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Personal Development

Health & Wellness, Lifestyle, Personal Development, Self-help

Aug 15: 1] Give It a Go, Eat a Rainbow 2] The Stress Solution ~ PODCAST

August 15, 2016

Now you can encourage children to eat more veggies and fruits in a fun, educational and positive way. Give It a Go, Eat a Rainbow uses charming illustrations by 12-year old Alexander Guylay combined with real-life photography and simple rhymes by award winning nutrition educator Kathryn Kemp Guylay to create an augmented reality that immediately draws kids in.

Contemporary life has come to include working too much, sleeping too little and feeling disconnected from partners and family. Our health and relationships suffer (as does our work.) As The Stress Solution: Using Empathy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to Reduce Anxiety and Develop Resilience author Arthur Ciaramicoli EdD, PhD, shows, this state of affairs can be changed… while maintaining high performance success.

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Give It a Go, Eat a Rainbow is not just a book; it is a multi-media resource to help parents, teachers, groups and individuals eat better and be healthier! As the founder and executive director of Nurture, author Kathryn Kemp Guylay provides free nutrition and wellness education and services to children and families. As a principal of Healthy Solutions of Sun Valley, she brings wellness solutions to organizations and corporations through speaking engagements and workshops. You can hear Kathryn’s voice on KDPI FM Ketchum when she hosts her own bi-weekly radio show on wellness topics.

Arthur Ciaramicoli EdD, PhD uses simple and realistic, yet powerful and profound techniques in he Stress Solution: Using Empathy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to Reduce Anxiety and Develop Resilience to demonstrate to readers how to use empathy to perceive accurately, use cognitive behavioral therapy to correct distorted thinking, and trigger our own neurochemistry to produce calm, focused energy. Dr. Ciaramicoli is a licensed clinical psychologist who has been treating clients for more than 30 years. He is a member of the American Psychological Association and the Massachusetts Psycho­logical Association. Currently in private practice, Dr. Ciaramicoli has been on the faculty of Harvard Medical School for several years, and is a lecturer for the American Cancer Society among several other notable positions for various medical centers in Massachusetts.

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Inspirational, Personal Development

Aug 08: Celebrating 9 Years of Conversations Live

August 8, 2016

Regular guest Joyce Chapman joins us today as we celebrate 9 years of Conversations Live with Vicki St. Clair! Joyce has been an integral part of our show in the past and her work has touched many lives … including Vicki’s… and made a profound impact. From Live Your Dream to Journaling for Joy to her latest work, Notice! The Art of Observation, Joyce has been making a positive difference in people’s lives for over 20 years.

As we celebrate 9 years on air, we will be sharing 9 of our favorite books… and in honor of the driving force behind our success… YOU the listeners… Vicki will be giving away 9 fiction books today! It’s our way of saying thank you for making Conversations Live with Vicki St. Clair part of your Monday afternoons week after week!

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Life Coach Joyce Chapman‘s latest work, Notice! The Art of Observation, contains over 400 simple, yet mind-opening statements that anyone can relate to. As you begin the habit of noticing, you may be centered in self-searching. You may want to create a new life for yourself, discover where your true talents lie, change careers, develop better relationships with others, improve your health, reduce stress, overcome negative thinking, or achieve a life-long goal. Joyce has devoted her life to empowering others, first as a teacher for the California public school system, then as director of an innovative school in San Diego, CA. She’s a consultant, speaker, counselor, coach, and author with a Master’s in counseling psychology.

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Health & Wellness, Personal Development, Self-help

Jul 25: 1] The Truth About Detoxing 2] Rethinking Narcissism

July 25, 2016

We live in the presence of over 80,000 chemicals in the U.S. today. Medical literature links our growing exposure to these substances with an increase in chronic disease, from ADD to cancer to infertility to fibromyalgia. Health expert and author Dr. Deanna Minich says you have to detox correctly for it to be effective. Her new book Whole Detox features the detox system she pioneered and debunks the many myths involved in detoxing, such as popular juice fasts, which deprive liver enzymes of necessary proteins.

Dr. Craig Malkin returns to Conversations Live to expound on his book Rethinking Narcissim: The Secret to Recognizing and Coping with Narcissists. Most people think of narcissists as boastful, manipulative, arrogant, and quite easy to spot. Today we’ll take a look at how to detect narcissism in those who are more subtle and hide it much better.

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The best medicine is to look at our health as a whole – getting rid of all toxins, including those in body, mind, and spirit. Health expert and author Dr. Deanna Minich says you have to detox correctly for it to be effective. She has pioneered a detox system that focuses on physical toxins, together with the emotional aspects, using different mind-body techniques such as deep belly breathing and engaging in creative activities that free locked-up feelings. In Whole Detox, Dr. Minich also debunks the many myths involved in detoxing, such as popular juice fasts, which deprive liver enzymes of necessary proteins. Dr. Minich is a wellness and lifestyle medicine expert who has mastered the art of integrating ancient healing traditions with modern science. Her unique “whole self” approach to nutrition looks at physiology, psychology, eating, and living within what she calls the “7 Systems of Health.”

“What is narcissism?” is one of the fastest rising searches on Google, and articles on the topic routinely go viral. Yet, the word “narcissist” seems to mean something different every time it’s uttered. People hurl the word as insult at anyone who offends them. In Rethinking Narcissim: The Secret to Recognizing and Coping with Narcissists, Dr. Craig Malkin shows that there’s far more to narcissism than what is seen on the surface. Dr. Malkin deconstructs healthy from unhealthy narcissism and offers clear, step-by-step guidance on how to promote healthy narcissism in our partners, our children, and ourselves. Dr. Malkin is Lecturer in Psychology for Harvard Medical School and licensed psychologist with over two decades of experience in helping couples, individuals, and families. His research on the role of relationships in psychological growth has been published in peer-reviewed journals, and he is a frequent contributor to Huffington Post.

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Environment, Inspirational, Personal Development

Jun 20: 1] Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging 2] The Battle for Virunga

June 20, 2016

Combining history, psychology and anthropology, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by award-winning journalist Sebastian Junger focuses specifically on the problem American veterans and American society faces today — the breakdown of our communities and our “Tribe.”

National Geographic Explorer correspondent Justin Hall ventures into Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for a candid look at a region in conflict over the park’s valuable but endangered natural resources in The Battle for Virunga.

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Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by award-winning journalist Sebastian Junger explores what we can learn from tribal societies about loyalty, belonging, and the eternal human quest for meaning. It explains the irony that—for many veterans as well as civilians—war feels better than peace, adversity can turn out to be a blessing, and disasters are sometimes remembered more fondly than weddings or tropical vacations. Perhaps most importantly, it explains why we are stronger when we come together, and how that can be achieved even in today’s divided world. Sebastian is a New York Times Bestselling author, award-winning journalist, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and a special correspondent at ABC News. He has covered major international news stories around the world, and has received both a National Magazine Award and a Peabody Award.

In terms of natural resources, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is one of the wealthiest nations in the world. Yet, over 50 percent of the country’s population lives on less than $1.25 per day. For the 4 million desperately poor residents living in and around Virunga National Park, the park’s borders are an arbitrary distinction, and conservation is just another term for the rich and powerful taking the best for themselves. Armed militias also use the park and its vast resources as a means of power in an ongoing and bloody regional conflict. In The Battle for Virunga National Geographic Explorer correspondent Justin Hall ventures into Virunga to meet park director Emmanuelle de Merode and veteran park ranger Innocent Mburanumwe for a candid interview about the rebel groups and militias roaming the park’s jungles, the slaughter of the park’s protected species, the Western oil giants seeking to extract the park’s vast resources and the park rangers who have been murdered in the line of duty.

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Health & Wellness, Personal Development, Self-help, Women's Issues

Jun 13: 1] Menopause Solution 2] Irrelationship

June 13, 2016

Dr. Stephanie Faubion of the Mayo Clinic offers the latest advice on turning the menopause experience into a positive, individualized one in Mayo Clinic The Menopause Solution: A Doctor’s Guide to: Relieving Hot Flashes, Enjoying Better Sex, Sleeping Well, Controlling Your Weight, and Being Happy!

“Let’s Go Get Hammered!” “You Just Have To Get Over It & Move On.” “I Knew This Would Happen.” Learn why relationship Psychiatrist Grant Brenner, MD, says these typical tropes are off-limits when trying to comfort a friend that just got dumped in his coauthored new book Irrelationship: How We Use Dysfunctional Relationships to Hide from Intimacy .

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Menopause is something that affects every woman, with no exceptions, but it doesn’t have to be a “one size fits all” treatment experience as each of our bodies are different and react differently. As one of the nation’s leading experts on menopause and the director of the Women’s Health Clinic in the Department of Internal Medicine at Mayo Clinic, Dr. Stephanie Faubion wrote Mayo Clinic The Menopause Solution: A Doctor’s Guide to: Relieving Hot Flashes, Enjoying Better Sex, Sleeping Well, Controlling Your Weight, and Being Happy! to give you peace of mind on everything from perimenopause to postmenopause, and debunking common myths. Dr. Faubion uses the most up-to-date research and also confronts the controversial topic of hormone therapy.

Women’s Health Magazine asked relationship Psychiatrist Grant Brenner, MD, what’s off limits when trying to comfort a friend that just got dumped. “Avoid saying anything that could leave your friend feeling guilty, ashamed, or to blame for the split,” he replied, and in Irrelationship: How We Use Dysfunctional Relationships to Hide from Intimacy, he and his coauthors delve into the best ways to console a heart broken friend without relying on pandering, stereotypical responses like getting drunk, or how it wasn’t meant to be. Dr. Brenner is an Assistant Clinical Professor at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Department of Psychiatry, and has a private practice in New York City.

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Health & Wellness, Inspirational, Personal Development, Self-help

May 30: 1] Clearing Emotional Clutter 2] Expectation Hangover ~ PODCAST

May 30, 2016

Drawing upon both modern science and ancient practices practicing psychotherapist and former Buddhist monk Donald Altman says his book Clearing Emotional Clutter can help the reader to “… heal and move on from pains, insults, traumas, toxic stressors, and emotional clutter from the past and the present — without blaming, shaming, or punishing yourself.”

Christine Hassler left her successful job as a Hollywood agent at 25 to pursue a life she could be passionate about . . . but it did not come easily. After being inspired by her own unexpected challenges and experiences, she realized her journey was indeed her destination. Her newest book Expectation Hangover: Overcoming Disappointment in Work, Love and Life guides readers on how to treat disappointment on the emotional, mental, behavioral and spiritual levels.

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Donald Altman promises readers of Clearing Emotional Clutter managing emotional clutter begins with managing their brains, and it’s something everyone can do: “While your brain may have initially been shaped by conditions out of your control, the brain is extremely malleable,” he writes. “Neuroscience shows you can reshape the brain’s inner architecture much like an athlete shapes her or his body by going to the gym. Through learning new tools, you become the master programmer capable of rewiring your brain.” Donald is a psychotherapist, award-winning writer, former Buddhist monk, and teacher. He served as adjunct professor at Lewis and Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling, and is an adjunct faculty member of the Interpersonal Neurobiology program at Portland State University.

When our expectations are met and things go according to plan, we feel accomplished, in control, and on track. But when life does not live up to our expectations, we end up with an “expectation hangover.” Expectation Hangover: Overcoming Disappointment in Work, Love and Life by Christine Hassler guides readers on how to overcome when a desired result is not met, an outcome is achieved but it does not give us the feelings we thought it would, life throws us a curveball, or we simply do not feel we are living up to the expectations placed upon us (by ourselves or others). As a professional speaker, Christine leads seminars and workshops to audiences around the country and has appeared as an expert on The Today Show, CNN, ABC, CBS, FOX, E!, Style and PBS, as well as various local television and radio shows.

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Health & Wellness, Personal Development, Self-help

May 09: 1] End Anxiety and Depression for good 2] Happily Ever After… and Other Myths ~ PODCAST

May 9, 2016

Joseph J. Luciani PhD (aka Dr. Joe) returns today to delve further into his self-coaching techniques to rid yourself of problems and excuses. Last time we covered keeping weight off for good… today we will discuss how to beat Anxiety and Depression, and how Compulsivity and Perfectionism are enemies of life.

Psychotherapists Linda and Charlie Bloom debunk romance misconceptions that set us up for failure and replace them with the inspiring real deal in their new book Happily Ever After and 39 Other Myths About Love.

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With his trademark self-coaching systems, Joseph J. Luciani PhD (aka Dr. Joe) helps readers and patients alike to overcome mental obstacles and inner blocks to defeat bad habits and “enemies of life” such as anxiety and depression. Today he will also discuss how being compulsive or perfectionist can also be a roadblock to happiness. Dr. Joe is a practicing clinical psychologist and internationally bestselling author. He is an in-demand speaker featured frequently in major media, including MSNBC, CNBC, Hallmark Channel, Discovery Channel, NPR, USA Today, Cosmopolitan, Redbook, Fitness, Health, Shape, and O, The Oprah Magazine.

Whether you are in a new or long-term relationship, or just striving to make one better, Happily Ever After and 39 Other Myths About Love applies to you. Linda and Charlie Bloom cover such topics as why external conflicts are often outer expressions of internal ones, focusing on what you can do to make things right rather than on what your partner did to make things wrong, the important differences between privacy and secrecy, and how important sex really is to a relationship. Linda Bloom and Charlie Bloom are trained as psychotherapists and relationship counselors, working with individuals, couples, groups, and organizations since 1975. They have lectured and taught at learning institutes throughout the USA,and have offered seminars throughout the world, including China, Japan, Indonesia, Denmark, Sweden, India, Brazil, and many other locations.

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Fiction, Journalism, Personal Development, Writers on Writing

May 02: 1] Lies and Other Acts of Love 2] Smarter Faster Better ~ PODCAST

May 2, 2016

Returning guest Kristy Woodson Harvey’s new book Lies and Other Acts of Love is a moving examination of the lies we tell to protect our loved ones — and the life-altering consequences of a hidden truth revealed.

It’s not about doing more … it’s about understanding human behavior and creating space to enjoy more. Pulitzer-Prize Winner, New York Times investigative journalist, and author, Charles Duhigg joins us for the 3rd time — this time with his new book: Smarter, Faster, Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business.

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After sixty years of marriage and five daughters, Lynn “Lovey” White knows that all of us, from time to time, need to use our little white lies. Her granddaughter, Annabelle, on the other hand, is as truthful as they come. She always does the right thing… that is, until she dumps her hedge fund manager fiancé and marries a musician she has known for three days. But when Annabelle’s world starts to collapse around her, she discovers that nothing about her picture-perfect family is as it seems. Kristy Woodson Harvey’s returns with Lies and Other Acts of Love, an intriguing look at what it really means to tell the truth. Kristy blogs at Design Chic about how creating a beautiful home can be the catalyst for creating a beautiful life, and her writing has appeared in numerous publications and websites.

Smarter, Faster, Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg draws on the latest findings in neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral economics—as well as the experiences of CEOS, educational reformers, four-star generals, FBI agents, airplane pilots, and Broadway songwriters to explain that the most productive people and organizations don’t just act differently. They view the world, and their choices, in profoundly different ways. Charles is a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter for The New York Times and winner of the National Academies of Sciences, National Journalism, and George Polk awards.

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Fiction, Non Fiction, Personal Development, Social Issues, Writers on Writing

Apr 18: 1] James MacManus’ Midnight in Berlin 2] All In: Don’t Forget Dad! ~ PODCAST

April 18, 2016

Returning guest James MacManus has created his own niche… intertwining fiction and real-life little known historical events that, had they gone another way, could have completely altered the world as we know it. Based on the true story of a plan by the British military attaché in Berlin to assassinate Hitler in 1939, Midnight in Berlin has created a captivating love story in a city shifting into a horrifying period of history. With characters whose passions compel the reader to savor every moment of their story, MacManus explores an often overlooked near miss at preventing World War II.

Growing numbers of men are becoming stay-at-home dads, working part-time, or taking on flexible schedules to spend more time with their children. Even the traditional breadwinner-dad is being transformed. Dads today are more emotionally and physically involved on the home front than ever before. Journalist and fatherhood columnist Josh Levs has the answer in All In: How Our Work-First Culture Fails Dads, Families, and Businesses – And How We Can Fix It Together.

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James MacManus is back with his latest in reality-based fiction, Midnight in Berlin. In 1939, British Colonel Noel Macrae, stationed in Berlin and witness to the rise of the Reich, decides that he might be the only Englishman with the opportunity to avert war. As he attempts to convince the British government of his mission, the colonel becomes torn between his government’s orders and his own personal beliefs, especially as he falls in love with a German-Jewish woman. What the colonel doesn’t know is that the Gestapo has formed a plan of its own and he finds himself caught up in a tangled web of shifting loyalties, corruption, and shocking indifference. MacManus has worked in the newspaper business for 50 years and is currently the managing director of The Times Literary Supplement. He has written 4 novels and a screenplay that was made into a film starring Jonathan Rhys Meyer.

When journalist and fatherhood columnist Josh Levs was denied fair parental leave by his employer after his child was born, he fought back—and corporate America responded. In All In: How Our Work-First Culture Fails Dads, Families, and Businesses – And How We Can Fix It Together, he shows how fatherhood today is far different from previous generations and what it means for our individual lives, families, workplaces, and society. Combining Levs’ personal experiences with investigative reporting and frank conversations with fathers about everything from work life to money to sex, All In busts popular myths, lays out facts, uncovers the forces holding all of us back, and shows how we can join together to change them.

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Non Fiction, Personal Development, Self-help

Apr 11: 1] On The Verge 2] The Inefficiency Assassin ~ PODCAST

April 11, 2016

We have all had moments where we felt alive, empowered, where you were not a spectator to life, but a part of something special. Yoga and fitness instructor Cara Bradley’s new book On the Verge shows you how to be more rather than do more, how to experience rather than simply achieve.

Helene Segura meets people where they are struggling most with quick, easy-to-implement strategies and tactics to kick chaos to the curb in her new book The Inefficiency Assassin: Time Management Tactics for Working Smarter.

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Cara Bradley’s On the Verge recaptures the powerful sense of aliveness you’ve felt at the best moments of your life. With enlightening stories and fresh practices, Cara teaches you how to experience what she calls “high-definition, high-voltage living” on purpose, every day. She expertly guides you through the process toward an indescribable sense of fulfillment and empowerment that you may not have thought possible but that was always there, on the “verge” of happening, ready to erupt. Cara Bradley is an author, yoga teacher, mental strength coach, former pro-skater for Team Rollerblade® and entrepreneur having devoted more than three decades to movement disciplines and personal transformation. She is the founder of Verge Yoga in Philadelphia and the cofounder of a non-profit Mindfulness Through Movement, providing full year mindfulness programs to more than a dozen schools in urban Philadelphia.

Who among us is not guilty of proscrastination? Helene Segura calls it opportunity’s natural assassin, and in The Inefficiency Assassin: Time Management Tactics for Working Smarter she explains why we do it and steps we can take to stop it. She also will help with how to make better decisions and implement them into the workplace as well as avoiding going into a tailspin when things don’t go as planned. Helene is a sought after productivity coach to a wide variety of professionals and is president of the International Board of Certification for Professional Organizers as well as a member of the National Speakers Association.

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