North Star Guardians

Testosterone Deficiency

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:21:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of The North Star Guardians and the Psychjourney podcast, interviews Dr. Barry Gordon, author of Testosterone Deficiency: The Hidden Disease: A major Health Issue for Every Woman-Every Man published by iUniverse, Inc.

Dr. Barry Gordon received his M.D. degree from the Chicago Medical School in 1965. He completed his training in Internal Medicine at the Jewish Hospital and Medical Center in Brooklyn in 1968, and in Hematology at the Montefiore Hospital Medical Center in the Bronx in 1969. Dr. Gordon has served as Chief of Hematology at two Brooklyn hospitals, and has been on the teaching staff of the Downstate Medical School (SUNY Health and Science Center at Brooklyn) as a Clinical Instructor in Medicine. Most of Dr. Gordon's career has been devoted to his Internal Medicine / Primary Care practice in Brooklyn which he continues to maintain. He is the author of, Get Well, Stay Well. Visit his website.

Up Close with WANTED:HERO

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:53:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the Warrior Traditions and North Star Guardians podcast, interviews Mr. Jaime Buckley, creator of WANTED:HERO comics.

Jaime Buckley: President of WANTED:HERO STUDIOS, Creator, Artist, Writer, World of Warcraft Hunter (level 80 baby!), Chicken Rancher, Podcaster, Promoter, Father of 10 & Chore Hitler.

Jaime has been an âprofessionalâ artist for over 25 years, which started in shopping malls in California, where he would do caricatures of young couples and then sell them for $4 each. That is, until he finally got caught.

Born in Oakland, California, Jaimeâs life was filled with violence, anger and mishap. Fortunately, he was loved by his parents and siblings and had a good, calm home to escape from the pains of the world. The drawing started vigorously at age 2âand never stopped. At age 15, he created a comic strip character âChesterâ, which became two self-published works, selling more than 25,000 copies each (Chester: The End of Life as We Know It & Chester: Just Hand Me The Remote). Many copies were donated to librariesâbut they kept getting stolen.

Jaime is also Co-Founder of The Jubilee Project, a special company dedicated to helping families get out of debt in record time, specifically the accelerated payoff of their mortgages. Jubilee has also moved services into Canada, to help families there. Jaimeâs focus has always been on other people, the encouragement of the human spirit, and creating a better tomorrow, full of dreams, hope and love. Visit his website.

The Daily Coyote

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians, interviews Ms. Shreve Stockton, author of The Daily Coyote: A Story of Love, Survival, and Trust in the Wilds of Wyoming published by Simon & Schuster.

Shreve Stockton is a writer and photographer currently living in Wyoming. She received her bachelor's degree in photography in 2001 from Brooks Institute of Photography. She is the author of a cookbook, Eating Gluten Free, and of two weblogs, Vespa Vagabond and The Daily Coyote.

Hold Me Tight- Part Two

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:35:00 GMT

Sue Johnson is Director of the Ottawa (Canada) Couple and Family Institute and the International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy as well as Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Ottawa and Research Professor at Alliant University in San Diego, California.

She has received numerous honors for her work, including the Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Couple and Family Therapy Award from the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and the Research in Family Therapy Award from the American Family Therapy Academy. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association.

Dr Johnsonâs best known professional books include, The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Creating Connection (2004) and Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy with Trauma Survivors (2002).

She trains counselors in EFT worldwide and consults to Veterans Affairs, the U.S. and Canadian military and New York City Fire Department.

She lives in Ottawa with her husband, two children and dog. She adores Gilbert and Sullivan, Monty Python, Argentine tango and kayaking on Canadaâs northern lakes. Visit the Hold Me Tight website.

Please see the web site www.eft.ca Events menu for information on Dr. Johnson's upcoming appearances and training events.

Hold Me Tight

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 21:59:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians, interviews Dr. Sue Johnson, author of Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love published by Little, Brown and Company. This is a part one of a two-part interview.

Sue Johnson is Director of the Ottawa (Canada) Couple and Family Institute and the International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy as well as Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Ottawa and Research Professor at Alliant University in San Diego, California.

She trains counselors in EFT worldwide and consults to Veterans Affairs, the U.S. and Canadian military and New York City Fire Department.

She lives in Ottawa with her husband, two children and dog. She adores Gilbert and Sullivan, Monty Python, Argentine tango and kayaking on Canadaâs northern lakes. Visit the Hold Me Tight website.

Please see the web site www.eft.ca Events menu for information on Dr. Johnson's upcoming appearances and training events.

Riding into Your Mythic Life

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Sun, 8 Feb 2009 23:32:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians, Warrior Traditions, and Natural Horsemanship Movement podcast series, interviews Ms. Patricia (Trish) Broersma, author of Riding into Your Mythic Life: Transformational Adventures with the Horse published by New World Library.

A certified therapeutic riding instructor, Patricia (Trish) Broersma founded and directed the Saddle Light Center, a nonprofit therapeutic riding program in San Antonio, Texas. She went on to re-establish, direct, and act as head instructor for HOPE Equestrian Center in Ashland, Oregon. She has been a certified instructor with North American Riding for the Handicapped (NARHA) since 1997 and is president of the Equine Facilitated Mental Health Association. She lives in Ashland, Oregon. Visit her website.

Natural Horsemanship Explained

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 06:33:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the Warrior Traditions and North Star Guardians podcast, interviews Dr. Robert M. Miller, co-author of Natural Horsemanship Explained: From Heart to Hands by Robert M. Miller and Patrick Handley and published by The Lyons Press.

After graduation from Colorado State University, Dr. Miller settled in Thousand Oaks, California, where he founded the Conejo Valley Veterinary Clinic. Thirty-one years later, he retired as a renowned veterinarian and expert in ethology (the study of animal behavior). Dr. Miller has visited every continent giving lectures to colleges, conventions for animal groups, horse organizations, breed associations and other clients. He has received numerous professional awards for his involvement with equine associations, production of videotapes, and lecturing. He has authored several books, and his acute sense of humor and love of cartoons have provided seven veterinary cartoon books.

Dr. Miller has been on the editorial staff of Veterinary Medicine, Modern Veterinary Practice, Veterinary Forum, and Western Horseman and other horse magazines. He is internationally known for his lectures and seminars. To read past issues of his monthly column Mind Over Miller, click: Past Columns To order a copy of the book, click: Mind Over Miller book

Dr. Miller retired from his veterinary practice in 1987 in order to devote his full time to the teaching of equine behavior and to support the revolution in horsemanship that began in the Western United States in the late 20th Century and is now a worldwide phenomenon. He is best known for his scientifically based system of training newborn foals. Called imprint training, if done correctly, it is the fastest, and most profound method of permanently shaping a horse's responses and attitude. Imprint training is now in use all over the world. Visit his website.

The Soul of a Horse Part Two

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:41:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the Warrior Traditions and the North Star Guardians, interviews Mr. Joe Camp, author of The Soul of a Horse: Life Lessons from the Herd published by Harmony.

This is part two of a two part interview.

JOE CAMP is the writer, producer, and director of all the celebrated Benji movies and programs, and the creator of the canine superstar. He is the author of the inspirational memoir Benji & Me, and has also written several childrenâs books. He lives in California with his wife, Kathleen, his three stepchildren, seven horses, five dogs, and two cats and is a passionate advocate for children and animals. Visit his websites at www.Benji.com and Soul Of A Horse.

Sex Trafficking

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:42:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the Warrior Traditions and North Star Guardians podcast, interviews Mr. Siddharth Kara, author of Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery published by Columbia University Press.

Siddharth Kara is a former investment banker and business executive with an MBA from Columbia University. He set aside his corporate career to pursue antislavery research, advocacy, and writing, and, more recently, a law degree. He currently serves on the board of directors of Free the Slaves, an organization dedicated to abolishing slavery worldwide. In 2005 he was invited to testify on contemporary slavery to the United States Congressional Human Rights Committee. Visit the Free The Slaves website.

Paranoia

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:37:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians, interviews Mr. Jason Freeman, co-author of Paranoia: The 21st Century Fear written by Daniel Freeman and Jason Freeman and published by Oxford University Press.

Jason Freeman has worked for many years as a writer and editor. He studied English Literature at Cambridge University and has masters degrees in English Literature and in Technical Communication. Visit the Paranoid Thoughts website.

The Soul of a Horse

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:34:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the Warrior Traditions and the North Star Guardians, interviews Mr. Joe Camp, author of The Soul of a Horse: Life Lessons from the Herd published by Harmony.

iBrain

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:45:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians and Warrior Traditions podcast, interviews Dr. Gary Small, M.D., co-author of IBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind written by Dr. Gary Small and Ms. Gigi Vorgan and published by Collins Living.

Dr. Gary Small is a professor of psychiatry at the UCLA Semel Institute and directs the Memory and Aging Research Center and the UCLA Center on Aging. He is one of the world's leading experts on brain science and has published numerous books and articles. Scientific American magazine named him one of the world's top innovators in science and technology, and he frequently appears on The Today Show, Good Morning America, 20/20 and CNN. Dr. Small has invented the first brain scan that allows doctors to see the physical evidence of brain aging and Alzheimer's disease in living people. Among his numerous breakthrough research studies, he now leads a team of neuroscientists who are demonstrating that exposure to computer technology causes rapid and profound changes in brain neural circuitry. Visit his website

Psychedelic Psychiatry

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 07:14:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians and Warrior Traditions podcast interviews Dr. Erika Dyck, author of Psychedelic Psychiatry: LSD from Clinic to Campus published by The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Erika Dyck,PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta cross-appointed to the Departments of History & Classics and the Division of Studies in Medical Education in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, where she is the co-director of the History of Medicine Program. She encourages interdisciplinary learning and teaches a variety of courses in the history of medicine and psychiatry to history students, medical students and medical residents. Her research interests include LSD experimentation, historical drug and psycho-pharmaceutical research, 20th century medical experimentation, and mental health care in Canada. Visit her web page

Happy Pills in America

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:14:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the Warrior Traditions and North Star Guardians podcast, interviews Dr. David Herzberg, author of Happy Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac published by The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Dr. David Herzberg is an assistant professor of history at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Visit his web page.

Evil Genes

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:01:00 GMT

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Barbara Oakley, author of Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed, and My Sister Stole My Mother's Boyfriend published by Prometheus Books.

Barbara Oakley, PhD has been dubbed a female Indiana Jones-her writing combines worldwide adventure with solid research expertise. Among other adventures, she has worked as a Russian translator on Soviet trawlers in the Bering Sea, served as radio operator at the South Pole Station in Antarctica, and risen from Private to Regular Army Captain in the U.S. Army. Currently an associate professor of engineering at Oakland University in Michigan, Oakley is a recent vice president of the world's largest bioengineering society and holds a doctorate in the integrative discipline of systems engineering. Visit her website

WANTED:HERO Comics

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:58:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the Warrior Traditions and North Star Guardians podcast, interviews Mr. Jaime Buckley, creator of the WANTED:HERO comics.

Jaime Buckley is a husband and father of 10 and has been a male and family advocate for over a decade, both on and offline. He is also the creator and best selling author of the eComic phenomenon WANTED:HERO, which first appeared in 2005, and gained the attention of over 750,000 visitors in 60+ countries during itâs first year.
The funny thing was, he was told it simply wouldnât work and true to form, he didnât listen.

Author of over 200 online articles, podcasts, numerous eComics and graphic novels, Jaime Buckley is now starting the âChronicles of WANTED:HEROâ, a complete work of the world of Wendell P. Dipmier, the reluctant Hero. This adventure, focused on entertainment is packed full of valuable principles children need and accept through this medium, while also encouraging youth to read.

You can get more information at www.wantedhero.com

Before Prozac

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Fri, 5 Dec 2008 22:29:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians and Warrior Traditions podcast, interviews Dr. Edward Shorter, author of Before Prozac: The Troubled History of Mood Disorders in Psychiatry published by Oxford University Press.

Professor Edward Shorter holds the Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine at the University of Toronto. Working within U of Tâs Joint Centre for Bioethics and Department of Family and Community Medicine, Shorter has research and written extensively about the history of psychosomatic illness. He received the Jason A. Hannah Medal of the Royal Society of Canada for his book, A History of Psychiatry. Visit his web page

Solitude

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Thu, 4 Dec 2008 04:24:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the Warrior Traditions and North Star Guardians podcast, interviews Dr. Robert Kull, author of Solitude: Seeking Wisdom in Extremes: A Year Alone in the Patagonia Wilderness published by New World Library.

Born in Ventura, California, Robert Kull has spent years wandering North and South America working as a scuba instructor, travel guide, construction worker, logger, community organic gardening teacher, truck driver, bartender, dishwasher, firefighter, photographer, and professor. In 1985 he lost his lower right leg after a motorcycle crash in the Dominican Republic. He began undergraduate studies at age forty and now holds a PhD from the University of British Columbia. Bob currently lives in Vancouver, BC. Visit his website.

Healing The Rift

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Wed, 3 Dec 2008 22:28:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians podcast, interviews Dr. Leo Kim, author of Healing The Rift: Bridging The Gap Between Science and Spirituality published by Sterling & Ross, Cambridge House Press.

Dr. Leo Kim is a scientist and biotechnology executive with over 50 scientific publications and patents. Leoâs journey includes research and management in chemistry, biochemistry, bioinformatics, biotechnology, information technology, molecular biology, microbiology, physics, and clinical trial studies. He has been active in new pharmaceutical and biotechnology disease treatment modalities as well as alternative medicine regimes.

He studied with Deepak Chopra, Bernie Siegel, and many others who offer spiritual based supplements or alternatives to traditional healing.

Leo has a Ph.D. in physical organic chemistry from the University of Kansas and continued his education as a research associate at MIT. Leo is a CEO and general partner in a biotechnology venture capital firm where he is tracking the progress of thousands of companies utilizing the latest developments in science. Visit his website.

The Impulse Factor

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:49:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians podcast, interviews Mr. Nick Tasler, author of The Impulse Factor: Why Some of Us Play It Safe and Others Risk It All published by Fireside.

Nick Tasler is the director of research and development for think tank and consultancy TalentSmart. He is the author of the online Impulse Factorâ test and the head of TalentSmart's global research. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with his family. Visit his website.

The Confident Leader

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 04:12:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians, interviews Dr. Larina Kase, author of The Confident Leader: How The Most Successful People Go From Effective To Exceptional published by McGraw-Hill.

Larina Kase, PsyD, MBA is a licensed psychologist, success coach, New York Times bestselling author, and experienced media source. Her primary areas of expertise include managing emotions, communicating at your best, influencing others through leadership, and using psychology to build your business.

Dr. Kase has a doctorate in psychology and masters in business administration, and her unique approach is regularly seen in media such as Inc., Entrepreneur, SELF and on national TV and radio. She is the author or coauthor of 7 books including The New York Times bestseller The Confident Speaker. She has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs and executives from companies such as Verizon, Intel, Morgan Stanley, & Ernst & Young.

Dr. Kase is a former faculty member of The Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety at The University of Pennsylvania. Currently she maintains a small private practice in psychology, is the president of Performance & Success Coaching, and is the founder of Women Entrepreneursâ Habitat (wehabitat). Visit her website.

The Irish Americans

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:43:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the Warrior Traditions and North Star Guardians podcast, interviews Dr. Jay P. Dolan, author of The Irish Americans: A History published by Bloomsbury Press.

Jay P. Dolan, PhD., is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Notre Dame. He has written or edited numerous books related to the history of American Catholicism. His book, The American Catholic Experience: A History from Colonial Times to the Present, is recognized as the standard history of Catholicism in the United States. Other titles include In Search of an American Catholicism, a study of how American culture has shaped Catholicism over the course of the past 200 years. He has lectured widely across the United States and also in the British Isles. Most recently he was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago. Professor Dolan was also a visiting professor at Boston College and University College in Cork, Ireland. He served as the President of the American Society of Church History and also the American Catholic Historical association. He is only one of four individuals who have served as president of both these scholarly societies during the course of their history. He has also served on numerous editorial boards for scholarly journals and publication series. Professor Dolan founded the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism in 1975 and served as its director until 1993. Visit his webpage.

Testosterone for Life

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:42:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the Warrior Traditions and North Star Guardians podcast, interviews Abraham Morgentaler, MD, author of Testosterone for Life: Recharge Your Vitality, Sex Drive, Muscle Mass, and Overall Health published by McGraw-Hill.

Abraham Morgentaler, MD, is a urologist who specializes in male reproductive and sexual health. He is an associate clinical professor at Harvard Medical School, and director of Men's Health Boston (MensHealthBoston.com). His book, Testosterone for Life (McGraw-Hill/Harvard Health Publications, November 2008) is the culmination of 30 years of research. It is the first consumer book about low testosterone by a nationally noted specialist in the field, and it explains every aspect of this common medical condition and it's treatment (testosterone therapy).

His other books include, The Male Body: A Physician's Guide to What Every Man Should Know About His Sexual Health and The Viagra Myth: The Surprising Impact on Love and Relationships. Morgentaler is a regular contributor to television and radio shows, and has appeared on NBC Nightly News, CBS Evening News, CNN with Anderson Cooper, and NPR's The Connection.

His work on testosterone has been featured in The New Yorker, and his opinions about men's medical issues are regularly sought after by such prominent magazines as Men's Health, Newsweek and US News and World Report. His primary interest is the interface of sexuality, relationships, psychology, and biology. Visit his blog.

Obsession: A History

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:20:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians podcast, interviews Dr. Lennard J. Davis, author of Obsession: A History published by University of Chicago Press.

Lennard J. Davis is professor in the Departments of English, Disability and Human Development, and Medical Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of The Disability Studies Reader, My Sense of Silence: Memoirs of a Childhood with Deafness, and Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body, among other books. Visit his website.

Saving Jack

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:04:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians podcast, interviews Mr. Jack Willis, author of Saving Jack: A Man's Struggle With Breast Cancer published by the University of Oklahoma Press.

Breast cancer gave Jack Willis a reason to write his first book â a unique story about a man with a disease usually associated with women. Saving Jack would be one of the first books, if not the first, written by a man with breast cancer. Willis kept a journal during treatments, and that prompted the idea for the book. He had worked at the Muskogee Daily Phoenix in Muskogee, Oklahoma, for nineteen years, fifteen as editor, so writing was nothing new. But heâd never created anything longer than a sixty-inch newspaper article. âTake it one chapter at a time,â his book editor told him. So he did, and a new career as an author was launched.

Willis retired in June 2007 as Editorial Adviser of The Oklahoma Daily and Adjunct Journalism Professor at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. His students had covered the Oklahoma City bombing. They had tracked Zacarias Moussaoui, the man suspected of being the twentieth hijacker in the 9/11 attack. And they had revealed how the OU athletics department was operating millions of dollars in the red before a new coach resurrected the Sooners football program. Saying goodbye to those students and that exciting lifestyle wasnât easy. Itâs never easy to give up something you love. Educating through the newspaper and teaching gave him satisfaction and purpose, and college students kept him young.

Willis is a member of the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame, and in February 2006 was recognized by the Society of Professional Journalists, Oklahoma Pro Chapter, with its inaugural âTeacher of the Yearâ award. College Media Advisers named him its national adviser of the year (with less than five years experience) in 1995. He taught journalism part-time at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, for eight years while working at the Phoenix.

He received his bachelorâs degree in advertising in 1963 and his masterâs degree in journalism management in 1968 from Oklahoma State University. Willis lives the good life with his wife Becky in Norman. Visit his website.

Interview with Dr. Warren Farrell- Part One

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:02:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough host of the North Star Guardians and the Warrior Traditions podcast and Dr. Warren Farrell, author of Does Feminism Discriminate Against Men?: A Debate (Point/Counterpoint) published by Oxford University Press. This is part one of a series of interviews about Dr. Farrell's work.

Dr. Warren Farrell is the only man in the US ever elected three times to the Board of Directors of the National Organization for Women (NOW) in New York City. Dr. Warren Farrell has been chosen by the Financial Times as one of the worldâs top 100 thought leaders. His most recent book, Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and What Women Can Do About It, has been the subject of widespread praise, from features on ABCâs 20/20 to The New York Times and U.S. News and World Report.

Dr. Farrellâs books are published in over 50 countries, and in 13 languages. They include two award-winning international best-sellers, Why Men Are The Way They Are plus The Myth of Male Power.

Warren has run his own business for more than 35 years. He has done keynotes, expert witness testimony or corporate training for Toyota, IBM, AT&T, Bell Atlantic, Revlon, Ogilvy-Mather, Texaco, NASA and the U.S. Air Force. He has spoken worldwide to associations of corporate executives (YPO, TEC, the Australian Institute of Management) associations of professionals (e.g., the American Management Association, and the Financial Planning Association), and think tanks (CATO, the Renaissance Weekends).

Warren has appeared more than 20 times on CNN (e.g., Larry King Live),and repeatedly on Oprah, the Today Show and Good Morning America.

He has also been interviewed by Barbara Walters, Peter Jennings and John Stossel, and been the subject of two special features on ABCâs 20/20. In 2003 his campaign for Governor of California was a specialfeature of CNN.

Warren has been featured repeatedly in The New York Times, Forbes, and The Wall Street Journal,as well as in Business Week and Boardroom publications. He is often quoted or featured in Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News and World Report, and been the subject of features in both People and Parade. He has written for publications ranging from the World Book Encyclopedia to Ms and journals of sociology and psychology.

Warren is in Whoâs Who in America and Whoâs Who in the World, but is most comfortable at home. He lives with his wife and two daughters (teenagers!) in Carlsbad,California. Visit his website.

A Balanced Life

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:14:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians podcast, interviews Mr. Tom Smith, author of A Balanced Life: 9 Strategies for Coping with the Mental Health Problems of a Loved One published by Hazelden.

Tom Smith is the co-founder of the Karla Smith Foundation, which supports parents and loved ones of mentally ill people. The foundation was named after his daughter, Karla, who suffered from bipolar disorder before eventually taking her own life. Visit the foundation's web site.

Smith is also the author of The Tattered Tapestry: A Family's Search for Peace with Bipolar Disorder which he wrote with his wife, Fran Smith, and his son, Kevin. Visit his website.

Overtreated

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:13:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians podcast, interviews Ms. Shannon Brownlee, author of Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer published by Bloomsbury USA.

Shannon Brownlee's stories and essays about medicine, health care, and biotechnology have appeared in such publications as the Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times Magazine, the New Republic, and Time. Born and raised in Honolulu, she holds a masterâs degree in biology from the University of California. She is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C. Brownlee lives in Annapolis, Maryland, with her husband and son. Visit her website.

The Decline of Men

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:24:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the Warrior Traditions and North Star Guardians podcast, interviews Mr. Guy Garcia, author of author of The Decline of Men: How the American Male Is Tuning Out, Giving Up, and Flipping Off His Future published by Harper.

Guy Garcia is an award-winning journalist, novelist, and multimedia entrepreneur. A former staff writer for Time, he has also published articles in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, Men's Journal, Harper's Bazaar, Spin, The Face, Interview, and People. A three-time judge for the National Magazine Awards, Garcia has also written two novels, Skin Deep and Obsidian Sky, as well as the nonfiction book The New Mainsteam. Born in Los Angeles, he lives in Manhattan. Visit his website.

The Watercooler Effect

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:26:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians and Warrior Traditions podcast, interviews Dr. Nicholas DiFonzo, author of The Watercooler Effect: A Psychologist Explores the Extraordinary Power of Rumors published by Avery.

Nicholas DiFonzo, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at Rochester Institute of Technology and a leading expert in the field of rumor psychology. Nick is author of Rumor Psychology: Social & Organizational Approaches (written with Prashant Bordia), and The Watercooler Effect: A Psychologist Explores the Extraordinary Power of Rumors.

He has spoken to business, organizational, and academic audiences concerning rumors, rumor psychology, rumor accuracy, and rumor management. As an expert witness, Nick has testified in court cases concerning rumor and helped attorneys, judges and juries understand their effects, how they spread, why they are believed, and how they may be managed. Visit his website.

Defiant Dads

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:19:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians and the Warrior Traditions podcasts, interviews Dr. Jocelyn Elise Crowley, author of Defiant Dads: Fathers' Rights Activists in America published by Cornell University Press.

Jocelyn Elise Crowley is Associate Professor of Public Policy in the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey She has written extensively on the topic of family policy, including her book The Politics of Child Support in America (2003).

In addition to contributing to an edited volume on international fathersâ rights movements, she has published numerous articles in the American Journal of Political Science, Social Science Quarterly, Health Education and Behavior, Legislative Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Marriage and Family Review, Justice System Journal, Perspectives on Politics, Social Service Review, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, and the Eastern Economic Journal.

During the 2005-2006 academic year, she was chosen to be a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York City. She spent the 2006-2007 academic year at the Department of Politics, New York University and the Social Indicators Survey Center, Columbia University School of Social Work. Visit her website.

The Short Bus

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:46:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians and Warrior Traditions podcast, interviews Mr. Jonathan Mooney, author of The Short Bus: A Journey Beyond Normal published by Holt Paperbacks.

Jonathan Mooney is a dyslexic writer and activist who did not learn to read until he was 12 years old. He is a graduate of Brown Universityâs class of 2000 and holds an honors degree in English Literature. Jonathan is founder and President of Project Eye-To-Eye, a mentoring and advocacy non-profit organization for students with learning differences. Project Eye-To-Eye currently has 20 chapters, in 13 states working with over 3,000 students, parents and educators nation wide. Visit his website.

Means of Transit

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:25:00 GMT

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Teresa Miller, author of Means of Transit: A Slightly Embellished Memoir published by University of Oklahoma Press.

Teresa Miller is author of the novels Remnants of Glory and Family Correspondence. In 1994 she founded the Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers, based at Oklahoma State University - Tulsa, where she teaches advanced fiction. She is host and executive producer of the television interview program Writing Out Loud, now entering its eleventh season on OETA, Oklahoma's PBS affiliate. Visit her website.

The Criminal Brain

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:10:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians, interviews Dr. Nicole Rafter, author of The Criminal Brain: Understanding Biological Theories of Crime published by NYU Press.

Nicole Rafter, PhD is Senior Research Fellow of Criminal Justice at Northeastern University and Fellow of the American Society of Criminology. She is the author of many books, including Shots in the Mirror: Crime Films and Society, and Criminal Man and Criminal Woman, translations (with Mary Gibson) of Cesare Lombrosoâs work. Visit her website.

I Thought I Could Fly

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:45:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians podcast, interviews Professor Charlee Brodsky, editor of I Thought I Could Fly: Portraits of Anguish, Compulsion, and Despair edited and with photographs by Charlee Brodsky and published by Bellevue Literary Press.

Charlee Brodsky is a documentary photographer and a professor of photography at Carnegie Mellon University. She has collaborated on numerous illustrated books with poets, anthropologists and writers on subjects ranging from breast cancer and mental illness to industrial blight. She has won numerous awards, has curated exhibitions dealing with the history of Pennsylvania and exhibits her photography nationally and regionally. Visit her webpage.

Everyday Survival

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:40:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the Warrior Traditions and the North Star Guardians podcast, interviews Mr. Laurence Gonzales, author of Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things published by W.W. Norton.

Laurence Gonzales won the 2001 and 2002 National Magazine Awards from the American Society of Magazine Editors for National Geographic Adventure Magazine. Since 1970, his essays have appeared in such periodicals such as Harpers, Rolling Stone, Men's Journal, and many others.

He has published a dozen books, including two award-winning collections of essays, three novels and the book-length essay, One Zero Charlie, published by Simon and Schuster. His latest book Everyday Survival is available at bookstores now. His previous book Deep Survival is now out in paperback. Visit his website.

Upgrade Me

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 03:41:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians podcast interviews Mr. Brian Clegg, author of Upgrade Me: Our Amazing Journey to Human 2.0 published by St. Martin's Press.

Brian Clegg is the author of THE GOD EFFECT, A BRIEF HISTORY OF INFINITY, THE FIRST SCIENTIST: A Life of Roger Bacon, and LIGHT YEARS: The Extraordinary Story of Mankind's Fascination with Light. He holds a physics degree from Cambridge and has written regular columns, features and reviews for numerous magazines.

He lives in Wiltshire, England, with his wife and two children. Visit his website

Recovering Charles

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:06:00 GMT

Jamie Mason, co-host of North Star Guardians, interviews Mr. Jason Wright, author of Recovering Charles published by Shadow Mountain.

Articles by Jason have appeared in over 50 newspapers and magazines across the United States including Glenn Beck's Fusion Magazine, The Washington Times, The Chicago Tribune, and Forbes. He is the author of four books, The James Miracle (2004); Christmas Jars (2005); The Wednesday Letters (2007); and Recovering Charles (2008).

Jason is also a popular speaker who speaks on writing, service, and various political and social issues. He has been seen on CNN, FoxNews, C-SPAN, and on local television affiliates around the country.

Jason is from Charlottesville, Virginia, but has also lived in Germany, Illinois, Brazil, Oregon and Utah. In 2007, while researching Virginiaâs lush Shenandoah Valley for his novel The Wednesday Letters, Jason fell so in love with the area that he moved his family westward from northern Virginia into the heart of the Valley.

Jason is married to Kodi Erekson Wright. They have two girls, two boys, and sit anxiously on a waiting list for a Goldendoodle. Visit his website.

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Guyland

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Wed, 8 Oct 2008 06:14:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians, interviews Dr. Michael Kimmel, author of Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men published by Harper; 1 edition.

Michael Kimmel is a professor of sociology and a leading scholar in the field of gender studies. He teaches at State University of New York, Stony Brook, and is the author or editor of more than twenty volumes on the subject, including the groundbreaking Manhood in America: A Cultural History. He lectures extensively on college campuses in the United States and abroad. He lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York. Visit his website.

Dangerous Women

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Wed, 8 Oct 2008 02:36:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the Warrior Traditions and North Star Guardians podcast interviews Dr. Larry A Morris, author of Dangerous Women: Why Mothers, Daughters, and Sisters Become Stalkers, Molesters, and Murderers published by Prometheus Books.

Larry A. Morris, PhD (Tucson, AZ), is a clinical and forensic psychologist who has been in private practice for more than thirty years. He is the author of four books including The Male Heterosexual, plus book chapters in New Psychology for Men (edited by W.S. Pollack and R.F. Levant) and Adult Survivors of Sexual Abuse (edited by M. Hunter).

OverSuccess

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Thu, 2 Oct 2008 21:42:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians and Warrior Traditions Podcast, interviews Mr. Jim Rubens, author of Over Success: Healing the American Obsession With Wealth, Fame, Power, and Perfection published by Greenleaf Book Group.

Jim Rubens dropped out of Dartmouth College to join one of New Englandâs first communes and then discovered his passion for business startups. After a twenty-two year career as a serial entrepreneur, he entered politics in the early 1990âs serving two terms in the New Hampshire state senate. Today Rubens is a venture investor and a member of the Granite State Angels. He consults for the Union of Concerned Scientists on energy policy and spends extensive time in volunteer work. Visit his website.

The Spiritual Brain

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Wed, 1 Oct 2008 20:08:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians podcast interviews Dr. Mario Beauregard co-author of The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientistâs Case for the Existence of The Soul written by Mario Beauregard, PhD, and Denyse OâLeary and published by Harper One.

Mario Beauregard's groundbreaking work on the neurobiology of mystical experience at the University of Montreal has received international media coverage. Before becoming a faculty member there, he conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Texas and the Montreal Neurological Institute (McGill University). Because of his research into the neuro-science of consciousness, he was selected by the World Media Net to be among the "One Hundred Pioneers of the 21. Visit his website.

Exposed

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:54:00 GMT

Jamie Mason, co-host of the North Star Guardians, interviews Ms. Alex Kava, the author of Exposed.

Before writing novels full-time, Alex Kava spent fifteen years in advertising, marketing and public relations. Alexâs five novels featuring FBI profiler Maggie OâDell - A Perfect Evil, Split Second, The Soul Catcher, At the Stroke of Madness and A Necessary Evil - along with her stand-alone novel, One False Move, have been published in 19 countries and have appeared on USA TODAY and the New York Times bestseller lists as well as bestseller lists in the U.K., Australia, Poland, Germany and Italy.

She is a member of Sisters in Crime, the Mystery Writers of America and International Thriller Writers. Alex divides her time between Omaha, Nebraska, and Pensacola, Florida. Visit her website.

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Contemplating Divorce

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 05:07:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of The North Star Guardians podcast, interviews Ms. Susan Pease Gadoua, LCSW, author of Contemplating Divorce: A Step-by-Step Guide to Deciding Whether to Stay or Go published by New Harbinger Publications.

Susan Pease Gadoua, LCSW, is founder and executive director of the Transition Institute of Marin, an agency that provides coaching, therapy, and workshops to people who are at some stage of marital dissolution.

She has been working with divorced or divorcing couples and individuals for nearly a decade. In addition to her therapeutic skills, Susan has been trained as a Divorce Coach in the Collaborative Divorce process and she is also a Certified Mediator.

Together with her husband, Michael Gadoua, J.D. (also a Certified Mediator), they formed Gadoua Mediation wherein they assist in the resolution of a variety of issues such as marital dissolution, neighbor disputes and employment conflicts. Pease Gadoua lives in the greater San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two dogs. Visit her website.

Stalking Irish Madness

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:25:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the Warrior Traditions and North Star Guardians Podcast, interviews Mr. Patrick Tracey, author of Stalking Irish Madness: Searching for the Roots of My Family's Schizophrenia published by Bantam.

Patrick Tracey, a former contributing writer for the Washington City Paper and Regardieâs in Washington, D.C., has also written for Ms. magazine and the Washington Post. He is the author of two nonfiction collections of biographical essays for the American Profiles series. After twenty-five years on his own twisted road, Tracey now lives with his sisters in Boston, Massachusetts. Visit his website.

Codependence and the Power of Detachment

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:54:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians, interviews Karen Casey, PhD., author of Codependence and the Power of Detachment published by Conari Press.

Dr. Karen Casey, the author of 19 books, is a sought-after speaker at recovery and spirituality conferences throughout the country. She conducts Change Your Mind workshops, based on her best selling Change Your Mind and Your Life Will Follow. Visit her website.

How to Talk to Your Child's Doctor

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Tue, 9 Sep 2008 02:18:00 GMT

Jamie Mason, co-host of North Star Guardians, interviews Dr. Christopher Johnson, MD, about his book, How To Talk To Your Child's Doctor: A Handbook for Parents published by Prometheus Books.

Dr. Johnson is a native of Winona, Minnesota. He received his undergraduate education in history and religion at Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania, where he was elected to phi beta kappa and graduated magna cum laude in 1974. He earned his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1978 from Mayo Medical School in Rochester, Minnesota. He subsequently trained in general pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Children's Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, and in pediatric critical care medicine at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine. He is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in both general pediatrics and in pediatric critical care medicine, and am a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Dr. Johnson has had a long-standing interest in how medical practice evolved in America and how it reached its present state of affairs. Reflecting that interest, he earned a Master of Arts degree in History of Medicine from the University of Minnesota for his work on that subject, and is a member of the American Association for the History of Medicine.

Dr. Johnson has practiced pediatric critical care medicine for over twenty years. He was for many years Director of the Pediatric Critical Care Service at the Mayo Clinic and Professor of Pediatrics at Mayo Medical School, as well as Director of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Mayo Eugenio Litta Children's Hospital. While on the faculty at Mayo, he was the author of over fifty scientific papers and book chapters in medical texts, and was the recipient of major grant awards from the National Institutes of Health, the American Heart Association, and the March of Dimes Foundation. He now devotes his time to practicing pediatric critical care as President of Pediatric Intensive Care Associates, P.C., and to writing about medicine for general readers. Visit Dr. Johnson's website and blog.

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Sex, Lies, and Handwriting

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Mon, 8 Sep 2008 05:42:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians, interviews Ms. Michelle Dresbold, co-author of Sex, Lies, and Handwriting: A Top Expert Reveals the Secrets Hidden in Your Handwriting written by Michelle Dresbold and James Kwalwasser published by Free Press.

A graduate of the United States Secret Service's Advanced Document Examination training program, Michelle Dresbold consults to private attorneys, police departments, and prosecutors throughout the United States.

She is the author of Sex Lies and Handwriting, published by Simon and Schuster's Free Press, and writes a weekly syndicated column, The Handwriting Doctor, which appears in newspapers throughout the United States. Michelle is also an accomplished artist, who has shown her work in galleries and museums across the country.

Michelle has been featured on the CBS Early Show, the Today Show, the Fox Morning Show with Mike and Juliette, the OâReilly Factor, Fox News, and Court TV.

Michelle graduated with high honors from the University of Michigan, with a degree in fine arts and psychology. Visit her website.

The Marriage Benefit

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:23:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians Podcast, interviews Dr. Mark O'Connell, author of The Marriage Benefit: The Surprising Rewards Of Staying Together published by Springboard Press.

Mark O'Connell has 25 years of experience working in intensive psychotherapies with men, women, couples, and teenagers. He teaches at Harvard Medical School and Cambridge Hospital. He is the author of The Good Father and appears regularly on the Fox New England network. He has also appeared on NPR and other radio programs. Visit his website.

The Medical Tourism Travel Guide

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:10:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians, interviews guest Paul Gahlinger, MD, PhD, author of The Medical Tourism Guide:Your Complete Reference to Top-Quality, Low-Cost Dental, Cosmetic, Medical Care & Surgery Overseas published by Sunrise River Press.

Dr. Gahlinger is a physician and medical school professor with extensive overseas experience. He has traveled to India, Thailand, Singapore, and the Philippines to study medical tourism. He is Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the University of Utah, a funding analyst for the Bioastronautics Research Division of NASA, and National Faculty of the Core Content Review of Family Medicine. He is a Senior Aviation Medical Examiner for the FAA, medically certifying airline pilots and investigating accidents, and holds a commercial pilot license. He is listed by the Consumers Research Council of America as one of America s Top Physicians. Visit his website.

Man Whisperer

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:17:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of Warrior Traditions and North Star Guardians, interviews Mr. Rick Johnson, author of the The Man Whisperer: Speaking Your Man's Language to Bring Out His Best published by Revell.

Rick Johnson is the founder of Better Dads, a fathering skills program designed to equip men to be more engaged in the lives of their children. Rick develops and delivers father training workshops for businesses, churches, schools, and other organizations across the Northwest. He is the author of That's My Son and Better Dads, Stronger Sons. Rick, his wife, Suzanne, and their two children live in Gresham, Oregon. Visit his website.

Buddy System

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:58:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians and co-host of the Psychjourney Podcast, interviews Dr. Geoffrey L. Greif, author of Buddy System: Understanding Male Friendships published by Oxford University Press.

Dr. Geoffrey Greif is Professor at the University of Maryland School of Social Work where he has worked since 1984. He was Associate Dean from 1996 to 2007. He received his MSW from the University of Pennsylvania and his DSW from the Columbia University School of Social Work. He is the author of nine books.

In 2001, he chaired Governor Parris Glendeningâs Commission to study sexual orientation discrimination in Maryland. He has appeared on numerous television and radio programs and his work has been cited in major news outlets, including the New York Times. He is a member of various community-based boards, including WYPR, the Baltimore National Public Radio station and the Albert Schweitzer Fellows Board.

He is the father of two and is married to Maureen Lefton-Greif, Ph.D., associate clinical professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Visit his webpage.

Hooked

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:42:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians, interviews Dr. Freda McKissic Bush, author of Hooked: New Science on How Casual Sex is Affecting Our Children published by Northfield Publishing .

Dr. Freda McKissic Bush is a board-certified obstetrician/gynecologist who is a partner in private practice with East Lakeland OB-GYN Associates in Jackson, Mississippi. East Lakeland is a six-woman group whose dedication is to women and their reproductive health.

Since 1968, she has been involved in women's health issues when she was a Clinical Instructor in Maternity Nursing at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock, graduating from Columbia University New York as a Certified Nurse Midwife in 1970, and working at Harlem Hospital. In 1974, she became the Director of Nurse Midwifery Programs at the University of Mississippi, responsible for the education of nurse-midwives and their placement for service in the Southeastern United States.

In 1983, she graduated as a medical doctor from the University of Mississippi Medical School. Upon completion of her residency training at the University of Tennessee in Memphis in 1987, she returned to Jackson where she worked for Jackson-Hinds Comprehensive Health Center and began private practice.

Freda spends much time speaking on sexuality education, sexually transmitted infections, and social behavior education. Her passion is to help women "raise a standard" - To that end, she is committed to raising awareness of the very best medical science regarding sexual health. Visit Dr. Bushâs websites at www.medinstitute.org and East Lakeland OB-GYN Associates.

Side Effects

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:51:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians Podcast, interviews Ms. Alison Bass, author of Side Effects: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower, and A Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial published by Algonquin Books

Alison Bass is an award-winning journalist and long-time medical writer for The Boston Globe. Her articles and essays have also appeared in The Chicago Tribune, The Miami Herald, The Village Voice, Psychology Today, Technology Review, Readers Digest and numerous other newspapers and magazines around the country.

A series she wrote for The Boston Globe on psychiatry was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in the Public Service category, and she has received a number of other journalism awards for her work, including the Top Media Award from the National Mental Health Association and two Media Awards from the Alliance for the Mentally Ill. In 2007, she won a prestigious Alicia Patterson Fellowship for her investigative work.

She is a Senior Lecturer in Journalism at Mount Holyoke College and an Adjunct Professor of Journalism at Brandeis University.

Bass lives in Massachusetts, with her husband and two sons. Visit her website and blog.

What The Nose Knows

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:16:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians, interviews Dr. Avery Gilbert, author of What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life published by Crown.

Avery Gilbert is a psychologist, smell scientist, and entrepreneur. His groundbreaking studies in odor perception have been published in scientific journals, and he has helped design commercial scents for everything from perfume to kitty litter. He lives in Montclair, New Jersey. Visit him at Avery Gilbert and What The Nose Knows.

Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 06:35:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians Podcast, interviews Ms. Lauren Kessler, author of Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's: One Daughter's Hopeful Story published by Penguin.

Lauren Kessler is the author of five works of narrative nonfiction, including Pacific Northwest Book Award winner Dancing with Rose (published in paperback as Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's), Washington Post bestseller Clever Girl and Los Angeles Times bestseller The Happy Bottom Riding Club. She is also the author of Oregon Book Award winner Stubborn Twig, which was chosen as the book for all Oregon to read in honor of the stateâs 2009 sesquicentennial.

Her journalism has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times Magazine, O magazine, Utne Reader, The Nation, newsweek.com and salon.com. She is a national speaker and workshop leader. The founder and editor of Etude, the online magazine of narrative nonfiction, she directs the graduate program in literary nonfiction at the University of Oregon.

She lives in Eugene, Oregon, with her writer husband, Tom Hager, her three brilliant and faultless children and a cat that thinks itâs a dog.

Visit her website

The Lolita Effect

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Fri, 8 Aug 2008 04:59:00 GMT

Deborah Harper, Co-host of the North Star Guardians, interviews Meenakshi Gigi Durham, PhD.,author of The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and What We Can Do About It published by Overlook Press.

Meenakshi Gigi Durham is an associate professor of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa. For more than a decade, she has been conducting research on adolescent girls and the media. The Lolita Effect is her first book for general audiences. She is committed to advocating for the rights of girls and women worldwide.

Her previous work has appeared in leading academic journals, including Critical Studies in Media Communication, Communication Theory, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, and Women's Studies in Communication. She serves on the editorial boards of a number of scholarly journals, including Feminist Media Studies and the Journal of Communication, and she is the Executive Editor of the Journal of Communication Inquiry. She also served on the advisory board for the Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents and the Media. Her book, Media and Cultural Studies: KeyWorks (co-edited with Douglas M. Kellner) was published by Blackwell Publishers in 2001.

She lives with her husband, two daughters, and a friendly cat in Iowa City, IA. Visit her website and her blog .

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Maybe Baby: An Infertile Love Story

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Wed, 6 Aug 2008 06:36:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians, interviews Mr. Matthew Miller, M.A., author of "Maybe Baby: An Infertile Love Story published by Health Communications.

Matthew M.F. Miller is a syndicated blogger whose work has been published in more than 400 newspapers in the United States and Canada, including the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and the Baltimore Sun. He holds a master's degree in professional writing from the University of Southern California, and was a member of the University of Iowa Undergraduate Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Poetry Writer's Workshops. Visit Miller's blog at http://www.maybebabyblog.com

Opting Out?

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:11:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of The North Star Guardians, interviews Dr. Pamela Stone, author of Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home published by University of California Press.

Pamela Stone is Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her research has been supported by a variety of funders including the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Sloan Foundation. Former chair of the Department of Sociology at Hunter, Stone was the recipient of a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, where she also served as Associate Director of the Radcliffe Public Policy Institute. She is a fellow of Hunter's Gender Equity Program, supported by NSF's ADVANCE program, the goal of which is to promote women in science.

An honors graduate of Duke University, Stone received her PhD in Sociology from Johns Hopkins University. Active in her profession, she was recently elected Vice President of the Eastern Sociological Society for 2009-10 Visit Dr. Stone's website.

Sex and the Soul

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:57:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of North Star Guardians, interviews Dr. Donna Freitas, author of author of Sex and the Soul: Juggling Sexuality, Spirituality, Romance, and Religion on America's College Campuses published Oxford University Press.

Donna Freitas is an Assistant Professor of Religion at Boston University. She received her Ph.D. from Catholic University in 2002 and her B.A. in philosophy from Georgetown (CAS 94) In addition, to writing books, Donna regularly contributes to a number of magazines, newspapers, and webzines, including Beliefnet, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Christian Century, and the School Library Journal. Visit her website. Visit Dr. Kevin Keough's blog.

Madapple

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Tue, 1 Jul 2008 19:27:00 GMT

Jamie Mason, co-host of The North Star Guardians Podcast, interviews Ms. Christina Meldrum, author of Madapple, published by Knopf Books for Young Readers.

Christina Meldrum received her Bachelor of Arts in religious studies and political science from the University of Michigan. After working in grassroots development in Africa, she earned her Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School. She has worked for the International Commission of Jurists in Geneva, Switzerland, and as a litigator at the law firm of Shearman & Sterling. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family and is on the advisory board of Women of the World Investments. Madapple is her first novel. Visit her website.

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The Fidelity Files

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:52:00 GMT

Jamie Mason, co-host of the North Star Guardians, interviews Ms. Jessica Brody, author of The Fidelity Files published by St. Martin Griffins.

Jessica Brody, 28, knew from a young age that she wanted to be a writer. She started self "publishing" her own books when she was seven years old, binding the pages together with cardboard, wallpaper samples and electrical tape.

After graduating from Smith College in 2001 where she double majored in Economics and French and minored in Japanese, Jessica later went on to work for MGM Studios as a Manager of Acquisitions and Business Development. In May of 2005, Jessica quit her job to follow her dream of becoming a published author. Between 2006 and 2007, Jessica sold two adult novels to St. Martin's Press and two young adult novels to Farrar, Straus, Giroux. The Fidelity Files, her debut, is now available in stores (in real binding) and the sequel, which she is currently completing, is slated for publication in the summer of 2009. The Karma Club, Jessica's debut YA novel will be released in the spring of 2010.

The Fidelity Files has already sold in the UK, France, Germany, Czech Republic, Russia and Taiwan (to date).Jessica now works as a freelance writer and producer. She currently writes for Yahoo's hilarious online TV recap show, "Prime Time in No Time." The most recent episodes can be viewed at: http://primetime.tv.yahoo.com

Additionally, Jessica produces feature-length films for Cyur Films. Please visit www.cyur.com for information on current and upcoming releases. Visit her website.

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Mommy I'm Still in Here: Raising Children with Bipolar Disorder

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:38:00 GMT

Jamie Mason, co-host of North Star Guardians Podcast, interviews Ms.Kate McLaughlin, author of Mommy I'm Still Here: Raising Children With Bipolar Disorder published by Behler Publications.

Kate McLaughlin was born and raised in Ontario, California. She attended Chaffey High School and graduated magna cum laude from the University of La Verne with a liberal arts degree. She married her high school sweetheart, attended graduate school at Cal Poly Pomona and Cal State San Bernardino, and worked in the Upland School District. Her three children were born in Southern California.

After teaching elementary school, coordinating special programs, and training fellow teachers and classroom aides for over a dozen years, Kate began her writing career. As a columnist for Southern Progress Corporation, a subsidiary of Time-Warner, Kate wrote dozens of magazine articles, then added two regional gardening books to her list of achievements before switching gears to write, speak, and advocate on topics related to Bipolar Disorder, Depression, and mental health.

Kate frequently writes and speaks to Parent-Teacher groups, high school and college students, mental health consumers and their families, and other community members. She is a member of the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, and the Juvenile Bipolar Research. Visit her website www.katemclaughlin.net.

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Easter Everywhere: A Memoir

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Mon, 2 Jun 2008 03:44:00 GMT

Jamie Mason, co-host of The North Star Guardians Podcast, interviews Author Darcey Steinke, author of Easter Everywhere: A Memoir published by Bloomsbury USA.

Darcey Steinke is the author of four novels, two of which were New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Her novel Suicide Blonde has been translated into eight languages, and her novel Milk has been translated into four. Her nonfiction has been featured in Vogue, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Village Voice, Spin, the Boston Review, and the New York Times Magazine. She currently teaches at both Columbia University and New School University in New York City. She lives with her daughter in Brooklyn. Visit her website.

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Holistic Parenting: Raising Children to a New Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Well-Being

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Sat, 31 May 2008 00:12:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, creator of the Warrior Traditions Project, and co-host of Warrior Traditions Podcast and North Star Guardians Podcast, interviews Ms. Lynn Wiese Sneyd, author of Holistic Parenting: Raising Children to a New Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Well-Being published by Keats Publishing

Lynn Weise Sneyd is a freelance writer focusing on health and parenting issues. She earned a B.A. in English from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In 1998, she received a writing fellowship at the Ragdale Foundation in Lake Forest, Illinois, where she began work on her book Holistic Parenting: Raising Children To A New Physical, Emotional And Spiritual Well-Being.

Lynn became interested in Holistic Medicine as a result of her husbandâs degenerative nerve condition. After he endured seven years of unsuccessful conventional medical treatments, she decided to explore the world of Alternative Medicine. As she learned, she gradually incorporated changes in her familyâs lifestyle. A pantry of organic foods, a kitchen without chemical cleaners and a microwave, and a medicine cabinet full of herbal and homeopathic remedies have become her familyâs norms. In addition, her children no longer receive vaccinations. Her eight-year-old daughter has never been on an antibiotic, despite having childhood bouts with ear infections, sore throats, colds and flu.

After experiencing the simplicity and effectiveness of a holistic lifestyle, Lynn decided to write Holistic Parenting. The book explores such topics as Homeopathy, Herbal Medicine, Ayurveda, Organic Nutrition, Environmental Toxins, Vaccinations and Holistic Dentistry.

She also contributed to Healthy Solutions: A Guide to Simple Healing and Healthy Wisdom, written by David N. Russell, Ph.D, D.Sc., as well as How Happy Families Happen: Six Steps to Creating Emotional and Spiritual Health at Home, written by Audrey Ricker, Ph.D. Lynn's freelanced articles and poetry have appeared in publications around the country. Lynn resides in Tucson, Arizona with her husband and 2 children.

Lynn Wiese Sneyd directs the literary publicity division of Russell Public Communications, coordinating national, regional, and local publicity campaigns for authors of non-fiction and fiction works Visit her webpage.

Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:21:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, co-host of North Star Guardians interviews Professor Charles Barber, author of Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation published by Pantheon.

Charles Barber was educated at Harvard and Columbia and worked for ten years in New York City shelters for the homeless mentally ill. The title essay in his first book, Songs from the Black Chair, won a 2006 Pushcart Prize. His work has appeared in the The Washington Post, The New York Times and Scientific American Mind, among other publications, and on NPR. He is a senior administrator at The Connection, an innovative social services agency, and a lecturer in psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine. He lives in Connecticut with his family. Visit his website .

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Love Signals: A Practical Field Guide to the Body Language of Courtship

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:06:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, co-host of North Star Guardians Podcast, interviews Dr. David Givens, author of Love Signals: A Practical Field Guide to the Body Language of Courtship published by St. Martin's Griffin.

David Givens began studying body language at the University of Washington in Seattle. He served as Resident Anthropologist and Director of information services and programs at the American Anthropological Association in Washington, D.C. for more than a decade. He is currently Director of the Center for Non-Verbal Studies in Spokane, Washington. He teaches in the Department of Communication Arts at Gonzaga University. He offers seminars on nonverbal communication to diverse audiences, including lawyers, judges, social workers, salespeople, physicians. He works with law enforcement agencies and the U.S. Intelligence community. Dr. Givens is also the author of Crime Signals: How to Spot a Criminal Before You Become a Victim. Visit Dr. Given's website.

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The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:32:00 GMT

Jamie Mason, co-host of North Star Guardians, interviews Dr. John Izzo, author of The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

John Izzo is a visionary, author, community leader and professional speaker on leadership development, performance management, corporate culture, and organizational change. Dr. John Izzo has more than 17 years experience working in a wide variety of corporate settings. His clients include nonprofit organizations, Fortune 500 companies, Healthcare Organizations and mid-size companies. Over the last two decades, John Izzo has married his first career as a minister with his second career as a management & leadership consultant to help leaders create corporations and organizations where values and purpose are the foundations for success. Dr. Izzo spent five years as a senior organizational development consultant for Kaiser Permanente, and 4 years as Vice President of The Einstein Consulting Group, an international customer service consultancy prior to establishing his own firm. Currently he focuses on helping leaders and organizations reach sustainable success through the integration of purposeful leadership and business practices.

John Izzo obtained his Bachelor of Sociology from Hofstra University in 1978 before completing a dual Masters degree from McCormick Divinity School in Theology while simultaneously attending the University of Chicago to complete his Masters in Organizational Psychology. Dr. Izzo then completed his Ph.D. in Organizational Communication from Kent State University shortly thereafter. He is the author of over 60 articles, and is the co-author of the best selling book Awakening Corporate Soul: Four Paths to Unleash the Power of People at Work and its companion workbook. He is also the author of Values-Shift: The New Work Ethic and What it Means for Business. His pioneering work has been featured on CNN, ABC World News, the LA Times, Canada AM, CBC Radio, The American Medical Journal, B.C. Business, The Seattle Times and the cover of Association Management Magazine on "Creating Inspiring Work Places".

Based on leading edge research and experiences with more than 200 companies, John Izzo helps people understand these shifting values and how they differ across generations and across gender.John Izzo works with leaders who are serious about finding and keeping talented people and who are willing to do what it takes to create an organization where values and purpose are the foundation of the culture. Visit his website.Visit Jamie Mason's website and blog.

The Ditchdigger's Daughters: A Black Family's Astonishing Success Story

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:55:00 GMT

Jamie Mason, co-host of North Star Guardians, interviews Dr. Yvonne S. Thornton, author of The Ditchdigger's Daughters: A Black Family's Astonishing Success Story published by Kensington.

Dr. Thornton is a double-Board Certified specialist in obstetrics, gynecology and maternal-fetal medicine. She has risen to the academic rank of Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology. She is a member of the Association of Women Surgeons, a life member of The New York Academy of Medicine, and is a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American College of Surgeons.

Her biography is presently in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World. She is listed in The Best Doctors -- New York Metro Area. She was listed in New York Magazine as one of the Top Ten Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialists in New York City.

Doctor Thornton was the first black woman in the United States to be Board-certified in High-Risk obstetrics and to be accepted into The New York Obstetrical Society.

Dr. Thornton is the national best-selling author of the Pulitzer prize-nominated book entitled, The Ditchdigger's Daughters: A Black Family's Astonishing Success Story published in 1995, with over 300,000 copies in print. This family biography (co-authored with Jo Coudert) is a tribute to her parents and was condensed in The Reader's Digest, adapted into a World Premiere Movie and nominated for the Peabody Award and the Cable ACE Award for Best Picture.

In 1996, the American Library Association named it as one of the Best Books for Young Adults and Doctor Thornton was given the "Excellence in Literature" Award by the New Jersey Education Association. She has authored two other books;a medical text entitled, Primary Care for the Obstetrician and Gynecologist and Woman to Woman: Leading Gynecologist Tells You All You Need Know abt your Baby your Health.

As senior perinatologist in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, Dr. Thornton established and developed the program for a new form of early prenatal diagnostic testing known as CVS (chronic villus sampling). Dr. Thornton was one of the original American investigators whose CVS results were relied upon by the FDA prior to its granting approval for the procedure in 1989. Visit her website.

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Manic: A Memoir

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Sat, 1 Mar 2008 23:54:00 GMT

Jamie Mason, co-host of the North Star Guardians Podcast, interviews Ms. Terri Cheney, author of Manic: A Memoir published by William Morrow.

After graduating Vassar College with honors, Ms. Cheney attended UCLA School of Law. She then specialized in intellectual property and entertainment litigation at several prominent L.A. firms, including Manatt, Phelps & Phillips. Over the course of her sixteen-year career, Ms. Cheney represented many celebrities and major motion picture studios, including Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, Universal, Columbia, etc. Her pro bono work ranged from counseling local theaters to petitioning the United States Supreme Court on behalf of the ACLU.

After years of secretly struggling with manic depression, Ms. Cheney decided to leave the law and devote her advocacy skills toward a cause that is closer to her heart: writing about her illness, and encouraging the mentally ill to tell their own stories. In recognition of her efforts, she was appointed a member of the Community Advisory Board of the UCLA Mood Disorders Research Program, the nationâs largest nonprofit research consortium regarding manic depression. She also founded a weekly community support group at UCLAâs Neuropsychiatric Institute.

Ms. Cheney currently lives in Los Angeles. Visit her website.

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Your Critically Ill Child: Life and Death Choices Parents Must Face

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:01:00 GMT

Ms. Jamie Mason, co-host of North Star Guardians, interviews Dr. Christopher Johnson, MD, about his book, Your Critically Ill Child: Life and Death Choices Parents Must Face published by New Horizon Press.

Dr. Johnson is a native of Winona, Minnesota. He received his
undergraduate education in history and religion at Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania, where he was elected to phi beta kappa and graduated magna cum laude in 1974. He earned his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1978 from Mayo Medical School in Rochester, Minnesota. He subsequently trained in general pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Childrenâs Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, and in pediatric critical care medicine at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine. He is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in both general pediatrics and in pediatric critical care medicine, and am a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Dr. Johnson has had a long-standing interest in how medical practice evolved in America and how it reached its present state of affairs. Reflecting that interest, he earned a Master of Arts degree in History of Medicine from the University of Minnesota for his work on that subject, and is a member of the American Association for the History of Medicine.

Dr. Johnson has practiced pediatric critical care medicine for over twenty years. He was for many years Director of the Pediatric Critical Care Service at the Mayo Clinic and Professor of Pediatrics at Mayo Medical School, as well as Director of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Mayo Eugenio Litta Childrenâs Hospital. While on the faculty at Mayo, he was the author of over fifty scientific papers and book chapters in medical texts, and was the recipient of major grant awards from the National Institutes of Health, the American Heart Association, and the March of Dimes Foundation. He now devotes his time to practicing pediatric critical care as President of Pediatric Intensive Care Associates, P.C., and to writing about medicine for general readers. Visit Dr. Johnson's website and blog.

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The Loss of Sadness-Part Two

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Tue, 5 Feb 2008 01:00:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of North Star Guardians, interviews Dr. Jerome C. Wakefield, co-author of The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder published by Oxford University Press.

We experienced minor audio recording difficulties that appear near the end of the first of a two part interview with Dr. Wakefield. Please accept our apologies for this technical problem that hasn't proven easy to eliminate. We intend to edit out the snafu as soon as possible. We thank Dr, Wakefield for a stimulating and informative conversation and his graciousness and patience re: a delay in posting this podcast.

Jerome C. Wakefield is University Professor and Professor of Social Work at New York University, and he has also taught at the University of Chicago, Columbia University, and Rutgers University. He is an authority on the intersection between philosophy and the mental health professions and the author of many articles on diagnosis of mental disorder. Visit his web page.

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The Loss of Sadness: Part One

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Tue, 5 Feb 2008 00:10:00 GMT

Beyond Blue- An Interview with Therese J. Borchard- Part Two

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Fri, 1 Feb 2008 05:29:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough interviews Ms. Therese J. Borchard about her blog, Beyond Blue A Spiritual Journey To Mental Health.

We experienced minor audio recording difficulties that appear near the end of the first of a two part interview with Therese Borchard. Please accept our apologies for this technical problem that hasn't proven easy to eliminate. We intend to edit out the snafu as soon as possible. We thank Therese Borchard for a stimulating and informative conversation and her graciousness and patience re: a delay in posting this podcast.

Therese J. Borchard is the best-selling editor (with Michael Leach) of I Like Being Catholic, I Like Being Married, and I Love Being a Mom. After her Prozac pooped out, she didn't like much of anything, so she compiled The Imperfect Mom: Candid Confessions of Mothers Living in the Real World, which was featured in Real Simple, Parenting, More, Working Mother, Psychology Today, Fit Pregnancy, the Chicago Tribune, and on Salon.com and Beliefnet.com. Her syndicated column on young-adult spirituality is distributed by Catholic News Service, and her work has appeared in Ladies^TM Home Journal, Parenting, American Baby, Working Mother, Publishers Weekly, the Washington Post and on Beliefnet.com. She lives with her husband, Eric, and their two "spirited" preschoolers in Annapolis, Maryland. Visit her blog Beyond Blue.

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Beyond Blue- An Interview with Therese J. Borchard- Part One

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Fri, 1 Feb 2008 04:49:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough interviews Ms. Therese J. Borchard about her blog, Beyond Blue A Spiritual Journey To Mental Health.

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About Janette Merrill- Host of Birthing Soul Blog and Podcast

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:08:00 GMT

Janette Merrill is a mother of three, living in Portland Oregon. She will be presenting the Podcast series entitled Birthing Soul which will focus on the Feminine, women's issues and inner growth with a wide range of topics including feminine archetypes, sacred sexuality, parenting, natural childbirth and childcare, partnership studies, raising kids body-positive, reconnecting to the body, menarche and menopause celebrations, and holistic psycho-spirituality.

Janette has a B.A. in Social Science and intends to pursue an M.A. in Transpersonal Psychology

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Introduction to Janette Merrill- host of Birthing Soul Podcasts

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:58:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough interviews Ms. Janette Merrill, host of Birthing Soul Podcasts. Visit her blog.

Janette Merrill is a mother of three, living in Portland Oregon. She will be presenting the Podcast series entitled Birthing Soul which will focus on the Feminine, women's issues and inner growth with a wide range of topics including feminine archetypes, sacred sexuality, parenting, natural childbirth and childcare, partnership studies, raising kids body-positive, reconnecting to the body, menarche and menopause celebrations, and holistic psycho-spirituality.

Janette has a B.A. in Social Science and intends to pursue an M.A. in Transpersonal Psychology

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The Good News Network- News That Reflects Our Values

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Sat, 3 Nov 2007 03:35:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough interviews Ms. Geri Weis-Corbley, Founder and Publisher of the Good News Network International.

Topic: News That Reflects Our Values

WHO

Geri Weis-Corbley graduated with a degree in TV/Radio from Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland, and went on to work in TV news and video production in Washington, D.C., in the 1980's. That's when she first conceived of the Good News Network as a television show and cable network (abbreviated GNN, like CNN). Ten years later she left her freelance career in television to raise a family at home during the 1990's.

WHEN

In 1997, she could stand it no longer. The declining state of the U.S. news media and the rising tide of the Internet combined to compel her into action. She bought some software and created the online edition of the Good News Network, premiering in August 1997.

WHAT (What else happened?)

She designed, wrote and uploaded weekly good news to the site for six years. A bimonthly printed newsletter, Some Good News, earned 75 paid subscribers.

A treatment for a weekly TV magazine news show and radio pilot for series of two-minute segments were produced, pitched to Hollywood, then set aside.

The number of visitors to the Web site jumped in a salient spike on 9/11 and the following day in 2001, when terrorists attacked the United States. (Commemorative 9/11 Edition, pdf format)

WHERE (Whereâd she go in 2003?)

In 2003, Geri left the Good News Network on an 18-month sabbatical to work on a presidential campaign, or two. All during this sabbatical â even through September 2005 â GoodNewsNetwork.org was visited nearly 1,000 times a day, even without the benefit of any new content, for 18 months.

WHY (Why did she engage in politics and then return to the GN Network?)

"I dove into politics for the same reason I created the GN Network. I couldn't stand it any longer. I had to try to make a difference to my country when I saw it veering sharply from wiser paths.

But while I made inroads with my grassroots work, I couldn't help but notice that politics is mostly a negative business. Its very nature is divisive and seems to direct our focus onto the worst in people (opponents) ...

In our grassroots campaign, though, I experienced a tremendous outpouring of camaraderie from people young and old who, like me, had never been involved in politics before. It was spurred on by anger, yes, like the GN Network had been, but it was mostly a joy-filled effort infused with positive thinking, rather than negative.

Many, many Americans of every stripe appreciated the way we talked to them â on train platforms, sidewalks, libraries, and doorways â with respect, like citizens, rather than consumers.

However, I gladly returned to work on the GN Network with a goal to bring compassion back into our discourse. Instead of polarizing society into two camps (which politics necessarily must), we instead focus on the commonality of human experience, infusing both sides with the eagerness to overcome adversity and improve the human condition. We will nurture the instinct for community and cooperation over competition and tribalism."

HOW (How is the past relevant to the future of GNN-i?)

Working on all aspects of communications in the high-tech campaign world of 2003â04 imparted a vast array of knowledge to Geri along with ideas about how to build an exciting online community that empowers its members and elicits pure joy.

"In an 'Aha moment' I realized that community is what the Good News Network was missing. Community will be the key to creating my success on the internet. And if Charles Schultzâs Linus were here, he'd say... 'Community is what the world is all about, Charlie Brown.'"

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History and Culture of Native American People- Part One

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Thu, 1 Nov 2007 05:02:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough interviews Dr. Thomas Holm, author of The Great Confusion in Indian Affairs: Native Americans and Whites in the Progressive Era published by University of Texas Press.

Dr. Thomas Holm (Creek/Cherokee; Ph.D., 1978, University of Oklahoma) came to The University of Arizona in 1980 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1986 and to Full Professor in 1995. In 1982 Professor Holm, Robert K. Thomas, Larry Evers, Vine Deloria, Jr., Emory Sekaquaptewa and N. Scott Momaday developed the M.A. program in American Indian Studies. In 1994, Professor Holm transferred full time to the American Indian Studies Program. He has taught over fifteen Native-related courses, nine of which he developed. He has served as the chair of over thirty-five M.A. committees in both Political Science and American Indian Studies at The University of Arizona and has sat on a number of doctoral committees in American Indian Studies and for the departments of History, Political Science, Education, and Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies.

Professor Holm served as the chair of the first Ph.D. graduateâJ. Diane Pearsonâof the U of A American Indian Studies Program. Four doctoral students whose dissertations he supervisedâPearson, Jeff Boyd, Elise Marubbio, and Ian Recordâhave had their work published as books. Professor Holm is currently supervising two doctoral dissertations. Twice the recipient of the Outstanding Native American faculty award, he has also been selected for an Excellence in Teaching Award during the U of Aâs âyear of the Undergraduateâ? in 1988. In 2004 he was honored with the Graduate Collegeâs Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring Award.

Since receiving his degree from the University of Oklahoma, Professor Holm has published over 50 articles, books, pamphlets, government reports, book reviews and essays, editorials and book chapters. His 1996 book, Strong Hearts, Wounded Souls: The Native American Veterans of the Vietnam War was a finalist for the Victor Turner Prize in ethnographic writing in Canada.

His most recent articles and book chapters have dealt with the historical militarization of Native American peoples and the development of the âPeoplehood Matrixâ? as a theoretical construct for Native American/Indigenous Peoples Studies. A contributor to a large number of historical dictionaries and encyclopedias, Professor Holm has also been called upon to add to forthcoming works on peoplehood, Native American diasporas, Native American leadership, and the late Vine Deloriaâs contributions to scholarship.

Professor Holm currently is working on another book, tentatively entitled âWarfare and the Cherokee Stateâ? under contract at the University of Nebraska Press. In 2006 he completed a book for younger readers, entitled Warriors and Code Talkers: Native Americans and World War II for Chelsea House/Facts on File. It will be released in the spring of 2007. He is a reviewer for several academic presses and journals and is an advisory/editorial board member of Ethnic Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity, Red Ink and Wicazo Sa Review.
Recently, Professor Holm has written two novels: the first is a mystery set in 1920âs Oklahoma and the second an action/adventure set in South America. The mystery, entitled The Shelby Rose, is to be published by the University of Arizona Press in 2008. The action/adventure novel is still under consideration at a commercial press. His latest academic book, The Great Confusion in Indian Affairs: Native Americans and Whites in the Progressive Era was released in 2005 by the University of Texas Press.

A Cherokee-Muskogee Creek from Oklahoma, Professor Holm has served on numerous Native American boards, panels, and working groups. He is a Marine Corps veteran of the Vietnam War and has taken part in several federal programs dealing with veteransâ affairs. In the 1980âs he served as an advisor for the Readjustment Counseling Services and as a member of the Native American commission on veteransâ affairs for the Veteransâ Administration. Professor Holm also has done presentations on Native American veterans before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs.

In 2001, he was appointed to the Council of One Hundred Chiefs, Leaders, and Scholars for the American Indian Graduate Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the organization that handles the Gates Millennium and American Indian Scholarship Fund scholarships. Visit Dr. Holm's website.

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UFO Research

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 01:26:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough interviews Dr. C. Scott Littleton about his study and research into and first hand experiences with UFO's.

A native Californian, C. Scott Littleton received his B.A., M.A.,and Ph.D from UCLA, and has taught anthropology at Occidental College in Los Angeles for many years. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at UCLA in 1957. In 1991 he received The Graham L. Sterling Memorial Award, given annually to a distinguished member of the Occidental College faculty. Heâs also received grants from the John Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation (1963), the American Council of Learned Societies (1972, 1978), the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (1983), and The American Philosophical Society (1983). In 1960-61, I was a Haynes Foundation-Town Hall Fellow.

He is considered an expert in comparative mythology and folklore, as well as in traditional Japanese culture, having lived and taught in Tokyo on several occasions. Littleton is the author of 8-9 scholarly books, including The New Comparative Mythology (3rd Edition, University of California Press, 1982), From Scythia to Camelot: A Radical Reinterpretation of the Legends of King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table,and the Holy Grail (paperback edition, Garland Publishing Inc., 2000), and Understanding Shinto (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), and numerous articles in professional journals.

He has also researched the mythological dimensions of the UFO phenomenon, and his article "Divine Rebels, Alien Dissidents: Does the Mythology Surrounding Lucifer, Prometheus, and the Ancient Mesoamerican Deity QuÃÂtzalcoatl Reflect a Pro-Human Faction in the 'Alien Raj'?" has appeared in UFO Magazine. He has authored one science fiction novel. His latest book, 2500 Strand: Growing Up In Hermosa Beach, California, during World War II is scheduled for release within the next few weeks. Visit Dr. Littletonâs website.

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Preserving Chinese Martial and Healing Arts- Part Two

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:57:00 GMT

Part Two of a Two Part Interview with Dr. Yang Jwing-Ming

Dr. Kevin L. Keough, clinical psychologist and host of Warrior Traditions and North Star Guardians, interviews Dr. Yang Jwing-Ming about his final mission: to transmit his complete knowledge to the next generation of teachers and preserve the Chinese martial and healing arts.

Dr. Yang Jwing- Ming was born in Taiwan in 1946. He has studied Wu Su since the age of fifteen under different instructors, most notably Cheng Gin-Gsao, White Crane, Pai Huo Kao (Tao Tai Chi Chuan, Yangâs division) and Li Mao-Ching (Long Fist). His academic career is well rounded as well, as he received a M.S. degree in Physics from the National Taiwan University in 1971 and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University in 1978.

He started working for Texas Instruments in Houston in 1980, founded the Yangâs Martial Art Academy in Boston in 1982, then left TI in 1984 to devote all his time to the YMAA, which has since expanded into the Yangâs Oriental Arts Association, Inc. He has published a large amount of material, most of which under Unique Publications and his own YMAA Publication Center.

Read an article about Dr. Yang Jwing-Ming and the YMAA Retreat Center by Jennifer Sexton, published Sept 07, Inside Kung Fu magazine

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Chinese Martial and Healing Arts

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:54:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin L. Keough, clinical psychologist and host of Warrior Traditions and North Star Guardians, interviews Dr. Yang Jwing-Ming about his final mission: to transmit his complete knowledge to the next generation of teachers and preserve the Chinese martial and healing arts.

Read an article about Dr. Yang Jwing-Ming and the YMAA Retreat Center by Jennifer Sexton, published Sept 07, Inside Kung Fu magazine

Watch the YMAA Netcast.

Donate to the nonprofit YMAA Retreat Center.

An Introduction to Warrior Traditions- An Interview With Marc MacYoung

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 21:12:00 GMT

Dr. Kevin Keough, clinical psychologist and host of North Star Guardians and Warrior Traditions, interviews Mr. Marc "Animal" MacYoung, about martial arts, self defense, and warrior training.

Marc MacYoung has been called a Renaissance man in the study and management of violence. He has more then 35 years of training in 8 different martial arts systems including wing chun and Tai Chi. Perhaps, more importantly he has 47 years of experience in training in city jungles. Mr. MacYoung is the author of 15 books and 7 DVD's covering a broad range of topics in self-defense. He provides training to military personnel, police officers, bodyguards, and the general public. His website, No Nonsense Self Defense is the largest and most visited web site on self-defense in the world.

The Brain That Changes Itself: Part Two of a Two Part Interview

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:15:00 GMT

Part Two of a Two Part Interview

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of North Star Guardians, interviews Dr. Norman Doidge, M.D., author of The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science published by Viking Adult.

Norman Doidge, M.D., is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, researcher, author, essayist and poet. He is on the Research Faculty at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, in New York, and the University of Toronto's Department of Psychiatry. He is a four time recepient of Canada's National Magazine Gold Award. He has presented his scientific research on effective therapies at the White House.

A native of Toronto, he divides his time between Toronto and New York. Visit his website.

The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

klkeough@gmail.com (Dr. Kevin keough) — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 03:24:00 GMT

Part One of a Two-Part Interview

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of North Star Guardians interviews Dr. Norman Doidge, M.D., author of The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science published by Viking Adult.

Norman Doidge, M.D., is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, researcher, author, essayist and poet. He is on the Research Faculty at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, in New York, and the University of Toronto's Department of Psychiatry. He is a four time recepient of Canada's National Magazine Gold Award. He has presented his scientific research on effective therapies at the White House.

A native of Toronto, he divides his time between Toronto and New York. Visit his website.