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Life has its ups and downs, yet how many can overcome the deep valleys of sorrow and come out a winner? This broadcast we will speak of Survival. Detroit native, Jana` Chantel, is a graduate of Grand Valley State University, where she received a degree in creative writing. Inspired by her own personal tragedies, Jana` lends voice to her pain in hopes of helping other young adults work through theirs as well. "The goal of this book is to uplift and inspire. Weve all been through some sort of adversity in our lives, by sharing mines, I hope to help others get through theirs. Ive been through it and came out standing. I want the world to know that they can come out standing too." --Jana` Chantel A fascinating true story that sears into the readers heart, Jana` Chantel presents the details of her tumultuous childhood in Detroit, of a woman whose memory of a violent upbringing is still fresh in her mind. She begins by recalling the death of her mother who was murdered in cold blood when Jana was just a year old. Call in @ 213-769-0952 or visit our chat room. 9PM EDT,8PM CDT,6PM PDT. Be sure to sign up to Authorsinfo & join It Matters chatroom & Group.

Ever think about retiring? Yes, so have we. Perhaps we should think about it a bit more. Were joined with author and businessman Phil Saylor, who says it best.... Retire is a word I never liked. The word retire, along with dramatic emphasis, sounds like you're going to die. Of course, death is inevitable weather we retire or not. Wisdom satisfies the notion that sometimes when you don't like something it's just a pure case of tough stuff. In other words, the word retire is here to stay. I can't do anything about it. I think it's highly over-rated and for sure over-used. “You're retired. So does that mean you don't do anything, or is retired what you do?” When googling retirement, youll be bombarded with financial stuff and AARP insurance sites. That must mean you have to have money to retire. What a novel idea. Who would have thought? Money is a given. My contention is money is only part of what you need. One day you wake up and it happens to be your 65th birthday..., they stuff a gold watch in your hand, give you a cake, a pat on the back & send you down the elevator with a cardboard box of personal items from your desk, you've just retired. Congratulations! If you aren't ready mentally to retire, then you're in for the hardest time of the rest of your life. Most likely your spouse and friends will share in that misery. Call in @ 213-769-0952 to speak to our guest or visit via the chatroom. 9PM EDT,8PM CDT, 6PM PDT

It Matters is thrilled to have as our guest this broadcast, author Laura Lee. The author of the novel, Angel, and a dozen other fine books on topics ranging from Elvis Impersonation to the science behind annoying things, you will find our gues diversified and entertaining. I had to smile whe I saw her most recent release was titled, Broke is Beautiful. Must at least touch base with her on why the title. The San Francisco Chroicle said: "Lees dry, humorous tone makes her a charming companion...She has a penchant for wordplay that is irresistible. Join us this evening as we discuss her book, Angel, as it is not merely what the title suggests, but much more. We will announce when the lines are open for questions and comments. To call in to speak with our guest or hosts, use 213-769-0952 You may also listen, comment and ask questions via our chat room. Show times: 9PM EDT, 8PM CDT, 6PM PDT.

Christine Agro, The Metaphysical Feminist, is an inspirational teacher, author, metaphysical expert, clairvoyant, natural healer and talk show-host who encourages women and girls to live a self-empowered life. Her book, 50 Ways to Live Life Consciously will be hitting Amazon by the end of this month. In Christines own words: "We have the capacity to self-heal, to transform our reality, to create the lives we choose. Our journey is about three things: learning, healing and evolving. Every challenge we encounter offers insight into what we are trying to learn and heal this lifetime." Christine's approach is unique. Whether in a reading or a keynote presentation, she offers insight and guidance that gives YOU the power to change your own life. Find out more about Christines workshops, weekly meditations, and Femtalk by visiting FemSocial or The Conscious Living Guide. Join us as we talk with Christine Agro and delve into living a conscious, empowring and enjoyable life. Please respect our guest, though clairvoyant, we wish to allow her the time to speak of her wonderful works and educate us on Living Life Consciously. If time allows, Christine may be able to do a reading. To speak to our guest, call in at 213-769-0952 or visit via the chat room. Mark your calendar for Thursday, March 29, 9PM EST,8PM CST, 6PM PST.

Chet Shupe is a successful electronics engineer who once suffered profound attention deficit disorder (ADD). With ADD, social relationships baffled him. After years of bewilderment and depression, his condition was finally diagnosed, and effectively treated. Suddenly, at 43, everything made sense. Shupe emerged from ADD with a unique perspective on the way society functions, both individually and collectively. As a scientist, he bolsters every conclusion with logical and compelling examples. As a person of feeling and intuition, he expresses his hopes for humanity with genuine compassion and sincerity. As a whistleblower to the world, he speaks with urgency about the need to make fundamental, radical changes in our way of life, if we are to assure the eventual well being of humankind. Why is our world essentially without relational intimacy, when that is what we want most is to love and be loved? And why are we destroying the habitat that we need to survive? To Shupe, the two issues are related, plus myriads of other ills from which our culture suffers. Shupe offers his answer regarding the source of these issues, and also suggests a path by which to recover our natural state of intimacy in our relationships and of harmony with the natural world. Visit Chets web-site @ Spiritual Freedom Press Join us March 22nd, 9PM EST,8PM CST,6PM PST via our chat room or by calling in to our live broadcast @ 213-769-0952.

For over 25 years, Carolyn Dean, MD, ND has been inspiring and motivating people to be their healthy best. She is a health expert who was one of the first to see the coming obesity, diabetes and chronic health issues epidemic in the U.S. As a result of modern farming methods, she saw the depletion of vital minerals and nutrients from our soils and foods as a root cause of Americas health problems with over 75% of Americans not getting their RDA of the vital nutrient "magnesium". Radio, TV and magazines interview her regularly including ABCs The View, NBC and CBS. Know the Cause with host Doug Kaufmam, Your Health with Dr. Becker, The Womens Connection with Barrie Switzen, Weekend Today in NY, WNBC with Dr. Ian Smith, Health Matters with Christine Crosbie, Global TV to name a few. Shes the medical director for the Nutritional Magnesium Association. www.nutritionalmagnesium.org Join us this evening as we take a closer look at why magnesium is of the utmost importance when considering a healthy way of life. Call in to speak to our renowned guest @ 213-769-0952 or visit via the chat room. 9PM EST, 8PM CST, 6PM PST

Joining us on this broadcast is Mr. Lloyd Rosen, the author of Search For Happiess, My Journey from Darkness Into the Light. This is a feel good story of one mans life, Mr. Lloyd Rosens. He felt compelled to write his story in hope of saving many other people that suffer with depression. In the authors own words, he states " I want everyone to know through reading my book, that there is a light at the end of the tunnel." Well take you on a roller coaster journey from Lloyds teen years up to the present times. From therapy, ADD, failed marriages and ultimately serious suicidal tendencies. Again, quoting Mr. Rosen, " I wrote the book because you can get healthy and lead a very productive life, and make something of yourself." Depression is a very serious subject and something everyone will face at one time in their life. Join our guest as we openly discuss his life, his book, and what anyone can do to overcome deep depression. For this is a work created out of love, understanding and the need to help and reach out to others. Call in to speak with Lloyd Rosen live @ 213-769-0952 or visit via the chat room. 9PM EST, 8PM CST, 6PM PST.

Love Animals? Join us as we discuss, Out of Cages & Into Your Heart, with author and Animal Communicator, Barbara Cyru. In her own words: Hello. Im Barbara Cyru, born and raised in the USA. Have lived between 3 continents all my life, between Europe, America and Middle East. I have moved 26 times as well.. I have learned lessons in my life that words, visions and feelings create my reality. I am a European Certified Trainer, A Psychic, Animal Communicator, and I hold a degree in Human Services. I have been on the Metaphysical journey for over 18 years and have held Spiritual Development Classes for companies in different countries. I absolutely love being the voice of the Animals, they mean the world to me and give so much back in every single way. I am happy to be their voice and to serve them, they are for me the most wonderful and magical world there ever was in every single way. Come join me in the most beautiful world there is, The Animal Kingdom! Barbara Cyrus Call in at 213-769-0952 to speak to our guest or visit via the chat room by clicking on the show link. 2PM EST, 1PM CST, Noon Mountain, 11AM PST.

Marie Crist and her mother Pamela Wright have teamed up to help prevent child abuse and human trafficking, Both debut authors, Crist and Wright have released separate novels introducing readers to fictional secret groups dedicated to protecting the innocent. Readers find themselves rooting on these passionate citizens who hunt down and kill sick and twisted child molesters before they are able to strike again. Crist's Citizen Out and Wright's Justifiable:Oregon capture the emotions of anyone who has felt helpless in the wake of tragic violence or who works in law enforcement and understands the frustrations officers feel when investigations are hampered by bureaucratic hurdles. Crist lives in Pleasant View, Tennessee and her mother in n Glasgow, Kentucky. You may find Marie Crists kindle @: Citizens Out. and Pamela Wrights @ Justifiable (Oregon) Call in to speak with our guests @ 213-769-0952 or visit our chatroom showlink

Frank Romano earned a PhD at University of Paris I, Panthéon Sorbonne. He is a Maître de conférences (assistant tenured professor) at the University of Paris Oueste in the Anglo-American Literature and Civilization Department and a member of the California and Marseille Bars. At present, he teaches law, literature, history and philosophy of law at the University of Paris Oueste and practices law in France and in the United States. The author actively organizes and participates in interfaith events involving Jews, Moslems and Christians in Israel and Palestine. Dr. Romano has also authored a book entitled Storm Over Morocco, Globalization of Antitrust Policies (Mondialisation des politiques de concurrence), Love and Terror in the Middle Eastand a book of poems entitled Crossing Over. Visit Mr. Romanos web-site @ http://www.frankromano-lt.com Join us as we delve into a topic that will surely be of interest to the masses. Call to speak to the author or hosts at 213-769-0952 or visit via the friendly chat room 9PM EST, 8PM CST, 7PM Mountain, 6PM PST

"The science of exercise and nutrition often disagrees with what has been ingrained in us as truth. Sean Preuss works to validate or dismiss those common dogmas of today. As a researcher, health writer, and masters student at Arizona State University, Sean reviews and conducts studies on how exercise and nutrition relate to pertinent issues like type II diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and obesity. Sean has also instructed over 5,000 sessions as a personal trainer. His clients successes have included losing 25 lbs. of fat in six weeks while exercising less than an hour per week, and helping a 72 year old man get back on the golf course in less than two months after hip replacement surgery. In addition to writing research-based articles for his website Health-Actualization www.health-act.net, Sean has been featured in the Arizona Republic and his articles have been shared in a number of gyms and newsletters across the country." Join us Thursday February 9, 2012 9PM EST, 8PM EST, 7PM Mountain, 6PM PST to discuss the importance of healthy eating and regular excercise. Sean will take question during the interview. Now is your chance to speak with a trainer who has viable and positive results for his clients. Call in live @ 213-769-0952 or listen via our friendly chat room.

A New Englander by upbringing and inclination, Kenneth Weene is a teacher, psychologist and pastoral counselor by education. Having retired to Arizona, where he lives with his wife of forty-five years, Ken decided to fulfill a childhood passion and become a writer. Kens poetry and short stories have appeared in numerous publications - both print and electronic. Tales From the Dew Drop Inne is Kens third novel, following Memoirs From the Asylum and Widows Walk. With two other novels and a novella waiting in the wings and a movie script currently under construction, Ken feels more creative now then he has ever been. As one author commented: Tales from the Dew Drop Inne" reads like a darkly humorous sitcom. The tone is both heartfelt and deliciously irreverent, showing that one does not need to hate humanity to appreciate the humor of life. Here are tales of drifters, alcoholics, religious renegades, veterans, and drag queens set in pub that is at once a confessional, a circus, and a psychiatric hospital. --Marina Julia Neary For more information on Mr. Weenes latest release, Tales From the Dew Drop Inne, available on Kindle @ Amazon Join Oana, Monica and Ken as they discuss the human psyche and all it entails. Thursday February 2nd @ 9PM EST, 8PM CST, 7PM Mountain, 6PM PST. Call to speak to our guest and hosts @ 213-769-0952 or visit our friendly chat room via the show link

Lets double the fun this broadcast! How about a chat with two of the newest authors from the ATTMP family? Introducing Barbara Woolley, shell take you on a spiritual/mystical journey of the soul in her newly release novel, Out of the Box"A Souls Surprising Journey chronicles the 25-year modern-day odyssey of the soul now known in the spiritual realms as Lucerne. This saga of actively lived soul retrieval and karmic resolution begins with the authors sudden transcendent remembrance of being born into this lifetime. herself and others. At times hilarious, at times shocking, every word is true! Our next guest, Kaycee Nilson, will get those blood thirsty cravings surging with her newly released novel, Night Falls On Chicago .For millenia, "The Code" has protected vampires from discovery. It has maintained the balance of power and provided the guidelines and laws by which all vampires must live. IT IS ABOUT TO BE SHATTERED! From Spiritual Journeys to the inner code of the Chicago Vampires, were sure to entertain. Call in @ 213-769-0952 or visit via the chatroom. 9PM EST, 8PM CST, 7PM Mountain, 6PM PST Lets support our female authors! Show More Show Less

Marvin D. Wilson has a widely varied and rich life experience background, from Hippie Rock and Roll musician,nightclub entertainer, Zen student,ordained Buddhist minister, carpenter, small business owner, network marketer,sales and sales training, skilled trades instructor and adult education teacher, to public speaker and motivational coach. Now in his chosen “golden years” career, a writer and multi-published author with the self-proclaimed, “audacity to write novels.” He is a professional editor, on staff with All Things That Matter Press and takesfreelance projects as well. Wilson describes his spiritual path as one who is a non-religious, dogma-free, maverick spiritualist Christian, with a strong bent toward Zen, Taoism, and the Law of Attraction, and who believes in the Oneness of all creation and all paths leading to re-awakening to the One. He is the proud father of three grown children and seven (and counting) grandchildren, and enjoys organic gardening as well as listening to, writing, performing and recording music—when not writing, travelling, and marketing his books. Marvin writes primarily in the spiritual/inspirational genre, but likes to pen “cross-over” novels that appeal to a wide audience. His books are uplifting, sometimes weighty, oftentimes humorous, abidingly thought-provoking, meant to instil and create passion and emotion, more than occasionally provocative to the point of controversial, and always “tell it like it is”, real world, no punches pulled writing. He likes to deliver spiritual messages in a non-preachy, often irreverent, sometimes sexy and ribald way, through the medium of an entertaining story. Check out Marvins Blog: The Old Sillys Free Spirit Blog 9PM EST 8PM CST 7PM MTN 6PM PST - visit chatroom or call 213-769-0952

My dad grew up in a community in Arkansas that is still reached by driving seven miles on a dirt road off a two-lane blacktop. He attended a one-room schoolhouse that is still standing and joined the military as soon as he was old enough. Every summer, when I was a kid, we drove 500 miles or so to visit the folks. Except for the long drive, it was fun because they lived like old-time cowboys – no electricity, no plumbing, no milk delivery. My mom took a lot of naps, but I helped my grandmother feed chickens and collect eggs, pick just enough vegetables from the garden for dinner (lunch) or supper, and although I stayed away from the cow, I shook cream into butter in a big mason jar. One day, when I was living in Austin, Texas, I asked myself: I wonder if my grandmother ever fell in love with anyone else and decided to write a short story about a love triangle on a farm in Arkansas. That story turned into 300 pages called TOM'S WIFE. The details of buildings, natural landscape and weather are accurately set on my grandparents' farm. The characters of Annie and Tom Huckaby are composites of people I met in Arkansas with unique characteristics added. Jake's character is based on reading Stephen Birmingham's book, Our Crowd, the story explaining how the Jewish banking firms started in NYC by sending their sons into the South as peddlers then loaning out the profits to other immigrating Jews. Alana Cash is an award-winning filmmaker and author. She taught writing classes at the University of Texas Informal Classes in Austin, Texas, and was one of 60 U.S. teachers chosen to be profiled in the PBS series "A Writers Exchange." She currently lives in Los Angeles. Join us as 9PM EST,8PM CST, 7PM M 6PM PST 213-769-0952 or visit via our chatroom