Dr Mara Karpel & Your Golden Years

Dr. Diem Mooney, MS, PhD, is an Industrial/Organizational Psychologist with a specialization in human computer interaction and organizational service design. More specifically, he has a passion for improving the overall experience of employees and job seekers through redesigning organizational processes and professional development coaching.  Dr. Mooney joins us to discuss overcoming adversity and...

Tuck Kamin, Creative Strategist and author of Design Your Age, joins us, once again, from Austin, TX to discuss Age Circus, a platform for intergenerational conversation:  "In a time of increased tension and misunderstanding between the generations, Age Circus exists to help folks find common ground." And the twins Ruben and Minerva will be back with a new destination in Mexico! And Dr. Mara with...

We'll be joined by Clelia A. Scaccia, LMSW.  Clelia is a social worker, driven by improving opportunities and conditions of youth involved in, or at risk for involvement in, the juvenile justice system. Her experience spans delinquency diversion and prevention, the juvenile justice system, and education and youth services.   And she now works a coordinator for Gender Responsive Services and Family...

Dr. Kylie Harris will join us from down under in Melbourne, Australia!!  Dr. Harris is an independent research psychologist, writer, and activist. Her work is focused upon existential and spiritual emergency and how the experience may appear similar to mental illness, including psychosis, depression, anxiety, and PTSD. She is currently working collaboratively with academics, media, politicians, cl...

Dr. Diem Mooney, MS, PhD, is an Industrial/Organizational Psychologist with a specialization in human computer interaction and organizational service design. More specifically, he has a passion for improving the overall experience of employees and job seekers through redesigning organizational processes and professional development coaching.  Dr. Mooney joins us to discuss overcoming adversity and...

We'll be joined by Family Therapist, Terri Burns, LMFT Associate  (supervised by Tiffany N. Smith, LPC-S, LMFT-S, NCC).  Terri has a passion for helping couples and families learn skills to promote understanding and change relationship dynamics.  She will discuss helping families in crisis. Sharon Bourbonnais will be talking with us about how she is doing during this pandemic Dr. Mara with more on...

Friend of the show, Lauren Tarrant, RN, Co-founder of Well Beyond Care, a very unique nation-wide company, matching those in need of care with the right caregiver (and vice versa), will be joining us once again! During this very unusual time of a highly contagious pandemic, the need for care continue.  Lauren will discuss how to safely have a caregiver in your or your loved-one's home and how to s...

We'll be joined by Robert Glazer, Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling Author.  A regular columnist for Forbes, Inc. and Entrepreneur, his writing reaches over five million people around the globe each year who resonate with his topics, which range from performance marketing and entrepreneurship to company culture, capacity building, hiring and leadership. Worldwide, he is also a sought-a...

Joining us once again from Philadelphia, Professor of Education, Dr. Zakia Y. Gates.  Dr. Gates refers to herself as an Intentional, Trans-formative Culturally Responsive Social Justice Professor of Education.  Dr. Gates will join us this time to discuss the tipping point of tension that we find ourselves in the U.S. related to social IN-justice and what we can do to be part of the solution. Dr. M...

We'll be joined from Minnesota by social worker, writer, meditation teacher, and author of The Zen Path Through Depression, Phil Martin.  Phil joins us to discuss The Zen Path Through this difficult time.   We will also be talking with close friends and  singers Renee and Jim Oliphant from RagTop and see -what they have been doing during this down time in music. Dr. Mara with more on living with p...

We'll be joined from Corpus Christi, TX by Sergio Esquivel, founder of the Cauliflower Collective, a group of Jiu Jitsu and Wrestling enthusiasts who are focused on changing the lives of foster, adopted, special-needs children, and at-risk youth and young adults living with trauma, currently in Hawaii, California, and here in Texas.  We will also have another interview from The Twins at The Bay Of...

Friend of the show, Lauren Tarrant, RN, Co-founder of Well Beyond Care, a very unique nation-wide company, matching those in need of care with the right caregiver (and vice versa), will be joining us once again! During this very unusual time of a highly contagious pandemic, the need for care continue.  Lauren will discuss how to safely have a caregiver in your or your loved-one's home and how to s...

We'll be joined by Renowned Education Speaker and Builder of 5 Successful Schools, Dr. Steve Perry! Dr. Steve Perry is a motivational speaker and the educator Oprah Winfrey, Sean "P-Diddy" Combs, Bishop TD Jakes and Steve Harvey call on to offer insight to parents and children. He is the author of several books, including Push Has Come to Shove: Getting Our Kids the Education They Deserve--Even If...

Joining us from NYC, Michael Caputo, Author of the autobiography, Dear Pat Cooper, What happened to my father Pasquale Caputo?  Michael is a passionate and relentless advocate for Human Rights. He joins us to discuss his published book and the one that he's currently working on related to his LGBTQ advocacy. We'll also go back to Mexico and hear from the twins Ruben & Minerva about San Sebastian d...

Laurie Seymour, M.A., is a 2x #1 international best-selling author, founder and host of the Wisdom Talk Radio podcast, Executive Coach, international speaker and trainer and Founder/CEO of The Baca Institute joins us from Colorado to discuss how YOU can be an innovator at ANY age and in EVERY aspect of your life! And we go back to the Bay Of Banderas and talk with Ruben & Minerva about another pla...

Gerald Yearwood, retired Senior Officer of Diversity Affairs at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, joins us AGAIN!  This time, Gerald joins us at this pivotal time in our history as a nation.  There is the intersection of a devastating pandemic that is targeting minority and elderly communities and a tipping point for the tension caused by the disparity in the treatment of black Americans vs. every...

Joining us once again from Philadelphia, Professor of Education, Dr. Zakia Y. Gates.  Dr. Gates refers to herself as an Intentional, Trans-formative Culturally Responsive Social Justice Professor of Education.  Dr. Gates will join us this time to discuss the tipping point of tension that we find ourselves in the U.S. related to social IN-justice and what we can do to be part of the solution. Dr. M...

We'll be joined from Minnesota by social worker, writer, meditation teacher, and author of The Zen Path Through Depression, Phil Martin.  Phil joins us to discuss The Zen Path Through this difficult time.   We will also be talking with close friends and  singers Renee and Jim Oliphant from RagTop and see -what they have been doing during this down time in music. Dr. Mara with more on living with p...

We will be joined, once again, from Vashon Island, in the Puget Sound, by worldwide speaker, blogger, minister, and author of several books, including, This is The Life,  The Power of Pause and Sanctuary: Creating a Space for Grace in Your Life," Terry Hershey!   Terry joins us to discuss finding sanctuary and inner peace to aid in compassion for our fellow humans in the midst of this tumultuous t...

Gerald Yearwood, retired Senior Officer of Diversity Affairs at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, joins us AGAIN!  This time, Gerald joins us at this pivotal time in our history as a nation.  There is the intersection of a devastating pandemic that is targeting minority and elderly communities and a tipping point for the tension caused by the disparity in the treatment of black Americans vs. every...

Bill Prasad, Licensed Professional Counselor, Johns Hopkins trained trauma counselor, Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor, and former on-air freelance National Correspondent for CNN, and Fox News, DC, joins us from Houston, TX.  Bill is the founder/owner of Prasad Counseling and Training and he joins us to discuss the psychological impact of the pandemic and the impact of denial of the pandemic...

Musician, author, yoga and meditation teacher, and Interfaith Minister, Reverend Gudjon Bergmann returns to the show to join us from Austin to discuss more about coping with the pandemic and isolation, now that people are experiencing isolation fatigue, and his meditation-based novel! And Dr. Mara with more on living a passionate life in the time of Covid.

Sociologist, Teen and Parent Communication Coach, & Bestselling Author, Laura L. Reagan joins us from South Padre Island to discuss the issues encountered for grandparents raising their grandchildren and special issues related to the current pandemic. Also joining us from South Padre Island, International Sculptor and close friend Lucinda Wierenga AKA Sandy Feet will tell us about all of the chang...

Sunday, May 10 , Happy Mother's Day, we'll be back with another show live from Austin, TX. PTSD Psychotherapist and author of the new book, "Aftershocks:  Healing PTSD From Sexual Assault and Childhood Sexual Abuse," Susan Brunson will join us to discuss treatment for PTSD and, more specificially, EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitzation and Reprocessing). Producer Art Mendoza will talk about placing his...

Bill Prasad, Licensed Professional Counselor, Johns Hopkins trained trauma counselor, Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor, and former on-air freelance National Correspondent for CNN, and Fox News, DC, joins us from Houston, TX.  Bill is the founder/owner of Prasad Counseling and Training and he joins us to discuss the psychological impact of the pandemic and the impact of denial of the pandemic...