Episodes

Valentine’s Day 2019: Dr. Carole explains how it is different from all other Valentine’s Days - and why the forecast for romance is cloudy with a chance of rain. It’s a perfect storm of: the #MeToo movement dampening men’s libido, political affiliations overtaking dating apps, and her gallery of Bad Boys and Bad Girls (as described in her two award-winning/bestselling books of the same titles). Dr. Carole tells you everything you want to know about sex and love that you were afraid to ask, and h...

Today’s guests, Peggy and Lonnie Watson, courageously share their intimate story of addiction. Peggy Is the author of Hooked: When You Love an Addict. In 1994, she discovered her husband was an addict and began to look for books to help her through her tough time—but found none. So, she wrote her own book, using her experience to help the loved ones of addicts learn about and overcome the effects their loved one’s addiction can have on the family. The book follows her husband Lonnie as he drifts...

Today’s guest, Elizabeth Rynecki, takes us along her journey, back through time and into fascinating nooks and crannies, searching for the lost art of her Polish great grandfather, Moshe Rynecki. He lived from 1881-1943 and, during the Holocaust, was in the Warsaw ghetto. He painted poignant portraits of everyday people, giving us a glimpse into these tumultuous times. Elizabeth is the author of Chasing Portraits: A Great-Granddaughter’s Quest for Her Lost Art Legacy, and the writer-producer-dir...

Companies used to appreciate the hard work of their employees and reward their loyalty with a gold watch! Not so for United Airlines. They rewarded today’s guest, James Trabucco, after two decades or so of hard work, with an unfounded termination! James kept being promoted into better and better positions for the company, such as Operations Manager, and relocated his family to work for United’s locations around the world. One would think that, after 9/11, when two of United’s planes were lost, t...

Government SHUTDOWN ANALYST: Dan Perkins, is a master storyteller and author of The Brotherhood of the Red Nile Trilogy, which centers around Islamic nuclear terrorism against the USA. President Donald Trump is inclined to declare a national emergency to secure military funding for his long-promised southern border wall if talks between administration officials and top lawmakers from both parties continue to stall, a White House official told CNN on Saturday. While not the administration's prefe...

Just beginning to come out of the ashes, herself, Dr. Carole talks with today’s guest Megan Edwards, who survived the 1993 Pasadena, California fire. Megan wrote about her experience in a memoir, Roads From the Ashes: An Odyssey in Real Life on the Virtual Frontier. It is now the 20th anniversary of this memoir, and she shares how she found a way to make lemonade from the lemons she was given when her home burned down in the Pasadena fire. You will find this advice inspirational.

You’ve undoubtedly heard lots of political controversy about whether to allow migrants to enter the United States, and whether to let them stay here. But, you probably haven’t heard about the medical risks they pose - some of which are life-threatening to the people who are around them. Today’s guest, Dr. Jane Orient, the Executive Director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, and author of several books, including Your Doctor is Not In, explains a whole smorgasbord of disease...

Dr. Carole rants at the headlines- from the midterm elections to the Pipe Bomber, the Synagogue Shooter, the abduction of Jayme Closs and more.

As Halloween approaches, we start to think of skeletons and ghosts. So, this show is perfect to get you in the 'spirit'. Today's guest, Margo Lenmark, is the author of a new book, Light in the Mourning: Memoirs of an Undertaker's Daughter. You might think that growing up in a Midwestern funeral home would be morbid and traumatize a child forever, but Margo's life took a special turn. She learned that death is not the end, and can actually teach us all how to live better lives. Each time she's lo...

Today, Dr. Carole puts on her Forensic Psychiatrist/Expert Witness hat and analyzes the the Christine Ford vs. Brett Kavanaugh debacle that we have been glued to - like a train wreck. Regardless of who you were 'rooting' for, you should be appalled that this played out on the Senate floor without any of Christine's allegations being thoroughly investigated beforehand. If Dr. Carole had been retained as the expert witness, she would have found the flaws in Christine's story and explained how she ...

Today's show honors the 58 people murdered in Las Vegas, one year ago, at the hands of a madman, the countless others who were injured, and all of their families. Over 22,000 people delighted in the Route 91 Harvest Country Music Festival on October 1, 2017, until a tirade of bullets rang out from a window in the Mandalay Bay Hotel, turning it into the worst mass shooting in American history. But, the show doesn't just look back at tragedy, it also looks forward to healing, because that fateful ...

For Dr. Carole, 9/11 was a turning point that changed her life. She wasn't in the Twin Towers. She'd moved to L.A. by then. But, being born and raised in NYC, she took 9/11 as a personal attack and became The Terrorist Therapist®, devoted to helping people keep calm and carry on in the face of terror. Her latest book, Lions and Tigers and Terrorists, Oh My! How to Protect Your Child in a Time of Terror, keeps winning awards:NY, London, Paris and Hollywood Book Festivals and more. It's the first ...

September 11, 2018 marks the 17th anniversary of 9/11. But, for the victims and their families, it's as though it happened yesterday. Lisa Luckett is a 9/11 widow. Her story is both tragic and uplifting. Her new book, The Light in 9/11: Shocked by Kindness, Healed by Love, is her gift to the world. In it she shares what she has learned from this trauma to help others heal. With the clarity that only comes with time and distance, Lisa discovered the resiliency and beauty of the human spirit and v...

David Katz, The Madden Tournament Shooter, was a tragedy waiting to happen. Born with a likely predisposition to mental illness (possibly on the autism spectrum plus major depression or schizophrenia), his life took a turn for the worse when his parents divorced and he fell through the cracks. Though he received some psychiatric treatment, it was obviously not enough. Depressed and angry, his obsession with violent video games flourished-until it was no longer a game-but very real when he went o...

There are so many crimes in today's headlines, they can make your head spin. We all want to know 'whodunit' and why. But, before we can solve one crime, another one catches our attention. And after consuming countless hours of shows like Criminal Minds and Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, we think we're all super-sleuths. Today's guest, Randy Sutton, is a real super-sleuth - he doesn't just play one on TV. He's a retired Police Lieutenant, Host of Blue Lives Radio, Founder of The Wounded Blu...

When Freddie Wilson was a boy, growing up in Mooresville, North Carolina, he was very shaken by the murder of the father of a schoolmate. Matt Stewart, a 31-year-old devoted pediatric nurse, respected member of his church and community, father and husband, was brutally murdered in his home in the early hours of June 9th, 2009. Police botched the investigation from the get-go and, to date, the murderer has never been caught, despite murmurs and rumors as to their identity. Unwilling to let this g...

Today's guests give America the reality check it needs. We are living on the precipice of disaster in America, as too much noise and political correctness cause people to become overwhelmed and numb to the real issues. Fortunately, there is Judge Jeanine Pirro - author of the new NY Times #1 Bestseller, Liars, Leakers and Liberals: The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy - who dares to tell it like it is. With her painstakingly meticulous, fact-checked work, she confronts those suffering from...

In these crazy-making times, more people than ever think about seeking help, but some hesitate because of stigma. Today's guest, Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., a renowned psychiatrist, takes us on an unflinchingly candid tour behind the scenes with his new book, Because I Come From a Crazy Family: The Making of a Psychiatrist. As a boy, he heard the call to become a psychiatrist. His childhood was surrounded by dysfunction, which he later identified as mental illness. His father was manic-depressive...

We all watched breathlessly until the 12 boys and their soccer coach were rescued from the cave. It's a miracle that they survived their entrapment and rescue, as Dr. Carole - a former scuba diving doctor and scuba diver, herself, explains. But, their challenges aren't over. Their stay in the hospital is likely to overcome any medical problems that arise-such as problems with their heart, lungs, kidney, liver and infections. But, the psychological trauma is not as easy to heal. Listen, as Dr. Ca...

Birthdays are a time to take stock of the years that passed and decide what changes you want to make for the future. So, this July 4th America, needs to be honest with itself. The way the country is now is not what our forefathers had in mind! From violent political divisiveness that is out of control, to an obsession with political correctness that is out of control, to worship of socialism and communism... our country has some 'splainin to do - and some course correction back to basic American...

Are news headlines sending you running for the hills or back into bed to hide under the covers? Today, Dr. Carole puts the top headlines on her couch to analyze them for you and take you inside the heads of the newsmakers to figure out what's really going on and why. First, since today is the 2-year anniversary of the tragic Pulse nightclub terror attack, she honors the victims and recaps the story, with an update about Omar Mateen's widow having recently been acquitted of all charges in a trave...

When we think of adopting a pet from an animal shelter, we think of doing good by rescuing a stray animal, but we don't realize how we are actually rescuing ourselves. Today's guests tell stories of mutual rescues. Purple Heart veteran Josh Marino shares how his life was changed forever by the love of a stray kitten. Wounded in Iraq when an explosive detonated, he suffered concussions that led to constant headaches, anxiety, depression, and PTSD. Josh reached the point where he decided to end hi...