Conversations With Iris Podcast

Send a text to Ronnie Keith Ep. 115! Iris sits down with Sex & Relationships Write, Caroline Hood. Caroline Hood is a certified sex therapist, licensed clinical social worker, writer, and executive leader exploring the intersection of desire, intimacy, motherhood, identity, and long-term love. With more than 25 years of experience working at the intersection of relationships, trauma, addiction...

Send a text to Ronnie Keith Ep. 114! Iris sits down with author of the award winning book, Bride-Made: A Memoir, Mia Hanks. Mia Hanks is a survivor of narcissistic abuse.  She was married to a covert narcissist for 29 years and is the author of an award winning book titled Bride-Made: A Memoir.  Mia is hoping that her story will help raise awareness about narcissism and help other victims find the...

Send a text to Ronnie Keith Ep. 113! Iris sits down with Memoirist, novelist and essayist, Carolyn Flynn. She is the author of the memoir Boundless and seven books of nonfiction. Boundless was longlisted for the 2021 Mslexia International Memoir Prize and the 2022 First Pages Prize. Her novel Searching for Persephone, shortlisted for the Elixir Press First Novel Prize, is excerpted in The Write La...

Send a text to Ronnie Keith Ep. 112!!! Iris sits down with Human Rights and Women's Rights Advocate, Zolal Habibi. Zolal Habibi is an Iranian human rights activist and a prominent voice for justice, democracy, and women's rights in Iran. She serves on the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), where she advocates globally for a secular, democratic...

Send a text to Ronnie Keith Ep. 111!!!! Iris sits down with Lorie Kleiner Eckert! Lorie Kleiner Eckert loves words – the printed word, the spoken word, and even the quilted word. THE PRINTED WORD:  Lorie has five books in print plus she writes two blogs. In all of her written work she shares the stories of her life hoping others will find inspiration for their own lives. Chai on Life is Lorie’s ne...

Send a text to Ronnie Keith Ep. 110!!! Iris sat down with Barr Maughan!! For most of Barry's forty year broadcast career as an international broadcast journalist spanning five continents, his main area of interest and focus has been on the African continent.  Both his children were born in Ethiopia while he was employed in Addis Ababa between 1969 and 1975 as both a broadcast and print journa...

Send a text to Ronnie Keith Ep. 109!! Iris sits down with Russell Van Brocklen! Dyslexia touches as many as 15–20 % of all learners  yet most families still hear “wait and see.” Russell flip that script. As the Dyslexia Professor, Russell translate structured-literacy methods proven most effective for struggling readers  into bite-size actions parents can use tonight. Your audience leaves knowing...

Send a text to Ronnie Keith Ep.108!!! Iris sits down with Kurt Bush! Most leaders aren't failing; they're simply exhausted and misaligned. Kurt Bush helps leaders move from survival mode to sustainable leadership through greater self-awareness, emotional health, and authenticity. As a certified Internal Family Systems (IFS) Practitioner, trauma-informed leadership coach, speaker, author,...

Send a text to Ronnie Keith Ep.107!! Iris sits down with Rand Timmerman. Rand is a retired attorney who is a recovered alcoholic that hiked the Appalachian Trail at 72 years old with his younger brother (71) and then wrote a book with 500  pictures, called "A Spiritual Passage" describingl the difficulties and problems they encountered doing such an arduous hike while dealing with issues...

Send a text to Ronnie Keith Ep.106!!! Iris sits down with Katharine Chestnut! Katharine Chestnut is a mindfulness teacher, author, and speaker who helps high achievers stop living in survival mode and reconnect with themselves through practical mindfulness. After nearly thirty years as a successful corporate executive and rebuilding her own life following emotional trauma, she developed a grounded...

Send a text to Ronnie Keith Ep. 105!!!! Iris sits down with Mariam Parineh! Mariam Parineh is a business development and marketing strategist. Passionate about doing business differently with a keen interest in business growth strategy through value alignment. She started her entrepreneurial career in Malaysia with her first company in stone care and restoration which she later sold to start a bus...

Send a text to Ronnie Keith Ep. 104! Iris sits down with Johnzelle Anderson! Johnzelle is a licensed therapist by trade, and believes in the power of storytelling to heal, imagine, disrupt, and inspire. His writing focuses on mental health, race, relationships, and identity. Johnzelle discusses his book , Mixtape: A Memoir , therapist and storyteller Johnzelle Anderson weaves a raw, lyrical portra...

Send a text to Ronnie Keith Ep. 103!! Iris sits down with Diana Divine! Diana (De-anna) MaAra Divine is a Soul Guide, Multidimensional Channel, and Galactic Shaman devoted to the evolution of consciousness and the expansion of human potential. She is a Metaphysical Activator and Educator who bridges quantum principles, shamanic practices, and psychological integration—guiding individuals to reconn...

Send a text to Ronnie Keith Ep. 102!!! Iris sits down with Adam Cunningham! Adam Cunningham is the founder of Sylk Health, the first platform that lets you see what surgery actually costs at accredited hospitals in China, side by side with US prices, no forms, no phone calls, just the real numbers. He studied medicine, ended up on the patient side of the system, and built Sylk Health after watchin...

Send a text to Ronnie Keith Ep. 101! Conversations with Iris podcast has Iris sitting down with Merry Korn! This is Merry's story:  Two months into what should have been my job until retirement, I was fired. My boss, his attorney at his side, informed me by way of a two page single spaced soliloquy of all the reasons I had been terminated. As a single parent with two teenagers heading to coll...

Send a text to Ronnie Keith Ep. 100 of Conversations with Iris Podcast has Iris sitting down for this momentous episode with her husband Ronnie Keith. Ronnie Keith is the creator and host of Theshortdesk Podcast and creator of Conversations with Iris. She gets her husband to open up about his upbringing and everything that has made him who he is. This is the most insightful show as of yet!  Please...

Send a text to Ronnie Keith Ep. 99! Doug Fleener, creator of The Self Accelerator and author of Start With What If and The Day Makes the Year (Makes a Life) . Doug's work is built around one belief: Meaningful change doesn’t begin with your task list. It begins with you. Doug didn’t come to this work through theory. Doug came to it through life. In Doug's early years, addiction nearly to...

Send a text to Ronnie Keith Ep.98! Conversations with Iris podcast sees Iris sitting down with Dr. Melanie Gray! Dr. Melanie Gray, PhD, RN — a nationally recognized expert in Trauma-Informed Leadership, Burnout Prevention, and Workplace Wellness. Dr. Gray is a registered nurse, educator, and wellness strategist with more than twenty years of experience in healthcare leadership and higher education...

Send a text to Ronnie Keith Ep 97!! Iris sits down with entrepreneur and all around entertainer Darrell Harris AKA KoldMilk. We dive into Darrell's humble beginnings and how he has navigated moving a lot as he was growing up from the North, to the West, to the South. We talk about his struggles, hw he has overcome and become the man he is now. This is a really heartfelt and deep conversation....

Send a text to Ronnie Keith Ep. 96!! Iris sits down with Keynote Speaker, Savio Clemente. Savio P. Clemente is a keynote and TEDx speaker, journalist, board-certified wellness coach (NBC-HWC, ACC), best-selling author, and healthcare leadership strategist. He works with leadership teams after disruption, when the crisis is over but performance has not fully recovered. After 2,000+ interviews with...

Send a text to Ronnie Keith EP. 95! Jeanne is certified in and trains on a wide range of treatment and healing modalities, including Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), Clinical Hypnotherapy, EFT, TIME Techniques, and somatic healing. Jeanne knows these practices lay the foundation for recovery, health, and vitality in all areas of life. With more than a decade of experience in the field, her holi...

Send a text to Ronnie Keith Ep. 94! Iris sits down with Tracy Smith! Tracy Smith is a memoirist, solo traveler, and storyteller whose debut book, The Purpose of Getting Lost, chronicles her journey from decades of pretending and people-pleasing to rediscovering herself across continents. At 49, after divorce, surgeries, and a lifetime of feeling like she didn’t quite fit in, Tracy booked a one-way...

Send a text to Ronnie Keith Ep. 93! Iris sits down with Tim Tedder. Tim Tedder is a licensed counselor turned global coach who helps individuals and couples recover after infidelity. With over two decades of experience, he’s guided countless people through the chaos of betrayal toward healing and renewed connection. Through his platform, AffairHealing.com, and his podcast, The Affair Recovery Room...

Send a text to Ronnie Keith On Ep. 92 Iris sits down with Gabor Kadas, CEO of Friending, Inc. At Friending Inc.  addressing a pressing issue affecting nearly 70 million Americans under 50 who express feelings of loneliness, particularly exacerbated post-COVID. At Friending, the have developed an iOS app that stands out by ensuring authenticity through identity verification. Gabor believe in nurtur...

Send a text to Ronnie Keith Ep. 91 of Conversations with Iris has her sitting down with Serin Silva who is a strategic advisor to women founder-CEOs and leadership teams running $15 to $50 million companies who are navigating growth, complexity, or outright chaos. She’s the person leaders call when something big has to change, whether that’s scaling fast, restructuring a business, or making the ha...