With Guests Brett Culp and Eric Maisel

Airs Wednesday, February 24, 2016

During this week’s radio show you will learn about:

• Rethinking Mental Health Disorders
• Tips For Parents With Struggling Children
• Connecting With Our Inner Super Hero
• Using Art & Film to Make a Positive Impact

 

Award-winning filmmaker Brett Culp creates touching and emotionally gripping documentary stories.  From tales of everyday superheroes to the stories of children in the villages of Haiti to the daring exploits of military legends, he uncovers powerful human experiences through inspiring, engaging filmmaking. Brett has been the personal cinematographer for movie stars, music icons, best-selling authors, hall of fame athletes, and royalty.  He has been featured in USA Today, WIRED, The LA Times, Entertainment Tonight, The Hollywood Reporter, Fast Company, and WEtv.  The newest edition of the college textbook “Documentary Storytelling” devotes an entire chapter to Brett’s unique, organic production style, which focuses on authentic storytelling. He is the co-founder of The Rising Heroes Project, a not-for-profit organization that creates uplifting movies for charitable and educational purposes. Brett’s feature-length documentary film “Legends of the Knight” is an exploration of the potential all of us have to become heroes.  The movie has screened theatrically in over 100 cities around the world with proceeds from each screening benefiting local charities.  The film is now available on Netflix, Hulu, iTunes, and Amazon. He is in-production now on his next uplifting film, “Look to the Sky”. Learn more here.

Eric Maisel was born in the Bronx, New York, where he lived until the age of 5. He grew up in Brooklyn, attended Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, and briefly attended Brooklyn College. After serving in the Army from 1965 – 1968 he attended Oregon State University and the University of Oregon, where he received a B.S. in philosophy. He earned a master’s degree in creative writing from San Francisco State University while ghostwriting mysteries and nonfiction and self-publishing fiction. In the ’80s he returned to school and earned a second bachelor’s degree in psychology, a second master’s degree in counseling, and a doctorate in counseling psychology. He served as adjunct faculty at St. Mary’s College in Moraga, California for ten years and created and wrote Callboard Magazine’s Staying Sane in the Theater column. He has presented lectures and workshops for the American Psychological Association, the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, the Paris Writers Workshop, the North Carolina School of the Arts, the Savannah College of Arts and Crafts, the U. C. Berkeley Counseling Center, and many other venues. Dr. Eric Maisel writes the Rethinking Mental Health blog for Psychology Today online, a monthly print column for Professional Artist Magazine, and occasional pieces for the Huffington Post. He hosted one hundred episodes of The Joy of Living Creatively and Your Purpose-Centered Life with the Personal Life Media Network and provides core trainings for the Creativity Coaching Association. His websites are www.ericmaisel.com andwww.thefutureofmentalhealth.com.