 
Bob Wagner joined the MountainTrue team as Co-Director in 2013. He holds a business degree from Wake Forest University, has 12 years of experience overseeing house-building programs in Africa with Habitat for Humanity and spent the last nine years working for the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina to strengthen nonprofits in our region. At the Community Foundation Bob spearheaded WNC’s Mountain Landscapes Initiative, bringing land use planning and decision-making tools to government officials, developers and private citizens. He also served as chair of WNC Nonprofit Pathways.
Karim Oleachae brings more than fifteen years of experience across a variety of settings to the role of Communications Director at MountainTrue. Karim cut his teeth at The Campaign Group, an industry-leading political advertising firm, where he helped to elect candidates including U.S. Representative Loretta Sanchez of California and Governors Bill Richardson of New Mexico and Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania.
Enjoy this one-hour Living Well where Bob and Karim share the many wonderful things that MountainTrue are doing to protect our forests, rivers, and communities.
Living Well with Bob Wagner and Karim Oleachae on AshevilleFM, October 22, 2018
Suzannah Tebbe Davis is a contemporary medicine woman who offers a diverse blend of mind/body/spirit practice based on over two decades of study and practice in indigenous wisdom traditions and western theoretical practices. Suzannah has a private practice, Your Awakened Life, based out of Asheville North Carolina. She offers workshops, retreats and ceremonies for individuals and groups.
Suzannah holds a leadership role within Asheville Community Roots, which embraces spirituality as a fundamental aspect of activism, and is working to pass a local Community Bill of Rights who is working to pass a local Community Bill of Rights, a paradigm shift in local level legislation that asserts the public’s rights for local self-governance, a crucial step in building sustainable communities.
Enjoy this one-hour Living Well where Suzannah shares about Sacred Activism based on the ancient wisdom paths of Indigenous and First Nations ritual and ceremony and the Andean Shamanic teachings.
Living Well with Suzannah Tebbe Davis on AshevilleFM, October 15, 2018
A native of Detroit, A.D. Weighs relocated to Asheville five years ago. It was supposed to be a temporary move but after his second day here, he fell in love with scenery and all the weird people of Asheville. A self-taught videographer, A.D. was inspired by a Facebook post, and discovered his passion project ~ “Weighing in with A.D. Weighs“, a video series on thoughtful conversation with people from all walks of life, addressing hard-to-talk-about topics such as racism, police misconduct, suicide, rape culture and toxic masculinity. His guests are “everyday people” culled from friends, acquaintances and those he meets on social media.
Enjoy this one-hour podcast where A.D. shares about the work and experiences that went into this remarkable project!
Living Well with A.D. Weighs on AshevilleFM, October 8, 2018
Eleanor Underhill tried her hand at a variety of instruments—piano, trombone, guitar, and ukulele—before settling on the banjo, the instrument that has defined her sound. At age 14, she composed her first song and has since amassed a vast catalogue of music that has supported the creation of five albums with various projects. Her unique open-back banjo style, salty-blues vocals, and prolific writing ability has contributed to the success of her band, Underhill Rose, who has toured nationally and overseas while garnering international acclaim on the Americana scene since its formation in 2009. She has also won top honors at Asheville’s Songwriting Idol Contest, played on a Grammy award winning song by Kid-Hop artist Agent 23 Skidoo, was selected to perform in the Asheville All-Star Band in the summer of 2018, and is a Deering Banjos endorsing artist.
Though collaboration has surely been the cause of much of her success, Underhill felt the burning desire to get her hands on the dials and take a song all the way through the process of writing to recording to producing to mixing to release. In the fall of 2016, Eleanor holed up in her parent’s restored mill house with her modest collection of recording equipment and began tracking a full length album of original material. With the help of a Regional Artist Project Grant, Eleanor is thrilled to releasing her very first solo album—Navigate the Madness—in the fall of 2018. Leaning on the talents of several Asheville musicians (many of them in Eleanor Underhill & Friends) she has created a work that is more adventurous and singular than anything she has done before.
Eleanor & Friends will be performing the entirely of Navigate the Madness at the album release show on October 6th @ Ambrose West. This will be an intimate, not-to-be-missed show as Eleanor will be sharing some of the inspiration behind the songs and the album.
Enjoy this one-hour podcast where Eleanor shares about many inspirations and experiences related to her first solo album and even plays one of her songs live in the AshevilleFM studio.
Living Well with Eleanor Underhill on AshevilleFM, October 1, 2018
 
Kat Houghton is a psychologist committed to cultural change through facilitating personal transformation. Kat worked for 15 years with families of children with autism dedicated to changing within-family cultures from those of despair, or the drive to “fix” autism, to that of a deep appreciation of different world views and a focus on building bridges with empathy. Since 2009, Kat has been running a software company, ilumivu.com, that provides wearable, mobile and web systems to psychologists and behavioral health researchers. Her current work more closely integrates transformation on the individual, interpersonal and cultural level. Kat was instrumental in founding the Asheville Community Rights Movement which is moving towards local legislation to assert rights for self-governance and the rights of nature; a crucial step in dismantling corporate rule. She co-founded nonprofit Community Roots with Tyler Garrison in 2016.
Mic Collins lives in Asheville, North Carolina where they are a social movement organizer and community activist. Mic works as Chapter Coach for Showing Up for Racial Justice, a national network of groups and organizations working to mobilize white people within a multi-racial movement against white supremacy. Mic also volunteers with the local SURJ chapter (ASURJ) as well as the white caucus, a project spawning from Building Bridges of Asheville and the Racial Equity Institute. This past August, they joined the collective at Firestorm Books & Coffee in West Asheville, a cooperatively run, worker-owned radical bookstore and community space.
Community members are invited to Democracy in the Park, a public gathering at the Carrier Park Pavilion from 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm on Sunday, Sept. 30. Democracy in the Park is a convergence space for community members to engage with local activist and organizers about City government, how it works, how it could be improved, and to discuss with each other ways to expand public participation in the process. All are welcome.
Enjoy this one-hour Living Well with Kath Houghton & Mic Collins!
Bill has spent most of his adult life either in the pursuit of knowledge about the Earth and its peoples or in sharing with others what he’s learned and observed. He’s taught at every academic level from primary through tertiary but my most memorable educational experiences have been teaching in newly liberated and developing nations in Central America and Africa. It was while working on development projects in Nicaragua in the 1980s that he began to appreciate the necessity for renewable energy, localized resource conservation and sustainability in food production. These experiences guide his present activities and vision in relation to self-sufficiency in production of food and energy as well as maintenance of health, wellness and the building of community and a culture of sustainability.
Most recently, his wife and daughters built (with more than a “little help from our friends”) an off-grid home in the Appalachian region of north Georgia. Not without its challenges, the experience has been deeply positive and empowering and has set him on a course to share their experiences, mistakes and successes to enable others to homestead in a way that both provides present material gain and independence while preserving resources for the next generation.
An effective step towards growing this vision has been developing the solar expo and sustainability fair, The Get Off the Grid Festival as a forum, a meeting ground of sorts where people can come together to share, teach and learn about renewable energy and how to approach self-reliance in agriculture, health and community. The event is situated in traditionally underserved rural communities and are commitment to holding these gatherings in a different locale within the Southeast Appalachian region every two years. Next year’s event will take place at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, NC and an introduction, aka charrette, of the festival is happening September 30, 2018 at the Salvage Station in Asheville, NC as an opportunity to hear from the residents of the Asheville area their suggestions and vision for a sustainable future. The festivities begin at noon and there will be live music, local vendors, and a solar and sustainability expo.
Enjoy this one-hour Living Well episode with Bill who has a lot of interesting and insightful things to share about living well through sustainability and community.
Living Well with Bill Fleming on AshevilleFM, September 17, 2018
Tony Wolff has been practicing vipassana meditation and yoga for over 30 years. As a former achievement addict, he is recovering from a career of pursuing the American Dream. He initially approached yoga with the same competitive zeal he used to acquire material success. But a funny thing happened along the way: he stopped enjoying the practice. After years of injury and dissatisfaction, The Five-Not-So-Noble-Truths emerged: Slow Down, Pay Attention, Breathe, Relax, and Lighten Up. Tony spends a lot of time sitting on his zawfu in Big Sur or Asheville. He talks about this stuff to anyone who cares to listen.
Enjoy this hour podcast of Living Well where Tony shares about the many insights and learnings to live well in our lives. This Thursday, August 30th, 6pm at Malapropos in downtown Asheville. Tony will be doing a reading of his book, Lightening Up: The Yoga of Self-Acceptance, which the 2nd edition was recently published.
Living Well with Tony Wolff on AshevilleFM, August 27, 2018
Sarah Simpson is a psychotherapist in private practice in Asheville, with a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. In 2016, she inherited a box of her late grandmother’s diaries and has since been fascinated by personal writing of all kinds and its virtually endless potential for healing and interpersonal connection. In December of 2017, she started the website Parallel Entries, which collects diary and journal excerpts written by different people on the same date across the years. She herself has maintained a regular journal practice for the past 18 years. Sarah uses journal therapy with clients as a way to accelerate recovery from trauma, to transcend harmful conditioning, and to deepen self-knowledge and compassion.
Enjoy this one-hour Living Well with Sarah as she shares about her passion for writing and creativity and the many ways it can be a powerful means for healing and connection.
Living Well with Sarah Simpson on AshevilleFM, June 25, 2018
Bobby McHugh was born and raised in and around Washington DC. Living on Bainbridge Island, Washington in the early 90’s, Bobby found a love for watercolor painting. Inspired by the quaint waterfront homes on the island he started painting portraits of houses and sparked an interest in learning how to design and build the houses he was painting. In 2001 Bobby designed and built his first home, a modified post and beam straw bale. Since then he has built several houses in the Asheville area, choosing to do one at a time doing much of the finish tile and woodworking himself. Bobby is constantly inspired by the vast beauty of the southern Appalachians. He aims to harmonize energy-efficient homes with its natural environment, often using wood from the land, and to foster a sense of drama and integrity with nature. You can learn more about Bobby’s work at his website: McHugh-Designs.com.
Enjoy this one-hour Living Well with Bobby who shares his passion for building homes, his love of nature, and desire to live a sustainable, passionate, and creative life.
Living Well with Bobby McHugh on AshevilleFM, July 9, 2018
Born into a magicakal line, Suki studied metaphysics from a young age. For the past 30 years, she’s offered tarot readings that have evolved into the sessions offered through her service, FIRE LILY. As an oracle, Suki is trained in different healing modalities that assist clients in releasing blocked and painful energy patterns that no longer serve them. She teaches that our inner being already know our deepest desires and it is possible to “reprogram” our beliefs to SERVE us.
Suki is trained in Medicinal Botany, Magick, Shamanistic Ritual, Native American Medicine, clairaudience, Astrological Readings, Numerology, Tarot,Chakra Balancing, Aromatherapy, Psychometry, Remote Viewing, Dream Analysis, Interpersonal Angelic Exchange, She practices and instructs a yogic discipline of Paramahansa Yogananda lineage. Suki currently resides in Asheville NC after relocating here from the island of Hawaii and Kilaueas eruption this last may.
Enjoy this special one-hour Living Well with Suki who shares many wonderful insights about who we are and how we can live to our fullest potential.
Living Well with Suki Reese on AshevilleFM, June 18, 2018
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