How did Laura Fenamore, a highly successful entrepreneur and Life and Body Esteem Coach, lose 100 pounds and keep it off for 20 years (yes, without gastric bypass surgery, staples or other surgeries)? What lessons did Laura learn from this experience that helped her become a successful businesswoman and, according to Jack Canfield of Chicken Soup for the Soul and The Secret fame, one of the most gifted coaches he's seen? Click on the play button on the Blog Talk Radio media button above and listen to the show!

Have you struggled to lose weight only to gain it back over and over?

Do you feel like something is holding you back from being successful, not just in losing your weight, but in your career and your life?

Why does Jack Canfield say that Laura Fenamore is "one of the most skilled and compassionate coaches he's seen?"

Don't miss this interview with successful entrepreneur and Life and Body Esteem Coach, Laura Fenamore, on Cheryl McLaughlin's From Her Court Radio Show. Even better, call in and ask Laura your questions at 1-646-652-2062!

Laura Fenamore, is a highly successful entrepreneur who grew up as a fat child, a fat teenager and then an obese young adult who constantly struggled to lose weight. Nearly twenty years ago, Laura lost 100 pounds - and she's kept it off!

Losing the weight, she learned, was the easy step. Keeping it off was much tougher until she learned an invaluable lesson:  once she chose to truly love herself and appreciate her gifts, she reclaimed her power to take care of herself.

Today, Laura not only has a healthy body, she has become a very successful businesswoman. She started the well-known Golden Gate International Speakers Bureau where she worked with celebrities and Fortune 500 companies. She's worked with Jack Canfied, bestselling author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul books, who calls her "one of the most skilled and compassionate coaches he's seen." Now Laura serves as a Life, Business and Body Esteem Coach and consultant through her new company, Journey to Balance, which assists individuals in building businesses and designing their lives that bring forth their true selves.

Learn more about Laura Fenamore and her upcoming Body Esteem 6-month telecoaching program, "Creating Your New Story About Your Body and Your Health" at laurafenamore.com. Also, check out Laura's great Body Esteem Blog.

SHOW DETAILS:

WHEN: Tuesday, March 27  12PM PST/3PM EST
WHERE:  From Her Court Radio Show with Cheryl McLaughlin
LISTEN LIVE, LISTEN LATER OR TO DOWNLOAD THE SHOW: or 1-646-652-2062 (listen live through your phone)
ASK LAURA Your Questions Live: 1-646-652-2062 (or submit them in advance to cheryl@cherylmclaughlin.com)

Mothers and Daughters. Just typing those words gives me shivers. Our lives are intimately woven together forever. It's the most powerful relationship in our life, and yet it's every daughter's task to learn from her mother and then choose to live on her own path.

Join me for this lively show where world-renown life coach, numerologist, author and Oprah guest, Carol Adrienne Ph.D, will discuss the tricky terrain of mother-daughter relationships:

• The issues that mothers and daughters face
• Where mothers and daughters can get stuck
• How you can tell if you're living out the unconscious patterns of this relationship
• How to share the path with your mother, yet free yourself to choose to live on a path that's truly your own.

Carol Adrienne is the author of The Purpose of Your Life: Finding Your Place in Life Using Synchronicity, Intuition and Uncommon Sense," which was featured on Oprah. She and her daughter, Sigrid Matthew, will be running a Mother-Daughter workshop, Sharing the Path as Mothers and Daughters, over Mother's Day weekend (Friday, May 11 - Sunday, May 13) at Esalen in Big Sur, California.

WHEN: Tuesday, March 13  10AM PST/1PM EST

LISTEN LIVE through the Web: http://blogtalkradio.com/fromhercourt (click on the "CLICK TO LISTEN" button and click on the show)

ASK CAROL YOUR QUESTIONS: 1-646-652-2062 or Email cheryl@cherylmclaughlin.com

LISTEN LATER or DOWNLOAD THE PODCAST: http://blogtalkradio.com/fromhercourt (click on the Archived Show Segments and click on the show)

Join me Thursday, March 8 at 7PM PST/10PM EST on Blog Talk Radio for this lively show with Joan Price, author of "Better Than I Ever Expected: Straight Talk About Sex After Sixty." Joan will talk candidly about the joys and challenges of senior sexuality, and the kind of attention -- both "attagirl!" and "ick" -- that this former high school teacher and fitness professional is getting from the media and readers.

Joan Price calls herself "an advocatge for ageless sexuality." At 57, she met the love of her life (he was 63), and this love story inspired her book. One of Joan's readers called her "the beautiful face of senior sex who shows up whenever the age group is ridiculed."

WHEN: Thursday, March 8  7PM PST/10PM EST

LISTEN LIVE through the Web: http://blogtalkradio.com/fromhercourt (scroll down and click on the show)

ASK JOAN YOUR QUESTIONS: 1-646-652-2062

LISTEN LATER or DOWNLOAD THE PODCAST: http://blogtalkradio.com/fromhercourt (click on the Archived Show Segments and click on the show)

Overheard comment by a female pharmaceutical sales rep at a restaurant the other day (my paraphrase):

"I'm wining and dining doctors. My sales manager tells me to tell the doctors about all of the things this new drug can do--and I know it's not true. I see all the money we spend to get doctors to use our drugs and to get the insurance companies to cover our drugs so doctors will prescribe them.

Then, when I go home and I'm taking care of my aging parents, I see how many drugs they are taking and how much they are paying for them. I just get sick. I've done well in this business, but I have to get out of it."

Each time I hear of another soldier being sent for the second, third or even fourth time to Iraq, my heart sinks. It sank further this morning as I read an important--yet painful--article in the New York Times, "Long Iraq Tours Can Make Home a Trying Front," for I know the cost of war on a family.

When I was 11 years old, my mother married a military man--a non-commissioned officer (NCO) in the Air Force; just the type of soldier who would most likely be deployed multiple times in today's Iraq war.

Within a year after their marriage, I waved goodbye to him at the railroad station at 5am when he was ordered to fight in Vietnam.

I remember every detail of that day, though it happened many moons ago--the dank eerie darkness of the railroad station, waving to him as the train left knowing this was not an ordinary goodbye, trying not to feel the wave of terror that sought to crush me, and going to school that morning as if it was any other day, yet wanting to scream, "I just saw my Dad off to war."

That day--that one deployment to war--forever changed me, my step-father and our family. As a young teenager, I watched my mother go about her day in an anxious silence with distant, sad eyes, though she tried hard to smile. I watched my step-father and his fellow soldiers return home from Vietnam sullen and withdrawn, as if sitting on a pile of rage that could--and did--erupt at any time.

These soldiers returned home healthy--physically--but they were broken souls. Their broken souls affected all of us like falling dominos. Some of the returning soldiers, like my step-father, never held another job. Some became guards at the penitentiary, drank in sullen silence after work and barely communicated with their families. Some weaved together the broken pieces of their spirit into a fine, strong cloth--a life filled with laughter, a family they connected with and loved and work that made a difference: I almost died out there. Now it's time for me to make this world a better place.

But far too many soldiers and their wives and children could not reconnect. The broken souls led to depression, alcoholism, divorce, single-parenthood, financial stress and children growing up without their fathers. These falling dominoes, let alone the broken souls, are not included in the casualty counts, and they should be.

Damaged souls are harder to diagnose and heal than broken or missing bones. If we truly calculated the cost of war, would we still be sending our loved ones multiple times into the hornet's nest of the Iraq war?

Today, I'm delighted to have the opportunity to interview H. Reese Butler II, the founder and President of the suicide prevention hotline, National Hopeline Network 1.800.SUICIDE and the Kristin Brooks Hope Center on my Virtual Author Tours Live Radio Show on Blog Talk Radio.

Butler had a very successful career as a businessman building telecommunication and national newspaper companies, when life changed in an instant in 1998 with the loss of his wife, Kristin Brooks Rossell, to suicide. After this tragedy, Butler turned his focus to the prevention of suicide and founded the Kristin Brooks Hope Center and the National Hopeline Network 1.800.SUICIDE.  He is a survivor, mental health advocate and a champion for moms who suffer with postpartum depression.

Reese Butler II has just kicked off the 6th Annual Take Action! Tour -- a seven week, 45-city tour that reaches at-risk youth through a live music tour combined with a Take Action Volume 6 2CD/1DVD set which contains music and suicide prevention resources and training materials.

When: Thursday, February 8, 2007  11 AM PST/ 2 PM EST

LISTEN LIVE through the Web
CALL IN and ask Reese Butler your questions-: 1-646-915-9813
or LISTEN LATER to the archived shows or download the show onto your IPOD or MP3 player

Join me this evening on my Virtual Author Tours Live Radio Show at 5pm PST/ 8pm EST for this lively interview with Brad Listi, author of the Los Angeles Times bestselling novel, Attention. Deficit. Disorder. (just released in paperback by Simon & Schuster).

In this book, Listi takes a look at the effects of our ADD-like culture through his character, Wayne Fencer, a recent film school grad, who struggles to find meaning in his life while trying to make sense out of his ex-girlfriend's suicide and the startling news that she was pregnant with his child.

From Simon & Schuster:
"Desperate to understand and haunted by regret, Wayne begins a journey that takes him up and down the East Coast (on foot) and across the American West (in an RV), finally arriving at the Costco Soulmate Trading Outpost in the middle of the Black Rock Desert. Along the way, Wayne's journey becomes a series of meditations on modern life, drawing on everything from the ancient philosophy of Siddhartha Gautama to a visit with Gregorio Fuentes, Hemingway's fishing guide and inspiration for The Old Man and the Sea.

A dazzling exploration of love, death, escape, home, and maturation set in the era of information overload, Attention. Deficit. Disorder. is highly original and exhibits an unforgettable voice that is Listi's alone."

In addition to being a bestselling novelist, Brad Listi teaches creative writing at Santa Monica College in Los Angeles, maintains one of the Top 50 most popular blogs on MySpace--The A.D.D. Blog, and is the founder of THENERVOUSBREAKDOWN.COM, a daily blogzine that features creative nonfiction from a variety of talented writers from around the world.

So, join us tonight at 5pm PST/ 8pm EST. You can LISTEN LIVE through the web. Even better, CALL IN at 1-646-915-9813 to ask Brad your questions about writing, the writing life, his novel and what it's like to write and promote a bestselling novel!

JUST IN! BlogTalkRadio has just chosen this as its featured show for this evening!

How would you love to transport yourself to a vacation destination of your own choosing just for one minute in the midst of your busy life? How would you love to just listen to crickets and frogs in the Zion National Monument, or hear an opera being played out between two homes in Chinatown in the center of San Francisco?  Or, how about listening to kids dancing as they listen to a jukebox in a small town in South Africa? This site provides you with one-minute field recordings of the most amazing places and sounds. Check it out when you need that moment of time to close your eyes, breathe and give yourself that much needed vacation:

http://www.quietamerican.org/vacation.html

If you have ever had a dream about starting your own business, this show is for you!

My co-host, Michael Brooks, and I will be interviewing Bill Rancic, successful entrepreneur and the first winner of Donald Trump's The Apprentice, this Friday, January 26, 2007 at 9am PST/12pm EST on our Profit by Imagination Radio Show.

Bill Rancic is a master at living his dreams. At the age of 23, he started his own business by founding his company, cigarsaroundtheworld.com. He grew that small business from the ground up into a highly successful company, and then set out to make another dream become a reality: winning "The Apprentice" and working for Donald Trump to learn even more secrets to business success. Now, Bill is a mentor to others and will be sharing his tips, insights and strategies for success in business and life with you!

We will talk to Bill about what it was like to be on The Apprentice, first as a candidate and now as a judge, what his thoughts are on Entrepreneurship and Small Business Ownership, and find out what Bill is doing these days. (Why is he traveling the country in two 45 foot buses called the "Dream Ace Machines?" Hint: Bill Rancic is helping to promote a contest that will give one entrepreneur the chance to fulfill his or her dream of owning and managing their own Ace Hardware business worth over $1 Million Dollars. The contest ends January 31, 2007 and we'll give you the entry details on the show.)

So, mark your calendars and join us LIVE this Friday, January 26,9am PST / 12pm EST. LISTEN LIVE listen through the web. Even better, CALL IN to 1-646-915-9646 and ask Bill your questions. ( A bonus: Bill will have give aways for live listeners.