Get the Funk Out
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Mari Frank Interviews Lucinda Bassett, 05/20/13
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Mari Frank Interviews Preston Ni, 05/13/13
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Mari Frank Interviews Lanny Davis, 05/06/13
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Mari Frank Interviews Nathaniel Smith, 4/29/13
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Mari Frank Interviews Lacey Lafferty, 04/22/13
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Mari Frank Interviews Joe the Biker, 04/08/13
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Mari Frank Interviews Kenyon Oster 03/25/13
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Mari Frank Interviews Geoffrey Hepburn, 03/18/13
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Mari Frank Interviews Marcy Ellenbogen, 03/11/13
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Mari Frank Interviews Gloria Prema 02/25/13
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Mari Frank Interviews Lisa Gibson 02/18/13
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Mari Frank Interviews Tami Newcomb, 2/11/13
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Mari Frank Interviews Radomir Samardzic 12/31/12
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Mari Frank Interviews Nina Meierding 12/24/12
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Mari Frank Interviews Ravi Rao 12/17/10
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Mari Frank Interviews Tim Ward 12/10/12
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Mari Frank interviews Joseph Higgins 12/3/12
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Mari Frank interviews Luke Yoder 11/26/12
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Mari Frank Interviews Elizabeth Hanley 11/19/12
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Mari Frank Interviews Victoria Pynchon 11/12/2012
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Mari Frank interviews David Brubaker, 11/5/12
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Mari Frank Interviews ACR Exhibitors 10/29/12
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Mari Frank Interviews Spirituality Section of ACR...
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Mari Frank interviews University of Massachusetts...
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Mari Frank Interviews Dr. Karen Wyatt, author of "What...
Dr. Wyatt talks with Mari about "What Really Matters - 7 Lessons for Living from the Stories of the Dying," both her book of the same title and the subject. She talks about death and greiving. She shares her lessons for living from the stories of the dying hospice patients she worked with during her 25-year medical career.
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Mari Frank interviews Shawn Anderson, Founder of the...
Shawn is a best-selling author, national speaker and motivational corporate trainer. In 2009, Shawn created the Extra Mile America Tour and rode a bicycle, solo, 4,000 miles across the country encouraging people to go the extra mile in life. At the end of the tour Shawn added to his “go the extra mile” message by giving away $10,000 to the individuals whose extra-mile stories he found most inspiring. In addition to having written six books which have sold 70,000 copies, Shawn is also the...
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Mari Frank interviews John Greer, author of Seeing,...
John Greer has spent nearly twenty years inquiring deeply into the sacred texts and teachings of the world’s traditions, spurred by his own spiritual search. He is a dedicated practitioner of meditation and has taught insight meditation for over a decade. John Greer holds a Ph.D. in education from Pennsylvania State University. John talks with Mari about conflict resolution, touching on religious conflict.
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Mari Frank Interviews Attorney Bill Eddy 9/10/12
Bill will discuss the following issues: Why it is important not to take personal attack seriously? What is the harm in giving negative feedback? What does it mean to not bend boundaries with borderlines? How can you get conned by antisocial? How can you connect using your E.A.R? The importance of analyzing realistic options. Why is it significant to set limits on misbehavior? And much more.
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Mari Frank Interviews Susan Dewey and Tonia St Germain...
Professors Susan Dewey and Tonia St. Germain discuss the fascinating issues in their new book "Conflict-Related Sexual Violence: International Law, Local Responses."
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Divorce Magazine's Dan Couvrette interviews Mari Frank...
Listen to Dan Couvrette, publisher of Divorce Magazine and DivorceMagazine.com interview Mari Frank. One of the goals of Divorce magazine is to help people make better, more informed decisions to ensure that they are not simply surviving their divorce but they are growing and thriving through the process.
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Mari Frank Interviews Donna Hicks, Conflict Resolution...
Dr. Donna Hicks is an Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University where she chairs the Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict. Dr. Hicks was Deputy Director of the Program on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution (PICAR) at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University for nine years. She worked extensively on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and as a member of the third party in numerous unofficial...
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Mari Frank Interviews James Keeley, Spiritual Healer
James has been studying spiritual healing since 1995 and spent ten years as a Faculty member at the University of Spiritual Healing and Sufism. He currently runs a year-long program where he trains people from all walks of life in the art of spiritual healing. Health care practitioners looking to add a spiritual dimension to their practice, individuals seeking personal healing, couples and parents having problems in their most important relationships and people desiring a more intimate and...
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Mari Frank Interviews David Price Francis, Speaker and...
David Price Francis MA is an author, speaker and transformational coach in the dynamics of interpersonal relationships and self-development. He has lectured for over 30 years and is a gifted and charismatic teacher on pathways to spiritual growth and achieving energetically healthy relationships. He specializes in understanding universal energies and the laws that govern them, demonstrating how these powers and forces can vibrantly transform our relationships, lives and possibilities. A...
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Mari Frank Interviews Frank Kinslow, Founder of the...
Dr. Frank J. Kinslow has been researching and teaching healing techniques for more than 35 years. He draws from his clinical experience as a chiropractic physician, in-depth studies into Eastern esoteric philosophies and practices, and an ardent love of relativity and quantum physics. In 2007, the Quantum Entrainment process of instant healing was born out of a personal crisis that left Dr. Kinslow with nowhere to go and nothing to do. Out of this nothing, he was able to create a vibrant...
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Mari Frank Interviews Jerry Weinstock, Artist, Producer,...
I. J. “Jerry” Weinstock has been an actor, artist, producer and author. His ground-breaking book about women, BREASTS: Women Speak About Their Breasts & Their Lives, was hailed by the Washington Post as “an important contribution” and was featured on the Donahue Show (the Oprah of its time). Inspired by the incredible experience that is described in his grief memoir, JOYride: How My Late Wife Loved Me Back To Life, he works with the bereaved as a grief guide. He has written several...
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Mari Frank Interviews Georgianna Donadio, Behavioral...
For over 30 years, Dr. Georgianna Donadio has been a pioneer in the field of behavioral health, working with healthcare professionals and patients to change behaviors that lead to improved health. For the first time, her pioneering work is the foundation for the newly published book Changing Behavior: Immediately Transform Your Relationships with Easy-to-Learn, Proven Communication Skills. As a sought-after Integrative Health Practitioner, behavioral health and relationships expert, media...
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Mari Frank Interviews Azim Khamisa, Social Activist
Committing his life to halting the continuing cycle of violence among the youth, Azim Khamisa became a social activist after his 20-year-old son Tariq was senselessly murdered while delivering pizzas in January 1995 by Tony Hicks, a 14-year-old gang member. Out of unspeakable grief and despair, Khamisa was inspired to transform his loss through the miraculous power of forgiveness. Believing that there were “victims at both ends of the gun,” Azim forgave Tony and founded the Tariq Khamisa...
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Mari Frank Interviews Anita Telle, Entrepreneur and...
Entrepreneur and author, Anita Telle, is a former COO and co-founder of a very successful beauty product distribution company, and the current founder and president of ASTI Life. She lives in California with her son, who was born with a cleft palate. Her mission is to raise awareness about bullying through her two picture books, “ALWAYS TIME FOR KINDNESS” and “A LITTLE DIFFERENT - ALL PERFECT”. Anita is also the creator of Gnomy's booboobears, and donates 20 percent of the profit from the...
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Mari Frank Interviews Dean Smith, Founder of Live To...
Dean Smith founded Live To Forgive Ministries in 2007. His mission is to spread the message of forgiveness based on the Word of God and his own personal testimony around the world. He preaches powerful messages about love, grace, and reconciliation. Thousands of people have been inspired to trust God with their unforgiveness and have been set free from its heavy burden based on his appearances in churches, television and on the radio. When Dean was twelve his mother was murdered by his...
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Mari Frank Interviews the Honorable Kirk Nakamura,...
Judge Kirk Nakamura graduated from UC Irvine in 1977 with a B.S. degree in Biological Sciences. He was admitted to the Bar in 1980 and was admitted to practice on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, as well as the Federal District Court of California (Central District). He is the current Chair of the ADR/Mediation Committee in the Orange County Superior Court. From 2006 to 2009 he served as Chair of the Temporary Judge Committee and is still a member. He is also a member of the Grand Jury...
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Mari Frank Interviews Susan Steinbrecher, Executive...
Susan Steinbrecher, an internationally acclaimed businesswoman, executive coach, speaker and author, is CEO of Steinbrecher And Associates, Inc., a management consulting firm that provides professional-development services in the areas of executive coaching, group facilitation and leadership training. Steinbrecher is the co-founder of The Institute for Heart-Centered Leadership, which teaches the core principles and virtues of transformational leadership, characterized by care, concern,...
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Mari Frank Interviews Douglas Fry, Docent in the...
Dr. Douglas P. Fry is a docent in the Developmental Psychology Program and administers the program called Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research, a cooperative Master's Program between the University of Tampere and bo Akademi University (PEACE). Dr. Fry also is an adjunct research scientist in the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology (BARA) at the University of Arizona, in Tucson, Arizona. Dr. Fry, an anthropologist, has written extensively on aggression, conflict, and conflict...
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Mari Frank Interviews Kimberly Pryor, Author of The...
Kimberly Pryor is the author of The Indestructible Relationship, a book to help couples stress-proof their love life, argue less and fall even more deeply in love. The book was a finalist in the 2011 Global eBook Awards and is a finalist in the 2012 EPIC eBook Awards. Kimberly also is an award-winning journalist who has had more than 600 articles published in magazines and newspapers. For more information about The Indestructible Relationship. www.indestructiblerelationship.com
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Mari Frank Interviews Lon Hurwitz, Orange County...
Judge Hurwitz was elected to the Bench in June 2010. Before his term of office was to begin in Jan. 2011, he was appointed to the Bench by Gov. Schwartzenegger. From 2004 until his appointment, he served as a Family Law Commissioner for Orange County handling Paternity, child support, and Family Law Domestic Violence Cases. Judge Hurwitz is currently assigned to a Family Law Trial Court where he hears all Family Law case types. He is one of four Judges in the County assigned to hear Elder...
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Mari Frank Interviews Leonard Szymczak on the Gift of...
Leonard Szymczak, MSW, LCSW is an author and psychotherapist in Southern California. He is a motivational speaker and author of The Roadmap Home: Your GPS to Inner Peace, an Amazon Bestseller in 2009, as well as the novel, Cuckoo Forevermore, a light-hearted satire on psychotherapy. For the past 35 years he has worked both in Australia and America, counseling individuals, couples and families to resolve conflict. He was Director of the Family Therapy Program at the Marriage and Family Centre...
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Mari Frank Interviews Michael Nagler, Berkeley Professor...
Michael Nagler is Professor emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature at UC, Berkeley, where he co-founded the Peace and Conflict Studies Program in which he taught the immensely popular nonviolence course that was webcast in its entirety as well as PACS 90, “Meditation” and a sophomore seminar called “Why Are We Here? Great Writing on the Meaning of Life” for fifteen years. He is the author of The Search for a Nonviolent Future, which received a 2002 American Book Award and has been...
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Mari Frank Interviews Carl Stauffer, Professor at the...
Dr. Carl Stauffer teaches Justice and Development Studies at the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, Eastern Mennonite University. Stauffer was born and raised amidst the war in Vietnam. In 1975, his family fled Vietnam and moved to the Philippines just as the Marcos regime was beginning to crumble. After completing his university education in 1985, Stauffer worked in the Criminal Justice and Substance Abuse fields. In 1988, he was ordained to the ministry and joined an urban, inter-racial...
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Mari Frank Interviews Sandy Moore, Director of the...
Sandy Moore graduated from USC with a degree in teaching and subsequently earned a Masters in Educational Administration, followed by 20 years in public service as a school teacher. She completed ministerial training and is now the Spiritual Director of the InSpirit Center for Spiritual Living in Mission Viejo, California. The center is actively involved in numerous outreach activities, including ministries devoted to the environment, health, and peace. www.thegreenintention.com...
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Mari Frank Interviews Paula Langguth Ryan, Conflict...
Paula Langguth Ryan is a conflict resolution consultant, dedicated to helping business leaders break through to new levels of confidence, peace and abundance in all areas of their lives. She provides individual executive coaching and facilitates management and board meetings and in house negotiations, primarily with closely-held corporations. She conducts tailor-made in-service trainings for Boards of Directors, staff, employees and members in groups of all sizes. Ryan works with employee...
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Mari Frank Interviews Patrick Ryan, Buddhist Monk
Patrick Ryan died from a drug overdose in his late teens only to be revived with a new understanding of the Divine. As a Buddhist monk in Burma (now Myanmar), he practiced the path of awakened living, according to Buddhist philosophy. He has also studied indigenous wisdoms with a variety of teachers. His #1 bestselling book Awakened Wisdom blends Buddhist, Native, and collected wisdoms into a beautifully crafted healing message for our modern culture. His work focuses on questions of...
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Mari Frank Interviews Rusty Kennedy, Executive Director,...
Rusty Kennedy has served as Executive Director of the Orange County Human Relations Commission since 1981 and as the founding CEO of the non-profit Orange County Human Relations Council, established 1991. The mission at OC Human Relations is to promote understanding among diverse residents and eliminate prejudice, intolerance and discrimination. OC Human Relations reaches over 40,000 middle and high schools students annually building their capacity to create safe, inclusive schools where...
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Mari Frank Interviews Marci Shimoff, World-Renowned...
Marci Shimoff is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and a world-renowned transformation teacher. As an expert on happiness, success, and unconditional love, Marci has inspired millions of people around the globe, sharing her breakthrough methods for personal fulfillment and professional success. Her newest book, Love for No Reason: 7 Steps to Creating a Life of Unconditional Love debuted at #3 on the NY Times bestseller list. In it, Marci introduces a revolutionary program to live in a...
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Mari Frank Speaks to Lloyd Felver about the Orange...
Lloyd W. Felver has been an attorney since 1980, litigating in the areas of: Personal Injury, Construction Defect, Contracts, Insurance Agent & Broker liability, Homeowner Association liability, Wrongful Termination, Discrimination and Sexual Harassment. He is the 2011 Chair of the ADR section of the OCBA, and does arbitrations and mediations privately, through the courts, and CSP, as well as arbitrations for the Better Business Bureau, and attorney's fees Arbitrations for the OCBA and State...
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Mari Frank Interviews Mark Anthony, the “Psychic Lawyer”
Mark Anthony the “Psychic Lawyer,” is a psychic medium specializing in communication with spirits. He is descended from a long line of psychics and mediums that have been helping people connect with deceased loved ones for over 100 years. His new book, “Never Letting Go,” is a best seller. “Never Letting Go” is the definitive guide to healing grief with help from the Other Side. The video about “Never Letting Go” can be viewed by visiting: www.NeverLettingGo.com Although he has inherited the...
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Mari Frank Interviews Lawrence Polsky & Antoine...
Lawrence Polsky & Antoine Gerschel have traveled the world assisting thousands of leaders on 5 continents to navigate change and conflict. As Managing Partners at PeopleNRG, a global leadership consulting firm in Princeton, New Jersey, they re-energize leaders and teams by helping them address the fundamental barriers to organizational performance: unclear objectives, inadequate communication, misunderstood roles and responsibilities, and poor decision making processes. Antoine has 15+ years...
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Mari Frank Interviews James Sutton, Psychologist
It was as a school psychologist that James Sutton developed exceptional skills in assessing and outlining management and treatment for emotionally and behaviorally troubled youngsters. Demand for these skills grew when he completed his doctorate, earned his psychologist’s licensure, opened a private practice, and began consulting, writing, speaking, and training nationally. His clients have included universities (over four dozen of them), schools and school districts, residential treatment...
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Mari Frank Interviews Allan Lokos, Founder of The...
Allan Lokos is the founder and guiding teacher of The Community Meditation Center in New York City. He is the author of Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living and Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living. His writing has appeared in a number of newspapers nationwide such as The New York Times, and The Huffington Post. He has also taught at Columbia University Teachers College, Marymount College, and Insight Meditation Community of Washington to name a few. Allan has practiced...
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Mari Frank Interviews Beverly Engel, Psychotherapist and...
Beverly is the best selling author of twenty self-help books. She is a psychotherapist with over 30 years of experience and is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of abuse, women's issues, relationships, and sexuality. She has shared her expertise on many national television programs, including: CNN, Oprah!, Sally Jesse Raphael, Ricki Lake, and Leeza, and is a frequent keynote speaker and workshop leader at conferences throughout the United States and Canada. Beverly currently...
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Mari Frank Interviews Harry J. Bury, Adjunct Professor...
Harry J. Bury, Ph.D. is an Adjunct Professor of Systems Management at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio and teaches in both the undergraduate and graduate divisions (1979 - present). Dr. Bury also holds the Chair as Director of the Doctorate Program in Business Administration (DBA) at Burapha University in Bangkok, Thailand. He teaches Advanced International Organizational Behavior. He earned a Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University in Organizational Behavior in 1975. He also...
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Mari Frank Interviews John Marks, President and Founder...
John Marks is President and founder of Search for Common Ground, a non-profit conflict resolution organization with offices in 25 countries. He also founded and heads Common Ground Productions. He wrote and produced The Shape of the Future, a four-part, TV documentary series that was simulcast on Israeli, Palestinian, and Arab satellite TV, and he is executive producer of The Team TV and radio series in 17 countries and numerous other TV and radio programs. Along with his wife, Susan Collin...
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Mari Frank Interviews Beverly Potter, Counseling...
Beverly A. Potter, PhD (“Docpotter”) earned her doctorate in counseling psychology from Stanford University and her masters in vocational rehabilitation counseling from San Francisco State University. She is a corporate trainer, public speaker and has authored a number of books on workplace issues like overcoming job burnout, managing yourself for excellence, high performance goal setting, mediating conflict, and more. Her website—docpotter.com—is pack with useful information Docpotter was a...
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Mari Frank Interviews Randall Kiser, Principal Analyst...
Randall Kiser is the principal analyst at DecisionSet, a decision services and professional development company. His research regarding attorney-client decision making integrates the fields of law, economics, statistics and psychology. Mr. Kiser is the author of two books, Beyond Right and Wrong: The Power of Effective Decision Making for Attorneys and Clients and How Leading Lawyers Think: Expert Insights Into Judgment and Advocacy. He also is the lead author of the widely read article,...
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Mari Frank Interviews Leonard Szymczak, Psychotherapist...
Leonard Szymczak has been a psychotherapist and educator for over 35 years, both in Australia and America. He was Director of the Family Therapy Program at the Marriage and Family Centre in Sydney, Australia and later served as a senior affiliate therapist with the Family Institute at Northwestern University. He’s the author of The Roadmap Home: Your GPS to Inner Peace, an Amazon bestseller in 2009, and Cuckoo Forevermore, a light-hearted satire on psychotherapy. Throughout his life, Leonard...
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Mari Frank Interviews Scott Bollens, Researcher of...
Prof. Scott Bollens studies ethnicity and urban policy, development strategies, and regional and intergovernmental approaches to planning. Prof. Bollens' current book is City and Soul in Divided Societies. This book focuses on the historical, theoretical, and practical issues of urban divisions, but also uniquely provides a first-person account of conducting interview-based ethnography in these places of ethnic and nationalist polarization. The book puts forth facts, opinions, photographs,...
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Mari Frank Interviews Arezou Kohan, Mediator and...
Arezou Kohan was a civil litigator in private practice for over a decade before she found her calling as a mediator and life-coach. Her vast range of life experiences allow her to appreciate a large variety of perspectives that she brings to the table along with her warmth, humor, and compassion. Her highly developed intuition and out of the box thinking allow her to find creative solutions to problems that might be missed by others. She is the Author of “Healing Conflict,” a “how to” guide...
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Mari Frank Interviews Azim Khamisa, Social Activist
Committing his life to halting the continuing cycle of violence among the youth, Azim Khamisa became a social activist after his 20-year-old son Tariq was senselessly murdered while delivering pizzas in January 1995 by Tony Hicks, a 14-year-old gang member. Out of unspeakable grief and despair, Khamisa was inspired to transform his loss through the miraculous power of forgiveness. Believing that there were “victims at both ends of the gun,” Azim forgave Tony and founded the Tariq Khamisa...
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Mari Frank Interviews Jane Breskin Zalben, Author and...
Jane Breskin Zalben began drawing seriously at the age of five. To encourage her artistic talent, her mother took her for weekly art lessons at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her father called her drawings "love pictures," and in second grade Jane began to explore her gift for writing by composing poetry for the class newspaper. It is no wonder that today Jane Breskin Zalben is a well-known author and illustrator who has published about fifty books for young readers. Jane’s acclaimed...
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Mari Frank Interviews Mark Goulston, Chairman and...
Mark Goulston, M.D. is Chairman and co-founder of Xtraordinary Outcomes. As a Fortune 500 High Stakes Executive Coach his focus is to help high performing executives to better maximize opportunities, deal with impending danger and confront, and finally resolve conflicts. He first trained as a clinical psychiatrist and then honed his skills as an FBI/police hostage negotiation trainer who increases people’s ability to get through to anyone. His development of those skills started with his...
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Mari Frank Interviews Diane Katz, Founder of the Working...
Dr. Katz has worked with organizations, professionals for over 40 years. With a Masters Degree in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in Conflict Resolution from Union Institute, she has applied her education to organizations large and small. Dr. Katz started her consulting company, The Working Circle, in 1995. The Working Circle provides organizational development, human resources, teambuilding, training and coaching to organizations of all sizes. Some of her...
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Mari Frank Interviews Timothy Ursiny, Speaker and...
Dr. Tim Ursiny, founder of Advantage Coaching & Training Inc., is a speaker and certified business coach specializing in helping individuals reach peak performance and life satisfaction. His areas of expertise include communication skills, team building, confidence, coaching skills, the psychology of change and the overall quality and balance in one’s life. He received his undergraduate degree from Wheaton College and his doctorate in psychology from Northern Illinois University. He is the...
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Mari Frank Interviews Debra Reble, Personal...
Debra L. Reble, Ph.D., a Cleveland-based licensed psychologist, conducts a private practice and facilitates workshops and seminars on personal transformation and well-being. She also is the founder of HeartPaths, a producer of materials inspiring full self-expression, and a director of Foundation in Light, an international nonprofit educational organization furthering spiritual growth and self-realization. In the provocative new model of relationship set forth in Soul-Hearted Partnership,...
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Mari Frank Interviews Tom Crum, Peak Performance Coach
Thomas Crum is an internationally acclaimed author, seminar leader, and martial artist. His books include The Magic of Conflict, Journey to Center, and Three Deep Breaths: Finding Power and Purpose in a Stressed-Out World. Tom Crum is a peak performance coach working with executives as well as professional and amateur athletes. For people who love integrating learning with play, Tom offers “The Magic of Skiing” workshops in the winter, “The Magic of Golf” workshops in the summer, and...
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Mari Frank Interviews Jeffrey Gitterman, Co-Founder of...
Jeff Gitterman is an award winning financial advisor and the CEO of Gitterman & Associates Wealth Management, LLC. www.gawmllc.com. He is also the co-founder of Beyond Success, www.BeyondSuccessConsulting.com, a coaching and consulting company that brings more holistic ideas to the world of business and finance. His first book, Beyond Success; Redefining the Meaning of Prosperity, was recently published by the American Management Association (AMACOM). Over the past several years, Jeff has...
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Mari Frank Interviews David Cortright, Director of...
David Cortright is the Director of Policy Studies at the Kroc Institute and Chair of the Board of the Fourth Freedom Forum. The author or editor of 17 books, most recently Ending Obama's War (forthcoming May 2011, Paradigm) and Towards Nuclear Zero (Routledge, IISS, 2010) he also is the editor of Peace Policy, Kroc's online journal. He blogs at davidcortright.net. Cortright has written widely about nonviolent social change, nuclear disarmament, and the use of multilateral sanctions and...
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Mari Frank Interviews Michael Patterson, Author and...
Michael Patterson, Ed.D. is Vice President of Business Development for Personal Strengths USA and co-author of Have a Nice Conflict: A Story of Finding Success and Satisfaction in the Most Unlikely Places. Mike began his career as an U.S. Army officer and then spent 20 years in a variety of sales, marketing and training roles in the pharmaceutical industry culminating in his leadership of two comprehensive employee development programs. In addition to his work with organizational clients,...
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Mari Frank Interviews Susie Weller, Author and Certified...
With over 30 years experience in providing educational services, Susie coaches people how to increase satisfying relationships both at home and at work. Susie has a B.A. in Communications through UC Santa Barbara and a Master’s Degree in Pastoral Ministry through Seattle University, WA. As a Certified Thinking Styles Consultant through Herrmann International, Susie uses the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument to help people identify their preferred thinking styles. Also, she assists people...
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Mari Frank Interviews Amanda Owen, Author, Speaker, and...
Amanda Owen is an author, speaker, and consultant. She has been presenting lectures and workshops since the mid-eighties on a variety of topics in the spirituality, empowerment and self-improvement genres. Her research during the last twenty years into the nature of receptivity and its link to manifestation led her to develop a system that helps people manifest the lives they want by developing their capacity to receive. She reports her findings in her latest book The Power of Receiving: A...
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Mari Frank Interviews Brian Grossman, Professional...
Brian Grossman, PhD, aka Dr. Brian, is a professional psychologist with a twist! He spent four years in prison (as a psychologist), and is currently a relationship expert, motivational speaker, and author of “Learning to Listen: Did you Hear What I Think I Said?” Dr. Brian has worked with for-profits, non-profits and individuals at all levels, and has provided training for organizations from IBM to the IRS, from Goodwill Industries to the San Diego Zoo, and hundreds of others. But he’s most...
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Mari Frank Interviews Douglas Noll, Peacemaker and...
Douglas E. Noll, Esq. is a full time peacemaker and mediator, specializing in difficult, complex, and intractable conflicts. He is an adjunct professor of law and has a Masters Degree in Peacemaking and Conflict Studies. Mr. Noll was a business and commercial trial lawyer for 22 years before turning to peacemaking. He is a Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators, a Fellow of the American College of Civil Trial Mediators, on the American Arbitration Association panel of mediators and...
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Mari Frank Interviews Stephen Frueh, Coach and Educator...
Stephen W. Frueh is a coach and educator who has a passion for teaching people the fundamentals of effective relationships. He created the With These Rings model, working on it for over ten years, and expects to publish it this year. Raised in the inner cities of New Jersey, Stephen is a high school dropout whose hunger for learning led him to earn a Master’s of Divinity (Theology) and a Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) in Clinical Psychology. He has studied leadership with the BestWork People...
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Mari Frank Interviews Barbara Oakley, Author of...
Dr. Barbara Oakley’s academic career came after a series of globetrotting adventures that got her dubbed a female Indiana Jones. While knocking back tumblers of vodka with the captain of a Soviet fishing boat during the height of the Cold War, she was told she knew too much, it's time to kill her— a rhyme in Russian. Other exploits include rising from U.S. Army private to captain, during which Oakley was recognized as a Distinguished Military Scholar, and teaching in Manchuria—the Red...
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Mari Frank Interviews Violet Woodhouse, Noted author,...
Violet P. Woodhouse, noted author, lecturer, seminar presenter and consultant to the media in the areas of family law and personal finance, is a foremost authority on the financial and tax aspects of divorce. A practicing family law attorney as well as a Certified Financial Planner and Registered Investment Advisor, she pioneered the development of financial analysis of property settlements for financial planners, and often acts as a consultant to divorcing spouses and their mediator during...
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Mari Frank Interviews J. Kim Wright, Holistic Lawyer and...
Kim’s life has been about collaboration, going outside the box and finding new ways for more nurturing outcomes to happen. In 1993, Kim met a lawyer who inspired her when he told her that his divorce clients were friendly at the end of proceedings and that he practiced law while granting dignity to everyone in the process. Over the next several years, she experimented with many holistic, collaborative approaches in her law practice. She created a holistic Divorce and Family Law Center with...
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Mari Frank Interviews Kenneth Cloke, Mediator,...
Kenneth Cloke, JD, LLM, PhD, is a mediator, arbitrator, coach, consultant and trainer specializing in resolving complex multi-party conflicts and designing conflict resolution systems. He is the author of Mediating Dangerously: The Frontiers of Conflict Resolution; The Crossroads of Conflict: A Journey into the Heart of Dispute Resolution; and Conflict Revolution: Mediating Evil, War, Injustice, and Terrorism, and co-author with Joan Goldsmith of Resolving Conflicts at Work: 8 Strategies for...
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Mari Frank Interviews William Ury, Co-Founder of...
William L. Ury co-founded Harvard’s Program on Negotiation and is currently a Senior Fellow of the Harvard Negotiation Project. He is the author of The Power of a Positive No: How to Say No & Still Get to Yes (2007) and co-author (with Roger Fisher) of Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, an eight-million-copy bestseller translated into over thirty languages. No other book in the field comes close to its impact on the way practitioners, teachers, researchers, and the...
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Mari Frank Interviews S. Leonard Scheff, a Practicing...
S. Leonard Scheff is an AFT Board Member, a graduate of Boalt School of Law at UC Berkeley, and practicing attorney in Tucson, Arizona. He is a Zen Buddhist and has attended several of the public teachings by H.H. the Dalai Lama including the five day workshop in Tucson in 1993, and a more recent 2006 teaching. He has organized this Letting Go of Anger seminar with input by John Tarrant Roshi since 1993. While the seminar is based on Buddhism through the teachings of the Dalai Lama, he...
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Mari Frank Interviews Tony Campolo, Professor Emeritus...
Tony Campolo is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Eastern University in St. Davids, Pennsylvania. He previously served for ten years on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of Eastern College and earned a Ph.D. from Temple University. Founder and President of the Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education (EAPE), Dr. Campolo has worked to create, nurture and support programs for at-risk children in cities across North America, and has helped establish...
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Mari Frank Interviews Nancy Dreyfus, Psychotherapist
Nancy Dreyfus grew up a self-conscious bookworm in a tense, glamour-oriented household where she worried so early about her relational deficits that by 3rd grade no one couldn’t get her to play Old Maid. By 5th grade, she was planning her face-saving lifeplan: “Someday she’ll write for The New York Times and no one will notice there’s something wrong with her.” This mindset got her into The Columbia School of Journalism and turned her into a prize-winning reporter managing her own sense of...
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Mari Frank Interviews Dr. Ani Kalayjian, Psychology...
Dr. Ani Kalayjian is a psychology professor, American Board Certified Expert in Traumatic Stress, logotherapeutic psychotherapist, traumatologist, Genocide Scholar, conflict resolution expert, researcher, community organizer, and international consultant. She has over twenty years of experience in disaster management, mass-trauma interventions & conflict resolution; twenty years of university teaching experience and has been a psychotherapist in practice in both NY and NJ for 25 yrs. Since...
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Mari Frank Interviews Jon Memmott, General Counsel of...
Jon Memmott is a retired District Court Judge and Adjunct Professor teaching Employment Law at BYU Marriott School. He joined Arbinger in 2010 as General Counsel and is a Member-Manager of the Arbinger Institute and Arbinger Conflict Resolution Services LLC which offers services to Legal, Judicial, Mediation, Law Enforcement, Military, and Correctional professionals and organizations. Jon also serves as General Counsel for ThomasArts. He has prior experience in private practice, as...
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Mari Frank Interviews David J. Smith, National...
David J. Smith is the national educational outreach officer at the United States Institute of Peace. He coordinates institute-wide educational outreach and public programming efforts. Smith works closely with educational and professional associations, academic institutions, and public groups to promote institute objectives. He speaks frequently to community, faculty and student groups on a variety of issues including civil society and peacebuilding, child soldiers, conflict resolution...
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Mari Frank Interviews Paul Garb, Co-Director and...
Paula Garb is Co-Director and co-founder of UC Irvine's Center for Citizen Peacebuilding. She is a lecturer in anthropology, director of the minor in conflict resolution, and director of the minor in civic and community engagement at the University of California, Irvine. She is a facilitator and researcher of citizen peacebuilding projects. Garb spent 17 years living and working in Moscow, where she received her M.A. in anthropology from Moscow State University and later completed her...
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Mari Frank Interviews Bill Wilmot, Advanced Practitioner...
Bill Wilmot specializes in conflict and mediation, especially in the workplace, and is and Advanced Practitioner with the Association for Conflict Resolution. He has intervened in over 400 disputes and helped diverse organizations over the past 25 years with a variety of issues. His major conflict publications are the co-authored Interpersonal Conflict, and Artful Mediation. His Interpersonal Conflict book has made a major impact on understanding how conflict originates and what practical...
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Mari Frank Interviews Gary Harper, Trainer, Writer and...
Gary Harper is the principal of Harper and Associates. He is a trainer, writer and facilitator who specializes in conflict resolution. Through his unique blend of experience as a personal injury lawyer, general manager, insurance regulator and retail store owner, he learned the value of clear communication and conflict resolution skills. Since 1991 he has trained and mediated in a wide variety of organizations - from health care to the film industry to many levels of government. He is a...
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Mari Frank Interviews Andrew Oser, Founder and President...
Andrew Oser is the Founder and President of Summit Coaching Services. A coach since 1972, Andrew has helped countless individuals to awaken to and express their full potential. Andrew brings a joyful spirit, along with a wide range of experience to his work. He founded and served as Executive Director of the Joy of Sports Foundation, a nonprofit organization which has served more than 50,000 children. He created Effortless Tennis, a breakthrough approach to coaching that sport. He has led...
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