Robert Lustig, author of Fat Chance.

Topic: Beating the odds against sugar, processed food, obesity, and disease.

Issues: The science and politics that have led to the current pandemic of obesity of chronic disease (think diabetes, heart disease, and more); strategies to help us lose weight and recover our health; what happened when researchers took teens off of sugar for 10 days (hint: the results are amazing)

Joe Gurkoff, coauthor of How Can I Help?

Topic: How to help others; what you can (and can’t) do to counsel a friend, colleague, or family member with a problem

Issues: Learning to listen, clarify and define the problem, map a realistic path to success, improve accountability, and regain your independence.

Elizabeth Green, author of Build a Better Teacher.

Topic: How teaching works and how to teach it to everyone.

Issues: Everyone agrees that a great teacher can have an enormous impact. But is it simply a matter of natural charisma, or can it be taught to millions of people who make up the American teaching workforce?

Harold Pollack, coauthor of The Index Card.

Topic: Why personal finance doesn’t have to be complicated:

Issues: Ten simple, no-nonsense, jargon-free, easy-to-follow, pieces of advice to follow to create a financial plan that will work if good times and bad.

Jesse Itzler, author of Living with a SEAL.

Topic: 31 days training with the toughest man on the planet

Issues: An inspiring, hilarious story of friendship, discovery, fitness, muscle soreness, pushing limits, and the benefits of stepping out of your comfort zone.

Tim Hollister, author of Not So Fast.

Topic: Parenting your teen through the dangers of driving

Issues: How brain development affects driving; what driver’s ed doesn’t produce safe drivers; how and why to prepare a “flight plan” for each drive before handing over the keys; how an when to say no.

Tim Jordan, author of Sleeping Beauties, Awakened Women.

Topic: Understanding and guiding the transformation of adolescent girls

Issues: There has been a lot of attention paid to the rising levels of depression, anxiety, cutting, and relationship aggression in girls over the past few decades. But what if those issues aren’t the problem? What if we got it all wrong? In this show, we speak with one of the country’s leading experts on girls and find out what’s really going on with girls as they make the normal transformation from girl to woman.

Nimali Fernando, coauthor of Raising a Healthy, Happy Eater.

Topic: A guide to setting your child on the path to adventurous eating.

Issues: Which milestones to look for as children progress; why poor eating habits develop when they do; steps to help little ones start self-feeding; helpful insights on the sensory system; healthy eating around the world (yes,that may include hot peppers).

Barb Van Loon, author of Good Kids, Bad Choices.

Topic: Why your kids are breaking the law and how to get them to stop.

Issues: Differences between youth crimes and adult crimes; recognizing red flags that may indicate that your child is engaged in criminal activity; non-violent crimes that could land your kid in jail (including cyberbullying, sexting, pornography, identify theft, and so on); when to blame yourself and when not; is it possible to recover from having a crime on your record?

Warren Farrell, author, activist, thinker.

Topic: The career and passions of a pioneer in men’s issues, women’s issues, and men’s health.

Issues: How the women’s movement backtracked on its goal of gender equality; the differences between fathers and mothers–and the advantages to children of having both; the need for a commission on men and boys, the need for a federally funded (and supported) Office of Men’s Health. Click to sign the petition to create the Office of Men’s Health.