Emilie Baltz is a non-traditional creative who works at the intersection of education, design, performance, and the visual arts to create experiences that provoke new connections between the senses. As a personal passion, she uses the eating experience as a lens for cultural reflection and creation, working to reframe, re-question and remind us of the fundamental place food occupies in our lives. Baltz holds a B.A. in Film Studies from Vassar College and an M.I.D from Pratt Institute. She is an inaugural member of New Inc, an initiative led by the New Museum designed to support creative practitioners working in the areas of art, technology, and design. Emilie is part of the founding faculty of the School of Visual Arts Products of Design program and founded the Food Design Studio at Pratt Institute. In addition to her artistic practice, she works as a Strategic Creative Director, teaches innovation workshops, and lectures on the sensory experience. Baltz is also the author of L.O.V.E FOODBOOK and Junk Foodie: 51 Delicious Recipes for the Lowbrow Gourmand.
Author: Angela Wilcox
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Stop Self Sabotaging
Leading executive coach shares insights about how we become liberated when the pain of where we are exceeds the fear of the unknown. She discusses how we get in the way of our own efforts to improve our health, careers, romances, and other priorities — and shows how adopting a childlike openness can start the virtuous cycle of improvement.Debi Silber MS, RD, WHC, FDN The Mojo Coach®, CEO of Lifestyle Fitness, Inc. and founder of www.TheMojoCoach.com and www.DebiSilber.com is a recognized health, weight loss, fitness, wellness, lifestyle and personal development expert. She’s a speaker, consultant and author of 2 books recommended by Brian Tracy, Marshall Goldsmith, Jack Canfield and many more. Debi’s branded The Mojo Coach® because she’s led countless others to achieve their ultimate body, mind, image and lifestyle; inspiring them to “get their mojo back” and transform into their personal and professional best.
In addition to being a highly credentialed and awarded health expert, Debi has her own line of deliciously healthy Mojo Fuel Bars™ and shakes, has also contributed to FOX, CBS, The Dr. Oz show, The Huffington Post, Shape, Self, Health, Working Mother, Forbes, Psychology Today, WebMD, Yahoo Shine, Ladies Home Journal, MSN, Woman’s World and Glamour to name a few.
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You Can Change Your Brain
A physician and brain imaging researcher, Dr. Keener is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and the CEO and founder of Emodt health design. Emodt is the world’s first emotional digital therapeutic firm, where doctors, designers and big-data researchers alike, work together to design emotional health in multiple dimensions of our lives.
The human emotional experience immeasurably enriches our lives, and conversely can cause debilitating suffering. Previously thought to be the result of the gods, our parents or our surroundings, emotions are now shown through modern neuroscience to arise in distinct systems in the brain. What informs this, however, is a complex multi-dimensional web of interactions that occur in time and space, between body and mind, and in a rich social cognitive context that shapes and develops the structure of this very brain.
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Dealing With Anger, Resistance And Pessimism
Eckhart Tolle discusses the decisive shift from identifying with a feeling and simply observing it in your energy field.
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Eating For Real Change
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Most of us know we should eat better, but we don’t do it. We are increasingly confused over nutrition with so many conflicting views, and we give scarce thought as to how we eat or our relationship with food. We can only bring about real change when we end this confusion and bring the joy back to food.
Adopted by the nation as an honorary Aussie, Dr Joanna McMillan’s ever-growing following is the result of her high profile within the media, health and fitness industries, and through her roles as Vice President of the Australian Lifestyle Medicine Association (ALMA), Ambassador for Diabetes Australia, and Ambassador for Australian Pineapples (to name a few).
As a teenager Dr Joanna discovered that the way she ate and how much she exercised significantly impacted on her energy levels, mood, self-esteem, appearance and, consequently, her outlook on life. She initially studied psychology but her love of exercise resulted in a 15-year career as a fitness instructor.
Having completed a Bachelor Degree in Science with First Class Honours in Nutrition and Dietetics, Dr Joanna moved to Australia and won a scholarship to complete her PhD with The University of Sydney in 1999.
Today, Dr Joanna is the founder of Get Lean, a regular on the Nine Network and the official nutritionist for TODAY. She is also the author of several books, has a weekly column in Sunday Life and a blogger for Woolworths Baby & Toddler Club.
Dr Joanna is a busy working mother, a tautology that provides her with an unwavering drive to teach people how to live a healthy and nutrition-filled life – yet one that doesn’t require obsessive or unrealistic attention in order to achieve it.
The philosophy of this down-to-earth Scot is simple. She believes that having a good healthy relationship with food is just as important as eating nutritious foods, and she regards food as more than the nutrients it contains; rather, it is part of our social connection, our culture and a great source of pleasure in life.
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Mental Toughness: Think Differently about your World
Dr. Sean Richardson takes lessons learned from the professional athlete’s locker room to provide an overview of the subtleties of human brain & behavior function to facilitate overcoming the normal & predictable human barriers to success.
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The Awakening of Consciousness
Echart Tolle is a spiritualist, and author of the New York Times best-selling book, The Power of Now.
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5 easy steps to build your Self-Confidence
5 Simple Steps to Building a Better Self-Confidence
1. Personal Grooming
2. Think Positively
3. Act Positively
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Why I Decided to Stop Saying “This happened for a reason.”
In this deeply personal talk, writer Amy Bickers shares the challenges she faced following a traumatic incident, and the insights she took away from it. She shows how the cinematic structure of the stories we’re raised on isn’t the right way to look at the structure of our own stories.Amy Bickers writes frankly and often humorously about such topics as grief, post-traumatic stress, and the antics of contestants on The Bachelor.
A former newspaper journalist and associate editor at Southern Living, Amy Bickers is the author of “The Geography of You and Me,” her debut memoir about suicide loss. The memoir’s publication was funded through a successful Kickstarter campaign
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Alan Watts on How to make Yourself a Better Person
Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British-born American philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. Pursuing a career, he attended Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, where he received a master’s degree in theology. Watts became an Episcopal priest in 1945, then left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California, where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies.
Watts gained a large following in the San Francisco Bay Area while working as a volunteer programmer at KPFA, a Pacifica Radio station in Berkeley. Watts wrote more than 25 books and articles on subjects important to Eastern and Western religion, introducing the then-burgeoning youth culture to The Way of Zen (1957), one of the first bestselling books on Buddhism. In Psychotherapy East and West (1961), Watts proposed that Buddhism could be thought of as a form of psychotherapy and not a religion. He considered Nature, Man and Woman (1958) to be, “from a literary point of view – the best book I have ever written.” He also explored human consciousness, in the essay “The New Alchemy” (1958), and in the book The Joyous Cosmology (1962).
Towards the end of his life, he divided his time between a houseboat in Sausalito and a cabin on Mount Tamalpais. Many of his books are now available in digital format and many of his recorded talks and lectures are available on the Internet. According to the critic Erik Davis, his “writings and recorded talks still shimmer with a profound and galvanizing lucidity.”