Category: Health, Fitness

Why Children’s Books May Be One of the Most Underrated Health Tools in America

Most parents see children’s books as entertainment. Kenneth Korber, a health literacy expert, believes they can also be powerful tools for improving children’s health. “Storytelling may be one of the most effective—and overlooked—ways to improve public health, empower families, and help children build lifelong healthy behaviors, one bedtime story at a time,” he says.

After two decades as a clinician, he wrote and published The Musical Adventures of Grace series to extend the patient office visit into bedtime reading, helping families reinforce important health and wellness lessons at home.

His engaging stories and characters transform complex medical topics into age-appropriate adventures that children actually enjoy. Ken’s approach encourages healthy habits, eases childhood anxiety and fears, and strengthens literacy at the same time.

Contact: Kenneth Korber at (847) 238-8936; kkorber@rtirguests.com

Chronic Disease Now Affects 6 in 10 U.S. Adults– What Is Their Pain Trying to Tell Them?Do a Show on The Hidden Meaning Behind Your Pain and Illness

Chronic illness is rising in America, and many patients leave medical appointments with prescriptions, but few answers about why their symptoms developed in the first place. 

On this show, Marcel Vögeli explores how stress, emotional patterns, and long-term internal pressure may influence physical health. After eight years of intensive autoimmune treatments that managed symptoms but didn’t restore his life, Marcel began examining the deeper drivers behind his condition. He has been hospital-free since 2012. 

This is not about rejecting medicine. It’s about asking a broader question: why do two people with the same diagnosis often recover at different rates? Marcel discusses how understanding recurring symptoms, personal stress history, and emotional triggers may complement conventional care. 

SAMPLE QUESTIONS:  You’re essentially asking people to make friends with their pain — is that a fair way to put it? If someone has recurring symptoms, where should they start looking beyond medication? How can people explore these connections without feeling blamed for their illness?

Marcel Vögeli is spokesperson for The Key to Self-Liberation by the late Christiane Beerlandt, an encyclopedic work on the psychological and emotional roots of more than 1,000 diseases and symptoms.

CONTACT: Marcel Vögeli at Mvogeli@rtirguests.com

What an Ancient Hawaiian Healing Practice Can Teach Us About Modern Forgiveness

Most of us think forgiveness means turning the other cheek, something that requires approval, forgetting, and making yourself passive. But what if it’s really about reclaiming your power? Taj Simrit spent 20 years backpacking across the globe, and the last eight years traveling solo full-time, immersing himself in spiritual traditions across cultures, searching for purpose.

Through Ho’oponopono, the ancient Hawaiian practice of reconciliation and healing, Simrit uncovered four simple principles that can dissolve resentment, restore inner peace, break addictions, tame the ego, and ultimately shape your destiny. His memoir, Behold My Soul, became a #1 Amazon bestseller in both Religious Travel and Humanistic Psychology.

CONTACT Taj Simrit: tsimrit@rtirguests.com

How Keeping a College Promise Led This Surgeon to Treat Patients on a Remote Pacific Island

When told he’d never get into college after scoring a 7 on his ACT, Glen Robison didn’t quit — he went to medical school without ever earning a bachelor’s degree. But the moment that changed everything came when a Tongan friend helped him survive college academics, and Robison made a promise in return: one day, he’d go treat his people.

Eleven years later, he kept it. What he found there — rare conditions, a boy whose limb he saved through improvised surgery — became the foundation of his book and his philosophy: when your desire is strong enough, step into the unknown anyway.

Robison is a podiatric surgeon, 3x bestselling author, and the author of Show Them: Stepping into the Unknown to Find the Answers.

CONTACT: Glen Robison: (928) 351-0312; glrobison@rtirguests.com

This Psychotherapist Shares How Psychedelic Medicine Changed Her Life

Psychotherapist and author Anjalia McGoldrick traversed an unexpected path that transformed her life and work: psychedelic medicine. After surviving severe childhood trauma, abuse, and decades of conventional therapy, she reached a breaking point that traditional approaches could not heal. Her carefully guided plant medicine experience opened a profound door to insight, forgiveness, and emotional freedom she had never experienced before. She reveals how this powerful journey reshaped her understanding of trauma, inner wounds, and lasting healing.  She also shares the potential healing powers of psychedelics, and how these help people who are battling mental illness. Anjalia is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir “The Child I Left Behind: A Mother’s Journey To Healing and Forgiveness.”

Contact Anjalia McGoldrick at (540) 616-3200; amcgoldrick@rtirguests.com

Chronic Disease Now Affects 6 in 10 U.S. Adults– What Is Their Pain Trying to Tell Them?

Do a Show on The Hidden Meaning Behind Your Pain and Illness

Chronic illness is rising in America, and many patients leave medical appointments with prescriptions, but few answers about why their symptoms developed in the first place. On this show, Marcel Vögeli explores how stress, emotional patterns, and long-term internal pressure may influence physical health. After eight years of intensive autoimmune treatments that managed symptoms but didn’t restore his life, Marcel began examining the deeper drivers behind his condition. He has been hospital-free since 2012. This is not about rejecting medicine. It’s about asking a broader question: why do two people with the same diagnosis often recover at different rates? Marcel discusses how understanding recurring symptoms, personal stress history, and emotional triggers may complement conventional care. 

SAMPLE QUESTIONS:  You’re essentially asking people to make friends with their pain — is that a fair way to put it? If someone has recurring symptoms, where should they start looking beyond medication? How can people explore these connections without feeling blamed for their illness?

Marcel Vögeli is spokesperson for The Key to Self-Liberation by the late Christiane Beerlandt, an encyclopedic work on the psychological and emotional roots of more than 1,000 diseases and symptoms.

Contact Marcel Vogeli at Mvogeli@rtirguests.com

Former Nurse and Stand Up Comic Gets Serious About Healthcare’s Darkest Secret

Kathy Allan spent 20 years as a hospital nurse before witnessing something that changed everything: cleaning staff in scrubs discharging new mothers, while administrators threatened her for asking questions. She realized healthcare had become addicted to profits over patients.

This Board Certified Holistic Nurse and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner channeled her trauma expertise and comedy background into Gutsy Nurses—a program teaching nurses how to survive a broken system. Inspired by recovery principles, she developed the 12 Steps of Healing Care to beat the industry’s profit addiction. Her shocking revelation: nurses are 18% more likely to commit suicide than the general population. 

SAMPLE QUESTIONS:
• You say healthcare is addicted to profits—what does that look like from inside a hospital?
• How does your stand-up comedy background help you discuss such dark topics?
• What are these 12 Steps of Healing Care, and how do they protect nurses?

CONTACT: Kathy Allan at (619) 932-5206; Kallan@rtirguests.com

Why Low Birthrates Might Be the Biggest Story of 2026

Births are falling, and fast. In 2026, France reported more deaths than births for the first time since WWII. China’s birthrate just hit a historic low despite massive financial incentives to have more children. OB/GYN Dr. Marina Straszak-Suri says this isn’t just a demographic dip. It’s a crisis with massive implications for the global workforce, elder care systems, and generational stabilit

She joins your show to explain what’s really behind the fertility decline, and why most people are focusing on the wrong things. Drawing on 30+ years in practice and insights from her new book Optimize Your Fertility Naturally, she’ll also explain why lifestyle, not just age or IVF, plays a critical role in conception.

SAMPLE QUESTIONS:

  • Can your daily habits really impact fertility more than your age?
  • Why are low birthrates more dangerous than most people think?

CONTACT: Dr. Marina Straszak-Suri at (613) 800-9412; msuri@rtirguests.com

Do a Show On the Protein Myth That Keeps Americans Sick

A heart attack at age 70 forced Dorothy Greet to rethink everything she believed about nutrition—especially protein. After she and her 80-year-old husband ditched all animal products, their results were dramatic: normalized blood pressure and cholesterol, effortless weight loss, and energy levels they hadn’t felt in decades. Now at 85, Greet is credentialed in plant-based nutrition from Cornell and ready to debunk the protein myth keeping millions sick.

In interviews, Greet will reveal how Americans have been misled about protein requirements and why plant foods provide all the protein needed for optimal health. Drawing from her book Go Veg with Class, she’ll share how two lifelong carnivores reversed heart disease through dietary change alone—and why it’s never too late. Listeners will learn simple swaps to “ditch dairy” and “remove meat” while discovering how this shift could eliminate up to 80% of chronic diseases.

SAMPLE QUESTIONS: 

  • Where do you actually get your protein on a plant-based diet? 
  • You reversed heart disease at 70—what happened to your health markers? 
  • Why don’t doctors tell patients about the power of dietary change?

CONTACT: Dorothy Greet at (302) 314-6010; dgreet@rtirguests.com

Interview the “Hire-a-Daughter” Who Clears Out Hoarders, Handles Dead Bodies, and Saves Families from Elder Care Nightmares

Most adult children wait until it’s too late—when Mom falls in the bathroom or Dad has a heart attack—to learn what they should’ve asked, who to call, or where to turn. Debbie C. Miller has spent 30 years as a professional “hire-a-daughter,” helping hundreds of families navigate the overwhelming process of caring for aging loved ones. Her Kirkus-starred, award-winning book, Doing the Right Thing, provides the insider knowledge families desperately need but don’t know exists.

Miller has seen it all: the millionaire miser dead in his driveway for months, properties requiring HazMat suits, extreme hoarding cases, and grief-stricken families being ripped off by unscrupulous estate sale companies. She knows the 40+ questions to ask assisted living facilities, the myths about aging-in-place that endanger seniors, and how to help families make impossible decisions before it’s too late. Family therapists and aging life care managers use her systematic approach nationwide.

SAMPLE QUESTIONS:

  • What’s the biggest mistake adult children make when their parent has a health crisis?
  • What questions should families ask assisted living facilities that nobody thinks to ask?
  • Why do you say aging-in-place is often a dangerous myth?

CONTACT: Debbie Miller at (703) 844-4074; dmiller@rtirguests.com