Jon Macaskill describes how he learned about mindfulness and meditation as a Navy Seal Commander, but called it "taking control." Later he volunteered to help vets with the skill and learned how he could take control of his own emotions through a counselor. Now, he has a podcast "Men Talking Mindfulness" and is a keynote speaker and corporate consultant where he shares how it works to increase productivity in high-achieving teams.

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Linda Rendleman talks about ways she has helped women from founding one of the first women's websites to her charity, Women Like Us, which has helped transform womens lives in the U.S. and the world. Currently the Women Like Us Center educates women in Kenya skills to make them economically independent and help them feed their families. And Linda has also started coaching women to rediscover their self worth and redefine their life path.

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L.Y. Marlow shares her life story about intimate partner abuse through 5 generations of her family and how it took a life-threatening moment to make her vow to "save promise," which became the name of her organization focused on preventing the cycle of abuse. Prevention is key , she says and her latest book, Don't Look at the Monster, examines how the monsters within us keep us from changing ourselves to look at our lives in terms of "a gift, a lesson or a blessing."

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Former FBI Agent and Corporate Security professional, Allison Sands describes the soft skills she teaches in her company, Project Hummingbird to derail violence and potentially life-threatening confrontation. Everything from police and front line workers to individuals in daily life are covered in this conversation. Listen and stay safe.

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Elissa Fisher Harris shares her childhood story steeped in adversity and how she channeled that into stepping outside of herself to help others. Her podcast, "A World On Purpose," features people who have pivoted to living a life of purpose and helping others, and her position as Chief Impact Strategist and Partner of 5th Element Group where they unite organizations and people to amplify their efforts to make a global impact.

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Helen Knost tells Dr. Nancy her story of multiple cancer diagnoses and her progress of fighting it and recovering and doing what doctors said she wouldn't do, her discovery and work with the Livestrong Foundation and her new business using skills of being a friend to others and helping them make the world a better place, which she named "My Friend Helen."

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Libby Tyson is heading up The Women Writing History: A Coronavirus Journaling Project for the National Women's History Museum. She tells Nancy why she chooses to work as a curator and archivist, why history is important as the story of humanity for future generations and what she finds hopeful about the journals currently submitted during the pandemic crisis.

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Anne Beiler shares her life's story of growing up in a loving Amish household, living a fairy tale life, then losing her daughter in an instant. The journey through abuse, and out again, starting the largest soft pretzel franchise in the world, Auntie Anne's Pretzels, then turning the whole experience into her life's purpose to help others "Overcome and Lead" became the topic of her new book.

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Dr. Barbara Walker Green shares her insight into the importance of being accountable for your actions and of the power that women have when we come together. We are born sheroes and her new book and website urge women to unite and contribute to the Shero Nation to promote positive change for women and all people of the world.

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Rachel Feldman tells about what it's like to be a female director in Hollywood and about her new screenplay "LILLY," a political thriller which tells the personal story of fair pay icon Lilly Ledbetter who took her case against Good Year Tire Company to the Supreme Court and to Congress to get the fair pay act passed in 2009.

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