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Dr. Lise Van Sustern – Forensic Psychiatrist

FORENSIC PSYCHIATRIST: NEW STUDY DETAILS PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE

This interview was recorded in March of this year and broadcast to my listeners in New York City and Sacramento. As you know, I live in New York City and in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, I thought it was important to share it with you. Today’s conversation is all about Global Warming and the emotional and psychological impact of natural disasters that psychiatrists believe cannot be overlooked. Please continue to pray for the people in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut who have lost family members, homes and communities, who are without many of the necessities that we take for granted. This week on TALK! with AUDREY: Forensic Psychiatrist,DR. LISE VAN SUSTERN joins me to talk about the psychological effects of Global Warming. A team of psychiatrists is warning in a new study a climate that is likely to be unstable will cost the U.S. dearly in health costs and overwhelm the mental health system, adding significant costs to the already $317 billion in annual mental health care expenditures and lost productivity in the U.S. the report says. If climate change is not curtailed, extreme weather conditions like flooding, drought and sea level rise will steeply increase the incidence of mental and social disorders. As a result, 220 million people, are likely to experience direct adverse effects, including psychological distress from climate-related events, especially vulnerable are children, the elderly and the 60 million people with pre-existing mental health conditions.

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Fire Chief Hank Clemmensen – President and Chairman of the International Association of Fire Chiefs

PRESIDENT AND CHAIRMAN OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS: CHANGE YOUR CLOCK CHANGE YOUR BATTERY

This week on TALK! with AUDREY: Daylight-saving time ends tomorrow, Sunday, November 4th, and marks the 25th anniversary of the Change Your Clock Change Your Battery® program, created by Energizer and the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC), which reminds people to check, change and test the batteries in their smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors during the fall time change. FIRE CHIEF HANK CLEMMENSEN, President and Chairman of the International Association of Fire Chiefs shares fire safety tips and life-saving reminders!

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Michael Roche – EVP, Claims, Allstate Insurance

EVP,CLAIMS, ALLSTATE INSURANCE: DISASTER PREPAREDNESS

This interview was recorded in August of this year and broadcast to my listeners in New York City and Sacramento. As you know, I live in New York City and in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, I thought it was important to share with it you on the site because we never know when or where disaster may strike, but we can be better prepared! Please continue to pray for the people in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut who have lost family members, homes and communities, who are without many of the necessities that we take for granted. This week on TALK! with AUDREY: Americans and emergency management experts agree on one thing. Over the past few years, the U. S. has experienced a record number of natural disasters that have destroyed neighborhoods and cost lives. What is even more concerning is what people are doing – or not doing – in the wake of an approaching catastrophe. MICHAEL ROCHE, Executive Vice President, Claims, Allstate, has tips to make sure we are prepared.

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DELON – International Recording Artist: Fighting Back Against Cyberbullying!

INTERNATIONAL RECORDING ARTIST: FIGHTING BACK AGAINST CYBERBULLYING!

This week on TALK! with AUDREY: International recording artist, DELON, has stepped down as the opening act for America’s Got Talent artist Lindsey Stirling’s first-ever U.S. Tour. The rapper, best known to fans worldwide for his music and two chart topping U.S. Billboard hit singles “Calor De La Salsa” and “Nasty Girl”, elected to leave the tour to address an internet attack campaign aimed at destroying his reputation with fabrications of serious criminal charges. DELON’s story is one example of how a reputation can be ruined by cyberbullying and cause harm to one’s livelihood.

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Marie Newman – Author and Anti-bullying Family Advocate

AUTHOR AND ANTI-BULLYING FAMILY ADVOCATE

This week on TALK! with AUDREY: MARIE NEWMAN, Anti-bullying Family Advocate is my guest. We talk about the challenges that some children face at school . . . bullying. Did you know that every seven minutes a child is bullied; 85 percent of the time, there is no intervention of any kind. In fact, bullying is a leading cause of suicide among children between the ages of 11 and 16. It’s no surprise that 86 percent of children bullied say it interferes with their school studies. Marie has tips for parents and educators about how to support the fight against bullying.

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Wayne Pacelle: Author, THE BOND: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them

This week on TALK! with AUDREY: Joining Audrey Adams on the show this week is WAYNE PACELLE, President and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States. They talk about his new book, THE BOND: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them and his organization’s work with Michael Vick.

In America, there are more than 170 million dogs and cats in homes, and there are 70 million wildlife watchers. Together these animal lovers spend more than $100 billion a year on pets and wildlife. His new book, THE BOND: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them a compassionate, insightful, and comprehensive examination of our special connection to all creatures

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Beth Battaglino Cahill, RN – Executive Director, Healthy Women

This week on TALK! with AUDREY: BETH BATTAGLINO CAHILL, RN the executive director of HealthyWomen.org, an independent health information source for women, joins me to talk about a survey conducted by Harris Interactive, that revealed how women are spending their time and to provide time-stretching tips for women.

Daylight Savings time just gave us an extra hour of sunshine in the morning, which a new survey shows is the most hectic time of the day for women. According to research released recently by HealthyWomen (HW), women’s busiest hours are in the early morning and early evening — very closely connected to the work day.

Some of the findings:

The survey found that the number one activity that takes time away from women is domestic chores. These findings affirm that despite women taking on greater roles outside the home, they are still very much constrained by household activities. Fortunately, they are also finding novel strategies to cope.

  • Women are doing more than ever. Women are working outside the home, yet are still spending significant time on domestic chores (49%), paying bills or running errands (47%) and almost a quarter of women (23%) said that their time-draining activities included personal communications chores such as making phone calls, texting and emailing.
  • Younger women have different time burdens. Younger women (ages 18-34) were more likely than those over 35 to cite communicating with others through phone calls, texts and email as an activity that keeps them from doing what they want. Younger women also are much more likely to say that personal hygiene takes up too much time.
  • Women would rather be spending their time on leisure pursuits or with friends and family. When asked what they would do if they had more time, the majority of women (65%) would use it for entertainment, such as reading, watching TV and using the Internet. More than half of the women we surveyed said they would spend time with friends or family (54%). Younger women wanted more “me time.” They were more likely to say that they would spend time ‘doing nothing’ or sleeping.
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Bobby Howard – Donate Life America

This week’s show is about serious subject, one that most of us don’t like to Think about, let alone talk about becoming organ and tissue donors.

My guest, Bobby Howard, is a former running back for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and in 1994, he received a kidney transplant that saved his life. Today he is an education specialist for LifeLink of Georgia, the federally designated Organ Procurement Organization for the state of Georgia and for the past ten years, he has worked to educate the multi cultural community about the importance of organ and tissue donation.

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