Relationships

Happy, Healthy Relationships in Three Easy Steps

Jodi Ambrose, author of two relationship books; for men "Sex: How to Get More of It" and its companion for women: "Intimacy: How to Get More of It" joins eHealth Radio and the Relationship Advice Channel.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Jodi Ambrose discuss the following:What prompted you to write your relationship books?Are male/female relationship expectations really that different?You talk about three elements to a successful relationship being Flatter, Folic, and Feed.  Can you explain how to incorporate these into a relationship?What has been the single greatest achievement you have received out of writing these guide books?What future projects are you working on?Tell us one way that relationships can keep things fresh and new and not become boring?
Duration: 11:52
Jodi Ambrose is the author of three books and an award-winning blog. Jodi says: “If it's a blissful love life and darn good food that you want, you are in the right place!” Jodi’s cookbook: Darn Good Eats: The Cookbook for Creative Chefs and Reluctant Cooks hit #1 on Kindles Top 100 Cookbooks! Jodi also entertains the sexes in her first two books Sex: How to Get More of It and Intimacy: How to Get More of It. Each book details 20 things one can do to achieve relationship bliss. With over twenty years of on-camera experience, Jodi has appeared on Chicago’s WGN-TV Midday Fix cooking segment to demonstrate a delicious and easy-to-fix sandwich that both gourmet chefs and everyday cooks will love. She also enjoyed a fun and exciting adventure on Fox 10 News as well as Playboy SiriusXM Radio.
Jodi also writes for men out there to better explain the female brain in her monthly column in The Acquiring Man magazine for the inside scoop on the women in your life.     Jodi has won over 20 blog awards, including Blog of the year, for her sassy, fun and eclectic vibe.
Check out her blog and be sure to follow her on Twitter @JodiAmbrose.

Website: www.jodiambrose.com

Without This Ring: A Woman's Guide to Successfully Living Through and Beyond Midlife Divorce

Abby Rodman, a licensed psychotherapist, renowned relationship expert, speaker and blogger and author of a much talked about new book on midlife divorce: "Without This Ring: A Woman's Guide to Successfully Living Through and Beyond Midlife Divorce," now a best-seller on Amazon with a 5-star rating joins eHealth Radio and the Relationship and Dating Advice Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Abby Rodman discuss the following:What made you decide to choose this topic for a book?What was your mission or objective?This book focuses on divorce in midlife. Can you tell us what is so different about this age group in regards to divorce?What research did you do to write the book?What was the most surprising thing you learned from your research relative to your own experience?Can you describe the most positive and negative aspects of divorce in midlife?What words of wisdom can you share with those individuals who are considering divorce or just starting the process?How can one read an excerpt?  Where can one buy it?
Duration: 14:07
Abby Rodman is a licensed psychotherapist, relationship specialist, speaker and blogger. She the author of the new Amazon bestseller, "Without This Ring: A Woman's Guide to Successfully Living Through and Beyond Midlife Divorce".  She is also the author of Should You Marry Him? A No-Nonsense, Therapist-Tested Guide to Not Screwing Up the Biggest Decision of Your Life and From Bitter to Better: 7 Steps to Recovering from the Divorce You Didn't Want.
Abby has recently appeared on the Today Show with Kathie Lee and Hoda, HuffPost Live, and is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post. With graduate degrees from both Harvard and Boston College, she is regularly sought out by print, broadcast and online media outlets for her expertise on relationship issues.

Website: www.abbyrodman.com

The Method with the Kabbalah Coach, Shimona Tzukernik

Shimona Tzukernik, one of the foremost female authorities on Kabbalah, as it applies to daily life joins eHealth Radio and the Personal Development Channel.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Shimona Tzukernik discuss the following:When did your career start in thought leadership?How does Kabbalah apply to daily life?Tell us about The Method and what inspired you to create it?How is The Method beneficial to individuals and corporations?Can you tell our listeners about your lectures?For listeners looking to make a positive change in 2015, what do you advise?
Duration: 19:59
Shimona Tzukernik’s career in thought leadership began at nineteen as Director of Education for a national youth group. Trained in Fine Arts and Linguistics at the University of Witwatersrand, she went on to teach art history at Funda University in Soweto before furthering her studies in Israel and the United States. In 2006 she established OMEK, a non-profit educational center, which she continues to direct.
Shimona is considered one of the foremost female authorities on Kabbalah as it applies to daily life.  Using this knowledge she created The Method, enabling individuals and corporations to live and lead from the inside out. Having coached hundreds of individuals, she now offers certification in The Method so that others too can provide the same spiritually based transformation for their clients.
Shimona is also a freelance writer and author for the Rohr JLI, the world’s largest network of adult education. Her courses include “Wisdom from Sinai” for college students, currently taught at over 60 campuses in the United States; “Drive Through Life” – a life skills program for teens; and an upcoming course on art as a template for repairing the world.
She has spoken for the United Nations Staff Recreation Council; participated in The Conversation: Jewish in America; and has been featured in media around the world, including a documentary by National Geographic and “Take Me to Your Mother” for NickMom TV.
For over twenty years Shimona has shared her wisdom on a range of topics with tens of thousands of people across the globe. People consistently thank her for “the lecture of a lifetime.” She is renowned for her vast knowledge of Kabbalah and her remarkable ability to make it relevant to people’s every-day lives.

Website: www.thekabbalahcoach.com

Healing the unhealthy relationships and behaviors that kill our happiness and hurt our bodies

Ben Trane, the Owner and Director of Midwest Academy a therapeutic boarding school that focuses on helping students and families through therapy and immersion joins eHealth Radio and the Family Health and Relationships Channel.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Ben Trane discuss the following:What do you see happening with the youth today?Why do you think depression and suicide are becoming so prevalent?What can be done to aid in fixing this epidemic?What options do families have?What success have you found with these families? What works?
Duration: 12:50
Ben Trane was introduced to work in the adolescent treatment field in the summer of 1996 while working at a facility in St. George, Utah. Ben
experienced a process of observing families shift from sick and dysfunctional to whole and healthy. This ignited a passion to be in
service to families in need.
Ben attended Southern Utah University and majored in Business and Computer Science. While in college, he helped start Teens in Crisis. Teens in Crisis provided struggling families the necessary resources to identify and locate treatment programs and educational services to meet their
family’s needs.
Ben also began offering transportation services to provide safe passage for students going into residential care. Through this process he was able
to explore various schools and differing philosophies, and gained vast knowledge of what key components created a successful program.
In 2002 Ben ventured east in hopes to find a good central location within the Midwest region to start his own school. He traveled from the upper part of Wisconsin to southern Texas and found a wonderful placed to call home in Keokuk, Iowa. In the spring of 2003, he married his beautiful
wife, Layani, and they started Midwest Academy in June that same year.
The school started with humble roots with a few close families working together to launch a small, 10-student program. Midwest Academy grew quickly to over 300 students in the first two years. The student body has fluctuated over the years, leading to the determination that a healthy number of students on campus should remain between 120-150 students. Midwest Academy is one of the largest private therapeutic
boarding schools in the country.
Midwest Academy has helped thousands of families since its first student arrived in 2003. During this time Ben has developed a 24-week course on helping individuals and families gain control of their households and personal lives. His dynamic series of personal growth and family seminars are a strong catalyst for change with students and their families. Most students remark that these highly inspired seminars are the most important and memorable part of their healing process.
Ben’s family has grown considerably over the years. He and Layani have 7 children, five biological and two adopted. They reside on the school campus and love the interaction the students can have with their family. In essence, students become an extension of the Trane Family. For The Tranes, Midwest Academy isn’t a job; it is a lifestyle and a passion to be in service to others.

Website: www.midwestacademy.net

How do we minimize the same old/same old couple issues with Natalie Robinson Garfield

Natalie Robinson Garfield a psychotherapist in private practice for
over 30 years working with individuals, couples, and parent counseling
in New York City and the author of The Sense Connection, How Your Five Senses Determine Your Effectiveness as a Person, Partner, and Parent again joins eHealth Radio and the Dating and Relationship Advice Channels. She works with with individuals, couples, families and institutions as a consultant.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Natalie Robinson Garfield discuss the following:As married couples hit a dry spell in their physical relationship, how can a married couple put the sexy back in sex.How do we minimize the “same old/same old” couples isuues.Looking at dating and first time dates how do those going out on a date with someone for the 1st time maximize their potential on first dates.If you would touch on creating harmony out of discord.What is lovingness?
Duration: 16:56Natalie Robinson Garfield has been a practicing psychotherapist in Manhattan and Long Island for over thirty years, specializing in parent-child education. Holding a degree in Infant and Toddler
Development and Administration, Garfield has had an extensive career working in individual, couple, family and group therapy. THE SENSE CONNECTION, based on the theory of sense channel hierarchy, draws on her experience working with private patients and conducting large conferences, discussion groups and workshops. Garfield has primarily focused on psychological and developmental work, but she also has a background in program design, staff training and administration.

Garfield was part of the New Age movement in the 1970s, working
with The Association for Humanistic Psychology, which sought to move
toward a more aware and humane global society. She also designed and
directed various programs within the Children’s Aid Society, which
provided education for families about subjects ranging from childbirth
preparation through parenting. Garfield has also served on the United
Nations Commission for the International Year of the Child, bringing
awareness to problems such as malnutrition and lack of educational
access, affecting children around the world.

She has had over forty years experience as a consultant,
supervising and training staff for various institutions, including
AT&T, American Express, The Gesell Institute for Child Development,
The Montefiore Medical Residency Program, The Gestalt Learning Center,
and the Kings County District Attorney’s office.
Garfield is a founding member of the Association for Parent
Education and is a featured expert on various television documentaries
and radio shows, such as WYNY, CBS Documentary, CBS Evening News,
Current Affair Extra, and ABC Eyewitness News. She is also frequently
interviewed by news media such as New York Magazine, Self, Working
Woman, Cosmopolitan and Parents Magazine. She lives and works in New
York City.

Website: thesenseconnection.wordpress.com

Helping Those 44 and Above Find Love with Leonardo Bustos of the Mate Acquisition Program

The Companionator Leonardo Bustos, Creator of the Mate Acquisition Program, the most logical way to find your best available Love Match in the shortest time possible joins eHealth Radio and the Dating and Relationship Channels. His program is designed to help find love for 44 and above.

Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Leonardo Bustos discuss the following:What is it that you do and how are you different?What is your background?How did you get started & what was the inspiration of creating The Companionator?You mentioned that it’s a scientific approach – how is it scientific?Can you give us some dating tips that you share with your clients?What do you have planned for the future?
Duration: 15:14
Leonardo Bustos first became well known as a relationship and dating expert in 1981, when he wrote and published his first book, "How To Attract Men and Keep Them Interested", followed by "How To Attract Women and Keep Them Interested" under the writer’s name Steven Zapman. They can still be found on Amazon.com and other online book stores.


At the time, he was featured in many publications like Playboy, Cosmopolitan, the L.A. Times and many other journals too numerous to mention. He also garnered plenty of media attention on many radio and television stations - the most prominent being a weekly spot on a nationally syndicated radio program called "Something You Should Know".

He spoke to dozens of organizations and thousands of singles seeking romance and relationships. He had a brief stint teaching a course "How to Attract the Opposite Sex" at Glendale Junior College in the early 1980's.


For marriage and personal reasons, he switched careers and for the next several years became a successful real estate agent and broker marketing multi-million dollar commercial and residential properties.


In the year 2000 he became single again and dusted off his dating skills. Although he had no problem meeting women at the supermarket, nightclubs or through friends, he quickly discovered that far and away the easiest and most practical way to meet single women was through internet dating.

It’s important to know that even with his background and dating skill set, his first entry into the internet dating scene was not very successful – but after several months of research, trial and error, he learned to master it. 

In 2010, he decided to pick up where he left off precisely half his life ago to renew his career as a dating and relationship expert. He upgraded from cassette tapes and VHS video tapes to computers, spreadsheets and the internet.

Since then, he has published “How To Attract Women With Humor” and “The Ultimate Dating System”. For the past several years, he has worked on combining his decades of experience in preparing and marketing million dollar properties on the internet with his expertise in dating and relationships to create a revolutionary, one of a kind video/software program called the Mate Acquisition Program.
Mate Acquisition Program is the only combined Audio/Video and software program in the world that uses data, the internet and coaching to help those seeking love to select and connect with a perfect partner in the shortest time possible. It helps to prepare and market you like a famous celebrity to as many other singles as possible using the latest innovations and techniques in Evolutionary Psychology, data analysis and Internet Technology.

He has been called "The Companionator", and he and his mentor Leonardo Amorado host a free online dating workshop which can be found at his YouTube Channel under MrLsbustos.
His next plan is to market himself on 20 of the top dating websites as the number 1 “Self Proclaimed” Baby Boomer Bachelor to find his best love match using the system he’s created. He’s going to post a headline “Who Wants Fame, Fortune, Travel, Adventure and Romance?” and do a media blitz on local and national programs in order to find his perfect love match. His match must also have the skills and abilities to help him to build the business even bigger. She must also have the same passion and desire to help other lonely singles find their love match by traveling the world to promote the system.
He also plans to shoot a reality/documentary film on how a dating expert finds his ultimate love match by going behind the scenes to show how he creates professional online profiles, how he sends and responds to messages, and how he behaves on dates.
He currently is offering his video/software program for free to the first ones who want to experience the first beta test rollout. You can sign up here at MateAcquisitionProgram.com for more information.

Web Sites: MateAcquisition.com | CallTheCompanionator.com

Finding love at Jewish Home Community Clinical Services in Los Angeles, CA

Dr. Rafael Gonzalez-Amezcua, Medical Director at Jewish Home Community Clinical Services in Los Angeles, CA joins eHealth Radio and the Health Care Channel. Dr. Amezcua has more than 15 years experience as a physician, educator and leader in caring for seniors.

Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Dr. Rafael Gonzalez-Amezcua discuss the following:First tell us a little about Los Angeles Jewish Home and your role there.Today is Sweetheart’s Day at the Jewish Home. I suspect there are some residents who found each other there. Despite the fact many think those over 70 or 80 are too old to fall in love and marry, you have probably seen enough happy seniors who met to dispute that.Do seniors tend to shy away from new romances because of a spouse’s death or divorce?Is it true that single people tend to die earlier than those who are married or have a significant other?Is sex over 70 or 80 safe?Tell us some advice for children who have a single parent who may be 80 or 90 years old and has found love at a retirement home or residence such as yours.Do you think older people are better at finding love than the young?
Duration: 10:43
Dr. Rafael Gonzalez-Amezcua is a Board Certified Internist who is currently the Medical Director for Community Clinical Services for the Los Angles Jewish Home. Among other duties Dr. Amezcua oversees the medical services at the Brandman Centers for Senior Care, a new Program of All-Inclusive  Care for the Elderly(PACE) at the Jewish Home, Skirball Hospice, Palliative Care, Care Transitions, Home Health Agency and assists in the management of the Medical Group and its geriatric  community clinic. Additionally, Dr. Amezcua has a panel of patients for which he is the primary care provider.
Dr. Amezcua attended the University of California at Davis for his undergraduate education and the Rosalind Franklin School of Medicine  in Chicago, Ill. for his medical degree. He completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco CA. Post graduate training includes a fellowship on Health Policy and Leadership at the NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service and a Policy Fellowship at the Central Valley Health Policy Institute at Cal State Fresno.
Dr Amezcua has spent his professional career focusing on care for the poor frail elderly. He first worked at On Lok Senior Health in San Francisco, CA where he helped open and supervised the first PACE clinic in a predominantly Latino community.  While there he joined the Clinical Faculty at UCSF and developed an out patient geriatric rotation for the Internal Medicine program at the San Francisco General Hospital. In 2007 Dr. Amezcua relocated to Fresno CA where he opened and directed a geriatric focused clinic in a poor area through Sequoia Community Clinics, a local FQHC. He soon after was recruited to UCSF Fresno Medical Education Program and became the Medical Director for the General Internal Medicine Clinics. Due to family health issues Dr Amezcua accepted an offer to relocate to the Los Angeles area as Regional Director for Senior Services for AltaMed Health Services Corporation. He later accepted an offer as Interim CEO and CMO for Bienvenidos Community Health Center, a small non for profit clinic in East Los Angeles, where he guided the clinic toward  attaining FQHC status and worked there until joining the Los Angeles Jewish Home.
Dr. Amezcua has been extensively involved in community educational and volunteer activities. While in San Francisco he was a founding member of the Alzheimer’s Association Medical-Scientific Advisory Committee and served as the Chair of the Multi-Cultural committee as well as serving on the Board of Directors. He was a member of the San Francisco Network of Adult Day Centers quality of care initiative and spoke extensively to multiple community and professional groups. Dr. Amezcua was also a Medical Commentator for Univision’s Channel 14 ,KTVU where he had a weekly live TV medical segment for several years.
Dr. Amezcua also has served at the national level, as an advisor to the Director of the NIH as co chair of the Council of Public Representatives, as National Policy Committee of the National Hispanic Medical Association and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, State Solutions grant reviewer.
Dr. Amezcua is married to a pediatrician and have three children. He currently resides in South Pasadena CA.

Web Site: www.jha.orgFacebook: facebook.com/LosAngelesJewishHomeTwitter: @LAJewishHome

Roles the senses play in a person’s life with Natalie Robinson Garfield

Natalie Robinson Garfield a psychotherapist in private practice for over 30 years working with individuals, couples, and parent counseling in New York City and the author of The Sense Connection, How Your Five Senses Determine Your Effectiveness as a Person, Partner, and Parent joins eHealth Radio and the Dating and Relationship Advice Channels. She works with with individuals, couples, families and institutions as a consultant.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Natalie Robinson Garfield discuss the following:
What is the most common complaint or issue people come to you for?What role does medication play with your patients?Do you subscribe to the mind body theories that are now the vogue?What roles do the senses play in a person’s life?Do you think there is a foundational reason so many get depressed after Christmas and suicide rates are up?
Duration: 14:29
Natalie Robinson Garfield has been a practicing psychotherapist in Manhattan and Long Island for over thirty years, specializing in parent-child education. Holding a degree in Infant and Toddler Development and Administration, Garfield has had an extensive career working in individual, couple, family and group therapy. THE SENSE CONNECTION, based on the theory of sense channel hierarchy, draws on her experience working with private patients and conducting large conferences, discussion groups and workshops. Garfield has primarily focused on psychological and developmental work, but she also has a background in program design, staff training and administration.

Garfield was part of the New Age movement in the 1970s, working with The Association for Humanistic Psychology, which sought to move toward a more aware and humane global society. She also designed and directed various programs within the Children’s Aid Society, which provided education for families about subjects ranging from childbirth preparation through parenting. Garfield has also served on the United Nations Commission for the International Year of the Child, bringing awareness to problems such as malnutrition and lack of educational access, affecting children around the world.

She has had over forty years experience as a consultant, supervising and training staff for various institutions, including AT&T, American Express, The Gesell Institute for Child Development, The Montefiore Medical Residency Program, The Gestalt Learning Center, and the Kings County District Attorney’s office.
Garfield is a founding member of the Association for Parent Education and is a featured expert on various television documentaries and radio shows, such as WYNY, CBS Documentary, CBS Evening News, Current Affair Extra, and ABC Eyewitness News. She is also frequently interviewed by news media such as New York Magazine, Self, Working Woman, Cosmopolitan and Parents Magazine. She lives and works in New York City.

Links: thesenseconnection.wordpress.com

The Problem Was Me with Thomas Gagliano

Thomas Gagliano, the author of the book The Problem Was Me with Dr. Abraham Twerski joins eHealth Radio and the Relationship Channel. Thomas is a life coach and a key note speaker with a masters degree in social work.


Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Thomas Gagliano discuss the following:What turned your life aound?How do we change the roles we're set up to play?Who is the Warden and how does he affect our lives?Why is your book different from other books?How do we enhance the intimacy in our lives?How do we strengthen our parenting skills? 
Duration: 11:39
Tom Gagliano has worn many hats throughout his career. As a young man, he soon became a successful entrepreneur with a proven track record in small business ventures in the greater New York area. About ten years ago, Tom started to spend less time in the business world and more time helping those who suffered from negative childhood messages.
To pursue a dream of helping others, he returned to school to receive an MSW at age 51. Today, he is a successful author, life coach, and key note speaker. His book, The Problem Was Me, with Dr. Abraham Twerski, : How to End Negative Self-Talk and Take Your Life to a New Level is one-of-a-kind. It explores how we sabotage the happiness in our lives simply because we are so afraid of intimacy. We become our own worst enemy as we subconsciously push away our loved ones. Tom helps people understand why we push others away so we can enhance the intimacy in our lives.
Chances are you’ve already heard Tom speak. He’s a regular on many national radio talk shows and often appears on the TBN television network.

Links: www.theproblemwasme.com

Biggest mistakes couple's make with Clinical Social Worker Stephanie Manes

Licensed Clinical Social Worker Stephanie Manes, who has extensive experience and training in Individual, Couples and Family Therapy joins eHealth Radio and the Family and Relationship Advice Channels.

Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Stephanie Manes discuss the following: By the time couples come in to you for therapy are most of their marriages too far gone to repair?What do most couples come to you for?What are the biggest mistakes you see couple's making that get them in the most trouble?When a couple's romantic life seems to have died off can they really bring back the spark?Do affairs usually mean the end of a marriage or can a couple ever really recover?
Duration: 7:49
Stephanie Manes is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in with extensive experience and training in Individual, Couples and Family Therapy. She received her MSW from New York University School of Social Work and completed post-graduate certification in marriage and family therapy at the Ackerman Institute for families.
In addition to maintaining a private practice in New York City, she teaches and supervises graduate students in the practice of couples and family therapy. Stephanie has been a part of several couples therapy research initiatives at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital and continues to act as a clinical consultant for the Center for Families and Health at the Ackerman Institute.
Links: www.stephaniemaneslcsw.com