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Dr. John Riolo, host of The Insider podcasts interviews Bryant L. Welch, J.D., Ph.D., author of State of Confusion: Political Manipulation and the Assault on the American Mind  published by Thomas Dunne Books about medical necessity.

Dr. Bryant Welch, a nationally-prominent psychologist/attorney for thirty years, provides expert witness evaluations and testimony for psychological trauma, psychological injury, discrimination and civil rights matters, and malpractice. He also provides expert testimony in front of professional licensing boards.

Dr. Welch graduated from Harvard College in 1968 and Harvard Law School in 1972 before receiving the Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1976. He is a Research Associate graduate of the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute.

From 1986 to 1993 Dr. Welch initiated and ran the American Psychological Association Practice Directorate leading Organized Psychology through one of its most successful advocacy eras. Under Dr. Welch's leadership psychologists gained access to practice in Medicare, hospitals, and psychoanalysis. He was also one of the first critics to warn of the dangers of the managed health care system.

 

Dr. Welch is an outstanding public speaker. A past president of the Harvard debate council and successful national debater, he has provided testimony on psychological matters to all levels of government including the White House, Congress, and the Federal Judiciary. He has been widely recognized as an effective advocate for mental health services and for civil rights.

Dr. Welch has appeared on all major networks and been quoted in most major news sources on mental health related matters. He has received numerous awards from national and state mental health organizations and held academic appointments with several universities including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, George Washington University, and the University of South Carolina at Beaufort.

Most recently Dr. Welch has published his first book, State of Confusion: Political Manipulation and the Assault on the American Mind, (Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martins Press, June, 2008).

Dr. Welch has been married to his wife, Debbie, for forty years. They currently reside in Hilton Head Island, SC and have two adult sons.  Visit his website.

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Dr. John Riolo, host of the Insider, interviews Ms. Carmella Broome, author of Carmella's Quest: Taking on College Sight Unseen published by Red Letter Press.

Carmella Broome works for a
private counseling agency in the midlands of South Carolina. She holds
an Educational degree in Counselor Education Marriage and Family
Therapy from the University of South Carolina and is licensed as a
Professional Counselor and as a Marriage and Family Therapist/Intern in
the state of SC. She works with adolescents,adults, couples, and
families and is passionate about relationship issues.She has a
particular interest in young adults and all the transitions and choices
faced during that phase of life.

Carmella's first book, Carmella's Quest: Taking On College Sight Unseen  describes
a part of her own young adulthood.  It is the story of Carmella's first
year at a small Christian college in upstate SC .  Carmella has been
legally blind since birth due to complications related to 
prematurity.  Her struggles with wanting to just be like everyone else
while dealing with the day to day  limitations and frustrations of
having limited vision are discussed in her book along with the usual
college issues of  relationships,  academics, and differentiation. 
Visit her blog.

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Dr. John Riolo, host of The Insider podcast, interviews Mr. Jason Emerson, author of Lincoln the Inventor published by Southern Illinois University Press.

Jason Emerson is an independent historian freelance writer living in Cazenovia, NY. He has published numerous articles and book reviews in both scholarly and popular publications.

He has worked as a National Park Service park ranger at the Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Gettysburg National Military Park, and the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (the Arch) in St. Louis; a costumed interpreter at the Genesee Country Museum in Mumford, NY, a professional journalist, a newsletter publisher, and a freelance writer. Visit his website.

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Dr. John Riolo, host of The
Insider, interviews Dr. John Sotos, M.D., author of The Physical Lincoln published by
CreateSpace.

Dr. John
Sotos, a cardiologist, earned his MD degree and completed all of his
medical training at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

He wrote the classic clinical text Zebra Cards: An Aid to Obscure
Diagnoses, which catalogs unusual and striking manifestations of
disease largely unknown to physicians.

In 2003 Dr. Sotos established that President William Howard Taft had severe obstructive
sleep apnea during his Presidency. This grew from his larger work, the
award-winning web encyclopedia of The Medical History of American
Presidents. It has been the Yahoo! Site of the Day and has twice been
a USA Today Hot Site.

Dr. Sotos is currently CEO of Apneos Corporation, a colonel in
the Air National Guard, and a medical technical advisor for the television
series House, MD.   Visit The Physical
Lincoln website.

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Dr. John Riolo, The Insider, interviews Professor Jon L. Mills, author
of Privacy: The Lost Right published by Oxford University Press.

 Jon Mills is Dean Emeritus, Professor of Law, and Director of Center
for Governmental Responsibility at the University of Florida Fredric G.
Levin College of Law. As a researcher and teacher, he directed major
studies including international projects in Brazil, Poland, Haiti, and
Central America. In addition to teaching at the College of Law, he has
taught in Costa Rica,Brazil, the University of Warsaw and Cambridge
University.

He has authored books, law review articles and reports on
constitutional law, environmental issues, Voting Rights, and Ethics inGovernment.

As an expert on constitutional issues, he has been quoted by the New
York Times, Wall Street Journal, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, and
Washington Post among others. He has appeared on CNN, National Public
Radio, ABC, BBC and other media. He also produced an Emmy winning show
on the Florida Everglades.

 In public service, Mr. Mills served as Speaker of the Florida House
of Representatives. During his ten years in the Legislature, he was a
member of Florida's highly successful 1998 Constitution Revision
Commission, and was named its most valuable member.As a lawyer, Mr.
Mills has appeared in federal courts and the Florida Supreme Court on
issues including voting rights and various constitutional issues. He is
a fellow of the American Bar Association (ABA) and in 2007 he was
appointed to the Advisory Committee to the ABA's World Justice
Commission.

He is a scuba diver, licensed pilot and studied karate. He is married to Beth Mills and has two daughters, Marguerite and
Elizabeth. Visit his webpage.

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Dr. John Riolo, host of The Insider podcast interviews Dr. Mary Gresham about therapy and the economy.

Dr Gresham  has degrees in clinical psychology from Tulane, Emory and Georgia State.She has been practicing in Atlanta for 20 years and has special interests in the psychology of women and especially women and money issues. In her practice she has been running a ongoing women's therapy group for 15 years.  Visit her website.

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Dr. John Riolo, host of The Insider podcast interviews Dr. Mary Gresham about therapy and the economy.

Dr Gresham  has degrees in clinical psychology from Tulane, Emory and Georgia State.She has been practicing in Atlanta for 20 years and has special interests in the psychology of women and especially women and money issues. In her practice she has been running a ongoing women's therapy group for 15 years.  Visit her website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Fred Stoeker and Mrs. Brenda Stoeker about the book The Healing Choice: How To Move Beyond Betrayal written by Brenda Stoeker and Susan Allen and published by by Water Book with an introduction by Fred Stoeker, best-selling author of The Every Man Series.

 

Brenda Stoeker is a registered nurse, mother
of four, and seasoned marriage teacher with life experience in rebuilding a broken marriage. Together she and her husband, Fred, have counseled hundreds of couples struggling with issues related to sexual brokenness. Visit her website.

Fred Stoeker is a bestselling author of several books, including Every Young Manâs Battle and Tactics, the president of Living True Ministries, and a popular conference speaker who challenges men to become sexually pure, to reconnect in true intimate relationship with their wives, and to train their sons to become godly men. A graduate of Stanford University,
Fred lives in Des Moines, Iowa with his wife, Brenda, and their children.Visit his website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Victoria Zackheim, editor of The Other Woman: Twenty-One Wives, Lovers, and Others Talk Openly About Sex, Deception, Love, and Betrayal published by Grand Central Publishing.Victoria Zackheim is the editor of The Other Woman. A native Californian, she is a writer, freelance book editor, and instructor in the UCLA Writer's Program. She writes and records commentaries for The Mimi Geerges Show (Satellite XM radio and public radio) and is a frequent guest speaker for organizations and academic events.Working with Rosemary Reed Productions, Victoria is the developer and writer of the documentary film Tracing Thalidomide: The Frances Kelsey Story scheduled for a 2009 release. Visit her website.

 

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Imran Ahmad, author of Unimagined: a Muslim boy meets the West published by Aurum.

Imran Ahmad was born in Pakistan, but moved with his parents to London, at the age of one. Too lazy to get the grades he needed for medical school, he ended up at Stirling University in Scotland, studying Chemistry, learning about Islam and trying to impress women.  Ultimately he was quite successful in Chemistry and became quite knowledgeable about Islam as well, but he didnât impress any women â despite having an Alfa Romeo and a microwave oven (quite possibly the only privately owned microwave on campus at that time.)

In careers brochures, he saw people in business suits travelling and having meetings (This looked like fun to him, but he wasn't sure what the people in suits actually did.) He persuaded one of those big global companies to hire him into their graduate scheme and he ended up working all over the world, including five years living in the United States.

 His book, Unimagined, describes with poignant humor and painful insight the experience of growing up Muslim in the WestUnimagined was selected by no less than three major newspapers (Independent, Guardian, Sydney Morning Herald) in their âbooks of the yearâ lists. The Dutch version was released recently and is called â Mohammed, Jezus en James Bondâ (there being no catchy word for âUnimaginedâ in Dutch, apparently) and a television series is being developed.

 Imran is on the Board of British Muslims for Secular Democracy, which opposes the imposition of theological or regressive cultural values on any individual, group or gender.  Visit his website.