Inspirational Women

Part 2 with Elke Scholz, a registered psychotherapist and award winning author. In this segment Elke discusses in more depth the ways in which we can create and maintain balance in our life and thrive in it by giving equal attention to the 4 parts of our being, and this week the focus is: the Mental and Emotional. One exercise is to just some time, even just a few minutes to use our 5 senses to lo...

Elke Scholz...a registered psychotherapist and award winning author. We met Elke in the fall to discuss how to deal with anxiety--a topic that is the the core of her Anxiety Warrior series. Elke is back to discuss in more depth the ways in which we can create and maintain balance in our life and thrive in it! Balance is about giving attention to the 4 parts of our being: Mental, Spiritual, Emotion...

Angie Summers, a mental health advocate and author. Angie has over 20 years experience managing, living with and thriving with bipolar disorder. She chronicles her journey with bipolar disorder in her book: 13 Nights. Among numerous subjects, it is a story of hope, forgiveness and perseverance. www.facebook.com/AngieSumm/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notic...

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, and she travelled o hot spots around the globe. Those experiences led her to write this 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 Haza...

Diane Quintana is a professional organizer and co-author of the new book--Filled Up and Overflowing: What to do When Life Events, Chronic Disorganization, and Hoarding Go Overboard. The highly unusual 2020 might have created this in our homes as we may have had an office, a school room, a gym, a restaurant all appearing in 'our home'. Diane provides ideas on how to clear up some clutter, organize...

Samantha Buckley-Hugessen is a Certified Life Coach and Trainer, and the author of UnS*uck Yourself: The Guide to Designing a Life You Love. Samantha writes this inspiring book which includes exercises to use, to guide us with our own journaling. Samantha writes from her own personal experiences as well as those of clients, so we have a great reservoir of experiences to relate to and that encourag...

Dr. Catherine Athans is a licensed marriage & Family therapist with over 25 years experience, and is also an author with numerous important books, the latest being "The Heart Brain". It can be a great help to us during these challenging times, bringing awareness that negative emotions such as anger, anxiety and worry significantly increase the risk of serious disease. And Dr. Athans connects t...

Elizabeth Lesser is a best-selling author and the cofounder of Omega Institute, the renowned conference and retreat center in Rhinebeck, New York. Elizabeth also presents 2 great TedX Talks. And her latest book, 'Cassandra Speaks--When Women Are the Storytellers, The Human Story Changes' is insightful and empowering. It is about feminine nature, so men also can tap into the qualities of empathy, c...

Noelle Nelson PhD is an internationally respected psychologist, author and seminar leader. She believes that we can accomplish great things, whether in business, at work or at home, when we connect with the value in ourselves and in others. And during this time of covid, this is even more true. Dr. Nelson's latest book is: I Survived CoVid, Now What? Finding Happiness and Success in a Post-CoVid w...

Elke Scholtz is a registered psychotherapist with a passion for solution focused therapy. Elke offers the idea that we need self- awareness, note what we are feeling--it helps us have mastery over our minds. And then practice this! Elke also hosts workshops, and some can be viewed on You Tube; and Elke is also an author whose latest book is: Anxiety Warrior--Vol. 2 (so there is also a first volume...

Kerri Kannen is a gratitude expert and consciousness coach. Kerri has been doing this work for 3 decades...which provides a wealth of experiences and growth. The growth part is essential for us to understand, as this is an ever evolving process. Kerri's message about gratitude comes at a great time, as we look forward to Thanksgiving. It's also good practice as it's going to be different than what...

Sarah Rose is a transformation coach and business strategist. Sarah's story, her journey is both interesting and inspiring and one that has led her to the work she does. In mid-2000 the journey began 'disguised' as challenges--a broken engagement, job loss, home loss. Eventually she noticed 'synchonicities', we might think are coincidences happening. She saw the need to view things with acceptance...

Aysha Morgan DPT, PT, OCS, is a physical therapist at PacMed. As a physical therapist Aysha's goal is to have people 'age gracefully'. The way to do this is to "move". Whether we're at regular work where we sit most of the day, or are working from home and also sitting a lot, she has some simple recommendations. One is that the time we would use for commuting, use for taking a walk these days. Or,...

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...