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Dr. Lara Honos-Webb interviews Dr. Carol S. Dweck, author of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success  published by Ballantine Books.Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D.,
is widely regarded as one of the world's leading researchers in the
fields of personality, social psychology and developmental psychology. 
She has been the William B. Ransford Professor of Psychology at
Columbia University and is now the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor
of Psychology at Stanford University. Her scholarly book Self-Theories:Their
Role in Motivation, Personality, and Development was named
Book of the Year by the World Education Fellowship.  Her work has been
featured in such publications as The New Yorker, The New York Times,
The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, and she has appeared
on Today and 20/20. She lives with her husband in Palo Alto.  Visit Dr. Dweck's
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Dr. Lara Honos-Webb host of the Sweet Spot Podcast, interviews Mark Michaels (Swami Umeshanand Saraswati) and Patricia Johnson (Devi Veenanand) authors of Essence of Tantric Sexuality published by Llewellyn Publications.

Mark Michaels (Swami Umeshanand Saraswati) and Patricia Johnson (Devi Veenanand)a devoted married couple who have been teaching Tantra and Kriya Yoga together since 1999. Their popular workshops have been featured in several publications, including the Village Voice, Now magazine, and Breathe magazine.

The two seek to combine a traditional, lineage-based approach with the best contemporary, Neo-Tantric methods. Their approach includes breath work, meditation, chanting, and puja (a type of Hindu devotional ritual), and their "initiated Kriya yoga" practices aim to lay a spiritual foundation for bringing the heightened awareness and pleasure of sex into everyday life. The authors are senior students of Dr. John Mumford (Swami Anandakapila Saraswati) and have been named lineage holders of the OM-Kara Kriya system for the Americas and Sunyata, coauthor of The Jewel in the Lotus, named Michaels his lineage holder in 2001.

Michaels and Johnson have studied Bhakti Yoga with Bhagavan Das and Tantra with Dr. Rudy Ballentine, and they have been featured in Dr. Judy Kuriansky's The Complete Idiot's Guide to Tantric Sex.

 Michaels is a graduate of New York University School of Law, is a member of the Bar in New York State, and holds master's degrees in American Studies from NYU and Yale. A playwright and translator, he translated and adapted Goldoni's The Mistress of the Inn, The Thrill of Victory, The Agony of Debate, which premiered at New York's Primary Stages.

Patricia Johnson is a professional operatic soprano who tours extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and South America and has performed with the New York City Opera, the Houston Grand Opera, and the Berlin Komsiche Opera.  Visit their website.

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Ms. Janette Merrill, host of Birthing Soul, interviews Mr. Wayne Gray Huxhold, author of From Roots to Branches: a Journey through the Tree of Life  published by Infinity Publishing.

Wayne Gray Huxhold has a rich and varied inkpot of history in which to dip his quill. He was reared in the small factory town of New Castle, Indiana, was educated as a maritime navigator who briefly traveled the world, yet settled back into the perceived safety of familiar and mundane routines of his former home. After struggling for seventeen years with failed marriages, financial woes and an unfulfilling career, he knew it was time to change. Wayne, as the poet David Whyte relates, "arranged to become good and tired of himself." At this point, he began his journey of writing From Roots to Branches, an act that transformed him. Now as an author, poet and artist, he shares studio and living space with his lovely wife, the ceramic sculptor Diana Huxold. From Roots to Branches: a Journey through the Tree of Life is the account of Wayne's psychological, spiritual and mythic journey of radical transformation. As Wayne began to explore the ever-growing depths of his roots, he began to uncover truths and wisdoms that he could neither deny nor ignore. Truths and wisdoms that conflicted with the self-manufactured reality of all he believed was true. His very identity was challenged and eventually collapsed, freeing up space for a new life to emerge. From Roots to Branches is a modern mythology, a universal story of finding and living ones authentic self. Throughout the book the author identifies, confronts and breaks lifelong patterns of living for the approval of others. He encounters and overcomes the fright associated with living beyond the familiar aspects of his known world. To the reader, the book becomes a mirror as they begin to recognize aspects of themselves within it, yet finds hope as they see how the author's authentic self begins to emerge.  Visit Wayne Gray Huxhold's blog.

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Ms. Janette Merrill, host of Birthing Soul, interviews Mark Michaels (Swami Umeshanand Saraswati) and Patricia Johnson (Devi Veenanand) authors of Essence of Tantric Sexuality published by Llewellyn Publications.

Mark Michaels (Swami Umeshanand Saraswati) and Patricia Johnson (Devi Veenanand)a devoted married couple who have been teaching Tantra and Kriya Yoga together since 1999. Their popular workshops have been featured in several publications, including the Village Voice, Now magazine, and Breathe magazine.

The two seek to combine a traditional, lineage-based approach with the best contemporary, Neo-Tantric methods. Their approach includes breath work, meditation, chanting, and puja (a type of Hindu devotional ritual), and their "initiated Kriya yoga" practices aim to lay a spiritual foundation for bringing the heightened awareness and pleasure of sex into everyday life. The authors are senior students of Dr. John Mumford (Swami Anandakapila Saraswati) and have been named lineage holders of the OM-Kara Kriya system for the Americas and Sunyata, coauthor of The Jewel in the Lotus, named Michaels his lineage holder in 2001.

Michaels and Johnson have studied Bhakti Yoga with Bhagavan Das and Tantra with Dr. Rudy Ballentine, and they have been featured in Dr. Judy Kuriansky's The Complete Idiot's Guide to Tantric Sex.

 Michaels is a graduate of New York University School of Law, is a member of the Bar in New York State, and holds master's degrees in American Studies from NYU and Yale. A playwright and translator, he translated and adapted Goldoni's The Mistress of the Inn, The Thrill of Victory, The Agony of Debate, which premiered at New York's Primary Stages.

Patricia Johnson is a professional operatic soprano who tours extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and South America and has performed with the New York City Opera, the Houston Grand Opera, and the Berlin Komsiche Opera.  Visit their website.

Visit Janette's blog and podcast.

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Dr. Lara Honos-Webb, host of The Sweet Spot Podcasts, interviews Stephanie Sarkis PhD NCC LMHC, author of 10 Simple Solutions to Adult ADD: How to Overcome Chronic Distraction & Accomplish Your Goals (2006) published by New Harbinger.

Stephanie Sarkis PhD NCC LMHC is the author of two books â 10 Simple Solutions to Adult ADD: How to Overcome Chronic Distraction & Accomplish Your Goals (2006) and Making the Grade with ADD: A Studentâs Guide to Succeeding in College with Attention Deficit Disorder (2008), both published by New Harbinger. 

Dr. Sarkis maintains a private practice in Gainesville, Florida and is the Director of Assessments and Evaluations for Sarkis Clinical Trials in Gainesville. She is an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Florida in the Department of Counselor Education in Gainesville Florida.

She is also an adjunct assistant professor at St. Leo University in Lake City, Florida. She is a National Certified Counselor and also a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in the State of Florida. Dr. Sarkis received a 2001 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the American Psychiatric Association for her research on comorbid ADHD and brain function. She lectures and presents her research internationally. She can be contacted at www.stephaniesarkis.com or stephanie@stephaniesarkis.com.

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