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When Paldrom Catherine Collins found out she was in love with a recovering sex addict, she decided to save her relationship. She worked with him in his counseling business, Compulsion Solutions, Inc. and she co-wrote a book with him to help others, The Couple’s Guide to Sexual Addiction. Having been a Buddhist nun, Paldrom’s naturalRead the Rest…

Marci Shimoff, author of “Happy for No Reason.” The #1 New York Times bestselling author is coauthor of “Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul” and is a featured teacher in the worldwide phenomenon “The Secret.”  She talks with Dr. Nancy about the steps to get happier right now, and why all our other desires fallRead the Rest…

Kathleen Mullens is working to make the United States a world leader in promoting women to leadership positions. She founded Female Equality Matters (FEM) to recognize companies and organizations that have a large number in leadership positions. When you see the FEM logo, you can support that company with your dollars: buy their products, donateRead the Rest…

Timeless Women Develop Powerful Networks Women are using today’s social networking tools to multiply their connections for fun and profit. Dr. Nancy O’Reilly interviews two amazing women who specialize in developing powerful connections. Woman Who Shatters Limitations Dr. Fern Kazlow excels in shattering limitations—especially financial ones. She has shared her know-how with her trademarked programsRead the Rest…

Have you had to face losing your most cherished loved one? Kim Kircher lived with the threat of losing her husband, first through cancer treatment, then for another 150 days while waiting for a liver donation. She used her training as a paramedic on the ski patrol team at Crystal Mountain in Washington as theRead the Rest…

MJ Shaar says that you don’t have to play “The Big Gain” to get started on your New Year fitness goals. That way of thinking is actually contrary to nature’s way of doing things. Changes have to be made slowly to be made permanent. MJ founded Smarts and Stamina and co-wrote the book, Smarts andRead the Rest…

Author and social activist, Joanna Krotz reports that women business owners give a higher percentage of their income, more often than any other group. Joanna has written two books on philanthropy, Making Philanthropy Count: How Women Are Changing the World and The Guide to Intelligent Giving. She also founded Women’s Giving Institute, an organization committedRead the Rest…

If women decided to boycott the largest retailer in the world, Delia Passi says the company would go broke. That’s the power women could exercise if we spoke with a collective voice. Women make 85% of all buying decisions and 90% of all health care decisions. If we like a service or product somewhere, we’reRead the Rest…

Dr. Sylvia Lafair helps businesses develop healthy, productive relationships in the workplace through Creative Energy Options, Inc. Her message: by creating a win-win environment you can empower everyone and optimize success. Her book, Don’t Bring It to Work, has won multiple best business book awards. Her latest book, Gutsy: How Women Leaders Make Change, showsRead the Rest…

Lisette Larkins cared for a woman in the late stage of Alzheimer’s disease and through that challenge found a path to inner peace. Riding the see-saw of life’s difficulties had prevented Lisette, like most of us, from experiencing a sense of perpetual well-being. She wrote the book, Difficult People: A Gateway to Enlightenment, to shareRead the Rest…

 Leigh Fortson says positive thinking  helps cure cancer. She refuses to be identified by her disease, but had to survive it three times to complete her journey past it. Leigh says we are multi-dimensional beings, not just physical specimens. As such, we have to treat illness mentally, spiritually and emotionally. There is now scientific evidenceRead the Rest…

Stephanie Staples cares passionately about personal growth. She warns people not to wait for others, but to seize control themselves. It’s the most empowering experience to take control yourself and make the little continuous changes that create a lifetime of personal growth. How would you like to become the person you would most like toRead the Rest…

Courtney Martin found her joy in communication and storytelling and put her gifts to work in service to the world. One of her books, Do It Anyway: The New Generation of Activists, tells the stories of other young people who are making a difference and changing the world for the better. You’ll be inspired byRead the Rest…

Shirley Osborne found the answer when a 14 year old girl said, “When every girl succeeds, every woman wins.” Adopting this powerful message as her personal mission statement, Shirley has dedicated her talents and energy to empowering girls and women by spreading knowledge about themselves and their possibilities in life. Her most ambitious effort isRead the Rest…

Dr. Brenda Schaeffer tells us what qualities differentiate love in her newly revised best-seller, Is It Love or Is It Addiction? She tells Dr. Nancy O’Reilly about her childhood curiosity about love and how she has spent her life researching the subject and helping others to develop healthy relationships.  In fact, Dr. Brenda has foundRead the Rest…

Buy products from companies that show the FEM, Female Equality Matters logo. Kathlene Mullens founded FEM to support companies that support women in the C-Suite. With her FEM logo, company membership and products, women (and men) can help empower women in the workplace. Kathlene Mullens had worked in HR in four Fortune 100 companies whenRead the Rest…

What happens when the first responders in disasters are also the survivors? Lisa Tracy told their stories in her book, Muddy Waters: The Legacy of Katrina and Rita. A life-long journalist and author, Lisa was asked by the American Public Health Association to write the stories of the first responders. Lisa interviewed them and wroteRead the Rest…

Aurea McGarry lived a Cinderella life until tragedy struck. She tells her amazing story in her book, I Won’t Survive… I’ll Thrive! Aurea believes women are naturally strong and resilient. She also believes that every obstacle presents an opportunity and sharing the stories of survival and pursuit of your dreams can change the lives ofRead the Rest…

Nancy Deville has found out how to look and feel her best at age 60. When people asked her how she did it, she wrote a book, Healthy Sexy Happy: A Thrilling Journey to the Ultimate You. In 12 easy steps, she tells how she lives well and nourishes her body “to build up moreRead the Rest…

Dr. Nancy: My own volunteer efforts lead me recently to hear a truly amazing woman speak about how each of us can help. Kathy LeMay uses her gifts to raise, not just money, but a global community to make the world a better place. She founded an organization called, Raising Change in 2005 to helpRead the Rest…

Certified Nutritionist Trudy Scott was a healthy, dynamic woman until she had a panic attack. Her racing heart and inability to breathe woke her up and started her on the mission to help herself and other women understand how their bodies work and how to prevent anxiety, depression and a host of other mood andRead the Rest…

Cheryl Benton created The Three Tomatoes e-newsletter to share information with a few women friends who weren’t kids any more. After 30 years living and breathing the New York City advertising business, Cheryl stepped away and started her own marketing firm, 747 Marketing. She realized that most marketing in NYC is directed at 20-somethings andRead the Rest…

Learn from association expert Cynthia D’Amour how to succeed as a lazy leader. Invite others in Make it fun Accept new ideas Don’t try to do it all yourself Dump the martyr tiara Toot horn for others N: We are fortunate indeed when our careers intertwine with our passion and our purpose and our needRead the Rest…

Nurse Practitioner, Marcelle Pick wants you to ask yourself these questions: Are you racing through your day afraid that if you sit down, you’ll stop? Or are you simply overwhelmed, exhausted and trying to cope with everything and everyone who needs your care? If neither of these describes you, congratulations! You are in the minority.Read the Rest…

Be a Lazy Leader. That’s the advice of Cynthia D’Amour, MBA, leadership strategist, who is also the author of seven books, including The Lazy Leader’s Guide to Outrageous Results. Cynthia advises social profit organizations how to give their organization maximum power in motivating their volunteers. Start by sharing the glory, follow her plan, and yourRead the Rest…

Financial literacy guru Sharon Lechter brings a classic story into print to help us overcome the limitations of these uncertain economic times. She drew wisdom from a writer of The Great Depression, Napoleon Hill, who achieved enduring fame for his best-selling book, Think and Grow Rich. She delivers his messages of wisdom and triumph overRead the Rest…

Elise Ballard is on a mission to collect as many epiphanies as possible. First she had her own “moment of revelation.” Then she asked others about theirs. The result is an amazing book of over 50 life-changing stories, Epiphany! True Stories of Sudden Insight to Inspire Encourage and Transform and a website EpiphanyChannel.com where youRead the Rest…

Are you a saver or a spender? Nationally recognized financial expert, Erica Sandberg says that most money problems come when people make serious mistakes in managing their money. Erica worked for 10 years as a Credit Counselor for Consumer Credit Counseling of San Francisco. Since then, she has founded her own company to educate peopleRead the Rest…

Dr. Mollie Marti applies the toolbox she uses for elite athletes to business and to life to help women make the greatest impact and “live their best life.” As a performance psychologist, university professor, lawyer and international speaker, she has coached Olympic athletes and business superstars, written three books and founded BestLifeDesign. Her work nowRead the Rest…

Former BBC reporter, Rebecca Tinsley, says that she couldn’t visit the victims of mass slaughter and genocide without doing something about it. She founded Waging Peace, an organization that fights for human rights around the world. Then she founded Network 4 Africa, a social-profit organization to help the heroes and survivors of the genocide improveRead the Rest…

Find out how from Dr. Linda Hawes Clever, MD, author of The Fatigue Prescription: Four Steps to Renewing Your Energy, Health and Life and founder of RENEW, a special project to help people who juggle competing obligations regain or maintain their energy, effectiveness and purpose. Dr. Clever focuses her medical expertise on illness prevention. HerRead the Rest…

What is your work style? Are you a doer, happiest when leaping tall buildings and achieving the impossible? What do you do when you’re finished? If you feel let down, empty and try to fill the void with another impossible challenge, that makes you a Wander Woman!  Wander Woman: How High-Achieving Women Find Contentment andRead the Rest…

That is what Christine Upchurch teaches through the practice of Reconnective Healing. She is one of only four trainers world-wide qualified to teach this method, which promises almost instantaneous results. Over 65,000 people have taken the training so they can practice the technique founded and developed by Dr. Eric Pearl. The most famous of hisRead the Rest…

ENCORE by popular request: Dr. Birute Regine World leadership is undergoing a quiet revolution You won’t find out about it in the headlines or on the chatter of morning talk. But it’s there and it’s happening in waves among women who are slowly recognizing their power and how they can work together to find theRead the Rest…

Do you transform what you receive into what you need? Dr. Felice Dunas says that is the key to our sexuality as women. To accept less affects everything in our lives: our physical, emotional, mental, spiritual and sexual health. If we get less than what we need, we in turn are less able to fulfillRead the Rest…

What did you want to be when you grew up? Did your dreams diminish with age or did you dream big? Deborah Rosado Shaw survived her childhood in a South Bronx neighborhood to build a multi-million dollar company and wrote a book about her journey, Dream Big! –A Roadmap for Facing Life’s Challenges and CreatingRead the Rest…

Profit for profit’s sake is an old business model that doesn’t work any more.  Rebel Brown says it’s time to “Defy Gravity” and think in new ways. Women have the natural gifts for success in today’s business world. Her book tells how we must shift our thinking from the old gravity producing ways to match whatRead the Rest…

By Dr. Nancy D. O’Reilly, Psy.D. If you are waiting for something to happen before you can be happy and feel good about your life, you need to stop waiting and be happy now.  Get out of the doldrums and “Carpe Diem!” That’s Latin for Seize the Day! That’s the philosophy of Dr. Elaine Dembe,Read the Rest…

Does your body language match what you really think? Or is your body giving away a big lie?  Do you know how to use body language to get what you want? Dr. Nancy asked the “lyin tamer,” Janine Driver for answers to these questions in this exciting conversation. Janine Driver is a body language expert,Read the Rest…

Do you sacrifice fun, fulfillment, good health and loving relationships for success? Performance Psychologist, Dr. Shannon Reece says that’s backward thinking. Yet many of us rush to sacrifice more of our happiness and well-being to succeed in business.   Shannon turned her experience as an athlete into a career of coaching others how to leverageRead the Rest…

If your lack of communication skills stops you from achieving your goals, you must hear this 29-minute conversation. Communication is power in today’s world and learning to do it well can help you achieve whatever goal you set. Lynn Wilford Scarborough wrote a book about it called Talk Like Jesus: Change Your World with theRead the Rest…

What work-outs are you doing to prepare yourself for life’s curve balls? Are you strengthening your spiritual fitness? Dr. Nancy Mramor says to be completely healthy, you need to combine, not just mind and body, but spirit too–spirit first. She wrote an award-winning book to guide you through your work-outs, Spiritual Fitness, Non-Denominational Care ofRead the Rest…

Kristin Andress says you can be in charge and she’s co-written a book to tell you how. Imagine Being in a Life You Love helps you create the life you want to live.  It starts with the question, “What do you love?” a question that Kristin says women don’t give themselves permission to ask. ThenRead the Rest…

Get More Time by Slowing Down Everything today is 24/7. Do you rush faster to try to cram more in every minute of every day? Christine Hohlbaum, advises you to slow down to get more out of your day. Her new book, The Power of Slow: 101 Ways to Save Time in Our 24/7 World,Read the Rest…

Women Volunteer to Make a Difference Do you groan when someone asks you to volunteer? Is it a big word that you dodge as another commitment in your already busy schedule? Gail Small wants to change your mind, if that is what you think. Gail says she receives her biggest rewards from volunteering, which canRead the Rest…

Click on the titles below to read more about these amazing women and hear their Conversations with Dr. Nancy. (about 30 minutes each) Dr. Birute Regine Women Soar as Iron Butterflies Hear about 8 years of research interviewing women leaders and how women are revolutionizing world-wide leadership. Diane Anderson Women Create Loving Relationships Listen toRead the Rest…

How Women Really Feel About Their Faces How do you feel about how you look? Was there a time when you thought you looked the best you ever would? Dr. Vivian Diller says that usually women do have that kind of moment. It might be on their wedding day or some other special time whenRead the Rest…

Women Make the Impossible Possible If you’re tired of people complaining about these tough economic times, you need to listen to Dr. Nancy’s conversation with Mimi Donaldson. Mimi is a self proclaimed “cheerleader of life” and a motivational speaker who has captivated audiences from the Fortune 100 to the just plain fortunate. She is alsoRead the Rest…

Women Fearlessly Pursue Career Change Do you continue to work at your job in spite of wanting something new….something more fulfilling, different type of work, more money? What’s stopping you? Is fear of the future keeping you stuck? You are not alone. Caroline Ceniza-Levine tells how to develop strategies for handling your fear in theRead the Rest…

Women Fight Back With Humor What do you do when someone puts you down? Do you go away and hide; do you try to get even? Dr. Gina Barreca developed a smart mouth as a young girl in Brooklyn. She used her wit and talent for the quick come-back to fight off generations of maleRead the Rest…