My guest today has played many roles since she began her career as a singer-actress in musical theatre. Award-winning author, mystical poet, professional development trainer, life coach, inspirational speaker, and retreat facilitator. These days, her favorite role is seanchaí. That’s Irish for storyteller. If you ask, she’ll tell you that it’s her love of Ireland—its … Read More

My guest today is an award-winning travel writer, adventure traveler, and blogger who loves history and curious facts. B.C. (Before Canines) she hurtled, slid, submerged, and threw herself off bits of every continent except Antarctica. With husband Mark, A.D. (After Dogs), she became an Adventure Caravanner. She has published six light-hearted memoirs about her travels … Read More

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My guest today holds a master’s degree in Social Work and has studied child development. She uses these insights to inform her picture book writing. She holds a master’s degree in Journalism and is currently working in public relations. Her goal in creating Be-Kind Publishing is to produce lighthearted rhyming stories with gentle themes of … Read More

My guest today delights in using the right side of her brain to write fiction and poetry, after using excessive left brain work as a botanical garden director and nonprofit professional. Her award-winning Death in a Desert Garden is the first novel in the Bea Rivers series; Bones in the Back Forty launching in January … Read More

My guest today is a wandering adventurer who left decades of grown-up life on the East Coast at age sixty to return to the mountains, beaches, and rain of her soul’s home in the Pacific Northwest. She blogs about her adventures from coffee shops, her father’s desk, national park lodges, her tent—wherever she feels cozy. … Read More

My guest today is the host of the multi-award-winning “Zestful Aging Podcast,” an interview show heard in 104 countries. She is also the author of “Not Just Chatting; How to Become a Master Podcast Interviewer.” Nicole’s guests are change-makers from various disciplines; filmmakers, writers, advocates, poets, musicians, scientists, athletes, and entrepreneurs, many of whom are … Read More

EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today is the author of five published novels, as well as a collection of short stories. Her short fiction received the Gold Medal First Prize in the Faulkner-Wisdom competition and one of her novels was a finalist for the Willa Award in contemporary fiction from Women Writing the West. She worked … Read More

EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today was adopted at birth, and raised in New York City. Although he knew for most of his life that he was adopted, it wasn’t until he approached his 70th birthday that he began to search for the identity of his birth mother. His journey and the many surprising discoveries he … Read More

EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today was born in Alaska and for many years has practiced law in Tokyo, representing technology companies from all over the world. For more than 10 years, he was the managing partner of the Tokyo office of his global law firm. He speaks, reads, and writes fluent Japanese, was an International … Read More