KUCI: Get the Funk Out!

Coming up on Get the Funk Out! Author Melody Warnick joins host Janeane Bernstein to talk about her book, This is Where You Belong

“I’m a sucker for lists, articles and books about ‘Best Places to Live’ and given how popular they are, I suspect you are, too. Now, journalist Melody Warnick (who’s moved six times in her adult life) has written a terrific book that could help you find yours—or help you make your current community a better place to live.”
—Forbes
If you’re like most Americans, you’ve moved a few times. Maybe out of state for college, or to the city for a job, or to the next town over for a cheaper house. Considering that the average American moves 11.7 times in his or her life, maybe all of the above. Whatever drew you to your current place, you know that some places feel more like home than others. Why? What makes you want to put down roots? How do you make the place you’re living the place you want to stay? No matter how long you’ve lived there, THIS IS WHERE YOU BELONG: Finding Home Wherever You Are, now available in paperback, will make you want to celebrate, support, and engage with your city, making you happier where you are right now.
Journalist Melody Warnick shares her own restless journey (5 states in 13 years!) and her efforts to find out what makes us feel connected to our towns and cities, and why it matters. She dives into the body of research around place attachment—the deep sense of connection that residents sometimes feel with their towns—and looks at the spreading movement of placemaking, a term for how citizens are making their communities more livable.
In travels to towns across America, Warnick talk to both Movers and Stayers about what attracted them to their town, made them fall in love with it, and then made them stay. At home, she applies what she’s learned with a series of “Love Where You Live experiments” designed to make her feel more at home in her new town of Blacksburg, Virginia.
The facts, statistics, and stories Warnick shares in THIS IS WHERE YOU BELONG are not only fascinating (and often surprising), but they’re designed to help anyone, anywhere, connect with the place they live.
Warnick distills extensive research into easy-to-grasp principles that readers anywhere can use to increase engagement with, and learn to love, their own communities. Whether you’re looking for ways to learn to love your new home or looking for ways to get more involved in a community you already love THIS IS WHERE YOU BELONG can help readers realize that wherever they live… is actually home.
www.melodywarnick.com
Twitter: @melodywarnick
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
A freelance journalist for more than a decade, Melody Warnick has written for a variety of publications, including O: The Oprah Magazine, Redbook, Better Homes and Gardens, Ladies’ Home Journal, Woman’s Day, Parents, American Profile, and The Atlantic’s CityLab.
How to Find a Great Place to Live or Make Yours One, Next Avenue (Twin Cities PBS)
The Art of Loving The Place You Live, Think on KERA
New Job? Here's How to Feel Like You Belong, Fast Company

7/10 Lea Waters, Ph.D. joined host Janeane to chat about her latest work, The Strength Switch - How the New Science of Strength-Based Parenting Can He...

About The Strength Switch
Unlock your children’s potential by helping them build their strengths.
This game-changing book shows us the extraordinary results of focusing on our children’s strengths rather than always trying to correct their weaknesses. Most parents struggle with this shift because they suffer from a negativity bias, thanks to evolutionary development, giving them “strengths-blindness.” By showing us how to throw the “strengths switch,” Lea Waters demonstrates how we can not only help our children build resilience, optimism, and achievement but we can also help inoculate them against today’s pandemic of depression and anxiety.
As a strengths-based scientist for more than twenty years, ten of them spent focusing on strengths-based parenting, Waters has seen how this approach enhances self-esteem and energy in both children and teenagers. Yet more on the plus side: parents find it a particularly exciting and rewarding way to raise children. With many suggestions for specific ways to interact with your kids, Waters demonstrates how to discover strengths and talents in our children, how to use positive emotions as a resource, how to build strong brains, and even how to deal with problem behaviors and talk about difficult situations and emotions. As revolutionary yet simple as Mindset and Grit, The Strength Switch will show parents how a small shift can yield enormous results.
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Photo: © Andrew Campbell
Lea Waters, Ph.D., is President of the International Positive Psychology Association and the Gerry Higgins Chair in Positive Psychology at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She holds an affiliate position with Cambridge University’s Well-being Institute (UK) and the Center for Positive Organizations at the University of Michigan (USA). Waters was the Founding Director of the Centre for Positive Psychology at the University of Melbourne and was listed in the Top 100 Women of Influence by The Australian Financial Review in 2015. She has also served as a consultant to a wide range of businesses. Waters lives in Melbourne, Australia, with her husband, Matthew Scholes; her son, Nicholas; and her daughter, Emily.

Author Tasha Eurich, joins Janeane 7/10 at 9:30am pst to talk about her book, INSIGHT: Why We’re Not as Self-Aware as We Think, and How Seeing Ourselv...

Tasha Eurich is an organizational psychologist, researcher, and New York Times best-selling author. She’s built a reputation as a fresh, modern voice in the leadership world by pairing her scientific grounding in human behavior with a pragmatic approach to business challenges. With a PhD in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Colorado State University, Dr. Eurich has spent the last 15 years helping thousands of professionals—from Fortune 500 executives to early stage entrepreneurs—improve their self-awareness and success.
As a writer, she’s contributed to The Guardian, TED.com, The Huffington Post, Entrepreneur, and CNBC.com and her work has been featured in Business Insider, Fortune, Forbes, The New York Times, Fast Company, and New York Magazine, as well as several peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Eurich’s first book, Bankable Leadership, debuted on the New York Times bestseller list in 2013, and has since become a popular resource for managers and executives who want to make their employees happy and produce bottom-line results for their business. Her second book, Insight, delves into the connection between our self-awareness – what she calls the meta-skill of the twenty-first century – and our performance and success, both in life and the workplace.
Dr. Eurich has been named one of Denver Business Journal's “40 Under 40,” a “Top 100 Thought Leader” by Trust Across America, and a “Leader to Watch” by the American Management Association alongside the likes of Patrick Lencioni, Ram Charan, and Chip Heath. Her 2014 TEDxMileHigh talk has been viewed more than one million times on YouTube.
In her spare time, she enjoys travelling, cycling, historical biographies, and is an unapologetic theater nerd. She lives in her hometown of Denver, Colorado with her husband and their rambunctious dogs.
In a world where we tweet at each other instead of listen to each other, where style trumps substance, and where he who talks the loudest is most likely to be heard, it’s easy to lose sight of who we really are, and how others really see us. In the vein of Quiet, INSIGHT takes us on a journey of self-exploration, showing us how to survive and thrive an increasingly delusional world.
Have you been curious about what other people say about you when you’re not in the room? Or wondered if the “you” that stares back in the mirror is the same person others see? Or found yourself thinking, How well do I understand myself, really?
INSIGHT: Why We’re Not as Self-Aware as We Think, and How Seeing Ourselves Clearly Helps Us Succeed at Work and in Life

Mugambi Jouet, Stanford Law School Professor and Author of Exceptional America, joined host Janeane Bernstein 7/10 on KUCI 88.9fm!

Stanford Law School Professor and Author, Mugambi Jouet, joins host Janeane Bernstein 7/10 at 9:15am pst to talk about his latest work, Exceptional America: What Divides Americans From the World and From Each Other.
Some topics he will cover include:
Why did Donald Trump follow Barack Obama into the White House? Why is America so polarized? And how does American exceptionalism explain these social changes?
One of the goals of his book is to humanize Trump supporters and detractors, and help us all better understand the root causes of their views--even our own-- into every interview would positively engage listeners.
Mugambi Jouet teaches at Stanford Law School. His writing has been featured in Mother Jones, Slate, The New Republic, San Francisco Chronicle, Huffington Post, Salon, The Hill, Libération, Le Monde, and academic journals. He has traveled extensively within America and internationally.
http://mugambijouet.com/
http://news.stanford.edu/2017/ 04/03/expert-examines-roots-am ericas-divide/#

Indhushree Rajan, Ph.D. joins host Janeane Bernstein Monday 7/10 at 9:00am pst

Indhushree Rajan, Ph.D. joins host Janeane Bernstein Monday 7/10 at 9:00am pst. Indhushree is an American born, South Indian woman, who grew up in Southern California. She has worked with physically and sexually abused children and adolescents, adult victims of rape and domestic violence, and at-risk youth and families with criminal, psychiatric, and substance abuse histories for the past 16 years. She finished her PhD in clinical psychology, and is the creator/director of Project Satori, a non-profit organization committed to providing mental health and trauma care for sex trafficking survivors, both domestically, and in developing countries.




FOUNDER, PROGRAMS DIRECTOR: CLINICAL ARTS AND ADVOCACY

Dr. Rajan is the founder of Project Satori and co-founder of the Satori Wellness Center.
She has spent over 20 years working with child, adolescent, and adult survivors of physical, sexual, and psychological trauma, in diverse cultural and socio-economic communities in California.
In the private practice setting, Dr. Rajan enjoys working with a very diverse spectrum of clients of different ages and backgrounds, presenting with a wide range of clinical issues including: acute anxiety, depression, PTSD, personality disorders, aging, life transitions, and learning disabilities.
Dr. Rajan is an internationally published author and has written and spoken extensively all over the world on the topics of human trafficking and modern day sexual slavery.
For the past nine years, Dr. Rajan has been doing research and clinical work with sex trafficking survivors in California and India. Her clinical work with clients spans training and experience with a variety of treatment modalities including: psychodynamic therapy, narrative and play based therapies, art therapy, mindfulness and CBT techniques in address of severe trauma, and mind/body and EFT based treatment methods.

In 2008 Dr. Rajan founded Project Satori and has since been working to realize its mission to provide comprehensive mental health care to survivors of sex-trafficking and their families, in and around Los Angeles;
to promote education and advocacy around the global sex trafficking crisis, both domestically and abroad;
to offer psychoeducational training services about sex trafficking prevention and treatment in California, and through global partner programs worldwide.

Jane Green, author of eighteen novels (seventeen NY Times Bestsellers!) , joins host Janeane Bernstein to talk about her latest book Sunshine Sisters

ABOUT JANE GREEN
Jane Green is the author of eighteen novels, of which seventeen are New York Times Bestsellers, including her latest, Falling Previous novels have included The Beach House, Second Chance, Jemima J, and Tempting Fate. She will be debuting her cookbook, Good Taste, on October 4th.
She is published in over 25 languages, and has over ten million books in print worldwide. She joined the ABC News team to write their first enhanced digital book— about the history of Royal marriages, then joined ABC News as a live correspondent covering Prince William’s wedding to Kate Middleton. A former journalist in the UK, she has had her own radio show on BBC Radio London, and is a regular contributor on radio and TV, including as well as regularly appearing on television shows including Good Morning America, The Martha Stewart show, and The Today Show.
Together with writing books and blogs, she contributes to various publications, both online and print, including anthologies and novellas, and features for The Huffington Post, The Sunday Times, Cosmopolitan and Self. She has taught at writers conferences, and does regular keynote speaking, and has a weekly column in The Lady magazine, England’s longest running weekly magazine.
A graduate of the French Culinary Institute in New York, Green filled two of her books, Saving Grace and Promises to Keep, with recipes culled from her own collection. She says she only cooks food that is “incredibly easy, but has to look as if you have slaved over a hot stove for hours.” This is because she has five children, and has realised that “when you have five children, nobody ever invites you anywhere.”
She lives in Westport, Connecticut with her husband and their blended family. When she is not writing, cooking, gardening, filling her house with friends and herding chickens, she is usually thanking the Lord for caffeine-filled energy drinks. A cancer survivor – she has overcome Malignant Melanoma, she also lives with Chronic Lyme Disease, and believes gratitude and focusing on the good in life is the secret to happiness.
ABOUT THE SUNSHINE SISTERS
Ronni Sunshine left London for Hollywood in the sixties to become a beautiful, charismatic star of the silver screen. But at home, she was a narcissistic, disinterested mother who alienated her three daughters. Still, when Ronni discovers she has a serious illness, she calls her now-adult girls home to fulfill her final wishes.
Nell, Meredith, and Lizzy are all going through crises of their own. But as their mother’s illness draws them together to confront old jealousies and secret fears, they discover that blood might be thicker than water after all.
http://www.janegreen.com

Ron Carter, President and CEO of Children Incorporated, joined host Janeane 7/3/17

When you think about it, charity can be a tough business. As Larissa MacFarquhar writes in her best seller Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, “The life of a zealous do-gooder is a kind of human sublime…confronting it, you see its formidable nobility, and at the same time, you sense uncomfortably that you would not survive it for long.” That sublime ambition is what Children Incorporated tries to bring to its donors and supporters – a sense of connecting someone who can give with someone who so desperately needs help. Since 1964, Children Incorporated has extended its reach to over 250,000 children, spread across 23 countries and through over 300 programs andoutreach projects. Operating without religious or political affiliation, and with a lean staff of 16 located at headquarters in Virginia, sponsorship donations and volunteer support are the lifeblood of the organization.
For people like Shelley Callahan, Director of Development for Children Incorporated, the everyday work of global charity relief is less of a superhuman exercise in sublime divinity than it is simply magnifying the many generous actions of donors, supporters, and others who can only give “a little.” “Working for Children Incorporated has made me a much more considerate and patient person,” Callahan observes, “but it’s also made me realize that the most important thing anyone can do is give back. You can do something small, and make a huge difference.”
Don't Sweat the Small Stuff
Since it was founded by Jeanne Clarke Wood in 1964, Children Incorporated has engaged in direct sponsorship of specific children. After witnessing poverty on a trip to Guatemala, Wood began writing letters to friends and colleagues asking for donations that would specifically match them with one of the 95 children she met on her travels. Since then, all of the organization’s work has revolved around connecting donors to individual children. As the organization reaches these children all around the world, they also find ways to engage in other local projects and relief efforts that help improve the children’s lives from the outside as well.
Direct sponsorship is behind one of Children Incorporated’s current high-profile projects, inspired by the 20th anniversary of the self-help best-seller Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff by Richard Carlson. The book proved a boom for Children Incorporated in 1997 when Carlson wrote about giving to charity, “There are many find agencies to choose from, but my personal favorite is Children Incorporated…the experience has brought tremendous joy and satisfaction to my family.” “Dr. Carlson’s mention was one of the most meaningful things to ever happen to our organization,” says Callahan. “Thousands of impoverished children were helped as a result.” Now, Carlson’s widow
Kristine is continuing that legacy, partnering with Children Incorporated to generate 2000 new sponsorships, with the Richard Carlson Memorial Foundation pledging $5000 in matching donations.
For Callahan, working on behalf of Children Incorporated involves travel to points near (Appalachia, the inner city, and the reservation) and far (the rainforests of Bolivia and Southeast Asia). Callahan not only manages the organization’s communications, but is the social correspondent for the web series “On the Road,” where she is able to highlight individual and community success stories and bring evidence of the effectiveness of donor support into the digital spotlight.
Her job also means celebrating the recent accomplishments of Children Incorporated’s successful community based projects, such as the recent effort to add seven classrooms to a school in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. “It’s easy to see the impact of these projects on the lives of individuals,” explains Callahan, “but we also see how the entire community benefits.” The new classrooms, for example, meant that there could be adult literacy classes offered at night for the first time, and members of the community have pooled their resources to buy AC units for the new buildings. “We can claim that our reach is more than twice as much as the individual children we directly sponsor, because it always includes siblings, family members, neighbors, and others who benefit.”
The same goes for another project in Bolivia, Villa Emelia, a home for women who are transitioning from living on the streets. “It’s a place to stay, with their children, as well as a factory that makes garments and school uniforms to give them new job skills and work towards sustainable living situations.” The Catholic nuns who have partnered with Children Incorporated in the region have also developed a program where they purchase property that the women can pay the mortgage on as they earn. “They had eight plots of land that were ready to go, and we were able to step in with the funding needed to actually build new homes.”
Callahan explains that each new project must be carefully planned and vetted before donors are approached for support. “We always have a general idea about what we can do, but we need to assess everything before we fundraise, and then look to our existing donor base and ask them is this what they would want to support?” Looking towards visits to Sri Lanka and India this summer, Callahan says that recent efforts are geared towards broader environmental issues like clean water solutions, as well as the more traditional efforts of providing shelter, clothing, and basics for sponsored individual children.
ABOUT RONALD CARTER - PRESIDENT AND CEO
Ron is responsible for overseeing all operations of Children Incorporated, with a specific goal of honoring the original vision and mission of the charitable organization as created by Jeanne Clarke Wood in 1964.
www.childrenincorporated.org

Daphine Priscilla Brown- Jack chats with host Janeane Bernstein to talk about her gripping book, The Other Side of the Story

On August 26, 2009, Daphine Priscilla Brown-Jack thought everything was fine. While driving home from work, she began to reflect on her day, grateful for all her blessings. But just as her gut instinct told her something was wrong, her phone rang. As her daughter relayed news of an allegation against her husband--the man who was always serving and loving God and his family--Daphine's life plunged into turmoil. Suddenly, nothing was fine.
In the coming months as the situation in her home grew unbearable, Daphine knew she could no longer depend on anyone and turned to her only remaining hope and strength: God. As she relives the emotional experience of watching her life fall apart before her eyes, Daphine provides a compelling glimpse inside her personal journey as she separated fact from fiction, navigated through the criminal justice system, and learned to trust in God's purpose and plan for her life.
The Other Side of the Story is the inspirational true story of one woman's struggles within herself, her family, her faith, and the justice system after her husband is wrongfully accused of a crime.

On 7/3, Janeane Bernstein chats with Sarah Dessen, the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author of Young Adult fiction and Once and For All

With more than 10 million copies in print, Sarah Dessen is the undisputed queen of summer romance and her thirteenth novel, ONCE AND FOR is the best one yet. Set in the world of wedding planning, ONCE AND FOR ALL is inspired by those momentous occasions in life which can challenge one’s personal resources and ultimately bring out the best in ourselves and the friends and family around us. Sarah Dessen is the author of twelve previous novels, and her first two books, That Summer and Someone Like You, were made into the movie How to Deal, starring Mandy Moore. Dessen’s books are frequently chosen for the Teens’ Top Ten list and the list of Best Fiction for Young Adults.
This past January, Sarah Dessen was awarded the highly coveted 2017 Margaret A. Edwards Award at the American Library Association Youth Media Awards. Each year the American Library Association awards this honor to an author for his or her significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature. As a recipient of this award, Dessen stands alongside past recipients and young adult literature powerhouses S.E. Hinton, Judy Blume, and Laurie Halse Anderson among others.
About ONCE AND FOR ALL:
Is it really better to have loved and lost? Louna's summer job is to help brides plan their perfect day, even though she stopped believing in happily-ever-after when her first love ended tragically. But charming girl-magnet Ambrose isn't about to be discouraged now that he's met the one he really wants. Maybe Louna's second chance is standing right in front of her. Sarah Dessen’s many fans will adore this latest novel, a richly satisfying, enormously entertaining story with humor, romance, and an ending that is so much more than happily-ever-after.
Read an excerpt from ONCE AND FOR ALL on EW.com: Sarah Dessen’s YA novel Once and for All

Chris Pegula, joined host Janeane June 26 9:15am pst to chat about his book, Diaper Dude: The Ultimate Dad’s Guide to Surviving the First Two Years

In the new release DIAPER DUDE: The Ultimate Dad’s Guide to Surviving the First Two Years (on sale May 9, 2017), founder of the popular Diaper Dude parenting brand Chris Pegula dives into the first two years of parenting and furthers his deeply held belief that you don’t have to lose yourself when you become a father. Picking up where his first book From Dude to Dad left off, this new guide is once again written in Pegula’s everyman voice and filled with humorous takes on fatherhood from the front lines. We shipped a copy your way last week so you should see it shortly if you haven’t already.
Filled with useful information, hilarious stories of dad madness, a little psychology and science, and engaging sidebars, Diaper Dude covers everything from bonding, babyproofing, and when you’ll have sex again to toddlerhood, tantrums, and tag-teaming with your partner to cover all the bases while staying (somewhat) sane.
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Filled with useful information, hilarious stories of dad madness, a little psychology and science, and engaging sidebars, Diaper Dude covers everything from bonding, babyproofing, and when you’ll have sex again to toddlerhood, tantrums, and tag-teaming with your partner to cover all the bases while staying (somewhat) sane.
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Filled with useful information, hilarious stories of dad madness, a little psychology and science, and engaging sidebars, Diaper Dude covers everything from bonding, babyproofing, and when you’ll have sex again, to toddlerhood, tantrums, and tag-teaming with your partner to cover all the bases. A perfect pick for Father’s Day, I hope you consider DIAPER DUDE for coverage! Chris is available for interviews and guest articles as well.
“The market for dads wanting to know how to do best by their babies is undeniable… recommended for all dudes.” – Library Journal
“By turns sweet, funny, tender and joyful.” – Work & Family Life
CHRIS PEGULA is the creator of Diaper Dude, America’s most high-profile line of hip gear for cool dads. He lives with his wife and three children in Los Angeles, CA. Diaper Dude bags have been featured on Oprah, Rachael Ray Show, Today, MSNBC, and more. Video clip here (Chris interviewed around the 1 minute mark). FRANK MEYER is a journalist, author, senior producer at NBC’s Esquire Network, and the proud single father of an eight-year-old girl.