Steve talks with child development & behavior specialist and all-around Parent, Betsy Brown Braun, author of Just Tell Me What To Say and of You’re Not The Boss of Me and host of www.betsybrownbraun.com

Steve talks with Michele Weldon, author of Act Like You’re Having a Good Time, about facing agism and invisibility within popular culture and finding meaning and purpose through work, family and relationships.

Steve welcomes Certified Financial Planner Phil Albitz back to the show to discuss the impact of the news and events of the day on the stock market.

Even for his supporters the choices made by Donald Trump are hard to understand.  For non-supporters he is even more confusing and confounding.  There is at least one journalist who has followed Donald Trump for decades and who understands what he is actually doing better than most.  Steve welcomes back Gwenda Blair, author of The Trumps: Three Generations of Builders and a President.

Steve welcomes child psychologist Dr. Mel Lewin to discuss parenting challenges and opportunities.

Steve interviews Sara Peters from standtogether.org about a plan to end poverty in America. 

Steve talks again with Kenneth T. Walsh, an award-winning Washington journalist who has covered the White House for US News & World Report since 1986, including every president since Ronald Reagan.

Primary education is troubled nationwide.  Issues of curriculum, school choice, teacher selection and parental voice for grades K-12 are complicated and controversial.  Steve talks with education experts Robert Enlow and Grant Hewitt about the problems and potential solutions.

A major labor dispute 81 years ago changed animation, Hollywood, Walt Disney and his studio forever.  Steve talks with Jake S. Friedman, author of The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation’s Golden Age.