Talk It Out Radio is a how-to/what-to-do program dedicated to sharing mindfulness and nonviolent communication (NVC) by providing skills for effective and meaningful communication. Our hosts are Nancy Kahn, Timothy Regan, and Fresh Lev White. We welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, awareness, and effective communication. Our intention is to provide skills, knowledge, and resources that empower listeners to effectively connect across differences to create understanding, so that we can all work together to create a world that works for life.
Nancy Kahn is a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, Justice (DEIBJ) consultant, coach, trainer, mediator, and facilitator leading change management processes to create equitable and inclusive organizations. With over 23 years of advanced practice in Nonviolent Communication and DEIBJ expertise, Nancy coaches individuals and teams to learn and integrate liberatory communication and collaboration practices at all levels. Nancy develops leaders, guides culture change, and engages organizations as a strategist and innovator in DEIBJ centered organizational systems, policies and practices. Nancy identifies as a BIPOC cisgender woman.
Timothy Regan is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Certified Trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication. He has been coaching individuals and groups for over 15 years as a Healthy Lifestyle Counselor in a large medical clinic, where he helps people find their motivation, create healing and change, and choose a healthy life. In private practice, where he most comes alive, he provides integrated training and services in many aspects of peacemaking, informed by deep study of Nonviolent Communication, interpersonal neurobiology, permaculture, ceremony, and music.
Fresh “Lev” White is a love and compassion activist. He offers mindfulness, coaching, mediation, and diversity trainings as tools for shifting towards more authentic, conscious, and passionate living. He works with individuals, households, and professional teams. As a certified coach, and professional trainer, Lev has offered over 300 diversity trainings in the San Francisco Bay Area and Beyond. He earned his coaching and leadership certifications through the Co-Active Training Institute. Lev is also mindfully grounded at the East Bay Meditation Center, and a graduate of Spirit Rock’s Community Dharma Leadership program. Lev offers secular mindfulness, and non-secular meditation in addition to talks on Compassion in both corporate, spiritual, and other private settings. He credits his ability to reach diverse audiences to his years growing up in multi-ethnic communities in New York.
Publications: Lev aka Fresh!, is contributor to Real World Mindfulness for Beginners; Transcending: Trans Buddhist Voices; Trans Bodies; Trans Selves; Authentic Selves: Celebrating Trans and NB People & Their Families (May, 2023)
Learn more on LinkedIn: “Fresh “Lev” White” and https://affirmativeacts.org/