The Patricia Raskin Show
Relationships, health, spirituality, finances and community concerns, reclaim control of all areas of your life with the power of positive thinking. Patricia Raskin and her guests will bring you practical, positive solutions for a happy, empowered and successful life. www.patriciaraskin.com
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Jeffrey Weiss - Racing Against Time
11/17/2025
Jeffrey Weiss - Racing Against Time
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 while exploring the emotional renewal that comes with chasing bold goals. Racing Against Time tells of Jeff’s mid-life adventures in extreme sports, including finishes at Ironman Arizona (twice) and the 72-mile ultramarathon Midnight Express between the ages of 57 and 61. Jeff’s story demonstrates the possibility of radical, life-altering change even during late middle age. He is a living example of the possibility of increasing “health span". Jeff strives to encourage others to see fitness as an accessible tool for changing how they age, so that they can continue to live actively and vigorously for years longer than they ever thought possible. GUEST BIO: Jeffrey Weiss is the author of Racing Against Time: On Ironman, Ultramarathons and the Quest forTransformation in Mid-Life, I Am My Brother's Keeper, and Fighting Back: Stan Andrews and the Birth of the Israeli Air Force. He is also an accomplished entrepreneur, having served as a C- suite executive in a start-up that recently sold for $3 billion. In addition to undergraduate and law degrees, Jeff has master’s degrees in international law and in biotechnology. Jeffrey lives in Tel Aviv, where in 2024 he founded Stickers of Meaning, a project that preserves and educates about the memorial stickers that have appeared throughout Israel since October 7, 2023—honoring the fallen and inspiring the living with messages of love, purpose, daring, and joy.
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Susanne Biro - This Could Be Everything
11/10/2025
Susanne Biro - This Could Be Everything
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 shapes what happens out there. Susannae strives to help her clients obtain greater self-knowledge and advanced self-mastery, which translates into greater leadership effectiveness and concrete business results. In her book she provides insight on breaking free from thought patterns that are limiting you and stifling your joy, unlocking clarity, confidence, and creativity when it matters most, building deeper, more meaningful connections with others and ahieving results that reflect your highest aspirations. She transforms the hidden anxieties into a catalyst for authentic leadership through her signature Inner Life Leadership approach. Susanne also enlightens others on topics such as the power of conscious dreaming, self-acceptance, authenticity, and leading with humanity. GUEST BIO: Susanne is the author of “I Want You To Win! Coaching Skills for Creative Leadership”, a program she most notably delivered at Sir Richard Branson’s private home in June 2017. She is also the co-author of the book Unleashed! Leader as Coach and the corresponding Leader as Coach workshop, a program adopted by countless organizations like General Electric, American Express, and the Mayo Clinic. She is a Forbes contributor and the strategic engagement and corporate initiatives director for Vegan Leaders in Corporate Management. Susanne is also a wife, a mother of two, and a student of yoga, holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology from UBC, a Master’s Degree in Coaching and Consulting/Applied Behavioral Science from the Leadership Institute of Seattle at Bastyr University, and a Diploma in Technology from BCIT. Website: Podcast: App: LinkedIn: Email:
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Miriam Udel - Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature
11/03/2025
Miriam Udel - Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature
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 thousand books across continents, Udel shows how literature became a tool for cultural nationalism, gender equality, economic justice, and empathy. She will explain how early Yiddish books for children build symbolic nations without borders, instills dignity and purpose, and how it reshaped generations of Jewish life. GUEST BIO: Miriam Udel is Judith London Evans Director of the Tam Institute of Jewish Studies and associate professor of Yiddish language, literature, and culture at Emory University, where she studies the Jewish encounter with modernity. She holds an AB in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and a PhD in Comparative Literature, both from Harvard University. Her academic research interests include 20th-century Yiddish literature and culture, Jewish children’s literature, American-Jewish literature, and genre studies. She is also the author of Never Better!: The Modern Jewish Picaresque (University of Michigan Press, 2016), winner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in Modern Jewish Thought and Experience, and Honey on the Page: A Treasury of Yiddish Children’s Literature. .
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Judith Sherven and Jim Sniechowski - Overcoming the Fear of Being Fabulous
10/27/2025
Judith Sherven and Jim Sniechowski - Overcoming the Fear of Being Fabulous
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 lifestyle limitations that often show up in the workplace because they are living with unconscious “holdbacks”. This couple has more than 70 years combined experience helping people break through their personal barriers to liberation and success in various areas of life including professional success as well as love and real romance. Judith and Jim will share how professionals at every level—from entrepreneurs to executives—can overcome invisible barriers and live with greater authenticity, success, and joy. GUEST BIO: Best-selling authors of 8 books, married psychology team Judith & Jim, (Judith Sherven, PhD and Jim Sniechowski, PhD) have been an executive coaching team for a variety of tech leaders at companies around the world including LinkedIn, Unity Technologies, Blackbird Interactive and a variety of other companies which includes a variety of start-ups and individuals. They are also the hosts of their popular corporate 4-hour Learning & Development audio program “Being Fabulous In Business.” But prior to their extraordinary success, each of them made their living as professional actors earlier in their lives. More than their extensive professional background, Judith and Jim bring profound personal experience and knowledge to their work, having had to overcome "The Fear of Being Fabulous" themrselves. Married since 1988, they've triumphed in their success together.
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Camille Miller - Conscious Reinvention and the Rise of the Soul Professional
10/20/2025
Camille Miller - Conscious Reinvention and the Rise of the Soul Professional
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 acquisition. She is the founder of a global business incubator, the Natural Life Business Partnership, a Soul Inspired Business School, and a global online Learning Academy. Camille is the leading authority on mentoring mid-life entrepreneurs to transform their wisdom and decades of experience into wealth through scalable, purpose-driven businesses. A recognized thought leader on soul-driven success, she empowers mission-driven leaders to create lasting impact and financial freedom—without compromising their values. GUEST BIO: Camille L. Miller is a 3x bestselling author on soul-driven entrepreneurship, founder of the Soul Professional Movement, and a sought-after Business Designer & Strategist. She is dedicated to helping soul-led entrepreneurs worldwide design businesses that align with their values and purpose. Her mission is simple: to inspire and support others in bringing their gifts to the world. To learn more about her work, her school, and upcoming programs, visit Facebook: Linkedin: Instagram Youtube:
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Tony Jones - Broadcasting Wellness: Media, Mindset & Music
10/13/2025
Tony Jones - Broadcasting Wellness: Media, Mindset & Music
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 . Tony currently hosts programs on 90.3 WRIU Kingston, 101.1 WBRU Providence, and online stations like FunLand Radio and KDX Rock Radio. Since joining FunLand Radio in 2022, Tony has built a dedicated following and now brings his energy to weekday afternoons from 2–6 PM CST. In this conversation, Tony dives into his omnimedia approach, the democratization of media, the growing interest in positive psychology, and the importance of college radio in engaging a new generation of broadcasters. GUEST BIO: Tony Jones, Psy.D., is a wellness coach, certified personal trainer, and independent media producer with a passion for helping people feel better, move better, and live with purpose. With a doctorate in psychology and a background in communications and project management, Tony blends mental and physical wellness to support real, lasting transformation. His approach is rooted in the belief that emotional and physical health are deeply connected. Recognizing the limitations of traditional mental health models, Tony became a certified personal trainer and corrective exercise specialist to bridge the gap between mind and body. Through a science-backed, whole-person strategy, he helps individuals align the mind, body, and spirit for a stronger, more balanced life. Facebook: Linkedin: Instagram @tonyjonesinri Youtube: Other: X/Twitter @tonyjonesinri
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Karen Richter - Uncover Your Light
10/06/2025
Karen Richter - Uncover Your Light
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 Yoga Nidra, offers a powerful reset—helping us release stress, quiet self-doubt, and reconnect with who we truly are. Listeners will walk away with simple “rewilding” tools to ease stress, step off autopilot, and return to a life that feels authentic, joyful, and fully alive. Taking this journey of self-discovery will allow you to reconnect with the beauty and power that lies within: Get to know, love, and celebrate yourself. Your radiant light is waiting to shine brightly, and to inspire those around you to do the same. GUEST BIO: 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 is a retreat leader, and women’s mentor. Karen spent years pouring herself into every role—mother, wife, daughter, friend, business owner—pushing harder and harder to prove her value, until she felt depleted and lost. Mindful time in nature helped her slow down and rediscover who she was beneath all the roles. Now she helps midlife women do the same—releasing stress, reclaiming joy, and reconnecting with both themselves and the Earth. Facebook: Karen S. Richter - Cohesive Outcomes (https://www.facebook.com/CohesiveOutcomes) Linkedin: Karen S. Richter (https://www.linkedin.com/in/karensrichter/) Instagram: Cohesive Outcomes (www.instagram.com/cohesiveoutcomes) Youtube: Confident by Nature (https://www.youtube.com/@ConfidentByNature )
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Leigh F. Callahan - Public Health Approaches to Managing Osteoarthritis
09/29/2025
Leigh F. Callahan - Public Health Approaches to Managing Osteoarthritis
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 arthritis public health agendas. She educates others on managing Osteoarthritis through behavioral lifestyle interventions, such as weight management, self-management education, physical activity and injury prevention, which are the four key evidence-based public health interventions for Osteoarthritis (OA). Dr. Callahan also speaks about The Osteoarthritis Action Alliance (OAAA), which is supported, in part, by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and has numerous free resources available for managing OA. GUEST BIO: Dr. Leigh F. Callahan is the tenured Mary Link Briggs Distinguished Professor of Medicine in the School of Medicine and professor in the Department of Orthopaedics at the University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill. She is an adjunct professor in the Department of Epidemiology in the Gillings School of Global Public Health. She is Associate Director of the Thurston Arthritis Research Center (TARC). She is also Director of the Osteoarthritis Action Alliance (OAAA), a coalition of more than 160 organizations committed to elevating osteoarthritis as a national health priority. Dr. Callahan has an undergraduate degree from UNC, Chapel Hill and a PhD from Vanderbilt University.
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Karen Salmansohn - Your To-Die-For Life: How to Maximize Joy and Minimize Regret ... Before Your Time Runs Out
09/22/2025
Karen Salmansohn - Your To-Die-For Life: How to Maximize Joy and Minimize Regret ... Before Your Time Runs Out
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 wasting time and start aligning with what truly matters. Backed by science and filled with practical tools, this book offers a fresh and cheeky approach to living with purpose. You’ll learn how to write your own eulogy to reverse-engineer your goals, build a “to die for” list to focus on what brings you alive, and do a life audit to release what drains your energy. With inspiring philosophy, research-based insights, and Salmansohn’s humor, Your To-Die-For Life will help you face your fears and use them as fuel for a life that’s deeply meaningful. GUEST BIO: Karen Salmansohn is a bestselling author with over 2 million books and courses sold, a leading behavioral change expert, and columnist for Oprah and Psychology Today. She is the founder of NotSalmon.com, a popular personal development site with a vibrant community of 1.5 million followers. In 1999, Karen first wrote with How to Be Happy, Dammit. Since then, she’s written numerous bestsellers including The Bounce Back Book and Think Happy. With a background in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy, Karen is passionate about helping people live with courage, clarity, and joy. In Your To-Die-For Life, she pioneers the mortality awareness movement, reminding us that embracing death might just be the secret to truly living.
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Dessy Levinson - From Overwhelm To Flow
09/15/2025
Dessy Levinson - From Overwhelm To Flow
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 facing startup challenges, a leader fostering psychological safety, or someone seeking deeper understanding of your inner world, this book offers practical tools and strategic insights to help you transform how you relate to overwhelm. With warmth, honesty, and powerful stories of transformation, Levinson shows how our moments of greatest struggle can become the gateway to flow. This is not just another self-help book—it’s a guide to remembering what we already know: that intensity, when met with curiosity and skill, can lead to meaning, creativity, and real change. GUEST BIO: Dessy T. Levinson is an executive strategist and relational integration coach, founder of crate.com, and creator of the CRATE framework for cognitive and emotional resilience. With over twenty years of experience in advertising, venture capital, and high-performance coaching, she helps individuals and teams move from overwhelm to flow through deep psychological insight and business acumen. She lives in the New York area with her husband and teen children.
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Douglas Lynam - Using the Enneagram to Blend Spiritual Wisdom and Money Mastery
09/08/2025
Douglas Lynam - Using the Enneagram to Blend Spiritual Wisdom and Money Mastery
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 Lynam explains how each Enneagram type has a "money monster" and behaviors that harm financial health. He will speak about spirituality and wealth, proving that financial success and ethical living go hand in hand; not just coexisting, but enhancing each other. From Marine to Benedictine monk to financial expert, Doug Lynam’s unconventional journey reflects his unique perspective on wealth and purpose. GUEST BIO: After graduating top of his class from Marine Corps Officer Candidate School, Doug Lynam spent two decades as a monk while leading a prestigious school’s math department. Transitioning to finance in 2017, he became a partner at LongView Asset Management, overseeing $250 million in assets. He is the author of Taming Your Money Monsters: Nine Paths to Money Mastery With The Enneagram and From Monk to Money Manager: A Former Monk's Financial Guide to Becoming a Little Bit Wealthy—and Why That's Okay, both in which he focuses on financial self-help.
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Holiday Special Rebroadcast - Jim Murphy: Inner Excellence
09/01/2025
Holiday Special Rebroadcast - Jim Murphy: Inner Excellence
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 under pressure. Inner Excellence is the life guide that has empowered athletes and developed world champions, and most importantly, transformed their hearts and minds. This step-by-step training manual from one of the world's top mental skills coaches will teach you how to train your mind like the very best. After years of research, interviews, and writing, Jim will share how to develop self-mastery and let go of what you can’t control, explain how to overcome anxiety and build powerful mental habit, give tips for removing mental blocks and share how to release limiting beliefs. About Jim Murphy: #1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Murphy is a Performance Coach to some of the best athletes and leaders in the world. He began his career as a professional baseball player in the Chicago Cubs organization. After experiencing vision issues that ended his playing career, Murphy coached with the Texas Rangers as well as the South African Olympic baseball team. He has worked with some of the world’s best golfers, including world champions, FedEx Cup champions, and world #1’s. The majority of Murphy’s clients have the best year of their careers in their first year working with him. In addition tocoaching professional athletes and executives, Murphy leads Inner Excellence off site retreats around the globe. He is the president of the Inner Excellence Freedom Project whose mission is to build communities to alleviate spiritual and physical poverty around the world. https://innerexcellence.com/ https://www.instagram.com/innerexcellencejimmurphy/
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Andre Norman - Ambassador of Hope: Turning Poverty and Prison into a Purpose-Driven Life
08/25/2025
Andre Norman - Ambassador of Hope: Turning Poverty and Prison into a Purpose-Driven Life
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 to his engagements. His collaborations with prestigious institutions like London Business School and notable networks such as Young Presidents Organization and Entrepreneurs Organization have established him as a trusted advisor and speaker. Andre's dynamic presentations, practical strategies, and personal experiences captivate audiences, empowering them to overcome obstacles, navigate change, and unlock their true potential. GUEST BIO: Andre Norman is a globally renowned transformational speaker, strategist, and business consultant, as well as the founder of Second Chance University, a program designed to give access and inspiration to people seeking to improve their lives. With a diverse portfolio of accomplishments and a global reach spanning regions such as Honduras, Bahamas, Sweden, Guatemala, Liberia, and Trinidad, Andre Norman's impact on correctional systems and ability to inspire personal and professional transformation are unmatched. Facebook: Linkedin: Instagram: Youtube:
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Daniel Miller - THE WAY OF THE WAVE: Nature's Model for Navigating Life's Currents
08/18/2025
Daniel Miller - THE WAY OF THE WAVE: Nature's Model for Navigating Life's Currents
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 Wave represents the mysterious rhythm or energy force that surrounds and affects us all—and cannot be controlled or manipulated. It also draws inspiration from the countless hours Miller has spent on the beach in California, observing the ocean waves. Along with sharing his own struggles and breakthroughs in riding the undulating waves of love and romance, parenting, work, interacting with friends and foes, aging, and creative and athletic endeavors, in THE WAY OF THE WAVE, Miller offers inquiries, reflections, and exercises to help guide others in their rides. GUEST BIO: Daniel Miller is a skilled painter, poet, successful businessman (having written a best selling professional book), and at 81 years of age, a nationally ranked seniors tennis player, Daniel believes that he is at the blessed place that he is today because he follows the guidance he preaches to others.
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Michelle Blood - Manifestation Through The Power Of Mysticism
08/11/2025
Michelle Blood - Manifestation Through The Power Of Mysticism
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 activate both the left and right hemispheres of the brain and send empowering messages directly to the subconscious mind, making transformation faster and more effective. Millions have downloaded her songs on healing, confidence, money, joy, and more. Michele will discuss how combining affirmations and music can quickly uplift the listener and create lasting change. She’ll also share highlights from her groundbreaking Manifestation Through the Power of Mysticism Video Book, the world’s first manifestation video book, which uses entertainment and visual engagement to help the mind absorb transformation techniques more quickly than ever before. GUEST BIO: Michele Blood is a successful, multi-talented lady who went from a career as a rock singer and songwriter in Australia to an internationally celebrated creator of Affirmation Power Music who turned personal tragedy into a global mission of healing, success, and transformation. Michele has appeared in many hundreds of podcasts, radio/tv shows, and magazines globally. After many years of meditation, Michele’s Kundalini awakened and transformed her consciousness. Michele now teaches others how to live a Successful Life and experience Divine Oneness.
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Paula Marshall - Finding the Soul of Big Business
08/04/2025
Paula Marshall - Finding the Soul of Big Business
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 become the journey of Bama Companies, Inc. 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 fear of uncertainty at work and home, the schools her foundation has built in Ghana to provide education for children and adolescents, and how entrepreneurs and executives need similar skills to success. GUEST BIO As Bama’s Chief Executive Officer, Paula provides strategic leadership and direction to the entire organization. Her vision stands as a beacon for Bama team members, inspiring the organization to achieve the Bama mission – “People Helping People Be Successful”. Paula assumed responsibility as CEO of the Bama Companies in 1984, which now includes Bama Pie, Bama Foods, Bama Frozen Dough, Beijing Bama and Bama Europa. Under her leadership, Bama has expanded to provide a wide variety of frozen desserts and baked goods to fast food chains and casual and family dining restaurants. Paula received her Bachelor of Science in business from Oklahoma City University (OCU) in 1982, and her PhD in commercial science, also from OCU, in 1993. Paula is the author of four books and believes all business people must embrace both entrepreneurship and management to succeed.
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Diana McLain Smith: Working Together for a Better Future
07/28/2025
Diana McLain Smith: Working Together for a Better Future
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 and exasperating. In Remaking the Space Between Us, Smith invites us to see what lies behind this story: a growing trend in which more and more of us are seeking refuge in like-minded groups while distancing from groups different from our own. Although it's a natural response to the uncertainty and adversity of the past fifty years, this trend is fraying our social fabric, negatively affecting our politics, and weakening the moral foundation upon which our future together rests. Despite all we are up against, Smith shows why we need not—and why we must not—give up on each other or give into forces so overwhelming they make us feel powerless. Through emotionally affecting stories, Smith recounts how tens of thousands of citizens across the U.S. are working together under the radar to bridge divides, heal our nation, and rebuild our democracy. Diana will discuss tools and insights to help people better relate to those on the opposite side of their political spectrum and to work together to find solutions to our most pressing challenges and work alongside each other to create a future that is better for all. DIANA MCLAIN SMITH has spent the past 35+ years helping organizations transform intergroup conflict into a powerful force for change. She has led change initiatives in a wide range of contexts – from Fortune 500 companies to cutting edge nonprofits – and her groundbreaking Leading Through Relationships (LTR) approach has been used by thousands of teams and organizations around the world to break free of intractable conflict and co-create powerful change. She is a former Partner at Monitor Group Consulting, former Chair of Monitor University, and former Chief Executive Partner at New Profit, and the author of , , the co-author of with Chris Argyris and Robert Putnam. She has served as an advisor to the Harvard Negotiation Project and the Rebuild Congress Initiative. She holds Masters and Doctorate degrees from Harvard University. ()() ) Website:
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Shawn Quirk: From Filmmaker to Festival Director
07/21/2025
Shawn Quirk: From Filmmaker to Festival Director
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 in 106 countries. There were 94 World Premieres and US/North American Premieres. Expanding the Festival to its pre-covid presence was the goal of the 2024 event, which maximized its in-person screening offerings, expanded its industry panel events, and hosted numerous receptions, galas, and industry mixers throughout the week. This, along with expanded outdoor screening options (both on the coast and within Providence) allowed the festival to raise the bar yet again in its industry presence and ever growing audience following both home and abroad. FLICKERS is a 501(c)(3) non-profit arts organization that supports and promotes the film arts in Rhode Island and throughout New England. Over the past two decades, its production, the Rhode Island International Film Festival, has screened 6,720 independent films and videos out of 87,532 entries, presented 1,621 World/North American premieres, featured over 1,350 entries that were locally produced, and hosted 4,582 filmmakers and crew. Since its inception, over 595,000 film lovers, in-person and online, have enjoyed the Rhode Island International Film Festival and its programming, not including those in New England watching its weekly broadcast and cable programming series, doubleFEATURE, now in its ninth season. ABOUT SHAWN QUIRK Shawn Quirk is the executive director of the Rhode Island International Film Festival. He previously worked as the lead programmer, where he scheduled events and organized different areas of the festival. Before taking these positions, Shawn was an independent filmmaker, artist, and scholar who has directed a number of short films and short documentaries. His film “Ouroboros” won the Audience Choice Award at the Spokane International Film Festival in 2008 and his film “The Coast” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010. After receiving his Bachelor of Science in Film Production from Boston University, he worked for two years as an English assistant in France for l’Éducation nationale. During his time abroad he became involved with a number of film productions in both Belgium and France, which included camera work for the two-time Palme d'or winning Dardennes Brothers on their film “Le gamin au vélo” (The Kid with the Bike). https://www.instagram.com/flickers.riiff/
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Jim Murphy: Inner Excellence
07/14/2025
Jim Murphy: Inner Excellence
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 under pressure. Inner Excellence is the life guide that has empowered athletes and developed world champions, and most importantly, transformed their hearts and minds. This step-by-step training manual from one of the world's top mental skills coaches will teach you how to train your mind like the very best. After years of research, interviews, and writing, Jim will share how to develop self-mastery and let go of what you can’t control, explain how to overcome anxiety and build powerful mental habit, give tips for removing mental blocks and share how to release limiting beliefs. About Jim Murphy: #1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Murphy is a Performance Coach to some of the best athletes and leaders in the world. He began his career as a professional baseball player in the Chicago Cubs organization. After experiencing vision issues that ended his playing career, Murphy coached with the Texas Rangers as well as the South African Olympic baseball team. He has worked with some of the world’s best golfers, including world champions, FedEx Cup champions, and world #1’s. The majority of Murphy’s clients have the best year of their careers in their first year working with him. In addition tocoaching professional athletes and executives, Murphy leads Inner Excellence off site retreats around the globe. He is the president of the Inner Excellence Freedom Project whose mission is to build communities to alleviate spiritual and physical poverty around the world. https://innerexcellence.com/ https://www.instagram.com/innerexcellencejimmurphy/
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Ilene Dillon - Emotions in Motion: Mastering Life’s Built-in Navigation System
07/07/2025
Ilene Dillon - Emotions in Motion: Mastering Life’s Built-in Navigation System
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 illustrate the point about how to work with 12 different emotions. She believes that we're all in a “Giant School” so we can learn and grow throughout our lives, and the learning will never end. Ilene will discuss the system for learning, why we want to embrace and continue to “work the system,” and the benefits of completing lessons. She will introduce focus because “what we focus on, we tend to become.”, and share the importance of decision-making, and how it's the simple route to learning, growing, and making changes. GUEST BIO: Ilene Dillon, MSW, LCSW, LMFT, is a “Recovered Angry Person.” “Recovering” led her to a successful half-century study of emotions—what they are, why we have them and how to work with them as they’re designed to work. Now 82, Ilene is writing books, making personal appearances on podcasts and Summits and continuing to work individually with people who want to get in charge of their lives. https:www/
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Virginia Deluca: Insights on Love & Lost Later In Life
06/30/2025
Virginia Deluca: Insights on Love & Lost Later In Life
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, ultimately, her future, provides readers with a powerful reminder that life has a way of expanding in beautiful and unexpected ways. ABOUT VIRGINIA DELUCA Psychotherapist and Boston resident, Virginia DeLuca, dedicated her life to helping her clients navigate unforeseen challenges and painful losses. However, when her sixty-year-old husband leaves saying he wanted babies, she struggles to deal with her loss and the life she’d once envisioned. She’s the award winning author of the novel, As If Women Mattered and her essays have appeared in the Iowa Review, The Writer, Huffington Post, Self, Glamour, and Parenting Magazine.
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Sid Stockdale : Lessons Learned From War
06/23/2025
Sid Stockdale : Lessons Learned From War
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 Sid's father emotionally and the long term uncertainty with him a POW; coping with his mother’s physical and emotional exhaustion and eventually her severe depression; coping with his brother Stan’s emotional blindness and its impact on his mother; coming to know the “Sid” that emerged at boarding school surrounded by a healthy and safe culture; the joy of his father’s release and return; the beauty of getting to know his father and witnessing the strength, courage, and determination of both my parents who were an exceptional couple. ABOUT SID STOCKDALE Sid Stockdale, class of 1973 is the son of distinguished military hero, . Sid Stockdale was eleven years old when his father’s US Navy fighter jet was shot down over North Vietnam and he was held a POW in the infamous “Hanoi Hilton” for the next seven years. Sid authored a memoir, about his father and his time as a POW during Vietnam, titled . It wasn’t supposed to be a book.But when Sid Stockdale was sent a copy of his mom’s diary in 2016, a year after her passing, he started journaling. Once he started, he didn’t stop. Sid was only eleven years old when his father, Vice Admiral James Stockdale, was shot down in his Navy fighter jet and captured in North Vietnam in 1965. Stockdale was held as a prisoner of war in the “Hanoi Hilton” for seven years, four of them in solitary confinement (two of them blind-folded) while his mom, Sybil, was left raise four boys and await his return. The words in Sybil’s diary filled in the missing pieces of Sid’s memories, allowing him to reconcile a tumultuous childhood of nightmarish proportions with the strength and love of his family.
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Paula Marshall: Finding the Soul of Big Business
06/16/2025
Paula Marshall: Finding the Soul of Big Business
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 fear of uncertainty at work and home, the schools her foundation has built in Ghana to provide education for children and adolescents, and how entrepreneurs and executives need similar skills to success. ABOUT PAULA MARSHALL As Bama’s Chief Executive Officer, Paula provides strategic leadership and direction to the entire organization. Her vision stands as a beacon for Bama team members, inspiring the organization to achieve the Bama mission – “People Helping People Be Successful”. Paula assumed responsibility as CEO of the Bama Companies in 1984, which now includes Bama Pie, Bama Foods, Bama Frozen Dough, Beijing Bama and Bama Europa. Under her leadership, Bama has expanded to provide a wide variety of frozen desserts and baked goods to fast food chains and casual and family dining restaurants. Paula received her Bachelor of Science in business from Oklahoma City University (OCU) in 1982, and her PhD in commercial science, also from OCU, in 1993. Paula is the author of four books and believes all business people must embrace both entrepreneurship and management to succeed.
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Amy Friedman & Leticia Longoria-Navarro
06/09/2025
Amy Friedman & Leticia Longoria-Navarro
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 The PATHfinder (Paving a Trail of Hope) and POPS (Pain of the Prison System) Clubs, these young people have a place that, in their words, “feels like home.” Drawing on their understanding of innocent young people who have been traumatized and stigmatized by their association with the criminal justice system, Friedman, as well as Leticia Longoria-Navarro and Victor Trillo of the PATHfinder Network, as well as youth they serve, will discuss, Supporting teens affected by parental incarceration and emotional struggles is critical—safe spaces like The PATHfinder and POPS Clubs help them share pain, build judgment-free friendships, and express themselves through writing and art. Schools and communities must promote mental health awareness, challenge stigma, and create empowering environments that foster healing, connection, and activism. Amy Friedman Leticia Longoria-Navarro ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Amy Friedman an author, Out of the Woods Press editor, and criminal justice activist, founded in 2013, with her second husband, Dennis Danziger, a writer and high school teacher, as an inclusive space for youth who have been stigmatized and silenced by their experiences with the criminal justice system. Having been previously married to a man who was in prison, Amy’s stepdaughters inspired her to find a way to support youth in ways that her girls never were. From a single club at Venice High School in Los Angeles, POPS the Club expanded to schools across the country. Leticia Longoria Navvarro is the Executive Director of The Pathfinder Network, a nonprofit that provides justice system-impacted individuals and families the tools and support they need to be safe and thrive in our communities. Having been personally impacted by parental and family incarceration, Leticia is an expert on the profound impact of incarceration on the whole family. She is an advocate and founding team member of The PATHfinder Club.
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Olivia Chadwick & Garnet Morris - In 17 RUNS: The Unbeaten Path to Unlock Life's True Potential
06/02/2025
Olivia Chadwick & Garnet Morris - In 17 RUNS: The Unbeaten Path to Unlock Life's True Potential
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 gradually, their training sessions led to profound conversations and a life-changing bond. In 17 RUNS: The Unbeaten Path to Unlock Life's True Potential Olivia Chadwick and Garnet Morris chart the course of their year-long journey of discovery and mutual transformation. Through opening up to one another during their runs, Olivia and Garnet learned that they had experienced similar troubled childhoods and struggles with loss. What’s more, they shared similar values. While coaching Garnet, Olivia came to realize that she needed coaching herself—on self-esteem and self-forgiveness. And Garnet, who had lost 130 pounds, quit smoking, and rebounded from bankruptcy to build a phenomenally successful new business, needed a reminder on the renewing power of friendship. Honoring all the emotional, philosophical, and deeply personal topics they discussed, again and again, Olivia Chadwick and Garnet Morris can offer the benefit of their insights and wisdom to inspire your audience to re-envision what is possible, overcome obstacles, and find the strength and confidence to run toward a life they truly choose. Along with a gift for telling stories—some heartbreaking, others heartwarming and amusing—with meaningful lessons, Olivia and Garnet have developed exercises to help anyone move from feeling hopeless and stuck, based on where they are, to finding a way up. Dynamic speakers and true believers in their life transforming message, Olivia and Garnet can also share their secrets for cultivating resilience, the power of celebrating your idiosyncrasies, and the magic that happens when you surround yourself with supportive, caring people—your chosen family. https://literarytitan.com/tag/garnet-morris/ ABOUT THE AUTHORS: OLIVIA CHADWICK, MSc Kinesiology, is a mental performance coach, certified exercise physiologist, podcaster, speaker and founder of Movement Medicine, a first-of-its-kind coaching practice consisting of an integrated team of world class leaders in the application of exercise science. As the host of the “She Knew Better” podcast, she aims to showcase guests that offer expert and loving advice to help us overcome life’s challenges, deal with mistakes and setbacks, and level up. Chadwick lives in Saskatoon in Saskatchewan, Canada. 17 Runs is her first book. GARNET MORRIS is an entrepreneur with over 40 years of experience in the insurance industry. With only a high school education, he founded The Targeted Strategies Group (TTSG), the premier Canadian brokerage firm dedicated to helping entrepreneurs and their families protect, preserve and optimize their net worth through life insurance policies. At the age of 40, he transformed his health by losing 130 pounds, after which he became passionate about personal fitness, self-development and lifelong learning. Morris was born and raised in small towns in Saskatchewan, where he still resides. 17 Runs is his first book.
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Bill Hanney : Theatre by the Sea and North Shore Music Theatre
05/26/2025
Bill Hanney : Theatre by the Sea and North Shore Music Theatre
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. Since 1955, North Shore Music Theatre has become one of the most attended theatres in New England, with approximately 250,000 patrons annually. With a national and regional reputation for artistic achievement, NSMT has received numerous industry awards. It continues to annually produce a musical subscription series, celebrity concerts and children's programming along with year-round education programs. Bill Hanney's company, Entertainment Cinemas, currently owns and operates seven movie theaters across four states. He is an award winning business owner and has been recognized as business person of the year. Bill will discuss the seasons shows at both theatres with a behind the scenes look at the making of the shows. ABOUT BILL HANNEY Bill Hanney (Owner/Producer) is honored and proud to have been responsible for the re-opening of the nationally renowned North Shore Music Theatre in 2010. Aside from his work operating North Shore Music Theatre, one of Bill's crowning achievements was the 2007 purchase and re-opening of Theatre By The Sea, a landmark 500 seat professional summer theatre and restaurant, which is entering its seventeenth successful year of operation in Matunuck, RI. Bill was a co-producer on the Broadway play, The Shark Is Broken, and recently co-produced a New York City workshop of The SeaView Nursing Home for the Newly Deceased. Bill was also an investor in the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Pippin, as well as the First National Tour. Bill is currently expanding his group of live theatres. He began his career in show business at age 19, leasing and developing movie theaters, including his first multiplex in Quincy, Massachusetts. Before long, he was booking rock shows (Jefferson Starship, Rush) and other types of live entertainment, which eventually led to the presenting and producing of Broadway productions. One such show was an appearance by the legendary mime artist, Marcel Marceau. As president of Broadway Productions, Bill presented national tours such as Annie, Amadeus, Dancin', Peter Pan, Rocky Horror Show and Mark Twain starring Hal Holbrook, throughout New England including Worcester, Springfield, Portland, Maine and Boston. Throughout his career, Bill has stayed focused on his movie theatre chain having bought, built, owned, operated, and sold more than 30 cinemas. His company, Entertainment Cinemas, currently operates six movie complexes in three states. In 2009, Bill is currently Chairman of the Board of the Theatre Owners of New England. Bill has been named to the North Shore Top 100 by the North Shore Chamber of Commerce. He received the Leslie S. Ray Hall of Fame Award (2015) and Businessperson of the Year Award (2012) from the Greater Beverly Chamber of Commerce, as well as Businessperson of the Year from the Salem Chamber of Commerce (2011).
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Gary Zelinksi : A Walk Among Heroes
05/19/2025
Gary Zelinksi : A Walk Among Heroes
In A WALK AMONG HEROES: Searching for America’s Better Angels Zelinski sheds light on how this hallowed ground and those buried there—privates beside colonels, surgeons and nurses bedside the troops they tried to save, the descendants of slaves beside Confederate soldiers, and wives, sons, and daughters beside loved ones who made the ultimate sacrifice—serves as a lens into what is good in our country. Gary B. Zelinski will share and discuss the inspiring stories behind the headstones. ABOUT GARY B. ZELINSKI Gary Zelinski is retired from the United States Air Force after twenty-two years of distinguished service. He is currently working on a memoir dedicated to his wife, Lillian. She stole his heart when they met as teens, raised their two children, and rose through the ranks to become a vice president for a Fortune 500 tech company. Gary B. Zelinski married his childhood sweetheart, Lillian, at age eighteen. After he completed US Air Force basic military training, the couple moved from Southern California to Northeast Arkansas. He served on active duty for twenty-two years and retired after being promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. After the Air Force, Gary built a successful management consulting business. During his working years, he was a technical writer, editor, and speechwriter for senior executives. Besides writing, Gary enjoys traveling around the country with Lillian in their RV. They’ve visited all fifty states and seen all the national parks, including the eight in Alaska. Gary chronicles their travels on his Bound for Glory blog.
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Herb Weiss: Aging Boldly
05/12/2025
Herb Weiss: Aging Boldly
Herb Weiss has had a distinguished journalism career, gaining national and state recognition as an expert on aging, healthcare, and medical issues. Throughout his 45-year writing career, Herb has authored or co-authored over 1,100 articles in national and Rhode Island newspapers and trade publications.The James P. Adams Library at Rhode Island College (RIC) will house digital copies of all his published articles, along with copies of reports written, newsletters and newspapers that he has edited. This collection, titled, “Herb Weiss papers,” covers 45 years of reporting on health care aging and medical issues, will be available to RIC students, researchers and health care programs across the nation. Herb will discuss his three volume books Taking Charge: Stories on Aging Boldly, where he covers issues on aging including care, retirement and leisure, mental health, care-giving and sage advice on how to age gracefully. The stories in his books provide research findings, aging policy updates and practical tools to live a happy, fully engaged and empowered life in their later years. He will also share interviews with experts and everyday people who have shared their keen observations about growing older. LINKS: https://www.linkedin.com/in/herbweiss/ ABOUT HERB WEISS Herb Weiss, has had a distinguished journalism career, gaining national and state recognition as an expert on aging, healthcare, and medical issues. In September 2022, Herb was appointed Deputy Director of Senior Services at the Leon Mathieu Senior Center. In Pawtucket Rhode Island, Herb writes a weekly “Age Beat” editorial on aging issues for the Blackstone Valley Call & Times (formerly the Pawtucket Times and Woonsocket Call, from 2000-2004 and 2012 to present) and RI News Today (since 2019). Since 2016, his cover stories also appear in Senior Digest, a monthly publication for seniors. He is a published author of three books. Throughout his 45-year writing career, Herb has authored or co-authored over 1,100 articles in national and Rhode Island newspapers and trade publications. The James P. Adams Library at Rhode Island College (RIC) will house digital copies of all his published articles, along with copies of reports written, newsletters and newspapers that he has edited. This collection, titled, “Herb Weiss papers,” covers 45 years of reporting on health care aging and medical issues, will be available to RIC students, researchers and health care programs across the nation. From 1985 to 1993, he oversaw editorial content for seven nationally published trade newsletters and newspapers, including roles as Founding Editor of Aging Network News and Senior Living (now Prime Time), and editor of various medical-related newsletters.
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Gail Lukaisk : What They Never Told Us
05/05/2025
Gail Lukaisk : What They Never Told Us
Gail Lukaisk is freelance writer, editor, college lecturer, and author. She will discuss her new book "What They Never Told Us", which us tells the stories of ordinary people who made extraordinary, life-changing discoveries. These discoveries are about their parentage and/or race and ethnicity that fractured their identities and prompted two fundamental questions: Who are we? And what exactly is family? Gail will also the devastating psychological trauma of uncovering a hidden family secret with all the twists and turns of a mystery novel, starting with how the discovery was made; to why it was kept secret. LINKS; Today Show appearance: ABOUT GAIL LUKAISK Gail Lukasik is a freelance writer, editor, college lecturer, and the author of the bestselling book White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing, which the Washington Post named "One of the Most Inspiring Stories of 2017." Gail has appeared on PBS's Genealogy Roadshow, BBC World News, and NBC's Megyn Kelly Today. She is also a contributor at the Washington Post and the author of several mystery novels featuring the character Leigh Girard. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Gail grew up in the suburb of Parma. Her mother, an avid moviegoer, took her Friday nights to the local movie theater. That’s where she fell in love with stories of all kinds. Her dream was to be a movie star, a ballerina or a writer. As luck would have it, she realized two of her three dreams. She was a member of the Cleveland Civic Ballet Company. And she’s the author of five mystery novels, a memoir, a book of poetry, and numerous poems, essays, and short stories. After earning a PhD and MA in English with a specialization in writing poetry, Gail decided to write a mystery novel at the urging of her son. Destroying Angels, the first book in her Leigh Girard mystery series, was described by Kirkus Reviews as “a riveting debut thriller.” She went on to write two more books in the series, Death’s Door and Peak Season for Murder, which won a Lovey Award for Best Traditional Sleuth. The Lost Artist, her stand-alone mystery, reflected her love of the visual arts and 19th century history.
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Dr Will Aguila: Weight Loss and Obesity
04/28/2025
Dr Will Aguila: Weight Loss and Obesity
Wilfred Aguila, "Dr. A" M.D. Bariatric Surgeon, author and radio show host, has dedicated his career to helping people live healthier lives. Dr. Aguila has served as a health and wellness advocate and has been in practice since 1996, specializing in bariatric medicine. He founded Weight Success Centers™, LLC to help patients suffering with weight problems conquer their struggle and live healthy. Dr. A will discuss how stress affect diet, and the components of the right exercise and nutrition, the science behind GLP-1 drugs and when to consider using them. . . ABOUT DR WILFRED AGUILA Wilfred Aguila, M.D. is a native of Florida and has served communities in Florida since he graduated from the University Of Miami School Of Medicine in 1991. In Tampa, Dr. Aguila completed his surgical residency at the University of South Florida in 1996 and was Chief Resident in Surgery from 1995 to 1996. Dr. Aguila has served as a health and wellness advocate since he graduated from the University of Miami School of Medicine in 1991. He has been in practice since 1996, specializing in bariatric medicine. He founded Weight Success Centers™, LLC to help patients suffering with weight problems conquer their struggle and live healthy.
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