The Patricia Raskin Show

Rhode Island International Film Festival Shawn Quirk, executive director of the 2025 Rhode Island International Film Festival, joins us to discuss missions of the festival, as well as what the festival has to offer. Now in its 28th year, the FLICKERS' RHODE ISLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL celebrates the independent spirit in film and has become a haven for independent filmmakers from throughout...

DESCRIPTION: Jim Murphy, author of  Inner Excellence: Train Your Mind For Extraordinary Performance and The Best Possible Life , has been  a professional baseball player in the Chicago Cubs organization. Jim Murphy's sense of worth revolved around his performance. He was focused on achievement but also afraid of failure. When he started coaching professional and Olympic athletes, he often encounte...

DESCRIPTION:  Ilene Dillon, author of Emotions in Motion: Mastering Life's Built-in Navigation System, and six-time Amazon best-selling author for various other books, will discuss realigning with emotions (including Anger Mastery), solving life problems in ways that last, and parenting consciously. Emotions in Motion explains a new way of working with emotions that allows you to move yourself int...

Insights on Love & Lost Later In Life   With grey divorces (divorces between adults ages fifty and up) at an all-time high, Virginia DeLuca's memoir constructs a timely and refreshingly honest guide to finding yourself in the face of loss and adversity. If You Must Go, I Wish You Triplets is an empowering read not just for "silver splitters," but for anyone who has or is currently facing change an...

Reflections and Lessons Learned from a POW Father For the first time, Sid Stockdale, one of four Stockdale children, tells stories from his 8- year experience (from age 11 to 19) while his father was a POW in the Hanoi Hilton and his mother started The National League of Families of POWs and the Missing in Southeast Asia. Sid will discuss his experiences of these years of trauma in a new memoir, "...

  FINDING THE SOUL OF BIG BUSINESS Paula Marshall is the CEO of the Bama Companies, Inc, which manufactures oven-ready products for customers in the quick-service and casual restaurant industry and private label products for retail in more than 17 countries. Paula is the founder of Paula Marshall Foundation, which builds schools in Ghana for children to provides education that offers an opportunit...

Support for Teens with Incarcerated Family Members  For most teens, home is a place where they can be themselves, where they can relax and breathe, and where they feel safe, nourished, and valued. For teens who carry the weight of having a loved one incarcerated or deported, home is also a place where they are not judged, where they are seen, heard, and respected by adults, and where they find une...

UNLOCKING LIFE'S TRUE POTENTIAL  Olivia Chadwick—a personal trainer, young mother, and her family's primary breadwinner—first met insurance magnate Garnet Morris before dawn on a winter morning in Saskatoon, Canada. Her task was to help prepare her new client for the grueling, 100-mile Kananaskis relay. She knew very little about him going into it, except that he could be unpredictable and they we...

Bill Hanney, is owner and producer of Theatre By The Sea in Wakefield, Rhode Island and North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly, Massachusetts.  Theatre By The Sea, which is on the National Register of Historic places and is located on the ancestral lands of the Narragansett People, has had many incarnations over the years. Bill Hanney purchased the property and historic theatre in 2007 and the theat...

  In A WALK AMONG HEROES:  Searching for   America's Better Angels Zelinski sheds light on how this hallowed ground and those buried there—privates beside colonels, surgeons and nurses bedside the troops they tried to save, the descendants of slaves beside Confederate soldiers, and wives, sons, and daughters beside loved ones who made the ultimate sacrifice—serves as a lens into what is good in ou...

Herb Weiss has had a distinguished journalism career, gaining national and state recognition as an expert on aging, healthcare, and medical issues. Throughout his 45-year writing career, Herb has authored or co-authored over 1,100 articles in national and Rhode Island newspapers and trade publications. The James P. Adams Library at Rhode Island College (RIC) will house digital copies of all his pu...

  Gail Lukaisk is  freelance writer, editor, college lecturer, and author. She will discuss her new book "What They Never Told Us", which us tells the stories of ordinary people who made extraordinary, life-changing discoveries. These discoveries are  about their parentage and/or race and ethnicity that fractured their identities and prompted two fundamental questions: Who are we? And what exactly...

Wilfred Aguila, "Dr. A" M.D. Bariatric Surgeon, author and radio show host, has dedicated his career to helping people live healthier lives. Dr. Aguila has served as a health and wellness advocate and has been in practice since 1996, specializing in bariatric medicine. He founded Weight Success Centers™, LLC to help patients suffering with weight problems conquer their struggle and live healthy. D...

Nancy Seabold is a Voice Coach who trains high school singers college entrance, and careers in classical music as well as piano lessons. She is freelancer writer, author of books for youth and adults. Her new book "The Congruent Rhyme of Opposites: A Spiritual Perspective on Intimacy", speaks to how to find a compatible partner in love, upon knowing how to love oneself. The message in this book wi...

Paula Marshall is the CEO of the Bama Companies, Inc, which manufactures oven-ready products for customers in the quick-service and casual restaurant industry and private label products for retail in more than 17 countries. Paula is the founder of Paula Marshall Foundation, which builds schools in Ghana for children to provides education that offers an opportunity for a new life. Paula will give t...

  Ed McDonough is a Marketing Architect, trained direct response copywriter, and the founder of ECE Marketing Services, LLC located in North Carolina.   Along with helping companies develop and implement an effective long-term client acquisition process that focuses on revenue growth, he also mentors aspiring copywriters. In addition, he is the author of 5 marketing books, three of which are Amazo...

Dr. Gary Wohlman, PhD, is a seasoned speaker, trainer, author and communication skills coach that specializes in presentation skill training. As a speaker's mentor, he specializes in enhancing the full-bodied engagement, interactive impact and effective  presentations both onlne and on stage. Gary  assists CEOs, executive managers, developing leaders, staff members, speakers, athletes, entertainer...

Sponsors of the Future, a nonprofit organization incorporated in EG, Rhode Island, is dedicated to facilitating strong connections between local communities and businesses to create a more significant impact in neurodivergent communities. Suzy and Janice from SoF will discuss how they create community programs for everyone with the mission to connect the different stakeholders to form ecosystems t...

EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Bill Kole, author of THE BIG 100: The New World of Super Aging, recently retired as New England editor for The Associated Press but continues to work as an editor for Axios By 2050, the world's centenarian population — those aged 100 or more — will increase eightfold. Whether we're 18 or 81, this tectonic demographic shift will affect us all. Bill will discuss important questi...

Forrest Rivers is the author of The Hippie Revival and Collected Writings and Humanity's Spiritual Rebirth: Lessons Lived and Learned from a Pandemic. He will discuss his books, the idea of a spiritual rebirth, the pandemic, spiritual teachings, and more. He offers guided reflection/meditation exercises after each chapter of his book that can be incorporated into your everyday life. He will share...

Michelle Gladieux (Glad-ee-oh) President of Gladieux Consulting, is author of Communicate with Courage: Taking Risks to Overcome the Four Hidden Challenges. Michelle is the President of Gladieux Consulting, known for top-notch design and presentation of seminars in communication and leadership topics around the U.S. She will discuss how to raise our game as communicators through recognizing and un...

Paula Marshall is the CEO of the Bama Companies, Inc, which manufactures oven-ready products for customers in the quick-service and casual restaurant industry and private label products for retail in more than 17 countries. As CEO, Paula provides strategic leadership and direction to the entire organization. Her vision stands as a beacon for Bama team members, inspiring the organization to achieve...

Episode Description Barbara Biziou instructs, empowers and motivates her clients to achieve higher levels of meaningful success. A former television and fashion executive, Barbara left her corporate career to share the wisdom she amassed from decades of global studies with gurus, spiritual masters and her own dedicated practice. communication skills, . She will discuss blending ancient spiritual r...

Mary Blue is the founder of Farmacy Herbs as well as an author, organic farmer, and community herbalist. Her book, Herbal Foundations, contains an overview of herbal actions, information on herbal medicine making, healing techniques and more. Mary will discuss how herbs can empower individuals to take control of their health and healing process, the connection to nature, how it can be used with co...

Dr. Diana Kirschner, PBS love expert and psychologist, is the  author of Love in 90 Days  as well as Sealing the Deal: The Love Mentor's Guide to Lasting Love, Find Your Soulmate Online, The Diamond Self Secret and 30 Days to Love: The Ultimate Relationship Turnaround Guide. Diana will discuss how to create high-value self-confidence, success, and lasting soulmate relationships as well as  advice...