Michelle Greene Rhodes is a Registered Nurse, now an executive wellness consultant and Editor in Chief of the new magazine: The Color of Wellness. The magazine is geared toward women of color and written by health professionals. Michelle brings some solid and important insights to guide us on the path to vibrant health, while sharing the disparities that exist for persons of color. Nurses are most trusted so play a key role in addressing the disparities that exist. www.colorofwellness.co/ See Pr...
Feb 28, 2021•32 min
Olivia Odileke is an education technology trainer, and author of the new book: A Beginner's Guide to Nearpod: A Tool for Transforming Virtual Teaching in K12. Olivia has been successfully providing virtual teaching for a number of years, so with this and her passion for technology, math and the sciences, she has some critically important information for teachers and for parents. Engagement is key, and she makes sure to make personal connection with her students, either with a phone call, or atta...
Feb 21, 2021•30 min
Katherine Goble Moore is the daughter of Katherine Johnson--the American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights. Katherine along with her sister Joylette Goble Hylick and their mother, collaborated on a very important book: One Step Further, My Story of Math, the Moon, and a Lifelong Mission, published by National Geographic Kids. (Katherine Johnson died February 24, 2020 at age 10...
Feb 20, 2021•29 min
Lyra Logan is an MIT master trainer in Educational Mobile Computing snd also Executive Vice President and General Counsel of the Florida Education Fund, a nonprofit that creates and implements educational programs for underrepresented groups. Her work is so important for so many of our youth, and supporting them in creating a good future for themselves. Lyra is the author of "Learn to Program with App Inventor--A Visual Introduction to Building Apps. Whether it's remote learning or in classroom,...
Feb 07, 2021•31 min
Part 2 with Elke Scholz, a registered psychotherapist and award winning author. In this segment Elke discusses in more depth the ways in which we can create and maintain balance in our life and thrive in it by giving equal attention to the 4 parts of our being, and this week the focus is: the Mental and Emotional. One exercise is to just some time, even just a few minutes to use our 5 senses to look at/experience 3 objects around us. Also, be counscious of our thoughts, choosing which thoughts w...
Feb 04, 2021•32 min
Elke Scholz...a registered psychotherapist and award winning author. We met Elke in the fall to discuss how to deal with anxiety--a topic that is the the core of her Anxiety Warrior series. Elke is back to discuss in more depth the ways in which we can create and maintain balance in our life and thrive in it! Balance is about giving attention to the 4 parts of our being: Mental, Spiritual, Emotional, Physical. The focus this week is on the Physical--good sleep, be present in the moment; and Spir...
Jan 24, 2021•31 min
Angie Summers, a mental health advocate and author. Angie has over 20 years experience managing, living with and thriving with bipolar disorder. She chronicles her journey with bipolar disorder in her book: 13 Nights. Among numerous subjects, it is a story of hope, forgiveness and perseverance. www.facebook.com/AngieSumm/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Jan 17, 2021•31 min
Judith Matloff is an author, teaches at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism, and is a media safety advocate. Judith's career began as a foreign correspondent, and she travelled o hot spots around the globe. Those experiences led her to write this very relevant book for our life: How to Drag a Body and Other Safety Tips You Hope to Never Need --Survival Tricks for Hacking, Hurricanes, and Hazards Life Might Throw at You". She offers solid and simple wisdom sharing stories from personal encou...
Jan 12, 2021•29 min
Diane Quintana is a professional organizer and co-author of the new book--Filled Up and Overflowing: What to do When Life Events, Chronic Disorganization, and Hoarding Go Overboard. The highly unusual 2020 might have created this in our homes as we may have had an office, a school room, a gym, a restaurant all appearing in 'our home'. Diane provides ideas on how to clear up some clutter, organize work spaces in our homes, and create the model to support possibly a resolution to shed some pounds ...
Jan 05, 2021•31 min
Samantha Buckley-Hugessen is a Certified Life Coach and Trainer, and the author of UnS*uck Yourself: The Guide to Designing a Life You Love. Samantha writes this inspiring book which includes exercises to use, to guide us with our own journaling. Samantha writes from her own personal experiences as well as those of clients, so we have a great reservoir of experiences to relate to and that encourage and support us on our path. www.yourcoachandtrainer.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/pr...
Jan 01, 2021•31 min
Dr. Catherine Athans is a licensed marriage & Family therapist with over 25 years experience, and is also an author with numerous important books, the latest being "The Heart Brain". It can be a great help to us during these challenging times, bringing awareness that negative emotions such as anger, anxiety and worry significantly increase the risk of serious disease. And Dr. Athans connects this all with this season where gift giving is 'normal' and how to deal with this--keep is simple and...
Dec 20, 2020•32 min
Elizabeth Lesser is a best-selling author and the cofounder of Omega Institute, the renowned conference and retreat center in Rhinebeck, New York. Elizabeth also presents 2 great TedX Talks. And her latest book, 'Cassandra Speaks--When Women Are the Storytellers, The Human Story Changes' is insightful and empowering. It is about feminine nature, so men also can tap into the qualities of empathy, compassion, communication, and women can more embrace what has been coded as masculine traits: ambiti...
Dec 13, 2020•31 min
Noelle Nelson PhD is an internationally respected psychologist, author and seminar leader. She believes that we can accomplish great things, whether in business, at work or at home, when we connect with the value in ourselves and in others. And during this time of covid, this is even more true. Dr. Nelson's latest book is: I Survived CoVid, Now What? Finding Happiness and Success in a Post-CoVid world. She mentions how she lost her home, really every possession in the California fires in 2018, d...
Dec 09, 2020•31 min
Elke Scholtz is a registered psychotherapist with a passion for solution focused therapy. Elke offers the idea that we need self- awareness, note what we are feeling--it helps us have mastery over our minds. And then practice this! Elke also hosts workshops, and some can be viewed on You Tube; and Elke is also an author whose latest book is: Anxiety Warrior--Vol. 2 (so there is also a first volume). Elke shares about the various kinds of anxieties and layers of it, sharing stories so we may find...
Nov 29, 2020•31 min
Kerri Kannen is a gratitude expert and consciousness coach. Kerri has been doing this work for 3 decades...which provides a wealth of experiences and growth. The growth part is essential for us to understand, as this is an ever evolving process. Kerri's message about gratitude comes at a great time, as we look forward to Thanksgiving. It's also good practice as it's going to be different than what we normally do, so a good time to practice gratitude--finding all that we have to be grateful for! ...
Nov 22, 2020•32 min
Sarah Rose is a transformation coach and business strategist. Sarah's story, her journey is both interesting and inspiring and one that has led her to the work she does. In mid-2000 the journey began 'disguised' as challenges--a broken engagement, job loss, home loss. Eventually she noticed 'synchonicities', we might think are coincidences happening. She saw the need to view things with acceptance, not as a victim. Now her goal is to help10 million women courageously step into their power and al...
Nov 15, 2020•31 min
Aysha Morgan DPT, PT, OCS, is a physical therapist at PacMed. As a physical therapist Aysha's goal is to have people 'age gracefully'. The way to do this is to "move". Whether we're at regular work where we sit most of the day, or are working from home and also sitting a lot, she has some simple recommendations. One is that the time we would use for commuting, use for taking a walk these days. Or, we can sonsider taking a break for 5 minutes each hour and doing some simple stretches, and squats,...
Nov 08, 2020•31 min
Marie Ruggles is a clinical nutritionist who joins us with an important conversastion about good health, practicing prevention, and promoting wellness. Marie has packed the important information in her new book: Optimize Your Immune System: Create Health and Resilience With a Kitchen Pharmacy. Her website includes a blog with current stories, updates on her discoveries of foods to help us build a strong system. Elderberry has good health benefits, as does eating a prebioltic daily: beams, muschr...
Nov 01, 2020•30 min
Dawn Merydith is a behavioral therapist with PacMed here in our community. Dr. Merydith brings us some critical insights on how to take good care of ourselves, in particular our mental and emotional health. This pandemic time has impacted all of us, and certainly it is in different ways. It's important to have a heightened awareness around this, and seek help when we notice life becoming somewhat overwhelming. www.pacificmedicalcenters.org See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Cali...
Oct 25, 2020•31 min
Lyra Logan is an MIT master trainer in Educational Mobile Computing. Lyra is also Executive Vice President and General Counsel of the Florida Education Fund, a nonprofit that creates and implements educational programs for underrepresented groups. This is great work that is so important for so many of our youth, and supporting them in creating a good future for themselves. Lyra is the author of "Learn to Program with App Inventor--A Visual Introduction to Building Apps. https://www.programwithap...
Oct 18, 2020•31 min
October is Domestic Violence Awareness month. Kim Scouller is a financial industry executive and women's financial literacy advocate with a great passion for her work. Regardless of whether we are in a domestic violence situation, or not--we might help someone who is. 1 in 4 women will experience domestic violence at some point in her life and 99% of victims will also suffer financial abuse. Kim addresses ways to protect your money and financial future. https://wealthwave.com/kimscouller www.how...
Oct 11, 2020•30 min
Kamini Wood is a life coach, founder and CEO of Live Joy Your Way, and author most recently of a wonderful book, very useful at any time, and very much so today. It is 'Om--Life's Gentle Reminders'. This compilation of short vignettes of everyday occurrences provides inspiring, and motivating message we find in the everyday. www.kaminiwood.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Oct 04, 2020•29 min
Christy Goff is a Registered Dietician with Pacific Medical Centers and part of the Living Well Alliance Team. September is National Food Safety Education month. This knowledge is important all the time, but right now can be even more critical to learn all we can about nutrition, foods, healthy eating, food safety. Christy discusses good by and sell by dates, expiration dates. Involving kids with meal prep helps them to both learn about and be open to eating different foods, and also can be scho...
Sep 27, 2020•31 min
Kari O'Driscoll is an author and speaker from our Puget Sound area, a woman very involved both in her personal healing and growth, and with the desire to share with others so we can build a better, a healthier world. Kari is joining us to discuss her new book, her memoir, Truth Has a Different Shape--a sharing of life in the 70s & 80s. Kari also spends time helping the community and volunteering a a local foodbank, and shares how we might consider alternate ways of helping our friends and ne...
Sep 20, 2020•31 min
Sep 13, 2020•31 min
Sharkie Zartman is a professor of health and fitness at El Camino College. She is an athlete, a former All American volleyball player who competed for UCLA. And she is an author--of 9 books, and joining us to talk about health, and her latest book: Win at Aging--How to Stay Fit Free, and Love Your Retirement. This is a book for all ages, using the metaphor of sport to represent Aging, and to thus do it well right from the outset, but it's never too late to start! www.sharkiezartman.com See Priva...
Sep 06, 2020•31 min
Dr. Susana Stoica is an amazing and multi-faceted woman. Her career began as a computer engineer, and after suffering a brain injury, she realized the similarity of computers with our brain and found a way to heal her brain, and wrote a book on the subject. She is a certified Healing Touch practitioner, and the author of a new book: Healing with a Loving Heart--Discover the Power of Energy Healing. A simple exercise for our health: Good to do outside when possible: Deep Breathe in the sunshine. ...
Aug 30, 2020•32 min
Ellyn Lem PhD is a Professor of English and Gender Studies at UW-Milwaukee-Waukesha. One of her courses is 'Women in Popular Culture'. She is the author of a new book: Gray Matters: Finding Meaning in the Stories of Later Life. Dr. Lem's research for Gray Matters involved a survey of over 200 persons over age 65, some with further phone conversations. It combines cultural texts, gerontology research, and observations from older adults that gives us all a fuller picture of the struggles and pleas...
Aug 23, 2020•32 min
Corrie Schumacher is a mother whose 22 year old son, Sam, died tragically in a motorcycle crash. Corrie is an inspiration in her decision to tell Sam's story--a young man who loved riding fast on his bike. And he also made the decision when he got is license to check the box to be an organ donor. So while Sam's life ended too soon, he had a traumatic brain injury, he was able to change the lives of countless other people. 5 people received his major organs, including a young child. Think of thei...
Aug 16, 2020•31 min
Lorene Cary is an author, Social Activist, Playwright and Lecturer at U Penn. Lorene has a recent memoir, now in paperback: Ladysitting: My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century. This is a book rich with language, stories, and in the stories about early American history, African American History, as well as life, aging, care-giving, and self-care. www.lorenecary.org #VoteThatJawn --about bringing young voters to the polls in Philadelphia in 2020 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy...
Aug 12, 2020•32 min
