Julia Scheeres, The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown

Why did ordinary people go to Jonestown? What makes us long for someone to tell us what to do? How do we override our own inner questions to go along with a regime we may be starting to distrust...and how do we break away? 

Writer Julia Scheeres felt that her background and experience at Christian Reform school helped her to better empathize with the victims of Jim Jones' infamous Jonestown massacre. When countless documents (including diaries of the victims and letters between Jones and his inner circle), video footage, audio clips and other journalistic tools were released by the FBI, Julia set to work researching Jim Jones and his followers. Tune in as Julia tells Maryanne stories from victims and survivors of this harrowing saga.

Learn more about Julia Scheeres: juliascheeres.com/ 

Julie Ross & Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk

Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex? Parenting is hard enough in a family where two parents love and respect each other.  After divorce, when respect has diminished and love has often turned to intense dislike, co-parenting can be nearly impossible, driving one or both parents to the brink of insanity. Julie and Judy offer many proven communication techniques that help you deal with your difficult ex-husband or ex-wife.

By outlining common custody problems and teaching tools to examine your own role in these sticky situations, this book conveys strategies for effective mediation that are easy to apply, sensible, timely and innovative.

Learn more about Julie Ross and Judy Corcoran: http://www.parentinghorizons.com

Jason Selk, How to develop mental toughness

How can you cope with your overwhelming life? Jason has developed his program of Executive Toughness, a step-by-step plan that will guarantee to develop mental toughness and produce results in business and in life.

Here is the best news of all: this is something anyone can learn by doing his 100-Second Mental Workout every day. Make it part of your mental “DNA,” and there will be no turning back—ever. Here he coaches a listener who has a problem we can all relate to: How can we prioritize where to put our energy? He gives her, and us, small but profound changes that will improve our own capacity for greatness! He has a great 4-minute instructional video about the 100-Second Mental Workout; go to www.jasonselk.com and click on the Executive Toughness book jacket to access this freebie.

Learn more about Jason Selk: www.jasonselk.com

Jamal Joseph, Panther Baby: a life of rebellion and reinvention

One of the youngest Black Panthers to do hardcore jail time, Jamal Joseph is now a fine-arts professor at a Columbia, a school he once exhorted kids to burn down. This man shares about keeping your sense of enthusiasm and responsibility alive and shining, and making a real difference in the world. Listen to his life of rebellion and reinvention, and be inspired!

Jamal says, "Our young people must know that the true motivation for anything has to begin with love and that the right strategy for success includes service and dedication." Your dreams have no expiration date; go out, keep positive thoughts, and make it happen! 

Learn more about Jamal Joseph: jamaljoseph.com  Here's one of several Youtube videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCgTZ7dcfnw

Jay Asher, The Future of Us

If you could see your future, how would you change it? Jay Asher, author of the bestselling Young Adult novel Thirteen Reasons Why, explores that theme in his new novel with Carolyn Mackler, The Future of Us. The year is 1996, when less than half of all American high school students have ever used the Internet. When Emma and her best friend Josh log on to AOL, they discover themselves on Facebook...fifteen years in the future.

Jay and Maryanne explore the idea of changing your destiny (if there is such a thing) without a magic computer. Jay and Carolyn have created an intelligent, sympathetic story to give us clues how to know what’s the right thing to do, when we don’t know how our actions might affect those around us. Are you living your life like you’re going to meet your future self?

Learn more about Jay Asher: www.jayasher.blogspot.com

Jacqui Dunne, Rethinking Money

Award-winning international financial journalist Jacqui Dunne and monetary expert Bernard Lietaer wrote the book on how our present money system is obsolete, and how to revive it by creating complementary new currencies. Jacqui tells us how rethinking money can make it possible to enjoy not only a period of prosperity, but a new era of genuine sustainable abundance! Here, Jacqui lifts the veil on the mystery of money, tells us what it really is and why it causes so much trouble, and shows us how we can use new currencies to create a more sustainable, equitable and prosperous world. 

Learn more: http://rethinkingmoneythebook.com/

Jacqui Dunne on practical ways to prosper with alternative currencies

By popular demand, Maryanne invited Jacqui Dunne back to talk about how we can all rethink our relationship with money and prosper! With Bernard Lietaer, one of the most knowledgeable people in the world about money and financial systems, she wrote Rethinking Money: How New Currencies Turn Scarcity into Prosperity. Here she opens our eyes to new ways of creating our own currencies, so we can move toward being a monetary democracy as well as a political democracy. More than 4,000 cooperative currencies are already working successfully throughout the world, used alongside federal dollars, and Jacqui tells us how we can create our own; a flourishing paradigm shift for a quadruple bottom-line of people, planet, profits and power within.

Learn more: www.lietaer.com

Henry Grayson, Use Your Body to Heal Your Mind

Why don't we do the things we know will heal us or keep us healthy? Dr. Grayson shows you how to eliminate the mental obstacles that make us feel we aren’t worthy of abundant health and well-being. “Negative thoughts that foster self-criticism, judgments, fearful reactions, guilt, and feelings of inadequacy all increase the flow of stress hormones, which decreases immune response,” says Dr. Grayson. “And if we don’t identify and clear out the barriers that are lodged in our limbic system, many of which are not conscious, then placebos, positive thoughts, exercise and taking medications and supplements may do us little good.” Discover his six questions that help you see what your barriers are; sometimes they disappear immediately and never come back, sometimes it takes practice; but with your commitment, you can create a healthy life.

Learn more about Henry Grayson: www.henrygrayson.com

George Collins, Breaking the Cycle of Sex Addiction

Are you finding it hard to stop obsessing about sex? Do you know someone who lives for the moments he can get on the internet and surf porn sites? Are real people getting much less interesting than your fantasies? The good news, according to George Collins, a recovering sex addict and nationally recognized expert on sex addiction, is that sex addicts can recover. The new book, written from an addict’s perspective, helps readers identify triggers and compulsive thoughts that keep them trapped in the cycle. In this candid conversation with Maryanne he offers skills to counter those thoughts instead of simply caving to them and reveals ways to break free of compulsion.

Eric Maisel, Making Your Creative Mark

Love to make inspiring art, make more money, make a difference? Throughout his distinguished career, Maisel has written more than twenty books that empower and educate artists and creative types. Here he distills his knowledge and practical wisdom from 30 years of experience into nine keys — such as Passion, Confidence, Empathy, Stress, and Relationship — that show you how to unlock your challenges, implement real and effective solutions,and make your creative mark. One of his favorite pieces of advice is, "Show up and make a big mess—only then will good things start happening!" 

Learn more about Eric Maisel: ericmaisel.com

Eric Maisel, Rethinking Depression

Are you depressed? Or simply sad? If you say "I am sad," there seems to be something for you to do; if you say "I am depressed," you fit into a nice symptom picture and can take a drug to make yourself feel "better." Dr. Maisel, author of forty books, helps us rethink depression in the light of modern psychopharmacology. He has practical tools for taking as much control as possible of our thoughts, attitudes, moods, behaviors, and orientation toward life. Tune in to shatter some of your beliefs about the necessity to take drugs to create happiness and meaning in your life.

Ellen Sussman, French Lessons

A single day in Paris changes the lives of three Americans as they each set off to explore the city with a French tutor, learning about language, love and loss. As they traverse the grand boulevards and intimate, winding streets, they uncover surprising secrets about one another—and come to understand long-buried truths about themselves. Ellen's French Lessons are fun and multidimensional! 

Learn more about Ellen Sussman: www.ellensussman.com

Ellen Smoak, Breakups are a Bitch

Waking up in the night crying, can't eat, can't sleep...breakups are a bitch...but getting over them doesn't have to be! Ellen Smoak is into helping you get over your ex faster and with less pain than you ever thought possible! She has been there, and shares some of the tools she discovered to put it into perspective and mend your broken heart. Ellen helps us move from being victims to regaining our freedom and confidence. She gives us three practical exercises, and check out the free offers on her website!

Learn more about Ellen Smoak: breakupsareabitch.com

Ellen LaConte, Life Rules!

What if the "green" organizations are Earth's immune system? It looks like our global economy has gone viral and become the HIV of the planet, so what can we do to heal it? Nature gives us a blueprint; Ellen LaConte gives us the 10 commandments of sustainability, the support we need to take environmental power into our own hands as full, competent, loving, creative human beings.

Ellen predicts that Life will last but, if we don’t make some fundamental changes, life as we know it—and a lot of us—won’t. She identifies natural laws that have allowed non-human communities to thrive and prosper for several billion years, and gives us ways like transitionus.org to connect with other people and communities who are rising to the occasion!

Learn more about Ellen LaConte: www.ellenlaconte.com   liferules-thebook.info   resilience.org

Ellen Graf, A Memoir of an Unlikely Marriage

Are you dating or married to someone of a different race? You'll love this conversation!  Ellen shares how two lonely people, American woman artist, Chinese businessman, who share neither language nor culture meet, fall in love, and decide to marry. They have in common an uncommon resilience and a willingness to “just try.” Theirs is an epic tale of a marriage fraught with culture shock and word trickery while buoyed up by the arts, martial arts, and pure perseverance.  

Whenever things appear hopeless in the couple’s quest for a survival niche, Zhong-Hua tells Ellen, “Just try, maybe work.” Somehow, it does. You'll laugh and relate and come away with new ideas.

Learn more about Ellen Graf: http://www.naturallawsofgoodluck.com

Elaine Fox, Rainy Brain, Sunny Brain

What can you do at home to change your attitudes? Tune in for a tour of contemporary, cutting-edge neuroscience as Professor Fox shows the staggering amount researchers have learned about two crucial dimensions of our minds. Find out why negativity is so contagious, and learn the top 3 ways to retrain your brain for pleasure!

“Everything that makes us ourselves–memories, values, feelings, even our habits and character–are all linked with connections of neural networks within our brain,” says Elaine. “If we can change these connections, we can also change ourselves.” The implications of these new studies are enormous: lifelong pessimists can train themselves to think positively and find happiness, while pleasure seekers inclined toward risky behavior can take control of their lives. 

Learn more about Prof. Elaine Fox: www.rainybrainsunnybrain.com

Michael Barry, The Forgiveness Project

Why don't we forgive when we know we "should"...and how can we experience the lightness of true forgiveness? Illness can eat away at us if we are already stressed out with thoughts and feelings of anger, victimhood, or revenge. Rev. Dr. Michael Barry is the Director of Pastoral Care, Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Philadelphia, and in this candid interview he lays out just how we can release the healing power of forgiveness for our own healing, and everybody else's. Tune in to find out how to heal ourselves, and how forgiveness has a generational impact. We can break the family patterns! 

Learn more: releasenow.org

Hemant Gupta, The Power of Digital Divine

Emotional expert Hemant Gupta shares why your mind is as programmable as a digital computer, and how to rearrange and delete “files” to increase your happiness and improve every aspect of your life! If you're feeling bored and/or stressed, tune in to find out how to find the "Recycle bin" to dump unwanted emotional files, and reprogram your mind for a meaningful, joyful life! He has a great trick to eradicate stress in five minutes. 

www.hemantgupta.com

Drunvalo Melchizedek, Mayan Ouroboros

Find your way into the secret, sacred place of the heart with Drunvalo Melchizedek as he shares insights from his latest book, The Mayan Ouroboros: The Cosmic Cycles Come Full Circle and the True Positive Mayan Prophecy is Revealed. As the Kundalini energy of the earth shifts, we can enter another level of existence. What can we do? "All the work is internal," says Drunvalo; "Great Relationships Begin Within," says Maryanne. This interview extends the invitation to change our consciousness, learning to see with our hearts. Drunvalo reveals the true positive Mayan Prophecy that the world has never heard. We have only heard the dark side of the Mayan Prophecy. Wait until you know the light side! 

Learn more: www.drunvalo.net