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The Flip - Your story starts here

The Flip - Your story starts here

By Ryan Ao

Hosted by Ryan Ao, of AO Productions (www.ryanao.com), who went from land liver to city dweller, working with media to tell emotion driven stories.

Interviews with people sharing their story of flipping negative situations in to positive ones.

Open invitation for all people who want to share their “Flip”. It can be their life story, or it can be one situation or anything in between.

Wanna share on this Podcast? Just go to: anchor.fm/theflip and click "send voice message" describing in 1 minute what you want to share, and Ryan will be in contact with you to schedule your interview.
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4 - Yana Ludwig - "Lymes to US Senate"

The Flip - Your story starts hereNov 18, 2019

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21-Taylor Mathes - Male-Post-Partum-Depression To Backyard-Farmer
May 25, 202001:18:46
20-Rachel Balunsat - "Death to Buddhahood"
May 13, 202001:35:15
19-Chong Kee Tan - "Refugee to Prepper"

19-Chong Kee Tan - "Refugee to Prepper"

Ryan Ao, interviews Chong Kee Tan in this episode 19 of The Flip. Ryan met Chong Kee through Yana Ludwig as he was on the board of Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage for 5 years where Ryan lived with Yana. Chong Kee is a Singapore native, and now lives in Oregon. He is a graduate of Cambridge, Stanford, and National Taiwan University..  Early in his life in Asia he fled due to his political activism. His same sex status was illegal in that portion of Asia which was something that hindered his ability to be who he truly is. He moved the San Francisco bay area to get his Phd at Stanford, and became concerned about climate change, the environment, and the future of humanity. He started the community currency called "Bay Bucks". Later he decided to look to sustainable community as an option to prepare. He has now started his own sustainable community in Oregon. Topics covered include his days in Asia advocating and protesting for freedoms of speech and more, same sex illegality still in parts of the world, community currency, climate change, what we can all do to prepare for a meltdown of the economy by getting on some land in a remote area and start working the land to grow food and build a more sustainable way of life . You can find and connect with Chong Kee on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chongkeetan/

Ryan Ao is the founder/director of AO Productions https://www.ryanao.com which focuses on Emotion driven story, commercial media that unifies your brand elegance with the human experience. Contact Ryan@ryanao.com to share your flip story on this podcast.

Mar 30, 202001:04:17
18-Amanda Creighton - "Addiction to Flip-coach"

18-Amanda Creighton - "Addiction to Flip-coach"

Ryan Ao, interviews Amanda Creighton in this episode 18 of The Flip. Ryan met Mandy in 2000 (she now goes by her given name "Amanda") on a group trip to Central America for environmental sustainable community mission oriented volunteer work to help impoverished communities. 8 years later Mandy and Ryan embarked on a 5 year film journey bicycling 6500 around the USA to visit 100 sustainable communities and created the documentary "Within Reach" movie at https://vimeo.com/ondemand/withinreach/173936268 and website at www.withinreachmovie.com as well as becoming romantic partners during that time. This podcast is a very special reconnect as the 8 years that have passed yet again, have allowed Ryan and Mandy time to give space to their new romantic partners as well as marinate in the lessons learned from their past journey together and open up deeply and honestly on this podcast about it all.  Topics covered include lessons they learned from, each other and how they flipped the difficulties in their romantic and professional relationship with each other around into positive life lessons that neither of them would trade anything for. They both have a chance to look back at the lessons learned about sustainable communities, and reflect on where the movement is going and evolving as well as mutually notice some energy in both of them as well as others in our lives, towards bringing back some momentum towards wanting to rekindle some aspects of the Within Reach project back into the world. More to come on that as the 10 year anniversary of Within Reach approaches in 2022. Other topics include her relationship with some challenging family members, food challenges, her womb and infertility,  as well as how her life mission now is basically to flip the flip. She currently is a coach and brings "The Flip" into her addiction recovery healing work, with people in both their lives as well as nutrition. She is looking to also evolve into collective trauma work which she talks about in the episode. You can find and connect with her on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/ahmandakay She also talks about Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage and their Patreon Page with an 11 part series touring their innovative ecovillage: https://www.patreon.com/dancingrabbit Ryan and Amanda also talk a lot about the "Directors cut" version of Within Reach which is available at ryanao.com here: http://bit.ly/withinreachdirectorscut A brief mention at the very end of the episode is "The Tushy" on Amazon at: http://bit.ly/thefliptushy  and Ryan also mentions a deeply inspiring new TV Show called Initiation on Gaia.com with Matias De Stefano which has some ideas about how to look at things like huge collective traumas as something we can flip into a different perspective that we can learn from and appreciate it's value (like how to look at the Holocaust that acted as a positive growth and evolution for humanity to grow from).

 Ryan Ao is the founder/director of AO Productions https://www.ryanao.com which focuses on Emotion driven story, commercial media that unifies your brand elegance with the human experience. Contact Ryan@ryanao.com to share your flip story on this podcast.

Mar 12, 202001:44:14
17-Cindy Marshall - "Drugs to Ayurveda"

17-Cindy Marshall - "Drugs to Ayurveda"

Ryan Ao, interviews Cindy Marshall in this episode 17 of The Flip. Ryan met Cindy through Chantal Alcaraz, a previous guest on "The Flip" (Episode 5 here in case you want to listen to that). They met through Ayurveda training courses.  Cindy, through some minor drug experimentation in her youth, ended up having bad internal reactions to them and developed "Depersonalization Disorder" (DP) and was only able to heal it years later through the Daily Habits and Rhythms of Ayurveda which she now teaches for a career. Topics covered include her recommendations for alternatives to altered states like nature, meditation, Ayurveda and more. For some people marijuana, LSD, or childhood trauma,  can cause stress, anxiety, depression or in some cases like Cindy, DP. Additional topics: circadian rhythms,  solutions for getting better sleep, daily habits of Ayurveda which she believes can heal anything even stage 4 cancer and help you live to over 100 years old. A link she recommends is www.dprecovery.com as well as the book DP Manual at www.dpmanual.com  You can connect with Cindy and work with her Beyond Well course focused on Daily Habits of Ayurveda at: beyondwellliving.com  Ryan Ao is the founder/director of AO Productions https://www.ryanao.com which focuses on Emotion driven story, commercial media that unifies your brand elegance with the human experience. Contact Ryan@ryanao.com to share your flip story on this podcast.

Feb 13, 202001:22:09
16-Anastasia Ao - "Denied to Iceskater"

16-Anastasia Ao - "Denied to Iceskater"

Ryan interviews his almost 6 year old (in 3 weeks) daughter Anastasia. This episode is a result of Papa getting his mind blown when Anastasia started sharing about her flip story from the day before's negative experience at the mall for her and how she turned it around into a positive situation and got even more than she had hoped the next day. Her wisdom is beyond her years. Hope this inspires you. Kids these days....
Jan 06, 202005:28
15-Eric Tyrone Brown - "Fired to Mystic"
Jan 02, 202001:12:13
14-Janel Vitale - "Wrenchthrower to Sexhealer"
Dec 30, 201948:21
13-Nate Owens-"Cancer to Actor"
Dec 29, 201901:01:01
12-Delia Roberts-"Poverty to Collegiate"
Dec 19, 201901:09:35
11-Dr. Brad Larsen-"Caretaker to Adventurer"
Dec 17, 201950:35
10-Sarah Adams-"UCLA to Starseeder"
Dec 13, 201901:05:32
9-Dr. Patch Adams - "Suicidal to HumorDoctor"

9-Dr. Patch Adams - "Suicidal to HumorDoctor"

Ryan Ao, interviews Dr. Patch Adams in this episode 9 of the flip. Robin Williams portrayed Dr. Patch Adams in the Hollywood film "Patch Adams". With the passing of Robin Williams to suicide, Ryan was deeply saddened and worked on a documentary film about Robin Williams, to bring about awareness to suicide and depression. In the movie Patch Adams, Robin Williams portrayed the suicidal Patch Adams who was in a mental institution. Patch's story of his flip started in that mental hospital where his roommate was afraid of an imaginary army of squirrels.  Patch was able to help his roommate heal through humor in that situation which led him to get out of the mental hospital and into a fabled medical school career where he challenged  Western Medicine to treat patients more humanely...and he used humor to illustrate how.. Topics covered include: loving yourself, serving others, having more fun, spending time in nature and with the fine arts, and more. Patch also of course talks deeply about his connection to Robin Williams and gives us all some healing insights to his life.  If you want to connect with Patch Adams, you can  find him at www.patchadams.org Patch does not use email. If you would like to contact Patch, please contact him at the P.O. Box on that website as he responds to ALL his letters. You can learn more about his Free Hospital and sustainable community called the "The Gesundheit Institute Hospital" at: https://www.patchadams.org/gesundheit/hospital-project/   and he warmly welcomes donations so he can see the hospital built during his lifetime (he did not profit much from the Robin Williams movie). To see images that Patch shared with Ryan as you can hear during the interview you can see them at: https://ryanao.smugmug.com/Movies/Finding-Hope-Through-Robin/Patch-Adams-Interview/ Ryan Ao is the founder/director of AO Productions www.ryanao.com, which focuses on Emotion driven story, commercial media that unifies your brand elegance with the human experience. Contact Ryan@ryanao.com to share your flip story on this podcast.

Dec 12, 201957:60
8-Derek Alan Rowe - "Waster to Reuser"
Dec 09, 201953:51
7-Sara Pelfry - "Colonialist to Reconciler"
Dec 04, 201901:05:03
6-Sudevi Voula Mossé - "Tumor to Entrepreneur"
Dec 02, 201959:50
5 - Chantel Alcaraz, "Cancer to Ayurveda"
Nov 25, 201901:07:12
4 - Yana Ludwig - "Lymes to US Senate"
Nov 18, 201948:16
3 - Jeanette Hieter - "Divorce to Reiki"

3 - Jeanette Hieter - "Divorce to Reiki"

Ryan Ao, interviews Jeanette Hieter in this episode 3 of the flip. Jeanette and Ryan connected just hours before this was recorded when they were connecting about a commercial video production for Jeanette to possibly act in. She has an amazingly inspirational story of being in a low place in life, a challenged marriage, and a failing attempt to start her own business as a Reiki Master healer. She hit rock bottom, ended up with a divorce, and through turning inward, was able to heal, and find a path to a successful Reiki business as well as teaching. There is a lot of discussion about using "The Flip" to build a successful business, as well as how authentically being yourself is the best place to be in marketing your business. She also hosts her own podcast which you can hear more of here: http://www.soundcloud.com/thedivinitywithin Her Reiki business website is here: http://www.thedivinitywithin.com Hosted by Ryan Ao, of AO Productions http://www.ryanao.com which focuses on Emotion driven story, commercial media that unifies your brand elegance with the human experience. Contact AO Productions to get a free estimate within 24 hours.

Nov 10, 201935:53
2 - Gary Reid - "Amputation to Musician"
Nov 04, 201921:10
1 - Ryan Ao - "Castaway to Changemaker"
Oct 29, 201910:14
October 28, 2019

October 28, 2019

Oct 28, 201900:40