Sonstein Sessions

Shelli Sonstein's Sessions Dr. Gus Aliva says many who survive Parkinsons’ Disease are unaware it’s common to suffer delusions and even hallucinations. He is trying to get survivors to share their stories.

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Long before Peter Jackson’s astounding doc series “Get Back” on Disney-Plus, there was the Steve Matteo @333books “Let It Be” book, detailing the recording sessions for the album. Matteo’s book reveals, among other things, exactly what @yokoono was reading every day as the music was created .

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Other than hospital workers, no one has had it harder in the last 2 pandemic years than EMS workers. Vinny Variale, President of the NYC EMS Officers Union local 3621, says part of the problem is understaffing coupled with close to 30% out sick with covid. Vinny says the EMS needs equal pay and sick leave (equal to the FDNY & NYPD)- that a starting pay of 35-grand just doesn’t cut it with all the risk his members take.

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Shelli Sonstein's Sessions Dr. Gus Aliva says many who survive Parkinsons’ Disease are unaware it’s common to suffer delusions and even hallucinations. He is trying to get survivors to share their stories.

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Shelli Sonstein's Sessions Q 104.3 listener Soledad Haren survived 9/11. But like so many, she suffered health issues. That led her to a brand new trailblazing career in health & helping the environment with Build A Better Planet.

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Shelli Sonstein's Sessions Zod Arifai is the renowned owner/chef at Wicked Jane at 15 W. 8th Street in NYC. He has managed to open, survive and thrive in a pandemic and supply chain crisis but his story is shared by hundreds of other small business owers in NYC.

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Shelli Sonstein's Sessions - “Lovin Spoonful founder John Sebastian tells all about the songs we have all loved over the years. His latest album re-creates the magic. Yes, we DO believe in magic!

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Shelli Sonstein's Sessions Terry Horniacek checked in the doomed flight crew on United Airlines Flight 93 on 9/11 20 years ago. She was on the phone with them as two flight attendants comforted doomed passengers while others , along with hero passengers, filled a cart with full bottles of soda to attack the hijackers in the cockpit. Horniacek suffered a complete breakdown some 4 months later . She also fell into drug addiction. This is a woman who lost 17 years of her life after 9/11. Terry Horniacek started a journal on 9/11, updating it through her struggles over the years, resulting in her just-published book “My 9/11: Through inflight eyes”.

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Shelli Sonstein's Sessions Nuclear medicine sounds scary but it’s actually an innovative cancer treatment. It’s why Josh Mailman is here, 15 years after he was diagnosed with stage 4 neuro-endocrine pancreatic cancer.

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Known best as Ralphie on the iconic HBO show “The Sopranos”, Joey Pants Pantoliano has been a long time voice for mental health. His daughter, Dani. Joins him on his podcast “No Kidding! Me Too”, with Dani also a voice in the mental wellness community. BTW, Dani still hasn’t watched most of her dad’s work on “The Sopranos”. He doesn’t want her to see him as Ralphie!

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