It's All About the Questions

What does being decisive mean? Is it about making quick or snap decisions? Is it about weighing all the options, polling people for their input, analyzing all the new options that present themselves after the poll or is it something else? Dr. Nancy Fox gathered 30 women in her latest book, Decisive Women, Designing Decisions in 5 Minutes or Less  to share exactly how they made and make decisions o...

Anytime I get to spend an hour with Bob Burg I walk away with new perspectives and a whole slew of new questions I ask myself and others around me. Today we talked about character, selling, leadership and, in the words of Col. Chris Hadfield, astronaut, how we can all becomes +1s versus -1 when we interact with others. We also talk about holding your vision when things go sideways, how to turn the...

Can you have emotional mastery without turning into a Vulcan like Mr. Spock from Star Trek? What is emotional mastery? Is it turning off emotions? Not at all. My expert guest, Dr. Joan Rosenberg shares how you can manage your emotions and control your responses so you are responding and no longer reacting to what is happening in your life. Whether your trigger is grief, anxiety, fear, or some othe...

Hello Gorgeous! No we are not channeling Barbra Streisand here. What we are channeling is how my guest is turning how cancer looks on its head and changing lives one makeover at a time. Kim Becker closed her successful salon and founded a national non-profit to make it safe for cancer patients to get salon services and pamper them at the same time. What started as a fully-loaded salon-on-wheels de...

Why does stress seem to affect us all differently? Is there stress that is good or does it all end up being bad? Is it possible to defeat the catch-22 of stress that keeps us going in an endless cycle of stress as we stress over how to stop being so stressed?  Can we eliminate stress and be STRESS FREE? My guests on this episode are stress experts and they share with me immediate actions you can t...

Keeping a business going for 32 years is no easy feat no matter what the business but to keep a business going that relies on tech and the ever changing methods of product delivery is rare. My guest today shares his secrets to success for his company, his life and his clients and how he has seen profits rise each year while focusing on the kind of clients he prefers to do business with, heart-cent...

My guest today wanted to find out what kind of woman would make the best U.S. President after he voted for President Obama and realized he was not who he thought he was. What Stanford Erickson discovered was the traits associated with being a Mama's boy or girl or Daddy's boy or girl made a difference in how you approached things. So he went and looked at 8 female world stage leaders including Hil...

It is easy to get published these days. All you need is the internet, a "book" you've written and some basic knowledge to upload it to Amazon. But is that really all you need? Is a book a book? What does it take to be a success as an author?  My guest on this episode is a longtime literary agent, resource for publishers and authors alike and has even started her own publishing house. For over 30 y...

I am a space geek and have read just about every book written about the subject and have had the honor of meeting and talking with the head of NASA, before I had my radio show, and an Apollo astronaut. No book has ever been written about the Space race in America by a woman nor by a contractor. Up until recently Kennedy Space Center did not even acknowledge at the Cape the 400,000 contractors that...

It doesn't matter what others think of you what matters is what you think about yourself. True or False? Patricia Noll, author of Good With Me  says it is true and she has been helping people for over 30 years stop their Comparanoia and achieve real happiness.  We discuss the two types of esteem, and I am not referring to low and high esteem here, and how how they manifest in business and what you...

Going on walk has new meaning for David Ralph these days as he can do it anytime of the day or week he likes ever since he left corporate life to take on the world as one if its top podcasters. How did he go from having a show with just a few listeners to one of the top podcasters in the world with over 4 million downloads and counting in under two years? What lessons did he learn, what questions...

The keys of Leadership are not what you think. With the Go-Giver, Bob Burg and John David Mann created a conversation and turned all that we thought we new about business out the window. The Go-Giver Leader creates a new manifesto that every business owner needs to be reading and living. In this episode John David Mann shares with us the 5 keys of legendary leadership, how to work in collaboration...

I connect people and I see connections when I meet people and walk into businesses. I get all these ideas on how they can partner with other people, groups and businesses to increase their exposure and businesses. I never thought of it as a business for myself until I was introduced to Sohail Khan by Steve Olsher (I interviewed him as well on a previous episode of It's All About the Questions). So...

My guest today had her life changed in an instant and could no longer work or pretty much even take care of herself. Six months into a new marriage she had to stop working and try to get her health back after a diagnosis of M.E. and Fibromyalgia left her virtually bedridden. Fast forward several years. Healing unfolds with a move from the U.K. to Turkey and all that an ancient way of living in a l...

Intellectual property is valuable but how do you protect yours? How do you know if you should protect it or skip it? Can you do it yourself? What is the difference between a trademark, a patent and a copyright? Does your copyright cover you all over the world? Is a copyright implied when you post on social media? What happens if someone violates your IP? How do you license your IP? Do you register...

I fist met Patricia (Pat) Draper at the cardiac catheterization lab at Indian River Medical Center. She was the ARNP in charge and my mom, and later my husband at the time, had to undergo a few heart procedures. Little did I know that we would become fast friends and would help save my mom's life years later. I wanted to have her on the show because Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) is a frightening...

If you are an author, musician, blogger or other creative the last thing you probably want to do with your day is marketing. You want to write books, create and record songs or more. You don't want to be in front of a computer figuring out which social media platform to use, wonder when you should post and what you should post. So how can you use social media to create revenue without coming off s...

Are you connected with what is happening in your internal vs external world? Want to learn how to heal your life? Wonder how come you cannot seem to get well or the same patterns keep repeating themselves. Tried it all? My guest today has traveled the world and has lived a life filled with curiosity. She quickly realized how each step on her journey added a new tool in her toolbox that enables her...

What if literally you held the future in the palm of your hands. According to my guest you do and it is a science to understand what your hands were made to tell you. This is not palmistry. This is like having a Meyers Briggs personality profile but you cannot scam it. Forty years of research led to the development of Scientific Hand Analysis and my guest is an expert in unlocking the secrets you...

How do you turn your vision of entrepreneurial success into reality while making sure your family life doesn't fall apart? Is it even possible? You can have it all. At least that is what we keep being told but is that really possible? According to my guest, Daniel T. Ruke, more commonly known as Ruke, it is but it requires planning, communication and clarity on what you want to achieve, what it wi...

I had always heard names had power and there are a lot of experts out there who use numerology, astrology and many other "ologies" to tell us who we are. I have explored many to understand who I am and why I am here on this planet. When I got divorced I wondered, "is Laura Steward the same person as Laura Atchison?" I wondered, what will happen when I go back to my maiden name? Will anyone even no...

How does one go from not being able to walk well to a pro-wrestler to Pastor? To decide to go in a ring against a man significantly taller and stronger, The Undertaker, and then write a book about a vigilante/wrestler/pastor? Well if you are my guest today you just ask yourself a few questions and take the next steps on faith! Chris Whaley performed as The Saint on the pro wrestling stage while go...

WWW. Three letters that signify the one thing that has transformed the way we do business and find resources to change our lives more than anything else in the last few decades. In just one decade we have gone from paying $25,000 or more to design websites to DIY with WordPress and WIX and a web guy on every other corner of the world offering to design your website and get your business found on t...

I first met my guest when we were picking each others brains about some mutual business opportunities. What I quickly realized are the valuable lessons he learned growing his business, taking it global and thinking about others at the same time. I knew he had to be on the show to share with you those lessons and tell us about some really brilliant products he developed as a result of being aware o...

It is the new year and most of the world will be setting resolutions to get rid of their physical behind. Most of those resolutions will end as quickly as they began with little to no change having happened. Why? According to my guest it is because of your BUT. Those three little letters that when combined can stop any resolution from starting and even can stop it, once set, from finishing. How do...