The Kathryn Zox Show

Kathryn interviews Helen Hadani PhD. As the day-to-day effects of the pandemic ease, our children have been left with having to play catch up, learning the social tools and skills that parents of young children took for granted just 3 short years ago. To help them, parents need a new toolbox to foster their child's emotional intelligence—an essential character trait for children to succeed in our...

Kathryn interviews Helen Hadani PhD. As the day-to-day effects of the pandemic ease, our children have been left with having to play catch up, learning the social tools and skills that parents of young children took for granted just 3 short years ago. To help them, parents need a new toolbox to foster their child's emotional intelligence—an essential character trait for children to succeed in our...

Kathryn interviews Author CJ Gross. Within the past five years, diversity and inclusion, as well as unconscious bias, have been the main drivers of organizational training, politics and community engagement. But diversity is much more than a buzzword; it propels innovation and problem solving, and leads to higher performing teams. CJ Gross offers research-based solutions for employees seeking prof...

Kathryn interviews Author CJ Gross. Within the past five years, diversity and inclusion, as well as unconscious bias, have been the main drivers of organizational training, politics and community engagement. But diversity is much more than a buzzword; it propels innovation and problem solving, and leads to higher performing teams. CJ Gross offers research-based solutions for employees seeking prof...

Kathryn interviews Author Mary Lamia PhD. Combining psychological insights with numerous case examples from her decades of work with grieving clients Mary Lamia PhD illustrates how loved ones who have died are always alive within us—regardless of spiritual beliefs. For Lamia, this book has become a deeply personal journey. She lost her mother at the age of 11, her father just 10 years later and, s...

Kathryn interviews Author Mary Lamia PhD. Combining psychological insights with numerous case examples from her decades of work with grieving clients Mary Lamia PhD illustrates how loved ones who have died are always alive within us—regardless of spiritual beliefs. For Lamia, this book has become a deeply personal journey. She lost her mother at the age of 11, her father just 10 years later and, s...

Kathryn interviews Author Mark E. Scott. Jack Current isn't just hoping to drown his sorrows during his evening pub crawl through downtown Cincinnati's Over the Rhine neighborhood; he's hoping to actually drown — in the Ohio River. But not until he has poured his heart onto paper in the dollar store notebook he's got with him. Aptly referred to as The Drunk Log, Jack's notebook contains the secret...

Kathryn interviews Author Mark E. Scott. Jack Current isn't just hoping to drown his sorrows during his evening pub crawl through downtown Cincinnati's Over the Rhine neighborhood; he's hoping to actually drown — in the Ohio River. But not until he has poured his heart onto paper in the dollar store notebook he's got with him. Aptly referred to as The Drunk Log, Jack's notebook contains the secret...

Kathryn interviews Author DDS Dobson-Smith. Belonging is an archetypal experience that we all seek. In the workplace, a sense of belonging will only happen if you have both diversity and inclusion. When you facilitate diversity in hiring practices and instill inclusive policies, procedures and behaviors, your organization has its best chance of creating a culture that supports a sense of belonging...

Kathryn interviews Author DDS Dobson-Smith. Belonging is an archetypal experience that we all seek. In the workplace, a sense of belonging will only happen if you have both diversity and inclusion. When you facilitate diversity in hiring practices and instill inclusive policies, procedures and behaviors, your organization has its best chance of creating a culture that supports a sense of belonging...

Kathryn interviews Author Frieda Hoffman. Upon discovering that so many other women had experienced miscarriage but had never felt comfortable sharing it, certified coach Frieda Hoffman felt not only betrayed by and furious with the patriarchy that made them feel ashamed, but also a profound sense of sadness that women seem to be made to suffer in silence. Shame and silence beget shame and silence...

Kathryn interviews Author Frieda Hoffman. Upon discovering that so many other women had experienced miscarriage but had never felt comfortable sharing it, certified coach Frieda Hoffman felt not only betrayed by and furious with the patriarchy that made them feel ashamed, but also a profound sense of sadness that women seem to be made to suffer in silence. Shame and silence beget shame and silence...

Kathryn interviews Author Tracy Dennis-Tiwary PhD. Dr. Tracy Dennis-Tiwary argues that anxiety is not, as we often refer to it, unhealthy—in fact, it's an evolved advantage that protects us and strengthens our creative and productive powers. Although it's related to stress and fear, it's uniquely valuable—allowing us to imagine the uncertain future and impelling us to make that future better. Dist...

Kathryn interviews Author Tracy Dennis-Tiwary PhD. Dr. Tracy Dennis-Tiwary argues that anxiety is not, as we often refer to it, unhealthy—in fact, it's an evolved advantage that protects us and strengthens our creative and productive powers. Although it's related to stress and fear, it's uniquely valuable—allowing us to imagine the uncertain future and impelling us to make that future better. Dist...

Kathryn interviews Author Paul Conti MD.Trauma affects the body and mind and, like a transmissible contagion, can spread among close family and friends, and even across generations and within vast demographic groups. We're all susceptible. Paul Conti MD says "Trauma is way too prevalent, harmful, contagious, and often invisible—just like a virus." He understands trauma personally through tragic ev...

Kathryn interviews Author Paul Conti MD.Trauma affects the body and mind and, like a transmissible contagion, can spread among close family and friends, and even across generations and within vast demographic groups. We're all susceptible. Paul Conti MD says "Trauma is way too prevalent, harmful, contagious, and often invisible—just like a virus." He understands trauma personally through tragic ev...

Kathryn interviews Author Dana Suskind MD. As the pandemic continues to wreak havoc on families, and the Build Back Better plan is stalled in Congress, many parents feel alone, resourceless, and forgotten. But as Dr. Dana Suskind recently wrote in The Hill, parents have the power to become our nation's strongest special interest group. She proposes we must make healthy brain development our North...

Kathryn interviews Author Dana Suskind MD. As the pandemic continues to wreak havoc on families, and the Build Back Better plan is stalled in Congress, many parents feel alone, resourceless, and forgotten. But as Dr. Dana Suskind recently wrote in The Hill, parents have the power to become our nation's strongest special interest group. She proposes we must make healthy brain development our North...

Kathryn interviews Author Dana Suskind MD. As the pandemic continues to wreak havoc on families, and the Build Back Better plan is stalled in Congress, many parents feel alone, resourceless, and forgotten. But as Dr. Dana Suskind recently wrote in The Hill, parents have the power to become our nation's strongest special interest group. She proposes we must make healthy brain development our North...

Kathryn interviews Author Dana Suskind MD. As the pandemic continues to wreak havoc on families, and the Build Back Better plan is stalled in Congress, many parents feel alone, resourceless, and forgotten. But as Dr. Dana Suskind recently wrote in The Hill, parents have the power to become our nation's strongest special interest group. She proposes we must make healthy brain development our North...

Kathryn interviews Author Dr. Stephen Morris. Placing a loved one into an assisted living facility can be an incredibly trying and emotional experience. It's an enormous decision that does not come lightly. Naturally, families are concerned with the quality of care that the seniors in their lives will be receiving, and are reluctant to trust institutional senior care. According to Dr. Stephen Morr...

Kathryn interviews Author Dr. Stephen Morris. Placing a loved one into an assisted living facility can be an incredibly trying and emotional experience. It's an enormous decision that does not come lightly. Naturally, families are concerned with the quality of care that the seniors in their lives will be receiving, and are reluctant to trust institutional senior care. According to Dr. Stephen Morr...

Kathryn interviews Author Greg Hammer, MD. Moms everywhere have been hit especially hard by the pandemic, and their stress has slowly compounded since 2020. Even in 2022, women are expected to bend their work schedules first to accommodate childcare while also keeping up with the majority of the housework regardless of their professional responsibilities. Paired with the isolation felt during lock...

Kathryn interviews Author Greg Hammer, MD. Moms everywhere have been hit especially hard by the pandemic, and their stress has slowly compounded since 2020. Even in 2022, women are expected to bend their work schedules first to accommodate childcare while also keeping up with the majority of the housework regardless of their professional responsibilities. Paired with the isolation felt during lock...

Kathryn interviews Author Kim Dower. Acclaimed for combining the accessible and profound, Kim Dower's poems about motherhood are some of her most moving and disarmingly candid. Culled from her four collections as well as a selection of new work, these poems, heartbreaking, funny, surprising, and touching, explore the quirky, unexpected observations, and bittersweet moments mothers and daughters sh...