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2 days ago
3 min

Weeds, Computer Shopping, Home Ergonomics

Spring is the most colorful season of the year with a cornucopia of bulbs, flowers, shrubs, and trees in bloom. It is also the time when Mother Nature shares the ornaments that most gardeners loathe…weeds! As many people work from home personal computers have become essential communication tools. What are the choices for today’s models? What do you look for when getting a new computer? Get the computer you need without the bells and whistles you don’t. Poor ergonomics can cau

Cynthia Brian

6 days ago
3 min

Technology, A.I., Data Mining

Diya Hituvalli and Siri Phaneedra host a fascinating program dedicated to technology and emerging technologies. Diya especially is fascinated by artificial intelligence with its unlimited possibilities to detect disease, eliminate world hunger, and make life easier through automation. She unveils the free app she developed, KeepMeSafe, a women's safety tool that utilizes voice recognition and location tracking to prevent sexual assault available in the iOS app store. The host

Love Yourself, Vaccines and Travel, Text Scams

Cynthia Brian

Apr 8
3 min

Love Yourself, Vaccines and Travel, Text Scams

Do you love yourself? Most of us are skilled at loving our families, friends, and pets but neglect loving ourselves for who we are. Change emotional self-talk, listen to your gut, and celebrate the beautiful person you are. As more of the world gets vaccinated, people are itching to hit the road and experience other locales. Is it safe? Can you travel internationally? We’ll investigate the latest on the Covid-19 vaccine and travel restrictions. Have you ever received a text f

The Outdoors, Easter, and Mindful Growing

Cynthia Brian

Apr 4
2 min

The Outdoors, Easter, and Mindful Growing

Happy Easter and Passover! Andrea Smith hosts a special spring show that focuses on the outdoors and gardening. She reads Cynthia Brian’s Easter Parade article (https://blog.voiceamerica.com/2021/03/30/easter-parade/) that provides information on how to keep wildlife out of your garden. She then interviews Joann Calabrese with her book, Growing Mindful, a handbook on garden and green world mindfulness practices. It contains an abundance of activities rooted in sensing the won

SAG Awards, Garden Wildlife and Easter, Screen Time

Cynthia Brian

Apr 1
3 min

SAG Awards, Garden Wildlife and Easter, Screen Time

The 27th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will be simulcast on TNT and TBS on Sunday, april 4, 2021 at 9:00 pm ET/6:00pm PT. What are your picks for the best performances, TV shows, movies, and stunts for 2020? Cynthia Brian, nominating committee member and SAG voter, will offer her thoughts on the festivities and give an insider's view of the nominating process. Do you feel your kids are spending too many hours on their phones or laptops? The American Academy of Pediatrics

Cynthia Brian

Mar 28
2 min

Body Image

“You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself, and see what happens” Louise Hay What does body image mean? Body image refers to a person’s perceptions, beliefs, and attitude of their own body. Your body image is what you think and how you feel when you look in the mirror or when you picture yourself in your mind. This includes how you feel about your appearance; what you think about your body itself, such as your height and weig

Food Waste, Essential Oils, Happiness Gift

Cynthia Brian

Mar 25
4 min

Food Waste, Essential Oils, Happiness Gift

Food Waste is a global issue. Cutting back on waste will help the environment, save resources, and energy. What are ways that you can stop the pollution by eliminating food waste. Find out! Producer, writer and director in the Hollywood television industry, Kac Young, was Vice President of Television Production and Development for Universal Studios Hollywood and has also served on the boards of The Director's Guild of America and Women in Film. She has written 25 books and wi

Cynthia Brian

Mar 22
4 min

Mindful Beauty with Dr. Debbie Palmer

https://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/129248/mindful-beauty-with-dr-debbie-palmer “Beauty is not in the face, beauty is a light in the heart” Kahlil Gibran What do you consider beautiful? Dermatologist and author, Dr. Debbie Palmer, talks with hosts Andrea Smith and Maggie Campione about her book Mindful Beauty, the all-natural antioxidant skincare collection that she created, Replere, and about combining her work as a medical doctor and osteopath to discover root causes of sk

St. Patrick’s Day, Spring Shamrocks, Preparing for 2nd Vaccine

Cynthia Brian

Mar 18
3 min

St. Patrick’s Day, Spring Shamrocks, Preparing for 2nd Vaccine

https://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/129036/st-patricks-day-spring-shamrocks-preparing-for-2nd-vaccine Are you wearing green today? If not, get ready to be pinched! Although St. Patrick’s Day originally had a blue theme, even the Emerald Isle has adopted the color green to celebrate their national saint. Learn about the history and traditions. Erin go bragh! Shamrocks, spring, and sweet peas! It’s almost spring and gardening is on all of our minds. We’ll dig into the moist so

Cynthia Brian

Mar 14
3 min

Passion and Storytelling

What is your passion, and how can you access it? Your passion is unique to you. Andrea Smith and Diya Hituvalli host a program focused on finding our passion and storytelling. They launch the show with a reading of the Gift of Passion fromCynthia Brian’s book, Be the Star You Are!® 99 gifts for Living, Loving, Laughing, and Learning to Make a Difference. They then interview Business Growth Strategist, Parul Agrawal, who discusses her teen years growing up in India, her arran

Her Highness CBD, March Garden America’s Challenge, Pet Dental Health

Cynthia Brian

Mar 4
4 min

Her Highness CBD, March Garden America’s Challenge, Pet Dental Health

Her Highness is a female-first cannabis and CBD lifestyle brand based in New York designed for the modern cannabis consumer. Stylishly made by women for women, Cynthia Brian interviews co-founders Laura Eisman and Allison Krongard. Her Highness donates funds that directly support women incarcerated for non-violent cannabis crimes. With less than three weeks to go before the vernal equinox, this is an auspicious time to contemplate how we want to orient our window views for th

Cynthia Brian

Feb 27
2 min

Meditation, Asking, Surrender

Have you ever been so stressed that you have difficulty focusing on one task, and your heart and mind races? Have you caught yourself pacing back and forth? With school being virtual for many, unemployment being high, and our plans being altered monthly, weekly, and sometimes even daily, anxiety and stress are affecting many people all over the world. It is at this time we look within ourselves and all around us and find our “calm place” or our “happy place”, somewhere that w

Love Dad, Life at Hamilton, Let the Sun Shine

Cynthia Brian

Feb 24
4 min

Love Dad, Life at Hamilton, Let the Sun Shine

Love, Dad: How My Father Died ..Then Told Me He Didn’t details Mike Anthony's true story as he pulls himself out of despair, and alongside his family, finds true connection and communication with his dad once again. So compelling is his story that Netflix chose to feature it in three episodes of their series Surviving Death. Life at Hamilton by Mike Anthony, details true stories of the interactions between himself, the bar manager at Hamilton on Broadway, and the patrons who

Cynthia Brian

Feb 20
3 min

Mental Health

“What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation.” – Glenn Close. Today’s topic is perhaps one of the most important topics and often the least talked about. Mental health plays a vital role in our overall well-being. Host Maggie Campione converses with reporters Nihal Gill and Arjin Claire about their research with mental health. Spark the Interest reporter, Nihal, shares the statistic that one out six adolescents are affected by menta

Covid and Relationships in Retirement, Building Brain Power

Cynthia Brian

Feb 18
3 min

Covid and Relationships in Retirement, Building Brain Power

https://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/128424/covid-and-relationships-in-retirement-building-brain-power Over 450, 000 and climbing is the number of fatalities from Covid-19 here in the United States, with thousands of deaths happening in senior living facilities. Aging at home could be a better answer to living with covid in retirement. Relationships are challenging any day but when two people retire the relationship can become more complicated. Sometimes it takes ten or more

Cynthia Brian

Feb 14
3 min

Valentine's Day and Activities

E xpress Yourself!™ and host Andrea Smith welcome a new reporter, Diya Hituvalli with her segment, Silver Lining. Diya shares fun historical and trivia facts about the celebration of Valentine’s Day, a celebration that began with the Romans who, on February 14th, executed clergyman Valentine who was performing banned marriages for soldiers. Diya offers facts and fiction with humor and wit. Both teens offer tips about how to celebrate during the pandemic, whether with a partne

February Celebrations, Health at Home, Prune and Plan, Vaccine Rollout

Cynthia Brian

Feb 10
3 min

February Celebrations, Health at Home, Prune and Plan, Vaccine Rollout

February is American Heath Month and Black History Month. It also celebrate two significant holidays, Valentine’s Day and Presidents’ Day. During Covid-19, people are afraid to visit a physician for preventative care. The good news is that patients can take care of their health at home with virtual consultations, home monitoring, and testing devices. Find out what you can do to stay healthy and stay home. February is a month of pruning, planning and perusing in your garden. T

How to Survive Happily during the Pandemic

Cynthia Brian

Feb 7
3 min

How to Survive Happily during the Pandemic

In this hour, teen host Andrea Smith brings to light a positive outlook on everything that is going on around COVID-19. Starting off with an update about COVID-19 and vaccines, Andrea explains what is important to know about the situation at hand right now. She then follows with a segment on mindfulness and self-love, two things that we all need right now. Finally, she wraps up the show with some of her favorites including ways to hang out safely with friends right now includ

Surviving Cancer Twice, Self-care, Banning Perfect

Cynthia Brian

Feb 4
4 min

Surviving Cancer Twice, Self-care, Banning Perfect

A breast cancer diagnosis at forty-nine forces Christine Shields Corrigan, a wife, mom, and meticulous list-maker, to confront her deepest fears of illness, death, and loss of control as she struggles to face cancer again. Her adult experience mirrors her teen bout with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, with one exception—she no longer has parents keeping her in the dark. Christine will talk about her book, Again: Surviving Cancer Twice with Love and Lists. In a time when the entire world

Cynthia Brian

Jan 31
2 min

Allergies and Humor

Do you know how to identify a life-threatening allergy to food or other substances? Hosts Arjin Claire and Andrea Smith take a deep dive into the real dangers of allergies. Arjin has had extreme food allergies to tree nuts, dairy, eggs, and peanuts since he was a child. He recalls an almost fatal encounter with a KIND bar as a teen and offers tips on how to recognize and avoid accidents that could be fatal by being honest and diligent. The duo take a break by offering a selec

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Weeds, Computer Shopping, Home Ergonomics

Technology, A.I., Data Mining

Love Yourself, Vaccines and Travel, Text Scams

The Outdoors, Easter, and Mindful Growing

SAG Awards, Garden Wildlife and Easter, Screen Time

Body Image

Food Waste, Essential Oils, Happiness Gift

Mindful Beauty with Dr. Debbie Palmer

St. Patrick’s Day, Spring Shamrocks, Preparing for 2nd Vaccine

Passion and Storytelling

Her Highness CBD, March Garden America’s Challenge, Pet Dental Health

Meditation, Asking, Surrender

Love Dad, Life at Hamilton, Let the Sun Shine

Mental Health

Covid and Relationships in Retirement, Building Brain Power

Valentine's Day and Activities

February Celebrations, Health at Home, Prune and Plan, Vaccine Rollout

How to Survive Happily during the Pandemic

Surviving Cancer Twice, Self-care, Banning Perfect

Allergies and Humor