Ring In The New Year With Positive Living™ Talk Radio’S Patricia Raskin And Her Cadre Of Lifestyle Experts

Turn obstacles into opportunities with the only lifestyle destination for smart talk radio – on air, online, and on demand.

Newport, RI, January 02, 2009 — Join the conversation this New Year with awarding-winning Positive Livingâ„¢ talk radio and host Patricia Raskin with her January line-up of lifestyle guest interviews. Listen and learn from experts, authors, and celebrities on how to overcome your fears, protect your finances, manage your career, get healthier, and use your natural intuition to your own advantage for the year ahead.

“Make 2009 the best year of your life!” exclaimed Raskin. “I invite you to join me during my Positive Living™ programs in the New Year and gain a wealth of information from my wonderfully talented guests who unselfishly share their personal stories to help others make their dreams come true.”

Raskin’s 25 years as a pioneer and trailblazer in the industry, her expert interviewing skills and natural energy has propelled her celebrity status as a top radio talk show host. What started in 1982 as a public affairs cable television show in Rockport, MA, as a way to help people solve problems in their daily lives through the media, Positive Living™ with Patricia Raskin has blossomed into the nation’s premiere multi-platform, lifestyle talk radio show.

Positive Livingâ„¢ can be heard on on air, online, and on demand. The January line up follows:

Sundays at noon ET/9AM PT
630WPRO AM and 99.7 FM and www.630wpro.com

•Sunday, January 4: Big Sisters of RI Executive Director Mary Capobianco, MSW and Community Outreach Coordinator Donna “Mac” McCarthy, will discuss the non-profit organization’s commitment to positively impacting girls’ lives and how the group’s programs help girls grow to become strong, confident young women ready to reach their full potential.

•Sunday, January 11: Bedell, who co-founded the Signature Group and is in the top one percent of earners nationwide, will discuss his new book, “The Millionaire in the Mirror: How To Find Your Passion and Make a Fortune Doing It—Without Quitting Your Day Job.” Bedell will explain how to find career fulfillment while earning millions without destroying your personal life, resorting to get rich schemes, or opting out of a traditional career path.

Sunday, January 18: Brian Kinney, M.D., distinguished as one of the world’s top board-certified plastic surgeons and featured on network newscasts, and the author of countless articles for journals, magazines and textbooks, will discuss his holistic approach to anti-aging and how we can develop a master plan to take control of our aging process with proper skin care, diet, and exercise.

•Sunday, January 25: Patty Hansen, editor of “Chicken Soup for the Soul: Divorce and Recovery,” recently divorced from her husband of 27 years, Chicken Soup for the Soul® co-founder Mark Victor Hansen, will discuss her insights on divorce and share her personal story, along with tales of others who have divorced and emerged stronger, healthier and even happier. She explains how many divorced couples have found a way to remain friends, while others were able to finally find their true selves in single life.

www.talkzone.com: Mondays at noonET/9AM PT

•Monday, January 5: Don Schmincke, founder of SAGA Leadership Institute and co-author of “High Altitude Leadership: What the World’s Most Forbidding Peaks Teach Us About Success,” discusses how he and co-author Chris Warner, mountain climber, entrepreneur and Emmy-nominated filmmaker, help people and businesses identify what fears hold them back, and the traits and techniques to achieve success and profitability.

•Monday, January 12: Evana Maggiore, author of “Fashion Feng Shui: The Power of Dressing with Intention,” will discuss how to dress in alignment with who you are in order to attract what you want, and her Love (Yourself!) Project, a campaign that focuses on enhancing the lives of abused and underprivileged women.

•Monday, January 19: Mallika Chopra, co-founder of Intent.com – a premier wellness site & social network that features the best-of-web content, blogs, and a supportive online network, will discuss how she co-founded the popular website with former Yahoo! executive Sal Taylor Kydd, and how the website aims to be the most trusted and comprehensive wellness destination for capturing and supporting people’s intentions while helping them to reach their goals. She will also tell us how she is following in her father’s footsteps (Deepak) as the “next generation” to promote wellness and social justice in the world.

•Monday, January 26: Hallmark Channel’s latest release, “The Note II: Taking a Chance on Love,” scheduled to hit the movies January 31, will be the topic of discussion by Hallmark celebrities about how to follow your heart in making decisions about relationships.

www.voiceamerica.com Mondays at 2PMET/11AMPT

•Monday, January 5: Ted Zeff, Ph.D, author of “The Highly Sensitive Person’s Survival Guide: Essential Skills for Living Well in an Over-stimulating World,” discusses how highly sensitive people can make their way through a vibrant and highly stimulating world. Zeff will share stress reduction and insomnia management skills and coping techniques, and teach us to mange distractions and how to master a sensitive nervous system – subjects he has taught for over 20 years.

•Monday, January 12: Tara Crawford Roth, Certified Intuitive Business Coach (CEC) and lifelong intuitive with over 20 years of executive management experience in a variety of multinational organizations, will discuss how to unlock our unique intuitive qualities, create a strategic plan to inspire us to achieve effortless success, and how transitions and struggles can be opportunities for growth. Roth will explain how intuition is available to everyone, her four ways intuition communicates to us and the five steps to access your intuition fully.

•Monday, January 19: Known only as Merho, B.F.A., MA and the renowned author of four books, will discuss how people can “see” into their relationships and view problems as opportunities for growth and expansion, and how she helps people with business decisions, changes, product designs, and to consider marketing strategies. Merho is an inspirational writer, artist, clairvoyant, television producer, journalist and international motivational speaker.

•Monday, January 26: Joyce Mills, PhD, Director of the StoryPlay® Center and Co-Director of the Phoenix Institute of Ericksonian Psychotherapy and acclaimed author of eight books including the recently released “Butterfly Wisdom,” “Gift Set,” and “Reconnecting to the Magic of Life,” discusses creative approaches to improving productivity, life balance and change.

For further information on the shows or to book Raskin for your next seminar or employee workshop, call 252-646-3716, or email her at [email protected]

About Patricia Raskin, M.Ed.
Patricia Raskin, M.Ed, is the producer and host of the award-winning Positive Living™ radio program, and owner of Raskin Resources Production, Inc. She is a media coach and sought-after motivational speaker with headquarters in Newport, RI. Patricia is the author of Pathfinding: Seven Principles for Positive Living, and Success, Your Dream and You. As the founder and passion behind positive media programs for the past 25 years, she has hosted and produced television programs on FOX and PBS affiliates, and on the radio on WTKF and the NPR affiliate Public Radio East in North Carolina. Currently she hosts and produces three internationally acclaimed on-air, online and on demand radio talk shows. Famous for their prestigious and national line up of guests, Patricia’s Positive Living™ programs can be heard on voiceamerica.com and talkzone.com, and on Southern New England’s leading radio station, 630 WPRO-AM and 99.7 on the FM dial. For more information, log onto www.patriciaraskin.com.

Contact:
Clare Eckert
Flynn Consulting Group
Newport, RI
401-855-2601
[email protected]
http://www.flynnconsultinggroup.com