Last First Date Radio

Terry Gaspard, LICSW is a licensed therapist and author. She’s a contributor to The Good Men Project, The Gottman Institute Blog, DivorcedMoms.com, Huffington Post, Patheos.com, and marriage.com. Follow Terry on Twitter, Facebook, and her website movingpastdivorce.com. Her forthcoming book, The Remarriage Manual: How to Make Everything Work Better the Second Time Around was published by Sounds True in February 2020. Join us to learn how to navigate the challenges of remarriage.

Happily married for over 30 years, Paige and Don Marrs have also worked together since the day they joined their lives. They have co-authored two how-to memoirs, both of which teach through story: Grabbing Lightning, and Executive in Passage: When Life Lets You Know It's Time to Change, Let that Knowing Lead You. For the past decade they have offered their relationship program, The Love Conversation®, which teaches core principles and methods for making the quest for love less messy and has helped countless individuals create extraordinary love in their most cherished relationships. I'm excited to have Paige and Don back on the show to talk about how to argue 'right' in relationships. You don't want to miss this one!

Chuck Rockey is a Princeton-educated software engineer turned dating and relationship coach with a passion for helping clients gain more happiness and vitality. His method of coaching considers the unique patterns we exhibit when dating and within our intimate partnerships in order to forge and strengthen our most important relationships. Chuck prides himself on guiding people to add new dimensions to their lives – such as self-acceptance, focus, greater connection or whatever they desire to add to their world. Join us to hear Chuck's guidance on how to avoid being dumped!

Jami's 50 years old, divorced five years, and she's struggling with how to find love. Her only relationship post-divorce lasted six months, and it wasn't fulfilling. Listen as I coach her live on air to figure out what's getting in the way of finding the love she wants. If you’re feeling stuck in dating and relationships and would like to find love this year, sign up for a complimentary 1/2 hour breakthrough session with Sandy http://lastfirstdate.com/breakthrough

Julie Spira is America's Top Online Dating Expert and Digital Matchmaker. She was an early adopter of the Internet, and has been coaching singles on finding love online for 25 years. Julie's a frequent guest in the media, and has appeared in/on over 1500 news stories including ABC's Nightline, Access Hollywood Live, CNN, Good Morning America, Today Show, E!, and more. She's the author of the bestseller, "The Perils of Cyber-Dating: Confessions of a Hopeful Romantic Looking for Love Online," and the upcoming release, "Love in the Age of Trump: How Politics is Polarizing Relationships." Join us to learn how to date and find love in the polarizing political climate of the Trump administration. Follow @JulieSpira on Twitter, Facebook, and visit CyberDatingExpert.com

Arielle Ford is a leading personality in the personal growth and contemporary spirituality movement. For the past 30 years she has been living, teaching, and promoting consciousness through all forms of media. She is a celebrated love and relationship expert, author, speaker, and is the co-creator and host of Evolving Wisdom’s Art of Love series. Her mission is to help women Find Love, Keep Love and Be Love. Tune in to learn the keys to lasting love and how to turn your mate into your soulmate.

Dodi Lamm has a license in social work and post-graduate training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Along the way she has amassed training in mindfulness meditation, CBT, as well as Positive Psychology. She is an adjunct professor in psychology. Over the years, and throughout her journey, Dodi has nurtured her true loves, her private practice and a double ristretto over ice. Working with women and helping them achieve their goals is gratifying, she loves seeing women take flight onto whatever path they choose. She has developed an online class for Women at a Crossroads starting February 3rd, 2020. Sign up now at http://www.dodilamm.com/women-at-a-crossroads-course

Happily married for over 30 years, Paige and Don Marrs have also worked together since the day they joined their lives. They have co-authored two how-to memoirs, both of which teach through story: Grabbing Lightning, and Executive in Passage: When Life Lets You Know It's Time to Change, Let that Knowing Lead You. For the past decade they have offered their relationship program, The Love Conversation®, which teaches core principles and methods for making the quest for love less messy and has helped countless individuals create extraordinary love in their most cherished relationships.

Author, stand-up comic (*Second City), entrepreneur, humorist, dating expert, and blogger Gail Forrest knows how to make you laugh – at her, at yourself, at others, and especially at her sharp, provocative and memorable declarations (and videos) about online dating after fifty, makeup, fashion, books, menopause, aging, and navigating social media for the first time as a baby boomer, among other contemporary topics.

Sylvia Puentes is an international speaker and author with a passion for transformational coaching and empowered education. Her career as an educator spans nearly 20 years and has taken her from elementary school classrooms to private coaching and bi-lingual corporate training. Sylvia has developed a range of unique and inspiring workshops and programs, including the Academic & Parent Coaching Program which has assisted youth, parents and teachers in finding alternative methods to inspire and rediscover the joy of learning. She is a certified facilitator for Right Voice for You®, a special program by Access Consciousness®. Learn how to eliminate your limitations and have the best life!

Ronald J. Frederick, PhD, is a clinical psychologist whose career has focused on the transforming power of emotional and relational experience. He is the author of "Loving Like You Mean It: Use the Power of Emotional Mindfulness to Transform Your Relationships" and the award-winning "Living Like You Mean It: Use the Wisdom and Power of Your Emotions to Get the Life You Really Want." He's a senior faculty member of the Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) Institute, and Co-founder of the Center for Courageous Living in Beverly Hills, CA. Ron lectures and facilitates workshops for national, state, and international organizations. Tune in to hear how you can use the power of mindfulness to transform your relationships.

A Sex Advisor to Millions, Susan Bratton is the Author of 34 books, a television celebrity, YouTube star, Instagram influencer, and spokesperson and advocate for sexual wellness. She is passionate about lovemaking and bedroom communication skills. Susan is a phenomenon in the world of pleasure and connection. She has appeared in 500 podcasts, speaking engagements, TV appearances, and radio shows.

George Araman has created a 50-year vision of spreading some much-needed love around the world …so get ready for the step-by-step guide to lasting love! George feels blessed to have been “friend-zoned” by his ex-best friend, as this allowed him to discover his life’s purpose. Since then, he has dedicated himself to researching, experimenting, and writing about love. He wrote The Grey Dance of Love to show singles, “friend-zoned” individuals, and couples how to create sparks--and how to be and grow in a magical relationship.

Christopher Hughes is a facilitator of consciousness and an arts and antiques curator. He earned his degree in Opera and Song at the University of Western Ontario, later working in professional opera, singing telegrams, voiceovers for video games, cartoons and elevators. He moved to Australia to complete a master’s in integrated Marketing and Communications at QUT. He is Managing Director and curator at the Antique Guild in Brisbane and Vice President of Australian Antique an Art Dealers Association. He facilitates classes for Right Voice for You, a specialty program of Access Consciousness. He desires to help people “live beautifully.”

Known as America’s Leading Midlife Dating & Relationship Coach, Jonathon Aslay is a defender and protector of women’s hearts around the world. He helps women transform from attracting Mr. Wrong into finding their Mr. Right. Jonathon, a successful entrepreneur, coach, speaker, and author of  Amazon #1 New Release: What The Heck Is Self-Love Anyway?  Jonathon is like A GUY SPY to the male mind who truly understands the way a single or divorced man thinks and acts. He’s a master at helping women recognize and distinguish the difference between men who are emotionally unavailable from those who are truly ready for love.

Dave Kenney is the Co-Founder and Executive Director at Emergo Recovery, along with Susan Kenney, who is the Co-Founder and Director of Therapeutic Wellness at Emergo Recovery. Emergo Recovery is a private, residential recovery and wellness center focused on a brain-first approach. With over thirty years of experience in human development, Dave pioneered Actualized Recovery®, an integrative brain-first approach to lasting recovery. Susan has dedicated her extensive career to helping individuals reclaim their life after struggles with debilitating challenges. Together, and along with the team at Emergo, they empower clients toward greater wellbeing and happiness.

If you’re like most people, you avoid confrontation at all costs. What if there was a new way to frame conflict – as something to be welcomed, not avoided? And what if you could learn to use conflict to improve all your relationships? Then this episode is for you! My guests, CrisMarie Campbell and Susan Clarke are coaches, business consultants, speakers, and authors of The Beauty of Conflict: Harnessing Your Team’s Competitive Advantage . They are passionate about giving their clients a safe space to learn how to navigate conflict and leverage it to access creativity and connection in all of their relationships, both personal and professional. For over 16 years, they have advised and inspired the world’s highest performing organizations in how to turn conflict into innovation and profit. You'll learn: Why avoiding conflict can mean missing out on growth opportunitiesHow we have to overcome childhood patterns to learn to embrace conflictSkills you can use to navigate conflict so your voice is heardHow liste

Jill Elaine Hasday is a distinguished McKnight University Professor and the Centennial Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School. Her work focuses on family law, anti-discrimination law, constitutional law, and legal history. She graduated from Yale Law School and Yale College and clerked for Judge Patricia M. Wald of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. In this episode, Jill discusses her new book, Intimate Lies and the Law. You'll learn about deception in intimate relationships. Can the law protect you? How can you protect yourself?

Camille Virginia is Founder of Master Offline Dating and author of The Offline Dating Method. She helps single women burned out with online dating get the power to attract great men in the real world. Camille spent years pushing past her introvertedness to master the art of creating meaningful connections - and in the process was asked out by hundreds of men in everyday places. She has helped women across six continents unlock their attraction powers to create their own happily-ever-after without going online. Her highly-anticipated book The Offline Dating Method launches next week (and is available now for pre-order)!

Dr. Amy Serin is a best selling author, neuropsychologist, and inventor of stress-technology, TouchPoints. Her new book The Stress Switch: the truth about stress and how to short circuit it,  highlights the new neuroscience of stress and how we've got it all wrong when it comes to stress management. Dr. Serin's insights and invention have helped people over 1,000,000 times in 2018 and she is on a mission to help people cure their excess stress so they can live better lives.