North Star Guardians Videos

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of The North Star Guardians and the Psychjourney podcast, interviews Dr. Barry Gordon, author of Testosterone Deficiency: The Hidden Disease: A major Health Issue for Every Woman-Every Man published by iUniverse, Inc. Dr. Barry Gordon received his M.D. degree from the Chicago Medical School in 1965. He completed his training in Internal Medicine at the Jewish Hospital and Medical Center in Brooklyn in 1968, and in Hematology at the Montefiore Hospital Medical Center in the Bronx in 1969. Dr. Gordon has served as Chief of Hematology at two Brooklyn hospitals, and has been on the teaching staff of the Downstate Medical School (SUNY Health and Science Center at Brooklyn) as a Clinical Instructor in Medicine. Most of Dr. Gordon's career has been devoted to his Internal Medicine / Primary Care practice in Brooklyn which he continues to maintain. He is the author of, Get Well, Stay Well. Visit his website.

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians podcast, interviews Sister Marilyn Lacey, R.S.M., author of This Flowing Toward Me: A Story of God Arriving in Strangers published by Ave Maria Press.Marilyn Lacey, R.S.M., has worked with refugees for the past 25 years, both in displaced persons camps in Africa and Asia, and as Director of Refugee Services with Catholic Charities in San Jose, California. In 2001 she was honored by the Dalai Lama as an Unsung Hero of Compassion and has long been an advocate for refugees and migrants. She holds an M.S.W. from U.C. Berkeley and in 2008 she founded the nonprofit Mercy Beyond Borders, whose mission is to partner with displaced women and children overseas in ways that help them move up from extreme poverty. Visit her website Mercy Beyond Borders and blog.

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians, interviews Ms. Shreve Stockton, author of The Daily Coyote: A Story of Love, Survival, and Trust in the Wilds of Wyoming published by Simon & Schuster.Shreve Stockton is a writer and photographer currently living in Wyoming. She received her bachelor's degree in photography in 2001 from Brooks Institute of Photography. She is the author of a cookbook, Eating Gluten Free, and of two weblogs, Vespa Vagabond and The Daily Coyote.

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians, interviews Dr. Sue Johnson, author of Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love published by Little, Brown and Company. This is a part one of a two-part interview. Sue Johnson is Director of the Ottawa (Canada) Couple and Family Institute and the International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy as well as Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Ottawa and Research Professor at Alliant University in San Diego, California. She has received numerous honors for her work, including the Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Couple and Family Therapy Award from the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and the Research in Family Therapy Award from the American Family Therapy Academy. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. Dr Johnsonâs best known professional books include, The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Creating Connection (2004) and Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy with Trauma Survivors (2002). She trains counselors in EFT worldwide and consults to Veterans Affairs, the U.S. and Canadian military and New York City Fire Department. She lives in Ottawa with her husband, two children and dog. She adores Gilbert and Sullivan, Monty Python, Argentine tango and kayaking on Canadaâs northern lakes. Visit the Hold Me Tight website. Please see the web site www.eft.ca Events menu for information on Dr. Johnson's upcoming appearances and training events.

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians, interviews Dr. Sue Johnson, author of Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love published by Little, Brown and Company. This is a part two of a two-part interview. Sue Johnson is Director of the Ottawa (Canada) Couple and Family Institute and the International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy as well as Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Ottawa and Research Professor at Alliant University in San Diego, California. She has received numerous honors for her work, including the Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Couple and Family Therapy Award from the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and the Research in Family Therapy Award from the American Family Therapy Academy. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. Dr Johnsonâs best known professional books include, The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Creating Connection (2004) and Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy with Trauma Survivors (2002).She trains counselors in EFT worldwide and consults to Veterans Affairs,the U.S. and Canadian military and New York City Fire Department. She lives in Ottawa with her husband, two children and dog. She adoresGilbert and Sullivan, Monty Python, Argentine tango and kayaking onCanadaâs northern lakes. Visit the Hold Me Tight website. Please see the web site www.eft.ca Events menu for information on Dr. Johnson's upcoming appearances and training events.

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the Warrior Traditions and the North Star Guardians, interviews Mr. Joe Camp, author of The Soul of a Horse: Life Lessons from the Herd published by Harmony. JOE CAMP is the writer, producer, and director of all the celebrated Benji movies and programs, and the creator of the canine superstar. He is the author of the inspirational memoir Benji Soul Of A Horse.

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians and Warrior Traditions podcast, interviews Dr. Gary Small, M.D., co-author of IBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind written by Dr. Gary Small and Ms. Gigi Vorgan and published by Collins Living. Dr. Gary Small is a professor of psychiatry at the UCLA Semel Institute and directs the Memory and Aging Research Center and the UCLA Center on Aging. He is one of the world's leading experts on brain science and has published numerous books and articles. Scientific American magazine named him one of the world's top innovators in science and technology, and he frequently appears on The Today Show, Good Morning America, 20/20 and CNN. Dr. Small has invented the first brain scan that allows doctors to see the physical evidence of brain aging and Alzheimer's disease in living people. Among his numerous breakthrough research studies, he now leads a team of neuroscientists who are demonstrating that exposure to computer technology causes rapid and profound changes in brain neural circuitry. Visit his website.

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians and Warrior Traditions podcast interviews Dr. Erika Dyck, author of Psychedelic Psychiatry: LSD from Clinic to Campus published by The Johns Hopkins University Press. Erika Dyck,PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta cross-appointed to the Departments of History & Classics and the Division of Studies in Medical Education in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, where she is the co-director of the History of Medicine Program. She encourages interdisciplinary learning and teaches a variety of courses in the history of medicine and psychiatry to history students, medical students and medical residents. Her research interests include LSD experimentation, historical drug and psycho-pharmaceutical research, 20th century medical experimentation, and mental health care in Canada. Visit her web page.

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the Warrior Traditions and North Star Guardians podcast, interviews Dr. David Herzberg, author of Happy Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac published by The Johns Hopkins University Press. Dr. David Herzberg is an assistant professor of history at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Visit his web page.

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Barbara Oakley, author of Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed, and My Sister Stole My Mother's Boyfriend published by Prometheus Books. Barbara Oakley, PhD has been dubbed a female Indiana Jones-her writing combines worldwide adventure with solid research expertise. Among other adventures, she has worked as a Russian translator on Soviet trawlers in the Bering Sea, served as radio operator at the South Pole Station in Antarctica, and risen from Private to Regular Army Captain in the U.S. Army. Currently an associate professor of engineering at Oakland University in Michigan, Oakley is a recent vice president of the world's largest bioengineering society and holds a doctorate in the integrative discipline of systems engineering. Visit her website.

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians and Warrior Traditions podcast, interviews Dr. Edward Shorter, author of Before Prozac: The Troubled History of Mood Disorders in Psychiatry published by Oxford University Press. Professor Edward Shorter holds the Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine at the University of Toronto. Working within U of Tâs Joint Centre for Bioethics and Department of Family and Community Medicine, Shorter has research and written extensively about the history of psychosomatic illness. He received the Jason A. Hannah Medal of the Royal Society of Canada for his book, A History of Psychiatry. Visit his web page

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the Warrior Traditions and North Star Guardians podcast, interviews Dr. Robert Kull, author of Solitude: Seeking Wisdom in Extremes: A Year Alone in the Patagonia Wilderness published by New World Library. Born in Ventura, California, Robert Kull has spent years wandering North and South America working as a scuba instructor, travel guide, construction worker, logger, community organic gardening teacher, truck driver, bartender, dishwasher, firefighter, photographer, and professor. In 1985 he lost his lower right leg after a motorcycle crash in the Dominican Republic. He began undergraduate studies at age forty and now holds a PhD from the University of British Columbia. Bob currently lives in Vancouver, BC. Visit his website.

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians podcast, interviews Mr. Nick Tasler, author of The Impulse Factor: Why Some of Us Play It Safe and Others Risk It All published by Fireside. Nick Tasler is the director of research and development for think tank and consultancy TalentSmart. He is the author of the online Impulse Factorâ test and the head of TalentSmart's global research. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with his family. Visit his website.

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians, interviews Dr. Larina Kase, author of The Confident Leader: How The Most Successful People Go From Effective To Exceptional published by McGraw-Hill. Larina Kase, PsyD, MBA is a licensed psychologist, success coach, New York Times bestselling author, and experienced media source. Her primary areas of expertise include managing emotions, communicating at your best, influencing others through leadership, and using psychology to build your business. Dr. Kase has a doctorate in psychology and masters in business administration, and her unique approach is regularly seen in media such as Inc., Entrepreneur, SELF and on national TV and radio. She is the author or coauthor of 7 books including The New York Times bestseller The Confident Speaker. She has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs and executives from companies such as Verizon, Intel, Morgan Stanley, & Ernst & Young. Dr. Kase is a former faculty member of The Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety at The University of Pennsylvania. Currently she maintains a small private practice in psychology, is the president of Performance & Success Coaching, and is the founder of Women Entrepreneursâ Habitat (wehabitat). Visit her website.

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians podcast, interviews Mr. Jack Willis, author of Saving Jack: A Man's Struggle With Breast Cancer published by the University of Oklahoma Press. Breast cancer gave Jack Willis a reason to write his first book â a unique story about a man with a disease usually associated with women. Saving Jack would be one of the first books, if not the first, written by a man with breast cancer. Willis kept a journal during treatments, and that prompted the idea for the book. He had worked at the Muskogee Daily Phoenix in Muskogee, Oklahoma, for nineteen years, fifteen as editor, so writing was nothing new. But heâd never created anything longer than a sixty-inch newspaper article. âTake it one chapter at a time,â his book editor told him. So he did, and a new career as an author was launched. Willis retired in June 2007 as Editorial Adviser of The Oklahoma Daily and Adjunct Journalism Professor at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. His students had covered the Oklahoma City bombing. They had tracked Zacarias Moussaoui, the man suspected of being the twentieth hijacker in the 9/11 attack. And they had revealed how the OU athletics department was operating millions of dollars in the red before a new coach resurrected the Sooners football program. Saying goodbye to those students and that exciting lifestyle wasnât easy. Itâs never easy to give up something you love. Educating through the newspaper and teaching gave him satisfaction and purpose, and college students kept him young. Willis is a member of the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame, and in February 2006 was recognized by the Society of Professional Journalists, Oklahoma Pro Chapter, with its inaugural âTeacher of the Yearâ award. College Media Advisers named him its national adviser of the year (with less than five years experience) in 1995. He taught journalism part-time at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, for eight years while working at the Phoenix. He received his bachelorâs degree in advertising in 1963 and his masterâs degree in journalism management in 1968 from Oklahoma State University. Willis lives the good life with his wife Becky in Norman. Visit his website.

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians podcast, interviews Dr. Lennard J. Davis, author of Obsession: A History published by University of Chicago Press. Lennard J. Davis is professor in the Departments of English, Disability and Human Development, and Medical Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of The Disability Studies Reader, My Sense of Silence: Memoirs of a Childhood with Deafness, and Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body, among other books. Visit his website.

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians podcast, interviews Mr. Tom Smith, author of A Balanced Life: 9 Strategies for Coping with the Mental Health Problems of a Loved One published by Hazelden. Tom Smith is the co-founder of the Karla Smith Foundation, which supports parents and loved ones of mentally ill people. The foundation was named after his daughter, Karla, who suffered from bipolar disorder before eventually taking her own life. Visit the foundation's web site. Smith is also the author of The Tattered Tapestry: A Family's Search for Peace with Bipolar Disorder which he wrote with his wife, Fran Smith, and his son, Kevin. Visit his website.

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians podcast, interviews Ms. Shannon Brownlee, author of Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer published by Bloomsbury USA. Shannon Brownlee's stories and essays about medicine, health care, and biotechnology have appeared in such publications as the Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times Magazine, the New Republic, and Time. Born and raised in Honolulu, she holds a masterâs degree in biology from the University of California. She is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C. Brownlee lives in Annapolis, Maryland, with her husband and son. Visit her website.

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the Warrior Traditions and North Star Guardians podcast, interviews Mr. Guy Garcia, author of author of The Decline of Men: How the American Male Is Tuning Out, Giving Up, and Flipping Off His Future published by Harper. Guy Garcia is an award-winning journalist, novelist, and multimedia entrepreneur. A former staff writer for Time, he has also published articles in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, Men's Journal, Harper's Bazaar, Spin, The Face, Interview, and People. A three-time judge for the National Magazine Awards, Garcia has also written two novels, Skin Deep and Obsidian Sky, as well as the nonfiction book The New Mainsteam. Born in Los Angeles, he lives in Manhattan. Visit his website.

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the North Star Guardians and Warrior Traditions podcast, interviews Mr. Jonathan Mooney, author of The Short Bus: A Journey Beyond Normal published by Holt Paperbacks. Jonathan Mooney is a dyslexic writer and activist who did not learn to read until he was 12 years old. He is a graduate of Brown Universityâs class of 2000 and holds an honors degree in English Literature. Jonathan is founder and President of Project Eye-To-Eye, a mentoring and advocacy non-profit organization for students with learning differences. Project Eye-To-Eye currently has 20 chapters, in 13 states working with over 3,000 students, parents and educators nation wide. Visit his website.