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Are we the only ones who spend time every. single. day . wondering how our dogs are trying to communicate with us? We know there's at least one other person who's on the same page! Clive Wynne is a canine behaviorist who explores the incredible relationship between people and dogs in his new book, Dog is Love: Why and How Your Dog Loves You. ****** Thanks to our sponsor of this episode! --> AirMed...

In this episode, Jan and Laura talk to internationally known self-defense expert and New York Times bestselling author Tim Larkin about the ideas behind his books 'How to Survive the Most Critical 5 Seconds of Your Life' and 'When Violence is the Answer: Learning How to Do What It Takes When Your Life Is At Stake'. He explains how the average person can benefit from learning potentially lethal 'se...

Thinking about the future makes a lot of us anxious.  It's tough dealing with day to day life during the pandemic and a lot of us find it hard and worrisome to think about the future.  However, our guest on this episode thinks about the future all the time!   He's acclaimed futurist Brian David Johnson, who's spent the last 25 years helping governments, corporations and other organizations chart t...

We can't think of a better time than now to soak in the wisdom and observations of our guest on this episode, international best-selling author and master coach, Dan Millman. Dan is a former world champion athlete, university coach, martial arts instructor, and college professor whose 20-year spiritual quest led him to write his first book, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives. ...

Nicole Lapin is the New York Times bestselling author of the books,  Rich Bitch  and  Boss Bitch.   Her latest book is called,  Becoming Super Woman:  A 12-step Plan to Go from Burnout to Balance. She's a longtime business and money reporter and anchor whose work you may have seen on CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, Bloomberg TV and elsewhere.  Elle Magazine said Nicole is "singularly qualified to demystify mone...

Robin Dreeke is the former head of the FBI's Behavior Analysis Program and a recognized expert in the field of interpersonal communication. He is also the founder and president of People Formula, an organization that offers advanced rapport building, training, and consultation. He is the author of several best-selling books, including The Code of Trust: An American Counterintelligence Expert's Fiv...

Joining us on this episode is best-selling author, popular Nutritional Therapy Consultant, and fitness coach Steph Gaudreau, author of the new book,  The Core 4: Embrace Your Body, Own Your Power, which she emphasizes is NOT a diet book .   Rather, Steph's book explains how food can support us and how to be active without doing exercise we hate. It features strength training workouts, meal plans,...

Joining us on this episode is Humble the Poet, a Canadian school teacher and musician turned well-known philosopher, blogger and author of the book, UNLEARN: 101 Simple Truths for a Better Life . Unlearn was originally crowd-funded and self-published…and became a bestseller. The book has now been re-released by HarperCollins and is loaded with wisdom about things like love, anxiety, fear, trust, h...

What if you could change an old habit by working on it for just 30 seconds a day? Our guest on this episode, BJ Fogg, says that making new habits should be fast, easy, and fun -- and the steps are the same for whether you want to floss your teeth more or lose 200 pounds! He has researched human behavior for over twenty years and is the director of the Behavior Design Lab at Stanford University. He...

We're very honored to have New York Times bestselling author Andy Andrews with us on this episode. You may know Andy from his many books like The Noticer  and The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions That Determine Personal Success.  You may not know that Andy was homeless for two years following the deaths of both of his parents when he was 19. He is inspirational, motivational, and very much in-dema...

'** Hidden Valley Road' has been had quite a year! It's been named as one of Barack Obama's Top Favorite Books of 2020, #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestseller and one of their top ten books of the year, OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK, PEOPLE MAGAZINE'S book of the year, and one of the WALL STREET JOURNAL's books of the year. *** On this episode, we're joined by journalist Robert Kolker, author of the new book 'Hidd...

When we were celebrating the holidays in 2019, could we have ever imagined how different things would look just a year later? This year, we're spending our first Christmas without Jan's daughter and Laura's sister, Sarah, who made the tough decision not to travel home. In this episode, we have an honest conversation about how the pandemic has impacted our relationships, the lessons we have learned...

Joining us on this episode is the charismatic and inspiring Ty Pennington, who's very familiar to millions of television viewers thanks to the hit shows Trading Spaces and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.  Now, Ty is sharing his behind-the-scenes story in his new book, Life to the Extreme: How a Chaotic Kid Became America's Favorite Carpenter . He opens up about what it was like growing up with und...

If you're even somewhat of a country music fan, chances our you've heard of Bobby Bones, the host of the host of The Bobby Bones Show , which has an audience of more than five million people per week. He's a member of the musical comedy group, "Bobby Bones & The Raging Idiots' and even mentored the top 24 on American Idol. His latest book, "Fail Until You Don't: Fight. Grind. Repeat.", is about ho...

This year, more than any other in the lives of most of us, has been a year of pain and loss.  We've watched helplessly as family, friends, and even strangers on television describe losing people they care about to the pandemic.  How do we process these losses?    Our guest on this episode, Hope Edelman, is an internationally recognized expert in the field of grief.  Hope was a teenager when her mo...

When a romantic relationship ends, for whatever the reason, 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 on this episode, Amy Chan, found herself jobless, homeless and single, all at once when a relationship with her boyfriend ended.  Since the...

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 some wisdom, encouragement and enlightenment?  Our guest, Ashly Perez, is here to give it! Ashly spent more than five years producing, writing, acting and directing short-form internet content for  Buzzfeed.   She was a  Buzzfeed sensation, starring in more than 250 videos, many of which became viral.   These days, she's a television writer and artist and the author of a new book cal...

In this episode, we talk to Sue Klebold about how she would give her own life to stop her son Dylan's mass shooting at Columbine High School. Sue reveals how Dylan had no mental illness diagnosis, and no one knew about the dark depression he wrote in personal journals. Eventually, his suicidal thoughts turned homicidal, and his friendship with fellow shooter Eric Harris developed into extreme rage...

Most people are having a difficult time finding gratitude this year. It's hard not to be bitter and take the good things in our life for granted since we have all been, at the very least, inconvenienced, and at the most, death of a family member. We're all in search of ways to feel better, and on this episode, we talk to bestselling author and journalist Spike Carlsen, who says that you can feel t...

This is an unprecedented time in all of our lives and a lot of us are looking for tools to help us manage the upheaval and come out stronger than we were before.  For some advice along those lines, we turn to our guest on this episode, Dr. Jonathan Fader, who is a licensed sport, performance and clinical psychologist.   Dr. Fader has worked to sharpen the mental performance skills of the New York...

In 2002, when she was just fourteen years old, Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped at knifepoint by a pedofile 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. Her new book, "Where There's Hope: Healing, Moving Forward, and Never Giving...

Most of us are familiar with the idea of one on one therapy, but have you ever considered the possibility of doing it with a group? On this episode, we're joined by New York Times bestselling author Christie Tate, author of the new book,  Group: How One Therapist and A Circle of Strangers Saved My Life.  The book is described as "the memoir of a guarded, over-achieving, self-lacerating young lawye...

The pandemic has forced most of us to attend meetings virtually.   Zoom meetings have become an everyday occurrence for a lot of workers, like us, who want to look and sound great with this new way of getting together with colleagues and family alike.  So, how do you do that?  Our guest on this episode, Kim Foley has plenty of ideas to help.  Kim is an award-winning TV producer, media trainer and...

The man known as "The Wolf of Wall Street", Jordan Belfort, has had extreme highs and lows in his life. At one time, he made over $50 million a year, but ended up serving 22 months in prison for securities fraud and money laundering. These days, he's working to help others avoid the traps he fell into. As Jordan sees it, "Success, in the absence of ethics, is failure." Jordan also interview Jan &...