Dr. Marissa's favorite kind of guest, those who have take their spotlight in the media and use their life experiences to shine the light on areas of darkness to help others, is personified in Fran Drescher! Her popularity from the primetime iconic hit show "The Nanny" and "Happily Divorced" gave her a platform to help educate the masses on the preventability of cancer, which she was misdiagnosed for for some time. Her passion to help others avoid the pain she went through earns her Dr. Marissa's Beneficial Presence on the Planet Award! The alarming increasing statistics on the prevalence of cancer as well as the role of our environment in promoting the disease is surprising, and her website www.TrashCancer.com shares the good news that 90% of cancers are preventable! And on a personal note, Fran also talks about her 5 S criteria for what she's looking for in a man...and shows her beautiful humanness with the laugh that she is so famous for!

Raiders and Rams Football and Olympic Gold Medal winner Ron Brown inspires with advice to both old and young around making the best choices for your future, for the Power of faith and prayer, and the return to love that will eliminate social inequity. Ron describes his own path and the family members who gave him support and direction that kept him on the straight and narrow. Dr. Marissa asks him some hard questions around race and the best kinds of reactions that will help us move towards more peace. Ron's lifelong desire to give back and help happens at many levels, from trying to coach teens on making better choices to educating players who are ill-equipped to handle the million dollar contracts...and for all of those reasons and more he is being honored at this year's CHAMPION Gala which raises funds for at risk teens in the Children's Hospital LA www.ChampionFund.org. Dr. Marissa puts the "moose on the table" around the violence and concussion injury in sports like boxing and football, and tells on herself with respect to why she still watches! Ron Brown is presented with Dr. Marissa's Beneficial Presence on the Planet Award for all that he does in his "retirement".

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In this episode Dr. Marissa, aka the kinder gentler Dr. Laura, helps callers balance their life tires and smog check their BS belief systems that are getting in the way of their ability to be happy 88% of the time. Kara from LA scores high on both of the job/career and health/well-being scales, but has some work to do in the area of relationships...specifically with her 'wasband's' family. Dr. Marissa tries to help her be a recovering control freak so that she isn't so frustrated when people don't do or say what she wants them to do. Balance tools include validating your own choices and finding the middle between being a doormat or wall-to-wall carpet and the other extreme of spitting out the poison that is shot at her. The phenomenon of the Pygmalian Effect of seeing what you believe is part of her homework… to find what is good about her in-laws so that she can begin to see the good that they do do instead of only the bad . Rhenee asks what how she can make her business more successful and ends up facing the perfectionist part of her that keeps her from being in joy or having any fun with this new, after retirement career. Dr. Marissa encourages her to only act when inspired and continue to listen for the creative voice of the Friendly Universe which she has already experienced with the naming of the company Just Nuts! Dr. Marissa suggests that the company really isn't about selling the nuts but is a vehicle with which she can have more fun in her life! Episode sponsored by www.AuLac.com and www.NewportBeachfilmfest.com

From a troubled-health past including a diagnosis of ADD and Dyslexia to 2-time Guinness Record holder for greatest memory, this week's guest preaches to the choir (Dr. Marissa) about the importance of faith and belief in one's abilities no matter what the past has been. Dave Farrow has been a featured guest expert on over 2000 interviews including The Today Show, Live with Regis and Kelly, Steve Harvey, Discovery Channel and many others. To earn the world record, Farrow recalled the exact order of 59 decks of shuffled playing cards using 'The Farrow Memory Method'. Dave talks about the choice he made not to play a victim to his difficult challenging past, and grab life by the memory stick and actually invented the Farrow method to combat his dyslexia and ADHD. It is now a unique memory system backed by a double blind neuroscience study at McGill University. Dave experiments on Dr. Marissa in a live demonstration on the air helping her recall a series of random words and she performs at a genius level!

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Continuing my March Menu of Focus on Health shows and combining it with Sexual Healing, author Michael Gabriel explains how his book and app The Relationship Barometer can help you forecast any clouds that might be moving into your relationship. Dr. Marissa does suggest that divorces are not a "mistake" but just another chapter in your book of romance because there is never a good reason to beat up on yourself forever! Michael's quote "Love is blind but you don't have to be" highlights the awareness that he encourages individuals to have that is captured in his app...what are things that are Gotta Haves or Like to Have based on past relationships, using the experience as a springboard to better partnerships. This is important because of the latest statistic, that long lasting successful relationships have worse odds then a coin toss! Episode sponsored by

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Continuing my March Menu of Focus on Health shows...introducing Koya Webb, an internationally recognized holistic health coach, author, motivational speaker, yoga teacher and professional fitness model with appearances on NBC, CBS, and the Steve Harvey Show. She shares that all health begins with self-love, and that eating healthy and moving our bodies is only going to work if it comes from self-love and not from self-criticism. Dr. Marissa shares her own learning on the I'm keeping true program started by Reverend Arlene Hylton out of the Agape International Spiritual Center and the opportunities to shed physical emotional and spiritual deadweight that come from adopting a vegan lifestyle. They talk about her big Aha that came out of a coaching session with Koya, how it really doesn't matter how much you exercise or how little you eat, if you are not loving yourself then it's just more judgement restriction and criticism… which will end up with "never enough". Koya gives some practical tips to those people who are 40 pounds overweight on where to start, the need to step away from perfectionism if we're ever going to love ourselves up, and then preaches to the choir about finding the love that is you! Episode sponsored by www.Selfiestationpodcast.com/DrMarissa and

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Did you know that you the advent of cell phones has added extra weight on our back and neck causing more health problems including loss of oxygen to our brain? Well Certified Pilates trainer and Posture specialist Lorri Soqui educates Dr. Marissa in all of the unknown negative impacts that years of poor posture can have on one's health. She also explains how changing her duck walk to a train track walk will reduce the pain in her knee and hip joints. Lorri's plethora of classes in Utah have helped thousands with more than just flexibility, but the exercises (if you are disciplined enough to do them) are helpful for injuries, trauma, depression, disease and of course flexibility that is lost through aging. Lorri Soqui's new book Be Healthy on Purpose, her 4 DVDs and her strong desire to help people enjoy their bodies at all ages earn her Dr. Marissa's Beneficial Presence on the Planet Award. As she affirms for all of us "You're never too old, you're never too broken, and it's never too late...so don't give up"! Episode sponsored by www.HealthyPostureNow.com.

Gerard Powell answers Dr. Marissa's friend's Questioning Machine Question...Who are you and what do you want?!? From a troubled past to multi-millionaire, Gerald shares his path to success and inner misery...answering the question "Can you buy happiness?"!with an emphatic NO! His journey from silent suffering and a Demerol addiction and a hole in his soul not filled by to 26 cars, planes and mansions has a happy ending, when he finds out that his past does not define the love that he really is. He explains that money is just a magnifier…that if you're miserable money will only make you more miserable but if you're happy money can make you happier. It was through the process of finding who he was from the inside out did he realize that there was nothing to get...just remove the blocks that hid the value already inside. His freedom from addiction and a daily desire to end his poignant emptiness with a bullet, came through multiple levels of self discovery through spiritual treatment, meditation, healthy eating, plant medicine, and more... All of which he has packaged into a transformative stay at the Rythmia Life Advancement Center which now gives him a higher purpose for his money...watching people find the love within themselves by creating a vacation destination that helps people get a concentrated dose of all the things that helped him restore himself with the truth. Episode sponsored by The 21 day Fast from Complaining APP and www.Selfiestationpodcast.com/DrMarissa

In a delightful interview about Argentine Tango, Ilona Glinarsky shows Dr. Marissa how it's footwork can teach strong independent women how to release control, to become more feminine, vulnerable and to allow more love connection and romance into their lives. Growing up in a sex vacuum in Russia with respect to education and then being in a love and passion-less marriage, Ilona has found a non-pharmaceutical solution to opening her heart and finding her passion for dance and life. Dr. Marissa learns some new vocabulary about the traditional and heritage-filled dance, and has hope inspired in herself! The skill of non-verbal communication, connection and trust are surprising side effects of this treatment for the lonely and the love-less. Feeling sexy no matter what size you are and how you look compared to society's standards of beauty is a gift of Living Tango! Ilona's personal story and her 15 year expertise teaching and learning from this beautiful dance gives Dr. Marissa a new appreciation, respect and desire to learn this dance that can help her with her recovering control issues that keep her independent and single. Episode sponsored by www.SelfiePodcast.com/DrMarissa and www.LivingTango.com

In this light-filled interview, Don Jose Ruiz, the middle son of Don Miguel Ruiz, mega-bestselling author of The Four Agreements and Co-author of The Fifth Agreement starts by joining Dr. Marissa in a review of the first 4 agreements: #1 Be impeccable with your word, #2 Don't take things personally, #3 Don't make assumptions, and #4 Do the very best you can...which is Don Miguel's favorite. Don Jose explains that The Fifth agreement is to be skeptical, but listen...and not skeptical in a negative way and not believe others...but to be skeptical of the lies that we tell ourselves...about how we are not good enough! Dr. Marissa is delighted to find the back story about his father, if he really practices what he teaches and if Don Jose was a natural born practitioner of the Toltec tradition. His honesty about his rocky path, his self-awareness and optimism make it clear that he is more than capable to follow and break new ground in his father's shoes!