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Join us this week in a conversation with Carlos López our Global Programs Director and Tom Verner our founder about how it feels to see the program growing, to a new country,  giving up control in the hands of a future star of magic. We will talk about opening our education chapter in Costa Rica in Tirrases, Curridabat with our local partner La Cometa. We will be talking with our Head Local Magician: Diego Vargas about his challenges in putting this program together, and why it makes sense to have it in La Cometa, and the challenges of balancing classes with corporate performances and how the work with MWB has helped his professional career

Join us this week for a very special conversation with Carlos López the Global Programs Director of Magicians Without Borders, and our founder Tom Verner to talk about how when the El Salvador trips got started adding Mime to the mix as an awesome experiences. We will reminisce with our guest Chris Yerlig,  a performer originally from England who began performing on the streets of France and Spain. He has been performing and teaching around the world for over 20 years.  Including multiple trips with us, his solo mime and magic shows have been performed all over the US  and also on 4 continents, other notable performances: Cirque Du Soleil American Express VIP Preshow, Jeff McBride’s Wonderground, Las Vegas.

Join us this week for a very special conversation with Carlos López the Global Programs Director of Magicians Without Borders, and our founder Tom Verner to talk about the year 2020 all we went through with all the highs and lows, and a little bit of what we have planned for 2021.

Join us this week for a very special conversation with Carlos López the Global Programs Director of Magicians Without Borders, and our founder Tom Verner to talk about how we are in constant awe of how far our first education chapter in Bogota, Colombia has come. We will recount the milestones and also talk to the most pivotal part of it. Our Alumni, and now teacher of a new chapter: Tamara Jimenez. A wonderful magician that is becoming the first person on her family to go to higher education, because she is paying herself for a private university program, thanks to what she has earned doing magic, and replicating our program in her own neighborhood in the slums of Cuidad Bolivar.

Join us this week for a very special conversation with Carlos López the Global Programs Director of Magicians Without Borders, and our founder Tom Verner to talk about how when doing volunteer magic is awesome but sometimes we need to be mindful when we use it and under what circumstances. Sometimes our most good intentions can be misinterpreted. This happens a lot when you travel to places that are not used to seeing magic or hearing that magic can be used as entertainment. But that also can happen on our volunteer work or even professional client work. To further discuss this topic we will be joined by  an amazing Magician and Mentalist based in New York  Tommy Burnett who has a very interesting view on the power of magic and mentalism and who is a recurring volunteer magician in different projects.

Join us this week for a very special conversation with Carlos López the Global Programs Director of Magicians Without Borders, and our founder Tom Verner to talk about how we can use magic to empower children, and how important that is, we believe that children that are empowered can become the best versions of them selves, and to that point we are eager to be joined by Magic Tony who created the wonderful organization MAGIC BROTHERS WORLD a charity that brings magic and storytelling shows, animation and support in orphanages around the world for children and for people in need of dreams.  They have been to over 30 countries with over 100 volunteers and done more than 350 shows. If you want to learn more about Tony's work, please visit: https://magicbrothersworld.wixsite.com/magic

In this week's show we had some tech difficulties, so we apologize for the audio quality of our guest. Join us this week for a very special conversation with Carlos López the Global Programs Director of Magicians Without Borders, and our founder Tom Verner to talk about how the act of generating smiles is so simple yet powerful, and how magicians can take this concept to unprecedented places. Plus we will be joined by Eric Thompson a life long magician who resides in Ohio, and who created the project Million Miles, Million Smiles performing for children’s hospitals, orphanages, churches, comedy clubs, theaters and community centers reaching some of the poorest people on earth. If you want to learn more about Eric's work please visit: https://www.ericthompsonmagic.com/charity

Join us this week for a very special conversation with Carlos López the Global Programs Director of Magicians Without Borders, and our founder Tom Verner talk about the importance of magic and healing and how they've seen it through their work in hospitals. Plus we will be joined by David Elkin and Harrison Pravder of Magic Aid, a nonprofit dedicated to providing kind and compassionate care to patients through the art of magic.

Join us this week in a very special conversation with Carlos López our Global Programs Director and BOTH of our founders: Tom Verner AND Janet Frederiks, the duo behind this wonderful nonprofit. We will talk about how this couple: An artist and a psychologist who are also a mime and a magician, decided to go all in to this dream of filling the forgotten world with wonder, awe, laughter, amazement and smiles. We will be talking about their adventures of 20 years since the creation of Magicians Without Borders. Plus we talk about Janet's wonderful creative carrear as an artist, and how she has kept journals of all the places she has traveled to with Magicians Without Borders, there are astonishing, please check them out and if you can, purchase the book she printed, a real beauty: janetfredericksstudio.com/travel-journals

Join us this week in a conversation with Carlos López our Global Programs Director and Tom Verner our founder about how they two actually got connected through our guest Ryan Bart, one of our most wonderful connections, because he has been personally involved in almost all of our programs, including: Starting two education chapters (one in Colombia, another one in El Salvador) traveling to India, and doing three TEDx Talks about our programs, and these are just of the few things he has done for us. We will talk about the start of this wonderful friendship in 2012.

Join us this week in a conversation with Carlos López our Global Programs Director and Tom Verner our founder about how we started delegating the program to volunteers, following the steps of our first ever year long local program with volunteers that live in the place that they do the classes. One of our greatest endeavors was thanks to Kyle Dickey, a Fulbright scholarship recipient who wanted to take our program to Uberlandia, Brazil during his year there we will get to know all of his adventures during that year in 2018.

Join us this week in a conversation with Carlos López our Global Programs Director and Tom Verner our founder about how we got to know the wonderful Jen Kramer a Yale T heather major, an accomplished Las Vegas resident performer at the Westgate in Las Vegas and a advocate for our cause. She joined us in our first ever Magic Service Trip to India in 2017

Join us this week in a conversation with Carlos López our Global Programs Director and Tom Verner our founder about how important it is to keep a connection with a new generation of magicians, and how important t is to keep rejuvenating the inspiration, and how that got us in contact with Alex Posner our Vice President responsible of many of our programs and connections with many wonderful adventures we have had and surely will have.

Join us this week in a conversation with Carlos López our Global Programs Director and Tom Verner our founder about how over the past 4 years we have created what we call Magic Service Trips and they started with our connection with the Yale Magic Society, and with them we have traveled to India, Costa Rica, Colombia and South Africa, (all places where we have education chapters) We will be joined by Aden Goolsbee the current president of the Yale Magic society and talk with her about the impact of those trips on their members.

Join us this week in a conversation with Carlos López our Global Programs Director and Tom Verner our founder about how it feels to see the program growing, giving up control, even when you have not met the people doing the work face to face. We will talk about our newest program in El Salvador in Ahuachapán and we will be talking with our Head Local Magician: Mario Sierra about his challenges in putting this program together, and why it makes sense to have it in Ahuachapán with the help of our local partner KOIKA. Also we will be joined with a student of Mario's, her name is Kimberly. She is an amazing student and has come a long way in a short time.

Join us this week in a conversation with Carlos López our Global Programs Director and Tom Verner our founder about more details and wonderful stories on our first ever Education Chapter in Santa Ana El Salvador, we will talk about the recurring trips to Santa Ana. We will speak to our friend Devente Rosero who gave us the strength to go on a recurring bases to El Salvador and helped us as a volunteer teacher flying multiple times to El Salvador, and if everything works out fine we will have on one of our first ever beneficiaries, Peter Rodriguez from Santa Ana, El Salvador, he has had an experience as one of our students and after he was one of the first teachers of a new Chapter with another local partner Glasswing. Devonte video shared on the show Pictures shared on the show

Join us this week in a conversation with Carlos López our Global Programs Director and Tom Verner our founder about MWB first ever Education Chapter in Santa Ana El Salvador, we will discus how that came about, how our local partner at the time Asaprosar helped us get this started, and we will have 2 guests on. Michael Six Muldoon former vice president of MWB who help us as a volunteer teacher flying multiple times to El Salvador, and one of our first ever beneficiaries, Maricela Medina from Santa Ana, El Salvador, she has had an experience as one of our students and after she was one of the first teachers of a new Chapter with another local partner Glasswing Video from Michael Six trips to El Salvador Pictures shared on the show

Join us this week in a conversation with Carlos López our Global Programs Director and Tom Verner our founder about their recent trip to South Africa. How did they end up there, their adventures/shows plus they will be joined by our Head Local Magician in Cape Town: Jacques Le Seuer who will share all about his story in magic all the way to starting a MWB Education chapter in the slums of Cape Town. Pictures shared in the episode: https://tinyurl.com/ybsdeujl Video of our recent trip to South Africa: https://youtu.be/zIgXfQhJR4Q?list=PLGNcoK0Yiv_0eAcUdtdYGSdE1XkENEEoi

Join us this week on a great conversation with Carlos López our Global Programs Director and Tom Verner our founder about the importance of performing for people who have lost their home, they'll talk about why it's important to do magic for people that don't have a home like refugees and orphanages. Also we will have our first guest Felipe Costa aka Pollo a world renowned magic performer, mostly kids magic, who will share some of his stories on the subject on his experiences with indigenous refugees in Colombia.

Welcome to Episode 2: A Behind the scenes conversation on the first ever MWB trip. Join us this week in a conversation between Carlos López, our Global Programs Director and Tom Verner, our Founder where they will be talking about how the first trip of Magicians Without Borders came about and all the planning and serendipity behind it!