Episodes
Nov. 25, 2020
Thanksgiving and Gratitude, Design Trade Secrets, Rebuilding Afte
America is a country of great abundance, yet, everyday most of us complain about the lack in our lives. Being human means that all of us, regardless of race, religion, economics, politics, or sex, will have difficult times an...
Nov. 18, 2020
Soil and Leaves, Becoming Lady Washington, Cyberbulling Rising
As the world turns the leaves on our deciduous trees to reds, ambers, and golds, this is a perfect time to replenish your mulch and enrich your soil. If your garden is small, you can buy bags of amendments at your garden cent...
Nov. 11, 2020
Sheltering with Nature, Where Light Comes and Goes, 2024
Are you feeling more in touch with Mother Earth as we near the beginning of eight months of stay-at-home mandates because of Covid-19? Or are you feeling antsy, stressed, and out-of-sorts? Vote for decency and respect as you ...
Nov. 4, 2020
2020 Election, Choosing Life with Author Leslie Sussan
A conversation about the election with results still to be determined . Who will be in the White House in January? Who will occupy the House and the Senate. No matter who you voted for, voting is our right and obligation as p...
Oct. 28, 2020
Nature Halloween, Damned if She Does, Friendship
During this season, life is about the kids. This is a time of magic, wonder, and things that go bump in the night. Halloween has always been a favorite holiday for most children in the United States but this year, Halloween, ...
Oct. 21, 2020
Time Management, Birdnesting, Women, Work, and Covid
Time management can be challenging any time, but with the pandemic, working from home, and the stress of all of it, it may feel overwhelming. Cynthia Brian offers tips on how to refresh, be calm, and get your to-do list done....
Oct. 14, 2020
Risky Business, If You Tame Me, Secondhand
To grow healthy, nutritional produce, farmers work daily, rain or shine, in every season, to provide city dwellers with sustenance. They get paid when they sell their harvest, yet it only takes one natural disaster to destroy...
Oct. 7, 2020
Ready to Evacuate, Daring, Dazzling, Divine, Flu and Blood Pressure
Natural disasters know no boundaries. One never knows if a fire, earthquake, flood, mudslide, or other calamity is on the horizon. It’s imperative to be prepared for all emergencies. Because of climate change and global warmi...
Sept. 30, 2020
Hannah’s War, Smoke Taint & Spaghetti Sauce, Flu & Safely Re-Beginning
A vivid, page-turning and inspiring re-imagination of the final months of World War II, and the brilliant researchers behind the first atomic bomb, Hannah's War is an unforgettable love story about an exceptional woman, and t...
Sept. 23, 2020
Saving the Ocean, Supermodel Eugenia Kuzmina, Teens and Covid
Humans owe our lives to the ocean. Marine life produces 70% of or oxygen and almost 50% of the world depends on food from the sea. But the ocean is dying. We are harvesting fish faster than they can regenerate, and climate ch...
Sept. 16, 2020
Dreaming the Marsh, Travel Insurance during Covid-19, Planting for Fall
Dreaming the Marsh is an environmental fable that is uniquely Floridian by Elizabeth McCulloch. Mother Nature has had enough and a day of reckoning is coming, foretold by words that mysteriously appear on the side of a shiny ...
Sept. 9, 2020
21st Anniversary of Be the Star You Are!®, Magical Universe of the Ancients, Masking
Today is the 21st Anniversary of Be the Star You Are!® charity receiving its 501 c3 designation. On 9/9/99 Be the Star You Are!® launched its first programs for literacy and positive messages, BTSYA volunteer and Express Your...
Sept. 2, 2020
Dog Days, Etiquette for Runaways, Not Usual Business
Host Cynthia Brian continues Wednesdays with Writers and Performers on StarStyle® giving authors, actors, artists, and entertainers who have had their live performances and events canceled due to Covid-19 a platform to shine....
Aug. 26, 2020
Phone/Internet Savings, Scandal at Crystalline, Telemedicine
SAG/AFTRA member Cynthia Brian continues Wednesdays with Writers and Performers on StarStyle® giving authors, actors, artists, and entertainers who have had their live performances and events canceled due to Covid-19 a platfo...
Aug. 19, 2020
Benefits of Swimming, Eleonora and Joseph, Hot, Hot, Hot
Want to get fit, stay cool, and have fun? Dive into a routine of swimming and you will lower stress, sleep well, and have a toned, healthy body. And you don’t have to swim for miles. Find out more. With a historian's gift for...
Aug. 12, 2020
Youth Financial Literacy, The Naked Truth, Emergency Hacks
Debut novel for Carrie Hayes, Naked Truth or Equality, the Forbidden Fruit is based on the little known, but true story of Victoria Woodhull, the first woman who ran for U.S. President. The challenges the U.S.A. is wrestling ...
Aug. 5, 2020
Cast of Paramount Film, Mighty Oak and Author Jo Giese
The film MIGHTY OAK is the story of Gina (Janel Parrish, “Pretty Little Liars,” To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before), a band manager who struggles after losing her brother/lead singer (Levi Dylan, 12 Mighty Orphans) in a fatal ...
July 29, 2020
Epic Vision Zone, Telecommuting, Tick Tick
Creative Intelligence Coach and Founder of Epic Vision Zone, Jane Applegath, joins Cynthia Brian to discuss how she brings role models to her summits to inspire others to become trailblazers. Jane says that by choosing creati...
July 22, 2020
Fatal Finale, Happiness, Garden Guardians
Kathleen Kalb, author of A FATAL FINALE, introduces swashbuckling Gilded Age opera singer Ella Shane, best described as part Beverly Sills, part Anne of Green Gables, and part Errol Flynn, as the first book in her new histori...
July 15, 2020
Positive Thoughts for Troubling Times, Embrace Abundance, After the Pandemic
Rudyard Kipling once said that words are “the most powerful drug use by mankind”—the words by author Allen Klein (aka “Mr. Jollytologist”®) in his book Positive Thoughts for Troubling Times are the prescription for a daily do...
July 8, 2020
TDimage Media, Pivot for the Planet, Adjusting our Attitude
Thiago Desouza recently interviewed Cynthia Brian about designing a life on his podcast, Business Access. (https://business-access-by-tdimage.simplecast.com/episodes/episode-4-cynthia-brian?t=0m0s) The company then created th...
July 1, 2020
Fox Goes Hunting, Managing Anxiety, Organizing and Decluttering
Wednesdays with Writers continues with Paty Jager’s newest novel, Fox Goes Hunting. While teaching a tracking class at a Search and Rescue conference in Iceland, Oregon State Trooper Gabriel Hawke discovers the body of the yo...
June 24, 2020
The Same Moon, Mental Health with Covid-19, Polio & Covid-19
Sometimes you have to run far, far away to find your way home. Recently wed—and quickly divorced—twenty-four-year-old Sarah Coomber escapes the disappointments of her Minnesota life for a job teaching English in Japan. What s...
June 17, 2020
Aloha Shirt, Victory Gardens, Home Maintenance
Nothing says summer gathering chic and casual than wearing an aloha shirt. The precise origins are unknown, but commercial success began with celebrities wearing this Hawaiian fashion in the 1930’s. We can all use a little al...