"Delightfully Soapy....[Crazy Rich Asians] eats its chiffon cake and has it too, simultaneously tut-tutting many of its characters for their vapid materialism while reveling in milieu's sybaritic excess." - The Wall Steet Journal 

Today we were joined by New York Times bestsellling author, Kevin Kwan. Kevin was born and raised in Singapore. He currently lives in Manhattan but started in Houston from age 10 through college. He is a fan of KPFT and was excited to be on the show. Crazy Rich Asians is his first novel, it has been optioned for film and Kwan recently completed the sequel.    

To learn more about Kwan you can visit his website at:

www.kevinkwanbooks.com 

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"Teaching is the greatest act of optimism."

-Colleen Wilcox    

We were joined today by teacher, author and financial coach Danny Kofke. Danny is a special education teacher and financial literacy coach in Georgia. He is also the author of two personal finance books - "A Simple Book of Financial Wisdom: Teach Yourself (and Your Kids) How to Live Wealthy with Little Money" and "How To Survive (and perhaps thrive) On A Teacher's Salary." He has written a third book - "A Bright Financial Future: Teaching Kids About Money Pre-K through College for Life-Long Success" - currently being published by Wyatt MacKenzie Publishing Company and scheduled for release this September.

To learn more about Danny you can visit his website at:

www.dannykofke.blogspot.com

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By now, we've all had it drilled into our heads that cooking at home is less expensive than eating out..... so more and more people are doing it. There are other things you can do, while cooking at home, to save yourself money. Today we were joined by food blogger Pamela Braun.  

Pamela Braun is a recipe designer and blogger. Pamela designs recipe's for My Man's Belly as well as for several private and corporate clients. She is a freelance writer and public speaker.   

To learn more about Pamela you can visit her website at:

www.mymansbelly.com

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Its Summer time again. If you have flown recently you might have noticed that airlines have switched their frequent flyer policies. Most recently United has joined with other airlines who have switched to revenue based miles. What does this mean for customers who are use to saving money with frequent flyer miles. Today we will learn how to save on travel expenses, cuto down on our energy bill and even save money during wedding season.

Andrea Woroch is a nationally-recognized consumer and money-saving expert, helping consumers find simple solutions to their financial woes while influencing healthier spending and saving habits. With a finger on the pulse of American consumerism, Andrea dissects savings trends for the media, encompassing everything from retail industry insights and consumer-buying behavior to travel and groceries.

To learn more about Andrea you can visit her website at:

www.andreaworoch.com   

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Of all the things these athletes have accomplished, nothing is more impressive than their mastery of the state known to researchers as “flow.” Most of us have at least passing familiarity with flow. If you’ve ever lost an afternoon to a great conversation or gotten so involved in a work project that all else is forgotten, then you’ve tasted the experience. In flow, we are so focused on the task at hand that everything else falls away. Action and awareness merge. Time flies. Self vanishes. Performance goes through the roof.

Today we were joined by New York Times Bestselling Author Steven Kotler. Steven Kotler is a New York Times bestselling author, award-winning journalist, and cofounder and director of research for the Flow Genome Project. His books include The Rise of Superman, Abundance, A Small, Furry Prayer, West of Jesus, and The Angle Quickest for Flight. His work has been translated into thirty languages and his articles have appeared in more than seventy publications, including New York Times Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Wired, and Forbes. You can find him online at www.stevenkotler.com or writing Far Frontiers, a blog for Forbes.com: www.forbes.com/sites/stevenkotler.

To learn more about Steven you can visit his website at:

www.riseofsuperman.com

or

www.flowgenomeproject.co

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Wealth is not new. Neither is charity. But the idea of using private wealth imaginatively, constructively, and systematically to attack the fundamental problems of mankind is new. - John Gardner

Today we were joined by local Houstonian Theresa Roemer to discuss Philanthropy. Theresa Roemer is the CEO of Theresa Roemer, LLC and a small business owner who specializes in business philanthropy. She owns several home goods companies in Houston, Texas and is a partner in Roemer Oil. Theresa is an expert in business philanthropy and is engaged by large companies such as LVMH to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars on behalf of charities like the American Heart Association and the American Red Cross.

To learn more about Theresa you can visit her website at:

www.theresaroemerceo.com

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The U.S. Department of Labor Statistics in 2010 reported that approximately two million people work for the United States federal government, not including those employees by the postal service or military. The United States government is by far our country's largest employer and provides extensive employee benefits.

Our guest today was Author and CFP Brian Kuhn. We discussed the ins and outs of the Federal Employee Benefits.

Brian Kuhn is a family wealth advisor with Planning Solutions Group, LLC. With 13 years in the financial planning field, he works with families and individuals, with a specific focus on government employees, in the area of retirement planning, wealth preservation, and insurance protection.

To learn more about Brian you can visit his website at:

www.psgclarity.com

Or his book at:

Total Compensation: A Practical Guide to Federal Employee Benefits

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As a Financial Advisor one the most common problems I help people solve is the question "What if I outlive my money?" We have 10,000 babyboomers making the decision to retire every hour. It will be this way for the next 20 years. If we ask the same question from a macro view we get this- "What are the financial implications of a society that is living longer?"

Our guest today, was Author and Cardiologist, Dr. Joel K. Kahn, M.D.

To learn more about Dr. Kahn you can visit his website at:

www.drjoelkahn.com

and 

The Holistic Heart Book

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