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Our guest is lawyer and financial expert Scarlett Cochran, the wealth-building expert behind One Big Happy Life, sharing a new, holistic way to understand money and find your own path to financial freedom. Her book is IT’S NOT ABOUT THE MONEY: A Proven Path to Building Wealth and Living the Rich Life You Deserve.

The New York City election cycle in 2023 includes races for all 51 members of the City Council. The New Majority, the organization is looking to maintain gender parity, supporting female candidates in the 2023 City Council Elections and beyond. Our guests are Board Chair, Yvette Buckner and Vice Chair Teresa Gonzalez. For more, visit thenewmajoritynyc.org

AMERICAN THEATER GROUP presents the Tony Award-winning musical “Parade”, directed by Broadway Veteran Hunter Foster, at the Sieminski Theater in Basking Ridge, NJ from March 2-5, and the Maurice Levin Theater at JCC MetroWest in West Orange, NJ from March 9-11. Our guest is American Theater Group’s Producing Artistic Director Jim Vagias. For more details about the show, visit americantheatergroup.org.

In recent years, the high-profile murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and many others, have brought much-needed attention to the pervasiveness of police misconduct. Yet it remains nearly impossible to hold police accountable for abuses of power. UCLA professor of law Joanna Schwartz is author of the book SHIELDED: How the Police Became Untouchable.

Destination Tomorrow, a national LGBTQ+ organization with centers in the South Bronx and Atlanta, believes that no individual should have to leave their neighborhood to access specific LGBTQ+ services. Our guest is founder of Destination Tomorrow, Sean Ebony Coleman, the only African American of transgender experience to lead an LGBTQ+ center in New York State. For more, visit destinationtomorrow.org.

While The United States faces dangerous threats from abroad— terrorists, climate change, future pandemics—perhaps the greatest peril to our democracy comes from within. Our guest is Dr. Richard Haass, president of the nonpartisan Council on Foreign Relations, with his new book THE BILL OF OBLIGATIONS: Ten Habits of Good Citizens.

At a time when young people should be focused on their education and preparing for their professional lives, many NYC college students don’t have secure housing, and some report living with homelessness. Our guest is Ann Shalof, CEO of The Neighborhood Coalition for Shelter, which recently began a pilot program to provide year-round housing to a cohort of CUNY Students. For more, visit NCSINC.org.

Queens Theatre, the premier performing arts venue in Queens, presents THE MONKEY KING: A Kung-Fu Musical, Saturday & Sunday, February 11-12. Our guests are the writers and star of THE MONKEY KING, Kimbirdlee and Jonathan Fadner, who talk about their reinvention of the 16th century Chinese novel as a musical and with a female king, in a discussion that also addresses representation for Asian women in the performing arts. For more, visit QueensTheatre.org.

Generation Z - those born between 1997 and 2012 - is poised to become the most influential and impactful generation in history…in fact, we already have Maxwell Frost as the 1st Gen Z member of Congress! What do you know about Gen Z? John Sclhlimm’s book is WHAT WOULD GEN-Z DO?: EVERYTHING YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT GEN-Z BUT SHOULD. John Schlimm is a Harvard-trained educator, artist, advocate, and international award-winning author of twenty-five books.

The 18th Annual Benefit honoring the life of Staff Sergeant (SSG) James McNaughton, a New York City Police Officer and Army Reservist and the first NYC Police officer killed in action in Iraq, is Saturday, February 4th at Mulcahy’s Concert Hall in Wantaugh, Long Island. Bill and Michelle McNaughton talk about the bond between their son and his comrades, speaking with veterans, and why they “never forget”. For more, visit jimmymcnaughton.com.

In the last few years, we've changed how we do so many things: How we communicate, how we study and how we work. How are people working differently, and how do you take advantage of it for a happy work life in 2023? Our guest is Dr. Ranjit Nair, Assistant Professor School of Business and Computer Science at Caldwell University in Caldwell, NJ and author of the book, "Potluck Culture: Five Strategies to Engage the Modern Workplace."

Our guest is Lauren Fleshman, one of the most decorated collegiate athletes of all time and a national champion. Her book is GOOD FOR A GIRL: A woman running in a man’s world. Lauren tells her story of falling in love with running, and then being pushed to her limits. Lauren Fleshman is one of the most decorated American distance runners of all time, having one five NCAA championships at Stanford, and two national championships as a professional. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times and Runner’s world.

New York Junior Tennis & Learning, co-founded over 50 years ago by tennis great Arthur Ashe, has become the largest non-profit youth and tennis education program in the country. President and CEO Udai Tambar talks about how and why they are also mobilizing to strengthen mental wellness initiatives. For more, visit nyjtl.org.

At a time when we all have 24/7 access to whatever wires us, for better or worse….how do we find balance? Our guest is Dr. Anna Lembke, author of DOPAMINE NATION: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence. Anna Lembke is Medical Director and Professor of Stanford Addiction Medicine, program director for the Stanford Addiction Medicine Fellowship, and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. Her website is annalembke.com

The Hong Kong Ballet presents the U.S. Premiere of Romeo + Juliet on Friday, January 13 at 8pm and Saturday, January 14 at 2pm at New York City Center. 131 W. 55th Street, NYC. Tickets begin at $35 and can be purchased online at nycitycenter.org, by phone at (212) 581-1212, or in person at the New York City Center Box Office. Our guest is Hong Kong Ballet Artistic Director Septime Webre. For more, visit HKballet.com.

While we can’t change the fact that there will always some stress in our lives, we can change how we respond to it. Our guest is psychologist, professor and NY Times Best Selling Author Dr. Elissa Epel, with her new book: THE STRESS PRESCRIPTION: Seven Days to More Joy and Ease. For more, visit elissaeppel.com.

After more than 12 years of providing programs to children throughout the Bronx as a museum “without walls”, Bronx Children’s Museum has just opened it’s doors to the first-ever children’s museum facility in the borough! Our guest is Carla Precht, Founding Executive Director, Bronx Children’s Museum. For more, visit BronxChildrensMuseum.org.

For this year’s winter weather, NOAA predicts drier-than-average conditions across the South with wetter-than-average conditions for areas of the Ohio Valley, Great Lakes, Northern Rockies and Pacific Northwest. A big reason – the meltdown of glaciers worldwide! Our guest is Anita Sanchez, award winning author on environmental science and nature for children and adults, with her new book, MELTDOWN: Discover Earth’s Irreplaceable Glaciers & Learn What You Can Do to Save Them, a book for ages 8 and up. For more, visit anitasanchez.com.

The American Modern Opera Company (AMOC) with The Cathedral of St. John the Divine presents John Adams’ El Niño: Nativity Reconsidered, concept by Julia Bullock, for a one night only engagement on December 21, 2022. Our guest is renowned countertenor and 2022 GRAMMY winner Anthony Roth Costanzo, for the backstory on this operatic reimagining of the Nativity story. For more, visit runningamoc.org

Numerous medical studies prove that the health of the bacteria that live in our gut, our Microbiome--is connected to our likelihood of getting devastating viral illnesses--such as Covid. In The Anti-Viral Gut: Tackling Pathogens From the Inside Out, Dr. Robynne Chutkan, explains how a healthy microbiome can keep us better protected against viral infections. Dr. Robynne Chutkan is founder of the Digestive Center for Wellness, a faculty member at Georgetown University Hospital, and bestselling author. For more, visit robynnechutkan.com