Haleh Shoa and her family fled Iran during the 1979 revolution, bringing only their cherished photo albums. These albums were lifelines to the past and their only tangible reminders of the life they left behind. These experiences helped shape Haleh’s passion for storytelling and memory-keeping.

After a successful career in advertising, Haleh followed her heart and founded Picturli, a photo organization, archiving, and design studio in Los Angeles. Through Picturli, Haleh has helped countless celebrities, families, individuals, and institutions safeguard their legacies by organizing, curating, and preserving their most meaningful moments. Our conversation was conducted against the backdrop of the raging Los Angeles fires.

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Pier Paolo de Angelis is a true citizen of the world. Paolo started exploring the world in his early 20s, working in Europe, The Middle East, North and South America.

While serving as Chairman of the now iconic Kripalu Center in Lenox MA in the mid 90s, Paolo led the transition team that transformed the former ashram into the largest Yoga and Wellness program centre in North America. After he moved to Hawaii, Paolo ended up partnering with Amara to help develop The Path of Azul, a conscious movement practice as a path of personal transformation.

I am thrilled to be part of a marvelous new anthology, DARING METAMORPHOSIS (Angel Lab Editions), that will be released on December 17, in both French- and English-language editions. DARING METAMORPHOSIS is a collection of deeply personal essays about personal transformation and reinvention, with an inspired cast of international authors.

To celebrate this launch, I am releasing a special podcast episode on launch day with 3 colleagues who I greatly admiral: Brigitte Bojkowszky, a brand strategist from Austria, Richard Phan, a software engineer who lived through the dot.com bubble in Silicon Valley, and Sophie Roumeas, an exceptional poet, serial anthologist, and the creative force behind this book. We discuss the unexpected role that synchronicity has played, and continues to play, in our lives.

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