Dr. Wendy Bruton, host of “I Used to be a Therapist” podcast has lived a few lives. She joins me to talk about how and why she decided to pivot out of her chosen profession as a licensed psychologist after a year-long battle through a professional trauma. Hear how she works to help women now, how this former university professor and researcher adopted essential oils into her life, and what she has to say after being married to her high school sweetheart for more than 3 decades.

How can one night in the DJ booth can get your business spinning in the right direction? That’s some of what my conversation with Amani Roberts, AKA DJ AmRo of the Amani Experience, focuses on. Amani takes his knowledge of marketing, hospitality and the DJ business and creates ideas around how to help your business get off the ground.

A list of cultural shocks, fighting against what’s wrong, immigrating to the US after living in exile in Saudi Arabia, Mona Johnson then survived a marriage filled with domestic violence to go on to be the first Muslim-Arab Immigrant female Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army. Listen in to our conversation that came out of her book, Not Created Equal: A Muslim Woman’s Pursuit of Equality in her Family, the Army and America.

This one is for those who come from a chaotic, unstructured childhood. Those who relate to having no adults willing to pay attention to a kid who didn’t feel like they fit in. Robert Delude is now the host of the None of Your Business Podcast, but he joins me to talk about how a chaotic young life led to years of addiction to heroin, toxic partners and self-sabotage. Listen in to hear what really got the wheels of change to start turning…..for good.

Joi me as we discuss the family dynamics that can take place when we have to explore estate planning with our family. Leslie Quinsay, an investor and business owner, discusses her personal connection to this subject that led to her book, Legacy: A Guide to Successfully Transferring Wealth from One Generation to the Next . She is passionate about helping families learn to have these conversations and make sure no one is left questioning what someone’s intention was when it comes to their business.

I discuss the often unspoken pain of men who carry the repercussions of being sexually abused as children with Dr Kelli Palfy.

I chat with Todd Tresidder, for hedge fund manager and now the genius behind fiancialmentor.com where the mission of the site is to make gaining financial planning knowledge simple and accessible to everyone. Todd and I talk about how each person can figure out how much money they need to retire, what was his motivation to start this free educational website and all sorts of nuggets of knowledge about retirement planning.