KPFK AWARE SHOW 
01/26/2012 Guest Kirk Hamilton

Topic: Optimizing health through nutrition and prevention using the latest medical research.
Biography: As a certified physician’s assistant specializing in nutrition, prevention and integrative medicine, KIRK HAMILTON maintains that if there’s one cure all for chronic disease it’s what you eat. With his emphasis on consuming more unprocessed, micronutrient dense plant-food along with simple cross-training and mind/body principles, Kirk has been instrumental in guiding his patients and clients toward the path of optimal health since 1983. He has also been a valued educator to health professionals.

Interview Description: As the founder of Clinical Pearls Publications, Kirk shares how he provided thousands of summaries of nutrition research and medical interviews to practicing physicians and researchers around the globe until he sold the company to Tishcon Corp. in 2004. In 2009 Kirk began hosting his own podcast show titled Staying Healthy Today interviewing top experts in the fields of nutrition and preventive medicine. Drawing on his 28 year career, in August 2011 Kirk self-published the book titled “Staying Healthy in the Fast Lane - 9 Simple Steps to Optimal Health.” His book serves as a guide for individuals, professionals and policy makers on how to create a new health paradigm that is focused on staying well and prevention instead of treatment.

When he’s not traveling, lecturing, seeing patients or hosting his own show Kirk is an avid dancer with his specialty being salsa and related Latin dances as well as lindy hop (swing). He also loves to body surf and recently got very excited about free diving. Kirk lives in Sacramento, California. He is the father of one daughter and a grandfather to two beautiful tots Ava Jane (3 ½) and Drury (1). Kirk’s passion for medicine and caring for others has been passed on to another generation as his daughter Mya is a practicing nurse in San Francisco.For more information about Kirk, please visit www.prescription2000.com.

KPFK AWARE SHOW 
01/26/2012 Guest Michael Gelb

Topic: Applying genius thinking to personal and organizational development.
Biography: Michael J. Gelb is the world’s leading authority on the application of genius thinking to personal and organizational development. He is a pioneer in the fields of creative thinking, accelerated learning, and innovative leadership. Gelb leads seminars for organizations such as DuPont, Merck, Microsoft, Nike, Raytheon and YPO. He brings more than 30 years of experience as a professional speaker, seminar leader and organizational consultant to his diverse, international clientele.

Interview Description: Michael Gelb is the author of 12 books on creativity and innovation including the international best seller How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day. How to Think Like Leonardo has been translated into 25 languages and has appeared on the Washington Post,Amazon.com, and the New York Times best seller lists. He shares his latest wisdom on applying personal genius in our daily life, on this edition of The Aware Show.

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KPFK AWARE SHOW
01/25/2012 Guest Marc Ian Barasch

Topic: Living a “Green Compassionate” Life
Bio: Marc Barasch is the author of Field Notes on the Compassionate Life, a national bestseller that inspired the recent film, “I Am.” Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called the book “a compulsory read for all” and Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence, called it “essential for anyone who cares deeply about the human condition.” After writing this book, Marc set out on the path he calls “green compassion,” founding a global environmental charity, Green World Campaign (www.greenworld.org), that restores the ecology and economy of the world’s poorest places. The GWC has planted trees and helped struggling communities in Mexico, Ethiopia, Uganda, and the Philippines. It is now focused on Kenya, where a network of Green World Schools teaches ecology and global citizenship, and the GWC co-manages the protection and restoration of the Rumuruti Forest. The GWC also does media projects that invite the public to ReGreen the World (their slogan). He won a 2011 International Green Award for Text TREE, a project he conceived and produced on a dozen jumbo screens in Times Square on Earth Day last April. He is now in discussions to move Text TREE into rock concerts, where the audience will plant trees via cellphone and be able to track their donations on an ever-growing Green World Map. He recently founded Green World Ventures, a social enterprise company focused on triple-bottom-line businesses in Kenya that restore soil and forests and provide jobs, training, and empowerment to village cooperatives.

Marc attended Yale University, and later helped found the graduate psychology department at Naropa University. As a hobby, he has played and recorded with the “literary rock” band the Rock Bottom Remainders, whose members include authors Amy Tan, Stephen King, and Maya Angelou.

Interview Description: Author Marc Ian Barasch shares his insights on how to live a thriving, compassionate life. Marc is the founder of the Green World Campaign and will talk about what he learned while working in some of the world’s poorest regions in an effort to restore their ecology and their economy. His recent work is focusing on Kenya and the protection and restoration of the Rumuruti Forest. www.greenworld.org

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