Sunday Morning Magazine

Amri Johnson is the CEO/founder of Inclusion Wins. Amri and a virtual collective of partners work to create global impact with a lens of inclusion. Amri is the author of Reconstructing Inclusion: Making DEI Accessible, Actionable and Sustainable. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are vitally important to our success as individuals and as humanity. It's up to each of us, and as Amri states: It's a 'w...

Ali Katz is a lawyer and founder and CEO of Personal Family Law. From personal experience of philosophy put into action, Ali provides a fundamental look at life and death. She encourages us to see the opportunities in conflict, and how these are lessons that guide us in living our best life, and to be more of who we really are. Also to be aware there is an end time, so embrace it all. Ali offers s...

Luke Minor is the Director of WA529, Washington State's College Savings plans. The 2 programs, GET and the Dream Ahead college investment plan, are great options for families in planning for future education, as these funds can be used at most educational institutions nationwide, including technical/trade schools, as well as covering the costs of special instruments, and in some cases, student loa...

Dr. Monica Vermani is a clinical psychologist and author of "A Deeper Wellness: Conquering Stress, Mood, Anxiety and Traumas" Four pillars of the same conquerable issue, particularly with our expectations of what both the holiday season, and the new year should look like. While taking stock of what we have and hope to accomplish. This is both an internal historic experience, and media influence ta...

Mary Crescenzo is a master teaching artist, public speaker, and art consultant for community organizations. She is a pioneer in the field of community arts and an advocate for creating awareness of the benefits of art for all ages. Mary is also an author, whose latest book "The Planet Alzheimer's Guide: 8 Ways the Arts Can Transform the Life of Your Loved One and Your Own" is invaluable either in...

Jarod Munzer is the director of the Cougar Mountain Zoo, home to a great variety of special animals and birds. And of great importance at this time of year, Santa's reindeer! The largest herd of Siberian reindeer in the country call Cougar Mountain Zoo home. Among them, a little male born a year ago who, having been bottle fed, is more comfortable with human company and makes special appearances a...

Dr. Jae Oh, MBA, is a Medicare Expert, Certified Financial Planner, and author of "Maximize Your Medicare: Qualify For Benefits, Protect Your Health, and Minimize Your Costs". In this 2nd chapter conversation, Jae pivots to the Affordable Care Act, currently in its open enrollment period. Jae knows we all need medical coverage; the ACA offers that at all wage brackets, with some low income earners...

Jae Oh MBA is a Medicare Expert, Certified Financial Planner and author of "Maximize Your Medicare: Qualify For Benefits, Protect Your Health, and Minimize Your Costs". Autumn is open enrollment time for Medicare, and important time to assess updates to your coverage. Jae immerses himself in the changes, in particular advocating for retired persons, or those nearing retirement to be aware of their...

Dr. Frank M. Sorrentino has served as Chairman of the Department of History, Political Science and Social Studies at St. Francis College in New York, where he has taught for over thirty years. He's also a well-respected author; his latest release is "Presidential Power and the American Political System". As well, he writes a regular blog, searchable on his website, where he discusses current polit...

Kwame Alexander is an award-winning New York Times bestselling author with 35 books to his credit. His new book "The Door of No Return" might be listed as a young adult book. Reallt, it's for all ages, a family read destined to change the way we think about pre-colonial Africa. Kwame has spent the last decade traveling to Ghana, becoming a member of the community, and a major proponent for literac...

Dr. Dan O'Neill is an Orthopedic Surgeon & Sports Psychologist who has great concern about the health crisis with our youth. High obesity, diabetes, the very fact they're the most unfit generation. In his new book "Survival of the Fit: How Physical Education Ensures Academic Achievement and a Healthy Life", he addresses the need for daily physical activity. The importance for schools to includ...

Brenna Ramos is Director of Children and Family Services for Hand in Hand Kids, based in Everett, and serving family needs in the surrounding area. With the holiday season looming, many activities are going on for Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. And with this, the call is out for communities to pitch in with volunteering and support on behalf of those families in need of a little extra help...

Dr. Carrie James is a sociologist and longtime researcher of young people’s experiences. Along with her coauthor,Dr. Emily Weinstein, a social scientist, and both are Principal Investigators at Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Together they have written this very important book: Behind Their Screens: What Teens are Facing (and Adults are Missing). Based on years of researc...

Aubrey Zoli is the Senior Development Manager for the American Cancer Society, leading the challenge for the annual 'Making Strides Against Breast Cancer' walk. Zoli speaks about the event, a non-competitive walk in celebration of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It will take place Saturday morning, Oct 22 at Seattle's Gas Works Park. There will be booths for education, and an opportunity to honor t...

Lisa Forbes is a national speaker and author of 'I Can Take it From Here: A Memoir of Trauma, Prison and Self-Empowerment'. Lisa shares her tough story, and her success in a fulfilled life. A life led by a formula that any person dealing with trauma can incorporate personally. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-...

Mike Dillon has edited a beautiful book about a northwest garden situated on Queen Anne in "Notes from the Garden - Creating A Pacific Northwest Sanctuary". Madeleine Wilde wrote 'garden' columns for the Queen Anne-Magnolia newspaper for nearly 2 decades. She wrote of her garden, but also the trees and special sites in the neighborhoods. We can learn so much about the natural flora of our northwes...

Anna Gottlieb is the Executive Director of Cancer Pathways, a non-profit that does incredible work in our communities for persons touched by cancer. In an overview of these past few months, Anna touches on the summer camps for kids. There were five, and these camps make such a difference for the kids that many come back as counselors when they are teens. A teen writing contest has now reached yout...

Beverly and Dereck Joubert have been a dynamic partnership in life and work. They are storytellers of the wildlife in Africa and advocates for the life and health of these animals as well as for all of nature everywhere. They are explorers working with National Geographic and have created 11 books with Nat Geo, the latest: The Ultimate Book of African Animals, which is a kind of photographic safar...

Dr. David Bissonette is an Associate Professor of Nutritional Science at Minnesota State University and the author of an important new book: Insatiable: A Nation's Unappeasable Hunger. New research pubished in the journal Public Health Nutrition found that readily available packaged foods and beverages have a TON, that's 2000 pounds more added sugar today than they did 15 years ago. Drinks are 36%...

on Sunday Morning Magazine: Dr. Julie Gatza, a health educator is one of the nation's top chiropractic physicians with more than 30 years of clinical practice. Using her understanding of the nervous system, nutrition, and alternative therapies, Dr. Gatza’s mission with each patient is to enhance their body's potential to heal itself. Today's focus is on 'sugar'. According to the American Heart Ass...

on Sunday Morning Magazine: Dr. Ronald Alexander is a psychotherapist who works with lots of creatives and shares these stories and all we can learn from them in his new book: Core Creativity: The Mindful way to unlock Your Creative Self. We are so much more than most of us realize and we need to become more aware of aspects of ourselves that can only make us better and greater. Dreams--these are...

on Sunday Morning Magazine: Elaine Parke is our beginning of the month guest as we make the month by month journey through her book 'The Habits of Unity--12 Months to a Stronger America'. The theme for August is: Know Who You Are! It's an ideal focus on self awareness with the resulting awareness that each of us can and do make a difference. We need to focus on the constructive, the uplifting, the...

on Sunday Morning Magazine: Thomas Vozzo is a global business executive who left that world when he saw the injustices and is now the unpaid CEO of Homeboy. In his book "The Homeboy Way: A Radical Approach to Business and Life" Thomas relates his story and finding his way to volunteering at Homeboy Industries in LA. Founded 30 years ago this very successful entity assists former gang members and t...

on Sunday Morning Magazine: Susan McClelland is a journalist, and an author of some special books--ones that focus on the life of children, young people in war-torn lands. Her latest is Boy from Buchenwald--The True Story of a Holocaust Survivor. The young boy is Robbie Waisman who moved to Canada in 1948 following rescue from a concentration camp and some years of education in France. This is a v...

on Sunday Morning Magazine: Mitch Mitchell was an attorney in private practice, but now is Associate Counsel of Estate Planning at Trust & Will, an online platform that both educates in a broad spectrum of all things related to this aspect of life planning, and also offers the option to create a will or a trust. He's with us to provide some insights and details on wills primarily and all the r...