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Aired Thursday, 1 December 2016, 2:00 PM ET

What is it about giving to another that warms the heart and soul? Could it be that we are hardwired to give? Could giving to others promote love, joy, peace, community, charity, caring and self worth within us?

The answer to all of those questions is yes. And, now there is science to prove that giving promotes happiness.

While the road to happiness may appear to be wide, varied, and highly individualized, there are common threads that delight us all especially when we step into the joy of giving.

Join Sylvia and her guest, Jenny Santi, author of The Giving Way To Happiness: Stories and Science Behind the Life-Changing Power of Giving.

About the Guest Jenny Santi

Jenny Santi is a philanthropy advisor to some of the world’s most generous philanthropists and celebrity activist. In 2013 she founded Saint & Partners, a consulting practice that has served clients including signatories of the Buffett-Gates Giving Pledge, an Academy Award-winning actress, and leading financial institutions in Europe and Asia, helping them channel their wealth, power and search for meaning towards social good. Previously, she served as head of UBS’s award-winning Philanthropy Services department based in Southeast Asia.

Jenny Santi holds a MBA from INSEAD, attended the Wharton School, and New York University’s Heyman Center for Philanthropy & Fundraising and is a Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, TIME magazine, Psychology Today, and Big Think, among others.

Jenny Santi is passionate about helping people discover how to give their time, talents and treasures in ways that not only change the world, but also bring happiness and fulfillment to their own lives.

Aired Thursday, 17 November 2016, 2:00 PM ET

Did you know that your Aura provides insight into the spiritual, emotional and physical aspects of our lives?

Although invisible to the physical senses, your Aura is alive and active. Everything you think, feel, and do radiates a spiritual energy that comes through in various colors and hues to define your Aura.

Your Aura is your spiritual blueprint and by changing the quality of your Aura you can automatically change the quality of your life.

Join Sylvia and her guest Dimitri Moraitis to learn more about your Aura and how you can use your Aura to change your life.

About the Guest Dimitri Moraitis

Dimitri Moraitis is an accomplished metaphysical teacher, healer and is co-author of Communing with the Divine, Karma and Reincarnation, The Healing Power of Your Aura and Change Your Aura, Change Your Life: A Step-By-Step Guide to Unfolding Your Spiritual Power.

Originally trained in Film/TV, Dimitri Moraitis redirected his life’s work early to pursue the path of metaphysics. Having worked with Barbara Y. Martin and metaphysics for 30 years, Dimitri has been instrumental in organizing the teaching material and bringing Spiritual Arts Institute to the place it is today.

Dimitri is an eloquent speaker on a wide variety of spiritual topics. He has lectured across the country, has appeared on numerous radio shows, and teaches workshops and classes offered at the Spiritual Arts Institute with Barbara Y. Martin.

To learn more about Dimitri Moraitis, visit: www.SpiritualArts.org

Aired Thursday, 10 November 2016, 2:00 PM ET

The quest for enlightenment has been known to be an ongoing journey. Yet there appears to be global awakening to new and higher dimensional realities and levels consciousness.

Are we being invited every day to see beyond the turbulence of our ego-driven lives to connect with the greater and far more authentic truth of Divine love?

Join Sylvia and her guest Jodi Hershey as they explore humankind expansion from the 3rd Dimension, through the 4th Dimension, to the 5th Dimension of Oneness, Unity, and Love.

About the Guest Jodi Hershey

Jodi Hershey graduated from the University of Miami with a BA in Education. Her expertise is in Holistic Education for adults and children. Jodi is the author of Thoughts to Consider With Love and The Call Of The Day.

Jodi Hershey is a trained hypnotherapist in basic, advanced and past-life regression. For more than 15 years, Jodi has provided support as a hypnotherapist, psychic/intuitive reader and spiritual counselor. She has worked extensively with sound, color and crystal healing which she incorporates into her readings.

Jodi’s gifts as a psychic reader include a variety of paranormal sensory abilities, among them Clairsentience, which is the intuitive faculty of prediction. Clairsentience includes the gut-level capability to pick up a person’s thought and “know it” while also translating it into feeling. Jodi is able to know people empathetically by feeling what they feel. She can also “hear” thoughts via the faculty of clairaudience.

Through her psychic gifts and her spiritual counseling, Jodi feels honored to be able to help people find their own unique gifts and discover their own true potential.

Jodi is the founder of Joy Journey of You (“JOY”). JOY provides books and services that guide you to living your own personal truth and products that bring healing, joy, and meaning to one’s self and your living environment.

Jodi Hershey lives in Taos, New Mexico and Miami Beach, Florida.

For more information about Jodi Hershey, visit: JoyJourneyOfYou.com

Aired Sunday, 6 November 2016, 9:00 PM ET

Are you called “fiery” more often than “tough?” Do friends say you’re “deep” just as much as they joke you’re a “wet blanket?” What about “cool and collected” versus “grounded?” Or that you’re “the rock” of your relationships? Everyone seems to want to know themselves more fully and there are countless personality systems to help them in their quest of self-awareness. There are countless on-line personality quizzes, relationship and compatibility tests, the Myers-Briggs, and astrology, to name a few. But one of the oldest assessment tools in existence has started making a comeback: the five elements of Chinese medicine.

Originating over 2,000 years ago, the five elements system stems from scholars who theorized the universe is composed of five forces: water, wood, fire, earth, and metal.

Join Sylvia and her guest, Dondi Dahlin, author of The Five Elements: Understand Yourself and Enhance Your Relationships with the Wisdom of the World’s Oldest Personality Type System, as they discuss how you can achieve and maintain balance physically, mentally, spiritually, and emotionally when you understand yourself through the ancient healing system of the five elements.

About the Guest Dondi Dahlin

Dondi Dahlin is an author, speaker, and internationally-acclaimed dancer, actress, and teacher. She coauthored The Little Book of Energy Medicine with her mother, Donna Eden, and heads the Teach the Teacher program for the Eden Energy Medicine Certification Program in Phoenix, Arizona.

Dondi Dahlin teaches the Five Elements at the OMEGA Institute in New York and at Eden Energy Medicine workshops around the world. She lives in San Diego.

To learn more about Dondi Dahlin, visit: LearnTheFiveElements.com

Aired Sunday, 30 October 2016, 9:00 PM ET

Most of us have a habitual way of thinking that we have developed over our lifetime. Many times these ingrained thought patterns directly impact our emotional well-being. Yet, what we often fail to realize is that it is possible to improve our mood by changing our habits.

Join Sylvia and her guest, Joseph Emet, and find out how you can make happiness your choice.

About the Guest Joseph Emet

Joseph Emet trained with Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh at Plum Village in France and was made a Dharma teacher in Thich Nhat Hanh’s tradition.

Joseph has a doctorate in music from Boston University and is the author of Buddha’s Book of Sleep (winner of the 2013 COVR Award for Book of the Year), Buddha’s Book of Stress Reduction, and Buddha’s Book of Meditation. The founder of the Mindfulness Meditation Centre in Montreal, Canada, Joseph Emet lives in Pointe-Claire, Canada.

For more information about Joseph Emet, visit: www.mindfulnessmeditationcentre.org

Aired Sunday, 23 October 2016, 9:00 PM ET

Have you ever wondered how married couples stay happily together? How parents ensure great relationships with their children? How CEOs stay on top? And, what keeps salespeople at the top of their game?

Well, they all share the ability to listen effectively. Listening effectively is the key to increased knowledge, emotional intelligence, business success, career mobility, and productive and growing relationships.

Author, listening consultant and facilitator, Leslie Shore, joins Sylvia to explore the underlying need for effective listening and how a new way to communicate allows you to successfully communicate with everyone you come in contact with.

About the Guest Leslie Shore

National speaker, communication expert and author Leslie Shore is the owner of Listen to Succeed, a consultancy that focuses on using listening analytics to help clients achieve their highest level of effective communication. Her book, Listen to Succeed and its companion listening analytics tool, Listening Effectiveness Profile, is used in universities, businesses, and non-profits throughout the United States and Canada.

Applying the wisdom earned from over 15 years as a professor of communication, Leslie has developed a four pronged communication methodology that she uses in her work with individual clients and as a speaker, consultant, coach, and facilitator for corporations, nonprofits, health professional and educational institutions: issue analysis, critical thinking, values analysis, and appropriate communication approaches.

Leslie’s articles and expertise have been cited in several prestigious publications, including the Washington Post, Fast Company, Scientific American, Well Being Journal, and New Spirit Journal, and she is a regular on TV and talk radio nationwide.

Leslie is the one-stop shop for communication issues that affect the bedroom to the boardroom, family and team dynamics, and contemporary communication issues.

To learn more about Leslie Shore, visit: www.ListenToSucceed.com

Aired Sunday, 16 October 2016, 9:00 PM ET

Have you ever felt trapped in a cycle of unhappiness, plagued by feelings of unworthiness and despair?

Too often, we allow ourselves to get caught up in the pressures of work, relationships, and personal advancement and we forget that the fundamental essence of a joy-filled life is love.

Join Sylvia and her guest Dr. Roger Teel as they discuss how to heal through relationship with others, find wholeness, self-love, and reunite with our creative purpose and potential.

About the Guest Dr. Roger Teel

Dr. Roger W. Teel is a life transforming speaker and a global spiritual leader. Through storytelling, humor and practical spirituality, Dr. Teel’s transforming messages, as well as in workshops, classes, business and national conferences, help empower people and lead them to their limitless potential to live dynamically.

He is backed by exceptional academics. Dr. Teel holds a degree in psychology and religion, a Doctor of Divinity and a Doctor of Religious Science degree. He has served pulpits in Oregon, California and in 1993 returned to his home church, Mile Hi Church where he serves as Senior Minister and Spiritual Director to over 10,000 members and friends.

As a global leader, Dr. Teel has served as Chairman of the International Board of Trustees for Centers for Spiritual Living, and is Co-founder of the Association for Global New Thought. In 1999, 2001 and 2004, Dr. Teel assisted in facilitating the Synthesis Dialogues with acclaimed global leaders including His Holiness, the Da-lai Lama. He has served on the boards of the Interfaith Alliance of Colorado, the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, the Foundation for Affordable Housing, and the Community First Foundation.

In his leisure time, Dr. Teel enjoys traveling, golf, tennis, strumming his banjo, dating his wife and spoiling his grandchildren.

For more information about Dr. Roger W. Teel, visit: www.MileHiChurch.org

Aired Sunday, 9 October 2016, 9:00 PM ET

Are physical and mental illness the result of karma acquired in a past life, and if so, does uncovering that lifetime lead to healing?

According to a year-long research project conducted by author and past-life specialists, Joanne DiMaggio, the answer is YES!

Join Sylvia and Joanne for a fascinating discussion about the impact that past life karma may have on your life today.

About the Guest Joanne DiMaggio

An inspired writer, lecturer and teacher, Joanne DiMaggio, MA, CHt, has been actively involved with Edgar Cayce’s Association for Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E.) since 1987. She earned her Masters in Transpersonal Studies degree and her Spiritual Mentor certification through Atlantic University.

Joanne is a graduate of the Eastern Institute of Hypnotherapy and a member of the National Association of Transpersonal Hypnotherapists. She has been professionally pursuing past-life research and therapy for nearly 30 years, and has been a guest speaker at several A.R.E. Conferences in Virginia Beach and for A.R.E. audiences throughout Virginia, as well as in Chicago, Milwaukee, and Bethesda, MD. She also has spoken at the Rhine Institute and for the International Association for Near Death Studies.

Joanne’s latest book, Karma Can Be a Real Pain: Past Life Clues to Current Life Maladies, was published in September 2016. Her other books include Soul Writing: Conversing With Your Higher Self, and its sequel, Your Soul Remembers: Accessing Your Past Lives Through Soul Writing.

Joanne lives outside of Charlottesville, Virginia and maintains an office at the Unity Holistic Healing Center, a service of Unity of Charlottesville, where she continues her research.

For more information about Joanne DiMaggio, visit: www.joannedimaggio.com

Aired Sunday, 2 October 2016, 9:00 PM ET

We live in an era where the idea of psychic ability is more accepted now than it ever has been before. What was once taboo and eccentric is now mainstream and respected.

Perhaps the world is realizing that we are all psychic to some degree.

If you seeking to develop or expand your innate ability to connect to the unseen world of energy for yourself, then this is the perfect show for you.

Join Sylvia and her guest, experienced Psychic Medium Travis James Sanders, for a candid discussion that will reveal how you can awaken and expand your own psychic abilities.

Because you are psychic too!

About the Guest Travis James Sanders

Travis James Sanders’ unique story began at an early age, but took a major turn at the age of 16, when a psychic reading changed the course of his life forever. At 27, Travis is a young but accomplished Psychic Medium who has appeared on national television regarding his work with Spirit. Travis has been featured on both A&E’s Psychic Kids: Children of the Paranormal, as well as Entertainment Tonight’s, The Insider, and could be seen on Nancy Grace as well as numerous news stations. He has appeared on a variety of radio programs including CBS Radio.

Travis is a certified Reiki Teacher, Quantum Life Coach, and has also received para-professional training in the psychic arts, past life therapy, and is certified by Doreen Virtue Phd. He has undergone training with Lily Dale medium and author, Sharon Klingler. What does all of this mean? Everything, and Nothing. Travis is just a soul, on a journey, with a passion….Just like you.

In addition to 10 years of work in the field, Travis’ qualifications include: Usui Reiki Master through Hospice training; Angel Therapy Practitioner Certification and Past Life Healer Certification Course with Doreen Virtue, a two-year apprenticeship in Forensic Mediumship with Gale St. John; Spirit Centered Mediumship, Words and Wonder in Spirit Communication, Advanced Public Linking & Mediumship Intensive with Sharon Klingle; Quantum Life Coaching Certification with Sandra Taylor; and Accessing the Akashic Records, Akashic Records in Mediumship, and Opening to the Afterlife with Lisa Williams.

For more information about Travis James Sanders, visit: www.PsychicTravisSanders.com

Aired Sunday, 18 September 2016, 9:00 PM ET

Sex is the three letter word that raises the eyebrows and piques everyone’s interest. As sexual health and sexual urges change for men and women as they move into midlife, the mystery that shrouds sex only grows larger.

Join Sylvia and her guest Dr. Barb DePree, gynecologist and founder of the popular MiddlesexMD.com website, as they discuss sexual health and Dr. DePree’s recipe for lifelong intimacy.

About the Guest Dr. Barb DePree

Barb DePree, M.D., a gynecologist in practice for over 25 years, specializes in midlife women’s health. She is certified through the North American Menopause Society as a provider, and was named the 2013 NAMS Certified Menopause Provider of the year. Sharecare named her as a Top 10 Social Healthmaker for Menopause in September of 2013.

Finding that products helpful to her patients’ sexual health were not readily available, Dr. DePree founded MiddlesexMD.com. The website was created to share practice-tested, clinically sound information and products for women, including guidance for working with partners and caregivers. Dr. DePree also publishes regularly on her own blog, providing updates on research in women’s sexual health, as well as observations and advice based on her work with women in her practice.

A collection of blog posts outlining the MiddlesexMD recipe for sexual health has resulted in the publication of Yes You Can: Dr. Barb’s Recipe for Lifelong Intimacy. Dr. DePree’s articles have also appeared on NextAvenue.org, RedHotMamas.org, VibrantNation.com, and more; she’s been published in OBG Management. She is a frequent spokesperson for women’s sexual health, quoted in Self, Everyday Health, and Huffington Post, among others, and has been interviewed for radio, television, and documentaries.

For more information about Dr. Barb DePree, visit: MiddlesexMD.com