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Do financial worries keep you awake at night? Have you given up hope of ever getting out of debt? Do you fear bankruptcy is around the corner? Mitchell Allen joins Vicki to offer practical solutions – including solving credit problems on your own, tips for dealing with creditors, the facts-myths of bankruptcy, and how to emerge from the bleakness of despair and build a financially secure life. .

Mitchell L. Allen is the founder, president, and chairman of Debt Education and Certification Foundation – www.debt-foundation.org – a leading provider of personal debt management courses. Courses he helped develop have been used in over 200,000 counseling sessions, and he has personally conducted more than 1,000 interviews with individuals in financial crisis.

Mitchell previously worked for Citigroup and The Associates Financial Corporation as senior director of modeling, where he led a team of economists and statisticians in developing statistical models to predict response, risk, and fraud within various private label credit card portfolios. His new book is The Survival Guide to Debt.

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Trust is the cornerstone of your business and personal life … but do you really understand what trust is? Or how to develop trust in all areas of your life? Award-winning author and speaker, Vanessa Hall, joins Vicki to discuss The Truth About Trust in Business. We’ll also talk with photographer’s agent and stock photography diva, Danita Delimont, as part of Conversations Live The Real Story Behind Entrepreneurism series. As a successful local business woman, Danita Delimont knows firsthand what it takes to build an international, million-dollar business, based on quality, relationships, and trust.

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If you lie awake at night, tossing and turning, and churning that same ‘worry’ over and over, we have some serious solutions for you today! We’ll also learn about some alternative healing modalities you might not have heard of. And talk with the Reiki master who’s behind The One Gathering, right here in the Pacific Northwest. Listen to podcast.

For the millions of people who lie awake at night worrying, Dr. Beverly Potter has some solutions. Her new book is brimming with practical ideas you can try today. We’ll discuss The Worrywart’s Companion, which includes twenty-one simple things you can do to soother yourself so that you can think more clearly, cope with the worry, and let it go.

We’ll also talk with Alan E. Smith about his unique guide to alternative healing modalities—health solutions from ancient therapies to the newest technologies. See more at UnBreak Your Health: The Complete Guide to Complementary and Alternative Therapies. And our third guest today is psychotherapist and Reiki master, Jennifer Yost, the driving force behind a growing Northwest event: The One Gathering coming to the Center House Theatre at the Seattle Center, August 30th, 4:00 – 6:30 pm.

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How did one mother survive the anguish of, not one, but two runaway teenage daughters, then reclaim their love? Also, when an Oscar-nominated wildlife filmmaker was found dead in Africa, was it a deliberate attempt to thwart her conservation efforts? Lisetn to podcast.

Debra Gwartney is a former reporter for the Oregonian, was a Newsweek correspondent for 10 years, and the proud mother of two beautiful daughters. Following their parents’ divorce and their mother’s move to Eugene, Oregon, the girls grew increasingly angry, until they ran away at the ages of 13 and 15. They lived on the streets in Eugene, then ran to San Francisco – then disappeared altogether. Debra Gwartney joins us to share her heart-wrenching journey to find her girls, and how things stand today. Her new book is Live Through This: A Mother’s Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love.

In January 2006, Joan Root, a 69-year-old naturalist, Oscar-nominated wildlife filmmaker, and staunch conservationist, was murdered by two masked men armed with an AK-47 shortly after midnight in her bedroom on the shore of Kenya’s beautiful Lake Naivasha. The police stated it was a robbery gone bad … but was it? Root had made enemies in her efforts to save Kenya’s wildlife. Veteran journalist Mark Seal, and contributing editor at Vanity Fair, set out to investigate this real-life mystery in Wildflower: An Extraordinary Life and Untimely Death in Africa.

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Today we’re joined by two inspiring guests–one, a recognized author who plays a major role in today’s spiritual revolution helping others to find happiness by daring to be themselves. The other, a former Air Force man, oil researcher and developer, and inventor who traveled 6,500 miles, daring to find himself at the age of 50. Listen to podcast with Alan Cohen and Tim Tyler.

Alan Cohen, M.A., is the author of 22 popular inspirational books and CD’s, including the best-selling The Dragon Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, the award-winning A Deep Breath of Life, and the classic Are You as Happy as Your Dog? He is a contributing writer for the New York Times #1 bestselling series Chicken Soup for the Soul, and his books have been translated into 23 foreign languages. His work has been featured on Oprah.com and in 101 Top Experts. Alan’s monthly column From the Heart is featured in magazines internationally, along with his interviews.

Alaskan author Tim Tyler uses a motorcyle trip as a metaphor for life’s success journey in his inspiring, critically acclaimed, award-winning book that. In A Passion for the Edge: Living Your Dreams Now, Tyler shares his 6,500-mile adventure through the Alaskan and Canadian wilderness. It is a physical journey with spectacular scenery, historic places, wild animals, and interesting people; and a mental journey that shows how to live your dreams inspite of perceived obstacles such as age, money, and the economy.

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Happy 4th July Weekend! If you’ve ever had an idea that you knew could be your ticket to financial freedom — and did nothing about it — you’ll want to tune in today! Forget those “think rich” books, says business woman Kim Lavine, “Everything begins with a search for something better — a dream, an idea … the courage to face challenge, and the passion to get it done.” Listen to podcast now.

Mommy Millionaire is the step-by-step guide on how to turn even the simplest idea into a million dollars. We’ll cover everything from raising money to fund your business, to how to get on QVC. How to make a cold call. How to break down the doors of big retailers. How to apply for a patent. How to save money and increase profit margins by manufacturing offshore … and more! Kim Lavine is the CEO and president of Green Daisy, Inc., a lifestyle brand focused on “Balancing Life with Love”. She’s a an expert on inspirational business advice and has appeared on The Today Show, Rachael Ray, NBC and ABC news, CNN NPR, Oprah & Friends radio network; and has been featured in USA Today, Country Living, Women’s World. Kim is on a mission to empower others to live their dreams and you can learn more about her at www.mommymillionaire.com or www.greendaisy.com. Her book is called Mommy Millionaire: How I Turned My Kitchen Table Idea into a Million Dollars and How You Can, Too!

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Singer and star of Ugly Betty, Vanessa Williams says: “I know if you listen closely to what Rob has to say, and apply his principles to your life every day, you will achieve unprecedented success and unmatched happiness in your life”. Join Vicki and celebrity life coach Robert Mack for Happiness From the Inside Out. We’ll also talk with Carol Zelaya whose illustrated books are making a difference to needy children.

What makes Robert Mack’s work different from the thousands of other coaches out there? He distills practical wisdom using a playful format, delivering a turn-by-turn road map, with a simple-to-follow instruction manual. Based in science and Mack’s own personal experience, he’ll share how to live a happier, healthier, and wealthier life starting today. More about Rob Mack and his new book: Happiness from the Inside Out: The Art and Science of Fulfillment.

Carol Zelaya lives and writes in the Portland, OR area. She wrote an illustrated series called Emily the Chickadee in hope of educating children about nature’s precious gifts. Zelaya donates books to children’s hospitals, and to needy schools and libraries in the Pacific Northwest.

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It’s no secret that our current economic model has stressed our natural environment and much of the population that inhabits it. So how can the Quaker principle of Right Relationship put things back in balance and restore a sustainable environment and economy? Also, how a 5,000-year-old delicacy inspired the world’s fiercest food fight in The Foie Gras Wars.

As stewards of the earth we often receive misinformation or conflicting data about issues impacting our environment and economy. Does it have to be either-or? Can we find the right balance between economy and environment? Can we bridge the increasing gap between the haves and have-nots? Can we—personally and collectively—protect our natural resources and build a sound economy? In Right Relationship Brown and Garver use the Quaker principle of “right relationship”—interacting in a way that is respectful to all and that aids the common good—as the foundation for a new and wholly sustainable economic model. Geoffrey Garver is our guest. He’s an environmental consultant and law lecturer in Montreal, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Quaker Institute for the Future. Garver cowrote Right Relationship with Peter Brown, a professor at McGill University’s School of Environment.

Our second guest is award-winning journalist and reporter for the Chicago Tribune, Mark Caro. He wrote an article on Foie Gras that made the front page of the Chicago Tribune and that led him to investigate the subject in detail from both perspectives. Is the farming method unneccessarily cruel? Does is cause suffering to ducks and geese? Or as others argue, a just part of life that’s being going on since the Pharaohs began to forcibly fatten birds. Listen in and decide for yourself?

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How do you define adventure? Today’s guest says: “…it’s pushed me to pedal into the homelands of South Africa when everyone around me told me I’d lose my life …” It pushed his cultural limits in small Indian villages. Challenged him to visit Bosnia while troops and tanks were the norm. And prodded him to spend three months in Cuba when his government said he couldn’t.

Writer, photographer, and speaker Willie Weir is a columnist for Adventure Cyclist magazine and a traveling commentator for KUOW public radio. His articles on adventure travel earned him gold and bronze Lowell Thomas Awards from the American Society of Travel Writers. Weir speaks at schools, universities and events around the country, advocating the bicycle as the world’s best travel vehicle–as well as a vehicle for social and environmental change. He’s the author of Spokesongs and his latest book, Travels with Willie: Adventure Cyclist. More about Willie Weir.

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A Conversations Live favorite, Andrea Kay is recognized as one of America’s leading career experts. She joins us in this segment to discuss how to make today’s job market work for you. Kay shares how to unblock your fears; what you can do differently to develop a cohesive action plan; how to stop the panic flow that clouds common sense; what to let go of’, and what to embrace during these challenging times. Andrea Kay is the author of numerous books. Her latest is Work’s a Bitch and Then You Make It Work: 6 steps to go from pissed off to powerful.

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