Episodes

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...

DESCRIPTION: Douglas Lynam, author of Taming Your Money Monsters: Nine Paths to Money Mastery With The Enneagram, helps identify their financial traps, heal money wounds, and cultivate abundance with tailored strategies. The Enneagram is a personality system that outlines nine types, each with unique motivations, fears, and desires, to support self-awareness, growth, and better relationships, and Douglas Lyman explains how each Enneagram type has a "money monster" and behaviors that harm financ...

DESCRIPTION: Jim Murphy, author of Inner Excellence: Train Your Mind For Extraordinary Performance and The Best Possible Life, has been a professional baseball player in the Chicago Cubs organization. Jim Murphy’s sense of worth revolved around his performance. He was focused on achievement but also afraid of failure. When he started coaching professional and Olympic athletes, he often encountered the same mindset. He became obsessed with learning how the best in the world performed with poise ...

DESCRIPTION: Andre Norman, author of Ambassador of Hope: Turning Poverty and Prison into a Purpose-Driven Life, speaks about the choices that led him to time in juvenile detention, and eventually a maximum-security prison, along with the epiphany where he chose find a way out and to seek success through education. Andre will speak of his remarkable journey of overturning an over 105-year prison sentence to educating some of the brightest minds at Harvard University brings a unique perspective ...

DESCRIPTION: Daniel Miller, author of THE WAY OF THE WAVE: Nature's Model for Navigating Life's Currents, and bestselling author of The Gifts of Acceptance (a Library Journal Best Wellness Book of the Year), will focus on helping people leading a healthier, more peaceful life. In THE WAY OF THE WAVE, Miller shares insights and practices from his nearly forty-year journey—marked with both success and failure—of trying to “Go with the Wave” in all aspects of life. His version of “the flow,” the ...

DESCRIPTION: Michele Blood, author of the video book Manifestation Through the Power of Mysticism, will discuss how to achieve success and wellness through the process of affirmation. With this World's First Video Book, the mind absorbs the knowledge very fast and the person is captivated and entertained simultaneously. After a near-fatal car accident, Michele began composing positive Affirmation Songs that not only healed her body but sparked a worldwide movement. These songs were designed to...

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...

EPISODE DESCRIPTION:Diana McLain Smith is the author of the new book, Remaking the Space Between Us: How Citizens Can Work Together to Build a Better Future for All. She has spent the past 35+ years as a renowned thought leader and systems change expert helping organizations transform conflict into a constructive force for change. Every day, the news delivers the same story: as a nation, we are so divided, we spend more time picking fights than solving our most urgent problems. It's exhausting a...

Rhode Island International Film Festival Shawn Quirk, executive director of the 2025 Rhode Island International Film Festival, joins us to discuss missions of the festival, as well as what the festival has to offer. Now in its 28th year, the FLICKERS' RHODE ISLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL celebrates the independent spirit in film and has become a haven for independent filmmakers from throughout the world. In 2024, the Festival presented 350 films representing works that were shot and produced...

DESCRIPTION: Jim Murphy, author of Inner Excellence: Train Your Mind For Extraordinary Performance and The Best Possible Life, has been a professional baseball player in the Chicago Cubs organization. Jim Murphy’s sense of worth revolved around his performance. He was focused on achievement but also afraid of failure. When he started coaching professional and Olympic athletes, he often encountered the same mindset. He became obsessed with learning how the best in the world performed with poise ...

DESCRIPTION: Ilene Dillon, author of Emotions in Motion: Mastering Life’s Built-in Navigation System, and six-time Amazon best-selling author for various other books, will discuss realigning with emotions (including Anger Mastery), solving life problems in ways that last, and parenting consciously. Emotions in Motion explains a new way of working with emotions that allows you to move yourself into mastery over emotions, rather than allowing them to dominate your life, and includes stories to ill...

Insights on Love & Lost Later In Life With grey divorces (divorces between adults ages fifty and up) at an all-time high, Virginia DeLuca’s memoir constructs a timely and refreshingly honest guide to finding yourself in the face of loss and adversity. If You Must Go, I Wish You Triplets is an empowering read not just for “silver splitters,” but for anyone who has or is currently facing change and uncertainty in their life. DeLuca will disscuss unflinching exploration of her past, present, and, ...

Reflections and Lessons Learned from a POW Father For the first time, Sid Stockdale, one of four Stockdale children, tells stories from his 8- year experience (from age 11 to 19) while his father was a POW in the Hanoi Hilton and his mother started The National League of Families of POWs and the Missing in Southeast Asia. Sid will discuss his experiences of these years of trauma in a new memoir, “A World Apart – Growing Up Stockdale During Vietnam.” Major themes include dealing with the loss of ...

FINDING THE SOUL OF BIG BUSINESS Paula Marshall 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. Paula is the founder of Paula Marshall Foundation, which builds schools in Ghana for children to provides education that offers an opportunity for a new life. in this episode, Paula talks about food safety week that is global, dealing with fea...

Support for Teens with Incarcerated Family Members For most teens, home is a place where they can be themselves, where they can relax and breathe, and where they feel safe, nourished, and valued. For teens who carry the weight of having a loved one incarcerated or deported, home is also a place where they are not judged, where they are seen, heard, and respected by adults, and where they find unexpected connections with teens in similar situations. In the arts-based support meetings provided by ...

UNLOCKING LIFE'S TRUE POTENTIAL Olivia Chadwick—a personal trainer, young mother, and her family’s primary breadwinner—first met insurance magnate Garnet Morris before dawn on a winter morning in Saskatoon, Canada. Her task was to help prepare her new client for the grueling, 100-mile Kananaskis relay. She knew very little about him going into it, except that he could be unpredictable and they were separated by a generation—at the time, Garnet was just over 50 and Olivia was approaching 30. Yet ...

Bill Hanney, is owner and producer of Theatre By The Sea in Wakefield, Rhode Island and North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly, Massachusetts. Theatre By The Sea, which is on the National Register of Historic places and is located on the ancestral lands of the Narragansett People, has had many incarnations over the years. Bill Hanney purchased the property and historic theatre in 2007 and the theatre continues to produce a four-musical subscription season along with a children's theatre series. S...