The Michael Ostrolenk Show

Ostrolenk speaks with Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) J.C. Glick, a partner with MVP Development Group and a Partner Emeritus with Kenning Associates. Glick is the co-author with Dr. Alice Atalanta Ph. D of “Meditations of an Army Ranger: A Warrior Philosophy for Everyone”. Glick begins by discussing the premise of the book, noting the ways in which modern day Americans have lost the lessons of philosop...

Ostrolenk speaks with Twila Brase, RN, PHN, author of Big Brother in the Exam Room: The Dangerous Truth About Electronic Health Records. Brase is also the co-founder and president of the Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom. (https://www.cchfreedom.org). Brase details for the audience the ways in which electronic health records threaten citizens’ privacy and quality healthcare treatment. Specifica...

Ostrolenk speaks with Chris Preble, Vice President of Defense and Foreign Policy Studies at Cato Institute and author of Peace, War, and Liberty. Preble begins by discussing our Founding Fathers’ vision for U.S. Foreign Policy, specifically the Constitution’s called for a standing Navy, but the ability to raise an Army. This is an important distinction, meant to limit the United States’ tendency t...

Ostrolenk speaks with Dan Cerrillo, veteran of the SEAL teams, master training specialist at Navy Special Warfare Center, and founder of Spartan 7 Executive Adventures. Cerrillo discusses the program that he runs training people both in person and online to become Navy SEALS, focusing on mental toughness and physical endurance. In addition to his work training future SEALS, CCerrillo help found an...

Ostrolenk speaks with Nancy Eichhorn, PhD, teacher and editor of Somatic Psychotherapy Today. They discuss what is meant by somatic psychotherapy and how practitioners use the movements and functions of the human body to holistically understand how humans experience themselves. Eichhorn details her educational and personal experience that led her to focus on somatic psychotherapy and several key e...

Ostrolenk welcomes back Gary Collins to speak about his book Living off the Grid. Collins discusses what led him to live off the grid and his strategy to doing so. Touching upon several chapters in his book, Collin’s details building a home off the grid, ways to approach power, water, and sanitation, and the nuance to be considered before buying a tiny home. Collins doesn’t regret his decision and...

Ostrolenk speaks with Cathy Reisenwitz, a San Francisco-based writer. Reisenwitz is a self-described sex-positive libertarian feminist, and she dives into her journey to each of these identities. Reisenwitz chronicles how she came to identify with libertarianism, her thoughts on the neoliberalism movement, the importance of safety nets in economic growth, and the role of affordable housing. Reisen...

Ostrolenk speaks with Chris and Holly Santillo, parents of the Five Backpacks Family (https://fivebackpacks.family/). Chris and Holly are soon to journey around the world with their three children, traveling through the U.S., Russia, Asia and elsewhere. Their decision arose from a desire to world school themselves and their children, learning about other cultures and better understanding themselve...

Ostrolenk speaks with Gary Collins, author of many books including The Simple Life: Guide to Decluttering Your Life. Collins details his personal transition away from a maximum consumption lifestyle and what he has come to learn from this experience, namely the need to focus not only on decluttering physical possessions but also one’s mind, health and finances. Collins also discusses the importanc...

Ostrolenk speaks with Holly and Chris Santillo, authors of Resilience Parenting. Holly and Chris detail their professional journeys as a teacher and martial arts instructor, respectively, and their journey as parents, both of which have inspired the authorship of their book. The book focuses on how to raise children that are strong, adaptable, and have the ability to recover from setbacks. Holly a...

Ostrolenk speaks with Marc Lesser, who is internationally recognized for pioneering in mindful leadership and creating exceptional business cultures. Lesser founded and was CEO of 3 companies and is the author of 4 books. Ostrolenk and Lesser discuss Lesser’s journey to mindfulness and his most recent book: Seven Practices of a Mindful Leader (https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Practices-Mindful-Leader-...

Ostrolenk speaks with Mandy Smithberger, Director for the Center for Defense Information at POGO (https://www.pogo.org/). Smithberger details their newest report Brass Parachutes: The Problem of the Pentagon Revolving Door (https://www.pogo.org/report/2018/11/brass-parachutes/). The report highlights the ways in which the military industrial complex conflates what is in the best financial interest...

Ostrolenk speaks with Dr. Jake Desyllas: author, investor, entrepreneur, and host of The Voluntary Life Podcast (https://thevoluntarylife.com/). Desyllas discusses his journey to change his career path and discover the principles by which he truly wants to live. In doing this there were numerous challenges but also numerous rewards. Desyllas also details how travel has played a role in his life an...

Ostrolenk speaks with Nancy Parrish, executive director of Women’s Action for New Directions (WAND), an organization that build’s women’s political power to advocate for security and peace with justice. One of their key pieces of work is the coalition United Against Nuclear War, https://www.wand.org/united-against-nukes-campaign, in collaboration with Beyond the Bomb, Win Without War, Peace Action...

Ostrolenk speaks with Wendy Jordan, Senior Policy Analyst at Taxpayers for Common Sense (https://www.taxpayer.net/). Jordan discusses ongoing efforts to ensure the Pentagon passes an audit and the reasons it is important to ensure the Pentagon is spending money efficiently and in the way directed by Congress. The structure of the Pentagon makes this a challenging endeavor, but one that can and sho...

Ostrolenk speaks with Jake Laperruque, Senior Council for the Constitution Project at the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) (https://www.pogo.org/). Laperruque recently wrote Securing our Elections: How States Can Mitigate the Potential Damage of Hacked Voter Registration Roles (https://www.pogo.org/report/2018/11/election-day-under-attack-how-states-can-mitigate-the-potential-damage-of-hacke...

Ostrolenk speaks with Stefanos Sifandos, facilitator of transformational growth. Sifandos details his career path to coaching, specifically his personal transformation from a life that felt void of depth and quality relationships to one that is full of personal connections and growth. Through this transformation, Sifandos reflected on his past and began to understand the ways in which men often is...

Ostrolenk speaks with Steve Foerster, writer, technologist, educator, and President of New World University, based in the Commonwealth of Dominica. Foerster discusses how he became involved with online higher education and how his experience working with international students drove the development of New World University. Foerster further details the educational opportunities through New World Un...

Ostrolenk speaks with Dr. Stuart Sovatsky, long-time psychotherapist, author, and scholar of Kundalini Yoga. Sovatsky describes successful spiritual based therapeutic approaches including the overarching approach to aim for what is ideal in human relationships rather than what seems likely. With this ideal in mind, he guides clients through changing their mental and emotional states to reconnect t...

Ostrolenk speaks with John St. Claire, a musician, teacher, and Master Healer, trained in many modalities. St. Claire speaks of his private healing practice, using crystals and sound, which helps clients change their lives physically, mentally, and spiritually. Ostrolenk and St. Claire discuss Ostrolenk’s experience with non-ordinary states of being during his session with St. Claire and the succe...

Ostrolenk speaks with Cosper Scafidi, a Structural integration Certified Advanced Rolfer® and a board member of the Dr. Ida Rolf Institute. Scafidi chronicles what led him into Rolfing®, which is soft tissue manipulation and movement education aimed at improving body alignment and function. Scafidi also discusses the transformations that can occur from Rolfing, both physically and psychologically,...

Ostrolenk speaks with TJ Ferrara and Sean Lake, who started Bubs Naturals (https://www.bubsnaturals.com/collections/all). This business was born out of a desire to provide funding to the Glen Doherty Memorial Foundation (http://www.glendohertyfoundation.org/). Glen Doherty was a Navy SEAL and one of the four Americans killed in the terror attack in Benghazi in September 2012. The Glen Doherty Memo...

Ostrolenk speaks with Norie Huddle, environmental & peace activist, author, social entrepreneur. Norie tells how she "retired" at age 25 to do "only what makes absolute sense to her for the rest of her life." She currently lives in Ecuador where she and her husband are building the Garden of Paradise (www.gardenofparadise.net) and won world's first lawsuit defending the Rights of Nature (https://w...

Ostrolenk continues his conversation with Dan Grazier, Jack Shanahan Fellow with the Project on Government Oversight (POGO), on the F-35. The F-35 is back in the news following two key events: its bombing missions in Afghanistan and a crash in South Carolina. Grazier updates the audience on current production levels of the F-35, as well as the ongoing issues with its operations, noting that althou...

Van Orden speaks to Ostrolenk about his endeavors to inspire reform within the American Legion, specifically, to motivate the leadership to police up their ranks and call to task members who lie about their service in order to make the Legion a place where younger veterans will join in greater numbers. This goal is to decrease the isolation of veterans and stop the epidemic rate of suicide in the...