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This marks the temporary end of our MWB Conversations, this episode marks a year of wonderful, inspiring and thoughtful conversations with amazing guests that highlight "social magic" not only done by us, but by many people around the world, what a amazing ride this has been, we wrap up a year of this conversations on this episode, stay tuned to see the evolution of MWB Conversations Join us this week in a conversation with Carlos López our Global Programs Director and Tom Verner our founder where we will be looking back at a year of MWB Conversations, we will talk about our main takeaways and revisit the wonderful guests we've had in the show, and we will discuss some ideas about the future. What subjects/topics/etc do you think we should tackle in the future in this space?

Join us this week in a conversation with Carlos López our Global Programs Director and Tom Verner our founder where we will be looking into the short term future of our programs in El Salvador and Colombia, we will be joined by our head local magician from El Salvador: Mario Sierra and one of his students Raul to hear from them what's coming and what they have learned in the process.

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 where we get to discuss how meeting our new Head Local Magician from Brazil is a breath of fresh air for our program. We will be joined by Alejando Muniz, a world renowned magician, FLASOMA (Latinamerican FISM) Grand Prix, a great mentalist and an awesome human being that wants to dedicate his live to help other fellow magicians and more importantly using magic to create a just world full of possibility in communities around his adoptive country Brazil.

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 answer your questions and comments and also to talk to our wonderful guest Tim Webster aka Timbadim the Clown founder of Humanitarian Clowns whos mission is to support NGOs around the world with projects combining social clowning and performing arts to bring either emotional support, distraction, entertainment with educational values, creating circus and lifestyle events, supporting other not for profit organisations and a focusing on Community development projects to disadvantaged communities/individuals.

On this episode our Founders Tom Verner and Janet Fredericks talk about the challenges and achievements of MWB

On this episode Carlos López continues to talk about the performance of In and of itself from Derek del Gaudio guided by the line: "Tricks are a means to an end", we will be joined by Pollo and Diego Vargas. To learn magic from us, go to: https://learn.magicianswithoutborders.com/

On this episode Tom Verner and Carlos López sit down to talk about the performance of magic, and how we believe in it's power and how important it's to develop it through the magic learning process. We share our 90-10 motto when it comes to performance and how on our education chapters that is taught. Plus se react to one of magics most recent and memorable performances in magic, Derek del Gaudio's In and of it's self, and for the second part of the show we are joined by Felipe Costa (Pollo) who got the chance to see the show live and in video.

This episode is sponsored by HomeLight www.homelight.com Join us this week in a conversation with Carlos López our Global Programs Director and Tom Verner our founder where we will be answering questions raised from the great short film: To Gerard from dreamworks, plus we are joined by our friend Elise Fried from E-Z Magic. We encourage you to go watch the film and if you have a comment or question for us, please mail them in at podcast@magicianswithoutborders.com or tweet them @magicianswb.

On this episode Tom Verner and Carlos López sit down with Diego Vargas our Head Local Magician in Costa Rica, who is also a great history buff, more particularly a magic history buff. we does a very successful series via Stories called "Lunes de Historia de la Magia" on his instagram @diegovargascr every Monday. Plus he has visited many magic history museums and recently was with Mike Caveney and Tina Lenert in their own museum, we will hear his stories and personal takes on why the history of magic is so important.

On this episode we will continue our conversation with Tom Verner, Carlos López and our friends from India Conversations with our friends from India: Kalyani and Dhananjay with whom we talk about a great new project born from our collaboration: "Learning Beyond" a wonderful camp with at-risk youth where they get to learn amongst other things: Magic, Juggling, and many more.

On this week's episode Tom and Carlos are joined by Kalyani and Dhananjay our friends from India, who together founded Our Children a non profit organization in India and have been helping street kids and at-risk youth for over 30 years. They are our liaison in Mumbai and our facilitators for our magic camps and education chapters there. On this first part they will share their story and how our partnership came about.

Join us this week for a special conversation with Carlos López the Global Programs Director of Magicians Without Borders, and our founder Tom Verner continue to talk to Michael Wald, who almost 50 years ago came into Tom's magic shop and also pursued a career in psychology, we'll be talking about The Power of Intention, The importance of having a mentor and for us as “elders” to be mentors for youth, also the way in which magic can help a young person develop, as a performer and a person and how what we learn as a magician can help us in all areas of our lives.

Join us this week in a conversation with Carlos López our Global Programs Director and Tom Verner our founder where we will be answering questions from you. If you have a comment or question for us, please send them in at podcast@magicianswithoutborders.com or tweet them @magicianswb if you send your questions in you can be invited to join us live, we will have guests who want to know more about what we do, or answer questions if you want to start doing any form of Social Magic. Please do get in touch so we can generate more social change through magic. In this episode we will touch on the subject of what to pack when doing social magic. On this particular episode we answer 3 questions about combining the work on dreams that Tom does with magic. What we think about Synchronicity, and the concept of Ikigai and how to design your life to find it's purpose.

Join us this week for a special conversation with Carlos López the Global Programs Director of Magicians Without Borders, and our founder Tom Verner to talk about how Tom got into owning a magic shop and his learnings about this venture, plus we will be joined by a client of his Michael Wald almost 50 years ago, we eager to explore this connection and find out what are the lasting effects of learning magic at a local magic shop.

Join us this week for part 2 of our pre-recorded conversation with Carlos López the Global Programs Director of Magicians Without Borders, and our founder Tom Verner had with our guest: Dr Larry Muller the "Jungle Surgeon". Dr Muller. Who while maintaining a successful full-time surgical practice in the States, from 1992 – 2015, he spent up to a month annually on the northern Thai-Burmese border caring for indigent Burmese refugees by performing hundreds of major operations in remote settings, we are so greatful to be able to hear all his stories. To get his book go here: http://bit.do/JungleSurgeonMWB The link will take you to smile.amazon.com Select Magicians Without Borders as your selected non profit and order this book and/or anything else, and for every purchase you make, amazon will donate something to Magicians Without Borders

Join us this week for part 1 of a very special conversation with Carlos López the Global Programs Director of Magicians Without Borders, and our founder Tom Verner to talk about how magic in unsuspected places can become a memory of a lifetime and also be the perfect companion for other great social feats, like what we are going to hear from our guest: Dr Larry Muller the "Jungle Surgeon". Dr Muller While maintaining a successful full-time surgical practice in the States, from 1992 – 2015, he spent up to a month annually on the northern Thai-Burmese border caring for indigent Burmese refugees by performing hundreds of major operations in remote settings, we are eager to hear all his stories. Plus we want to give visibility to what's happening in Colombia an the continued protests all around the country. Remember you can get the Jungle Surgeon book here: https://tinyurl.com/2xhn9yks

Join us this week in a conversation with Carlos López our Global Programs Director and Tom Verner our founder where we will be answering questions from you. If you have a comment or question for us, please send them in at podcast@magicianswithoutborders.com or tweet them @magicianswb if you send your questions in you can be invited to join us live, we will have guests who want to know more about what we do, or answer questions if you want to start doing any form of Social Magic. Please do get in touch so we can generate more social change through magic. In this episode we will touch on the subject of what to pack when doing social magic.

Join us this week for a conversation with Carlos López the Global Programs Director of Magicians Without Borders, and our founder Tom Verner to talk about how  we navigate uncertainty, when you are in the social sector, let alone the the social magic sector, uncertainty is part of you everyday. In this conversation we want to explore how we've navigated this uncertainty with the added struggle of a global pandemic, and we will explore how our "magicians minds" help us navigate and innovate to create a future amongst this uncertainty.

Join us this week for a conversation with Carlos López the Global Programs Director of Magicians Without Borders, and our founder Tom Verner to talk about how the saying "You reap what you sow" and it's meaning for us in magic plus in different stages of our history. Sometimes is great things, sometimes not so much, and our constant struggle to make ends meet

Join us this week for a special conversation with Carlos López the Global Programs Director of Magicians Without Borders, and our founder Tom Verner to talk about the importance of circus and it's connection with magic. And how this connection rings true for Magicians Without Borders and our "Campamentos" in El Salvador. We will be joined by a Juggler who's the founder of a Children's circus in Afghanistan and who was also a volunteer in our Campamentos. This will be a very interesting conversation