A New Direction

It is that time of year again.  Hopefully you are thinking about your goals.  Many people wait until the first of the year.  We shouldn’t.   We all know or at least should know what we did the previous year in terms of our goals.  We know were we succeeded and we know where we failed.  Chances are if you are like the majority of people you more than likely did not accomplish the goals you set out to achieve.    There are so many theories on goals.  However, the fact is we need to be SMART when it comes to setting goals.

You may have heard of SMART goals…but our Charlie Gilkey this weeks guest on A New Direction (AND) has changed the acronym of SMART to make your goals more meaningful.  Charlie Gilkey‘ book Start Finishing: How to go from Idea to Done is a powerful book…but you will find this episode even more powerful.  It will make you rethink about your goal setting.  Charlie will give you more insight how to be a better about setting your goals.  Finally you will have a plan to accomplish this years goal.  So Start Finishing!

Thank you to our sponsors!

EPIC Physical Therapy is are newest sponsor, and when it comes to physical therapy they are the premier therapists and have a premier facility.  Whether you have that nagging injury from gardening, just want to be in better shape, or you are an elite athlete that needs to get back to your sport.  EPIC Physical Therapy will help you meet your goals.  EPIC Relief.  EPIC Recovery.  EPIC Physical Therapy.  YOU can learn more by going to www.EPICpt.com

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Linda Craft and Team, REALTORS…for more than 35 years they have given thousands of client from all over the world legendary customer service.  Always finding ways to serve their clients and community better Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS use the latest technology to help home sellers and home buyers with their goals.  Located in the Greater Raleigh Research Triangle Park of North Carolina they can help you where ever you live.  Click on over to www.LindaCraft.com

Want to listen away from a podcast…well you can listen to A New Direction twice a week on The Oak 93.5 FM.  They play AND Thursdays at 4 pm EDT and Sundays at 10 am EDT.  YOU can listen by going to www.OAK935.org

We like to think of ourselves as being pretty smart.  We like to think that we make really good decisions.  We like to think especially in business environments that we use our logical side of our brain more so than the inner emotional brain.  However what the research tells us…we really do not know ourselves as well as we think we do.  In fact as Dr. Gleb Tsipursky explains we are so biased we make most of our decisions with our instincts and emotions.  And that is a problem.

On this episode of AND Dr. Gleb Tsipursky takes us through his book Never Go with Your Gut: Avoiding: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters (Avoid Terrible Advice, Cognitive Biases, and Poor Decisions).  We quickly learn that there are over 100 cognitive biases that we have the choice to employ.  And then Gleb gives us example after example of how these glaring biases have destroyed many companies.  And while there are many books written on the subject of cognitive biases, Never Go with Your Gut is the first book to actually discuss how to overcome these cognitive biases.  Listen as Dr. Tsipursky takes us through a few of these biases that we often use, gives us ideas how to over come them and then helps you deal with someone who has these biases and how to help them see the light of their ways.  Something he refers to as EGRIP.  You will get some great insight and few chuckles along the way.  ENJOY!

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EPIC Physical Therapy from non-athletes to professional athletes EPIC PT has the best certified therapists along with cutting edge technology to help anyone reach their physical goals.  Even if you want to just get in better condition or need a better diet plan.  EPIC Physical Therapy can help you get back to work or play.  So if you want to be EPIC then get EPIC results from EPIC Physical Therapy.  Give them a call or click on over to www.EPICpt.com

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Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS for 35 years and going strong find out why they are known as having legendary customer service.  There is a reason why 1000’s of people from all over the world choose Linda Craft & Team and keep coming back for all their home selling and buying needs and investments.  They are the locally owned company that is world renown.  Learn more by going to www.LindaCraft.com

Did you know you can listen to AND on The Oak 93.5 fm in Raleigh?  What?  You say you don’t live in Raleigh?  No problem you can stream the show every Thursday at 4 pm EDT and Sunday mornings at 10 am EDT by clicking here OAK 93.5  Tell your friends!

So often as sales or business professionals we want some slick silver bullet strategy that will increase our business.  Somehow our mind has convinced us that there must be some magical secret that somehow we missed to getting more sales.  However, the reality is there are no silver bullets and there is really no such thing as “magic”.  The fact is being a better at sales, business, or life have one thing in common…YOU!  The very person who is going to increase their sales, be a better CEO, or a better person is going to be the person who is reading this right now.  However, those improvements only happen when the person makes positive changes in their life.  It is then and only then will they see positive changes everywhere else.  And that is the heart of Robert Paolini and his book Good T.A.L.K. Great Sales.

In this edition of A New Direction (AND) Robert Paolini walks us through some of the steps of making the changes in your life to affect the changes in your business.  These change require discipline to start new positive habits that create positive change.  The book Good T.A.L.K. Great Sales is a culmination of life changing techniques that affect the life of your business.  He starts by outlining the acronym T.A.L.K.  Truth, Attention, Listening, and Kindness and explains that these four pillars, if you will, are essential for any sales or business person to have greater success, because in every aspect these principles when practiced sincerely create powerful relationships that lead to better business.  We then leads us through Ha. He. Wi. We. – HAppiness, HEalth, WIsdom, and WEalth, and how these flow together to give us a fun reminder of how to live.  Robert or Bobby as he likes to be called then takes us through “Knowing Your Why” and going deeper on your Goals, and then finally talks us through Hal Elrod “s– “The Miracle Morning” and the power of  changing your morning and your day with S.A.V.E.R.S….but your going to have to listen to show to hear what that acronym means.  Enjoy!

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EPIC Physical Therapy – from nutrition and conditioning, to everyday aches and pains, to professional athletes the certified PT professionals and EPIC Physical Therapy have the latest techniques and cutting edge equipment to making you the EPIC person you were intended to be.  EPIC Relief.  EPIC Recovery.  EPIC Results.  Contact the professionals at EPIC Physical Therapy.  www.EPICpt.com

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Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS they have literally helped thousands of clients with the sale and purchase of homes.  And many of those clients return over and over again to get access to what they are known for around the world…”Legendary Customer Service”.  It has been Linda’s culture for 35 years, and they are continuing to find ways to improve it every single day.  Learn more about  the legend and how they can help you from selling or buying a home to commercial real estate.  Just click on over to www.LindaCraft.com

Did you know you can listen to AND on The Oak 93.5 fm in Raleigh?  What?  You say you don’t live in Raleigh?  No problem you can stream the show every Thursday at 4 pm EDT and Sunday mornings at 10 am EDT by clicking here OAK 93.5  Tell your friends!

We are bombarded with so much stimuli.  It is no wonder according to the the Word Health Organization that the United States is the considered to be the most anxious country in the world.  But regardless of where you live in the world you too are being taxed with more digital information.  You are asked to do more.  There are more demands on you from work, family, friends, media, and social media.  Now that we have all this data at our disposal we have to keep up with the “metrics”.  Now the computers are telling us what we should produce, and how much, and how fast.  If you are like so many people in this world, your life is stuck, out of control, overwhelmed, over stressed and feel as if you have no control over your life.  That my friends is the very definition of the “Loss of Agency”.  It’s out of control, you feel you cannot control it and it has consumed you.  It is time for you to act as your own agent and get you agency back.  Bring control back into your life and it can be done.

On this episode of A New Direction co-author Psychologist Dr. Paul Napper joins us to help you get started on getting your agency back.  In a funny sort of way, agency is like getting your psychological “mo-jo” so you can start taking back control of your life, be able to handle making better decisions, and reducing the obstacles to a more manageable size.  The book is entitled, The Power of Agency: The 7 Principles to Conquer Obstacles, Make Effective Decisions, and Create a Life on Your Own Terms.  It is a comprehensive self-help guide to helping you take back your life, discover your purpose, and live that life in an authentic way.  The Power of Agency  is full of research and real stories from real people who have changed their lives all because the discovered or rediscovered The Power of Agency.   Learn more about the Power of Agency by heading on over to www.powerofagency.com and take their FREE Test to see how you are doing when it comes to agency.  https://powerofagency.outgrow.us/powerofagency

Please Thank the sponsors of A New Direction.  It is their financial gifts that keep us on the air and keep us going!  And we could not be more grateful.

EPIC Physical Therapy.   There are a number of physical therapy places.  And I have been to several, but I have yet to find one where both the professional athlete and the people like you and I can go and get the best treatment plan that will get us back doing before our injury.  EPIC PT is the only place I will go.  It is because they have everything from rehabilitation after major surgery to working with better nutrition.  They have the latest in cutting edge equipment and their certified staff of therapists are second to none.  Epic Recovery.  Epic results.  Check out EPIC Physical Therapy at www.EPICpt.com

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Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS located at 7300 Six Forks Road in Raleigh North Carolina, they have been serving the Research Triangle Park area for 35 years.  In that time Linda created a culture of “Legendary Customer Service”.  It is not a slogan it is part of their DNA.  And in that time they have developed relationships with the world’s leading real estate professionals to help you find the best professional to help you sell your home or buy your next one.  Why not head on over to the “Legends” Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS www.LindaCraft.com

Did you know you can listen to the show on The Oak 93.5 fm in Raleigh?  What?  You say you don’t live in Raleigh?  No problem you can stream the show every Thursday at 4 pm EDT and Sunday mornings at 10 am EDT by clicking here OAK 93.5  Tell your friends!

Most all of us at one time or another have said to ourselves…”I really need to lose some weight”.  Or maybe you looked at yourself in the mirror naked and thought to yourself…”that cannot be me!”  The fact is being overweight is a problem.  We tried to diet, but we failed.  So we just give up.  Then we may try to excuse it, accept it, and create mantra’s around it that take our weight and throw a bow around it, or we can face the truth about it.  What is the truth?  Being overweight is not healthy for ourselves, for our careers, or for our family and friends.  Being overweight creates problems and the longer we do not address our weight and unhealthy eating patterns, the greater and more numerous the problems become.

Ralph Peterson joins us on A New Direction with his best selling book, “Adventures in Diet Land:How to Win at the Game of Dieting from a Former Fat Guy“.  Ralph Peterson woke up with his wedged between the toilet seat and the tub, embarrassed, hungover, and fat.  He was eating too much, drinking too much, and he was ready to end it all, take his life and be done with it.  He tried every diet and failed.  Most of the time to lose some weight only to gain it all back plus some.  Now over 350 pounds, life made less sense to him.  Then…something changed inside him…the rock bottom moment…he got himself in this situation, he needed to get himself out of it, but he was going to need some help.

Adventures in Diet Land is a phenomenal read.  The book takes you through Ralph’s story and then he gives you the 50 life changing rules that he follows to this day that helped him lose more than 150 lbs!  One of the biggest takeaways you will get from this episode of A New Direction and Adventures in Diet Land is dieting really never works.  There has to be a significant change and that change must start with you!  Adventures in Diet Land is available in all formats.  As soon as you read it, it will become clear why it was an Amazon best seller.  You can learn more about Ralph Peterson by going to www.RalphPeterson.com

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EPIC Physical Therapy – from everyday aches and pains, to better nutrition, to high performance professional athletes, EPIC PT highly experienced staff coupled with the latest cutting edge technology can help you get to the place you want to be.  When you first walk in to EPIC Physical Therapy it will immediately become apparent that you are in for a change of you.   An EPIC you!  Learn more about becoming EPIC by going to www.EPICpt.com 

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Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS, for 35 years they have been known as the “Legends of Customer Service”, because it is their culture.  They have helped people from all over find the right professional to sell or buy their home.  And if you are located in the greater Raleigh – Durham – Research Triangle Park (RTP) area stop in and get a FREE bottle of water and learn more…head on over to www.LindaCraft.com for more details

The t-shirt shout out goes to the “Branding Iron Cafe” from country breakfasts to chicken and waffles and more!  The Branding Iron Cafe located at 636 E. Linden in Wahoo, Nebraska is a must stop for some of the best country cooking you will get anywhere!  Thank you Branding Iron for the t-shirt.

And don’t forget you can listen to A New Direction on the OAK 93.5 fm.  They replay AND every Thursday at 4pm EDT and every Sunday at 10am EDT.  We appreciate their support of AND so why not tune by clicking here! 

There are many lessons we can learn from our journeys in business and life.  We all have them.  But how many of us have actually took a journal and wrote every day about our journey.  Not many of us for sure.  Rob Jolles one of the world’s leading sales trainers and inspirational speakers has been journaling his travels as a speaker and world traveler.  He has logged over 2.5 million miles around the globe.  At one point he was 280 days on the road speaking to group after group grooming sales departments, CEO’s and staff.  And in his book he gives us a glimpse into the 19 years he spent jumping from plane to plane, city to city and the lessons he learned that can be applied to both life and business.  He truly understands The Way of the Road Warrior.

The Way of the Road Warrior is not your typical business travel book.  It is much deeper than that.  In this episode of A New Direction Rob Jolles shares his life, his experiences, and the highs and the lows that come with both a heavy travel schedule and the toll it takes on both him and the people he loves.  This book is both entertaining, and at the same time incredibly honest.  He pulls no punches and gives you the great successes and great failures, and the life that nearly cost him everything.  The lessons shared in The Way of the Road Warrior apply to all of us.  You do not have to be a traveling speaker or salesman to glean a powerful message that should awaken all of us as we try to achieve success.

Please say thank you to our amazing sponsors that support A New Direction

EPIC Physical Therapy.  Whether you are a professional athlete, a recreational gym goer, or you just have some nagging aches and pains.  EPIC PT is the place you need to be.  Their staff is certified and trained in the latest cutting edge therapeutic techniques, they have access to the latest equipment and  the will assuredly help you to get back to being the physical you that you always knew you were.  They don’t just help get you better…they make you EPIC!  Learn more by going to www.EPICpt.com

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Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS for 35 years they are known for their “Legendary Customer Service’.  It is not a simply a slogan, it is part of their cultural DNA.  They are connected with the best real estate professionals and experts all over the world to help you find the right agent to sell or buy your home.  And if you are in the greater Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Research Triangle Park Area you can witness their service first hand.  Just head on over to www.LindaCraft.com

There are two ways to listen to A New Direction on The Oak 93.5 FM.  The shows replay Thursday at 4pm EDT and Sundays at 10am EDT.  You can listen to the shows my Clicking Here!

Alexa, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are the latest evolution of technology inhabiting our world.  You may be one of those who is a skeptic.  You may say something like “AI is not going to affect my job, my business or my career, because we have nothing to do with it”.  Of course they said that about the internet in the late 90’s, and today it is almost impossible to have a business without an active web presence.  I heard businesses say the same thing about social media and it is the businesses who embraced and use it that are still around and flourishing.  AI is the next step in the evolution of technology.  We now have devices like Alexa that we can set alarms, do our shopping lists, set our temperature, etc.   Other AI devices that can automatically build other devices, consult doctors on operation procedures and more!  It is here and it is not going away.

On this episode of A New Direction Author Rhonda Scharf talks about her latest insightful book, “Alexa is Stealing Your Job”.  Rhonda jumps right in and helps us understand what AI is and how it is influencing our world.  She goes further and points to research that demonstrates just a few of the industries that will lose as much as 99% of their job duties.  While this all sounds so fearful, Rhonda Scharf then helps you understand how you can fit into a world of AI, and how to keep yourself not only relevant but bring value to this brand new technological world.

The book Alexa is Stealing Your Job, is a enlightening read.  It will calm your fears, give you insights on how to work with these devices, and how instead of seeing them as a threat you can actually work with this technology to enhance your own career.  So rather than stick your head in the sand, deny it’s reality, or hope it will just go away, you now have a book that can you a head start into creating the new you that can be far more productive and successful.  “Alexa, is Stealing Your Job“, but she is giving you an opportunity to have even a better one.

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EPIC Physical Therapy, whether you are hurt from work, the recreational gym person, or a professional athlete. EPIC PT can help you get back to doing those things you not only need to do but want to do.  From recovering from major surgery to basic nutrition, lean on the physical therapists that so many professional athletes use.  Because you are worth it…be EPIC!  Head on over to www.EPICpt.com

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Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS they can help you sell your home or buy your next home.  For 35 years they have been known for their “Legendary Customer Service”.  And even if you live in another area, they are connected to the best real estate professionals that they can recommend to help you with your residential real estate needs.  Learn more by going to www.LindaCraft.com

Make sure you check out A New Direction on The Oak 93.5 FM.  The shows replay Thursday at 4pm EDT and Sundays at 10am EDT.  You can listen to the shows my Clicking Here!

So often getting started is easier than finishing.  And then there are times when we get stuck because we started to many things or cannot get them out of our head.  We all have said something to the effect of…”I have all these ideas in my head, but I can’t get them out” or “I have so many things I want to do, but I just don’t seem to have the time to do them”, or “I am overwhelmed at all the things I have to do, I have no idea how I am going to do them”.  Everyone of these statements have one thing in common: We are frustrated and they are not done.  We sit and talk about them, but they just hang out there forever, and then before long, because time moves faster than we think, we never get to them, and they either go away, or they become someone else’s issue, because we left a project partially finished that now someone has to clean up our mess.  Is there an answer or should you stay frustrated?

Good news friends!  There is an answer!  And this week on A New Direction (AND) author Charlie Gilkey  (www.productiveflourishing.com)shares with us a small part of his outstanding, practical, motivational, no holds barred, book START FINISHING: How to Go from Idea to Done.  In this episode of AND we uncover the difference between ideas and projects, what keeps us from getting them done how to make SMART goals (yes SMART is an acronym), why have your Success Pack of people is important to completion, and how 15 minutes of distraction can throw an entire year off track.  You are going to really enjoy the insights from Charlie and his book…and then you will begin to START FINISHING!  Enjoy.

We are so proud to welcome a new sponsor to the show.  EPIC Physical Therapy is now our lead sponsor.  EPIC PT located in North Carolina works with your aches and pains, to getting in better shape, to serious injury, from the Professional Athlete to the recreational gym person.  They have cutting edge equipment, and with 75 years of combined experience cutting edge therapeutic techniques.  I use them, and they keep me healthy, get back to working out and living the life I desire to live….heck dare I say it…they make me EPIC!  Please check them out at www.EPICpt.com and LIKE their FACEBOOK Page.

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Linda Craft and Team, Realtors, no matter where you live and where you are at in the home selling and buying process they can help you find the right expert to help you with your needs.  And if you live locally in the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Research Triangle Park area you can stop in personally and learn first hand why they have “Legendary Customer Service”.  You can learn more by going to www.LindaCraft.com

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You can listen to replays of A New Direction on the Oak 93.5 Thursdays at 4 pm EDT and Sundays at 10 am EDT.  Oh and you can even stream it by listening to their online live stream go to The OAK Livestream.

We live in a world today that makes it easy to blame others for our success or lack of success.  Most people want to believe that somehow those with great success have been given a break, or they have been born into privilege and that is the reason why they are successful.  However, the facts are that the overwhelming percentage of successful people are self made.  So what do these self-made successful people have that others don’t?  Nothing really, except…they make better decisions.  Learning to make decisions is not something to take for granted, because as Dr. Cie Allman-Scott tells us every decision no matter how small builds on itself.  if we are not careful with the small decisions soon they can loom to create consequences that we never wanted.

Dr. Cie, as she is called, joins us on A New Direction to talk about her book DECIDE YOUR FUTURE.  The book is full of inspiration, practical application, research, heart, encouragement, and empowerment.  Dr. Cie enlightens us to the research as to why we are motivated to make poor decisions and then gives a practical 7 step process to help us make a far better decisive choice.  DECIDE YOUR FUTURE delves in to why we procrastinate, how complaining solves nothing, why laziness kills our success, and taking responsibility for our own emotions, confidence and self-esteem.  DECIDE YOUR FUTURE is a book that will lead you to greater success in your life, your career, and your business…I guess you could say it will definitely give you A NEW DIRECTION.

Thank you to our Sponsors:

Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors, if you are a business owner at some point and time you are going to need the services of an experience business expert.  That describes the professionals at Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors, they have literally helped thousands in the sales and purchase of businesses.  And they do it all with complete confidentiality…that is their trademark.  You can learn more by going to www.ENLIGN.com

Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS, helping people world wide with their real estate needs.  No matter where you live they can help you find the right professional in your area that can help you sell your home or find your new home.  Located in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill (Research Triangle Park) area, for 35 years they are know as the “legends of customer service” when it comes to real estate.  You can find out why by going to www.LINDACRAFT.com

T-shirt shout this week goes to EPIC Physcial Therapy.  If you are EPIC then stay EPIC and use the professionals that the college and professional athletes use…EPIC Physical Therapy.

When it comes to the younger generations depending on your age and what you do, you have an opinion.  Most of the time those opinions are not very favorable toward our young people.  Somehow so many of us can act like the previous generations were so much better, that their work ethic was so superior, that they were more loyal, and not as entitled.  What is interesting every generation has pretty much said the same thing about the new generations coming up.  We have a tendency to over-estimate ourselves, and dramatically under-estimate those who are coming after us.

Mark Perna Generations Expert and Author of the book Answering Why: Unleashing Passion, Purpose, and Performance in Younger Generations joins us on this episode of A New Direction.  Mark helps all of us understand who the younger generation is, why they do what they do, what they want, and how to educate, parent, and employ this younger generation with great success.  It all starts with removing the labels, and understanding that parents have done so much to protect their children that the children are looking for experiences more so than for money.  They want to be part of something that makes an impact on this world.  And when you start to think about just those to things, deep down isn’t that what we all want to do?

Answering Why: Unleashing Passion, Purpose, and Performance in Younger Generations is a tremendously insightful book.  Not only does it provide fabulous insights into our younger generations, but it serves as a guide to help us better educate them, employ them, and how we can be instrumental into the productivity in their lives.  Mark Perna also shed light into how our educational system is perhaps sending the wrong message.  Maybe not everyone needs to go to college, in fact what Mark demonstrates in his book that there are a variety of ways that young people can make a great living by not going to college.  He even gives us a brief view of his creation The Career Tree.  and it just makes sense.  It is time for us to redefine what we are feeding this younger generation…because we the older ones are sending the wrong message and it is time for us to change it.  And it starts with our attitude and our effort.  We can change the world if we reach to help, support, encourage, and understand.  Because the saying is true, “seek first to understand, before you want to be understood”.  Enjoy the show!

Thank you to our sponsors:

Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors.  If you own a business at some point you are going to need the services of an experience business broker.  Look no further than the internationally recognized experts and professionals of Enlign Business Brokers.  They have helped literally thousands of people in the selling and purchasing of their businesses.  You should find out why so many businesses use Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors.  Head on over to www.ENLIGN.com

Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS, they can help you with the sale of your home or buying of your new home, any where in the world.  Before you try to pick your friend, or some real estate person who has little to no experience, go with the real estate professionals who are know for their “legendary customer service” Located in the Research Triangle Park (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill) North Carolina, they are waiting to put their expertise to work for you!  Click on www.LindaCraft.com

Did you know that 69% of people who listen to a podcast learned about a product and service from that podcast?  We at A New Direction have some of the most loyal and supportive listeners in the U.S. and around the world.  Yes, around the world. We  are continually growing in downloads, streams, views, and live listens.  We are looking for more sponsors for our show.  If you are interested contact Jay Izso at [email protected] We would love to help your buisness find A New Direction to new clients and customers.

And you can now listen to A New Direction on 93.5 the Oak in Raleigh North Carolina.  A New Direction airs every Thursday at 4 pm Eastern Time, and again Sundays at 10 am EST.  No matter where you live you can listen to the show by listening to OAK 93.5