Keep It Juicy

Sleep. It's the Holy Grail for some of us. Just when we think we've got it, a neighbor's car alarm goes off. Or a pet gets restless. Or it's too hot or too cold. Good sleep is a skill and today's guest talks about how to grab on to that elusive elixir. Sleep, with Mollie McGlocklin, on Keep it Juicy!  

She's not a doc, but Cheryl Meyer was sick and tired of being sick and tired, so she became a health coach and learned about all the toxins we live with every day. Yikes! Forget what's in your wallet, what's in your household?! Toxins, on Keep it Juicy! 

Elongated eyeballs. Spikes on our necks. Ask science...we are evolving into monsters! 

We talk with Susan J Douglas, author of the best-selling In Our Prime: How Older Women are Reinventing the Road Ahead. We're talking about the force that older women represent – not just in wisdom, but in pure economic and societal impact. So why does our culture keep trying to erase us? Susan J Douglas on Keep it Juicy!  

We talk with Sharon Middleton McGhee. Sharon works for the airport authority in Charleston, and she's the first African American woman and the first African American director there. She got her training in human resources and we talk HR and the removal of the Calhoun statue in the middle of the city – turns out, Sharon's probably a descendent of the former vice president and slavery apologist. Sha...

We're talking with Dr Debra Muth about connecting to your feminine. She's not talking about ruffles and bows…she's talking about the power that comes from speaking truth and asking for what you need, especially during sex. Connecting to your feminine, with Debra Muth.

Soulmates...have you found yours? And is he or she the only one you'll ever have? Soulmates, and what science says, on a mini-episode of Keep it Juicy!

Charleston powerhouse Jennet Robinson Alterman is a ferocious advocate for women's empowerment. Her work in the Peace Corps fired her initial passion to help women and when she came back to live in the South, she saw some parallels in how a lack of equity has kept women from power. Jennet Robinson Alterman on Keep it Juicy!  

If it takes more than an athletic shoe company telling you to "just do it" in order for you to...well, just do it...you're  not alone. Turns out there's a science behind motivation and Susan Fowler is here to talk about motivation science and what it takes to get going. 

Artificial Intelligence professor J Scott Christianson is a bit concerned about the way we're using technology and he offers some words of warning on this episode. 

You know how when you're texting, you can walk into a street lamp? Well, even if you're not texting, it can take a face-plant from the universe to wake you up. Oblivious, on a mini-episode of Keep it Juicy!

We're talking with Danielle Roberts, a Medicare expert. If you think you can wait until you're 65 to start thinking about Medicare, you're wrong. And even if you're already on it, there may be a few things you don't know. But then, why would you? With four parts and 10 supplementals and thousands of options for prescription care…it's good to talk to an expert. Medicare demystified, on Keep it Juic...

We're back in Charleston with Dr. Jeannelle Muhammad. She and her husband are often miles apart – he's deployed – but she's got advice we can all use about how to keep the juicy AND the spicy in a relationship, and she also talks about how to keep that relationship going through the ups and downs of blended families. Intimacy in relationships, on Keep it Juicy!

We talk with transitions expert Maria Tomas-Keegan -- not only normal transitions like aging or job loss, but also the transitions that come with the quarantine. 

We're tired of this virus, from the inconvenience to the tragedy. Is it possible to find beauty in the midst of all of this? We look to experts on how to find meaning in it all on the Keep it Juicy! podcast. 

Music. Guest Bill Protzmann says it can help with physical, emotional and spiritual health. And he says it literally saved his life. Music as self-care on the Keep it Juicy! podcast. 

Carolyn Rivers left a successful career in publishing to start the Sophia Institute. Now her faculty is teaching connection and advocacy and she says the country is in breakdown, but it may be the step before breakthrough. Carolyn Rivers on Keep it Juicy! 

You learn a few things when you live 100 years or more. Guest Judy Gaman made friends with centenarian Lucille...and her life would never be the same. Longevity lessons and Lucille, on Keep it Juicy!

Happy social distancing, decade-changer birthday to me! Turning 60 in the Coronavirus Age on a mini-episode. 

Some people like to play it spontaneous and leap into the unknown of life, but guest Dana V Adams talks about how just a little planning can keep you true to your values and actually give you MORE freedom. Life mapping, on Keep it Juicy!

You would think that a woman who runs a couple of peaceful spas would exude peace and calm, right? Except Kim Powell, who owns the Woodhouse Day Spa and Boutiques in Charleston, calls herself a wellness fraud because she's always on the go and the spa isn't even her only business. We talk self-care, beef jerky and husband legs with the juicy Kim Powell on Keep it Juicy!

We're talking about energy. Not the kind that you get from an energy drink, but the energy you have that links your body and your emotions. Chakras. Our own energy and others' energy and how we can protect ourselves from people who are like energy vampires. Energy work, on Keep it Juicy!

Why are some people so BAD at love, and how can love -- and empathy -- affect our health? A mini-episode. 

You can call her fat but you'd better call her beautiful too. Bex Bedford is a passionate advocate for the body positivity movement. That doesn't mean she says being fat is healthy. But it does mean she doesn't need your snide comments because she loves who she is – all of her, thank you very much. We talk body positivity on Keep it Juicy!

Charleston's First Lady Sandy Tecklenberg joins us. I had only talked with Sandy on social media and I was ready for the entourage and the polish. Instead, Sandy drove up to my house on her own and she let her hair down about life as the mayor's wife and about the hell of the last campaign year. Nothing juicier than a woman comfortable in her own skin, with nothing to hide. Sandy Tecklenberg, on K...