Inspirational Women

Marie Ruggles is a clinical nutritionist who joins us with an important conversastion about good health, practicing prevention, and promoting wellness. Marie has packed the important information in her new book: Optimize Your Immune System: Create Health and Resilience With a Kitchen Pharmacy. Her website includes a blog with current stories, updates on her discoveries of foods to help us build a...

Dawn Merydith is a behavioral therapist with PacMed here in our community. Dr. Merydith brings us some critical insights on how to take good care of ourselves, in particular our mental and emotional health. This pandemic time has impacted all of us, and certainly it is in different ways. It's important to have a heightened awareness around this, and seek help when we notice life becoming somewhat...

Lyra Logan is an MIT master trainer in Educational Mobile Computing. Lyra is also Executive Vice President and General Counsel of the Florida Education Fund, a nonprofit that creates and implements educational programs for underrepresented groups. This is great work that is so important for so many of our youth, and supporting them in creating a good future for themselves. Lyra is the author of "L...

October is Domestic Violence Awareness month. Kim Scouller is a financial industry executive and women's financial literacy advocate with a great passion for her work. Regardless of whether we are in a domestic violence situation, or not--we might help someone who is. 1 in 4 women will experience domestic violence at some point in her life and 99% of victims will also suffer financial abuse. Kim a...

Kamini Wood is a life coach, founder and CEO of Live Joy Your Way, and author most recently of a wonderful book, very useful at any time, and very much so today. It is 'Om--Life's Gentle Reminders'. This compilation of short vignettes of everyday occurrences provides inspiring, and motivating message we find in the everyday. www.kaminiwood.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Ca...

Christy Goff is a Registered Dietician with Pacific Medical Centers and part of the Living Well Alliance Team. September is National Food Safety Education month. This knowledge is important all the time, but right now can be even more critical to learn all we can about nutrition, foods, healthy eating, food safety. Christy discusses good by and sell by dates, expiration dates. Involving kids with...

Kari O'Driscoll is an author and speaker from our Puget Sound area, a woman very involved both in her personal healing and growth, and with the desire to share with others so we can build a better, a healthier world. Kari is joining us to discuss her new book, her memoir, Truth Has a Different Shape--a sharing of life in the 70s & 80s. Kari also spends time helping the community and volunteeri...

Sharkie Zartman is a professor of health and fitness at El Camino College. She is an athlete, a former All American volleyball player who competed for UCLA. And she is an author--of 9 books, and joining us to talk about health, and her latest book: Win at Aging--How to Stay Fit Free, and Love Your Retirement. This is a book for all ages, using the metaphor of sport to represent Aging, and to thus...

Dr. Susana Stoica is an amazing and multi-faceted woman. Her career began as a computer engineer, and after suffering a brain injury, she realized the similarity of computers with our brain and found a way to heal her brain, and wrote a book on the subject. She is a certified Healing Touch practitioner, and the author of a new book: Healing with a Loving Heart--Discover the Power of Energy Healing...

Ellyn Lem PhD is a Professor of English and Gender Studies at UW-Milwaukee-Waukesha. One of her courses is 'Women in Popular Culture'. She is the author of a new book: Gray Matters: Finding Meaning in the Stories of Later Life. Dr. Lem's research for Gray Matters involved a survey of over 200 persons over age 65, some with further phone conversations. It combines cultural texts, gerontology resear...

Corrie Schumacher is a mother whose 22 year old son, Sam, died tragically in a motorcycle crash. Corrie is an inspiration in her decision to tell Sam's story--a young man who loved riding fast on his bike. And he also made the decision when he got is license to check the box to be an organ donor. So while Sam's life ended too soon, he had a traumatic brain injury, he was able to change the lives o...

Lorene Cary is an author, Social Activist, Playwright and Lecturer at U Penn. Lorene has a recent memoir, now in paperback: Ladysitting: My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century. This is a book rich with language, stories, and in the stories about early American history, African American History, as well as life, aging, care-giving, and self-care. www.lorenecary.org #VoteThatJawn --about bringi...

Maggie Craddock is the founder of Workplace Relationships. She is a former Lipper-award winning portfolio manager on Wall Street, and author. Maggie's newest book : "Lifeboat: Navigating Unexpected Career Change and Disruption" is just the antidote we need for these 'interesting' times we live in. Maggie uses the metaphor of the Lifeboat from the sinking of the Titanic. In 8 chapters she takes us...

Cynthia Fisher joins us once again both to remind and inspire us to "Act"--to contact our Senators Murray and Cantwell to support -- the Health Care PRICE Transparency Act. The vote for another stimulus package is up, happening the beginning of August, so 'this ask' of them to support this bill that allows us to know prices of hospital care before hand, is hugely important. Cynthia is the founder...

Dr. Rosie Ward is a strong advocate for humanity, who companies seek out to help rehumanize workplaces. Rosie Ward is the author of: Rehumanizing the Workplace: Future-Proofing Your Organization While Restoring Hope, Well-Being, and Performance. This couldn't be more timely with our world in such flux and change, highlighting things that really have needed tweaking, and this is an ideal time to re...

Judith Matloff is an author, teaches at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism, and is a media safety advocate. Judith's career began as a foreign correspondent, so travelling to hot spots around the globe. Those experiences led her to write this newest, very relevant book for our life: How to Drag a Body and Other Safety Tips You Hope to Never Need --Survival Tricks for Hacking, Hurricanes, and...

Susan Wiggs is a NY Times #1 best selling author, who we might feel is one of us--because her chosen home is here in the Puget Sound. Plus Susan is responsible in supplying us with great reading and escapes--a couple of the things we really value here in the northwest. Susan brings us her newest novel--The Lost and Found Bookshop, a wonderful read for this summer time, and a perfect reminder to re...

Karen McGregor is a thought leader and motivational speaker who works with leaders across the globe. And I believe that each of us is a leader and we each have a role to play in this whole large drama of life. Karen helps us to gain a better self understanding and bring calm within, have the skill to live in these chaotic times. Karen's book is "The Tao of Influence--Ancient Wisdom for Modern Lead...

Raven Magwood an international speaker and achievement expert who graduated with honors from Clemson University at just 19! She was a national gymnastic champion at age 11 and was encouraged to write a book about her experiences. Raven now has her 4th book, and discusses with us the '7 Practices of Prosperous Women'. One of the practices is to write down our goals, along with smaller goals to reac...

Dr. Margaret Klein Salamon is a clinical psychologist and the founder of The Climate Mobilization where she helped pioneer the Climate Emergency Declaration campaign. This had led to more than 1400 global governments to declare a climate emergency. She is the author of Facing the Climate Emergency--How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth. It's an invaluable resource and guide that each of us...

Kati Nickerson is the Director of Youth Education and Community Outreach at Village Theatre in Issaquah and Everett. But in these current days Kati is with us all across the state, and even state borders--virtually. If you are wondering about what you could have your kids involved in this summer, Kati has some great opportunities which are virtually accesible. As they promote: Skills for Theatre,...

Nina Sossamon-Pogue is a truly inspiring woman, a best selling author who brings us just the perfect book, a tool kit of sorts to help navigate life at any time, and is so ideal for the time we ALL are living in currently. The Book-- This is not the End: Strategies to Get You Through the Worst Chapters of Your Life. couldn't be more perfect than if Nina had a crystal ball to know we would need it...

Bernice Lerner is an author and senior scholar at Boston University's Center for Character and Social Responsibility. Bernice joins us to introduce us to her mother, one of the main characters, subjects of her new book: All the Horrors of War--A Jewish Girl, A British Doctor, and the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen. This is a war story different than any we have read or seen before. We are at the 75th...

Teri Secrest is a Certified Health & Wellness Coach, Natural Health Educator, and CEO of the Joy of Living. Teri's passion is to put the natural back into our life and our health. Teri has helpful, simple tips for maintaining health, strength, and a positive attitude, important at any time, and especially for this time. Power walk each day, and be sure to hydrate--water, and add a drop or 2 of...