Episodes

DESCRIPTION: In his new book LEADING FROM THE HEART: The Essential Guide to Self-Empathy & Self-Compassion (April 28; Post Hill Press), Dr. D. Ivan Young, renowned behavioral neural science expert & ICF Mastered Certified Coach, elevates the concept of “Empathy” beyond a corporate buzzword to an essential part of humanity, unpacking it so we all can better navigate what makes us deeply human: pain, trauma, loss, triumph, regret, failure, love, and everything in between. Despite widespread over...

DESCRIPTION Ellen M. Shapiro explores thoroughly researched, well-documented WWII history and experiences, and her mother’s mysterious recollection, through the eyes of a resourceful tween heroine, Anni Blum. We first meet Anni, at age twelve, in March 1939 as she boards a train with her seven-year-old sister, Rosie, to escape Vienna, her home until Hitler’s armies invaded. Traveling alone, the two girls are headed for Dover, England, to help their distant cousins take care of the country house...

DESCRIPTION: Paula Marshall, author of Finding the Soul of Big Business, is the CEO of Bama Companies, a family-owned business founded in 1927. Her vision serves as a guiding light for Bama team members, inspiring the company to live out its mission: “People Helping People Be Successful.” Paula stepped into the role of CEO in 1984 and has led Bama through years of growth while staying true to its people-first roots. Today, Bama is a global organization that includes Bama Pie, Bama Foods, Bama ...

DESCRIPTION: Jennifer Wren Tolo will speak on the themes of Healing Journeys where she will share powerful personal stories from navigating life-threatening health challenges with both her children and herself. She explores how self-awareness, advocacy, and education become essential tools for healing, especially when supporting children facing medical, educational, and mental health challenges. She will unpack the hidden stressors that disconnect us from happiness, offering practical strategi...

DESCRIPTION: Val Walker is hold a background in rehabilitation counseling, greif support, and cousneling. All of these helped Val write her new book Healing Through Wonder: How Awe Restores Us After Trauma and Loss. Val was once homeless, running from a violent partner, and battling suicidal depression, she found herself sitting by a river holding a bottle of pills in one hand and a bottle of red wine to wash them down in the other. Out of the twilight sky a majestic blue heron circled and land...

DESCRIPTION: From the moment five-year-old Shelly Grimm was told her mother might not come home from the hospital, she became the family’s emotional anchor. What followed was a lifetime of caregiving: for a chronically ill parent, an emotionally abusive husband, and later, as a special-needs parent herself. She did all of this without any type of recognition. Some Asses Just Need Wiping is a brutally honest memoir that pulls back the curtain on the rarely acknowledged side of chronic illness: t...

DESCRIPTION: Dr. Deepika Chopra explores why the brain clings to grudges not out of spite, but as a natural form of threat prevention, a way of remembering harm to protect ourselves in the future. She explains why the common advice to “just forgive” often backfires, paradoxically increasing stress by asking the nervous system to let go before it’s ready. Dr. Chopra also examines how unresolved conflict keeps the body in a state of high alert, subtly impacting mood, sleep, and overall well-being...

DESCRIPTION: Lisa Cramer will discuss how we use Brain Maps (QEEG) and neurofeedback to guide a smoother path to longevity. She will discuss how Brain Maps help us see what is currently happening in our brain and can inform a neurotherapeutic approach to improving sleep, memory, mood and more. Understand the basics of how neurofeedback and other therapies can retrain your brain to improve function and symptoms, at any age or stage of life and how to find a qualified practitioner. GUEST BIO: L...

DESCRIPTION: Shannan Kym grew up in a family where addiction, violence, and extreme dysfunction were normalized. Robbed of her childhood, she was forced to grow up at a very young age. After not graduating from high school and leaving her family, she was filled with self-loathing and shame. Suppressing her feelings, Shannan became an alcoholic. For years, she abused her body, gained excessive weight, and let herself be taken advantage of. She experienced career highs and lows and suffered the l...

DESCRIPTION: Paula Marshall, author of Finding the Soul of Big Business, is the CEO of Bama Companies, a family-owned business founded in 1927. Her vision serves as a guiding light for Bama team members, inspiring the company to live out its mission: “People Helping People Be Successful.” Paula stepped into the role of CEO in 1984 and has led Bama through years of growth while staying true to its people-first roots. Today, Bama is a global organization that includes Bama Pie, Bama Foods, Bama ...

GUEST BIO: Daniel Tataje grew up in Lima, Peru, with a dream of becoming a dentist, unaware that his journey would grow far beyond his original expectations. Through perseverance, discipline, and purpose-driven leadership, he built multiple successful dental practices and developed his signature framework, The 7 Marks of Leadership, designed to help others lead with courage, humility, and intention. Today, Daniel is the founder and CEO of Mercy Dental Group, a dental support organization overse...

GUEST DESCRIPTION: Mike Milligan, CFP®, founder of 1 OAK Financial is a financial educator, speaker, and legacy builder with over 27 years in the industry. After decades of seeing one-size-fits-all advice fall short, he’s made it his mission to redefine financial planning as something deeply personal which focused not just on numbers, but on legacy, purpose, and impact. Known for blending practical strategy with heart, Mike brings clarity and inspiration to every audience he serves. Whether de...

DESCRIPTION: The What Color Is Your Brain?® book is the Revised Updated Edition of Sheila’s a best-selling book, which has sold over 41,000 books worldwide. This new book helps readers decode their personality and discover what makes them and others tick to improve their communications and relationships! Readers discover their Yellow, Blue, Green, and Orange Brain Colors to improve their personal, professional, and romantic attributes and abilities. They also discover how to deal with change an...

Nicole Zapoli is a prominent professional fitness and wellness coach, entrepreneur and former professional athlete. With over 20 years of experience in strength training, functional fitness, and nutrition. She is the founder of NZ Fitness LLC and CEO of Wodstar. Zapoli promotes a sustainable approach to health and fitness, focusing on movement, mindset, and alignment from the inside out. Her personal philosophy, which she calls her "6 SHIFTS," is detailed in her upcoming book, Live FIT from the ...

Patricia will talk about her forthcoming book: Bee-ing and Age-ing: 10 Lessons on Positive Aging from the Bee draws lessons from bees to help people age well. In Bee-ing and Age-ing, bees function primarily as analogy: their cooperation, roles, and resilience become ten named lessons that illustrate how humans can age with purpose, connection, and positivity, supported by narrative examples. She blends data and inspirational self‑help with broadcast‑style storytelling, drawing on “amazing guest...

DESCRIPTION: Randi Halaway is a Self-Leadership and Personal Power Expert, Speaker, and Coach and creator of The Personal Power Way, a transformational framework that helps leaders and entrepreneurs reclaim their inner strength, regulate their nervous system, and lead with grounded confidence. An entrepreneur since 2001, Randi built and sold a thriving salon business before stepping fully into coaching and speaking. Her work goes beyond surface-level empowerment. She will discuss how to move pas...

DESCRIPTION: Larry Zuckerman, author of To Save A Life, speaks to current issues of immigration and cultural identity. Through his novel, he highlights the inherent tension that generations of immigrants have felt between assimilating into American culture and honoring homeland traditions. He will speak about how that conflict divided Jewish immigrant families, and why 15 million immigrants came seeking freedom and dignity in the early 1900s--and were widely misunderstood as grifters and freelo...

DESCRIPTION: Dr. Peter Hartmann, a distinguished physician who spent five decades bridging family medicine and psychiatry currently blogs for Psychology Today and is the Executive Producer of Voyage Media’s hit podcast, The Mind Doctor —an eight-part series based real-life medical mystery cases from his career. In The Mind Doctor, when a case exists at the intersection of mental health and physical health that baffles other doctors, Dr. Bruce Young gets called in to help. He finds the connectio...

DESCRIPTION: Paula Marshall, Author of Finding the Soul of Big Business, is the CEO of the Bama Companies, Inc, which manufactures oven-ready products for customers in the quick-service and casual restaurant industry and private label products for retail in more than 17 countries. In her book, she speaks about the lessons and distinctions she has learned and applied to her intentions as a CEO. With recognition of each employee, vendor and customer's own journeys and the collective steps to beco...

DESCRIPTION: Kristin MacRae, author of Living an Organized Energized Life!, provides virtual organizing and productivity coaching by helping others organize their lives, manage time and tasks, streamline workflows, and create structure so days flow more smoothly and efficiently. Along with her book, is a complementing workbork; a no-nonsense guide to turning chaos into clarity. It is straightforward and step-by-step here to help individuals get organized, reduce stress, save time, money, and cr...

DESCRIPTION: Dr. Bradley Nelson, author of the bestselling books The Emotion Code, The Body Code, and The Heart Code (available Dec. 2, 2025), speaks about how your emotions affect your health, happiness and success, and your ability to love. From his 17 years of private practice and more than a decade training thousands of energy healing practitioners worldwide, Dr. Bradley concluded that most of the discomfort and illness we experience is rooted in trapped emotions, which are unresolved negat...

DESCRIPTION: Paula Marshall, Author of Finding the Soul of Big Business, is the CEO of the Bama Companies, Inc, which manufactures oven-ready products for customers in the quick-service and casual restaurant industry and private label products for retail in more than 17 countries. In her book, she speaks about the lessons and distinctions she has learned and applied to her intentions as a CEO. With recognition of each employee, vendor and customer's own journeys and the collective steps to beco...

DESCRIPTION: Jeffrey Weiss, author of Racing Against Time: On Ironman, Ultramarathons and the Quest for Transformation in Mid-Life, was forty-eight years old, out of shape and searching for new purpose when he took on his first 10K, sparking the personal evolution and life-altering change which inspired his book, which is his new fitness memoir that tells how he pushed through perceived limits to became an Ironman and ultramarathoner, proving that age is no barrier to strength and ambition whil...

DESCRIPTION: Susanne Biro, author of This Could Be Everything, contains 24+ years of global experience coaching over 200 CEOs and thousands of senior leaders, and specializes in emotional intelligence, leadership effectiveness, and whole-life success. She understands that leadership at the highest levels is demanding, exhausting, and often lonely. Through her signature approach, Inner Life Leadership, she helps leaders harness the power of self-awareness, because what happens inside always shap...