Episodes

Kathryn interviews Author Paul Conti MD.Trauma affects the body and mind and, like a transmissible contagion, can spread among close family and friends, and even across generations and within vast demographic groups. We’re all susceptible. Paul Conti MD says “Trauma is way too prevalent, harmful, contagious, and often invisible—just like a virus.” He understands trauma personally through tragic events that have taken place in his own life. Seventy percent of adults will experience a traumatic ev...

Kathryn interviews Author Paul Conti MD.Trauma affects the body and mind and, like a transmissible contagion, can spread among close family and friends, and even across generations and within vast demographic groups. We’re all susceptible. Paul Conti MD says “Trauma is way too prevalent, harmful, contagious, and often invisible—just like a virus.” He understands trauma personally through tragic events that have taken place in his own life. Seventy percent of adults will experience a traumatic ev...

Kathryn interviews Author Dana Suskind MD. As the pandemic continues to wreak havoc on families, and the Build Back Better plan is stalled in Congress, many parents feel alone, resourceless, and forgotten. But as Dr. Dana Suskind recently wrote in The Hill, parents have the power to become our nation’s strongest special interest group. She proposes we must make healthy brain development our North Star, the organizing principle around which our society is oriented. And we must do so by elevating ...

Kathryn interviews Author Dana Suskind MD. As the pandemic continues to wreak havoc on families, and the Build Back Better plan is stalled in Congress, many parents feel alone, resourceless, and forgotten. But as Dr. Dana Suskind recently wrote in The Hill, parents have the power to become our nation’s strongest special interest group. She proposes we must make healthy brain development our North Star, the organizing principle around which our society is oriented. And we must do so by elevating ...

Kathryn interviews Author Dana Suskind MD. As the pandemic continues to wreak havoc on families, and the Build Back Better plan is stalled in Congress, many parents feel alone, resourceless, and forgotten. But as Dr. Dana Suskind recently wrote in The Hill, parents have the power to become our nation’s strongest special interest group. She proposes we must make healthy brain development our North Star, the organizing principle around which our society is oriented. And we must do so by elevating ...

Kathryn interviews Author Dana Suskind MD. As the pandemic continues to wreak havoc on families, and the Build Back Better plan is stalled in Congress, many parents feel alone, resourceless, and forgotten. But as Dr. Dana Suskind recently wrote in The Hill, parents have the power to become our nation’s strongest special interest group. She proposes we must make healthy brain development our North Star, the organizing principle around which our society is oriented. And we must do so by elevating ...

Kathryn interviews Author Dr. Stephen Morris. Placing a loved one into an assisted living facility can be an incredibly trying and emotional experience. It’s an enormous decision that does not come lightly. Naturally, families are concerned with the quality of care that the seniors in their lives will be receiving, and are reluctant to trust institutional senior care. According to Dr. Stephen Morris, an academic emergency medicine and public health specialist, small-scale senior care facilities ...

Kathryn interviews Author Dr. Stephen Morris. Placing a loved one into an assisted living facility can be an incredibly trying and emotional experience. It’s an enormous decision that does not come lightly. Naturally, families are concerned with the quality of care that the seniors in their lives will be receiving, and are reluctant to trust institutional senior care. According to Dr. Stephen Morris, an academic emergency medicine and public health specialist, small-scale senior care facilities ...

Kathryn interviews Author Greg Hammer, MD. Moms everywhere have been hit especially hard by the pandemic, and their stress has slowly compounded since 2020. Even in 2022, women are expected to bend their work schedules first to accommodate childcare while also keeping up with the majority of the housework regardless of their professional responsibilities. Paired with the isolation felt during lockdowns, these expectations have put mothers in an especially difficult position emotionally. Women ar...

Kathryn interviews Author Greg Hammer, MD. Moms everywhere have been hit especially hard by the pandemic, and their stress has slowly compounded since 2020. Even in 2022, women are expected to bend their work schedules first to accommodate childcare while also keeping up with the majority of the housework regardless of their professional responsibilities. Paired with the isolation felt during lockdowns, these expectations have put mothers in an especially difficult position emotionally. Women ar...

Kathryn interviews Author Kim Dower. Acclaimed for combining the accessible and profound, Kim Dower’s poems about motherhood are some of her most moving and disarmingly candid. Culled from her four collections as well as a selection of new work, these poems, heartbreaking, funny, surprising, and touching, explore the quirky, unexpected observations, and bittersweet moments mothers and daughters share. These evocative poems do not glorify mothers, but rather look under the hood of motherhood and ...

Kathryn interviews Author Kim Dower. Acclaimed for combining the accessible and profound, Kim Dower’s poems about motherhood are some of her most moving and disarmingly candid. Culled from her four collections as well as a selection of new work, these poems, heartbreaking, funny, surprising, and touching, explore the quirky, unexpected observations, and bittersweet moments mothers and daughters share. These evocative poems do not glorify mothers, but rather look under the hood of motherhood and ...

Kathryn interviews Author Elke Scholz.Whether in business, or in life, anxiety can be a debilitating obstacle that saps energy, causes undue worry and stress, and can lead to all manner of physical ailments as the body attempts to process all of the emotional triggers and reactions that are happening at lightspeed within. Sometimes people don't recognize its presence, shrugging it off as the mid-afternoon crash, and sometimes they know exactly why they feel the way they do and become so distraug...

Kathryn interviews Author Elke Scholz.Whether in business, or in life, anxiety can be a debilitating obstacle that saps energy, causes undue worry and stress, and can lead to all manner of physical ailments as the body attempts to process all of the emotional triggers and reactions that are happening at lightspeed within. Sometimes people don't recognize its presence, shrugging it off as the mid-afternoon crash, and sometimes they know exactly why they feel the way they do and become so distraug...

Kathryn interviews Author Barry Nalebuff. Negotiation is stressful. It can bring out the worst in people. Wouldn’t it be better if there were a principled way to negotiate? Wouldn’t it be even better if there were a way to treat people fairly and get treated fairly in a negotiation? Barry Nalebuff does just that via a simple, practical method that reveals the true power of the players and what they bring to the table. He offers a theory-based and field-tested approach to negotiation illustrated ...

Kathryn interviews Author Barry Nalebuff. Negotiation is stressful. It can bring out the worst in people. Wouldn’t it be better if there were a principled way to negotiate? Wouldn’t it be even better if there were a way to treat people fairly and get treated fairly in a negotiation? Barry Nalebuff does just that via a simple, practical method that reveals the true power of the players and what they bring to the table. He offers a theory-based and field-tested approach to negotiation illustrated ...

Kathryn interviews Author and Attorney Genevieve Grabman, J.D., M.P.H .Recounting her stranger-than-fiction paradox of being a prisoner in her own body when her health and life became endangered by a rare and complex high-risk pregnancy, Genevieve Grabman had the exact education, connections and resources to get the help she needed, however the politics of the American healthcare system repeatedly blocked her as if in an Orwellian dystopia. She was pregnant with identical twins whose circulatory...

Kathryn interviews Author and Attorney Genevieve Grabman, J.D., M.P.H .Recounting her stranger-than-fiction paradox of being a prisoner in her own body when her health and life became endangered by a rare and complex high-risk pregnancy, Genevieve Grabman had the exact education, connections and resources to get the help she needed, however the politics of the American healthcare system repeatedly blocked her as if in an Orwellian dystopia. She was pregnant with identical twins whose circulatory...

Kathryn interviews Entrepreneur Rebecca Rolland EdD.Entrepreneur Bukola Somide introduces “Somi” the Computer Scientist. This beautiful interactive African American doll focuses on exposing kids to computer science concepts in a fun way. Her aim is to engage, educate, and inspire children everywhere. The Somi doll also touches on Cyberbullying, to bring awareness to what it is and to then encourage better online conduct. This interactive STEM doll also uses real life situations to explain coding...

Kathryn interviews Entrepreneur Rebecca Rolland EdD.Entrepreneur Bukola Somide introduces “Somi” the Computer Scientist. This beautiful interactive African American doll focuses on exposing kids to computer science concepts in a fun way. Her aim is to engage, educate, and inspire children everywhere. The Somi doll also touches on Cyberbullying, to bring awareness to what it is and to then encourage better online conduct. This interactive STEM doll also uses real life situations to explain coding...

Kathryn interviews Author Lair Torrent LMFT. All too often, people in long-term relationships find themselves asking, “Isn’t this just how it is for couples after a certain number of years?” As a licensed marriage and family therapist, Lair Torrent has seen no shortage of couples who have resorted to “practicing badly” when left to their own devices, but he disagrees with the assumption that couples are destined to reach an expiration date. Instead, he insists that if we are willing to make our ...

Kathryn interviews Author Lair Torrent LMFT. All too often, people in long-term relationships find themselves asking, “Isn’t this just how it is for couples after a certain number of years?” As a licensed marriage and family therapist, Lair Torrent has seen no shortage of couples who have resorted to “practicing badly” when left to their own devices, but he disagrees with the assumption that couples are destined to reach an expiration date. Instead, he insists that if we are willing to make our ...

Kathryn interviews Author and Speaker Deborah Grayson Riegel MSW. Knowing how to extend a helping hand or ask for assistance when needed is one of the best ways to build trusting, collaborative and mutually beneficial relationships with colleagues, clients, family and friends. And yet, for far too many folks, “help fluency” remains elusive. Mother-daughter team Deborah Grayson Riegel and Sophie Riegel share a truly groundbreaking, easy-to-use guide that teaches concrete strategies to help reader...

Kathryn interviews Author and Speaker Deborah Grayson Riegel MSW. Knowing how to extend a helping hand or ask for assistance when needed is one of the best ways to build trusting, collaborative and mutually beneficial relationships with colleagues, clients, family and friends. And yet, for far too many folks, “help fluency” remains elusive. Mother-daughter team Deborah Grayson Riegel and Sophie Riegel share a truly groundbreaking, easy-to-use guide that teaches concrete strategies to help reader...