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Michael Linenberger will be our next guest this Friday, March 12 at 1pm Central on KRUU-LP 100.1 FM (http://kruufm.com). Michael is being called the “Efficiency Guru”. He’s a renowned teacher, speaker, consultant, and author of four top-selling productivity books. His Total Workday Control Using Microsoft Outlook, was the #1 bestselling book on Microsoft Outlook for four years running.

His new Master Your Workday Now! Proven Strategies to Control Chaos, Create Outcomes & Connect Your Work to Who You Really Are will help you maximize your productivity, and find your “life’s work”.

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Safe food activist Robyn O’Brien will speak to Writers’ Voices this Friday 3/5, 1pm and Monday 3/8, 8am on KRUU (http://www.kruufm.com).

We think you’ll be interested in her fearless book exposing some things about the food industry th at the “powers that be” would rather you not know. The Unhealthy Truth addresses questions like, “Why have American companies like Wal-Mart and Kraft Foods taken GMOs and many dangerous ingredients out of their European products, but left them in American products?” (That’s right. Kraft Macaroni and Cheese is safer to eat in England than it is in the U.S.!) This is a very sharp and conservative lady who was both slow to believe the truths she uncovered, and compelled by love for her children to keep searching, weighing, and revealing these facts about the food industry that we all need to know.

Robyn O’Brien, is being called “The Erin Brockovich of Food”.  She is a conservative Texan with an MBA who used to roll her eyes when finicky parents talked about their children’s food allergies and special diets. Then her own children started having severe allergy problems, and she was catapulted into a research project that changed her life. In her book, The Unhealthy Truth, she lets us in on the secrets of GMO foods, the revolving door between the FDA and the food industry, and much more.

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Tune in to KRUUfm.com Friday at 1pm or Monday at 8am Central Time for this interview with Jeff Klein, author of Working for Good: Making a Difference While Making a Living. An enthusiastic practitioner and proponent of conscious business, Jeff was one of the visionaries and driving forces behind several endeavors you’ve undoubtedly heard of: Seeds of Change (the organic open pollinated seed company), the career of musician Yanni, Private Music (a record company sold to BMG in 1996), the Spinning fitness program, the ChiRunning fitness program, FLOW, the nonproit organization that gave rise to Conscious Capitalism, Peace Through Commerce, and Accelerating Women Entrepreneuers.

Jeff also co-founded Conscious Capitalism, Inc with John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market.

In this interview with Jeff Klein, Caroline Kilbourn and Monica Hadley will be speaking with Jeff about his new book, Working for Good: Making a Difference While Making a Living.

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This Friday on Writers’ Voices, Fairfield’s own Gloria Wendroff will be discussing Heavenletters, which come through a process she calls Godwriting.  She will be teaching a Godwriting workshop this weekend in Fairfield.  Joining us for this interview will be her business partner, Santhan.

Here’s how to listen in:

LIVE — Friday, February 19 at 1PM Central Time on KRUU-LP 100.1 FM in Fairfield, Iowa, or worldwide at www.kruufm.com.

REBROADCAST — Monday, February 22 at 8AM Central Time on KRUU.

PODCAST ARCHIVE — Look for this episode on our homepage this weekend and share your comments!  www.writersvoices.com

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Now is the time to start registering for the University of Iowa Summer Writing Festival.  Here to give you the inside scoop is Cheryl Johnson, writing instructor with the Festival.  Listen for this information during the last half of our show this week.

Cheryl will be co-hosting along with Monica Hadley to welcome award-winning picture book author Jill Esbaum. Jill is also an  instructor for the Institute of Children’s Literature and the Quad Cities Chair for the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.  We will be discussing her delightful book about a naughty dog with a secret passion for poetry.

Here’s how to listen in:

LIVE — Friday, February 12 at 1PM Central Time on KRUU-LP 100.1 FM in Fairfield, Iowa, or worldwide at http://kruufm.com.

REBROADCAST — Monday, February 15 at 8AM Central Time on KRUU.

PODCAST ARCHIVE — Look for this episode on our homepage this weekend and share your comments!  www.writersvoices.com

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Tune in to kruufm.com this Friday at 1pm Central for Christine Arylo on Writers’ Voices.  Christine is a speaker, life-coach, and author of  Choosing Me Before We. In this book she discusses the art of getting in touch with what we really want, and not settling for less.  At the same time, hanging onto that “perfect man” list will also leave us wanting. Love and relationship starts with us.

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Tune in to kruufm.com this Friday, Jan. 29 at 1pm Central Time to help Writers’ Voices welcome Marisa Handler, author of Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist. Marisa was born in apartheid South Africa, and moved to California as an adolescent.  As a young woman, she spent time in Israel, India, Nepal, Ecuador, Peru, and all over the United States.  This book gives us a look inside the social justice movement, with which she became involved as a natural outgrowth of her life experience.

Medea Benjamin, Cofounder of Global Exchange and CODEPINK, say, “Marisa Handler takes a brutally honest look at herself, the activist community, and the world. She writes with wit and beauty, preaches with passion and love. Loyal to the Sky is an affirmation that mortal humans, with all our foibles, can be powerful agents for change.”

This memoir has also received high praise from such well known authors as

Rabbi Michael Lerner, Michael Nagler, Christopher D. Cook, and Antonia Juhasz.

Please join us for what promises to be an intriguing interview with Chamaigne Montana and Caroline Kilbourn.   Better yet, join the conversation!  Add a comment here and suggest a question for us to ask Marisa!

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I’m looking forward to this week’s interview with Michael Murphy, spiritual memoirist and animal communicator.

His memoir is probably the easiest to read memoir I’ve ever read, because the memoir itself is an example of a writing technique he teaches where you use seminal experiences to discover your core beliefs.   Each chapter is titled with an insight about life, and the short 2-3 page chapter describes the event that first brought the insight home.  The chapters are in roughly chronological order, so the book as a whole also reads like a smooth life story.

I love memoirs because I hope to write one myself one day.  This will be a particularly good interview for aspiring memoirists to listen to because it teaches this memoir writing technique.

We’ll also be talking with Michael about his Animal Communication book.   This book tells the story of the classes he went through, and it feels almost as if you are there with them, taking the class.  Michael was innovative in incorporating an intuitive writing practice that he learned in some of his Shamanic studies.   Once again, this book acts as a teacher of specific writing exercises, in addition to the subject matter of the book.

Michael has a degree in writing and has taught privately and at the college level for many years.

So, this is your chance to suggest questions for us to ask Michael this Friday, January 22, at 1pm Central!   What would you ask an Animal Communicator?

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Michael Gates-Gill is this week’s guest on Writers’ Voices on KRUU 100.1 FM (kruufm.com).   Michael is the author of “How Starbucks Saved My Life”, a riches to rags story of finding greater happiness and fulfillment in the simple life.  The response to his first book was overwhelming.  In response, Michael distilled many of the life lessons learned into this new book, “How to Save Your Own Life”.

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