What's Your Legacy?

Yvette chats with Susan Allen and Laura Heflin about what led them to offer long-term care insurance and how this crucial insurance product has evolved over the years. 

Yvette has a conversation with Dr. Sheila Patel at the Chopra Center in Carlsbad, California. Dr. Sheila Patel is the Medical Director for the Mind Body Medical Group at the Chopra Center and a board-certified family physician. She's passionate about bringing holistic healing practices into the Western medical system with a specific focus in the ancient eastern wisdom of Ayurveda, which stresses the importance of integrating mind and body for promoting health and enhancing life. 

Yvette has a lively conversation with the dynamic Tina Packer, the co-founder of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts, now in its 41st year. Tina has an extraordinary legacy of directing and playing in the works of Shakespeare, roles on BBC (David Copperfield and Doctor Who) and teaching throughout the United States.

After the horrific terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, four extraordinary women, Tara Bane among them, took their personal loss and pain and transformed it into a healing place for all of us to reflect and honor all 2,973 killed on 9/11.

Tara Bane is an art therapist whose business, Blue Sky Therapy Center, serves those with mental health issues with particular focus on those who have suffered from a traumatic event - natural disasters, abuse, domestic violence, divorce, crimes and grief.

Yvette talks with civil rights activist, cable TV entrepreneur and lifelong Quaker Norval Reese about his legacy. From marching with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., meeting the Dalai Lama, running for political office, and successfully pioneering cable TV in Poland, Norval Reece’s life has been an amazing journey. His humble beginnings exemplifies that we all can use our gifts to make a difference in the world and lives of others.

Yvette talks about the critical state of healthcare in the U.S. with her cousin, Dr. Noble Jones, who is an internist in private practice for 40 years specializing in diabetes, high blood pressure, HIV and other acute medical conditions.

Yvette talks with her book club about the book they are writing together: Shades of Wisdom. It's a fictional account of four women's journey from college into adulthood and middle age grappling with life's crippling challenges and miraculous recoveries.  Each of their journeys lead them to Oaksbluff on Martha's Vineyard and the proprietor of a B&B who presents them with a bequest that will forever change the trajectory of their lives.

In this conversation, Yvette shares the mic with her mentor, friend and fellow estate planning attorney, Melissa V. Bond, Esquire of the law firm Bond and McCullough in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

Attorney Bond, whose successful and trailblazing practice expands 35 years in Bucks County and neighboring counties, shares her expertise, contacts and network of legal colleagues with those, like Yvette, starting a practice to provide access to all and make a difference in the lives of their clients.

Dr. Barbara Wingate is a graduate of Temple University Medical School where she obtained her medical degree. She completed her residency at the University of Pennsylvania in psychiatry. She has made numerous presentations and written many book chapters and articles on various psychiatry practice areas. 

After over 20 years in private practice, she now serves as the Senior Medical Director of Magellan Healthcare in Pennsylvania. Dr. Wingate talks with Yvette about her latest writing endeavor, "I Get By With a Lot of Help From My Friends: An Effective Self-Care Book."  

When both of Robyn's daughters on separate occasions experienced for one what could have been a debilitating accident and for the other a deadly illness, she did not allow medical professionals and others to define her daughters’ fate. In Robyn's soon-to-be-released memoir, she is giving hope to those with children in medical crises.