Talk! with Audrey

This week on TALK! with AUDREY: BISHOP T.D. JAKES is one of the world's most widely recognized pastors and a New York Times bestselling author of over thirty books. Bishop Jakes is the founder and senior pastor of The Potter's House, which has a congregation of more than 30,000. Bishop T.D. Jakes joins me to talk about his latest book . . . INSTINCT: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive.

This week on TALK! with AUDREY: In this challenging job market, many people opt to transition from employee to entrepreneur. This is the choice my guest, WILBERT POWE made in 2013 when he resigned his position as a freight broker for a major transportation company that generated $275 million in 2013 with projections to earn $450 million in 2014. Powe's next move was business ownership. He founded...

This week on TALK! with AUDREY: My guest is OLYMPIAN, NOELLE PIKUS PACE and she shares her secret to juggling the Olympics and being a mom! While it's no secret that being a mother provides enormous joy, parenting can be a challenge. Most of today's mothers find themselves with not only the task of caring for children of all ages, but also trying to juggle and balance a career along with an endles...

This week on TALK! with AUDREY: REVEREND KERON SADLER, NAACP National Health Program Manager is my guest. February 7th is National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. Did you know that the African American community bears the largest burden of the HIV epidemic over any other racial or ethnic group in the United States? Reverend Sadler has information about the NAACP's partnership with Black Church's to...

This week on TALK! with AUDREY: JONATHAN BLUM, Principal Deputy Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is my guest. Medicare Open Enrollment is the time when people with Medicare are encouraged to review their current health and prescription drug coverage and changes in costs and benefits that will take effect for 2014. This year's annual Medicare Open Enrollment period, which b...

This week on TALK! with AUDREY: DR. DEMETRIUS K. LOPES, Neurosurgeon and National Spokesperson, American Heart Association/American Stroke Association is my guest. One in six people worldwide will have a stroke in their lifetime. In the United States alone, someone has a stroke every 40 seconds.

This week on TALK! with AUDREY: Thousands of service members have been returning from Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom with injuries that have been called the "signature wounds" of Iraq and Afghanistan. CRAIG ROBERTS, Spokesperson for The AMERICAN LEGION joins me to talk about issues of importance to veterans and military families and what The American Legion can do to help.

This week on TALK! with AUDREY: ALLEGIANT is the highly anticipated final book in VERONICA ROTH's bestselling DIVERGENT trilogy. First published in May 2011, DIVERGENT was an instant best seller, immediately embraced by both teen readers and adults alike. The book series is poised to become a major pop culture phenomenon. VERONICA ROTH joins me on the show to talk about ALLEGIANT . . . Photo: Cour...

This week on TALK! with AUDREY: October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month – CHANDINI PORTTEUS, MPH, Chief Mission Officer, Susan G. Komen Foundation is my guest. This is an ideal time to discuss what we have learned from more than 30 years of research and what that means in terms of prevention, screening, and treatment of breast cancer today, as well as the challenges still faced in the mi...

This week on TALK! with AUDREY:BERTRAM SCOTT, President & CEO, Affinity Health Plan, Bronx, NYC is my guest. On October 1, the New York State Health Plan Marketplace opened under the Affordable Care Act and with 16 health insurers to choose from, understanding the differences between plan options will be critical to New York families. We talk about what every you need to know about navigating the...

This week on TALK! with AUDREY: MARK VELLECA,Chief Policy and Advocacy Officer for The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society is my guest. On October 1, 2013, as part of the new Affordable Care Act (ACA), health insurance exchanges opened for enrollment and millions of Americans who were previously uninsured now have the opportunity to purchase health insurance coverage effective in 2014. The new health ca...

This week on TALK! with AUDREY: CLAUDIA CHAN is an inspirational women's leadership and lifestyle expert who has dedicated 12 years to entertaining and empowering women. Her mission is to empower and inspire a generation of women to dream and do big with passion and purpose and to do it with impact! Claudia joins me on the show this week to talk about S.H.E. SUMMIT WEEK, a Global Leadership and Li...

This week on TALK! with AUDREY: Although everyone is aware of skin cancer and the role of sunscreen in helping to prevent it, the details that will save lives are often surprising even to savvy consumers. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has taken steps on multiple fronts to protect consumers from the skin damage that can be caused by too much exposure to the sun. DR. REYNOLD TAN, FDA's...

This week on TALK! with AUDREY: Do you know someone affected by breast cancer? No doubt we all do, and sometimes it's hard to know how to help. FujiFilm Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc. and the National Breast Cancer Foundation are working together to raise awareness and encourage all women to understand the importance of early detection of breast cancer. The partnership recently launched Images of He...

This week on TALK! with AUDREY: This week, I decided to go back to into my archives and because Mother's Day is Sunday, I thought my exclusive interviews with celebrity moms might be of interest to you. These interviews were recorded in 2007 to promote the National Association of Black Female Executives in Music and Entertainment's ( NABFEME) Annual Conference. Founded by former entertainment exec...

This week on TALK! with AUDREY: This week, I decided to go back to into my archives and because Mother's Day is Sunday, I thought my exclusive interviews with celebrity moms might be of interest to you. These interviews were recorded in 2007 to promote the National Association of Black Female Executives in Music and Entertainment's ( NABFEME) Annual Conference. Founded by former entertainment exec...

This week on TALK! with AUDREY: This week, I decided to go back to into my archives and because Mother's Day is Sunday, I thought my exclusive interviews with celebrity moms might be of interest to you. These interviews were recorded in 2007 to promote the National Association of Black Female Executives in Music and Entertainment's ( NABFEME) Annual Conference. Founded by former entertainment exec...

This week on TALK! with AUDREY: In May 2010, with her father's legacy of duty to country instilled in her heart, Marie-Yolaine, a Haitian-American took action. The January 12, earthquake that struck Haïti, killing over 300,000 people, some in her own family, and displacing more than 1 million people, compelled her to move. She resigned from her position at American Express and with her experience...

This week on TALK! with AUDREY: April is National Minority Health Month, a time to increase awareness of diseases and health conditions that disproportionately impact minorities and for African-Americans hypertension, or high blood pressure, is one of them. Dr. David S. Kountz, President, International Society on Hypertension in Blacks (ISHIB), is here today to talk about the risk factors and card...

This week on TALK! with AUDREY: Almost everyone would agree that health care is expensive, more specifically that illness or injury can be exceedingly costly, even with major medical insurance. But what many people don't know is that even with medical coverage, serious medical conditions could result in thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket expenses, Personal Finance Expert, MANISHA THAKOR with in...

This week on TALK! with AUDREY: One in two Americans suffers from diabesity, the condition of metabolic imbalance and disease that ranges from mild blood sugar imbalance to full-blown diabetes. Diabesity is the underlying cause that drives most chronic illness in the 21st century, including heart disease, stroke, dementia, and cancer, and the numbers of sick people keep growing. One in three child...

This week on TALK! with AUDREY: Globalization is benefiting the medical field, opening the doors to adventures abroad for U.S. Educated critical care nurses who want to earn a great income and accelerate their career growth. ANN GRIFFIN, Senior Recruiting Specialist and Managing Director with Professional Connections joins me with information about how to apply for international nursing opportunit...

This week on TALK! with AUDREY: For many schools, finding money in the budget for upgrades can seem impossible, especially if it means coming at the expense of the education offered and other necessities. Higher learning institutions across the country have been struggling with how to stretch this money as far as possible, and it's no different for the United States' 105 historically black college...

This week on TALK! with AUDREY: New York Voices Against Gun Violence, a broad, newly-formed coalition of advocates, victims, youth organizations, health care workers, unions, elected officials, faith leaders and artists, announced today that they will hold a massive mobilization to promote the NY SAFE Act as a model for legislation at the federal level and in other states. Joining me on the show,...

This week on TALK! with AUDREY: You've probably heard of hypertension or high blood pressure, but may not fully understand what it is or the risks it poses. To help us get to the heart of the matter, so to speak, DR. ANA STANKOVIC, a board certified nephrologist and medical director of nephrology at Parkland Medical Center in Derry, N.H. is my guest.