Diva Talk Radio with Kelli Claypool

Our guest for this upcoming show is Alicia Cramer.

Alicia D. Cramer C.Ht. Blends Science and Spirituality to Help You Overcome Your Obstacles to Success.  Alicia not just a Hypnotherapist, she’s  a Success Coach, EFT practitioner and Ordained Minister. Alicia utilizes a powerful approach to inner and outer transformation.

It’s been estimated by the year 2032 over half of the population will be obese.

 

Health care professionals are warning that people need to use active coping strategies, day-in and day-out, to prevent weight gain, but unfortunately, most do not succeed. In order to lose weight and maintain a healthy lifestyle we must change the way we act and change the way we think.

Hypnotherapy and Weight Loss: A Proactive Solution for Life- Long Results

Hypnotherapy is a proactive, beneficial tool that can help people lose weight and accomplish their goals. By using verbal suggestions during a hypnotic state of heightened awareness, hypnotherapists are able to reinforce positive thinking, address conflicts, and encourage mental rewiring. Mental rewiring is creating or changing neurological pathways in our brains to help change the way we respond to or view a situation.

Erase Negativity is a practical guide on how to reduce negativity and embrace happiness.  From meth addicts to multimillionaires, the book offers powerful experiences of individuals who have faced dramatic challenges, but did not lose hope.  Using these compelling biographies, as well as practical advice and simple exercises, the reader is guided on an internal journey toward adopting a more joyful way to live.

About the Author & DivaTalkRadio Guest

Sally Marks is a public relations professional and an award-winning journalist who graduated with honors from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University.  In journalism, she has won awards for news writing, editorial writing and headline writing.  Her articles have been published in numerous national, regional and local newspapers and magazines that range from the international Living Buddhism magazine to Arizona’s popular Phoenix Home and Garden.  Her screenplays, The Heir, Voices from Hell and Gay for a Day have won five awards and placed in two national and one international competitions.  Her first book, Paco el pato, Frank the Duck, is a bilingual children’s novel that was used in the Montessori International School curriculum in Mesa, Arizona.  Erase Negativity is her second book.

Join the Divas on Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. EST as they talk with Sally Marks. Is it time for you to go on a negativity diet?

During this show, Kelli & and Gina will be talking with Dr. Diana Hoppe about how to maintain a healthy libido.

Diana E. Hoppe, M.D., F.A.C.O.G., is a highly respected, board-certified obstetrician/gynecologist in private practice in San Diego, California. She runs her own private practice, serves as Medical Director for Aesthetically Pleasing medical spa in Encinitas California, previously co-founded a private group practice, Pacific Coast Women’s Health, Inc., and also functions as the Medical Director/Principal Investigator of Pacific Coast Research Center, a medical research center that conducts international clinical research trials in the field of women’s health, including menopause, perimenopause, and libido.

Presently, she is a primary investigator involved in an international clinical trial for a new medication to treat Hypoactive Female Sexual Desire Disorder. Dr. Hoppe’s unique combination of qualifications—conducting clinical trials with pharmaceutical companies as a scientific investigator and as a compassionate, concerned ob/gyn, place her at the heart of the issue to improve women’s sexual lives.

Enabling women to reap valuable knowledge from her research and years of clinical practice will free them from the chains that have bound them to ignore their desire to thrive—not only in the sexual arena, but in all aspects of their lives.

Women have the incredible ability to take difficult situations and turn them into personal triumphs regardless of their circumstances. In her book, Common Threads - How Women Weave Tribulation into Triumph, Michelle Candland hopes that the stories she shares brings something positive, something empowering, and something inspiring that will help spark a passion to find their place in the world and make a difference no matter what the past has held.

Common Threads is filled with real life experiences, uplifting quotes, helpful tools for self improvement and numerous resources for personal growth. What you do with what you’ve learned has no limits—know that you are not alone, you are surrounded by people who truly want you to succeed and you are worth it!

Common Threads is a compilation of almost 60 years of Michelle’s personal experiences, ranging from early childhood memories, to adult “ah ha!” moments. It is a collection of little somethings that would later prove to be the cause of big somethings, joyful muses, sad observations, sources of pride, causes of embarrassment, and even periods of disgrace. All are threads of experience that are woven together to make up her life tapestry. There were times when she thought she had more unraveling than weaving going on; times when the texture was loose, the colors were dark, and the pattern was ill conceived. Other times, the edges of the images were precise, the colors were rich, and the big picture was filled with both accomplishment and hope for a brighter tomorrow.

Join the Divas during this inspiring show.

Pam Hale Trachta, founder of Through A Different Lens, offers ancient practices and contemporary creative tools for healing and transformation. Educated at Stanford and Columbia Universities, Pam has created a unique body of work woven together from her varied experiences as a teacher, life coach and spiritual counselor, photographer, fundraiser, consultant to non-profits, and shamanic practitioner.

Her original products and processes help people shift the way they see, so they can become artists of their own lives. Pam offers workshops, retreats, private and organizational consultations, shamanic coaching circles and leadership seminars for women. She is the creator of the Sand Spirit Insight Cards and workbook, author of numerous articles on personal growth, and is a popular speaker.

In 2000 Pam discovered the images on the beach that became the Sand Spirit Insight Cards and went through treatment for breast cancer. Initially for her own healing, she took a two-year training in shamanic energy healing with The Four Winds Society, studying with shamans in Peru and later adding studies in other indigenous traditions. In 2002 she published the Sand Spirits, following with a workbook in 2006. In the meantime she had published many articles on personal and organizational development and the spiritual journey.

Pam shifted the focus of her practice to combine ancient and contemporary tools for healing and transformation. She offered classes and private consultations at Miraval Resort and Spa in Tucson for seven years, and traveled to give workshops and presentations throughout the West.

Pam has created Sand Spirits Insight Cards, which are photographs along the sea shoreline, that activate inner wisdom, creativity, healing, and transformation.

On the next episode of DivaTalkRadio, we will be talking "wine" with Eric V. Orange, founder of www.LocalWineEvents.com. Eric will be discussing how to host a wine fundraisers and wine tasting dos & don'ts.

Eric has had a diverse and distinguished 20+ year career within the wine industry. After an enlistment in the Submarine Service of the United States Navy, Eric joined an ex-shipmate who was attending the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) in Hyde Park, New York. He took a job at Millbrook Vineyards outside of Poughkeepsie and spent almost five years learning to grow grapes and make wine as the Vineyard Supervisor. Eric moved back to his hometown to attend college and took a part time job at a 105 yr old private club which quickly became a full time position as the Bar Manager/Wine Steward.

That job led to a position as a Wine Representative for a local Wholesaler, which in turn led to a position as District Manager for Paterno Imports in Colorado. During five and a half years with Paterno, Eric attained certification from theCourt of Master Sommeliers (1st phase) and a Master of Wine Education certification from the International Wine Guild.

He is a member of the Society of Wine Educators. He also served on the board of the American Institute of Wine and Food (AIWF), Denver Chapter. Finally, he decided to develop his idea for LocalWineEvents.com.  Eric and his family currently live just outside of Philadelphia.

If you thought humans were funny, just wait until you get a glimpse of the dogs in Jennifer Tilman's life. As a dog groomer, Jennifer's clientele consists of everything from Dobermans to prissy poodles.

While her job has its benefits—she is paid to be with her favorite animals all day!—she definitely learns the meaning of a crappy day more than once, literally. Who else expels the anal glands for the beloved pets? Affectionately told with humor and honesty,

Jennifer's confessions from the grooming world offers insight into the surprisingly profound lives of man's best friends. Sharing her techniques for preparing your dog for optimal health and happiness,

Grooming Tales will have owners ready to embrace a whole new world of doggy care. What are her methods for bad-mannered dogs? What are the smartest breeds? What is the best pet for children? Do pets really look like their owners? The answers may surprise you. All will be revealed through quirky and educational accounts of Jennifer's own experiences with her canine clientele.

Jennifer will be sharing her experiences on this episode of DivaTalkRadio LIVE. Phone lines and chat room will be open during the live call.

Patricia Harman has spent over thirty years caring for women as a midwife, first as a lay-midwife, delivering babies in cabins and on communal farms in West Virginia, and later as a nurse-midwife in teaching hospitals and in a community hospital birthing center.

She spent over a decade in the sixties and seventies in her wild youth living in rural communes in Washington, Connecticut and Minnesota. During the Vietnam years, she and her husband, Tom Harman, traveled the country, often hitch-hiking, as they looked for a place to settle. In 1974 they purchased a farm with a group of like-minded friends on top of a ridge in Roane County, West Virginia. Here on the commune, they built log houses, dug a pond, grew and preserved their own food and started the Growing Tree Natural Foods Cooperative.

It was during this time that Patsy attended her first home birth, more or less by accident. “Some people are destined,” she has written. “I was staying at a woman friend’s commune when she went into labor and I ended up delivering my first baby.” Soon after, Harman traveled to Austin, Texas to train with a collective of home-birth midwives. When she returned, she became one of the founding members of The West Virginia Cooperative of Midwives. Her passion for caring for women and babies led her to become an RN as the first step in getting licensed as certified nurse midwife. In 1985, with her children, a yowling cat and her husband she traveled north, pulling a broken down trailer to begin her training at the University of Minnesota where she received her MSN in Nurse-Midwifery.

Find out the rest of Patsy's story on the next DivaTalkRadio with Kelli Claypool and Gina Parris.

Raised by her single mother, Chitoka Webb grew up in the Preston Taylor housing projects, landed her first job in a grocery store at only 13 years old. When a senior in High School, she was told by school authorities she couldn’t graduate with her class just a week before the ceremony due to being one point short in her chemistry class. Now, in her mid-30s, Webb owns several businesses—that she founded.

She began her self employed career at 23. In 1999 Webb left Nashville and moved to Atlanta, where she nurtured numerous relationships with professional athletes and successful business leaders. Working as the only female barber alongside 14 other male barbers. Her highlight moment came during Super Bowl XXXIV when she was invited by her client Anthony Dorsett (Son of football great Tony Dorsett) to attend the event as their barber. After much success and accomplishing set goals she returned to Nashville in pursuit of a dream to own her own barbershop, which she opened in October 2001. She worked three full time jobs for three months to make this dream a reality.

Her life and business motto is “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” pulling herself up by the bootstraps these humble beginnings brought more success. After developing two health care agencies and a new state-of-the-art barbershop Webb developed Chitoka L.Webb Holdings, Inc. which oversees her professional ventures, and the early development stages of a Foundation which supports her community service projects

Through her impressive business growth, Webb suffered blindness for six months as a result of Behcet’s disease. High doses of Steroidal eye injections and medications corrected her failed eye sight. The Behcet’s diagnosis led Webb to write her memoir, Something Inside of Me.

Join Kelli & Gina as they interview Chitoka Webb on August 31, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. EST

With Unemployment Rates Falling, People are Still Afraid to Leave their Jobs

According to a new survey, only 47% of Americans are completely satisfied with their current careers. During these economically tough times, many people who are unhappy with their jobs are choosing to remain due to uncertainty in the market place. Even with unemployment rates falling, many are still afraid to lose their security and don’t want to take the risk of venturing out into the job marketplace in search of a new career.

Unfortunately, even those people who will switch careers in 2011 will find that they are still unhappy in the new role. Most people who change jobs end up with a job description that is similar to what they previously held. This type of change only works if the problem is extrinsic – a bad boss or long commute. However, for many people the problem is that they are simply in the wrong job for themselves. No matter how great the company is or how bad the job market is, if someone is in the wrong line of work, they will become increasingly dissatisfied and that dissatisfaction will spill over into other aspects of their lives.

The problem is that many people have either fallen in their current careers or made a choice based on incomplete information. “Too many people spend more time choosing their wardrobe than choosing their career,” according to Sierra Modro, author of The Right Ladder. “We need to take the time to understand our passions and interests to be able to choose the perfect career.” Using Modro’s proven L.E.A.P. system, people can Learn, Envision, Act, and Possess the perfect career. By taking the time to determine the best path, career-switchers will be able to permanently improve their work life.