Joe Bruzzese  

From 10:20 - 10:35 am PST Joe Bruzzese will host Matt Baker, co-founder and executive director of Metropolitan Arts Institute, a 7th-12th grade college preparatory arts charter school in Phoenix, Arizona. He is an active writer, counselor and educator. As Executive Director of Metro Arts he is responsible for the overall direction and development of the school and oversight of all daily operations. From 10:40 - 10:55 am PST Joe will host the second guest, Roger D. Casterline, author of, "The IKE Disease." IKE is a one on one counseling session for teenagers. For his book Roger drew on his 27 years of experience as a high school guidance counselor, and 10 years as a Special Agent with the FBI. Roger has been married to his wife, Nicki, for 47 years, and they are both full time authors residing in Florida.

Join, host Joe Bruzzese author of A Parents' Guide to the Middle School Years and his guests, Kat Eden of education.com and Dove Pressnal marriage and family therapist. In addition to being a mom of two, soon to be middle-schoolers, Kat Eden works for Education.com. Education.com is a website parents can visit to get the information they need to support their children’s unique educational and developmental needs, and to find ideas for how to make learning more fun. They have about 10,000 articles to help parents learn more about the issues they’re facing with their kids whether those kids are typical, have special needs, or are gifted. The site also has a number of other great resources including thousands of activities parents and kids can do together and a tool called JustAsk that lets parents ask their toughest questions and get answers from other parents and Education.com experts. There’s also a tool called SchooFinder that lets parents get tons of information about the schools their kids currently attend or may attend in the future. It’s all free and definitely worth checking out. But this morning, Kat’s here to talk about going back to school with middle schoolers. Now based in Los Angeles, Dove Pressnall was licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist in 2001 but has been providing supportive services to individuals and families for the past fifteen years. She specializes in helping people to make the transitions of life more easily and to find ways of relating to and reducing the impact of problems on their day to day lives. You can find out more about her philosophy and her work at www.talkwithdove.com.

Join host Joe Bruzzese and two expert guests as they discuss strategies for easing the back to school transition this fall. Teri Holamon, MA, LPC-I, is an elementary school counselor at Hillside Academy (a school for “gifted and talented” students) in Garland, Texas. She holds a Master’s Degree in School Counseling and is a Certified School Counselor. Teri also has a Master's Degree in Professional Counseling and is a Licensed Professional Counselor with a limited private practice in Richardson, Texas. She is a practicing Play Therapist. Justin Sachs is the author of Your Mailbox Is Full- Real Teens in the Real World, and the founder of the Creating Possibilities Coaching Program. He works with teens throughout the world in increasing their grades, eliminating procrastination, and organizing all the areas of their lives. Justin speaks to thousands of teens throughout the country on creating success in their lives.

Join host Joe Bruzzese and two expert guests as they discuss strategies for easing the back to school transition this fall. Dr. Tamar Chansky is a licensed psychologist and the Founder and Director of the Children's Center for OCD and Anxiety in Plymouth Meeting PA. Dr. Chansky is the author of the popular books: Freeing Your Child from Anxiety and Freeing Your Child from Negative Thinking for three 15 minute segments assured to ease your summer to school transition this year. Also joining the discussion will be Kim Estes, the co-founder of Parent Education And Child Empowerment (P.E.A.C.E of Mind) www.pomwa.org . Kim has worked with parents for over 12 years, educating them on various parenting topics. Kim was called into action when a predator’s actions in her community brought to the spotlight the large gap in prevention education for parents to help them keep their kids safe.

Join host Joe Bruzzese and three expert guests: Dr. Marlene Caroseli an author and former teacher, Dr. Andrew Adasman Chief of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics at Schneider Children’s Hospital in New Hyde Park, New York and Annie Fox author of "Middle School Confidential", "Too Stressed to Think?” and “The Teen Survival Guide to Dating and Relating", for three 15 minute segments assured to ease your summer to school transition this year.

Stuart Fleming is the guy who helps teenagers get their head around money – he created the Money Mindset Mob because he’s an enthusiastic believer in independent teens. [www.MoneyMindsetMob.com] A professional speaker, workshop leader and teen money coach, his super-power is seeing the potential in people and situations.