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Featured Shows of the Week
Kathryn Ramsperger
Join me with guest Kathryn Brown Ramsperger talking about why it's important to step into your own story and how that changes your life. Kathryn is an author, coach, humanitarian, and speaker. She is most passionate about bringing more peace into the world through better communication: communication in relationships and across cultures. Communication that defy boundaries and bridge understanding.

Step Into Your Story
As a researcher and writer for Nat Geo and later as a humanitarian journalist, her work and travels took her throughout Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. new novel, A Thousand Flying Things, is a stand alone sequel to her award-winning novel The Shores of Our Souls. Kathryn also has a small coaching practice focusing on diverse relationships and intuitive
Guy Arcuri
Join me with guest Guy Arcuri talking about overcoming the trauma of a toxic mother. Guy grew up in a household with a toxic mother, then left home and got married at the age of 20. In his late 20's he realized he was being just as "abusive" to his own wife as his mother was to him. So, he sought help: intensive therapy, a surrogate father/mentor, reading and major support from his wife in experimenting on how to change and heal. He is author of: "Toxic Mothers: A Son’s Guide to Healing and Moving On" which tells the story of what he went through in order to help others who are in the same situation.

Overcoming the Trauma of a Toxic Upbringing
Guy hold retreats for men centered on how to love others well, how to know when you are NOT loving others well, how to develop integrity and virtue and much more. also coaches teachers and tutors people of all ages, helps high school juniors and seniors organize themselves for college application essays and is owner of Help Yourself Publishing Company, LLC, where he coaches other writers to accomplish their goals. He is currently writing a second and related book on "isolating insulation".
Bob Chitrathorn
Join me with guest Bob Chitrathorn talking about how helping just one person has an affect that can make the world a better place. Suthipong Robert Chitrathorn (or Bob for short) came from humble beginnings. He was raised in a mobile home park in Colton, CA. His parents migrated from Bangkok, Thailand and eventually settled in Southern California. To the Chitrathorns, life in America was a gift and they were proud owners of property in America.

Helping Others is a
Good Thing
They worked hard to put food on the table and sacrificed to put Bob and his younger sister through school. 2004, Bob became a financial advisor, which was an opportunity to make a good living, while helping others make the best decisions for their own financial lives. Bob doesn't just help his clients with financial advice, he strives to help them in any way he can.
Rebecka Vigus
Join me with guest Rebecka Vigus talking about how everyone has a story to tell. When Rebecka was ten, a teacher told her that her imagination would one day see her in books. She started with nonsense poetry, then moved into poetry of teenage angst. What she really wanted was to write a novel.

Barbara Hemphill
Join me with guest Barbara Hemphill talking about getting organized for 2023 and what that means to you. Barbara believes that it's important to be authentic about what you really want. That leads to deciding how you want your life to look and organizing, in all sorts of ways, is a part of that. Barbara started her career in the organizing industry in 1978 with a $7 ad in a New York newspaper. Over the decades, she has developed world-class expertise delivered through Productive Environment Institute

Getting Organized for 2023
Barbara is passionate about helping leaders accelerate their vision so they can leave a legacy that matters. In 2020, she initiated a compassion project in India called Shepherds House Ministry which will be a home for a family of six, a ministry center for the people they serve. She has also authored several bestselling books including Taming the Paper Tiger, Less Clutter More Life, and her most recent book, Walking with Barbara: 30 Emails from God.
Other Featured Shows

Christina Foxwell
From the Darkest Moment to Light and Clarity
Join me with guest Christina Foxwell talking about her new book, "The Glass Angel" and coming out of your darkest moments into light and clarity. Christina has had a journey in her life of leadership, broken marriage, migration to a new country, determination to succeed, and wrestling with her sense of self and worthiness. She is now kinder and gentler to herself and impacting the world by connecting with others. She encourages people to shift their world by stepping into growth for themselves

Rob Wilson
A Better Way to Experience Life
Join me with guest Rob Wilson talking about how to detach your analytical mind, emotions and nitpicking, let go of trying to be happy, and feel inner peace. He is passionate about helping people discover an enterprising vocabulary that expands them out of yesterday to energizing today, enterprising their dreams to experience their desired life. Rob is the founder of Cowboy Wisdom Hypnoacuity and published author of several books including: "Endless Inspiration" and "My Wisdom Breathes."
Change at an Unconscious Level
Guest Sarah Lutz talking about what is necessary for us to begin real change in our lives and why working at a subconscious level is so valuable. As she reconnected with past passions and interests that made her feel happy, a desire rose in her to help others heal and grow. Sarah now helps men face the parts of themselves that they don’t like, release old emotions and beliefs, so that they can life their best life.

C.J. Hudson
We Always Have a Choice
Join me with guest C.J. Hudson talking about his book "Destiny Lives on Fairhaven Street" and how we always have a choice as to how we turn out as people. As a young boy, C.J made the choice to become the man he wanted to be, not the man his upbringing and those closest to him said he would be. He is the author of "Destiny Lives on Fairhaven Street, a memoir where he is brutally honest in sharing his experiences. C.J. is a Physical Therapist Assistant who works at the VA Outpatient Clinic in downtown Austin, Texas.

Cedric Bertelli
Releasing Emotional Pain
Join me with guest Cedric Bertelli talking about releasing emotional pain. Cedric is the Founder and Director of the Emotional Health Institute in the USA and in France. He is of French origin and has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 20 years. He works with clients individually and also trains mental health professionals, coaches and educators across the US on Emotional Resolution® (EmRes®). Cedric and his colleagues are developing a method for releasing conscious and subconscious disruptive emotional reactions.

Mark Loughman*
Not Everything We've Been Taught is True
Join me with guest Mark Loughman talking about his debut novel "Before the Moon" and why he believes that many of the things we hav been taught are not necessarily true. Mark is an English musician- entrepreneur - author who now resides in Southern California. He arrived in New York in 2000 and he subsidize his meager musicians wages by creating and selling t-shirts on Venice beach. Then, he created music equipment and British Audio Engineering and UK sound are worldwide revered brands. He went on to record three albums in the States, then decided to write his first book titled, "Before The Moon."

Cheryl Murphy**
Standing in Your Truth is Your Authentic Superpower
Join me with guest Cheryl Murphy talking about how everyone has intuition they can use to help guide them on their path to attain their wishes and desires. Cheryl grew up psychic. One day her angels came to her and communicated that helping people and serving spirit was to be her full time career.Cheryl now does medium and psychic readings for individuals and groups via Zoom and phone

Michelle Garbutt*
Healing Your Emotional Health
Join me with guest Michelle Garbutt talking about how important it is to heal our emotional health. In 2016 Michelle had an Ulcerative Colitis flare and decided that she needed to find a better way to manage stress, as it was a trigger. She found clinical remission within a year and has remained there ever since. She discovered that the body has the ability to heal itself. Michelle now offers one-on-one coaching to guide people through the steps that she took too heal her UC,

Ann Naimark
Your Life Can Be Smoother and More Joyful
Join me with guest Gopi Nair talking about how the practice of gratitude can transform your life. Gopi learned how to practice gratitude from his mother at a very tender age. He believes that Authenticity is the spiritual aspect of who we are as human beings and that Gratitude is the mother of all positive emotions and the mother of authenticity! Gopi is a Gratitude Practitioner, published author, and an Inspirational Speaker. His book: "A Gratitude Journal for every Father" is now available on Amazon.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY

Rosemary Joan McDermott
I listened to the interview and found it fascinating. Such a humble man writing a soul stirring book. Well done! Great interview Mari!

Rey Leal
Thank you for all that you stand for and the joy you are putting out into the world!

Paz Ellis
Mari is a fabulous host and a beautiful human being!

Mary Davis
I am an avid listener. Keep up the great episodes!