Meet Alain Pellitier who travels across Canada using a diary to explain bullying to students. He goes through emotion to reach reason. Alain uses his method to reach thousands of young people and teachers every year. Alain brings emotions to life so strongly that it is not uncommon to see young people in tears listening to him. As a driving force for change in institutions, Alain has helped bullies realize the impact of their actions. Sponsors: Hero Soap Company-Use Code RAP for a 10% discount w...
Sep 29, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Season 4Ep. 130
Meet James Dorsey from Victoria B.C. Canada, author of "Delinquent: A True Story about Homelessness, Foster Care and Addiction" who at age 12 was placed in foster care against his will. Rather than enter into foster care he chose to run away and live on the streets. He tells his story to Ron how he became enmeshed in the harsh culture of street life and to discuss his thoughts about how this narrative plays out with so many of our youth. He expresses his thoughts on how parents and guardians can...
Sep 17, 2024•59 min•Season 5Ep. 135
Meet Blair Sorrel, author of "A Schizoid at Smith" who talks about a little-known condition she has called Schizoid Personality Disorder and describes the daily challenges associated with living with the condition. Her book and her public appearances are bringing a spotlight to this condition and is a testament to Blair overcoming the challenges of her disorder and persevering to help others. Sponsors: Hero Soap Company-Use Code RAP for a 10% discount www.herosoapcompany.com Barefut Essential Oi...
Sep 03, 2024•35 min•Season 4Ep. 131
Meet Austrian-California multimedia artist Michaell Magrutsche, also an awareness and creativity educator, speaker, podcaster and author of his book "The Smart of Art". Michaell tells us how he coped with and overcame various problems in his life and will educate us about mankind and how we might realize our human potential. Sponsors; Hero Soap Company-Use Code RAP for a 10% discount www.herosoapcompany.com Edge Coffee Company https://edgecoffeecompany.com?sca_ref=4803842.b56leoUsTc Fresh Jax Or...
Aug 18, 2024•41 min•Season 4Ep. 125
Meet Rachel Shur who was a carefree 26-year-old woman living in Ventura County California who in an instant went to suddenly someone who had to make the most profound and complex legal, moral, medical and practical decisions humanly possible. Not only did she not know the answers, often she didn't even know the questions. She talks to Ron about her life, her work with her non-Profit UCAAN and her new book "All the Things I wish I Knew When I Had Cancer". While the topic may sound depressing, the...
Aug 03, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 4Ep. 127
Ron talks with Dan MacQueen who at age 28 was leading an active, healthy lifestyle. In 2014 life threw him a curve ball. He started getting terrible headaches and blinding vision which led to two emergency brain surgeries. What he found along the way will surprise you. He tells us about his recovery and what he did to return to normal and achieve a new milestone, all with the hope of helping others. Video broadcast available on our You Tube channel ITS A WRAP WITH RAP-THE PODCAST UNCUT Sponsors:...
Jul 21, 2024•57 min•Season 4Ep. 121
Meet Leah Goldstein, internationally sought after speaker, author of her book "No Limits", world champion kickboxer at age 17, national cycling champion, winner of the 2021 Race Across America (RAAM) and nine-year veteran of the Israeli Defense Force in which she served as the first female elite commando instructor as well as a special forces intelligence officer. She talks about her life, career and her challenges of overcoming insurmountable odds of recovering from a devastating crash that alm...
Jun 29, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Season 4Ep. 129
Meet Jeanne Retief who hold a PhD in International criminal and humanitarian law, has presented on key human rights issues worldwide and consulted for 15 years in that field. After struggling all her life with anxiety, at age 35 she experienced a health and soul crisis and was diagnosed with panic disorder. She tells us how she made difficult decisions about her life path and overcame her challenges. Video broadcast available on our You Tube channel ITS A WRAP WITH RAP-THE PODCAST UNCUT Sponsors...
Jun 18, 2024•51 min•Season 4Ep. 124
Meet Linn Rivers. Linn teaches people a different way of living and being in this world. She is a functional health and wellness expert and educator. She teaches people all over the world how to take their health into their own hands, mind, body and spirit. You will learn so much listening to this episode pertaining to neuro linguistic programming, microbiome therapy, the use of a Death Doula and more. Video broadcast available on our You Tune channel ITS A WRAP WITH RAP-THE PODCAST UNCUT Sponso...
May 30, 2024•56 min•Season 4Ep. 122
Ron interviews award winning author, speaker and podcaster Lizbeth Meredith who recounts her struggle to bring home her internationally abducted daughters from Greece to Alaska. Her amazing story reminds us that if you seek help and do not quit, anything is possible. Video broadcast available on our You Tube channel ITS A WRAP WITH RAP -THE PODCAST UNCUT Sponsors: Hero Soap Company-Use Code RAP for a 10% discount www.herosoapcompany.com Life Insurance Buyers Inc www.lifeinsurancebuyers.com Dr Su...
May 14, 2024•54 min•Season 4Ep. 120
Ron talks with Kristof Morrow, award winning journalist, an author, U.S. Navy Veteran and Tourette's Syndrome overcomer. Kris discusses the challenges he has to face daily dealing with an extreme case of Tourette's and other adversities he has had to overcome. You will find his story very inspiring and learn a lot about Tourette's. Sponsors: Life Insurance Buyers Inc www.lifeinsurancebuyers.com Risa August Author-The Road Unpaved www.risaaugust.com Hero Soap Company-use code RAP for a 10% discou...
Apr 23, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 4Ep. 123
Meet Dr Susan Partovi, recognized internationally as a leader in homeless and street medicine. She practices in the Skid Row district of Los Angeles, California which contains the highest concentration of homeless in the United States. Dr Partovi is one of the founders of H.E.A.L (Health Care, Empowerment, Advocacy and Learning), a non-profit that brings supplies and medical students to clinics in Haiti. Dr Partovi discusses with us her new book " Renegade M.D.-A Doctor's Stories From The Street...
Apr 10, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 4Ep. 119
Ron talks with Max Friedman, author of "Painful Joy", memoir writer and second-generation Holocaust survivor. Max shares with us how his mother and father survived the horror of the Holocaust spending several years being imprisoned in concentration camps. Max will explain to us the difficulty of living in a family where both parents were haunted by the war and the atrocities they experienced and somehow managed to survive. Sponsors: Switch to the Box www.switchtothebox.com/sandy Risa August -The...
Mar 22, 2024•57 min•Season 4Ep. 118
Ron talks to Risa August, an artist, writer, world traveler, certified Gestalt practioner, endurance athlete, and a Acromegaly patient and survivor. In 2011 Risa noticed something was wrong with her body, she began to grow and get larger despite being on a strict regimented diet and competing in endurance events such as cycling, triathlons and mountain hiking. She tells her story of her medical journey of being finally diagnosed after eight years and of her 1845-mile soul healing journey on the ...
Mar 06, 2024•52 min•Season 4Ep. 116
Meet Dr Charley Ferrer, world renowned clinical sexologist and sex therapist. She is an award-winning author of several books on relationships, sexuality, self-empowerment and breast cancer. Diagnosed with breast cancer in 2016 and thyroid cancer in 2017, she became frustrated with the lack of information and treatment options provided to patients. Dr Charley created the Cancer Tamer Foundation which focuses on education and empowerment. Dr Charley's philosophy on breast cancer is realizing canc...
Feb 18, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Season 4Ep. 117
Meet Dan Clouser, author, podcast host, speaker, coaching trainer and consultant. In 2019 after founding and running a non-profit youth sports organization for 30 years working with kids and teaching them leadership skills and life lessons through sports, he felt a calling from God to leave his comfort zone. He started a new journey with his wife and dog selling most of their material things and setting out across the country in a RV to meet and work with people to make this world a better place...
Jan 31, 2024•58 min•Season 4Ep. 115
Meet Tim West who is legally blind and lost all his skin at age 4 due to Stevens- Johnsons Syndrome. Tim stands tall, he is a disability and mental health advocate who fights for those who feel they cannot. Listen and get a sense of what living with a disability is like from someone who tells it like it is. Sponsors: Hero Soap Company-Click link below and use code RAP for 10% off every order www.herosoapcompany.com Rare Patient Voice https://rarepatientvoice.com/Itsawrapwithrap Blue Sky CBD-Clic...
Jan 07, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Season 4Ep. 114
Ron talks with Eric Christiansen, an acclaimed documentarian and seven-time Southwestern Region Emmy Award recipient whose films focus on the impact of trauma on individuals, families and communities. A trauma survivor himself, having lost his home in the Santa Barbara, California Painted Cave Fire disaster, he understands trauma and the resilience of the human spirit and how important hope is to heal. By spotlighting these survivors and their journeys, Eric has been able to unify a variety of a...
Dec 03, 2023•57 min•Season 3Ep. 113
Ron talks with Leslie Hope Holthoff, a mom by the age of sixteen. Leslie tells us of her experiences in turning a life destined for failure into a life of abundance which inspired her to help others using herself created Hope to Happiness method. Leslie has authored the book "Not Mary, Not Roe" the survival story of a reluctant teen mom which is a stereotype shattering story that explores teen pregnancy. Sponsors: Hero Soap Company www.herosoapcompany.com Rare Patient Voice https://rarepatientvo...
Nov 19, 2023•38 min•Season 3Ep. 112
Meet Kim Sorrelle, author of the best seller "Love Is", serial entrepreneur, director of a humanitarian organization, activist, mother and lover of all people. In 2009 while battling breast cancer, her husband Steve received a pancreatic cancer diagnosis four months after her diagnosis. Her first book "Cry Until You Laugh" chronicles that journey. Kim's award-winning best seller "Love Is" chronicling her year long quest to figure out the true meaning of love that led to life changing discoveries...
Nov 05, 2023•56 min•Season 3Ep. 111
Meet Michelle Shekhinah who was married for many years and was a stay-at-home mom with two special needs children. In 2015 she realized her husband was addicted to drugs. In this time, she had experienced financial, emotional and sexual abuse from him, which turned into him sex trafficking her. Michelle spent many nights crying on the floor, until one night she saved her life and ran for the door. Since then, she has been healing herself, with therapy and other techniques. She has become a stron...
Oct 22, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Season 3Ep. 110
Meet Tyler Wittkofsky, multi-genre author, poet, mental health and travel blogger, podcaster, winning marketing and communications professional who grew up homeless and abused by his father for the first ten years of his life. Tyler was constantly made to feel like a lesser person which led the way to quite a few mental health disorders that stem from that kind of trauma, but this remarkable young man has overcome so much to be here with us and tell his story. Sponsors: Hero Soap Company www.her...
Oct 06, 2023•58 min•Season 3Ep. 107
Ron talks with author Susan Gold who wrote "Toxic Family, Transforming Childhood Trauma into Adult Freedom " and used her intuitive callings to leave her toxic family situation and eventually meet the demons of her upbringing that were continuing to repeat in her life. Professionally Susan became known for attracting celebrity talent to brands in New York one of whom was Andy Warhol which led her to produce for television and film and then onto Los Angeles. She is now leading retreats, webinars,...
Sep 17, 2023•49 min•Season 3Ep. 106
Meet former U.S. Marine King Randall from Albany Georgia. King was alarmed by the high level of crime in his hometown. The young offenders were mostly black males as young as 11 years old. This inspired him to be the change the community needed and to be the role model these young men were missing in their lives. King founded the X for Boys Program in 2019, the only rehabilitative program for juvenile offenders in South Georgia. In August 2022 he opened the doors to his most ambitious project, T...
Aug 30, 2023•59 min•Season 3Ep. 109
Ron talks with author Mike Aronson about his book "Whatever" which contains over 30 years of documentation of what he has witnessed in his life such as a painting, a statue, wall art, quotes, positive thoughts, poems, rants and more. Mike became obsessed with the word WHATEVER and it was his dream to write a book with all the stuff he had collected and during the pandemic he found a publisher and tuned his dream into a book that people of all ages can relate to and use to make them a better pers...
Aug 20, 2023•40 min•Season 3Ep. 105
Meet Tina Petrova award winning film maker, motivational speaker and author. When not teaching or making films, Tina is an advocate on the issue of chronic pain as she is also a chronic pain survivor and thriver. Tina has released a feature length documentary titled "Pain Warriors" about the pain epidemic in North America and discusses with us this issue affecting millions of people. Sponsors: Hero Soap Company-Use Code RAP for a 10% discount www.herosoapcompany.com Rare Patient Voice https://ra...
Aug 06, 2023•58 min•Ep. 104
Ron interviews Greg Carpenter founder of Blue Sky CBD and Dr Eric Dorninger research and development director of Blue Sky to answer all his questions about CBD . CBD is explained for the listener, it's sourcing, properties, effects on the body, its uses, legal issues, and the benefits for the consumer. Blue Sky is a small company in Colorado that formulates world class CBD products and has created dozens of partnerships with wellness organizations and medical professionals. They are special in t...
Jul 23, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 3Ep. 108
Ron talks with four-time paralympic basketball wheelchair medalist and hall of famer Mike Schlappi who was accidentally shot in the chest at age 14 and left two-thirds paralyzed. Mike inspires others through his experiences and discusses his philosophy of overcoming adversity, and his challenge to individuals to succeed despite difficult circumstances by empowering themselves and accepting personal responsibility. Sponsors: Hero Soap Company www.herosoapcompany.com Rare Patient Voice https://rar...
Jul 09, 2023•43 min•Season 3Ep. 103
Meet Tom Exler, born with a rare birth defect called Bladder Exstrophy (BE) meaning his bladder was turned inaide out. Tom didn't ask to have a stoma but he is living proof that challenges in life doesn't have to stop anyone from what they want to do. Sponsors: Home Doctor Practical Guide https://3e24fn-0x2-k1z9b1gq42z1w7m.hop.clickbank.net Rare Patient Voice https://rarepatientvoice.com/Itsawrapwithrap Hero Soap Company https://herosoapcompany.com Blue Sky CBD https://www.bluesky-cbd.com/pages/...
Jun 25, 2023•51 min•Ep. 101
Ron talks with iconic fashion designer Diane Gilman who started her career in the 1960'a dressing rock stars such as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grace Slick, Jerry Garcia, Jim Morrison and the list goes on. Diane introduced washable silk to the U.S. market earning her fortune and fame in the department store industry. She reinvented herself as the Jean Queen on the HSN television network designing and selling millions of jeans to women over 40 who wanted to look stylish and confident. Besides be...
Jun 07, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 102
