From My Mama

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 memoir I’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.

From My Mama’s Kitchen Presents… “When did I get like this?” A visit with Amy Wilson, author and performer of the off Broadway hit “Mother Load.”

After seven years of raising kids, Amy Wilson has an overriding daily thought: she sucks at being a mother.

The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget-Buyer, and Other Mothers I Swore I ‘d Never be – Amy quickly discovered after having children that things don’t always work out according to plan.

Any mother who wants what is best for her child – and what mother doesn’t? – can soon, despite her best intentions, find herself on a fruitless and losing quest for perfection.

Amy finds great humor in her own journey, first to achieve what she is told is “best” for her children, then to ignore those same voices once she realizes that is not the mother she wants to be either!

Amy and I will be discussing her funny, endearing celebration of a mother’s quest to provide what is best for her kids in the age of too many options. It’s also about the doubts almost anyone has facing a giant life change, and their ability to preserve in the face of that change.

Please call 347.327.9995 on Tuesday June 15th from 10-11am CST US to join Amy and I live on the air with your questions and personal stories.

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.

Whether you realized it or not the way you look and your self-esteem is closely tied to the level of success you will achieve in life.

The ImageMaker, Inc. was created by Dr. Joyce Knudsen, Phd, to help you look and feel your best at any given time so that you have your best foot forward in whatever environment and situation you are in, or encounter.

Dr. Knudsen has been training people all around the world since 1985. She has been an author, speaker, television host, and an expert widely quoted in the media.

She is also the first image consultant in the world to hold the coveted “Certified Image Master” designation from The Association of Image Consultants International (AICI), as well as being the first AICI CIM trainer to teach abroad.

The AICI has honored her with its Image Makers Merit of Industry Excellence (IMMIE) award and its Award of Excellence for Education. Dr. Knudsen also played a leading role in the ground-breaking study sponsored by the AICI which showed image consulting services give a big boost to people’s self-esteem.

Please call 347.327.9995 on Tuesday April 27th from 10-11am CST US to join Dr. Knudsen and I live on the air with your questions and personal stories.

From My Mama’s Kitchen Presents… Home for the Holidays – “A Celebration of the Heart with a Gift from the Soul” Series.

From now to the end of the year we will be having specials guests to talk about the holidays, family celebration, and fun times.

My special guest to kick off this series is Susan Sohn. She is a mother, and a talk show host. She will be joining me to talk about her 10 week Christmas plan.

It is a plan that will help families prepare for Christmas from all angles – from food shopping, gifts, decorating, invites to creating a budget.

Please call 347.327.9995 to join Susan and I live on the air Tuesday 11/3/09 from 10-11 am US CST as we discuss her life’s journey in preparing her home for the holidays and helping others on their own journeys as well!

Continuing with the theme From My Mama’s Kitchen Recommends… where I am showcasing authors and individuals who have written excellent books and are doing extra ordinary things that touched the heart and moved the soul!

My guest for this week will be Patti Handy, single mom, a Money Coach and published author. She is passionate about sharing her financial wisdom with teens and young adults by empowering them with money smarts.

Patti received her Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, followed by a combined twenty-five years in the banking and mortgage arena. A past holder of the Series 7 and Series 63 licenses, she has most recently served as a Senior Mortgage Advisor for over 7 years. She holds a California Real Estate Brokers License and is a CTA Certified Life Coach.

Although she has extensive work experience, she credits the invaluable lessons that her parents taught her at a very young age as the true gift – “Understanding the importance of learning money management early.”

Please call 347.327.9995 to join Patti and I live on the air Tuesday 9/8/09 from 10-11 am US CDT as we discuss her life’s journey, her new book – “How to ditch your allowance and be richer than your parents, 9 wealth building tools to make a teen rich” and her proprietary program – “The Prosperous Teen”™, Ordinary Money Habits create Extraordinary Results!

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.

She is a Certified Financial Planner, Personal Financial Coach and Small Business Consultant to many women. She helps them understand that “Wealth is not only measured by assets, but more importantly by spirit, intellect, family and community.”

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.