WhidbeyTV, WOW 2016

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Rating Advisory: Select WOW 2016 segments are rated TV-14. Noted in video description. Some parents may find material in these segments unsuitable for children un...

Born into a lineage from fairylands and singing revolutions, to an inventor father and saint of a mother, Kristi O’Donnell is an artist, visionary, horticulturist, plant whisperer, dreamer, activist, WIN volunteer, teacher and student of life. Kristi is the bassist for the ensembles Trio Nouveau,...

A lifelong educator, Jeanne Strong continues in retirement to advocate for children – both locally and in the heart of the African continent – as well explore the depth and breadth of our human existence.

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Currently Pastoral Administrator at St. Hubert Church in Langley, Elizabeth Guss is a Whidbey transplant from Salt Lake City that actively integrates spirit and work wherever she goes. She reads, writes, thinks, works, laughs and, if no one is really listening, sings!

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Toni Marthaller-Andersen is an Integrative Nurse Practitioner at Women to Wellness on Whidbey Island and author of Detox & Discovery, a 6 week program to Healthier Living in Our Toxic Times.

Erin Morgan is a strong and willful woman who has risen above many challenges in her life. She values many things in life including fitness, nature and above all else her wonderful family.

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This program may contain material that some parents may find unsuitable for children under 14.

Hannah Weatherford is a self-employed photographer, an avid outdoor adventurer and a believer in the good of humanity. She works with several youth empowerment organizations, teaching photography and helping young people creatively express themselves.

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Cynthia Brix is a spiritual activist who convenes and facilitates safe circles — Gender Equity and Reconciliation — for deep truth telling around sensitive and taboo gender issues between women and men of all sexual orientations, without shame or blame. Over the past 23 years, her organization ha...

Kathryn Lynn Morgen is a theatre artist (designer, actor, director). She serves as Program & Production Manager at Whidbey Children’s Theater and runs a one-woman graphic design and marketing business, KLMXYZ Creative Communications. She believes in magic.

Martha has been singing and acting since she was a child growing up in Dallas. In 1981 she started Whidbey Children’s Theater so local kids could experience the magic of being on stage!

Claudia has been an active member of the South Whidbey musical arts community for 25 years and professionally as a music therapist and music-thanatologist.

For almost 25 years, Air Force Major General Trish Rose has been trying to find balance between her civilian employer, her military employer, and her family. The only time she is in balance is when all three are mad at her for not spending enough time with them.

After a 40 year career in the youth field as a social worker, executive, and developer of model youth programs (for which she received the Institute of Noetic Sciences’ award for Creative Altruism), Julie Glover moved from Manhattan to Whidbey where in addition to international consulting, she s...

Members of South Whidbey High School’s award-winning jazz ensemble calling themselves “The WOW Sisters” — Mara Bush, Katyrose Jordan, Annie Saltee and Cat Ballestrasse.

Home from traveling around the world in the 1970′s, Chris Peterson, worked in leadership roles for non-profits in housing, education, and the environment. She’s the founder and retired executive producer of the radio series BirdNote.

Linda (Grannis) Good was born in Seattle in 1940, and later had 2 younger brothers. She went to Lincoln High, & then the U of W where she got a BA in music, with her Junior year being at Drake University where she met Leonard Good, & they were married in 1962, & later had a daughter Nancye, & mov...

When she volunteered to be a surrogate mother, Katy MacGregor had no idea where that decision would take her.

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This program may contain material that some parents may find unsuitable for children under 14.

A former cabinetmaker, Melissa Young has been producing documentary films on compelling social justice themes since organizing a school-building project in Nicaragua in 1986.

An artist, teacher, mother, wife, and friend, Carrie Whitney works all of it into her art.

Rated: TV-14
This program may contain material that some parents may find unsuitable for children under 14.

Martha has been singing and acting since she was a child growing up in Dallas. In 1981 she started Whidbey Children’s Theater so local kids could experience the magic of being on stage!

Since marching with the Girl Scouts across the new Tappan Zee Bridge in Tarrytown N.Y., Pam Schell had never been in a parade until the four years as the wife of the Mayor of Seattle, where she rode in convertibles, rotated her wrist and waved her elbow and smiled.

Born in a dusty, flat company town in Texas, Josh Hauser lived in 20-some places before she wound up running a bookstore on a beautiful green island surrounded by mountains and sea over 40 years ago.

An adult and geriatric nurse practitioner, Brook Ott appreciates the novelty of providing health care in the small community that shaped her youth, and she enjoys the familiar faces and landscapes that continue to inspire her.

Dakota Stone was a national champion, won gold medal at the first international women’s boxing competition and was in the top 10 woman boxers in the world for a decade. She now owns and runs Solid Stone Boxing Gym in Clinton and focuses on exposing women and children to the benefits of boxing.

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Barbara Dunn, PhD, LICSW, MT-BC is Whidbey musician with 4 albums to her credit. She is also a music therapist, social worker, psychotherapist, and author of More Than a Song, Exploring the Healing Art of Music Therapy.