Heart Filled Holidays

This week's show covers a topic near and dear to my heart because it's something that brings so much happiness to so many women - simplification. This is a fabulous tool for enjoying our life with less stress and less frustration. Join us as we look at tips and techniques for easing the stress and increasing the joy by making things easier. Beth Bracaglia, CEO of Simply Organized, shares her ‘Top Ten Tips to Simplify Your Life'. She covers all the bases with tips and ideas that are sure to lighten your load.

This show is all about gratitude. This is the second show in our Holiday Business series where we talk about things of interest to business owners. Whether you work part-time from your home or run a medium sized company you’ll want to tune in. We looked at ways to strengthen and grow your business while staying happy and enjoying your own holiday season. Lori Saitz, owner of Zen Rabbit, joined us to discuss ways we can use simple gratitude to grow our business and increase our bottom line. So be sure to let your friends and associates know about this special broadcast.

This week's show is all about the gift and challenges of ADD/ADHD. We're looking at the stress, the fun, possibilities and solutions. Joining us for this special episode is Margit Crane. Margit coaches children, teens and families and has ADD herself. She'll be busting myths, sharing insights and giving us strategies and tips so you won't want to miss this! Whether you have a child or spouse with ADD or you have it yourself you're sure to find a nugget in this show.

This week's show is all about you! We’re talking about who you really are, what you really want and how to get it. Vanessa Wesley, co-author of Your Essential Whisper, joins us to enlighten us on what this whisper is, how to find it and follow it so you can lead a life that feels right to you with less stress, more energy and more joy. Then we wrap things up with A Healthy Christmas: 9 Simple Tips for Reducing Calories and Promoting Fitness During the Holiday Season.

This week’s show is all about beauty. We’re talking about beautiful holidays, a beautiful you and a beautiful life. Kathleen Ellis was the inspiration for this show. Kathleen specializes in lifestyle design where she walks us through creating and enjoying our inner beauty, outer beauty, and surrounding beauty. I’m happy to announce that she’ll be joining us on the show to give us her unique perspective on creating and living a totally beautiful life.

This show is all about our kids! We talk about the real blessing of children and 4 Rules for Avoiding Holiday Meltdowns in Your Kids. Plus Kristin Beltaos joins us to share her tips for keeping your kids safe while still enjoy your celebrations when handling childhood food allergies.

This week is all about Christmas; from ways to have summer fun that makes for a better holiday to gifting and saving strategies. Christmas in July is a prime time to do a little prepping and planning while we have fun and enjoy our summer too. So we're spending this hour talking about Christmas, ways you can make it better by having fun now, interesting ideas for gift wrap, plus tips and ideas for doing simple things now that make December better.

This week we're talking about you because you are the person who can have the largest and fastest impact on your happiness for the holidays and everyday. We'll be talking about how you determine your own happiness with simple tips and strategies for being happier more often. Carla Wynn, The Mindset Diva, takes a deep dive with us on and shares some strategies for shifting your mindset including her 'Take 5' technique. Then we pop on over to Christmas Corner to take a look at how you can use your mind to create a happier Christmas.

Take a look at the upcoming holidays along with some simple tips for enjoying your 4th of July a little bit more. Then join us as we explore the creative nature of communication with leading communication authority Lisa Giruzzi. Lisa explains how our creativity affects our ability to communicate and to get what we want. She gives us tips for turning things around so we can avoid common struggles and have happier holidays and everydays.

A quick peek at the upcoming holidays including some ideas for celebrating Fathers' Day and then on to our interview with Therese Skelly. This interview is designed for business owners who want to find that sweet spot where you are doing what you really love, what you're really great at, and putting out in the world through your business. Therese Skelly provides an incredible, energizing, 40 minute interview with insights and the $64,000 question you must ask yourself.

Join us in a conversation about creativity. Look at some different ways to celebrate some of the upcoming holidays as well as creative solutions to some common Christmas problems. Listen in as our guest, Drew Emborsky, talks to us about creativity; what it is, how we can tap into it and how we can use it to make our celebrations and our life better.

What better time to look at memories than Memorial Day? This week’s show explores ways we can create more memories as well as the relationship between memories and traditions. Join us as we look at interesting and creative ways to use memories to add more joy and meaning to our holidays and our lives.

Since creating and enjoying holidays involves other people that means we need to talk to them. This week we'll be looking at some when, why and how to do that. We'll even bring back noted communication authority, Lisa Giruzzi, who will explain why "It's Not What You Say, it's What They Think it Means. Effective communication is way more about listening than speaking, and more precisely it is almost entirely about the listening of the person or people to whom you are speaking. Join us as Lisa shares strategies for helping people to hear what you are saying and avoid those pesky miscommunications that cause stress and heartache.

With summer racing toward us at breakneck speed it's time to get ready for vacation. Whether you're spending the summer at home, traveling, or visiting family and friends, summer is a great time to relax, have fun, grow relationships and even create better Christmas holidays. On this Monday's show we'll be talking all about summer vacation. Our guest, Lori Irwin, will be joining us to share the new Summer Vacation Planning Guide being distributed through Virginia Saves. We'll look at finances, fun and family opportunities. Then, in Christmas Corner, we'll be talking about leveraging our summer fun to have a better Christmas.

This week we'll be pulling back some curtains and peeking at the things we often times don't really notice. We'll be looking at "unseen gifts", things that help us, make us happier, healthier and more peaceful. We'll look at benefits that happen behind the scenes as well as ways to capitalize on these gifts. Our guest, Beth Buelow is the Introvert Entrepreneur and she'll be shedding some light on what it means to be an introvert so we can do away with the myths while discovering the gifts and strengths of introverts as well as discovering how "innies" and "outies" can easily co-exist.

This week's show is all about feeling better, from the inside out. We'll be tackling the issue of stress, how to recognize, use it and turn it around. Not only will we give you ideas and tips to use yourself, we're bringing in an expert to shine a light on stress in our children's lives as well. Dr. Charlotte Reznick will join us and tell us specific techniques we can use to help our kids reduce stress, sleep better, and feel great.

This Monday we're kicking back and talking about how we will spend our time off! We’ll kick off the show with some ideas & tips for staycations then Angie Bryant will join us to talk about the ins and outs of travel. We’ll be talking about traveling with kids what to do when you have to leave them behind. We’ll talk about logistics and tips as well as our attitude and mindset. Then we'll pop in to Christmas Corner to take a peak at how travel can affect our holiday.

It's a green show today! From Earth Day to entertaining to Christmas we'll be talking about all things green. And, since getting ready for an event takes time, energy and money, all of which we would all love to conserve, we'll take an inside peek at how you can just that. Gina Murphy-Darling a.k.a. Mrs. Green is joining us to teach simple strategies for entertaining with beauty, ease & grace that just happen to easy on our planet too.

Today's show is all about communication! Kicking off we'll talk about the power of words as well as taking a peek at the upcoming holidays. Then our guest, Lisa Giruzzi, will talk to us about those moments when we really wish we had just kept our mouth shut but instead we find ourselves back-pedaling and trying to make amends. Lisa Giruzzi, a leading communications expert, will be giving us the inside scoop on this phenomenon, why it happens, how to handle it and how to keep out of hot water in the first place.

This week is all about magic, money & mindset from the upcoming holidays to making giving a meaningful part of our Christmas holidays. Kate Sanner, founder and CEO of Vivacity, will join us to discuss Making Room for Magic in Your Life