Arupa Tesolin | Spark & Ting
August 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Arupa Tesolin is a Speaker, Trainer & Innovation Leader for using intuition and true creative vision as a fuel in today’s organizations. Many people are becoming more curious about their intuitive power and creative capabilities. When these capabilities are more fully developed by individuals, they become transformed and can then contribute more powerfully and meaningfully in any team or enterprise. Understanding how to use intuition, imagination and creative power have become essential skills for Innovation, Success & Performance. Arupa is the author of the international business book ‘Ting! - A Surprising Way to Listen to Intuition & Do Business Better’ rated 4-Stars (the highest) by Training Magazine (US), the upcoming new book release (April 2007) ‘Spark - Raise Your Mind to the Power of Infinity & Create Anything’ and more than 100 articles in leading training and management publications internationally; including HR Innovator, Chief Learning Officer, Workplace Performance Magazine, HR.com, Training & Development Magazine, Training (US), HR Reporter, Workplace News, HR Professional (HRPAO) (Canada) & Training & Management Magazine (India). Arupa has over 20 years of strategic management and organizational learning experience, is the creator of Intuita training programs, and the leader of Learning Paths International Canada.
Georgia Weithe | Facing Death
August 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Georgia Weithe has found her muse in the word reflection and it has informed all of her professional and personal choices. Reflection, with its dual distinct meanings: meditative—the inner and spiritual journey she takes with her clients. And as in the world of physics: light striking back against a surface—her personal quest for the source of the light that illuminates her path through this life.Georgia’s work shows her commitment to healing, both in the field of education and in her private practice. She is a certified teacher, and since founding the Reflections Educational Consulting Firm in 1988, she has appeared as a guest speaker presenting workshops on a variety of topics to professionals in the fields of education and health care. Most recently she has enjoyed a ten-year affiliation with the Center for Courage and Renewal’s Courage to Teach Program, created by the Fetzer Institute.Georgia is a certified Well-Springs Facilitator, and has a private practice in which she incorporates the Well-Springs massage, Reiki and Healing Touch.She could not have foreseen that all of her professional experiences would have a common theme: guiding people back to themselves. Her courage in exploring her own inner landscape has made her, for others in her life, a pilgrim spirit—a colleague and friend who journeys into the unknown and beckons others to travel with her. It is this quality of spirit that led her to write her book, Shining Moments—Finding Hope in Facing Death.In all of her life’s work, Georgia offers up a remarkable degree of reflection about things that matter. Not surprisingly, having accompanied her father on his final journey to his death, she uncovered some rare observations about the art of living.When not otherwise engaged, Georgia creates her own line of Reflections Jewelry. She has been married for more than 30 years and has two grown children.
Charles Jacobs | Retirement Writing
August 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Some 50 years ago, Charles began his career as a stringer and reporter for the New York Journal-American to help put himself through Columbia College and earn a Masters Degree at the University’s famed Pulitzer Graduate School of Journalism Charles’ credentials reach from coast to coast. He rose to the prestigious position of Publisher/President of the Alameda Newspaper Group in the San Francisco region, and later served as CEO of the Garden State Newspaper Group, publisher of the North Jersey Herald & News and Editor-in-Chief of FOCUS, a million circulation magazine in New Jersey.
He has served as a consultant to magazines and
newspapers, has ghost-written several books and is the author of the published novel Blood Bond
Charles has taught classes in writing for magazines and newspapers and has served as guest speaker for a variety of organizations and at writers conferences sponsored by the National Writers Association More than 750 of Charles’ articles have appeared in magazines and newspapers throughout the country from the Los Angeles Times on the West Coast to the New York Times in the East, as well as in Canada Travel publications throughout the United States and in Canada have carried Charles’ articles. He has written for Grand Circle and Overseas Adventure Travel, and has served as Editor-in-Chief of Travel World International Charles’ writing has been honored with numerous awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, New Jersey Press Club, Working Press Association
And the North American Travel Journalists Association
Peter Webb | Rainbows End
August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Peter Webb grew up in England with five other siblings during the Second World War. During the Blitz on London the government recommended evacuation out of the target area, so he with two brothers and a sister moved to North Wales. They returned to their home in Upminster after the firestorm was over. At eighteen he served in Her Majesty’s Royal Navy during the Suez crisis. At twenty-seven he emigrated with his young family to Canada in 1964 and six years later he and his family adopted Canada as their permanent home and became Canadian Citizens. This was the beginning of a journey that exceeded their dreams. Rainbows End is his fourth book that captures this amazing journey through life to retirement when he began his long promised hobby of writing novels.In Rainbow’s End, the writer invites the reader to join him in tracing his life story from the earliest recollection at two years of age through to retirement. It describes a traumatic experience, a number of trials and unexpected and unwanted early responsibilities throughout his teenage years. There were times of heartache and disenchantment suffered through witnessing his siblings being torn apart through his mother’s extreme pride and almost fatal obsession. Then in his late twenties, having the courage to emigrate with his own young family to Canada to escape a depressive and negative environment that seemed to feed on itself. They left the security of a home and a good job for an unfamiliar lifestyle in Canada. This proved to be the right decision, as changes occurred that sent them on an incredible journey full of opportunities and challenges that they could not have imagined. The life in their adopted country has exceeded their dreams. Find out more information on the web at www.outskirtspress.com
Susan Benjamin | Business Communication
June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Susan Benjamin, host of the popular talk radio show The Greater Voice, has been a business problem-solver for almost twenty years. Publications from the Wall Street Journal to the Chicago Tribune have featured Susan’s novel approaches to team management while her commentaries on communications-
Olof A. Ericksen | Immigrant Memoir
June 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment
As a child in Norway, Olof A. Ericksen lived through the atrocities of World War II, then suffered a brutal upbringing. As an adult, he was a victim of numerous unscrupulous business dealings in America, and eleven times in his life he came face-to-face with death. Memoirs of an Immigrant is a true story that takes readers from the Land of the Midnight Sun to America and from World War II to today, as it shows one man’s ability to rise above impossible circumstances to build a victorious life. http://www.amaz
Beth Feldman | Mommy Books
May 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Yvette Manessis Corporon and Beth Feldman are the creators of Role Mommy, www.rolemommy.c
Caroline Howard-Johnson
March 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment
We spoke today with Caroline Howard-Johnson, author of two books in the “How to do it frugally” series for authors. She speaks with us about her background, her interest in working with writers, and much more! More about Caroline Howard-Johnson from www.howtodoitfrugally.com:
Carolyn Howard-Johnson’s first novel, This is the Place, and Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered are both award-winners. Her fiction, nonfiction and poems appear in national magazines, anthologies and review journals. She speaks on culture, tolerance, writing and promotion and has appeared on TV and hundreds of radio stations nationwide. She is an instructor for UCLA Extension’s Writers’ Program and has shared her expertise at venues like San Diego State’s world renowned Writers’ Conference, Dayton University’s Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop and SPAN’s (Small Publishers Association of North America) annual conference.Carolyn was recently awarded Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment by the California Legislature; her home town’s Character and Ethics Commission honored her for her work on promoting tolerance and the Pasadena Weekly named her to their list of “San Gabriel Valley women who make life happen” for literary activism. Her nitty-gritty how-to book, The Frugal Book Promoter won USA Book News’ Best Professional Book 2004 and her chapbook of poetry, Tracings, was named to The Compulsive Reader’s Top 10 Best Reads for 2004 and Military Writers’ Society of America honored it for excellence. It is now available from Finishing Line Press and Amazon .Carolyn’s newest book is The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success . Cheryl Wright of Writer2Writer says, “The Frugal Editor will become a well-used reference for writers around the world.”Howard-Johnson loves to travel and has studied writing at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom, UK: Herzen University in St. Petersburg, RU; and Charles University in Prague. Carolyn is the founder of Authors’ Coalition where writers share with other writers and learn from others, too.She edits “Sharing with Writers,” a newsletter associated for that organization as well as a blog that helps authors turn a dull book fair into a sizzling success: Find it at:http://www.AuthorsCoalition.blogspot.com.Her literary website is on part of this site on this page: http://carolynhoward-johnson.com.Her Sharing with Writers Blog is at http://www.sharingwithwriters.blogspot.com .She also blogs athttp://TheNewBookReview.blogspot.com where writers can recycle their favorite reviews.http://TheFrugalEditor.blogspot.com where writers can ask questions — any question — on editing, grammar, style choices, and using editing as your first line of offense in your marketing campaign.
http://WarPeaceTolerance.blogspot.com where Carolyn gets to rag and nag about how tolerance relates to war and how we can do more than pay lip service to support our troops.
Ashley Marriott & Dr. Marc Paulsen Transcript
March 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Kent Gustavson: Welcome back to Sound Authors. My third guest on the show is Marc Paulsen with his co-author Ashley Marriott. Their book is called “Dump Your Trainer”. Welcome to the show.
Ashley Marriott: Hi, thanks for having us.
Kent: I happen to have a personal trainer myself. Why should I dump him?
Ashley: Are you getting great results? Are you seeing what you want to see in the mirror?
Kent: Sometimes.
Ashley: Yeah, I think that’s the big question to ask. You are accountable to yourself first, and a personal trainer should be able to set up a program for you. If you’re not getting the results that you absolutely want to see, then you need to question whether it’s time to dump that trainer, or dump the whole concept of personal training.
Kent: So tell me a little bit about your backgrounds. Are one or both of you trainers yourselves?
Ashley: I am. This is Ashley Marriott, I am a personal trainer.
Kent: And Marc Paulsen, you are a doctor, correct?
Marc Paulsen: Yeah, I’m a doctor.
Kent: And you’ve teamed up to create this book “Dump Your Trainer”. Have you seen some results in your clientele and your readers?
Marc: Well Ashley, I can make a comment first and Ashley can obviously add to that. Ashley’s seen hundreds, if not thousands, of successful stories but my personal example is that I saw some incredible results.
Kent: And your personal story of weight loss started when?
Marc: It started in ‘99, late ‘99. I achieved my results, probably by around March 2000.
Kent: I know that there’s a lot surrounding weight loss. There’s the addiction properties. It’s really hot in the media, whether it’s the fast food companies. Everyone’s trying some diet, whether it’s the Krispy Kreme diet or the Not Krispy Kreme diet. Tell me a little bit about all of these fads and about the personal trainer fad and all of that.
Ashley: I think what you just brought up is the real core issue. These ideas of a “one fix”, hiring a personal trainer or this new fad diet. The big flaw is that you’re not getting to the route problem of what in your lifestyle you need to address and change to really make a lasting, life-long, sustainable, healthy lifestyle.So if you’re looking at something like hiring a personal trainer, and you don’t change any of your eating habits; you don’t modify your behavior or your emotional crutches, then you’re not going to have results, you’re going to have paid for sessions. At best you won’t get injured or hurt, but at worst you’re losing money.
Kent: Is it that easy? Your book costs $20.99, if people spring for that book is that all they need?
Marc: Well, that’s obviously a simplified form of what you really have to do. Buying the book only gives you the program that you should probably implement. In terms of seeing results, that really comes from within. That comes with consistency and staying with the program, staying with the diet and doing things that are right.
Kent: Tell me about your personal story. You helped Ashley to write this book. Tell me, what is it like, the battle of weight loss?
Marc: Well it’s tough, but it’s not as tough as you might think. OK, I was up about 60 pounds. I was up to 220, just getting to a divorce. I took a look in the mirror and I said “Oh my God. What have I got here?” So basically I said “All right. Well, you’ve got a tough schedule you have to deal with. Everybody does. OK, what are you going to do about it?”So I outlined, basically, a program, realized what my constraints were and my time limitations and all those things. Working long hours. And I said “OK, well this is what you have to work with. Do something.” That’s what it came down to. Then it came down to implementing that program and being consistent. Being consistent, staying with it.
Kent: And staying with it, is it difficult to implement?
Marc: You know it’s really not, people make it difficult. You see people go to the gym or whatever and they come in and they’re going to get it all done in a day. They’re going to lose forty pounds in a night or something like that. What they end up doing is hurting themselves or becoming discouraged.The reason is they just simply try and do too much too soon. Ashley can give you her experience, she’s seen hundreds and hundreds of people like this.
Kent: So as a personal trainer Ashley, I know from my trainer it’s a big process of working on muscle groups and doing this and that but there’s only a certain amount that you can do with someone if they don’t go home and work on the concepts themselves.
Ashley: Absolutely. And as a trainer I think there are a lot of really excellent trainers who want the best for the people they are working for, their clients. But you have to realize there is accountability on the person themselves. You have to empower, as a trainer, you have to empower that person that they only need you for a short time to give them the template and the road map.And they have to take it on themselves. And what is discouraging in the industry, that I am in, is I see that a lot of personal trainers want to keep this allure of “I am the only way, I am the only way you will achieve the results” and hold it over someone. Where really we all have to be our own lifestyle coach for the long haul. And exactly, like go home, you have to maintain your healthy lifestyle, it can’t be an hour at the gym and that’s it.
Kent: Let’s say I go into the store or I go to your website dumptyourtrainer.com, I buy your book. What happens?
Ashley: Well everything in the book it is basically a template of how to make the changes you need to make. To create a lifestyle that is healthy and really moderately. It’s not for an extreme athlete. It’s not for someone who is wanting to be the next bodybuilder.But it’s a healthy lifestyle to follow. You have to do the work. You have to count calories. You have to exercise. You have to move. And those are things that always take time and energy. But if you get the leverage from reading the book and you get the feeling that it is time for me to make this change. It gives you the template to do it.And there is a lot of tools in the book that help give that extra push. Motivational tools and also self-fitness tracking which is so important. I’m sure your trainer when you started with them, they did a fitness assessment. It gives you good motivation to go “OK day one, I’m here. Where do I want to be day thirty, day sixty, day ninety.”
Kent: Here’s a question for you, I have a great trainer, but the thing about it is that when I started training he built me up so much that I felt I was on the path to becoming a body builder. As opposed to what I wanted to be, which was a healthy human being.
Marc: Absolutely.
Kent: What extent do you look at that as a trainer or as a trainee?Marc. : This is really important. Because you need to prepare yourself for the lifestyle you are going to lead. If you are going to be a furniture mover. Or you are going to do something like that, then sure you need to bulk up and get all those muscles on there.But if you are not going to maintain that throughout life then that is only going to come back on you. You need to say to yourself, “What is it that I really want to be?” And not, “What is it that they want me to be?” Once you’ve decided that then you can set your own course. You can set your own pace and you can set your own goal.
Kent: Has it worked for you, how long have you kept this weight off?
Marc: Nine years now. I went from 220 down to 160 and I’m that today. In fact people can verify that we were on ABC TV on the 18th of February. We’ll be on CBS and NBC coming up on the 24th and the 26th and I’ll be there in plain sight.[laughter]
Marc: In addition, I have some before and after photos on the website as well.
Kent: Exactly, if we’re listening to the radio, we can check you out at dumpyourtrainer.com. Well this has been a real pleasure, I definitely need to read this book. I haven’t had the benefit of doing that yet. You should send me a copy. But it sounds like a wonderful concept, I hope that “Dump Your Trainer” does really well in the future. Thank you so much for being on the show.
Ashley: It’s a pleasure, thank you so much.
Marc: Thank you.
Kent: And we’ll go to dumpyourtrainer.com to find out much more. Come on back in one second we’re going to be chatting with Mike Marshall. A guru of the mandolin, guitar, anything with strings. We’ll chat with him about his newest album which has some roots in Sweden.
Ashley Marriott & Dr. Marc Paulsen | Dump Your Trainer
March 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Ashley Marriott and Dr. Marc Paulsen have some very convincing arguments why we should all dump our trainers and read their brand new book, Dump Your Trainer! We had a great conversation about personal training, motivation, and much more.More information from their website: www.dumpyourtrainer.com
“Ashley is the quintessential people person… She understands why you fail and gives you what you need to succeed.” - Marc L. Paulsen, M.D.
“Nobody, absolutely nobody inspires like Ashley.” - Joe Salazar, clientAshley helped me to reach my goals by always being encouraging and making the workouts varied, fun and interesting.” - Noel Olken, Cliet“Ashley’s the best! She’s helped hundreds of people transform their lives, motivating them to get healthy and fit.” - Kerri Kasem, Radio/TV Host“You’re gonna’ see celebrities and their trainers in a whole new light.”
Kris Manley | Little Resumes
March 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment
We had the pleasure of speaking with Kris Manley on the show today about her interesting new concept. Resumes for children? We spoke about overworked kids, and about the value of showing kids their wonderful achievements in a written form! Very interesting concept.Find out more about Kris Manley and her resumes for children concept at www.resumesforchildren.com:
Donna Kristine Manley “Kris” is a native New Yorker, and a product of the New York City School
system, but completed her college years in Georgia by earning her bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering Technology from Southern Polytechnic State University and her associate’s degree in Communications Electronics from Georgia Military College. Her experience includes stints as an Associate Regulatory Scientist with The Coca-Cola Company (corporate offices), Quality Assurance Engineer with SunTrust Bank, and Quality Assurance Manager with the Earthgrains Company. She is currently a Quality Assurance Manager for a large U.S. Baking Company in Atlanta, GA; other “hats” she wears within the company are Food Safety Officer and Trainer.
David Gruder Transcript
March 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Kent Gustavson: Welcome back to Sound Authors. Its Leap Day, and my next guess is Dr. David Gruder. He’s the author of “The New IQ” and TheNewIQ.com. Welcome to the show.
David Gruder: It’s a pleasure to be here with you, Kent.
Kent Gustavson: Can you give me a little sound clip about your book and your movement?
David Gruder: Integrity is the topic of the book. The subtitle is “How Integrity Intelligence Serves You, your Relationships and your World.” The book is essentially about helping people come to grips with how integrity is a very, very crucial self-serving thing to develop some real intelligence about. Its really not possible to experienece the fulfillment of each peak unless we really have excellent integrity.
Kent Gustavson: So, the IQ is an antiquated forum? Is that part of it?
David Gruder: Well, yes. In some ways its antiquated, traditional IQ is intellectual intelligence. There’s certainly value in intellectual intelligence to an extent. We’ve seen that get kind of updated through the emotional intelligence movement, which has been very, very helpful as well. The new IQ is integrity intelligence, which, I think, is really the solution to the vast majority of the problems we have individually, in our relationships, and as a society today.
Kent Gustavson: Is it something that people have to struggle with, integrity? Or is it something you’re born with?
David Gruder: That’s a really good question that you’re asking. I don’t know that its something that we’re necessarily born with, I think what we’re born with is the roots of integrity. Which are three core drives that all people have, as far as I’ve been able to discern as a psychologist. One is a drive for authenticity, to be who we truly are. The second is a drive for connection with others, and the third is a drive to have positive impact in the world.We can see all three of these core drives in infants and very, very young children. These core drives seem to be innate, if you will, as your asking about. A practical way of understanding integrity, that moves us beyond the philosophical, vague, abstract concepts is to tie integrity to being aligned with all three of our core drives. For authenticity, connection, and impact.
Kent Gustavson: I know that you do something called “energy psychology”. Can you tell me a little bit about that?
David Gruder: Yes; actually, I was the founding president of a nonprofit organization called “The Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology”. What that field is, is a newly emerging field within psychology that has adapted standard of care approached in other health care disciplines like chiropractic and acupuncture and a number of others; the nursing field as well.To help with a whole range of psychological concerns from removing old blockages and baggage to embedding and embodying desired states and desired beliefs. Through explicitly and deliberately re-balancing a person’s energy field, aspects of their electromagnetic system.
Kent Gustavson: For the doubters, what is it about an energy field that’s scientific?
David Gruder: Well, we can certainly determine that easily enough because the National Institutes of Health has recognized acupuncture as a legitimate and effective healing method. What acupuncture does is that it re-balances an aspect of the human vibrational matrix or energy system called the meridians; the pathways that chi, or energy, flows through the body.A large segment of the energy psychology family of methods do the same thing without needles through acupressure, or the equivalent of acupressure; which is just as effective as needles, it turns out. So we’ve got a strong scientific basis from the acupuncture research literature.
Kent Gustavson: How do we go about finding you and then reading the book and changing the way that we exist, in terms of integrity?
David Gruder: My website is TheNewIQ.com. T-H-E-N-E-W-I-Q all together, .com. On that website you’ll find information about The New IQ book, its accompanying workbook, and the energy psychology methods as well.
Kent Gustavson: This time of year people are sinking into a little bit of a depression. The nation itself is sinking into a little bit of a recession. How does this IQ, the integrity intelligence, how does that effect us in this time?
David Gruder: I think it effects us dramatically. This particular recession that we’re in is as far as I can tell in large part one of the first recessions we’ve gone through that has been directly caused by lack of integrity. Its been caused by lack on integrity in budget planning in the federal government, going into huge amounts of debt. Its been caused by lack on integrity in the mortgage industry, by selling mortgages that are out of integrity, then funding or underwriting those mortgages in ways that are out of integrity.So we’ve got massive societal lack of integrity that has directly, in my opinion, caused today’s recession, and unless we develop some further integrity intelligence as individiuals, in our relationships, and as a society. We are going to continue to have the business problems, the economic problems, the social problems, the ideological strife, the personal misery, and the relationship failures that we see in our society.
Dr. Kent Gustavson: Do you think we’re headed in the right direction?
David: I think we have the passion to. This is the irony. There are more resources available to everyone today for upgrading their own authenticity, their connection with others, and their capacity to have positive impact in the world. There’s no longer an excuse for not developing ourselves as individuals, our relationship abilities, and our capacity to have positive impact. So we are now at a choice point that has to do with our willingness to utilize those resources. It’s not that the resources are not available anymore, they are.
Dr. Kent: So do you work with individuals as well as groups and as well as being an author?
David: Right. I had a flourishing private practice, a waiting list private practice until 2000 and I closed my private practice at that point sadly because my workshop and speaking schedule was starting to take me out of town so much of the time. It was difficult for me to continue to work ongoingly with clients. So I work today with very few individuals, usually in leadership positions in order to help leaders really have more positive impact on all of the people that they are impacting in the first place. Mostly what I do these days is consulting, speaking, workshops, and writing.
Dr. Kent: You talked about a whole bunch of things in your book and people in business, in government, in religion have said that it’s an easy to read manual. Is it practical to have something that’s in common language?
David: Yes, I think that what’s practical–you know, my publisher was really reluctant to publish this book because he said, “Integrity–we all know that we have big integrity problems in our world today but integrity isn’t a particularly sexy topic. The reason that she said, “Yes, I’m publishing this book” is because I said to him, “Look, there are two ways to make integrity sexy. One is to convert it some of the vague abstract philosophical concept into a concrete set of actions that anyone from everyday people to world leaders can sink their teeth into. The second is to show how it’s extremely self-serving to develop impeccable integrity.” Once he read my book, he said, “Oh, my gosh, you succeeded at that. You’ve made integrity sexy. I’m publishing it.”
Dr. Kent: [laughs] The front cover, of course, has a big heart as well as a human face on one side–a sexy one, in fact–and then the other side, there’s a picture of the world. Can you explain the cover?
David: Yes, certainly. Three section of the subtitle. The human face is ourselves, our own authenticity. The heart is our connection with others and the world is our impact in the world. So three section of the subtitle, the “New IQ: How Integrity Intelligence Serves You, Your Relationships, and Our World.”
Dr. Kent: Give me an example, what’s a way for all of us listening to simply make a change in our integrity?
David: An example on a personal level is that we can upgrade our personal integrity by looking at our self-care. A lot of us are self-neglectful because we’re so busy with our careers or perhaps we’re trying to do good in the world that we come last. People go into exhaustion and sleep deprivation and other kinds of not taking care of themselves nutritionally or exercise-wise. They deplete their own life energy to the point where they stop being as effective in their careers and their service work as they would like to be. So that would be upgrading personal integrity.Relationship integrity would be focusing on being much more honest about the commitments that we make so that what we actually do matches what we say we’re going to do. On the collective integrity level, societal integrity level, we can each do a whole range of things as what I call “everyday stewards” in order to express societal integrity. Things as simple as when we go into a parking lot, parking inside the line of the parking space rather than over the line into the next parking space which then makes it hard or impossible for somebody to park next to us.
Dr. Kent: So does this has something to do with karma?
David: Does it have something to do with karma? [laughs] Because I ride brought [sp] up cars? [laughs]
Dr. Kent: There you go, yes.
David: Yes.
Dr. Kent: In society, we always say, “If you’re the guy that parks over the line in the parking spot then someday it’s going to come back to you.”
David: Yes. It’s true that what goes around comes around. We’ve certainly seen that although some people get very impatient with that because sometimes it takes longer for things to come around to a person who we think did something wrong to us. We sometimes don’t get to see the karma we keep [sp] on them. But, whenever we do something that’s out integrity, on some level inside ourselves, we incur a level of guilt unless we’re completely sociopathic and that’s the very best minority of our sociopathic. The rest of us incur some degree of guilt for being out of integrity with ourselves or in our relationships or with society and that guilt does backfire on us. Sooner or later, it gets us.
Dr. Kent: So over this conversation, obviously, I think you hinted that earlier our government right now has really, in some ways, failed a lot of the people in this country and that’s why in both parties, people really want change. When you apply these concepts to say, our President or Vice President or the policies of our government, does it work on that macro scale?
David Gruder: Absolutely it works on that macro scale. I’ve done training of ambassadors to the World Trade Organization in integrity development and collaborative negotiation skills and things like that. It definitely works on that level. It turns out that there are 10 key aspects of politician integrity that voters and the media really need to know more about; and on my website, TheNewIQ.com, I have a free tool for people called the “Politician Integrity Rating Tool” that people can actually use to go through 10 dimensions of politician integrity to rate each of the four current major Presidential candidates.