The Sweet Spot Podcasts

The Life Organizer: A Woman's Guide to a Mindful Year

Length-24 minutes, 17 seconds

Dr. Lara Honos-Webb, host of The Sweet Spot, interviews Ms. Jennifer Louden author of The Life Organizer: A Woman's Guide to a Mindful Year published by New World Library.

Jennifer Louden is the best-selling author of The Woman's Comfort Book, The Couple's Comfort Book, The Pregnant Woman's Comfort Book, The Woman's Retreat Book, Comfort Secrets for Busy Women, and the newly released The Life Organizer: A Women's Guide to a Mindful Year. She is both a personal coach and social commentator, who has taken the concept of "comfort" and self-care, and made these essential concepts irresistible and essential to women around the world. Jennifer is a cultural visionary, harnessing her extraordinary ability to recognize women's comfort as both a fundamental need and an innate desire.

Jennifer's name has become synonymous with comfort and the multi-minding woman. Recognizing the genuineness of Jennifer's vision and the depth at which people have bonded with her message, major forward-thinking companies - from Procter & Gamble to Martha Stewart's Omnimedia - have seen the value of utilizing Jennifer as spokesperson, editor, or purveyor of truth, and always as an embodiment of authenticity.

Jennifer lives on an island in Puget Sound with her husband, cinematographer Christopher Mosio, and their daughter, Lillian.  Visit her website.

The Highly Sensitive Person's Survival Guide: Essential Skills for Living Well in an Overstimulating World

Length-20 minutes, 34 seconds

Dr. Lara Honos-Webb, host of The Sweet Spot Podcasts, interviews Dr. Ted Zeff, author of The Highly Sensitive Person's Survival Guide: Essential Skills for Living Well in an Overstimulating World published by New Harbinger Publications.

Dr. Ted Zeff

Ted Zeff, Ph.D., received his doctorate in psychology in 1981 from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, CA. He currently teaches workshops on coping techniques for highly sensitive people. He has taught stress reduction and insommnia management for over fifteen years at various hospitals and medical groups.  Visit his website.

Sleepless in America: Is Your Child Misbehaving...or Missing Sleep?

Length-22 minutes, 28 seconds

Dr. Lara Honos-Webb, host of The Sweet Spot Podcasts, interviews Mary Sheedy Kurcinka, MA author of Sleepless in America: Is Your Child Misbehaving...or Missing Sleep? published by Harper Paperbacks.

Mary Sheedy Kurinka, MA

Mary Sheedy Kurcinka, MA, is a best-selling author and internationally recognized lecturer and parent educator. Her books Raising Your Spirited Child, Raising Your Spirited Child Workbook; Kids, Parents, and Power Struggles; and Sleepless in America: Is Your Child Misbehaving or Missing Sleep have been translated into ten languages.

As director of parentchildhelp.com, Mary provides training nationally and internationally for families and professionals, including medical personnel, educators, and social service providers who serve families. Licensed as a parent educator and early childhood teacher, she has pioneered efforts to bring topics such as temperament, neurobiology, the importance of sleep, and emotion coaching into homes, schools, medical practices, and businesses. She is as comfortable as a keynote speaker for major professional conferences as she is working one on one with families in their homes or teachers in their classrooms.

Known for her real-life examples, Mary links research-based information with typical challenging behaviors and provides practical solutions that really work. Her presentations have helped hundreds of thousands of parents and professionals to understand children better, and themselves as well.

Mary’s work has been featured in The New York Times, Parenting magazine, Good Housekeeping, Parent Magazine, Working Mother, First for Women, and Speaker Magazine and on Good Morning America, National Public Radio, Good Morning Canada, Fox Nine News Good Day, and many other national and local television, radio, magazine, and newspaper venues.

She has also presented at the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, National Conference.

A former director of one of Minnesota's largest Early Childhood Family Education programs, Mary is the founder of the Spirited Child and Kids, Parents, and Power Struggles workshops. She also provides individual parent consultations for families and professionals.

Mary graduated with honors from the University of Minnesota with a master's degree in Family Social Science and from Iowa State University with a Bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education.

Born on a third-generation dairy farm, Mary lives with her husband in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is the proud mother of one son and one daughter — now adults with whom she loves to spend time.

Guided Imagery-clarity with specific problem

Length-6 minutes, 35 seconds

Dr. Lara Honos-Webb, host of The Sweet Spot Podcasts shares a guided imagery to provide guidance with a specific problem you might be facing.

Dr. Lara Honos-Webb

Lara Honos-Webb, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice in Walnut Creek, CA. She is author of The Gift of ADHD, The Gift of ADHD Activity Book: 101 Ways to Turn Your Child's Problems into Strengths and Listening to Depression: How Understanding Your Pain Can Heal Your Life, and more than twenty-five scholarly articles. Her work has been featured in Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, and Publisher's Weekly as well as newspapers across the country and local and national radio and television.

She specializes in the treatment of ADHD and depression and the psychology of pregnancy and motherhood; she speaks regularly on her areas of expertise. Honos-Webb completed a two-year postdoctoral research fellowship at University of California, San Francisco, and was, until recently, an assistant professor teaching graduate students. She offers telephone therapy to residents anywhere in California,  Visit her website and podcast.

The Type-Z Guide to Success: A Lazy Person's Manifesto to Wealth and Fulfillment

Length-26 minutes, 59 seconds

Dr. Lara Honos-Webb, host of The Sweet Spot Podcasts, interviews Mr. Marc Allen, author of The Type-Z Guide to Success: A Lazy Person's Manifesto to Wealth and Fulfillment published by New World Library.

Mr. Marc Allen

Marc Allen has had a multi-faceted career. He studied music as a child, and began composing at age 16. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Minnesota in 1968, with a degree in Theater Arts and English Literature. He worked as an actor and composer, then spent most of his twenties studying yoga, Eastern philosophy, Zen Buddhism, and Tibetan Buddhism. At the age of 30, he co-founded New World Library with Shakti Gawain. Marc has guided the company, as President and Publisher, from a small start-up operation with no capital to a major player in the independent publishing world.

He has written several books, including Visionary Business: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Success and A Visionary Life. He has also composed several albums of music, including Breathe, Awakening, and Solo Flight. He lives in Novato, California with his wife and two children. Visit his website.

Guide To Getting It On, 5th Edition

Dr. Lara Honos-Webb, host of The Sweet Spot, interviews Mr. Paul Joannides, author of Guide To Getting It On, 5th Edition published by Goofy Foot Press.

Paul Joannides is a research psychoanalyst, which means he went to school for way too long. He is on the editorial board of the American Journal of Sex Education. Paul is also the cow superintendent at his county fair. He lives on a remote bay in the beautiful Northwest with his wife, daughter, dogs and small herd of livestock. 

Paul writes (and rewrites, and rewrites, and rewrites) the Guide, typesets it, and handles the marketing. In all of the years he has been working on The Guide, the new 5th edition is the first he's ever been happy with. Visit his website.

Grieving Mindfully: A Compassionate And Spiritual Guide To Coping With Loss

Length-25 minutes, 45 seconds

Dr. Lara Honos-Webb, host of The Sweet Spot Podcasts, interviews Dr. Sameet Kumar, author of Grieving Mindfully: A Compassionate And Spiritual Guide To Coping With Loss published by New Harbinger Publications.

Dr. Sameet Kumar

Sameet Kumar, Ph.D., is a Buddhist psychotherapist whose areas of expertise include palliative care, spirituality in psychotherapy, stress management and relaxation, and grief and bereavement. He received his doctorate at the University of Miami, and has also trained with many leading Tibetan Buddhist teachers. He has traveled extensively in India, China, and Tibet, and works at the Mt. Sinai Comprehensive Cancer Center in Miami Beach and Aventura, Florida.

Playing the Quantum Field : How Changing Your Choices Can Change Your Life

Length- 24 minutes, 59 seconds

Dr. Lara Honos-Webb, host of The Sweet Spot Podcasts, interviews Ms. Brenda Anderson, author of Quantum Field : How Changing Your Choices Can Change Your Life published by New World Library.

Ms. Brenda Anderson

Brenda Anderson is vice president for global business development for SmithBucklin, the world's largest association management company. She also serves as CEO of the Society of Incentive and Travel Executives (SITE), a global society with members from eighty-two countries.

She holds a master of liberal arts degree from the University of Chicago and has been named an honorable professor by Shanghai Normal University. Recently, Brenda became an associate with Quantum Ties Inc. a consulting company that operates in the Field every day for its clients. A Chicago resident, she lectures internationally, is a Certified Reiki practitioner, and does One-on-One Intuitive Readings for her clients around the world.  Visit her website.

Wisdom Walk: Nine Practices for Creating Peace and Balance from the World's Spiritual Traditions

Length-21 minutes, 57 seconds

Dr. Lara Honos-Webb host of The Sweet Spot, interviews Dr. Sage Bennet author of Wisdom Walk: Nine Practices for Creating Peace and Balance from the World's Spiritual Traditions published by New World Library.

Dr. Sage Bennet

Dr. Sage Bennett is an ordained minister at Agape International Spiritual Center and the author of Wisdom Walk. She offers seminars, retreats, counseling, and coaching to those exploring the deeper mysteries on their spiritual journeys. A teacher at a number of universities, she lives in Marina Del Rey, CA. Visit her  website.

Mind Over Body: The Key to Lasting Weight Loss Is All in Your Head

22 minutes, 52 seconds

Dr. Lara Honos-Webb, host of The Sweet Spot, interviews Mr. Nordine Zouareg, author of Mind Over Body: The Key to Lasting Weight Loss Is All in Your Head published by Springboard Press.

Mr. Nordine Zouareg

Nordine Zouareg is an International Celebrity Fitness Coach who works with clients from around the world. Nordine has come a long way from being born in the back of a truck in the Sahara desert and contracting Rickets to becoming an acclaimed fitness expert worldwide.

His unique philosophy, which is based on his personal experience as well as the knowledge he has gathered during his 25 years working in the field, addresses the true reasons why people are constantly failing to reach their health and fitness goals. In Mind Over Body he provides all the information and encouragement that have helped his clients to release stress, increase energy, lose fat, and develop muscle tone quickly, effectively, and forever. Visit his website.