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Bonnie Groessl is a nurse practitioner and holistic coach. She is board certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center as a Family Nurse Practitioner and has additional training in integrative medicine, mind-body techniques, energy work, as well as headache and chronic-pain management. Bonnie owns The Bridge to Health, an integrative healing center. She has recently taken her practice to the virtual world at www.BonnieGroessl.com, reaching people across the globe with webinars, coaching and membership programs. You can find The Bridge to Health on Facebook, where Bonnie shares daily inspirational thoughts.   The Bridge to Health radio show on Blog Talk Radio airs every Monday at 4 pm CT. Her YouTube channel, Holistic Pain Relief, features short videos with tips for relief from physical and emotional pain. Bonnie is recognized as an expert in helping people make changes to achieve their goals. Her focus is on providing an integrative, holistic approach to people with chronic emotional and physical pain. Clients learn tools that bring together mind-body medicine, nutrition, energy medicine, and spirituality to help them enjoy the lives they deserve. Bonnie is active in public speaking and presenting workshops for professionals and the public. Her guided meditation CDs are available worldwide as digital downloads. Her first book, “The Choice is Ours – Five Keys to Health, Happiness and Abundance,” teaches some of the tools she uses in helping people achieve the lives they want.

Laurie received her undergraduate and graduate school training from Boston University School of Nursing. In order to learn how to become a “real” nurse, Laurie worked briefly as a staff nurse on an inner city surgical ICU before pursuing her passion in psychiatry. Over the next twenty plus years, she worked as a staff nurse and head nurse on many psychiatric units. While writing The Comfort Garden: Tales from the Trauma Unit, she raised her three children, co-wrote musicals for her children’s high schoo

Mary has been a Holistic Registered Nurse for over 35 years, working in Pediatrics, Med-Surg, Psychiatric, Home Health and Case Management. She also holds a BS in Health, is a L.E.A.N. & Expectations Wellness Coach, and was honored to be one of 23 nurses chosen to be on the DVD honoring nurses, entitled ‘A Work of Heart’.  Mary is the owner and Wellness Coach for Holistic Healthy Solutions, providing education and tools for improving health and wellness.  She has a goal of improving the health of the world one person at a time through education, and empowering others to take control of their wellness.  Mary speaks internationally to groups of all ages on Health, Wellness and Nutrition. 

Keith and Kevin discuss topics from employee retention, productivity, leadership, corporate bureaucracy and the like. What solutions do you propose to impact a positive change?

Throughout her 30 plus year nursing career, Phyllis has practiced in a variety of emergency services, acute care and long term care settings. She is nationally certified in Critical Care Nursing, Emergency Nursing, Continuing Education/Staff Development, and Legal Nurse Consulting. Dr. Quinlan has held senior leadership positions in administration and education in emergency services, acute care and long term care facilities in the Greater New York area and its suburbs. A graduate from Molloy College in Rockville Center, New York, she holds a B.A. in both Psychology and Sociology. She received her baccalaureate degree in Nursing in 1978 and a Masters Degree from The New School of Social Research in Healthcare Management and Urban Policy. Phyllis completed her PhD in Healthcare Administration at Warren National University in 2008 and founded her Firm, MFW Consultants in 1994. She is a graduate of the Nancy SantoPietro & Associates Feng Shui Training Program and has promoted balanced living and a healthy work environment as a Feng Shui Practitioner since 1999. While she has worked with clients in adjusting their living spaces, she specializes in work space/office space adjustments. Recently, she has launched a new Personal Coaching service where she blends traditional coaching practices with Eastern philosophy and energetic healing.  

Martine Ehrenclou, M.A., is an award-winning author, patient advocate and speaker.  Her first book, Critical Conditions: The Essential Hospital Guide To Get Your Loved One Out Alive received 15 book awards.  In her newest health book, The Take-Charge Patient: How You Can Get The Best Medical Care, Martine empowers  readers to become  proactive and effective participants in their own health care.  Her mission is to bring to light the importance of being an advocate for oneself and others. Through her books, articles, blog, and lectures, Martine Ehrenclou reveals insider information on how to interact effectively with medical professionals and navigate the health care system.

Jamie G. Dougherty received her Holistic Health Coach certification from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and Columbia University andis accredited by the American Association of Drugless Practitioners. With her private and corporate practice, she offers support to individuals and large groups nationwide. Jamie speaks on the topics of eating well, unadulterated self-care, body love, and authenticity while maintaining (and enhancing) your life each and every day. She inspires ladies (and adventurous men) to get real and get back in the kitchen through exciting, tasty, and often hilarious cooking classes. Jamie writes snazzy self-care articles, food stories and too-good-to-be-true recipes on her blog, and writes on other websites and online magazines. She has written two digital cookbooks--Spring Forward to a New You and How to Savor the Holidays While Saving your Waistline and Sanity that continue to fly off the (metaphorical) shelf. Jamie can be contacted at www.jamieliving.com.

Colleen Humphries is a RN with over 23 years of nursing experience. She is also a Reiki Master, popular speaker, Life Coach in demand, and best-selling author. Colleen experienced the painful (and ugly) effects of burnout in her life and career, where it almost cost this seasoned nurse her job on more than one occasion.  After getting caught up in the Rat Race, she took back control and got relief from the burnout that had taken over her life. Colleen now guides nurses and other professional women to feel alive again, leading them out of the burnout that is affecting their lives mentally, emotionally, and physically. She works with them to take back control of their lives (personally and professionally), return to balance, and regain what is really important to them: time for themselves and their families.

Sue Bock has a diverse background in nursing, technology, corporate, & sales fields. For the past 20 years. Ms. Bock has been enjoying her nursing career, providing knowledge, compassion, and a sense of humor to her patients.  A co-active life coach, trained at one of the top professional coach training schools in the world, her passion for life is motivating her to share her gift of compassion and courage with others.  Her own experience with breast cancer gives her a unique perspective into the vulnerability of life. Ms. Bock’s own curiosity and desire for a bigger life has brought her to a better understanding of the human condition.  She uses her sense of humor to bring a sometimes intense situation into perspective.  Ms. Bock’s articulate, non-judgmental, easy to talk to style, opens up an environment for clients to feel at home. She is a reliable confidante who is honest but gentle with her responses. Ms. Bock’s passion for the adventure of traveling, helps her to appreciate the differences and similarities among us.

In this special episode of RN.FM Radio, Kevin Ross and Keith Carlson--the co-hosts of RN.FM Radio--will take turns interviewing one another about life, nursing, healthcare, entrepreneurship, coaching, and any other subjects that happen to come up in the course of their wide-ranging discussions. As co-hosts of RN.FM Radio since its inception in January of 2012, Kevin and Keith have great radio chemistry, and this episode will allow them to sit back, put their feet up, and talk about their personal and professional lives in a way that the show's format usually doesn't allow. Tune in for Keith and Kevin's uncensored interviews of one another on RN.FM Radio!

Jerome Stone is a Registered Nurse with over thirty years in a variety of health-care settings, including pain management, hospice care, ICU, and research in complimentary and alternative medicine. He is a long-time practitioner of meditation, with an emphasis in the study and practice of Tibetan Buddhism and an interest in Christian and Kabbalistic Contemplation. In addition to his Nursing degree, he also holds degrees in Environment Education and a dual-degree in Comparative Mythology and Depth Psychology. During his appearance on RN.FM Radio, Jerome will discuss his book, "Minding the Bedside: Nursing From the Heart of the Awakened Mind".

Dr. Foley is one of the world’s foremost experts on healthcare worker safety. She is the Director at the Center for Nursing Research and Innovation at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Nursing. Safe in Common is a non-profit organization of healthcare safety advocates committed to making their working environment safe from the risk of needlestick injury. We’re currently ramping up an initiative to get 100,000 people to sign the Needlestick Safety Pledge.

Lorie A. Brown graduated from Indiana University school of nursing with a BSN in 1982. She then attended the University of California at Los Angeles school of nursing and obtained a master's degree. She actively practiced nursing for twelve years in various areas such as medical-surgical nursing, gynecology, urology, neurosurgery, orthopedics, general surgery and home health care. Ms. Brown then attended Indiana University school of law and obtained her J.D. in 1990. After law school, Ms. Brown was employed at the Department of Insurance defending the interests of the Patient's Compensation Fund. For the next six years, Ms. Brown defended physicians and hospitals for medical malpractice. Ms. Brown now focuses her practice on assisting plaintiff attorneys with medical issues in their cases. Because of her defense experience, she looks at cases with a critical eye and because of her relationship with hundreds of physicians throughout the state, she is able to locate expert witnesses in several different specialties.

The Healthier Hospitals Initiative (HHI) is a national campaign to implement a completely new approach to improving environmental health and sustainability in the health care sector. Eleven of the largest, most influential U.S. health systems, comprising over 475 hospitals with more than $20 billion in purchasing power, worked with Health Care Without Harm (HCWH), the Center for Health Design and Practice Greenhealth to create HHI as a guide for hospitals to reduce energy and waste, choose safer and less toxic products, and purchase and serve healthier foods. With these eleven sponsoring systems as anchors, the initiative will enroll at least 2,000 hospitals in 50 states and the District of Columbia over the next three years to implement sustainable operations, and will measure the impact on improved patient, worker and community health and reduced costs. As a comprehensive, sector-wide initiative, HHI is fully consistent with and builds upon the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Triple Aim – Better Health, Better Care and Lower Costs, and will institute frameworks and implementation tools that can be used by every healthcare facility in the nation, for no charge.

Teri Mills, MS, CNE, RN is the President of the Executive Board of the National Nursing Network Organization (NNNO), which is dedicated to insuring that the same quality of health care afforded to past generations of Americans is available to future generations. The mission of the NNNO is to promote, encourage, and support a National Nurse for Public Health and other projects that promote wellness and disease prevention.