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"Off the Record with Judy" -- AIRING LIVE EACH TUESDAY AT NOON EASTERN TIME on RockStarRadioNetwork.com -- gives a glimpse inside the minds and hearts of successful people in the context of their business lives.

Judy Schriener is a longtime business journalist who has always been fascinated with how people think, what makes them do the things they do, how they overcome seemingly insurmountable challenges, and how they feel about it all. People have been confiding in Judy since childhood and she wants you to have the same fascinating, enlightening experience every week as she interviews people who will share their secrets of...doing some big thing, solving a seemingly impossible problem, dealing with some pivotal life experience, or letting us see behind the scenes of how things work. It will be highly personal but largely focused on business people and issues.

After nearly a year of being on the air, Judy has pried some astounding secrets out of a wide variety of people -- from serious business people to inspirational mentors to some worthy of Jerry Springer.  To catch up on podcasts of a show or two, take a gander at the list here.  Listen to whatever floats your boat.  And just know that Judy will continue to deliver the most fascinating, inspirational and amazing people who will share their "secrets of...." 

About the host:
Judy Schriener is an award-winning journalist who has been writing about the inner workings of business since the mid-1980s. She has written countless profiles of businesses and business leaders - from snarky defense lawyers to heads of both small businesses and mega-billion-dollar corporations to owners of NFL teams. She has delved into ugly lawsuits, covered companies that have gone from #1 in their market to bankruptcy, and has traveled worldwide both professionally and personally. She was one of the few women who traveled alone to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to cover the reconstruction and oil field fires after the first Gulf War.

Always curious and eager for adventure and new venues, Judy has worked in nearly all aspects of the business spectrum in her long career: small, medium and mega-size companies; state government; and nonprofit organizations. She has worked as a consultant, an independent contractor, a journalist both on staff and freelance, and has worked in various other fields, including advertising, marketing and sales. Judy was the first person to introduce readers to the Internet in the commercial construction industry while on staff at McGraw-Hill's Engineering News-Record weekly trade magazine, and she has embraced social media from early on, seeing it as perfect for satisfying her natural desires to communicate and learn about what others are up to and what they're thinking.

Judy's interests include music - she threatens to relearn how to play the piano about once a year -- baby boomers - hence her book that she co-authored with architect Mike Kephart, Building for Boomers, Guide to Design and Construction, published by McGraw-Hill - NASCAR, the Denver Broncos and her latest passion, genealogical research.

Judy admits to many mistakes in her career but sees them all as learning experiences. She believes strongly in the adage, "Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment."

 

June 18, Secrets of...A Long and Happy Marriage

Judy is going solo this week. Sunday was Father's Day and last week was her mom's birthday, and the memories of her parents and their longtime solid marriage are flooding around her.  

Jack and Darlene Schriener were happily married for 47 years, until Jack passed away. How did they accomplish what so many people find so elusive?  Judy shares secrets of how her parents kept their marriage romantic, supportive and fun for so long.  

Jack, a natural-born early bird, left early for work every day and let Darlene, a night owl, sleep in.  He left notes for her several days a week, and she saved two or three hundred of them starting from early in their marriage. Judy just came across them in her mom's scrapbooks, which she found after her mom died. 

Judy will share some of the most romantic ones and some of the most fun ones as she reveals her folks' 10 (or 15 or 21 if time allows) secrets of establishing and maintaining an enviable relationship.  

A few years after Darlene became a widow, she met a man who courted her and they ended up together for 11 years until she passed away.  Judy observed that Darlene employed many of the principles in that relationship that were so successful in her marriage, which resulted in a happy and satisfying relationship of the unlikely pair (he was 12 years her junior, among other things).

How did she do it?  Is the happiness of a couple primarily up to the woman or the man or both?  What were her tricks of getting a stubborn man to do what a woman wants him to do?  What did she do when his behavior was not acceptable and they reached a crisis point?  When did they almost split up and what ultimately stopped them?  What are the three MOST important elements to keeping a relationship on the right track?  

Join Judy as she goes solo -- but with the help of the spirits of Jack and Darlene (even if it's just from her memories) -- as she reveals "Secrets of...A Long and Happy Marriage" Tuesday, June 18,
at Noon Eastern/9;00 a.m. Pacific on the RockStar Radio Network!  
Call-in number for questions or comments is 866-404-6519.

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June 11 Secrets of...How to Have a Great Trip, No Matter What

Dozens of things can go wrong on a trip and we all just pray that they don't happen to us!  But if they do, how do we handle them?  Travel can be the best thing ever...or a complete horror show.  Our guest this week has been through all of them, and he knows what to do for the best possible experience.

Jose Catalan is a travel agent who has been nearly everywhere and experienced all of the ups and downs of travel, both for himself and his clients.  He arranges trips all over the world for groups and individuals, and he has a reputation for 5-star service and for handling and solving problems immediately so guests need not worry.  He will be revealing Secrets of...How to Have a Great Trip, No Matter What.

Jose lives part of the year in Scottsdale, Arizona, and part of the year in Barcelona, Spain.  This year his grand, first-class group trips include:  South Africa, India and the countries along the Mediterranean. 

This native of Havana, Cuba, left by himself for Puerto Rico, where he had relatives lived, at the age of 16.  He went into the hospitality industry, beginning with a small resort hotel there. He traveled to Switzerland to attend the Ecole Hoteliere in Lausanne where he earned a degree in hotel management.  When he returned to the small resort hotel in Puerto Rico, he was offered the position of general manager.

In 1970, Jose moved to Tempe, Arizona, where at Arizona State University he earned a Bachelor's degree in journalism and studied political science for one semester in the Master's program.  Without a decent job option in journalism, he returned to the hotel industry and became general manager of Castle Hot Springs and soon after opened the Wickenburg Inn Tennis & Guest Ranch. 

Finally Jose and a friend in the travel industry opened Fifth Avenue Travel & Tours in 1976.  Among their many accomplishments, they brought the supersonic Concorde to Phoenix three times for voyages combining the Concorde with the Queen Mary 2.  Jose sold the agency in 1999 and has since remained in the travel industry as an independent contractor.  Currently he is with Protravel, one of the largest travel companies in the U.S.

In 1989, he purchased two beach-front condos in the village of Sitges, 20 miles south of Barcelona for vacation rentals for his clients.  He splits his year between Scottsdale and Barcelona.

For more information, visit http://www.seasidejourneys.com

Join Judy and Jose as they share Secrets of... How to Have a Great Trip, No Matter What on "Off the Record with Judy" Tuesday, June 11th, at noon Eastern Time on www.RockStarRadioNetwork.com. Click on "Live on Air." Feel free to call in with questions and comments during the show at 866-404-6519. 

 

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Secrets of...What's New, Newer, Newest in Social Media

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Social media is ever expanding and keeping up with the introductions of and changes to LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube and myriads of other sites can be daunting and, frankly, a pain in the *$$. Our guest this week keeps up with it moment-by-moment and is willing to share her secrets, insights and analyses. So if you are confused, frustrated and overwhelmed, or even if you think you are on the cutting edge of SoMe, this show is for you. I GUARANTEE that you'll learn things you didn't know.

Carol McManus, known as The LinkedIn Lady, knows social media inside and out. She's ahead of the curve on nearly every social media site you can name. And, she knows how to maximize your participation both for moving ahead personally and professionally. She gives listeners the benefit of her expertise for free every day at 4:00 p.m. Eastern time on her own show, The LinkedIn Lady Show, on the RockStar Radio Network.

Carol is a 26-year seasoned executive who decided to chuck the corporate life in 2007 and start her own coaching, consulting and leadership development business. Ywait4success was launched in January of 2008 and like most start-up ventures, there were previous few dollars to market the fledgling business. So Carol turned to social media to grow her network, reconnect with friends and colleagues from the past and begin to get the word out about her business. At the end of the first year she had achieved reached a six-figure success using social media - most of which came from networking effectively on LinkedIn. Knowing she was on to something, her efforts doubled the second year and her income did the same.

For more information about Carol, please visit www.linkedinlady.com.

 

 

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Secrets of...From Wounded Vets to Entrepreneurs!

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A lot of people say they support the troops in the U.S. military, but what do most of us do besides post touching photos of troops reuniting with families on Facebook, or fly a flag on holidays or, for the more dedicated of us, send a goodie box to someone deployed overseas? Not much. There are some stunning exceptions and our guest this week is one of them.

Bob Nilsson's 100 Entrepreneurs Project so far has seen almost 50 wounded veterans attend classes and go on to start their own businesses. Classes range from creating business plans to franchising to whether to go solo or with a partner, and so much more. Bob will share stories of the journeys and accomplishments of these amazing men and women.

Bob is one of the only non-amputees who is an official peer visitor for wounded vets at Walter Reed and Bethesda hospitals.  Bob, a longtime exec in a big international construction company, is there for amputees and those with traumatic brain injury when they get to the hospital, when they are newly injured and feeling like their lives are over. He is there for their shocked and grieving families. He listens.  He helps them navigate through bureaucracies. 

He helps to restore their optimism about the future, hooks them up with companies that want to hire them, lines them up with scholarships to go back to school (he started one such scholarship), and...helps wounded vets become entrepreneurs. 

For more information on the 100 Entrepreneurs Project, click here.

 

 

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May 21 Secrets of...Practical Metaphysics

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How can mastering the key principles of the metaphysical world help us in practical day-to-day living?  Where does intuition lie versus psychic messages?  How can we stay grounded in the here and now while getting intuitive help from our subconscious or maybe even the spirit world?  Where do these messages come from?  Are they a force for good or not?  What are the best ways to live joyfully? 

Speaker, Author and Radio Show Host Kimberly Rinaldi joyfully shares her decades of experience as a Certified Master Trainer of Hypnotherapy, EFT, NLP, Success Coaching and Reiki.

Having created a highly successful private coaching practice, Kimberly now teaches Lessons in Joyful Living. She believes in empowering others and that through it, you have the ability to break through any and all barriers. What used to take weeks, months or even years can now be done in a matter of hours with her programs, allowing you to reach your greatest potential and joyfully step into your life purpose.

Kimberly is also a Psychic and Medium who uses her natural intuitive abilities and unique techniques to help clients achieve their highest potential and move toward their soul purpose; she provides tools to carry for a lifetime.

Kimberly Rinaldi's radio show, Lessons in Joyful Living Radio, can be heard Mondays at 1:00 pm Eastern time/9:00am  Pacific time on the RockStar Radio Network. Kimberly has been featured in several books and is in editing for her newest release. She hosts regular workshops in Whittier, California, as well as bi-annual women's retreats, teleconference training, and private VIP Breakthrough Experiences. For information regarding consultation or questions about Lessons in Joyful Living, email customerservice@kimberlyrinaldi.com . Visit www.kimberlyrinaldi.com, or read her blog at www.blog.kimberlyrinaldi.com.

 

 

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