Episodes

Tune in when Patricia interviews Lisa Serwin, CEO of AppMedicine, finance strategy author, and longtime crusader for healthcare access. The Chief Executive Officer of AppMedicine, Inc., Lisa and her company is working to change the way medical providers and their patients interact. AppMedicine is the creator of AppVisit®, which brings easy-to-use mobile communications to healthcare at fair prices. An app available for smart phones and tablets, AppVisit enables thorough e-visits between patients ...

Tune in as Patricia interviews Dr. Daniel Gottlieb, a practicing psychologist and family therapist, is the host of Voices in the Family on WHYY, Philadelphia's National Public Radio affiliate. From 1993 until 2008, he wrote a highly regarded column for the Philadelphia Inquirer called Inside Out, reflecting his perspective on world events and the ways we experience them. He is the author of five books, including the bestselling Letters to Sam and Learning from the Heart, which have been translat...

Tune in when Patricia interviews Debbie Irving, a white, Boton-based racial justice educator and author of Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race. She has written the book she wishes someone had handed her years ago: a story-based Racism 101 for white people. Its narrative memoir format provides a mainstream read that gives white readers the basics needed to access complex understandings about racism. Similarly, many people of color yearn for authentic, informed dialogue about ...

Join Patricia when she interviews Martin Goldsmith, host and classical music programmer for SiriusXM Radio's Symphony Hall and former hose of NPR's Performance Today from 1989 to 1999. He is the author of The Inextinguishable Symphony and Alex's Wake: A Voyage of Betrayal and a Journey of Remembrance. In Alex's Wake, Goldsmith details his six-week quest to retrace the journey his grandfather and his uncle made from the St. Louis to Auschwitz. On May 13, 1939 the MS St. Louis sailed from Hamburg,...

Join Patricia when she interviews Thomas Maier, author of Masters of Sex. His book has been translated into a hit (and Golden Globe-nominated) Showtime series. Maier, an investigative reporter and 30-years-and-counting Newsday employee, released Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love, in 2009 and is a show producer.

Tune in with Patricia Raskin when she interviews Germaine Parra, Feng Shui expert and author of SEARCHING FOR THE CARAVAN: A Reconciliation with Love, Science and Divinity, a searing account of Germaine Parra’s life in many Third World countries in the Mideast, including living in Pakistan during the first Gulf War, in Thailand during the tsunami and in Bangladesh on 9/11. Travels to these countries were fraught with hardships, illness and danger, but these experiences were catalysts for Germain...

Tune in as Patricia interviews Melinda Blau, award-winning journalist who has been researching and writing about relationships and social trends for more than thirty years. Her latest book, Family Whispering is the fourth book in the popular Baby Whispering series. Melinda began collaborating with the late Tracy Hogg (a.k.a., the Baby Whisperer) in 2000 and has since given birth to three best-selling books: Secrets of the Baby Whisperer, Secrets of the Baby Whisperer for Toddlers, and The Baby W...

This year’s National Women's History Month theme is Celebrating Women of Character, Courage, and Commitment. What better way to “honor the extraordinary and often unrecognized determination and tenacity of women… and the importance of writing women back into history,” than to learn about two sisters (Rena and Danka) who survived over three years in Auschwitz death camp by committing themselves to love, compassion and courage? Cousins, Robert Gelissen and Sara Cohen talk about their families, the...

Join Patricia Raskin when she interviews Lisa Lynn, Celebrity Nutrition and Fitness Expert and creator of the Leaner Lifestyle Series. Celebrity nutrition and fitness expert, Lisa Lynn (who was Martha Stewart’s trainer for 13 years and is a regular on Dr. Oz) says if you can identify two or three really bad health habits and resolve to stop them, replacing them with a positive health habit, there is real power in that decision for a major life change. The combo resolution technique can be highly...

Join Patricia Raskin when she interviews Diane Bischoff James, a Midlife Reinventionist and author of THE REAL BRASS RING: Change Your Life Course Now. She details her struggles to reset the clock by utilizing her business acumen and modern metaphysical skills to battle depression, weight loss, divorce, midlife cougar dating, physical afflictions, the recession, an encore career and even the death of a loved one. Through a tenacious journey filled with trials and tears, she renovates her entire ...

Tune in as Patricia interviews Thomas Moore, author of A Religion of One's Own: A Guide to Creating a Personal Spirituality in a Secular World. Moore is the author of the bestselling book Care of the Soul and fifteen other books on deepening spirituality and cultivating soul in every aspect of life. He has been a monk, a musician, a university professor, and a psychotherapist, and today he lectures widely on holistic medicine, spirituality, psychotherapy, and the arts. He has a Ph. D. in religion...

Tune in as Patricia interviews Elaine Chaika, linguist, professor, author of the Language of the Social Mirror on psychotic speech, wordsmithing coach and international speaker. Elaine will discuss her forthcoming book Amazing Dogs: Yours and Mine and how we communicate human to dog and dog to human. ElaineChaika.com http://www.dogsandwolves-smartoldlady.blogspot.com

Tune in as Patricia interviews Zeev Kolman, a world renowned healer, psychic, intuitive and spiritual teacher acknowledged by the international Institute of Human Sciences is One of the greatest living healers on the planet today. Using the BlueDiamond Energy projected from his hands in individual, group and long distance sessions, he has helped tens of thousands from all walks of life across the globe, including Goldie Hawn, Barbara Streisand, Robin Williams, Princess Elizabeth of Sweden and Ro...

Tune in as Patricia interviews Jamie Cat Callan, author of Ooh La La!, Bonjour, Happiness! and the wildly popular French Women Don't Sleep Alone which has been translated into sixteen different languages and is in its seventh edition. Jamie’s work has been featured in the Vanity Fair, Woman’s World, The Huffington Post, Allure Magazine and in The New York Times Sunday Styles Modern Love column. Jamie taught creative writing for many years and is the inventor of The Writers Toolbox. Jamie Cat Cal...

Tune in as Patricia interviews Linda Yellin, an American memoirist, novelist, and humorist. Linda discusses her new novel, WHAT NORA KNEW, an homage to Nora Ephron and romantic movies, about a cynical journalist who’s assigned to write about romance Nora-style. Linda's memoir is THE LAST BLIND DATE, about moving to New York for love but finding condo boards, contractors, step-children, private schools, Ivy League name-droppers, and the challenge of making new girlfriends all waiting for her, too...

Tune in as Patricia interviews Lynne Bryan Phipps, who has multifaceted accomplishments as an equestrienne, yachtswoman, ordained minister, founder of Inspirited Living, educator and founder of The Compass School, a top-ranked public charter school which operates independently in Rhode Island. Inspirited Living is an online magazine, a site designed to awaken your heart and soul to joy and connect you with others on a similar path, a community which helps you stay connected.

Tune in as Patricia interviews Kurt Koontz, author of A Million Steps. After retiring early from his job as a successful sales executive for a Fortune 500 technology company, Kurt Koontz volunteered in his community and traveled across Europe and North America. He never considered writing a book until he walked nearly 500 miles across Spain in 2012. Those million steps were so compelling that he returned home and began writing and speaking about his life-changing adventures. A Million Steps clim...

Tune in as Patricia interviews Lynette Turner, Positivoligist™ and author of The 10 Be’s Of Positivity-10 Steps To A More Positive Way of Living. She will share ten steps she has taken in her own life that has enabled her to add light, peace, happiness and positivity to her life The 10 Be’s of Positivity are Be honest (about what is and is not working in their lives; this sets the stage for action); Be You (their “authentic self” vs. what others tell them to be), Be Open-Minded, Be Loving, Be a ...

Tune in as Patricia interviews Dianne Collins, author of Do You Quantum Think?: New Thinking That Will Rock Your World. Dianne is an original thinking and one of the foremost thought leaders of our time. She will discuss how to master your mind which masters your life, and frees yourself of thoughts that stop you or stress you

Tune in as Patricia interviews Deborah Jane Wells, empowerment coach, inspirational speaker, and author of Choose Your Energy: Change Your Life. Her radio show can be heard on VoiceAmerica's empowerment channel on Wednesdays at 11am/11pm Mountain Time. She will discuss her book, her five part mind set for living in flow and how her near death experience at birth shaped her life path. For further information, contactdjwlifecoach.com

Join Patricia Raskin when she interviews Mary Rockwood Lane (RN, PhD), co-author of Healing with the Arts: A 12-Week Program to Heal Yourself and Your Community, with Michael Samuels, to help people heal mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual ailments. Based off of their proven program used in hospitals across the country, Samuels and Lane wanted to teach communities everywhere how to heal. Both authors know what it's like to heal through art: Mary painted her way through depression and Mich...

Join Patricia Raskin when she interviews Ann Densmore, a language therapist and an audiologist for preschoolers and elementary children. She works with autistic children, kids that have neuro-developmental disorders and apraxia (verbal developmental disorders). She is the author of Helping Children with Autism Become More Social: 76 Ways to Use Narrative Play and Your Successful Preschooler: Ten Skills Children Need to Become Confident and Socially Engaged. Ann's work is frequently referenced on...