Lunch with the Loveologist Podcast

Discover your most successful self with the authors of Switched on Networking. Tapping into our subconscious and reprogramming your brain is easier than you may have ever imagined. Jerry Tepler offers proven brain gym exercises combined with Donna Fisher's winning networking strategies to realize your potential in both work and personal relationship building. Don't miss these simple to learn techniques which literally "switch on" and optimize communication between all areas of your brain and then, step-by-step, re-wire your subconscious programming. so you can fully engage and successfully achieve success in all aspects of networking. Don't miss this engaging conversation with the industry leaders on developing your best self. For over 18 years Donna Fisher has been teaching people the art and skill of communicating and connecting. Her books, Power Networking, People Power, and Professional Networking for Dummies have been translated into 5 languages, recommended by Time Magazine and used as textbooks in universities. Her newest book, Switched-On-Networking, is co-authored with Dr. Jerry Teplitz and includes information on how to use brain optimization processes to balance your brain for networking ease and effectiveness.Donna shows professionals how to communicate and connect to create powerful teams, marketplace visibility and new opportunities. She is a Certified Instructor for the Language of Mastery program based on the book “Conscious Language”.   Dr. Jerry Teplitz, also a best-selling author, is known as “an expert in Brain Performance Optimization”. Jerry has spent more than three decades teaching revolutionary techniques that quite literally switch-on the mind to achieve full potential through optimum brain performance by using movement exercises called Brain Gym®. As a professional speaker, he has spoken to over one million people and has been honored by his peers in the National Speakers Association by receiving the "Certified Speaking Professional" designation. Jerry was recently awarded Best-in-Business by the Small Business Commerce Assoc. which honors only the Top 5% in the country. He is the author of six books, including Switched-On Living, Brain Gym for Business, and his two latest books are Managing Your Stress in Difficult Times and, of course, Switched-On Selling: Balance your Brain for Sales Success.

The real meaning of tantra is about finding true and grateful presence to life.  Listen as Tantra educator and passionate love coach Anya Shekina shares simple exercises that will deepen your intimate connections and open a pathway to exploring more pleasure. Learning how to bring your full self to the present moment without any expectations or performance anxiety is a mystical experience that translates into a more joyful way of life and offers a surprising open door to the mystery of orgasm.  Don't miss this enlightening conversation about the simple exercises of tantra that will change how you love. Anya Shekina is an Intimate Passionate Love coach, Tantra Teacher and Sexual Health Consultant. She has a Ph.D. in Psychology and a Masters In Education, specializing in Adult Education and Counseling.  She has been a private Tantric coach for approximately 15 years and a relationship counselor for 20 years.  She is also an accomplished workshop leader in the area of intimacy and Tantra.   She and her husband Steven Vogue, have been in, what they have termed, an Evolutionary Relationship for over 4 years.  Anya Shekina, together with her husband, is currently writing two books on this topic.  They are also producing related products on Tantra, sustaining romantic love and sexual turn-on in long term relationships, and sexual health.  She and Steven will soon be presenting a teleseminar and webinar series for couples who want coaching - whether they are in the early days of their relationship or have been together a long time. She has two meetup groups in San Diego, California, where she lives.  She also has a radio show on Intimate Passionate Love on SexTalkRadioNetwork.com.

Don’t miss this enlightening new paradigm for talking honestly about sex and sexuality with both children and teens. Deborah Roffman, one of the most highly acclaimed sexual educators in the country applies both uncommon good sense and a commitment to core, universal values to explain the critical  importance of providing the answers and fostering an open family dialogue to the questions of becoming a sexually healthy adult.   Learn why yours must be the first voice in your child’s sexual development and how this goes a long way in healing our own sexual shame.   This is a conversation that has the power to change the way we live. Deborah Roffman is a teacher, sex educator and author of Sex & Sensibility: The Thinking Parent's Guide to Talking Sense About Sex. Her work has been featured in most of the nation’s major newspapers, including the Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Washington Times. She has been interviewed on Nightline by Ted Koppel, by Bryant Gumble and other interviewers on the CBS Early Show, and has also appeared on the O’Reilly Factor. In 2003, she was the featured expert―and helped shape―a highly acclaimed segment on teen sexuality with John Stossel for 20/20. Her radio credits include multiple appearances on the Diane Rehm Show and Talk of the Nation, and she also appears (it runs several times a year) in the acclaimed HBO documentary for parents entitled, “Middle School Confessions.” She has provided background for a variety of stories on ABC News, and for 60 Minutes. What is most remarkable about Ms. Roffman’s work is her ability to speak the language of common ground around topics often fraught with controversy and conflict. With uncommon good sense and unshakable commitment to core, universal values, hers is the voice that most often cuts through the rhetoric, the politics, and the false polarities that keep adults focused on their needs and interests, rather than squarely on children. She also understands that the issue at stake is parenting, not politics. The proof lies in her wide appeal to parents of all political stripes, religions, and backgrounds, and the national recognition she has received from such seemingly diverse groups as the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (the coveted Mary Lee Tatum Apple Award) and the National Federation of Republican Women (Favorite Teacher Award).

Relationship endings shape our future more than we realize.  Learning how to heal the injuries from past relationships and and let go is the essential work of the heart that simultaneously teaches forgiveness and opens us to the possibility to love again.   Don't miss this empathetic and insightful conversation with  Rachel Sussman, author of The Breakup Bible.   Learn how to create your own personal love map to guide you to the healing and transformation that our all of our relationships hold,  even and especially the ones that end. Rachel A. Sussman, author of the Break-Up Bible is a licensed psychotherapist and is the founder of Sussman Counseling, a psychotherapy practice specializing in treating couples and individuals with relationship dilemmas. She is an official relationship expert forCosmopolitan, Destination Maternity and Celebuzz.com  and has appeared on the Today show, the CBS Early Show, Martha Stewart LivingRadio among others.   She holds a BA from Emerson College and a master’s from NYU.

Increase your sexual intelligence and get what you really want from sex. Listen to Dr. Marty Klein explain how for many people sex is an opportunity to fail, and for even more of them - not failing is the best that sex ever gets...Rethink the meaning of sex in your life and watch it change your ability to find what you most want out of your intimate life. Dr. Marty Klein is the most articulate and intelligent sex therapist in this country today. Don't miss this conversation that will revolutionize the meaning of your sex life.   Dr. Marty Klein is a California psychotherapist, sex therapist, and international lecturer in sexuality and public policy. He has been an expert witness or invited plaintiff in many important state and federal obscenity and anti-censorship cases. His landmark book America’s War On Sex, with a foreword by the ACLU’s Nadine Strossen, was honored as Book of the Year by AASECT. Marty is frequently quoted by the popular press, including The New Yorker, The New York Times and on TV’s 20/20 and Nightline. He is outspoken about many popular and clinical ideas about sexuality, decrying psychology's gender stereotypes, medicine's sex-negativity, and what he calls “the Oprah-ization of relationships.” He is the country's best-known critic of the concept of "sex addiction." Marty's latest book is Sexual Intelligence: What We Really Want From Sex--And How to Get It. Psychology Today magazine raves "Read this book if you want to improve your sex life." Sign up for Marty's newsletter is www.SexualIntelligence.org.

If you have ever felt like a complete idiot when it comes to creating healthy relationships or using tantra techniques to take your intimate life to the next level,  don't miss this talk with Dr Judy who has been helping people solve their relationship and intimacy issues for decades on her own syndicated radio show.  Whether offering tips for working with orgasmic challenges or emotional hurdles, Dr Judy is the go to relationship and sex expert, author, columnist who offers direct and easy to apply advice that will lead you down a path toward healthier and more loving relationships. Dr. Judy Kuriansky is a world renowned radio advice host, clinical psychologist and certified sex therapist, popular lecturer, newspaper columnist, and author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Dating, The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to A Healthy Relationship and The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Tantric Sex. She is a pioneer of radio call-in advice, and more recently of Internet advice.  An adjunct professor at the Clinical Psychology Program at Columbia University Teachers College and visiting professor of Peking University Health Science Center in Beijing, she is a frequent commentator on international media --including CNN -- on various news issues. Dr. Judy is on the Advisory Board of several magazines and public service organizations, and works extensively in Asia on health and women's issues, and Known for her relationship advice, Dr. Judy is also expert on emergency mental health services, and has worked at Ground Zero and many other disasters worldwide, and lectures about coping with world conflicts, including in the Middle East.

Listen as author Jim Wysong, shares his hard won wisdom of confronting and overcoming the challenges of being male in today's society. His new book,  The Neutering of the American Male,  offers an healthy alternative to the doom and gloom media predictions of the end of men in American society. Jim argues that  the changing societal conditions demand a new balance of love and respect between the sexes, one that leaves all of us happier and stronger. Jim Wysong is a businessman, contractor and real estate investor who spent more than 30 years observing and studying psychology and human behavior through workshops, seminars and textbooks. His efforts to better understand his own emotional discomfort led to theories that have universal applications in modern society. He is author of the book The Neutering of the American Male.

Honey bees are messengers of love.   The Honey bee hive is a super-organism, living in harmony with 50,000 other bees in a single hive.  They are the pollinators for some 70% of the world's food, transforming the essence of plant life into honey and other healing and nutrient rich products.   Man has lived peaceably with honeybees for thousands of years until recently, when scientists began studying and trying to solve the crisis identified as Colony Collapse Disorder.   Over half of all the honeybees on the planet have died in the last few years.  Albert Einstein predicted that the death of the honey bees will predate our own demise by only 4 years.   This collapse is our own.  The Queen of the Sun,  a film by Taggart Siegel that demonstrates how the loss of the honey bee is the most critical environmental issue of our time.  Listen to this interview and see the movie, and I guarantee you will never see honey the same way again.  Honey bees permeate life with love. Taggart Siegel For 25 years, Taggart Siegel has produced and directed Emmy-nominated, award-winning documentaries and dramas that reflect cultural diversity with absorbing style. From spiritual elders struggling to preserve traditions in alien environments to marginalized youth surviving hostile streets, the subjects of his films present vital perspectives rarely seen on mainstream media. He is best known as the director of the 2006 grass-roots hit THE REAL DIRT ON FARMER JOHN. This critically acclaimed feature documentary about a maverick visionary farmer, won 31 international film festivals awards and was released theatrically around the world. Siegel is also known for his award-winning films THE SPLIT HORN: Life of a Hmong Shaman in America, BETWEEN TWO WORLDS and BLUE COLLAR AND BUDDHA which capture the struggle of refugees in America. He is the co-founder of Collective Eye, Inc., a non-profit media production and distribution organization based in Portland, Oregon and San Francisco. Broadcasted and distributed worldwide, Siegel's films bring compelling voices and visions to a global audience. The Real Dirt on Farmer John, Siegel's critically acclaimed documentary about a maverick visionary farmer, won 31 international film festivals awards and was released theatrically around the world. It was broadcast worldwide and was aired in 2007 on INDEPENDENT LENS. The Real Dirt on Farmer John was written up by Roger Ebert for it’s U.S. theatrical release as  "A loving, moving, inspiring, quirky documentary” and by former Vice-President Al Gore as “Unbelievably special…a real and gripping story with insight and humor.” Jacqueline Freeman is a biodynamic farmer and keeper of bees. She teaches people how to steward honeybees in a respectful way, always with loving kindness. Many bees who live on the farm including one hive in a standing hollow tree and another who lives inside the north wall of their home. She is published in the Queen of the Sun book, Biodynamics magazine, Lilipoh magazine and a few others, and is writing a book and multi-media presentation on the spiritual life of the honeybees (June 2012). She is a featured presenter in March 2012 at the Organic Beekeeping Conference in Arizona. She speaks bee.

Learn to make sense of the pain and insecurity that plagues our most intimate relationships with Dr. Stan Tatkin, author of Wired for Love. His reassuring voice resonates with deep wisdom about how to grow the skill base that can turn your relationship into the safe, engaging and healing journey that it was meant to be. Stan's knowledge is grounded in the latest brain science and extensive research and demonstrates a way out of the dead end conflicts by reinforcing the neural circuits that grow empathetic loving relationships. Don't miss this conversation that may well help you put your relationship first, leading to the most satisfying emotional healing in your life. Stan Tatkin, author of Wired for Love is a Psy.D clinician, researcher, and teacher. He developed and trains therapists in a Psychobiological Approach To Couples Therapy® (PACT) which integrates neuroscience, emotional attachment, and healthy adult intimate relationships. He works with couples in private practice and runs a bi-weekly clinical study group and training programs for medical and mental health professionals through out the world. Over the last decade, Dr. Tatkin began linking his research in psycho-neurobiological theories of human relationship, with his early work in the field of mother-infant attachment to adult romantic relationships. He speaks to professional audiences on subjects of couples therapy and preventative psychotherapy through early intervention with infants, children and their parents. He has published several articles on the psychobiology of couples' therapy and is currently training therapists on his unique approach to couples work using attachment theory, neuroscience, and principles of arousal and affect regulation. In addition to his private practice, he teaches and supervises first through third year family medicine residents at Kaiser Permanente, Woodland Hills, through which he is an assistant clinical professor at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine. Website: www.ahealthymind.org/

Emotional Intelligence is the ability to identify, articulate and work with your emotional life and that of others.  A century ago, Darwin associated these skills with human survival and ability to adapt.   Don't miss this conversation with Harvey Deutschendorf, author of THE OTHER KIND OF SMART Learn how our capacity for emotional intelligence can expand as well as how crucial it it to any lasting success in life. Harvey Deutschendorf is a business coach, speaker and author  of  The Other Kind of Smart: Simple Ways to Boost Your Emotional Intelligence for Greater Personal Effectiveness and Success. He is certified to administer the Bar-On EQI, the first scientifically valid test for emotional intelligence that has been approved by the American Psychological Association.  Harvey has an extensive background in Career Development and Social Work. Harvey is a member of the Mankind Project, a men’s organization dedicated to personal improvement and service to the community. His mission is to help people bring more power and joy into their lives.   He lives in Edmonton, Alberta CANADA

Known as America's sex therapist, Ian Kerner offers some of the sagest advice you will ever hear in this not to be missed conversation about how sexual pleasure heals our life.  Ian's is a clear voice of sexual sanity clarifies everything from the power of enhanced foreplay and oral sex to the mystery and complexity of opening to your sexual fantasies.  If you are like millions of others who are dissatisfied with their sex life, this conversation might be just the medicine that yours needs to rethink  your sexuality and revitalize your capacity for intimacy. Ian Kerner, Phd,  widely known as "America's sex therapist"  is a New York Times best-selling author of numerous books including She Comes First and Love in the Time of Colic. Ian's journey to becoming a sex therapist grew out of his own personal battle with sexual dysfunction and his desire to help others. He often addresses issues that are painfully common in the "American bedroom" but nonetheless lead to lives of quiet desperation. Ian appears frequently on NBC TODAY and writes a bi-weekly health column for their website. He is also a regular contributor to CNN as well as wide a range of magazines, blogs and other media outlets. In addition to a busy private practice, Ian lectures nationally on a variety of subjects and recent appearances have included: The Organization of Women Leaders at Princeton University, human sexuality classes at Indiana University, the 92nd Street Y in New York City, Sex Week at Yale University and the Psychology Honors Society at New York University.  is certified to counsel by the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and is a Diplomate in Sex Therapy of the American Board of Sexology. Ian is also a professional member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, the International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health and The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSIS). Ian is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brandeis University, and also holds degrees from New York University and the American Academy of Clinical Sexologists. Ian is a former Thomas J. Watson Fellow and recipient of the Erwin J. Haberle Award in Clinical Sexology. Ian was born and raised in New York City where he resides with his wife and two young sons.

Becoming curious is one of the most expedient mind tools we have  to creating a positive life and healthy relationships.  Curiosity is the often untapped exploration dial in our brain which balances our tendency toward anxiety and opens the gate to more connected and fulfilling relationships.   Don't miss Todd Kashdan, author of Curious? Discover the Missing Ingredient to a Fulfilling Life enlighten you on all the ways that our natural capacity for curiosity can anchor you to a meaningful and joyful daily life. Dr. Todd B. Kashdan's broad mission is to increase the amount of well-being in this world. He uses cutting edge science to help people function optimally in life and business. He is Associate Professor of Psychology and Senior Scientist at the Center for Consciousness and Transformation at George Mason University. He received the 2010 Distinguished Faculty Member of the Year. Dr. Kashdan regularly leads keynotes and workshops to business executives, coaches, health professionals, schools, parents, retirees, government and other organizations. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and authored Curious? Discover the Missing Ingredient to a Fulfilling Life (William Morrow) to promote the science of well-being for a general audience, Designing Positive Psychology (Oxford University Press) to provide a comprehensive volume on innovative theories and research on well-being, and is finishing his third book, Cultivating Well-Being: Treatment Innovations in Positive Psychology, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Beyond (New Harbinger Publications) to give concrete advice to leaders and health professionals.

The most popular and first question that people ask about sex is "Am I normal?"  So begins this revelatory conversation with Debby Herbenick, PhD, one of the most respected and well known voices on human sexuality. As both a lead researcher and educator, her most recent book,  Great in Bed is a compendium of how to technique and unforgettable stories with co-author Grant Stoddard.   Our conversation will open your eyes to the wonder of what it means to be a sexual human being and all that there is yet to learn and understand about our sexual anatomy.  A conversation not to be missed for the sexually literate. Debby Herbenick, PhD is a research scientist and associate director of Indiana University's Center for Sexual Health Promotion and sexual health educator at The Kinsey Institute. Dr. Herbenick is also the author of Because It Feels Good, Read My Lips: A Complete Guide to the Vagina and Vulva, and The I Love You More Book. Her newest book, Great in Bed, is out this month.  Herbenick is one of the lead scientists associated with the National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior. She writes the responses to the Kinsey Confidential questions for the Kinsey Institute as well as her own well respected and widely read blog MySexProfessor.com. Additionally she is the author of the sex advice column for Time Out Chicago and  Men's Health and has appeared several times as an expert in human sexuality on The Tyra Banks Show and The Doctors and on one occasion taught about the vulva by using a vulva puppet on Tyra. This clip resulted in millions of views on YouTube and also aired on The Soup and Best Week Ever.

Listen as Mark Gungor shares his candid and comedic approach to bringing more laughter and purpose to intimate relationships.  Using the church as a base for marriage education,  Mark dispels the myths of both the overly romantic or overly spiritual ideas that prevent people from doing the committed work of loving and caring for one another.   This conversation will wake you up to the power and inspiration that a little bit of humor can bring to long term relationships. Mark Gungor is Sr. Pastor of Celebration Church, a multi-site church with five campuses across Wisconsin, and the CEO of Laugh Your Way America.  He is the author of Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage® (Simon & Schuster, 2008), the book is based on his phenomenally successful seminar and years of working with thousands of couples. Mark balances his pastoral duties with a rigorous travel schedule. He speaks for churches, civic events, and business meetings and is a much requested speaker for the US Army. Mark has also been featured on national broadcasts such as Focus on the Family, Life Today and ABC News. His Better Marriage Minute radio program is heard on 250 radio stations nationwide and his daily internet radio talk show, The Mark Gungor Radio Show, debuted in the fall of 2008. He is also the creator of the television series, Love, Marriage, and Stinking Thinking broadcast around the world on various networks including TBN. He is married to Debbie, his high school sweetheart and constant travel companion. The Gungors have been married for over 39 years and have two married children and five grandsons. When Mark Gungor conducted his first marriage seminar, he did so for one reason—because somebody had to do it, and no one else was reaching the couples in his area. The enthusiastic response he received from his first audience was just the tip of the iceberg. Today, he is one of the most sought-after speakers on marriage and family in the country. Each year thousands of couples attend his Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage® seminars.

There might be no more perplexing part of life than Making Sense of People.  Listen as author and well known Psychiatrist, Dr. Samuel Barondes explores the mystery of the developing brain and the ways that our behavior is built into us.  His four step method for deciphering the complex and sometimes challenging behaviors of those that we both love and love to hate.  Gaining a deeper understanding of how your own behavior is a result of both heredity and your developing environment.  Don't miss this conversation sure to inspire a deeper look at the relationships in your life that make you who you are. Samuel Barondes has an A.B. and an M.D. from Columbia University, and was trained in clinical medicine and psychiatry at several Harvard teaching hospitals (Peter Bent Brigham, McLean, and Massachusetts General). He learned to do research in molecular biology at the National Institutes of Health. Thereafter, Barondes devoted himself to applying the new sciences of molecular biology and molecular genetics to psychiatry. He has been a professor at the  University of California since 1970, first at its San Diego campus where he was a founding member of the Department of Psychiatry, and, since 1986, at its San Francisco campus, where he was, for seven years, Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Director of its Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute. Currently Barondes remains at UCSF where he is Jeanne and Sanford Robertson Professor and Director of the Center for Neurobiology and Psychiatry. Barondes is author of more than 200 original research articles. He is a member or fellow of many societies, including the Institute of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is or has been member of many editorial boards and scientific advisory boards.  He was President of the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience for ten years and also served as Chair of the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Institute of Mental Health. In addition to his research publications, Barondes has written four books for a general audience: Molecules and Mental Illness (1993); Mood Genes (1998); Better Than Prozac (2003), and his latest, Making Sense of People: Decoding the Mysteries of Personality, which was published by Pearson in August 2011.