Relationship Talk™ Podcast

Syncrohearts

Dr Jackie Black — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:49:36 -0600

Don’t miss this light-hearted conversation about the most serious subject in your life – connecting with your partner! Join Dr. Jackie and her guest Bobby O’Neal, known as Canada’s Dr. Love. Bobby is the creator of a new board game for couples called Syncrohearts. This is so much more than a board game. It is a rich opportunity for couples to connect with each other in a safe and fun way, using humor, intuition, and relationship skills you’re going to want to know about!

Celebrating your life and your love life is the center-piece of Syncrohearts!

Take a few minutes and listen in now.

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In Her Wake

Dr Jackie Black — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:35:00 -0600

Dr. Jackie sat down with Nancy Rappaport, MD, and author if In Her Wake – A Child Psychiatrist Explores the Mystery of Her Mother’s Suicide.

In 1963 when Dr. Rappaport was only four years old her mother died by suicide. Years later she began to investigate her mother’s life and the mysteries surrounding her death; and explore the impact of her mother’s suicide from the perspective of a daughter, psychiatrist, wife and mother of three. Over the next number of years Dr. Rappaport began to understand more about the complicated nature of loss, reconciliation and healing.

This conversation between two women who understand the issues of loss and the importance of open and honest communication in families is a must-hear!

Dr. Rappaport is assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School where she teaches undergraduates, medical students, and residents about child development; supervises child psychiatry fellows in local schools; is a board certified child and adolescent psychiatrist; and has worked with the Cambridge public schools as an attending child and adolescent psychiatrist for more than 18 years.

Don’t miss this conversation!

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GatherRoundTheTable.com

Dr Jackie Black — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:08:00 -0600

Dr. Jackie sat down with Nikki Stauffer, the founder of www.GatherRoundTheTable.com, to talk about the importance for making family dinners a priority and how to actually accomplish that. Sounds like a simple enough concept -make sure you and your children have dinner together every night as your children are growing up.

GatherRoundTheTable.com was born from her passion for making family dinners a priority in her home. She has seen the importance and the difference this commitment has made in her own children and is determined to support and encourage others to do the same with their families. Take a few minutes and listen to this inspirational woman who lives what she preaches! Nikki is the mother of 2 boys, primary care giver for small dogs, wife to her husband of 17+ years; a publicity assistant, full-time college student, and a volunteer at her youngest child’s elementary school teaching a drug prevention program. And Nikki spends time with her family around the table every evening.

Check out this jam-packed web site too – www.GatherRoundTheTable.com!

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Soulful Encounters

Dr Jackie Black — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 17:25:00 -0600

Join Dr. Jackie and Louise Maxwell, the founder of the Internet’s first disability-oriented community, for a fascinating conversation about life and love as a disabled person. www.SoulfulEncounters.com is the web’s first social networking site for medically disabled and differently-abled people. Louise has been handicapped for many years after a horrifying car accident, and has made a miraculous recovery.

Because of her personal experiences with her own disabilities, as well as those around her, she founded Soulful Encounters so that every disabled person could have a place to go to for companionship, support, friendship, and romance. Louise is filled with heartwarming stories about the good that humans can do for each other when they work to achieve something bigger than themselves. Louise’s stories are filled with hope and love, and will have you feeling good all day long!

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Think Like a Black Belt!

Dr Jackie Black — Thu, 27 May 2010 10:56:00 -0600

Join Dr. Jackie and Jim Bouchard, speaker, coach and author of Dynamic Components of Personal POWER and his new book – Think Like a Black Belt.

Black Belt Mindset is about excellence. It’s about continual self-perfection and personal development. It’s about POWER; which is not how you control people, it’s your ability to act and perform effectively.

Jim and Dr. Jackie explore what it means to have a Black Belt Mindset (discipline, focus, timing and balance) and if you are going to be successful in life, in love and in business you’d better learn how to Think Like a Black Belt! Jim is a dynamic and stimulating speaker, and this half-hour interview flies by! It is well worth your time.

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Mr. Mean: Saving Your Relationships from the Irritable Male Syndrome

Dr Jackie Black — Tue, 04 May 2010 11:22:00 -0600

Dr. Jackie recently interviewed best-selling author Dr. Jed Diamond about the release of his new book Mr. Mean: Saving Your Relationships from the Irritable Male Syndrome.

In this fascinating interview, Diamond tells Dr. Jackie that the hidden destroyer of good relationships is a phenomenon called “The Irritable Male Syndrome (IMS)” and that he wrote Mr. Mean: Saving Your Relationship from the Irritable Male Syndrome for the millions of women and men who want to understand how they can rescue their relationship, help their spouse, and save themselves.

Jed Diamond, Ph.D., is an internationally respected leader in the men’s health field. For 45 years he has been helping men, and the women who love them, to overcome the stresses that pull relationships apart, and has appeared as a guest expert on CBS, ABC, NBC, and Fox News, Good Morning America, Today Show, CNN-360 with Anderson Cooper, CNN with Glenn Beck, The View with Barbara Walters, PBS, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and USA.

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She-Rain

Dr Jackie Black — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:19:00 -0600

Join Dr. Jackie and her guest, Michael Cogdill, the author of the best-selling new book – She-Rain! While She-Rain is fiction, it is the story that celebrates two strong women and the one man they love, and takes a hard look at romantic love. As Dr. Jackie comments to Cogdill in her interview, “There is a lot we can learn and understand about ourselves and our capacity to love from She-Rain, even though it is a work of fiction.”

There is a profound lesson to learn from bearing witness to this love triangle and Dr. Jackie and Michael dig down deep in this riveting interview!

Michael Cogdill is one of the most honored television storytellers in America. His awards include 24 Emmys and the National Edward R. Murrow Award. His coverage and interview credits include The Reverend Billy Graham, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Dr. Henry Kissinger, Abby Hoffman, Senator Hillary Clinton, Senator John McCain, Howard K. Smith, James Brown, and countless other key newsmakers, including Presidents and Vice Presidents of the United States. He anchors the 6:00 and 11:00 newscasts for WYFF TV, NBC for the Western Carolinas and Northeast Georgia.

Don’t miss an opportunity to hear one of today’s master storytellers live with Dr. Jackie.

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Love Is In The Stars

Dr Jackie Black — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:09:00 -0700

Carol Allen is back in studio with Dr. Jackie! Carol is a Vedic astrologer, relationship coach, and radio show host who’s been happily married for ten years. She’s spent the last sixteen years giving astrological readings mostly to women still searching for “the one,” wanting to improve their marriage, or trying to take their current relationships to the “next level.”

In this enlightening interview, Carol dispels the false information being provided by Pop Astrologists and explains that whatever is going on in your relationship may not be entirely your fault. The problems in your love life often have to do with your “Planetary Personality Type” and how compatible it is with your partner’s, or if you are in or out of your celestial “season of love.”

Give yourself a real treat.. listen in now!

What's Your Planetary Personality Profile? ::

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Elder Rage - How To Survive Caring For Aging Parents

Dr Jackie Black — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:11:50 -0700

Join Dr. Jackie and Jacqueline Marcell for a very important and sobering discussion about coping when you are a care-giver to someone who is aged and ill. Jacqueline Marcell is the author of Elder Rage and is a wealth of solid information that might help you understand your situation better and cope better if you are living with and loving someone suffering with Alzheimer’s.

Jacqueline was caring for her elderly parents (both with Alzheimer’s), and gave up her 15-year career as a television executive to become an advocate for eldercare awareness and reform. When Jacqueline’s once-adoring father turned verbally and physically abusive, she was heartbroken to have lost his love. There is something for everyone in this information-filled, and emotionally-charged interview!

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Understanding Other People: The Five Secrets to Human Behavior

Dr Jackie Black — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:38:41 -0700

Join Dr. Jackie and Beverly Flaxington, author of Understanding Other People: The Five Secrets to Human Behavior for a stimulating conversation that will be your wake-up call! Have you ever met a difficult person? Has someone you love ever gotten on your nerves or made you mad? Every single one of us knows difficult people and gets ourselves into difficult situations from time to time. If you want to learn and understand the secrets about how to create win wins with others, you want to listen to this interview. Beverly Flaxington gets along with almost every one because she know the 5 secrets to understanding other people.

1. It’s all About me.
2. Behavioral Styles come between us.
3. Values speak louder than you do
4. Don’t assume I know what you mean
5. I’m Okay; you are most definitely not okay

With this wisdom you will be able to positively affect your most difficult relationship and work through many difficult situations with difficult people.

File Download (36:26 min / 25 MB)

Nana, Whats Cancer?

admin — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:14:00 -0700

Join Dr. Jackie Black and her guests Beverlye Hyman Fead and Tessa Mae Hamermesh. Beverlyle, a cancer survivor, and her granddaughter, Tessa, needed to talk about cancer and what it meant to their family. One day over cookies and tea, Tess decided to ask the question, “Nana, what actually is cancer?” That led to other questions and, over time, to a meaningful, thoughtful, and healing conversation. Tess felt better about her situation. Then, she thought, wouldn’t it be a good thing to share what she had learned with other children? And that is how this book began.

This is a deeply moving conversation with a grandmother and her devoted granddaughter that is NOT to be missed! Be sure to have a box of Kleenex beside you when you listen to the compelling interview!

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Beyond Seduction: Loving Without Limits

admin — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:29:00 -0700

Join Dr. Jackie Black and her guest Lisa Pankau author of Beyond Seduction: Loving Without Limits a book about building and maintaining a vibrant relationship with your spouse, and cultivating life-long respect and admiration for your partner. Written in a casual conversational style this book offers perspectives on successful relationships as well as recipes for relationship success.

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Winning at Love - The Alpha Male's Guide to Relationship Success

admin — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:40:00 -0600

Join Dr. Jackie and special guest Pat Webster, Ph.D., R.N. for a fascinating discussion about Alpha Males in committed relationships. Dr. Pat is the author of an amazing new book Winning at Love: The Alpha Male’s Guide to Relationship Success.

Alphas are our leaders, our movers and shakers. They are competitive, strong will, and possess intense determination to contribute to their success in our culture. Sound like anyone you know? Alpha Male qualities often portend disaster for their partners and their intimate relationships. Dr. Pat (and her co-author, the late Martin Groder, M.D.) is a highly experienced psychotherapist and has the inside track on who Alpha Males are and how to deal with them in love and life.

You don’t want to miss this conversation! Dr. Pat will make sense of men you have not been able to understand or figure out!

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Bring Yourself to Love.

Dr Jackie Black — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:48:00 -0600

Join Dr. Jackie Black and Dr. Mona Barbera for this enlightening discussion about her award-winning relationship advice book Bring Yourself to Love.

This readable and engaging book uses vivid examples and exercises to help couples move from blaming, shaming, and distancing to staying calm, connected and curious.

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