May 2014

Happy Memorial Day from all of us here at Conversations Live with Vicki St. Clair! As you break in the coming summer with a barbecue or a day at the beach, enjoy this encore presentation of Conversations Live. Vicki returns live next week.

Award-winning ABC anchor Dan Harris has covered wars and presidential campaigns, investigated human traffickers, and even been chased by wild elephants. But those professional challenges paled in comparison to a personal challenge: taming the voice in his head. He explores his journey in his new book 10% Happier:How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help that Actually Works—A True Story. Good Morning America lifestyle anchor Lara Spencer says David Howitt’s Heed Your Call: Integrating Myth, Science, Spirituality and Business is a personal and professional inspiration.

Conversations Live with Vicki St. Clair airs each Monday at noon Pacific on KKNW 1150AM or 94.9FM HD. Like us on Facebook and follow Vicki on Twitter for exclusive updates and contests!

ABC News anchor Dan Harris has found a way to be happier, calmer – and according to his wife – nicer despite being in one of the most competitve fields around. He chronicles the strange odyssey that bought him to this point in his new book 10% Happier:How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help that Actually Works—A True Story. And if it can work for someone as stress-prone and skeptical as him, it just might work for you. Far from being the typical solve-all-your-problems self-help, what Dan stumbled upon quite by accident through a bizarre series of events is a practical and easily doable approach that leaves the reader with a simple and potentially life-changing takeaway. Click here to follow Dan on Twitter.

Meriweather Group CEO and founder David Howitt wrote Heed Your Call: Integrating Myth, Science, Spirituality and Business to direct the reader on a path to living a more authentic and uncompromising life… or as fashion designer Donna Karan poetically puts it, the book’s message “is what I believe to be an example of the journey we are all on toward creating a more soulful economy.” Howitt demonstrates the power of ‘And,’ proving life does not have ot be an either/or affair, encouraging us to integrate our inner musician and computer programmer, our inner poet and scientist. He shows how in the end, embracing the dualities inside of us all will make you fully integrated, benefitting both your business and your personal life. This book is perfect for the job seeker losing all hope, the innovator who finds their creativity stifled, the spiritualist afraid financial success will undermine their spirituality, and anyone else who has doubts about the path they are on.

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Enjoy this encore presentation of Conversations Live with Vicki St. Clair as she is joined by Helen Peppe with her memoir Pigs Can’t Swim, Barbara Bonner and her moving collection of stories Inspiring Generosity, and recovering addict Chris Grosso with his powerful story about finding spirituality, Indie Spiritualist.

Conversations Live with Vicki St. Clair airs live each Monday at noon Pacific on KKNW 1150AM or 94.9FM HD. Like Conversations Live on Facebook for exclusive content and updates, and follow Vicki on Twitter!

Helen Peppe’s debut memoir Pigs Can’t Swim is a hilarious and touching look at childhood by the youngest of 9 children from a very Maine-centric family. Her deadpan humor accentuates absurd but true stories of ferocious sibling rivalry, feral male chauvinism, rock bottom poverty… even sex in the hayloft! Peppe is a professional writer and photographer whose works have received numerous awards and recognition.

Imbued with author Barbara Bonner’s generosity of spirit, Inspiring Generosity is meant to inspire readers with moving stories about contemporary individuals whose lives have been transformed through the power of generosity. She uses poems and quotes spanning different cultures and centuries of time to further celebrate this remarkable quality. Barbara currently serves as a senior advisor to many organizations and has served as deputy director of The Museum of the City of New York and curator and development specialist of The Asia Society.

Chris Grosso is a recovering addict and shares his powerful story about finding spirituality and making it work for you in Indie Spiritualist. He is widely recognized as an emerging voice in alternative spirituality as a tattoed, independent culturalist who loves skateboarding and music. Chris is a self-taught musician who has been writing, recording, and touring since the 90’s, and also serves as a writer for the Huffington Post.

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Hattie Kauffman spent over 2 decades interviewing presidents, Oscar winners, astronauts and Olympians. She has covered wildfires, murder trials, and delved into personal interest stories. Now, for the first time, she is telling her own story with her memoir Falling Into Place, at once shocking, heartbreaking, uplifting and redemptive. Later, artist author Elaine Clayton challenges you to tap into your creativity with her new book Making Marks: Discover the Art of Intuitive Drawing.

Conversations Live with Vicki St. Clair airs each Monday at noon Pacific on KKNW 1150AM or 94.9FM HD. Like us on Facebook and follow Vicki on Twitter for exclusive updates and contests!

Nationally recognized for her high-profile interviews and coverage of disasters and triumphs that affected millions, four-time Emmy winner Hattie Kauffman candidly shares the experiences that made her into a perceptive newswoman in her best-selling memoir, Falling Into Place: A Memoir of Overcoming. Thinking she had left her ghosts behind, her world came crashing down around her one Autumn day as she was forced to face all she had been running from. These events and what she learned about herself both surprised her and shaped her into the remarkable woman she became. Kauffman spent nearly 22 years with CBS, reporting for many of their top-rated news programs. Before that, she was a special correspondent for ABC’s Good Morning America, and got her start on NBC’s Seattle affiliate, King 5 news. A member of the Nez Perce tribe of Idaho, Kauffman holds the distinction of being the first Native American to file a report on a network news broadcast.

Whether doodling in a notebook or drawing in the sand, freeform drawings are windows into our intuitive selves. Every simple mark we make contains visual imagery with the power to open us up to solutions and answers, heal the past, and increase our empathic sensing. In Making Marks: Discover the Art of Intuitive Drawing, Elaine Clayton leads you on a journey where there is no need to stress about the perfect composition or style, as even the most carefree and simple drawing has a world of power and information waiting to be unleashed! Elaine is an artist, author, certified Reiki Master, and workshop instructor. She has penned and illustrated several children’s books and has done the illustrations for several noteworthy authors.

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Today Vicki welcomes Dr. Laurie Marker and wildlife photographer Suzi Eszterhas, who have teamed up to present the most intimate portrait yet of the world’s fastest land animal, and how we can help save this magnificent but endangered cat in A Future for Cheetahs.

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The cheetah is Africa’s oldest big cat, and with over 90% of their population decimated over the last 100 years, also it’s most endangered.  Dr. Laurie Marker left her position with the Smithsonian, moving to Nambia and founding the Cheetah Conservation Fund in an effort to raise awareness for the plight of the cheetah, which at the current rate of population decline could become extinct in our lifetimes.  Dr. Marker’s new book, A Future for Cheetahs shares the story of the cheetah’s race against being wiped from our planet, from someone who works with them up close and personally.

Award-winning wildlife photographer Suzi Eszterhas spent nearly three years living on her own as a young woman in a bush camp in Africa in order to get very unique photos of the cheetahs for Dr. Marker’s book.  She often spent months following the same cheetah daily from sunrise to sunset, and her patience and perseverance has resulted in some of the most striking, unique, and intimate portraits of the cheetah.

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