In this episode I speak with Chef Curtis Aikens. Curtis is a former host and Founding Chef of The Food Network. Mentored by Julia Child, Chef Paul Prudhomme, The Green Grocer, Joe Carcione, and Edna Lewis, he is one of the few chefs featured in Julia Child's kitchen at the Smithsonian. After learning to read at age 26 through Literacy Volunteers of America and the Marin County Free Library, Chef Curtis has authored seven books sharing his passion for the culinary world, along with his personal journey of struggle and success.

Curtis has hosted shows for ABC and been featured on major networks including CNN, NBC, and CBS. He has hosted seven shows for Food Network and made live appearances around the world. Chef Curtis has been invited as a guest chef at the White House for three sitting presidents, both Democrat and Republican.

He currently lives in Novato, California, with his fiancée Lisa and runs a garden and culinary program for the Marin County Cooperation Team in Sausalito and Marin City. Chef Curtis’s personal motto is Spread Love.

In this episode I speak with John Scherer. John is a former Combat Officer on a US Navy Destroyer, Lutheran Chaplain at Cornell University, Gestalt and Family Systems Therapist, Graduate School co-creator, author, successful change consultant and entrepreneur, John brings a unique perspective to his life and work. John is the founder and Co-Director of Scherer Leadership Center. Business and community leaders from 42 nations have graduated from his Executive and Leadership Development Intensives.

John is the creator of hundreds of articles and online media, including The Scherer Leadership Report, and is author of Work and the Human Spirit (1993) and Five Questions that Change Everything (2008). A prodigious writer, his work has been translated into 15 languages. The Stephen Covey organization honored John as one of America’s Top 100 Thought Leaders in Personal/Leadership Development, and in 2015 the International Organization Development Network recognized him with their coveted Lifetime Achievement Award.

Living and working from a base in Warsaw, Poland, he is known around the world for his ability to connect with leaders and front-line staff in bringing about profound individual breakthroughs and workplace-wide transformations. A father of four ‘wonderfully grown and gifted artistic’ children, he runs, does yoga, still performs the occasional magic show, and loves to read a good spy novel.

For more information about John and his work visit: https://wiseratwork.com/ and https://scherercenter.com/

In this episode Broderick speaks with Suzanne Arms. Suzanne is an international speaker, teacher, author, photojournalist, visionary and grass roots activist for progressive social change.

For nearly fifty years, Suzanne Arms has been a respected and familiar name to many women, parents, midwives and health care activists around the world because of her 7 groundbreaking books, films, photographs, the hundreds of keynote talks she’s given at conferences on 5 continents.

In 1975, her 2nd book, Immaculate Deception: A new Look at Women and Childbirth, was named a New York Times “Best Book” of the Year and ignited a movement. Her work – and focus of Birthing The Future®, the non-profit/charity she founded – centers around the “primal period”, the roots of love and violence, preventing early trauma, and creating peaceful, healthy societies. The key, she teaches, is to transform how we brings humans into the world and “hard-wire” the brain, to empower women and foster strong mother-baby bonds, so that we can become a species based in trust and cooperation rather than fear, defense, aggression, illness, loneliness and despair.

For more information about Suzanne and her work visit: https://birthingthefuture.org/

In this episode I speak with Dr Debbie Joffe Ellis. Debbie was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia. New York City has been her home base for the past two decades. She is a licensed psychologist (Australia), licensed mental health counselor (New York), presenter, writer and adjunct professor at Columbia University in New York City where she teaches Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy and Comparative Psychotherapies. For years she worked with her husband, the brilliant and renowned pioneer of modern cognitive therapies: Dr Albert Ellis, giving public presentations and professional trainings in his approach of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), as well as collaborating with him on writing and research projects until his death in 2007. Before his passing he stated and wrote that he entrusted her to continue his work. She is recognized as a world-renowned expert on REBT, and regularly presents, throughout the USA and in countries around the world, to students, academics, practitioners in the helping professions, and to members of the general public. She joyfully and passionately continues her mission of informing as many people as possible - through her presentations, teaching, writing, and the ways she strives to ‘walk her talk’ - that each one of us has the power to create our emotional destinies despite and including challenging circumstances, and through teaching the ‘how-to’s’ of doing so!

For more information about Debbie visit: https://debbiejoffeellis.com/

In this episode I speak with Howard Eisenberg. Howard is a Medical Doctor with postgraduate training in both Psychology and Psychiatry. He has been a Lecturer at the University of Toronto and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Vermont. He is also the CEO of the international consultancy - Syntrek® Inc.

On a more personal level, he’s been on a passionate lifelong quest to discover the true nature of reality.

He was awarded the first postgraduate degree in Canada at McGill University for his highly successful Parapsychological research on Telepathy. He then pioneered the instruction of Parapsychology as a regular credit course at the University of Toronto

Almost half a century ago, he authored his first trailblazing book, Inner Spaces: Parapsychological Explorations of the Mind.

His new book, Dream it to Do it: The Science & the Magic, is the culmination of his successful quest to learn how reality works!

For more information about Howard visit: https://drhowardeisenberg.com/

In this episode I speak with Rob Fisher, M.F.T. Rob is the author of Experiential Psychotherapy With Couples, A Guide for the Creative Pragmatist and a number of book chapters and articles published internationally on couples therapy and the pyschodynamic use of mindfulness for publications such as the Psychotherapy Networker, The Therapist, The Journal Of Couples Therapy, The USA Body Psychotherapy Journal and others. An advocate of the use of mindfulness and present experience in psychotherapy, he is an adjunct professor at JFK University. As the Co-Developer of the Mindfulness and Compassion in Psychotherapy Certificate Program at CIIS, he has brought together many of the leaders in the realms of mindfulness and psychotherapy in one of the only programs in the US that teaches, not just the skills of psychotherapy, but helps participants develop their internal state as well. Teaching internationally, he is a Hakomi Mindfulness Based Experiential Psychotherapy Senior Trainer and a director of Hakomi Institute of California and the Hakomi Institute of China.

For more information about rob visit: https://robfishermft.com/

In this episode I speak with Masud Olufani. Masud is an Atlanta based multidisciplinary artist born in Los Angeles, California and raised in multiple cities including New York, Miami, New Orleans, Dallas, and Atlanta. He is an assistant professor of art and visiting arts fellow at Morehouse College and he also teaches at the United States Federal Prison in Atlanta, Georgia. Masud has exhibited his work nationally and internationally. He is a featured artist in the 2024 Dakar Biennale in Senegal. The artist has completed residencies at The Vermont Studio Center; The Hambidge Center for Arts and Sciences; and Tallier Portobello Norte in Panama. He is a 2018 Southern Arts Prize State Fellow; and a recipient of a 2015-16’ MOCA GA Working Artist Project Grant. Masud enjoys traveling, exercise, reading and long meandering conversations.

In this episode I speak with Christopher Cherney. Christopher grew up outside of Detroit. Halfway through his undergraduate years as a Biochemistry major at Harvard University, he spent almost a year in Nepal, mostly near Kathmandu. At age 29, while training to be a hospice volunteer in Ann Arbor, Michigan, he visited a nursing home. Immediately he knew he had found his vocation. Today, 30 years later, he remains in the nursing home field. He has been a licensed nursing home administrator for 27 years. In January 2024, upon the intercession of St. Damien of Hawaii, he founded a nonprofit organization, Conscious Touch Teams. This November, Conscious Touch Teams will conduct its first volunteer training in Oakland. Volunteer teams will be trained to provide supportive, nurturing touch to nursing home residents.

In this episode I speak with Paul De Neui. Paul is a minister and professor of missiology. He grew up under the flight path of LAX, never thinking he would travel. That radically changed. He and his wife spent 18 years working in community development in northeast Thailand where they raised their four children. Since teaching at North Park Seminary, he has led 25 international travel courses in five continents. Now based in the Silicon Valley, he commutes to Chicago, Columbus, and Kentucky to visit his adult children and two grandsons and get some work done in between times. When at home he enjoys his local church fellowship, growing organic vegetables, raising vermicompost, and exploring the many cultures and religious perspectives present right in his neighborhood.

In this episode I speak with Cherionna Menzam-Sills. Cherionna began teaching Embodied Embryology through somatic movement in 1997 as part of her doctoral studies in Pre- & Perinatal Psychology, which led to her teaching at Naropa University and the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute. She has taught and facilitated Pre- and Perinatal Psychology/Therapy, Continuum and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy internationally.

Cherionna currently offers online post-graduate training for practitioners to enhance their skill in recognizing and meeting prenatal and birth material arising in session work, as well as small womb surround process workshops. She has authored three books, The Breath of Life: An Introduction Craniosacral Biodynamics, Spirit into Form: Exploring Embryological Potential and Prenatal Psychology, and The Prenatal Shadow: Healing Traumas Experienced Before and at Birth (spring 2025). Cherionna is committed in her work & life to embodied presence. Originally from Canada, she now lives with Franklyn in beautiful Devon, UK.

For more information about Cherionna visit: https://www.birthingyourlife.org