To celebrate the holiday, enjoy this musical encore celebrating some of the most pioneering, gutsy, innovative, and inspiring women who’ve shaped modern music history. Special guest Jay Warner is a bestselling author and six-time Grammy-winning music publisher. Eric Reidar co-hosts today and produced the music selection you’ll enjoy throughout the show!
In his latest book, Notable Moments of Women in Music, author Jay Warner traces the evolution of women in music from the stages of vaudeville and the blues saloons of the South, to the whirlwind of Woodstock and today’s pop music star factory. Warner’s other books include American Singing Groups, How to Have Your Hit Song Published, and On This Day in Music History. Jay Warner lives in Los Angeles.
It began with a question: If you’re this successful doing work you don’t love, what could you do with work you do love? Find out why this Harvard lawyer quit her job to ‘dance’, and how can she help you create work you love. Tama Kieves of Awakening Artistry is followed by Mark Tomback who says life becomes much easier when we accept spiritual responsibility.
In THIS TIME I DANCE! Creating the Work You Love, we’ll share the inspiring story of how an honors graduate, Harvard lawyer, left her corporate job to follow her dreams. If you’ve ever wanted your own personal mentor, champion of your gifts, advocate for all you desire — your support system has arrived. Tama Kieves takes the life/work coach genre to a new level. Her book was chosen as a Finalist for the National Nautilus Book Award, along with the Dalai Lama’s The Art of Happiness.
Coming later in the show, Mark Tomback says we make life much “harder than it has to be.” Tomback has spent 35 years of focused study on the spirit’s human condition and believes that life is simply a spiritual event. His new book, Spiriting Around: A Modern Guide to Finding Yourself provides practical spiritual solutions to everyday problems.
Bernie, as he prefers to be known, is widely recognized for his dedication to helping cancer patients. Many readers of Siegel’s ground breaking Love, Medicine, and Miracles have wondered what happened to patients who followed Siegel’s advice. In Faith, Hope, and Healing, Siegel shares the inspiring stories of people who have experienced cancer and found deeper faith, hope, joy, and healing through the process.
Later, we are joined by the author of Endless Energy: The Essential Guide to Energy Health, Dr. Debra Greene. She has dedicated her life to studying and mastering energy work as a teacher, researcher, and practitioner. Debra Greene started her energy health practice in 1993 and is the founder and developer of Inner Clarity (IC), an integrative balancing method that uses energy kinesiology to pinpoint hidden core beliefs and a variety of energy based techniques to facilitate conscious transformation. Dr. Debra Greene practices in Maui, where she lives, and the Bay Area.
Last time award-winning eBay specialist, Kevin Boyd, was featured on Conversations Live, you had a LOT of questions for him! This time, we’ll dive deeper into that conversation. We’ll also talk with Dr. Joanne Stern about an increasingly common family issue.
Dr. Stern is a psychotherapist in private practice, emphasizing family and couples counseling. She’s a teacher, consultant, speaker, and expert on parenting and family topics. In 2002, she also became an EEG neurofeedback practitioner to address a variety of childhood disorders, including attention deficit disorder, anxiety, and depression. Her new book is Parenting is a Contact Sport: 8 Ways to Stay Connected to Your Kids for Life. Kevin Boyd was presented eBay’s Education Specialist Award for Excellence. He’s been selling, teaching, and consulting on building eBay business for eight years; and has several eBay books. In this segment we’ll look at problem-solving eBay issues and how to increase your profit margins. Kevin Boyds books includeeBay Business at Your Fingertips, eBay Rescue: Profit Maker, and eBay Rescue: Problem Solver. (Listen to the first show with Kevin – eBay 101.)
Today we examine the controversies, myths, facts, and alternative treatments of a disorder affecting millions of women — depression during pregnancy.
Dr. Shoshana S. Bennett, Clinical Psychologist and founder of Postpartum Assistance for Mothers discusses the controversy and myths of taking anti-depressants while pregnant; she’ll also review alternative treatments and how to talk with your family and friends about this issue. Pregnant on Prozac is the first guide of its kind, and is essential reading if you want to make the best decision for you and your baby.
How many times have you heard someone say they can lose the weight, but not keep it off? Well Stacey Grieve asks Why Are You Weighting? She says It’s not food that’s making you fat and will share her proven strategies so that you can become one of the 5% who do keep it off. We’ll also talk with Ron Garner about making Conscious Healthchoices to heal our bodies and improve the quality of our lives. and tell us what you think through the Contact Page!
Giving world peace a deadline — realistic or romanticized nonsense? Authors Nathan Otto and Amber Lupton traveled the world to define peace and say we can do it in five years. We’ll also talk with journalist, Lydia Denworth, about today’s #1 environmental health hazard for American children.And to a son trying to honor his father’s memory.
Nathan Otto, a successful entrepreneur in his own right, is the grandson of visionary business leaders Bill and Vieve Gore, founders of the company that makes Gore-Tex™. Amber Lupton studied from a young age with teachers such as Tony Robbins, Deepak Chopra, and Ken Wilber, and leads workshops around the world. Together with Otto, Lupton is the cofounder of DharmaMix, an Internet-based social venture media company. They’ve traveled the globe studying the peacemaking process and assert we must Give Peace a Deadline.
Lydia Denworth, a leading expert on America’s lead-free policies and author of Toxic Truth: A Scientist, A Doctor and the Battle of Over Lead joins us to discuss the controversy over how companies – big and small – test and certify that their toys contain no lead. Yet lead paint is frequently used to make paint colors brighter and last longer. Lead has been found in everything from Thomas the Tank Engine to artificial turf. What do we need to know? What can, and should we do to protect ourselves and our children? That’s what we’ll find out.
We’ll also talk with Eric Tomei who describes himself as an ordinary guy who dealt with his grief by writing I Miss My Dad. Tomei is a physical therapist in the metro Detroit area. His passions include financial education, physical fitness, and charity work for organizations such as Gleaners Food Bank and Children’s Hospital in Detroit. His book provides a guide for coping with close personal loss; Tomei’s goal (through book sales) is to raise one million dollars for Habitat for Humanity in memory of his father.
“The artists and craftspeople I know, pursue their art because they have a need to create beautiful or intriguing images or objects” says artist, author and consultant Miriam Works, “but so many talented people are stymied by the intimidating prospect of marketing and selling their art.” Conversations Live 3rd Monday Series continues with the business of art in The Artist as Entrepreneur. Thanks to the following artists for their feedback on today’s topic: Nola V. Tresslar, Carolyn Osborne, Pamela Shortlidge-Jones, Andrea Pratt, Patty Burnard, EB, Kati Dawn, and Juniper.
Miriam Works is a seasoned arts professional, with years of successful experience as a buyer and business manager for Seattle galleries. She’s the former assistant director for FireWorks, a rapidly-growing, nationally-recognized fine crafts gallery; renowned teacher; and the founder of Works-Consulting.com. Works presents workshops and classes on sales skills, pricing, marketing tools and numerous other topics that help artists make a better living doing what they love. Her new book is The Artist as Entrepreneur: A Business and Marketing Guide for Artists & Craftspeople.
Later in the show, Joyce Chapman returns to discuss how to Be Your Own Coach. A multi-published author, speaker, dream activist, and life coach, Joyce is committed to helping others live the lives they envision. Today, more than ever, it’s critical that we learn to focus our efforts and stop spinning our wheels. And if you can’t afford a coach, we’ll share how to be your own best asset. Learn more about Joyce Chapman, her work and her blog.
What if you could free yourself of everyday anxieties and start living a centered, joyful life? What if you combined traditional medicine and pyschiatry with intuition and spirituality?
As a board-certified pyschiatrist, Dr. Judith Orloff’s goal is to transform the face of psychiatry. She synthesizes the pearls of traditional medicine with cutting edge knowledge of intuition, energy, and spirituality to achieve physical and emotional healing. In her latest book, Emotional Freedom, Orloff passionately asserts that we have the power to transform negative emotions and achieve inner peace. Orloff is an assistant clinical professor of Psychiatry at UCLA, international bestselling author, and speaker. See FREE articles and quizzes on her site.
Diane Hammond’s protagonist loved two things: his wife and his elephant. And David Jerome bases his novel around this premise: when a father’s dying wish is for his ashes to be sprinkled in each state … what’s a son to do?
Diane Hammond’s new novel Hannah’s Dream is based in the rolling hills of the northern Puget Sound, where things don’t just happen, they unfold. Hammond’s third book is based on her experiences taking care of Keiko, the killer whale featured in the Free Willy movies … she changed the whale into an elephant, and produced a whale of a story (terrible pun but good book!). Later in the show, we’re joined by former Tonight Show writer and author, David Jerome. Roastbeef’s Promise is loosely based on Jerome’s own experiences while visiting the 48 contiguous United States and combines two of his biggest passions: travel and comedy. He will also share some cost-saving ideas for road trips and tell how to receive discounts and free event tickets.
