Get the Funk Out

Mari Frank Interviews Lanny Davis, 05/06/13

Mari Frank Interviews Lacey Lafferty, 04/22/13

Mari Frank Interviews Kenyon Oster 03/25/13

Mari Frank Interviews Marcy Ellenbogen, 03/11/13

Mari Frank Interviews Lisa Gibson 02/18/13

Mari Frank Interviews Radomir Samardzic 12/31/12

Mari Frank Interviews Ravi Rao 12/17/10

Mari Frank interviews Joseph Higgins 12/3/12

Mari Frank Interviews Elizabeth Hanley 11/19/12

Mari Frank interviews David Brubaker, 11/5/12

Mari Frank Interviews Spirituality Section of ACR...

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.

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.

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."

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...