Ever since state mental hospitals have been shut down, many mentally ill have ended up on our streets and then in jails and prisons. Indeed, approximately one-third of our nation's inmates are mentally ill, and getting little to no treatment while incarcerated. But today's guest, Judge Ginger Lerner-Wren, author of Court of Refuge: Stories from the Bench of America's First Mental Health Court, has begun to change this and make it a more compassionate system. Judge Lerner-Wren tells the story of the court's growth from an offshoot of her criminal division to a court that has successfully diverted more than 20,000 people with serious mental illness from jail and into treatment facilities and other community resources. When the mentally ill are put into jails and prisons instead of into treatment, it starts them down the wrong path and more tragedy unfolds. Judge Lerner-Wren's model has been replicated, but many more such courts need to exist.

Dr. Carole worries about well-meaning students, called upon to Walkout and March for reasons that haven't been made sufficiently clear to them. Even less clear to the students is that, in their vulnerable psychological state, caused by the Parkland school shooting, they are being co-opted to fulfill others' agendas. Dr. Carole explains how Parkland students are suffering from PTSD and the stages of grief. Students nationwide are also suffering because of having watched countless hours of media coverage of the shooting-including video inside the school. When students are asked what they're walking out or marching for, they give a variety of conflicting responses. Unfortunately, honoring the victims is overshadowed by the political agendas of those behind the scenes who are pulling the strings. Students are rightfully angry, but the solution to school shootings is not as simple as banning guns. Identifying kids with problems and providing good mental health treatment is more important.

Ever since the financial meltdown, it's become more of a dog-eat-dog world than ever. There's a sense of scarcity and desperation that too often rears its ugly head. So, we've forgotten something we learned in kindergarten: how important it is to be kind. Today's guest, Jill Lublin, reminds us. She is the author of a new book, The Profit of Kindness: How to Influence Others, Establish Trust, and Build Lasting Relationships. She explains how, if you make kindness the cornerstone of your business, you will miraculously reap more success - and have more fun doing it. She also shares how her decision to leave law school, to do something she felt was more creative, put her on the path to becoming a speaker and author. And, as a bonus, she gives us highlights from her previous books. Jill is on her way to establishing a campaign to spread kindness worldwide, and today's world can certainly use more of it!

Each day, more news filters out about the Parkland high school shooting that horrifies us and makes our heart bleed for the victims and their families. An Emergency Medical Technician, for example, who wants to remain anonymous for fear of being fired, has just confided to a reporter that he was told to stand down and not run in to rescue victims and provide medical aid. A Sheriff Deputy, Scot Peterson, who was one of four deputies hiding in the bushes, instead of running in to confront the shooter, said the same thing. Who do we believe? Today's guest, Bryan Crabtree, radio host and publisher of Talk40.com News, shares his views on these failures of law enforcement and the FBI. And he and Dr. Carole also discuss what should be done to prevent future school shootings: the pros and cons of gun control and arming teachers, and how desperately our mental health system needs improvement. Hear what they have to say and then you decide.

Nikolas Cruz - the Valentine's Day school shooter - has struck an especially painful chord in our nation's heart. Perhaps it's because of: the carnage he caused, the unanswered cries for help he'd given us as warning signs for years, the broken life he led, the ease with which he brought guns, the bravery of the students and staff, and the irony of the massacre being on Valentine's Day. Today's guest, Kent Moyer, is CEO and Founder of The World Protection Group and high-end executive protection company 001. We explore what made Nikolas Cruz tick and the people and entities who failed him, as well as the causes and cures for school shootings: Gun background checks or control? Mental illness and better mental health treatment? Just say no to Violent Media?

Why do so many couples break up on Valentine's Day? Why is love so hard to find in the 21st century? Why do women fall for bad boys and guys fall for bad girls? What are the 12 different types of bad boys and bad girls? How does the perpetuation of sky high divorce rates make each generation more scared of intimacy than the last? Dr. Carole explains it all.

School shootings are tragic - but the solution is not arming police officers or teachers at schools - especially if they aren't trained in child or adolescent psychology. A recent case in point is the shooting of Logan Clark, a student at Hug High School in Nevada. Suffering from psychological problems - largely due to being bullied - Logan brought a knife to school to protect himself against these increasingly aggressive bullies. But, a trigger happy police officer shot first and asked questions later. Logan, who almost died, has a long road to recovery ahead - and his hopes of getting a scholarship to college based upon his athletic prowess are dashed. Today's guest, famed attorney David Houston, is taking Logan's case. He gives an update on the school's refusal to take responsibility, and what's really going on behind the scenes.

Who better to teach us how to unmask what matters in our own lives than the Broadway star who played Christine Daae in The Phantom of the Opera? Sandra Joseph, the longest running Christine in the longest running Broadway play, has just released her book on Phantom's 30th birthday: Unmasking What Matters: 10 Life Lessons from 10 Years on Broadway. Her life unrolled like a fairytale: from too shy to sing in an elementary school performance to starring in a Broadway show and marrying the lead (a man who played the Phantom) - how romantic is that? But, when she finally stepped off the stage, she was confronted by the death of her beloved father and her own medical crisis, a brainstem tumor. These challenges caused her to 'unmask what matters' for herself and realize that she wanted to use her voice to inspire audiences in a new way. She's now on a mission to empower other people's voices through her work as an author, speaker and thought leader.

Nice guys can't get dates, but serial killer Charles Manson has women dying to marry him. Even his mother didn't love him, but Afton Elaine Burton, aka Star, tells us she's his bride-to-be. She also claims he's innocent.

Is she truly in love or does she have ulterior motives - like fame and fortune? Manson, a sociopath, is not capable of love, or has he mellowed in his twilight years? Here to answer these questions and more is Marlin Marynick, author of Charles Manson Now, and mental health professional, who got to know Manson up close and personal.

Today's guest, Robert Gandt, is the author of the new book, Angels in the Sky: How a Band of Volunteer Airmen Saved the New State of Israel. And, as he tells the story, you will ask yourself why we have never heard this before, since it is an amazing true story of epic proportions. Fortunately, Gandt, who has combined a life of flying with a life of writing such epic aviation stories, has had the opportunity to interview these 'Angels' and bring us the otherwise unbelievable David and Goliath tale. This story is as relevant today, since Israel continues to fight for its life while surrounded by hostile neighbors. As he tells it: Angels in the Sky is the story of the ragtag band of volunteer airmen from around the world who fought for Israel during the 1948 war of independence. Most were young WWII combat veterans who defied their own countries' strict laws, risking everything—their lives, careers, citizenship—to fight for a besieged new nation.