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From former N.Y. Governor Spitzer to single women looking for love... the Internet can be a dangerous dating pool! Online dating expert, Stephany Alexander, will help you avoid the losers and psychos before you become heartbroken or a headline. As the founder of WomanSavers.com and the author of Sex, Lies and the Internet, she has lots of cautionary tales to tell.

Whether you're a Baby Boomer, pre-Boomer or post-Boomer, you are likely taking your health for granted, and hoping that your stressful life won't take its toll on your body. Today's show is a wake up call with real solutions for all ages. Since health is wealth, Ulla Anneli, R.N., and C. Scott Alsop, authors of A Boomer's Health Guide: It's Now or Never!, will make you 'rich'.

Find out how Richard Tripp, author of Please Underestimate Me, is making a difference. Overcoming enormous personal tragedies, he is emerging as one of the world's most humble heroes. His story will inspire you to make a difference in your town, too.

America's Presidential race has suddenly become a nightmare, with Obama gaining votes right and left. Voters, apparently charmed by his empty and duplicitous rhetoric, are forgetting that change does not always mean for the better. Mainstream media has waited too long to expose his terrorist roots and plans. But, Dr. Harvey Kushner, internationally recognized best-selling author of books on terror...

Whether it's a man hacking up a therapist, a school shooting, or your friends losing family members, our planet seems to be getting more intense lately. Today's guest, Esateys, an energy medicine pioneer and author of Help! I'm Trapped In a Body, will explain how the earth has gotten its 'wires crossed' and what you can do to find peace and well-being in these tumultuous times.

Today's guest, Brendon Burchard, tells the story of how he was blessed with Life's Golden Ticket, a second chance, after barely surviving a dramatic car accident in a third world country. Since then he has dedicated himself to helping others get a second chance by changing the way we envision and strategize to reach success. His book, Life's Golden Ticket, uses a magical amusement park as an alleg...

While America's at the mall or listening to news about Britney, terrorists are gaining ground each day. It's not just about attacks in Iraq and the homefront, it's about their quietly demanding appeasement - from the abolishment of piggy banks to the installment of foot-baths and prayer in schools. Just back from America's top terrorism conference, Dr. Carole and her guest, Dr. Paul Williams, auth...

Chicken Little has finally gotten it right. The sky - or at least the 'spy' satellite - IS falling. And although it may seem like we're caught up in a science fiction fantasy, scientists tell us that a satellite losing power may soon plunge to earth, scattering toxic debris somewhere. What do we do with this news that makes us wonder, Could it land on top of me? Hear psychological advice from Dr....

Whether you own a condo or a mansion, or are just a wanna-be home-owner, today's housing crisis is having a ripple effect throughout the world economy... and heading towards your doorstep. Today's guests tell you how to protect yourself. Dean Valeriano, President and Co-Owner of Back Bay Funding & Realty, is nationally recognized as one of the top mortgage loan originators in the country. Paul and...

UFO's have just been reported over Texas. Have people gone mad or do such phenomena exist? From first-hand experience, today's guests are certain they do. Jim Sparks, author of The Keepers, claims to be one of the only alien abductees with total conscious recall of his abduction. Tom Carey, Co-Author of Witness to Roswell: Unmasking the 60 Year Cover-Up, continues to investigate what the U.S. gove...

Though we hear the word terrorism a gazillion times a day, we let it go in one ear and out the other, as part of our desensitization, denial and cognitive dissonance. Find out why we can no longer pretend not to be in danger from today's guest, Jeff Epstein, the President of America's Truth Forum. Though his life has been threatened by people who ignore the entreaty 'don't kill the messenger', he...

Are you scouring the stores for last minute gifts from 'Santa'? Think conscious gift-giving. This means choosing gifts that not only look cute, but will enhance the world by giving a portion of the proceeds to children - instead of poisoning them with toxic chemicals. Today's guests to the rescue include: Barbara Saltzman, Executive Director of The Jester and Pharley Phund; Sylvia Lieberman, the a...

After years of loyal service to the U.S. Army, Lt. Elizabeth Whiteside is now being made a scapegoat for Army officials who do not want to admit that psychiatric injuries are as legitimate as losing limbs. This is the same macho attitude that contributed to Lt. Whiteside shooting herself in the stomach in Baghdad. Threatened punishment is court martial and a life sentence. When Lt. Whiteside, her...

Overwhelmed by the added stress of the holidays on top of your already impossible To Do list? Forgetting where you parked your car, keys, or kids? Find out the symptoms of 'brain fog, what causes it and how you can fix it, from today's guest, Dr. Binyamin Rothstein, the author of Brain Fog. A specialist in anti-aging medicine, he'll explain how to keep your edge by taking care of your brain - duri...

As Thanksgiving approaches, we know we're expected to give thanks. But it's hard to get in the mood for gratitude when we're feeling we don't have enough: love, money, success, fame, fun and so on. Today's guest, Daniel Schmachtenberger, a global and personal healer, takes us on a journey from feelings of scarcity to creating abundance, and teaches us how to harness the power of gratitude to heal...

The epidemic of students killing their teachers and peers has now gone global to Finland and more. Columbine - the real event and the videogame - continues to influence kids to express their rage by bringing weapons to school. Today's guests, Joseph Lieberman, author of The Shooting Game, and Danny Le Donne, creator of Super Columbine Massacre RPG will debate this copycat issue.

The writers' strike means more reality for us, but sur-reality for starving writers. Hollywood writer Nick Santora, whose shows include The Sopranos and Law & Order, talks to us from the picket lines. Los Angeles entertainment/labor attorney, Howard Fabrick, whose clients have included films from Easy Rider to City Slickers and Terminator 2, takes you behind the scenes of the writers' strike. And...

Love it or hate it, MySpace seems here to stay, consuming more and more of our time. Is it a great social networker or at the root of social alienation? A love connection or an invitation to pedophiles? Innocent diversion or our latest addiction? Today's guest, Candice Kelsey, author of Generation MySpace and teacher, spends her days mediating MySpace-related dramas among her students, and has som...

Life lessons from Dr. Carole in the midst of the Southern California fires.

You don't have to have breast cancer to be horrified and uplifted by today's tapestry of tales from the breast cancer front. Railing against American medicine are survivor Carolyn Gross, author of Treatable and Beatable, who left the country to save her breast, and William Thiel, author of A Promise Fulfilled: One Couple's Journey Through Misdiagnosis. Cathy Bueti, author of Breastless in the City...

In a culture obsessed with youth, our grandparents' value is often overlooked. Today's guests challenge the stereotype of 'granny'. Pat Burns is the co-founder of the Orange County Children's Book Festival and the author of Grandparents Rock: The Grandparenting Guide for the Rock-n-Roll Generation. And Sylvia Lieberman (Dr. Carole's mom) is the author of the new children's book, Archibald's Swiss...

Dr. Carole has called O.J.'s book, a petri dish crawling with psychopatholgy and his recent run-in with the law 'no coincidence! Listen in as she analyzes O.J. with the help of guests at the heart of O.J.'s crime and his just-released best-selling book, If I Did It: Fred & Kim Goldman; Pablo Fenjves, ghost writer; Sharlene Martin, literary agent; Eric Kampmann, Publisher, Beaufort Books; and Goldm...

Your mind and body remember 9/11 as if it were yesterday even though today is the 6th Anniversary. Dr. Carole implores you to break through your denial so that you can start to heal and strengthen yourself to face whatever may lie ahead in the war on terror. She is the author of Coping with Terrorism: Dreams Interrupted, published in the UK, and the upcoming American edition due out this year.

Learn from the mistakes of the stars! Dr. Carole analyzes the current custody battles between some of Hollywood's hottest stars. If you are divorcing or fighting for custody - you will learn what not to do. And if you're just curious about what makes these stars tick, which may well explain how you or your partner tick - you won't want to miss this advice.

Two years after Hurricane Katrina there are still many secrets. Today's guest, Richard Deichmann, M.D. takes us behind the closed doors of New Orleans Baptist Memorial Hospital, where he was Chief of Medicine when the hurricane hit. Find out how he made life and death decisions amidst the chaos of power outages, panic, and paucity of government help, from the author of Code Blue: A Katrina Physici...