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Lost & Found by Sarah Jakes chats with Dr. Alvin

Sarah Jakes Click Here To Listen Like every girl, Sarah Jakes dreamed of a life full of love, laughter, and happy endings. But her dreams changed dramatically when she became pregnant at age thirteen, a reality only compounded by the fact that her father, Bishop T.D. Jakes, was one of the most influential megachurch pastors in the nation. As a teen mom and a high-profile preacher's kid, her road was lonely. She was shunned at school, gossiped about at church. And a few years later, when a fairy-tale marriage ended in a spiral of hurt and rejection, she could have let her pain dictate her future. Instead, she found herself surrounded by a God she'd [...]

By |April 19th, 2014|Biography, Gospel, Spirituality, Television, Women|Comments Off on Lost & Found by Sarah Jakes chats with Dr. Alvin
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The Girl Who Came Home by Hazel Gaynor

Hazel Gaynor Live From Ireland. A voyage across the ocean becomes the odyssey of a lifetime for a young Irish woman. . . . Ireland, 1912 . . . Fourteen members of a small village set sail on RMS Titanic, hoping to find a better life in America. For seventeen-year-old Maggie Murphy, the journey is bittersweet. Though her future lies in an unknown new place, her heart remains in Ireland with Séamus, the sweetheart she left behind. When disaster strikes, Maggie is one of the few passengers in steerage to survive. Waking up alone in a New York hospital, she vows never to speak of the terror and panic of that fateful night again. Chicago, [...]

By |April 18th, 2014|Women|Comments Off on The Girl Who Came Home by Hazel Gaynor
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A Promise In Pieces by Emily Wierenga

Emily Wierenga Live From Alberta, Canada. After the end of World War II, Clara Kirkpatrick returns from the Women’s Army Corp to deliver a dying soldier’s last wishes: convey his love to his young widow, Mattie, with apologies for the missed life they had planned to share. Struggling with her own post-war trauma, Clara thinks she’s not prepared to handle the grief of this broken family. Yet upon meeting Mattie, and receiving a baby quilt that will never cuddle the soldier’s baby, Clara vows to honor the sacrifices that family made. Now a labor and delivery nurse in her rural hometown, Clara wraps each new babe in the gifted quilt and later stitches the child’s [...]

By |April 18th, 2014|Spirituality, Women|Comments Off on A Promise In Pieces by Emily Wierenga
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Mavis Staples by Greg Kot

Greg Kot This is the untold story of living legend Mavis Staples—lead singer of the Staple Singers and a major figure in the music that shaped the civil rights era. Now in her seventies, Mavis has been a fixture in the music world for decades. One of the most enduring artists of popular music, she and her family fused gospel, soul, folk, and rock to transcend racism and oppression through song. Honing her prodigious talent on the Southern gospel circuit of the 1950s, Mavis and the Staple Singers went on to sell more than 30 million records, with message-oriented soul music that became a sound track to the civil rights movement—inspiring Martin Luther King Jr. [...]

By |April 18th, 2014|African Americans, Biography, Entertainment, Music, Politics, Women|Comments Off on Mavis Staples by Greg Kot
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Tony Hsieh

Tony Hsieh is an American internet entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is the CEO of the online shoe and clothing shop Zappos.com. Prior to joining Zappos, Hsieh co-founded and sold the internet advertising network LinkExchange to Microsoft in 1999 for $265 million. Listen Here

By |January 17th, 2014|Business, Women|Comments Off on Tony Hsieh
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Foolproof By Ina Garten chats with Dr. Alvin

01 Ina Garten Click Here To Listen Ina Garten is an American author, Emmy Award winning host of the Food Network program Barefoot Contessa, and former White House nuclear policy analyst. Known for designing recipes with an emphasis on fresh ingredients and time-saving tips, she has been noted by Martha Stewart, Oprah Winfrey, and Patricia Wells for her cooking and home entertaining.

By |January 17th, 2014|Cooking / Food, Women|Comments Off on Foolproof By Ina Garten chats with Dr. Alvin
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