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Interview: Leon Logothetis, host, Netflix Series, The Kindness Diaries

Leon Logothetis is a global adventurer, motivational speaker & philanthropist. It wasn’t always that way. He used to be a broker in the city of London where he felt uninspired and chronically depressed. He gave it all up for a life on the road. This radical life change was inspired by the inspirational movie The Motorcycle Diaries.

Leon has visited more than 100 countries and traveled to every continent. As host of the Netflix series, The Kindness Diaries, Leon circumnavigated the globe on his vintage yellow motorbike ‘Kindness One’, giving life-changing gifts along the way to unsuspecting good Samaritans. All of this whilst relying on the kindness of strangers. He recently returned from filming the second season of The Kindness Diaries in which he traveled from Alaska to Argentina circumnavigated the globe ion his vintage yellow VW Beetle, Kindness Two, changing lives one mile at a time. The third season is coming out and watch for his documentary to be released in 2020. https://leonlogothetis.com/

His show The Kindness Diaries is streaming on Netflix!. His books, Amazing Adventures of a Nobody: The Kindness Diaries; Live, Love and Explore:Discover The Way Of The Traveler, a Roadmap To The Life You Were Meant To Live published by Readers Digest, are in stores now. His new book, Go Be Kind, was released 3/26/19.
See more of Leon's adventures on FB and Instagram @KindnessGuy and his website: https:/leonlogthetis.com

See Leon in his interview with Transformations below:

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Interview: Rich Trotta, Michael Skorker, Center for Citizenship and Social Responsibility

The Center for Citizenship and Social Responsibility (CCSR) which was established in 2013. Its mission is to develop responsible global leaders/citizens that will be positive contributors to society and will work to combat important social issues and become leaders in our society.
Over the past four years, over 1500 students have participated in CCSR mini-courses, clubs and activities, and most importantly community projects. At each school, there is a CCSR advisor who guides students in the development of Project Based Learning activities, individually and in small groups of 2 or 3 students. The student(s) select a project that they believe will help others or make the community a better place to live.
Today we have the founder of the CCSR project, Richard Trotta and the advisor and program coordinator for CCSR, Michael Skorker,

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Interview: Ferial Pearson, The Secret Kindness Agents

.Moved by the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy, Ferial wondered if a simple act of kindness could change a life. She thought of the school where she taught and the students she guided every day and wondered, what would happen if we started secretly carrying out small acts of kindness in school?

The idea behind Secret Kindness Agents, which Pearson details in her TEDx Talk and in a book she has written about the program, is both simple and profound: to perform an anonymous act of kindness every day and, thereby, spread kindness throughout the community. Anonymity is a key element of the program, as it shifts the focus from the self to others and thus allows the “agents” of kindness to remove themselves from the equation—in effect, to become selfless, which is the DNA of kindness.

Ferial Pearson, a native of Nairobi, Kenya, is a national award-winning high school teacher and college instructor. For her dedicated work in education and human rights, she has earned the National Education Association’s Virginia Uribe Award for Creative Leadership in Human Rights in 2012, and the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network’s Educator of the Year Respect Award in 2011. She is an Instructor and Instructional Coach in the Teacher Education Department at the University of Nebraska Omaha

Interview: Ian Thomson, Ocean Crusaders, Australia

Looking into the eyes of a sea turtle that had died from ingesting a plastic bag, started Ian Thomson on a quest to clean up the oceans. It turned his attention away from sailing races and into starting a non-profit cleaning waterways and the ocean in Australia. His mission includes educating children and the need for cleaning up plastic pollution. He empowers children by organizing them into clean-up crews, giving them the direct experience of putting knowledge into practice to make a difference. His foundation is growing and he now has branched out to Fiji.

Ian says, "I am passionate about educating people of the issues our oceans face so founded Ocean Crusaders as a tool to do this. It morphed into an online education program for young children and we now have an additional focus on beach and waterway cleaning in SE Queensland. Every day we have a choice of what we buy and choosing items in plastic is taking it's toll on our oceans. What you do today will effect tomorrow so make a choice to say no to as much plastic as you can, reuse it if you have to use it and recycle it when done. Clean Oceans make us all winners!!!!

Interview: Cleo Scot Brown, History Matters Institute

This is Cleo’s experience: At seven, she was in the car with her father when he was shot for trying to get the right to vote. At nine, she was watching her father pull up Klan crosses from the end of the road to their home. At ten, she was hiding while her older brothers and sisters did target practice in order to defend the house if the family was attacked at night. At 11, she was helping adults learn how to pass the multi-part citizenship test required to register to vote. She got to become a little human guinea pig in a school integration experiment at age 12, an experience that proved to be more traumatic than the constant threat of being killed. And then at 17, she was off to experience the black power movement at the predominately Black Grambling State University and at 21, affirmative action quotas and some racial healing at General Motors in Anderson, Indiana. Hers and her father’s direct personal experiences, combined with a lack of bitterness and anger, provide the rare but necessary combination that moves people to introspection and action.

"The purpose of my talks & my writing: Using history to create insight and introspection that leads to change. My primary focus areas are race relations and voting. What needs to change to make this a more equitable culture, especially in the South in the United States? This hugely impacts Charleston, South Carolina as the first port of entry for slaves taken from Africa. Many have said that the healing must take place in Charleston for that very reason. How can we wake people up to prejudicial laws and cultural norms that exclude African Americans or view them as less than which is woven into the very fabric of the culture.

Cleo is the author of Racelology 101 and Witness To The Truth , published by the University of South Carolina Press. "Witness to the Truth" was Ouachita Parish Library's 2008 Summer Read selection and an Essence.com best seller. Raceology 101 is the 2018 1st Place Winner in the Federation of Press Women's Non-Fiction category. Celo is Race Relations Strategist and founder of the History Matters Institute.

She sees education as one of the first things that has to happen. Among her recommendations are movies, books and news sources: would recommend that everyone definitely watch the movie "Selma" and the Documentary "Eyes on the Prize".

Interview: Abeer Seikaly, Designing Woven Huts for Refugees, Jordan

Abeer Seikaly is a young Jordanian architect, artist, designer and cultural producer recognized internationally, who has been featured on several global and local media platforms because of her innovation “Weaving a Home” that was shortlisted for the 2012 Lexus Design Award.
According to Abeer, architecture is not about the building itself but more about getting into it and experiencing its metaphysical nature with time." Disaster shelters have been made from a wide range of materials, but Abeer turned to solar-absorbing fabric as her material of choice in creating woven shelters that are powered by the sun and inspired by nomadic culture. They can be folded up and taken to new locations to help refugees in many areas of the world.

Interview: Luke Michelson, Sleep In Heavenly Peace

When Luke, who was a VP in a company, and if fact was going to buy the company, learned that a child in his community was sleeping on the floor because she had no bed, It shook him. He had never known such a thing was possible. He decided to get his church group to build a bed and take it to the little girl. He looked into it further and found there were other children in the same situation. HIs group began to build and deliver beds to those children. The beds didn't just provide a place to sleep for these children. It was something that was meant just for them, their very own built especially for them by a stranger who cared about them. It made them feel special. Luke first gave up his boat, his time and his vacations in order to build more beds. As he heard about children outside his community in the same situation, he said that his community was every community and he began to assemble teams in other cities to build beds. It kept growing He had a choice to make and he gave up his lucrative job to devote himself to what became Sleep In Heavenly Peace, full time. As people heard about Sleep In Heavenly Peace they wanted to help and be a part of it. There are now over 190 chapters and it's still growing.

Interview: Marshall Saunders, The Citizens Climate Lobby

“After I had given just a few talks about the climate, I realized that the actions I was suggesting to my listeners to take, while essential, were not a match for the problem. I realized that anything they intended to do would be swamped by what the government did or did not do. I realized that ordinary people like me would have to organize, educate ourselves, give up our hopelessness and powerlessness, and gain the skills to be effective with our government.”
And that is exactly what he did when he founded The Citizen's Climate Lobby with over 551 groups all over the world. Their purpose is to involve people in the issue that faces all of us across party lines and across countries. This is a planetary issue of survival. As Marshall states: We must stop putting carbon, greenhouse gasses, into our atmosphere and we must do it right now. There is now a bill before Congress, thanks to Marshall's and all of the members of The Citizen's Climate Lobby. The lobby's efforts are being endorsed by media, corporations, unions and concerned citizens. People are paying attention.

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Interview: Leon Logothetis, host, Netflix Series, The Kindness Diaries

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Interview: Rich Trotta, Michael Skorker, Center for Citizenship and Social Responsibility

Interview: Ferial Pearson, The Secret Kindness Agents

Interview: Ian Thomson, Ocean Crusaders, Australia

Interview: Cleo Scot Brown, History Matters Institute

Interview: Abeer Seikaly, Designing Woven Huts for Refugees, Jordan

Interview: Luke Michelson, Sleep In Heavenly Peace

Interview: Marshall Saunders, The Citizens Climate Lobby

One Person, One Decision, One Commitment = World Changer

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Interview: Leon Logothetis, host, Netflix Series, The Kindness Diaries

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Interview: Rich Trotta, Michael Skorker, Center for Citizenship and Social Responsibility

Interview: Ferial Pearson, The Secret Kindness Agents

​Interview: Ian Thomson, Ocean Crusaders, Australia

Interview: Cleo Scot Brown, History Matters Institute

Interview: Abeer Seikaly, Designing Woven Huts for Refugees, Jordan

Interview: Luke Michelson, Sleep In Heavenly Peace

Interview: Marshall Saunders, The Citizens Climate Lobby

One Person, One Decision, One Commitment = World Changer

Interview: Ian Thomson, Ocean Crusaders, Australia