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Face time — that’s what we call in-person meetings today, and they’re rare, not just at work but at home too. Yet face-to-face contact matters, says psychologist Dr. Susan Pinker — author of The Village Effect. Tight friendships and love heal us, help children learn, add years to our lives, and increase joy. Blending the latest findings from the new field of social neuroscience with human stories, Dr. Pinker explores the impact of face-to-face contact from cradle to grave, from city to Sardinian mountain village, from classroom to workplace, from love and marriage to divorce. Susan Pinker joins Vicki Monday Oct 27 — hope you can too!! Noon PT / 3 pm ET on ‪#‎Seattle‬’s ‪#‎KKNW‬ am 1150 & FM 98.9HD3. Or online.

But first, as the Boomer population retires healthier than any generation before them, 60 is the new 40! Ron Pevny, Founder and Director of the Center for Conscious Eldering, presents readers with a new model for aging that is contemporary yet grounded in time-honored wisdom in Conscious Living, Conscious Aging: Embrace and Savor Your Next Chapter.

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As the largest generation is about to retire, they are also the healthiest, with a dramatically increased life expectancy. No longer can people find fulfillment and passion by ?winding down? for twenty or thirty years. Conscious Living, Conscious Aging: Embrace and Savor Your Next Chapter by Ron Pevny gives readers a way to rekindle the passion of their younger days and find new purpose in life after retirement. Pevny is Founder and Director of the Center for Conscious Eldering, a national organization that offers people support in realizing their potential as they age. He conducts workshops and retreats across the country.

Dr. Susan Pinker is a developmental psychologist, columnist, and broadcaster who writes about social science. Her first book, The Sexual Paradox, was published in seventeen countries and was awarded the William James Book Award by the American Psychological Association. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, The Times of London, the BBC, the CBC, The Economist, Atlantic Monthly, The Financial Times, Der Spiegel, and NBC’s Today show. Today she discusses her latest work, The Village Effect.

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Selfmade millionaire, PhD, and executive coach Jude Miller Burke reveals the results of her three year study of 200 selfmade millionaires in The Millionaire Mystique: How Working Women Became Wealthy and How You Can Too. Also, change management, thought-leader, and author of The Time Bandit Solution, Edward G. Brown, shares how you can recover three to five hours per day of wasted time.

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In her new book The Millionaire Mystique: How Working Women Became Wealthy and How You Can Too, Jude Miller Burke, PhD, executive coach and selfmade millionaire, reveals the secrets and pivotal career moments that allowed selfmade millionaires (men and women) to achieve success and wealth while enjoying good health and a flourishing family life. Burke is a business psychologist and former Vice President of Operations, Optum, United HealthGroup.

Edward G. Brown is president and co-chairman of Cohen Brown Management Group, a leading sales and service culture change specialist firm for the financial services industry. See more at The Time Bandit Solution.

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The power to reach your highest potential starts with your brain. Don Joseph Goewey’s The End of Stress offers the tools you need to transcend stress and have your best day every day. Filmmaker and author Baptist de Pape has assembled an unprecedented collection of wisdom from some of the preeminent authors, spiritualists, and scientists of our time in The Power of the Heart: Finding Your True Purpose in Life.

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In The End of Stress, Don Joseph Goewey’s offers an easy, four-step method that will increase your brainpower and end anxiety. Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience and neuroplasticity, Goewey’s cutting-edge approach has been tested through webinars and seminars in high-stress environments and proven effective from chief executives, managers, and engineers to blue-collar construction workers. Don Joseph Goewey managed the department of psychiatry at Stanford Medical School, ran a regional emergency medical services system, and for twelve years headed an internationally recognized institute that pioneered an approach to catastrophic life events.

With The Power of the Heart: Finding Your True Purpose in Life , filmmaker and author Baptist de Pape has assembled an unprecedented collaboration of wisdom from the leading spiritual thinkers, authors, and scientists of our time. On a quest that took him around the world, de Pape interviewed eighteen icons, including Isabel Allende, Maya Angelou, Deepak Chopra, and Jane Goodall. These visionary minds help de Pape show how we can overcome limitations in our daily life to find our true potential – and reveals the heart to be a source of love and wisdom that far surpasses that of the mind. Baptist de Pape is a spiritual explorer, author, and filmmaker, and graduate of the University of Tilburg Law School in The Netherlands.

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New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Lori Foster joins us today to talk about the first book of her highly anticipated new Ultimate series, No Limits. Then find out what happened when rock star Stephen Merritt of Magnetic Fields combines his love of rhyme and Scrabble with the illustrations of a New Yorker cartoonist in his first book, 101 Two Letter Words. Later, James MacManus returns to Conversations Live to discuss his historical novel Sleep In Peace Tonight.

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NYT and USA Today bestseller Lori Foster is back and embarking on a new series of books known as the Ultimate series. The smoldering debut effort is No Limits, in which a mixed martial arts fighter is reunited via a surprise inheritance with the woman he’s never forgotten. In addition to being a mainstay on various bestselling lists, Lori is heavily involved in charity work, believing strongly in giving back to the community.

Joining Vicki for the third time is James MacManus, whose third novel, the historical Sleep In Peace Tonight, tells the story of Harry Hopkins, who in 1941 who was sent to London to gauge the escalating situation regarding World War II. Hopkins was instrumental in encouraging FDR to join forces with Winston Churchill to defeat Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. MacManus is currently the managing director of The Times Literary Supplement in London. He is also the author of The Ocean Devil which was made into a film starring Jonathan Rhys Davis.

What happens when rock star Stephen Merritt of Magnetic Fields, combines his love of rhyme and Scrabble, with the illustrations of renowned New Yorker cartoonist, Roz Chast? The result is his first book, 101 Two Letter Words. In the introduction, Merritt explains the impetus for the book, a back story involving the reality of his life as a touring musician (who spends a lot of time waiting in airports and hotels) and his passion for Scrabble and Words with Friends. With his band the Magnetic Fields, Merritt has written, recorded, and produced ten albums, including the highly acclaimed 69 Love Songs, which was named one of the 500 best albums of all time by Rolling Stone.

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Law of the Jungle is Paul M. Barrett’s gripping story of one lawyer’s crusade against big oil in the Amazon rainforest. Later, Pulitzer Prize winner Lucinda Franks discusses Timeless: Love, Morgenthau, and Me, an exploration of her improbable 36 year marriage to longtime Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau. Later, Booklist call’s Alan Day’s memoir, The Horse Lover: A Cowboy’s Quest to Save the Wild Mustangs, Alan’s personal history of starting the first government-sponsored wild horse sanctuary, an instant classic. Alan will be in Seattle for book events, including a signing at the University of Washington, from October 2-5.

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Written with the texture and flair of the best narrative nonfiction, Law of the Jungle: The $19 Billion Legal Battle Over Oil in the Amazon Rainforest and the Lawyer Who’d Stop at Nothing to Win tells the story of a lawyer’s crusade to protect the poor farmers and indigenous tribes of the Amazon rainforest at any cost.  Author Paul M. Barrett is the assistant managing editor and a senior staff writer for Bloomberg Businessweek and has been the editor and legal affairs reporter for the Wall Street Journal.

Back in 2002, Alan Day and his sister, Sandra Day O’Connor, co-authored the bestselling memoir Lazy B: Growing Up On a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest. Alan, a resident of Tucson, AZ, has written a new memoir with a foreword by Sandra titled The Horse Lover: A Cowboy’s Quest to Save the Wild Mustangs. After successfully lobbying Congress to approve the idea of a horse sanctuary, Alan received 1500 wild horses in 1989 from the Bureau of Land Management. His deep connection with the animals is clear from the outset, as is his maverick philosophy of horse-whispering, which he used to train the entire herd. The memoir reveals the herculean task of balancing the requirements of the government with the needs of the wild horses, also weaving in cowboying adventures and lessons of perseverance, steadfastness, and hope he learned from these four-legged friends. Alan has spent a lifetime ranching, cowboying, and loving horses. Alan will be in Seattle for book events, including a signing at the University of Washington, from October 2-5.

Timeless: Love, Morgenthau, and Me is the beautifully rendered memoir in which Lucinda Franks tells the intimate story of her improbable marriage to New York’s District Attorney Robert Morgenthau. While Franks was a radical self-style hippie, chaining herself to fences and trespassing on government property to make her points, Morganthau was a famous lawman and symbol of the establishment who could have put her in jail. She was 26, he was 53, and when Franks interviewed him for the New York Times, an irresistable life bond began between two diametrically opposed forces, proving love conquers all.

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Enjoy this encore broadcast of Conversations Live with Vicki St. Clair! Vicki returns live next week!

Have you ever gone shopping, grabbed a basket and before long realized you should have gotten a cart instead? Retailers and advertisers are using science to influence every step of the path from browsing to purchase. In The Brain Sell: When Science Meets Shopping, Dr. David Lewis examines the latest neuroscience and analyzes the shopping experience like never before. Then, learn to Think Like A Negotiator: 50 Ways to Create Win Win Results by Understanding the Pitfalls to Avoid with CEO and negotiation expert Eldonna Lewis-Fernandez.

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The latest research in neuroscience has revealed much about the hidden influences which shape the way people shop. In The Brain Sell: When Science Meets Shopping, author Dr. David Lewis examines how advertisers, marketers, and retailers utilize this research to subtly each stage of the shopping experience. He points out the 6 mental and emotional stages a consumer goes through before a sale is made, and looks at the 3 key sales lessons neuromarketing studies teach and what the salespeople must learn. Dr. Lewis is an author, award-winning broadcaster, conference speaker, and Chairman and founder of Mindlab International, a UK leader in the neuroscience of consumerism and communications.

While even simply hearing the word “negotiation” can evoke fear, stress, or anxiety in many, it should never be looked at as anything more than it’s intent: to discuss and ultimately agree on a deal. Whether it’s a multi-million dollar contract or just where to meet for lunch, life is rife with negotiations. In Think Like A Negotiator: 50 Ways to Create Win Win Results by Understanding the Pitfalls to Avoid, veteran negotiation and contracts expert Eldonna Lewis-Fernandez shows the reader that negotiation is like a chess game where strategy reigns supreme, and one careless, short-sighted, or ill-conceived move can have dire consequences. CEO of Dynamic Vision International Inc., Eldonna is a retired air force veteran with 23 years of honorable service. She also boasts over 30 years of leadership, contracts management and negotiation experience, and has negotiated contracts from $1 to $100 million both domestically and internationally.

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Two of the heavyweights of persuasion science and practice – Robert B. Cialdini and Noah J. Goldstein – have determined in The Small Big: Small Changes that Spark Big Influence that it’s not the strength of your argument or amount of info you provide as much as the psychological frame, or the way you present your case that will carry sway. Later, learn how attorney and author Angie Hallier can turn a divorce from a high stakes battleground to a strategic, emotion-free “business” decision in The Wiser Divorce.

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Whether or not we’re professional sales people, most of us harness the power of persuasion in our everyday lives: whether we are convincing a boss to implement a new policy or telling a potential client why they should be working with us. Full of practical and implementable strategies, The Small Big: Small Changes that Spark Big Influence is an indispensable for anyone who wishes to change the behaviors or beliefs of others to achieve their goals. Co-authored by Robert B. Cialdini and Noah J. Goldstein, this is an accessible look at the small changes we can make when we need to influence. Noah J. Goldstein is Associate Professor of Management and Organizations, Psychology, and Medicince at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. He has won major grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, and has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and on NPR. Robert B. Cialdini is Regents Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Marketing at Arizona State University. The Harvard Business Review calls him “the leading social scientist in the field of influence.” His ground-breaking book, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, was named by Inc. Magazine as one of the top 10 marketing books of all time.

“A strategic divorce is when two people have made a conscious decision to operate from an emotion- free zone and deal with the situation as a series of business decisions,” says Angie Hallier, founder and managing partner of Hallier and Lawrence PLC and author of he Wiser Divorce. In the book, she offers positive solutions and realistic strategies to help people with divorce, covering what a good attorney will do and how to know if you have the wrong attorney, asking the right questions, popular myths about judges, and everything else to help get you through one of the most difficult times of your life with ease. Angie comes from a place of knowledge and experience, as Hallier and Lawrence PLC is ranked as the #1 family law firm in Arizona.

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Randy Susan Meyers’ Accidents of Marriage grabs the reader right away and never lets go as she tells the intimate story of what rage and emotional abuse can do to a family. Later, NYT Bestseller list mainstay and author of over 60 books Carla Neggers returns to Conversations Live with her latest romantic thriller Harbor Island. And we end todays show with writer, author and editor of PNWA’s Author magazine Bill Kenower.

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What is the toll of emotional abuse on a family? Accidents of Marriage, the latest work from Randy Susan Meyers explores emotional abuse, traumatic injury, and children lost in the shuffle of recovery with unblinking honesty as she tells the story of a family on the edge and how they got there. Meyers previous work has made her a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award. She teaches writing seminars at Boston’s Grub Street Writers’ Center.

New York Times bestselling author Carla Neggers unveils another gripping romantic thriller in Harbor Island. When an FBI agent’s clandestine meeting with an anonymous informant becomes a cold-blooded murder scene, the only clue involves the world’s most legendary and elusive art thief. Featuring former nun and art crime expert turned FBI Agent Emma Sharpe, Neggers adds a perfect addition to her widely acclaimed Sharpe and Donovan series. Carla has over 60 books and millions of copies in print in over 30 countries, and over two dozen of her books have placed on the New York Times, USA Today, and Publisher’s Weekly bestseller lists.

Bill Kenower considers his new book Write Within Yourself not to be a guide, but rather a companion designed to remind writers and all creative people why we must make the things we love to create. It’s a collection of essays and stories emphasizing how everyone is the author of their own life, some of us choose to write that life with a pen. Bill knows of writing from the heart being the father of a child with autism. He is the editor-in-chief of Author magazine, an online magazine for writers and dedicated readers.

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Happy Labor Day from Conversations Live with Vicki St. Clair! Before you get out to a barbecue or picnic or just enjoying the waning days of summer, sit back and relax with this encore broadcast featuring a 2-part conversation with adventure writer Peter Stark!

Peter Stark chronicles one of America’s most dramatic but largely forgotten historical turning points in the conquest of the continent in his riveting book Astoria.

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At a time when the edge of American settlement barely reached beyond the Appalachians, two visionaries, President Thomas Jefferson and millionaire John Jacob Astor foresaw the potential of the Pacific to dominate trade much as the Atlantic did in their day. 2 years after Lewis and Clark’s historical expedition ended, Astor set out to establish a global trade network based at the mouth of the Columbia River while Jefferson envisioned a separate democracy to spread eastward and meet the young United States. The tale unfolds from 1810 to 1813., and author Peter Stark drew from numerous firsthand accounts of those who made the journey and suffered incredible hardship while embarking on soaring adventure in his new book Astoria. Stark is an adventure and exploration writer of several books and is a longtime correspondent for Outside magazine. His numerous articles and essays have appeared in Smithsonian, The New Yorker, Men’s Health, The New York Times, and many others.

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Buildings have a story to tell us, if we know how to listen. Pulitzer-prize winning novelist and author Alison Lurie explores the fascinating secret language of architecture in The Language of Houses: How Buildings Speak to Us. But first, we’ll listen to the language of the heart as Vicki chats with couple’s therapist Linda Carroll on her new book Love Cycles: The Five Essential Stages of Lasting Love.

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The notions that passion always peters out, that there is a “seven-year itch,” and that the honeymoon is over once reality of routine life sets in have some truth to them. But veteran couple’s therapist and author Linda Carroll provides a road map to unravel the mysterious, often difficult, and wondrous journey of finding ever-lasting love. In Love Cycles: The Five Essential Stages of Lasting Love, she combines the physiological and psychological aspects of love with practical techniques for managing conflicts and developing greater intimacy, leading to creating a love that stands the rigors and tests of time. Carroll has worked as a couple’s therapist for over 3 decades and is a master teacher in the Pairs Psychoeducation Process, a nationally recognized relationship education program for couples.

While there are many books on architecture and building design, The Language of Houses: How Buildings Speak to Us goes beneath the surface to reveal what various structures reveal about their inhabitants and how they live their lives. Author Alison Lurie acts as interpreter and biographer for the buildings all around us, explaining how your own home can be as shameless as a tabloid. Lurie has penned 10 novels, three of which have been adapted for television, and has published a wide and eclectic variety of nonfiction books as well. She has received numerous awards and honors including Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundation grants, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in fiction, and she is a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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