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Join Vicki and her three guests for a discussion on one of our favorite topics, food–the focus being on GOOD as in mm…mmm delicious. We’ll also talk about de-stressing and calming yourself without food! .

1) Dr. Jane Goodall once told Vicki that the best investment we can make in our environmental future is to get our kids involved at the grass roots level. Find out today how a movement of educators, parents, and students is remaking K-12 education in Smart by Nature: Schooling for Sustainability. Lisa Bennett is an author and communications director for the Center for Ecoliteracy. A former fellow at Harvard University’s Center on Press, Politics, and Public Policy in the John F. Kennedy School of Government, she’s written for many publications, including the New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor.

2) There’s nothing more welcoming on a cold winter’s day than coming home to the aroma of hot, nutritious food. Whether you enjoy cooking or not, we’re betting you’ll enjoy some of the “anyone-can-do-it” easy-to-make recipes in Stephanie O’Dea’s Make it Fast, Cook it Slow: The Big Book of Everyday Slow Cooking. Meals are gluten-free, inexpensive, and mm…mmm delicious! Stephanie O’Dea is the founder of A Year of Slow Cookingand has been on the Rachel Ray Showand Good Morning America. She’s been quoted or featured in dozens of publications including the New York Times, Publisher’s Weekly, and the LA Times. More about Stephanie O’Dea at www.crockpot365.blogspot.com.

3) Maybe you’ve had a bad day. Maybe you’re bored, or frustrated. Or maybe you feel overwhelmed and stressed beyond your limits. You’re craving chocolate, a cup cake, potato chips, or French fries … anything to numb you down. But Don’t Do It! Dr. Susan Albers is a psychologist who specializes in eating issues, weight loss, and body image concerns. She has plenty of mindful suggestions to help you find relief, comfort, and regain your calm. 50 of them to be exact! Dr. Albers’ work has been quoted in O Magazine, Family Circle, Self, Health, Fitness Magazine, Natural Health, and the Wall Street Journal. She’s also an AOL Fitness Coach and blogger on the Huffington Post. Susan Albers, PSY.D, new book is 50 Ways to Soothe Yourself Without Food.

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Who controls your life? Can love really heal? Is it possible to change your destiny? Metaphysical novelist Alan Cohen discusses Linden’s Last Life where the point of No Return is just the beginning! Gaellen Quinn takes us to Hawaii, but it’s not the same story that James Michener told in Hawaii. Based on facts suppressed for 100 years, Quinn’s novel, The Last Aloha, tells the real story.  The amazing Cami Walker, author of 29 Gifts an founder of www.29gifts.org shares her journey from being newly wed, newly promoted and on top of the world to struggling with Multiple Sclerosis. After speaking with an African Medicine Woman — her spiritual mentor — Cami Walker turned her life around. Find out how, and what a difference she’s now making to others.

Alan Cohen is the author of 22 popular inspirational books, including The Dragon Doesn’t Live Here Anymore. He’s a contributing writer for Chicken Soup for the Soul series. And his work’s been featured on Oprah.com. Alan Cohen’s books have been translated into 23 languages, touching the lives of millions who have found the courage to believe in themselves and follow their dreams.

Gaellen Quinn is a novelist and international development consultant for projects in places such as the Amazon, Cambodia, Tanzania, and Austin Texas. She has a passion for diverse cultures and for world themes that affect our personal, social, and spiritual lives. More about Gaellen Quinn and why she wrote The Last Aloha.

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HOW DOES NATURE satisfy our desires, and learn to create new ones? We’ll explore producer/director Michael Schwarz’ new film, the Botany of Desire, coming to PBS TV Wed Oct 28 at 8pm. Later, award-winning journalist Steven Winn’s Come Back, Como is described by Amy Tan as “A delightful story about the joys and deeper meanings dogs bring into our lives.”

In 1983, author Michael Pollan and his wife left New York City to make a new home on an abandoned dairy farm. Little did he know it would eventually lead him to an original and provocative re-interpretation of the relationship between plants and people. Based on Pollan’s best selling book The Botany of Desire, produced and directed by Michael Schwarz takes viewers from the potato fields of Peru and Idaho to the apple forests of Kazakhstan, from the tulip markets of Amsterdam to the medical marijuana grow rooms of the United States. Along the way, the program will explore the natural history of the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato – and the human desires that link their destinies to our own. View on PBS November, 3rd. See PBS Previews.

Author of Come Back, Como: Winning the Heart of a Reluctant Dog, Steven Winn is an award-winning journalist and fiction writer who spent many years as a staff writer at the San Francisco Chronicle. A Philadelphia native and founding staff member of the Seattle Weekly, he held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in fiction at Stanford University. His work has appeared in Good Housekeeping, National Lampoon, The New York Times, Parenting, Prairie Schooner, Sports Illustrated, and UTNE Reader. He lives with his family in San Francisco.

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Instant Income Strategies

She’s Jack Canfield’s marketing strategist and business advisor to many successful celebrities. Janet Switzer shares proven strategies, tips, and resources to help you create Instant Income whether you’re an employee, business owner, or occasional entrepreneur.

Building Online Communities

Web strategist, blogger, and podcaster Julien Smith discusses the changing face of business communities and says “It’s not about technology … it’s about humans”.

A 20-year veteran of the marketing and advertising field, Janet Switzer is unique among experts as the woman who’s been responsible for advising and executing the day-to-day marketing programs of Chicken Soup for the Soul co-author Jack Canfield, legendary motivational speaker Les Brown, business guru Jay Abraham, and master motivational speaker Mark Victor Hansen, among other celebrity entrepreneurs. Janet Switzer’s new book is Instant Income: Strategies that Bring in the Cash for Small Businesses, Innovative Employees, and Occasional Entrepreneurs.

Julien Smith is an author, consultant, and speaker who has been involved in online communities for over 15 years– from early BBSs and flashmobs to the social web as we know it today. He was one of the first people on the web to use podcasting in 2004, and one of the first web personalities to be broadcast via traditional radio. He’s since been featured with numerous media organizations such as CNN, CBC, CTV and more. And along with Chris Brogan, Julien Smith is co-author of Trust Agents, which made #13 on The New York Times bestseller list and # 8 on The Wall Street Journal bestseller list within the first month.

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STUCK IN A corporate job rut and faced with an unraveling marriage at the age of thirty-six, Roz Savage sat down one night and wrote two versions of her own obituary — the one that she wanted and the one she was heading for. They were very different. Also today, devastated after his son was shot and killed while delivering pizzas, by a 14-year-old gang member, Azim Khamisa knew that to save himself and others, he must find purpose. Listen to podcast.

Through workshops, keynote speeches and consulting, Azim Khamisa, who founded The Tariq Khamisa Foundation in honor of his son, carries the message that peace can be restored, no matter what has gone before. His simple 3-step process untangles the mystery behind forgiveness and sets people free to enjoy a life full of richness and meaning. His produced empowering CDs, DVDs and an award-winning book From Murder to Forgiveness. He’s already helped thousands of people. His work has been commended by the Dalai Lama, President Bill Clinton, and Al Gore. And he joins Vicki today to talk about his latest work: The Secrets of the Bulletproof Spirit: How to Bounce Back from Life’s Hardest Hits, coauthored with Jillian Quinn.

Roz Savage realized that if she carried on as she was, she was going to end up having lived a life she didn’t want. So she turned her back on an eleven-year career as a management consultant to reinvent herself as a woman of adventure. She invested her life’s savings in an ocean rowboat and became the first solo woman ever to enter the Atlantic Rowing Race … a 3,000 mile ordeal at sea. In Rowing the Atlantic we are brought on board when Savage’s dreams of feasts are nourished by yet another freeze-dried meal. When her gloves wear through to her blistered hands. When her headlamp is the only light on a pitch-black night ocean that extends indefinitely in all directions. When, one by one, all four of her oars break. When her satellite communication fails …

Through workshops, keynote speeches and consulting, Azim Khamisa, who founded The Tariq Khamisa Foundation in honor of his son, carries the message that peace can be restored, no matter what has gone before. His simple 3-step process untangles the mystery behind forgiveness and sets people free to enjoy a life full of richness and meaning. His produced empowering CDs, DVDs and an award-winning book From Murder to Forgiveness. He’s already helped thousands of people. His work has been commended by the Dalai Lama, President Bill Clinton, and Al Gore. And he joins Vicki today to talk about his latest work: The Secrets of the Bulletproof Spirit: How to Bounce Back from Life’s Hardest Hits, coauthored with Jillian Quinn.

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Join us for a creative hour with my three very talented guests: Selden Edwards who’s just fulfilled his 30-year dream at the age of 68. Filmmaker Sue Gilbert, who says it’s easier to come out as a gay person than a wealthy one. And activist and filmmaker Jen Marlowe whose passion for effecting change in Sudan led her to the big screen. Listen to podcast.

He was an English teacher and headmaster for 30 years, and for all those years he wrote, rewrote, and wrote some more trying to fulfill his dream to become a novelist. Selden Edwards was elated to finally see his dream come true at the age of 68 with the not so little, The Little Book. He’s now on book tour and coming to Queen Anne Bookstore on Wednesday Sept 30 at 6pm. See more about Selden Edwards.

As small children, Gabriel Bol Deng, Koor Garang and Garang Mayuol fled their villages in South Sudan to escape civil war. They became a part of a group of thousands of other boys with a similar story, nicknamed “The Lost Boys” upon resettlement in the USA in 2001. Filmmaker Jen Marlowe shares their story in Rebuilding Hope premiering in Seattle the first weekend in October. See more.

Sue Gilbert grew up with five siblings and extreme wealth — so extreme that her parents bought an island named Greenaway where they were all raised. But is that as idyllic as it sounds? Filmmaker Sue Gilbert interviews her parents and siblings to share their experiences — the ups and downs, the paths they all took, and how each sibling sees things a little differently in Beyond Greenaway. See Greenaway Trailer premiering at The Tacoma Film Festival on the first Saturday in October.

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Fact: 90% of directors and vice presidents had zero training on developing strategy, yet it’s the most important competency for a leader to possess. 95% of employees don’t understand their company’s strategies. And only 4% of leaders at all levels in a company are strategic … Are you beginning to see where you could develop a competitive edge? Listen to podcast.

Rich Horwath is the Founder & President of the Strategic Thinking Institute, an organization dedicated to helping managers develop their strategic thinking skills to achieve competitive advantage. He is a former Chief Strategy Officer and serves as a Professor of Strategy at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management with a 4.9 out of 5 rating for teaching effectiveness. Rich is the author of four books and more than 50 articles on strategic thinking. He works with clients ranging from Fortune 100 companies to emerging growth companies located in the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific. And has developed dozens of proprietary strategic thinking tools including the Deep Dive Learning System, which includes his best-selling book Deep Dive.

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Does your body talk to you? It does if you listen to it, and body-centred therapist, Steve Sigold, shares how to do just that. Also, if you think Osteoporosis is just an “old ladies’ disease”, think again. Dr. Keith McCormick examines what we all — male and female — need to know! .

Steve Sisgold has worked with Kenny Loggins, Gay Hendricks and other stars who say his work has changed their lives. He’s a body-centered therapist, author, speaker, and practitioner who has taught thousands how to use their innate body intelligence to create better health, prosperity and richer, more authentic relationships. Doesn’t that sound like something you want? Learn more about Steve at www.onedream.com; his book is What’s Your Body Telling You?

Dr. Keith McCormick is a leading expert on Osteoporosis and the changes you can make to strengthen fragile bones and avoid further loss of density. He specializes in the nutritional management of Osteo and has written a phenomenal book called The Whole-Body Approach to Osteoporosis. You can find out more about Dr. Keith McCormick and Osteoporosis at at http://mccormickdc.com.

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Enjoy Labor Day weekend with an encore broadcast at noon PT on Conversations Live with Vicki St. Clair. NPR correspondent, award-winning journalist, and self-professed grump, Eric Weiner, set out on a personal odyssey across the globe. His journey culminated in The Geography of Bliss; One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Place in the World. We also feature award-winning journalist and NYT bestselling author, Susan Jane Gilman on her memoir, Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven.

Weiner spent two of the best years of his life reporting for NPR from New Delhi, covering everything from an outbreak of bubonic plague to India’s economic reforms. Over the past decade, he’s reported from more than 30 countries—most of which, he says, “were profoundly unhappy”. He traveled to Iraq several times during the reign of Saddam Hussein. Was in Afghanistan in 2001, when the Taliban regime fell. And served as a correspondent for NPR in New York, Miami and Washington, D.C. Weiner is a former reporter for The New York Times and was a Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. He was part of a team of NPR reporters that won a 1994 Peabody award for a series of investigative reports about the U.S. tobacco industry. More about Eric Weiner and his work.

We’ll also talk with bestselling author, Susan Jane Gilman. Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven, is her new memoir … a hilarious but harrowing journey, a modern heart of darkness full of Communist operatives, backpackers, and pancakes. As a writer, Gilman specializes politics, women’s issues, cultural criticism, arts, satire. She’s appeared on The Today Show, ABC World News, NBC affiliates in Portland, OR and New Haven and more. And has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Ms., Real Simple and other publications. Gilman lives in Geneva, Switzerland. See more at www.susanjanegilman.com. First broadcast in May 2009.

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Many situations can lead to heartbreak, but whether you want to mend your own broken heart, or help someone mend theirs, Russell Friedman debunks the traditional 5-step grieving process and sheds new light on how to move past loss. Tim Link shares his favorite animal communication stories.

The Grief Recovery Handbook is described as The Action Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce and Other Losses. Russell Friedman joins us to share his insights … many that defy the traditional theories about grief and mourning. Friedman has spent 30 years helping people heal their broken hearts and has established more than 2500 Grief Recovery Outreach programs throughout the world.

Later, we’ve all heard about the healing power of a pet that we love. And while many people have a special bond with animals, few have the ability to understand their innermost thoughts, feelings, and desires. Author Tim Link claims to be able to do just that. In his new book, Wagging Tales, the author and Reiki energy healer details some of his most dramatic and moving encounters with the animal kingdom – from helping a lost cat find her way home, to comforting a Catalan sheepdog after back surgery.

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