• Michelle Orwick of Orlando ThetaHealing is a reader, healer and instructor. She has an infectious smile, a sensual presence and fierce insight into the cosmos.
• Elizabeth Faulcon is a sassy and hilarious lady who gives some of the funnest and insightful astrology readings around. You’ll enjoy her!
• Mary Hayes is an intuitive counselor, channel, medium. She serves as the temporal voice for the enlightened group called The Channel. On a conscious path for over 30 years, Mary has personally studyed with many of the living masters including Deepak Chopra, the Dali Lama, Gregg Braden, Caroline Myss and Donna Eden. She works with clients from around the world at the renowned Cassadaga Hotel, as well as, by phone, Skype and at her private office in Maitland, Fl., Mary’s specialized area of focus is on providing accurate, inspired and uplifting guidance.

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Julie’s latest project is the Rainbow Bridge Calendar – bridging the Gregorian method of marking time with the rhythms of our solar system and chakras. Follow & discuss on our Facebook page.

Now available at Dandelion Communitea Cafe, Avalon & Beyond and the Community Center. Soon to be available for purchase online.  Click on the image for more information about how the calendar works!

The Living Maya

Robert Sitler’s first exposure to the genius of Mayan culture came in the mid-70s while hiking in the rainforests of Chiapas. Since then, he has spent as much time as possible in the Mayan world, visiting regularly among natives from more than a dozen language groups. His long-standing relationships with Maya and their humble wisdom inform and inspire this book. Robert is currently a professor at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida.

An intimate discussion about masculine and feminine with Julie, Leah, Bridgette, Natasha and our astrologer friend Elizabeth Falcon.

Mike Hansen and his banjo Sally open up the show with an intro to Grassroots Festival coming up in Miami. Local favorites such as Hindu Cowboys and Raffa & Rainer are playing alongside a diverse lineup: Chaka Khan, Arrested Development, Fishbone, Donna the Buffalo, The Lee Boys and many more.  Betcha want to listen to Mike play Sally all night long. Go ahead, you can play that part two or three times, we will totally understand. Watch a short video of Mike & Sally here

Next up is Emma Kruch and Jenn Dolan representing ArtsFest. ArtsFest is a celebration of Central Florida arts and culture that takes place for the entire month of February 2012. ArtsFest includes 302 FREE arts and culture events held in 87 locations throughout Lake, Orange, Osceola and Seminole counties. Of course, Leah and Julie rummage through the extensive lineup of events.

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A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 7,900 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 7 trips to carry that many people.

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Occupy Orlando

Orlando is set to stand in solidarity with the 99% who are Occupying Wall Street and hundreds of cities across the nation and globe. A lively discussion about the revolution sweeping the nation and our own neighborhood with a fine group of free thinkers including:

• Charles Eisenstein is the author of Sacred Economics and his recent commentary No Demand is Big Enough has swept the web. We spoke with Charles in depth a month ago (pre-occupation) and that hour long interview can be listened to here.
• Orlando District 36 Representative Scott Randolph (D) is one of those politicians that is an exception to the rule, in our hostesses humble opinion. He’s real, and gets it. He is the first politician ever to enjoy a seat on our program.
• Susannah Lindberg Randolph is the Executive Director of Florida Watch Action, an organization dedicated to strengthening the progressive movement in Florida. The group has made headlines with campaigns such as DirtyHari.com and PinkSlipRick.com.  She was recently made famous for her uterus, which is currently, happily, occupied.
• Kat & Julie (not the host Julie, another Julie) have been organizing as part of a leaderless group of the 99% for Occupy Orlando. They are regular folks who have been moved into action, inspired by the Occupy Wall Street revolution.

Would YOU like to Occupy the Front Porch? Please contact us if you can come on air next Wednesday between 4 and 5pm to tell your story of why you stand in solidarity with the 99%.

Nina Streich is the Producer of the Global Peace Film Festival now in it’s ninth year here in Central Florida. This podcast discusses the festival and several filmmakers filled the studio to share about their films and the important topics they are so passionate about.

• Lisa Tillmann, director of Off the Menu and a Rollins professor
  Whose political and economic interests are served by the ways people in the U.S. tend to relate to our own bodies, to others’ bodies, to eating, and to food? In the arenas of body and food, who has what kind of power? Who profits, and at whose expense? How can everyday people—like us!—resist and promote healthier relationships with body and food? Off the Menu documents a collaboration between 24 students and one professor of a course called The Political Economy of Body and Food. Through research, personal narratives, and critical art, contributors interrogate body and food-related assumptions, stereotypes, attitudes, values, and practices. 
• Aleksey Siman, director of Food for Granted
  Food for Granted explores the issues of food waste and ostensible overproduction of food in restaurants, buffets and convention centers. Food industry tosses away tons of good, unused food everyday, while one in five people in United States struggle to put food on the table. Using Central Florida as the example of this underrated subject matter, filmmaker Aleksey Siman poses candid and inquisitive questions to food industry professionals in hopes to find a solution to a food waste epidemic. 
• Emmanuel Itier, director of a film in last year’s festival - The Invocation - and he has a work in progress called ”Femme: Women Healing the World” http://www.wonderlandentgroup.com/?n=news
  
• Bob Frye, director of In My LIfetime

ELLA Fest

Robert Johnson is the Producer of ELLA Fest, which is celebrating five years this October. The event is the only Central Florida fest that celebrates Florida Female Artistry with music, visual art, poetry, and crafts.  The event showcases a wide range of super talented females including rising star Dani Shay who returns for the third year in a row after her career recently sky-rocketed during a stint on America’s Got Talent.

Charles Eisenstein

Charles Eisenstein is the author of Ascent of Humanity and Sacred Economics. He writes about civilization, consciousness, money and human cultural evolution on the web magazine Reality Sandwich. He is a Yale graduate with degrees in Mathematics and Philosophy and currently serves on the faculty of Goddard College and is currently featured on the cover of Ode Magazine.

Sacred + Economics = Past & Future

Charles tells a story about how to create the more beautiful world our hearts tell us is possible. We talk about bringing the sacred back into the economy with a particular interest in local economies and living in the gift.

Charles believes the time has come to stop making people pay for intellectual property. That is why the entire text of The Ascent of Humanity is on line (and Sacred Economics is being released on Reality Sandwich). He offers this as a gift. If you feel grateful and would like to sustain his work, you may give a gift to Charles as well. Speaking of gifts, this radio program is also a gift to you, and if you would like to give back, here’s a way.