UPCOMING SHOWS

May 20
Mary Higgins Clark
Overcoming Obstacles To Success
Mary Higgins Clark, #1 New York Times bestselling author, has written 30 suspense novels; three collections of short stories; a historical novel, Mount Vernon Love Story; and a memoir, Kitchen Privileges. She is the coauthor with Carol Higgins Clark of five suspense novels. Her books are worldwide bestsellers, with over 100 million sold in the United States alone. Mary’s fame as a writer was achieved against heavy odds. Born and raised in the Bronx, her father died when she was eleven and her mother struggled to raise her and her two brothers. Mary married and was left a young widow by the death of her husband from a heart attack in 1964. She went to work writing radio scripts and, in addition, decided to try her hand at writing books. Every morning, she got up at 5 AM and wrote until 7 AM, when she had to get her five children ready for school. Mary’s first suspense novel, Where Are the Children? was published by Simon & Schuster in 1975. It became a bestseller and marked a turning point in her life and career.

May 27
Avis Richards
Turn Your Passion Into A Career
Avis Richards is the Founder and CEO of Birds Nest Foundation™, a non-profit creative group that produces high-quality documentaries, short videos and public service announcements for charitable organizations. Avis was living a comfortable life as a wife and mother, contributing to society through her good works, when she had an awakening moment and decided to turn her personal philanthropy into a career. To date, Avis has granted PSA’s, short films and documentaries for dozens of non-profits including ones helmed by Goldie Hawn, Michael Bolton, Andre Agassi, and John Legend, to name a few. Her productions have touched upon important topics such as education, health, women’s issues, the environment, anti-violence, and more. Avis was recently nominated for several New York Emmy® Awards for her weekly TV series produced through Birds Nest, Lunch NYC.

June 3
Eldon Taylor
What We Believe Matters
Eldon Taylor is an award-winning, New York Times best-selling author of more than 300 books, audio, and video programs. He’s the inventor of the patented InnerTalk technology and the founder and president of Progressive Awareness Research. Eldon has been called a “master of the mind” and has appeared as an expert witness on both hypnosis and subliminal communication. He has been featured as an expert in films, print, television and radio. Eldon’s work reveals how and why we get locked into self-imposed limitations and false self-images — “negative self-talk”— and demonstrates how we can retrain our mind with positive “self-talk.” Moreover, he qualifies us to make an immediate life change just by revealing how we can look at things differently and therefore affect our entire existence.

June 10
Mark Liponis, MD
Are You A Hunter Or A Farmer?
Do You Have the Metabolism of a Hunter or a Farmer? The answer may help you achieve your health and weight loss goals. Dr. Mark Liponis, a leading expert in preventive and integrative medicine and author of the new book, The Hunter/Farmer Diet Solution, will explain how to determine which type you are so that you can lose weight and improve your health at the same time. Dr. Liponis is the corporate medical director at Canyon Ranch, a global leader of health and well-being programs, and has been a practicing clinician in internal medicine for 25 years. He is the author of two other books, Ultraprevention (co-authored with Dr. Mark Hyman), and UltraLongevity. He is a national speaker, and has also appeared on national television including The Dr. Oz Show, CNN, FOX News, the Today Show, and The View.

June 17
Jim Abbott
IMPERFECT: An Improbable Life
Jim Abbott was a professional baseball player who was born without a right hand, but that never stopped Jim from following his dreams. He was an All-America hurler at Michigan, won the Sullivan Award in 1987, was the pitcher for the Gold Medal Olympic Team in 1988, and threw a 4-0 no-hitter for the New York Yankees versus Cleveland (September 4, 1993). Jim played for 10 seasons on 4 different teams and ended his big league playing career in 1999. Jim has worked with The Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) on several initiatives encouraging businesses to hire people with disabilities. Jim is the author of the new book, IMPERFECT: An Improbable Life, is a motivational speaker, and a guest-pitching instructor during spring training for the Los Angeles Angels.

June 24
Marsha Lucas, PhD
Rewire Your Brain For Love
On the way to finding and creating vibrant, successful relationships, too many of us end up tangled in the same old patterns, tripped up by relationship habits that get in our way whether we “know better” or not. Neuropsychologist and psychotherapist, Marsha Lucas, PhD, helps us untangle those relationship snarls bringing together the latest neuroscience with a practice consistently heralded by top academic institutions for its effectiveness in changing the brain: the practice of mindfulness meditation. Dr Lucas delves into how the human brain works —or often doesn’t — in relationships and she shows how a short daily meditation practice can result in seven key relationship benefits, including improved communication with yourself and others, an enhanced ability to handle fear, and being more emotionally authentic and resilient.