Awakening: Selfless Service - Interviews with Compelling People by Connie Shaw
4 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 15 years ago -"Awakening" boldly investigates the steps that heroic people everywhere are taking to meet the effects of the current economic and social crisis in daily life. These dynamic role models are feeding the homeless, retrieving parents from nursing homes, growing their own food, creating community, radically forgiving, and discovering the miraculous. The Western American author Louis Lamour has said that "There will come a time when you think that everything is ending. But that will be the beginning." "Awakening" is about that planetary beginning. www.connieshaw.com
Selfless Service - A Hunger to Serve: Interviews with several dedicated and resourceful people who are feeding the needy with no expectation of thanks, recognition or wonderful outcomes. In this interview we learn what led them to serve, how they do it, and the travails they've surpassed and lessons they've learned.
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Episodes
Feeding the Hungry in Colorado Springs - An interview with Kathy Feldenkreis
January 11, 2009 18:26 - 31 minutes - 7.12 MBKathy and Howard Feldenkreis of Colorado Springs, Colorado, are successful, dynamic business people who have spearheaded, with a half-dozen friends, a model weekly homeless feeding project for the past six years. They dispense cooked food, humor and friendliness and warm, new clothes in harsh winter months. They serve year-round and vary the menu offerings according to the season and the need.
"The Silent Tsunami - Weld Food Bank Addresses Community Hunger" - An interview with Leona Martens
January 09, 2009 15:32 - 28 minutes - 6.45 MBLeona Martens, of Greeley, Colorado, brings a wealth of administrative and leadership experience to her current position as Executive Director of the Weld Food Bank,the distribution center for many many agencies in Weld County, Colorado . In this interview she shares her Weld Food Bank experiences, tells about how a food bank works and about its role in the community.
Feeding the Hungry in Fairbanks, AK - An interview with Jane Trainor
January 04, 2009 15:32 - 30 minutes - 7.09 MBJane Trainor, Alaskan healer, colonic therapist and humanitarian, could not have known how her life would evolve when she decided to live in the bush with her new husband - hunting, fishing and trapping in sub-zero temps among bear and wolves. Her unique organization skills aided the natural delivery of her baby in an unheated six-sided cabin without running water or electricity. Perhaps it was the danger, beauty and simplicity of her early lifestyle that inspired Jane later, after an epipha...
Downtown L.A. Homeless Feeding Project - An interview with Ms Roshan Motivala
January 01, 2009 22:01 - 27 minutes - 6.69 MBWhen Ms. Roshan Motivala's physician father started popular youth service projects in India, she could not have known then that she would carry the family legacy of selfless service to Los Angeles. "Love is the acid that dissolves all differences," said Dr. Kolah, her father, and Roshan has kept this saying in mind while serving food to the homeless in downtown L.A. for over thirty years with her little band of dependable, devoted friends. What are the secrets to her vision, effectiveness a...