Advice Goddess Radio: Amy Alkon

Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio: "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in therapy and research. This week's guest is psychiatrist and business coach Dr. Mark Goulston, author of the terrific book "Just Listen," which is not only about listening but about how to get through to absolutely anyone. Listen live at this link or download after the show (click "Play in your default player"). And do call in with questions when the show is live -- 347-326-9761 Join me and all my fascinating guests live every Sunday from 7-8pm Pacific, 10-11pm Eastern at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon

Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio: "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in therapy and research. This week's guest is therapist and sex therapist Dr. Marty Klein, ripping away widely held myths about sex to help everybody listening improve their sex lives. We'll be discussing his new book, Sexual Intelligence: What We Really Want from Sex--and How to Get It.  Listen live at this link or download after the show (click "Play in your default player"). And do call in with questions when the show is live -- 347-326-9761 Join me and all my fascinating guests live every Sunday from 7-8pm Pacific, 10-11pm Eastern at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon    

Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio: "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in science.  These guests all have really compelling things to say about how to be smarter in being human.   This week's guest will be evolutionary psychologist Dr. David P. Barash, author of Payback, talking about revenge: why we seem to need it, the different kinds, and how we might avoid leaping to clobber those who do bad things to us.   His book, Payback: Why We Retaliate, Redirect Aggression, And Take Revenge, co-authored with psychiatrist Dr. Judith Eve Lipton, is at this link: http://amzn.to/J91H6W   Listen live at this link or download after the show (click "Play in your default player"). And do call in with questions when the show is live -- 347-326-9761 Join me and all my fascinating guests live every Sunday from 7-8pm Pacific, 10-11pm Eastern at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon

  Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio: "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in science.    These guests all have really compelling things to say about how to be smarter in being human. This week's guest is Dr. Robert Kurzban, author of "Why everyone (else) is a hypocrite." He will explain how our mind’s makeup makes us prone to hypocrisy and less-than-ideal behavior, and ways we can counteract that.  Link to listen live or pick up the weekly podcast of all the shows:   http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon    The show is live every Sunday, 7-8 p.m. Pacific Time, 10-11 p.m. Eastern Time. There's a call-in number at the link when the show is live.    To download the podcast to your MP3 player afterward, click on "play in your default player"   And, in case you haven't heard, my latest book is I See Rude People: One Woman's Battle To Beat Some Manners Into Impolite Society. My recent Anderson Cooper appearance to talk about my book here: http://www.andersoncooper.com/2012/04/30/rudeness-described-as-a-form-of-theft/   

**Show is at different time this week, 6-7pm Pacific, 9-10pm Eastern, because I'm in New York to do a national TV show on Monday for my book "I SEE RUDE PEOPLE," and have to get to bed early! Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio: "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in therapy and research -- all with really compelling things to say about how to be smarter in being human. My guest tonight on Advice Goddess Radio, Dr. Ofer Zur, has some of the most eye-opening and breakthrough views on who becomes a victim or a victimizer, and why, and what can be done to change this. Listen live at this link or download after the show (click "Play in your default player"). And do call in with questions when the show is live -- 347-326-9761 Join me and all my fascinating guests live every Sunday from 7-8pm Pacific, 10-11pm Eastern.

    Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio: "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in therapy and research -- all with really compelling things to say about how to be smarter in being human. Tonight on Advice Goddess Radio, Dossie Easton, co-author of a terrific book, "The Ethical Slut," that I've been recommending for years to people who ask me about sexually open relationships -- whether they can handle one, how to handle them, all the questions they have. This promises to be a fascinating and eye-opening show, and one not to be missed even if you aren't personally interested in having more than one sex partner. Dossie will get into myths about ways we view love and sex, and smarter, healthier ways of thinking that are illuminating for all. Buy "The Ethical Slut" at Amazon: http://amzn.to/IdleRm Listen live at this link or download after the show (click "Play in your default player"). And do call in with questions when the show is live -- 347-326-9761 Join me and all my fascinating guests live every Sunday from 7-8pm Pacific, 10-11pm Eastern.

NOTE TO LIVE LISTENERS ON APRIL 22: April 22 Dossie Easton show is at this link: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon/2012/04/23/advice-goddess-radio-amy-alkon Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio: "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in therapy and research -- all with really compelling things to say about how to be smarter in being human. My guest tonight was supposed to be therapist Dossie Easton, co-author of The Ethical Slut, but due to circumstances beyond our control, she can’t be with us. I’m going to replay one of my favorite past shows, with the terrific Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky, author of The How Of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting The Life You Want. She’ll tell you the actual practical steps you need to take to be happier -- and stay happy. And I think you’ll love the show.  Join me and all my fascinating guests live every Sunday from 7-8pm Pacific, 10-11pm Eastern.

  Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio: "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in psychology and research -- all with really compelling things to say about how to be smarter in being human.   Tonight on Advice Goddess Radio, Dr. Carl Alasko, author of Emotional Bullshit, on how to cut the delusion, drama and denial out of your relationships and be accountable...and happier personally and together. Buy his book here: http://amzn.to/IawSLy   Listen live at this link or download after the show (click "Play in your default player"). And do call in with questions when the show is live -- 347-326-9761   Join me and all my fascinating guests live every Sunday from 7-8pm Pacific, 10-11pm Eastern.

Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio: "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in psychology and research.  These guests all have really compelling things to say about how to be smarter in being human.   This week's guest is Dr. David J. Ley, author of the brand new book, "The Myth of Sex Addiction." He’s going to tell us why he thinks we’re making a big mistake throwing around the term “sex addiction.” He’s also going to throw in some tips for better, hotter sex, from his work treating people with sex problems. So, stick around for an hour of very interesting and very good sex.    The show is live every Sunday, 7-8 p.m. Pacific Time, 10-11 p.m. Eastern Time. There's a call-in number at the link when the show is live.    Link to listen live or pick up the podcast:   http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon    To download the podcast to your MP3 player afterward, click on "play in your default player"   And, in case you haven't heard, my latest book is I See Rude People: One Woman's Battle To Beat Some Manners Into Impolite Society. It's only $12.75, brand new, with Amazon's discount. (New copies and Kindle go against my advance, and help me keep writing...and eating.)    

Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio: "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in psychology and research -- all with really compelling things to say about how to be smarter in being human. Tonight's guest, social psychologist Dr. Roy Baumeister. One of the most practical and helpful self-help books I've read recently is Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength, by Dr. Roy Baumeister and John Tierney -- on an issue we all have issues with: self-control -- how to have more of it and how to have less of what we do have depleted. Link to book: http://amzn.to/GOoe6l Many of the studies in the book are from Baumeister's own lab, and he promises to be a fascinating guest. I've already improved my life with insights from the book, like by understanding how willpower gets depleted so I can conserve mine for important things (like writing). I can't imagine that anyone who listens to this show will come away without tips for how they can improve their life -- and be a little more relaxed about the stuff they anguish over related to self-control.   Join me and all my fascinating guests live every week from 7-8pm Pacific, 10-11pm Eastern, and listen to all my previous shows and listen live at this link:    http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon

  Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio: "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in psychology and research -- all with really compelling things to say about how to be smarter in being human.   This week's guest is Loyola evolutionary psychology professor Dr. Michael Mills On Why Women Shouldn't Ask Men Out On Dates And Other Sex-Based Differences. He'll talk about how we're biologically and psychologically different and the ways that should be a guide for our mating and dating behavior.    The show is live every Sunday, 7-8 p.m. Pacific Time, 10-11 p.m. Eastern Time. There's a call-in number at the link when the show is live.    To download the podcast to your MP3 player afterward, click on "play in your default player"

Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio: "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in psychology and research.    These guests all have really compelling things to say about how to be smarter in being human.   This week's guest is therapist Dr. Frederick Woolverton, co-author with Susan Shapiro, of a terrific new book on addiction, "Unhooked." Buy the book here: http://amzn.to/yPUHez   Details on the show here: http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2012/03/11/advice_goddess_46.html   The show is live every Sunday, 7-8 p.m. Pacific Time, 10-11 p.m. Eastern Time. There's a call-in number at the link when the show is live.    To download the podcast to your MP3 player afterward, click on "play in your default player"

  Nationally syndicated advice columist Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio -- "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in science.   Tonight's guest is one of the rock stars of anthropology, Dr. Robert Trivers. Tonight, we'll be talking about his very interesting new book, "The Folly of Fools," on deception and self-deception, which I've quoted from in my syndicated column.   He'll lay out we evolved to be liars, and how, in order to lie better to others, we often lie to ourselves first. (Even infants practice deception.) We'll discuss the myths people believe about how they can detect lies, and discuss how “cognitive load” (limitations of memory and mind) plays a big part in our detection of deception in others and how minimizing it in ourselves helps lesson our chances in getting caught in a lie.   By the way, Trivers' breakthrough research and thinking on reciprocal altruism informed my thinking on why people are rude and how to change things that I wrote about in my book, "I See Rude People."    Join us every Sunday, 7-8pm Pacific, 10-11pm Eastern, with podcasts available afterward.

  Nationally syndicated advice columist Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio -- "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in science.  This week, better sex! My guest is Michele Weiner Davis, author of the extremely helpful book, "The Sex-Starved Marriage," which I've referenced in my advice column.    This is a show on how to bring the sex back into your relationship and manage things if one of you wants it more than the other (or if one of you wants it and the other wants it not at all).   It was really interesting and unlike all of those "sexperts" who basically tell you to put on a nurse's uniform and have at it, Michele Weiner Davis gives real, practical, pragmatic solutions for this problem -- ones that take into account how people really are and how life actually works. Join us every Sunday, 7-8pm Pacific, 10-11pm Eastern, with podcasts available afterward (click "play in your default player" to download or list at the link, blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon)    

  Nationally syndicated advice columnist Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio -- "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in science. It's every Sunday, 7-8pm Pacific, 10-11pm Eastern, with podcasts available afterward.   Our days are filled with choices screaming at us to be made. Camus joked about this: "Should I kill myself or have a cup of coffee?"   We think more choices are better -- but research shows that human brain is actually overwhelmed by more than a handful of choices. Having many choices often leaves us unable to choose or upset and dissatisfied with our choices afterward.   Tonight on Advice Goddess Radio, psychology professor Dr. Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less, will explain how to manage choice in our lives so it helps us rather than running us.  Buy his terrific and highly readable book here: http://amzn.to/zBsZBu   Listen live at the link (7-8pm PT, 10-11pm ET), call in (347-326-9761 when show is live), download the podcast afterward.