After losing her mom to cancer at a young age, Gemini Adams discovered that a typical inheritance doesn’t give surviving family, especially children, the on going loving support they really need.
Now as a multiple award-winning author and grief expert, she explains that our real “wealth” lies not in our Financial Assets, but our Emotional Assets: the values, memories, lessons, voice, image, wisdom and affections that we capture and share through a loving legacy.
Gemini and I will be discussing her triple award-winning book, Your Legacy of Love to help all of us realize this amazing gift!
Please call 347.327.9995 on Tuesday August 24th from 10-11am U.S. CT to join Gemini and I live on the air with your questions and personal stories.
So what does it mean to be “black” or “white” in America today? Is it something that can really be defined? And, if so, what exactly would those racially-defining characteristics be?
Mishna Wolff, a former model and a humorist tackles this question with humor, intelligence and style in her national bestselling book, I’m Down.
It is essentially the story of Mishna’s childhood growing up in a poor black neighborhood as a white girl being raised by her single father, a white man who truly believed he was black. “He strutted around with a short perm, a Cosbyesqe sweater, gold chains, and a Kangol – telling jokes like Redd Foxx, and giving advice like Jesse Jackson.”
Unfortunately, she didn’t quite fit in with the neighborhood kids: she couldn’t dance, she couldn’t sing, she couldn’t double Dutch, and she was the worst player on her all-black basketball team. And yet when she was suddenly sent to a rich white school, she found she was too “black” to fit in with her white classmates.
Mishna and I will be discussing her memoirI’m Down – a hilarious look at what it means to be black and white in America!
Please call 347.327.9995 on Tuesday August 17th from 10-11am U.S. CT to join Mishna and I live on the air with your questions and personal stories.
Filled with a daily dose of soulful spiritual affirmations for the whole year, this book is a wonderful source of inspiration, tips on how to raise your kids with care, advice on romance and relationships, keys to unlock your creativity, encouragement to manifest your destiny, a bit of poetry, and the essence of love!
Brian and I will be discussing this wonderful book, and he will provide a list of 7 things a mother can do to stay inspired.
Please call 347.327.9995 on Tuesday June 1st from 10-11am CST US to join Brian and I live on the air with your questions and personal stories.
According to my nine moms, if not at conception then certainly during delivery, moms, in just an instant, realize that their lives have just changed forever. The most important person in their lives is no longer themselves, rather it is their baby.
However, with this new responsibility comes a new challenge – the balancing act of motherhood, and one’s self identity and well being. If left unchecked, it can sometimes become so overwhelming that what was once the joyous time of a woman life soon fizzles away into a dreaded routine, which will eventually affect the entire family’s synergy of togetherness.
Today, Beyond the Bus Stop, as an organization, through its various local chapters and through its online support, has helped countless women nationwide to overcome these challenges.
Suzy and I will be discussing how moms all over the country are once again recapturing the magical heartfelt moments of being a mother, a wife, and the woman she has always envisioned of being,while celebrating the “wonderfulness of motherhood.”
Please call347.327.9995 on Tuesday May 25th from 10-11am CST US to join Suzy, three other moms, and I live on the air with your questions and personal stories.
For the last nine Mother’s day Pamela MacPhee has been celebrating a unique gift she has given to her cousin. DELiVERiNG HOPE is an intimate memoir of Pamela’s challenging, but fulfilling journey carrying a baby for a cousin devastated by infertility.
What kind of a woman chooses to become a surrogate?
What is she thinking when she’s pregnant with someone else’s child?
How does she feel when she delivers the baby into the waiting arms of the parents?
“It was truly amazing to share such an intimate journey with another couple, and I feel grateful for the privilege of being entrusted with my cousin’s dreams and the opportunity to give them the gift of a family. Giving is what makes life meaningful.” - Pamela MacPhee.
Pamela and I will be having a candid conversation about her experience as a surrogate mom as we look back and celebrate her personal journey of “unconditional motherly love”.
Please call 347.327.9995 on Tuesday May 18th from 10-11am CST US to join Pamela and I live on the air with your questions and personal stories.
“Mother’s day is a very special time for me. I make it a point to be at home on that special Sunday to celebrate with my children and grandchildren, and honor the memory of my own mother. This year I thought about the babies born into this world who may not have all the advantages that my own children and I enjoyed. I wanted to find a way to help — and knitting for charity has always been one of my passions. It seemed like a natural: I could encourage my many readers who knit or crochet to mark Mother’s Day by making one special project - Knit1, Bless2.” – Debbie Macomber.
This mother’s day is particularly very special for a few thousand parents and their children because it was 35 years ago last month that they became a family due to the gallant efforts of a few courageous men and women, and the President of the United States who collectively undertook a humanitarian initiative called“Operation Babylift.”“Operation Babylift“ was a $2 million dollar US initiative that airlifted over 2,500 Vietnamese orphans out of a war-torn country in 1975 to protect them from the impending threat of the Communist Regime. Lana Noone, is the author of “Global Mom: Notes From a Pioneer Adoptive Family,” and she is a Babylift mother who runs a website – Vietnambabylift.org which is a resource center for Operation Babylift history and families. Tammy Nguyen Lee is an award winning film maker who took on a personal mission to bring Operation Babylift to live in her award winning film “Operation Babylift – The Lost Children of Vietnam” which came out in 2009. We will be discussing the 35th anniversary of Operation Babylift, the impact it had on the children who were saved, and the joy it brought to the adopted parents. Please call 347.327.9995 on Tuesday May 4th from 10-11am CST US to join Lana, Tammy and I live on the air with your questions and personal stories.
Besides being an occupational therapist, a piano teacher, and a freelance writer, my guest for this week –Debora Cotyis also a mom, author, internationally published columnist and a sought after speaker because she is a gifted humorist.
Writing has become a passion and that can be attested by the many hours she spends each week hammering away on her desktop or laptop keyboard. As a matter of fact, her young adult historical fiction novel, The Distant Shore, which was released August 30, 2007climbed to the top of the VR Publishing best-seller list within three months!
Debora has a real knack for getting across sound biblical concepts with a refreshing lightheartedness as attested in her monthly newspaper column entitled Grace Notes: God’s Grace for Everyday Living.
Her new book titled, “Mom Needs Chocolate” has a universal mom appeal. In mom-to-mom, smile-provoking style, Coty paints her offbeat picture of reality with a tangy twist while offering outrageous coping tips, off-the-wall insights, sisterly hugs, and warm encouragement.
With witty frankness and wild abandon, she tackles the extremes of marriage, horror of embarrassing children, defeat (and re-defeat) of depression, aging grossfully (er, gracefully), and a veritable grocery-list of other mud between-your-toes issues.
Debora’s mission is simple: help women hear God’s still, small voice above blathering kids, howling pets, and snarling traffic.
Please call 347.327.9995 to join Debora and I live on the air on Tuesday 8/25/09 from 10-11 am US CDT and have tons of laughs as we discuss her life’s journey, and her new book.
Whether you living in today’s economy or the economy of yesteryear, moms are always looking for ways to be enterprising and be more independent when it comes to taking care of themselves and their families. These “Momtrepreneurs” have the ability to pursue a successful business career while at the same time being there for their loved ones.
Carece Slaughter, is a dedicated wife of 31 years, a mother of 3 incredible children, 30, 28 & 6, a daughter, a sister of 5 siblings, a friend of many to-mention, a Co-Pastor, and is also a momtrepreneur.
Carece’s mission is to show hardworking, successful businesswomen how to view these values as virtues, and not vulnerabilities. She empowers them to become more valuable to their communities and families.
As the founder of Business Women For Success™ she champions the organization’s eagerness to empower women with education and resources to help them pursue total life success through sharing personal experiences, and by encouraging each other to succeed. Collectively these women find themselves not only growing their businesses, but also changing their communities, and creating lasting legacies in the world.
Whether you are already a successful momtrepreneur, or someone who choose to take time off from a career to raise children, or help your husband through graduate school, or taking on the responsibility of caring for aging parents, your personal financial well being and stability is still your own personal responsibility.
Please call 347.327.9995 to join Carece and I live on the air tomorrow morning Tuesday 7/14/09 from 10-11 am CDT as we discuss her life’s journey, her proprietary Purpose Directed Wealth Strategies™ for women, and her food for the soul, recipes for living.
It’s wonderful to see successfully married couples raising their children. But the nuclear family as we know it is disappearing, giving way to blended families that are combination of adults and children from previous families.
An estimated one-in-three Americans are part of a blended family, and that’s expected to climb to 50% for Americans during their lifetime.
About 75% of divorced persons will remarry, and 65% of those remarriages will include children from prior marriages.
In fact, by 2010, blended families are projected to be the predominant family form in the United States.
Helping us keep step with how these families form and function is Shirley Cress Dudley, a Licensed Professional Counselor from Charlotte, North Carolina, with master’s degrees in both marriage and family counseling and education.
In addition to her practice, Shirley, along with her husband Eric, is blended family with five children.
All mothers know that being a mom can be challenging at times. These challenges are further compounded if you are a single mom.
This mother’s day is particularly very special for a few thousand parents and their children because it was 35 years ago last month that they became a family due to the gallant efforts of a few courageous men and women, and the President of the United States who collectively undertook a humanitarian initiative called 
