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How to Navigate Shark-Infested Work Environments

Dr. Saran Heron talks with Dr. Dionne Poulton, an award-winning, nationally recognized HR and DEI expert, educator, executive coach, and conflict resolution specialist with more than 25 years of experience. She serves as Organizational Ombudsperson...

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The Biggest Financial Mistake New Grads Make 

Dr. Saran Heron talks with Dr. Janet Tonkins, the "Cash Flow Diva," a powerhouse real estate developer, investor, coach, international speaker, and philanthropist who transformed from poverty to prosperity through faith and determination. With over...

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Becoming A Pilot & Being a Woman in the US Air Force Academy

Dr. Saran Heron talks with Eileen Isola, a former US Air Force commander and decorated combat pilot who now flies internationally, and author of the book NECESSARY TURBULENCE.  She was the first woman to serve as an Advance Agent to the President of...

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Healing and Choosing Triumph over Trauma!

Dr. Saran Heron talks with Lady Jeannie Simmons, who is a lifelong learner, passionately committed to personal growth and meaningful impact.  She also serves as the Founder and editor-in-chief of The Live Life Better Movement Magazine. She will talk...

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True leadership today despite past tragedy

Dr. Saran Heron talks with Natassia Wright, founder of Mind Food International along with her husband. Globally recognize speaker, leadership & HR consultant, United Nations Ambassador for an NGO, and author, she talks about her current role,...

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Transformational Change in one's life is possible!

Dr. Saran Heron talks with Dr. Antoinette Glenn, the CEO of Impactful Educational Consulting, LLC,  who is committed to educational equity, empowerment, and transformation. With 24 years of experience in education, she is a published author,...

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Finding your balance when life turns upside down!

Dr. Saran talks with Mary Keating, a lawyer, disability advocate, and three-time Pushcart Prize nominated poet. After a car accident at 15 changed the trajectory of her life, she went on to Yale Law School and worked as an attorney at IBM. She will...

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How everyday people are making a real difference using transformational advocacy!

Dr. Saran Heron talks with Sam Daley-Harris, who started as a symphony musician and then founded the anti-poverty lobby RESULTS in 1980, co-founded the Microcredit Summit Campaign in 1995, and founded Civic Courage in 2012. An activist and author, he...

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Defying the odds to pursue dreams and rise up!

Dr. Saran Heron talks with Dr. Alicia Swaby-Spencer, a medical doctor at Mandeville Regional Hospital in Jamaica, West Indies and a proud native of Montego Bay, Jamaica. A graduate of the University of the West Indies, Mona, she is also the founder...

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If Biology Becomes Programmable? 

Dr. Saran Heron talks with Dr. Adrian Woolfson, the co-founder of Genyro, a California-based biotechnology company specializing in synthetic genome design and construction. He studied medicine at Balliol College, Oxford. He will share about how to...

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Parents Managing Children Who Are Vulnerable and Different

Dr. Saran Heron talks with Dr. Ellen Bassuk, a psychiatrist, researcher, clinician, and advocate whose five-decade career has focused on mental health, homelessness, and vulnerable populations, especially families and children. She served as Associate...

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Love Is in the Air: Tips for Dating After 50 

Dr. Saran Heron talks with Dr. Victoria Vaughn, a a life-long learner who holds a doctorate in education and is a retired educator and college administrator. After a thirty-year marriage, she found herself amicably divorced and single at the age of...

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Self Awareness, The Key to a Meaningful Life

Dr. Saran Heron talks with Dr. William Lanting, a physician who has helped tens of thousands of patients over 43 years. He has given lectures on allergies and asthma to hundreds of physicians locally and nationally. He has been seen on Good Morning...

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Is Your Body Asking for Change This Season?

Dr. Saran Heron talks with Marcel Vögeli, the spokesperson for “The Key to Self-Liberation” by the late Christiane Beerlandt, an encyclopedic work on the psychological and emotional roots of more than 1,000 diseases and symptoms. He will talk about...

What an Ancient Hawaiian Healing Practice Can Teach Us About Modern Forgiveness

Dr. Saran Heron talks with Taj Simrit, who was born and raised in the South of France. He earned a degree in photography but spent 25 years working in a variety of commission-only sales positions.  He is the author of 'Behold My Soul,' a memoir...

Importance of Women’s Health and Being Women’s Health NP!

Dr. Saran Heron talks with Dr. Elaine Brown, DNP, WHNP-BC, RN is a Women's Health Nurse Practitioner in a New York urban clinic serving diverse women across the spectrum. She holds a Doctor of Nursing Practice in Women’s Health and a master's degree...

Raising Emotionally Healthy Sons into Healthier Men

Dr. Saran Heron talks with C. Lynn Williams, a transformational author, educator, speaker, and parent coach who specializes in bridging the relational gaps that often exist within families. She spent her 13-year professional career as a high school...

Bring About Awareness To Medicare Mistakes

Dr. Saran Heron talks with Toni King, a nationally recognized Medicare expert, columnist, and author of The Medicare Survival Guide. She has helped over 25,000 Americans navigate Medicare successfully. Toni explains how common enrollment mistakes can...

Could AI help fix our broken health care system?

Dr. Saran Heron talks with Dr. Robin Blackstone, a physician, and health-systems writer based in New York who has trained and practiced as a surgeon, held senior leadership roles in academic medicine, global health organizations as well as a senior...