American Grown Up Podcast

Vision and ambition bring success. The President of ESPN started in the mail room. What about you? Are you CEO Material? Will the headhunter look at your resume? Should you even bother sending it? How high do you aim? Should you shoot for that Senior VP position? Can you realistically change careers with your existing skill set? What’s all this talk about mentors? Executive search consultant Erika Weinstein gives AG listeners some realistic advice about making the right moves to get to the next level of your career.

In this sixth of seven shows, astrologer Jeff Geist shares a bit of astrology history, and gets into the basics of astrological transits, and why they are so key to the study of astrology and such a great tool for enhancing perspective.

In this final of six sessions, Leanne Sgambati Larocca, cofounder of Montclair Metaphysical and Healing Center, talks about her work as a medium, including rescue work and animal telepathy. Rescue work is helping earthbound spirits to cross over and move on. In a rescue session, the medium will communicate with the spirit and, in a compassionate manner, helps that spirit move on and cross over. Release work clears spirits who attach to people and cause them challenges in life. Leanne dicusses William Baldwin and his manual on spirit release therapy. Lisa and Lee talk about animal telepathy and animal communication.

You finally made it through the corporate firewall and landed a dream job interview. You walk into the interview, and it is stranger than the twilight zone. He talks too much, she sits on the phone while you sit there like an idiot. Can you turn it around? These things happen, so be ready. There is no shortage of strange and dysfunctional companies and interviewers. How do you get through situations like this and remain confident and strong? Lisa shares the highlights of her favorite dysfunctional interview with CEO Headhunter Erika Weinstein of Stephen Bradford Search of New York and San Francisco, who gives advice and counsel, and tells AG the most important thing you should do before an interview. Do you know what that is?

Scorpions, eagles, doves, are Scorpionic, eighth house images. Ruled by Mars and Pluto, Scorpio penetrates, and through the process of death, brings transformation. Sagittarius and the ninth house is growth, principles, ideas. Capricorn and the tenth house is responsibility, dignity. Aquarius and the eleventh house is friendship and freedom, and Pisces and the twelfth house of saints and sinners. Listen to astrologer Jeff Geist for a comprehensive but easy to understand overview of these signs and their respective zodiacal houses.

What should you look for in a literary agent? How do you find one? Do you really need one? Author Felicia Farber reveals some of the do’s and don’ts in finding a reputable literary agent and tells us about query letters, hooks, slush piles, rejections and much more. Also discussed are children’s books and subsidiary rights.

She was good with people, selling and marketing. Coupled with her knowledge of media, she turned that skill set into a career as a C level executive search consultant. C stands for “Chief” and C level means Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Technology Officer - you get it. Erika finds the Chiefs. Get a first hand understanding of what headhunters do, who and what they are looking for, and how they find the talent their clients want. Erika talks with AG in some detail on her take on the personal brand myth, and tells it like it really is. What really catches a recruiter’s eye? How do you deal with the ongoing discrimination in the workplace? Legal or not, it happens. This and more in this first of three sessions with CEO Headunter Erika Weinstein.

Mongolia. A place where horses are still ridden in the manner of Chingis Khan on the Gobi Desert, where camels roam free and transport equipment. Follow adventurers, John, Gerard and Dave, to their final destination, where they climb the sixteen thousand foot Malchin Peak in the Himalayan Mountain Range, where John experiences severe symptoms of altitude sickness. Listen to John describe their interaction with the primitive, nomadic kazak herdsmen as they traverse the Gobi Desert living, sleeping and eating with them in their manner and custom, learning their ways and philosophy of life.

Mongolia. A place where horses are still ridden in the manner of Chingis Khan on the Gobi Desert, where camels roam free and transport equipment. Follow adventurers, John, Gerard and Dave, to their final destination, where they climb the sixteen thousand foot Malchin Peak in the Himalayan Mountain Range, where John experiences severe symptoms of altitude sickness. Listen to John describe their interaction with the primitive, nomadic kazak herdsmen as they traverse the Gobi Desert living, sleeping and eating with them in their manner and custom, learning their ways and philosophy of life.

In this final of 4 shows on Siberia, meet the amazing TEKA THE RIVER GUIDE, and follow attorney John Gonnella and his fellow adventurers into the virgin territory of the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Land of “Fire and Ice” and listen to their encounters with the unknown challenges of the Class Five white water rapids of the never before rafted Storoj River. Experience the helicopter extraction from the dangerous clutches of the Storoj River. Climb the active volcano of Mt. Mutnovsky and share the experience of the physically draining, bone-tiring climb to its crater. You can almost smell the stench of sulfuric gas in the air coming from the volcano’s crater as John describes their climb.

In this third of four shows on Siberia, follow attorney John Gonnella and his fellow adventurers into the virgin territory of the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Land of “Fire and Ice” and listen to their encounters with the unknown challenges of the Class Five white water rapids of the never before rafted Storoj River. Experience the helicopter extraction from the dangerous clutches of the Storoj River. Climb the active volcano of Mt. Mutnovsky and share the experience of the physically draining, bone-tiring climb to its crater. You can almost smell the stench of sulfuric gas in the air coming from the volcano’s crater as John describes their climb.

In this second of 4 shows on Siberia, follow attorney John Gonnella and his fellow adventurers into the virgin territory of the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Land of “Fire and Ice” and listen to their encounters with the unknown challenges of the Class Five white water rapids of the never before rafted Storoj River. Experience the helicopter extraction from the dangerous clutches of the Storoj River. Climb the active volcano of Mt. Mutnovsky and share the experience of the physically draining, bone-tiring climb to its crater. You can almost smell the stench of sulfuric gas in the air coming from the volcano’s crater as John describes their climb.

In this first of 4 shows on Siberia, follow attorney John Gonnella and his fellow adventurers into the virgin territory of the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Land of “Fire and Ice” and listen to their encounters with the unknown challenges of the Class Five white water rapids of the never before rafted Storoj River. Experience the helicopter extraction from the dangerous clutches of the Storoj River. Climb the active volcano of Mt. Mutnovsky and share the experience of the physically draining, bone-tiring climb to its crater. You can almost smell the stench of sulfuric gas in the air coming from the volcano’s crater as John describes their climb.

Mongolia. A place where horses are still ridden in the manner of Chingis Khan on the Gobi Desert, where camels roam free and transport equipment. Follow adventurers, John, Gerard and Dave, to their final destination, where they climb the sixteen thousand foot Malchin Peak in the Himalayan Mountain Range, where John experiences severe symptoms of altitude sickness. Listen to John describe their interaction with the primitive, nomadic kazak herdsmen as they traverse the Gobi Desert living, sleeping and eating with them in their manner and custom, learning their ways and philosophy of life.

In this fourth astrology show, astrologer Jeff Geist talks about Libra, and the seventh zodiacal house, which is the house of partnership and marriage, but also of open warfare. The seventh house is the coming out house, the social house. As we move into Scorpio and the seventh house, we get deeper, we penetrate beneath, and get into the Scorpio place of sex, passion, death, and other peoples money. Listen in for details on our Libra friends and Scorpio lovers.

As their discussion on past life regressions continues, in this fourth show, Lisa ponders if more than one person could share the same past life. This show is a do not miss for anyone curious about spiritual and healing work, communicating with loved ones who have passed, or spirit release therapy.

Once you finish your manuscript, you need to protect it. Author Felicia Farber tells us how easy it is to copyright and why it’s a necessity, plus gives other must-know copyright info. She also discusses different publishing options for fiction and non-fiction works, and shares a personal story about her quest to get her manuscript reviewed by a large Hollywood talent/literary agency.