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William Keck is a reformed National Enquirer bad boy who exposed celebrities' private lives while harboring deeply personal secrets of his own. Discover what inspired him to infiltrate the off-limits realms of the Hollywood icons he grew up idolizing, and the invaluable life lessons learned along the way that ultimately guided him to protect and befriend the celebrities he'd once wronged. 

Hey everyone, and welcome to the very first episode of What The Hell?!, my new monthly segment where I dive deeper into life’s most interesting and often controversial questions, cutting out the crap and getting to the heart of the real answers.  My guest is Dr. Edward Fernandes, aka Dr. Ziggy, a social psychologist and sexologist who’s made a career out of researching and working with people who...

What would you do if your mother lied to you about who your father was? David Tereshchuk is a journalist whose decades-long investigative career, both in Britain and the United States, has involved prying answers out of both victims and perpetrators of war and TV interviews with Tony Blair, Hugo Chavez, Nelson Mandela and Kofi Annan. His fearless reporting never let on that he was carrying a secre...

We all experience fear, but what if we could stop being controlled by fear and make it work for us? Award-winning author and destiny coach Ariel Vox was not even two years old when she and her mother were in a car accident that left her mother in a coma for months. As a result, every decision she made during the first 40 years of her life was defined by fear. Then, she decided to stop being contro...

How do you keep living after your husband decides to stop?  Award-winning journalist Rachel Zimmerman, who’s been writing about health and medicine for more than twenty years and worked as a health reporter for WBUR, Boston’s NPR News station. Rachel’s first husband, Seth, died by suicide in 2014. A devoted father to two young daughters, Seth was a robotics professor at MIT with no history of ment...

“Marijuana – is it the ultimate Trojan horse? Have we been sold a bill of goods: that pot is harmless, that it’s medicine, that it’s freedom. Have we been duped? My guest, Dr. Raymond Wiggins claims that the dark side of marijuana is real. Yet we’re more obsessed than ever. Let’s blow the smoke away and confront the inconvenient truths about pot. Dr. Wiggins will share their raw, unfiltered storie...

Have you looked at your partner and thought, “I love you, but I miss having my own place!” Award-winning journalist and author Vicki Larson, who set out to answer that question for couples everywhere has just released LATitude, How You Can Make a Live Apart Together Work. She rejects the classic narratives about female marriage roles and aging as a woman, and believes the traditional “nuclear fami...

In early childhood Marsha Means was sexually abused several times. This factor set up the stage of her life, and like a character in a play, she lived out her role automatically. It also shaped how she thought, acted, and felt about herself, about men, and about the meaning of male/female relationships as she grew up. It would take forty years and much hard work to un-knot the tangled strands that...

Stephanie Schorow takes us on a walk on the wild side of Boston. We visit the largest and most notorious adult entertainment districts in the nation, with a controversial scene at every corner; organized crime, exotic dancers, bad boys, hit men, hoodlums, and more. We enter these worlds through Stephanie’s works such as "Inside the Combat Zone: The Stripped Down Story of Boston's Most Notorious Ne...

In the 1950's, Dale Stanten's mother established a home-based business as a prostitute to remedy her husband's inability to provide for his family. At just six years old, she was answering the front door for johns. Kids were forbidden to play with her and even the girl scouts asked her to leave. Her father barely functioned. Her lesbian sister "came out", was thrown into a convent and later commit...

The Ozempic craze is booming in the U.S.  Celebrities and the general public alike are seeking a specific side effect of the medication- weight loss.  Why is it so popular now? Why is Ozempic NOT the answer? Find out ALL the answers with Mylaine Riobe, Integrative Medicine Doctor and owner of Awakened Wellness Now.       ozempic - mylaine Riobe MP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_0 = [ { name: "ozempic", formats...

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At just 13 years old, Dr. Robin Buckley gave her daughter a vibrator. It wasn't something she planned on doing. She knew eventually her daughters would need bras and tampons, maybe even braces, but a vibrator was not on the list.  So why did she do it? "Why does a vibrator make us uncomfortable, but Viagra does not?" asks cognitive-behavioral coach Robin Buckley. Sharing her own personal story of...

Everyone has heard the phrase, “It takes a village,” but how exactly do we find our village? Who is in it and what does it look like? Rethinking the relationships in your life, you may realize that even if you have a calendar filled with social plans, you still might not have your “village.” In my her new  book, Florence Ann Romano answers all of these questions and more, helping you to build last...

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Alice Roosevelt was just as strong-willed and outspoken as her father Theodore Roosevelt, who admitted even he could not control her. Alice Roosevelt Longworth — Teddy Roosevelt’s oldest child — was the most eccentric first daughter to ever enter the White House and became the strong-willed and unbridled face of the New Woman movement of the early 1900s. She danced on the rooftops of millionaires,...

How can people position themselves at the center of their healthcare teams? What are some ways to improve communication with a doctor? How can patients make the most out of every moment with their doctor? How can technology improve our health? How do we prepare in advance for a visit to the doctor? How can we mitigate the looming doctor shortage?      TWF900 for 8-30-23 MP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_0 = [...

  The Sound of Her Voice: My Blind Parents’ Story is the inspiring chronicle of a remarkable couple, who against all odds, lived full and productive lives. Mario became the first blind graduate of the University of Notre Dame Law School and was later elected Judge of two different county courts in Muncie, Indiana. Jane ran the household and raised four children without outside assistance. Their st...

As a Mompreneur with a super-sized family, Christa Tharp has has been frequently asked, “How do you do it all?” Often called a Superwoman and always feeling like that was a title she could never live up to. The Superwoman Complex is killing woman at a fast rate and Christa says we have to do something about it now before we pass it on to the next generation of women. It became clear over the past...

We live in a culture where the first question you're usually asked at an event is, "Red or white?" Carrie Bradshaw and her rounds of cosmopolitans and Bridget Jones with her glasses of chardonnay; female drinkers are funny. They suffer through hangovers, swear they are going to cut back but and then renege. But many women find that their drinking isn’t funny at all.  In the U.S. and Western Europe...