Positive Talk Radio

Maria R. Riegger believes personal growth is not just about achieving more. It is about understanding what has been quietly holding you back.

A corporate attorney, civil litigator, author, TEDx speaker, and certified Inner Child Reparenting Coach, Maria brings a unique blend of professional expertise and personal development insight to the challenges modern professionals face. Her work sits at the intersection of success, healing, leadership, and self awareness.

Through her experience working with parents and professionals, Maria noticed recurring patterns that often undermine both personal fulfillment and professional performance: procrastination, people pleasing, weak boundaries, burnout, and the lingering effects of unresolved emotional wounds. Rather than treating these as isolated problems, she helps people uncover the deeper beliefs and behaviors driving them.

Drawing on her legal background, corporate experience, trauma informed coaching, and NLP training, Maria helps individuals develop healthier relationships with themselves and others while creating more intentional lives. Her work explores topics ranging from conscious parenting and post divorce growth to productivity, wealth building, emotional resilience, and leadership at home and at work.

At the heart of her message is a powerful idea: when we heal the patterns that no longer serve us, we create space to lead, parent, and live with greater confidence, freedom, and purpose.

Today’s guest: www.lawschoolheretic.com

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Andy Johnson has spent a lifetime helping people perform when it matters most.

A Master Certified Coach (MCC), leadership consultant, educator, and speaker, Andy brings more than 25 years of experience guiding individuals, leaders, and organizations toward higher performance, stronger leadership, and sustainable success. As the Founder and Director of Total Focus, he has worked across industries and continents, helping people unlock potential that often exceeds what they believed possible.

What makes Andy's perspective unique is the breadth of his experience. From competing as a professional rugby player to serving as a Training Officer with the London Fire Brigade, he understands firsthand what leadership, resilience, and performance look like under pressure. Those lessons became the foundation for a coaching career dedicated to helping others thrive in demanding environments.

Over the past two decades, Andy has coached leaders at every level, developed professional coaches around the world, and facilitated more than 350 coach accreditation and development programs. His work is grounded in a simple belief: extraordinary results are not created by chance. They are created through clarity, focus, intentional action, and the ability to bring out the best in yourself and others.

Whether working with executives, teams, or emerging leaders, Andy's mission remains the same: helping people perform with greater confidence, lead with greater impact, and achieve success that lasts.

Today’s guest: www.totalfocus.com.au

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Jennifer Ballow believes some of life's most important conversations begin with a story.

A licensed master level social worker, children's author, and advocate, Jennifer has dedicated her career to supporting children, families, individuals with disabilities, and older adults through compassion, connection, and meaningful engagement.

Drawing from her professional background and personal experience as a mother of twin daughters, she understands the powerful role that stories play in helping children make sense of the world around them. Through her books, she creates opportunities for families to connect, spark imagination, and encourage conversations that foster confidence, creativity, and emotional growth.

Jennifer's work is rooted in a simple but profound belief: when children feel seen, heard, and understood, they develop the foundation to thrive. By combining her expertise in social work with her passion for storytelling, she helps families create moments of connection that can leave a lasting impact.

Whether advocating for vulnerable populations, supporting families, or inspiring young readers, Jennifer is committed to helping people feel valued, empowered, and connected through the power of human understanding.

Today’s guest: www.jenniferballowauthor.com

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Lonna Gibson knows what it means to carry a mission forward when everything is on the line.

At just 26 years old, she became the first employee of Challenge Air, a groundbreaking nonprofit founded by a Vietnam veteran determined to show children with disabilities that their limitations did not define them. When the organization's founder passed away only months later, Lonna was faced with a decision that would shape the rest of her career: step away or step up.

She stepped up.

Over the following years, she transformed Challenge Air from a small regional effort into a nationally recognized organization operating in 38 states, building partnerships with major brands including Southwest Airlines, Boeing, Xerox, and Pillsbury. Along the way, she learned firsthand how to lead through uncertainty, scale a vision, build sustainable systems, and honor a mission larger than herself.

Today, as the founder of Seven & Associates, Lonna helps founders, executives, nonprofit leaders, and boards move beyond reactive leadership and build organizations with clarity, structure, and long term impact. Her expertise spans strategic growth, fundraising systems, StoryBrand messaging, and leadership development, but at its core, her work is about helping leaders create something that lasts.

What sets Lonna apart is that she has lived the challenges her clients face. She understands the weight of responsibility, the complexity of growth, and the importance of building organizations that can thrive beyond the founder.

Her message is simple: great leadership is not about doing more. It is about building something strong enough to endure.

Today’s guest: www.sevenandassoc.com

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Mitesh Jani is fascinated by a question that shapes every human life: why do some people step into their potential while others spend years doubting their own worth?

A dentist, author, and lifelong student of human behavior, Mitesh has spent years exploring the connection between self image, achievement, and personal transformation. Long before he wrote books or built a professional career, he was the kid collecting motivational quotes, searching for the ideas that explain why people think, act, and grow the way they do.

That curiosity eventually became The Process: Six Mechanics of Achievement, a book that distills more than a decade of observation, reflection, and lived experience into a practical framework for personal growth.

While his professional life has been spent in dentistry and business, Mitesh believes the greatest challenges people face are rarely technical. They are internal. The beliefs they hold about themselves, the stories they repeat, and the level of worth they believe they deserve.

His work centers on a simple but profound truth: your life will rarely rise above your self image. When you change how you see yourself, you change what you believe is possible.

Through his writing and conversations, Mitesh helps people strengthen that foundation, so achievement becomes more than success. It becomes an expression of who they know themselves to be.

Today’s guest: www.selfworth.ca

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Tanya Taibl believes dementia care begins with seeing the person, not just the diagnosis.

With a background in special education, Tanya brings a unique and deeply compassionate perspective to supporting individuals experiencing cognitive decline and the families who care for them. Rather than focusing solely on what has been lost, she focuses on what remains possible through adaptation, communication, and understanding.

Her work centers on helping care partners and loved ones navigate the complexities of dementia with greater confidence, empathy, and practical strategies. By exploring how communication styles, environmental design, and relationship dynamics influence quality of life, Tanya helps create experiences that preserve dignity, connection, and meaning.

What sets her approach apart is a simple but powerful shift in perspective: instead of asking what a person can no longer do, she asks how we can better support who they still are.

Through education, advocacy, and guidance, Tanya is helping families move beyond frustration and fear toward deeper connection, reminding us that even in the presence of cognitive decline, every person deserves to be understood, respected, and valued.

Today’s guest: www.instagram.com/Tanya_T_Memoirist

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Dr. Kenneth Markowitz understands addiction from both sides of the conversation, as a physician who treated patients for nearly two decades and as someone who faced his own battle with addiction.

A former pediatrician and now an addiction recovery coach, Kenneth brings a rare combination of medical expertise, clinical experience, and lived recovery to the people he serves. After pornography addiction unexpectedly derailed a successful medical career, he was forced to confront the very challenges he had spent years helping others navigate.

That experience became the catalyst for a new calling.

Today, Kenneth helps individuals struggling with both chemical and behavioral addictions move beyond shame, isolation, and self destructive patterns toward lasting recovery and personal freedom. Drawing from his background in medicine, psychology, and his own recovery journey, he offers a deeply personalized approach that addresses the whole person, not just the addiction.

What sets Kenneth apart is his ability to bridge professional knowledge with personal understanding. He knows addiction not only from textbooks and clinical practice, but from the hard earned lessons that come from rebuilding a life.

His message is one of hope and accountability: recovery is possible, transformation is real, and no matter how far someone has fallen, a new chapter can begin.

Today’s guest: www.nsrcoach.com

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Lenna Rodriguez has spent her life serving in places where leadership, resilience, and courage are not optional.

A retired U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer 3, Lenna served for more than 20 years in some of the military's most demanding roles, spanning intelligence, criminal investigations, civil affairs, and special operations support. From deployments in Africa and Afghanistan to leading complex investigations as a Supervisory Special Agent with the Department of the Army Criminal Investigation Division, her career was built on protecting others and solving problems under pressure.

But for Lenna, service did not end when she took off the uniform.

Today, she is a passionate advocate for veterans, military families, and those facing the invisible challenges that often follow military service. Through her work supporting America's Warrior Partnership and the "Know a Vet, Tell a Vet" initiative, she helps strengthen awareness, connection, and peer support within the veteran community, particularly around suicide prevention and mental health.

As a contestant in the Ms. Veteran America competition, Lenna also champions the mission of Final Salute Inc., raising awareness and support for homeless women veterans and their children across the country.

Her message is rooted in a lifetime of leadership and service: no veteran should have to fight their hardest battles alone.

Today’s guest: www.finalsaluteinc.org

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Gary Parker has spent a lifetime telling stories that refuse to let readers look away.

A bestselling novelist, screenwriter, and storyteller, Gary is the author of more than 20 traditionally published novels, including a work selected as a Doubleday Crossings Book Club Main Selection. His stories explore the complexity of human nature, the choices that define us, and the unexpected turns that shape our lives.

Beyond the page, Gary has written multiple screenplays, with one sold and others optioned for production, bringing his storytelling talents into the world of film. His ability to craft compelling narratives across different mediums has made him a sought after guest for podcasts, television, radio, and speaking engagements.

Holding a Ph.D. from Baylor University, Gary combines intellectual depth with a storyteller's instinct for what captures the human heart. Whether writing fiction, discussing the creative process, or sharing insights from decades of experience, he brings wisdom, humor, and authenticity to every conversation.

At the center of it all is a man who values story in every form, from the novels he writes to the life he has built with his wife, daughters, and growing tribe of grandchildren.

Because for Gary Parker, great stories are not just something we read.

They are something we live.

Today’s guest: www.garyeparker.net

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Sara F. Hathaway explores one of society's most uncomfortable questions: what happens when everything we depend on suddenly disappears?

An author, self defense instructor, podcaster, and preparedness advocate, Sara has built a devoted following through The Changing Earth Series, a gripping fictional universe that examines the fragility of modern civilization and the resilience required to survive its collapse.

But beneath the action, suspense, and survival scenarios lies a deeper message. Confidence is not something you find in a crisis. It is something you build long before one arrives.

Drawing from her expertise in self defense and personal preparedness, Sara teaches people how to develop the mindset, skills, and adaptability needed to face uncertainty with strength rather than fear. Whether through her novels, The Changing Earth Podcast, or The Changing Earth Audio Drama, she challenges audiences to think differently about resilience, self reliance, and human potential.

Living in the forests of East Texas with her husband and two sons, Sara embodies the values she writes about, proving that preparedness is not about expecting the worst.

It is about becoming the kind of person who can handle it if it comes.

Today’s guest: www.changingearthseries.com | www.ceaudiodrama.libsyn.com

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