From the monthly archives:

May 2009

Today I had the great pleasure of speaking with an old friend (who is not all that old), Yollana Shore.  Yollana is based in Brisbane, the capital of the Australian state of Queensland.
When I first met Yollana, about 10 years ago, she was studying Environmental Science at university.  She then moved on to train and [...]

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WOW! What a great show today.  I had such fun.
My guest was Tambra Harck, founder of Soulful Living by Design – www.SoulfulLivingbyDesign.com 
Tambra began with an incredibly diverse education in life, spiritual, and consciousness-raising studies, and then asked a great question.  “How can I use all of this to help others?”
The answer was to help people discover how their [...]

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Yes, today Thursday May 14th is the day to go to www.TheHeartOfMarketing.com and click on the Amazon link there and buy your copy of The Heart of Marketing: Love Your Customers and They Will Love You Back – published by Morgan James Publishing
This is the latest book from the husband and wife psychology team and Internet Marketers Dr. [...]

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I read an article the other day in Our Planet which is the newsletter put out by E Magazine.
It was titled “Greenwashing Rampant in Consumer Marketing” and was based on a recently released report from TerraChoice.  This report showed that of 2219 consumer products in Canada and the USA, 98% of them committed greenwashing.
A take on [...]

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Today I did something a bit different.
You see a week or so ago I received my latest Habitat Magazine.  Habitat is the official magazine of one of Australia’s leading environmental groups – the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF).  And the magazine had an insert from the Environment Shop in Melbourne.  It was a catalogue of the most [...]

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What a great time I had this morning talking with my wonderful friend and Healthy Life colleague, Dr Ed Poole – The Lesson Guy.
It was an interview that Ed did with me on his Healthy Life show – The Lesson Guy – late last year that resulted in me getting my current show – Stories & Sustainability.
Prior [...]

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Hello,
If you’re a regular visitor to my blog you will realise that for a little while there my weekly radio show posts got very behind.
I was going just fine until my 2 week trip to the States.
When I returned home I had to start a move of house exercise.  And time went downhill from there.
But [...]

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I met Dr Wendy Sarkissian when I was a Doctoral student.  She came to my university – The University of Queensland – and gave a talk about some of her life experiences that led her to write her own Doctoral thesis.  There were so many similarities between Wendy’s life and her passion for nature and for [...]

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About 20 years ago, when I was presenting my talk-back radio program on Melbourne’s talk-radio 3 AW, a listener sent me a book that she thought I’d enjoy.  It was called Living, Loving, and Learning by Dr Leo Buscaglia and edited by Steven Short.
Well not only did I love the book, but it, along with [...]

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 Well this is the 4th of 5 very special shows leading up to a special announcement on April 22nd.
And today’s guest is Arjuna Ardagh who, in 2005, published an amazing book called The Translucent Revolution.  The book documents Arjuna journey of discovery of an exponential growth in what he calls a “Radical Awakening” of consciousness in people scattered [...]

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About 20 years ago, I did some extensive research into the topic of LAUGHING.  I studied laughing from many different perspectives – medical, philosophical, sociological, psychological, and historical aspects.  And I then set up a 2 day workshop on laughing called “The Serious Business of Laughing”.  Over the years I’ve run that workshop for a [...]

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Yes, another special show on the power and importance of LOVE.
In 2007, today’s guest, Dr. Anodea Judith’s book Waking the Global Heart: Humanity’s Rite of Passage from the Love of Power to the Power of Love, won two literary awards.  And if you’ve read the book, that will be no surprise.  The book ‘charts the [...]

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