Kate Loving Shenk

Joan Adams and I decided to do a radio show together as a New Years Resolution,
2009.

Now we’ve done four shows and are booked to the middle of May.
Radio Of Yesteryear
Synchronistically, I received an email about an educational call that was about becoming a radio
talk show host. They were selling a series of classes about “How to be a Radio Host,” but I
gathered great information from the free call.  The interviewee was Michael Wales,
not surprisingly, a radio show host himself, with great stories about how he chose
radio hosting as a vehicle for his own fame, fortune and fun.

Joan and I are interested in writing our own e-books, creating Squidoo Lenses, building our
own lists, and just have a fun loving interest in other people.

I learned that we can make our own books and products  be the actual sponsors for our show.

We can say, “We wish to take a minute for our sponsors,” and then say a few words about our books,
and the web pages where people can buy them.

I learned how our radio show will lead us to “gigs” that pay, such as public speaking engagements,
jobs such as teaching people how to do Squidoo Lenses, or simply having avenues open to do
joint venture projects with people, or opportunities to become affiliates for products we can stand behind.

Doing these shows from our respective homes, without rules (except no swearing or crude remarks, perhaps),
serves to give us credibility. People will learn to trust us as we continue to show up week after week.

If we ever hope to publish a book, promotion of these books happens easily during one minute sponsorship
breaks on the show.

We can mimic traditional radio formats in this way which  helps make people feel comfortable.

I learned that putting our shows on podcasts as a free service on iTunes, and asking people to subscribe, is the
wave of the future in radio broadcasting. I have questions out to all my internet savvy friends, asking how to do this.
These podcasts build an audience and momentum. Our listening audience will grow when we get in the swing
of this.

The benefits of internet radio outweigh traditional radio.

For instance, no one can censer me or anyone on my show. My dogs bark and we all laugh. We are casual,
happy and free. We are having fun. People tend to be more and more uptight the more they move towards the
vice grip of Corporate Dictatorship.

Twitter, Face Book and Squidoo and all the other social networking sites, are great places to promote
“Moon, Moo and You: The Collective Wisdom.” We are creating content with our show. Social media is nothing
more than user generated content sites. What we offer, therefore, becomes great content for these sites,
which in turn is picked up by Google even faster.

Internet radio is not time specific or geography based.

These shows are “niche mediums” which then feeds directly to the niches we are creating as Internet
Marketing Entrepreneurs.

Products can be made from the shows: articles, lenses, ebooks, audio and video products and can also
give these or any part of these away as a bonus to build your list.

As long as we are having fun, as long as we feel the energy of divine energy in the radio waves,
we cannot fail.

Kate Loving Shenk

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Kate Loving Shenk is a writer, healer, musician and the creator
of the e-book called “Transform Your Nursing Career and Discover
Your Calling and Destiny.” The book is designed to stimulate
nurses to love their work and to prevent on-the-job-burnout.
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Moonvine aka Joan Adams, and Moo aka Kate Loving Shenk and You, openedup the radio waves for our radio show  called “Moon, Moo & You: The Collective Wisdom,”3/3/09.

We had a practice show 2/25/09. The purpose of this show was to make sure we knew how to work the web site so that Joan and I were equally able to contribute and interact with our listeners.

Because I was the one who originally set up the page for the show, I was the one who had to “man” the switchboard. However, I did not really understand anything about the switchboard, but figured I could get it together during the practice.

However, this did not happen.

I got on the line and people were trying to get on but I had no idea how to bring them on, Joan included.

So I flew by the seat of my pants.

I began to feel like the Fool in the Tarot card who is about to take a leap of faith, jumping off the cliff with total faith that he would and will be taken care of.

Speaking extrapraneously is not one of my strengths. I’ve never in my life been faced with a microphone and a radio show that I am responsible for providing Grist For The Mill.

But there I was!! And so I decided to just have fun with it.

I remember talking about the importance of numbers, that as we prepared for the show, the number 44 kept surfacing and resurfacing as the magic we were supposed to be paying attention to.

The number 44 has been Joan’s magic number for quite some time. She told me that at one time, she was in a job she hated, but instead of emphasizing how much she hated the job, she decided to look for angel blessings in the form of the number 44.

She involved family in this activity and when her daughter saw 44 anywhere at all, would call her mom and say, “Mom!! An angel just blessed us!!”

And that brought Joan closer to the liberation from the job that then evolved to doing the things she now loves doing.

The host call in number for the show is: 646-200-4444. The two 44′s at the end of the number seemed to beckon us to take the leap of faith.

So I talked about the significance of numbers. I talked about Squidoo Lens making. I talked about Single Payer Guaranteed Healthcare for all in Pennsylvania.

I talked about the 1986 Toyota Turcel that I just brought home, and was sitting in the driveway with 45,000 miles on it. I talked about how the car was spooking the dogs because they never saw it before.

I talked about how I loved Gypsy Owl’s name, who was by now listening to the call. I spoke about an owl we once had by the name of Persephone who came to live with us after we hit her with our then car on the way to see Tom’s sick and dying Aunt Hilda.

Hilda loved animals.

I told the deep significance of this story on the practice show.

I talked about self-image and eating disorders.

I talked about the entrepreneurial spirit and how those of us who hang out on the internet communities all tended to rise above the negative vibrations that plague so many people.

I talked about all of Joan’s Squidoo lenses and about her husband Whitey, who is legally blind.

I talked about our MasterMind group who would be meeting in a few hours and how a few of us were shooting for Giant Squid, an award bestowed on Squidoo lens makers after they make 50 then 100 lenses.

I talked so much that I was hoarse by the end of the 60 minutes.

After the practice show, I figured out how to work the switch board, and am confident that all upcoming shows will be interactive and robust in the sharing of the Collective Wisdom.

I know that this is true.

Yet I stepped off the cliff, like the Fool. I learned to speak off the cuff, just like I once learned how to play the violin by ear.

It happened after many years of visualizing and dreaming about it.

And that, my friends, is the origin of our show!

http://www.squidoo.com/collectivewisdom

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Here’s the show where I rambled for an hour and ended up having a fantastic time!!

http://www.squidoo.com/collectivewisdom

Ram Dass

Ram Dass was and still is a legendary figure of my generation of Baby Boomers.

For those of us who love him, his story is a testament  for one who has gone before
and brings us with him.

Ram Dass wrote most of this book before he had the massive stroke that almost took his life.
The idea of aging and ill health took on a new meaning for him, and whereas before, he had
trouble completing the book, the experience of near death allowed the book to effortlessly
find a meaningful ending.

First, his experience as Harvard Professor, experimenting with consciousness with Timothy
Leary; then his trip to India to find himself without the use of mind-altering drugs, and finding
his guru, Neem Karoli Baba; his many years lecturing on enlightenment and the search for
God; and now, his stroke and search for meaning in aging, death, dying and rebirth: this book
encapsulates all of this, and more.

The passages in “Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying” which describes our
relationship with aging as it relates to American Culture and how it defines aging, is profound
and sobering. Ram Dass describes American Culture as nontraditional, the Western Society of
people who are separate from each other and nuclear in the definition of family.

Traditional cultures revere the old, the young and all live together in a common thread of
sharing.

Ram Dass outlines six fears he identifies within himself when he thought about himself growing old:
Senility, loneliness, embarrassment, powerlessness, loss of role identity and depression.

The practice he recommends to work with these fears is mindfulness, the art of living in the present moment.

Here is a stanza from Tibetan Buddhism that describes mindfulness in a person who is aware of these
fears.

“Prolong not the past,
Invite not the future,
Alter not your innate wakefulness,
Don’t fear appearances–
There is nothing more than that.”

Or  in the words of Wordsworth:

“Age is opportunity no less
Than youth itself, though in another dress,
And as the evening twilight fades away,
The sky is filled with stars invisible by day.”

Or in the words of T.S. Elliot:

“Getting older, you refuse to fritter away your time with nonsense. You drop your masks, your little
vanities and fake ambitions.”

Ram Dass defines self-healing in this way: The more quickly we become aware of a mindset such as
senility, loneliness, embarrassment, powerlessness, loss of role identity or depression, the more effective
our mindfulness practice will be to alleviate it.

For instance, feeling lonely is an opportunity to give way to the great aloneness we feel at times of peace,
quiet and contemplation.

The one thing that is never diminished over time is our ability to see with wise perception. Wisdom grows
and grows up to the moment of our death. Ram Dass says our predicament is to envision a curriculum for
aging with wisdom as its highest calling and to use it as a means of enlightenment-our own and of the
people around us.

This is why the Collective Wisdom is at the heart of our radio show, Moon, Moo and You, with all three being
an integral part of the whole.

As we age, we refuse to be discarded or seen as irrelevant. We bravely speak our wisdom and share all
others to join with us, if they are called to do so.

Our radio show opened on my 58th birthday, and emphasized for me the need to claim my own aging as
a gift, as a celebration, as a dance I will keep on dancing and embracing and growing my wisdom as a means to help my generation in their quest to age consciously.

http://www.squidoo.com/agingwithramdass

Kate Loving Shenk

West And His Birthday Wishes To Me–Kate!!<<<<<     <<<< Click Here To Access The Movie!!!!!

Something both strange and wonderful happened on my birthday this year, which was 3/3. I got dozens of birthday wishes from people all over the world!!

These people were my Face Book friends. One gentleman from Portland, Oregon said that I was his 100th Face Book friend plus I wrote an article about Ho’oponopono that he said really effected him.

This is what West said:

Hi Kate!!

I made a promise to myself this year, to spend more time on the important relationships with my friends and colleagues! Just like to take a second to wish you a super, sizzling, awesome, fantastic, empowering, memorable and fabulous……

!!!HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

The average person lives 27,375 Days – and I’m sure you’ve just invested the past 365 in a great way, and even bigger things planned for the next 365 days!

I’ve included a personal video postcard I shot for you, and I also included a small birthday gift that I hope you enjoy – its a book I recently released which I’m selling for $47. All that I ask is that you don’t share it around.

Kate, great to touch base again – and have a sensational day!

Warm regards

West

http://www.westloh.com/

West Loh is from Brisbane, Australia. His birthday is 5/15–same as my husband, Tom!!

For Immediate Release
Kate Loving Shenk

The Collective Wisdom

Joan Adams and Kate Loving Shenk’s first radio show starts 3/3/09 at 6 pm on Blog Talk Radio, with additional broadcasts every Tuesday, also at 6 pm. The purpose of the show is to allow all listeners along with Kate and Joan, to share their wisdom and life experience. The name of the show is, “Moon, Moo & You: The Collective Wisdom.”

Joan (Moon Vine) and Kate (Moo) have a wealth of wisdom they want to share with you. Joan and Kate are also excited to have their listeners share their wisdom with them.

It’s a two way street!

Joan and Kate say: “We Are Jills Of All Trades and Mistress Of None.”

Please check out Joan and Kate’s Web Page at Blog Talk Radio!

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/kate-loving-joan-adams

Join the conversation every Tuesday at 6 pm!!

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