oday we have two special guests in studio. Dr. Alexandra H. Solomon is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Northwestern University and a licensed clinical psychologist at The Family Institute at Northwestern University. In addition to writing articles and chapters for leading academic journals and books in the field of marriage and family, she is the author of the book Loving Bravely: Twenty Lessons of Self-Discovery to Help You Get the Love You Want (New Harbinger, 2017). Her second book, about sexual self-awareness, Taking Sexy Back: How to Own Your Sexuality and Create the Relationship You Want, will be published in February 2020. MD Dr. Pari Ghodsi, MD is an obstetrics & gynecology specialist in Northridge, CA. She is a board certified and active Fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology.Dr. Pari loves to write and speak about women’s health and issues in a relatable way. She brings a unique touch when educating, often sharing her own experiences as a woman.   We talk through a variety of mens and womens sexual health issues and try to find a common ground for the battle of the sexes.         

Understanding Your Sexual Health Panel Discussion, With Alexandra H. Solomon, PhD and Dr. Pari Ghodsi, MD

Sarah Sunshine is in studio talking about how she planned an executed  her solo travels around the world. She brought some costumes For both of us to wear which really brought the energy in the interview to another level. 

I Left My Life and Moved to Thailand, with Sarah Sunshine

Tyler Capen Ramsey is a Los Angeles–based artist known for his performance art, his "drip painting" of shoes for company Toms Shoes and for painting only with his fingers, rather than with brushes. Tyler Ramsey, the producer of “Survivor: Gabon,” recently revealed that he was fired from the competition show -- for falling in love. Ramsey opened up to explain how he met his future wife, Jacquie Berg, and subsequently got fired. Berg was a contestant on the 2008 “Survivor” season, “Gabon,” when she met “the love of her life,” Ramsey. “[Jacqui] was a contestant, and I used to be a producer,” Ramsey explained of how their paths crossed. But how does one get fired for “falling in love"? According to the producer, it was because the show had only one rule: Don’t mess around with the contestants.  

Sometimes You Have To Hide In The Jungle, With Tyler Ramsey

Sometimes You Have to Hide In the Jungle, With Tyler Ramsey

Shouvik Banerjee, Averpoint Founder    This week's guest is a very good buddy of mine, Shouvik Banerjee.  Stanford grad, Harvard Public Policy guy.  After a career in solar, he was inspired to found Averpoint.com, a movement hoping to inspire truth and facts in the public discourse by facilitating citations, check it out the website.  Shouvik can both code, and discuss politics.  Brilliant and a very good man, I'm lucky to call him a friend and enjoy talking about how we want to make the world a better place.  Before we shot the episode, he told me that 2 things came to mind when he thought about life changing moments, but he didn't think they were related.  "They're related," I told him.  "Without a doubt.  And on the show, we'll discover how."  And boy were they.  Great episode, especially for all of us former athletes who grew as people during their sports careers (I know I did).  Check out his company Averpoint, their website, and SUBSCRIBE and RATE this podcast.  

I Quit Junior Year, What I Did In That Race Senior Year Changed My Life Forever, with Shouvik Banerjee

Dr. Alexandra H. Solomon is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Northwestern University and a licensed clinical psychologist at The Family Institute at Northwestern University. In addition to writing articles and chapters for leading academic journals and books in the field of marriage and family, she is the author of the book Loving Bravely: Twenty Lessons of Self-Discovery to Help You Get the Love You Want (New Harbinger, 2017). Her second book, about sexual self-awareness, Taking Sexy Back: How to Own Your Sexuality and Create the Relationship You Want, will be published in February 2020. Dr. Solomon maintains a psychotherapy practice for individual adults and couples, teaches and trains marriage and family therapy graduate students, and teaches the internationally renowned undergraduate course, “Building Loving and Lasting Relationships: Marriage 101.” Dr. Solomon is a highly sought-after speaker who works with groups like United States Military Academy at West Point, Microsoft, and The American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy, and she is frequently asked to talk about love, sex, and marriage with media outlets like The Today Show, O Magazine, The Atlantic, Vogue, and Scientific American.

Saying Goodbye to Dad, and Taking Your Sexy Back, with Dr Alexandra Solomon PHD

Tricia Nelson is an internationally acclaimed author, transformational speaker and emotional eating expert. She has been featured on dozens of radio and television networks, including FOX, NBC, CBS, KTLA and Discovery Health. Tricia has successfully helped hundreds of people overcome a variety of eating disorders and addictions. Born and raised in Concord, Massachusetts, Tricia’s own struggles began in early childhood, where she attempted to cope with life’s stresses and emotional pain by overeating and other destructive behaviors. Continuing into adolescence, she began binge drinking, and eventually gained more than 50 pounds. After years of experimentation with 12-step programs, therapy and self-help books, Tricia finally hit a spiritual and emotional bottom. Tricia attended Amherst College and began her career working at the Seattle Art Museum. While in Seattle she began working with spiritual healer, Roy Nelson (who would later become her husband), who helped her recognize and heal the root causes of her addictions. By creating a lifestyle steeped in positive self-care, self-love and improved self-esteem, Tricia was able to stop drinking and overeating. She has maintained a fifty-pound weight loss for close to 30 years now. Tricia has spent the past three decades studying the addictive personality, and shares her findings in workshops and retreats both in person and online. Many doctors, psychologists and other health practitioners benefit from her insight about what drives people to overeat and how to stop. Tricia’s new book, Heal Your Hunger: 7 Simple Steps to End Emotional Eating Now, is available through Amazon.

Heal Your Hunger, With Emotional Eating Expert Tricia Nelson

Take a mental break from corona and join me today at 2pm Cali time (4pm KC time) on youtube (link below) for a discussion on gut health with the world's leading researcher on the microbiome, Dr Mahmoud Ghannoum.  I will be chatting live during this PREMIERE of episode 28 of LIFE CAN CHANGE IN A MOMENT.  We get into.   Is dairy good for gut health?  What about red meat, vegetables, donuts and fiber? What is the difference between prebiotics, probiotics and postbiotics? What is the best kind of nut for gut health? How stress, sleep and exercise affect the gut. Is Autism caused by bad gut health? Is a poop transplant for real?  (yes).  How does it work, and how might it model future new therapies? How transplanting skinny gut microbes to the obese can result in weight loss. What is biofilm, and how did it's discovery save lives?   Also available on Apple Podcasts, and many places you listen to podcasts.

The Worlds Microbiome Expert And Total Gut Balance, With Dr Mahmoud Ghannoum

Ben Gleib was named by TBS one of the "funniest comedians working today."   He’s host, head writer, and executive producer of the Emmy nominated "Idiotest" on NETFLIX. The hit comedy brain teaser game show originally had four seasons & 210 episodes on Game Show Network, and was their most watched original.   For 7 years he was one of the stars of “Chelsea Lately" on E! with over 100 appearances on the round table!   He currently can be seen in the “Jay and Silent Bob Reboot” movie, along with Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes, Chris Hemsworth, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. Recently he pranked David Beckham on “The Late Late Show with James Corden“ which got 27 million views.   His hilarious hour-long standup special “Ben Gleib - Neurotic Gangster” which premiered on SHOWTIME is currently on AMAZON PRIME.   Gleib is also the first comedian to ever live stream a full headline set on Facebook Live, doing it in 8 straight cities on his 2016 tour, 100% improvised, getting almost 4 million views. His act is full of unique material, but he's also one of the best at crowd work, making it all up on the spot.   He hosted with Olivia Munn the “Telethon for America”. Gleib also created it, executive produced, and was head writer. It featured celebrities such as Natalie Portman, Charlize Theron, Chelsea Handler, Jane Fonda, Constance Wu, Amy Schumer, Jessica Alba, Judd Apatow, Hasan Minhaj, Adam Devine, Aisha Tyler, Pete Davidson, Ray Romano, Julia Louis Dreyfus, and over 80 others. It was the first telethon ever with the goal of raising zero dollars. Reinventing the telethon for the digital age, instead the non-partisan telethon took pledges to vote in 2018 midterms, aiming to create historic turnout, which was achieved!   Trying to offer an out-of-the-box option for the country, and seeing comedians win elections around the globe, he just concluded a run for President of the United States in the 2020 election, finishing after almost 8 months in the race, as the 15th highest fundraising active Democratic campaign. Despite this, he wasn’t able to qualify for the debates so the campaign ended. During the run he spoke at events alongside the front-runner candidates, campaigning in 13 states and territories including multiple trips to Iowa and New Hampshire, Puerto Rico on the 2-year anniversary of Hurricane Maria, was arrested protesting corruption at the capitol building in DC, joined immigration protests, LGBT parades, and stood proudly with the teachers on the picket line in Chicago. His campaign was covered by Larry King, the Des Moines Register, and countless others. Videos and information can be seen at Gleib2020.com   As an actor he just guest starred on “American Princess” an hour dramedy from Jenji Kohan (Orange is the New Black, GLOW.)   He was a regular on "The Today Show" with Kathie Lee and Hoda, with over 25 appearances, and you may have seen one of his appearances on "@Midnight with Chris Hardwick" on Comedy Central, o

I Ran for President of the United States, with Comedian Ben Gleib

Since September of last year, I've interviewed 25 different guests about their biggest experiences.  This week, it's time I talk about one of mine--the accident.  In high school, I almost died in a serious car crash.  Helicopter life flight, emergency surgery, external fixator, weeks in the hospital, had to learn to walk again--the works.  This week in the show, I talk about it in detail.   In the episode, we cover:   The details of the car wreck. Rehab and recovery What the worst pain of the whole thing was Why I said i would never take pain meds again The emotional and psychological effects that trauma had years later What EMDR is, and my experience with it How my own experience led me to eventually do this show, Life Can Change In A Moment.   Reliving and sharing this story with you hasn't been easy.  Reopened some old wounds.  And going public about it has made me want to puke more than once this week.  But we talk about important stuff, and I feel compelled to bring it to you.

My Life Changed In A Moment, with Dr Larry Burchett

This week, I bring you the legend of Trek Kelly.  After running a successful marketing business and art gallery on Abbot Kinney, Trek decided to disappear.  Who does this? What does that mean? What was this crazy man thinking?   Trek's journey covers the following:   Live Your Bucket List Now: How Keeping Death Close Energizes Your Life The History of Abbot Kinney, Venice Beach, CA, and Why Trek Kelly Disappeared Why A Stranger Picked 12 Countries for Trek to Travel to     Animal instincts Return When You Live Alone in the Desert for A Year     What Is Scarier Than Death, No Toilet Paper Enjoy LB   Week's hashtags #Doctor #Host #Moments #Podcast #Show #Legend #Adventure #Life #Death #Thunder #TrekKelly     Show Notes ● [00:55] We have a great guest for you today, Trek “Thunder” Kelly, an adventure expert. As an artist, he learned early in his enjoyment in art is to live it. He lives his life in a way that is a story that’s interesting to him. So, he has something to look back, and he has chapters that laid out ahead of him as well. He recently wrote the ending of his life. He knows exactly where he is going to, and that gives him a lot of peace. ● [3:00] Trek knows where he is going to be and probably decides when he will die. Trek said that when it’s time, he is going to sit on a cliff while watching the sunset, smoke a doobie and put a blanket over him and just let it go. His parents traveled internationally as a kid. They didn’t take him, but certainly, he got curious about the world in the early ’20s and started travelling. He got out of college, moved to Venice beach, started working at a movie studio, and became an artist. At 39 he decided that he is going to disappear and told his friends and family that he’d be gone for 2 to 5 years. He sold nearly everything he owns and travelled the world. ● [5:00] He had a stranger choose twelve countries and spent a month in each country. Trek spent alone in the desert and then saw people twice a month when he gets supplies. But he wanted even more isolated, so he figured out his caloric needs and bought enough canned foods to sustain him for the rest of the year. He didn’t have a tent, a flashlight, or a fire. He lives out there for the rest of the year. For him, it was a gift to be able to do that, and in the third year, he bought an old van and drove around America. ● [7:36] One thing that Trek would recommend to people was to travel with inspiration or have meaning to you for a whole year. Because when you travel for a year or more, you interface with the world in a much more efficient and direct manner especially if you are alone. ● [9:33] Dr. Larry was wondering how these experiences changed him. Trek said that he becomes even more confident. The more world he sees, the more knowledge he gains. The more he understands the knowledge that he doesn’t have, and being older, he understands that life is coming at you pretty quickly. Americans keep death far away

The Legend Of Trek Thunder Kelly

This week’s guest is Kim Wyman, a friend of mine, registered dietitian (RD) with a Masters in Public Health (MPH), who specializes in eating disorders.  Whose house burned down in the Woolsey Fires of LA in Nov 2018.  She’s been living in a van since, and hasn’t been happier.  This episode was soooooo good and inspiring.  Great stuff on healthy nutrition and getting deeper with eating disorders, and about loss and rebirth in the spiritual life.   In it, we cover the following:   -What Really Matters About Nutrition: Dietitian Cocktail Party Conversations -How We Use Food to Feel Better -Does Your Healthy Diet and Exercise Make Your Miserable?  How to Connect to Movement to Be Happier. -“Kim, why don’t you live in a van?” -Spiritually How to Experience A Life Changing Moment -How Kim Grieved When Her House Burned Down in the Fires #Doctor #Host #Moments #Podcast #Show #VanLife #Fires #NaturalDisasters  #Dietitian #MPH #Nutrition #Spiritual #Connection  #EatingDisorders #Anorexia #Wellness #Happiness #Healthy   Show Notes ● [1:07] We have a great guest for you today, Kim Wyman, a dietitian and has a Master's in Public Health. ● When Kim was finishing college, she was interested in preventive medicine. Someone told her that it is not the way to go to the MD route and told her to explore public health. She showed up for graduate school on the doctor's course towards public health, and she picks nutrition as her major. ● [3:22] When you are in public health, you can do women's and children's health. Nutrition is a specialty, so she chose it. When Kim tells people that she is a dietitian, they tend to ask about their diets. They asked about Keto and intermittent fasting. She honestly said to us that it is a boring conversation for her because what matters is we know about nutrition or Keto diet. Still, it is the applied action and relationship to how we meet our needs that matters. ● [5:00] If you have a breakdown and how your ability to meet your needs, like you say you don't deserve, then you're going to have a hard time in grading care. How you feed yourself is the direct basic need and immediate action of care. Disorders around food are usually disorder of self. ● [7:00] In the late '90s, most of her clients were gays with HIV who had lost partners or friends. Dealing with loss and trauma, Kim thought that she's going to specialize in HIV. What happens with eating disorders primarily is that food becomes a way to regulate disruptions or emotions to make them feel better. ● [9:46] Kim said that the menu could adjust things. If you look at someone with anorexia, they're usually talented, very functional, or they might be the envy of everybody else in the room. Still, behind the scenes, they're driving themself almost to death with how they are strict about the food or walking twelve hours at night. They go to regulate a need, and it's kind of starting to take over. It could start with someone just going on a diet and

My House Burned Down, And I’ve Never Been Happier, With Kim Wyman

This is my friend Jack.  Dr Jack Song.  We went to residency together many moons ago, I've known him for almost 14 years.  To me, he's one of the people who have always believed in me, which has meant a lot in the ups and downs of this old life.    This week's episode is titled "When A Doctor Becomes a Patient," and it inspired me.  Jack talks about his experience with Ulcerative Colitis, his diagnosis, the complications, the ups and downs.  And ultimately, how it has affected how he practices medicine, and how he lives his life.  Gets me a little emotional now to write about this one, about my good friend.    In the episode, we discuss: -What is Ulcerative Colitis, and how is it different from IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) -How Jack's symptoms went undiagnosed for years, and how he finally got the diagnosis. -How becoming a patient changed Jack as a doctor -The moment Jack learned he may have a terminal condition. -How that changed the way he lives his life, and what he values -Why Jack says I am a terrible patient -Dealing with dismissive doctors -Suffering, the practice of empathy, -Living life according to what's important, the meaning of life -How me and Jack are going to run the Amazing Race -How Jack did an Ironman Triathlon with food poisoning   Bio below:  I’m a father of but one son; a husband of but one wife. I work as a doctor in the largest private medical group in the world, living in one of the wealthiest parts of the US. And I dream of one day moving to a place where I’m the only doctor for 100 miles and the people there pay me for my services with a roasted chicken, a necklace made out of shells or a kind word of gratitude.  I have no social media presence that needs disclosing and I have nothing to promote.  #Doctor #Host #Moments #Podcast #Show #Patient #Empathy #Meaning

When A Doctor Became a Patient, with Dr Jack Song

Shannon is a media trainer and on-camera instructor who specializing in TV hosts, influencers, and experts. She has had clients on the Today Show, The Doctors, HGTV, Hallmark, WE, DIY, Entertainment Tonight, QVC/HSN, talk shows, news appearances, morning shows and more. Shannon has been working on both sides of the camera for over a decade. As a host/spokesperson, her extensive credits include Keurig, Jenny Craig, Office Max, Chewy.com, Aerobed, and many more. She recently released her first book in July 2019, “The Ultimate On-Camera Guidebook for Hosts, Experts, & Influencers”.

I Left My Wedding Dress And My Marriage At Burning Man, with Shannon ODowd

I met TK Nguyen at CHS earlier this year, and was inspired by how he went from owning his own pharmacy, and dispensing too many pain pills (opiate crisis) to developing his own pain cream to help people get off pain pills.  I invited him on the show to tell his story, and moment. And this episode is not without some excitement (his pharmacy was raided by the DEA), some agreements (the overuse of opiates for chronic pain and needed alternatives), some disagreements (energy healing and placebos versus pseudoscience) and   In this episode we cover: Why TK quit corporate pharmacy, how he felt compromised managing corporate pharmacy. What smart business practices he did to build his own pharmacy from the ground up How multiple DEA raids and opiate crisis politics ended his pharmacy How his wife’s temporary paralysis inspired his pain cream (and my MD explanation of what happened) Possible medical explanations of paralysis, including discussion of psych causes (conversion disorder), complicated migraines, Todd’s paralysis (temporary paralysis after a seizure), spnial cord transection. Mind body, the placebo effect, energy medicine, pseudoscience and relief of pain Fight or flight cycle, stored traumatic memory, 

The Opiate Crisis, Through the Eyes of a Pharmacist and ER Doctor TK Huynh

I met Carina through Trek (a legend you will meet in a few weeks closer to the end of Season 1 of the show), and he said you’ve got to have her on the show.  He was right. Born in St Croix, Virgin Islands, the youngest of 9 children, she’s a Children’s Book Author and into tech, and works with sustainable Christmas Trees. So what is the process of kidney donation?  What did Carina have to do once she decided to get checked.  First, she had to be evaluated to be a match, which involved first basic blood typing (A positive, B negative), and then additional antigen “matches.”  Then she had a psychological evaluation, which, someone has to be competent, able to freely make this decision of sound mind, not mentally ill. And also, I imagine stable enough to handle surgery and the loss of a kidney, understand the risks, etc.  Then further testing of her own medical conditions. You wouldn’t want to transplant a kidney from someone with cancer, HIV, Hepatitis C, etc or you would be giving the recipient a new disease. She was scanned, I assume to rule out cancer. She spoke of having a reaction to contrast that is injected in the IV, the contrast helps the radiologist to see organs light up better, and mild reactions are common and not a big deal.  After appropriate psychological and medical testing, including matching, the surgery is scheduled.  

I Donated A Kidney To My Brother, with Carina Christmas

I was honored for Dr KellyAnn Petrucci ND to join us (you and me) on the show this week.  She’s a big deal. On Dr Oz all the time, PBS, she’s written 9 NY Times Best Sellers, founded the bone broth movement--very successful as a doctor (Naturopath) who has gone public.  She comes on the show to talk about her new book Cleans and Reset.   I met KellyAnn at Michael Fishman’s CHS in Spring of 2019, we were sat next to each other at a dinner randomly, and hit it off instantly, becoming good friends.  She’s got an energy about her. And is mesmerizingly charismatic--consider yourself warned.   But I was a little uneasy about this episode because frankly--I don’t believe in bone broth and cleanses.  And detoxes. And toxins. And she’s big into that. Am I going to be able to keep it together, have a respectful conversation with someone I disagree with?  Or is it all just going to go straight to hell, and I lose a friend? You’ll have to tune in tomorrow and see how it went. We also discuss:   *How success and being a workaholic led to her own burnout and health issues. *What underlies and drives so many of us professional achievers (self worth, and sometimes, lackthereof) * Did KellyAnn have imposter syndrome * How you health is affected by relationships, success, self love, self worth * Did she convince me about bone broth and her new cleanse? * How we numb ourselves (with work, alcohol, sex) to cope with unhappiness and underlying difficult emotions     Guest Bio: Dr. Kellyann Petrucci came to realize the ancient power of collagen and bone broth to heal the gut and slow aging while studying biological medicine at the Marion Foundation and Paracelsus Clinic, Switzerland. By focusing her practice on a lifestyle that stops and reverses inflammation, Dr. Kellyann is able to help patients and readers reduce dangerous belly fat to become slimmer, younger, and healthier   Show Notes ● [1:20] We got an incredible guest for today, Dr. KellyAnn Petrucci, the creator, and founder of Bone Broth Movement. KellyAnn was so proud because after her show hit PBS, we can see Bone Broth companies over the country because she knows how it transforms and helps people’s lives. She was grateful for that opportunity. She also wrote a book called "Bone Broth Diet". ● [3:35] Dr. Larry and Dr. KellyAnn knew each other from CHS. KellyAnn was always open and sharing stories with Dr. Larry. ● Dr. KellyAnn's life-changing moments happened on a flight from L.A. back to New York. A change of events leads Dr. KellyAnn telling a passenger next to her that she was about to pass out. The next thing she remembers, she was at the back of the plane with a bunch of airline staff putting ice around her head and neck. ● [5:01] She always taught people to stay connected to their mind, body, and spirit, yet here she was in a situation where she's ill. There was a physician that came on board that cared for her the whole flight and told her that she was burnout and

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