Sunday Morning Magazine With Rodney Lear

Scott Cohn, Senior Correspondent, CNBC. As millions of American families struggle to cope with college costs that are rising at twice the rate of inflation, CNBC investigates a system that encourages widespread borrowing—often with little regard to a student’s ability to pay—leaving the average college graduate with tens of thousands of dollars in student load debt. Scott joined Sunday Morning Magazine to discuss America’s college debt crisis.

Karen Kasich, the First Lady of Ohio. We dedicated this edition of Sunday Morning Magazine to the issue of Women and Heart Disease. Mrs. Kasich, who is married to the Governor of Ohio John Kasich, shared on-air that her family has an extensive history of heart disease. She maintains, her parents and grandparents all died of complications of heart disease. To combat the often-deadly disease, First Lady Kasich is collaborating with Kroger during the month of February (which is Heart Health Month) to highlight the importance of maintaining good heart health. On-air, Kasich explained that as part of the month-long partnership, Kroger pharmacies would offer personalized blood pressure and cholesterol screenings at no cost.

Peggy Caruso, Personal Development Coach, Author, Revolutionize Your Child’s Life: A Simple Guide to Health, Wealth and Welfare of Your Child. For this edition of Sunday Morning Magazine we focused on young people that are becoming captains of industry—who have started their own business at a very young age. Our guest, Peggy Caruso says that parents should teach their children the principals of entrepreneurship to help them become successful adults. On-air she gave examples of simple ways parents can empower their children to reach their maximum potential. Caruso also gave advice to parents who have children that want to start a small business. In addition, Caruso maintains there are also many lessons kids can learn when a business fails.

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Tracey, Heart Attack Survivor; Beverly, Diagnosed with Heart Disease; Phylise, Once diagnosed with Congestive Heart Failure; Golda, Diagnosed with Heart Disease. February is Heart Health Month. We devoted this edition of the show to women and heart disease. For this segment of the show, we hosted an on-air panel discussion with four women diagnosed with some form of heart disease. This group of courageous women shared details of their illness, spoke about the role heredity has played in their diagnosis, and detailed how they modified their diet and lifestyle to survive heart disease.

Allie, Founder and Owner, Allie’s Walk About; David, Allie’s Dad. While on the show Allie explained the idea for the business came after she asked her dad for money when she was 9-years-old. She says his answer was no, but he followed up by saying he would teach her how to earn the money. Today, Allie is the owner of Allie’s Walk About which is an extremely profitable full service pet sitting company. Allie spoke about the difficulties of starting the company. She also discussed how she handles overhead and operational expenses. In addition, Allie explained how she juggles the business, school, homework, friends and afterschool activities.

Christine King-Farris, Author, My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing up with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Mrs. King-Farris joined the show to talk about her new children’s book. While on the show, she revealed that she wrote the book to honor her late brother and to encourage the next generation of civil rights leaders.

Tara Sullivan, Author, The Bitter Side of Sweet. Mrs. Sullivan is garnering a reputation for writing powerful stories for young adults with a human rights angle. She joined the show to talk about her latest book which looks at modern-day child slavery.

Dr. Stephanie Dunlap, Medical Director of the UC Health Advanced Heart Failure Treatment Center, Medical Director of the UC Health Advanced Heart Failure Treatment Center. Heart Disease is the number one killer of women. Sunday Morning Magazine focused an entire show on the disease. Dr. Stephanie Dunlap joined the show to explain the warning signs and risk factors of heart disease. She also spoke about how women can reduce their chances of developing heart disease. Additionally, Dr. Dunlap explained the role heredity, age, smoking, obesity and diabetes plays in heart disease.

Devon Still played college football at Penn State during the Paterno/Sandusky years, where he earned Consensus All-American honors. He was also drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals in 2012 and later went on to play for Houston Texans and the NY Jets. In 2014, his daughter, Leah was diagnosed with Neuroblastoma stage 4 cancer, and Devon has become well-known as a childhood cancer advocate.

Madison Robinson, Founder, Fish Flops Inc. At the age of 8, Madison started her own company, Fish Flops. Today, at the age of 16-years-old, this entrepreneur has over $1 million dollars in sales. She joined Sunday Morning Magazine to talk about the key to her success. She discussed everything from her business role models to her lucrative deal with retailers Macy’s and Nordstrom. Robinson also discussed her plans for college and her philanthropic endeavors with the military and orphaned children. She also gave advice to other teens looking to start a business.

Taylor Branch, Author, At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68. We spoke to Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author Taylor Branch. He joined the show to talk about his latest project. The book concludes Branch’s history of the civil rights movement and Dr. Martin Luther King’s heroic role at the center of it all. While on Sunday Morning Magazine, Branch explained that the new book chronicles King’s efforts to hold his movement together in the face of internal factions that disagreed about strategy, tactics, and whether they could achieve their goals solely through nonviolence. Branch also spoke about the intermittent hostility Dr. King faced from President Johnson’s administration. Branch also provided insight into the unrelenting harassment Dr. King endured at the hands of the FBI.

Hannah and Alexander, Founders, Adopt A Book. After learning that local at-risk children had no access to books, Hannah and Alexander vowed to help. At the age of 9 the caring brother and sister started Adopt A Book. The non-profit organization collects and distributes new and gently used books to children in need. Today, at the age of 12-years-old these twins have collected over 21,000 books and distributed them to 29 local organizations. Passionate about reading and availability of resources, Hannah and Alexander petitioned the city to place a Little Free Library along a historic bike trail, encouraging people to share and recycle reading materials. They joined Sunday Morning Magazine to tell their story.

Debbi Morgan, Emmy Award-winning Actress and Author, The Monkey On My Back. Debbi Morgan is best known as Dr. Angela Hubbard on the long-running soap opera All My Children. She joined Sunday Morning Magazine to discuss her deeply personal memoir. Debbi revealed on-air that early in her family history, an ugly pattern of domestic violence began—which spanned three generation of women. The abuse developed into fear, insecurity, self-doubt, and emotional trauma, which were passed down from one generation to the next. From her maternal grandmother, who was beaten by her husband, to Debbi’s mother, who became pregnant as a young teen and suffered the same abuse as her mother, down to Debbi, who internalized the physical abuse she watched her mother endure. As an adult, Debbi would also face abuse in her relationships.

Andrea Schwartz, Macy’s Go Red for Women Campaign. During this special edition of the show, we focused on Women and Heart Disease. Andrea Schwartz says Macy’s is proud to be the national founding sponsor of the Go Red for Women campaign. Schwartz explained that during the month of February, Macy’s offers customers several ways to support Go Red for Women. She says Macy’s is offering shoppers the opportunity to purchase three limited-edition red dresses by top designers—10 percent of the purchase price of all three dresses will be donated to Go Red For Women. Schwartz maintains that Macy’s has raised more than $60 million since 2004 through Go Red For Women and over that time 293 lives have been saved every day according to the American Heart Association.

Atlanta native Nic Stone is the author of the New York Times bestselling Dear Martin, which Booklist called “vivid and powerful.” Odd One Out is Nic’s second novel and the book she wishes she’d had back when she was trying to figure out who it’s okay to love. You can find Nic fangirling over her husband and sons on Twitter and Instagram at @getnicced or on her websit http://www.nicstone.info/

: Kate DiCamillo, #1 New York Times bestselling and two-time Newbery Medal-winning author. From titles such as Because of Winn-Dixie and The Tale of Despereaux, Kate’s books have resonated with readers of all ages around the world. These two books were also made into major motion pictures starring actors such as Matthew Broderick, Dustin Hoffman, Emma Watson, Cristopher Lloyd, and Jeff Daniels.

Michael and Tracey Landry, Founders, T.M. Landry College Prep School, Louisiana. Sunday Morning Magazine proudly presented a show devoted to educators who are using non-traditional methods to teacher young people. The student videos from our guests Michael and Tracey Landry have gone virial—with over 6 million views. The videos show students receiving college acceptance letters into Ivey League schools like Harvard and Yale. The celebration serves as a job well done for Michael and Tracey, the Founders of T.M. Landry College Prep School in Louisiana. This small yet dynamic school has a 100% graduation rate and a 100% college acceptance rate. The Landry’s joined the show to talk about the success of the school. Michael explained that the school is open all year, has no set daily class schedule, has no text books and homework is never assigned.

Mandy Manning, National Teacher of the Year, 2018. During this special edition of Sunday Morning Magazine, we celebrated outstanding educator who are finding ways to reach their students through innovative means. Ms. Manning, teaches Math and English to refuge, and immigrant high school student in Spokane, Washington. She is often the first teacher her students have when they come to this country. For her devotion, she was named 2018’s National Teacher of the Year. Ms. Manning shared on-air that in her classroom, she uses experiential projects like map-making to help her students process trauma, celebrate their home countries and culture, and learn about their new community.

Preston Brown grew up in Cincinnati. Brown started his professional football career with the National Football League as a lineman with the Buffalo Bills. This season he signed with his hometown team, The Cincinnati Bengals. Mr. Brown joined the show via telephone from the Bengals locker room to discuss his philanthropic work. He maintains that through his non-profit foundation, Preston’s Playbook, he working to support future educators. Additionally, Preston’s Playbook has held free football camps for local youth, and provided personal computers to future educators.