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Ain’t It Time We Said Goodbye By Robert Greenfield chats with Dr. Alvin

Robert Greenfield Click Here To Listen Although they did not know it then, when the Rolling Stones embarked on their farewell tour of Great Britain in March 1971 after having announced they were about to go into tax exile in the south of France, it was the end of an era. For the Stones, nothing would ever be the same again. For ten days on that tour, the Rolling Stones traveled by train and bus to play two shows a night in many of the same small town halls and theaters where they had begun their career. Performing brand new songs like "Bitch," "Brown Sugar," "Wild Horses," and "Can't You Hear Me Knockin'" from their [...]

By |May 21st, 2014|Biography, Music|Comments Off on Ain’t It Time We Said Goodbye By Robert Greenfield chats with Dr. Alvin
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Serve To Be Great By Matt Tenney chats with Dr. Alvin

Matt Tenney Click Here To Listen Matt Tenney is an international keynote speaker, a trainer, and a consultant with the prestigious Perth Leadership Institute, whose clients include numerous Fortune 500 companies. He works with companies, associations, universities, and nonprofits to develop highly effective leaders who achieve lasting success by focusing on serving and inspiring greatness in the people around them. Matt envisions a world where the vast majority of people realize that effectively serving others is the key to true greatness. When he’s not traveling for speaking engagements, he can often be found in Nashville, TN.

By |May 20th, 2014|Biography, Business, Leadership, Spirituality|Comments Off on Serve To Be Great By Matt Tenney chats with Dr. Alvin
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50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple’s Extraordinary Rescue Mission Into The Heart Of Nazi Germany chats with Dr. Alvin

Steven Pressman Click Here To Listen Two Ordinary Americans. Fifty Innocent Lives. One Unforgettable Journey. In early 1939, few Americans were thinking about the darkening storm clouds over Europe. Nor did they have much sympathy for the growing number of Jewish families that were increasingly threatened and brutalized by Adolf Hitler's policies in Germany and Austria. But one ordinary American couple decided that something had to be done. Despite overwhelming obstacles—both in Europe and in the United States—Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus made a bold and unprecedented decision to travel into Nazi Germany in an effort to save a group of Jewish children.

By |May 15th, 2014|Biography, History, Jewish|Comments Off on 50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple’s Extraordinary Rescue Mission Into The Heart Of Nazi Germany chats with Dr. Alvin
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U.S. Marshalls By Mike Earp chats with Dr. Alvin

Mike Earp Click Here To Listen Deputy U.S. Marshal: How often did you draw your gun? Retiring FBI Agent: Never. You? Deputy U.S. Marshal: Seven times before lunch. 123,006 Fugitives That's how many wanted men and women, each with an average of four felony convictions to his or her name, the U.S. Marshals Service tracked down and arrested in 2012. Of that number, 3,962 were charged with murder, most were violent career criminals, and all were on the run from the authorities. If you are a fugitive in America, your worst nightmare is a deputy U.S. marshal on your trail: each year the Marshals Service takes more criminals off the streets than every other federal [...]

By |May 15th, 2014|Biography, Crime, Law|Comments Off on U.S. Marshalls By Mike Earp chats with Dr. Alvin
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The Madwoman In The Volvo By Sandra Tsing Loh chats with Dr. Alvin

Sandra Tsing Loh Click Here To Listen In a voice that is wry, disarming, and totally candid, Sandra Tsing Loh tells the moving and laugh-out-loud tale of her roller coaster through “the change.” This is not your grandmother’s menopause story. Loh chronicles utterly relatable, everyday perils: raising preteen daughters, weathering hormonal changes, and going through the ups and downs of a career and a relationship. She writes also about an affair and the explosion of her marriage, the pressures of keeping her daughters off Facebook while managing the legal and marital hijinks of her eighty-nine-year-old dad, and a despairing withdrawal to a tiny cabin where she combined wine and Ambien, paralyzing her arm into a [...]

By |May 14th, 2014|Biography, Medical, Women|Comments Off on The Madwoman In The Volvo By Sandra Tsing Loh chats with Dr. Alvin
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Auto Biography By Earl Swift chats with Dr. Alvin

Earl Swift Click Here To Listen An unforgettable ode to American car culture, award-winning author Earl Swift's wise, funny, and captivating narrative follows an outlaw-genius motorhead as he attempts to restore an iconic 1957 Chevy from rusted-out wreck to gleaming, chromed work of American art—before the FBI closes in A classic '57 Chevy, in wretched shape: Its surviving paint is sun-bleached, salt-pocked, and cracked like a dry lakebed. Its engine hasn't turned over in years. Slumped among hundreds of other rusting hulks on a windswept patch of eastern North Carolina, the Chevy evokes none of the Jet Age optimism that made it the most beloved and instantly recognizable car to ever roll off an assembly [...]

By |May 12th, 2014|Automobile, Biography, History|Comments Off on Auto Biography By Earl Swift chats with Dr. Alvin
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1954 By Bill Madden chats with Dr. Alvin

Bill Madden Click Here To Listen 1954: Perhaps no single baseball season has so profoundly changed the game forever. In that year—the same in which the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled, in the case of Brown vs. Board of Education, that segregation of the races be outlawed in America's public schools—Larry Doby's Indians won an American League record 111 games, dethroned the five-straight World Series champion Yankees, and went on to play Willie Mays's Giants in the first World Series that featured players of color on both teams. Seven years after Jackie Robinson had broken the baseball color line, 1954 was a triumphant watershed season for black players—and, in a larger sense, for baseball and [...]

By |May 12th, 2014|African Americans, Biography, Sports|Comments Off on 1954 By Bill Madden chats with Dr. Alvin
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It Ain’t Over…Till It’s Over By Marlo Thomas chats with Dr. Alvin

Marlo Thomas Click Here To Listen But anyone who has ever tried to make a big life change knows it can be a bit more complicated— and frightening—than that. How do you get up the nerve and confidence to actually take the leap? No one knows better than the women profiled in this powerful book by actress, activist, and bestselling author Marlo Thomas. It Ain't Over ...Till It's Over inntroduces us to sixty amazing women who are proving that it’s never too late to live out a dream—to launch a business, travel the world, get a PhD, indulge a creative impulse, make a family recipe famous, escape danger, find love, or fill a void in [...]

By |May 9th, 2014|Biography, Self-Help|Comments Off on It Ain’t Over…Till It’s Over By Marlo Thomas chats with Dr. Alvin
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The Crusade Of Cesar Chavez By Miriam Pawel chats with Dr. Alvin

Miriam Pawel Click Here To Listen Cesar Chavez founded a labor union, launched a movement, and inspired a generation. He rose from migrant worker to national icon, becoming one of the great charismatic leaders of the 20th century. Two decades after his death, Chavez remains the most significant Latino leader in US history. Yet his life story has been told only in hagiography—until now. In the first comprehensive biography of Chavez, Miriam Pawel offers a searching yet empathetic portrayal. Chavez emerges here as a visionary figure with tragic flaws; a brilliant strategist who sometimes stumbled; and a canny, streetwise organizer whose pragmatism was often at odds with his elusive, soaring dreams. He was an experimental [...]

By |May 9th, 2014|Biography, Hispanic, Labor|Comments Off on The Crusade Of Cesar Chavez By Miriam Pawel chats with Dr. Alvin
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A Short Walk To The Edge Of Life by Scott Hubbartt chats with Dr. Alvin

Scott Hubbartt Click Here To Listen It was supposed to be a simple day hike. Scott Hubbartt was a military veteran with years of survival training. Everyone who knew him considered him an expert adventurer. But Scott’s trek into the treacherous back country canyons of the Peruvian Andes turned into a desperate fight to survive after he became hopelessly lost. As his eight-hour hike lengthened into days, Scott faced dehydration, hunger, and exhaustion. And that’s when his true journey began. Chronicling the failures and miracles of a remarkable physical and spiritual passage, A Short Walk to the Edge of Life is the gripping, true story of a man who had to come to the end [...]

By |May 8th, 2014|Biography, Gospel, Spirituality|Comments Off on A Short Walk To The Edge Of Life by Scott Hubbartt chats with Dr. Alvin
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