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Dr. Leigh F. Callahan has over 35 years of experience in arthritis and health outcomes research, and experience in public health as a former arthritis epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Her specific areas of expertise are in four major areas: outcomes and epidemiological research, establishing collaborations in communities across North Carolina and the nation, leadership roles in professional and nonprofit arthritis organizations, and setting arthritis public health agendas.

She educates others on managing Osteoarthritis through behavioral lifestyle interventions, such as weight management, self-management education, physical activity and injury prevention, which are the four key evidence-based public health interventions for Osteoarthritis (OA).  Dr. Callahan also speaks about The Osteoarthritis Action Alliance (OAAA), which is supported, in part, by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and has numerous free resources available for managing OA.

 

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Dr. Leigh F. Callahan is the tenured Mary Link Briggs Distinguished Professor of Medicine in the School of Medicine and professor in the Department of Orthopaedics at the University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill. She is an adjunct professor in the Department of Epidemiology in the Gillings School of Global Public Health. She is Associate Director of the Thurston Arthritis Research Center (TARC). She is also Director of the Osteoarthritis Action Alliance (OAAA), a coalition of more than 160 organizations committed to elevating osteoarthritis as a national health priority. Dr. Callahan has an undergraduate degree from UNC, Chapel Hill and a PhD from Vanderbilt University.

 

https://oaaction.unc.edu

https://www.linkedin.com/in/leigh-callahan/

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Karen Salmansohn, author of Your To-Die-For Life How to Maximize Joy and Minimize Regret ... Before Your Time Runs Out, and behavioral change expert invites her audience to stop avoiding the one truth about the inevitability of our limited time, and encourages to start using it to live more fully, boldly, and unapologetically.

After going through her own “I’m going to die” journey, Salmansohn discovered how mortality awareness can transform your life, helping people stop wasting time and start aligning with what truly matters. Backed by science and filled with practical tools, this book offers a fresh and cheeky approach to living with purpose. You’ll learn how to write your own eulogy to reverse-engineer your goals, build a “to die for” list to focus on what brings you alive, and do a life audit to release what drains your energy.

With inspiring philosophy, research-based insights, and Salmansohn’s humor, Your To-Die-For Life will help you face your fears and use them as fuel for a life that’s deeply meaningful.

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Karen Salmansohn is a bestselling author with over 2 million books and courses sold, a leading behavioral change expert, and columnist for Oprah and Psychology Today. She is the founder of NotSalmon.com, a popular personal development site with a vibrant community of 1.5 million followers. In 1999, Karen first wrote with How to Be Happy, Dammit. Since then, she’s written numerous bestsellers including The Bounce Back Book and Think Happy. With a background in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy, Karen is passionate about helping people live with courage, clarity, and joy. In Your To-Die-For Life, she pioneers the mortality awareness movement, reminding us that embracing death might just be the secret to truly living.

 

https://www.notsalmon.com/

https://www.instagram.com/notsalmon/?hl=en

 

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Dessy Levinson, author of From Overwhelm to Flow, is a strategist and coach whose work draws from neuroscience, psychology, and lived experience. She has spent over two decades helping leaders, founders, and thoughtful individuals navigate complexity and build genuine resilience.

In From Overwhelm to Flow, Levinson introduces the CRATE framework—Clarity, Regulation, Agency, Trust, and Energy—as a path to move from emotional chaos into grounded clarity. Whether you're a founder facing startup challenges, a leader fostering psychological safety, or someone seeking deeper understanding of your inner world, this book offers practical tools and strategic insights to help you transform how you relate to overwhelm.

With warmth, honesty, and powerful stories of transformation, Levinson shows how our moments of greatest struggle can become the gateway to flow. This is not just another self-help book—it’s a guide to remembering what we already know: that intensity, when met with curiosity and skill, can lead to meaning, creativity, and real change.

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Dessy T. Levinson is an executive strategist and relational integration coach, founder of crate.com, and creator of the CRATE framework for cognitive and emotional resilience. With over twenty years of experience in advertising, venture capital, and high-performance coaching, she helps individuals and teams move from overwhelm to flow through deep psychological insight and business acumen. She lives in the New York area with her husband and teen children.

crate.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dessylevinson/

 

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Douglas Lynam, author of Taming Your Money Monsters: Nine Paths to Money Mastery With The Enneagram, helps identify their financial traps, heal money wounds, and cultivate abundance with tailored strategies.  The Enneagram is a personality system that outlines nine types, each with unique motivations, fears, and desires, to support self-awareness, growth, and better relationships, and Douglas Lynam explains how each Enneagram type has a "money monster" and behaviors that harm financial health.

He will speak about spirituality and wealth, proving that financial success and ethical living go hand in hand; not just coexisting, but enhancing each other.  From Marine to Benedictine monk to financial expert, Doug Lynam’s unconventional journey reflects his unique perspective on wealth and purpose.

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After graduating top of his class from Marine Corps Officer Candidate School, Doug Lynam spent two decades as a monk while leading a prestigious school’s math department. Transitioning to finance in 2017, he became a partner at LongView Asset Management, overseeing $250 million in assets.  He is the author of Taming Your Money Monsters: Nine Paths to Money Mastery With The Enneagram and From Monk to Money Manager: A Former Monk's Financial Guide to Becoming a Little Bit Wealthy—and Why That's Okay, both in which he focuses on financial self-help.

 

 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/doug-lynam/

https://www.instagram.com/douglynam/

https://www.douglynam.com/

 

DESCRIPTION: Jim Murphy, author of  Inner Excellence: Train Your Mind For Extraordinary Performance and The Best Possible Life, has been  a professional baseball player in the Chicago Cubs organization. Jim Murphy’s sense of worth revolved around his performance. He was focused on achievement but also afraid of failure. When he started coaching professional and Olympic athletes, he often encountered the same mindset. He became obsessed with learning how the best in the world performed with poise under pressure.   Inner Excellence is the life guide that has empowered athletes and developed world champions, and most importantly, transformed their hearts and minds. This step-by-step training manual from one of the world's top mental skills coaches will teach you how to train your mind like the very best.     After years of research, interviews, and writing, Jim will share  how to develop self-mastery and let go of what you can’t control, explain how to overcome anxiety and build powerful mental habit, give tips for removing mental blocks and share how to  release limiting beliefs.   About Jim Murphy: #1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Murphy is a Performance Coach to some of the best athletes and leaders in the world. He began his career as a professional baseball player in the Chicago Cubs organization. After experiencing vision issues that ended his playing career, Murphy coached with the Texas Rangers as well as the South African Olympic baseball team. He has worked with some of the world’s best golfers, including world champions, FedEx Cup champions, and world #1’s. The majority of Murphy’s clients have the best year of their careers in their first year working with him. In addition tocoaching professional athletes and executives, Murphy leads Inner Excellence off site retreats around the globe. He is the president of the Inner Excellence Freedom Project whose mission is to build communities to alleviate spiritual and physical poverty around the world.   https://innerexcellence.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/innerexcellence/ https://www.facebook.com/innerexcellence/ https://www.instagram.com/innerexcellencejimmurphy/

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Andre Norman, author of Ambassador of Hope: Turning Poverty and Prison into a Purpose-Driven Life, speaks about the choices that led him to time in juvenile detention, and eventually a maximum-security prison, along with the epiphany where he chose find a way out and to seek success through education.

Andre will speak of his remarkable journey of overturning an over 105-year prison sentence to educating some of the brightest minds at Harvard University brings a unique perspective to his engagements.

His collaborations with prestigious institutions like London Business School and notable networks such as Young Presidents Organization and Entrepreneurs Organization have established him as a trusted advisor and speaker. Andre's dynamic presentations, practical strategies, and personal experiences captivate audiences, empowering them to overcome obstacles, navigate change, and unlock their true potential.

 

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Andre Norman is a globally renowned transformational speaker, strategist, and business consultant, as well as the founder of Second Chance University, a program designed to give access and inspiration to people seeking to improve their lives. With a diverse portfolio of accomplishments and a global reach spanning regions such as Honduras, Bahamas, Sweden, Guatemala, Liberia, and Trinidad, Andre Norman's impact on correctional systems and ability to inspire personal and professional transformation are unmatched.

Facebook:   https://www.facebook.com/andrenorman21 Linkedin:    https://www.linkedin.com/in/andre-norman/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/andrenorman Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYfwwmClQEvLi1KM_tZETcw

https://www.amazon.com/Ambassador-Hope-Turning-Poverty-Purpose-Driven/dp/1544507232 

   

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Daniel Miller, author of THE WAY OF THE WAVE: Nature's Model for Navigating Life's Currents,  and bestselling author of The Gifts of Acceptance (a Library Journal Best Wellness Book of the Year), will focus on helping people leading a healthier, more peaceful life.

In THE WAY OF THE WAVE, Miller shares insights and practices from his nearly forty-year journey—marked with both success and failure—of trying to “Go with the Wave” in all aspects of life. His version of “the flow,” the Wave represents the mysterious rhythm or energy force that surrounds and affects us all—and cannot be controlled or manipulated. It also draws inspiration from the countless hours Miller has spent on the beach in California, observing the ocean waves.

Along with sharing his own struggles and breakthroughs in riding the undulating waves of love and romance, parenting, work, interacting with friends and foes, aging, and creative and athletic endeavors, in THE WAY OF THE WAVE, Miller offers inquiries, reflections, and exercises to help guide others in their rides. 

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Daniel Miller is a skilled painter, poet, successful businessman (having written a best selling professional book), and at 81 years of age, a nationally ranked seniors tennis player, Daniel believes that he is at the blessed place that he is today because he follows the guidance he preaches to others.  

https://danielamiller.com

 

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Michele Blood, author of the video book Manifestation Through the Power of Mysticism, will discuss how to achieve success and wellness through the process of affirmation. With this World's First Video Book, the mind absorbs the knowledge very fast and the person is captivated and entertained simultaneously.

After a near-fatal car accident, Michele began composing positive Affirmation Songs that not only healed her body but sparked a worldwide movement. These songs were designed to activate both the left and right hemispheres of the brain and send empowering messages directly to the subconscious mind, making transformation faster and more effective. Millions have downloaded her songs on healing, confidence, money, joy, and more.

Michele will discuss how combining affirmations and music can quickly uplift the listener and create lasting change. She’ll also share highlights from her groundbreaking Manifestation Through the Power of Mysticism Video Book, the world’s first manifestation video book, which uses entertainment and visual engagement to help the mind absorb transformation techniques more quickly than ever before.

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Michele Blood is a successful, multi-talented lady who went from a career as a rock singer and songwriter in Australia to an internationally celebrated creator of Affirmation Power Music who turned personal tragedy into a global mission of healing, success, and transformation.  Michele has appeared in many hundreds of podcasts, radio/tv shows, and magazines globally. After many years of meditation, Michele’s Kundalini awakened and transformed her consciousness. Michele now teaches others how to live a Successful Life and experience Divine Oneness.

www.MicheleBlood.com

www.ManifestationVideoBook.com

www.MagnetToMoneyApp.com

 

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Paula Marshall, Author of Finding the Soul of Big Business, is the CEO of the Bama Companies, Inc, which manufactures oven-ready products for customers in the quick-service and casual restaurant industry and private label products for retail in more than 17 countries.  In her book, she speaks about the lessons and distinctions she has learned and applied to her intentions as a CEO.  With recognition of each employee, vendor and customer's own journeys and the collective steps to become the journey of Bama Companies, Inc.

Paula is the founder of Paula Marshall Foundation, which builds schools in Ghana for children to provides education that offers an opportunity for a new life.  In this episode, Paula talks about food safety week that is global, dealing with fear of uncertainty at work and home, the schools her foundation has built in Ghana to provide education for children and adolescents, and how entrepreneurs and executives need similar skills to success. 

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As Bama’s Chief Executive Officer, Paula provides strategic leadership and direction to the entire organization. Her vision stands as a beacon for Bama team members, inspiring the organization to achieve the Bama mission – “People Helping People Be Successful”. Paula assumed responsibility as CEO of the Bama Companies in 1984, which now includes Bama Pie, Bama Foods, Bama Frozen Dough, Beijing Bama and Bama Europa. Under her leadership, Bama has expanded to provide a wide variety of frozen desserts and baked goods to fast food chains and casual and family dining restaurants. Paula received her Bachelor of Science in business from Oklahoma City University (OCU) in 1982, and her PhD in commercial science, also from OCU, in 1993. Paula is the author of four books and believes all business people must embrace both entrepreneurship and management to succeed.

https://thepaulamarshall.com/story/ 

https://paulamarshallfoundation.org/

 

EPISODE DESCRIPTION:Diana McLain Smith is the author of the new book, Remaking the Space Between Us: How Citizens Can Work Together to Build a Better Future for All. She has spent the past 35+ years as a renowned thought leader and systems change expert helping organizations transform conflict into a constructive force for change. 

Every day, the news delivers the same story: as a nation, we are so divided, we spend more time picking fights than solving our most urgent problems. It's exhausting and exasperating. In Remaking the Space Between Us, Smith invites us to see what lies behind this story: a growing trend in which more and more of us are seeking refuge in like-minded groups while distancing from groups different from our own. Although it's a natural response to the uncertainty and adversity of the past fifty years, this trend is fraying our social fabric, negatively affecting  our politics, and weakening the moral foundation upon which our future together rests. Despite all we are up against, Smith shows why we need not—and why we must not—give up on each other or give into forces so overwhelming they make us feel powerless. Through emotionally affecting stories, Smith recounts how tens of thousands of citizens across the U.S. are working together under the radar to bridge divides, heal our nation, and rebuild our democracy.  Diana will discuss  tools and insights to help people better relate to those on the opposite side of their political spectrum and to work together to find solutions to our most pressing challenges and work alongside each other to create a future that is better for all.

 

                                         

 

DIANA MCLAIN SMITH has spent the past 35+ years helping organizations transform intergroup conflict into a powerful force for change. She has led change initiatives in a wide range of contexts – from Fortune 500 companies to cutting edge nonprofits – and her groundbreaking Leading Through Relationships (LTR) approach has been used by thousands of teams and organizations around the world to break free of intractable conflict and co-create powerful change. She is a former Partner at Monitor Group Consulting, former Chair of Monitor University, and former Chief Executive Partner at New Profit, and the author of Divide Or Conquer, The Elephant in the Room, the co-author of Action Science with Chris Argyris and Robert Putnam. She has served as an advisor to the Harvard Negotiation Project and the Rebuild Congress Initiative. She holds Masters and Doctorate degrees from Harvard University.

(https://www.linkedin.com/in/diana-smith-bb8b505/)(https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61555850530104) www.remakingthespace.substack.com/)

Website: remakingthespace.org

https://www.remakingthespace.org/about