My Fourth Act Podcast

Doo wop, Broadway, The Met. Larry Marshall is a  veteran musical performer  whose exemplary Broadway career began in 1968 with the musical  Hair . 15 Broadway productions later,  Larry appeared on Broadway and in the National tour of the recent musical  Waitress. Larry's many other Broadway credits include Two G entlemen of Verona,The Full Monty, The Color Purple, The Thre...

Catherine Seo, PhD  is the Co-Director of the  Lipedema Project and  Founder and Director of  Lipedema Simplified, LLC.  She is also the producer and director of the documentary  The Disease They Call FAT .  When confronted with almost certain immobility and complications from misdiagnosed lipedema, Dr. Seo traveled the world interviewing patients, doctors, surge...

Called  ‘The Queen of Reinvention” by Fortune magazine , former entertainment exec-turned-coach Pamela Mitchell (aka ‘Coach Pamela’) is the nation’s premier expert in reinvention and founder and  CEO of The Reinvention Institute . She is the author of  The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention: Essential Survival Skills for Any Economy  (Penguin), a  Harvard Business Review Top Sh...

Jane Moore  is the  founder and owner of Papagayo Luxury  where she curates custom luxury vacations and villa rentals on Costa Rica's exclusive Papagayo Peninsula. Jane has, in some ways.  lived many people's dreams  - and created many people's dream business. After a  12-year publishing career  in Los Angeles with National Geographic Magazine, Jane and her husba...

Eve Simon  is an Expert in Leadership Transformation, Igniter for Innovation and Inclusion, Executive Coach, Author, TEDx Speaker, and Serial Entrepreneur. German by nature, Californian by heart - that defines an unusual approach in everything Eve does. Eve works as a  creative and systemic business builder  with corporations, executives, and start-ups all over the world to  em...

Evan Snow  is an arts advocate, community builder, and creative entrepreneur who launched the  Choose954  social movement to  Cultivate Culture & Community  in his native Broward County. Evan's initiatives have included the  Fort Lauderdale Art & Design Week ,  AAF CreativeZen Inspirational Talks , &  Zero Empty Spaces , a now national movement t...

Leah Komaiko's exceptional life includes  doing stand-up and writing a memoir as well as 20 popular and bestselling books  for kids, including the modern classic,  Annie Bananie.  Her books have been published by Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and St. Martin's Press. These days, Leah  helps both individuals and organizations to find their essential stor...

Stefanie von Fallois is a German-born  life coach ,  psychologist  and  former nurse  who now resides in Miami. She was for many years the head therapist at Dolphin Human Therapy (DHT), a world-renowned animal assisted therapy facility in Key Largo, Florida. Stefanie currently serves as a  guest therapist at Curacao Dolphin Therapy Center in Curacao  where she co...

Doe Hentschel, Ph. D. is a  former professional child actress  who has had a sweeping career in Adult and Continuing Education, with tenures as the Dean of Adult and Continuing Education at SUNY Brockport and Dean of Extended and Continuing Education at the University of Connecticut. For the last 20 years, Doe has been the  Director of the Third Age Initiative at Leadership Greater...

My new book,  THE DIFFERENCE: Essays on Loss, Courage and Personal Transformation , co-edited with Rosemary Ravinal, is released today via Balboa Press, a Division of Hay House. To salute this exquisite collection of essays, I have a chat with 3 of the exceptional contributors -  Dr. Lynne Maureen Hurdle, Carl Ficks Jr., Malissa Smith -  and my brilliant co-editor,  Rosema...

Jameson Currier is a  celebrated gay writer, literary critic and publisher.  He is the  author of seven novels, five collections of short fiction, and a memoir.  His writing is also included in many literary collections. Jameson's novel, The  Third Buddha,  about the aftermath of 9/11 in Manhattan and Afghanistan, was translated into French in 2021 and...

Betsy Cohen is a  mother of 4 who lives  in Palm Beach Gardens and  loves cookie dough . In 2012, Betsy was given the opportunity to  work part-time in the office of a bakery  owned by one of the most talented pastry chefs in the country.  A few years later, Betsy  launched Happylicious by Betsy , a gorgeously curated and very happy brand of edible cookie dough....

Andrew Quarrie is a Jamaican-born  serial entrepreneur  who champions equitable neighborhoods. He is the  CEO/Founder of URBLANDIA  - a needs analysis platform for real estate development. Andrew hosts his widely distributed podcast - also titled “ URBLANDIA"  - where he focuses on  social impact entrepreneurship within urban development . In 2016 Andrew also created...

Mike Trupiano is a  comic actor  from the United States who resides and works in Berlin/Germany. He is a voice-over artist,  celebrated storyteller, writer, storytelling teacher and coach.  Mike's first commercial job after leaving New York for Berlin found him locked in an elevator with world boxing champion Vladimir Klitschko.   Adopted when he was 3 months old...

Leon Segal, Ph. D.  is an innovation psychologist. As a founder of  Innovationship , Leon helps organizations, teams, and individuals to imagine and design their futures. His vast expertise in the innovation field includes helming an IDEO office and teaching at leading institutions around the world. Innovationship’s slogan is "Strategic Innovation made personal." Originally from Israel,...

Raj Raghunathan  is a Professor of Business at  The University of Texas  at Austin. Raj explores the impact that our judgments and decisions have on our happiness and fulfillment. Raj's work has appeared in numerous top journals and mass media outlets. He writes about his views on happiness, creativity, and leadership on his popular  Psychology Today  blog, with  over...

Nina Simons  is the  co-founder and Chief Relationship Officer at   Bioneers , a nonprofit that champions visionary and practical solutions for many of our most pressing social and ecological challenges. Nina is passionate about reinventing leadership, restoring the feminine, and co-creating a healthy,  peaceful, and equitable world for all .  Throughou...

Dr. Edith Shiro  is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Miami. Edith specializes in trauma and posttraumatic growth. She is the  co-founder of The Trauma and Resilience Center , a board member of the World Happiness Foundation, and an active member of Cadena International, providing humanitarian aid and disaster prevention worldwide. Edith has been a  sought-after guest o...

Sam Yau is a retired business executive who splits his time between managing his investments and writing poetry. Sam has reinvented his life several times - from being a 6-month-old baby on a refugee boat from China to becoming the CEO of a billion-dollar corporation and eventually the Chairman of the iconic Esalen Institute in California’s Big Sur. Sophie Rouméas is a French writer who loves to u...

For many, the Covid pandemic prompted a rethinking of how we serve the world. Peggy Horan's rethinking feels more radical than most. After decades of working with movement and touch, at the iconic Esalen Institute, Peggy entered her 80s eager to explore serving clients in an entirely new way. My inspiring conversation with Peggy initially released in the summer of 2022. Pe...

"I love hugging people with my words," says Simon T. Bailey. That he does - and so much more. Simon T. Bailey is an exceptional writer, business thinker, and one of the most successful motivational speakers in the world. Simon is a force of nature on stage - a channel of boundless energy coupled with deep and practical wisdom. Simon OWNS the stage - and then Covid momentarily shut down t...

I originally released my conversation with Lama Karma Chotso in June of 2022. I happily share it again to entice us all to reconnect with timeless spiritual wisdom as we launch into a new year. Since Lama Karma Chotso and I spoke last year, she has decided to let go of her beautiful Buddhist Center in the El Portal section of Miami where she has lived and taught for over 20 years. With t...

I originally released my conversation with Benja Kay Thomas in the summer of 2021, at a time when theatre had ground to a halt. Well, theatre came back with a vengeance, and so did Benja.  Benja Kay Thomas  is an AUDELCO and OBIE-award winning film, television and stage actress. She fully committed to having a professional acting career later in life, at a time when many actresses say “t...

As a  staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal , James R. Hagerty, known as Bob, writes obituaries, mostly about prominent people in business or economics, Bob has been a  reporter and editor for more than 40 years at The Wall Street Journal and the International Herald Tribune , in the U.S,, Europe and Asia. In his just-published book, Yours Truly, An Obituary Writer’s Guide to Tellin...

Suzanne Jewell is a  global expert on strategic marketing  whose life has increasingly fused her zest for business development with her passion for mindfulness. Her high-flying global career includes a stint as SVP with Cisneros where  she helped launch DirectTV  in Latin America and multiple years of  supporting the efforts of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation . Suzan...