Nobody Told Me!

Get inspired as you hear about a very special journey undertaken by a 90-year-old woman who was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and advised to have surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. That woman, Norma Jean Bauerschmidt, said "no" to conventional cancer treatments and "yes" to a life on the road. Going with her on that road trip of a lifetime was her son, Tim, and his wife, Ramie, who've written a...

What was it like to be a space shuttle astronaut?  Mike Mullane was selected as a Mission Specialist in 1978 and was a part of the first group of space shuttle astronauts. He completed three space missions before retiring from NASA in 1990. Since then, he has been inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame and has won many awards. He has written multiple books, most recently "Riding Rocket...

Laura Galloway hit the re-set button on her busy life and made the extraordinary move from New York City to a remote reindeer-herding village in the Arctic Tundra, one of the most unknowable cultures on earth. Her story is fascinating, and jaw-dropping at times, and she writes about it in the book, "DÁLVI: Six Years in the Arctic Tundra". Her website is  authorlauragalloway.com .

Want to change your behavior or that of those around you? Join us as we hear from E. Scott Geller, a nationally recognized leader in the field of applied behavioral science. He is an Alumni Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology at Virginia Tech. He has written hundreds of articles and books addressing the development and evaluation of behavior-change interventions to improve qual...

We're thrilled to share this interview with Ellen Petry Leanse, a leading expert on technology and happy living, and the author of "The Happiness Hack: How to Take Charge of Your Brain and Program More Happiness Into Your Life".  She's spent decades working with leaders at Facebook, Google, and Apple and is a respected Silicon Valley influencer.   Learn more about the book at  https://www.amazon.c...

It's an honor to talk with Adam J. T. Robarts, the author of the book, "Nineteen: 19 Insights Learned from a 19-year old with Cancer".  It is a book of nineteen lessons learned from Haydn Robarts, Adam's son, whose short life profoundly changed all around him. It combines a personal memoir, universal lessons, insights from religion and science, and perspectives from Haydn and his parents.   Ritual...

If you've lost your mother, or were abused, neglected or abandoned by your mother, you may be suffering from "mother hunger".  On this episode, we'll find out more about how being "under-mothered" impacts you throughout life.  Joining us is licensed trauma therapist Kelly McDaniel, whose latest book is called, "Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protec...

Our guest on this episode, British journalist and author Oliver Burkeman says, "The average human life span is absurdly, terrifyingly, insultingly short." It's about 4,000 weeks or 77 years. Oliver has written a book called, 4000 Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, which Adam Grant calls, "The most important book ever written about time management."  His website is  https://www.oliverburkeman. com...

Our guest on this episode is bestselling poet and author Maggie Smith. In 2016, Maggie's poem "Good Bones" went viral internationally and has been shared countless times since by those of us who struggle to keep the realities of life's ugliness from children. In 2020, her book, "Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change", became a breakout bestseller in the midst of the pandemic. Her late...

What does it take for boys and men to thrive in America these days?  Our guest on this episode, Andrew Reiner, says it's time for us to change the way we think and talk about males in our society.  He says many boys and men are struggling now, worse than ever before, and that affects all of us.   Andrew has written on men's issues for the New York Times and Washington Post.  He's a Professor at To...

Could you use a new approach to your life and work?  Would you like to be better able to get your point across to others?  Is there a way that you could be more inspirational to others?   If you answered "Yes!" to any of those questions, you'll want to hear what our guest, Jason Harris, has to say.   Jason is the Co-Founder & CEO of Mekanism, an award-winning creative advertising agency.  He's als...

Find out how you can become an effective leader in virtually any kind of organization! Our guest is David Dodson, who is a veteran entrepreneur, board member, and investor.  He teaches one of the most sought-after courses at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and he's the author of the book, "THE MANAGER'S HANDBOOK: Five Simple Steps to Build a Team, Stay Focused, Make Better Decisi...

We always like to offer good advice, but on this episode, we're going to explore bad advice...and the difference between good advice and bad advice! Our guest is Dr. Venus Nicolino, a clinical psychologist and relationship expert who you may know as the host of Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars.  She also previously starred on LA Shrinks on Bravo and has been a guest on numerous other shows.  She'...

You may need to break out of your social comfort zone in order to find new opportunities in life! Hear more about that from Tanya Menon, an organizational researcher who studies how people think about relationships, and how this affects the way they make decisions, collaborate, and lead at work.  She is Professor of Management and Human Resources at Fisher College of Business, Ohio State Universit...

Our guest, Molly Fletcher, was one of the first female sports agents who represented hundreds of the biggest names in sports. She's now a full-time speaker and author who focuses her work on helping leaders, teams, and organizations re-imagine their potential and up their game every day. She's written several books including, "The Energy Clock" and "Fearless at Work". Her website is  mollyfletcher...

When a romantic relationship ends, we can find ourselves devastated.  How can we pick up the pieces of a broken heart and move forward with our lives, when even getting up in the morning feels like an overwhelming challenge?  Our guest, Amy Chan, found herself jobless, homeless and single, all at once when a relationship with her boyfriend ended.  Since then, she's not only found a way to turn hea...

How can you achieve lifetime satisfaction?  We talk about that with clinical psychologist Dr. Jennifer Guttman, who contends that happiness is not sustainable, but satisfaction is.  Dr. Guttman has helped thousands of clients struggling with anxiety and depression, and she's the author of the new book, "BEYOND HAPPINESS: The 6 Secrets of Lifetime Satisfaction".  Her website is  guttmanpsychology.c...

Joining us on this episode is award-winning journalist Michael Easter who's become a leading voice on how humans can integrate modern science and evolutionary wisdom to achieve improved health, meaning, and performance in life and at work.  Michael's latest book is called, "The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self."   Our sponsor, Green Chef, is a CCOF-certi...

Do you feel like there aren't enough hours in the day to get everything done? Hear from time management expert Laura Vanderkam, who's the bestselling author of several books, including, "What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast", and, "Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done". Her TED talk, "How to Gain Control of Your Free Time", has had millions of views.  You can learn...

This is another one of our favorite interviews! Dr. Michele Harper is an emergency room doctor and a New York Times bestselling author. She has worked as an emergency room physician for more than a decade in the South Bronx and in Philadelphia.  Michele's book, "The Beauty in Breaking", weaves together the story of her life, and her interactions with her patients in the emergency room. The New Yor...

As a mother-daughter duo, we're always interested in issues related to parents and raising children. On this episode, our guest is education professor Dr. Traci Baxley, who is a cultural and race identity coach for parents.  Dr. Baxley is the mother of five biracial children and she feels parenting is a form of activism. She's the author of the book, "SOCIAL JUSTICE PARENTING: How to Raise Compass...

On this episode, hear from Elizabeth Smart, one of our most amazing guests ever.  In 2002, when she was just fourteen years old, Elizabeth was kidnapped at knifepoint by a pedophile from her home in Utah. She endured nine months of being shackled, raped, starved, and threatened by her kidnappers, Brian David Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee, before she was rescued and reunited with her family....

With many meetings taking place remotely these days, it's more challenging than ever to communicate with our co-workers in the workplace.  Our guest, Alissa Carpenter, is a workplace communications expert who joins us to talk about how we can connect with our team effectively online, how to have difficult and uncomfortable conversations, why differences in gender, age, race, religion and job funct...

Our guest on this episode is Lacy Crawford, author of the book, "Notes On A Silencing:  A Memoir",  which is the story of Lacy's sexual assault as a teenager by two fellow students at the one of the top boarding schools in the country. The Washington Post calls the book, "A haunting exploration of the systemic ways assault victims are ignored."   Her website is  https://lacycrawford.com/   Our spo...

Would you like to be more successful? Can you define what success really means to you?  Do you have a plan to achieve it? For some help with those questions, we talk with our guest, Wharton Professor G. Richard Shell, who's an award-winning author and the creator of a very popular Wharton School course on the meaning of success.  He's also developed a course on success for Coursera, the world's le...