Fire It UP with CJ

It’s often a combination of feeling both scared and relived when you discover that your child or you have a learning disability. While some see these conditions as disabiling or use it as an excuse not to live up to their full potential, Dr. Hallowell, an ADHD expert and child and adult psychiatrist, approaches the challenge in an entirely new way. Dr. Hallowell offers a powerful approach towards learning disabilities that is positive, pragmatic and loving. Learn the gifts of this condition and how to defend your child from teachers or work associates who could still benefit from learning the best way to create a supportive environment. Plus, hear Dr. Hallowell’s first hand experience of how he used his gifts of ADD and dyslexia at Harvard University, Tulane Medical School, and as a Harvard Medical Staff faculty.

About our guest:

Edward Hallowell, M.D., renowned ADHD expert and child and adult psychiatrist, is a graduate of Harvard University and Tulane Medical School and the director of The Hallowell Centers in Sudbury, MA and New York City. He was a member of Harvard Medical School faculty until retiring from academics in 2003 to devote his attention to his practice, lectures, and writing. He has authored eighteen books on various topics including ADHD, happiness, marriage and other psychological and social topics. He is a highly recognized speaker world-wide and has appeared on Oprah, CNN, The Today Show and many other popular shows.

Show highlights:

• Part 1: How to manage your response and your child’s reaction to a recent diagnosis of ADD?
• Part 2: What may be your child’s experience at school and how can do damage control?
• Part 3: How can you support your child to be confident, happy, and embrace their unique brain?
• Part 4: How would you know if you had ADD?

Show highlights:

• Dr. Hallowell’s website: http://www.drhallowell.com/
• Driven to Distraction- Dr. Hallowell’s book:http://www.amazon.com/Driven-Distraction-Recognizing-Attention-Childhood/dp/0684801280

Dr. Edward Hallowell, As Seen on Oprah, Offers Help & Guidance For Childrend Diagnosed with ADHD & Their Parents | Inspirational | Motivational | Health | Happiness | Attention Deficit Disorder | Learning Disabilities | Self-Improvement | Self-Help

How do you keep love and affection alive? What does a healthy and renewed sex life look like when you are middle aged? Learn how you can keep sex a after 50 alive and thriving.

About our Guests:

Dr. Pepper Schwartz is Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington in Seattle. She holds a B.A. and an M.A. from Washington University in St. Louis, where she was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and an M.A. and Ph.D in Sociology from Yale University.

As the industry’s leading relationship expert, Dr. Pepper Schwartz, Ph.D, has created the Personality Profiler, similar to the Myers Briggs Type Indicator®, exclusively for the committed adults seeking long-term relationships on Perfectmatch.com. As the most effective and sophisticated leading-edge romantic matching tool on or off the internet, the Personality Profiler significantly helps Perfectmatch’s members to identify their significant other’s “Similarity Factors” and “Complimentary Factors,” which will ultimately lead them to finding their perfect match.

Dr. Schwartz has received many awards, including the 2005 American Sociological Award for the Public Dissemination of Information, the Matrix Award for Achievement in Education and the International Women’s Forum Award in Career Achievement in Washington State. She is the author of 14 books, including many popular books such as: The Great Sex Weekend, The Lifetime Love and Sex Quiz Book, Everything You Know About Love and Sex is Wrong and Ten Talks Parents Must Have With Their Children About Sex and Character with Dominic Cappello, 201 Question to Ask Your Kids / 201 Questions to Ask Your Parents (Avon/Morrow).

Dr. Schwartz wrote the monthly column “Sex and Health” for Glamour Magazine, with coauthor Dr. Janet Lever, for more than seven years, and “Talking About Sex” for 8 years for American Baby Magazine. She also wrote a weekly column called “Sex.Net with Dr. Pepper” for Microsoft Corporation’s One Click Away.

Dr. Schwartz has contributed to many magazines, journals and newspapers including the New York Times “Parent and Child” column, Sexual Health, Psychology Today and Contexts. Dr. Schwartz was a regular member of the KIRO-TV (Seattle) news staff for twelve years and appears regularly on national TV news, documentaries and other programs. She is the author of more than 40 scholarly articles and has served as a consultant to many national organizations. Dr. Schwartz lectures nationally and internationally on relationship topics, women’s issues, parent and child issues, communication between men and women in intimate and work relationships, and maintaining personal and family well-being in today’s world.

Show Highlights:

• Pepper Schwartz shares information on the life cycle of sex and how your sex life will change each decade.
• Do our kids still have myths, fear and ignorance about sex and relationships? What Pepper believes are the true causes of teen pregnancies?

Show Highlights

Check out the following websites and podcasts to get you on your path:

• http://www.drpepperschwartz.com

Resources:

Check out the following websites and podcasts to get you on your path:

• Check out Pepper’s books. http://www.drpepperschwartz.com
• Ambassador of Relationships: Dr. Schwartz on AARP: http://www.aarp.org/relationships/experts/pepper_schwartz.html
• Pepper’s advice column. Lots of answers to common issues: http://www.aarp.org/relationships/love-sex/info-03-2010/naked-truth-q-and-a.html

Dr. Pepper Schwartz shares how you keep love and affection alive, what does a healthy and renewed sex life look like when you are middle aged, and how you can keep sex a after 50 alive and thriving! Inspirational | Motivational | Health | Self-Help

Did you ever wonder how some people can get a date anywhere, even at the supermarket? Neil Ward will share with you how a 5’4′′ man with an average build and average looks managed to talk to 15,000 women in 5 years. All for the sake of research of course:) How can you read someones body language and know that there not into you before asking them out? How does the law of attraction play in dating? Tune in to hear all the juicy secrets on how to find a date.

EXPERT ADVICE ON HOW TO FIND A DATE

Did you ever wonder how some people can get dates while standing in line at the supermarket? You won’t believe the ease in which Neal uses his pick-up artists skills to get s a date after a yoga class. How do approach the beauty who has a hands off approach? Neal shares his story on how you can read body language, and how you too can approach the hot girl or guy in the bar and get away with it. How do you play the field effectively? New social media can be a god send when trying to keep in contact with your upcoming date. How does the law of attraction apply to dating? Focus your mind, body, and spirit on finding your love match and see what Neal says will happen. NEIL WARD- UK’S BEST DATING COACH

Neil Ward, widely regarded as the UKs best dating coach, became an unusually versatile dating coach after exploding onto the UK and later world scene back in 2009; he boasts a 100% client success rate with outstanding life changing testimonials from around the world. After finding out at the age of 18 that his childhood girlfriend was with another man on Valentine’s Day and that they had decided to pursue a relationship, Neil moped around for a whole year feeling worthless and sorry for himself. It was only 1 year later that the transformation to dating expert started when he finally broke out of his ‘feeling sorry for himself stage’ and decided to take serious action.

At 19, Neil went on an adventure like no other; he set himself targets and goals each month, reading literally hundreds of books on dating, psychology, NLP, hypnosis and personal development. He attended countless seminars around the world, studied under world class Pick Up Artists and dating experts, took life coaching, hypnotherapy, hypnosis, a personal trainer, dietician, image consultant, voice coach, posture consultant, health consultant, acting and improvised comedy classes, you name it, he did it! His action and drive was pursued on such an enormous scale that for some, it would take half a lifetime to replicate what he achieved in just 5 years. Neil devoted a minimum of 6 hours of study and research per day, almost every day in his dream for dating mastery and success in his life.

This did not come without its difficulties and problems; he found himself drifting away from his old life and friends and into a new world which became almost an obsession in the pursuit of women, personal development, and happiness. It was only through studying the law of attraction that he eventually learnt about balance and control and created the life he lives now in absolute happiness.

Now aged 26, Neil has coached hundreds of 1-on-1 clients, both men and women across 13 Countries and 4 continents around the world. He has also helped to improve the lives of thousands of people through his dating advice email newsletter and social media groups. Born in the summer of 1984, into a very normal, middle class and hard working family in England; he received no further education after school, finishing with average grades.

His teachers told him in his final school report that if only he applied 1% of his brain to something of value, as opposed to being the class clown and chasing the girls, he could change the world! Neil started his business: Top Dating Coach, in September of 2009 after a string of requests to offer coaching for people and to write articles for various media sources. Trained as a Coach and NLP practitioner, Neil controversially avoids the usual line of coaching and has adopted his own unique methods of teaching based on his own journey and experience.

Unlike some coaches, Neil is not a 6’2”, handsome, muscle bound flash kind of guy driving around in a sports car. He is 5’4” with an average build and average looks. This only enforces his training further to prove that if a short average looking guy can achieve dating success, then anyone can do it. Neil devoted over 5 years and thousands of hours of his time to achieving mastery in dating and social interactions.

He approached and spoke face to face with over 15,000 women in London alone over the 5 year period, which doesn’t include the thousands of women with whom he communicated with over various online dating and social media sites. Nor does this include the women with whom he approached and spoke to in other Countries around the world during his research stage to test the consistency of his method.

Neil travelled to over 15 diverse ...

Looking for true love in all the wrong places? Online dating is one of the fastest and easiest ways to screen for your match. Get tips on creating just the right online profile, picture, and your first ice-breaker email. Whitney Casey,an Emmy Award-winning journalist, former CNN Correspondent/Anchor, Newspaper Columnist, Author and Relationship Insider for Match.com gives you the inside scoop to online dating.

• What 3 prong approach does Whitney recommend to get back into dating? Whitney offers pragmatic advice and helps you get a realistic expectation in the numbers game you must play with online dating.
• Do you have some issues with putting yourself out there on an online dating site? How to develop a tough skin and get over any excuse you have for why you shouldn’t go online.
• How can you hit the jackpot with your online listing? Whitney offers some creative ideas on how to generate an interesting online conversation, what to do with your photos, and what types of simple daily updates you can do to increase your successful matches.
• How do you play the online dating game? Whitney gives her personal etiquette advice for online communications.
• Also check out: online dating tips http://fireitupwithcj.com/2013/05/01/dating-fake-it-before-we-make-it/and finding your ideal partner: http://fireitupwithcj.com/2012/06/14/feb-2-tyler-young/

Whitney Casey: Having trouble picking that perfect profile picture? Don’t know what to say in that first ice-breaker email? Well, when it comes to all things dating and mating, Whitney’s got answers. InStyle Magazine calls her, “Instant Style,” and when it comes to advice the New York Daily News says, “She’s on to something!” Whitney’s background as an Emmy Award-winning journalist, former CNN Correspondent/Anchor, Newspaper Columnist, Author and Relationship Insider for Match.com has given her access to the world’s leading experts in all arenas of single life. Additionally, she has interviewed hundreds of single men and women across the country (not including the ones she actually dated!) Her book, The Man Plan (Penguin-Perigee), gives singles the inside scoop from first date fashions to great conversation starters. Although she is now blissfully married; Whitney has been dating for nearly two decades since attending the University of Virginia where she was a legitimate ‘playah’...errr...volleyball player and Academic All-American.

Whitney Casey, insider for match.com shares tips for online dating, creating just the right online profile, picture, and your first ice-breaker email. Inspirational | Motivational | Relationships | Romance | Happiness | Self-Improvement | Self-Help

A new era can began when a critical number of people change their perceptions and behavior. Jean Shinoda Bolen and I will talk about the power of woman’s circles and how the sacred circle can bring strength and energy to feed activism and fuel change. If you can’t make the live show this Wed then you can get the MP3 published a few days after by subscribing to the show or following the Fire it UP with CJ page on Facebook

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS

• Link to Segment 1 The Goddess in Everywomen: What is the inner Goddess that you most resonate with? Jean Shinoda Bolen discusses how knowing your Goddess archetype can help keep you on your life path and open up personal growth areas.
• Link to Segment 2 Energizing the Women movement: Is the women’s movement dead? What are the successes we’ve had to-date? How could women circles energize the women’s movement?

BLOG POST FROM OUR GUEST

Never doubt that small groups of committed women can change the world: we did before, we can do it again! — Jean Shinoda Bolen

CREATIVE ACTS OF EXPRESSION—CATALYZED IN CIRCLES BY JEAN SHINODA BOLEN, M.D.

I know, as so many of us who are fortunate to be in one know, how supportive a sacred circle can be–as an incubator-womb space in which the courage to be authentically ourselves leads to creative acts of expression . This may include what is usually meant by expressive arts—writing, painting, sculpture, dance, theater, films—or political and personal activism, transforming relationships to others, or changing institutions. Inevitably, perhaps because experiences of the sacred are so deep and deeply personal, creative acts of expression are expressions of awakening that begin with trusting our own feelings and perceptions, of realizing it is up to us to be real and act on the premise that what matters to us, really matters. This is soul knowledge that becomes soul work when we take steps to bring what we know into our personal world and into the world. At times of crisis, what we do — or not, can tilt a situation in either direction.

In the silence of undirected inner reflection, prayer, or meditation, which is an element in this kind of a circle, we tap into a center in ourselves that is also at the center of the circle. In Jung’s psychology, this is the archetype of meaning, the Self. By meeting as a circle of women, we invite the sacred feminine to come into our midst. This form is archetypal. It connects us to suppressed sources of women’s spiritual power, much as an aquifer lies below the surface until it is tapped into, bubbles up and flows. We tap into an awareness that goes back in time to when divinity was worshipped in many forms, as female, as the Great Mother, Gaia. In the last third of the twentieth century, Merlin Stone’s When God was a Woman got archeological support from Marija Gimbutas and other archeologists who literally dug up evidence. Scrolls that had been hidden and preserved by the dryness in Egyptian caves near Nag Hammadi, were found in this same period. These became known as the Gnostic Gospels through Elaine Pagels. These early Christian writings were rich in metaphor and included Sophia, the Sacred Feminine. Gnostic churches were egalitarian rather than hierarchal in form, leadership was shared: who did what—the sermon, communion, greeting newcomers, could be chosen by lot. Everyone was welcome. Women served in all roles. Once the Church at Rome had the power to condemn heresy, the Gnostic Christians were persecuted, its gospels destroyed. Our only knowledge of them came from the church fathers, which systematically had destroyed all previous copies of these gospels. This time, it was different. Circumstances had changed. Through the influence of feminism and the women’s movement, there now were women scholars in all fields including theology.

In the United States before the women’s movement, women did not define themselves; men did–using religion as authority. “Women’s spirituality” emerged after women spoke for themselves and about themselves. Only then, did we speak of what we experienced as sacred and what we knew to be spiritual information. This is gnosis , intuitively felt soul knowledge, it is what we recognize in the marrow of our bones, what our heart recognizes as true for us—and from this insight, true for other humans and for the planet. Sacred circles support trust in our own perceptions of divinity which can be felt as transcendent spirit or felt in embodied holy moments. This is empowering, especially for women who have been told that God is male, demands obedience, and that women since E...