Friday, July 17, 2009

The Journalist and the Rabbi: the Dual Career Stories of Stephen Fried and the late Gerald Wolpe



Talk Show host Dr. Arlene Barro created her WIN Without
Competing! show for candidates, employees, entrepreneurs and employers to learn about her Right Fit Method from her guest interviews.

Dr. Arlene will interview Stephen Fried, an award-winning investigative journalist and essayist, the author of four acclaimed books--The New Rabbi, Bitter Pills: Inside the Hazardous World of Legal Drugs, Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia, and Husbandry--and an adjunct professor at Columbia University's graduate school of journalism.

A two-time winner of the National Magazine Award--the Pulitzer Prize of magazine writing--Fried has been a prolific writer of feature stories and personal essays for Vanity Fair, The Washington Post Magazine, GQ, Rolling Stone, Glamour, and Philadelphia magazine (where he also served for two years as editor-in-chief.) His most recent book, Husbandry, is a collection of essays he wrote as the "Heart of a Husband" columnist at Ladies' Home Journal..

His 2002 book The New Rabbi—which is in the news again since its main character, beloved and charismatic Rabbi Wolpe, recently died--was highly praised by the New York Times, Washington Post and Boston Globe and featured on "All Things Considered." It was chosen as one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly, which said, "Stephen Fried took what many would consider a mundane topic-a Jewish congregation searching for a new rabbi-and turned it into a marvelous journalistic memoir that recorded his own spiritual development as well as a community's quest for leadership" And it was named one of the year's top 10 books on religion and spirituality by beliefnet.com.

Rabbi Gerald Wolpe who died on May 18, 2009 at the age of 81, was married to Dr. Arlene's first cousin Elaine. Fried, writing about Wolpe’s death, said "American Jews lost one of our great sermonizers, one of our most fascinating and challenging pulpit leaders, and a renaissance rabbi whose dramatic life yielded several distinct acts, each with its own powerful teaching moments."

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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Sherrilyn Kenyon: The Reigning Queen of the Vampire Novel --Publishers Weekly


Talk Show host Dr. Arlene Barro created her WIN Without Competing! show for candidates, employees, entrepreneurs and employers to learn about her Right Fit Method from her guest interviews.

Dr. Arlene will interview Sherrilyn Kenyon, a true phenomenon. A new Dark-Hunter book is published every February, August and November, to the eager hands of Kenyon’s devoted fans across the globe who call themselves “Kenyon Minions.” Each Kenyon release heralds a top spot on the New York Times, USA Today, and Publisher’s Weekly bestseller lists—and stirs a new wave of obsession from Kenyon’s clamoring fans. To date, there are over 17 million copies of her books in print in over 30 countries and her publisher and bookstores constantly struggle to meet demand. There's more to Kenyon... Over the years and due to what she humorously calls "her children's need to eat," Kenyon has worked a variety of jobs: D.J., photographer (her publishing credits include the Washington Post), store clerk, cook, baker, dollmaker, painter, camerawoman, secretary, receptionist, freelance journalist, janitor, waitress, teacher, ditch-digger, web designer, programmer, and bookseller. Kenyon is married and has three sons. The family lives outside of Nashville, Tennessee, with a menagerie of pets that include dogs, cats, fish, chickens, rabbits and reptiles Curious about her website? She has more than 100 million hits per year. Her fans eagerly await Bad Moon Rising, an electrifying new arc in the Dark-Hunter world, which will go on sale on August 4th, 2009.

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Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Daniela Came: The Mistress of Whimsical Sculpture


Talk Show host Dr. Arlene Barro created her WIN Without Competing! show for candidates, employees, entrepreneurs and employers to learn about her Right Fit Method from her guest interviews.

Dr. Arlene will interview Daniela Came, MFA from Claremont Graduate School, award-winning sculpturist whose works are whimsical, imaginative, and bursting with color. Bicycle chains come to life as cascading hair, discarded metal tools and bolts are artfully transformed to works of art. Daniela does not recycle, she recreates from "discards" her husband Garret finds. Daniela's sculptures appear in galleries, collections, shows, and exhibitions capturing the hearts of many around the world. Listen in to find out why her art is universally loved.

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Marya Dabrowski: Award-Winning Fine Jewelry Designer


Talk Show host Dr. Arlene Barro created her WIN Without Competing! show for candidates, employees, entrepreneurs and employers to learn about her Right Fit Method from her guest interviews.

Dr. Arlene will interview Marya Dabrowski, who comes from a long line of artists, sculptors and woodcarvers. She is a self-taught jeweler who began silver smithing at the age of twelve and later studied at the Academy of Jewelry Arts in New York, concentrating in gold granulation, hand-cutting of gems, and cloisonne enameling. With an innate sense of color and a natural affinity for shape and symmetry Marya's designs are constantly evolving and earned her an American Gem Trade Association Spectrum Award, as well as two coveted Jewelers Circular Keystone Jeweler's Choice Awards. Dabrowski's jewelry has appeared on television shows, magazine covers, and in juried art exhibits.

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Bryon Sutherland: Award-Winning Glass Artist known for his "Fizzle Fruit"


Talk Show host Dr. Arlene Barro created her WIN Without Competing! show for candidates, employees, entrepreneurs and employers to learn about her Right Fit Method from her guest interviews.

Dr. Arlene's guest is Bryon Sutherland, whose passion for working with glass was first ignited as a student at California State University, Chico. After receiving his Bachelor of Arts in Glass Sculpture, he accepted a position at the Orient and Flume, which has been producing fine art glass since 1972. He later studied with, and was invited back as teaching assistant to Bill Gudenrath, master Venetian glass artist, in Corning New York of the world-renown Corning Museum and Institute. After studying with Mr. Gudenrath, Bryon decided to become an entrepreneur. He set up his own glass art studio in Gridley, Northern California which is sited on the property of a 35-acre abandoned fruit cannery, The Hunt Cannery, established in 1896 was one of the largest peach canning operations in the world. The property was later operated as The Libby Cannery, a cooperative which began in 1932, and ceased operations in 2001. It was out of the enormous rubble left behind that the Sutherland Glass Art Studio emerged. Sutherland’s work has appeared in leading galleries, juried exhibitions and installations throughout the United States.

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Robert R. Horton: Multifaceted, Creative Entrepreneur

Talk Show host Dr. Arlene Barro created her WIN Without Competing! show for candidates, employees, entrepreneurs and employers to learn about her Right Fit Method from her guest interviews.

Dr. Arlene's guest is Mr. Robert Horton, the Chairman of Alchemix Corporation , a cutting edge alternative energy company, which he established in 1998. An expert in his field, Mr. Horton has been active in energy and environmental technology since 1980. Among his activities, he organized, managed and sold the China Coal Pipeline Company to Enron in 1997. Prior to that, Horton, in partnership with the American Broadcasting Company, organized and created the world's largest travel franchise company. Since childhood, through the influence of his Clinical Psychologist mother, Robert has been a student of human personality. Beginning in 1975, in addition to his other career interests, he began working on what has become the InnerViewing method, a precise and comprehensive means of distinguishing core personality traits. In the early 1980's he founded the Carefree Institute and, with the help of the Educational Testing Service of Arizona State University, developed the InnerView a comprehensive personality assessment tool. The InnerView has been used by tens of thousands of individuals over the last twenty years.

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