Episodes

1807
Nov. 19, 2025

Ep: 1807 Ea Fuqua and Meg DeLong - Tidying Up

Just in time for the bustling holiday season—when guests, gatherings, and gift wrap tend to take over—Ea Fuqua and Meg DeLong share simple, uplifting strategies to create welcoming, clutter-free spaces. But their approach goes far beyond seasonal sprucing. They dive into how small, intentional habits can transform your home into a calm, joyful environment all year long. They are the brilliant minds behind The Tidy Home Nashville. These two sisters have seen it all and have helped countless clien...
1806
Nov. 12, 2025

Ep: 1806 Chris Gillett - The Headshot Mistake

Former successful trial attorney and one of Houston’s most elite sought-after professional photographers, Chris Gillett exposes how a poorly crafted headshot can silently sabotage your professional image. He explains that first impressions often hinge on subtle cues—like posture, eye contact, and micro-expressions—that convey confidence or insecurity within seconds. He discusses why AI-generated portraits, despite their polish, often fail to capture authentic human warmth and credibility. Today,...
1805
Nov. 12, 2025

Ep: 1805 Hunter Stoler - Eat Better, Spend Less

Featured on Fox & Friends for his viral healthy Pumpkin Spice Latte dupe, Hunter Stoler—a viral TikTok and Instagram creator—has captured national attention after losing over 50 pounds and slashing $11,000 a year from his grocery bill. Now, he’s sharing exactly how he did it—and how you can too. He breaks down his holistic approach that blends nutrition, fitness, and mindset to make healthy living affordable, fun, and totally doable (even during the hectic holiday season). From smart shopping st...
1804
Nov. 5, 2025

Ep: 1804 Meg Groff - Not If I Can Help It

For more than three decades, family court attorney Meg Groff, based in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, worked 60-hour weeks, often for little or no pay, defending the rights of poor and abused women and their children against a legal, social, and economic system cruelly stacked against them. She now tells the stories of some of her most memorable clients—brave women with few resources who fought for justice with amazing resilience and determination. Now she is partnering with a team of national nonp...
1803
Nov. 5, 2025

Ep: 1803 Tess Cacciatore - Yumi's Universe

Step into Yumi’s Universe and get to know the friends who travel the world to learn, grow, and share the message of peace. Each character brings a special gift that helps children everywhere become Keepers of the Garden of Peace. Tess Cacciatore is an award-winning writer, director, producer and global peace advocate with over three decades of experience in entertainment, technology and social impact. As the visionary behind YUMI’s Universe, she blends storytelling, education and cultural wisdom...
1802
Oct. 29, 2025

Ep: 1802 Cynthia Rivard - A New Breed of Leader

It has become impossible to escape the never-ending discord and dysfunction that is becoming a defining marker of our current moment. This systemic and social conflict seems to be increasing by the week, and many are growing overwhelmed and disheartened with the state of our world and its implications for our future. We need to remember that we are capable of so much more. Recognizing these innate traits is the first step in moving past them. Cynthia Rivard teaches that we are capable of learnin...
1801
Oct. 29, 2025

Ep: 1801 Lori Miller Kase - The Accident

A deadly hit-and-run shatters a quiet Connecticut town— and Hannah can't shake the chilling feeling that she knows who's behind the wheel.It might be her brother, Rob. It might be Zach—Rob's best friend and the first boy who's ever really seen her. And the truth might destroy her life. Lori Miller Kase brings us a coming-of-age novel with engaging lessons about life's choices and their consequences. Lori studied creative writing at Brown University and at Wesleyan University, where she earned a ...
1800
Oct. 22, 2025

Ep: 1800 Lauren Stienstra - The Beauty of the End

Lauren Stienstra explores a world redefined by a shocking revelation: there is a biological countdown to extinction encoded into every living creature’s DNA. For humanity, just four generations remain. How and when people choose to reproduce takes center stage. Stienstra draws on extensive experience in science, public health, and crisis management, to create a robustly-imagined world that is rich with ethical quandaries. She holds degrees in physiology and crisis management, has studied creativ...
1799
Oct. 22, 2025

Ep: 1799 Alyson Richman - The Missing Pages

In 1912, Harry Widener, a passionate book collector, boards the Titanic with a priceless book he recently bought in London. When disaster strikes, his last words are that he must retrieve the book from his cabin—neither he nor the book are ever seen again. In his memory, his mother creates the Harry Widener Memorial Library at Harvard to preserve his collection. Years later, Violet Hutchins, a Harvard sophomore grieving her own loss, works at the library. As strange events unfold, Violet begins ...
1798
Oct. 15, 2025

Ep: 1798 Robbie Bach - The Blockchain Syndicate

The Blockchain Syndicate offers a gripping exploration of trust, technology and how easily the world we know can come unraveled. Robbie Bach’s insider knowledge of the tech world and his deep involvement in civic and policy circles lends a chilling authenticity to this thriller. As the Chief Xbox Officer at Microsoft he spearheaded the creation of the iconic Xbox and has served on many national boards including the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee, Boys and Girls Club of America and Habitat f...
1797
Oct. 15, 2025

Ep: 1797 Lybi Ma - How To Be Less Miserable

As the longtime executive editor of Psychology Today, Lybi Ma offers current research on the human brain’s tendency toward negative thinking: why we do it and why it’s so hard to stop doing it. She examines methods to overcome the patterns that lead to stress, anxiety, depression and other of life’s uncertainties. In addition to producing the print magazine, she edits its website and blog platform, which hosts more than nine hundred authors, academic researchers, and journalists. Lybi Ma has a b...
1796
Oct. 8, 2025

Ep: 1796 Melissa Mose LMFT - Therapy for OCD

While many with obsessive compulsive disorder find partial remission with standard treatment, others struggle to fully overcome symptoms or find significant relief. Studies show that 60-80 percent of those with OCD who engage in standard treatment experience a 35 percent reduction in symptoms, at minimum. This leaves significant room for improvement and is one reason Melissa Mose has developed an innovative clinical approach that holds promise for even the most treatment-resistant forms of OCD. ...
1795
Oct. 8, 2025

Ep: 1795 John Beyer - Live a Little Better

Born to addicted parents whose abuse drove his older sisters out of the home while he was still young, John Beyer became a lost teenager plagued by binge drinking, criminal activity, and emotional instability. At a tender age he had already endured life's most stressful experiences—death, divorce, illness and moving. After years of self-destruction, a near-fatal car crash, and the deaths of close friends and family—he hit rock bottom. A months-long bender led him to seek help from Alcoholics Ano...
1794
Oct. 1, 2025

Ep: 1794 Stephanie Covington PhD - Awaken Your Sexuality

Drawing from cutting edge research and decades of clinical experience, Stephanie Covington PhD goes beyond traditional recovery literature and considers sexuality an integral part of what it means to be whole and well. Addiction, trauma, and shame can shatter your experience of intimacy and sexual joy. But healing is possible. As Elizabeth Gilbert says in her foreword, “Nobody is judged in these pages; everyone is welcomed, and everyone is understood.” Whether straight, queer, cis, trans, gender...
1793
Oct. 1, 2025

Ep: 1793 Charlene Wang - I'll Follow You

Reserved and brainy Faith and charismatic and capricious Kayla are an unlikely but inseparable pair. Creating the successful influencer persona “Hannah Primrose” feels like a lottery ticket to fame in high school, but when Faith earns admission to elite Harkness College, she’s ready to move on. She soon learns that it isn’t so easy to say goodbye to her past — or to Kayla, who sees an opportunity to join her. Grifting her way onto campus, Kayla brings her signature mix of magnetism and volatilit...
1793
Sept. 24, 2025

Ep: 1792 Cindy Fazzi - Domingo the Bounty Hunter

Drawing on her own immigrant experience, Cindy Fazzi takes readers on an action-packed ride full of wit and grit in her thrilling two-book release, Sunday or the Highway and Danger No Problem. Whether it’s traffickers, fugitives, or murderers, main character Domingo loves nothing more than putting the bad guys away. But this brash, immigrant-turned-bounty hunter also has a paradoxical side hustle: writing a book of advice for people immigrating to the US. She is a Filipino American writer and fo...
1791
Sept. 17, 2025

Ep: 1791 Florence Ann Romano - Build Your Village

We’re living in the loneliest era of modern history, and yet the solution may not be more connection but the right connection. According to new insights from science and ancient wisdom alike, that connection begins with intuition, our most important navigation system. When individuals learn to tune into their own voice, their gut instincts, and their emotional truth, they begin to choose differently, and everything begins to shift. Healthy boundaries become clearer. Relationships feel safer. Cho...
1790
Sept. 17, 2025

Ep: 1790 JL Spears - Daemon Protocol

Would you know if AI had already taken over? JL Spears brings us a gripping technothriller about an advanced AI that evolves faster than its creators can understand, quietly tightening its grip on the world. The story was born from the realization that a truly intelligent AI wouldn’t seize control through brute force—it would manipulate the systems we depend on: making murders look like accidents, nudging search results to shape decisions, enriching allies, and silencing critics without notice. ...
1789
Sept. 10, 2025

Ep: 1789 Juliette Fay - The Harvey Girls

Charlotte Crowninshield was born into one of the finest Boston society families. Now she’s on the run from a brutal husband, desperate to disappear into the wilds of the Southwest. Billie MacTavish is the oldest of nine children born to Scottish immigrants in Nebraska. She quit school in the sixth grade to help with her mother’s washing and mending business, but even that isn’t enough to keep the family afloat. Desperate, both women join the ranks of the Harvey Girls, waitresses who serve in Ame...
1788
Sept. 10, 2025

Ep: 1788 Stacy Waldman Bass - Lightkeeper

In 1995, when a tragic seaplane accident on Block Island claimed her father’s life, Stacy Bass’s world shattered. She began to write as a way to process her excruciating grief, while gathering the pieces of his life through collected photographs. Some twenty-five years later, her mother was diagnosed with —and ultimately died from—pancreatic cancer. During her mother’s illness, she created a living tribute of images and words that built a community of support around her mother when she needed it...
1787
Sept. 3, 2025

Ep: 1787 Suzanne Parry - The Communist's Secret

Driven by a blind devotion to the Communist Party, self-centered Katya Karavayeva has broken the most important rule in Soviet society: never say anything that can be used against you. On the heels of that betrayal, Nazi Germany invades and the Soviet Union mobilizes. Katya hopes to halt her downward spiral by joining the volunteer militia, but within a few short weeks finds herself under attack. After escaping with another volunteer, Katya spends weeks on the run before landing in a town under ...
1786
Sept. 3, 2025

Ep: 1786 Nikki Nash - Collateral Stardust

At fourteen, longing for excitement and something of her own, Nikki Nash fixates on superstar Warren Beatty. She’s determined to find him and have him in her life forever. She creates a solid plan that she initiates four years later at the age of 18 when she gets a job as a restaurant hostess where Beatty frequents. A year later, on a warm Sunday evening in April, after breaking a finger in a judo class and looking her worst—dirty hair pulled back, no make-up on, broken finger in a glass in a gl...
1785
Aug. 27, 2025

Ep: 1785 Dr. Julianna Lindsey - Radiant Longevity

Some say a birthday is “only a number.” In truth, every birthday you celebrate can advance disease progression. But the good news is it doesn’t have to. When properly managed, aging can also be a disease regression, a time to take stock of where you are in terms of your health, what you need to change, and where you want to go from there. How we live and thrive boils down to the way we manage the moments that make up our lives and the choices we make in those moments. Using her training in multi...
1784
Aug. 20, 2025

Ep: 1784 Jerry Jamison - Vanishing Act

Over a span of 39 years, 25 aliases, 28 arrests in 20 cities, and nearly a dozen imprisonments, Robert Spears lived a con artist's life of unparalleled adventure and intrigue. But that is far from the end of his story. Shortly before Thanksgiving Day in 1959, a plane exploded in mid-air, killing all forty-two passengers and crew and leaving scattered debris and bodies across the otherwise tranquil Gulf waters. Listed on the manifest was Dr. Robert Spears—once the highly regarded president of the...