Brandon is the Organic Growers School Consulting Director and Sustainability Coach, providing support services to farmers, homesteaders, gardeners, and those seeking sustainability solutions. His background is in Renewable Systems, Earth Works, Energy, Water, Homesteading, Permaculture, specifically providing consulting, design, and technical services for the creation of low impact, energy conserving, and integrated systems. Brandon works with chainsaws, hand tools, heavy equipment, construction projects, water systems, and most everything having to do with the practicalities of ecological design. Brandon currently lives on a small, hand built, off-grid homestead enjoying gardening, parenting and philosophizing about existence and how to optimize it.
Enjoy this one-hour Living Well as Brandon shares about his life as well as his thoughts and experiences helping people create energy efficient and sustainable options for their homes, farms, and land.
Living Well with Brandon Greenstein on AshevilleFM, June 11, 2018
Cheri B. Torres, Ph.D. teaches people how to use everyday conversation to dramatically improve outcomes for their organization and relationships. Leaders and team members develop their capacity to use Appreciative Inquiry to foster productive and meaningful engagement, even when facing complex problems. The success her clients experience is not magic. Her approach is grounded in the most current research in positive psychology and neurophysiology. Leaders working with her learn to create the kind of relational dynamics that ignite the full potential of their teams and organization, resulting in high performance, innovation, and goal achievement. Culture change and strategic planning become opportunities for engaging all stakeholders in conversations that create change from the inside out.
She has worked across all sectors: corporate, government, education, and social profit/NGOs, supporting their capacity for learning and innovation, shared leadership, teamwork and collective impact. She has trained thousands of trainers and teachers in the use and practice of Experiential Learning, Appreciative Inquiry, and other strength-based processes. In addition to North America, she has worked in India, Mexico, Canada, South America, and Europe.
Enjoy this one-hour Living Well where Cheri shares about her new wonderful new book, “Conversations Worth Having: Using Appreciative Inquiry to fuel productive and meaningful engagement” that was co-authored with Jackie Stavros.
Living Well with Cheri Torres on AshevilleFM, May 28, 2018
 Michele Rosa Gee is a birth doula, prenatal/postpartum massage therapist, Holisitic Pelvic Care practitioner, and mother. Her work focuses on helping to support women during the childbearing year and beyond,holding space for a woman to claim her own power through the channel of her body. I am naturally comfortable in the presence of life-changing, transformative experiences and I am blown away, again and again, by the potential that women hold in their pelvic space.
Years of practice specializing in prenatal and postpartum massage have given Michele an immense amount of
experience in supporting women’s bodies during this special time. She has a clear sense of the places in a woman’s body that tend to be especially in need during pregnancy. With my Holistic Pelvic Care practice, she supports and nurtures a woman’s creative capacity through tuning into her pelvic bowl – the center of a woman’s creative fire. This modality has profound and lasting effects on a woman in ways that can be surprising.
Enjoy this one-hour Living Well with Michele who shares her wisdom and experience supporting women during their time of pregnancy, childbirth and beyond.
Living Well with Michele Rosa Gee on AshevilleFM, May 21, 2018
Trained as psychotherapists and relationship counselors, Charlie and Linda Bloom have worked with individuals, couples, groups, and organizations since 1975.They have lectured and taught at many learning institutes throughout the USA and the world.
Charlie and Linda are the authors of three published books, including their best-seller, 101 Things I Wish I Knew When Got Married: Simple Lessons to Make Love Last which sold Over 100,000 copies sold). In their fourth book, That Which Doesn’t Kill Us: How One Couple Got Stronger at the Broken Places (Sacred Life Publishers, on sale April 9, 2018), the story of the Blooms’ journey through a series of ordeals reveals how they managed to reconstruct a relationship from the ashes of their broken dreams. It is both inspiring and instructive, demonstrating to the reader the power of true commitment in the face of great odds and enormous obstacles.
Enjoy this one-hour podcast where Charlie and Linda share the valuable lessons they learned from a difficult time in their lives.
Living Well with Charlie and Linda Bloom on AshevilleFM, May 14, 2018
Todd is originally from New York and has lived in Asheville for just over 10 years. He’s engaged in various – probably too many – community endeavors that promote peace, creativity and growth at the individual and group levels. He does this as a volunteer mediator with the Mediation Center, producer of a local storytelling open mic, and small business consultant. He finds value in approaching conflict as he believes it holds the seeds to growth. He holds a MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and a BS in Business Administration.
Enjoy this one-hour Living Well where Todd shares about The Mediation Center and how it helps people bring peaceful resolution to the difficult conflicts that can show up in our lives.
Living Well with Todd Lester on AshevilleFM, May 7, 2018
K.P. Whaley is the station manager for AshevilleFM, a volunteer-based, grassroots community radio station. has been involved in public and community broadcasting for over a decade an joined us in 2017 after nearly four years as a senior talk producer at Wisconsin Public Radio. He started his radio career as a volunteer and then News and Public Affairs Director at WORT Community Radio in Madison, Wisconsin in 2005. Between those two gigs he has also worked in community television, community food cooperatives, and as the manager of MAIN-FM for a year. And once upon a time worked in the private sector in a variety of supervisory, management, and project management roles.
Enjoy this Living Well where K.P. shares about his passion for community radio, the AshevilleFM 2018 Spring Fund Drive happening right now and some of the amazing things happening at the radio station.
Living Well with K.P. Whaley on AshevilleFM, April 30, 2018
 
Jacquelyn Dobrinska is an ordained wise woman minister, community wellness coach and the Director of Community Life at Jubilee Community. She is coordinating the Creation Spirituality Community International Gathering here in Asheville next weekend.
Since began leading the World Beat Band at Jubilee! in 2001, Daniel Barber has been in deep learning mode around the transformative power of creativity. He has experienced profound grace at Jubilee! and is drawn to the Creation Spirituality theology that undergirds it, feeling it carries ancient wisdom for modern times.
Daniel and Jackie are excited that Creation Spirituality lovers from all over the country (and maybe further) will be coming to Jubilee!, Asheville from April 26th-29th for the Creation Spirituality Communities, a weekend of inspiration, growth, and celebration of our sacred work on our sacred earth.
Enjoy this one-hour Living Well where Jackie and Daniel share about creation spirituality and all the great things happening at this gathering that include the Thursday night kick-off concert by Abraham Jam, featuring the interfaith trio Billy Jonas, David LaMotte and Dawud Wharnsby, a keynote address by Matthew Fox, and a Saturday night cosmic mass dance wave.
Living Well with Jacquelyn Dobrinska and Daniel Barber on AshevilleFM, April 23, 2018
Dale Allen Hoffman is an ancient philosophy scholar, mystic and energetic healer. He is the only soul on earth sharing a living, breathing vision of the original Aramaic Yeshua [Jesus] and Mary Magdalene energetic alchemy wisdom from the Biblical, Gnostic and Ancient Mystery School philosophies as one unified whole. Dale has published numerous audio and video programs and is author of the book “Echoes of an Ancient Dream: Aramaic Toning on the Path of Light”.
Dale Allen Hoffman’s work awakens the profound transformational qualities of consciously intoned ancient and indigenous sounds, tones and languages on activating states of deep Presence and sound healing. Dale’s focus is not simply on words or languages, but rather on the Gnostic experiential core of how to consciously live a richly mystical life from the inside out. He is not simply a translator as much as he is an activator – a healing voice for awakening, much like Coleman Barks is for the poetry of Jalal ad-Din Rumi.
Enjoy this Living Well as Dale shares some of what he’s discovered on his spiritual journey.
Living Well with Dale Allen Hoffman on AshevilleFM, April 16, 2018
 Alli Marshall is a poet, fiction writer, and performer. She’s the author of the 2015 novel “How to Talk to Rockstars” and the 2017 chapbook “It All Comes Rushing Back,” as well as a number of zines. She’s a member of the Flatiron Writers and the spoken word troupe Literary Circus, and the arts editor at alternative newsweekly Mountain Xpress. She’s lived in Asheville since 1995, which is either miraculous or insane.
All won the 2018 Ramsey Library Community Author Award, the 2016 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize (judged by Ron Rash) for her short story, “Catching Out,” the 2016 Shrewd Writer Award for her flash fiction “Structural Soul,” and was a runner-up in the annual Broad River Review Rash Award in fiction. Alli’s prose and poetry has been published in the Fredericksburg Literary & Art Review, Blurt!, Shuffle, Our State, MetroPop, FifeLines, and the Asheville Poetry Review.
Alli is interested in moving writing beyond the page, seeking the golden in the mundane, finding the intersection of art and social justice, and reconnecting with mythology — both ancient and modern. Her current projects include a collaged novella of modern retellings of myths and folklore, a dance-cello-poetry collaboration, and collecting the names of all of her female ancestors. Many of them were named Mary, Anne and Catherine. One was called Lettis.
Enjoy this one-hour Living Well where Alli shares her poetry, the evolution of her writing, and the Asheville fringe arts scene.
Living Well with Alli Marshall on AshevilleFM, March 26, 2017
LEAF International Culture Keeper David Kwizera was granted Chief of the LEAF Intore Troupe at the young age of 17. His leadership skills, confidence, and ability to stay positive under intense situations have made him the ultimate teaching artist and culture keeper. For over 10 years, David has been learning, practicing and teaching traditional Rwandan dance and drum. In 2017, he became a Culture Keeper and leader. It has been an extraordinary journey, and now it is time for him to shine beyond his borders.
Schree Chavdarov serves as the Global Engagement Director for LEAF Community Arts in Asheville, NC. As the Global Engagement Director, Schree works to empower communities by supporting cultural exchange, cultural preservation, and the fostering of global citizenship. She spends her time traveling to LEAF International countries to support Culture Keepers who are connecting youth to their traditional art forms.
Enjoy this special one-hour Living Well where David tells his remarkable story that begins with being an orphaned and homeless child of the Rwandan genocide to his involvement with LEAF International that provide resources for housing, English lessons, and various other learning opportunities. Over the past year, David has led the birth of a Cultural Arts Center in Rwanda where he and other members of the troupe serve as Teaching Artists to 200+ young street kids every day. Through his work, David Kwizera embodies his mission while gracefully defining resilience, artistic leadership, and hope for new pathways in life through music and art.
Living Well with David Kwizera and Schree Chadradov on AshevilleFM, March 19, 2018
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