North Star Guardians

Dr. Kevin Keough, co-host of North Star Guardians interviews Professor Charles Barber, author of Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation published by Pantheon.

Charles Barber was educated at Harvard and Columbia and worked for ten years in New York City shelters for the homeless mentally ill. The title essay in his first book, Songs from the Black Chair, won a 2006 Pushcart Prize. His work has appeared in the The Washington Post, The New York Times and Scientific American Mind, among other publications, and on NPR. He is a senior administrator at The Connection, an innovative social services agency, and a lecturer in psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine. He lives in Connecticut with his family.  Visit his website .

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Dr. Kevin Keough, co-host of North Star Guardians Podcast, interviews Dr. David Givens, author of Love Signals: A Practical Field Guide to the Body Language of Courtship published by St. Martin's Griffin.

David Givens began studying body language at the University of Washington in Seattle. He served as Resident Anthropologist and Director of information services and programs at the American Anthropological Association in Washington, D.C. for more than a decade. He is currently Director of the Center for Non-Verbal Studies in Spokane, Washington. He teaches in the Department of Communication Arts at Gonzaga University. He offers seminars on nonverbal communication to diverse audiences, including lawyers, judges, social workers, salespeople, physicians. He works with law enforcement agencies and the U.S. Intelligence community.  Dr. Givens is also the author of Crime Signals: How to Spot a Criminal Before You Become a Victim.  Visit Dr. Given's website.

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Jamie Mason, co-host of North Star Guardians, interviews Dr. John Izzo, author of The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

John Izzo is a visionary, author, community leader and professional speaker on leadership development, performance management, corporate culture, and organizational change. Dr. John Izzo has more than 17 years experience working in a wide variety of corporate settings. His clients include nonprofit organizations, Fortune 500 companies, Healthcare Organizations and mid-size companies. Over the last two decades, John Izzo has married his first career as a minister with his second career as a management & leadership consultant to help leaders create corporations and organizations where values and purpose are the foundations for success. Dr. Izzo spent five years as a senior organizational development consultant for Kaiser Permanente, and 4 years as Vice President of The Einstein Consulting Group, an international customer service consultancy prior to establishing his own firm. Currently he focuses on helping leaders and organizations reach sustainable success through the integration of purposeful leadership and business practices.

John Izzo obtained his Bachelor of Sociology from Hofstra University in 1978 before completing a dual Masters degree from McCormick Divinity School in Theology while simultaneously attending the University of Chicago to complete his Masters in Organizational Psychology. Dr. Izzo then completed his Ph.D. in Organizational Communication from Kent State University shortly thereafter. He is the author of over 60 articles, and is the co-author of the best selling book Awakening Corporate Soul: Four Paths to Unleash the Power of People at Work and its companion workbook. He is also the author of  Values-Shift: The New Work Ethic and What it Means for Business. His pioneering work has been featured on CNN, ABC World News, the LA Times, Canada AM, CBC Radio, The American Medical Journal, B.C. Business, The Seattle Times and the cover of Association Management Magazine on "Creating Inspiring Work Places".

Based on leading edge research and experiences with more than 200 companies, John Izzo helps people understand these shifting values and how they differ across generations and across gender.John Izzo works with leaders who are serious about finding and keeping talented people and who are willing to do what it takes to create an organization where values and purpose are the foundation of the culture. Visit his website.Visit Jamie Mason's website and blog.

Jamie Mason, co-host of North Star Guardians, interviews Dr. Yvonne S. Thornton, author of The Ditchdigger's Daughters: A Black Family's Astonishing Success Story published by Kensington.

Dr. Thornton is a double-Board Certified specialist in obstetrics, gynecology and maternal-fetal medicine. She has risen to the academic rank of Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology. She is a member of the Association of Women Surgeons, a life member of The New York Academy of Medicine, and is a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American College of Surgeons.

Her biography is presently in  Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World. She is listed in The Best Doctors -- New York Metro Area. She was listed in New York Magazine as one of the Top Ten Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialists in New York City.

Doctor Thornton was the first black woman in the United States to be Board-certified in High-Risk obstetrics and to be accepted into The New York Obstetrical Society.

Dr. Thornton is the national best-selling author of the Pulitzer prize-nominated book entitled, The Ditchdigger's Daughters: A Black Family's Astonishing Success Story published in 1995, with over 300,000 copies in print. This family biography (co-authored with Jo Coudert) is a tribute to her parents and was condensed in The Reader's Digest, adapted into a World Premiere Movie and nominated for the Peabody Award and the Cable ACE Award for Best Picture.

In 1996, the American Library Association named it as one of the Best Books for Young Adults and Doctor Thornton was given the "Excellence in Literature" Award by the New Jersey Education Association. She has authored two other books;a medical text entitled, Primary Care for the Obstetrician and Gynecologist and Woman to Woman: Leading Gynecologist Tells You All You Need Know abt your Baby your Health.

 As senior perinatologist in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, Dr. Thornton established and developed the program for a new form of early prenatal diagnostic testing known as CVS (chronic villus sampling). Dr. Thornton was one of the original American investigators whose CVS results were relied upon by the FDA prior to its granting approval for the procedure in 1989.  Visit her website.

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Jamie Mason, co-host of the North Star Guardians Podcast, interviews Ms. Terri Cheney, author of Manic: A Memoir published by William Morrow.

After graduating Vassar College with honors, Ms. Cheney attended UCLA School of Law. She then specialized in intellectual property and entertainment litigation at several prominent L.A. firms, including Manatt, Phelps & Phillips. Over the course of her sixteen-year career, Ms. Cheney represented many celebrities and major motion picture studios, including Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, Universal, Columbia, etc. Her pro bono work ranged from counseling local theaters to petitioning the United States Supreme Court on behalf of the ACLU.

After years of secretly struggling with manic depression, Ms. Cheney decided to leave the law and devote her advocacy skills toward a cause that is closer to her heart: writing about her illness, and encouraging the mentally ill to tell their own stories. In recognition of her efforts, she was appointed a member of the Community Advisory Board of the UCLA Mood Disorders Research Program, the nation’s largest nonprofit research consortium regarding manic depression. She also founded a weekly community support group at UCLA’s Neuropsychiatric Institute.

Ms. Cheney currently lives in Los Angeles.  Visit her website.

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Ms. Jamie Mason, co-host of North Star Guardians, interviews Dr. Christopher Johnson, MD, about his book, Your Critically Ill Child: Life and Death Choices Parents Must Face published by New Horizon Press.

 Dr. Johnson is a native of Winona, Minnesota. He received  his
undergraduate education in history and religion at Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania, where he was elected to phi beta kappa and graduated magna cum laude in 1974. He earned his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1978 from Mayo Medical School in Rochester, Minnesota. He subsequently trained in general pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Children’s Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, and in pediatric critical care medicine at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine. He is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in both general pediatrics and in pediatric critical care medicine, and am a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Dr. Johnson has had a long-standing interest in how medical practice evolved in America and how it reached its present state of affairs. Reflecting that interest, he earned a Master of Arts degree in History of Medicine from the University of Minnesota for his work on that subject, and is a member of the American Association for the History of Medicine.

 

Dr. Johnson has practiced pediatric critical care medicine for over twenty years. He was for many years Director of the Pediatric Critical Care Service at the Mayo Clinic and Professor of Pediatrics at Mayo Medical School, as well as Director of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Mayo Eugenio Litta Children’s Hospital. While on the faculty at Mayo, he was the author of over fifty scientific papers and book chapters in medical texts, and was the recipient of major grant awards from the National Institutes of Health, the American Heart Association, and the March of Dimes Foundation. He now devotes his time to practicing pediatric critical care as President of Pediatric Intensive Care Associates, P.C., and to writing about medicine for general readers. Visit Dr. Johnson's website and blog.

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Dr. Kevin Keough, host of North Star Guardians, interviews Dr. Jerome C. Wakefield, co-author of The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder published by Oxford University Press.

We experienced minor audio recording difficulties that appear near the end of the first of a two part interview with Dr. Wakefield.  Please accept our apologies for  this technical problem  that hasn't  proven easy to  eliminate. We intend to edit out the snafu as soon as possible.  We thank Dr, Wakefield for a stimulating and informative conversation and his graciousness and patience re: a delay in posting this podcast.

Jerome C. Wakefield is University Professor and Professor of Social Work at New York University, and he has also taught at the University of Chicago, Columbia University, and Rutgers University. He is an authority on the intersection between philosophy and the mental health professions and the author of many articles on diagnosis of mental disorder. Visit his webpage.

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Dr. Kevin Keough, host of North Star Guardians, interviews Dr. Jerome C. Wakefield, co-author of The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder published by Oxford University Press.

We experienced minor audio recording difficulties that appear near the end of the first of a two part interview with Dr. Wakefield.  Please accept our apologies for  this technical problem  that hasn't  proven easy to  eliminate. We intend to edit out the snafu as soon as possible.  We thank Dr, Wakefield for a stimulating and informative conversation and his graciousness and patience re: a delay in posting this podcast.

Jerome C. Wakefield is University Professor and Professor of Social Work at New York University, and he has also taught at the University of Chicago, Columbia University, and Rutgers University. He is an authority on the intersection between philosophy and the mental health professions and the author of many articles on diagnosis of mental disorder. Visit his webpage.

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Dr. Kevin Keough interviews Ms. Therese J. Borchard about her blog, Beyond Blue A Spiritual Journey To Mental Health.

We experienced minor audio recording difficulties that appear near the end of the first of a two part interview with Therese Borchard.  Please accept our apologies for  this technical problem  that hasn't  proven easy to  eliminate. We intend to edit out the snafu as soon as possible.  We thank Therese Borchard for a stimulating and informative conversation and her graciousness and patience re: a delay in posting this podcast.

Therese J. Borchard is the best-selling editor (with Michael Leach) of I Like Being Catholic, I Like Being Married, and I Love Being a Mom. After her Prozac pooped out, she didn't like much of anything, so she compiled The Imperfect Mom: Candid Confessions of Mothers Living in the Real World, which was featured in Real Simple, Parenting, More, Working Mother, Psychology Today, Fit Pregnancy, the Chicago Tribune, and on Salon.com and Beliefnet.com. Her syndicated column on young-adult spirituality is distributed by Catholic News Service, and her work has appeared in Ladies^TM Home Journal, Parenting, American Baby, Working Mother, Publishers Weekly, the Washington Post and on Beliefnet.com. She lives with her husband, Eric, and their two "spirited" preschoolers in Annapolis, Maryland.  Visit her blog Beyond Blue.

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Dr. Kevin Keough interviews Ms. Therese J. Borchard about her blog, Beyond Blue A Spiritual Journey To Mental Health.

We experienced minor audio recording difficulties that appear near the end of the first of a two part interview with Therese Borchard.  Please accept our apologies for  this technical problem  that hasn't  proven easy to  eliminate. We intend to edit out the snafu as soon as possible.  We thank Therese Borchard for a stimulating and informative conversation and her graciousness and patience re: a delay in posting this podcast.

Therese J. Borchard is the best-selling editor (with Michael Leach) of I Like Being Catholic, I Like Being Married, and I Love Being a Mom. After her Prozac pooped out, she didn't like much of anything, so she compiled The Imperfect Mom: Candid Confessions of Mothers Living in the Real World, which was featured in Real Simple, Parenting, More, Working Mother, Psychology Today, Fit Pregnancy, the Chicago Tribune, and on Salon.com and Beliefnet.com. Her syndicated column on young-adult spirituality is distributed by Catholic News Service, and her work has appeared in Ladies^TM Home Journal, Parenting, American Baby, Working Mother, Publishers Weekly, the Washington Post and on Beliefnet.com. She lives with her husband, Eric, and their two "spirited" preschoolers in Annapolis, Maryland.  Visit her blog Beyond Blue.

Visit Dr. Keough's website and blog.