Can you outsmart your bad habits? – Energy Stew interview with Karen Koenig – 03.06.15

We all have certain habits that we know we’ve got to kick. What life skills can help us overcome them?
It’s always best to stay on top of our lives and be sure to make the most out of them. There are many bad habits that can sabotage our productiveness and even our health.

Probably one of the most common is how we eat. Certainly over-drinking and smoking are self-destructive. There are many absorbing computer games and maybe we just get lost on the web and surf ourselves into oblivion.

Karen Koenig can help us get a hold of ourselves and make better choices. Her latest book, “Outsmarting Overeating” is loaded with opportunities to readjust our lives and be happier for it.

Expat Files – 03.06.15

-Some words about the recent hacking issues at PRN and the mega-spam issues at my ExpatWisdom.com website   -How does the Latin news media report first-world breaking news events?  Do they have their own roving reporters on the spot in Cleveland and Atlanta out to get the Latin angle? Not likely. Yes, there are Latin foreign correspondents in the states …

Leid Stories – 03.05.15

Venezuela In Crisis: Chavez Coup 2.0 in the Making? Each day the news out of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, it seems, gets worse. A shattered economy, out-of-control inflation, pervasive food shortages and mounting protests in the streets have kept President Nicolás Maduro on edge and on the defensive putting out fires since taking the country’s helm after the death …

The Mark Riley Show – 03.04.15

In Congress, Netanyahu faults bad deal on Iran Nuclear program. Or…..Bibi goes to Washington. Aside from what the president said, which was that the Israeli PM’s speech contained nothing new, you might want to ask yourself what his actual solution is. A nation that has nukes (but won’t admit it) wants no negotiations at all to stop another country from getting them. Remember, Bibi said Iran was days away from the bomb more than 20 years ago…

What Women Must Know – Women Healers of the World with Holly Bellebuono – 03.05.15

Author, motivational speaker, and award-winning herbalist Holly Bellebuono, MPA, CH, CPC, has been a certified and traditional herbalist since 1995. Bellebuono has supplied more than seventy original medicines to tens of thousands of customers in the alternative and organic body care market through her full-service formulary Vineyard Herbs Teas & Apothecary LLC. Her original formulas have won multiple awards at …

It’s All About Food – Christopher Leonard, The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America’s Food Business – 03.03.15

Christopher Leonard is the former national agribusiness reporter for the Associated Press. His work has appeared in Fortune, Slate, and The New York Times. He is a fellow with The New America Foundation, a nonpartisan public policy institute in Washington, DC. A graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, he lives outside Washington, DC. Download this episode (right click and save)