Episodes

Listen as Patricia interviews Dr. Terri Orbuch, A marriage expert and therapist, Professor at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, and host of Love Doctor Radio Show on voiceamerica.com, discusses her new book, 5 Simple Steps To Take Your Marriage From Good To Great. She will reveal for the first time marriage secrets she uncovered in this groundbreaking research and shows how- in an easy-to-follow five step plan - it just takes simple, targeted actions to create sign...

Did you know we can actually shape our brain to be peaceful and happy? Listen as Patricia interviews Rick Hanson, PhD, neuropsychologist, meditation teacher and author of Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love & Wisdom. In addition to other topics, Dr. Hanson will discuss our brains natural inclination to absorb negative thoughts and how to “retrain” our brains to work positively. Dr. Rick Hanson is a clinical psychologist, author, and teacher with a great interest in the ...

Looking for a smart and humorous support system for weight loss? Listen as Patricia interviews Janice Taylor. Janice is one of the country's leading health and wellness coaches, a weight-loss artist®, motivational speaker, and author. In her new book, Our Lady of Weight Loss, Janice Taylor put a new, creative spin on weight loss, offering humor and art projects to make slimming down fun. As Taylor explains, to change our bodies we need to radically shift our attitude—get out of our ruts, forgive...

Patricia interviews Andrew J Sherman, business lawyer, professor at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, and author of the book Road Rules: Be the Truck Not the Squirrel. An author of 17 business books, this is his first book on personal growth and life planning. The time you spend behind the wheel, however uninspiring it may be, teaches you more about life’s most meaningful lessons than you might think. Andrew will issue a special publication of Road Rules to be...

Tune in as Patricia interviews Dr. David Daniels, clinical professor of psychiatry at Stanford University Medical School, and author of the book The Essential Enneagram. The Enneagram describes nine distinct and fundamentally different patterns of thinking, feeling and acting. Each of these nine patterns is based on an explicit set of perceptual filters that determine our worldview.

Paul Balelo, Vice-President Corporate Communications for Faith and Family Entertainment will discuss the launch of a subscription-based movie service with Cox Communications.

In today’s troubled economy, more and more people are finding themselves out of work and not knowing where to turn. Twenty years ago, Clara Villarosa was one of those people. At 52 years old, after years of climbing the corporate ladder, the business maven found herself out a job. Desperate to make a living, Villarosa thought of the one thing she could do to dust herself off—she launched the groundbreaking The Hue-Man Experience, the largest African-American bookstore. In her new book, DOWN TO B...

Golden Globe Nominee Barbara Eden (I Dream of Jeannie) and Dean McDermott (Tori and Dean) star in the upcoming Hallmark Channel Original movie Always and Forever, premiering October 24 9/8c on the Hallmark Channel. They will discuss their roles in the movie about a pair of high school sweethearts who bump into each other at their high school reunion twenty years later and how their relationship unfolds. Barbara Eden plays the mother of Grace, played by Rena Sofer (24) and Dean McDermott plays Mi...

On Wednesday, October 23, Hallmark Channel answers critics who say that there is no good news coming out of Hollywood, with the launch of www.CelebrityGoodLife.com, a unique website and blog experience with a mission statement to “Clean Up The Red Carpet.” Patricia Raskin will interview Pam Slay, Senior Vice-President of Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movie Channel, Daisy Whitney & Jeff Brooks , contributors and reporters of The Good for Celebritygoodlife.com and Delaina Dixon, Celebrity Good Lif...

Karyl McBride, Ph.D, is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over twenty-eight years of experience in public and private practice. She is the author of Will I Ever Good Enough?: Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers. For the past seventeen years, she has been involved in private research concerning children of narcissistic parents, with a primary focus on women raised by narcissistic mothers. www.nevergoodenough.com

Jerry Jampolsky, MD is both a child and adult psychiatrist. He is the author of over 15 books including the bestselling Love Is Letting Go of Fear. He will discuss his new book The Oh Shit Factor: Waste Management for the Mind. where he challenges what we know about what we put in our minds and what comes out of our mouths.

Katherine C. Giovanni is co-founder of Triangle Concierge and is an International Concierge Training. She is the author Going Above and Beyond: Reach the Pinnacle of Customer Service by Learning How to...Think and Act Like a Concierge. www.triangleconcierge.com

Aiden Chase is an acclaimed, third-generation, healer - intuitive. His psychic gifts include clairvoyance (vision), clairaudience (hearing), and clairsentience (feeling). Clients come to him from around the world seeking intuited and channeled energy healing. Known as Hollywood's Healer, he works with people of all backgrounds and religions and uses many ancient world and inter-dimensional energy healing techniques and provides intuitive and psychic guidance. He will discuss how to connect to th...

Dr. Will Clower, award-winning author and founder of The PATH Curriculum, a program that makes the results of the healthy Mediterranean lifestyle—low weight, healthy hearts and longer lives—accessible to Americans, applies his neuroscience knowledge to explain how the Mediterranean culture can enjoy their rich healthy foods and still be thinner than us, with healthy hearts and longer lives. In his book, The Fat Fallacy: Applying the French Diet to the American Lifestyle, Dr. Clower simplifies th...

Kenneth D. Foster is the best selling author of Ask and You Will Succeed and the founder of two leading companies in the Personal and Professional Development world, Premier Coaching and Shared Vision Network. He is also an acclaimed expert in the science of human excellence and a leading expert on using the mind to take charge of your life and create a positive self-image, increase confidence, reduce stress, build wealth and sustain a successful lifestyle. Ask and You Will Succeed is filled wit...

Kenneth D. Foster is the best selling author of Ask and You Will Succeed and the founder of two leading companies in the Personal and Professional Development world, Premier Coaching and Shared Vision Network. He is also an acclaimed expert in the science of human excellence and a leading expert on using the mind to take charge of your life and create a positive self-image, increase confidence, reduce stress, build wealth and sustain a successful lifestyle. Ask and You Will Succeed is filled wit...

John Abdo is a former Olympic Coach and an award-winning Fitness Hall of Fame Inductee who spent years suffering from erectile dysfunction, searching for help in the medical community and being told that there was no cure for this sexual disorder. With determination, he set out to find answers and heal himself. His book, Ultimate Sexual Health & Performance, is a compilation of scientifically-proven information that allows men and women of all ages the chance to meet their highest sexual perform...

Timothy Keiningham is one of the world's most highly acclaimed loyalty experts, an internationally renowned speaker, consultant, and author. He is the Senior Vice President, Head of Consulting and Global Chief Strategy Officer at Ipsos Loyalty, one of the world's largest market research firms. His most recent book, Why Loyalty Matters, provides compelling insight into how our loyalties, large and small, lay the foundation for our happiness, and determine the kind of world we live in. The book of...

Dan Booth Cohen, MBA, Ph.D. has a wealth of experience in the art of peace-making and creative problem solving. He has had a diverse career as a business owner, corporate executive, author, peace activist and counselor over the past 30 years. Dan was the co-founder of Pequod Associates, Inc., a founding member of the City of Cambridge Peace Commission and the co-director of the Boston Children of War Program. His book, I Carry Your Heart In My Heart, is filled with the stories of his experiences...

Marlene Marcello is a recognized authority on holistic health. She is a prominent author, inspirational speaker, certified nutritional consultant, wellness coach educator, and 25-year terminal cancer survivor. She is the founder of MedMacro Integrated Health, a clearinghouse for people seeking information on holistic health and macrobiotics. She is the author of Hope Never Dies, an account of her life-and-death struggle with terminal cancer. Today, Marlene is past 60, cancer free, and still purs...

Paula Asinof is a career management executive who has been a catalyst for accelerating or redirecting numerous careers as she works with individuals and companies to help successful executives move up or move on to their next career opportunities. She has a contagious enthusiasm and passionate belief in people that inspires them to become prouder, stronger, and more valuable contributors. Paula's background includes career services, executive search, and corporate leadership roles in information...

Dr. Will Clower, award-winning author and founder of The PATH Curriculum, a program that makes the results of the healthy Mediterranean lifestyle—low weight, healthy hearts and longer lives—accessible to Americans, applies his neuroscience knowledge to explain how the Mediterranean culture can enjoy their rich healthy foods and still be thinner than us, with healthy hearts and longer lives. In his book, The Fat Fallacy: Applying the French Diet to the American Lifestyle, Dr. Clower simplifies th...

Professor of Education at Wheelock College in Boston, and Senior Scholar at the Wellesley Centers for Women, Diane Levin and Jean Kilbourne have partnered to author So Sexy So Soon: The new Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can do to Protect Their Kids. They will provide parents with the information, skills and confidence that they need to discuss sensitive topics openly and effectively so their kids can just be kids.

Tina Seelig is an author, a professor at Stanford University, winner of the 2009 Gordon Prize from the National Academy of Engineering, and the executive director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, the entrepreneurship center at Stanford University's School of Engineering dedicated to accelerating high-technology entrepreneurship education and creating scholarly research on technology-based firms. She will discuss her newest book, What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Mak...