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July 15, 2018
158: Karen Noe – WE Consciousness – 33 Profound Truths for Inner and Outer Peace
What happens when a calling leads you down paths you never expected including writing a book with Wayne Dyer, after he has died, and a multitude of other greater minds and beings from above? Well one thing that happens is a great episode of a radio show and a really profound book.
I was introduced to Karen Noe by a former guest and dear friend Jackie Lapin. I was intrigued to interview an medium. I have felt my mom multiple times she she passed and have beliefs as to what happens to someone when they leave their earthly bodies but to speak to someone who has, time-after-time, been proven to have access to those who have passed beyond was an opportunity I could not pass up.
On this episode we discuss how Karen realized she was a medium, her battle with Imposter Syndrome that almost could have derailed her path in the world and what WE Consciousness brings the world to help us achieve inner and outer peace. Karen also shares some techniques you can begin using right away to connect to your own inner and outer peace.
Karen Noé is a renowned New Jersey psychic medium with a two-year waiting list. She is the Hay House author of We Consciousness: 33 Profound Truths for Inner and Outer Peace, Your Life After Their Death: A Medium’s Guide to Healing After a Loss and Through the Eyes of Another: A Medium’s Guide to Creating Heaven on Earth by Encountering your Life Review Now.
Website:
karennoe.com
July 10, 2018
157: Dr. Laurie Nadel – Pt 2 – Emotional First Aid – The Five Gifts
Don’t just survive, thrive. Disasters happen and happen and happen lately. Some major to large portions of the world, like all the shootings and natural disasters and some major just to you, like a death of a loved one, health or monetary crisis. Or some that may seem minor on the surface but your entire being reacts in a major way.
How do you handle them and how do you bounceback from them?
I had so much to ask Dr. Laurie Nadel I asked her back after my first interview with her. On this episode, done live on June 26, 2018, we discuss her book, The Five Gifts and her emotional first aid toolkit she discovered while working with survivors of some of the largest scale disasters of our modern day.
Her book changed the way I think about life and stress and has given me tools to help myself walk a bit easier through my day.
Take a listen.
Dr. Laurie Nadel, PhD., is a specialist in acute stress, trauma, and anxiety issues. She has been interviewed in The New York Times, National Public Radio, Reuters, and CNN.com. During her 20-year carder in journalism, she recognized a need to help people whose lives were shattered by violence.
After earning two doctorates through independent study and completing training in mind-body medicine. she pioneered emotional first aid tools to help lower acute stress after catastrophic events. Dr. Laurie is a member of a critical incident stress management team working with first responders and staff who were working at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during the February 14th shooting which killed 17 teachers and students while wounding another 17.
After losing her home to Hurricane Sandy, Dr. Laurie ran long-term support groups for survivors. From 2003 to 2005, she directed a program for teenagers whose fathers were killed in the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks and wrote the script for After the Fall: The Rise of a 9/11 Community Center, narrated by Dan Rather. Her four-time bestseller, Sixth Sense: Unlocking Your Ultimate Mind Power, was featured twice on Oprah.
A journalist for twenty years, Laurie Nadel reported for Newsweek and United Press International in South America, wrote TV news for CBS, ABC News and Reuters Television, and was a religion columnist for The New York Times’ Long Island section.
She also helped created the Committee to Protect Journalists, an organization since 1981 that has fought for the rights of journalists around the world. THE FIVE GIFTS: Discovering Healing, Hope and Strength When Disaster Strikes is her seventh book. For more information, please visit www.laurienadel.com.
July 9, 2018
156: Laura Steward – My unplanned digital detox
I’ve written articles about doing a digital detox and even done some short ones but they were all planned. My recent trip to North Carolina though was a digital detox of a completely different sort and completely unplanned.
So what happens when a certified geek and smartphone junkie gets into the mountains of North Carolina and discovers that her phone seems to be on permanent No Service status?
I had planned on taking a bit of a vacation for my 55th birthday. The recent passing of my mom had made this the first I would celebrate without her in my physical life so I wanted to get away. It was going to be my first vacation in eight years and I was looking forward to it yet a bit freaked out.
Once I realized my freak out was more because I was no longer used to being able to go away without worrying about making sure my mom would be okay while I was away I was able to at least pack the car up and tell my friends I would come. Yet, it still sat in my mind that the only reason I could go was because mom was no longer alive.
As I was driving I started having some nausea and vertigo issues and thought, “I should turn around, I must be getting sick.” but the thought of turning around gave me greater panic than continuing on so I kept going. Turns out the car was causing the issues but that is a story for another day. Tears began to stream and a full blown panic began to happen. Thankfully my iPhone was working and I was able to reach out to dear friends and the car dealer about the car and have a lifeline during the eleven hour drive.
Just as I arrived at my friend’s house in Spruce Pine, literally moments after I hung up with them being guided into their driveway as my cell phone and car GPS seemed to stop working, I noticed my cell phone now said No Service. I figured it was just a weird blip of satellites and cellular signal and would correct itself in a few moments. Well not so much!
For the next few days my phone seemed to be in a state of mostly permanent No Service mode. There was one spot near a window in one of their bathrooms that if I stood very still I could get a signal and make/receive calls and texts. Sometimes text would work even when it said No Service but mostly not. My unplanned digital detox was on.
Take a listen to this episode of my radio show and hear how it went. I would love to hear about your own digital addiction and/or detox if you are willing to share with me on Facebook or Twitter what comes up for you at the thought of a digital detox.
Laura Steward is a sought after business strategist, keynote speaker, radio host and author. After building and selling her highly successful multi-state technology services company she started Wisdom Learned, LLC, a company dedicated to educating leaders based on experience and wisdom learned in the trenches.
Ms. Steward is the author of the Nautilus award-winning, International bestselling book “What Would a Wise Woman Do? Questions to Ask Along the Way”. Through her weekly broadcast Radio Show, It’s All About the Questions, keynote speeches, books, seminars, training and one-one sessions, Laura’s mission is clear ? help people get off autopilot and create amazing, successful lives.
July 1, 2018
155: Silver Muzzle Cottage Rescue & Hospice – Kim Skarritt
Miracles happen every day but you have to willing to see them. My guest on this June 12, 2018 episode experiences them every day including the day she decided to leave corporate America and become a dog trainer. Then she “happens” upon the perfect home and property in a more remote area than she had thought about in Michigan and THEN, she realizes senior dogs are being discarded and she has an empty building on the property.
Miracles all around for her and the amazing senior pets she fosters, places and, in some cases, helps cross the rainbow bridge when it is their time. Wait until you here the segment where she shares how they help the loved dogs pass on. I was crying and so was she.
I am a huge dog lover. Well I love animals of all kinds except snakes and spiders so when I heard about the Silver Muzzle Cottage Rescue and Hospice through a friend’s Facebook page, Kindness Matters, I knew I had to interview the founder, Kim Skarritt. What I did not expect was how many reach outs happened from the live show.
Try to listen to this show without wanting to run out and rescue a senior pet or, as one person wanted to know, “how do I start one where I am?”
We have talked a lot about callings this year, starting with my two part series with Father Michael Boccaccio. He shared how callings come in all kinds, not just as a religious one and we learned how to begin recognizing your own calling.
This episode shows you how Kim’s calling has begun to transform the way we think about senior pets and what we can do to make a difference no matter where we are. She thought her path was very different then what it turned out to be yet all her experiences have helped her thrive on this one.
If you have a senior dog or pet, post some pictures with this post on FB, Twitter or instagram and tag me!
The Silver Muzzle Cottage Rescue & Hospice is a 501c3 organization that works with shelters and pet owners throughout the state of Michigan. Kim Skarritt created an all-volunteer-based organization that relies solely on public donations and grant funding. Their organization is proud to be a certified rescue through the Michigan Pet Fund Alliance organization and a Transfer Partner with the Michigan Humane Society. Kim’s internationally-recognized program strives to educate others about the problem of homelessness amongst the senior dog population. Through positive promotion, we hope to shed light on the value, beauty and grace of these dogs and the many ways they can enrich the lives of those who choose to foster or adopt them.
Volunteers are the heart and soul of our rescue. Cottage Friends volunteers enrich the lives of our rescues by taking them for walks, hikes in the woods, strolls on the beach and the occasional swim. For Cottage residents who are too limited to enjoy a more active lifestyle, quiet days on comfy dog beds and the companionship of our volunteers is all that is needed.
Through the Seniors For Seniors program, SMC volunteers take Cottage residents to visit area nursing care facilities. This meaningful activity brings joy not only to the facility residents but to the dogs who participate. Many canines late in their years are often found in area shelters and are quickly euthanized because their age and disabilities make them less likely to be adopted. We recognize that these dogs once gave their lives to someone, or to a family, and for a variety of reasons and factors, now find themselves in a strange, scary shelter environment or set “free” and eventually picked up as a stray.
The team knows these dogs deserve more, that they shouldn’t die alone and afraid in a cage. Senior dogs deserve love and dignity in their final days, months and years. SMC is dedicated to the rescue, adoption and lifelong care of these senior dogs. Contact us to learn more about how you can get involved and help.
June 12, 2018
154: Clardy Malugen – From Corporate CEO to Internationally Renowned Healer
“A pattern gets triggered that shifts you into autopilot. Those buttons are an unconscious block.”
Those words, from my guest Clardy Malugen, former CEO of a multimillion dollar company, define why she has switched paths from working with companies like Walt Disney Imagineering and NBC Television and now focuses on helping others heal their lives and bodies.
I had the pleasure of being introduced to Clardy by my friend and previous guest on the show, Jackie Lapin. We met over dinner and her insights into some ongoing health issues were nothing sort of miraculous and some issues I had prior to a healing session with her are just gone.
During this episode that was done live on the show on June 5, 2018, sorry for the posting delay, Clardy shares tips on how you can begin to release blocks that are preventing you from healing and how you can stay in the light even when everything around you seems to be in the negative.
Scientists have been studying Clardy’s work and have tracked DNA changes in her clients after healing sessions. She shares several stories of healings that have occurred and how she realized that healing work was really her calling.
Stay listening to the end as Clardy is givin all my listeners some free resources to get you to the point where you can finally answer this question, “What would your life look like if you were not holding yourself back?”
Formerly a successful entrepreneur and business owner, Clardy Malugen served as President and key developer of a multimillion dollar, bi-coastal entertainment corporation and has provided consulting services to many Fortune 500 companies including Walt Disney Imagineering, Guthy-Renker, Inc., NBC Television, Disney Cruise Line, and General Electric, among others.
Clardy earned a prestigious Writer of the Year award from the Jordan Whitney Report, and garnered a nomination from The American Film Institute for her TV/video project entitled Save the Earth: A How-To Video. Clardy’s work has been featured in many publications such as The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Whole Life Times, and on Entertainment Tonight and MTV.
Clardy holds an MFA from Florida State University–Asolo Conservatory, an MA from the University of Missouri-Kansas City–Missouri Repertory Theatre, and a BA cum laude from Beloit College. She studied in Europe at the Université de Haute Bretagne in Rennes, France, and at the Transpersonal Hypnotherapy Institute in Santa Monica, California. Clardy is also a graduate of the Hoffmann Quadrinity Process, and has studied with many notable human potential leaders, such as Deepak Chopra and Carolyn Myss.
Throughout the years, Clardy has quietly explored her natural gifts as a medical intuitive and energy healer. She recently made a commitment to share these remarkable gifts with clients in both her private practice and workshops. Utilizing what she calls a “transdimensional energy connection to The Field”, she has facilitated hundreds of instantaneous healings of both emotional and physical limitations that have been described as “miraculous”. Although often called a “master healer”, Clardy believes that her work with energy simply helps to release negative energy fields that are blocking the body’s natural ability to heal itself.
A former resident of Los Angeles and New York, Clardy currently resides with her two sons in Orlando, Florida.
June 11, 2018
153: Michael Cole – From The Mod Squad to a Life of Redemption
This is not the usual guest I have on the show. I don’t do celebrity interviews but when this guest’s agent reached out to me I knew I had to interview him. Why? Because I had such a huge crush on him when I was a much younger girl!
My guest is Michael Cole from the TV series The Mod Squad. As he says in his book title, “I Played The White Guy”. And what a book it is. When I read the book to prepare for the interview I was surprised how candid and introspective the book was. As I read it I had so many questions I wanted to ask and I was excited to get to interview him.
Sometimes the crush isn’t worthy of the crush when you get to “meet” them in person. That was not the case when I started speaking with Michael. The interview was everything I could have hoped for and so much more.
No topic was off limits and Michael shared his journey to 23 years sober, finding redemption and how learning to make loneliness his friend created an opening for internal peace and joy and getting sober.
It was great to “meet” my crush AND discover he is a wonderful man who wants his story to be shared to help others. One of my favorite quotes from his book and the interview is this one, “Make loneliness your friend. It will always be there.”
Michael Cole was born on the cusp of the Depression and the Second World War, on July 3, 1940, on the blue-collar side of Madison, Wisconsin. He never met his biological father, who abandoned his mother, brother Ted, and him when he was born. With no home of their own, they lived with his grandmother, in a house with no running hot water and a single commode in the basement. His “Ma,” Kathleen Hyland, whom he deeply loved, was forced to work several jobs to keep food on the table.
As a kid, Michael often ran the streets, wild and rebellious, pretty much on his own. He quit school in the ninth grade, and was married at seventeen, a teenage father of a beautiful baby girl. The young marriage couldn’t survive the pressures, and ended after four years. Michael, an alcoholic by age thirteen, was alone and lost. He set out at the age of twenty, making his way to the streets of San Francisco, tended bar in Las Vegas, and then in 1963 moved to Los Angeles, where he joined the acting workshop of renowned coach Estelle Harmon.
Casting agents began to hear about his talent and he started to get work. In 1968, after guest shots in Gunsmoke and Run for Your Life, he landed the role of Pete Cochran in Aaron Spelling’s The Mod Squad. The show dealt with contemporary and controversial subjects?issues very close to Michael ‘s heart?racism, child abuse, Viet Nam veterans, and drugs. It became a smash hit, resonating with the counterculture of the times, and it made Michael an international celebrity. He was the recipient of four Logie Awards, Australia’s version of the Emmy Awards.
At the height of his success, Michael married Paula Kelly Jr., whose parents formed the famous musical group “The Modernaires.” They had a daughter, but again, alcohol and Michael’s rise to stardom destined the marriage to failure.
In 1989, after years of isolation, despair, and the bottle, Michael met the woman who would change his life forever. With Shelley’s love and encouragement, Michael got sober. He completed the program at Betty Ford Center in 1994, and began to work again with guest starring roles on ER, Diagnosis Murder, Mystery Woman, and in Kevin Costner’s feature film Mr. Brooks. That said, Michael considers his greatest accomplishments his twenty-one-year marriage and his twenty-one years of sobriety.
May 27, 2018
152: Arnie Bellini – Creating a Global Company with a Community Feel
Creating a company that can be successfully taken global while simultaneously creating a community of raving fans and clients and anticipating where the market needs will be is not an every day occurrence. Yet my guest on this episode has done this all while staying connected to his roots.
We did not have a chance to talk about he time he swam the English Channel but we did talk about how he first got the idea for the business, how he and his brother made their mom’s home address seem more like a business to the outside world rather than a bedroom on the second floor and how he has successfully merged numerous companies.
A previous guest on the show, Daniel Burrus, told us about how we can become “Anticipatory Organizations.” Arnie Bellini and ConnectWise could be the poster child for the model. Arnie shares how he got the ideas to merge with different businesses versus create the products they had created on his own. He also shares the one thing ConnectWise was not created to be about and the one thing it strives to do above all.
Arnie Bellini is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Tampa-based ConnectWise, Inc., a B2B technology company that creates and supports business software solutions. In 2017, the company earned $200 million in revenue and has a valuation of $1.2 billion. Arnie serves as the chief visionary behind the company’s long-standing success in the information technology industry.
Over 35 years ago, Arnie astutely recognized the impact that microcomputers would have and created a managed services provider company. In 1998, Arnie took the company’s best practices and transformed them into an integrated, workflow-driven business management solution to help technology services companies run more efficiently. The result was the creation of ConnectWise Manage?, the ConnectWise business operating system.
Arnie’s passion to continually drive operational efficiencies and deliver excellent customer service makes ConnectWise one of the most admired companies in the technology services market. ConnectWise solutions automate the full lifecycle of IT services delivery, from sales and service to project tracking and back-office functions. These solutions are used by more than 21,000 technology services companies across the globe.
Arnie is a Certified Public Accountant and earned a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Florida and an MBA from the University of South Florida. In 2014, Arnie won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year? award for Florida in the Technology category. He was honored for growing ConnectWise into a highly innovative, best-in-class software company, and recognized for inspiring the growth of the Tampa Bay technology sector.
May 18, 2018
151: Dondi Scumaci – Mentoring for Everyone and on a Global Scale
I have been fortunate in my life to have had many mentors. They seem to come into my life at just the right time but that doesn’t always seem to happen for everyone I meet. Which is actually the reason why I started my radio show. I like to think of this show as a mentor to all my listeners. Everyone needs to have access to someone with different perspectives who can mentor them on a journey of discovery and growth.
My guest today is someone I met and first heard about through a frequent guest on this show and one of my mentors, Bob Burg. You may have heard him mention a few of his favorite “Dondiisms”.
Well on this episode my guest is the Dondi of Dondiisms and she shares some directly with us. We talk about mentors, value, opportunity, finding the right mentor, what the relationship will look like and what it will not. Dondi is an international thought leader on creating global mentoring relationships and she shares how you can get started as a mentor or a mentee.
As always, grab a notebook and pen and settle in because my guest shared so much wisdom I had trouble keeping up!
Dondi Scumaci is an international speaker, known for high-energy presentations that produce dramatic results. Scumaci’s keynotes and workshops are designed to deliver solid, actionable disciplines for employees, executives and entrepreneurs.
Scumaci is a sought-after consultant for strategic design sessions, management retreats, professional conferences, and keynote presentations.
Her dynamic presentations have made a proven, lasting impact on corporations across the United States, Canada, Europe, the United
Kingdom, Australia, South Africa and Kenya.
May 14, 2018
150: Dr. Laurie Nadel – Discovering Hope, Healing and Strength When Disaster Strikes
What are the keys to staying balanced under pressure? I don’t just mean during. I am asking what are they even after, waaay after, when everyone else seems to be moving past a trauma and the focus is off?
I never used to think that stress was a thing. It was all just good stress. Then my body and brain started to take a little longer to come to center and then, one day, it seemed I was living a new normal where I could never seem to shake flashbacks to unsettling events and moments. I searched for answers. Well really for the questions that would allow the right answers to come to me to help.
My guest has lived through personal traumas on large scale and on personal small scales in war zones and even in her own home during Hurricane Sandy on Long Island in New York. After Hurricane Sandy, while dealing with her own trauma and helping others get through their own, she discovered that there are 5 gifts that can help us discover hope, healing and strength, before, during and after.
Join me as I interview Dr. Laurie Nadel in Part One of our two part interview on working through and moving through and most of all healing through trauma of all kinds.
Laurie Nadel, PhD., is a specialist in acute stress, trauma, and anxiety issues. She has been interviewed in The New York Times, National Public Radio, Reuters, and CNN.com. During her 20-year career in journalism, she recognized a need to help people whose lives were shattered by violence.
After earning two doctorates through independent study and completing training in mind-body medicine. she pioneered emotional first aid tools to help lower acute stress after catastrophic events. Dr. Laurie is a member of a critical incident stress management team working with first responders and staff who were working at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during the February 14th shooting which killed 17 teachers and students while wounding another 17.
After losing her home to Hurricane Sandy, Dr. Laurie ran long-term support groups for survivors. From 2003 to 2005, she directed a program for teenagers whose fathers were killed in the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks and wrote the script for After the Fall: The Rise of a 9/11 Community Center, narrated by Dan Rather. Her four-time bestseller, Sixth Sense: Unlocking Your Ultimate Mind Power, was featured twice on Oprah.
A journalist for twenty years, Laurie Nadel reported for Newsweek and United Press International in South America, wrote TV news for CBS, ABC News and Reuters Television, and was a religion columnist for The New York Times’ Long Island section.
She also helped created the Committee to Protect Journalists, an organization since 1981 that has fought for the rights of journalists around the world. THE FIVE GIFTS: Discovering Healing, Hope and Strength When Disaster Strikes is her seventh book. For more information, please visit www.laurienadel.com.
May 7, 2018
149: Ken Herron – Privacy and the Internet of Things (IoT and AI and Social Media)
What does privacy mean in 2018 as it relates to Facebook and other social networks? What about Amazon Echo and Google Home devices or for that matter SIRI? Don’t forget all those other connected home devices and chatbots you use every day as well.
My guest is considered one of the top experts, globally, around IoT, the Internet of Things, AI, Artificial Intelligence and all things Social Media.
If you have ever asked Alexa a question, posted on social media or connected an appliance in your home to the internet to control it you will not want to miss this episode.
Ken Herron shares a website you can go to and discover what those Terms and Conditions agreements you have clicked right past (yup, I do it too,) really mean and how you can protect yourself on the wild, wild west aka world wide web plus so much more.
Ken Herron is the Chief Marketing Officer for Singapore-based Unified AI company Unified Inbox Pte. Ltd. (“UIB”).
He was recently named one of 2018’s “30 Most Creative Corporate Leaders To Watch” by Insights Success Magazine;
Ken is a top-ranked global IoT and AI leader by Postscapes, Global Data, Digital Scouting, and Onalytica; and he is currently the #2 CMO globally on Twitter (follow him on @KenHerron).
