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The Emotionally Intelligent Child: Effective Strategies for Parenting Self-Aware, Cooperative, and Well-Balanced Kids

Show Guests: Helen Hadani and Rachael Katz

As the day-to-day effects of the pandemic ease, our children have been left with having to play catch up, learning the social tools and skills that parents of young children took for granted just 3 short years ago. To help them, parents need a new toolbox to foster their child’s emotional intelligence—an essential character trait for children to succeed in our fast-paced, social society.

Parenting takes serious patience and calm that can be hard to find today. A growing number of personal, health and economic worries have caused a significant rise in anxiety levels. Where can parents find tools to meet today’s challenges? Child development experts, Rachael Katz and Helen Hadani, set out to address this in their new book, The Emotionally Intelligent Child.

heir innovative approach breaks the mold on parenting. Katz and Hadani share relevant research on social and emotional awareness to help parents understand how their child’s mind is developing. They also provide powerful tips on how to help children build emotional intelligence to navigate the conditions of our times.

Parents will learn to shift their thinking from the adult viewpoint to a child’s so they can discover how to scaffold and support their child’s social and emotional learning and ensure that their child learns prosocial behavior, impulse control, and perspective taking. This shift in viewpoint is a total game-changer and will help parents to gain more patience, respond less reactively, and cultivate joy together as a family.

Unlocking The Ancient Secrets to Healing

Show Guest: Gail Lynn

At the age of 37, Gail Lynn’s dream of making a difference in the world was rudely shattered. The accumulated stress of two challenging relationships and three extremely competitive careers in the automotive, telecommunications, and film industries had decimated her physical, emotional, and psychological reserves, leaving her with a medical diagnosis of severe cardiovascular stress.

Determined to restore her health, Gail plunged into the world of energy medicine. When a series of whole-body light and sound treatments reversed her diagnosis, she set out to uncover both the ancient history and modern science behind light and sound as healing therapies.

After opening a light and sound healing center in Colorado in 2010, a series of extraordinary synchronicities guided her to combine light and sound technologies with sacred geometry and Tesla mathematics. The result was a revolutionary vibroacoustic, resonance healing chamber called the Harmonic Egg, which is advancing frequency healing to an unimagined level.

Part memoir, part illuminating treatise on why science is looking to the past for the future of medicine, Unlocking the Ancient Secrets to Healing chronicles the personal tribulations and professional discoveries behind the remarkable realization of Gail Lynn’s dream.

From People Pleaser to Soul Pleaser

Show Guest: Tracy Secombe

What if your audience could create a life that they love? Better yet, what if your audience could learn to do this by tuning into their soul for guidance, instead of looking outside of themselves for approval? Their life is not their own if they always care what others think.

When they truly know to their core that they are here to be their highest version of themselves and that they are the one who gets to define what that is, the pressure is off. Life is completely up to your audience. It’s now their game. They get to choose. They are free.

Tracy Secombe, author of From People Pleaser to Soul Pleaser, has helped thousands of people pleasers to become Soul Pleasers® after experiencing chronic burnout from chasing recognition her entire life.

By following her six simply explained steps, your audience will remember their true essence of joy and be who they want to be so they can relish in wonderful relationships, health, abundance, and fulfillment. Tracy can help to unlock who your audience is meant to be with a dynamic interview as an expert who learned by doing!

How to Grow Your Business Like a Weed: A Complete Strategy for Unstoppable Growth

Show Guest: Stu Heinecke

A playbook for growing your business no matter the circumstances. Hall-of-Fame-nominated marketer, bestselling author, and Wall Street Journal cartoonist Stu Heinecke shares his fascination with weeds and how anyone can grow their business into something resilient and unstoppable.

How to Grow Your Business Like a Weed applies a model to business growth, examining the successful strategies that ordinary weeds use to spread, and prosper in almost any situation.

This book will enable readers to apply strategies, mapping their own path to rapid and sustainable growth, while providing a focus on weed-based attributes to get the job done quickly and effectively. It also provides a pathway to transform their entire team into a collective of weeds operating on behalf of the company, acting as an incubator for innovation and productivity, while enriching their own opportunities for growth and security.

Stu has explored the Weeds model for several years, collecting insights from thought leaders from the worlds of business, government, and entertainment including T. Boone Pickens, Kathy Ireland, General Barry McAffrey, Henrik Fisker, Gareb Shamus, Giovanni Marsico, Esther Dyson, Christopher Lochhead, Nathan Myhrvold, Carmen Medina, Jon Ferrara, and Jonna Mendez.

Of Human Kindness: What Shakespeare Teaches Us About Empathy

Show Guest: Paula Marantz Cohen

An award-winning scholar and teacher explores how Shakespeare’s greatest characters were built on a learned sense of empathy.

While discussing Shakespeare’s plays in her university classroom, Paula Marantz Cohen discovered that they unlocked a surprising sense of compassion in both herself and her students. In this short and illuminating book, she shows how Shakespeare’s genius lay in his ability to arouse empathy, even when his characters exist in alien contexts and behave in reprehensible ways.

Cohen takes her readers through a selection of Shakespeare’s most famous plays, including Hamlet, Othello,King Lear, and The Merchant of Venice, to demonstrate the ways in which Shakespeare thought deeply and clearly about how we treat “the other.” She argues that only through close reading of Shakespeare can we fully appreciate his empathetic responses to race, class, gender, and age. Wise, eloquent, and thoughtful, this book is a forceful argument for literature’s power to champion what is best in us.

The Embodied Mind: Understanding the Mysteries of Cellular Memory, Consciousness, and Our Bodies

Show Guest: Dr. Thomas R. Verny

A breakthrough book that promises to shift our understanding of the mind-brain connection and reveal the mind's relationship with our bodies. Is the mind within the brain? Dr. Thomas Verny says this is a very limiting belief. Let's dive in! We understand the workings of the human body well enough, right? Muscles interact with bones to move us, as the heart responds to hormones secreted by the brain, all the way down to the inner workings of every cell. No one component can work alone. In light of this, why is it the accepted understanding that the physical phenomenon of the mind is attributed only to the brain?

In The Embodied Mind, internationally renowned psychiatrist Dr. Thomas R. Verny sets out to redefine our concept of the mind and consciousness. He brilliantly compiles new research that points to the mind’s ties to every part of the body.

The Embodied Mind collects disparate findings from many fields of science in order to illustrate the mounting evidence that somatic cells, not just neural cells, store memory, inform genetic coding, and adapt to environmental changes—all behaviors that contribute to the conscious mind. The Embodied Mind shows how intelligence and consciousness—traits traditionally attributed to the brain alone—also permeate our entire being. Bodily cells and tissues use the same molecular mechanisms for memory as our brain, making our minds more fluid and adaptable than we could have ever imagined!

In this very deliberately crafted memoir, Dr. Bill Torbert goes directly into his teaching roots. Even as he speaks of his own experiences, he peppers in the issues of the day, and how society can indeed awaken to the deeper meaning of itself, one individual at a time. Within the pages of Numbskull in the Theatre of Inquiry: Transforming Self, Friends, Organizations, and Social Science the audience will find exactly that.

An anti-heroic work of monumental magnitude, Numbskull recounts Dr. Tobert’s dramatic early life in Europe and the US, He recounts for us how he gradually learned, from the experiences of his own leadership efforts, a theory of learning from experience. From his experiences, he also learned a theory of organizational transformation, culminating in ‘liberating disciplines’ that help others learn to transform from their own experiences.

Dr. Tolbert formulated a developmental theory of social science that culminates in the paradigm of Collaborative Developmental Action Inquiry (CDAI) that interweaves first-, second-, and third-person research and practice to offer more depth and perspective.

Escaping Gravity: My Quest to Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age

Show Guest: Lori Garver

Escaping Gravity is former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver's first-hand account of how a handful of revolutionaries managed to outmaneuver the system of political patronage and bureaucracy that threatened the space agency and the future of human spaceflight.

The success of Elon Musk's SpaceX, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic, and countless other commercial space efforts, was preceded by decades of work by a group of people Garver calls space pirates. Escaping Gravity is the story of how the battle of the space billionaires began, and why that matters, penned by one of the key leaders who brought the competition to fruition.

Garver explains how her crusade to transform NASA put her in the crosshairs of the established, powerful interests who viewed her as a threat to the system that has centralized and controlled power since the 1950s.

Including previously unpublished information, conversations, and insights on the epic battles that have transitioned space access to private interests for a fraction of the cost of previous NASA programs, Escaping Gravity offers a blueprint for how to drive productive and meaningful government change.

Beware False Tigers: Strategies and Antidotes for an Age of Stress

Show Guest: Frank Forencich

The world is full of tigers, what we call stressors, but only some of them are real. Learn their ways and you’ll become stronger, wiser, and more resilient. Our world is in turmoil, bearing down on our minds and bodies with increasing pressure, acute crises, and wicked problems. Cortisol surges through our tissue, driving us toward impatience, distress, dysfunctional behavior, and declining health.

According to Frank Forencich, the author of Beware of False Tigers, the standard narrative tells us that stress is an individual problem with individual solutions. It’s a lifestyle issue, a medical condition, and a challenge to our personal well-being. But the standard narrative gets it wrong. In fact, stress is a systemic, psychosocial problem and a global health issue. It’s a shared predicament that demands collective action. The good news is that stress can actually be the key to unlocking a more functional and fulfilling future for all of us.

Beware False Tigers is a book about focus. It’s about responding appropriately, to the right tigers, in the right proportion, at the right time. As you’ll discover, our encounter with stress can be fascinating, powerful, and incredibly meaningful.

Managing Safety: A Top Priority When Caring for People with Mobility Disabilities

Show Guest: Michael McCormick & Krishna Ramjattan

Mobility disabilities do not just affect seniors. Recent research by the CDC reports over 30 million cases in the US alone from age 18 and up. And though the causes vary among the young to middle-aged groups, the number No. 1 cause of mobility impairment for seniors over 60 is from falls.

In addition. the CDC also states that the greatest risk factors for mobility injuries to healthcare workers and family caregivers result from manual lifting, moving and repositioning of individuals into and out of beds and bedside chairs.

Michael McCormick, a well-respected, 30-year neuromuscular therapist, and his business partner Krishna Ramjattan, a successful engineer in the area of medical devices, have witnessed firsthand how their family and friends lost their freedoms to mobility disabilities. In 2021, after much time researching the topic Mike’s and Krishna’s passion to help others led to a new wellness venture and the introduction the EasyUp adjustable bed to address mobility challenges.

In addition to providing solutions for improved circulation and multi-positioning for pain relief, the Easy Up bed also adjusts for sitting to watch TV, reading, or eating in bed. It’s superior quality memory foam mattress allows for the best sleep possible and most importantly, its state-of-the-art rotating and lifting platform gives the user that extra help they need to safely get in and out of bed in just seconds.

With this bed, you or your loved one can maintain your freedom, in style and comfort!