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
Deepak Chopra questions JeromeASF concerning the socio-cultural implications of video games and gaming. Regarding ADD and violent tendencies, Jerome shoots down claims of the negative impact of gaming. He states that gaming serves as an outlet and tool for these problems rather than a catalyst, and explains how he finds that educational gaming can help kids focus in the classroom. Jerome believes that action-packed adventures on the screen can offer a release that keeps kids away from enacting anything harmful in real life. When Deepak goes on to ask how video games effect gamers’ social literacy, Jerome shares how the online gaming communities he joined as a teenager taught him how to communicate more clearly and confidently in the real world. JeromeASF does not know exactly how video games are going to affect the evolution of mankind, but through his experience, shared both on YouTube, and in the game-worlds themselves, he believes that video gaming benefits people by teaching them how to interact with the world around them. 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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Trevi 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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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
Rasselas Lakew talks about his life, cultural upbringing in Ethiopia during a revolution, and its impact on his filmmaking career. Rasselas Lakew talks about the historical significance of his film, “The Athlete”, where Rasselas Lakew played the principal character, Abebe Bikila. Read more.
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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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