From My Mama’s Kitchen Talk Radio (FMMKTalkRadio)

Camp Gladiator Boot Camp was started by 2008 American Gladiator Grand Champion Ally Davidson the same year she won the title. Today Camp Gladiator Boot Camp has become the premier work out sessions for the young and old.

Amy Mack has been the Camp Director & Trainer for Camp Gladiator in Dallas, Texas since the camp started in Dallas in 2008. Since her last appearance on FMMK Talk Radio in January she had invite me to attend Camp Gladiator, and I did.

She and I will be talking about “Surviving Camp Gladiator Bootcamp.” We are excited about the rewards of being fit for this up coming Spring by being a participant of Camp Gladiator!

Please call 347.327.9995 to join Amy and I live on the air with your questions and personal stories.

Concluding our February’s theme of “Love Will Find A Way” - From My Mama’s Kitchen™ is excited to welcome Singles Coach, Nina Atwood.

Nina is a licensed therapist with twenty two years of experience and the author of four self-help books for singles and couples. Her books include Be Your Own Dating Service, published in 1994, is still as popular as ever, and her latest book, Temptations of the Single Girl: “The Ten Dating Traps You Must Avoid” is the latest buzz in the single world!

She has been featured in various national magazines and newspapers. Nina has also been on radio shows hundreds of times, and has appeared on various national and regional television shows.

Regardless of how you spent your Valentine’s Day this past Sunday, you may want to tune in to pick up some special tips to help you spice up your love life, as Nina and I will be discussing romance, love, and the single life!

Please call 347.327.9995 to join Nina and I live on the air with your questions and personal stories.

As a special treat for the last show of 2009 with Christmas just days away followed by the New Year, FMMK Talk Radio is glad to honor all the Blended Families in America and the World. Our show theme for this week is “A Blended Family Holiday - Challenges and Rewards.”

What is a blended family? A blended family is when two adults marry or live together, and one or both adults bring children from a previous relationship into the new marriage or living arrangement.  They “blend” the two families into one new family.

Regardless of how much abundance of love that is in this new family, ultimately there will always be times and situations that would require just a little bit more love and understanding from everyone to ensure the survival and success of this new union.

Joining me to talk about this wonderful, challenging, and rewarding experience is Shirley Cress Dudley; a Licensed Professional Counselor from Charlotte, North Carolina. Shirley has two masters’ degrees; one in marriage and family counseling, and the other in education. She is also a part of a blended family herself, and is raising 2 children and 3 stepchildren with her husband Eric.

Over the years I have learned from my 9 moms that in order for me to truly experience and appreciate unconditional love, I, on the receiving end must consciously allow myself to be loved.

Please call 347.327.9995 to join Shirley and I live on the air Tuesday 12/22/09 from 10-11 am US CST as we discuss the various opportunities and solutions to truly experience a very rewarding Blended Family Holiday.

My guest for this week’s Thanksgiving Show will be Sandra Larson a Spiritualist and an Animal Communicator.

She has studied with Mary Stoffel and Kim Luetke and completed the Professional Series Course with international animal communicator Marta Williams author of Learning Their Language and Beyond Words.

Sandra is a graduate of the University Wisconsin at Superior with a double major in Psychology and Education. She is also a graduate of Gateway College in Florissant Missouri.

She taught elementary school in Wisconsin, Germany and California. She was a Psychology instructor at both Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College and San Diego Community College.

In addition to being certified animal communicator, Sandra is also a life coach and an angel therapy practitioner.

Please call 347.327.9995 to join Sandra and I live on the air Tuesday 11/24/09 from 10-11 am US CST as We will be discussing – How to develop an attitude of gratitude in our life – by discovering unconditional love through our pets and our very own mindfulness!

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This week my guest for Home for the Holidays - “A Celebration of the Heart with a Gift from the Soul” is Kelley Barnett, an ASID Interior Designer who specializes in Kitchens Designs and Kitchens Makeovers.

She is a graduate of University of Texas in Austin, and has lived in Southern California, New Mexico, New Jersey, Texas and Puerto Rico. Kelley has also traveled and studied aboard in England, France, and Canada.

As a woman and a working mom, Kelley said that she understands how important the “Kitchen” is in any home and especially during the holiday season!

Please call 347.327.9995 to join Kelley and I live on the air Tuesday 11/10/09 from 10-11 am US CST as we discuss her life’s journey, the history of kitchens, kitchen designs and makeovers, and getting your kitchen ready for the holidays!

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

My guest for this week will be Deborah Weed. She is an artist and the author of “The Luckiest Penny.” It is a children’s book about having a healthy set of values that will assist them on their journey in life.

Deborah’s mission is to share how valuable “life experience is.” According to her; is it better to jump into life, even if it gets messy? Or, is it better to play it safe by waiting on the sidelines, hidden and protected by the walls of our own making, until the journey is over?

We need to start talking to our kids while they are still young, about how to make their own luck. It’s really simple: if you feel lucky, you are lucky, and especially if we think about all of the blessings that are in our lives.

The book’s genre is a fable/allegory and the illustrations are by award winning artist Ernest Socolov. An all original, musical interactive production is being created and produced for The Luckiest Penny. The show should be ready in November 2009.

Please call 347.327.9995 to join Deborah and I live on the air Tuesday 10/13/09 from 10-11 am US CDT as we discuss her life’s journey, her new book “The Luckiest Penny,” and her mission to making a positive difference in every child’s life.

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

My guest for this week will be Susan Heim, a longstanding author and editor, specializing in parenting, multiples, women’s and Christian issues. After the birth of her fraternal twin boys, Austen and Caleb, Susan left her desk job as a Senior Editor at a publishing company and has never looked back. Being a work-at-home mother allows her to follow her two greatest passions: parenting and writing.

Susan’s books include Chicken Soup for the Soul: All in the Family; Chicken Soup for the Soul: Devotional Stories for Women; Chicken Soup for the Soul: Twins and More; Boosting Your Baby’s Brain Power; It’s Twins! Parent-to-Parent Advice from Infancy Through Adolescence; Oh, Baby! 7 Ways a Baby Will Change Your Life the First Year; and, Twice the Love: Stories of Inspiration for Families with Twins, Multiples and Singletons. Susan also hopes to venture into fiction writing in the future.

Her articles and stories have appeared in many books, websites, and magazines, including TWINS Magazine and Angels on Earth. Susan writes an online column for Mommies Magazine called “Loving and Living with Twins and Multiples.”

Susan is the founder of Twins Talk, a website where parents share tips, advice and stories about raising twins and multiples. She is also an expert on twins and multiples for AllExperts.com, and a parenting expert for SelfGrowth.com

Please call 347.327.9995 to join Susan and I live on the air Tuesday 10/06/09 from 10-11 am US CDT as we discuss her life’s journey, motherhood, and her two new books Chicken Soup for the Soul: All in the Family, and Chicken Soup for the Soul: Devotional Stories for Women.

Continuing with our August theme – From My Mama’s Kitchen Recommends… authors who have written excellent books that touch the heart and move the soul!)

Our guest for this week is Stephanie A. Duckworth-Elliott, an author, educator, and member of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) on Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts.

Stephanie has over 15 years of experience as a Minority Educator both in and out of the classroom. Her educational background consists of being a member of The Graduate Faculty at The New School for Social Research where she received her Master’s in Sociology. She earned a Masters in Non-profit Management from the Graduate School for Public Policy at Rutgers University at Newark, and a BA in Africana Studies from Douglass College at Rutgers University.

Her professional background as an educator consists of teaching 75 college courses at various institutions including Princeton University, Rutgers University, The College of New Jersey, Colorado Technical University and numerous community colleges. She is also a certified teacher in the state of New Jersey and has taught 6th grade in the Franklin Township School District and 2nd grade at the Collegiate School in Manhattan.

She was the Assistant Executive Director of the National Commission on the High School Senior Year funded by the U.S. Department of Education under President Bill Clinton and has written numerous reports that she either authored or co-authored focusing on education.

She was the recipient of the Wallace Dewitt Reader’s Digest Fellowship for Minority Teachers and studied at Bank Street College during her fellowship.
Her new book Poneasequa – The Goddess of the Waters is about a little girl’s journey to self discovery and rites of passage serves as a wonderful inspiring story for everyone.

Please call 347.327.9995 to join Stephanie and I live on the air on Tuesday 8/11/09 from 10-11 am CDT as we discuss her life’s journey, her new book, and the wonderful history of Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) on Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts!

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.

The theme for June is Women Empowerment - Working Moms -The Balancing Act of Motherly Love and Career. Nothing can be more challenging and rewarding for today’s women than being able to pursue a successful career while at the same time being there for your loved ones.

Allegra Huston was born in London and raised in Ireland, Long Island, and Los Angeles. She has worked with Chatto & Windus publishers in London and Weidenfeld & Nicolson, where she was Editorial Director from 1990 to 1994. She has been a freelance writer and editor for more than ten years; her work has appeared in The Times, the Independent, the Tatler, and Harper’s Bazaar (all in the UK), in French Vogue, and in the U.S. in People, the Santa Fean, and Mothering.

Her book Love Child - A Memoir of Family - Lost and Found just came out in April.

Please call 347.327.9995 to join Allegra and I live on the air on Tuesday 6/2/09 from 10-11 am CST as we discuss her your life’s journey through some of the most wonderful, challenging and yet educational time in her life which shaped her to be the woman she is today!