The Kathryn Zox Show

Kathryn interviews scientist Marie-Claire Arrieta PhD, author of "Let Them Eat Dirt: Saving Your Child from an Oversanitized World". It turns out that our current emphasis on hyper-cleanliness and poor diets are taking a toll on our children's lifelong health. Dr. Arrieta explains how the microbes that live in our bodies impact childhood development and why an imbalance in those microbes can lead...

Kathryn interviews NYTimes bestselling author Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff, author of 'The Missing Kennedy: Rosemary Kennedy and the Secret Bonds of Four Women'. Rosemary Kennedy, younger sister of President John F. Kennedy, was lobotomized at age 23 in 1941 and was put out of public view in 1959 at a remote facility in rural Wisconsin. For more than 20 years, she remained unvisited by family and n...

Kathryn interviews The Health Care Detective Frank Lalli, author of "Your Best Healthcare Now: Get Doctor Discounts, Save with Better Health Insurance, Find Affordable Prescriptions". Lalli details how he mastered our flawed health care system during his own cancer treatment. This book gives readers the tools to make smart decisions that could save them hundreds—if not thousands—of dollars. Lalli...

Kathryn interviews Feminist Studies Managing Editor Karla Mantilla, author of "Gendertrolling: How Misogyny Went Viral". Comedian and actress Leslie Jones was recently the victim of intense and unrelentless online harassment – to the point where her safety was at stake and she had to delete her Twitter account. Mantilla provides key insight into this Internet phenomenon while discussing the legal...

Kathryn interviews psychiatrist Dion Metzger MD, author of "The Modern Trophy Wife: How to Achieve Your Life Goals While Thriving at Home". Women today lead busy lives, trying to balance successful careers with healthy lifestyles and supportive families. Dr. Dion Metzger and co-author Dr. Ayo Gathing have found that some women feel guilty for taking time to themselves. Their response? Ladies, taki...

Kathryn interviews Matthew Lederman MD, New York Times bestselling author of the book 'Forms Over Knives Family'. Dr. Lederman brings us a complete guide to a plant-based lifestyle for the entire family—with more than 125 delicious, kid-friendly recipes for raising a whole-foods-loving child. Dr. Lederman and his wife Dr. Alona Pulde make the case that modern diseases can be prevented and often re...

Kathryn interviews BRAVO TV's Jersey Belle Jaime Primack Sullivan, author of "The Southern Education of a Jersey Girl: Adventures in Life and Love in the Heart of Dixie". Sullivan shares lessons on Southern etiquette, deep-fried foods, college football, and matters of the heart—delivered with her side-splitting Jersey twist. Whether she's pushing the boundaries of what proper Southern ladies consi...

Kathryn interviews communication security expert Shaun Murphy about security safeguards. When guests check into a hotel, the first thing the front desk requests is a credit card for the room. Before just grabbing any card out of their wallets guests may want to think twice. Major hotel chains have been hacked and lost massive amounts of financial and personal data on guests. Murphy has dedicated h...

Kathryn interviews New York Post columnist Naomi Schaefer Riley, author of "The New Trail of Tears: How Washington is Destroying American Indians". Today, American Indians have high poverty, suicide, victim of rape, and gang violence rates. These are just some of the findings that Riley uncovers in her latest book. Riley is featured in The Wall Street Journal, The NY Times and The Boston Globe. Sh...

Kathryn interviews NY Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs on her book "Family Tree". The most touching journey is in coming home: and no one else can evoke all the uncertainty and joys of those life passages quite like Wiggs. Wiggs, a Harvard grad and winner of a RITA Award from the Romance Writers of America, is the #1 NY Times bestselling author of more than fifty novels. Kathryn also interview...

Kathryn interviews Crystal Andrus Morissette, bestselling author of " The Emotional Edge: Discover Your Inner Age, Ignite Your Hidden Strengths and Reroute Misdirected Fear to Live Your Fullest". They say with age comes wisdom, but what about your emotional age? Does your emotional age match your real age? Morissette shows us how to identify our emotional age and our parenting archetype, pinpointi...

Kathryn interviews Kevin Hancock, award-winning author of "Not For Sale: Finding Center in the Land of Crazy Horse". After Hancock lost his voice to a rare medical condition, he was drawn to the Sioux Nation deep in Indian country to awaken his soul. Hancock reveals the inner workings of deep seeking that opened his eyes, his heart and his mind – ultimately leading to his creation of a shared resp...

Kathryn interviews Fortune 500 leadership consultant Keith Eigel PhD, author of "The Map: Your Path to Effectiveness in Leadership, Life, and Legacy". Great leadership is about making the contribution only you can make for your family and friends, your community or organization, your country or the world. Dr. eith Eigel discusses this year's presidential election and how polls show that both candi...

Kathryn interviews teacher Naomi Katz, author of "Beautiful: Being An Empowered Young Woman". It all started with a catcall. Katz was on her way to teach her seventh-grade class when she heard the catcalls that are only too common. It made her feel angry and helpless, and it made her wonder—how did it affect the girls in her class? The answer shocked and galvanized her to create a course she teach...

Kathryn interviews Army Infantry Officer and Yoga Master Eric Walrabenstein, author of "Waging Inner Peace: How 5,000 Veterans Used the Ancient Secrets of Yoga & Mindfulness to Reclaim their Lives from Stress and How You Can, Too". Waging Inner Peace chronicles how 5,000 hard-charging U.S. military veterans came to use yoga's ancient science of mind to heal from the stresses induced by the horrors...

Kathryn interviews NY Times bestselling author and medium George Anderson on his book "Life Between Heaven and Earth: What You Didn't Know About the World Hereafter and How It Can Help You". Anderson is the first medium in history to appear on a cable television show and is the only medium to be cleared by network television standards and practices to appear on the first-ever prime-time special on...

Kathryn interviews educational psychologist and character expert Michele Borba EdD about her book "UnSelfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me World". Parents want to raise empathetic, kind, compassionate children who will go on to achieve great success and enjoy true happiness. But why do studies find that kids today are 40% less empathetic than they were thirty years ago? Dr. Borba...

Kathryn interviews blogger and parent Marguerite Elisofon, author of "My Picture Perfect Family: What Happens When One Twin has Autism". Samantha's introduction to the world was much more challenging than her brother's. They sought professional help and received the diagnosis they feared—their daughter was on the Autistic Spectrum. This is Elisofon's memoir of the courage it takes to raise and adv...

Kathryn interviews founder and CEO of TRUE Model Management Dale Noelle. Plus-size models are currently making huge waves in the modeling industry breaking down the stereotypical ideals of beauty. Noelle, formerly one of the fashion industry's most sought after models, empowers women of all shapes, colors and sizes. TRUE has close ties with many of the most influential names in the industry, inclu...

Kathryn interviews StandUnited.org's senior product manager Paul Van Remortel on disruptive technologies and how they are changing the way activist work. Just like Uber and Airbnb disrupted the taxi and hotel industry, StandUnited.org has disrupted political activism and leveled the playing field for Conservatives. Van Remortel leads the team responsible for StandUnited, working to make us all mor...

Kathryn interview New York Times bestselling author Firoozeh Dumas, author of "It Ain't So Awful, Falafel". Her latest book is based on her own experiences emigrating from Iran to Newport Beach in the 1970's and how she had to balance being a normal teenage girl with overcoming stereotypes stemming from a tense Iran-American relationship. Dumas is a frequent commentator on NPR and her work appears...

Kathryn interviews Stanford University Clinical Associate Professor Beth Darnall PhD, author of "Less Pain Fewer Pills: Avoid the Dangers of Prescription Opioids and Gain Control Over Chronic Pain". In 2014 over 28,000 Americans died of opioid overdoses. Using her 15 years of experience treating adults with chronic pain Dr. Darnall provides concrete, evidence-based psychological and behavioral alt...

Kathryn interview science journalist Kayt Sukel, author of "The Art of Risk: The New Science of Courage, Caution and Chance". Are risk-takers born or made? This is the question that set Sukel on a quest to find the answers, blending case studies and hard-hitting science to explore risk-taking in work, play, love and life and showing readers how understanding their own behavior can further their pe...

Kathryn interview federal sex-crimes prosecutor Allison Leotta, author of "The Last Good Girl". Drawing inspiration from real cases, Leotta explores the issue of sexual assaults on campuses, the struggles of Title IX activists fighting for change, the technology that has revolutionized the ways crimes are committed and investigated, and the lengths those in power will go to protect their own. Leot...

Kathryn interviews Pulitzer Prize-winning science reporter Amy Ellis Nutt, author of "Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family". This is the inspiring true story of a transgender girl, her identical twin brother, and an ordinary American family's extraordinary journey to understand, nurture, and celebrate the uniqueness in us all. Becoming Nicole was named "One of the Ten Best Boo...