Listen to the Music of Your Heart-Strings
How can we really connect? Dove Rose shares an amazing phone call and ways we can listen to the music of our heart strings so we can really offer more love to others.
Rising Appalachia: Folk Roots Music That Inspires
Two sisters whose music both honors and transcends the folk roots style in which it is based. Rising Appalachia’s “I Am Resilient” is so moving and perfect for these times.
Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation: Keeping Music Alive in Our Schools
Felice Mancini, President of the Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation and daughter of the famed composer Henry Mancini, shares with Jean Trebek the gift of music that MHOF gives to students across the country.
Celia Chavez Music of the Month
Celia Chavez wants to “offer the world a love letter” – just what we need! She sings about hope, love and faith.
Podcast Episode 87: Heather Dolland Tamam
Heather is the Founder of Doltam Creative Solutions, which provides career coaching, personal branding, and business strategy to help leverage what people already know and turn it into something meaningful and profitable. Her approach is rooted in lived experience. Heather has built careers across multiple industries and authored four books, including Create Your Own Table: A Guide to Discovering Your Purpose. Today, she supports professionals, especially women navigating mid-career transitions, who are ready to stop waiting and start creating what’s next.
Podcast Episode 86: Scott Meier
Jean and Alison had the pleasure of speaking with a man of many talents- Scott Meier. He is a CEO, Entrepreneur, Executive Producer and Showrunner. As the owner / CEO of the Budsies Companies, he brings a forward-thinking perspective on creativity, content creation, and IP to the world of toys and customization. Scott Meier has directed, been a showrunner, produced, and marketed film and television projects including features, short films, music videos, and documentaries in Spanish and English-speaking markets for over 15 years.
Podcast Episode 81: Dr. Ellen Hendriksen
The wonderful Dr. Ellen Hendriksen (she/her) is a clinical psychologist who will help you calm your anxiety and be your authentic self. She serves on the faculty at Boston University’s Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders (CARD) and earned her Ph.D. at UCLA, completing her training at Harvard Medical School. Jean and Alison speak with Ellen about her new book How To Be Enough: Self-Acceptance for Self-Critics and Perfectionists.
Podcast Episode 79: Linda Ugelow
Linda Ugelow has been a performer for over 35 years. With a master’s degree in expressive therapies and movement studies, she has been helping people get comfortable in their skin for decades. Her new book, Delight in the Limelight: Overcome Your Fear of Being Seen and Realize Your Dreams is a “journey of reclaiming the confident free self-expression that you dream of when you speak, whether that’s on stage or on camera or in the meeting room.”
Podcast Episode 74: Carla Ondrasik
Jean and Alison had a great conversation with Carla Ondrasik about her new book – Stop Trying!: The Life-Transforming Power of Trying Less and Doing More. Carla is a former vice president at EMI Music Publishing turned motivational speaker, coach and author, who uses her 20+ years of evidence-based research to help you accomplish everything you’ve been trying to do. Stop Trying! illuminates the deception in a mindset built on trying, which can lead to anxiety, procrastination, perceived loss of control, fatigue, fear of failure, lack of follow-through, and overall life dissatisfaction.
Podcast Episode 73: Audrey Graves
Jean and Alison had the immense pleasure of speaking with Audrey Graves – the Braille Institute’s 2025 Teacher of the Year. For the last 20 years, Audrey has been teaching students with visual impairments at the Nebraska Center for the Education of the Blind (NCECBEV). She has taken on many roles in the education field, ranging from teacher to principal at NCECBEV. She is currently an outreach consultant. Her passion for and love of her students is so inspiring!
Podcast Episode 72: John Tsilimparis
Jean and Alison have a wonderful conversation about resilience and healing with John Tsilimparis, MFT, about his book – “The Magic in the Tragic: Rewriting the Script on Grief and Discovering Happiness in Our Darkest Days.” John is a distinguished psychotherapist, mental health consultant, writer, podcast host, and former adjunct professor at Pepperdine University and UCLA. He is also the author of “Retrain Your Anxious Brain.”
Podcast Episode 71: Cindy Drummond and Sarah Dube
Jean and Alison speak with Cindy Drummond and Sarah Dube – volunteers with the LA Animal Rescue. The LA Animal Rescue is a small but mighty team of dedicated volunteers and fosters committed to creating happy endings for each of the homeless and abandoned animals who come into their care. For their own wellbeing and through the generosity of sponsors, some animals live out the remainder of their lives with the rescue. However, most are safely rehomed to fully vetted and committed families. The rescue does not discriminate based on breed, age, health, or size of the animals they receive, nor do they focus on the previous family or circumstances. Instead, they choose to focus on each animal’s future, ensuring them a safe and healthy place to grow and thrive.
Podcast Episode 68: Kathleen Noone
Kathleen has had a long, successful career as an actor. After 11 ½ years as Ellen Shepard on ALL MY CHILDREN, Kathleen garnered 2 Emmy nominations and an Emmy Award. She was also the leading role of Claudia Whittaker on the popular KNOTS LANDING for its last three seasons. After years of practical experience, and ongoing academic/technical training in the entertainment industry, Kathleen turned toward her Spiritual calling and earned a degree in Spiritual Psychology that prepared to accept new and greater challenges. She currently coaches others on Emotional Fitness and Spirituality.
Podcast Episode 67: Anna Goldfarb
Prolific journalist, author, speaker, and friendship expert, Anna Goldfarb approaches her favorite subject from a place of empathy and experience with rapid-fire, funny, curious, and heartfelt prose as read in numerous articles bearing her byline and, most clearly, in her book Modern Friendship: How to Nurture Our Most Valued Connections. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, TIME, Vice, The Cut, Vox, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. She’s also been quoted as a friendship expert in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Goop, Real Simple, Oprah Daily, and Refinery29.
Podcast Episode 62: Leon Logothetis
Leon Logothetis is a renowned keynote speaker, an acclaimed author and a TV personality who ignites positive change by unleashing the boundless power of kindness. He talks with Jean and Alison about his incredible movie – The Kindness Within: A Journey To Freedom that chronicles his soul-stirring adventure to find the meaning of life.
Podcast Episode 58: Rachel Corpus
Host of the Angel Talk podcast, Rachel is a bit of a chameleon, so as soon as she connects with you, either in person or remotely, she immediately begins channeling information that is for your highest good.Though Rachel is an ordained minister who attended seminary, Rachel does not identify as religious. She is well-versed in the Bible and loves Jesus and God with her whole heart. Yet, she identifies as spiritual but not religious. Rachel is a “collaborative medium” so you can expect that all- literally- all of your loved ones on the other side, including animals, and your non-human helpers (Angels) will be present!
Podcast Episode 52: Georges Tomb
Georges Tomb is an award-winning composer and concert pianist of international fame that has performed in some of the world’s most prestigious stages, such as “Carnegie Hall” in New York, “Le Petit Palais” of Paris, the “Royal Cultural Center” in the Middle East and “Teatro La Fenice” in Italy. Georges won the “Crystal Pine Award” from the International Sound and Film Music Festival – one of the 3 most important music festivals in the world. His compositions span classical music, ballet, and cinema, earning him accolades and comparisons to legendary figures such as Ennio Morricone.
Podcast Episode 51: Mike Robbins
Mike Robbins is an author, thought leader and sought-after speaker who teaches people, leaders, and teams to infuse their lives and businesses with authenticity and appreciation. As a leadership expert, he partners with some of the top organizations in the world helping enhance culture, performance, trust, and belonging. Today we discuss his newest book – WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER.
Podcast Episode 50: Anita Moorjani – insidewink Classics!
Jean and Alison revisit another of their past interviews with Jean’s pick – Anita Moorjani. International speaker, cancer survivor, and author of Dying to Be Me, Anita Moorjani astounded fans across the globe with her New York Times bestselling book about overcoming cancer and her life-changing near-death experience. Now she returns with Sensitive Is the New Strong, a powerful, heartfelt book on harnessing and fostering empathic gifts in today’s difficult, fear-based world.
Podcast Episode 45: Henry Shukman – Original Love
Besides being an award-winning poet and author, Henry Shukman is an authorized Zen Master in the Sanbo Zen lineage, and is spiritual director emeritus of Mountain Cloud Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His book Original Love is “a manifesto, a map, and a manual, an essential guide for spirituality in the twenty-first century replacing the concept of original sin with original love as the true foundation of our life.”