Sunny Chayes

Media Personality, Sacred Social Activist, Environmental Accountability Advocate, writer, ‘sometimes’ singer, funster and ‘all the time’ Myth Buster. Born in Chicago, and growing up in various parts of the US and South Africa, Sunny was exposed to many cultures and traditions including spending time with the Bushman “Kwe” of the Kalahari Desert.  Years later, through many life experiences and family opportunities she was exposed to, she saw the world from multifaceted perspectives. Her extended family were activists and advocates of cultural, societal and environmental change through art, literature, travel, music and politics. The family dinner table guests were often policy, entertainment and cultural shapers of the day. Chayes got her activism myth busting chops from having a “front row seat”. 

This led Sunny to find and use her “voice” in singing and speaking at sacred events as well as writing and consulting on screenplays, novels and music. In 2011 she jumped into hosting a number of well received podcasts, “Singin’ in the Rain”, “The Sunny Chayes Show”, the Spanish, Portuguese and English “Pioneers of Possibility” and “Solutionary Sundays” on ABC-KMET.  She hosts thought-provoking and cutting edge luminaries exploring new ways of navigating this challenging life we find ourselves in. Guests share the tools to ‘rock it’ through upleveling our health, education, the arts, enlightened communication and parenting. They guide us in imagining our unique ‘heros journey’ to simply living in sacred behavior on every level. The ‘solutionaries’ enjoy myth busting and inspiring us to be empowered.   

Sunny consults with International and National NGOs that make a difference large and small. They range from local organizations such as Los Angeles, “Food Forward” to International movements and Rwandan NGOs such as “Jessie’s Place-Rwanda”. Her ‘voice’ is found in the country’s longest running holistic magazine, “Whole Life Times” as Chief Strategic Partner and feature writer where she explores a vast array of topics for living in harmony with Mother Earth any way we can. 

At the center of Sunny’s work is the desire for blending humility with profound action. The hope that we will all acknowledge and activate our ‘power of one’. Knowing that we do this for ourselves, for each other and for our children’s future.     

“Unless...

   ...someone like you cares a whole awful lot, 

nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”

Dr. Seuss from The Lorax 1971