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Listeners can get their questions about effective leadership in business and at home answered Tuesday, May 5, 2015, on voiceamerica.com/show/2397/family-matters. Entrepreneur, marketing strategist, negotiations architect, speaker, and author of CDO Chief Daddy Officer®-The Business of Fatherhood, Chris Efessiou understands first hand that the dynamics of success are the same whether you are addressing a group at work or tucking your child into bed at night. As the number of children living in single-parent households has exponentially increased, a new generation of working parents has evolved.

Join us on Tuesday, May 5th to learn about current issues and potential solutions for C. diff infections and antibiotic use, presented by two leading experts from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). - Dr. Clifford McDonald, MD, Senior Advisor for Science and Integrity, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion at CDC. o Dr. McDonald has interests in epidemiology and prevention of healthcare-associated infections, especially Clostridium difficile infections, and in the prevention of antimicrobial resistance - Dr. Arjun Srinivasan, MD, Associate Director for Healthcare-Associated Infection Prevention Programs in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion at CDC's National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases. Dr. McDonald and Dr. Srinivasan will participate in an enlightening discussion addressing antibiotic usage and Clostridium difficile infections, and the implications of these topics for patients around the world. The C Diff Foundation is a leading non-profit organization educating, and advocating for C. diff. prevention, treatments, and environmental safety worldwide.

Welcome to My Breakdown by Benilde Little - will be our topic at The Wellness Lounge, A Step Further 9 a.m. E.S.T. May 4th, 2015 Monday when host Desiree Watson welcomes guest Benilde Little to the show. A major bestselling novelist and former magazine editor, long married to a handsome and successful stockbroker with whom she has a beautiful daughter and son, Benilde Little had every reason to feel on top of the world. But as illness, financial problems and the ultimate blow, losing her beloved mother, interrupted her seemingly perfect life, she took a tailspin into a pit of clinical depression. Told in her own fearless and wise voice, Welcome to My Breakdown chronicles a cavern of depression so dark that Benilde didn't know if she'd ever recover from what David Foster Wallace called "a nausea of the soul." In this compelling read, she writes about everything from growing up in Newark, her membership in the Nation of Islam, dating a married man while still a teenager, to the loss in her ability to work—to write. She was lost and when her beloved, indomitable, southern-born mother died, the pain became unbearable. Writing in the courageous tradition of great female storytellers such as Alice Walker, Maya Angelou, Joan Didion, Pearl Cleage and Sista Souljah, Benilde doesn't hold back as she shares insights, inspiration, and intimate details of her life. Powerful, relatable, and ultimately redemptive, Welcome to My Breakdown is a remarkable memoir about the power within us all to rise from despair and to feel hope and joy again. Tune in Monday, 9 a.m. for the live interview on the Wellness Lounge, A Step Further on the VoiceAmerica Empowerment channel.

Cheryl Esposito welcomes Sam Horn, Intrigue Expert, TEDx speaker, and coach to entrepreneurs, executives, and authors on how to craft concise, compelling communications that connect instantly. Sam Horn has cracked the code for creating a brand, pitching an idea, or making acquaintances. You have 60 seconds - max - to capture people's favorable attention. (Sam says "goldfish have longer attention spans than most of us do!") And…if you can't get people's favorable attention, you'll never get their business. Sam is an award-winning keynote speaker who has presented to more than half a million people worldwide, and has authored 6 books, the latest being "Got Your Attention?" Join Cheryl Esposito & Sam Horn as she reveals her "secret sauce" to Create Intrigue and Connect with Anyone!

Voice America announces the addition of Publishing Today, a new voice and resource for communicators with a message to share. The show will make its debut May 2, 2015 at 10 AM PST. The weekly one-hour Saturday morning broadcast is designed to educate and empower aspiring authors, thought leaders, business owners and others with a story to tell. The show is produced and hosted by Athena Dean Holtz, author, blogger, speaker, publisher and pastor's wife. The format is designed to creatively mix author and industry expert interviews, along with answers to all manner of publishing related questions in the "Ask Athena" segment of each show.

Bringing guests such as author of Ties to Tattoos and You Can Have it All – Just Not at Once Sherri Elliott-Yeary who have found a way to personally and meaningfully connect with their work to both educate and inspire listeners, Alise Cortez has built a loyal listenership and continues to educate and inspire listeners worldwide.

Producer of Express Yourself!™ Teen Radio on the Voice America Kids Network was actually a California champion rooster when she was a teen. As the teen coach and producer of Express Yourself!™, Cynthia Brian is proud to crow about the amazingly talented youth reporters on the Be the Star You Are!® charity STAR team who hail from all over the United States. Since the show's launch in 2011, thirty young people have become reporters and hosts of Express Yourself!™ sharing their ideas, expertise, and learning to be adept interviewers. And, the teens are winning awards and being accepted into top universities.

Book coach, spiritual mentor, and award-winning author, Christine Kloser will be the guest with Nancy Gentle Boudrie on Gentle Power Radio on Tuesday, April 21, 3pm ET 12pm PT. Christine will inspire you to tap into your Inner Power to become a published author. Christine will share her life challenges that lead to her transformation and a desire to assist others in breaking through their challenges, struggles, and heartbreak. She will share her unique solutions and guidance as she words it to "birth your own authentic message" to not only transform yourself but those around you.

I, Gilles Asselin, have been working with Scott since July of 2014 and I call him my "energy coach." He seems to be able to direct energy whenever I need it, and that means far beyond the boundaries of my narrow physical body, into those areas of my psyche that need the most care or attention. I am rarely conscious of what goes on in a clearing session but, down the road, spiritual folks tell me that my chakras feel clear and that I radiate a new sense of vitality. I know where this beautiful energy is coming from.

We've been taught to think of doctors as gods. They know our bodies better than we do. If we want to get better, we have to listen to their advice. They know the truth. We have learned to deny our own wisdom and to put ourselves solely in their hands. Sometimes this is the right choice. Often it is not. We must change this pattern of ignoring what we know about our own body. We must take charge of our own health and stop denying that nagging feeling that something is wrong. Getting more than one opinion from medical doctors, alternative medicine practitioners and trusted healers and determining which course of action is best for you now is essential. Especially in this age of litigation, doctors depend more and more on tests that are often inaccurate and/or only tell part of the story. They often miss cancer until it is terminal. They choose to listen to the test rather than to the patient. Join us Thursday when world-renowned expert, Dr. Bernie Siegel, tells us to be our own advocate.