EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today, became one of the first women hired on a U.S. Forest Service fire crew. She holds two degrees: a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, and a Masters in Planning, from the University of Arizona. Summers of Fire: A Memoir of Adventure, Love and Courage, released in 2018 about wildland firefighting. Parade … Read More

EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today is the author of “A Feigned Madness,” the story of undercover reporter Nellie Bly’s ten harrowing days inside a women’s insane asylum in 1887. It won the Reader Views Reviewers Choice Award and the Kops-Fetherling International Book Award. She’s a self-proclaimed Anglo-file and obsessed with all things relating to the … Read More

EPISODE SUMMARY If Charles Bukowski, Sharon Olds and Billy Collins somehow had a child, my guest today would be it. Described by his inner circle as Poet Laureate of the Absurd, he spent the better part of a decade drinking himself silly at the Swinging Door Saloon in Tustin, California. While there, he began writing … Read More

EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today had a writing career in his twenties as a BBC comedy writer and then as a copywriter for one of the world’s largest ad agencies. He continued in advertising when he moved to Cyprus as an agency Creative Director. He wrote his first book as a screenplay and then as … Read More

EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, author, and speaker who is passionate about empowering women. After experiencing her own traumatic events, she pursued a career as a mental health therapist. During her journey, she chose to coach women who had lost their voices. She believes it’s important to begin nurturing … Read More

EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today’s love of vintage fashion inspired her to write her debut novel, Divine Vintage. She researched and gathered an impressive collection spanning the late 1800s to 1990s, wearing pieces onstage through years of performing in community theater and for special events. To round out her love of the arts, she sings … Read More

EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today is a Stanford grad with advanced computer science and business degrees. But, since she was a child, creative writing has been her passion. After holding software development, product management, and marketing roles in the high-tech industry for nearly thirty years, she now writes full time. Her short stories have been … Read More

EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today is a California girl who bought a one-way ticket to India and landed in a Tibetan sewing workshop next door to the Dalai Lama and became one of few non-Tibetans to master the Buddhist art of silk appliqué thangka. Trained by two of the finest living Tibetan appliqué artists, she … Read More

EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today had a career in sales and marketing but found inspiration in a genealogy search on her great-great-grandfather. He took an active part in founding the Woman’s Medical College in Philadelphia. The early graduates of the Woman’s Medical College have remained in the shadows. Their stories needed to be told. So, … Read More

EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today is a psychoanalyst and psychologist in private practice, a nonfiction author, a novelist, and a public speaker. She earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Columbia University and a post-doctoral certificate in psychoanalysis. As a nonfiction author, her articles have appeared in the Washington Post, on the Wall Street Journal’s … Read More