Smart Women Talk Radio with Katana Abbott

Katana is excited to welcome Global Speaker & Author of POWERING UP! How America’s Women Achievers Become Leaders, ANNE DOYLE, to Smart Women Talk Radio Some of the topics Anne and Katana will discuss include: Why examples of female SHEroes are essential in overcoming gender bias. Gender & Power in the #METOO era. The importance of Sports for Girls in the era of #METOO. Listen at https://www.ctrnetwork.com/smartwomentalkradio

Katana is delighted to welcome money coach, speaker, author, and founder of Budget Wise Consulting, ROBIN THOMPSON, to Smart Women Talk Radio on Tuesday, April 24th at 3:00 pm ET/12:00 PT/8:00 GMT. Don't miss Robin and Katana as they discuss: Uncovering how unchecked emotions can lead to debt. Helpful strategies to transform your debt into wealth. One of the most important secrets to staying out of debt.

Katana is thrilled to welcome DR. APRIL BENSON, a nationally known psychologist who specializes in compulsive buying disorder and author of To Buy or Not to Buy: Why We Overshop and How to Stop, to Smart Women Talk Radio Some of the topics April and Katana will discuss include: The definition of compulsive buying, including subtypes. Determining when someone’s buying behavior becomes problematic. Where to find the many resources for help with a compulsive buying problem.

Katana is excited to welcome financial therapist, mentor coach, mama-preneur, and author, BARI TESSLER, to Smart Women Talk Radio on Tuesday, Katana and Bari look forward to discussing: The biggest issues women have with money. Smart tips to change your relationship with money. How to get started with this money stuff. You definitely don’t want to miss this fun and informative show!

Join Katana as she welcomes best-selling author NATALIE PACE as they talk about Your Financial Check-up Some of the topics Natalie and Katana will discuss include: - The Thrive Budget. How to stop making the billionaires rich, and start thriving. - Easy-as-a-Pie-Chart Nest Egg strategies to protect your assets and beautiful your bottom line. - What’s safe and how to get safe in a world where Warren Buffett and Alan Greenspan say that stocks and bonds are in a bubble.

Katana and Brent with discuss how this year’s Oscar-nominated movies illustrate the principles underlying the conscious creation process; can provide cautionary tales on how to avoid the pitfall so conscious creation gone awry.

Katana and Beth look forward to discussing: The importance of setting goals. Why we sometimes resist setting goals. How to follow-through on our goals. Beth brings a wealth of leadership and management expertise with extensive experience in communication and self-management. You definitely don’t want to miss this show! Visit http://www.smartwomensempowerment/ for more information.

Join Katana as she welcomes the foremost expert on women and money, Barbara Huson (formerly Barbara Stanny) to Smart Women Talk Radio on Tuesday, January 30th at 3:00 pm EST/2:00 CST/12:00 PST/8:00 GMT for this on-demand show or check in at Smart Women’s Empowerment. Katana and Barbara look forward to answering your questions about: · Overcoming fear of change. · What makes a woman smart. · How to get clarity for making 2018 a powerful and prosperous year.

Listen Now as Katana interviews Captain, Erick Reickert. Join us as we’ll discuss: • Why you should continually challenge yourself, even in retirement. • How to set goals and strive to achieve them. • Why planning is the key to achieving goals. Erick Reickert’s career was in the automotive industry. He was President of New Venture Gear, VP of Powertrain Operations at Chrysler, CEO of Acustar, and CEO of Chrysler Mexico. At Ford, he worked in Product Planning, including six years in Europe. After retirement, he had a sailboat constructed and then sailed around the world and lived onboard six years. He received an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School, and a BS in Engineering from Northwestern University. He is married to Lady Susan and lives in Palm Beach, Florida; London, England; and Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He has two children and five grandchildren. To learn more about Erick Reickert go to SVEscapade.com

Listen Now as Katana interviews Founder of Effortless Mind meditation and author of Effortless Mind: Meditate with Ease and new book, Whispers of the Himalaya, Ajayan Borys. Join us as we’ll discuss: • A secret to make your meditation much deeper. • What it’s like to live in a cave at 10,000 feet in the Himalayas. • A secret to make your meditations effortless every time. Ajayan Borys has instructed and guided thousands of meditation students in North America, Australia, Europe, and India over the past 45 years. He is founder of Effortless Mind® meditation and author of several books, including Whispers of the Himalaya (Purna Press; 2017) and Effortless Mind: Meditate with Ease (New World Library, 2013). Host of Mind Matters Radio on Alternative Talk Radio, he teaches meditation workshops and retreats on meditation in the Pacific Northwest and the Himalayas. He lives in the Seattle area. To learn more about Ajayan Borys go to www.ajayan.com

Listen Now as Katana interviews The Caregiver Champion, Breeda Miller. Join us as we’ll discuss: • Self-care is not Selfish: Creative ideas to allow yourself to take care of yourself • Get Through the Day: Resources to help you get caregiver support • Chuckle up Buttercup: Find ways to bring humor and laughter into your day Our guest today has a passion for helping caregivers and others deal with the stress in their lives and to use humor as coping strategy. Breeda helps people find ways to care for themselves so that they can better care for others. Finding your own humor and grace can make all the difference. In addition to her work as a professional speaker, Breeda works for Michigan Medicine at the University of Michigan where she produces major events for the Medical School and Hospitals. She is a graduate of the University of Detroit and has worked in Detroit radio and television for many years. She has appeared on The Moth Story Hour on NPR. But her most important and rewarding role has been caring for her three children – all adopted, two with special needs and her mother – whom she cared for right up to the end of her life. Now Breeda has created the Caregiver Coffeebreak to help Caregivers Carry On. To learn more about Breeda Miller go to www.breedamiller.com

Listen Now as Katana interviews the Author of The Kickass Single Mom, Emma Johnson. Join us as we’ll discuss: • How to break out of the single-mom poverty mindset even when the entire world assumes you will be a broke single mom! • Why you should say ‘no!’ to alimony, and even child support. • Why every divorce negotiation should start at 50-50 custody Emma Johnson is an award-winning business and personal finance journalist (former AP Finance staff reporter and MSN Money columnist), and founder of the world’s largest platform for single mothers, WealthySingleMommy, as well as the award-winning podcast, Like a Mother. As an expert she has appeared on CNN, Headline News, TIME, FoxNews.com, Oprah.com, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, won Parents magazine’s ‘Best of the Web,’ and is cited as host of a ‘Top 15 Personal Finance Podcasts.’ The Kickass Single Mom: Be Financially Independent, Discover Your Sexiest Self, and Raise Fabulous, Happy Children (Penguin), will be released October, 2017. She has presented at the United Nations Foundation for Gender Equality, and is founder of the Kickass Single Mom Monthly $1K Grant. She lives in Astoria, New York with her children. To learn more about Emma Johnson go to weatlhysinglemommy.com

Listen Now as Katana interviews the Author of The Kickass Single Mom, Emma Johnson. Join us as we’ll discuss: How to break out of the single-mom poverty mindset even when the entire world assumes you will be a broke single mom! Why you should say ‘no!’ to alimony, and even child support. Why every divorce negotiation should start at 50-50 custody Emma Johnson is an award-winning business and personal finance journalist (former AP Finance staff reporter and MSN Money columnist), and founder of the world’s largest platform for single mothers, WealthySingleMommy, as well as the award-winning podcast, Like a Mother. As an expert she has appeared on CNN, Headline News, TIME, FoxNews.com, Oprah.com, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, won Parents magazine’s ‘Best of the Web,’ and is cited as host of a ‘Top 15 Personal Finance Podcasts.’ The Kickass Single Mom: Be Financially Independent, Discover Your Sexiest Self, and Raise Fabulous, Happy Children (Penguin), will be released October, 2017. She has presented at the United Nations Foundation for Gender Equality, and is founder of the Kickass Single Mom Monthly $1K Grant. She lives in Astoria, New York with her children. To learn more about Emma Johnson go to weatlhysinglemommy.com

Katana interviews Author of the newly released book, “Third Real: Conscious Creation Goes Back to the Movies,” and Contributing Expert on Smart Women’s Empowerment, Brent Marchant. Join us as we’ll discuss: • How movies illustrate the principles of conscious creation philosophy • How the conscious creation principles outlined in Brent’s new book build upon the basics he introduced in his first two works • How these principles can help us manifest better-targeted and more fulfilling lives A lifelong movie fan and longtime student of metaphysics, Brent Marchant is the award-winning author of “Get the Picture?!: Conscious Creation Goes to the Movies,” “Consciously Created Cinema: The Movie Lover’s Guide to the Law of Attraction” and the newly released “Third Real: Conscious Creation Goes Back to the Movies,” books that provide reader-friendly looks at how the practice of conscious creation is illustrated through film. Brent maintains an ongoing blog about metaphysical cinema and other self-empowerment topics on his web site, www.BrentMarchant.com. He is also Featured Contributor for Smart Women’s Empowerment, Movie Correspondent for The Good Radio Network, Contributor to New Consciousness Review magazine and radio, and Cinema Scribe segment contributor to Project Bring Me 2 Life radio. To learn more about Brent Marchant go to www.brentmarchant.com

Listen Now as Katana interviews Documentary Filmmaker and Producer of Normal Is Over The Movie, award-winning documentary looking at SOLUTIONS to reverse the path of global decline, Renee Scheltema. Join us as we’ll discuss: • Normal is Over The Movie, connects the dots, and shows that climate change, species extinction, resource depletion, and income inequality are not just independent issues but are all linked. • How are these issues not just problems but they are symptoms of a deeper system problem. • How everyone can do something within his or her own means, and how it will create a ripple effect. Renée Scheltema is a Dutch documentary filmmaker and photographer, living in Cape Town. Her latest feature documentary is called Normal Is Over The Movie (2016) Drs. in Criminology at Leiden University, The Netherlands M.A. University of California, Berkeley. USA. TV-Journalism & Photo-Journalism. B.A. at Law, Leiden University, The Netherlands. Renée has worked for Dutch television as a Director, Producer and Camera-person for 35 years. Many of her documentaries were selected at International Film Festivals. As a photographer, Renée has worked for Magazines and Newspapers in Holland, the US, and South Africa. She was a member of Gamma Liaison in New York, now called Getty Images. To learn more about Renee Scheltema go to http://normalisoverthemovie.com