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Guest Occupation: Mental Health Specialist, Author, Speaker, Sports Mom
Guest Biography:

Sonja is a suicide survivor with over 30 years of lived experience with mental health challenges.  She is one of today’s most insightful and inspirational speakers on mental health. Her award-winning and best-selling book, An Impossible Life, which details her struggles with mental illness, was featured on CBS This Morning as a story of hope. CBS This Morning Correspondent, Dr. Tara Narula, said that Sonja’s story was “one of my most sacred and special I’ve ever done.”

Sonja is a devoted mental health advocate. Her mental health advocacy work includes drug addiction recovery programs, homeless shelters, firefighters, police officers, veterans, women’s prisons, and others.

Oprah Winfrey graciously participated virtually in one of Sonja’s mental health book clubs’ discussions to inspire the women inmates at Central California Women’s Facility, the world’s largest women’s prison.

She has traveled the country speaking with Fortune 500 companies, not-for-profit organizations, government officials, advocacy groups, and top media outlets about the importance of mental health. Sonja has been an op-ed contributor in such publications as The Washington Post, Newsweek, The Hill, Ms. Magazine, Kevin M.D., NAMI (National Alliance Mental Illness), Oprah Daily, and others. She is a member of Newsweek Expert Forum.

Sonja has been interviewed in all 50 states on local and national news about the importance of raising mental health awareness. She has had the privilege of sharing her story and message of hope with millions of people. Sonja is passionate about helping individuals and organizations create open, inclusive, and educational conversations around mental health.

Guest Category: Health & Lifestyle, Kids & Family, Self Help, Variety
Guest Occupation: Cancer Rights Attorney, Speaker, Author & COO at Triage Cancer
Guest Biography:

Monica Fawzy Bryant, Esq., is a cancer rights attorney, speaker, and author, dedicated to improving access to quality information on healthcare-related issues. She is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer for Triage Cancer, a national non-profit organization that provides education on the practical and legal issues that may impact individuals diagnosed with cancer and their caregivers.

Ms. Bryant is co-author of the first and only book on Cancer Rights Law, published by the American Bar Association (ABA) in 2018. In 2019, she received a 40 Under 40 in Cancer Award, and in 2015, was awarded the Legacy Advocate Award by a leading young adult cancer organization. She is an Adjunct Law Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Law, teaching a class on Cancer Rights. Throughout her career, she has provided more than one thousand educational seminars for individuals who have been diagnosed with cancer, their caregivers, lawyers, advocates, health care professionals, elected officials, and the general public.



mb@TriageCancer.org

TriageCancer.org

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Guest Category: Kids & Family, Medicine, Self Help, Variety
Guest Occupation: Amy teaches The Akashic Records for yourself and for others.
Guest Biography:

Today I am speaking with a talented healer and spiritual mentor.  My guest is Amy Robeson who is a skilled teacher with a rare ability to clearly communicate high spiritual concepts, so her students become powerful healers in their own right. She has been gifted with the ability to tap into the depths of one’s soul’s desires to discover the inner dialog that is preventing them from being in alignment with their true self. Amy is devoted to re-connecting people to their innate divine nature so they can experience more joy, abundance, and love in their lives. She channels divine messages from the Akashic Records and loves teaching her clients how to access them as well. Sacred Awakening: https://theamyrobeson.com/sacred-awakening/ref/147/

Guest Category: Education, Health & Lifestyle, Kids & Family, Paranormal, Philosophy, Physics & Metaphysics, Psychology, Self Help, Spiritual
Guest Occupation: sociologist of labor and labor movements who has written on a variety of topics involving work and organized labor in the United States,
Guest Biography:

RUTH MILKMAN is a sociologist of labor and labor movements who has written on a variety of topics involving work and organized labor in the United States, past and present. Her most recent books are Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat (Polity, 2020) and On Gender, Labor and Inequality (Illinois, 2016). Her early research focused on the impact on U.S. women workers of economic crisis and war in the 1930s and 1940s. She went on to study the restructuring of the U.S. automobile industry and its impact on workers and their union in the 1980s and 1990s; in that period she also analyzed the labor practices of Japanese-owned factories in California. More recently she has written extensively about low-wage immigrant workers, analyzing their employment conditions as well as the dynamics of immigrant labor organizing. She co-authored a 2013 study of California’s paid family leave program, focusing on its impact on employers and workers. She served as the 2016 President of the American Sociological Association, where her presidential address focused on Millennial-generation social movements. She has also conducted extensive policy-oriented research on such topics as wage theft, unionization trends, paid sick leave, and the aging workforce. After 21 years as a sociology professor at UCLA, where she directed the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment from 2001 to 2008, she returned to New York City in 2010. She is currently Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center and at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies, where she chairs the Labor Studies Department.

Guest Category: History, Kids & Family, Politics & Government, Variety
Guest Occupation: Crisis Team Coordinator and Crisis Clinician
Guest Biography:

Peter Elste has been a Police Officer for 21 years, starting with the NYPD 73rd Precinct in Brownsville, Brooklyn as part of the Street Narcotics Unit and Community Conditions Unit.

Pete is currently serving with the Danbury Police Department where he is a Field Training Officer, Crisis Intervention Team Coordinator, and a member of the Emergency Services Unit and Peer Support Team.

Scott Alvord is an experienced therapist and clinical supervisor. Scott works with the Crisis Intervention Teams for two local Police Departments as their Crisis Intervention Clinician. Scott has over a decade of experience in IOP (Intensive Outpatient Programs) PHP (Partial hospitalization programs), and persistent mental health diagnosis support and care. Scott also currently runs a private practice.

Guest Category: Politics & Government, Local, Psychology, Emotional Health and Freedom, Mental Health
Guest Occupation: President at Relax Saunas of Momentum
Guest Biography:

Expert at introducing cutting edge, unique, innovative products to the holistic health marketplace since 1980. Momentum98 Natural Health Products - the oldest natural health store in Columbus, Ohio is the largest distributor of massage tools (# of items) in North America and is nationally recognized for carrying the most unique selection of wellness accessories in the industry. Introduced the Relax Sauna to the US market in 2002. The Relax Far Infrared (FIR) Sauna contains patented ceramic chips which produce the highest and purest levels of far infrared found in any sauna.



Far infrared waves increase human energy and create warmth in the body, thus producing resonance with the body and providing healing power, especially with wavelengths of 6 -14 microns. It is essential for growth of humans and all beings. Now, it has been recognized by biologists and societies of human engineers.



> Discharge toxins from the body (especially heavy metals)

> Weight loss and beautify the body

> Prevent illness

> Prevent Aging

> Improve metabolism

> Energize the body

> Improves blood circulation

> 100% absorbable FIR Energy

> Safe: CE and GS certificates

> Fast: Sauna heats up in 20 seconds

> No mess or residual odor from use

> Portable and convenient to encourage use

Guest Category: Health & Lifestyle, Kids & Family, Self Help, Variety
Guest Occupation: PhD in biomedical anthropology
Guest Biography:

Did you know that most prescription drugs have a

Goldilocks Effect? Elizabeth Reed Aden holds a PhD

in biomedical anthropology and did her post-doctoral

studies in Human Genetics at Stanford. As Senior

Vice President of Global Pharmaceutical Strategy at

Roche headquarters in Basel, she participated all

product-based decisions. Her responsibilities spanned

pricing, reimbursement, new product planning,

acquisitions and business planning, She has held

numerous C-level positions spanning many different

technologies and co-founded biotech companies.

Presently sits on a couple of Boards of Directors,

including a gene therapy company developing a nov

Guest Category: Health & Lifestyle, Kids & Family, Self Help, Variety
Guest Occupation: Serena Wright Taylor is an award-winning conference producer. Intuitive Vedic Astrologer, UFO Researcher, Writer, Creative Artist and Humanitarian.
Guest Biography:

This episode is a conversation on UFO’s and Intuitive Vedic Astrology. My guest, Serena Wright Taylor is an award-winning conference producer. Intuitive Vedic Astrologer, UFO Researcher, Writer, Creative Artist and Humanitarian. Serena is an Ambassador for the Love Button Global Movement which fosters acts of kindness all over the world. An Intuitive Vedic Astrologer for more than 35 years, Serena combines her psychic ability and astrology to assist clients worldwide.

Guest Category: Arts, Earth & Space, Health & Lifestyle, Paranormal, Physics & Metaphysics, Self Help, Spiritual, Theory & Conspiracy