Cardiovascular disease is the #1 killer of women. The American Heart Association does the critical work year-round of education and fund-raising to save lives through research and support. On March 6th, the Go Red for Women Experience is one such major fund raiser. Chairwoman Lee McGrath provides some insights, including her personal experience with heart disease. Lee also is a great model of what it means to volunteer with and support this important nonprofit organization. Hana Hooper is the 20...
Feb 23, 2025•32 min
Dr. Supatra Tovar is a clinical psychologist, a registered dietitian and fitness expert, and author of "Deprogram Diet Culture: Rethink Your Relationship with Food, Heal Your Mind, And Live a Diet-Free Life." This title captures the essence of Dr. Tovar's integrative health approach. It follows the evolution of her personal journey of finding that fitness required good nutrition, starting her path to the world of nutrition, to fitness, to psychology and a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology - the c...
Feb 16, 2025•31 min
Corinne Cavanaugh is a locally based author of the "Audacious" book series; the 3rd and last of which, titled "Audacious Love," is ideal for Valentine's Day. Corinne has had careers in marketing, training, and as a professor, and then decided she had stories to tell, topics to explore. Her experiences are a motivation to consider what we may have dreamed of doing, that idea explored most empathically in this trilogy. Her website offers access to her blog and newsletters, with regular updates on ...
Feb 09, 2025•30 min
Friday, February 7 is National Wear Red Day - a day to raise awareness of cardiovascular disease, the #1 killer of Women. 2 wonderful women, both Go Red for Women Ambassadors bring important insights. Cynthia Granada experienced a stroke a few years ago and her emotional story reminds us that stroke pays no attention to age or gender. Cynthia is committed to bringing all the awareness she can to living a healthy life and to the signs of stroke. Ruchi Kapoor, MD, PhD is a cardiologist with UW Med...
Feb 02, 2025•31 min
Jane Lee Rankin shares insights from her memoir "Farm Family: A Solo Mom's Memoir of Finding Home, Happiness, and Alpacas." As Lee shares her experiences, her dreams, and the value of trusting her intuition, we find her the reasoning in her choosing to be a single mom, and to create a farm that has been fulfilling for her, her son, her community and then some. Apple Hill Farm is an award-winning first-generation farm in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, and it's an agritourism destina...
Jan 26, 2025•31 min
Arndrea Waters King is a passionate and compassionate leader, dedicated to making the world a better place. Together with her husband, Martin Luther King III, Marc Keilburger, and Craig Keilburger, they have written a great new book with stories and ideas about our own legacy, and the ways we can further build a strong community, the Beloved Community that Dr. King envisioned. The book is "What is My Legacy? Realizing a New Dream of Connection, Love and Fulfillment," with many essays from celebr...
Jan 19, 2025•31 min
Julie Potiker is a mindfulness expert and author of "SNAP! From Chaos to Calm." She is a member of the teaching team at UCSD Center for Mindfulness. Learning and incorporating mindfulness into our lives is a great plan anytime but is a perfect fit for the beginning of a new year, with great new energy. Julie gives us ideas and practices for using mindfulness to overcome the stresses and anxieties that can crowd our life - anger, anxiety, parenting, political strife and disaster. Julie found this...
Jan 12, 2025•32 min
Ali Katz is a lawyer, and the founder and CEO of Personal Family Law. Speaking from personal experience of philosophy put into action, Ali provides a fundamental look at life, and at death. She encourages us to see the opportunities in conflict, the lessons to emerge that guide us in living our best life, to be more of who we really are. Also to be aware there is an end time, so embrace it all. Ali offers some great guidance in creating our legacy with a series of podcasts. www.thealikatz.com Se...
Jan 05, 2025•31 min
Caroline Topperman is an interesting and inspiring woman - an entrepreneur, a writer who at heart is a storyteller, one from a long line of storytellers. As discovered in insights from her newest book, entitled "Your Roots Cast a Shadow," a hopefulness emerges, that we are inspired to do some seeking of our own roots, and maybe not necessarily write a book, but find out about our past, and share it with our family. It is a great gift. www.carolinetopperman.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19...
Dec 29, 2024•31 min
Corinne Cavanaugh writes contemporary fiction novels for book club readers. Corinne holds a master’s degree in international relations from Harvard University and has had a career in marketing. Now as she mothers her toddlers, she finds a perfect outlet in writing to explore topics of women's empowerment. She brings us her second book "An Audacious Partnership," delving into an evolving friendship and partnership of two women creating an amazing business in NYC. www.corinnecavanaugh.com See Priv...
Dec 22, 2024•32 min
Heidi Posnien and Rhonda Lauritzen speak about Heidi's life as a child in Berlin during WWII. This is the 80th anniversary of the beginning of that war. Rhonda had learned about Heidi who lived near her, and being an author spent time hearing Heidi's story and together they present the book "A Child in Berlin: The Poignant Story of Heidi Posnien and her Mother During the Fall of Germany." Heidi has had an incredible life and is another testament to living life to the fullest each day, even now i...
Dec 15, 2024•30 min
Ami Cullen is a former corporate law attorney who always had a deep connection with horses, going back to her earliest riding lessons. As an adult, a week's visit at a dude ranch brought the passion to surface again. Now, Ami is the Director of Equestrian Operations and oversees all aspects of the C Lazy U Ranch's Equine Program. This is an important story about following our passions to live a fulfilling life. Ami captures this part of the story along with putting the spotlight on the October 2...
Dec 08, 2024•32 min
Jeanette Thebeau is the Executive Director and Chief Acceleration Officer for IWL Foundation (Integrating Women Leaders). Jeanette and her team have done a ton of research, and it's culminated in a White paper "It's Not Just 16 Cents: A New Look at What the Gender Wage Gap Really Means for Women". Important to keep in mind, it's not just for and about women of course, but really for society overall. www.iwlfoundation.org See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Noti...
Dec 01, 2024•31 min
Kyla Cain is Education Curator at the Cougar Mountain Zoo, and she brings a sleigh-full of great information about the Issaquah Reindeer Festival, happening throughout the month of December, where and while the magic is in full force. Santa, his reindeer and loyal elves are all there, making for a memorable event, and a great gift. And a zoo membership can be that special gift that can truly last all year long. Tickets are available for pre-purchase and provide ease in your full experience. www....
Nov 24, 2024•31 min
Sandy Robertson, RN, MSN, PH-CNS, is an author and Board-Certified Holistic Nurse (HN-BC). For the past 25 years, she has been a notable corporate and healthcare systems manager/leader/educator of wellness and obesity programs. Sandy has a new book entitled "Why Am I Eating This?," an empowering book which provides us with 7 Simple Steps for Transforming our relationship with food, the first step being mindfulness. Sandy shares her personal experience with food and eating, along with some client...
Nov 17, 2024•31 min
Janet Sherlund is the author of "Abandoned at Birth: Searching for the Arms that Once Held Me." Janet is an adoptee, and her book chronicles the deeply heartfelt rigors of her life's experience. The key element we all stand to gain from her text should be a clearer, more profound understanding of adoption in our world from an adoptee's perspective, appreciating the good home she had but still feeling an empty spot within her. www.abandonedatbirthbook.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/p...
Nov 10, 2024•30 min
Shanisty Ireland is a food and lifestyle influencer and a mom of 5 active kiddos. She talks holiday fun and decorating, a focus on Friendsgiving, and shares some simple recipes and entertaining ideas. On socials @ShanistyIreland See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
Nov 03, 2024•15 min
Dr. Rosha McCoy is a Senior Director for Advancing Clinical Leadership & Quality with the Association of American Medical Colleges. She brings the latest information on vaccines, the covid-19 and RSV. www.vaccinevoices.org See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Nov 03, 2024•15 min
Linda Moran is the author of The Perks of Hospice: Stories of Love, Life, and Loss. Linda fills the book with intimate personal stories as well as practical checklists for those facing similar journeys. Linda was married to Dean for 45 years and they did everything together, especially in their two decades as fiber artists, experimenting with an ancient paper process on fabric. Their art provided a needed respite from medical reality and helped them create a lasting legacy at the end of their li...
Oct 27, 2024•32 min
Lucy Ashe is an English and Drama teacher based in New York City and is also an author whose newest historical novel is "The Sleeping Beauties." Before moving onto teaching, Lucy trained at the Royal Ballet School in London, and the rigors of that training factor largely in her writing. Lucy wonderfully weaves the story of ballet and the arts during WWII, with variations of the Sleeping Beauty fairytale. The interweaving of 3 generations of women is a compelling story within Lucy's manuscript. w...
Oct 20, 2024•30 min
Sharon Lechter is a renowned financial literacy expert and New York Times best-selling author of "Rich Dad Poor Dad" and "How Money Works for Women." Sharon is also a motivational speaker with a focus on navigating the tumultuous landscape around us, particularly as Election Day draws close. Sharon has a list of 8 considerations for our lives to help us feel more balanced and peaceful at any time, regardless of stress. A few of these thoughts: Control what you can. Educate yourself. Set boundari...
Oct 13, 2024•31 min
Patti Wukovits, BSN, RN is Co-Executive Director, and also a cofounder, of the American Society for Meningitis Prevention. Patti's 17-year-old daughter Kimberley died of meningitis just a week before her high school graduation. She was instrumental in co-founding the group alongside Alicia Stillman, another mother whose teen daughter died of meningitis. Dr. Mary Beth Koslap-Petraco is Medical Council for the Society and is a vaccine expert. World Meningitis Day is October 5, and this week we lea...
Oct 06, 2024•30 min
Liz Kleinrock is an antibias/antiracist educator, consultant, and facilitator for schools, organizations, and companies across the country. She is a transracial adoptee, born in South Korea and raised in Washington DC, and has written a number of relevant books marking and teaching her experiences. She joins us this week to discuss her latest book, written in collaboration with Caroline Kusin Pritchard, titled "What Jewish Looks Like," and shares the stories of 38 Jewish leaders, including actor...
Sep 29, 2024•30 min
Geri Spieler is an investigative journalist and award-winning speaker. She is also an author, whose latest book "Regina of Warsaw" speaks to personal experience in a historical fiction based on the life of her grandmother, Regina. As a young woman with a toddler son, she made the courageous decision to leave Poland prior to WW1, due to the violence erupting against Jewish citizens. Many members of her family died due to antisemitic acts. It's important to understand history and see our role and ...
Sep 22, 2024•32 min
Blake Rabinowitz is a 16-year-old poet, an author who has already published a book of poetry serving as a tool to help others, teens and adults alike. Blake has in fact done so with teens in school classrooms, and also has held workshops at senior centers. Using writing and journaling, Blake encourages us to write ourselves; to release the burdens we carry within, and to become who we are meant to be in this world. Blake began this writing in an English class, during her first year of high scho...
Sep 15, 2024•32 min
J.A. Jance is a best-selling mystery writer whose career spans decades, and her main characters keep pace with the decades that they have been her creation. One of these key characters is a private investigator, retired homicide cop J.P. 'Beau' Beaumont. Jance makes her home in the Puget Sound, the setting for Beau's life and work. In the latest entry of this gut-clenching suspense series, "Den of Iniquity," Beau and his wife get an unexpected visit from his 17-year-old grandson whose parents ha...
Sep 08, 2024•31 min
Dr. Helen McKibben is a seasoned clinical therapist with over 35 years of experience. She holds a doctorate in psychology, as well as national certification from the National Board of Certified Counseling. She uses neuroscience to help people retrain their brains to make better choices, trust those decisions, and erase self-doubt. Details of this can be found in Dr. McKibben's important new book "Drop: Making Great Decisions," where she introduces a groundbreaking technique for overcoming emotio...
Sep 01, 2024•31 min
Dr. Julie Gatza is a nutritional educator, and one of the nation's top chiropractic physicians with more than 30 years of clinical practice. In that time, as a co-founder of the Florida Wellness Institute, she has assisted thousands of patients in resolving a wide variety of physical ailments. Using her understanding of the nervous system, nutrition, and alternative therapies, Dr. Julie’s mission with each patient is to enhance the body's potential to heal itself. A key area of good health is ou...
Aug 25, 2024•30 min
Karin Slaughter is a best-selling author, considered one of the world's most popular storytellers. She's been on the NY Times best-seller's list more than 20 times, with her reach going global. Her Will Trent series of novels is as you might deduct, the source for the hit TV series of the same name starring Ramon Rodriguez. The days keep counting down until the 3rd season begins, and it still feels too far away. A good way to fill the time is to read Karin's newest release "This Is Why We Lied: ...
Aug 18, 2024•29 min
Maisha Houston is the Director of Human Resources for the Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle and joins us this week to provide details of the growth of this invaluable non-profit in our Puget Sound area. Both in staffing and in the overall increase of supportive and relevant programs in Education, Public Health, Housing, Advocacy & Civic Engagement, and Workforce Development. These important programs, many of which maintain a critical focus on young people, can use both volunteer and finan...
Aug 11, 2024•30 min
