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Be Nobody By Lama Marut chats with Dr. Alvin

Lama Marut Click Here To Listen This follow-up to A Spiritual Renegade’s Guide to the Good Life calls for the biggest revolution of all: the overthrow of our obsessive quest to be somebody. Like boardwalk tourists poking their faces through two-dimensional cutouts of the muscle man and bathing beauty, we are all desperately trying to be somebody, to be “special.” No one wants to be a loser, a small fry, a big zero. But maybe we’ve got it all wrong. With an edgy tone and radical perspective, Lama Marut shows that the quest to distinguish ourselves is the true cause of our dissatisfaction, and it continually leaves us feeling isolated and alone. Drawing from the [...]

By |June 16th, 2014|Self-Help, Spirituality|Comments Off on Be Nobody By Lama Marut chats with Dr. Alvin

Derrick Brown Sports Report 06.16.14 on DrAlvin.com: Chuck Noll-Spurs NBA Champions

D Brown Sports 061614 Click Here To Listen Get the latest in sports, news and commentary.  

By |June 16th, 2014|Sports|Comments Off on Derrick Brown Sports Report 06.16.14 on DrAlvin.com: Chuck Noll-Spurs NBA Champions

Survivor’s Malcolm Freberg Shares New Series: Wayfaring chats with Dr. Alvin

Malcolm Freberg Click Here To Listen   “Wayfaring” is a first-of-its-kind docu-series event that follows the host (Freberg) and a film crew on a road trip around the United States. The Kickstarter is Live from June 11th – 25th. The team is set to depart Los Angeles on July 1st and will complete a twenty-day loop of the country, ending back in southern California on July 20th.    

By |June 16th, 2014|Biography, Entertainment, Pop Culture, Television|Comments Off on Survivor’s Malcolm Freberg Shares New Series: Wayfaring chats with Dr. Alvin

Pivot Points: Five Decisions Every Successful Leader Must Make By Julia Tang Peters chats with Dr. Alvin

Julia Tang Peters Click Here To Listen A Roadmap for Transforming Ambition into Achievement In the sea of thrown-together, stereotypical leadership advice, Julia Tang Peters’ Pivot Points stands out like a beacon. This book is not the result of trite 10-step recipes or unstudied observations. Instead, its source is in-depth research conducted among some of the country’s most effective leaders. Intimate interviews and broad survey data reveal that the leaders who stand out are the ones who fearlessly face the decisions that characterize career turning points. Amazingly, the people who break through barriers to transform industries encounter—and effectively confront—the same five critical decisions. In Pivot Points, you’ll read how five inspiring and approachable leaders made [...]

By |June 16th, 2014|Business|Comments Off on Pivot Points: Five Decisions Every Successful Leader Must Make By Julia Tang Peters chats with Dr. Alvin

Influencing Hemingway: People And Places That Shaped His Life And Work By Nancy W. Sindelar chats with Dr. Alvin

Nancy Sindelar Click Here To Listen Ernest Hemingway embraced adventure and courted glamorous friends while writing articles, novels, and short stories that captivated the world. Hemingway’s personal relationships and experiences influenced the content of his fiction, while the progression of places where the author chose to live and work shaped his style and rituals of writing. Whether revisiting the Italian front in A Farewell to Arms, recounting a Pamplona bull run in The Sun Also Rises, or depicting a Cuban fishing village in The Old Man and the Sea, setting played an important part in Hemingway’s fiction. The author also drew on real people—parents, friends, and fellow writers, among others—to create memorable characters in his [...]

By |June 16th, 2014|Biography, History, Literature|Comments Off on Influencing Hemingway: People And Places That Shaped His Life And Work By Nancy W. Sindelar chats with Dr. Alvin

To a strong, secure, hardworking, confident, intelligent, courageous, and brilliant man…HAPPY FATHER’s DAY from Angela Marie Jones

By |June 15th, 2014|Men, Parenting|Comments Off on To a strong, secure, hardworking, confident, intelligent, courageous, and brilliant man…HAPPY FATHER’s DAY from Angela Marie Jones

This Is Ridiculous This Is Amazing: Parenthood In 71 Lists By Jason Good chats with Dr. Alvin

Jason Good Click Here To Listen Blogging sensation and family man Jason Good delivers a laugh-out-loud reminder that everything is easier and more fun when approached with a sense of humor—especially parenting. Each list captures a perfect (or perfectly terrible) aspect of parenthood while wholeheartedly embracing every moment: "You Deserve a Break" offers ideas for downtime, such as giving blood and untangling cords, while "Self-Help from a Three-Year-Old" collects such wisdom as "If you fall down, stay down. Someone will pick you up eventually." Sweet, sincere, and oh-so-true, this is the ideal gift for parents who could use a laugh. And isn't that every single one of them?

By |June 15th, 2014|Family, Men, Parenting|Comments Off on This Is Ridiculous This Is Amazing: Parenthood In 71 Lists By Jason Good chats with Dr. Alvin

Miracle Man By William Leibowitz chats Dr. Alvin

Click Here To Listen REVERED REVILED REMARKABLE The victim of an unspeakable crime, an infant rises to become a new type of superhero. Unlike any that have come before him, he is not a fanciful creation of animators, he is real. So begins the saga of Robert James Austin, the greatest genius in human history. But where did his extraordinary intelligence come from? As agents of corporate greed vie with rabid anti-Western radicals to destroy him, an obsessive government leader launches a bizarre covert mission to exploit his intellect. Yet Austin's greatest fear is not of this world. Aided by two exceptional women, one of whom will become his unlikely lover, Austin struggles against abandonment [...]

By |June 15th, 2014|Fiction|Comments Off on Miracle Man By William Leibowitz chats Dr. Alvin

The Lost Art Of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish By Linda Przbyszewski chats with Dr. Alvin

Linda Przybyszewski Click Here To Listen As a glance down any street in America quickly reveals, American women have forgotten how to dress. We chase fads, choose inappropriate materials and unattractive cuts, and waste energy tottering in heels when we could be moving gracefully. Quite simply, we lack the fashion know-how we need to dress professionally and flatteringly. As historian and expert dressmaker Linda Przybyszewski reveals in The Lost Art of Dress, it wasn’t always like this. In the first half of the twentieth century, a remarkable group of women—the so-called Dress Doctors—taught American women how to stretch each yard of fabric and dress well on a budget. Knowledge not money, they insisted, is the [...]

By |June 15th, 2014|Fashion, History, Women|Comments Off on The Lost Art Of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish By Linda Przbyszewski chats with Dr. Alvin

Roadside MBA: Back Road Lessons For Entrepreneurs, Executives And Small Business Owners By Michael Mazzeo chats with Dr. Alvin

Michael Mazzeo Click Here To Listen While playing hooky from a conference in Boston a few years back, three former colleagues from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management hopped in a car and headed on a road trip. They pulled into a shoe store in Maine and noticed that the sales help was unusually pushy. After a few questions, they discovered the store had a "secret shopper" program, in which employees would be marked down if they were not sufficiently aggressive with customers. A lightbulb went off. Instead of teaching the tried-and-true case studies involving GE and Microsoft, these three wise men decided to pull their heads out of their ivory towers and go in search [...]

By |June 15th, 2014|Business|Comments Off on Roadside MBA: Back Road Lessons For Entrepreneurs, Executives And Small Business Owners By Michael Mazzeo chats with Dr. Alvin