Episodes

Tune in when Patricia interviews Lisa Cain, founder of Snack-Girl.com and author of Snack Girl to the Rescue! Easy, Delicious Food for Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner. An evolutionary biologist by training, Lisa Cain has become obsessed with how food contributes to our overall health. The book is packed with encouraging, smart, and sometimes hilarious advice on avoiding common weight-loss pitfalls, shopping healthier on a budget, and getting in shape, along with 100 recipes for fun, quick, and afforda...

Tune in when Patricia interviews Reverend Thabiti, author, syndicated newspaper columnist, radio show host and creator of The Personal Time-Map System - An Holistic Approach to Helping Guide Life's Decisions. He will discuss this personal guidance system and how the Time-Map integrates a person’s date of birth with universal laws structured in the ancient science of the standard deck of playing cards .

Tune in when Patricia interviews Anne T. Phinney, elementary school teacher, co-owner of Moose River Farm, and author of Finding My Way to Moose River Farm: Living with Animals in the Adirondacks. As a young girl, Anne fell in love with horses. It was her childhood dream to own a horse and someday own a horse farm and devote her life to caring for animals. Anne loves all species of animals, but she burns with a passion for horses. In Finding My Way to Moose River Farm, where Anne is mother to a ...

Tune in when Patricia interviews Margaret Gray, Assoc. Professor of Political Science at Adelphi University and author of Labor and the Locavore: The Making of a Comprehensive Food Ethic. Margaret Gray sheds light on the plight of farmworkers that supply beautiful, delicious locally grown fruits and vegetables, locally crafted cheeses, baked goods, and more to upscale eateries, thriving farmers’ markets, and ultimately our dinner plates. With Labor and the Locavore, she calls attention to the re...

Tune in when Patricia interviews Norma Segal, author of From Amoebas to Zebras: The Animal Zoo of Limericks. Before her husband, Sidney's, death from a brain tumor, she promised she would publish his children's book of educational, animal-themed limericks. After 15 years and her own bouts with cancer, she held on to the pages of limericks and spent a year working with an illustrator to get the book published. The paperback book features an array of animals and includes a removable book mark and ...

Tune in when Patricia interviews Jeanne Segal, Ph.D., an international authority on emotional intelligence, author, and co-founder of nonprofit Helpguide.org. She is releasing a paperback version of Feeling Loved: Finding Happiness in an Overstressed World. “Feeling Loved” helps those who don't feel loved, or know how to make others feel loved, overcome the obstacles to getting what they need. The book makes the distinction between being told we are loved and actually feeling loved. The hormones...

Tune in when Patricia interviews Ayelet Waldman, author of Love and Treasure. Ayelet Waldman is the bestselling author of the novels Red Hook Road and Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, as well as the essay collection Bad Mother. Love and Treasure ingeniously weaves a surprising tale in triptych around the fascinating, true history of the Hungarian Gold Train in the Second World War

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.