Episodes

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...

DESCRIPTION: Miriam Udel, author of Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature, is a Rabbi, scholar, and mother who reveals the impact of stories and poems written for Yiddish-speaking children in the early 20th century on what it means to be a Jew today. Miriam Udel discusses what Yiddish is and how its imaginative works helped and will continue to inspire Jewish children around the world make sense of their identity, resist injustice, and dream boldly. Drawing on nearly a ...

DESCRIPTION: Long-time married couple and PhD psychologists, Judith Sherven and Jim Sniechowski, bestselling authors of eight books, including Overcoming the Fear of Being Fabulous, provide their readers 33 life-changing facts and processes that can move you from unconscious imprisonment to liberated, self-directed success in all aspects of life. Most people live lives of frustration, disappointment, and inexplicable holdbacks otherwise known as procrastination, depression, anxiety, and other ...

DESCRIPTION: Camille Miller, bestselling author of The Ultimate Guide to Creating Your Soul-Aligned Business, The Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Soul Professional, and The Ultimate Guide to Leaving Your Legacy, is a transformational leader and celebrated influencer in the field of entrepreneurship. As a Strategic Business Designer for Soul-Led Visionaries, she offers highly individualized mentoring and guidance in all aspects of business—from planning and strategy to marketing and client acquisiti...

DESCRIPTION: Tony Jones, creator of the Tony Jones Wellness Hub App, now in testing and available for both Apple and Android, blends psychology expertise with motivational strategies to help others gain clarity, confidence, and total control of their lives and bodies. His shows, including Tony Jones Show, Tony Jones in the Morning, and Tony Jones Wellness Hub, are available on all major podcast platforms. A new show, Endless Summer Show, is streaming now at tonyjones.org. Tony currently hosts pr...

DESCRIPTION: Karen Richter is a retreat leader, Forest Therapy Guide, women’s mentor, the founder of Confident by Nature, and author of Uncover Your Light: Empowering Stories of Hope and Resilience. She explores the struggles so many face: exhaustion from constant productivity, living by everyone else’s expectations, and feeling like life is racing past. Karen will share how break free of those struggles with intentional connection with nature,combined with holistic practices like qigong and ...

DESCRIPTION: Dr. Leigh F. Callahan has over 35 years of experience in arthritis and health outcomes research, and experience in public health as a former arthritis epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Her specific areas of expertise are in four major areas: outcomes and epidemiological research, establishing collaborations in communities across North Carolina and the nation, leadership roles in professional and nonprofit arthritis organizations, and setting ...

DESCRIPTION: Karen Salmansohn, author of Your To-Die-For Life How to Maximize Joy and Minimize Regret ... Before Your Time Runs Out, and behavioral change expert invites her audience to stop avoiding the one truth about the inevitability of our limited time, and encourages to start using it to live more fully, boldly, and unapologetically. After going through her own “I’m going to die” journey, Salmansohn discovered how mortality awareness can transform your life, helping people stop wasti...

DESCRIPTION: Dessy Levinson, author of From Overwhelm to Flow, is a strategist and coach whose work draws from neuroscience, psychology, and lived experience. She has spent over two decades helping leaders, founders, and thoughtful individuals navigate complexity and build genuine resilience. In From Overwhelm to Flow, Levinson introduces the CRATE framework—Clarity, Regulation, Agency, Trust, and Energy—as a path to move from emotional chaos into grounded clarity. Whether you're a founder fac...