Inner Revolutionary Radio

Do you think of yourself as a fighter, a quitter or a realist? Do you quit when you should push through? Do you persevere when you should let go? Do you know the difference? When times are tough, what should we do? What about those who tell us that we fail only if we quit? Is that true? Isn’t the opposite also true? Isn’t it crazy to keep doing something, trying harder, or believing in something or somebody, when we’re out of reality? How can we tell when to surrender and when to push on? Let’s ask some folks about the choices they’ve made about fighting or quitting, what they learned from those experiences, and if they are any wiser now. Today’s co-host will be Madam Mazurka, who’s smart, funny and dead. (Beth channels her and we all love it.) And our guest will be Erica Myers, who’s often been a quitter but who nevertheless keeps fighting back from nearly dying. (How does she do that?) Our other guest could be you, if you dial in! So join the conversation. Tune in, email or call!

Let’s get real and have fun with a sensitive topic. Let’s talk about being mean: malicious, vengeful, petty, spiteful and unkind. Let’s admit we get that way sometimes, figure out why we do and see if we can’t help each other change. But first, we have to get honest. Few of us want to acknowledge that we can be mean. Sure we know we’re sometimes angry, firm, or just taking care of ourselves. But mean? Deliberately hurtful? That’s the other guy. Well, sometimes we ARE the other guy. Why, and what can we do about it? Join the discussion on this episode of InsideOut. Let’s laugh together, get honest and maybe even help each other transform. Our guests will be Helen Hillix-Di Santo and Elizabeth Treeheart, people just like us. The wise and witty Madam Mazurka will be our special co-host. (Madam M. is one of the characters that comes through Beth.) Tune into this stimulating conversation. Email or call in your questions, and be part of a growing community of folks ready to be InsideOut!

For those of you who listened to our October 1 show on climate change, the Guru is no stranger. He came on as a co-host and will be co-hosting many shows in the future, alternating appearances with the famous Madam Mazurka. Yes, the Guru is another of Beth’s entertaining personas, which she spontaneously channels when she hears the call. Many of you now know Madam Mazurka, who is funny, sexy, Transylvanian and dead. But you are less acquainted with the Guru, who is Indian, calm, elevated, and also dead. Or maybe not. In any case, we invited the Guru to be our guest, and to our honor and delight, he is making himself available so that you can question him directly about yourself, life, the cosmos, spiritual matters, whatever comes to mind. The Guru is full of surprises and twists of perspective. But for him to answer your inquiries, you must email us before or during the show, or call in live! And tell your friends to call or email as well, so they can Ask the Guru, too. Don’t miss it!

In our world people have either chosen or been forced to abandoned long-held roles along gender lines. If the woman earns more money, she has to work. If the man’s schedule allows him more time, he needs to take on more child-rearing. In addition, many of us are sick of traditional concepts of male and female. Do “sexy” uncomfortable clothes make us women? Does grunting monosyllabic answers about our feelings make us male? Even if we let these obvious stereotypes go, how many other preconceived notions are we carrying? The sweet understanding woman? The brave man at the battlefield? While traditional roles are crumbling on the outside, aren’t they still clinging to us on the inside? Join us as host Beth Green interviews Lynn Hillix and Todd Benton, two folks who have lived or are living role reversals in their homes. How does it feel? What inner conflicts still haunt them? And what about you? Where do you still long to break free? Email your questions or comments. Join us and call in!

Ignorance is not bliss when our world is being turned upside down by climate change. It’s already happening. So now what’s our response? Are we living in panic, lost in denial, or feeling too overwhelmed to think about it? Climate change is not going away, so let’s get educated and face it together. What is the truth about climate change? What is actually happening? What isn’t happening? And what, if anything, can we do about it? If you want the facts, tune into InsideOut and let’s ask an actual climate scientist. Our guest, Dr. Grant Deane, is the Director of the Hydraulics Lab at UCSD. In addition to directing the lab, Grant travels the world researching and sharing information with other climate scientists. He can bring to us top-quality information and translate it for us into lay terms. Don’t miss this show. And call in if you can. This may be one of your few opportunities to actually talk to a climate scientist about a topic that is changing our world and altering the future.

Yes, YOU are our guest. Have you ever wanted to speak on the radio? Here’s your chance. In this episode of InsideOut, we are launching Be Our Guest, a format where we will introduce a topic and callers share their wisdom while taking the chance of having egg on their face. Here are the ground rules. You can’t monopolize the whole program. No hate rhetoric. You can’t focus on putting down other individuals or groups. Be willing to receive feedback. Be honest and self-revealing. And accept that you might get hung up on. Does all this sound like fun? And, oh yes, you’ve got to call in, or there’s no show. For this episode, some of the topics will be spirituality – what it really is; hypocrisy – which we all have; and common sense – which most of us lack. And how all three of those connect. If you think you’re smarter than your co-hosts or their guests, here’s your chance to prove it! Smile. Call in and tell the truth about yourself, or just tune in and let’s all laugh and learn together.

You’ve never met anyone like her. Madam Mazurka is funny, psychic, sexy, Transylvanian and dead. And she tells all. Never inhibited, Madam Mazurka wants you to call in and ask questions about her, life, you, anything that crosses your mind. Okay, she looks a lot like Beth with a scarf, but trust us, Beth would never say the things that blurt out of the Madam’s mouth. Beth met Madam Mazurka in 1999 when she showed up one night to read some tarot cards. Since then, she’s made rare appearances. Amazingly, she agreed to guest on this show and even turned up for a photo shoot, so we’d have a picture for this hostsite. Take a look under “Guests.” Even though she’s dead, she’s more alive than we are. People love her. She’s funny plus she gives amazingly perceptive though blunt answers to whatever you ask. Don’t miss this opportunity to meet Madam Mazurka and ask her questions. Just bring your sense of humor with you. And call in live if you can. Let’s welcome her, and maybe she’ll come back!

When are we being honest, and when are we dumping, venting or blaming others? Can we always tell the difference? Let’s ask Dr. Brad Blanton, whose book Radical Honesty was a national bestseller and who has authored 7 more books on the theme. What is radical honesty? How is it different from dumping? How can it change our lives and our world? Therapy, 12-step recovery and lots of self-help programs emphasize honesty, disclosure and, as Brad puts it, finishing unfinished business. Yet many of us still stuff our feelings, pretend, feel resentful, cover up for ourselves or others, or get defensive when confronted with real feedback. Why? If you want support being honest with yourself or others, if you are struggling with someone who is abusive but claims to be honest, if you want to stop covering up the truth of your past or present, tune in. You’ll want to listen to this lively discussion about honesty, self-honesty and its impact on our relationships and our world. Call in if you can.

We all need to face the question: How do we treat our bodies? Do we honor and nurture them? Or do we exploit and hurt them? And why? On this show, we’ll be cutting through some big topics: Is plastic surgery an act of self-love or an endless quest for something unachievable or even self-destructive? Have we driven our bodies in other ways to prove something about ourselves? On this edition of InsideOut, we’ll be interviewing Dr. Carol Hollan, an award-winning plastic surgeon with 30 years experience. She’ll be sharing what it’s like to be on the other side of the knife. What motivated her to become a plastic surgeon? How does she handle people’s egos and expectations? What has it cost her and her body to be a surgeon? Joining her will be her husband Bob Hettiger, a man paralyzed since 21. Bob co-founded Challenged America, a disabled sailor’s organization, and he’ll be talking about his urge to be a hero and the price he’s been willing to pay. Tune in, call in, email your questions.

What does it mean to be a Black woman in America? How does she refuse to be pigeon-holed while simultaneously acknowledging the reality of race? How do we all embrace who we are and not be defined by being straight, gay, Asian, white, rich, poor, whatever? Host Beth Green will interview Rozz Hopson, a Black woman with roots in the South, an upbringing in the West, and life experiences that are clichés for Black American families. Her mother was a single mom, working for low wages. She was co-raised by a great-aunt in an environment of welfare, domestic violence and molestation. She was taught to straighten her hair and try to climb the ladder in white society. How did she become herself? Meet a woman who doesn’t want to be stereotyped. Share her struggle to not be defined as too white, too Black or too anything at all. Tune in, call in, and let’s have a real conversation about a topic that applies to us all, as we grapple with our own gender, race, ethnicity, background or class.

Whether we see them or not, most of us live in hierarchies that we have created or that we have inherited from our world. Aren’t we always comparing ourselves to others, trying to evaluate our place in the pecking order? What was the hierarchy in your family? How did that impact you? Don’t you still have pecking orders among friends, at work, in your current families and world? Do you want to be the God on top and be in charge? Do you want to be on the bottom, so others will be responsible? Do you want to tear down the guy on top just to replace him or her with YOU? Do you hold back your own contribution because you devalue yourself? Hear Beth interview internationally-known author Kingsley Dennis about pecking orders, gurus and the many hierarchies in our lives. Let’s see what we can co-create that’s different, moving from what Kingsley calls “domination consciousness to the empathetic mind.” We all have a stake in this. So join us, call in, or email! No hierarchy. We need you, too! Connect with Kingsley: Ki

Whether you’re a businessperson facing a crossroad, a parent struggling with a tough decision that could affect your kid’s life, or just anybody facing those everyday decisions, large or small, wouldn’t it be great to have a strong hunch, an intuition, an inner voice to rely on? But can you? How strong are your intuitions? Do you have an occasional hunch, or are you flooded with impressions? How accurate are they? Do you trust them? Meet Helen Hillix-Di Santo, a marriage and family therapist for nearly 30 years, who relies heavily on her intuition to help clients deal with their most sensitive issues. How does she do it? What has she done to enhance her sixth-sense, so that it’s more accurate? How does she apply it in counseling? What can you do to become more intuitive? Tune into our show where Helen and host Beth Green share what they’ve learned about using and training their intuition, and get a glimpse into the insides of an intuitive counselor. Call in, or email your questions. Connect with Helen: Helen

How does a guy go from fundamentalist Christianity to becoming America’s evolutionary evangelist, and why? In this edition of InsideOut, we are going to be turning God upside down and Michael Dowd inside out, and we’re going to have fun doing it. Rev. Michael Dowd, a former pastor in the United Church of Christ, is devoting his life to challenging our notions about God and preaching a new gospel, combining science and religion. Travelling the country in a van with his wife, Connie, an acclaimed science writer, Michael reframes religion in scientific terms and yet still uses the God word – but in a new context. God is a mythic name for reality, says Michael. His bestselling book, Thank God for Evolution, was endorsed by 6 Nobel prize scientists and spiritual leaders alike. How does he build bridges between science and religion? Why is he so passionate about the need to do so? Who or what is God now? And what does it all have to do with you? Tune in, call in, email, and find out. Find Michael here: The Great S