October 20, 2009

Discussion – Can you recognize your Cover Story? Do you know what qualities, characteristics, capabilities or skills you’ve hidden Undercover? In this show I talk about how this happens and describe the positive role of Denial.

Interview – The first half of my interview with Carole Schweid, a founder with Nancy Diamond, of Play with Your Food, a truly unique theater experience. Listen to Carole’s funny, charming, disarming story. Hear her tell how she went from someone who was “dancing from the minute she could walk,” to the singer, actor, writer, director, choreographer, and producer she became.

September 15, 2009

Discussion – In this show I am recapping the concepts of Cover Story and Undercover. Also I am talking about the gift of denial and how it protects us from information about ourselves which we are not yet capable of enduring.

Interview – with actor, comedian, independent film maker Robert Mann, who discovered the magic of, and actually appeared in a film at 8 years old (at least his feet appeared), when he accompanied his mother to the film set of a director she was dating. Hear how he spent virtually every waking minute of his childhood experimenting with film, and how he pulled off his first independent horror film “Pumpkin Man,” and he may now actually be beginning to make money.

September 01, 2009

Discussion – Do you have qualities, capacities, abilities you didn’t know you had? Perhaps they are hiding Undercover while you just present your Cover Story – I will be taking about that in this show.

Interview – with singer, writer, painter Kitt Moran, who knew at 3 years old she was going to be a singer – even though she didn’t know if she could sing. Listen to her hilarious tale of making a childhood career out of Peter Pan, and to the remarkable talent that was waiting to be released. As a child Kitt knew that she was born to be a singer, and she was right.

July 27, 2009

Our Cover Story Part 3.

July 20, 2009

Our Cover Story Part 2.

July 09, 2009

Cover Story and Interviews with mystery writers.

July 07, 2009

One of the most powerful obstacles that stand between us and the changes we’d like to make is the fact that we would have to break our cover story – in this show begin to talk about what a cover story is and how/why we create them. I interview two men who did what the good man does – which is went to college and established careers that could support their families and then luckily, later in life, became able to pursue their real love which is writing mysteries; Wayne Balcom, a versatile writer who can turn out New York based “noir” thrillers as well as his favorite Sarasota mysteries and Terry Griffin whose detective is like himself a retired lawyer.

June 30, 2009

Its really difficult to change, to alter the role you’ve been assigned, and surprisingly we can be unaware of when we have really changed. In this show I talk about what it looks like when you have changed and the irony that we are often ‘the last to know.’ In the first of a series of interviews with people I met at the Florida Mystery Writers Conference in Sarasota FL, I interview Bob Gussin, who is an unusual combination of many different skills and interests the most recent of which is publishing mysteries.

June 23, 2009

Do you know if who you are pretending to be is actually all that you are? In this show I describe how pretending to be who we think we are defines who we chose for a partner and how this predisposition stops us from doing things we would want to do. I also present a memorial retrospective to singer-songwriter Kenny Rankin who died June 7th at 69 of Lung Cancer. I play several of his own songs and several others which over his 3 decade career he recorded – and which had a profound influence on the music industry.

May 19, 2009

In this show I move on to discuss under what circumstances a child may choose to mode his or her opposite sex parent and interview Amanda McBroom who talks about the magical experience of writing the song The Rose and how it changed her life.<

May 12, 2009

I continue the discussion on Modeling this time talking about the potential down-side of Modeling the same sex parent, and interview Los Angeles bases actor, comedian, screenwriter, independent film producer and director Robert Mann.

April 07, 2009

In this show I introduce the concept of The Great Trait Swap and explain how difficult it can be to give up a role you’ve been assigned and take on a quality that had been assigned to another family member. I also air my interview with 3 times Tony Award winner, world famous scenic designer Tony Walton and air Sharon Lesley’s review of George Bernard Shaw’s The Devil’s Disciple which he directed for the Asolo repertory theater in Sarasota.

March 31, 2009

I explain how to use the Family Pie Exercise, to discover the role you were assigned and how that can stop you from changing. I air Sharon Lesley’s review of William Shakespeare’s A Winter’s Tale and I interview choreographer and movement specialist Jimmy Hoskins, who created the dances for the show.

March 17, 2009

Discover the Family Pie Exercise and see how the roles assigned in your family maintain balance, and hear the 2nd half of my interview with Pam Wiley, and the commercial which supported her family for 17 years.

February 03, 2009

This show is dedicated to an interview with recording engineer, record producer, sound specialist, tour manager Chris Musgrave.

January 12, 2009

I describe that many of the things we believe about change are actually myths and how those can make us feel bad about ourselves and actually stop us from changing. I begin by explaining Myth # 1 and then play the second half of my interview with Stuart Kaminsky.

October 21, 2008

Camouflage Weight Problem – The unconscious uses problems we already have as Camouflage to distract us from problems we are not yet ready to face. In this show I demonstrate how a concern about being overweight can be a camouflage problem. I also air the first part of a two part interview with State Representative and Political Science professor, In this part of the interview Keith describes the art of politics and explains the importance of being a “savvy politician”. He dispels the notion of politics as a cynical profession and shows us how it can be a noble and worthwhile one.

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Interview with attorney Allen Arrow who at 80 years old is still a practicing music law and whose clients include The Rolling Stones, Frank Loesser and Liza Minnelli. Camouflage – Our unconscious is always protecting us from a danger our conscious mind (and our friends and family) may not see. Its best defense is the creation of a Camouflage problem; a smokescreen which distracts us from something which is too dangerous for us to tackle at this time. It’s a real problem on which our unconscious focuses all of our attention but also makes sure we can’t solve. In this show I describe this phenomenon. And I play 2 cuts from Lillette’s CD ‘Lillette Jenkins at Chez Josephine’.

September 02, 2008

In this show I begin to talk about the clever tricks our Unconscious uses to protect us from changes we are not yet ready to make. The first trick I talk about is the well-known and much maligned Freudian slip. I demonstrate how our unconscious shrewdly uses our very own words to tell us something about ourselves that we may not be aware of I also
interview the first of 5 pianists, jazz pianist and terrific accompanist Charlie Prawdzik.

August 26, 2008

When we are in conflict with ourselves – that is we want to do (or stop doing) something but we are unable to get ourselves to behave as we wish – I call this being in Civil War. Civil Wars are not only a waste of time; they can endanger us by undermining our belief in ourselves. In this show I talk about how to identify your Civil War and how to achieve a successful Cease Fire. I also air the second delightful half of my interview with Judy Lyons Schneider.