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Learn to Connect With Others With Maribeth Kuzmeski on Nov. 10

2009-11-08T17:03:05-05:00

Join us Tuesday, Nov. 10 at 2 pm EST when you'll learn how to meaningfully connect with others, when I interview marketing expert Maribeth Kuzmeski.

Maribeth is a strategic marketing consultant, speaker, president of Red Zone Marketing and author of the new book, The Connectors: How the World's Most Successful Businesspeople Build Relationships and Win Clients for Life.

My guest will tell you how if you build strong relationships and connect with your customers and colleagues, you'll get your piece of the proverbial pie.

To learn more about Maribeth, you can catch her Red Zone Marketing Radio Show show here on Blog Talk Radio.

You also can read articles on her company's website, including the intriguing piece, "Five Easy Secrets for Delighting Your Clients."

Catch the radio show with Maribeth here or listen below, at your convenience.

Gab With the Gurus Speed Interviewing Debuts on YouTube - Peter Shankman is First Guest

2009-09-27T15:00:00-04:00

I'm pleased to announce that the Gab With the Gurus Radio Show, which is hosted on BlogTalkRadio, now has a video companion.

You can now get inspired, educated and educated by watching the new Gab With the Gurus Speed Interviewing channel on YouTube.

Interviews will be quickies. (No off-color innuendo intended.)

Given all of your busy schedules -- from the gurus to you -- each guest will participate in what I'm calling "Speed Interviewing," where they will answer only two questions. This means you'll get "goodies" quickly, in roughly 2 minutes -- enough time to give you juicy info and to entice you to make changes or learn more.

The Gab With the Gurus Speed Interviews -- which will feature experts in a variety of fields, including health, fitness, social media, relationships and more -- are being taken on my new Flip Video.

I met the first three gurus, thanks to the New York Press Club Foundation 17th Annual Conference on Journalism at New York University Kimmel Center on Saturday, Sept. 26.

Visit the new Gab With the Gurus Speed Interviewing channel to watch quickie interviews with:

Entepreneur expert Peter Shankman, who discusses the importance of relevancy in social media. Peter, founder of Help a Reporter. took out a little time to give you tips on what to do before you begin tweeting. (I'd like to thank Peter, a master marketer, for graciously suggesting the two-question limit.)
Award-winning CNBC anchor and producer David Faber, who chats about his new book And Then the Roof Caved In : How Wall Street's Greed and Stupidity Brought Capitalism to Its Knees. (You can read a book excerpt here.)
WCBS NewsRadio 880 anchor Steve Scott, who shares what it's like to be a broadcaster and how things have changed over the years.

Some Gab With the Gurus videos will be posted on this Gab With the Gurus Blog, and selected videos -- usually when they're related to health, wellness and social networking -- will be featured here, too.

You're also encouraged to subscribe now to the new Gab With The Gurus YouTube channel.

Experts for the new Gab With the Gurus Speed Interviewing Show on You Tube will come from a variety of fields, as they do for the Gab With the Gurus Radio Show.

Like my Gab With the Gurus Radio Show, which you can catch experts in:

Health
Wellness
Fitness
Social networking
Book marketing
Relationships

Make sure to tell your friends and loved ones now about the new Gab With the Gurus Speed Interviewing Show on YouTube.

Karen Salmansohn Tells You How to Avoid "Prince Harming Syndrome"

2009-09-22T18:07:07-04:00

Ladies, are you yearning to meet a man, who will treat you right as well as help you to become a better person?

Join the Gab With the Gurus Radio Show on Tuesday, Sept. 29, when bestselling author Karen Salmansohn tells you how to avoid what she dubs the "Prince Harming Syndrome" -- which is also the title of her book.

Karen, who recently become engaged herself, will give you valuable information about how to Break Bad Relationship Patterns for Good--5 Essentials for Finding True Love. She'll also give you some tips on How to be Happy, Dammit (the title of her bestselling book.)

Remember, you can listen live or later below to the Gab With the Gurus Radio Show with Karen Salmansohn:

"Speed Shrinking" Author Susan Shapiro Joins Us Sept. 22

2009-09-17T16:43:00-04:00

Join us on the Gab With the Gurus Radio Show on Sept. 22 at 2 pm EST, when I'll interview humorous author Susan Shapiro, who says therapy helped her quit all her addictive behavior -- smoking, drinking, pot, gum and sugar.

Sue will discuss how she was able to finally conquer her sugar habit. She'll also chat about her debut debut novel, Speed Shrinking, a humorous account about how a self-help guru goes on a shrink shopping spree, seeing 8 in 8 days to quickly find help after she relapses on cupcakes right before a major TV appearance.

As mentioned on the Sugar Shock Blog here and then again here, Sue has been holding acclaimed, much-publicized "Speed Shrinking" events, in which people chat about their issues for 3 minutes with a variety of "Speed Shrinkers." (Sue was kind enough to invite me to be one of them.)

If you're struggling with a sugar addiction, I recommend that you listen to my upcoming Gab With the Gurus Radio Show on Sept. 22 at 2 pm EST to get Sue's take on sugar addiction and more. (As usual, you can tune in live or later. See below.)

I also encourage you to get Sue's entertaining book, Speed Shrinking, which has been getting rave reviews.

For instance, Publisher's Weekly called it: " “…bubbly…an original voice and an energy that will resonate with anyone who’s ever stared down a Twinkie.”

And Guy Nicolucci, writer for Late Night with Conan O’Brien said: "Susan Shapiro does for therapy and food what Candace Bushnell did for sex and shoes.”

By the way, the plot of Sue's book strikes me as very funny. Speed Shrinking provides a humorous account about a self-help author, Julia Goodman, whose cupcake addiction gets triggered when her shrink, husband and best friend "abandon" her. The catch is: The heroine is allegedly a sugar addiction specialist, who will soon appear on the "Today Show" to promote her new book about how she conquered her sugar issues.

Rather than get "outed" for her weight gain and sugar challenges, Julia frantically sees eight shrinks in eight days to find a new one. Interestingly, all this shrink-hopping helped her lose weight.

Remember, you can get entertained, educated and inspired by listening live on Sept. 22 at 2 pm EST or later, when Sue appears on my Gab With the Gurus Radio Show.

Learn "Everything you always to know about ex*"

2009-09-17T13:06:00-04:00

Michelle and heather - contributors-king-fiordaliso In 1969, Dr. David Reuben published his groundbreaking book, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex*.

Forty years later, people know plenty about sex. However, we're mightily confused on what to do when the sex is over--and you're left with an Ex.

Heather Belle, MFC, and Michelle Fiordaliso, MSW are determined to help you exorcise you of any ex phobias, anxiety and skittishness.

To that end, the pair have written Everything you always wanted to know about ex*, an entertaining, helpful, how-to book on what to do with those former spouses, lovers, flings or "friends."

Join us Tuesday, October 6 at 2 pm EST on the Gab With the Gurus Radio Show when Michelle and Heather will join us to give you tips on how to handle your exes.

Remember, you can listen to the show live or later either here (see below) or on the Gab With the Gurus Radio Show home page on Blog Talk Radio.

Heather and Michelle -- who contribute to eHarmony -- are psychotherapists and writers, who have extensive professional and personal experience with their exes. (Their exes even endorsed this book!)

Sugar Expert Nancy Appleton Joins the Gab With the Gurus Radio Show

2009-09-03T11:14:22-04:00

If you find it hard to say no to sugary foods, then you have to join us on the Gab With the Gurus Radio Show on Tuesday, Oct. 20 at 2 pm, when I interview the renowned sugar expert.

As always, you can listen live or later, on this Gab With the Gurus Blog, by clicking the player at the bottom of this post. Or you can listen directly at the BlogTalkRadio site.

The cheerful, dynamic, always-energetic Dr. Appleton -- who has just come out with a new book, Suicide by Sugar: A Startling Look at Our #1 National Addiction -- will share some startling information about this legal but dangerous, nearly ubiquitous, addictive white powder.

Nancy is one of the most prominent sugar experts. Back in the 1970s, Nancy -- who has a B.S. in clinical nutrition and a Ph.D. in health services -- was sharing little-known hazards about sweets.

Some of you have wondered why I'm promoting other sugar experts when I'm still spreading the word about my own book, SUGAR SHOCK!

Frankly, I believe that you can be inspired, educated and encouraged by all of us sugar authors. Besides, as my tormented, frustrated sugar-addicted clients often reveal, people long to get more motivated. Together, we sugar authors can help you to get that umph to kick your habit. (Of course, ultimately it's up to you.)

Furthermore, I'm tremendously grateful I am to Nancy.She bent over backwards on many occasions to help me for several years while I was writing SUGAR SHOCK!

However, of all sugar experts (other than myself), Nancy is hands-down my favorite. She has been my sweet, kind mentor for years. I cannot rave enough about my idol, who I had the pleasure of finally meeting in late April at a Food Addiction: The Obesity Epidemic Connection conference at IslandWood on Bainbridge Island. (You can watch a video of me interviewing Jack LaLanne at the conference.).

Back to Nancy. When I was writing my book, Nancy has absolutely no way of knowing that SUGAR SHOCK! would sell well, and that years later I would finally be able to help her.

So I encourage now, go out and buy Nancy's amazing new book, Suicide by Sugar: A Startling Look at Our #1 National Addiction.

Listen here to the the Gab With the Gurus Radio Show with Nancy either live on Oct. 20 at 2 pm EST -- or later, at your convenience, just click on the player below.

Lyme Disease: Everything You Always Wanted to Know But Were Too Confused to Ask

2009-08-03T16:30:00-04:00

If you're an outdoors lover, you need to know about ticks -- those tiny, hard-to-see critters that can suck your blood and give you Lyme disease, a fast-growing infectious disease that can cause everything from horrific headaches to joint pains to cognitive confusion.

We're in the midst of tick season so you'll want to listen to my upcoming Gab With the Gurus Radio Show, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lyme Disease But Were Too Confused to Ask.

The show takes place join us live on Tues., Aug. 25 at 3 pm or you can listen later, at your convenience.

Guests include::

Kenneth Liegner, M.D., who had treated many Lyme patients in his practice in Armonk, New York. He is co-author of Coping With Lyme: A Practical Guide to Dealing with Diagnosis and Treatment, and he has written about the subject for the Journal of American Medicine, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the Journal of Clinical Microbiology. He practices medicine in Armonk, New York.(See interesting New York Times article here in which he was quoted.)
Ronald D. Whitmont, M.D., clinical Assistant Professor of Family and Community Medicine
New York Medical College in Valhalla, NY
Lorrie Nadel, director of Advocacy and Patient Care at the Turn the Corner Foundation, which is dedicated to research, support, awareness and innovative treatments for Lyme disease and other tick-borne ailments.
James Gormley, author of User's Guide to Treating Lyme Disease
Victor Zeines, DDS, a dentist, who recently got Lyme disease himself.

FYI, you're also invited to listen now to the recent Gab With the Gurus Radio Show that I did with two insiders from the documentary, "Under Our Skin: The Untold Story of Lyme Disease."

And you're encouraged to check out last year's show after I got Lyme disease myself. My guests included:

Science journalist Pamela Weintraub, author, Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic;
Pat Smith, president of the Lyme Disease Association;
Bernard D. Raxlen, M.D.;
Steven J. Bock, M.D.;
Dr. Qingcai Zhang;
Rebecca Wells (author of "Ya-Ya" novels and long-time Lyme sufferer) and
Kris Newby, senior producer of the documentary, “Under Our Skin."

See you soon for the important important radio show, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lyme Disease But Were Too Confused to Ask.