Why Your Child Is Being Raised for a World That No Longer Exists – And What to Do About It

While parents tell kids to “study hard and get a good job,” AI is already doing those jobs—faster and cheaper. Award-winning author George Lee has a wake-up call: we’re using 1980s parenting in an AI-driven world.

Drawing from “SMART Parenting 5.0,” Lee explains why college degrees aren’t golden tickets and authoritarian parenting fails in the AI era. His unique perspective—traditional Chinese education meets Western innovation—reveals what schools won’t teach. Listeners will discover which essential skills schools ignore and how to build them at home.

SAMPLE QUESTIONS:
• You say “we’re overeducating their minds and underpreparing their spirit.” What does that look like?
• Your teenager makes more on TikTok than you made last month. How do parents stay relevant?
• You argue too much love can hurt. How can love without challenge weaken a child?

CONTACT: George Lee at (604) 330-8697; glee@rtirguests.com

How to Stay Indispensable in an Unstable Job Market

With mass layoffs back in the headlines and economic anxiety rising, employees at every level are asking the same question: How do I make sure I’m not next?

Business transformation expert Shawn Fry says the key isn’t working harder, it’s thinking differently. After leading organizational change in 60+ companies across 17 countries, Fry noticed a surprising pattern: the people who kept their jobs during uncertainty weren’t the loudest or the busiest. They were the most focused, adaptive, and connected.

Shawn shares with your audience why traditional goal-setting doesn’t work in today’s market, and the counterintuitive steps employees can take to become indispensable, even when their company feels shaky.

SAMPLE QUESTIONS:

  • Is visibility more important than performance in times of layoffs?
  • What’s one daily habit that protects your job better than your resume?

CONTACT: Shawn Fry at (330) 422-4090; sfry@rtirguests.com

Help Your Audience Gain Clarity and Direction – Interview This Certified Metaphysician 

Is your audience facing tough decisions, feeling stuck, or searching for a breakthrough? Dr. Dan Bartlett’s Magical Intuitive Readings help people gain the insight and clarity they need to move forward with confidence. A certified metaphysician and expert in Tarot and numerology, Dr. Dan has helped thousands transform confusion into clarity by offering practical guidance they can use immediately.

With over 30 years of experience, Dr. Dan combines intuition and compassion to help people overcome life’s curveballs, whether in career, relationships, or personal growth. Interview him to give your audience a new way to access answers, tap into inner wisdom, and start living with purpose and peace.

Contact: Dr. Dan Bartlett at (480) 841-0984 or dbartlett@rtirguests.com

The Invisible Leadership Tax Women Pay to Be Taken Seriously

For years, women were told to lean in, speak up, and push harder. Yet senior women in finance, technology, and other high-pressure fields are leaving leadership at record rates—not because they lack ambition, but because of a hidden cost few organizations recognize.

Former banking executive and master life coach Amanda Christian calls it the translation tax: the constant, invisible labor women perform to adjust how they speak, decide, and lead in male-dominated systems. Over time, that tax drains clarity, energy, and confidence long before performance ever declines.

In her book The Skeptical Executive, Christian reframes the leadership crisis leaders keep misdiagnosing and offers a research-backed alternative that helps high-achieving women lead with authority and without burning out.

Book her for a segment on:

  • Why “lean in” backfired
  • Early signs of leadership strain
  • What organizations must change to retain top talent

CONTACT: Amanda Christian at (704) 610-1637; achristian@rtirguests.com

Why Spiritual Teachers Are Getting Physical: The Body as Your Gateway to Higher Consciousness

Doreen Mary Bray, who has worked between worlds for over 40 years as a naturopath and mystical guide, carries a radical message: your body isn’t a vehicle you’re trapped in—it’s what your soul longed for and chose. She teaches that souls wait lifetimes for the privilege of embodiment, selecting parents, place, and form to walk on beaches, feel touch, and experience love.

In interviews, Bray will reveal how souls choose incarnation and what that means for how we live. Drawing from her book The Angel and the Avatar, she’ll explain why anxiety and depression may be your soul’s language trying to break through, and why learning to honor the body as sacred—not fix or transcend it—is the awakening our time demands. Listeners will discover practices for hearing their soul’s voice and understanding embodiment as the miracle it truly is.

SAMPLE QUESTIONS:

  • You say souls long for embodiment and choose it—what does that mean for someone who struggles with their body?
  • How can someone tell if their anxiety is actually their soul trying to communicate?
  • What’s one practice to begin honoring the body as the soul’s sacred gift?

CONTACT: Doreen Bray at (438) 802-0280; Dbray@rtirguests.com

How to Talk Across Differences Without Burning Out or Blowing Up Relationships

Americans are talking more than ever, yet understanding each other less. Differences in politics, faith, and values are making even simple conversations feel risky.

National Muslim leader and peacebuilding expert Daisy Khan explains that many well-meaning attempts to bridge differences actually make conflict worse. She explains why facts alone rarely change minds, how silence and cancel culture fuel division, and how simple language shifts can de-escalate conflict in real time.

Drawing on her work training schools, workplaces, and communities, Khan reveals practical tools for confronting bias without escalating conflict. She also shares insights from her book 30 Rights of Muslim Women, which challenges common assumptions about faith, identity, and equality.

SAMPLE QUESTIONS: Can avoiding controversial topics actually fuel extremism? Why do attempts at empathy sometimes backfire in cross-cultural conversations?

CONTACT: Daisy Khan at (917) 905-7829; dkhan@rtirguests.com

The 3 Habits That Build Trust and Cut Division in Your Life

Tired of the conflict in your office, community, or even your own family? Dr. Dionne Poulton says building unity isn’t about avoiding tough topics. It’s about mastering three powerful habits: Decency, Excellence, and Integrity. In her new book Excellence Without Exclusion, she reframes what it means to lead, communicate, and connect across differences without ever saying “DEI.”

Her message? You don’t need a title to be a leader. You just need a standard. From how we treat others to how we hold ourselves accountable, Dr. Dionne shows how small shifts in behavior can transform relationships, rebuild trust, and prevent conflict before it starts.

According to a recent study, 76% of people say they avoid hard conversations at work and home often out of fear, frustration, or not knowing what to say. Dr. Dionne’s framework helps audiences replace avoidance with practical strategies that foster trust and real connection.

SAMPLE QUESTIONS:

  1. What’s one habit that can instantly defuse rising tension?
  2. Can integrity really be taught, or is it innate?

CONTACT: Dr. Dionne Poulton at (404) 383-8924; dpoulton@rtirguests.com 

Are You Addicted to Caffeine—and Don’t Even Know It?

More than two-thirds of American adults, and increasingly children and teenagers, consume caffeine every day, yet few consider it an addiction. Health researcher and author Norbert Heuser says caffeine isn’t just in coffee. It’s in soda, energy drinks, green, black, and white teas, and even an increasing number of snacks. And, it’s quietly shaping our brains, moods, sleep, and long-term health.

Drawing on more than 45 years of research and insights from his book Coffee Addiction & Caffeinism, Norbert challenges the belief that caffeine is harmless. He explores how everyday use may contribute to anxiety, chronic fatigue, sleep disorders, fertility issues, reduced gray brain matter, cognitive decline, and even harm to the unborn, while also explaining why most people never question its impact.

On your show, Norbert reveals what science is starting to show, why caffeine dependence has become socially acceptable, how to recognize addiction, and practical ways to reduce its hidden effects—without sacrificing energy or performance. He also shares great-tasting, caffeine-free alternatives to coffee.

SAMPLE QUESTIONS

  1. Is caffeine more addictive than we think?
  2. What happens when you try to quit?
  3. How do you define addiction?

CONTACT: Norbert Heuser at (727) 261-2313; nheuser@rtirguests.com

How to Not Become Your Mom

Many women fear repeating the emotional patterns they grew up with, but few know how to break them. When her own mother ran away with her boyfriend at age 13, Sabrina Ciceri learned early how deeply a parent’s choices can shape a child’s identity, relationships, and future. 

In her book If It’s Not One Thing, It’s a Mother, she shares how she stopped inherited dysfunction, rewrote her family story, and built a healthy life as a mother of six and grandmother of five.

Sabrina explores why we unconsciously mirror our parents, how to interrupt toxic cycles, and why healing doesn’t always require confrontation or forgiveness. Her perspective blends family psychology, faith, and real-life experience in ways audiences rarely hear.

SAMPLE QUESTIONS:

Why do we often become the very parent we promised never to be?

Can you heal from a toxic parent without cutting them out of your life?

    CONTACT: Sabrina Ciceri at (352) 308‑1596; sciceri@rtirguests.com

    How to Reclaim Attention in a World Built to Distract

    We live in a world designed to hijack our attention. The average adult now spends over seven hours a day on screens, yet many feel more scattered, reactive, and stuck than ever. Author and senior UCLA mindful teacher Mitra Manesh says this isn’t just a focus issue; it’s an attention crisis quietly eroding our freedom to choose.

    On your show, Mitra will reveal why even intelligent, successful people often live in “survival mode,” how constant stimulation weakens our decision-making, and why reclaiming attention is the first and most important step toward true freedom.

    Drawing from her inspirational fiction, The Attentionist: New Choices for a New World—a parable in the spirit of The Alchemist—she offers a transformative blend of storytelling and  insight, packed with techniques and practices for improving attention as a transformative force in all aspects of life.  

    This is a timely invitation to shift from reaction to creation, and a powerful case for why reclaiming attention may be the most radical act of personal power in our time.

    CONTACT: Mitra Manesh at (310) 807-3031; mmanesh@rtirguests.com