PEEKAY in his own words:

Kaitin helps individuals and groups learn the value of respect through speaking engagements . . .   and the books  and plays she has written.  She created a Global Initiative  in order to raise the standard of living and quality of life for all people. It’s called Connecting  the Dots …with The Respect Principle.

“Connecting the Dots … with The Respect Principle” is the global initiative developed so every child, every person, will know by their own experience, they are valued … respected because when a person feels valued … respected, they take better care of themselves, including developing their potential to the greatest of their ability, plus they also value … respect other people, which greatly reduces the problems manifested by low Respect Level mindsets that generate prejudice’s harmful and costly consequences.

Though the core book written for the global literacy level, “Connecting the Dots … with The Respect Principle,” Limited First Edition print version is no longer available; the good news is, it, along with eight other books, including the children’s series, Little Jack, the novel, Dark Horses and its creative short fiction, and the soon to be released, Flashes of Spirit, a short stories collection, are available in Ebook format on Smashwords.com and other Ebook retailers … for the lowest prices ever until the end of 2015.

2016 promises exciting changes with the company’s name change, the acquisition of partners and the production of the play and film, Charles’ Choice, that introduces the ““Connecting the Dots … with The Respect Principle” concept and initiative to schools, parents, communities, prisons, and all social support organizations.

Want the short version? Book The Respect Specialist to speak to your group before Kaitlin’s new year’s calendar fills up!

Norman Lear was born in New Haven, Connecticut on July 27, 1922. He dropped out of Emerson College to join the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II. He left the Army in 1945 and began writing comedy, which eventually transformed into screenwriting and producing for television and films. His best known projects include the TV shows All in the Family, The Jeffersons, Maude and Good Times.

Early Life

Television and film writer and producer. Born Norman Milton Lear on July 27, 1922. Lear grew up in a Jewish family in New Haven, Connecticut where his parents, Herman and Jeanette Lear, worked in sales. When Lear was only 9 years old, his father went to prison to serve a three-year sentence for fraud. With his father in jail, Lear turned to his uncle Jack and his grandfather Shya as role models. His grandfather wrote frequent letters to the president on the various political issues of the day. Lear later said his grandfather's political involvement taught him a lesson he never forgot: "that a citizen can matter." Nevertheless, Lear never imagined himself growing up to be a rich and famous celebrity. "All I wanted was to grow up to be a guy who could flip a quarter to a nephew," he once said.

Lear attended Emerson College in Boston, but dropped out in 1942 to join the United States Army Air Forces. He served as a radio operator and gunner during World War II, flying 52 combat missions in the Mediterranean Theater and earning the Air Medal with four oak leaf clusters. Lear left the military in 1945, and worked for four years in public relations before embarking on a career as a freelance comedy writer.

In 1950, Norman Lear teamed up with Ed Simmons to write The Ford Star Review, a musical comedy variety show that aired for one year on NBC. Although the show's run was brief, Lear and Simmons impressed comedian Jerry Lewis, who hired them to write for the Colgate Comedy Hour, where they worked until 1953. In 1958, Lear moved from writing to production, joining with director Bud Yorkin to found Tandem Productions. With Lear writing and producing, the pair produced numerous feature films, including Divorce American Style (1967), which earned Lear an Academy Award nomination in 1967.

All in the Family

In 1970, Lear got the idea to revamp the British sitcom Till Death Do Us Part to fit into an American context. Set in Queens, New York, All in the Family aired on CBS from 1971 to 1983 (renamed Archie Bunker's Place in 1979) and won four consecutive Emmy Awards for Outstanding Comedy Series. All in the Family was groundbreaking in many respects, helping to usher in a new era of television programs that tackled controversial and socially relevant subject matter. The show, which centered around the bigoted character Archie Bunker, examined the issues of race, sexuality, and social inequality through the lens of comedy, breaking longstanding television taboos against profanity, racial slurs, and toilet humor.

In addition to All in the Family, Lear wrote and produced a host of other controversial shows that dealt with pressing social issues. In 1972, he introduced Maude on CBS, whose caustic, liberal title character provided a foil to the conservative Archie Bunker. Lear also brought black families into starring roles on primetime television with Good Times (1974-1979) and The Jeffersons (1975-1985). While Lear's shows were often criticized for their sharp political bent, he vociferously defended his right to incorporate his personal views into his writing. "Why wouldn't I have ideas and thoughts," he said, "and why wouldn't my work reflect those ideas?"

Politics and Activism

In order to have a more direct impact on social change, in 1981 Lear decided to leave the world of television for political activism. In that year, he founded People for the American Way, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting First Amendment rights, strengthening public education, and promoting electoral and immigration reform. In 2000, Lear founded the Norman Lear Center at USC to support research investigating the intersection of entertainment and society. Four years later, he founded Declare Yourself, a nonpartisan youth voter registration initiative. For his work in both television and political activism, President Bill Clinton presented Lear with the National Medal of Arts in 1999, stating that "Norman Lear has held up a mirror to American society and changed the way we look at it."

Lear lives in Los Angeles, California with his third wife Lyn Davis Lear, with the two having married in 1987. He has six children and four grandchildren. Together the couple continues to participate in political causes; in 2009, they founded Born Again American, a group committed to reviving informed citizenship. And in October 2014, at the age of 92, he published his critically-acclaimed autobiography Even This I Get to Experience. 

Asked by an interviewer to sum up his influence on American television and society, Lear recalled one night when he was riding in an airplane. "I remember looking down and thinking, hey, it's just possible, wherever I see a light, I've helped to somebody laugh."

COY MCKINNEY was born in Kingston, Jamaica, raised in Atlanta, Georgia, attended high school in Torino, Italy, obtained a history degree from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, a law degree from the University of the District of Columbia, David A. Clarke School of Law, and is a member of the Student Environmental Action Coalition (seac.org). Coy works as an urban farmer on multiple projects in the DC area and his primary interest is building small-scale, sustainable communities where appreciation of the environment, and our role within it, is deeply embedded within the culture.

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Psychic medium William Stillman is the internationally known, award-winning author of the Autism and the God Connection book trilogy that explores aspects of spiritual giftedness in many people with autism.

Since 2004, Stillman has worked professionally as a psychic and spiritual counselor at Alta View Wellness Center in PA.  His accuracy in discerning truth and making predictions is truly extraordinary.  He has been contacted on missing person and unsolved homicide cases.  

Living Your Souls Journey is excited about having William Stillman on the show. Be sure and call in with your questions.

Rev. Darrin W. Owens has brought authentic enlightenment to countless souls through a powerful psychic gift that he has carried since birth. Since 1995, Darrin has maintained a highly successful psychic-intuitive healing practice, providing spiritual guidance to clients on an international scale. Many have called him a modern-day prophet announcing a much-needed and renewed perspective to the spiritual journey. Adding more levels to his professional list; Darrin is an ordained minister, certified hypnotherapist and a spiritual faith-healer specializing in spirit releasement and vibrational healing.

Darrin was born in the Ozark hills of Arkansas. At a very young age, he showed signs of highly advanced psychic perception. Not only is Darrin’s psychic and healing skills are God-given, they also hereditary in nature. Darrin’s great-grandfather was a healer. He was not just any healer; he was an old-style mountain healer. Legend has it that one of his “powers” was stopping excessive bleeding by simply reciting a verse from the Holy Bible. Darrin is truly proud of his supernatural heritage and stays true to his spiritual roots.   The public awareness of Darrin's mystical beginnings was introduced in his first bestselling book, Reader of Hearts: The Life and Teachings of a Reluctant Psychic. His most recent title, Mysteries of the Supernatural, delves into Darrin’s passionate study and encounters with spiritualism, folk magick and the paranormal. He has been a featured guest on Coast to Coast Radio with George Noory.

My second guest, Dr. Eric L. Zielinski is a sought-after natural health educator, motivational speaker and author. Inspired by the timeless principles in the Bible, Dr. Z’s mission is to provide people with simple, evidenced-based tools that they need to achieve the Abundant Life. He specializes in natural remedies and empowering life strategies, and coaches clients locally in the greater Atlanta area as well as globally through his Abundant Life Coaching Ministry — a non-profit organization that helps pastors, missionaries, and ministers of the Gospel enjoy Biblical Health. Dr. Z lives in Atlanta with his wife Sabrina and three children Esther, Isaiah and Elijah.

An energy specialist, hands-on healer and pioneer of yoga therapy for the past 30 years, Dr. Gloria Kaye has “touched” the lives of thousands of clients. Working in conjunction with physicians and healthcare practitioners, Dr. Kaye has built a successful practice in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. Her clients include well-known personalities, professional athletes, business executives, senior citizens, families, and even adolescents and young children. In the early 1980s, Dr. Kaye received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology and health psychology, and proceeded to develop and administer a holistic center for senior citizens. Part of her dissertation was reprinted in the Clinical Journal of Gerontology, and since then, she has taught yoga at several universities.

Dr. Kaye integrated pain management and healing into her practice in the early 1990s, working alongside physicians in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. She lectured on the Healing Touch to first-year medical students at UCLA School of Medicine in the late 1990s. Through the combination of hands-on healing and the practical application of yoga to medical complaints (yoga therapeutics), Dr. Kaye has successfully treated clients with various medical conditions, including arthritis, backaches, migraines, muscle pain, inflammation, sprains, scoliosis and tendonitis. Her comprehensive approach to each case produces dramatic changes in an individual’s mobility, strength, flexibility, and overall health. She has also attended clients in the cancer unit at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, and travels extensively to visit her clients, who are located around the U.S.

Dr. Kaye first realized her ability as a healer in her teens. She believes she inherited this ability from her Great Aunt Katie, who was also a healer. Before pursuing healing and pain management as a profession, Dr. Kaye extensively studied yoga, conducting groundbreaking research in the 1970s on yoga as a treatment for substance abuse. She also produced a respected San Diego-area cable TV show exploring yoga as a treatment modality for common complaints such as depression, anxiety, stress, overeating and physical inflexibility.

She has many previous articles and books. Her .lates book published in 2015 is Healer’s Hands, Healer’s Heart. For more information, contact Patti Teel: patti@pattiteel.com or 805.448.0520.