about monday night live!

Monday Night LIVE! @ Café Gratitude is My Baby!

My name is Shea Lynn Baird, and in January of 2009, I began a collaboration with Cafe Gratitude where they began allowing me to use Café Gratitude's Healdsburg location to produce a live, weekly, educational speaking event with the hopes of building and strengthening a health conscious community in my area. I started on January 12th, 2009 and ended for the year on November 30th, 2009. All in all I ended up putting on 47 events!

The project / event is called “Monday Night LIVE! @ Café Gratitude” and, as the name implies, takes place live, on Monday nights, at the Healdsburg Café Gratitude. The events begin at 7:00pm, and the speaker / presenter usually speaks for an hour, although there is time for 90 minutes.

The first year (2009) the speaker line up was INCREDIBLE! The project kicked off in January with Matthew and Terces Engelhart – the owners of Café Gratitude, and the authors of ‘The Abounding River’, and “Sacred Commerce.” They were followed by Happy Oasis (the founder of Raw Spirit Festival), Elaina Love (internationally known raw chef, author and coach), and Laura Fox (the voice of Raw Inspiration Radio)! The line up goes on to include: Dr.'s Rick and Karin Dina, Lydia Kindheart, Kevin Gianni, Cheri Soria, Dr. Doug Graham, Paul Nison, John Kohler, Melissa Mango, Dina Knight, Matt Samuelson, Gabrielle Brick, Matt Monarch, Angela Stokes and Bunny Berry!!! We previewed the documentary, "May I Be Frank?" to a standing room only crowd, and also had 4 different panels (raw chefs, raw athletes & raw doctors), all of which have been turned into ebooks!

This year, for 2010, Monday Night LIVE has already hosted, or has scheduled, Daniel Vitalis, Chaya-Ryvka, Michael Bedar & "Simply Raw", Dina Knight, Frank Giglio, Abeba Wright, Dr, Michael Klaper, Dan McDonald - the LifeRegenerator, Steve Meyerowitz - the Sproutman, Melissa Mango, Kevin Gianni, Ronnie & Minh, DreamingBear Baraka kanaan, Singing Bear, Cherie Soria, Elaina Love, Jason Wrobel, John Kohler, Cecilia Benjumea-Kinzie, Nomi Shannon, Bunny Berry and the Engelharts! We also have many panels this year: TrueNorth Fasting Center Panel, Dhyana Center Ayurveda Panel, Breast Health Pane, Cacao Panel, Superfood Panel, Brain Health Panel and a Cleansing Panel.

Monday Night LIVE!'s entire purpose is to build and educate the community - local and (now it seems) world wide. So if you can't make it to Healdsburg on a Monday night, then please sign up for our newsletter (box in the left column of site) and get access to the Monday Night LIVE! Video of the Week, or sign up for the Monday Night LIVE! ALL ACCESS PASS and get access to the ENTIRE Monday Night LIVE! Past Speaker Archive! (That's over 100 hours of Audio & Video!)

To see the 2009 MNL line up, click here.
To see the 2010 MNL line up, click here.

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For more information on Cafe Gratitude, please check out their website: www.cafegratitude.com

And here's a special treat: A Funky Behind-the-Scenes Documentary on Cafe Gratitude:

Cafe Gratitude - Behind the Scenes:

Behind the Scenes at Cafe Gratitude: (1hr, 17 mins)
Shea takes you on a tour of several Cafe Gratitude locations, including the central office and kitchen, finding out why people love the company. Video includes interviews with the owners, managers and staff - and also has a a great tour of the central kitchen.