#BIF2019: Wellbeing
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With a career as a professor, computer programmer, and musician, Michael Hawley shares the very personal story of two miracles on the frontiers of science and medicine, and how they came crashing together.
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A picture is worth a thousand words. Alex Tsiaras takes us into the world of digital storytelling, revealing how digital imagery makes health science understandable and can help improve overall health and wellbeing.
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Quentin Robinson aka SpecialFX breaks down what it means to be more than just a movement artist. He reveals the challenges he faces being a product of his environment and how he shares the gift of dance with the world to create positivity, joy, and change across the globe.
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Samantha Ramirez-Herrera brings us back to her life as an invisible undocumented immigrant, and how she was able to rise from humble beginnings to the boss-lady that she is today. Her heartfelt story truly reveals how US immigration policies deny human beings of intrinsic rights.
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Cory Pesaturo is certainly an endangered species. Tune in as Cory brings us into the worlds of a record-holding accordion player, a self-proclaimed "snow weenie," a racing enthusiast, and an extreme sledder.
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Aithan Shapira brings us back to the moment where he lost everything, and shows us how he was able to pivot, redefining and mastering his craft all because of an abandoned, unusable life preserver.
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Just like her hometown, the Bronx, Ivelyse Andino is powerful and resilient. After working within and navigating the healthcare system herself, Ivelyse realized that she had to make a difference from within her community.
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Philip Sheppard masterfully captures the beautiful essence of humanity, through song and story. Warning! You will get goosebumps.
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"We don't think our way into new ways of living, we live our way into new ways of thinking." A 7th generation Rabbi, Irwin Kula lives his way into the intersection of science and spirituality.
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A long-time friend of BIF, Joe Wilson Jr. passionately unearths his roots and how he discovered his true self and his unmatched dedication to art and activism.
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Tori Drew unravels her journey from corporate New York to a small non-profit in Providence, Rhode Island, and the two worlds couldn't be more different. In the true nature of "pulling the thread," Drew explains how BIF has re-discovered how to create impact by creating a woman-centered maternal health and wellbeing project.
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Dr. Ami Bhatt reveals how a patient's story of struggling tells us so much more about navigating the current healthcare system than simple statistics. In this story, Bhatt describes the journey of a patient and how introducing technology actually provides a deeper human level to the healthcare system.
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Jeff Sparr returns to the BIF stage to share how harnessing the power of creativity, art and storytelling makes it so much easier and much more productive to support and talk about mental health.
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Darden Smith and Mary Judd beautifully alchemize words about wellbeing from the #BIF2019 community into song and share it with us on the summit stage, then provide insight into why storytelling in the form of songwriting has been immensely impactful in the veteran community.
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Josh Goldberg passionately shares the "10 Truths to #StruggleWell" he learned while working closely with veterans and relives his own journey to find purpose and mental wellness at the BIF2019: Wellbeing Summit.
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Mark Brand shows us the immense power of words, and how the systemic problems of our society reside in our language, and in our inability to view the community as a unit. Brand gives us the tools that we need to take action and to inspire positive change.
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Valerie Tutson kicks off the #BIF2019: Wellbeing Summit by reminding us to interact with each other and say "I see you with my eyes, I see you with my heart, I see you in front of me, I respect you."
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Jeff Leitner provides a humorous, yet truly illuminating perspective on the "most important things that you never think about:" the unwritten rules of society. Enforced only by social cues, these unwritten rules influence human behavior more than you might think. Tune in to find out more!
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Richie Etwaru lives in the future, but he comes from the past. He uses history to help better understand what is to come and influence a better tomorrow. Etwaru deconstructs how he became a defender of the 31st human right: legal ownership of one's own inherent human data.