 
Jay Hill is a software developer, working on natural language processing and sports statistics. He is an organizer for PechaKucha Night Asheville and the Asheville Coders League. He revels in dry humor — mostly his own — though it is underappreciated by his wife, Keaton, and two children. Jay is an outspoken advocate for the introverted.
Megan Martell is the Executive Director of Odyssey School, a prek-12 independent school with a mission to teach students, teachers, and families to lead the 21st century with an authentic sense of self. Her work, as an educator and a citizen, is focused on fostering compassionate communication, solution-oriented thinking, and equity.
Enjoy this one-hour Living Well where Jay and Megan share their amazing experiences of being part of PechaKucha Night Asheville and how everyone can get involved! Enjoy!
Living Well with Jay Hill and Megan Martell on AshevilleFM, March 5, 2018
Barrie Barton’s greatest passion and calling in life is to inspire people to discover their innate ability to express themselves. She achieves this through serving as a Story Choreographer, Speaking Coach and Facilitator.
Barrrie’s leadership and facilitation style combines her highly developed and insightful perspectives of body language, presentation mastery and adult learning methods with her talent and passion to motivate and encourage everyone to reach their finest potential.
Barrie is lead facilitator of Stand and Deliver Asheville, a presence-based presentation and communication skills coaching firm for corporate professionals, organizations and entrepreneurs. She is also Artistic Director of Story Choreography Projects (formerly called Community Choreography Projects). We create collaborative, authentic story-based performances.
Living Well with Barrie Barton on AshevilleFM, March 26, 2018
David Isaacs is President of Clearing Communications, an organizational leadership and strategy consultancy. He has served as a line executive managing crisis and transition and as a personal coach and “thinking partner” with business leaders and leadership teams, accompanying them as they embrace the challenges of unprecedented change and transformation.
Co-founder of the World Café with his wife Juanita Brown, David works with clients and colleagues in consciously designing, convening, & hosting powerful conversations around their most important questions. World Café is used all over the world, encompassing six continents, with tremendous success. The award-winning book, The World Café: Shaping our Futures through Conversations that Matter, Berrett-Koehler, 2005, co-authored with Juanita Brown illuminates key design principles for accessing mutual intelligence around complex questions and challenges. Over 50,000 copies have sold and the book is translated into nine languages.
Enjoy this one-hour Living Well where David shares the power inherent in conversations where we learn together, bringing forth a collective intelligence that unfolds in diverse and creative ways.
Living Well with David Isaacs on AshevilleFM, February 12, 2018
 
Sara Stender is the Founder and Executive Director of the U.S.-based nonprofit organization Africa Healing Exchange (AHE) and the owner of 3 Mountains TÎma Tea. She has been working with Rwandans since 2007 when she was helping to create a fair trade campaign in the U.S. and she was introduced to the excellent coffee and tea coming from Rwanda. Since spending time in Kigali in 2009, helping to create a culinary arts and customer service training program in a local restaurant, she made a commitment to create a mutually-beneficial, multi-national exchange that could help people suffering from trauma and related illnesses.
MaryLynn Barrett, LCSW, MPH, has dual master’s degrees in social work and public health from the University of Washington. She is the Director of Behavioral Medicine in the Family Practice Residency Program and MAHEC’s Family Health Centers. Mary Lynn is part of the leadership team of resiliency trainers who started the local non-profit agency, Resources for Resiliency. She is fluent in Spanish and has taught nationally and internationally, most recently in Rwanda and Tanzania. Locally, she participates in Buncombe County’s ACE Collaborative and is a board member of the African Healing Exchange.
Enjoy this one-hour Living Well where Sara and MaryLynn Barrett shares how we can build resiliency within ourselves and our communities that supports our best selves and promotes proven skills for managing the many stresses of life
Living Well with Sara Stender and MaryLynn Barrett on AshevilleFM, February 5, 2018
Desiree DeMars call her work The Light From Within which is a synthesis of over thirty years of experience in the realms of spiritual development, integrative health, creativity and communications. It is a merging of the ancient wisdom teachings of shamanism and a contemporary approach to coaching based on the latest research in the neuroscience of conversations known as Conversational Intelligence, or C-IQ. Desiree also offer shamanic energy sessions, shamanic divination readings, group trainings and drum circles called Drumming With The Moon, during the full and new moons at Epione Integrated Clinic in Montford.
Desiree’s vision of this merging of spirituality and science is to to become the container that honors the relationship between the heart and the mind by providing tools, ceremonies, and rituals that can powerfully and compassionately support the evolutionary processes we are experiencing on the planet today.
Currently Desiree am writing a book and created a card deck based on an African shamanic divination process I have been trained in known as “reading the bones” which uses 3D objects through which wisdom and guidance come through. Using the cards daily can support the user in developing their own intuition, insight and inner guidance about aspects of their life they are exploring more deeply at the time. Its called The Sacred Symbols Divination Deck: How To Use Everyday Images for Illuminating Life’s Journey.
Enjoy this one-hour Living Well where Desiree shares a powerful way of how we can live well in life using the teachings of shamanism.
  
The Asheville Fringe Art Festival is an annual performing arts, multiple venue festival that provides artists with opportunities to explore the edges of their work, to collaborate across genres and to bring new and innovative performances to culturally adventurous audiences. Jim Julien has been there as an organizer from the beginning in 2002 and watched the festival continue to grow.
Bryan Octaviano is part of the Open Hearts Arts Center, an Asheville based arts center for artists with disabilities, will be working with Asheville Contemporary Dance Theater to perform “The Colors of Dance”, a show celebrating differences and the ways they unite us.
Meredith Yuhas and her dance troupe will be performing, “You and I, Us and Them”, that considers the emergence of the individual into society, examining power structures, diversity and privilege, highlighting the opportunities for connection and disconnection. Meredith finds her work focusing on the exploration of risky and athletic contemporary movement, held within the intimacy of illustrated human relationships.
I hope you enjoy this one-hour Living Well that shares how we can be inspired through “fringe” art that challenges artist to push the boundaries of their work!
Living Well with The Asheville Fringe Arts Festival on AshevilleFM, January 22, 2018
Richard Cleveland is the founder and director of Earth School, based near Asheville, NC. His vision for Earth School is to create an environment where people can learn, share and respect the many gifts of Nature. A place to grow and explore both inward and outwardly as we each walk and honor the path of our sacred journey on this incredible planet.
During the past 24 years, Richard has taught nature awareness and survival skills to over 15,000 people of all ages. He is an avid outdoorsman, a hunting & fishing guide, writer, public speaker and a self-trained Naturalist. Richard’s Survival School has been featured on cable TV shows, local news channels and various publications and he has been the lead Nature instructor at Victor Wooten’s popular Bass & Nature Camp since 2000.
Enjoy this one-hour Living Well with Richard who shares an inspiring message of living a life immersed in the wonders of nature!
Living Well with Richard Cleveland on AshevilleFM, January 15, 2018
An Ashevillian for the past 16 years, Michael lives in the West Asheville neighborhood with his lovely wife Ayla and two teenage girls, Lily and Abby. A fourth degree black belt in tae kwon do, Michael is the Co-Owner of Sun Soo Martial Arts, ranked “WNC Best Of” martial art studio for ten years running. Michael is excited to announce an upcoming event, “Guys Who Give”, that creates opportunities for men to make a positive impact in their local communities.
Enjoy the one-hour Living Well where Michael shares about his life and how learned to live well not only through martial arts but also the power of the community. He’s excited to share the “Guys Who Give” inaugural event on February 7th when a local charity will receive a large donation from the attendees.
Living Well with Michael Dickinson on AshevilleFM, January 8, 2018
Ginger Huebner is the founding director of Roots + Wings School of Art and Design. With a Masters in Teaching Visual Art and a Bachelor of Architecture, Ginger brings a unique perspective to the field of art and design education. She has taught a wide spectrum of ages in a variety of environments. She also has her own studio practice, creating works of art using the mediums of collage, chalk pastel, encaustic and other mixed media. Ginger thrives on doing commissioned work. She has collaborated with individuals, agencies and companies to provide unique pieces of artwork. Ginger’s work can be seen at K2 Home in downtown Asheville, PonShop Studios in Fredricksburg, VA and at her studio by appointment. She lives in Asheville with her husband Scott and two children, Mia and Felix.
Enjoy this one-hour Living Well as Ginger shares the importance of creativity in our lives and all the great things Roots & Wings is doing in our community and across the world!
Living Well with Ginger Huebner on AshevilleFM, December 18, 2017
Chris Joyell is the Director of the Asheville Design Center, a program of Mountain True, is the region’s oldest and largest environmental nonprofit that engages Western North Carolina in creative community based design to promote healthy, thriving and equitable communities. ADC was founded in 2007, and Chris became their first Director in 2009. He is an attorney and has lived in Asheville for 13 years.
Enjoy this one-hour Living Well where Chris shares the process for engaging communities to build healthy and vibrant neighborhoods. In the shares about the approved, but yet to be built, Smith-Mill Creek Greenway that will connect West Asheville neighborhoods with the River Arts District, downtown Asheville, and miles of existing greenway in the Asheville area.
Living Well with Chris Joyell on AshevilleFM, November 27, 2017
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