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Jeffrey Brantley, MD, DFAPA, is a consulting associate in the Duke Department of Psychiatry and the founder and director of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program at Duke University’s Center for Integrative Medicine. He has appeared in multiple radio, television and print media interviews regarding the MBSR program at Duke. He is the bestselling author of Calming Your Anxious Mind, Daily Meditations for Calming Your Anxious Mind, and co-author of Five Good Minutes, Five Good Minutes in the Evening, Five Good Minutes at Work, Five Good Minutes with the One You Love, and Five Good Minutes in Your Body. His new book from New Harbinger Publications, Calming Your Angry Mind, will be released in spring 2014.

PoweredUp Talk Radio stars Sandra Beck of Motherhood Incorporated and Linda Franklin of The Real Cougar Woman. The show airs live Tuesdays at 3pm PST/ 6pm EST and is available for download and lives stream at http://www.powereduptalkradio.comand http://itunes.com. To reach Sandra or Linda please contact them directly at [email protected] and [email protected].

From New York City to Los Angeles “Powered up with Beck and Franklin” gives women of all ages permission to live the life they have always dreamed of. Why live in black and white when you can choose the brilliance of 3D and Technicolor? Each week Beck and Franklin and their high-powered guests will be here to cheer you on, to share their challenges, their successes and what they have learned from their failures. It’s all about women supporting women. The stories and practical tips on sex, beauty, money and so much more are designed to help you re-connect to the powerful woman you are. Fabulous knows no limits. It’s time for you to expand your boundaries.

Wendy Dotson of Loudoun Community Midwives has had experience with midwifery and nursing in birth centers, homes and hospital settings since 1981. She earned a BSN from George Mason University, and a Masters in Nursing from State University of New York-Stony Brook. She has been a contributing writer in national midwifery publications and nursing texts. Other professional interests include teaching, legislation, natural remedies, and homeopathy. Wendy is a volunteer with non-profit Midwives for Haiti, and travels regularly to train Haitian midwives. She is married, has 2 adult sons, and loves to hike and bike.

Her favorite charities both involve maternity care in Haiti: Midwives for Haiti,and Heartline Ministries Maternity Center of Port au Prince. You can learn more about her at www.loudouncommunitymidwives.com.

Maryam Webster is is a popular San Francisco, California area inspirational speaker, best selling self-help author, energy psychologist, coach and trainer. She helps people with extreme challenges, and the Experts who help evolve others – coaches, therapists, teachers, medical personnel & entrepreneurs – to “Do the Impossible”.

Teaching herself to walk again after being hit by a drunk driver and three years as a paraplegic (with doctors predicting permanent paralysis), PLUS losing over 100 pounds she gained while bedridden, are only two of the many ways Maryam has done the “impossible” in her own life.

She’s literally walks her talk and tells it like it is.

Specializing in fast, easy to use methods for change and personal growth, Maryam developes The ETHOS Method for Consciousness and Healing and custom crafts transformational processes for everyone she works with. In private life, Maryam is a yoga enthusiast, comfy shoeist, momcat and nature lover.

Maryam’s lively presentations and humorous outlook leave audiences laughing, wanting more and talking about what they learned months down the line. A veteran interviewer herself, Maryam has produced eight telesummits and speaker series on topics in motivation, heart-based marketing, alternative health, spirituality and daily personal evolution.

Listeners leave with immediately-usable tools for personal change, whether the subject is menopausal symptom relief, massive weightloss, recovery from catastrophe, or healing injury, spiritual or social crisis, or any other way your listeners seek to “Do The Impossible”.

Women’s events especially love Maryam’s “Everyday Bliss Stress-Busting Workshop”, a highly customizable workshop you can read more about here.

PoweredUp Talk Radio stars Sandra Beck of Motherhood Incorporated and Linda Franklin of The Real Cougar Woman. The show airs live Tuesdays at 3pm PST/ 6pm EST and is available for download and lives stream at http://www.powereduptalkradio.comand http://itunes.com. To reach Sandra or Linda please contact them directly at [email protected] and [email protected].

From New York City to Los Angeles “Powered up with Beck and Franklin” gives women of all ages permission to live the life they have always dreamed of. Why live in black and white when you can choose the brilliance of 3D and Technicolor? Each week Beck and Franklin and their high-powered guests will be here to cheer you on, to share their challenges, their successes and what they have learned from their failures. It’s all about women supporting women. The stories and practical tips on sex, beauty, money and so much more are designed to help you re-connect to the powerful woman you are. Fabulous knows no limits. It’s time for you to expand your boundaries.

Featured Guest: Energy Balancing Expert on Poweredup Talk Radio with Sandra Beck and Linda Franklin March 24, 2013 3pm PST on Toginet.com

In September of 2011 Michael Russer began a personal transformation that included a diagnosis of prostate cancer, radical prostatectomy, follow up intensive radiation treatments and full blown impotence. While most people would call it a tragedy, he considers his resulting impotence to be one of the biggest blessings in his life. It is because of his impotence that he and his partner discovered an entirely new approach to experiencing levels of emotional and physical intimacy that far exceeds anything either experienced prior to when things were working “normally”. An approach to deep connecting emotional, physical and spiritual intimacy that is available to all couples who are truly open to it.

It is his personal mission in life to serve other couples who struggle to truly connect on a deeper level due to impotence or simply because they have lost their “spark” and use his communications skills to share what he has learned worldwide. Prior to this phase of his life, Michael was a highly regarded international speaker and author about technology. His media experience includes keynotes, radio and TV appearances, videos, articles for national publications and voice overs.

To learn more about Michael head to www.hardlybroken.com.

Deb Boulanger is the Whole Life Coach for busy women over 40 who want more out of life from the food they eat, the love they get, and the work they do and she will be joining us in the first of 12 exciting segments to help us all live our best health in 2014.

She came to this work after her own transformational journey at 53 years old when she left a 26-year marriage and a 25-year corporate career. Her batteries were drained, adrenals were shot and passion had long faded.

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Through a three-year transformational journey, Deb learned how to nurture and tune her body as well as her soul. She re-evaluated her career, her relationships, her finances and created a renewed connection to her source. She discovered what it takes to truly be happy in this life – without selfishness or sacrifice – and now she shares this same formula with others.

Today Deb is a sought after coach and mentor who leads other businesswomen on her 6-stage transformational journey and it all starts with food. She’s a certified health coach and runs the very successful program called Feeding Your Freedom and she works with dozens of women each year through her private coaching practice.

If you want to ditch the diet, forget food fads, stop doing what you know how to do and do what you love, and get the love that you truly want and deserve, you will want to connect with Deb at www.connectwithdeb.com and learn more about her work at http://liveawholelife.net

PoweredUp Talk Radio stars Sandra Beck of Motherhood Incorporated and Linda Franklin of The Real Cougar Woman. The show airs live Tuesdays at 3pm PST/ 6pm EST and is available for download and lives stream at http://www.powereduptalkradio.comand http://itunes.com. To reach Sandra or Linda please contact them directly at [email protected] and [email protected].

From New York City to Los Angeles “Powered up with Beck and Franklin” gives women of all ages permission to live the life they have always dreamed of. Why live in black and white when you can choose the brilliance of 3D and Technicolor? Each week Beck and Franklin and their high-powered guests will be here to cheer you on, to share their challenges, their successes and what they have learned from their failures. It’s all about women supporting women. The stories and practical tips on sex, beauty, money and so much more are designed to help you re-connect to the powerful woman you are. Fabulous knows no limits. It’s time for you to expand your boundaries.

Featured Guest: Intimacy Expert Michael Russer on Poweredup Talk Radio with Sandra Beck and Linda Franklin March 18, 2013 3pm PST on Toginet.com

Gregory J. Welborn is a partner at First Financial Consulting. He joined the firm in 1991 and has extensive experience in investment consulting and tax planning. Greg was a pioneer in the development of investment consulting services for individual investors. As a respected authority on personal financial issues, he has assisted Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine with their annual “Jump-Start Your Retirement Planning Days” event and has lectured extensively.Greg has also been published in several leading newspapers, including The Orange County Register, The Los Angeles Daily News and The Wall Street Journal. He has written on a wide variety of topics, including:

Maximizing returns in a down market

Securing your financial future

The common traps facing bond investors

Improving the value of retirement accounts

What to teach your children about money

Keeping your broker honest

How seniors can protect themselves from financial frauds

Managing debt loads

Greg is a member of the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA), which only accepts financial advisors who have met the highest industry and professional standards.

Before joining First Financial Consulting, Greg developed a successful track record in banking, finance and investments. He worked for both Bank of America and Union Bank in commercial lending, international finance and domestic financial services. After leaving banking, he served as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Investment Officer for several privately-held companies.

Greg received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Occidental College, majoring in economics. At Occidental College he also served as President of the Charles Blyth Fund, an alumni-endowed, student-run investment fund, where he received his first practical experience in investment management. Greg went on to receive a Masters of Business Administration degree from the University of Southern California, specializing in finance and investments. He also pursued a masters degree in economics at USC, studying under Art Laffer, an advisor to President Reagan and a leader in the supply-side economics movement.

Greg and his wife, Irene, live in the Los Angeles area with their three children. They are both active in their local community and church. Greg has served in a variety of leadership positions at their church and on their local school’s advisory board.

To learn more about Greg head to www.firstfinancialconsulting.net.

Today we welcome Co-Host Robbie Ann’s twenty years of journalism and public relations experience has taken her through corporate communications, television reporting, media relations, teaching public speaking, writing, editing, broadcasting production, crisis communication and developing public relations strategy. Her personal life experiences have led her through many trials and tribulations, and she credits her sense of spirituality with surviving her parents ugly divorce, a difficult adolescence, and the suicide of her teenaged brother and loss of all four of her grandparents within a five year period in her early twenties.

Robbie Ann’s Tarot readings are often focused on navigating the emotional challenges and crossroads moments in life, and making decisions from a point of strength. She is careful to acknowledge that she is not a professional psychotherapist, and does not dispense medical or mental health advice; she is a big proponent of professional therapy from a qualified provider as a healing tool.

Robbie Ann considers herself a spiritual coach, with one foot in the pragmatic and one foot in the ethereal. A lifelong music lover, songwriter and singer, she also performs locally in Studio 54, a dance band.She has worked and lived in Montana, Los Angeles, and New York City, and has returned permanently to her hometown in Buffalo, New York.She runs a public relations consultancy in Buffalo, New York, and offers Tarot readings by appointment or Skype. She can be reached on www.whichwaytarot.com or 716-220-4200.

From New York City to Los Angeles “Powered up with Beck and Franklin” gives women of all ages permission to live the life they have always dreamed of. Why live in black and white when you can choose the brilliance of 3D and Technicolor? Each week Beck and Franklin and their high-powered guests will be here to cheer you on, to share their challenges, their successes and what they have learned from their failures. It’s all about women supporting women. The stories and practical tips on sex, beauty, money and so much more are designed to help you re-connect to the powerful woman you are. Fabulous knows no limits. It’s time for you to expand your boundaries.

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Featured Guest: Tarot Reader Robbie Ann McPherson on Poweredup Talk Radio with Sandra Beck and Linda Franklin March 4, 2013 3pm PST on Toginet.com

Adia Colar on Poweredup Talk Radio with Sandra Beck and Linda Franklin February 25, 2013 3pm PST on Toginet.com

Adia Colar is the senior publicist at New Harbinger Publications. She has been a publicist for 8 years and a book publicist for over 6 years. One of the first books she publicized was the #1 New York Times bestseller The Untethered Soul, which was featured on Oprah’s Soul Series, Super Soul Sunday, and Good Morning America. She has also publicized The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook, The Mindfulness & Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety, Eating Mindfully, and Emotional Fitness for Intimacy. Adia has garnered publicity hits in many media outlets, including The New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine, Health, Self, Whole Living, Cosmopolitan, Wall Street Journal, Psychology Today, Chicago Tribune, Parade, Huffington Post, and The Dr. Oz Show. She was the freelance online publicist for Boaz Publishing and publicized Wawona Hotel and Reservation Nation.

Adia Colar is also a freelance writer. She blogs for Huffington Post and PsychologyToday.com and has also written for Essence.com, Beliefnet, and other publications. She has been in recovery from an eating disorder and other self-destructive behaviors for years. She has recorded and continues to chronicle her journey from the depths of an eating disorder to recovery and life in between. Her goals for the future are to publish these collections of writings and help others on their own paths to recovery.

Adia majored in Public Relations and minored in Psychology at Howard University in Washington DC. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. To learn more about Adia: http://adiacolar.com/writing

PoweredUp Talk Radio stars Sandra Beck of Motherhood Incorporated and Linda Franklin of The Real Cougar Woman. The show airs live Tuesdays at 3pm PST/ 6pm EST and is available for download and lives stream at http://www.powereduptalkradio.comand http://itunes.com. To reach Sandra or Linda please contact them directly at [email protected] and [email protected].

From New York City to Los Angeles “Powered up with Beck and Franklin” gives women of all ages permission to live the life they have always dreamed of. Why live in black and white when you can choose the brilliance of 3D and Technicolor? Each week Beck and Franklin and their high-powered guests will be here to cheer you on, to share their challenges, their successes and what they have learned from their failures. It’s all about women supporting women. The stories and practical tips on sex, beauty, money and so much more are designed to help you re-connect to the powerful woman you are. Fabulous knows no limits. It’s time for you to expand your boundaries.

Are you 40, 50 or beyond, enjoy fashion, but need help knowing what to wear to look stylish and classy and modern? Wondering how to dress so you don’t look like a frumpy old lady or a desperate teenager either?

Well, you’ve come to the right place! I’m Deborah Boland, host and publisher of Fabulous After 40 -the go-to place for practical fashion and beauty advice and step-by-step style solutions that you can implement right away…I started this community because I LOVE fashion. All my life I got a kick out of following the latest styles, dressing up, and having lots of fun experimenting with clothes…… but let me tell you, after 40 things changed!

Trying to look stylish suddenly became confusing and frustrating. Why?

After 40 my body started getting softer and curvier. Clothes didn’t quite fit the way they used to.My lifestyle shifted too. After a 20 year career as an Executive TV Producer/ Host (including my own hit series on HGTV) I was suddenly at home with my 3 small children. I went from dressing up to the nines for meetings and media events to being a full time stay at home living in yoga pants.

Trying to get back on the style track and find clothes that were modern and age appropriate, but not dowdy and boring or too teenager- trendy, was very difficult. Where were the stores and designers that catered to hip, mature women who wanted to look chic and fabulous?

And where were the style role models over 40? I didn’t see any fashionable women over 40 in magazines, on TV, on the internet, anywhere? Did they even exist?That’s when I decided right then and there that it was all too easy to just give up. I could have said, “Well, I guess I’ve had my time to be a fashionista. It’s over now.” But you know what? That would have been sad.

Deborah Boland

Today we welcome Co-Host Robbie Ann’s twenty years of journalism and public relations experience has taken her through corporate communications, television reporting, media relations, teaching public speaking, writing, editing, broadcasting production, crisis communication and developing public relations strategy. Her personal life experiences have led her through many trials and tribulations, and she credits her sense of spirituality with surviving her parents ugly divorce, a difficult adolescence, and the suicide of her teenaged brother and loss of all four of her grandparents within a five year period in her early twenties.

Robbie Ann’s Tarot readings are often focused on navigating the emotional challenges and crossroads moments in life, and making decisions from a point of strength. She is careful to acknowledge that she is not a professional psychotherapist, and does not dispense medical or mental health advice; she is a big proponent of professional therapy from a qualified provider as a healing tool.

Robbie Ann considers herself a spiritual coach, with one foot in the pragmatic and one foot in the ethereal. A lifelong music lover, songwriter and singer, she also performs locally in Studio 54, a dance band.She has worked and lived in Montana, Los Angeles, and New York City, and has returned permanently to her hometown in Buffalo, New York.She runs a public relations consultancy in Buffalo, New York, and offers Tarot readings by appointment or Skype. She can be reached on www.whichwaytarot.com or 716-220-4200.

Jackie Silver Aging Backwards

Jackie Silver

Jackie Silver is Aging Backwards and she shares her secrets, tips and shortcuts in her books, on her website, AgingBackwards.com, on TV and radio, in print and in person. Jackie is in her 50s and still gets asked for ID to buy wine (and recently, beer)!

She is a frequent television and radio guest, and contributor to and featured expert on numerous beauty, lifestyle and anti-aging websites. With her more than 30 years of on-camera, radio and voice over experience, she specializes in representing brands as spokesperson as well as representation on-air with host for shopping television.

Jackie appears in dozens of videos on Livestrong.com and eHow.com, and is sought-after as an anti-aging and beauty expert by the media. She has a large social media presence with more than 13,700 followers on Twitter. She started her company, Aging Backwards, in 2006 to provide secrets, tips, shortcuts and motivation to women everywhere who want to stay as young as possible for as long as possible. One interesting fact: (mentioned above), Jackie is in her 50s and still gets asked for ID to buy wine! (The other day I got asked for ID to buy beer at Trader Joe’s – photo attached in email, they said you have to look at least 35!).

Dermatologist Dr. Judith Hellman on Poweredup Talk Radio with Sandra Beck and Linda Franklin February 4, 2014 3pm PST on Toginet.com

A genuine “people person,” Dr. Judith Hellman brings her expertise and outstanding bedside manner to hundreds of New Yorkers with a wide gamut of therapeutic and aesthetic skin concerns.

A board-certified dermatologist, Dr. Hellman practices medical dermatology, and also specializes in dermatological surgery, laser surgery and anti-aging skin treatments. She received her B.A. Magna Cum Laude from Boston’s Berklee College of Music. An accomplished musician, she decided to switch gears and pursue a medical career.

After graduating, she went on to complete her premedical training at Wellesley College, where she was on the Dean’s List. Subsequently she attended the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City and received her MD in 1989. After an internship in internal medicine at New York’s Beth Israel Medical Center, she completed her residency in Dermatology at SUNY Stony Brook, where she was selected as chief resident in dermatology. From 1992, Dr. Hellman spent several years training in the surgical treatment of skin cancers and in the use of lasers for various skin conditions at the prestigious Long Island Laser CosmediCenter.

Dr. Hellman became board certified in dermatology in 1994. She is currently an associate professor in the Department of Dermatology at Mt. Sinai Medical Center, and has authored numerous papers for medical journals on a variety of topics.

“I find Dermatology personally gratifying because I come in contact with many people on a daily basis, which I enjoy tremendously,” says Dr. Hellman. “It also allows me to utilize the fine motor skills which I developed during my musical training in performing surgical and aesthetic procedures of all kinds. I especially enjoy helping my patients improve their appearance in relatively short periods of time, boosting their self-esteem, and giving them the confidence they need to feel that they can go out and conquer the world. This is the greatest gratification for a physician.”

Dr. Hellman has been in private practice in New York City since 1993. She is fluent in English, Hebrew and Hungarian. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology, American Society for Laser Surgery and Medicine, Dermatologic Society of Greater New York and others. She is affiliated with the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, and has been a guest on various radio and TV programs as well as interviewed in a variety of magazines on medical and cosmetic dermatology topics.

PoweredUp Talk Radio stars Sandra Beck of Motherhood Incorporated and Linda Franklin of The Real Cougar Woman. The show airs live Tuesdays at 3pm PST/ 6pm EST and is available for download and lives stream at http://www.powereduptalkradio.comand http://itunes.com. To reach Sandra or Linda please contact them directly at [email protected] and [email protected].

From New York City to Los Angeles “Powered up with Beck and Franklin” gives women of all ages permission to live the life they have always dreamed of. Why live in black and white when you can choose the brilliance of 3D and Technicolor? Each week Beck and Franklin and their high-powered guests will be here to cheer you on, to share their challenges, their successes and what they have learned from their failures. It’s all about women supporting women. The stories and practical tips on sex, beauty, money and so much more are designed to help you re-connect to the powerful woman you are. Fabulous knows no limits. It’s time for you to expand your boundaries.

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Dermatologist Dr. Judith Hellman on Poweredup Talk Radio with Sandra Beck and Linda Franklin February 4, 2014 3pm PST on Toginet.com.