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My Conversation With Elaine Shannon, Author Of Hunting LeRoux: The Inside Story Of The DEA Takedown Of A Criminal Genius And His Empire

Click Here To Listen Elaine Shannon With a foreword by four-time Oscar nominated filmmaker Michael Mann. The story of Paul LeRoux, the twisted-genius entrepreneur and cold-blooded killer who brought revolutionary innovation to international crime, and the exclusive inside story of how the DEA’s elite, secretive 960 Group brought him down. Paul LeRoux was born in Zimbabwe and raised in South Africa. After a first career as a pioneering cybersecurity entrepreneur, he plunged hellbent into the dark side, using his extraordinary talents to develop a disruptive new business model for transnational organized crime. Along the way he created a mercenary force of ex-U.S. and NATO sharpshooters to carry out contract murders for his own pleasure and [...]

By |February 21st, 2019|Biography, Crime, Drugs, Uncategorized|Comments Off on My Conversation With Elaine Shannon, Author Of Hunting LeRoux: The Inside Story Of The DEA Takedown Of A Criminal Genius And His Empire
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My Conversation With Dr. Lisa Damour, Author Of Under Pressure: Confronting The Epidemic Of Stress And Anxiety In Girls

Click Here To Listen Lisa Damour-Under Pressure An urgently needed guide to the alarming increase in anxiety and stress experienced by girls from elementary school through college, from the New York Times bestselling author of Untangled “An invaluable read for anyone who has girls, works with girls, or cares about girls—for everyone!”—Claire Shipman, author of The Confidence Code and The Confidence Code for Girls Though anxiety has risen among young people overall, studies confirm that it has skyrocketed in girls. Research finds that the number of girls who said that they often felt nervous, worried, or fearful jumped 55 percent from 2009 to 2014, while the comparable number for adolescent boys has remained unchanged. As [...]

By |February 20th, 2019|Education, Parenting, Relationships, Women, Youth|Comments Off on My Conversation With Dr. Lisa Damour, Author Of Under Pressure: Confronting The Epidemic Of Stress And Anxiety In Girls
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My Conversation With Katy Butler, Author Of The Art Of Dying Well: A Practical Guide To A Good End Of Life

Click Here To Listen Katy Butler A reassuring and thoroughly researched guide to maintaining a high quality of life—from resilient old age to the first inklings of a serious illness to the final breath—by the New York Times bestselling author of Knocking on Heaven’s Door. The Art of Dying Well is about living as well as possible for as long as possible and adapting successfully to change. Packed with extraordinarily helpful insights and inspiring true stories, award-winning journalist and prominent end-of-life speaker Katy Butler shows how to thrive in later life (even when coping with a chronic medical condition), how to get the best from our health system, and how to make your own “good [...]

By |February 20th, 2019|Gospel, Self-Help, Spirituality|Comments Off on My Conversation With Katy Butler, Author Of The Art Of Dying Well: A Practical Guide To A Good End Of Life
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My Conversation With Mark Greaney, Author Of Mission Critical

Click Here To Listen Mark Greaney-Mission Critical From Mark Greaney, the New York Times bestselling author of Gunmetal Gray and a coauthor of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novels, comes a high-stakes thriller featuring the world's most dangerous assassin: the Gray Man. Court Gentry's flight on a CIA transport plane is interrupted when a security team brings a hooded man aboard. They want to kick Gentry off the flight but are overruled by CIA headquarters. The mystery man is being transported to England where a joint CIA/MI6 team will interrogate him about a mole in Langley. When they land in an isolated airbase in the U.K., they are attacked by a hostile force who kidnaps the [...]

By |February 20th, 2019|Fiction|Comments Off on My Conversation With Mark Greaney, Author Of Mission Critical
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Real Talk With Dr. Valencia Campbell: PGCDPC’s 2019 Scholarship Opportunity On DrAlvin.Com

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By |February 16th, 2019|African Americans, Business, Careers, Children, Drugs, Education, Politics, Youth|Comments Off on Real Talk With Dr. Valencia Campbell: PGCDPC’s 2019 Scholarship Opportunity On DrAlvin.Com
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My Conversation With Meghan Cox Gurdon, Author Of The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power Of Reading Aloud In The Age Of Distraction

Click Here To Listen Meghan Cox Gurdon A Wall Street Journal writer’s conversation-changing look at how reading aloud makes adults and children smarter, happier, healthier, more successful and more closely attached, even as technology pulls in the other direction. A miraculous alchemy occurs when one person reads to another, transforming the simple stuff of a book, a voice, and a bit of time into complex and powerful fuel for the heart, brain, and imagination. Grounded in the latest neuroscience and behavioral research, and drawing widely from literature, The Enchanted Hour explains the dazzling cognitive and social-emotional benefits that await children, whatever their class, nationality or family background. But it’s not just about bedtime stories for [...]

By |February 14th, 2019|Education|Comments Off on My Conversation With Meghan Cox Gurdon, Author Of The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power Of Reading Aloud In The Age Of Distraction
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My Conversation With Susan Gubar, Author Of Late-Life Love: A Memoir

Click Here To Listen Susan Gubar During a difficult year, acclaimed writer Susan Gubar celebrates her lasting partnership and the reciprocity of lovers in later life. On Susan Gubar’s seventieth birthday, she receives a beautiful ring from her husband. As she contemplates their sustaining relationship, she begins to consider how older lovers differ from their youthful counterparts―and from ageist stereotypes. While her husband confronts age-related disabilities that effectively ground them, Susan dawdles over the logistics of moving from their cherished country house to a more manageable place in town and starts seeking out literature on the changing seasons of desire. Throughout the complications of devoted caregiving, her own ongoing cancer treatments, apartment hunting, the dismantling [...]

By |February 14th, 2019|Biography, Health, Medical, Relationships, Romance|Comments Off on My Conversation With Susan Gubar, Author Of Late-Life Love: A Memoir
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My Conversation With Nioucha Homayoonfar, Author Of Taking Cover

Click Here To Listen Nioucha Homayoonfar This coming-of-age memoir, set during the Iranian Revolution, tells the true story of a young girl who moves to Tehran from the U.S. and has to adjust to living in a new country, learning a new language, and starting a new school during one of the most turbulent periods in Iran's history. When five-year-old Nioucha Homayoonfar moves from the U.S. to Iran in 1976, its open society means a life with dancing, women's rights, and other freedoms. But soon the revolution erupts and the rules of life in Iran change. Religion classes become mandatory. Nioucha has to cover her head and wear robes. Opinions at school are not welcome. [...]

By |February 13th, 2019|Biography, History, Travel, War, Women, Youth|Comments Off on My Conversation With Nioucha Homayoonfar, Author Of Taking Cover
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My Conversation With Drs. John & Julie Schwartz Gottman, Author Of Eight Dates: Essential Conversations For A Lifetime Of Love

Click Here To Listen Julie Schwartz Gottman Strengthen and deepen your love with a fun, ingenious program of eight life-changing conversations—on essential topics such as money, sex, and trust—from two of the world’s leading marriage researchers and clinicians. Navigating the challenges of long-term commitment takes effort—and it just got simpler, with this empowering, step-by-step guide to communicating about the things that matter most to you and your partner. Drawing on forty years of research from their world-famous Love Lab, Dr. John Gottman and Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman invite couples on eight fun, easy, and profoundly rewarding dates, each one focused on a make-or-break issue: trust, conflict, sex, money, family, adventure, spirituality, and dreams. Interactive activities [...]

By |February 13th, 2019|Relationships|Comments Off on My Conversation With Drs. John & Julie Schwartz Gottman, Author Of Eight Dates: Essential Conversations For A Lifetime Of Love
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My Conversation With Marc Lesser, Author Of Seven Practices of a Mindful Leader: Lessons From Google And A Zen Monastery Kitchen

Click Here To Listen Marc Lesser What would your work and your life look like if you knew how to stay focused yet flexible, if you got more of the right things done, and if you were helping to create a more peaceful world at the same time? “A mindful leader makes the work environment a generative social field in which compassion, connection, and creativity thrive. The seven accessible practices in this book can teach you how to become just such a leader.” — from the foreword by Daniel J. Siegel, MD, executive director of Mindsight Institute Today’s leaders are grappling with the pace and complexity of change, the challenge of supporting healthy collaboration and [...]

By |February 12th, 2019|Business, Careers, Gospel, Self-Help, Spirituality, Uncategorized|Comments Off on My Conversation With Marc Lesser, Author Of Seven Practices of a Mindful Leader: Lessons From Google And A Zen Monastery Kitchen
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