Host Shirley Rooker speaks with Jill Robin Payne, psychotherapist and author, who discusses ways to reduce tensions in intensive conversations by using banter with empathy. Banter is a useful in defusing a situation. In addition, if empathy is carried too far it can lead to what one author calls suicidal empathy where emotions take over good judgment.

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Host Shirley Rooker speaks with Laura Levine, president and CEO of the Jump Start Coalition, who discusses the progress in schools providing financial education to children starting in kindergarten as well suggesting ways parents can introduce their kids to responsible use of credit cards, debit cards, and planning a budget.

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Host Shirley Rooker speaks with Rick Berman, RBB Strategies, who cites numerous studies that reveal very high levels of contaminants in the majority of the bottles tested. The simple solution is to clean them thoroughly, especially the lids and the grooves in the bottles, wash with soap and water daily and put in the dishwasher at least once a week.

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Host Shirley Rooker speaks with Chip Lupo, WalletHub writer and analyst, who describes some ways to ease the pain at the pump.  A credit card might be one of the tools that will give you rewards or cash back. A recent study outlines points to consider in choosing a credit card, its limits, advantages, and drawbacks.

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Host Shirley Rooker speaks with Tom Gordon, executive director of Responsive Law, who discusses the ways laws are slowly changing that could make the legal system more accessible and affordable to consumers. Utah and Arizona have innovative programs that may be one way to achieve these goals.

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Host Shirley Rooker speaks with Chip Lupo, an analyst with Wallet Hub, who discusses how consumers use credit cards, the dangers of only paying the minimum each month and how to deal with creditors when you fall behind in paying off the debt.

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Host Shirley Rooker speaks with Tom Gordon, executive director of Responsive Law, who discusses the changes that can be made to the legal system that will make it more accessible and affordable for consumers and how some states have taken steps to accomplish this goal.

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Host Shirley Rooker speaks with Jill Robin Payne, a psychotherapist, who describes the behavior changes that occur when people use AI. For example, an MIT study showed that users forget what they just wrote and feel detached from their work. It concludes that our thinking ability and creativity appear to be significantly reduced.

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Host Shirley Rooker speaks with Steven Milloy, founder of junkscience.com, who discusses how the climate has fluctuated from hot to the Ice Age and how many of the efforts to stop climate change have failed. He also questions many of the models that have been used to track changes in the climate..  

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Host Shirley Rooker speaks with Gene Marks of the Marks Group, who discusses artificial intelligence and its impact on small businesses. And we address the question: are women more reluctant to use AI than men?

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