Episodes

Today's guest is living proof that it is never too late to turn your life around. Julie D. Summers, author of an upcoming memoir, OFF MY KNEES: From Skid Row to Sunset Boulevard, has seen it all. With a troubled and unavailable mom, who sends her off as a teen with a man who rapes her, and a dad who died when she was 12, Julie was left to fend for herself. An unwed mom at 18, persuaded to give her baby up for adoption, and desperate to get him back, she ends up in prostitution. Her life is a rol...

Do you want to live like a millionaire, but feel stuck in a barely-making-ends-meet job? Then today's show is for you. Marilyn Anderson, author of the new book, How to Live Like a Millionaire When You're a Million Short, has figured it all out and put it together on a silver platter just for you. Marilyn is the embodiment of the adage: necessity is the mother of invention. Not a millionaire herself, she has put her creativity and determination to good use, coming up with ways to get what she wan...

Got stress? Who doesn't? Whether it's finding a soulmate in this crazy online dating world, worrying about family, friends or finances, or about terrorism and other chaos in the world, we are stressed to the max these days. Today's guest, Pamela Robins, author of Meditating with Animals, has the answer. After being faced with a relentless series of major life challenges, including the death of her mother, her own cancer diagnosis, vocal cord paralyzation, a divorce and letting go of her life as ...

Has Pope Francis changed role of the papacy to be more political than religious? Does this hurt devout Catholics? According to today's guest, George Neumayr, the answer is a worrisome Yes. And, as a Catholic who loves the church, he wrote his new book, The Political Pope: How Pope Francis Is Delighting the Liberal Left and Abandoning Conservatives, to awaken the church to the danger. This book is the untold story of the left's efforts to politicize the Vatican and the battle to stop it-before th...

Today's guest, Fiona Lewis, has just released a most charming memoir, Mistake Were Made (Some in French). Although she's had a glamorous life as a model, actress and writer who has traveled the world, all women will identify with the personal conundrums she lays bare. And men will be intrigued. Struggling to find her identity, she is unconsciously drawn back to the South of France, the site of her happiest childhood memories, a respite from the clouds of her native England. Having then lived an ...

Doctors are dropping like flies these days. Indeed, at least one doctor commits suicide every single day in America! And these are more likely the better doctors - those who have become depressed and disillusioned by the changes in medicine that have turned them into hamsters on a treadmill-to-nowhere but burnout! Today's guest, Michael F Myers, M.D., a 'doctor's doctor', has devoted himself to preventing this downward spiral in his own patients and in preventing physician suicide in general. Hi...

In honor of May being Mental Health Awareness month, today's show features Allison Kugel, author of the newly released book Journaling Fame: A Memoir of a Life Unhinged and on the Record. Allison is a celebrity journalist who has interviewed more than 200 stars, from the Kardashians to Kristin Chenoweth, Stan Lee to Soprano's Joe Pantoliano, Melissa Rivers to many more. Allison speaks of her double life. On the inside, a woman struggling with anxiety, panic, depression, and obsessive compulsive ...

Before dating websites and apps searched for happily-ever-after's, singles looking for 'the one' knew that real life matchmakers could be their best chance at finding love. This goes back to the 1940's when matchmaking businesses started to pop up. Today's guest, Penrose Halson, is the author of The Marriage Bureau: The True Story of How Two Matchmakers Arranged Love in Wartime London. In 1939, with WWII looming, Heather Jenner and Mary Oliver opened a marriage bureau. From shop girls to debutan...

On the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day, it is important that people remember that the Holocaust is not just a horrid historical event from the past, but something that is still very much 'present' for victims and their families. Today's guests exemplify this presence. Leonia Kallir Kurgan is a Holocaust survivor who, at 4 years old, barely escaped from Poland, as the Nazis searched for and murdered the Jews. In her book, A Crowd of One, she has written about how her family managed to escap...

Dr. Carole puts today's headlines on her couch and analyzes what lurks behind them. Since the world is getting crazier each day, she provides you with an oasis of sanity by giving her psychological perspective on the news of the day. Dr. Carole takes you deeper into the stories, illuminating what makes these people and their situations tick. Today, she goes inside the mind of three top newsmakers: Steve Stephens, the Facebook murderer; North Korea's Kim Jong Un; and Dr. Jumana Nagarwala, the wom...

Political Correctness is not only stifling the American spirit, it is trying to take away our first amendment rights. And today's guest, Dr. Dathan Paterno, is a chilling example. Dr. Paterno, a clinical psychologist, was faced with being fired from the school board, having his license revoked and received death threats... all over a few tweets about the Women's March that some found offensive. This overreaction to alleged faux pas, in terms of Political Correctness, is rampant and people are be...

Do you ever feel your problems are insurmountable? Well, today's guest, Janine Shepherd, author of DEFIANT: A Broken Body Is Not A Broken Person, will inspire you to never give up. Her memoir chronicles her remarkable life as an Australian elite ski racer, known as “Janine the Machine,” who was hit by a truck during a bicycle ride in the Blue Mountains of Australia, just before competing in the Calgary Winter Olympics. Doctors did not expect Janine to survive after her accident, and when she did...

With the world so on edge, there are undoubtedly more people contemplating suicide these days, so this episode explores: what could make a person feel that they can no longer go on living? Why would someone think that ending their life is the only option? Today's guest, Adele Paula Royce, author of The Little Black Book of Suicide Notes, presents a 'semi-fictional' look inside the mind and heart of a tortured soul on the verge of ending her own life. Royce wrote this book hoping to leave the rea...

Many of us struggle to keep up illusions - whether it's illusions of status, money, fame, beauty, kindness or other things - while we are in denial about what this pretense is costing us. Today's guest, Joan Juliet Buck, is the author of The Price of Illusion, a dazzling memoir just out today, in which she shares her personal story of growing up in a family where illusion was everything! Ms. Buck's story begins living life as a 'princess' in a pink marble palace in Paris, the daughter of movie r...

This year's Academy Awards was a non-stop roller coaster that kept us on the edge of our seats, not knowing what was going to come next: a rant about politics? a joke that makes someone squirm? a flub by first-time host Jimmy Kimmel? an unexpected winner? But no one could have predicted Envelopegate - the fiasco ending that still has us scratching our heads in disbelief. Today's guest, former TV News Director and current Director of Media Operations at Relevant Media Agency, Ken Levine, was back...

The most 'colorful' candidate to run for L.A. Mayor in years in Diane 'Pinky' Harman. Though some do not know what to make of her all pink attire, her rap videos and her leotard dancing, she is serious and sincere about wanting to be a voice for the people of Los Angeles who feel their issues are never addressed. She has a Master's degree in psychology, a California teaching credential, and has been an educator and an actress. Now she wants to add 'mayor' to her list of accomplishments - and is ...

Why do so many couples break up on Valentine's Day? Why is love so hard to find in the 21st century? Why do women fall for bad boys and guys fall for bad girls? What are the 12 different types of bad boys and bad girls? How does the perpetuation of sky high divorce rates make each generation more scared of intimacy than the last? Dr. Carole explains it all.

School shootings are tragic - but the solution is not arming police officers or teachers at schools - especially if they aren't trained in child or adolescent psychology. A recent case in point is the shooting of Logan Clark, a student at Hug High School in Nevada. Suffering from psychological problems - largely due to being bullied - Logan brought a knife to school to protect himself against these increasingly aggressive bullies. But, a trigger happy police officer shot first and asked question...

With all the tumult happening down here on earth, it's good to take some time to let our mind soar. Do you believe in angels or other spiritual beings? Today's guest, Bruce Van Natta, certainly does, after a near-death experience changed his life. According to medical science, Bruce should be dead. But, the two angels he saw, at the moment of his life-threatening accident, had other plans for him. Bruce went from being, what he describes as, a common everyday person, to the author of Saved by An...

Although everyone is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, there's a staggering amount of evidence in the case of Michelle O'Connell's death that has not been allowed to get to court because the Florida town Sheriff has done everything he can to prevent even a grand jury. Michelle was a 24-year-old mother, who lived for the daughter she adored, had just gotten a promotion and was looking forward to a brighter future by leaving her abusive boyfriend, Jeremy, a sheriff's deputy. As she w...

You're in for one of Dr. Carole's rants today, as she analyzes the headlines and takes people to task for their bad behavior. First, she puts the Golden Globes on her couch, critiquing movies, praising Emma Stone for having the best speech of the night, and criticizing the divisive speech of Meryl Streep that provoked everyone to expect the worst from President Trump. Next she reveals evidence that points to the death of Michelle O'Connell being a homicide-not a suicide, and rants about the Flor...

Society is on a runaway train: with ever-changing technology and lifestyles, global violence, volatile economies, single parent homes, stunning headlines... and more. It's beyond stressful for adults to cope with, imagine what it's like for kids. Today's guest, Bob Brill, award-winning journalist and broadcaster, is also a prolific author. By contrasting two of his books, Tales of My Baseball Youth: A Child of the 60's (a memoir) and Al Kabul: Home Grown Terrorist (a novel) --the disparity in ch...

The sad day has come when government believes it has the right to tell parents what to put in their children's bodies... even if they know it will harm them. This is the crisis that parents face, being told that they must get their children inoculated with the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine even though it risks triggering autism. Today's guest, Kent Heckenlively, author of the new book, Inoculated: How Science Lost Its Soul in Autism, knows this tragedy firsthand. His previously healthy daug...

We've all had occasions, when it comes to sex, that our mind wanted to go one way and our body wanted to go another. There are many different rhymes and reasons for this to be so. One of the most elusive ones is when- unbeknownst to us- our hormones go awry. Today's guest, Ken Baker, is an award-winning author and journalist, Sr. Correspondent for E! News and E! Online. His new book, The Late Bloomer: A Memoir of My Body, delves into his own personal skirmishes between his mind and body - with u...