Episodes

Feb. 4, 2010

Love Your Heart, Backyard Deer Hunting, Be the Star You Are! Essay Winner

Prize-winning author Wm. Hovey Smith has written 13 books, numerous magazine and newspaper articles as well as contributed to many blogs. Three recent titles Practical Bowfishing, Crossbow Hunting, and Backyard Deer Hunting: Converting Deer to Dinner for Pennies Per Pound stress eating natural foods from the outdoors. In these hard times Backyard Deer provides a healthy way to cut food bills and eat healthy meals. Heart Disease is the #1 killer of women. A Harvard study found that 92% of women a...
Jan. 28, 2010

Watchful Eyes, The Chihuahua Crisis, A Juggling Act

At twenty-five years old, Sheila Singleton is forced to make a life-changing decision. Will she commit her troubled younger sister, Nancy, to a mental institution, as the authorities have strongly suggested, or take her into her own home, with two small children and an unsympathetic husband? Sheila made a brave choice, and moved her mentally ill sister in with her family in 1976. Watchful Eyes is the true story of Sheila Singleton's transformation from hopeless observer, as Nancy's demons threat...
Jan. 21, 2010

Helping Haiti, Secrets of the Lost Symbol, Be the Star You Are!®

There is only one Dan Brown. And there is also only one “Secrets” team that has achieved worldwide bestseller success providing the curious reader with compelling and authoritative explorations into the thought-provoking ideas that lie behind Dan Brown’s action-adventure novels. Cynthia Brian interviews award-winning journalist and bestselling author Dan Burstein about the mysteries, revelations, and fiction behind The Lost Symbol. In T42, A Mother-Daughter Brew, Cynthia Brian and Heather Britta...
Jan. 14, 2010

Contraception, Angels in My Hair, Badass Birth control, angels, and warriors.

In T42- A Mother/Daughter Brew, Cynthia Brian and Heather Brittany continue the conversation about available contraceptive methods. Direct from Ireland, Lorna Byrne talks about her best selling book, Angels in My Hair. Lorna has been seeing and talking to angels since she was a baby. Very unusually she sees angels physically – just as you see someone sitting across from you. Dyslectic and diagnosed as retarded as a child, she has never read a book. The angels are her teachers. Throughout history...
Jan. 7, 2010

2010 Resolutions, Independent Book Publishing, Nurses without Boundaries

HELLO 2010! We set goals to be healthier, exercise more, work smarter, love deeper, and of course earn better wages. In T42- A Mother/Daughter Brew, Cynthia Brian and Heather Brittany give your smart goals and simple ways to be accountable and successful. Florrie Kichler is the President of the Independent Book Publishers Association, (IBPA) formerly known as PMA. Her job is to build strategic partnerships and expand programs. She’ll discuss publishing in 2010. IBPA educates, supports, and advoc...
Dec. 31, 2009

NEW YEAR CELEBRATIONS, NOT INTUITIVELY OBVIOUS

It has been 10 years since the millennium. Have the 2000’s been what you expected? Ten years of world events will be discussed with the effects on individuals from tragedies to triumphs. So much has changed. Have you? What are plans for 2010? Cynthia Brian and Heather Brittany let the ball fall on the new year. www.cynthiabrian.com Not Intuitively Obvious: Transition To The Professional Work Environment is a uniquely concise combination of a senior manager’s memoir of lessons learned and busines...
Dec. 24, 2009

Christmas Traditions, Men that Don’t Cheat, Little White Whys

What traditions do you celebrate during the holidays? Do you spend time with family, do you travel, watch videos, eat crab? Cynthia Brian and Heather Brittany take a peek inside the festivities of the season. With Tiger Woods infidelities all over the news, it is apropos to do a show on cheating. In segment two, we’ll talk with author Charles E. Hughes about his book, How to get a Man that Doesn’t Cheat. Mr. Hughes believes that honest and true blue men are out there and he wants to help women f...
Dec. 17, 2009

Engineered Foods, In His Service, Pet Companionship

You are what you eat! But what are we eating today and is it safe? Cynthia Brian and Heather Brittany investigate our food and offer ways to make healthy choices. www.bethestaryouare.com Joy and Adventures in His Service by Alene Dalley shares true stores from the mission field. From witch doctors to water wells, language barriers to interpreter humor, you’ll travel on a journey of the heart. Whether you are fortunate enough to currently be living with an animal companion or whether you are simp...
Dec. 10, 2009

Staycations, All About Animal Massage, Saving Money

Are you going away for the holidays or are you creating holidays at home? Cynthia Brian and Heather Brittany have fun in the backyard. www.bethestaryouare.com Megan Ayrault teaches animal lovers the principles of animal massage with her visionary books, The Dog’s Lovers Guide to Massage and The Horse Lover’s Guide to Massage. Megan is the founder of AllAboutAnimalMassage.com, an on-line resource for everything you need to know about massage and bodywork for the animals you love. Haitian native, ...
Dec. 3, 2009

Birth Control, The Dumpling, Cooking Under Pressure

In T-42, Cynthia Brian and Heather Brittany share options and safety tips on birth control to help you make informed reproductive health choices. For lovers of dumplings in every shape, size, and variety, the book, Connie Lovatt shares The Dumpliing, a startlingly thorough collection of recipes and techniques for dumplings from all over the world and all around the year. Lorna Sass is a culinary historian and a James Bear Award winning author of numerous cookbooks. From the elegant to the ethnic...
Nov. 26, 2009

THANKSGIVING SPECIAL: Nora Nordan, Paul Sutherland, Frank Gromling

A Thanksgiving uplifting international feast featuring Nora Nordan of Norway with her Gift of Understanding, Paul Sutherland with his zenvesting advice from his book, The Virtue of Wealth, and Ocean Publishing’s innovative publisher/author, Frank Gromling honoring the wonders of the sea. Nora Nordan of Norway and Cynthia Brian of California have been pen pals and best friends since they were kids. Nora is the Director of Studies at Treider, Norway’s oldest private independent College of Commerce...
Nov. 19, 2009

Stay-Cation, Ivy and Bean, America's Prophet

Taking a vacation at home, favorite children's author, Annie Barrows, and host of PBS Walking the Bible, Bruce Feiler With expenses high, salaries lower, and the economy in turmoil, it’s challenging to plan an annual holiday. How about creating the perfect getaway and staying at home? In T-42, Cynthia Brian and Heather Brittany share shutting down the outside world to have fun in your own backyard. Annie Barrows was born in a year that had a two and a six in it. She always loved libraries, could...
Nov. 12, 2009

INTOLERANCE, IN THE BACKYARD, DIRT IS GOOD FOR YOU

Millions of innocent people around the world throughout history have been slaughtered because of intolerance, prejudice, superstitions, and discrimination. In T42, Cynthia Brian and Heather Brittany look at ways we can develop acceptance. Eating local can start right in your backyard. Goddess Gardener, Cynthia Brian shows you ways you can grow you own edible garden to become an architect of sustainable chance. www.goddessgardener.com Rufus Griscom’s book Dirt is Good For You shares an anthology ...
Nov. 5, 2009

H1N1, You Unstuck, Independence Days

In T42, Heather Brittany and Cynthia Brian give you the pros and cons of the getting the flu shot. Learn the difference between the Swine Flu and the regular flu, where to get vaccinated and the hype surrounding the flu. This segment could save your life! Are you in a rut? Is your gut reaction to change a negative response? In You Unstuck, Libby Gill will help you understand the way you look at risk-taking so you can start moving past your fears and excuses, toward success. Independence Days by ...
Oct. 29, 2009

Quackless Duck, Gift of Education, Humor, Haunted Halloween

Quackless Duck Visits the White House and Misses His Ride Home is the seventh book in the Quackless Duck series by prolific author and illustrator, Jane Lowrey-Christian. These books were written in part to encourage parents and grandparents to read to their young children. www.Xlibris.com/bookstore Dr. Don Martin, author of Road Map for Graduate Studies, joins Cynthia to discuss the Gift of Education along with Dr. Joel Goodman, director of the Humor Project and author of the Gift of Humor. Bot...
Oct. 22, 2009

ESSAY CONTEST, The Spirit of Service, The Gift of Giving

Announcing the 2009 6th National Essay Contest sponsored by THE TWELVE. Cynthia Brian gives you the details to start your engines with this years topic of role models. Rescue gardening is our second topic with ways you can save plants and save the environment. www.bethestaryouare.org Inspired by President Obama’s call to action, the book Spirit of Service is a daily devotional that explores the many ways you can get involved in service to others. It boasts 365 specific suggestions. Ken Berger, P...
Oct. 15, 2009

THE WORLD AT 2012

In T42, Heather Brittany and Cynthia Brian reveal the secrets behind the 2012 stories. Is 2012 the new Y2K? Find out as the Goddess Gals dig deeper in history to chronicle the debate surrounding the superstitions. John Major Jemkins, author of the acclaied Maya Cosmogenesis 2012 brings us The 2012 Story: The Myths, Fallacies, and Truth behind the most intriguing date in history. We’ll learn how this date has been interpreted and misinterpreted by scholars, gurus, and cultures and what key contro...
Oct. 8, 2009

Elder Culture; Friends, Lovers; Domestic Violence Month

Theodore Roszak reflects on the future of America’s most audacious generation in his book, The Making of an Elder Culture. In 1969 he wrote about the counter culture generation and now he reminds the boomers that they will spend more time being old than being young. Author Ray Skop invites you to ride his roller coaster of life as he describes his adventures and misadventures in his book, Friends, Lovers, and other Paraphernalia. Ray talks about the importance of family, embracing your roots, an...
Oct. 1, 2009

Educating Esme; Dragon House, Sexual Predators

Overview: Esme Raji Codell's first year of teaching with Educating Esme; John Shors intimate peep into the streets of Vietnam today; Heather Brittany and Cynthia Brian with protection from predators. Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher’s First Year is lauded as honest, smart, and spunky. From John Shors, the critically acclaimed author of Beneath a Marble Sky comes Dragon House, an unforgettable story of redemption set in modern-day Vietnam. In T42, Heather Brittany talks with Cynthia Brian about...
Sept. 24, 2009

Go Go Go, The End of Medicine, 6th Annual BTSYA Essay Contest

In T42, Heather Brittany talks with Cynthia Brian about the new craze of go go dancing in clubs for young people. The Goddess Gals also reflect on the launch of the book, Be the Star You Are! for Teens. Your body knows how to heal itself according to author Kaare Bursell who will share his priceless information from his book, The End of Medicine. Prepare to open your hearts and minds to a new way of living consciously and healthily without drugs, supplements, or genetic therapy. Annoucing the 6t...
Sept. 17, 2009

Hypnotizing Maria, The Precious Lies of Madeleine de Scudéry With best selling authors, Richard Bach and Eleanor Knowles Dugan

Bestselling author Richard Bach inspired millions with his popular allegorical tale, Joanathan Livingston Seagull. Now Bach is back with Hyponotizing Maria, an exploration of the nature of reality and the power of suggestions. It is a dramatic story of discovery, a story tale how-to for un-hypnotizing ourselves and for catching a glimpse of te one reality behind thekaleidoscope inventions of space and time. Bach still flies his own planes. In 1983, Eleanor Knowles Dugan was researching another p...
Sept. 10, 2009

Countdown to Books and Bands, Perseverance, The Holiday Party

Cynthia Brian and Heather Brittany prepare for the big Books and Bands Bash Benefit for Septembe 13 and share all the exciting event activities with you. The book, Be the Star You Are! for TEENS will be unveiled. Can you imagine being in high school or college and suddenly learning you have cancer? That’s the question the twenty young people in this book had to answer when they were diagnosed with childhood cancer. Author, Carolyn Rubenstein’s book Perseverance shares life lessons learned throug...
Sept. 3, 2009

Helias Doundoulakis with I was Trained to Be A Spy

An exciting first-hand account of a World War II spy, I was Trained to be a Spy, chronicles the true adventures of a young man on dangerous missions of espionage in Greece. Cynthia Brian interviews decorated war hero, Helias Doundoulakis for a full hour of intrigue and mystery.
Aug. 27, 2009

Nora Nordan, Paul Sutherland, Frank Gromling

Director of Studies at Treider, Norway’s oldest private independent College of Commerce, Nora Nordan talks about her chapter in Be the Star You Are!® for Teens, The Gift of Understanding. A refreshing look at the basic principles and investment philosophies underlying a successful life the Zenvesting way, Paul Sutherland’s book, The Virtue of Wealth, provides a down-to-earth voice at the center of the economic turmoil. The Project Assistant for the Marineland Right Whale Project, Frank Gromling ...