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Holiday spending has a way of bringing financial stress right to the surface. In this episode of Financial Fitness with The Money Doctor, Frances Rahaim, Ph.D., breaks down the Four Levels of “Stuck” that people fall into when their money feels tight — from a simple “GPS recalculating” moment all the way to a full “couch stuck in the doorway” crisis.
You’ll hear practical, judgment-free guidance for:
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people who are doing fine but want to do things smarter,
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people who are a little stuck and need small course corrections,
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people who feel buried by minimum payments,
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and people who are so overwhelmed they’re considering bankruptcy.
You’ll also hear a real-life story of a business owner who made “too much” to qualify for bankruptcy — and still used the HUG Your Money™ system to get completely debt-free in about five years.
This holiday season, don’t stress alone.
There is a way forward — and it starts at HugYourMoney.com.
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Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy Lee Donahue
Featuring Interview Guest, Academic Researcher, Systems Theorist, Founding Chairman of Tunisian Millennium Project Node, WAAS Fellow, Author, Neo-Khaldunism: A Radical-Hope-Based Blueprint for Post-Collapse Humanity, Professor Jelel Ezzine; and Performance Guest, GRAMMY® Nominated and Award-Winning Multi-Instrumentalist, Sensory Artist, Composer, Radhika Vekaria, on The Life Changes Show, Episode 869
Interview Guest: PROF. JELEL EZZINE; and Performance Guest: RADHIKA VEKARIA
Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy Lee Donahue
Featuring Interview Guest, Visionary Director / Producer / Futurist, Award-Winning Film Maker and Technologist, Thought-Leader in Virtual Reality and A.I., Brett Leonard; and Performance Guests, LA Based Band and Platform Committed to Inspiring and Encouraging Humanity to Live in a State of Love, Light, and Peace, Grand Rising, on The Life Changes Show, Episode 868
Interview Guest: BRETT LEONARD; and Performance Guests: GRAND RISING
Life Changes Show with Filippo Voltaggio and cohost Mark Laisure, with Executive Producer Dorothy Lee Donahue
Featuring Interview Guest, Clinical Psychologist, Humor Researcher, University Professor, and Author, Louis R. Franzini, PhD ; and Performance Guest, Two-Time BMI Award Winning Producer, Singer, Songwriter, Jesse Nolan of Caught a Ghost, on The Life Changes Show, Episode 867
Interview Guest: LOUIS R. FRANZINI, PhD; and Performance Guest: JESSE NOLAN of CAUGHT A GHOST
Olav Aleksander, Norwegian Sports Scientist & Endurance Performance Coach joins me along with Sarah Turner, CEO/Co- Founder of Cerathrive, a Healing Red Light & Neurotechnology Company. Then, it’s 'The Sports Doctor Is In' with some Dr. Bob wisdom and your questions and emails!
Renowned Mantra Singer, Kundalini Yoga Teacher, Sound-Healer
Erin Breech is a renowned mantra singer, Kundalini Yoga teacher, and sound-healer whose voice channels the subtle realms.
With over two decades as a student and teacher of the yogic arts and sciences, her offerings convey a deep level of devotion. Erin’s music offers a bridge to access the hidden angelic realms to anchor frequencies of peace within our own hearts and lives.
Her performances and recordings carry a purity of intention, blending Gurmukhi mantras with ethereal, modern production. Through her work, Erin invites audiences to experience mantra not just as music, but as a living vibration that restores balance, grace, and remembrance.
CEO of Global Schoolwear
Adam Weil, CEO of Global Schoolwear, was a former senior director in charge of the school uniforms unit at Lands’ End. “The interesting thing about this business model is that if there are 100 kids in a school, and we go 99 out of 100 in outfitting them, we still don’t win if just one kid is out of uniform. That’s one of our biggest challenges—to have enough of the right inventory available in real time for customers to order.”
But it’s a challenge that Global Schoolwear has learned to control with a customized digital commerce platform, Weil and Kohls say. Earlier this year, they put together a new technology framework designed to match thousands of buyers from hundreds of schools with the just the right mix of Tommy Hilfiger garments according to the style, color and school logos each educational institution requires its students to wear.
Global Schoolwear, which has an exclusive license from designer apparel brand Tommy Hilfiger to produce and sell school uniforms, has contracts with more than 450 schools to provide uniforms according to the specifications set by Tommy Hilfiger and by each school. Global Schoolwear takes Tommy Hilfiger’s garment specifications, then works with textile mills to produce the right garment materials in cotton and other fabrics, and works with apparel manufacturers to produce the garments.
It stocks enough goods in its warehouse-fulfillment center—about 1 million pieces at any one time during peak periods, with about 9,000 SKUs—to meet the expected overall back-to-school demand. As customers place orders on each school’s customized electronic product catalog that runs on Global Schoolwear’s ecommerce platform, each order is coded to indicate the garment type, style and color, plus the logo specifications.
GRAMMY Nominated and Award-Winning Multi-Instrumentalist, Sensory Artist, Composer
As a GRAMMY nominated and award-winning multi-instrumentalist and sensory artist, Radhika Vekaria creates transformative experiences for her audience, transcending boundaries of time and culture. She redefines the perception of ancient music, her soulful voice serving as a conduit to unite hearts and minds. Infusing her music with the wisdom of ancient Sanskrit narratives, blending tradition with innovation, Radhika invites listeners on a journey of release, self-discovery and enlightenment, through striking soundscapes.
Radhika’s music is a true expression of her desire as a child to heal others, and today she advocates for the transformative power of mantras and the timeless wisdom of Vedic culture integrated into our modern world. With each note, Radhika bridges the East and West, simultaneously beckoning us to embrace the harmony within ourselves and the world around us, leaving an indelible mark on the landscape of music and spirituality.
Academic Researcher, Systems Theorist, Founding Chairman of Tunisian Millennium Project Node, WAAS Fellow, Author
Dr. Jelel Ezzine is a scholar and systems theorist based in Tunis, with internationally recognized expertise spanning cybernetics, civilizational analysis, and epistemology. He is the founding chairman of the Tunisian node of the Millennium Project (MP) since 2016—one of the world’s foremost foresight networks. Previously, he was Director General of International Cooperation at Tunisia’s Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research.
A Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS), Dr. Ezzine is renowned for pioneering Neo-Khaldunism, applying Ibn Khaldun’s sociology to modern complexity science and systemic resilience modeling. He developed the Khaldunian Civilization Health (KCH) Index for evaluating social cohesion and adaptability.
He is also the author of the forthcoming book, Neo-Khaldunism: A Radical-Hope-Based Blueprint for Post-Collapse Humanity, which charts a path for transformative epistemology and civilizational renewal beyond current systemic crises.
His credentials include serving on the Editorial Board of UNESCO’s flagship Science Report (2021 & upcoming 2026 editions)—a central reference for global science governance and sustainability pathways.
Democratic 2020 Presidential Candidate
Former 3-star Admiral Joe Sestak is an experienced, independent leader who served in the Navy for 31 years and then as the highest ranking military officer ever elected to Congress when he represented Pennsylvania’s Seventh Congressional District.
When Joe Sestak’s daughter, Alex, was very young, she drew two red shoes and wrote above them, “Joe Sestak is Walking in Your Shoes.” Joe hung Alex’s drawing on his office wall to remind him of what service means: to walk in someone else’s shoes and see the world through another’s eyes.
Joe has walked in many different shoes in his life: as a father and a husband, as an officer and then an Admiral in the U.S. Navy, as a Congressman from Pennsylvania, and as he walked 422 miles across the state to speak with Americans during his Senate campaign.
It was the experience of Alex’s battle and defeat of brain cancer as a four year old child that moved her Dad to serve his country in Congress after 31 years of naval service. With her courage and the care she received from Joe’s military healthcare coverage, Alex beat that demon and Joe dedicated himself toward everyone having access to the same quality of healthcare. After resigning from the Navy and Alex’s recovery, he ran and won in a Republican District under the slogan, “National security begins at home, in health security.”
Joe Sestak is an experienced, independent leader who rose to the rank of 3-star Admiral. He was the highest ranking military officer ever elected to Congress when he represented Pennsylvania’s Seventh Congressional District from 2007-2011. He commanded an aircraft carrier battle group that conducted combat operations in Afghanistan and Iraq with 30 U.S. and allied ships and more than 15,000 sailors and 100 aircraft. Joe served as President Clinton’s Director for Defense Policy on the National Security Council in the White House, the first Director of the Navy’s strategic anti-terrorism unit (Deep Blue) after 9/11, and the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Warfare Requirements responsible for the Navy’s five year $350 billion warfare requirements. As Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, he proposed a controversial reduction in ship-levels from 375 to 260 ships that proved unnerving to the military-industrial-congressional complex, advocating for a greater future capability by harnessing cyberspace, at less cost.
In addition to leading a series of operational commands at sea, Joe received a PhD in Political Economy and Government, and a Masters in Public Administration, from Harvard University. But he is most proud of being dad to Alex and the husband of Susan, whom he somehow convinced to marry him, as she has also taught him much. This includes from work in international environmental issues, from Kazakhstan to Mozambique; Russian relations, even into Soviet Union archives as U.S. teams still search for clues to our missing POW/MIAs, and on suicide prevention for the Veterans Administration and the Defense Department.
Born and raised in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, where he attended Cardinal O’Hara High school prior to graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy, in 2006 Joe defeated a ten-term Republican incumbent in his nearly 2:1 Republican home District to become the second Democrat congressman since the Civil War. As a member of both the Armed Services and Education & Labor Committees, and as Vice Chairman of the Small Business Committee, Joe had 19 pieces of bi-partisan legislation passed in the House during his first term, and was named the most productive member of his Congressional class by the Majority Leader’s Office in 2007. He was also recognized for serving four times the constituent cases than the average Congressional office, while hosting an average of 15 large summit gatherings in his district each year on key issues. As a result, his Republican District re-elected Joe by 20 points without his having to air a single campaign ad.
Joe ran for U.S. Senate in 2010, despite the opposition of the Democratic party’s Washington establishment. He disagreed that Republican Senator Arlen Specter should become the party’s nominee in order to avoid defeat in the Republican primary after his 30 years of damaging votes, particularly his humiliation of Ms. Anita Hill when she testified about her sexual harassment by now-Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Joe believed Pennsylvanians deserved a leader who would always be accountable to the principle of people first, ahead of self, party or special interest. Against the odds, he overcame a 40 point deficit to win the Democratic primary over the 30-year incumbent. The general election was decided by only two points in the Tea Party year where the party lost the Pennsylvania governor’s race and five Congressional seats by an average of 11 points – all despite being outspent more than any other Senate or Governor’s race (except one) in America that year. Afterwards, Joe went to each of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties to thank his supporters, including countless African-American churches, synagogues, mosques and other places of worship that welcomed him.
In Joe’s second Senate race, Joe launched his campaign by walking 422 miles across Pennsylvania, from the border with New Jersey to that with Ohio, stating that “we are in a fight for the soul of America” at the kickoff and throughout the remainder of the election. He held a town hall each day in small towns and cities, and then went to each of the remaining 67 counties. Simultaneously, he published his vision in a policy-based book, “Walking in Your Shoes to Restore the American Dream.”
However, the Democratic Senate leadership directed Joe to “stop walking and just fundraise.” When Joe demurred, the Democratic leadership sought a primary opponent, funneling over $6 million into false opposition ads that the Washington Post assigned its highest rating of falsity, to win the primary, but losing the general election.
In Congress, Joe championed fiscally accountable “pay-as-you-go” legislation to help ensure its passage. He advanced educational legislation, from pre-K through retraining; seniors’ quality of life – including authoring and passing the first Elder Abuse Victims legislation in 17 years — and veterans’ educational and healthcare expansion. He sponsored small business legislation for access to start-up capital, tax and regulatory relief, and workforce development, including initiating and passing legislation for a 35% increase in funding for Women’s Business Centers. He pursued healthcare issues ranging from pediatric cancer to mental health parity, as well as autism as he authored the first successful increase in funding for autism in 12 years. Chosen to serve on two bi-partisan national security Select Congressional Committees, he worked on refocusing our security force posture toward the Western Pacific and China, advocating a new emphasis on cyberspace warfare, and reprioritization of defense funding toward such newly emerging warfare capability areas, with a reformed accountable defense procurement system. Joe also supported energy development legislation for renewables, with environmental safeguards and job creation, to address Climate Change.
After Congress, Joe taught courses on Ethical Leadership and on Restoring the American Dream at Cheyney University – the oldest historically black university in America – and Carnegie Mellon University, and was the General Omar N. Bradley Chair in Strategic Leadership, a joint faculty appointment at the United States Army War College, Dickinson College, and the Penn State University Dickinson School of Law and School of International Affairs.
Admiral Sestak remained active in public service through the Center for Refugee and Disaster Response at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; the Ploughshares Fund working on the reduction of nuclear weapons; the Lenfest Foundation focused on education in Philadelphia, pre-K through early childhood, and those who had or were about to drop out of high school; co-chair with former Republican governor Mark Schweiker of the Pennsylvania State Advisory Committee of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, focused on U.S. diplomacy and development; then-Secretary of State Clinton’s Advisory Committee on U.S. educational programs; and the Children’s Brain Tumor Foundation, as well as issues regarding small businesses, energy and the environment.
Finally, Joe convened the youth of the world from nearly 160 nations at Constitution Hall in Washington DC for the inaugural robotics Olympics highlighting the need for global STEM education, as teams from the Congo to Iran, a Syrian refugee team and an all-girls Afghan Muslim team showed we have more in common in the world than we do differences.
Most importantly, having served with all Americans in the global canvas of the Navy, and served you as a Congressman, Joe knows that Americans have more in common than we do differences. Now, as President, Joe will need all of you to help answer the call for America’s leadership to restore a just world order so it serves us by raising our collective good, here at home – done by Joe’s gaining your trust that he will always remain accountable to you, alone.
Author, Teacher, Channel
Want to learn how spontaneous action is the doorway to more? My guest is Rebecca Dawson who has been a channel for information about the Earth, the human race and other planetary systems for over 20 years. Her identity and view of the world changed dramatically when she was 18 years old, after she spontaneously became a channel which wasn’t part of her plan for life, as she was enthusiastically studying to become an architect at the time. Now for over 20 years, after thousands of hours expressing the wisdom of aspects like St. Germain, Kuthumi, and Serapis Bey, Rebecca offers the latest channeled information on the current state of humanity and the planet, the mechanics of dimensional reality, and the nature of Consciousness. Rebecca is the author of three books and lives in Perth, Australia.
Spiritualist
Just a Canadian Dude remembering his Divinity Within and helping others do the same! Here to authentically share, inspire, create and collaborate.
Entrepreneur, Motivational Speaker, Personal Trainer, Yoga Instructor
Waylon “Pee”Pahona Jr. is a passionate Motivational Speaker, Health and Wellness Trainer, and Certified Yoga Instructor through Native Strength Revolution. Proudly representing his heritage as Hopi, Tewa, and Maricopa Pee Posh, Waylon is renowned for his transformative journey and as the Founder/Creator of Healthy Active Natives (HAN’s). His vibrant social networking group on Facebook has grown to encompass over 74,500 members globally, fostering a community dedicated to health and wellness. In recognition of his impactful contributions, Waylon received the Healthy Innovation Award from IHS Indian Health Services in 2013 for his pioneering social media efforts. In 2024, he was honored with the Warrior Award from the Southwest Indigenous Women’s Coalition and the Molina Healthcare Tribal Health Champion Award, further underscoring his commitment to promoting well-being in Indigenous communities.
Currently, Waylon teaches and facilitates yoga and wellness classes in Outpatient Treatment Centers and the Strong Men’s Program, empowering individuals to embrace healthier lifestyles. Additionally, he proudly served as an Ambassador for Tanka Bar jerky, advocating for nutritious, sustainable food choices.
Waylon creates a fun, safe, and engaging space for those that he encounters. Waylon shares his passions to uplift, inspire, and motivate Indigenous Communities and hope that you leave events feeling renewed, refreshed, and re-focused on your own personal growth and goals.






