March 22, 2009

In this show I describe my trip to Vienna VA and Washington DC – showing my dyslexia how made it doubly hard to find my way around a strange city. I air the interview there with singer/actor Sandy Bainum, and play two songs from her CD.

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.

March 10, 2009

I explain that families require balance and show how the roles assigned to each family member in childhood helps the family achieve and maintain that balance. I air the fist half of my interview with Actor/Director Pam Wiley.

February 22, 2009

Here I begin to describe how brain chemistry can be altered, and air Sharon’s reviews of The Imaginary Invalid and Visiting Mr. Green currently playing at the Asolo Rep, and also play parts of my interviews with Carolyn Michel, star of Invalid, & her husband Howard Millman, director of Mister Green.

January 27, 2009

This show covers Myth #3, and I play the second half of my interview with Betty Garrett, who began her career starring on Broadway.

January 20, 2009

After describing Myth #2, I play the first half of my interview with Betty Garrett, who began her career starring on Broadway, then co-starred in movies with Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra, moved on to TV with recurring roles in Lavern and Shirley and It’s All in the Family and who – about to turn 90 – is still working.

January 06, 2009

In the first show of the Year I explain why New Year’s Resolutions can be dangerous; tell my annual Holiday story, interview mystery and screen writer, professor, lecturer Stuart Kaminsky & air Sharon Lesley’s review of La Cage.

July 29, 2008

Feelings – emotions, which are a necessary part of being human, get a bad rap in our society, we dismiss or discount them often saying – don’t mind me I’m just being emotional. Our criticism of the expression of emotion can make simple feeling a Danger and stop us from changing. In this show I counteract the criticism we often hear about feeling and try to resurrect the importance of allowing ourselves to feel, I also air my interview couple with actor/philanthropist Carolyn Micheal and her director/theater manager husband Howard Millman.

June 17, 2008

Continuing to describe the Dangers which keep us from changing I discuss the concept of Catastrophic Expectations and how the anticipation (even when it is unconscious) can keep us from doing things we want to do. In this show I play an interview with Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes; who are perhaps best know for their long running roles on the soap opera Days of our Lives, and I play the original version The Ballad of Davy Crockett, recorded by Bill Hayes.

June 03, 2008

This show introduces the concept of the Danger of Change, and explains that often when we are stuck it is because we are unconsciously aware of a danger that will confront us when we do the thing we want to do. Then continuing my series of interview of artists I play interview with actress/philanthropist Carolyn Michel and her director theater manager husband Howard Millman.

May 13, 2008

After recapping the creation of a Cover Story I explain how and why we hide some of our most important qualities Undercover, and that these qualities which we have, but deny, can be the very ones we need to do some things we’d previously been unable to do. Using brief descriptions of two movies “Juno” and “Miss Pettigrew” I talk about the importance of strong female role models in fiction and then play the second ½ of my interview with Sharon Lesley, who is not only a powerful role model but has written three theater pieces which highlight the lives of powerful woman.

May 06, 2008

Beginning with a recap of the concepts of Modeling and Anti-Modeling and talking about the dilemma of being an artist in this culture, this show goes on to demonstrate how the creation of a Cover Story stops us from doing what we would otherwise be able to do. It continues the series Anatomy of an Artist with the first half of an interview with Sharon Lesley, actor/singer/playwright/director, and includes cuts from CD’s by Sharon and her husband pianist David Ohrenstein.