Episodes

Kathryn interviews Author, Attorney J. W. Freiberg PhD, JD. We are currently living in an interesting age where we are the most connected and yet the most disconnected than we have ever been. Exploring the impact of faulty connections and failing relationships, J.W. Freiberg, uses his 30 year legal career and masterful storytelling ability to share 5 unique tales of chronic loneliness, one of modern society’s most serious public health crises. According to his research, there are two pathways to...

Kathryn interviews Author, Attorney J. W. Freiberg PhD, JD. We are currently living in an interesting age where we are the most connected and yet the most disconnected than we have ever been. Exploring the impact of faulty connections and failing relationships, J.W. Freiberg, uses his 30 year legal career and masterful storytelling ability to share 5 unique tales of chronic loneliness, one of modern society’s most serious public health crises. According to his research, there are two pathways to...

Kathryn interviews Author, Professor Ed Tronick PhD. Many of us may think that perfect harmony is the defining characteristic of healthy relationships, but the truth is that human interactions are messy, complicated, and confusing. And according to renowned psychologist Ed Tronick PhD and pediatrician Claudia Gold, that is not only okay, but it is also actually crucial to our social and emotional development. Working through the volley of mismatch and repair in everyday life helps us form deep, ...

Kathryn interviews Author, Professor Ed Tronick PhD. Many of us may think that perfect harmony is the defining characteristic of healthy relationships, but the truth is that human interactions are messy, complicated, and confusing. And according to renowned psychologist Ed Tronick PhD and pediatrician Claudia Gold, that is not only okay, but it is also actually crucial to our social and emotional development. Working through the volley of mismatch and repair in everyday life helps us form deep, ...

Kathryn interviews Author Joanna Faber. Building on core themes of mutual respect, Joanna Faber and Co-Author Julie King suggest thoughtful, constructive, and sympathetic alternatives to yelling or punishment. As a part of the “How To Talk” series, readers will learn communication strategies to some of the most difficult challenges of raising children including tantrums, homework hassles and sibling squabbles. With its lively combination of real-life anecdotes, entertaining cartoons, and answers...

Kathryn interviews Author Joanna Faber. Building on core themes of mutual respect, Joanna Faber and Co-Author Julie King suggest thoughtful, constructive, and sympathetic alternatives to yelling or punishment. As a part of the “How To Talk” series, readers will learn communication strategies to some of the most difficult challenges of raising children including tantrums, homework hassles and sibling squabbles. With its lively combination of real-life anecdotes, entertaining cartoons, and answers...

Kathryn interviews Author, Journalist, Historian, Marine Engineer Jessica DuLong.At 10:45 AM EST on Tuesday, September 11, 2001, the United States Coast Guard issued the call for “all available boats” to assist the evacuation of Lower Manhattan. But hours before the official call went out, tugs, ferries, dinner boats, and other vessels had already raced to the rescue from points all across the Port of New York and New Jersey. In less than nine hours, approximately 800 mariners aboard 150 vessels...

Kathryn interviews Author, Journalist, Historian, Marine Engineer Jessica DuLong.At 10:45 AM EST on Tuesday, September 11, 2001, the United States Coast Guard issued the call for “all available boats” to assist the evacuation of Lower Manhattan. But hours before the official call went out, tugs, ferries, dinner boats, and other vessels had already raced to the rescue from points all across the Port of New York and New Jersey. In less than nine hours, approximately 800 mariners aboard 150 vessels...

Kathryn interviews Author & Rehabilitation Consultant Val Walker MS.While social media enables us to make connections with more people than ever before, social isolation is a growing epidemic in the U.S. The National Science Foundation has reported the number of Americans with no close friends has tripled since 1985 and an unprecedented number of Americans are living alone, particularly those over sixty. Generation Z and Millennials report being the loneliest despite their high consumption of so...

Kathryn interviews Author & Rehabilitation Consultant Val Walker MS.While social media enables us to make connections with more people than ever before, social isolation is a growing epidemic in the U.S. The National Science Foundation has reported the number of Americans with no close friends has tripled since 1985 and an unprecedented number of Americans are living alone, particularly those over sixty. Generation Z and Millennials report being the loneliest despite their high consumption of so...

Kathryn interviews Psychologist and Author Leo Flanagan PhD.The mental health crisis is getting younger. The number of children needing urgent mental health care has been on the rise for years, and has devastatingly spiked over the pandemic. We have never before in our history seen this type of anguish in children and teenagers so young. Although this crisis will require resources and time to resolve, Leo Flanagan PhD, Psychologist, trauma and resiliency expert, is sharing some resilience tools ...

Kathryn interviews Psychologist and Author Leo Flanagan PhD.The mental health crisis is getting younger. The number of children needing urgent mental health care has been on the rise for years, and has devastatingly spiked over the pandemic. We have never before in our history seen this type of anguish in children and teenagers so young. Although this crisis will require resources and time to resolve, Leo Flanagan PhD, Psychologist, trauma and resiliency expert, is sharing some resilience tools ...

Kathryn interviews Jeff J. Herman Editor-in-Chief at Lawnstarter.If you’re among the 50% of the U.S. population planning to ride a bicycle more post-pandemic, you’ll want to know the Best Biking Cities in America.To mark World Bicycle Day on June 3, LawnStarter ranked the 200 biggest U.S. cities based on 18 key indicators of a bike-friendly lifestyle. Among the factors considered are the length of bike lanes, the share of workers who bike to work,and access to bike stores and repair shops, howev...

Kathryn interviews Jeff J. Herman Editor-in-Chief at Lawnstarter.If you’re among the 50% of the U.S. population planning to ride a bicycle more post-pandemic, you’ll want to know the Best Biking Cities in America.To mark World Bicycle Day on June 3, LawnStarter ranked the 200 biggest U.S. cities based on 18 key indicators of a bike-friendly lifestyle. Among the factors considered are the length of bike lanes, the share of workers who bike to work,and access to bike stores and repair shops, howev...

Kathryn interviews Kim Fairley BFA,MFA author of “Shooting Out the Lights.” Unraveling like a mystery novel, Fairley’s memoir of her marriage to a man thirty-two-years older, who had lost his son in a gun accident, explores the taboo of wide age gap love. Soon after twenty-four-year-old Kim and fifty-six-year-old Vern marry they learn Kim is pregnant. However, their lives are turned upside down when the widow of Vern’s dear friend calls in need of a favor. She wants Vern to take her eleven-year-...

Kathryn interviews Kim Fairley BFA,MFA author of “Shooting Out the Lights.” Unraveling like a mystery novel, Fairley’s memoir of her marriage to a man thirty-two-years older, who had lost his son in a gun accident, explores the taboo of wide age gap love. Soon after twenty-four-year-old Kim and fifty-six-year-old Vern marry they learn Kim is pregnant. However, their lives are turned upside down when the widow of Vern’s dear friend calls in need of a favor. She wants Vern to take her eleven-year-...

Kathryn interviews business coach Leslie Ehm, author of “Swagger: Unleash Everything You Are and Become What You Want” A renowned Fortune 100 business coach, Ehm shatters the myths around “fake it ’til you make it,” and shows you how to record over all the negative self-limiting tapes and to stop giving away your personal power. You’ll discover what blockers are holding you back and what drivers will bring your unique and powerful personality to the forefront for all to revel at. Swagger is the ...

Kathryn interviews business coach Leslie Ehm, author of “Swagger: Unleash Everything You Are and Become What You Want” A renowned Fortune 100 business coach, Ehm shatters the myths around “fake it ’til you make it,” and shows you how to record over all the negative self-limiting tapes and to stop giving away your personal power. You’ll discover what blockers are holding you back and what drivers will bring your unique and powerful personality to the forefront for all to revel at. Swagger is the ...

Kathryn interviews Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy, New School for Social Research Simon Critchley PhD, author of “Bald: 35 Philosophical Short Cuts.” The moderator of the NY Times’ Stone column and the author of numerous books on everything from Greek tragedy to David Bowie, Critchley has been a strong voice in popular philosophy for more than a decade. Critchley brings together thirty-five essays, originally published in the Times, on a wide range of topics, from the dimensions of Plato’s a...

Kathryn interviews Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy, New School for Social Research Simon Critchley PhD, author of “Bald: 35 Philosophical Short Cuts.” The moderator of the NY Times’ Stone column and the author of numerous books on everything from Greek tragedy to David Bowie, Critchley has been a strong voice in popular philosophy for more than a decade. Critchley brings together thirty-five essays, originally published in the Times, on a wide range of topics, from the dimensions of Plato’s a...

Kathryn interviews Professor of English, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Anne Basting PhD, author of “Creative Care Imagination Kit.” A leader in transforming aging and elder care, she sparks conversation and encourages active listening, allowing all ages to freely share ideas and stories without worrying about getting the details “correct.” She offers up a proven way to foster imaginative and story-based activities among diverse groups and families, especially caregivers of loved ones and tho...

Kathryn interviews Professor of English, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Anne Basting PhD, author of “Creative Care Imagination Kit.” A leader in transforming aging and elder care, she sparks conversation and encourages active listening, allowing all ages to freely share ideas and stories without worrying about getting the details “correct.” She offers up a proven way to foster imaginative and story-based activities among diverse groups and families, especially caregivers of loved ones and tho...

Kathryn interviews Documentary Filmmaker & Co-Founder, Meridian Hill Pictures Brandon Kramer. In this revealing observational portrait, Black progressive activist and political commentator Van Jones faces a polarised society head-on in an effort to reform a broken criminal justice system. Jones, known for calling Donald Trump's election “a whitelash” live on primetime TV, navigates increasingly tense and isolating political and racial divides in his attempt to become a “bridge-builder” during th...

Kathryn interviews Documentary Filmmaker & Co-Founder, Meridian Hill Pictures Brandon Kramer. In this revealing observational portrait, Black progressive activist and political commentator Van Jones faces a polarised society head-on in an effort to reform a broken criminal justice system. Jones, known for calling Donald Trump's election “a whitelash” live on primetime TV, navigates increasingly tense and isolating political and racial divides in his attempt to become a “bridge-builder” during th...