Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of meeting Monica Price, a business leader, broadcaster, writer and wellness expert from the United Kingdom. Price is a go-to health and wellbeing advisor for the BBC, ITV, Sky News, GB News, XPTV1, TalkTV and Times Radio, and a regular contributor to Great British
Life magazines.
She advocates for the use of complementary therapies alongside conventional health care and is CEO of Homeopathy UK, a charity that supports doctors and practitioners in the industry. With a degree in nutritional therapy and clinical practice from the University of Worcester, Price works with clients across the globe as a qualified nutritional therapist.
She also hosts “The Monica Price Show,” a talk show featuring celebrities, musical artists and health and wellness experts streamed live to a global audience.
Price and her business partner and director Barry Tomes are regular vacationers to Palm Springs and recently decided to increase their time spent locally. After being invited to speak about his life and career at a Coachella Valley High School (CVHS) student assembly, Tomes had an idea: work with the school’s Digital Design and Production Academy to build a set on campus to tape the “Monica Price Show” from the U.S.
Students helped build the professionally designed set which featured colorful artwork on loan from local artists Karen and Tony Barone. When filming began, they assumed educational roles behind the cameras and as makeup artists, photographers, AV techs and production assistants.
The first nationally produced “Monica Price Show” filmed in February and focused on health and wellbeing. I was invited to be a featured guest along with naturopathic doctor Lisa Amerine, ND of Colorado, President of the American Institute of Homeopathy, and Coachella Valley Unified School District Wellness Specialist Jason Tate.
It was an honor to be a part of this collaboration and to see the students doing such a professional job on set. What an amazing opportunity to study under these professionals and for their work to broadcast to an international audience. Few will ever know that the show was filmed on their school campus.
“The students did such an incredible job and it was wonderful to bring them along on this journey with us,” expressed Price, adding in her British humor that dismantling the set was very sad for all, so they ate cake.
We are pleased to announce Desert Health will be featuring a Monica Price column in upcoming editions. International health topics she will cover include nutrition and wellbeing, homeopathy, autism, government policy and trending health concerns.
“I truly believe we need a more integrative approach to our health care now, and it was wonderful to find so many likeminded people here in the Coachella Valley,” Price adds.
She and Tomes will return to the valley in the fall and hope to film more episodes of her show at CVHS where the layout of the set remains and will be used for students to continue practicing filming
and performing.
View the locally filmed episode here:
For more information on Monica Price, visit www.monica-price.co.uk. She welcomes your topic ideas and can be reached at [email protected]. Lauren Del Sarto can be reached at [email protected].
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