Dr. Yan Katsnelson calls premature hysterectomy in women completely unnecessary. He argues it is time to check your circle and know your status to ignite the conversation amongst women and men about fibroid disease. Every year, millions of women suffer in silence. 80-percent of Black women and 70-percent of white women will be diagnosed with debilitating fibroid disease by the age of 50. Often women are told by doctors that the only remedy is surgery, either a total abdominal hysterectomy requiring 8-10 weeks of recovery time or a myomectomy which may impact a woman's ability to carry a pregnancy to term. The solution Dr. Katsnelson argues is UFE or uterine fibroid embolization and RHOA star Cynthia Bailey is a believer. She joins Dr. Katsnelson and me to share her story of fibroid disease and how she has become an official advocate for having this important conversation.

How often do you find that your mind wanders to events in the past or worries of the future instead of what matters and what you can control in the here and now? In the book, Get Out of My Head: Creating Modern Clarity with Stoic Wisdom, author M. Andrew McConnell shows you it’s possible to achieve clarity, make good decisions, and rise in your career by illustrating that the human mind is not unlike real estate: adopting an owner’s mindset can make all the difference. Drawing on ancient Stoic philosophy, modern science, and remarkable stories of contemporary innovators in business, sports, and more, Get Out of My Head demonstrates how to effectively allocate your mental resources, set mental boundaries, and overcome challenges by seizing ownership of your own mind and channeling adversity as a vehicle for growth.

Eating disorders do not discriminate. They impact people of every age, race, size, gender identity, sexual orientation and background. Many people who suffer from eating disorders are between the ages of 12 and 25. The nonprofit EDIN - Education and Insight on Eating DIsorders strives to serve as an Atlanta-based resource for those wanting to learn more about eating disorders, for those seeking help, and for those who provide eating disorders treatment and care. Marci Soran's son battled and defeated an eating disorder. She is the Executive Director of EDIN.

Dr. Nadia Lopez, acclaimed middle school founder and principal, award-winning education specialist, leadership coach and best-selling author, has a program, The Lopes Effect, which will expand to schools across the country and disrupt the school to prison pipeline. Dr. Lopez recognizes the tremendous pressures that administrators, students, teachers, and parents are under in the school environment today. From the residual shocks of school shootings to the controversies over mask-wearing, to the loss of learning caused by the Pandemic, to the debates over curriculum, Dr. Lopez works in and with schools to alleviate today's most pressing educational problems. As a sounding board when working one-on-one with teachers, she actively listens to their concerns, which often have not been heard. Additionally, she consults with parents to help them overcome issues affecting their children.

Amanda Brown founded her firm, Amanda Brown Olmstead Associates on June 1,1972, making her agency one of the longest serving full-service public relations firms not only in metro Atlanta but also in the Southeast. Before she married, she says people called her Amanda Brown from "out of town." This year she celebrates 50 years in business. Her boutique firm has worked in most industry segments and worked with everyone from Ambassador Andrew Young to the late C.T. Vivian. She has many great stories about her journey and what lies ahead for her and the firm.

Jessica Nabongo loves to travel, so much so that she has visited the world’s 195 countries and 10 territories. She came away with two key lessons. First, most people are good. Second, we are more similar than we are different.” In her inspiring travelogue, The Catch Me If You Can: One Woman’s Journey to Every Country in the World, she describes her journey around the world, highlighting 100 countries with fascinating stories of adventure, culture, travel musts, and human connections.

When I was a child, one of my favorite things about summer was the summer reading club. If I read a certain number of books I’d get tickets to an Atlanta braves game. This was back in the day when it was much easier for the club to give away tickets to kids – long before we became world champions. I say that to say this – if there is something your kids are doing this summer – in addition to sports, time at the pool and play dates with friends, they should be reading, and now is a great time for kids to read books with characters who look and live like we all do. Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, is one of the authors of the young readers book, The Sun Does Shine: An Innocent Man, A Wrongful Conviction And The Long Path To Justice and Tracy Baptiste who tackles the origins of black icons with her book African Icons: Ten People who Shaped History.

To know where we’re going, we first need to know where we’ve been. In her new book, The Bean Pie: A Remembering of our Family’s Faith, Fortitude, & Forgiveness, entrepreneur Tiffany Green-Abdullah explores this concept to analyze her ancestral past with her own family. The Bean Pie follows four generations of women in Tiffany’s family: Tiffany, her mother, her 2nd great aunt, and her grandmother. Green-Abdullah shares the lessons she and her family have learned by following the original bean pie recipe created by her 2nd great aunt Daisy—a recipe that has stood the test of time to become a celebrated staple in the homes of Black American Muslims. Green-Abdullah found that she has much in common with her ancestors despite growing up decades apart. She was intrigued by the fact that many of her ancestors went through similar trials and tribulations yet always found their way through.

In 1974 John Egerton wrote a book called the Americanization of Dixie. In 2022, Pulitzer Prize-winner Cynthia Tucker and award winning author Fry Gaillard carry that work forward in their book, The Southernization of America: A Story of Democracy in the Balance. In this work they take a deep dive into Nixon's Southern Strategy, the party of Reagan, the backlash against Barack Obama and so much more. Our conversation with Tucker comes days after another mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas where the souls of 19 children and 2 teachers were lost to gun violence. Tucker argues we are at a critical moment in American history. She and Gaillard call this a time of racial reckoning with democracy under siege.

Mark Adam Wood aka 'The Captain' is one of the founding members of the funk band, Lakeside. The group will be performing along with Cameo and Confunkshun at the Mable House Amphitheatre on May 29. The band is originally from Dayton, Ohio and has been around for more than 40 years. He takes us back to the band's formation, their nine hit albums and the performers' balance between playing the hits audiences want to hear and their desire to share new music.