REPLAY: November 25, 2019 – 11 am PST
THANKSGIVING SPECIAL!
TITLE: Kindness and Gratitude for 2019 and Beyond
SPECIAL GUEST: Gabriella van Rij,
TV show that is presently being funded on Indiegogo. https://igg.me/at/Daretobekind/x/19723133
Gabriella van Rij, our guest and frequent Answers for the Family co-host, was plucked from a Pakistani orphanage at three and adopted by a Dutch family. Raised in Holland, she learned about bullies and racism the hard way, but she refused to remain a victim. Instead, she used understanding and empathy to defeat fear and mistrust. The techniques she pioneered are even more relevant in a country-and economy-that is increasingly global and multicultural.
Founder of the Dare To Be Kind Movement, Gabriella has been on the road filming since early November. She began her travels on the West Coast, Los Angeles, on November 1st, and has been working her way through Arizona, Albuquerque, Oklahoma, and then up toward the East Coast. She is interviewing not-for-profit associations and people from all walks of life who have taken up the Dare To Be Kind challenge of 1 act of kindness in a 2-mile radius-to highlight to everyone how kindness begins in your own home and neighborhood.
The program will showcase people who took their pain and made it into their greatest strength—the strength that enables them to help others. Gabriella shares that through her Dare to be Kind Movement we can create safer communities, healthier relationships and make the shift from the “bystander syndrome” to becoming an active participant in the transformation that occurs when one takes the time and Dares to be Kind!
Who this TV series is for…
- If you are tired of seeing blame, finger-pointing, and problems without much progress toward solutions…
- If you feel there’s too much nonsense and negativity on TV…
- If you want to see kindness make the news…
- If you want a series that will encourage your children, your family, and your loved ones to see each other and the world with eyes of acceptance and hearts filled with kindness.
Gabriella van Rij is pushing kindness into the news cycle and creating a TV show that will be pure positive energy from start to finish. But we need your help! We encourage you to visit her Indiegogo page to show support for this show. https://igg.me/at/Daretobekind/x/19723133
ABOUT GABRIELLA VAN RIJ
After Gabriella wrote her first book, With All My Might, which chronicles her many personal and hurtful experiences with bullying, she was invited to appear on TV shows across the US as an anti-bullying expert.
Later in 2012, Gabriella heard the devastating news of a seven-year-old boy who had committed suicide due to bullying. Her compassion and desire to help those suffering from isolation, bullying, and feeling as if they did not belong intensified. In that moment, she decided she would become an activist for kindness.
On national TV and at school assemblies across the US, Gabriella says, “Let’s pick up our standards. Let’s pick up our values.” Her slogan is: “We as a society have dropped the ball on Human Kindness®. Will you help me pick it up?” #DareToBeKind
For the last three years, Gabriella has been seen by millions on Dr. Phil, ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX.
