The Sweet Spot Podcasts

The Mindful Woman: Gentle Practices for Restoring Calm, Finding Balance, and Opening Your Heart

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Length-22 minutes, 39 seconds

Dr. Lara Honos-Webb, host of The Sweet Spot Podcast interviews psychotherapist Sue Patton Thoele, author of The Mindful Woman: Gentle Practices for Restoring Calm, Finding Balance, and Opening Your Heart published by New Harbinger Publications.

Sue Patton Thoele

Sue Patton Thoele is a psychotherapist, former hospice chaplain and bereavement group leader, and author of ten books. She and her husband, Gene, live in Colorado, close to their adult children and grandchildren. Her passions include friendships, swimming with free dolphins, being a "soccer grammy," arts and crafts, exploring spirituality with her husband, and encouraging herself and others to find balance, peace of mind, and openheartedness through the gentle practice of increased mindfulness.

Her books include: The Courage to Be Yourself, The Woman's Book of Courage, Autumn of the Spring Chicken, Heart Centered Marriage, The Woman's Book of Confidence, The Woman's Book of Spirit, Freedoms After 50, Growing Hope, The Courage to Be a Stepmom, The Woman's Book of Soul, and The Courage to Be Yourself Journal. Visit her website.

Visit Dr. Lara Honos-Webb's website and blog.

The Greatest Secret of All: Moving Beyond Abundance to a Life of True Fulfillment

MP3 File  Length- 22 minutes, 17 seconds

Dr. Lara Honos-Webb, host of The Sweet Spot Podcast, interviews Mr. Marc Allen, author of The Greatest Secret of All: Moving Beyond Abundance to a Life of True Fulfillment published by New World Library.

Mr. Marc Allen

Marc Allen is an internationally renowned author and president and publisher of New World Library, which he co-founded (with Shakti Gawain) in 1977. He has guided the company from a small start-up with no capital to its current position as one of the leading independent publishers in the country.

Marc is a well-known musician and composer as well, having produced five albums of music for his label Watercourse Media.

Marc is the author of The Type-Z Guide to Success: A Lazy Person's Manifesto to Wealth and Fulfillment, The Millionaire Course: A Visionary Plan for Creating the Life of Your Dreams, Visionary Business: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Success, and many other books and CDs.

He lives in northern California, with his wife and two children. Marc and his wife Aurilene have founded the Brazil Hope Foundation to help street kids in Brazil.

For more information, check out these websites: www.marcallen.com, www.successwithease.net, and www.newworldlibrary.com.

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Rules for Renegades: How to Make More Money, Rock Your Career, and Revel in Your Individuality

Length- 21 minutes, 14 seconds

Dr. Lara Honos-Webb interviews Christine Comaford-Lynch, author of Rules for Renegades: How to Make More Money, Rock Your Career, and Revel in Your Individuality published by McGraw-Hill.

Bill Gates calls her “super high bandwidth.” Bill Clinton has thanked her for “fostering American entrepreneurship.” Newsweek says “by reputation, Christine is the person you want to partner with.”

Christine Comaford-Lynch

Christine Comaford-Lynch is CEO of Mighty Ventures, an innovation accelerator which helps businesses to massively increase sales, product offerings, and company value. She has built and sold 5 of her own businesses with an average 700% return on investment, served as a board director or in-the-trenches advisor to 36 startups, and has invested in over 200 startups (including Google) as a venture capitalist or angel investor. Christine has consulted to the White House (Clinton and Bush), 700 of the Fortune 1000, and hundreds of small businesses. She has repeatedly identified and championed key trends and technologies years before market acceptance. Christine’s popular column on www.BusinessWeek.com/SmallBiz launched January 2007.

Christine has led many lives: Buddhist monk, Microsoft engineer, geisha trainee, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. Her triumphs and disasters are revealed in her best-selling business book: Rules for Renegades: How to Make More Money, Rock Your Career, and Revel in Your Individuality.  Christine has appeared on CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, PBS, CNET and is frequently quoted in the business, technology and general press at large. Stanford Graduate School of Business has done two case studies on her and PBS has featured her in three specials (Triumph of the Nerds, Nerds 2.0.1, and Nerd TV ). CNET has broadcast two specials covering her unconventional rise to success as a woman with neither a high school diploma nor college degree. Christine believes we can do well and do good, using business as a path for personal development, wealth creation, and philanthropy.  Visit her website.

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The Source of Leadership: Eight Drivers of the High-impact Leader

Length-22 minutes, 35 seconds

Dr. Lara Honos-Webb interviews David M. Traversi, M.B.A., J.D. about his book The Source of Leadership: Eight Drivers of the High-impact Leader published by New Harbinger Publications.

David M. Traversi, M.B.A., J.D.

David M. Traversi (48) is currently a Managing Director of 2020 Growth Partners, LLC. 2020 provides executive coaching, strategic advisory, and merchant banking services to private and public growth companies in a wide variety of industries across the U.S. He is also the author of The Source of Leadership: Eight Drivers of the High-Impact Leader (New Harbinger Publications, 2007). He is a frequent speaker on leadership.  Visit his website.

Previously, from 2000 to 2002, Mr. Traversi was the Co-founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer of PRE Solutions, Inc., which founded and built the nation’s largest electronic processor of prepaid telecom products.

Prior to PRE Solutions, from 1997 to 1999, Mr. Traversi was President of Sirrom Capital Corporation, an NYSE-listed financial services and investment firm.

Prior to Sirrom, from 1989 to 1996, he was a General Partner and Managing Director in the Corporate Finance Department of Montgomery Securities (now Banc of America Securities LLC), the nation’s premier investment bank serving growth businesses in the 1990s.

Mr. Traversi is also a Co-founder, and previously served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Financial Officer, of Sensor Platforms, Inc., fabless semi-conductor company serving the sensor industry.

He has served on the boards of directors of a number of public and private companies, and has also practiced as a business lawyer. Mr. Traversi is also an accomplished painter of abstracts and writer. Mr. Traversi has a B.S. degree in Business Administration and Finance from California State University, Chico; an M.B.A. degree from Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley; and a J.D. degree from University of California, Davis.  Visit his website.

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The Power of Coincidence: How Life Shows Us What We Need to Know

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Length-22 minutes, 56 seconds

Dr. Lara Honos-Webb interviews Dr. David Ricco, author of The Power of Coincidence: How Life Shows Us What We Need to Know published by Shambhala.

David Richo, Ph.D., M.F.T., is a psychotherapist, teacher, workshop leader, and writer who works in Santa Barbara and San Francisco California.  He combines Jungian, transpersonal, and mythic perspectives in his work.  Visit his website.

Five Wishes- An Interview With Dr. Gay Hendricks

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Length-23 minutes, 53 seconds

Dr. Lara Honos-Webb, host of The Sweet Spot podcasts, interviews Dr. Gay Hendricks author of Five Wishes: How Answering One Simple Question Can Make Your Dreams Come True published by New World Library.

Dr. Gay Hendricks

Gay Hendricks, Ph.D., has served for more than 30 years as one of the major contributors to the fields of relationship transformation and bodymind therapies. Along with his wife, Dr. Kathlyn Hendricks, Gay is the author of many bestsellers, including Conscious Loving, Spirit-Centered Relationships, and The Corporate Mystic. Dr. Hendricks received his Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Stanford in 1974. After a twenty-one-year career as a professor at University Colorado, he founded The Hendricks Institute, which offers seminars in North America, Asia and Europe.

In recent years he has also been active in creating new forms of conscious entertainment. In 2003, along with movie producer Stephen Simon, Dr. Hendricks founded The Spiritual Cinema Circle, which distributes inspirational movies to subscribers in 70+ countries around the world, www.spiritualcinemacircle.com. He has appeared on more than 500 radio and television shows, including OPRAH, CNN, CNBC, 48 HOURS and others.   Visit the Hendicks Institute website and the 5 Wishes website.

The Gift of Adult ADD

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Length-26 minutes, 51 seconds

Dr. Lara Honos-Webb, host of The Sweet Spot podcast, interviews Mr. Damon Harper.

Mr. Damon Harper is a  physical trainer and life coach who does most of his training on the beach and also in the water. He describes his physical activity and connection to nature as part of his therapy for ADD and how he helps his clients. His passion and purpose reveal the gift of ecological  consciousness in ADD.  Visit his website.

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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.

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.

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.