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Naviacute;d is a musician, music producer and the owner of href="https://lancastltd.com/" target="_blank"LANCAST Ltd, an independent company that creates music for film, animation, video games and mobile applications. Navid tells his story about learning the guitar as a teenager to working with href="https://www.discogs.com/artist/217416-Kenny-Phillips" target="_blank"Kenny Phillips and href="https://www.prodenstudio.com/" target="_blank"Proden Studio before striking it out on his own. He tells the incredible story of his start in the business by handing out a rudimentary business card to href="https://www.steventaylorfilm.com/" target="_blank"Steven Taylor and shortly after being asked to score his film href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-vtKhrPnxA" target="_blank"Buck, the Man Spirit. I play scores that Navid has composed at the end of the interview.

Masud is an artist, writer, and an actor. He talks about his spiritual journey and his work in the interview. You can find his work at href="https://www.masud-olufani.com/" target="_blank"https://www.masud-olufani.com/. I caught Masud while heading out from his studio. As a result the voice quality is lacking and there is background noise. But please be patient. At about 12 minutes into the interview the sound quality improves significantly. Songs played: 1. Where There Is Love-Elika Mahoney - Album: Birds Of Love 2. Whither Can a Lover Go - Jody Cooper bull; "Whither Can a Lo... 3. Wilderness - Eric Dozier; 4. Prayer for the Departed - Yosi Mesbah - Album: Badasht Vol. III - Visionaries 5. Beautiful Soul - Shameem - Album: The Second City 6. Let All Associate - Creation

Llewellyn was raised in the Disciples of Christ church, its origins coming out of the Second Great Awakening in the early 19th century in the US when protestant Christianity was spread through revivals. Llewellyn tells his story of how his spiritual journey led him to the Baha'i Faith, and then how being a Baha'i caused him to look back at milestone incidents in his life that led him on that path. The following songs are played at the end:
1. Truthfulness by Nabil Moghaddam
2. Unite by Ali Youssefi
3. Walk A Little Farther - Artists Unknown
4. Where there is love by Andy Grammer

Andy is an experienced and well-versed musician in many disciplines of music including guitar, singing, composing, arranging, teaching, and music producing, and has been performing for over 25 years. He has selected a number of his musical compositions for the interview that feature his guitar virtuosity and his singer-songwriter abilities. We also talk about his pursuit of becoming a musical therapist. Visit href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSXIkOWhQDqR3MBYH-w57cw" target="_blank"Andy'sTube Channel to hear more of his music.

Olya grew up in Iran under the severe persecution of the Iranian Islamic regime after the 1979 Revolution. She along with 10 other women were arrested soon after, for being Baha'is. All of her 10 women companions were eventually hanged and Olya believes she was spared so that she could share their story with the world. One of these women was a 16 year old, named Mona, who was arrested for being a teacher at Baha'i children's classes. She eventually escaped Iran and published Olya's Story: href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/olyas-story-olya-roohizadegan/1136790370?ean=9781851680733" target="_blank"A Survivor's Dramatic Account of the Persecution of Baha'is in Revolutionary Iran. Since the release of the book in 1993, exactly 10 years after the execution of her 10 women companions, she has presented herself in over 1000 public venues telling this story. She wants to write a 2nd book demonstrating how the death of these women allowed her to spread their message of love and unity throughout the world.

Winnie grew up as a poor northern girl who married into a well-to-do Southern family and started raising a family in the early 1960's. Before becoming a Baha'i, she was involved in promoting racial justice in her own small way. After becoming a Baha'i, her vision broadened, and she and her husband moved to Barbados and lived there for 12 years. Ironically it was her husband who studied agriculture in college, but it was Winnie that became the self-taught agriculturalist helping the agricultural efforts in the Caribean islands as well as in the States. She recently published a book, href="https://www.bahaibookstore.com/Food-Farmer-and-Community-P10366.aspx" target="_blank""Food, Farmer and Community: Agriculture and the Reconstruction of the World". She explains how agriculture is fundamental to a stable society.
Song List:
1. Toward The Sun - Amy Stephen Haghighi
2. Tree of Peace - by Jacqueline Odess-Gillett