Dealing with Hollywood Hijackals® featuring Rhoberta Shaler PhD.

06/22/18 • 61 min

Have you worked with a toxic person or business that has made you really rethink your work as a writer, screenwriter, filmmaker, or other creative pro? Does all of Hollywood feel like a den of thieves and difficult people? If so, you'll find this interview with Dr. Rhoberta Shaler important to hear.

As a relationship consultant, mediator, and speaker, Rhoberta Shaler, PhD (ForRelationshipHelp.com) helps the partners, employees, exes, and adult children of the relentlessly difficult people she calls "Hijackals®."

Her work has been featured on FoxNews, PsychCentral, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, The Good Men Project, eHarmony, Care2, Greatist, Pulse, and The Needs, among many others. She is the author of sixteen books, including Escaping the Hijackal Trap: The Definitive Guide to Dealing with Relentlessly Difficult People. Even the US Marines have enlisted her help.

You can learn more about Dr. Shaler’s work at ForRelationshipHelp.com and via her YouTube channel, ForRelationshipHelp. She is also host of two podcasts: Emotional Savvy: The Relationship Help Show and Save Your Sanity: Help for Handling Hijackals®!

In this video Dr. Shaler discusses:

Why she uses the term Hijackals (R) to describe predatory and abusive people instead of more clinical terms like Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder, and Psychopath.
Why some people seem to attract and be attracted to Hijackals and others never seem to encounter them at all.
How and why Hijackals destroy careers, relationships, projects, and people and why those witnessing their behavior so frequently don’t step in to stop it.
Why trying to help a Hijackal be a better person usually results in more damage rather than an end to the abuse.
An initial understanding of how to work with, or live with, a Hijackal when walking away is too expensive.
Why most people who have had to cope with Hijackals for prolonged periods of time need professional help to recover.

If you have questions about this podcast, please email [email protected]. I look forward to hearing from you. You can find more online and face to face events at www.NancyFultonMeetups.com.

Music in this Episode was licensed for commercial use from Pond5.com.

In this video Dr. Shaler discusses:

Why she uses the term Hijackals (R) to describe predatory and abusive people instead of more clinical terms like Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder, and Psychopath.
Why some people seem to attract and be attracted to Hijackals and others never seem to encounter them at all.
How and why Hijackals destroy careers, relationships, projects, and people and why those witnessing their behavior so frequently don’t step in to stop it.
Why trying to help a Hijackal be a better person usually results in more damage rather than an end to the abuse.
An initial understanding of how to work with, or live with, a Hijackal when walking away is too expensive.
Why most people who have had to cope with Hijackals for prolonged periods of time need professional help to recover.

If you have questions about this podcast, please email [email protected]. I look forward to hearing from you. You can find more online and face to face events at www.NancyFultonMeetups.com.

Music in this Episode was licensed for commercial use from Pond5.com.

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Bridget Fitzgerald (Actor, Writer, Producer) on Audiobooks, New Media Series & Podcasts

Bridget Fitzgerald (smileybridge.com) is an actress, comedienne, and model. She is also a member of National Lampoon's sketch comedy team, making a sketch comedy podcast heard by half a million monthly listeners. Her web series SmileyBridgeTV has had 1/4 million views, and she attributes some of that success to two audiobooks: "How I Exiled My Inner B*tch” which she acted in and "iHumpty" which she produced as well as acted in. You can learn more here: http://www.bridgetfitzgerald.com/

Her investment in producing audio content and a SAG New Media web series has helped her get more and better acting roles and writing gigs. It’s also allowed her to establish herself as a producer, co-producer, and director. She’s been asked to work as a judge in writing contests and consults with those producing web series, podcasts, and audiobooks.

This interview with Nancy Fulton discusses how writers, actors, and producers benefit from generating independent media.

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Interview with Film Advisor and Organized Crime Expert Christian Cipollini

Writer/Producer Nancy Fulton brings you an audio recording of her interview with Organized Crime Expert Christian Cipollini.

Award-Winning author Christian Cipollini is a freelance journalist, book author (https://www.amazon.com/Christian-Cipollini/e/B00CP95F4K), organized crime historian and collector. A frequent guest lecturer at universities and a consultant to movie and television producers, Cipollini has also appeared as a consultant on episodes of Reelz Channel Series "Gangsters: America's Most Evil," History Channel Series "United Stuff of America" , AHC's 'America: Facts vs. Fiction', and served as a consultant & Location Producer on National Geographic Channel’s critically-acclaimed series DRUGS, INC. You can learn more about Christian and his work at www.GangLandLegends.com.

Topics covered include:

An overview of organized crime. What it is and isn’t, the problems it “solves”, and the problems it causes.
A quick but important timeline for organized crime in America from the 1900’s through to the modern day. The Mob, versus the Mafia, versus the Drug Cartels, and why distinctions matter.
A primer on the origin, temperment, and tactics of organized criminals. What Hollywood usually gets right and what it gets wrong.
Organized crime in America today. Major conflicts, major players, and major impacts we see every day.

If you have questions about this event, please contact me via the podcast home page at www.AudioIron.com.

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