Synopsis
Understanding Ourselves... One Conversation at a Time.
Episodes
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New Year Resolutions (Encore)
31/12/2025 Duration: 30minDo New Year resolutions work? Are they worth the bother? Is there a better way to get your life on track? Dick’s guest, Patricia Clason, has been leading workshops for corporate clients and the State of Wisconsin for 30 years on how to get your life organized and actualized. She has written and conducted workshops […]
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Disordered Eating
17/12/2025 Duration: 35minAbout one in eleven Americans will suffer sometime in their life from disordered eating. Treating eating disorders can be extensive, arduous and very expensive, ranging from thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars. What are the problematic disordered eating patterns and how can they best be treated? Dick’s guest, Carolyn Karroll is a Licensed Clinical […]
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Life Lessons: A Conversation with Retirement Community Chaplains
04/12/2025 Duration: 35minA chaplain in a retirement community is part spiritual advisor, part counselor, part crisis responder and part sage on life’s tough subjects. Dick’s guests are Nicole Espe, who has served as a parish pastor as well as a hospital night chaplain and Jessica McCarty whose capstone project explored loneliness in the aging population and the […]
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Teaching Disadvantaged Kids
20/11/2025 Duration: 33minHalf of students in public schools in the United States are low income. Also half are minorities. What are the challenges and what are the solutions to better educate these kids? Dick’s guest, Art Rainwater retired in 2008 after 10 years as Superintendent of Madison Metropolitan School District in Madison, Wisconsin. He is currently Clinical […]
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Lessons From Prison
05/11/2025 Duration: 36minDick’s guest, Douglas Smith, was a social worker, a policy insider at the Texas capitol and a father when untreated mental illness and addiction led him to rob a bank and land in prison for nearly six years. He is now flourishing as a social worker helping people develop leadership skills. His recent book is […]
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Prison & Jail Reform
22/10/2025 Duration: 37minThere are currently about 2,000,000 people incarcerated in the United States. Some say this system of justice is thoroughly unjust, costly and needlessly punishes instead of rehabilitates. What can be done to improve or even fix this system? Dick’s guest, Diane Endres-Ballweg is a business owner, philanthropist and author who recently attended the Advanced Leadership […]
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Workplace Motivation
01/10/2025 Duration: 32minA recent Gallup poll found that only 32% of American workers feel engaged in their jobs. How can employers best motivate their workers, particularly in the non-profit sector, to feel engaged and fulfilled? Dick’s guest, Dr. Melinda Weisberg holds a Doctorate in Management, Masters Degree in Education, (with an emphasis in adult education and organizational […]
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Mass Shootings (Encore)
11/09/2025 Duration: 38minSince 2006, there have been over 600 mass shootings in the United States, resulting in more than 3,000 murders. Why these large numbers? Who are these mass shooters? How can we intelligently address this issue? Dick’s guest, Dr. Richard LaBrie is a Clinical Psychologist who specializes in mass and individual trauma.
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How to Have a Successful Marriage (Encore)
20/08/2025 Duration: 42minDick’s guests, divorce attorney Allan Koritzinsky and psychologist Dr. Kenneth Waldron share 5 myths about marriage and the 7 essential ingredients of a successful marriage from their book “The Road to Marital Success is Unpaved.” Dr. Kenneth Waldron Allan Koritzinsky
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Inside Immigration & Deportation Today
07/08/2025 Duration: 40minThere are currently somewhere between 11 and 18 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. These are people with no legal rights to be living in this country. Should they be expelled immediately? If so, how? Is the Trump administration executing these deportations within the law? Dick’s guest, Grant Sovern is an immigration attorney with […]