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John Gray  "Why Mars and Venus Collide" - Best selling author of Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, John Gray gave a lively and informative interview discussing the fresh ideas in his new book, Why Mars and Venus Collide.  In it, he summarized the latest neurological and hormonal research that explains, beyond male-female socialization, why women and men are so different.  It was a fascinating and thought-provoking interview. 

Jack Canfield  "Success Principles" - Co-creator of Chicken Soup For the Soul and nationally recognized speaker on Success says success is achieving goals established by yourself. His goals can be simply defined as Healthy, Happy and Wealthy. We are not trained to set goals or how to visualize so most never accomplish all we are capable of doing. Jack states to create success you have to visualize what you will achieve and believe that is your life in five years. Wishing for it will never deliver success you still must plan, execute and do the work required by the plan. Learn the exercises to activate the Power of Attraction as Jack describes the methods to create and reinforce your goals.

Stephen M. R. Covey - The Speed of Trust

Dr. Fern Kazlow - Shattering Financial Limitations 

Dr. Cheryl Woodson - Caring for Elderly Patients 

Dickon Pownall-Gray - Surviving Bullies 

Julia Hidy - Energy For Your Life 

Peggy McColl - Your Destiny Switch

Warren Herbert - Keeping the Golden Years Golden

Dr Tracy Lanz and Marion Ross - Keys to Shift Your Life

David McMillian - Creating Marriage

Kurek Ashley - Designing Your Dream Life

Marsha Hansen - Message From African Spirituals

Dr. Pamela Wible - Healing Healthcare: A Physicians Journey

Neale Donald Walsch - More Coversations with God

Aurelia Flores - Powerful Latinas

Christine Comaford - Entrepreneurship:Rules For Renegades

Dr. Bill Manahan - Dying Is Nothing To Fear

Kathy Newbern & J.S. Fletcher- Star In Your Own Romance

Eric VanVlymen - Caring For Alzheimer's Patients

Nancy Manahan & Becky Bohan -Living Consciously, Dying Gracefully

Reut Schwartz-Hebron "Kind Excellence in Business"

Dr. John Morton "You Are the Blessings"

Chip Cummings "Surviving and Thriving in Real Estate"

Runa Bouius "Business and Consciousness"

Lorraine Cohen "Bringing Spirit Into Business"

Dr. Gabriela Cora "Can Women Lead Without Being Harsh" - Why do people grab power simply to have more power? Why do more women than men tend to do this? This is an important workplace issue that is very difficult and explosive to address. A positive leader will empower and develop the talents of those around her while a negative leader would operate by fear and intimidation and focus advancing her own image rather the getting the job done. Are you insecure and feel that no one will respect you. If so you may be a negative leader and a negative leader may result in employee turnover and negatively impact the profitability of the firm. Learn the traits of the negative leader and how to cope with this leadership type in the workplace.

Dr. Uma Gupta "Leadership Under Pressure" - What does it take to become a leader? Are they born or may they be created? Are there issues that you are so passionate about that you know you will always try to create solutions to or advancement of those issues? Are you strong enough to accept the consequences of your actions and decisions? When you are the victim of unfair criticism how do you react? Are you capable of learning from your experiences? A leader is someone that is always true to themselves and takes responsibility for every decision they make and never make excuses for failing to realize fully every objective.

Rev. Dale Susan Edmonds "Spiritual Aging" - This conversation discusses the issue of talking about the future with your aging parents since a major life changing crisis is only a single illness away and hope is not a plan. We all would rather avoid talking about mortality and the mortality of our parents especially but this is one conversation that we all need to have. Her mantra is "Talk Early, Talk Often." The criticality of having an Advanced Medical Directive executed and available and asking your parents what do you want to happen if you are in a coma, a persistent vegetative state, you have a terminal illness, advanced Alzheimer's is that U.S. law requires the answers to these questions and who is the person authorized to speak to the medical staff to be in writing to be enforceable.

Carol Edmonston "Sacred Doodles" - A Breast Cancer Survivor speaks of her journey from diagnosis to now. Learn how her spiritual belief aided her in the acceptance of her ailment as something that happens in life to be lived through rather than be defeated by. One day Carol started to doodle as an artistic means of meditation which allowed her to unleash and release her inner-self. This meditation allowed her unconscious healing process to come to the fore. This inspirational story is a must hear for everyone because we will all face situations that we immediately feel are simply not fair. Learn how to let go and live today.

Sharon Rivkin "Your First Argument" - To defuse arguments requires you to find what core issues trigger your response. To find the core issues start from now and work backwards to find the issues in your past that trigger your response. Your reaction today is based on some deeply ingrained emotional issue from your past. If your reaction is disproportional to topic being argued about realize the roots of your reaction are your past hurts. It really is not about the toothpaste being squeezed in the middle of the tube. Listen and learn how to get past the recurring arguments you have with your partner.

Gail Larsen "Transformational Speaking" - Gail was formerly both Executive Vice President of the National Speakers' Association and Entrepreneur Of the Year in Tennessee. Having trained the best speakers in the country, many of whose names are household words, she shared with my listeners how she helps aspiring speakers develop their own unique voice and style as a speaker. It was an empowering interview.

Sally Shields "Daughter-in-Law Rules" - This handy little book, The Daughter-In-Law Rules, is on how to end competition and conflict with your mother-in-law forever. After countless hours long arguments with her husband about her feeling poorly treated by his mother, Sally realized that she would eventually lose her husband if she didn't figure out how to deal with his mother. This interview was a very fun, light hearted discussion about a deadly serious issue.

Ann Simonds "Women In Leadership" - President of the Baking Division at General Mills, gave a fascinating interview on her own personal leadership style. She is unabashedly and unapologetically intuitive, which forms the core of her management style. Of course, this is rare, especially among leaders in the corporate world. She shared how she combines a woman's way of knowing and operating with a focus on accountability to meet her division's productivity goals.

Tamra Nashman "Openheartedness Heals" - This was a very engaging and touching interview about how Tamra and her husband turned their highly abusive marriage into one of love and forgiveness. He grew up in a strictly fundamentalist Muslim home where women had no voice. She grew up in a loving Christian home. For eleven years, they struggled. Finally, with the help of her pastor, they found forgiveness, reconciliation, and each other.

Kamran Pasha "Islam In America "

Minna "The Pixie Revolution" - Minna was a former highly successful advertising executive until she experienced a tragic accident that resulted in burns on both of her legs. In fact, doctors were concerned that she may never walk again, and if she did, her legs would be badly scarred. However, she healed herself and started The Pixie Revolution. This was a funny, fun, but deadly serious interview about all the messages the Universe had to send her to finally get her attention.

Reverend Karen Tate "Sacred Places of Goddess"

Donna Krech "Never Ending Motivation"

Dr. Lynne Eldridge "Avoiding Cancer" - Author of an award-winning book, Avoiding Cancer One Day At a Time and a medical columnist for The New York Times web newspaper, About.com. She spoke about a range of steps, both large and small, that people can take to avoid cancer in their everyday lives. Dr. Eldridge's recommendations in this empowering interview make cancer prevention seem like child's play.

Alexandra Stoddard "Happiness for Two" - Alexandra wrote a lovely book of essays on marriage entitled Happiness For Two. Her premise is that the best way to get love is to give love. This is a far more effective approach to relationships than keeping track, or quid pro quos. Of course, the best marriages are those where both people invest in happiness for two.

Dr. Randine Lewis "The Way Of The Fertile Soul"

Mark Amtower "Defining Success on Your Own Terms"
Linda Bonnice "Shape Shifting: Reclaiming Your Perfect Body"

Rev. Gary Bracey & Ayele Shakur "Motivating Kids To Care About School"

Dr. Bernie Dahl "On My Near-Death Experience"

Dr. Ed Poole "Rediscovering Your Authentic Self "

Dr. Bradley Nelson "The Emotion Code"

Pam Vetter "Creating a Meaningful Farewell" - Pam became a celebrant of life when her sister died of cancer and there was no religious tradition the family could use for burying her. Since then, Pam has officiated at dozens of funerals, cremations, and memorial services, having helped the family devise a meaningful ritual for saying good-bye and celebrating that person's wonderful life lived fully and meaningfully.

Margaux Jordan "Soles For the Soul"

Dr. Dennis Hurwitz With Robert Mendelson "The Chase For Beauty" - Dr. Hurwitz, a prominent Pittsburgh plastic surgeon and medical innovator told the harrowing tale of his seventeen year old daughter's murder by the girl's best friend. Because the first trial was a mistrial, the Hurwitzes had to live through the tragedy yet again. In the midst of this, Dr. Hurwitz was accused of medical malpractice when he attempted to help a young girl whose recovery was a long shot. Through all this, Dr. Hurwitz could have become bitter. But he did not. His resiliency and spunk are inspirational.

Bill Boggs "Successful People Reveal Their Secrets"

Dawn McIntyre "Nurturing the Spiritually Gifted Child"

Sheppard Komminars, PhD. "Journaling To Heal Mind, Body, and Spirit"

Gay Hendricks, PhD. "Answering One Question Can Change Your Life"

Amy Schoen "Intentional Dating"

Rory Cohen "Creating Community For a Transgendered Teen"

Geoffrey Berwind and Sandra Lloyd, "Leaving Your Legacy Through Your Stories:

Moreah Ragusa, "You're Destined For Miracles"

Colin Tipping, "Radical Forgiveness"

Sandra Taylor, "Quantum Success"

Dr. William Habitzel "Dying Was the Best Thing" - Dr. Hablitzel wrote Dying Was the Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me, when a terminal patient said that to him. Having received a diagnosis that gave him only a few months to live, the patient decided to live his life to his last breath. Dr. Hablitzel described his own experience treating patients with serious illnesses and how that has changed him and the way he practices medicine.

Reverend Misa Hopkins and Arian Thomas "Woman's Path to Enlightenment"

Brendon Burchard "Life's Golden Ticket"

Richard Blackstone "Nuts and Bolts Spirituality"

JD Messinger "Discover Your Essence"

Laurie Bagley "Turning Dreams Into Reality" - Laurie is one of only six women ever to summit Mount Everest. The focus of the interview was on all the rigors of her experience. Her sherpa held her group for two months at base camp on the foot of the mountain in preparation for their climb. Once they finally began the climb, along the way, they encountered the frozen remains of those who didn't make it, white outs, snow, and intense cold. Her story is inspirational for all those who are attempting to do something they find incredibly difficult.

Sam Jackson "Teaching the Joys of Giving Back" - Sam unabashedly says his bosses are his three daughters, ages 4, 9, and 12. As a former IT executive, he is helping his daughters learn how business works by teaching them to run their own organization, Prayer Pals. Sam considers teaching his daughters the value of giving back to those who are ess fortunate to be as important as earning, and he discussed how he instills this value.

Mat Boggs and Jason Miller "Project Everlasting" - Two young men who have been best friends since the third grade decided to study couples who have been married for over 40 years. They interviewed 400 couples from all areas of the country to find out what keeps them strongly attached after all these years. Learn what they found out on their journey.

Ray Bartley "Search For Myself: A Weight Loss Journey" - This show is about taking control of your life by taking control of your weight. Hear how an ordinary man accomplished losing 55 pounds in 54 days by a process known as juice fasting. His reflections on his experience will be inspirational to each of us on our own personal journey.

Gina Mollicone-Long "The Secret of Successful Failing" - Gina defines successful failing as any experience however disappointing, where you learn something. Gina's anything-is-possible attitude will show you how to get out of a rut and get on the road to getting what you want. She did the seemingly impossible for her and with her story as inspiration you can do that too.

Jack Bloomfield "One Planet United" - One of Jack's deepest insights over the years is the awareness of the divisiveness of much of humanity and the prejudices that underlie it. Jack is the co-founder and executive director of One Planet United, an organization that seeks to bring unity and understanding to all people through experiential and educational projects. You can make a difference in the world listen and learn how.

Audrey Kitagawa "Sacred Journey: Travels With My Beloved" - As Chair of the United Nations Committee on spirituality, Values, and Global Concerns, her work has taken her all over the world. She even has a school in Africa named for her. his fascinating interview was a discussion of her work at the United Nations as well as her mentoring by Hawaii's Divine Mother that resulted in her being named Divine Mother Audrey..

Carol McKibbins "Riding Through It" - Carol says, "The most important person to forgive is ourselves and that is always the hardest thing to do." Carol married a highly abusive man, left him and then later married him again. Carol tells us how she extricated herself from this excruciating and dangerous situation to become happily married to her current husband. She now is a "check your baggage-at-the-door coach" and a victim no more. Her lessons can help us all.

Gayle Gregory "How Fear Holds Dreams Hostage" - Face your fears and find yourself is the message of Gayle author of The Grand Experiment. Gayle shares her vision of creating a global community where people can feel free to risk coming out of hiding to be who they truly are. Now Gayle and her partners transform personal patterns and business foundations to energize meaning in all aspects of life.

Anne Barry Jolles "Growing Resilience" - Ms. Jolles' life made becoming resilient essential. She was diagnosed and won the fight against Cancer, she is the child of an alcoholic parent and her parents died within six months of each other. She adopted two challenging children. The center piece of her emotional survival was accepting grace.

Mike Ball "Lost Voices"- Mike Ball was an award winning journalist, made enough money to pay cash for a Porsche and left it all because it was unfulfilling. On a lark he volunteered to work with youth who were already career criminals teaching them to write poetry which he and others then set to music. This program is now funded by the Michigan Endowment For the Arts. Mike's tells an inspirational story about one person with heart can do to help children believe in themselves. Imagine all of the Psychological lives he is saving

Carol Harper "Finding Your Life Purpose" - One bright morning Carol's life totally changed in an instant. She was hit head-on by a drunk driver at 8:35 a.m. Carol was severely disfigured and required six surgery's to attempt to restore some of her former beauty and indeed the life she had known. Our conversation about perseverance when your entire life as you have known it is destroyed in an instant is a story of tragedy and transformation.

Dennis Holtje "Transforming From Light" - This conversation with the Dennis Holte is a lively exchange on existential themes. The author of Transforming Light to Sound which blends eastern and western thought about the way of the soul to find the light and the sound within. We discuss various paradoxes such as "to find your way to the light, you must close your eyes and walk in the dark."

Richard Tripp "What One Person Can Do" - At a point in his life when Richard was homeless and considering suicide a five year old boy gave him his mission in life, that boy gave Richard his piggy bank. Richard took that innocent act of a caring boy to be a sign that he could and should make a positive contribution to others. Richard started Care of Poor People (COPP) which today continues to provide help and assistance to the most vulnerable living among us. Our conversation provides inspiration to those that believe each of us can make a difference.

Pastor Bill Brice "Notes From My Prison Ministry" - An octogenarian the reverend William Brice, talked with me about his civil rights work in the 50's and 60's segregated south, inner city churches and as a volunteer chaplain in federal prison. Reverend Brice is a true example of vital aging still contributing and redeeming lost souls in prison.

Bernie Ahern "One man's Journey to His Soul" - As adults we have choices about how and even whether we deal with difficult experiences. Children are not so lucky. Children are completely dependent on the adults in their lives. This show explores how the death of his father when Bernie was 7 years old affected him. His mother made him step into an adult role by saying "now you are my little man." Bernie shares his journey of hope and healing.

Carol Edel "Other Lifetimes, Same Body" - Carol had a "deja-vu" experience at a very early age and saw her experiences in a prior life. Our conversation discussed concepts of reincarnation, karma and "records". We probed Carol's ideas of developing higher consciousness, growing your soul and the differences between a spiritual and religious perspectives.

Chaplain Don Patterson "Souls Amid the Rubble" - A national chaplain for The American Red Cross. He was sent to New York on 9/12 and again when the American Airlines plane went down just weeks later. He also was sent to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. He will talk about the souls he met and how his experiences changed him.

Dr. Aaron Kaufman "Musings of a Seasoned Seeker" - A healer by trade, Aaron has capitalized on a personal crisis to begin to explore spiritual themes. He shares his vast experience and knowledge of what it's like to be committed to his spiritual path.