In this episode, I welcome my dear aunt, Cristina Carbonell, to discuss what is occurring in Venezuela. Often omitted from major news outlets, the crisis in Venezuela is ever-present and ever-growing and there’s no end in sight. Awareness from the international community is KEY to change related to the situation in Venezuela.

I hope you’ll enjoy this long conversation and this knowledge on how Venezuela got to where it is today.

Below is a comprehensive list of resources & links on topics that were mentioned during this conversation:

• Ana Milagros Parra: https://x.com/amilagrosparra/status/1818055235681792279

• Political prisoners: https://foropenal.com/presos-politicos/
• Follow on IG @foropenal @OlnarOrtizBare

• Fake Christmas: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/03/venezuela-Nicolas-maduro-christmas

• Increasing political violence and gross Human Rights violations: https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/10/un-international-mission-reveals Gross-human-rights-violations-venezuela

• Evelyne Laurent Perrault Ph.D., Assistant Professor at New York University (NYU): https://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/evelyne-laurent-perrault/

• Dalencourt, F., & Mamami, P. (2013). Bolívar y Haití: Alexandre Pétion frente a lahumanidad. Guaraguao, 18(44), 99–122: http://www.jstor.org/stable/43487961

• Orinoco Mining Arc – Information https://sosorinoco.org/en/

• Plan de Gobierno de María Corina Machado – Privatización de PDVSA: https://conmariacorina.com/es/programa-de-gobierno (see page 11)

• Observatorio de Ecología Política de Venezuela: https://ecopoliticavenezuela.org/

• Interviews with Emiliano Terán Mantovani
  • https://canalguardabosques.com/2018/10/18/emiliano-teran-mantovani-el-arco-minero-es-hoy-una-politica-de-ajuste/ (in Spanish)
  • https://www.epohi.gr/article/49939/emiliano-teran-mantovani-h-kyvernhsh-ton-hpa-protima-na-ehei-sth-venezoyela-mia-kyvernhsh-poly-pio-d (in Greek)

• Carbon Majors Study 2017: https://cdn.cdp.net/cdp-production/cms/reports/documents/000/002/327/original/Carbon-Majors-Report-2017.pdf?1501833772 ;

• News article about PDVSA’s role in carbon emissions: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/09/revealed-20-firms-third-Carbon-emissions

• Carbonell Betancourt, Cristina Margarita; Scarpellini, Marcela (2021). Venezuela, Oil and Climate Change: Overcoming Nostalgia. In: Leal Filho, W., Luetz, J., Ayal, D. (eds) Handbook of Climate Change Management. Springer, Cham.: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22759-3_242-1

This week, I have the honor and privilege of sitting with Ihab and Ora Balha, a married couple from the Holy Land whose love crosses numerous divides to model a new possibility for union, courage, and reconciliation.

In this episode, Ihab tells the beautiful story of his past, starting with his father being the only one of his siblings to stay in Jaffa after the Nakba in 1948. He shares how he released the hate in his heart and ultimately found the love of his life.

Ora shares about the profound work that has come from wanting to raise their kids in a culture of peace and in an environment that values our shared humanity. She also lets us know how we can get involved in their growing movement.

Ihab and Ora’s love is a transcendent one – it bridges families, religions, lands, cultures, languages… and their non-profit, The Orchard of Abraham’s Children, was birthed out of this strong intention for peace in the Holy Land.

Today, the Orchard of Abraham’s Children is a growing network of nine bilingual kindergartens, an elementary school, a community center, and an interfaith spiritual home, that serves over 20,000 families and community members across the region and beyond.

You can learn more about the organization here: https://www.orchardofabrahamschildren.org/.

There is a link to donate on their website, and this link will take you directly to the donation page: https://www.orchardofabrahamschildren.org/copy-of-support-us

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You don’t want to miss this exciting conversation with Whitney Woodcock, an Austin-based crypto mentor for women who want financial empowerment, to shift their relationship to money and to build lasting freedom.

She escaped her corporate engineering career in 2020, withdrew her 401k, invested it in crypto, and turned it into a value of half a million dollars which has allowed her over the past 3 years to travel the world, enjoy life without having to work and live a fulfilling life.

Now, as the crypto market is heating up, she helps women replicate her results on their own, and welcomes them into the crypto world — the aligned and simplified way. Whitney’s vision is for more women to live life on their own terms, and shift big wealth into the hearts of the good.

In this conversation, we dive deeper into:

• If crypto is spiritual and what that means
• How Whitney learned (& now teaches) many spiritual lessons through money
• What crypto teaches us about reality
• What it means to align to the future
• How to take care of our nervous systems through volatility
• How the last 4 years have been a time of big awakening
• & so much more!!

If you’d like to connect deeper with Whitney, check out: www.queenofmillions.com/start-here

And get free crypto tips here: www.queenofmillions.com/signup

Say hi to her on Instagram: www.instagram.com/whitney.magic.crypto

And finally, here are some folks she mentioned during the podcast:

Anthony “Pomp” Pompliano: www.youtube.com/@AnthonyPompliano

Naval: www.twitter.com/naval

Tim Ferriss: www.youtube.com/@timferriss

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