Advice Goddess Radio: Amy Alkon

Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio: "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in science.  My show this week will help you use the new field of adult attachment science, which is actually very simple to understand, to find love -- or to keep and even vastly improve the relationship you have. My guest is neuroscientist Dr. Amir Levine, co-author with psychologist Rachel S.F. Heller, of Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find -- and Keep -- Love. If you’re seeking a partner, by recognizing which of the three attachment styles you fit into, you can help yourself avoid all the usual troubles you get into while dating. If you're in a relationship, by recognizing which form of attachment you exhibit and which your partner does, you can stop battling each other, behave more lovingly to each other, and better meet each other’s needs. The partner who longs for more closeness can recognize their need and stop always acting so demanding of a partner who needs a little more distance to feel comfortable. At the same time, they can come to understand that their partner loves them, and that it's largely their style of attachment that makes them harangue the other person for closeness, which can help them pull back a little. In turn, the person who's more distant can recognize their style but come around in small and regular ways that reassure their more intimacy-seeking partner. This is a not-to-be-missed show, and I hope you'll join me. And do join me and all my fascinating guests every week. Subscribe here, on iTunes, or Stitcher.   

Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio: "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in science. My show this week will explain how to bring what I call "entrepreneurial thinking" ("thinking outside the box") to your life, improving your work life, your relationships, your friendships, and even little everyday interactions you have with other people. My guest this week is Mark Sanborn, a business consultant and motivational speaker who wrote a fantastic book, The Fred Factor: How Passion in Your Work and Life Can Turn the Ordinary into the Extraordinary. I usually have researchers and psychologists on my show, but I occasionally make exceptions for exceptional non-scientist guests, and Mark Sanborn is definitely one of the exceptional thinkers. I promise: This is a not-to-be missed show that you can use to shift your thinking and, with relatively little effort, improve every area of your life. Join me and all my fascinating guests every Sunday, 7-8 p.m. Pacific Time, 10-11 p.m. Eastern Time, at blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon or subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher

Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio: "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in science.    My guest tonight, cognitive behavioral therapist Sarah Edelman, Ph.D., will explain how you can eliminate the need to spend years and thousands of dollars in therapy by using reason to solve your emotional problems.   Her book is Change Your Thinking: Overcome Stress, Anxiety, and Depression, and Improve Your Life with CBT.   The late Dr. Albert Ellis, who along with Aaron Beck, originated much of cognitive behavioral therapy, has been a big influence on me and the thinking you read in my column. Tonight’s show -- and Dr. Edelman’s book -- is based largely on his work.   Join me and all my fascinating guests every Sunday, 7-8 p.m. Pacific Time, 10-11 p.m. Eastern Time, at blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon or subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher. Please buy my science-based but funny book about why people are rude and how to change things, I SEE RUDE PEOPLE: One woman's battle to beat some manners into impolite society. And please ask a newspaper near you to carry my award-winning syndicated, science-based advice column...if they don't already!

  Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio: "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in therapy and research.   This week's show is a "best of" replay, thanks to Gregg taking me to Paris for a week. (He made me promise I'd take an actual vacation while there.) Next week, I'll resume my live Sunday night shows.   My 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.   On this show, he explains why listening is the key to persuading and where we fail as listeners, and he lays out concrete advice on the things we need to do to be better listeners and persuaders.   Join me and all my fascinating guests live every Sunday from 7-8pm Pacific, 10-11pm Eastern at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon

"Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in science.    This is a "best of" replay because I'm in Paris for the week, meat- and cheese-eating my way through the town. Regarding the topic of the show...   Wheat is murder. Or, if not murder, a form of slow suicide.    My guest, cardiologist Dr. William Davis, busts the widely believed myths about "healthy whole grains," the notion that bread "is the staff of life" (it's actually the staff of diabetes and many other ailments), and more.   I also recommend Dr. Davis' New York Times best-selling book Wheat Belly.   Listen to tonight's show live at this link at 7pm Pacific, 10pm Eastern, or download the podcast afterward. Join me and all my fascinating guests every Sunday from 7-8 pm Pacific and 10-11 pm Eastern, here at blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon or subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher.  Buy my science-based but funny book on why we're so rude and how to change things, I See Rude People. And please look for my award-winning, nationally syndicated, science-based advice column in a paper near you or ask the editor to carry it. Getting paid for writing it keeps me writing it!  

Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio: "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in science.   My guest tonight is psychotherapist Carl Alasko, Ph.D., talking about blame -- one of the most toxic and destructive components of relationships and so many human interactions. We'll be talking about how to stop blaming and how to take healthier -- and far more productive -- steps to problem-solving, in relationships and beyond. Alasko has written a very comprehensive book on blame -- Beyond Blame: Freeing Yourself from the Most Toxic Form of Emotional Bullsh*t Listen to tonight's show live at this link at 7pm Pacific, 10pm Eastern, or download the podcast afterward. Join me and all my fascinating guests every Sunday from 7-8 pm Pacific and 10-11 pm Eastern, here at blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon or subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher.  Buy my science-based but funny book on why we're so rude and how to change things, I See Rude People. And please look for my award-winning, nationally syndicated, science-based advice column in a paper near you or ask the editor to carry it. Getting paid for writing it keeps me writing it!

Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio: "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in science.  My guest tonight is child psychiatrist and trauma specialist Bruce D. Perry on increasing empathy, and why it’s key to living a happy, healthy, productive life -- from infancy on.   We’ll be talking about his wonderful book, Born For Love: Why empathy is essential -- and endangered, co-authored with one of the science writers I respect, Maia Szalavitz.   Join me and all my fascinating guests every Sunday from 7-8 pm Pacific and 10-11 pm Eastern, here at blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon or subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher.  Buy my book, I SEE RUDE PEOPLE: One woman's battle to beat some manners into impolite society, at Amazon, and look for my award-winning, nationally syndicated, science-based advice column, The Advice Goddess, in a paper near you, or ask the editor to carry it!  

Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio: "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in science.    My guest tonight, Dr. Dylan Evans, will be talking about risk intelligence and how you can increase your ability to make wise decisions.    Wise decisions are fact-based decisions instead of the superstition- and ignorance-based ones that are often the defaults ones our brain pushes us toward.    It’s especially important to be factual about your own level of ignorance surrounding an area you need to make a decision about and factor that in.    Join us for this show and Dylan Evans will help you and us all learn how, well, to be a lot less idiotic and self-defeating in the way we do business, act in our relationships, and live our lives.   Evans' very smart book we'll be discussing is RISK INTELLIGENCE: How to live with uncertainty. Join me and my fascinating guests every Sunday, 7-8 p.m. Pacific Time, 10-11 p.m. Eastern Time, at blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon or subscribe on iTunes.   And read my science-based advice column in a paper near you - or ask the editor to run it. My latest book: I See Rude People.

Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio: "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in science.  Addiction treatment specialist Dr. Stanton Peele will lay out his groundbreaking thinking on the personal responsibility approach to addiction and kicking everyday bad habits.   Peele will talk about how to fight addiction without a 12-step program. He'll also bust many of the myths many people hold about addiction -- as well as the excuses they cling to for why they can't overcome their self-defeating, destructive behaviors. He'll offer practical thinking and steps for change.    We'll be discussing unhealthy love and relationships as well as substance addiction and more minor and common bad habits.   Peele wrote a really fantastic book, co-authored with Archie Brodsky, called Love And Addiction, and more recently, and also very wise, the book, 7 Tools To Beat Addiction. He blogs at Psychology Today and The Huffington Post.    Join me and all my fascinating guests every Sunday from 7-8 pm Pacific and 10-11 pm Eastern, here at blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon or subscribe on iTunes.    Buy my book, I SEE RUDE PEOPLE: One woman's battle to beat some manners into impolite society, at Amazon, and look for my award-winning, nationally syndicated, science-based advice column in a paper near you, or ask the editor to carry it!

Nationally syndicated advice columnist Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio: "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in science.    This week's guest is a rare non-scientist, Maggie Arana, but I'm making an exception because I think her book has tremendous value.    Her book, which she co-authored with Julienne Davis, is Stop Calling Him Honey...and start having Sex! How Changing Your Everyday Habits Will Make You Hot For Each Other All Over Again. She and her co-author talked to hundreds of men and women, over a period of several years, and figured out the bad habits people get into that kill their sex lives and transform them from lovers to roommates. Maggie will detail all of that on the show, and I promise you, listening to this show will help you mend your ways…all the way to a hotter sex life.   (Or, if you aren't in a relationship, she'll help you avoid killing your sex life once you get one!)   Join me and my fascinating guests every Sunday, 7-8 p.m. Pacific Time, 10-11 p.m. Eastern Time, here at blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon or subscribe on iTunes.

  Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio: "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in science.     This week's guest is journalist Paul Tough, author of the terrific book, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character. It turns out that we (and educators) have clung to numerous myths about how intelligence and success and how to develop successful, hardworking, and ultimately happy kids who will carry those qualities into adulthood.    I don’t usually have journalists on my show, but this is a meticulously reported and exhaustively researched book that shows that the qualities that matter most in flourishing in school and life are things like "grit," curiosity, and character -- which breaks down into life skills like perseverence, conscientiousness, and self-control.    Tough will talk about the techniques that researchers, doctors, teachers and school administrators have learned fail kids and what it takes to help kids build the character it takes to succeed.   This is a not-to-be-missed show for anyone who has kids or who is interested in the latest research in intelligence, creativity and success. Join me and all my fascinating guests every Sunday, 7-8pm PT, 10-11pm ET, on Advice Goddess Radio.  

  Nationally syndicated science-based advice columnist Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio: "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in science. My guest tonight is clinical psychologist Dr. Sue Johnson, Ph.D., on how understanding the emotional underpinnings of relationships can help you save or vastly improve your relationship. Dr. Johnson has done groundbreaking, research-driven work in this area, endorsed by marriage researcher Dr. John Gottman, whose rigorous research and thinking on relationships I greatly respect.  Her book: Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love   Join me and my fascinating guests every Sunday, 7-8 p.m. Pacific Time, 10-11 p.m. Eastern Time, here at blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon or subscribe on iTunes.

Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio: "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in science.  Tonight a very special guest: Exercise trainer and rehab expert Fred Hahn on science-based exercise and why slow-speed strength training, for just a few minutes a week, will make you healthier than a marathon runner. (He will lay out fascinating and solid evidence throughout the show.)   Fred is co-author, with Dr. Michael Eades and Dr. Mary Dan Eades, whom I greatly respect, of The Slow Burn Fitness Revolution: The Slow-Motion Exercise That Will Change Your Body In 30 Minutes A Week. He will debunk all the myths most of us hold about exercise and fitness, and leave you with a plan for exercise that will make you fitter and healthier, and will only eat 12-15 minutes of your week.    We'll also be discussing Strong Kids, Healthy Kids, his book for how you can get your kids fit through slow-burn.   This is a not-to-be-missed show. This method of exercise has improved my health and my life and I'm hoping you'll follow my lead.   Join me and all my fascinating guests every Sunday, from 7-8 pm Pacific and 10-11 pm Eastern, at blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon

  Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio: "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in science.    This week, a replay -- one of my "best of" shows: Dietary researcher Dr. Jeff Volek lays out the science behind why you should declare your independence from dietary carbohydrates -- sugar, flour, starchy vegetables like potatoes, apple juice -- that cause the insulin secretion that puts on fat.     Dr. Michael Eades calls Dr. Volek's book (co-authored with Dr. Stephen Phinney)  "the best low-carb book in print."   And join me next week as I get back to live shows with a very important show on the science that shows you can work out only 12-15 minutes a week, and be healthier (with stronger heart, increased metabolism and stronger bones) than all those people spending hours hours and killing their joints running marathons.   Join me and my fascinating guests every Sunday, 7-8 p.m. Pacific Time, 10-11 p.m. Eastern Time, here at blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon or subscribe on iTunes.

Nationally syndicated advice columnist Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio -- "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in therapy and research. Psychiatrist and business coach Dr. Mark Goulston is my guest tonight, explaining how to give your relationship a tune-up: How to fix a relationship that’s faltering or even downright combative, and how to make an okay or pretty good relationship wonderful. He’s a really wise guy -- and comes at all of this from an extremely realistic point of view on love, couples, and human nature.    His book we’ll be discussing is The 6 Secrets of a Lasting Relationship: How to Fall in Love Again--and Stay There. The 6 or 8 (or whatever) in a book title is a publishing convention designed to sell books, but what sold me on this book are the gems throughout. That’s what we’ll be discussing on this show, so I hope you’ll join us.