Sheva Carr: A very, very warm-hearted welcome to everyone here.
Sheva Carr: On the phone, in Zoom… Sacred Joy.
Sheva Carr: To share the remarkable adventures that our team had.
Sheva Carr: Last week. I'm just curious.
Sheva Carr: If anyone on the phone or in Zoom…
Sheva Carr: Knows the meaning of the word.
Sheva Carr: Ambassador.
Sheva Carr: What does it mean to you, the word ambassador?
Jamie Linn Stuart: I always think of it as the person who kind of carries the… Orchard carries the light of…
Jamie Linn Stuart: Whatever their ambassadorship is of.
Sheva Carr: Yeah.
Sheva Carr: Thank you, Jamie Lynn.
Sheva Carr: I think that's definitely getting close to what our heart ambassador definition is.
Sheva Carr: I'm gonna read to you… The Oxford Dictionary.
Sheva Carr: version of Ambassador.
jeannemarie: I think of it as, like, a bridge.
jeannemarie: Thank you.
Sheva Carr: Marie.
Sheva Carr: Yes, a bridge. So, the Oxford definition is an accredited diplomat
Sheva Carr: Sent by a country as its official representative to a foreign country.
Sheva Carr: To officially represent and promote the interests of one country can also be used as an organization or brand interest.
Sheva Carr: A high-ranking official serving as their government's chief representative to another sovereign state.
Sheva Carr: So, heart Ambassadors.
Sheva Carr: Are representing the interests of… The collective heart.
Sheva Carr: So nowhere that we go is foreign.
Sheva Carr: Because everywhere we go, People have hearts.
Sheva Carr: It was a pipe dream of mine.
Sheva Carr: That we might build a community.
Sheva Carr: that could… Represent not the interest of a geolocation.
Sheva Carr: Or an ideology.
Sheva Carr: But the… Interests of all life at the heart of all being.
Sheva Carr: As ambassadors of the state of heart, as opposed to A geographic state.
Sheva Carr: at the United Nations.
Sheva Carr: Five years ago, that… Multi-decade-long dream was realized when, after a lot of work, And…
Sheva Carr: love and passion, we received our ECOSOC consultative status to the United Nations.
Sheva Carr: And… Last week was our first delegation.
Sheva Carr: to the opening of the General Assembly.
Sheva Carr: Which happens annually.
Sheva Carr: And so, part of that ambassadorship
Sheva Carr: is bringing, as Jean Marie used the word bridge.
Sheva Carr: Bridging the experiences that our delegation had, representing the state of heart, At the UN.
Sheva Carr: Back to our collective community.
Sheva Carr: Which is our great privilege.
Sheva Carr: And so… Let me ask you, what does the word heart mean to you?
Sheva Carr: Anybody. What does that mean?
jeannemarie: Well, I think it's the central communication hub of the Earth to us.
jeannemarie: And, it's an electromagnetic system that
jeannemarie: Has a lot of power.
jeannemarie: Thank you, Jean-Re. Aside from the body organ, of course.
Sheva Carr: Anyone else want to share?
Sheva Carr: What the word heart means to you, if we're ambassadors of heart.
Sheva Carr: What are we advocating for?
Sheva Carr: Yeah, Mary Beth.
Mary Beth Wollenschlaeger: I just forgot what I was gonna say, but… oh, I know! The… it's…
Mary Beth Wollenschlaeger: Who we are at our… at our essence.
Mary Beth Wollenschlaeger: But that didn't answer your question. What was your question again?
Sheva Carr: That worked for me. They're ambassadors of heart.
Sheva Carr: What is it?
Sheva Carr: We're advocating for.
Sheva Carr: That's what an ambassador does.
Mary Beth Wollenschlaeger: Love.
Sheva Carr: I would say yes to that.
Sheva Carr: We'll.
Lola Moonfrog: Hi, I would add compassion and caring for everybody.
Sheva Carr: Absolutely.
Lola Moonfrog: No exceptions, and I'm sorry about my monitor. I have two monitors, and it has its own mind sometimes, which is gonna put mine in.
Sheva Carr: It's not… you transcend it, and you are that light, right?
Lola Moonfrog: There you go. I'll add some hearts so you know I'm still in my body.
jeannemarie: Guess what? I had no idea what you were talking about. See?
Lola Moonfrog: Oh, good, good move. Good move, Jean Marie, I love you.
Sheva Carr: So… You don't have to be physically at the United Nations or in any geolocations.
Sheva Carr: To be an ambassador of heart.
Sheva Carr: Because, as Jane Marie shared, the heart as fields.
Sheva Carr: And it broadcasts.
Sheva Carr: And so we'll begin… Or… Gathering together.
Sheva Carr: as heart ambassadors.
Sheva Carr: Broadcasting that love.
Sheva Carr: That compassion.
Sheva Carr: And that care for all being.
Sheva Carr: For 5 minutes together, as we focus attention in the area around the chest.
Sheva Carr: Imagining the breath is flowing in through the heart and out through the heart.
Sheva Carr: Breathing a little slower, a little deeper than usual.
Sheva Carr: If you find it helpful, you can count as you breathe in.
Sheva Carr: And count as you breathe out.
Sheva Carr: On whatever rhythm works for your body, but the key… To this coherent, caring broadcast.
Sheva Carr: Is to invite the inhale and the exhale to be even in length.
Sheva Carr: And with that heart-focused breathing to activate your care, your compassion, your love.
Sheva Carr: And radiate it to all hearts in the world.
Sheva Carr: And we'll rest in that care focus together.
Sheva Carr: There are 5 or so many.
Sheva Carr: The completion of a heart lock-in, we know, is a…
Sheva Carr: Powerful time to listen in to your heart's intuitive guidance.
Sheva Carr: One of the things that wasn't shared… As we opened, is that…
Sheva Carr: Heart is also a different kind of intelligence.
Sheva Carr: We can do heart transplants, but not brain transplants.
Sheva Carr: When you think with your heart, when you put your heart into it, when you listen to your heart and follow your heart.
Sheva Carr: You take actions that… Are harmonious with your interconnectivity to all that is.
Sheva Carr: And it is also that unique brand of intelligence that we are ambassadors of.
Sheva Carr: So this is a moment to listen in to your own… Hard intelligence.
Sheva Carr: Or anything it wants you to know right now.
Sheva Carr: And I will say this, that…
Sheva Carr: For those of you that are completing your…
Sheva Carr: Science-Based Hope for Happiness course this Wednesday with our final Q&A.
Sheva Carr: We did our last key last Wednesday.
Sheva Carr: Which was from me to we.
Sheva Carr: How can… What happens in my life be a pathway of service and connection to the larger wholeness?
Sheva Carr: How could I ever have imagined, as a 7-year-old, Taken to a psychiatrist for… Anxiety and depression.
Sheva Carr: That one day that experience would give me the expertise.
Sheva Carr: To be in a room full of heads of state and foreign ministers and ministers of health.
Sheva Carr: To talk about world anxiety, and world depression, and… How we heal that.
Sheva Carr: That's the adventure that awaits you.
Sheva Carr: It won't look like mine, it will look like… Yours.
Sheva Carr: But today, we're here to share with you.
Sheva Carr: Hours, because you're an important part of it.
Sheva Carr: Me, Robert, and Sandra.
Sheva Carr: Feel free to put questions in the chat as we go, or raise your hand. It was such a rich…
Sheva Carr: Full week, I know.
Sheva Carr: There's more, probably, than what we could share in just one session.
Sheva Carr: But you'll get the… I think it was Mary Beth said, the essence, the essential oil.
Sheva Carr: Tincture. Elixir.
Sheva Carr: I want to honor that.
Sheva Carr: When I was a teenager living in Nicaragua, and I was on the streets with the children orphaned by their civil war.
Sheva Carr: I went into the bathroom in the Intercontinental Hotel.
Sheva Carr: And saw the whole line of press.
Sheva Carr: lined up.
Sheva Carr: At what used to be, like,
Sheva Carr: I don't remember what they were called, like, ticker tape machines, where the…
Sheva Carr: They communicate, this is before the days of even fax machines.
Sheva Carr: The way that was supposed to work is they were supposed to be out on the streets gathering the news and sending the information back.
Sheva Carr: to the Associated Press, and the New York Times, and… The media of the day.
Sheva Carr: But what I saw when I went in to go to the bathroom was the opposite. Teletype. Thank you, Michael.
Sheva Carr: Ticker tape is a parade.
Sheva Carr: It was working the opposite way.
Sheva Carr: The news agencies were feeding them the information to write down.
Sheva Carr: They weren't out in the streets with me and the kids at all, they were sitting at the bar drinking.
Sheva Carr: And writing their articles based on what the State Department was telling them to say.
Sheva Carr: Which turned out to be the opposite of what I was seeing on the street.
Sheva Carr: Why am I sharing this with all of you now? Well…
Sheva Carr: For one thing, it seeded my deep desire to operate at What are called high-level meetings.
Sheva Carr: High-level meetings mean that heads of state and
Sheva Carr: Ministers of different departments are present.
Sheva Carr: To have influence to bring more truth, which is another facet of heart.
Sheva Carr: To our global politics and media.
Sheva Carr: But also to say that,
Sheva Carr: Probably many of you saw the happenings at the UN General Assembly.
Sheva Carr: on the news.
Sheva Carr: What the news was willing to share with you.
Sheva Carr: which I heard was a lot about President Trump's speech.
Sheva Carr: But I want you to hear that isn't really…
Sheva Carr: A whole picture at all of what was happening in that building.
Sheva Carr: There were up to 180 heads of state there.
Sheva Carr: Many of whose speeches left Robert and I in tears of humble awe and hope and delight and…
Sheva Carr: Eager gratitude and excitement.
Sheva Carr: Not at all.
Sheva Carr: The forum for a single human being, but a synergy Of so many hearts.
Sheva Carr: with genuine desire to make a difference in the world. So this is the UN.
Sheva Carr: And I would say genuine effectiveness in many cases.
Sheva Carr: This is the UN we're bringing you.
Sheva Carr: We're going to go… In a kind of order.
Sheva Carr: Part order, not linear logical order, but…
Sheva Carr: The first thing I want to share with you is actually the first thing that Robert and I saw.
Sheva Carr: And the last thing we saw…
Sheva Carr: While we were in New York.
Sheva Carr: How was that? Well… Let me say this.
Sheva Carr: And I'm looking for it.
Sheva Carr: There it is, okay.
jeannemarie: What did you say?
Sheva Carr: I'm gonna describe some of it, Jean Marie.
Sheva Carr: So… and maybe… I'm curious if we might have a volunteer.
Sheva Carr: In the group who's willing to,
Sheva Carr: meet with Jean Marie later and describe some of the images that don't have sound attached.
Sheva Carr: Since she sees with her heart, not her eyes. Thank you so much, Marilyn.
Sheva Carr: I appreciate you.
Sheva Carr: The first…
Sheva Carr: first learning experience for us was getting to the UN, and all that it takes of our heart practices to do it.
Sheva Carr: So, the UN is…
Sheva Carr: It's just… I cannot set foot on the grounds without tearing up. I can't explain it, the energy there.
Sheva Carr: Of the oneness, the unity, the interconnection, the people from all walks of life.
Sheva Carr: Every time, but I had never been there during the opening of the General Assembly.
Sheva Carr: And it was a whole new experience.
Sheva Carr: Even… more.
Sheva Carr: Awesome.
Sheva Carr: So, because you have up to 180 heads of state in this building.
Sheva Carr: The security in New York City.
Sheva Carr: for the United Nations Week is something to behold, and something we didn't know about.
Sheva Carr: And part of that is.
Sheva Carr: Normally they don't allow civil society, which is what our organization is considered as an NGO, a non-governmental organization, consulting to the UN.
Sheva Carr: We're part of civil society.
Sheva Carr: And so, they don't allow civil society there during,
Sheva Carr: UN Week, is what they call it in New York.
Sheva Carr: Unless you have expertise particular to a theme being addressed at the high-level meetings.
Sheva Carr: And in this case, we had multiple areas of expertise at these meetings.
Sheva Carr: One was our work on elevating the status of women in the world.
Sheva Carr: And so the first day, the opening session, was all about…
Sheva Carr: A celebration of progress made and gap analysis of the progress for the status of women and girl children worldwide.
Sheva Carr: And Robert and I were accepted into that all-day session. We didn't realize, when we got our acceptance.
Sheva Carr: It's even gonna make me cry now, because I was so moved by this.
Sheva Carr: That it gave us entry into…
Sheva Carr: the opening of the 80th session of the General Assembly, and the celebration of 80 years at the UN.
Sheva Carr: Part of the security around the building is that in Manhattan, they close the streets.
Sheva Carr: What would you say, Robert, 3 blocks away from the UN on all sides?
Sheva Carr: Which basically shuts down the island of Manhattan for the week.
Sheva Carr: We were in other meetings across town with the rabbis that we had… some of you were part of our certification for a group of Kabbalistic rabbis.
Sheva Carr: They were also happened to be in New York that week.
Sheva Carr: hosting Rosh Hashanah high holidays, and so we met them in person.
Sheva Carr: And, got to meet a lot of their students who are learning HeartMath from them, which was amazing.
Sheva Carr: But we learned from them that a normal 40-minute drive was taking some of them 6 hours just to get onto the island of Manhattan. So that gives you a picture of how the whole city is…
Sheva Carr: orchestrating itself around this event. And you have every head of state, every high-level minister.
Sheva Carr: ambassadors coming in and out of the UN grounds in these massive motorcades with 4 or 5 decoy cars.
Sheva Carr: Accompanied by police with sirens. So 24-7, even we were staying across town near the rabbis, you hear motorcades and sirens going back and forth across the city all day and all night long.
Sheva Carr: And so, part of the security is, they don't… they send NGOs that were accepted into the high-level meetings acceptance letters.
Sheva Carr: But it's a little bit… like, James Bond-ish.
Sheva Carr: And that they write you sort of an encrypted note saying.
Sheva Carr: Meet us at this street corner.
Sheva Carr: At this time of day, on this date.
Sheva Carr: To pick up your little pass.
Sheva Carr: And normally there's a pass office across the street from the United Nations where you pick up your clearance and your passes. You can't even get to the pass office without a pass.
Sheva Carr: Because you have to go through so many checkpoints on the streets.
Sheva Carr: So the only cars that can pass through are motorcades. I don't know how this works for people who are in wheelchairs. I didn't see anyone in a wheelchair. Asandra would have been the only person on crutches if she'd brought hers that I would have seen. You have to be able-bodied, which is…
Sheva Carr: A fascinating thing to attend this event, because you have to walk in if you're not a head of state.
Sheva Carr: And at each block, and so you can't get to those blocks unless you have a path.
Sheva Carr: And each block, there was, and then probably about, I would say, 10 blocks away from the UN, at every block, there were, counter-terrorist police, New York City police, secret service agents, FBI.
Sheva Carr: just surrounding everything, and we'll have some fun stories to share about our interactions with them. They were absolutely delightful.
Sheva Carr: And everywhere we went, we actually, for those who know the Little Heart Project, which is crocheted hearts with the suicide hotline on them, and messages thanking people for being here and encouraging their lives.
Sheva Carr: We were handing those out with the Bus 7 Myths About Your Mood course access cards.
Sheva Carr: to the FBI, and the security guards, and the counterterrorism police. So you have these, like, big officers with submachine guns and, SWAT vests.
Sheva Carr: Carrying their little… like, all excited about their little crocheted hearts.
Sheva Carr: We'll share some photos with you, it was pretty awesome.
Sheva Carr: So we… we didn't know until a couple of days before we… Robert and I went to the UN, so we got a flight.
Sheva Carr: That arrived at 10 o'clock at night.
Sheva Carr: we didn't know that we were gonna get a Harry Potter message saying, meet us on the street corner at 7.30 in the morning to get your pass.
Sheva Carr: So that meant we got to our hotel room and got to sleep at 1.30 in the morning, and we were like, oh, there's no way.
Sheva Carr: Maybe we'll just let this day go.
Sheva Carr: And we went to our hearts, we radiated love to spirit, we said, Spirit, because it was… we'd have to get up at 2 AM our time.
Sheva Carr: In order to make it to the UN in time to get our path.
Sheva Carr: So we just said, alright, Spirit, if you want us there, wake us up. And at 5 AM New York time, we both opened our eyes.
Sheva Carr: And we were like, alright, we're going to the UN.
Sheva Carr: And it was as if by magic, like, we were just carried on a magic carpet. I ended up walking 7 miles that day, because it's shorter.
Sheva Carr: to walk across the island of Manhattan.
Sheva Carr: to get to the UN than it is to take an Uber, though we did…
Sheva Carr: do some movers, but they would take a couple hours.
Sheva Carr: So we just walked everywhere.
Sheva Carr: And went through all the security checkpoints.
Sheva Carr: and… found ourselves…
Sheva Carr: In the General Assembly. Now, with all that security around the building, here's a piece of the magic that happens during UN week.
Sheva Carr: And Robert's gonna share more with you about this.
Sheva Carr: inside the building, because there's so much security around it. Even down the East River, there were police boats patrolling up and down the river on the backside of the UN.
Sheva Carr: Once you make it through security, and it's just like airport security, once you make it through all the checkpoints, then you walk through metal detectors and all that kind of thing.
Sheva Carr: But then… No one has their Secret Service around them.
Sheva Carr: there's no, bodyguards. So you're, like, grabbing a water in the cafeteria next to the first Arab woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize on one side, and the first woman president of Denmark, like, bumps into you, oh, sorry, sorry.
Sheva Carr: And you're just there with everyone.
Sheva Carr: In the bathrooms, in the hallways, in the cafeteria, having…
Sheva Carr: The most hopeful conversations for the world.
Sheva Carr: As we entered… the General Assembly.
Sheva Carr: I want to play the video.
Sheva Carr: of… The choir that was singing.
Sheva Carr: Just a little short clip.
Sheva Carr: And you can look them up, I'll put a link to them in a moment in the chat.
Sheva Carr: So, give me just a moment to share my screen.
Sheva Carr: Well, here, we'll do it this way.
Sheva Carr: Okay… So, here's us hanging out with the NYPD, giving them little pink hearts.
Sheva Carr: I love their expressions. They were, like, so happy.
Sheva Carr: And we just kept thanking them every step along the way for keeping us safe.
Sheva Carr: This was the statue as we entered the UN grounds and brought the little hearts with us.
Sheva Carr: Yeah, and Marilyn, I wanted to send this to you. There's the Fura Foundation hat that you made sure we got.
Sheva Carr: Made it to the UN.
Sheva Carr: All the way from Zimbabwe.
Sheva Carr: As we entered the General Assembly, this is what was playing.
Audio shared by Sheva Carr: Hey there.
Sheva Carr: That is… the Hope Choir.
Sheva Carr: which has performed at the United Nations, many times. I'm gonna put a link to them in the chat. But they bring pianos into refugee camps and…
Sheva Carr: war zones and do just the most extraordinary work. It was started by two opera singers who wanted to use music.
Sheva Carr: As a peace-building tool.
Sheva Carr: And, I ended up meeting the kids that were in that choir. They're from inner-city New York.
Sheva Carr: In the, and giving them hearts.
Sheva Carr: From the Little Hurt Project.
Sheva Carr: So, the next film that we saw…
Sheva Carr: Which was really our first experience in the General Assembly.
Sheva Carr: was also the last thing we saw in New York.
Sheva Carr: Because at 11 o'clock at night, the night before Robert and I flew home, we were walking through Times Square.
Sheva Carr: And it wasn't an advertisement for Nike, or a Taylor Swift.
Sheva Carr: promotion on the billboard in Times Square.
Sheva Carr: It was the celebration of the United Nations' 80 years.
Sheva Carr: That was incredibly moving to see. This does not have audio. It did have audio.
Sheva Carr: With it, inside the General Assembly, and I'm looking for the video to share with you, but…
Sheva Carr: it was… it was so moving in the General Assembly, and then equally moving in Times Square to see all these people in the middle of the night looking up, celebrating the UN.
Sheva Carr: So, here it comes.
Sheva Carr: Thanks for your patience with our technology.
Sheva Carr: Can everybody see that?
Audio shared by Sheva Carr: Come on!
Audio shared by Sheva Carr: Together, we are unafraid, broken,
Sheva Carr: Meeting here.
Audio shared by Sheva Carr: Huh?
Audio shared by Sheva Carr: They're standing down.
Audio shared by Sheva Carr: They do.
Audio shared by Sheva Carr: 80 years building our fleet.
Audio shared by Sheva Carr: better.
Audio shared by Sheva Carr: Just be frustrating.
Sheva Carr: So that was our last… our first moment in New York, and our last moment in New York.
Sheva Carr: And so, the celebration of 80 years had taken the UN, United Nations, and turned it into unbroken, unstoppable understanding.
Sheva Carr: all the values of the UN, and so, the branding all around the UN for this celebration celebrated everything you un…
Sheva Carr: The current president of the General Assembly is a woman.
Sheva Carr: who was recently elected from Germany.
Sheva Carr: Her speech…
Sheva Carr: after that video screened, and maybe Robert's gonna share her photo, and I found her speech on YouTube, was one of the most extraordinary speeches I've ever heard.
Sheva Carr: I was crying the entire time. She acknowledged that the UN
Sheva Carr: Has a bad reputation in the world, but her message was… No, we aren't finished.
Sheva Carr: No, we're not perfect.
Sheva Carr: But, we're still in it, and we're better together.
Sheva Carr: And…
Sheva Carr: So I'm gonna drop her speech in the chat, but at the moment, I'm gonna pass the baton.
Sheva Carr: to Robert, who's gonna share the speeches that came after hers from heads of state, and what we learned
Sheva Carr: We'll just be vulnerable here and say that we got an invitation, possibly, to speak to a high-level meeting with the WHO in India.
Sheva Carr: In December, And they were giving us 6 minutes.
Sheva Carr: And Robert and I were all grumpy, like, why are we gonna fly all the way to India? That's like…
Sheva Carr: 3 days of being in an airplane to give a 6-minute talk, so now…
Sheva Carr: After witnessing what we did at the General Assembly, we have a slightly different perspective, and with that, I will pass the baton to you, Roberto.
Robert Browning: Can you hear me okay, Debbie?
Robert Browning: Yeah, a little thumbs up. Thanks, Mary Beth. So yeah, I mean, the thing… the thing that was really humbling.
Robert Browning: And beautiful, and normalizing.
Robert Browning: about being in that room. I mean, as you all know from our work with the heart,
Robert Browning: You know, the frequencies from our heart.
Robert Browning: You know, we teach each other through energy, just by sitting in each other's fields, coming to the calls.
Robert Browning: And… and so, so much also was being transferred in that room.
Robert Browning: That's beyond the words themselves.
Robert Browning: But this, like, from… not even just the… from even the structure, and… and so, one thing that, just to complete out the thought Sheva was saying, was… we'll highlight a few more things of the opening of the celebration of 80 years, but then every day had its own theme.
Robert Browning: And they decided on this one for the very first day to have a…
Robert Browning: The theme of celebrating women in an effort to continuously rebalance this world, because this whole thing…
Robert Browning: and the world we live in, it's rebalancing energies that have gone far out of balance. And so, the UN, in its transformative way, decided to immediately transition from just this one-hour opening into
Robert Browning: A forum and a place for all the heads of state, ministers, etc.
Robert Browning: to express where they are relative to world standings of where… it's like a gap analysis. What are the strengths, and what have they done since the UN Charter to help bring balance back to the world around women?
Robert Browning: and the female energies themselves, and what's still left to do. And so, I found it incredibly notable to… that they opened, actually, this meeting with
Robert Browning: It was the first woman president of Africa, so she went down to the mic.
Robert Browning: Happened to be the president of Liberia.
Robert Browning: And so she was considered the Iron Lady, but just her presence, standing in that mic, giving voice, the level of dignity.
Robert Browning: Like, so when Sheva says we're ambassadors of the heart, and what does that mean? You know, there's certain energies wanting to be come forth into the world.
Robert Browning: And so each of these world leaders had their own signature, just like all of us do on this call.
Robert Browning: And, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the president, first woman president in Africa, she gave voice. She was the first speaker, to come down, and it was the energy of dignity, that she was transferring in that room.
Robert Browning: And then, of course, when you have men, so the Secretary General of the UN, Antonio Gutierrez, then he gave a speech, celebrating the 80 years and the UN's commitment in a non-political way.
Robert Browning: To hopefully bring balance to the world.
Robert Browning: But they just, they started doing the opening lineup, who is the first and only woman to ever serve as the director of the WHO.
Robert Browning: Groh Harlem Brutland. She's German, she's a former physician, from Norway. She was the former Prime Minister of Norway, I guess.
Robert Browning: But she gave voice, and it's the tenacity over time
Robert Browning: You know, part of Heart Ambassadors is, you know, there's a world sometimes that over-atalyzes the youth.
Robert Browning: As the future of the world, but you see these people who've been in the game
Robert Browning: For so many years, the seasoning, the maturation of their soul, to still have the tenacity to not let the world beat them down.
Robert Browning: To not resign.
Robert Browning: That's also part of being a hard ambassador, and so these… these politicians… so she would stood up, and she still, with force and stability, in senior years in this chapter of her life.
Robert Browning: is giving still an energy to all those in the room and all being broadcast globally. So it's like a never give up, right? Never give up.
Robert Browning: So after this opening, and then a Nobel Peace Prize winner, Maria Ressa.
Robert Browning: In terms of her…
Robert Browning: advocacy for freedom of expression. She was powerful. Anosheva, I don't know if you want to say anything about her, but…
Robert Browning: I know you were particularly moved by her. I was.
Robert Browning: So… She talked about the different pillars of,
Robert Browning: A stable society, and the cost of fake news to those pillars of truth.
Robert Browning: Trust.
Robert Browning: And, she was actually there by special permission because her own country, the Philippines, is censoring her.
Robert Browning: But she teaches… she's a journalist, and she teaches at Columbia University, and she spoke about the dangers of AI.
Robert Browning: In disrupting a shared truth, a shared global truth, and without shared global truth, she was advocating that we can't adequately construct with the stuff of reality if we don't have a common reality.
Robert Browning: It's beautiful.
Robert Browning: So once that opening, so kind of set the tone of the whole event, they went into… And I did put in the chat, by the way, excerpts from the President of the General Assembly and the Secretary General's speeches, which were…
Robert Browning: Just addressed so profoundly the idea… the misnomer that peace is weakness, or peace is a…
Robert Browning: a fairy tale, and it was really profound. And you can hear Sheva speak on my computer, yeah, when she slides over? Yeah, excellent.
Robert Browning: So, as it continued.
Robert Browning: It transitioned into the theme of the day, which was about this balancing of the, women in the… and the role of women in the world.
Robert Browning: and the female energy. And essentially, what came next, and we were not going to go over each one, because there's several other major things that happened during this week, ending with this beautiful invitation to the Globalization of compassion from Dr.
Robert Browning: Ashok Patel had given us… You're with us today. Thank you, Ashok, for being here. And, so we really want to give proper and due attention to all the events, but so I'll move through this relatively quickly, this part, but what came next were about 15 presidents, 8 prime ministers, 2 queens.
Robert Browning: Not a partridge in a pear tree. Four deputy prime ministers, and 27 ministers of foreign affairs, all giving their reports. And, to Sheva's point, there's this implicit,
Robert Browning: level playing field, like Shevo was saying, we're bumping into each other in the bathrooms, where every… the Madame President of the General Assembly said, look, we know there's presidents in the room.
Robert Browning: We know there's Prime Ministers and Queens, but all of you get 3 minutes.
Robert Browning: We're all human here.
Robert Browning: And if you're continuing to talk at 3 minutes, apologize ahead of time, but your mic is getting turned off, and we will escort you off the stage. They get the vaudeville hook. And so these presidents who flew from all over, wherever they flew, for 3 minutes in this… And traveled across New York for hours in their motorcade.
Robert Browning: Yeah, exactly. I, it was… it was beautiful, because each one, they would bring them up to the stage, there would be this deferential humility, almost kind of a bow to the female president of the General Assembly.
Robert Browning: they would turn to the mic, get their 3 minutes, they would say… and I would say 50% just kept going, and then the mic turned off.
Robert Browning: And there would be a very sincere apology, excuse us, we're having to turn off the president's mic.
Robert Browning: And then someone, a female, would come out to the stage and just gently escort them off the stage. And so… and there was a deferential, so each person, except for one or two, were relatively, incredibly dignified through the whole process. When they realized their time was up, there would be this almost, like, you know, very respectful thank you for coming, but it was giving voice as a global
Robert Browning: wholeness.
Robert Browning: Being better together, as opposed to the, so often comes in politics, the posturing.
Robert Browning: of what that can be, the temptations for being important in the world. These were true civil servants. It really was an energy to emphasize being of service to the world, and we're in service to each other. And that was the whole arc.
Robert Browning: And so, just as a quick thing with some highlights… Oh, so we'll just say, needless to say, it gave Robert and I a whole different perspective on the 6 minutes they're willing to give us at the WHO in December. Yes, Shev and I were praying for forgiveness that the WHO would…
Robert Browning: would reopen their doors, because we, we, 6 minutes? We did, we were trying to meet with them at midnight last night. Yeah, I wanted to meet this morning.
Robert Browning: So, oddly still, there's still… out of the entire European Union, there's only 2 female presidents, and out of all the countries in the UN, there's 16.
Robert Browning: But a large majority of them were all in that room, and given, real estate to… so the first president of Suriname, she opened it up, she's the first woman president of that country, she was wonderful.
Robert Browning: I mean, we wish you could have heard all of it than the president of Switzerland, who is also, Karen Keller-Sutter.
Robert Browning: She kind of looks like Nyanka. Nyanka, you should run for president. The president of Namibia.
Robert Browning: Each one had their own unique dignity and their own unique leadership tone. The president of Peru.
Robert Browning: she was just a force to be reckoned with. You could just feel… in some of these images, Jean Marie, I'm trying to give texture of the energy. Her hand is on her heart. Her hand is on her heart, it's, like, true, just like a… a wave of strength.
Robert Browning: And some of them,
Robert Browning: She abolished, actually, in 2023, child marriage in Peru. So they would give certain highlights of some key legislator or policy that they would move through to help advance.
Robert Browning: The, the woman… Status of one. Thank you. The president of Slovenia,
Robert Browning: And she gave her… she used her platform for the need… there's yet to be a Secretary General of the entire UN who has been female yet, so she actually used a lot of her time.
Robert Browning: to make a pitch for that, and the importance. I don't know how that is chosen. And when she… when she did that, everyone in the audience… well, we kind of initiated it, but then the whole General Assembly started applauding and stood up.
Robert Browning: Yes, yes, and there was, and then the first man came up, and he said to save the honor of some of the men in the room. But it was… there was conversation about not just gender parts.
Robert Browning: But about how…
Robert Browning: how important it is for the female… the need to nurture, the need to care for, the caring energy, to rise in men as well, and for men to support that, and so to help create that balance. And that was part of what Daniel Chapo, who was the president of Mozambique, spoke.
Robert Browning: And then, the woman president of the Marshall Islands spoke. Just on and on, they were all supporting each other, getting each other's back. The president of North Macedonia.
Robert Browning: She is one of those senior, beautiful women who've been in the game for many, many decades, but the level of the tenacity of her soul, you can just tell, you know, there's the concept of…
Robert Browning: growing in strength as we age, as opposed to thinking age means to just be weaker and diminish over time. It's a new perception of a new world emerging, and she was definitely part of that representation.
Robert Browning: President of Albania, the Prince of Monaco, I'm just gonna kinda stop and… and he paused, and he won an auxiliary peace prize that day. This is also…
Robert Browning: Thanks to Ashok Patel, this was the, the permanent mission to the UN of Monica was the one that hosted this special event outside of the UN on globalization of compassion.
Robert Browning: And when he got up and shared the stage, he was… he was really using his platform for the importance as the primary need for the economic driver for the world.
Robert Browning: where there's world economic imbalances is because girls need to be… have full access to all sorts of education. So he… he was really an advocate of that.
Robert Browning: Is this pacing okay? President of Commerce,
Robert Browning: one of the younger presidents, I think he was in his early 30s of Senegal.
Robert Browning: And he… he represented… he did represent a whole other energy. He was passionate. He was almost, like, in, like, a music rapper style.
Robert Browning: as president of Senegal, and he was almost sing-songy in a way of having… there should be no abuse, because there was a lot of abuse of women in that, and he… being the president, being a man, he was… he was really saying how we all hold a shared responsibility to have no abuse of women, like, to really see all as human, all as equal.
Robert Browning: And so, it was a really strong… So, the Central African Republic, the president of Liberia,
Robert Browning: the president of the Central African Republic, this gentleman, Fauston.
Robert Browning: He was saying that the heart of humanity hangs in the balance of us needing to invest in girls.
Robert Browning: And so, hmm. And the president of Liberia, Joseph.
Robert Browning: Was saying, you know, this theme of better together.
Robert Browning: He was saying, look, when a spider… when all the spider webs unite, it can stop a lion.
Robert Browning: And so this force that has, like, pushed it down, when we all do our part.
Robert Browning: Just as hard ambassadors, as we all stitch that one fabric of the spiderweb, it can stop these forces that seem to be unstoppable.
Robert Browning: President of Czech Republic.
Robert Browning: the Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands, each one, one by one, giving their 3 minutes, some of them, most of them, getting yanked off the stage in their passion, but at the same time being… the Prime Minister of Ireland was very proud of all the advancements they've done with women.
Robert Browning: The Prime Minister of Fiji!
Robert Browning: Some of these presidents, when they would come out, you would feel their heart way more, like, just, you could feel the radiance of their heart, the nobility of it, the warmth of it. Prime Minister of Norway.
Robert Browning: He was talking… he was just boasting as part of the European bloc.
Robert Browning: of how they had been investing in women, and they brought more proceeds to oil and gas than any of the men ever did. So he was making the business case, where so often they feel saying how a third of all the military he runs is women. It's like, basically, they can't run without it.
Robert Browning: Let me just continue to skip.
Robert Browning: Because there's so many. Just some of the highlights.
Robert Browning: Prime Minister of Luxembourg.
Robert Browning: Prime Minister Luxembourg has a daughter.
Robert Browning: And he said one of the platforms he ran on is when he realized, in the world he was growing up, his own daughter just wouldn't have the same freedom.
Robert Browning: As every son.
Robert Browning: And so as he grew into becoming Prime Minister of Luxembourg, that became one of his slogans, that every daughter should have the same freedom of every son, and has made it in every strategic move that he had.
Robert Browning: Queen Matilda of Belgium, lickenstein?
Robert Browning: Prime Minister of Pakistan. Now, I will have to say, Every once in a while.
Robert Browning: There… you would… you would hear the tone… intonation of authenticity or not.
Robert Browning: And you could tell, when there's a wave of people being so authentic, it still drives those who may have been hiding sometimes in their inauthenticity to at least go for it.
Robert Browning: And I could feel this in the president of Pakistan, some of the policies, where you could feel he wanted to be a part of this movement, even though he can feel the weight of the history of some of the policies he's held. And so even in the struggle.
Robert Browning: The notion of holding each other with compassion, because everyone's doing the best from where they come from.
Robert Browning: And to not judge, but to help this new momentum of new love carry all into their higher nature.
Robert Browning: Prime Minister of Iceland spoke.
Robert Browning: I want to pause on her for a moment.
Robert Browning: Only to say…
Robert Browning: and I filmed her speech, if anyone wants it, I can text it to you, because we've done so much work as an organization in Iceland.
Robert Browning: What she shared is that when she was a child.
Robert Browning: The President of Iceland and the Prime Minister of Iceland were women.
Robert Browning: And so that's what she saw on TV, and for her, she grew up thinking, oh, presidents are women.
Robert Browning: And here she is, because she could see it, she could be it.
Robert Browning: That… that was just a standout moment for me. Yeah, no, absolutely, it was a standout moment.
Robert Browning: I think… I have a feeling, because then all the foreign ministers shared.
Robert Browning: In the second room we were in.
Robert Browning: Foreign Minister of Canada. It might be nice just to share the woman from Syria, because she's so incredible. Yeah. So… That's the… that's the Foreign Minister of Nicaragua. Nicaragua. So any of you who were with us in our projects in Nicaragua.
Robert Browning: can ask us about what he shared. It was very interesting.
Robert Browning: Exactly.
Robert Browning: Hungry? This is a gentleman that actually spoke in the session that Angel spoke at, at the High Level Political Forum.
Robert Browning: We are really interested in meeting him, yeah. I think Angel's on the call, so yes, he was here.
Robert Browning: The… the brand new Foreign Ministry of the United Kingdom?
Robert Browning: Came in and basically…
Robert Browning: was talking about domestic abuse in England, and how their commitment to turn that around.
Robert Browning: So to… to Sheva's… Maybe closing on the… on the Syrian… On the Syrian person, yeah, so let's just kind of skip to that. Please forgive your eyes for a moment. As you can see, there was just so many.
Robert Browning: All incredible. All incredible. And all reporting… this is Queen Noor, or… The Queen of Jordan, Rania, was there.
Robert Browning: Doing her impassioned bit.
Robert Browning: Congo, UAE, Chile… give me one second,
Robert Browning: The one thing about… the interesting thing about the Prime Minister of Chile, he was… he came from the… he was a Holocaust… his family was a Holocaust survivors.
Robert Browning: And he brought all that. They had sucked, sucked refugee in Chile.
Robert Browning: But here's the… the minister… the Foreign Minister of Syria.
Robert Browning: And in the recent regime change.
Robert Browning: It's the first time in 14 years that a… that a woman
Robert Browning: Or that any foreign minister has actually been able to speak at the UN. Exactly. And there's… so she was standing there in that room, and as you can see, there she is on the floor.
Robert Browning: As a symbol of hope and transformation and regime, places where
Robert Browning: Things that seemed impossible were possible.
Robert Browning: She, she, was very moving.
Robert Browning: to both Sheva and I in that… in that regard.
Robert Browning: And she's the only woman In the Syrian cabinet. Yeah.
Robert Browning: So there's 23 members of the Syrian cabinet, she's the only one that's a woman, and somehow.
Robert Browning: She wears her hair wild as can be, just like you see here in the picture. Without a hijab. Without a hijab.
Robert Browning: And so she, she is… she is who she is. And she is. No beef about it. Creating her reality. She really is. So I'm gonna stop sharing my screen. So that was the first day, and it was an… it was an overwhelmingly unexpected…
Robert Browning: Shower of… of dignity.
Robert Browning: And humanity. And hope. And hope.
Robert Browning: I'll turn off my mic for a moment, Chet, so you can jump in.
Sheva Carr: God.
Sheva Carr: I think we have these UN… you have to turn off your sound.
Sheva Carr: Because I was grabbing the UN videos they were flying.
Sheva Carr: What I'm actually gonna do is have us all take a stand. Stand up. Sitting is the new smoking, and we were there as part of a big initiative for health.
Sheva Carr: So move your body in a way that feels good, because we've been sitting here for just about an hour.
Sheva Carr: And let your stand be a stand for women and girl children, as these incredible pioneers have been working their entire lifetimes to see this moment.
Sheva Carr: With so many women presidents and prime ministers and foreign ministers and diplomats.
Sheva Carr: And just take a breath in.
Sheva Carr: And appreciate them and yourself.
Sheva Carr: Does anyone have any questions from that before we go to the whole reason we actually thought we were going to the UN in the first place? This was all the bonus material.
Sheva Carr: Any questions or anything anyone wants to share before you hear?
Sheva Carr: the big Harry Potter reason we were there, where Sondra and I both had to go to street corners to get secret…
Sheva Carr: Willy Wonka golden tickets?
Sheva Carr: I'm gonna pass the baton to Sandra, and we're all… Gonna send her…
Sheva Carr: No, the U.S. actually did not have any representation there that I know of on that day.
Sheva Carr: On the first day.
Sheva Carr: But we… we did take breaks.
Sheva Carr: Because they go all day long, so we… we took lunch break, and…
Sheva Carr: We had to leave a little early to get back across town for our night meeting, so it's possible they showed up while we were out, but…
Sheva Carr: We didn't see them on the agenda.
Sheva Carr: Thanks for your question, Micah.
Sheva Carr: But not all of the member states participate in all of the dialogues. There actually isn't even space for it. You'll… you'll see.
Sheva Carr: They're cutting presidents off at 3 minutes.
Sheva Carr: So, I'm gonna pass the baton to Sandra, who's gonna share the context of what drew us to apply to be present at this General Assembly in the first place, and the meetings that Sandra and I attended for that, which are advancing.
Sheva Carr: Our bigger work has heard ambassadors.
Sandra Solano: Thank you. And first, I just want to celebrate all the work that led for us to be invited. This was an invitation, event. And then after the invitation, you have to apply, and we are used to the UN
Sandra Solano: we want to go to high-level political forum, here is where I want to go. No, this was a, like, a four-page application.
Sandra Solano: We were like, oh my gosh, I don't feel like I'm applying for a loan or something. There were a lot of questions of intention, what you can contribute, what is your message, what you want to add to this event. And what the event was, is that, during the General Assembly.
Sandra Solano: The General Assembly sponsors a high-level meeting to develop strategies for non-communicable diseases. So those are, like, diseases that are non-infectious, like hypertension, diabetes, cancer.
Sandra Solano: And, being able to develop national strategies and goals for the World Health Organization, pretty much where they're going to put their efforts and resources, and how we're going to measure that we have been making progress.
Sandra Solano: So, the last one has been in 2021.
Sheva Carr: As non-communicable diseases, mental health.
Sandra Solano: Well, I'm going there. Like, the last one was in 2021, and it did not include mental health or well-being. So, one of the big…
Sandra Solano: transformations of advocacy of the people that have been working on this was that mental health was added to this year's document of a strategy. So, I'm putting here in the website, kind of the main page.
Sandra Solano: I was very glad to see today they just posted the primary… the plenary Panel 1 and Panel 2.
Sandra Solano: So this is how we work. In the application, they told us.
Sandra Solano: There's no space for everybody, so which one do you want to apply if you are accepted?
Sandra Solano: And then we have to say, oh, I would love to go first to Panel 1, second the plenary, third, Panel 2. So we all had to put it strategically, which one we wanted to go to. So I was accepted to attend Panel 1, and Sheva was accepted to attend Panel 2.
Sandra Solano: We had no idea what that meant, because we have never gone. We have never done this.
Sandra Solano: We didn't know what was going to happen, we didn't know what… But I know, because of my previous trips to the United Nations, that some of the things are more meaningful, because, you know, why don't we just watch the videos when they post them next week, right? It's because when you show up in person.
Sandra Solano: all of a sudden, you are able to just sit next to somebody, and that's the person that you needed to contact there, and that's exactly what happened. I showed up a couple of hours earlier. By the way, we made the joke with Sheva that we finally were together at the United Nations, and we were not able to be together at the United Nations, because your pass was only for your session.
Sandra Solano: We were not allowed to go into any other session.
Sandra Solano: And she was not allowed to come into the building until her session passed time, so we… I had to come out, and she had to come in, so we never actually, at the same time in the United Nations. We… they have a little 10-minute debrief before she went in.
Sandra Solano: But one of the things that happened was that
Sandra Solano: there is this, three people sitting in the bench, and I sit next to them, and I was like.
Sandra Solano: Hi, how are you doing? I'm Sandra, how are you? And then they introduce themselves. Where are you from? And they're from Zambia.
Sandra Solano: oh, great, and where are you from? It's like, oh, I'm representing the Fiera Foundation, and what you're doing here, and, it's a continuation of, kind of, the efforts that we have put through so many years of really bringing, emotional self-regulation HARMAD tools
Sandra Solano: Into a public health intervention for non-communicable diseases and mental health.
Sandra Solano: That's why we accepted this invitation, that's why we were making the effort of being there.
Sandra Solano: And as it is supposed to happen, then the lady's like, oh, you need to talk to him, because he is our Secretary of Non-Communicable Diseases and Mental Health for the government of Zambia. So, the one person that I needed to talk to.
Sandra Solano: He's a psychiatrist. We had a very lovely shot, and we're sending him now a presentation of what our public health intervention proposals are, and of course, we wanted to see the data.
Sandra Solano: Of what this is about, because the idea… one of the things we have learned as we talk with governments is the idea of non-pharmacological interventions. It's something nebulous.
Sandra Solano: And that they cannot really put their arms around. So, we really have learned, and we're still learning how to ground them into information that they can see and digest.
Sandra Solano: So, so that was one of the things that if we had not been there, it would have not happened.
Sandra Solano: And then also understanding how the bureaucracy, but also the advocacy of the WHO works, because we have never been part of that kind of very close event.
Sandra Solano: thing. So, I had the fortune to sit next to the policy advisor for the non-communicable deceased Federation, which is the organization that has full-time staff to advocate
Sandra Solano: for certain interventions into the WSO. We also learned that the WSO has something called Best Buys, which is what they are proposing to the countries to be able to, implement as interventions that are going to be cost-effective.
Sandra Solano: And one of the things that it was very noticeable, especially because mental health was not, until this year, considered one of those things that we're going to have interventions on, is that they don't have a best buy for mental health.
Sandra Solano: So, that is, something that,
Sandra Solano: that we see an opportunity, because we have a Best Buy for mental health, a non-pharmacological intervention that is very cost-effective, so…
Sandra Solano: Those are the type of things that you learn, and you're able to see how you can blow your mission, and how to transform our strategic plan into action, and being able to make the connections that hopefully are opening the doors
Sandra Solano: We're learning of how to do this.
Sandra Solano: So, right there, then I'm like, how is this going to work? Because I have no idea. It's like, oh, it's going to be a panel?
Sandra Solano: So the panel is going to present 6 minutes, so that's what actually Shea and Robert are invited to do in India, to be part of the panel.
Sandra Solano: So there is a panel, and each person on the panel speaks for 6 minutes, so… and there were 5 of them.
Sandra Solano: After the chairman does an introduction, and there was a co-chair that does an introduction. And then you… after the panel, they say, we're going to start with member states. If you're a member state and you wish to speak, push your button, so you get into a queue of when you're going to speak.
Sandra Solano: If you are a civil society, we had to write our name in these little papers, and the organization we were representing, and they said, we randomly will select.
Sandra Solano: Who to talk, but the reality, there were only, like, 6 organizations that, that were able to talk, and there were 75 of us, so most of us did not get to talk.
Sandra Solano: However, for me to even just learn that these federations and global organizations exist, and what their position as… the position is, was very, very informative.
Sandra Solano: And I did more of my advocacy just talking to them about it, kind of letting them know, like, this exists, this is a possibility, this is something that can help with cardiovascular disease, that can help with mental health.
Sandra Solano: So, one of the things that, we're going to do is, if you've seen that website, there is the final document that was adopted at the… at the end. Oh, so then the plenary is where they… they just talk, there is no… in the plenary, there is not, interventions by civil society. That's just…
Sandra Solano: Countries, but we have a lot of countries speaking in our session.
Sandra Solano: And one of the things that I was really very surprised, because a lot of these documents are really well digested and done by the time that you hit the high-level politic… the high-level forum.
Sandra Solano: But there were changes done, like, almost by the hour on the document. And, the final document actually was version 4, and when we arrived there, it was version 0. And I could see the things that were connected.
Sandra Solano: To what people were advocating on the floor, appearing in the document, in the final version.
Sandra Solano: Tomorrow, I also… so then tomorrow, during science, I'm going to go really deep on the document. Like, what does it mean? Go over the epidemiology, the interventions that they're advocating, what I think is missing from our perspective. Also, the parts where I can see our work.
Sandra Solano: With the G20, and even the things that we said at the high-level political forum have bled into the document.
Sandra Solano: content is very clear, where you can see our language that have been lifted and added to the document. So I think that that's a celebration that hopefully you come to science tomorrow and we get to do together to see that connection.
Sandra Solano: And, one of the things that were highlights, I have a lot of notes of everybody who spoke.
Sandra Solano: But things that I did not know, and that were really very touching, one of the panelists, was…
Sandra Solano: Sarah Klein.
Sandra Solano: Who is, the president of United for Global Mental Health, is one of those federal federation organizations.
Sandra Solano: She lives with bipolar and anxiety from the age of 9.
Sandra Solano: And has been doing all this advocacy for, most of her life.
Sandra Solano: And one of the things that I was not aware
Sandra Solano: I have seen it kind of mentioned in the original… in the first draft of the document, but I didn't know why it was mentioned.
Sandra Solano: is that suicide is illegal in 26 countries, as criminalized. No assisted suicide, but committing suicide. It's considered a criminal activity. Therefore, those things impede
Sandra Solano: Prevention strategies, or public health strategies, because it's seen as a crime, and only achievable to the moral failures of the person.
Sandra Solano: No, as consequence.
Sandra Solano: Of a disease process. So, one of the things that they're advocating is to eliminate
Sandra Solano: The criminalization of suicide on those 26 countries.
Sandra Solano: Something overall that was really present.
Sandra Solano: Was the acknowledging… acknowledgement, and…
Sandra Solano: asking for the acknowledgement, which show up in the final document. It was not in the original.
Sandra Solano: That mental health and non-commutable diseases are linked
Sandra Solano: In an intrinsic way, that they are not different things, that when you have things like hypertension or heart disease, you're more likely to have a mental health diagnosis, that if you have a mental health diagnosis, you're less likely to have a premature death and suffer of any of the other non-communicable diseases.
Sandra Solano: So that was a new message within the assembly environment, and it was really emphasized almost by all the speakers.
Sandra Solano: I'm not going to go today over every single country, because I did take notes, just especially to look which countries would be most…
Sandra Solano: Ready for, .
Sheva Carr: For our… the…
Sandra Solano: collaboration.
Sheva Carr: And really, what has emerged from the invitation that Sondra Robert and I received to travel to meet
Sheva Carr: the Secretariat of Health and Secretariat of Economy in Mexico last month.
Sheva Carr: And our work at the G20 two years ago is a vision that we have for our organization to do a nationwide public health intervention.
Sheva Carr: To bring HeartMath to hair salons and sports teams, and through the media, through edutainment and telenovelas, and through hospitals and corporations, so… and schools, so whole communities.
Sheva Carr: can benefit from the health benefits of this. And we have a full, sort of, plan for a national intervention, and so we're looking for the countries that want to be our pilot tests.
Sheva Carr: And so, Sondra and I were in these high-level meetings, listening to the countries present.
Sheva Carr: As the roomy poem says, if you're thirsty, the water is looking for you, and what we learned unequivocally.
Sheva Carr: Is there our countries looking for what we have to give?
Sheva Carr: And this document, did you put that full document in the chat, Sandra?
Sandra Solano: I put the link for the website where the recording of Panel 1, 2, and Plenary are on the document, but I also added the document to the science reading for tomorrow.
Sheva Carr: Fantastic. So you can find the document and read through it.
Sheva Carr: It's like a roadmap of what we do.
Sheva Carr: In many ways.
Sheva Carr: Certainly the non-pharmacologic parts. So, both Sondra and I were prepared to speak in these planner… in these panels, or side events.
Sheva Carr: And I wonder if you… do you want to share your speech, Sandra?
Sheva Carr: And these, by the way, you got.
Sandra Solano: Sure.
Sandra Solano: Okay, let me pull it up.
Sheva Carr: While Sandra pulls that up, you want to see just a few more photos?
Sheva Carr: I'll share with you… the moment that Sandra and I got to share near the UN, outside of the…
Sheva Carr: No, go.
Sandra Solano: I'm ready whenever you are.
Sheva Carr: This was us in the in-between debrief with our herd ambassador pins.
Sheva Carr: And these pins are the Sustainable Development Goal pins.
Sheva Carr: Alright, here we go, Sandra.
Sheva Carr: Yes.
Sandra Solano: So I want to start with deep appreciation for all the work, passion, heart, and dedication that each of you and your partners back home
Sandra Solano: Have put forward to create this forum and the documents to be approved later today.
Sandra Solano: There is an inextricable link between mental health and overall wellness, and mental illness and the developmental of other non-communicable diseases.
Sandra Solano: The WHO list of best buys does not include interventions directly related to mental health.
Sandra Solano: The FIRA Foundation recommends that evidence-based psychosocial interventions be considered as a low-cost, high-impact intervention.
Sandra Solano: And we strongly recommend that,
Sandra Solano: Oh, actually, I was writing this in the… in the hall.
Sandra Solano: In addition, recommendation 31, that was referring to the original document, in the draft declaration regarding hypertension does not include non-pharmacological interventions, such as evidence-based heart rate variability-based emotional self-regulation.
Sandra Solano: which have been proven to be an effective intervention for hypertension. 6 weeks of practicing these interventions was shown to reduce hypertension twice the impact of a salt-restricted diet.
Sandra Solano: Equivalent to 2 years of pharmacological intervention, or equal to 40 pounds of weight loss, and an exercise program without the weight loss or the exercise.
Sandra Solano: The solution that we're proposing leverages emotional and physical self-regulation skills while improving to improve mental health outcomes and non-communicable disease outcomes equitably.
Sandra Solano: As a scalable public health intervention to improve population health and reduce the burden of diseases on providers and systems.
Sandra Solano: Finally, one of the most critical contributors to our global mental health care crisis and lack of ubiquitous and needed access to mental and physical healthcare services is healthcare provider secondary trauma, burnout, and turnover.
Sandra Solano: HRV self-regulation tools have been clinically proven in peer-reviewed publications to reduce healthcare provider burnout and turnover, and can be deployed at scale through licensure and CEO requirements.
Sandra Solano: Increase the well-being of the total healthcare provider workforce will reduce turnover and burnout, increasing accessibility to care through a stabilization of the workforce.
Sheva Carr: Andra's gonna keep going, but just so you know.
Sheva Carr: You're listening to these with a little earpiece.
Sheva Carr: And at that moment, if the person's speaking in your language, it just goes dead.
Sandra Solano: Yeah.
Sheva Carr: You see their lips continuing to move, and if it's being translated through your earpiece, the translator says, and the speaker's mic was cut.
Sandra Solano: So I had actually that last paragraph, I had it… because you see the mic blinking when you have 30 seconds? So my strategy was that if it was blinking by the time I got to that paragraph, I was going to skip it, because the part I did not want to miss.
Sandra Solano: was to offer our help. So the team of the Fear Foundation is honored to make ourselves available in any capacity, and partner with you in exploring and implementing this proposal, or speaking to it, and the robust research behind it.
Sheva Carr: Ta-da!
Sheva Carr: Thank you, Sandra!
Sandra Solano: But I did not get to say it. I did say it to all the people around me, and I handled lots of hearts, and everybody loved their hearts.
Sandra Solano: And it was a really conversational opener, to… to start hunting those hearts.
Sheva Carr: I'm gonna share briefly. So, Sandra was in the morning session, which actually was such an auspicious gift.
Sheva Carr: Because it afforded Robert and I the opportunity, to be invited to this session.
Sheva Carr: at the permanent mission to the United Nations for the country of Monaco, on the globalization of compassion.
Sheva Carr: And what I think that we will do is, in your October schedule, Robert and I will put
Sheva Carr: a, during either a member's call or a Heart Start call.
Sheva Carr: We'll do a special focus on the globalization of compassion session.
Sheva Carr: There were multiple Nobel Peace Prize winners there. Robert and I took selfies with the President of Armenia.
Sheva Carr: and hung out with him. It was one… Susanna Kay is getting a thumbs up from our Armenian heart ambassador there.
Sheva Carr: Very, very profound. Carrie Kennedy of the Kennedy family and the Kennedy Center for Human Rights.
Sheva Carr: Was there, and,
Sheva Carr: it was a hugely moving session that really warrants its own separate conversation, so look for that in your October schedule.
Sheva Carr: The fact that…
Sheva Carr: They put me in the afternoon session, and Sandra in the morning session meant I could go into this crazy side event with all these people, and have the first Arab woman to have won a Nobel Peace Prize push my shoulder down so I would be at the front of the group picture.
Sheva Carr: It was very funny.
Sheva Carr: But… then we traded places, and I went into the UN building.
Sheva Carr: For the afternoon, and I'm just gonna share a little bit with you.
Sheva Carr: of,
Sheva Carr: what happened in my session that I think is relevant. Give me one moment.
Sheva Carr: So I was taking notes in this iPad the whole time. These are all…
Sheva Carr: Notes from the session on compassion.
Sheva Carr: Which I'm very excited to share with you.
Sheva Carr: This was… The… what the room looked like here.
Sheva Carr: In the… Panel sessions on the health programs.
Sheva Carr: There was a woman from AstraZeneca on the panel, speaking about the need for vaccinations and, you know, very, very different worldviews.
Sheva Carr: This woman was incredible. Again, a nod to our work in Nicaragua. She is the Minister of Health for Nicaragua.
Sheva Carr: But she's also an Indigenous healer.
Sheva Carr: So she spoke about starting her career. She's a physician, an MD, and an Indigenous healer, and she started her career as a doctor in Nicaragua 50 years ago, where she said the primary issues
Sheva Carr: health issues in the rural third world in that day were diarrhea and TB, and now it's diabetes, high blood pressure, and suicide of youth.
Sheva Carr: Especially due to climate anxiety.
Sheva Carr: So she was a strong stand for reincorporating Indigenous wisdom and in healing.
Sheva Carr: This, I'm very excited about, and I'll share with you. I got to meet with him and speak with him personally at the end. Dr. John Nassland is the,
Sheva Carr: He's the co-chair of the Harvard program called Mental Health for All.
Sheva Carr: And at Harvard, they've decided that, even…
Sheva Carr: Clinicalizing mental health is compromising mental health.
Sheva Carr: So he wants to see mental health brought into the communities, very much like our public health initiative that we have a vision to do.
Sheva Carr: To bring public health to sports teams, and schools, and women's clubs, and men's clubs. And so, at Harvard, they're working actively on this with evidence-based techniques. He had never heard of HeartMath before, so we're gonna meet with John
Sheva Carr: And look at how we can collaborate with the Harvard's Medical School Mental Health for All program.
Sheva Carr: Really, really incredible.
Sheva Carr: Liberia just had such a strong presence in all the meetings that we were in. Liberia is one of those countries, Sandra, that could be a great candidate for us, because they're striving for universal healthcare for all.
Sheva Carr: This was the speech I wrote impromptu in the moment, which, if people want to hear it, I could deliver.
Sheva Carr: And then the president of the International Diabetes Foundation spoke. Estonia is also looking for partnerships, like.
Sheva Carr: hours and establishing universal healthcare, would love to work with Estonia.
Sheva Carr: Japan, the Minister of Health from Japan,
Sheva Carr: shared with us something that we also learned from the Secretariat of Economy for the Health Budget for all of Mexico.
Sheva Carr: And so I think this is really a problem for many countries, which is that, we're living longer.
Sheva Carr: But the second half of life is when we need the most health interventions.
Sheva Carr: And it's also the time when, in countries like Japan and Mexico, people are retired.
Sheva Carr: So they're not adding to the economics of the country.
Sheva Carr: So there's a crisis waiting to happen where the elder generation is no longer contributing to the economy, but taking from it for their healthcare.
Sheva Carr: And there's not enough young people entering the workforce and the healthcare workforce to take care of the older generation.
Sheva Carr: And both, I mean, the Minister of…
Sheva Carr: economy for the health budget in Mexico told us this keeps him up at night.
Sheva Carr: Because it's a massive crisis waiting to happen, and the minister from Japan shared the similar
Sheva Carr: similar issue. And this is an arena where, when we met with the Minister of Mexico, we expressed how heart math can be part of the solution to that crisis, because as people practice HeartMath interventions, they extend not just their lifespan, but their health
Sheva Carr: span. Health span means you live longer, but live better.
Sheva Carr: And don't pull as much on the economy, and have the energy, vitality, health, and passion to contribute to it.
Sheva Carr: The International Federation of Medical Students had spoken right before Angel at the High Level Political Forum, and they also spoke in the session that I was in.
Sheva Carr: Ireland also was represented here, and they have a community-based mental health initiative. They could be great candidates to work with.
Sheva Carr: this gentleman's speech, who was from the Global Mental Health Action Network, and I met with him at the end as well.
Sheva Carr: was by far, aside from the President of the General Assembly, the most moving speech I heard all day.
Sheva Carr: And I will do with you what he did with us during his 2 minutes, which is to say.
Sheva Carr: Pause for 5 seconds of silence.
Sheva Carr: In that 5 seconds, one person in the world has died of suicide.
Sheva Carr: One entered a psych ward for months, or possibly years. 140 children were experiencing abuse, physically.
Sheva Carr: 130 people looked down at an empty plate with no food on it, hungry.
Sheva Carr: We cannot afford even one more second of silence.
Sheva Carr: We must raise our voices to change this.
Sheva Carr: That's how he began his speech, and we're gonna connect to see how we can support what the Global Mental Health Action Network is doing.
Sheva Carr: for, or mental health worldwide. As you can see, also many ministers of countries. Russia was represented, Switzerland.
Sheva Carr: The… Bangladeshi… and… Bhutan stood out to me the most in the session.
Sheva Carr: as candidates for our collaboration, they were actively asking for development partners.
Sheva Carr: To help reduce tobacco use, and in Bhutan.
Sheva Carr: Which we'll speak more about when we, talk about the globalization of compassion.
Sheva Carr: The King of Bhutan.
Sheva Carr: who my cousin Paul is friends with, actually. The King of Bhutan has set aside a million acres in the country of Bhutan.
Sheva Carr: To create a model city for the future.
Sheva Carr: With sustainability, of energy, with… but also with the well-being of all being taken into account. So I flagged for me that we should reach out to Bhutan and see could they…
Sheva Carr: The first hospital to incorporate HeartMath from the ground up.
Sheva Carr: From literally building the hospital, and bringing in the staff.
Sheva Carr: when Joint Commission, came to evaluate the hospital before it opened its doors.
Sheva Carr: The nursing team that walked the evaluators through the hospital
Sheva Carr: Did a quick coherence and heart math with them before they started the evaluation.
Sheva Carr: And it was the first time that Joint Commission
Sheva Carr: Ever had zero findings at the opening of a new hospital.
Sheva Carr: That was Kaiser Antioch many years ago.
Sheva Carr: Imagine if a model city for the world, the future of the world, from the ground up.
Sheva Carr: incorporated heart math as a public health intervention, so we have plans to reach out to Bhutan.
Sheva Carr: I will close this section.
Sheva Carr: With the final speech that was given in my section, and actually.
Sheva Carr: I'll just see… if you look at this picture here…
Sheva Carr: Do you guys see me in the background? That's me with the mask on, taking the picture.
Sheva Carr: So, the final speech that was given was by the president of an organization called Health Age International.
Sheva Carr: They're in 99 countries, and honor, again, that the older population in the last half of life is the most vulnerable to non-communicable diseases and mental health.
Sheva Carr: And within the document that Sandra referenced that was part of what we were there to facilitate the building of.
Sheva Carr: They… she acknowledged and appreciated the document and all the efforts gone into it, but everywhere in the document, at least in the zero draft that we saw originally.
Sheva Carr: They referred to premature death from non-communicable diseases and mental health issues below the age of 70.
Sheva Carr: Which subtly communicates, or not so subtly, that, well, it's normal to die of those things after the age of 70.
Sheva Carr: And her advocacy was to remove age.
Sheva Carr: as a criteria.
Sheva Carr: And create more universal risk measures.
Sheva Carr: That would include those in the latter half of life being protected from death due to non-communicable disease.
Sheva Carr: I really, really appreciated that perspective shift.
Sheva Carr: Especially as, at Heart Ambassadors, we celebrate our longevity matrix every new year.
Sheva Carr: I'm just gonna check the chat, and then I have a couple of photos to close with.
Sheva Carr: Yes, Armenia would definitely be considered, Susanna, and we could discuss ways to have that.
Sheva Carr: Mary Beth is asking about,
Sheva Carr: whether the U.S. is a candidate, for,
Sheva Carr: And it looks like, Dutch Queen Maxima, maybe Nyanka can connect us with her.
Sheva Carr: I love it that all the countries are lining up.
Sheva Carr: So, the United States really became a candidate when Sandra Robert and I were in Mexico.
Sheva Carr: As there were, delegates on our, Track 3 diplomacy delegation, which is business diplomacy, from the Make America Healthy movement.
Sheva Carr: Make America Healthy Again movement.
Sheva Carr: And they were very open to and very interested in HeartMath because they are interested in anything non-pharmaceutical.
Sheva Carr: And so, we have to see where that goes. We've worked with Health and Human Services in the United States in the past.
Sheva Carr: But never as a nationwide public health intervention. In fact, when we met with the Minister of…
Sheva Carr: the economy for the health budget for the country of Mexico, and presented what we do to him. His first question for us is.
Sheva Carr: If this really does what you say it does… do you remember when Javier said this, Sandra? If this really does what you say it does, why isn't it public policy at the national level in the United States?
Sheva Carr: And…
Sheva Carr: We essentially shared that we already do work with the VA, and with Health and Human Services, and the California Select Committee on the Mental Health Crisis, etc, etc, but that, really, we just
Sheva Carr: passed our policies at the G20 only 2 years ago.
Sheva Carr: And so, we have yet to find the country that's willing to be our nationwide pilot. You want to add something to that, Sandra, while I pull up the final?
Sandra Solano: And actually, in the United States, we don't have the ideal conditions to be the pilot for a public health intervention, because we don't have a government self-pay system.
Sandra Solano: So, the system, even Medicaid and Medicare now, has been mostly given to private, for-profit organizations.
Sandra Solano: And in the rules of those contracts, and I know this in Ohio because actually I headed Medicaid when we transferred from fee-for-service, or the Medicaid system, to the managed care system.
Sandra Solano: There is guaranteed payment of certain level of administrative costs. That is a percentage of the premiums that you collect.
Sandra Solano: So, for example, in Ohio, we guarantee 14% administrative costs for all the Medicaid clients that you enroll.
Sandra Solano: But that has translated into a vicious cycle where there is an incentive for the managed care organization to reduce costs, because if you reduce costs, you reduce…
Sandra Solano: The administrative fee that you get paid.
Sandra Solano: So, and actually, two days ago, I got a check from my insurance, because my insurance is in the marketplace, and there are similar regulations, and they charge more for premiums that they spent, so they had to return money.
Sandra Solano: So, if they implement cost-savings measures, they have to return money, and 20% of $1,000 is less than 20% of $2,000.
Sandra Solano: And because they're for-profit, it's more profitable to charge 20% of $2,000. So actually, we have a pervasive financial system when there is not even incentives for savings.
Sheva Carr: Unless you are…
Sandra Solano: Except at a place like Kaiser, which has been a huge… They say it's self-pay, yeah.
Sheva Carr: Because it's self-pay. So that's why you're hearing that Asandra and I are vetting countries, basically, to see who we want to date.
Sheva Carr: It's like speed dating at the nation level. You'll see that we highlighted all the countries that either have universal healthcare funded by the government.
Sheva Carr: Or are striving to achieve universal healthcare and looking for best practices and best buys that will help them achieve that with the budgets they have.
Sheva Carr: So that.
Sandra Solano: One of the countries that I was very excited and I went to follow up with was France, because the Minister of Health of France talked very specifically about mental health. They had a mental health initiative the last 3 years, and they did a lot of cost-benefit analysis.
Sandra Solano: And her conclusion was that investing in mental health actually was a profitable affair, and they have research to back that up. So, that's already a country that's thinking in the way that we are trying to get to.
Sheva Carr: Country Tinder swiping, says Nyanka.
Sheva Carr: Well, it's more like a speed date, because you were listening to them for 3 minutes. They get 3 minutes.
Sandra Solano: And they turn off the mics. So… You are listening for 3 minutes, it's like, okay, no, that one.
Sheva Carr: It's pretty much like that.
Sheva Carr: I,
Sheva Carr: we will set a time to talk about the Globalization of Compassion meeting, which was such a huge gift, and we'll invite Dr. Patel, who got Robert and I into that meeting, to join us for that.
Sheva Carr: But I want to share,
Sheva Carr: some experiences, just briefly, 5 minutes, if you'll indulge me for that, of walking the UN grounds.
Sheva Carr: It's… it's so interesting how one's Heart Blueprint calls you.
Sheva Carr: And… I am not an urban girl. Put me… you guys all know, I'm sort of half… very half…
Sheva Carr: Alien. Put me in a forest, and I'm in my natural habitat.
Sheva Carr: So being in the concrete jungle of New York is, like, never the place I would choose to go.
Sheva Carr: But… that… That inner calling.
Sheva Carr: makes the impossible possible. Turns it into I'm possible.
Sheva Carr: But for me, then, just to say, to be in New York with all the stimulation, like, you know, Robert and I go out of our way to go on hikes during the week when no one else is there, like, we don't like crowds, we don't like concrete, so you have to imagine this is completely putting us out of our comfort zone.
Sheva Carr: And… The things that I want to share with you is then you get to the UN grounds.
Sheva Carr: Where there's literally whole places in New York where you cannot see Anything green.
Sheva Carr: And then there's this whole garden.
Sheva Carr: So I ended up doing Tai Chi, Next to the press corps.
Sheva Carr: In the garden, with bees and flowers, and the resilience of nature. There's the concrete jungle.
Sheva Carr: And here we are at the UN in a rose garden.
Sheva Carr: These values of all life.
Sheva Carr: This is the garden with the flowers, where the bees were, where I was doing Tai Chi, and you can see over there is where the press corps is hiding.
Sheva Carr: This gives you a sense of the whole building we were in, and all the different rooms.
Sheva Carr: We were in the Trusteeship Council in this room.
Sheva Carr: For the second half of the first day.
Sheva Carr: and the General Assembly on the first day.
Sheva Carr: this statue of St. Agnes.
Sheva Carr: Is one of the few things that survived The bombing of Nagasaki.
Sheva Carr: She was found face down.
Sheva Carr: after the bombing of Nagasaki, holding the lamb with her right arm missing.
Sheva Carr: So the exhibits in the UN, like, everywhere, bringing peace forth from war.
Sheva Carr: And there's a quote on the wall on the UN grounds, so I was leaving these little hearts everywhere.
Sheva Carr: This was in the UN flag outside the press corps room.
Sheva Carr: The UN was not created to take mankind to heaven.
Sheva Carr: He said the first, or the second UN Secretary General, it wasn't created to bring us to heaven.
Sheva Carr: But to save us from hell.
Sheva Carr: And within those… corridors of the UN.
Sheva Carr: Here's me standing outside the press corps, so you have every country in the world with their nation's press team. They're interviewing heads of state in the garden, and ministers, and PR people addressing what was ratified, or who said what, and…
Sheva Carr: What it meant for the world.
Sheva Carr: But… This was one of the things that we found there.
Sheva Carr: in the exhibits in the UN is a new element Humanium metal.
Sheva Carr: So there's a picture, Jean Marie, of a watch made with this metal.
Sheva Carr: H U.
Sheva Carr: These sustainable products are made from humanium metal, sourced from destroyed illegal firearms.
Sheva Carr: to highlight the alarming global issue of gun violence. With the support of governments of El Salvador and Sweden, Humanium Medal is an initiative of the I Am Swedish Development Partner.
Sheva Carr: It promotes peaceful and inclusive societies.
Sheva Carr: It not only delivers vital financial support to affected individuals and communities, but carries a strong ethical message.
Sheva Carr: So, turning firearms into jewelry… And watches.
Sheva Carr: Humanium metal.
Sheva Carr: The transformation of violence into peace.
Sheva Carr: And for those who don't know, some members of our community, follow the spiritual path of Ekinkar.
Sheva Carr: Which… Celebrates the hue as their version of the ohm.
Sheva Carr: I'm gonna close this… Well, first I'll just share this photo is on the UN grounds.
Sheva Carr: The UNGA stands for UN General Assembly. That's me and Robert there the first day.
Sheva Carr: And this is a video near the Humanium metal.
Sheva Carr: And I'll read for Jean Marie and others who can't see it.
Sheva Carr: This is, it says from Ban Ki-moon, a United Nations Secretary General, the world is over-armed and peace is underfunded.
Sheva Carr: And it's a running tally of the daily military expenditure worldwide.
Audio shared by Sheva Carr: And I…
Sheva Carr: darted.
Audio shared by Sheva Carr: It was… Six.
Audio shared by Sheva Carr: Billion or trillion, I guess.
Audio shared by Sheva Carr: That's 6 trillion.
Audio shared by Sheva Carr: Maybe it's… So the annual And the chair. Thank you.
Audio shared by Sheva Carr: Brilliant.
Audio shared by Sheva Carr: Official development Bill UN budget.
Audio shared by Sheva Carr: 3.4 pounds.
Sheva Carr: skin.
Sheva Carr: International disarmament is only 66…
Audio shared by Sheva Carr: And by the time I went back, It had already gone up.
Audio shared by Sheva Carr: By another million dollars.
Audio shared by Sheva Carr: Just this second.
Audio shared by Sheva Carr: Daily.
Sheva Carr: This is… the hell that the United Nations was designed To save us from.
Sheva Carr: And from the conversations that we were all privileged to have, It's happening.
Sheva Carr: It's real.
Sheva Carr: It may not look like it to you on what gets… the drama that gets highlighted on the news.
Sheva Carr: But in the hallways.
Sheva Carr: In the places, like… the… roads of Calcutta.
Sheva Carr: Where a woman is taking care of her husband who's had a stroke, and her child, who has cerebral palsy.
Sheva Carr: And she herself needs a… A malaria vaccine. Or malaria medication.
Sheva Carr: and the Minister of Health
Sheva Carr: Found ways to scalably get that to her. Support for her husband, support for her child, support for her.
Sheva Carr: to the street of Calcutta.
Sheva Carr: It's there.
Sheva Carr: I'll just say that…
Sheva Carr: in the Compassion… the Globalization of Compassion Forum, which will create time for you to hear more about.
Sheva Carr: the…
Sheva Carr: Daughter of the Nobel Peace laureate that began the program shared the story of the hummingbird and the fire.
Sheva Carr: Some of you have probably heard this story.
Sheva Carr: That the forest is burning. This one, the first time I heard it, we were evacuated from a fire in our forest, so it really got me.
Sheva Carr: The forest is burning, the world is on fire, and the hummingbird
Sheva Carr: Keeps flying out of the burning forest to a little puddle and picking up water in her beak and flying back in.
Sheva Carr: And the other animals that have fled are saying, what are you doing? You're crazy, your wings are getting singed. Why do you keep going back in?
Sheva Carr: She says, because I can carry a drop of water in my beak.
Sheva Carr: And that drop of water may be all that I can add.
Sheva Carr: But I will do my part.
Sheva Carr: That's what compassion does, and that's what each of you do as Heart Ambassadors.
Sheva Carr: Let me just check the chat to see if there's any final questions. Nope, just Tinder swiping countries. Is there anything else anyone else would like to share or ask to complete?
Sheva Carr: Our time together on this report back.
Lola Moonfrog: Just thank you so much!
Lola Moonfrog: Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Sheva Carr: Thank you, Lola. Well, let's honor that the FIRA Foundation exists because of Lola.
Lola Moonfrog: Thank you.
Sheva Carr: Lola's organization, the Pond Foundation, so she was the hummingbird that picked up the pond in her beak.
Sheva Carr: And she funded the legal fees that got us our nonprofit status in 2012.
Sheva Carr: So thank you, thank you, thank you, Lola. We wouldn't be… we wouldn't have access to the UN without what you did.
Lola Moonfrog: Well, there's more to come. I'm sure!
Sheva Carr: We'll get your butt to the UN with us one day.
Lola Moonfrog: I would love that.
Sheva Carr: Do its little birthday.
Lola Moonfrog: Yeah, oh yeah.
Lola Moonfrog: Yeah.
Sheva Carr: This is a we, not a me. Everyone here has played a part in this.
Lola Moonfrog: My heart's calling is full of surprises.
Sheva Carr: Who would have imagined me excited to go to the concrete jungle?
Sheva Carr: I'm full of surprises.
Sheva Carr: Thank you, Susanna. Anyone else have anything you'd like to share?
Sheva Carr: Or ask… Awesome.
Sheva Carr: Like the joke.
Sheva Carr: Make a cup. Yes, please.
Sheva Carr: Is that Karen Glowacki?
Sheva Carr: Yeah, can I say something real quick here, Gal? Absolutely. Thank you.
Sheva Carr: Oh my gosh, thank you for…
Sheva Carr: all of this work, and I…
Sheva Carr: I feel such… I'm so removed from it, it feels like it, and when I hear this, I feel like I was at the UN. The way you guys,
Sheva Carr: delivered this information. You, Robert, and, Sandra.
Sheva Carr: So, incredibly amazing, and I'm just gonna thank you from the top and bottom and middle and…
Sheva Carr: Pardon my heart, and one of the things that came to mind in the beginning, when you shared, even now, about the concrete jungle, way back.
Sheva Carr: 50 years ago, 46 years ago, when I
Sheva Carr: started studying the Bible and getting heavy into, you know, like, understanding what this book was that
Sheva Carr: sat up on the altar at the Catholic Church, whatever. One of the certain verses which just jumps out at me that invoke such truth, just such pearls of wisdom.
Sheva Carr: And one of them was that Your greatest weakness.
Sheva Carr: I'll be your breeder.
Sheva Carr: And it came to mind when you were talking about a little 7-year-old girl who was in the psychiatric office, you know, needed whatever, is now all over the world building peace, and it's…
Sheva Carr: Just the hope of listening to that, hearing your story, is This reminds me of…
Sheva Carr: When I was 4 years old, they nicknamed me Hysteria.
Sheva Carr: And I remember one of my coaches later in life, as I heard that, he said.
Sheva Carr: it's like the hysteria, you know, it's like you're here to transform that and become the opposite. And I've… ever since I've been part of Heart Mastery, I'm watching that happen, and that is a beautiful process, to be able to be…
Sheva Carr: stable, and to be neutral, and to be available, and to be present, and all the things that you can't when you're in hysteria, so…
Sheva Carr: so much hope in all of this, and I just…
Sheva Carr: Oh my gosh, I'm just sending hugs to every one of you listening, and to you and Sandra and Robert, thank you, thank you, thank you. It's so poignant to me that you called that back out about my…
Sheva Carr: beginnings in a psychiatrist's office as a 7-year-old, because what triggered And precipitated that… Multi-factor intergenerational trauma.
Sheva Carr: was, in light of humanium metal.
Sheva Carr: My best friend being murdered in gun violence.
Sheva Carr: And so, for me, the work of mental health is inextricably linked to the work of peace.
Sheva Carr: Nyanka, I think you wanted to get your voice in here, please.
Nienke van Bezooijen: I just want to thank you for passing on the hope.
Nienke van Bezooijen: Because if I saw the mainstream media, I felt there was more, but I couldn't reach it on a…
Nienke van Bezooijen: tangible level, as you shared, together with Robert and Sandra, so I really want to thank you for that.
Nienke van Bezooijen: And I was wondering if the Compassionate cities are involved in the Compassion Project, because there is a whole network of compassionate cities already existing, and I hear and feel a connection there.
Sheva Carr: Beautiful. Will you send me information on compassion?
Nienke van Bezooijen: Yep.
Sheva Carr: not hear them mention that in the Globalization of Compassion session, but if you send me that information, we're going to.
Nienke van Bezooijen: Oh, well.
Sheva Carr: Anyway, so we'll see if we can… Facilitate that connection.
Sheva Carr: I just wanna…
Sheva Carr: maybe share one last photo. It's not, like, the best photo or anything, but it's sweet. It shows you how…
Sheva Carr: How these conference rooms that are committed to changing the world for the better for humanity are…
Sheva Carr: And, this, I mentioned I met the Harvard gentleman doing mental health for all.
Sheva Carr: And you can see this was in the side event, United Nations high-level meeting on the Prevention and control of non-communicable Diseases and the promotion of mental health and well-being.
Sheva Carr: better together.
Sheva Carr: And that… how could that not… we didn't know that was the theme, and there it is. From me to we, we were just talking about it the night before in the happiness class.
Sheva Carr: Better together.
Sheva Carr: And we are. We are so much better.
Sheva Carr: To do this together with all of you.
Sheva Carr: I thank you, thank you, thank you, each and every one of you, for being ambassadors of heart.
Sheva Carr: And I look forward to being with you on the Heart Start call tomorrow.
Sheva Carr: As we continue our heart radiance.
Sheva Carr: Anything else that anyone needs to be complete for today? Thank you for that resource in the chat. I've pulled it up, Inka.
Nienke van Bezooijen: Yes, I love you. We love you.
Nienke van Bezooijen: Okay.
Sheva Carr: Have you back.
Sheva Carr: Perhaps we can close with a quick coherence.
Sheva Carr: That all these many people that you got to lay eyes on, or hear, or the ones you even didn't, walking the hallways of the United Nations.
Sheva Carr: Stretching out of their comfort zones, all of us.
Sheva Carr: Because we care.
Sheva Carr: And because we love… To fill all those hearts with hope and vitality.
Sheva Carr: And tenacity.
Sheva Carr: to radiate.
Sheva Carr: Love to that.
Sheva Carr: And to give it to yourself and your vision.
Sheva Carr: And the water, your beak.
Sheva Carr: Is meant to carry.
Sheva Carr: Much love, everyone, thank you. And Garrett, are you good if we all ring you in, like, 20 minutes? Is that good?
Sheva Carr: All right.
Sheva Carr: Much love, everyone!
Susanna K.: Much love, thank you.
Sheva Carr: Well, thank you.