Nobody Told Me!

Joining us on this episode is plastic surgeon Dr. Anthony Youn, who you may know from his appearances on TV programs like The Rachael Ray Show, The Dr. Oz Show, and The Doctors. He's also the host of his own podcast, The Holistic Plastic Surgery Show, and the author of the book, Playing God: The Evolution of a Modern Surgeon.

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Did you know that 55 million meetings are held in the workplace every day? Studies have indicated that 9 out of 10 employees daydream during meetings and 47% say having to attend too many meetings is the #1 time waster at the office. What can be done to stop the daydreaming and time wasting in meetings? Our guest on this episode, Dr. Steven Rogelberg, has a wealth of information about that. He is a Professor of Organizational Science, Management, and Psychology at the University of North Carolina, and the author of the book, The Surprising Science of Meetings: How You Can Lead Your Team to Peak Performance.

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In this episode we share with you some of the highlights of our conversations about friendship. Are women's friendships different than men's? How do you define a "close" friend? How is social media changing our friendships? We talked about those things with Deborah Tannen, who's a professor of linguistics at Georgetown University and author of many books on friendship, as well as psychotherapist Diane Barth, who has also studied and written a lot about friendship.

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Joining us on this episode is best-selling author, popular Nutritional Therapy Consultant, and fitness coach Steph Gaudreau, author of the new book, The Core 4: Embrace Your Body, Own Your Power, which she emphasizes is NOT a diet book. Rather, Steph's book explains how food can support us and how to be active without doing exercise we hate. It features strength training workouts, meal plans, journal prompts and more, to help you feel energetic, active, confident, strong, resilient, and ready to change the world!

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Finding happiness is one of the topics we've explored a lot on Nobody Told Me! and on this episode, we share some of the best advice we've received. One of our favorite guests, Amherst College psychology professor Dr. Catherine Sanderson has studied how and why many aspects of our lives are greatly impacted by the way we think about ourselves. She talked with us about the importance of adopting a positive mindset which she admits didn't come easy to her. Next, we talked with Ingrid Fetell Lee, the author of the book, Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness. Ingrid talked with us about how making small changes to our environment can positively impact our mood.

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We are thrilled to welcome Adrienne Brodeur to this episode. She is the author of the highly acclaimed new memoir, Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me. It's a mother-daughter story unlike any you've heard!

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Children today are fundamentally different from past generations: they truly have less self control. Katherine Lewis is a certified parent educator, award-winning journalist, and author of 'The Good News About Bad Behavior' which aims to explain the reasons behind this and tell us what we need to do to raise children to be their best.

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It can be tough to be a teenager these days. Teenagers experience some complex issues, all of which may be caused by, or contribute to, depression and other mental illnesses. Bullying, anxiety, addiction, peer pressure, academic stress and family issues can leave teenagers feeling lost and perhaps, suicidal. Our guest on this episode, certified grief recovery specialist Kristi Hugstad, has written a new book called, Beneath the Surface, to help teenagers reach out when they're in crisis, or want to help a friend who's struggling.

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Does college work? That's the question being explored in the new book by education journalist and New York Times bestselling author Paul Tough, whose latest book is called The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us.

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