Lucy Liu
For most people, Lucy Liu needs no introduction; her illustrious film and television career has made her a household name. As the child of Chinese immigrants in New York City, an acting career was not what Lucy was raised to aspire to. It was something that I wanted to do from a very young age but it was definitely not on the radar for a Chinese immigrant family she joked with Deepak Chopra in this show. They were more concerned with education. But after college, Lucy moved back to New York to begin auditioning and focusing on acting. Read more.
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Isabella Huffington
Arianna Huffington’s daughter Isabella is an emerging artist with sold-out shows in LA and NYC. She’s dedicated to making her art more accessible and less restricted to the museum space. In this show she explores with Deepak Chopra the comparisons between meditation and art and being able to appreciate what’s around us right now. Isabella started meditating to help heal a decade long eating-disorder caused by anxiety of getting ahead and succeeding. Which goes back to art, she explains. We don’t pay enough attention to where we are. You can pass something 100 times before it actually catches your attention. Having used the unconventional media of sharpies and collage, she believes her experiences with problem solving while making her art is a great metaphor to the limitations we face in our daily life. People try years to make one idea work, why not instead be more creative with the other tools you have and open more doors. Art opens the window to a bigger awareness, it gives you a different perspective. Creating the life you want is part of a creative process too.
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JeromeASF
Jerome Robert Aceti, known by his online handle JeromeASF, is a pioneer in video-gameplay web broadcasting. JeromeASF got his start at around 14 when he first started recording and posting videos of him and his friends playing first-person shooter games like Halo and Call of Duty on Youtube. He posted those videos with the group accounts HacksourceVideos and AwesomeSauceFilms, but the groups eventually divided into individual accounts when they realized the potential to build their own fanbases. Jerome grew renowned for his Minecraft videos, and he has garnered millions of subscribers. Jerome’s popularity has even led to an affiliation with Machinima, WarnerMedia’s multiplatform online entertainment network. Read more.
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Willem Dafoe
Willem Dafoe never set out to be a famous actor; he wasn’t a child who dreamed of a place in Hollywood. In fact, growing up, he didn’t really have an answer for those who asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up. I never had a picture in mind, I just kind of drifted from situation to situation, he explains in this show. I never had that moment that you hear a lot of actors have where they say, oh I want to be an actor. For Willem, it was more of a progression from one project to another without a clear desire to turn it into a larger career. But a career is precisely what it became. He recently sat down with Deepak Chopra to discuss his work, the art of acting and how he approaches each new role. Read more.
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Trevor Moran
From daily YouTube broadcasts, 18 city YouTube tour, X-Factor appearances to winning the Teen Choice Award, 16-year old singer and songwriter Trevor Moran is a veteran in gaining viral YouTube attention reaching millions of fans worldwide. Because of Trevor’s issues with anxiety he and Deepak discuss the meaning of transcendence. Deepak shares how you can overpower anxiety by embodying the moments of trancendence you have in your life. Starting out when he was just 7, his original Apple store dancing sprees went viral and made him famous. Today his fans give him strength and he encourages them to be who you want to be. Outside the box and living the life you want to live without pleasing anyone!
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Mike D
Regardless of your particular tastes in music, it is likely that you are familiar with Mike D or at the very least with the band that made him a household name. The Beastie Boys founder recently sat down with Deepak Chopra to discuss his passion for music, how his career started and what he’s doing now. Read more.
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DJ Spooky
Music is a reflection of the internal as it tries to understand the external, DJ Spooky tells Deepak, referring to it as the poetry of the unconscious. In this One World interview, composer, artist, and writer Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky, speaks to Deepak about how art relates to and affects the cultural and ecological state of the planet. Miller has performed works in collaboration with artists ranging from Metallica to Laurie Anderson, from Chuck D to Yoko Ono. He is the writer of the acclaimed nonfiction book Rhythm Sounds, as well as The Book of Ice, an experiential visual and acoustic portrait of the Antarctic. He also edited the anthology Sound Unbound, and is the editor of Origin Magazine. He was the first Artist-in-Residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has composed works for the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Seoul Institute of the Arts, and received the National Geographic Emerging Explorer Award in 2014. Read more.
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Hafez Nazeri
As Recipient of many awards incl. from The Irvine City Hall, United States Congress, and UCLA, Hafez Nazeri is an Iranian composer of Kurdish descent, spreading Rumi’s spiritual message of peace through music.
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Jehane Noujaim
With her unusual background and upbringing between the United States and the Middle East, Jehane Noujaim has a unique vantage point from which to film stories. In her Oscar nominated documentary The Square Noujaim follows a number of Egyptians through the ongoing Egyptian Revolution, the Arab Spring. Read more.
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Desmond Child
Selling over 300 million albums worldwide with 70 top 40 hits, songwriter & producer Desmond Child has worked with Aerosmith, Kiss, Joan Jett, Cher, Ricky Martin, Bon Jovi, Kelly Clarkson.
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Kabir Sehgal
New York Times bestselling author, Grammy-winning producer, and VP at J.P. Morgan Kabir Sehgal discusses his latest book “Coined” ..endorsed by Paul Volcker, Jimmy Carter, Muhammad Yunus, Sheila Bair & Walter Isaacson.
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Michael Fitzpatrick
From the Hollywood Bowl, The Jordanian Royal Palace to The National Cathedral, recipient of The Prince Charles Award Michael Fitzpatrick shares his 18 year musical collaboration closely with HH the Dalai Lama.
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Krishna Das
Grammy Award Nominated Kirtan artist Krishna Das has combined his passions for life, music & yoga chanting, creating a series of breathtaking & groundbreaking sounds.
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Sharad Devarajan
A lifelong fan of comics, Sharad Devarajan built Asia’s largest comics publisher & has partnered with Stan Lee, Richard Branson, Gotham Chopra.
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Nigel Barker
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Girl Up and Make-a-Wish, Nigel Barker’s photo credits go beyond America’s Next Top Model, GQ, Ted Baker, Sony and the Emmy Awards.
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Rasselas Lakew
Ethiopian born Rasselas Lakew, received critical acclaim and multiple international awards with the movie “The Athlete”.. a true story based on the life of legendary Ethiopian Abebe Bikila ..the first African marathon runner to win Olympic Gold 3 consecutive times.
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Nadia Manzoor
Dancer, actress, performer, Nadia Manzoor is giving a face & a voice to young Muslim women growing up in an increasingly global, interconnected and modern world.
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Stephen Levitin
Co-founder of PBS web series Beat Making Lab, Music Producer to Mos Def, Azealia Banks & Camp Lo Stephen Levitin aka Apple Juice Kid, travels the world with a portable music studio teaching electronic music production to underserved youth.
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