Headlined Guests
Headlined Guests that have appeared on BBS Radio TV
Marisha Chilcott is a Board Certified Family Physician who earned her MD at UC Davis School of Medicine and completed her residency at the Contra Costa Family Medicine program in Martinez, CA. Before medical school, she worked as a consultant in the electric utility industry, focused on demand-side management program evaluations and software development. She has a BA in Mathematics from UC Berkeley, although she claims to have "majored" in boys and beer. I am just checking to see if anyone is actually reading this. Gotcha, Amy.
Dr. Chilcott has worked as an emergency room physician, a primary care doctor, a geriatrician, and as an aesthetic medical provider. It is with this breadth of experience that she comes to Be the Change in Mental Health (BTC) committed to creating a clinical treatment center that will improve society with the multiplicative effect of one-human-at-a time wellness that cannot help but influence families and friends.
All of Dr. Chilcott's personal and professional experiences culminate in being uniquely qualified to lead BTC to achieve our mission. She understands the challenges of the broken medical system with its distorted incentives, problematic third-party payor structure, and the absurd separation of mental health from all other types of healthcare. She is a successful business person who can understand financial imperatives, allocate resources to get work done, and build a team that will leverage her individual energy into an entire organization. She is a leader who will create the productive, supportive, brave culture that is needed to disrupt the status quo in mental health care.
Bruce S. Thornton, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, grew up on a cattle ranch in Fresno County, California. He received his BA in Latin from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1975, as well as his PhD in comparative literature–Greek, Latin, and English–in 1983. Thornton is an emeritus professor of classics and humanities at the California State University, Fresno. He is the author of several books on a variety of topics, including Greek Ways: How the Greeks Created Western Civilization; Searching for Joaquin: Myth, Murieta, and History in California; with Victor Davis Hanson, Bonfire of the Humanities: Rescuing the Classics in an Impoverished Age; Decline and Fall: Europe’s Slow-Motion Suicide; and most recently The Wages of Appeasement: Ancient Athens, Munich, and Obama's America. His numerous essays and reviews on Greek culture and civilization and their influence on Western civilization, as well as on other contemporary political and educational issues, have appeared in both scholarly journals and magazines such as the New Criterion, Commentary, National Review, the Weekly Standard, and the Claremont Review of Books. Thornton is also a regular contributor to online magazines such as City Journal and Advancing a Free Society. He has lectured at many colleges and universities and at venues such as the Smithsonian Institute, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, the Army War College, and the Air Force Academy; he has also appeared on television on the History Channel and ABC’s Politically Incorrect. His most recent book was released in 2014 by the Hoover Institution Press, titled Democracy's Dangers and Discontents: The Tyranny of the Majority from the Greeks to Obama.
My guest Gail Thackray is a 6-generation Reiki Master who has travelled extensively working with spiritual healers and psychic surgeons around the world. Gail is an exceptional medium with tremendous connection to spirit. She helps people realign their energies for better health, love, finances and to live their soul-purpose. Gail can see people’s past-lives, tap into their body energetically and often gives messages from spirit. Gail is in-tune with crystals and stones, working on people’s energy fields and using crystal healing to protect and enhance the aura. Gail is the author of Usui & Tibetan Reiki Manuals, 30 Days to Prosperity, and several other books on spiritual healing and psychic mediumship development.
My guest Althea Lucrezia is a Light Language Channeler, Galactic Contact, Akashic & Psychic Healer, Reiki Practitioner, Kundalini Yoga teacher, plus Tarot & Divination Astrologer. She was born in Milan, Italy and has travelled and worked perfecting her craft worldwide eventually settling in South Africa. Althea has had psychic & intuitive insight and prophetic dreaming from a young age and decided to pursue this as a career. Her specialty is Light Language channeled in all forms – written, drawn, sung, spoken, and signed. Althea does a lot of timeline clearing on both an individual and collective level. She channels 5D and up higher dimensional frequency codes and anchors them in the Third/Fourth Dimensional matrix construct to help raise the planetary frequency.
Bruce Cryer has spent more than thirty years training and coaching innovative approaches to maximizing health and human performance. He was named President and CEO of HeartMath in 2000, having helped launch the non-profit Institute of HeartMath with founder Doc Childre in 1991.
Bruce was the key architect of programs that incorporate HeartMath’s innovative biomedical research into practical tools and strategies to enhance health, performance, creativity, innovation, and productivity for both the individual and the organization.
Bruce was lead author of the acclaimed Harvard Business Review article, entitled “Pull the Plug on Stress” (July 2003) which was republished by HBR in 2015.
He has worked with leadership teams at organizations such as The World Bank, Stanford Business School, NASA, Mayo Clinic, Shell, Unilever, Cisco, Johnson & Johnson, Duke University Health System, and dozens of other corporations, health systems and government agencies across the US.
Mr. Cryer is co-author of one of the first management books to draw a research link between stress/resilience/leadership performing in his seminal book From Chaos to Coherence: The Power to Change Performance.
Since 1997 Mr. Cryer has been adjunct faculty at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business as well as Stanford’s School of Medicine. He has been a featured speaker across the US in the Lessons in Leadership Distinguished Speakers Series, and has been on the faculty of the Global Institute for Leadership Development. He has also lectured at the Institute for Health and Productivity Management (IHPM), the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association, the Stanford Sloan Program, the Stanford Executive Briefings series, Columbia Senior Executive Program, University of California Berkeley Haas Business School, the Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business, the Nanyang Polytechnic University School of Business Management in Singapore, and the International Center for Leadership in Finance, based in Kuala Lumpur.
A two year health crisis became a healing journey which convinced him to focus his energies and passions on personal healing, leadership development, and the creativity/innovation link. He writes for Innovation Excellence as well as other blogs.
Bruce’s professional career began as a singer, dancer, and actor on Broadway, including 800 performances in New York playing The Boy in The Fantasticks, the world’s longest running musical. He currently works and performs with a number of performing arts organizations in New York City.
Rollin McCraty, Ph.D., director of research at the HeartMath Institute, is a professor at Florida Atlantic University. McCraty is a psychophysiologist whose interests include the physiology of emotion. One of his primary areas of focus is the mechanisms by which emotions influence cognitive processes, behavior, health and the global interconnectivity between people and Earth’s energetic systems. He has been with HeartMath Institute since its founding in 1991 by Doc Childre. He has worked closely with Childre to develop HMI’s research goals and has been instrumental in researching and developing the HeartMath System of tools and technology.
McCraty and the members of his research team have worked in joint partnership with research groups at Stanford University, Claremont Graduate University, Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Prince Sultan Cardiac Center in Saudi Arabia and the University of Lithuania among many others.
He has been interviewed for many feature articles in publications that include Prevention, Natural Health, Men’s Fitness and American Health magazines, and has appeared in television segments for CNN Headline News, ABC World News Tonight, ABC’s Good Morning America, NBC’s Today Show, PBS’s Body & Soul and the Discovery Channel. He has been featured in many documentary films, including I Am, The Truth, The Joy of Sox, The Power of the Heart, Solar Revolution, and The Living Matrix among others.
McCraty’s critical research on heart rate variability and heart-rhythm coherence has gained international attention in the scientific community and is helping to change long-held perceptions about the heart’s role in health, behavior, performance and quality of life.
He is one of the primary creators of the Global Coherence Initiative and the principal designer of the Global Coherence Monitoring System and its international network of magnetic field sensor sites. Related to this, McCraty heads up HMI and GCI researchers investigating the relationship between human and geomagnetic field environments and the interconnectedness of and communication among all living systems. They also investigate how these fields act as central synchronizing signals within the body, carry emotional information and serve as key mediators of energetic interactions between people and living systems.
McCraty is a member of the American Autonomic Society, Pavlovian Society, National Association for Psychological Science, Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback and Society for Scientific Exploration.
His studies, research and extensive professional articles have appeared in numerous journals, including the American Journal of Cardiology, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Stress Medicine and Biological Psychology. He contributes periodically to the Global Advances in Health and Medicine journal.
Dave Tweedie is an award winning Composer, Producer, Songwriter & Multi-Instrumentalist. He’s composed for Hulu’s Dear Santa (2022), Disney’s Pick Of The Litter (2019), NOVA’s The Impossible Flight (2018), Warner Bros BatKid Begins (2015) & FOX’s So You Think You Can Dance (Seasons 3-6). He’s produced for NoDoubt, Akon & FlipSyde, played / recorded with Earl Slick, Eric Martin, Angelo Moore, Alex Skolnick, Richie Kotzen, Greg Howe, Les Claypool, Michael Manring.
EnSpirits is a Los Angeles based collaborative Alternative Jazz /R&B project between multi-hyphenate artists Victoria Theodore & Dave Tweedie, the result of their creative minds blending their original Alternative R&B / Contemporary Jazz / Dance Pop music with the timeless songs of world renowned genius artists EnSPirits has worked with.
Victoria Theodore is a Composer / Pianist / Singer who’s toured the world with Stevie Wonder & Beyoncé. She’s the pianist for the Oscar winning Best Motion Picture CODA, featured in Stevie’s DVD “Live At Last”, in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s debut film, “Tick, Tick, BOOM!”, and in the Oscar winning documentary “Twenty Feet From Stardom”. She was pianist & singer for the 2013 Arsenio Hall Show and is a composer for two Broadway-bound musicals: MARIAN & CO-FOUNDERS
EnSpirits is a Los Angeles based collaborative Alternative Jazz /R&B project between multi-hyphenate artists Victoria Theodore & Dave Tweedie, the result of their creative minds blending their original Alternative R&B / Contemporary Jazz / Dance Pop music with the timeless songs of world renowned genius artists EnSPirits has worked with.
An avid pilot, Erik holds commercial, instrument, flight instructor, and glider ratings.In 1996, he helped launch the XPRIZE Foundation in St. Louis. In 2002 Erik retraced his grandfathers epic 1927 New York to Paris solo flight – raising over a million dollars and 500 million (pre-social media) media impressions for XPRIZE.
This 9-year “overnight success” story helped to jump-start the private spaceflight industry and is detailed in the NY times bestselling book: How to Make a Space Ship by Julian Guthrie In 2011 Erik awarded the Lindbergh Prize for Quietest Aircraft at the NASA Green Flight Challenge and inspired by the potential for aviation, created Powering Imagination to help accelerate the development of the electric aircraft industry and inspire the next generation of innovators.
After nearly a decade working on this industry Erik and his partners have started a new company called VerdeGo Aero to build propulsion systems for the emerging electric aircraft industry which will transform the way people move around the planet. Erik’s story is one of triumph over adversity. He won the Washington state gymnastics championship all-around at age 11 and excelled in water-skiing, and alpine and telemark ski racing during his teens.
After climbing and skiing Mount Rainier at age 21, he was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and by age 30 was completely disabled. Total knee replacements and a breakthrough biotechnology drug gave him a second chance at living a physically active life. After years of patient persistence Erik has rebuilt his physical fitness and is now bonafide member of the OGR’s (#OldGuysRockin) as an expert mountain biker and backcountry skier. On the creative side, he has been creating unique furniture and sculpture designs for over 25 years.
Committed to a life of service to future generations, Erik is a passionate public speaker and Co-Host of The Lindberghs Podcast. Mr. Lindbergh also serves as Chairman of the board for the Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation, as a Trustee of the XPRIZE Foundation, and served as a founding director of the Aviation High School in Seattle which is now ranked the #1 school in the state.
Alona Pulde, MD is a board-certified practitioner of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine & Family Medicine Physician. She is particularly passionate about supporting clients with nutrition, attaining healthy body weight, and women’s health.
Touted as doctors of the future by Dean Ornish, MD and with their work supported by many experts including Sanjay Gupta, MD, Dr Alona Pulde and Dr. Matthew Lederman combined conventional Western medicine, Chinese medicine, Nutrition & Lifestyle medicine, Nonviolent Communication, Polyvagal Theory, and Trauma-Informed, Somatic Principles & Pain Reprocessing to create their groundbreaking health paradigm. They have been successful corporate leaders, starred in the life-changing documentary Forks over Knives, lectured for eCornell, served as adjunct medical school professors and corporate medical advisors, and are NY Times bestselling authors.
Together they have co-authored 6 books, including The New York Times Bestseller Forks Over Knives Plan, Forks Over Knives Family, and Keep It Simple, Keep It Whole. They co-authored The Whole Foods Diet and The Whole Foods Cookbook with John Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market. Most recently they co-authored, “Wellness to Wonderful,” interweaving medical science, psychology, spirituality, and life wisdom to help people achieve lasting health, vibrancy, peace, and joy. They consult for companies such as Whole Foods Market and serve on advisory boards for various organizations.
After 10 years of serving Whole Foods Market as corporate Vice Presidents helping launch their national comprehensive medical & wellness centers, coaching and retreat programs, and integrated hospital and insurance networks, Dr. Pulde and Dr. Lederman moved on to co-found their new venture, WeHeal, which is the culmination of decades of learning and practical experience organized into an easily accessible program that does everything just short of guaranteeing lasting health, joy and satisfaction in your life.
I am a 27 year AF veteran of the Active Duty, Guard and Reserve. My wife Kim & I are blessed with three wonderful children and one outstanding son-in-law, and were fortunate to change military postings about 20 times, to include Canada and Germany. I began my AF career at the Air Force Academy where I earned a degree in Aerospace Structures, before earning my Masters of Science in Structural Dynamics on a Guggenheim Fellowship to Columbia University. During my career, I flew a whole spectrum of aircraft–Attack, Tanker/Transport, Trainer & Remotely Piloted. I was an Environmental Manager for five years as well and formed productive cooperations with state and federal environmental agencies and achieved state recognition for my base, and worked with peace officers from across the state. I concluded my service teaching advanced calculus and powered flight at the USAF Academy. After retirement from the USAF, I returned to commercial aviation, but am currently on “unpaid personal leave” for refusing to submit to an unethical and unsafe experimental medical procedure.
Michael Laidler is a Professional Speaker and Best-Selling Author focused on improving self-awareness in law enforcement officers. With 18 years of law enforcement experience, he has delivered his compelling message through keynotes, seminars and virtual training.
Tom Bentey is a Filmmaker and SAG-AFTRA Actor. His first narrative feature film, which he wrote, directed and starred in, "At the Jersey Shore'' is currently streaming on Paramount+, Amazon Prime, and Tubi. Tom's recent acting credits include co-star roles on "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" and CBS's "The Equalizer." Tom is currently filming "The Cafone," a comedic television pilot about an uncouth character scamming his way into redemption. Tom owns and operates Suburbanite Productions, a full service corporate video production company and is also an adjunct professor at Montclair State University. Tom Bentey hails from the great state of New Jersey and enjoys surfing, snowboarding, cycling, tennis and golf. Please review www.TomBentey.com and www.SuburbaniteProductions.com for more information.
Dr. Bandy Lee is a medical doctor, a forensic psychiatrist, and a world expert on violence who taught at Yale School of Medicine and Yale Law School for 17 years before transferring recently to Columbia and Harvard. She became known to the public by leading a group of mental health professional colleagues in breaking the silence about the immediate past U.S. president’s dangerous psychology and publishing the New York Times bestseller, “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President” (Macmillan, 2017 and 2019). The volume proceeded from an ethics conference she organized at Yale School of Medicine, which led to her consulting with over 50 members of the U.S. Congress. She is currently president of the World Mental Health Coalition, the largest professional organization to address the problem of dangerous leadership and its contribution to a “mental health pandemic.”
During medical school, she also obtained a divinity degree to expand her understanding of the human condition and later did a fellowship in social psychiatry. Trained at Yale and Harvard Universities, she was chief resident at Massachusetts General Hospital and a research fellow at the National Institute of Mental Health. At Yale Law School, she taught clinical courses covering the mental health aspects of asylum law, criminal justice, and veteran legal services. Her clinical practice consists of psychiatric services at maximum-security prisons and in state hospitals, in addition to working as an expert witness for civil and criminal courts. At Yale College, she was a popular professor who taught the Global Health Studies course, “Violence: Causes and Cures.” Most recently, she accepted the invitation to co-found an institute on violence prevention at Union Theological Seminary with multiple world experts in the field.
She served as Director of Research for the Center for the Study of Violence (Harvard, U. Penn., N.Y.U., and Yale), co-founded Yale’s Violence and Health Study Group at the MacMillan Center for International Studies, and has led an academic collaborators project for the World Health Organization’s Violence Prevention Alliance, helping to translate scholarship into implementation and to support research in low- and middle-income countries. She has consulted with governments on prison reform and community violence prevention, such as for France, Ireland, Alabama, California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York. She has also played a key role in initiating reforms at Rikers Island, a correctional facility in New York City known for extreme levels of violence.
She authored what is considered the most comprehensive textbook on the subject to date, “Violence: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Causes, Consequences, and Cures” (Wiley-Blackwell, 2019) and published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and chapters, 17 edited scholarly books and journal special issues, and over 300 op-eds in outlets such as the Guardian, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Independent, and Politico. The World Mental Health Coalition is an educational organization that assembles mental health experts to collaborate with other disciplines for the betterment of public mental health and public safety. It attempts to step in where the psychiatric establishment failed in societal leadership, or profited (as did the American Psychiatric Association) by protecting powerful political figures over the public. Her present goals center around educating the public on mental health matters for empowerment and self-governance.
She owes great debt to her maternal grandfather, Dr. Geun-Young Lee, a renowned physician who helped reconstruct South Korea after the war, and to her mother, Dr. Inmyung Lee, who extended his philosophical legacy to the United States, a country she admired and adopted for its historic ability to place principle over tribe.
Dr. Arnell became involved with 22Zero in March 2021, when the Giles County Fire and Rescue Squad assistant fire chief asked if she would be willing to go through the training. In April of 2021, Dr. Arnell went through the training process and was astonished at how well the program worked. As of November 5th, 2022, Dr. Arnell became the Executive Director for 22Zero Follow Me, Inc. Dr. Arnell's husband was a veteran and served in Desert Storm.
Nick Davis is an Air Force Veteran, having served as an F-16 crew chief. His involvement with 22Zero as PRESIDENT & Co-Founder is inspired by his burning desire to serve our veteran and responder community. His organization, Anxiety Guys LLC, is a veteran owned and operated business that uses multiple processes to disconnect PTSD, Anxiety, and other negative emotions that keep individuals and organizations from reaching their full potential.
My guest Shelley Young is the owner of Trinity Esoterics where she has worked as a hypnotherapist, teacher, writer, spiritual advisor, speaker, and internationally recognized channel of Archangel Gabriel for the past 19 years. Originally from Canada she is now based in Southwest Florida where she remains dedicated to raising spiritual awareness and helping people embrace and navigate the unfoldment of their own enlightenment journeys. Shelley’s book is Healing Balm for the Enlightening Soul, and one of her program’s featuring the most important of Gabriel's teachings, is The Divine Combination.
Tosha is a designer, inventor, textile technologist, serial entrepreneur, and writer specializing in the development of innovative, commercial products in the fiber, textile, soft goods, and digitally connected wearables industries. Tosha has invented and designed iconic products for SPANX, brrrº, and the world’s first digital to physical backpack with JanSport. Tosha won Women Wear Daily’s Fresh Face Award for design, holds 12 patents, and was named one of The University of Georgia’s 40 under 40 for professional achievement in 2013.
Developing innovative, commercial ideas in a variety of consumer product categories with a specialty in fiber, textile, soft goods, and digitally connected wearables is Tosha’s sweet spot. Tosha co-founded three startups, building them from zero to exponential growth, and has been hired into start-up teams of numerous others. She understands the business of innovative consumer products and holds advisory roles within multiple organizations. She has deep expertise in product areas where hard and soft component integration and electronic system integration requirements are necessary and need software communication.
Tosha has held design, leadership, and executive positions with SPANX, Tommy Hilfiger, Bella Freud, brrrº, Tosha Hays Children’s Collection and Couture, and university institutes like MIT’s AFFOA striving for groundbreaking technology in fabrics. Currently, Tosha is Co-Founder of Hurdle Apparel.
Her professional side is a devotion, passion, and speed for product making and know-how. Her personal side is one of constant learning, traveling, running, writing, and spending time with her partner and three sons.
GALIT is a singer-songwriter based in Los Angeles. Before starting to create music, she was a co-founder of “SRO entertainment” a film development and production company that produced Hollywood feature films. She also independently coproduced the Tom Cruise Production Film “ASK THE DUST” starring Salma Hayek, Colin Farrell, and Donald Sutherland.
In 2016 Galit launched her new career in music, as a singer/songwriter. Two short years later, she released two EP’s, and over 20 singles. In 2021 she released her first full length album ‘My Time Is Due’. Galit has successfully turned a childhood passion into her vocation – inspired by artists like Tori Amos and Tracy Chapman she loves writing words and music that tell stories that convey the entire spectrum of the human condition.
Her goal is to establish a connection with her audience and inspire them through her music. However, she aspires to shed light on issues that not only hold deep personal meaning for her, but also have the potential to benefit the world at large.
Galit is known for her remarkable voice and her unique sound. She is often compared to artists like Alanis Morrissett, Florence (and the machine), Sara McLachlan, Fiona Apple, and Joni Mitchell.
Her song ‘Three’ was nominated for best song of the year in HMMA.
Her song ‘Brazen Heart’ climbed to #1 in few charts. Including iHeart Radio Cafe Top 10 Count Down and ReverbNation charts. Her song ‘Children To Raise’ is nominated for best song in the Hollywood independent music Awards 2023.
