 miles from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay. From Miami, FL, Natalie’s first overnight camping experience was a two-week canoe trip through the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in Northern Minnesota through YMCA Camp Menogyn. At Menogyn, Natalie canoed for 30-days in Wabakimi Provincial Park in Ontario and 50-days on the Kazan and Kunwak Inuit Heritage Rivers in Nunavut, Canada through the arctic tundra. She has since canoed the length of the Mississippi River and won first place in the Yukon River Quest in the women’s voyageur division, paddling 444 miles in fifty-three hours. A contributing writer to outdoor publications, she has worked with Bancroft Arnesen Explore, St. Croix River Association, and River Management Society, and she started a nonprofit to present urban rivers as natural, dynamic classrooms for youth. Natalie is currently a PhD candidate researching environmental communication at the University of Minnesota, where she studies the human-nature relationship and works with the publication Open Rivers: Rethinking Water, Place, and Community. She enjoys playing music with her husband under the band name QAWALA, growing more vegetables than she can eat, and paddling the Mississippi River during sunset. Natalie lives in Minneapolis with her husband, daughter, and dog.
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Wise Women - 11.18.22

Anita DeFrantz is a member of the International Olympic Committee. Anita was elected as an IOC Vice President to a second term in 2017, and also serves on the IOC Executive Board. Because she is also a lawyer, she serves on the Legal Affairs Commission of the IOC, which reviews its legal issues; on the Finance Commission, which reviews the IOC’s investments and spending plans; and is an advisor for the 2020 Tokyo Games Coordination Commission.Before she joined the ranks of the IOC, DeFrantz captained the U.S. women’s rowing team and rowed in the eight that won a bronze medal at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games. DeFrantz served as Vice President of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee and was elected to IOC membership in 1986, making her not only the first African-American but also the first American woman to serve on the committee.In 1987, DeFrantz began her 28-year presidency, stewarding the legacy of the 1984 LA Games as President of the LA84 Foundation, which received 40% of the 1984 surplus funds, totaling $93 million.

Wise Women - 11.04.22

Reshma Datar
Reshy is from Pune, India. She completed her Bachelor of Arts from University of Pune and then pursued her studies in Community Welfare Work in Melbourne, Australia. After having worked in Australia within the Human Services for some years and having gone through a period of upheaval in her personal life, she ardently sought to make sense of her life. She returned to India in 2011 and gravitated towards Yoga to heal. This is when her journey to the greatest learning of the Self and optimal state of wellness began. Yoga led her to embrace life fully with awareness and compassion. In 2011, she completed her Foundation Yoga Teacher Training and Medical Yoga Therapy with Param Yoga, Pune and also went on to complete her training with them in the practice of Vinyasa, Science of Pranayama and Pilates. To further deepen her practice and understanding, she trained in the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Tradition. Her passion to do more therapeutic work led her to train in Yoga Therapy with the Ashtanga and Hatha Yoga Mysore-Kerala School in Varkala.
Reshy teaches from a place of personal experience, and likes to draw upon the ancient wisdom and healing practices of Yoga to overcome the limitations of the body and mind. She is committed to an integrated practice of asanas, pranayama, chanting and meditation. Her teaching style encourages correct alignment, synchronization of breath and movement, and awareness of body-mind-breath. She also works extensively with individuals with specific needs by using props, Iyengar therapy principles and the principles of Viniyoga propounded by Sri Desikacharyaji. Reshy expresses deep gratitude to her Guru, all her teachers, her family, all the beautiful beings who help her evolve, and to life itself for the love, guidance and inspiration.
Reshma is a management and special needs supervisor and uses her Yoga holistic approach in helping many injured animals at Goa, a shelter home for abused, injured, and malnourished cows and other animals in India.

Wise Women - 10.21.22

Cynthia J. Olivera is a Master Medicinal Aromatherapist and the Educational Director for Wisdom of the Earth. She teaches Wisdom of the Earth’s Level I and the Level II Advanced Aromatherapy Sacred retreats with Audre Gutierrez, both in-person and online.
Cynthia J. Olivera is an author, a World Spirit Guide™️, medicine woman, and sage, and teaches people to use medicinal essences to help shift old paradigms and patterns for dynamic self-healing. As the director and founder of the Inner Landscape Work™️, a movement/meditation process for self-empowerment, and the founder of The Sacred Practice of Anointing, she travels internationally to teach plant consciousness to the growing movement of medicinal aromatherapists, meditators, and sacred anointers.  She is the author of The Book of Anointing, a spiritual journey into the rebellious art of sacred anointing. This art has been with us for thousands of years and has touched the hearts, minds, and souls of humanity. The anointers of the ancient world were wisdom-keepers and knew the power of essential oils to consecrate, heal, and awaken the soul. Cynthia Olivera’s book brings you into the sacred art of anointing as an Act of Love in the modern world.
Cynthia has a B.S. in Education from New York University and taught at the prestigious Bank Street School for Children in NYC. She developed a movement process called The OMM (The Olivera Method of Movement) and taught teachers throughout New England and the Tri-state area.
Cynthia Olivera is not your usual aromatherapist. Her lineage is built upon a generation of mother curanderos from the Caribbean and backward in time to the high kingdoms of Africa and the Mediterranean. She happily touts her Puerto Rican roots for her feisty, energetic, and friendly aura; but something deeper emerges when Cynthia plumbs hidden depths of knowledge with the "oils” for her clients and students.
You can contact Cynthia at cynodance@gmail.com or purchase her book at https://www.thebookofanointing.com/

Wise Women - 10.14.22

Samaire Armstrong is a Sedona native, an actress, writer, director and one of few people to be certified in Classical Japanese Battlefield Training, an honor most difficult to achieve.
In 2021, Samaire finally left Hollywood and moved back home in hopes her son could now have the wholesome and loving quality of life that she had experienced in Sedona. But upon her return to Sedona, Samaire observed that the community she had grown up in had made some of its own changes—for the worse.  “We have always had tourism here, but the balance that once complemented our lives is now gone.”  Throughout the months after her return, an increasing number of long-time Sedona families and friends have encouraged Samaire to run for Mayor of Sedona.  They are looking for someone equipped to lead the fight for the necessary change in restoring balance and integrity to the Sedona they once knew.
Samaire’s love for our community and keeping it whole and vibrant for her son and future generations is what motivates her.  Without question, she is battle-tested and will fight to redirect Sedona, to protect the interests of Sedona’s residents, businesses, and sacred land.
 

Wise Women - 10.07.22

Luanne Pennesi, a registered nurse practicing for over 47 years in both conventional and integrative medicine, shares information that motivates people to take back their personal power and lead happier, more productive lives at ANY age.Her work is the missing link between the confusing, overwhelming and often conflicting information about "new age" or "alternative" approaches to health and anti-aging and the practical application of real-time, common sense, scientifically based information to help you take full control over your health and longevity and often save your own life naturally. She makes learning fun as she presents wholistic health concepts in a manner that is easy to understand and to integrate.Luanne: “I believe that the technology and diagnostic wisdom of conventional medicine is essential to utilize. Emergency medicine, diagnostic procedures and reconstructive surgeries do help people to live longer, more quality lives. What I object to is the arrogance of an elite corporatized system that does not honour time tested, scientifically documented therapies that do not originate from their sacred halls, those that they cannot assert political and fiscal control over. It is time we offered the public alternatives and additions to many standard medical therapies that just plain don't help people to heal. I have witnessed people who have reversed dozens of conditions that conventional medicine has failed miserably at reversing in spite of the millions of dollars of research that go into studies controlled by the very pharmaceutical companies that are selling the drugs to suppress the symptoms that our bodies manifest in order to beg our attention.  Every one of us deserves to be happy, optimally healthy and wealthy. I believe that in life pain is inevitable and suffering is an option. I also believe that change is inevitable, and GROWTH is an option.  We are all gifted in some way, and we need to be sourcing our lives around manifesting our own individual potentials and greatness, what I call “living authentically” and not maladapting to other people’s agendas for us and spending way too much time holding on to pain from past life events. I help people to live much more deliberately, and I am impressed with how quickly people heal when they are given the right tools to work with."Her extensive credentials and experience include:
⦁ Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing, Adelphi University, NY⦁ Masters of Science in Natural Health⦁ Certified Health and Wellness Coaching⦁ Nursing licenses in NY, NJ, CA, FL, & TX
Oriental diagnosis and massage therapy with acupressure point treatment⦁ Certified Neurolinguistic Healer⦁ Level IIB Healing Touch practitioner⦁ was the Founder of the Metropolitan Wellness Group, a NYC-based wholistic wellness center, in existence from 2001 - 2007⦁ was Adjunct professor, Fairleigh Dickinson University’s graduate program⦁ Sat on Advisory Board for Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Master’s of Sports Administration Program⦁ Was the NYS coordinator for The American Holistic Nurses Association for 5 years.⦁ Was the Program Coordinator of Stress Management and Esteem Building for the Wholistic Nursing Programs at the New York College for Wholistic Health, Education and Research in Syosset, NY for 6 years.⦁ She is trained in the use of high dose vitamin C and bio-oxidative therapies⦁ She was recognized in "Who's Who Among Young American Professionals" in 1988 and "Who's Who in American Nursing" in 1994.⦁ A regular guest on local talk radio, Luanne co-hosted the radio program "The Tri-State Healing Hour" with Gary Null on WEVD in 1997 and "Creative Wellness" on WHPC from Nassau Community College in NY  in 1996 and 1997.⦁ In 2000, she hosted her own show, “The Healing Hour”, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.⦁ She was a founding member and was a broadcast affiliate for The People's Network, a revolutionary television network devoted exclusively to providing motivational, instructional, inspiring and success-oriented programming.⦁ She appeared on Staten Island Cablevision's The Thinking Mind with George Stern and News 12 Long Island's "Long Island Naturally" with Mary Mucci.⦁ Luanne often shares the stage with health and nutrition expert Gary Null at his health support groups all around the country and assists him with updating his world famous, highly effective natural protocols for chronic illnesses.⦁ She now manages her own private consulting, coaching and referral practice and is the property manager of The Villa in Texas, where she coordinates and orchestrates wellness retreats.  She shares her wealth of experience and knowledge as a professional public speaker as well.Luanne is a dynamic, energizing individual who makes learning fun as she presents wholistic health concepts in a manner that is easy to understand and to integrate. To prove her authenticity, she personally lives the healthy, positive, adventurous life that she prescribes for others.  She is a world class athlete in race walking and competed in roller skate ballroom dancing.

Wise Women - 09.30.22

Sarah Stewart is an entrepreneur and women's rights advocate.
 
As a survivor of domestic violence who had to fight the system and her abuser to protect herself and her children, she has first-hand experience with the struggles survivors of abuse face. She works tirelessly on her passion to change the culture and misconceptions surrounding domestic violence. She hopes to change the narrative for all abuse survivors.
Moreover, Sarah has persevered through the trauma and abuse and being a solo mom, to create successful businesses and publish her first book in October 2022- The Monster in My Home: Surviving Evil.
 

Wise Women - 09.23.22

Dr Ann Consorte completed her degree in Zoology at the University of New Hampshire, following graduation she enrolled in New York Chiropractic College (NYCC) in September of 1984 and graduated in December of 1987. Having a deep passion and desire to run her own practice she opened the doors of Total Health Chiropractic in July of 1989 and never looked back. She opened the doors of Total Health Chiropractic in July of 1989 in Mineola NY and continued in a thriving practice until July of 2018. During those years she was actively involved in her community serving through the Kiwanis Club, Mineola Athletic Association, the NYChiropractic Council, and the Mineola Run Club. in 2018, She moved to Cottonwood Arizona and opened Inner Journey Chiropractic to serve in her community, she started Windows of Hope, and served as the Executive Director of the Arizona Association of Chiropractic. Presently she is living in Nacogdoches, Texas where she is Coaching other Chiropractors across the country as well as, giving nutritional and supplement consultations to patients across the country. She and her husband Jim are working toward having a community garden to educate the public on the hows and whys of organic gardening, to help remove the community from having to depend on the global claw. They see a need to create a self sustainable method of living, as the quantity and quality of the food supply is at stake.
Living the Chiropractic lifestyle in all aspects of her life has inspired her children to also become Chiropractors. Dr Ann's ability to walk the walk and talk the talk has led to her success at raising up a Chiropractic office where education is the primary component.Dr Ann's greatest passion is teaching people to live a healthy lifestyle with her ultimate goal of transforming Health Care from sickness and disease care to True Health Care in which the world heals from the inside out through adapting the Chiropractic lifestyle.

Wise Women - 09.16.22

Kari Watkins, a third-generation journalist and Cleveland, Oklahoma native, became the Oklahoma City National Memorial’s first staff member in 1996. Three years later she was named Executive Director, overseeing the design competition for the for the Memorial, the building of the Museum, and the operations of the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum—one of Oklahoma’s and the Nation’s most visited sites—and serving as Race Director for the annual Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon. She is  President & CEO, Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum.Watkins leads a staff that has been recognized with the highest national recognition—accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums. Under her leadership, the Museum has won numerous awards, including The Videographer Award of Excellence, a Gold American Alliance of Museums MUSE, the FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award, and multiple Addy’s, PRSA Awards, and OklahomaTourism RedBud Awards.
Guest # 2:
Cathy Ransom is a Arizona mom who knows our economy has not been working as hard for moms as moms work for our economy. As the business manager of a small business in the Verde Valley, I have witnessed how decades of one-party domination in the state legislature have failed rural Arizona. Water, Education, and Healthcare have all been neglected. I want the legislature to level the playing field and ensure we adequately invest in an equitable future for all of us. The Arizona legislature can help prepare the next generation for 21st century jobs by investing in our human infrastructure. 
 
 
 

Wise Women - 09.09.22

Dr. Nicole had a spot lined up in physical therapy school. Growing up, she’d always been to the chiropractor. If she was in pain, that’s where she’d go. When it made a drastic difference in her comfort levels, Dr. Nicole knew: chiropractic school was the right choice for her.
While attending Parker University, Dr. Nicole learned the truth about chiropractic. “I recognized the intelligence of the body, and how chiropractic was about so much more than getting people out of pain.” She earned a Doctor of Chiropractic, graduating as valedictorian.
 
 
 
 
Doctor of Chiropractic Degree Program at Parker University in Dallas Texas
Our comprehensive Doctor of Chiropractic Degree classroom education is enhanced by extensive real-world, hands-o...
 
 
Healing Discovered
Though her passion for chiropractic was there, Dr. Nicole had some serious pain that nothing seemed to make a dent in. She tried various techniques within chiropractic, nutrition, exercise, dry needling, acupuncture, functional neurology, biofeedback, neurofeedback-you name it.
After a single adjustment through particular chiropractic technique, Dr. Nicole was out of pain and on the road to healing. Because of what she experienced, it became her mission to provide relief through chiropractic care. Dr. Nicole is also trained in the Webster Technique for pregnant women.
Always Learning
Dr. Nicole is passionate about health. She has an interest in nutrition, exercise and mental health, constantly reading to learn more. Learning is what recharges Dr. Nicole, so she does plenty of studying.
She also enjoys being outside with her daughter, Kaydence, and her two Australian Shepherds. Kaydence was adjusted right after her birth and regularly since. Dr. Nicole is from the panhandle area, one of eight children that were farmers and ranchers. She also has a brother who is a chiropractor.