Monday Night Radio

This is an encore - a repeat performance - for the holiday week, while the staff of Monday Night Radio enjoys the holiday week with our family. What better show to share during a time when we are all thinking about peace on Earth, than a show with the grandson of Mohandas Mahatma Gandhi, Arun Gandhi?We are sure you will enjoy this amazing interview, as Mr. Gandhi tells us about carrying on his grandfather's ideals, and shares stories from his time as a boy, living with his famous grandfather.

Poisonous Christmas plants, hypothermia and frostbite, food poisoning, new household poisons introduced for the holidays, holiday-related behavior problems... while, as the song famously says, there's no place like home for the holidays, that holiday home has dangers lurking for your pet at nearly every turn. And, if you don't have a pet now, are the holidays really the time to get one (let alone to give one as a gift)? Join America's beloved vet, Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald, as he talks with us about how to keep your pet safe during the holidays, and answers YOUR questions! When you hear that a veterinarian keeps them in stitches, it may give you some cause for concern, but not in the case of Dr. Fitzgerald! That's because Dr. Fitzgerald is not only a nationally renowned veterinarian, and the star of Emergency Vets and E-Vets, but he is also a darned funny stand-up comedian, and this renaissance vet also tap dances!Dr. Fitzgerald will not only be talking about holiday hazards, but also the fun stuff, like the best holiday gifts for your (or someone else's) pet, and, if you do have your heart set on a Christmas puppy, the best way to go about picking one.

As you travel over the holidays, ask yourself "What does what I put in my luggage, and how I pack it, say about me?" Is there more baggage in your baggage than you may realize? What does your mate's choice of luggage say about their baggage? Why do some of us overpack, while others always end up having to borrow or buy essentials once they arrive?This week's guest expert, Dr. Joseph Williams, not only has a PhD in applied management and decision science, along with an MBA in organizational behaviour, but has spent seven years in the trenches working as an airline baggage handler.Put it all together, and Dr. Williams is uniquely qualified to explain to us what the baggage in our baggage says about us.Just in time for the holiday travel season, join us when Dr. Williams answers YOUR questions about the baggage in your baggage, and the psychology of packing,

The holiday blues. Families sweep it under the rug, doctors medicate it, and movies make fun of it. Even otherwise generally happy people can get into a cold funk during the holidays. Just what is it about the holidays that can transform smiles into frowns, and bring even the most otherwise chipper of people down? With over 30 years of counseling and spiritual healing, Dr. Ken Unger is just the person to help us understand holiday depression, and to answer YOUR questions!Every day over 100 million people report that they are affected by depression or general feelings of unhappiness and hopelessness. What can one do when faced with the profound loss of hope that accompanies these feelings? And why does it always seem to particularly affect people around the holidays? Is medication the answer? "No!" says Dr. Unger! Medication not only isn't the answer, but most people have it within their power to start healing immediately without medication - to provide the emotional healing and balm that their soul needs.Dr. Ken Unger's credentials include more than than 35 years of counseling and spiritual healing. The author of The Ultimate Breakthrough, Dr. Unger has degrees in counseling and psychotherapy, has served as Dean of Counseling at a major bible college, and has counseled inner city youth and worked in psychiatric hospitals, prisons, churches and colleges, as well as serving as pastor at three different facilities over the course of 23 years.It's no wonder that he's earned the nickname "The Soul Doctor"!Dr. Unger will explain how to deal with depression and attain peace in your life over the holidays - and beyond - without relying on medication. And of course, he will be available during the entire hour-long show to answer YOUR questions.

Work sucks, or so a lot of people say. With 92 percent of the American workforce unsatisfied with their jobs, this much is obvious. But what isn't so obvious is that adjustments can be made in the workplace that greatly increase employee morale, according to Lynda Barbaccia, the guest of this week's show. The author of Simple Wisdom for the Not So Simple Business World, Barbaccia is an expert at transforming bleak, tedious work environments into places that employees actually enjoy. If the workplace can be so changed, this is no small triumph, considering that adults spend the majority of their waking hours at work, and overall the average person can expect to spend over 10,000 hours working. So, anything that can make the vast amount of time we spend working pleasant is worth paying attention to. What's more, enjoying your day's work is not only good for yourself, but also for the business or individual for which you are employed. Satisfied workers are less likely to get sick, and hence are less likely miss work. Given that absenteeism costs employers millions of dollars a year, maintaining a sunny workforce is in everyone's best interest. If you find your job burdensome, or if you are simply hoping to improve your daily work experience, call in on Monday night (conveniently near the start of the normal work week!) to have Barbaccia answer YOUR questions.

Monday Night Radio is honoured to present this very special guest expert, Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi. Mr. Gandhi will be talking about how we can carry on his grandfather's counsel to "Be the Change", and about how we, as individuals, make a difference in tipping the balance from violence to nonviolence. Mr. Gandhi will be appearing on Monday Night Radio on Monday, November 22nd, at 8:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. MTN / 11:00 p.m. EST.Born in Durban South Africa, Arun Gandhi spent much of his adult life in India working as a journalist and promoting social and economic changes for the poor and the oppressed classes. He and his wife Sunanda personally rescued more than 120 orphan children from the streets and placed them in loving homes around the world. Following this, he founded a Center for Social Change, which transformed the lives of millions in villages in the western state of Maharashtra.In 1987 Sunanda and Arun came to the US, and in 1991 started the M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence at the Christian Brothers University in Memphis Tennessee. In 2008 the Institute was moved to the University of Rochester, New York, where Gandhi currently resides. In the 17 years of the Institute’s life the Gandhis took the message of nonviolence and peace to hundreds of thousands of high school and University youth around the US and much of the Western World. Mr. Gandhi then founded the Gandhi for Worldwide Education Institute to promote community building in economically depressed areas of the world through the joining of Gandhian philosophy and vocational education for children and their parents. He is presently the president, and a member of the board.Visit the Gandhi for Worldwide Education Institute here.

Death is an uncomfortable subject, but the events that surround it - most notably, funerals - still require diligent planning. Fortunately, there are experts like Gail Rubin who can help with this difficult process. Gail Rubin is the author of The Family Plot Blog and the “Matchings, Hatchings and Dispatchings” column in The Albuquerque Tribune, which concerns life-cycle events. She is also the author of the forthcoming book A Good Goodbye: Funeral Planning For Those Who Don't Plan to Die. In addition to being a writer, she is a "PR pro" and an event planner who has created many memorable life-cycle events. Moreover, she has attended, planned, and spoken at many funerals and memorial services. Finally, she is a breast cancer survivor and a member of the Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC).Gail Rubin is, in short, a funeral-planning expert with extensive knowledge of life-cycle events, and she's here to answer YOUR questions!

Let's face it: staying organized is hard, and this is especially true if you have children in school. School assignments, schedules, and graded tests all flow into the house to be added to preexisting clutter, and it can be a immensely challenging to keep everything organized and in its proper place. In fact, it's not only challenging, it's downright stressful.To help address this problem, we've invited Linda Samuels on the show to discuss strategies to help you stay organized enough. The founder of Oh, So Organized! and marketing director of the National Study Group on Chronic Disorganization, Samuels is an expert at helping the chronically disorganized, and now she is here to answer YOUR questions!

Andrea Raynor, author of the spiritual memoir The Voice That Calls You Home, has seen her share of suffering. She served as a chaplain to the morgue at Ground Zero in the aftermath of September 11th, and she is currently a hospice chaplain. The challenges that Raynor has faced uniquely qualify her to address YOUR questions related to compassion, human fragility, sickness, and death.

Some of the basic symptoms of ADHD, like poor concentration and forgetfulness, are recognized and known by many, but what isn't so well known is that these symptoms are also associated with a number of other medical conditions, like sleep disorders and thyroid disease.A board-certified family physician who has practiced ADHD-behavioral and family medicine for 27 years, Dr. Frank Barnhill is ideally qualified to answer YOUR questions about ADHD and other medical conditions with similar symptoms.