Kimberly Friedmutter is a board-certified Master Hypnotist, and NLP trainer. She is known as the “Mystic in Cowboy Boots” and has her own radio show. Now she is also an author, whose book brings great information to us about our Mind. "Subconscious Power: Use Your Inner Mind to Create the Life You've Always Wanted" reveals that the subconscious is not magic, and not just for some select few. This is a part of all of us. Kimberley works with celebrity clients, but here she addresses the subject s...
Jun 02, 2019•31 min
Rene Czerwinski is a licensed mental health counselor with Pacific Medical Centers. The statistics are staggering--roughly 45 million people in the U.S. suffer from mental illness and at least 10 million of these people suffer from serious mental illness. And, I feel we see evidence of this on our city streets every single day. PacMed is launching a campaign that highlights the importance of identifying and treating mental health issues. Their staff works collaboratively with referrals to approp...
May 26, 2019•29 min
MC Fox is a first time author. Her book--Countdown America, is a thriller that contains cyber espionage, Russian scandals, has strong women in powerful positions....and it's really quite interesting as this conversation follows Hu Dalconzo speaking about the role of women, and feminine energy in our world today. Professionally Marcie Fox is an accountant--being practical she knew she needed a career to support her on the journey. But writing has always been a passion, so she has progressed well ...
May 19, 2019•30 min
Sarah Slack is the founder of The TEARS Foundation. This beautiful nonprofit organization came about because 18 years ago Sarah lost her baby boy--he was stillborn. Sarah is honest about her painful grief journey and she has made it have a beautiful meaning and is doing so much to help other families in similar difficult circumstances. The TEARS Foundation continues to grow and evolve and is now in various communities in the US and is also international. It provides both emotional and financial ...
May 10, 2019•31 min
Give Big 2019!! This week Nancy Long Executive Director of 501 Commons, the new owner of Give Big, and Clare Petersky, Executive Director of Wallingford Senior Community Center give us an inside look at the work that they do. And it truly is BIG, and shows the collaboration we have with each other to provide critical and important support to over 1500 nonprofit organizations in our area. We can now support organizations across the state, even international ones that are based here. Every dollar ...
May 05, 2019•31 min
Jessi Roberts is the founder of Cheekys, a unique and popular boutique that is so much more than a boutique. Jessi has a heart to help women empower themselves, realize their dreams. Jessi shares some insights of both creating a million dollar business in a tiny Idaho town, and creating a vibrant community of women and families. Jessi Roberts has written about her experiences...clearly and honestly....in this part memoir, part inspirational book: Backroads Boss Lady--Happiness Ain't a Side Hustl...
Apr 28, 2019•31 min
Dr. Darcy Broughton is an obstetrician and gynecologist, specializing in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at Pacific NW Fertility, in Seattle. April 12th-27th is National Infertility Awareness Week. 1 in 8 couples has a challenge with becoming pregnant, over 7 million women in the US have received infertility care. This is a medical diagnosis, so it's critically important to inform and spread the word. www.pnwfertility.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California ...
Apr 21, 2019•32 min
Rosemary Lombardy has 35 years experience as a financial advisor. Using this professional experience, along with her personal experience of surviving domestic abuse, and drawing on the stories of other women in similar circumstance, Rosemary has written an important and empowering book, Breaking Bonds: How to Divorce an Abuser and Heal--A Survival Guide. Rosemary provides lists and details about subjects such as getting a restraining order, 21 Essential items to pack in a to-go bag. And at the e...
Apr 14, 2019•31 min
Captain Lisa Barnes is a pastor with the Salvation Army at White Center and is deeply committed to social justice work, to bringing love to those most in need (which maybe is all of us). Lisa brought a girls' empowerment program "Brave" to Seattle, a program to help girls in foster care, ages 12-18. The statistics are staggering. Around 70% of these vulnerable young women can find themselves in the sex trafficking trade, homeless, or losing their life. One day, Saturday, May 18 gives them an opp...
Apr 07, 2019•31 min
Mar 31, 2019•32 min
Geneen Roth is a NY Times best-selling author, a life coach, and workshop leader. She incorporates all these talents in her morning conversation with a focus on her latest book-- This Messy Magnificent Life: A Field Guide. Geneen shares stories of her challenges, the personal discoveries to overcome them, and also includes stories from workshop attendees--all helping us to learn and grow. www.geneenroth.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://...
Mar 24, 2019•30 min
Mar 17, 2019•32 min
Mar 10, 2019•31 min
Mar 03, 2019•32 min
Dr. Melba Patillo Bales is a great figure in history and in this country. She is one of the high school students from 1957, the Little Rock 9, who played a significant role in desegregation. The Federal Court had ruled on integration in all schools. Even at a very young age Melba did not understand segregation, so she was a natural candidate for the group of black students selected to attend Capital High School in Little Rock. In her memoir "March Forward, Girl" she tells of her youth, and life ...
Feb 24, 2019•31 min
Christina McDonald is a journalist and author originally from our Puget Sound area, but now living in England--a very interesting story. Christina has a passion for writing which comes through strong and clear in her first adult published novel: The Night Olivia Fell. This thriller offers so many topics for good, deep conversation--mother-daughter relationships, truth, honesty, the teen years, life and death. Christina provides a guide for Book Club groups. And she's written and self published a...
Feb 17, 2019•31 min
Vanessa McGrady is a woman of many talents, of a great sense of adventure, a woman sharing a special love story in her memoir : Rock Needs River--A Memoir About a Very Open Adoption. Vanessa felt the call for motherhood, and adoption was her best option, and a big journey. Her very open adoption involved receiving her very aware and wise daughter, Grace, from bio parents who felt they were not prepared to have a child. When they became homeless Vanessa invited them to live with her and Grace for...
Feb 10, 2019•32 min
Laurie Trachta is a former educator and school counselor with over 20 years experience working with kids in the formative years--grades 1-8. Laurie is also an author. Her book: Can the Sad Come Out? is a children's book that suits all ages, and provides important insights and a basis for good heartfelt conversations about death, dying, grief and acknowledging it as a process of life. Laurie shares that she has had response from parents and grandparents about how it has helped them, and has been ...
Feb 03, 2019•31 min
Go Red for Women--wear red on Friday February 1. The Ambassadors for the 2019 American Heart month, Dr. Marina Jansen, cardiologist at CHI Franciscan, and Miriam Barnett, a Survivor, who underwent open heart surgery 2 years ago--share important information about women and heart disease. Heart disease continues to be the number 1 killer of women, so we need to know that it is different than it is for men. It may manifest as nausea, pain in the left arm, profuse sweating. Dr. Jansen tells us that ...
Jan 27, 2019•31 min
Olympia LePoint is a contemporary "Hidden Figures" woman--recall the movie from a couple years ago. Olympia is a 'rocket scientist' who helped launch 28 space missions in her nearly 10 year career with Boeing. She shares her story to encourage us to push beyond perceived failures. She failed math and science until the 11th grade and then in university graduated 5th in her class of thousands. She was the youngest scientist hired by Boeing at age 21. In 2004 she was the recipient of the Boeing Pro...
Jan 20, 2019•31 min
Allison Tenney is the founder of Seattle Ignited Women Project, an event dedicated to redefining what success and strength means as a woman. For any of us who want to be instruments of change in the world, this is the experience that is essentially like a lab where we learn some things, test them out with a group of women seeking to also be a force of change in the world, and then continue to collaborate with new found friends and connections to put the solutions into action. The next Ignited Wo...
Jan 13, 2019•31 min
Elizabeth Emens is a Law Professor at Columbia University, a mother of 2 youngsters, and now author of an important new book: Life Admin--How I Learned to do Less, Do Better and Live More. The book is important because it is an education--one that provides insight into the things /stuff of our own life, it presents experiences of others, and thus the means of making our life work more efficiently for ourselves. 'Life Admin' is a great term to cover all the time it takes to deal with all the extr...
Jan 06, 2019•31 min
Elizabeth Primamore is Professor of English at City University of New York, and an author, most recently of 'Shady Women: Three Short Plays'. Elizabeth uses the plays to discuss some of the events of this past year including the Me 2 movement, and the various ways women have been encouraged to find their voice, to address the issues that have impacted them/us over time. www.elizabethprimamore.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/p...
Dec 30, 2018•29 min
Eileen Heisman is President and CEO of National Philanthropic Trust, and a recognized expert on charitable giving. Eileen has a few tips about this for us--to include taking the $$ we earmark for charity, and donating a larger sum to fewer organizations. Eileen shares about work life balance and finding the work that brings us fulfillment. www.nptrust.org See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Dec 23, 2018•32 min
Rabbi Sara Berman is a broad certified Chaplain, a certified instructor in Mental Health First Aid, and is now manager of spiritaul care at Providence Tarzana Medical Center. Rabbi Sara is also a writer and share insights from her new book-- From Sorrow to Strength: My Journey with Depression. One in Five of us is affected. Rabbi Sara's book is a wonderful gift that helps us to embrace compassion, and be both a support and advocate for more attention and better treatment for mental illness. www....
Dec 16, 2018•31 min
Kate Atherley is a talented and creative woman. Her hobby--knitting, has become her work, and it seems like great fun. Kate comes from a Mathematics and Software background, and combining all these things seems quite creative in itself. Kate's story about her life path which included working for Microsoft, and has evolved to transferring the math knowledge to her love of knitting. She relates the results in her latest book: The Knitter's Dictionary--Knitting Know-How from A to Z. Knitting is and...
Dec 09, 2018•31 min
Gina La Roche Co author of " The 7 laws of Enough: Cultivating a Life of Sustainable Abundance". Gina and her coauthor, Jen Cohen, guide us though 7 principles, including "I am enough", to "I belong" and "Joy is Available". This is sage direction is a world that clamors for more and more stuff. The book is presented as a workbook that we can use as a journal. When we find that we truly have all we need for our personal life, we have the potential to live in harmony in the planet, with all life. ...
Dec 02, 2018•31 min
Figgy Pudding Caroling Competition invitation! Jeannie Falls and Zoe Freeman, 2 of the leaders at the Pike Market Senior Center inform us of some of the services offered to Seniors--such as wellness support, daily lunches, the food bank. Figgy Pudding is a major fund raiser that supports the services, and in offering them build a community where the people involved feel needed, and want to do their part in giving back. And Figgy is a time of festivity and fun in the city, with WARM very actively...
Nov 25, 2018•32 min
It's about the Jingle Bell Run 2018! This major event, the largest Jingle Bell Run in the country, is critical in raising important funds for the work of the Arthritis Foundation. The amazing, Medical Honoree Dr. Laura Matsen Ko, started her involvement at age 8! Her orthopedic surgeon dad inspired her to follow in his footsteps, and now she performs hip and knee replacements, as well as working with persons living with arthritis to be able to live their best life. Adult Honoree, Laura Genovees ...
Nov 18, 2018•31 min
Supporting the important life saving, life-giving work of the March of Dimes. A new mom, Everly Babineaux shares her quite new experience of baby Jace entering the world at 25 weeks--truly a miracle. Not too many years ago, little Jace would not have stood a chance of being here. But all the research and education instigated by and largely supported by March of Dimes (our donations) has and continues to evolve and make it possible for these little premies to get a good start in life. But the Mar...
Nov 11, 2018•32 min
