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Take Twelve: Power and Priority: A Mother and Daughter Founding Team Builds an Empire
By: Dr. Gaby Cora
According to the US Department of Commerce, the number of women-owned businesses grew by 44% between 1997 and 2007, twice as fast as men-owned firms. We have grown accustomed to father-son founding teams through history. On the other hand, we don’t know the exact number of successful mother-daughter teams of entrepreneurs.
Take Eleven: Pain & Sex
By: Dr. Gaby Cora
Fifty percent of American marriages end in divorce, with the number one cause for divorce being infidelity.
While many stay in their marriages even after one or both partners commit sexual indiscretions, Hillary may have forgiven her husband but the media hasn’t. PBS’ upcoming show on former president Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky brings back painful memories to all families involved.
For many spouses that decide to divorce, dealing with the emotional pain, letting go, and starting over may be easier said than done. Dating again and exploring both emotional as well as physical intimacy opens a new chapter in these new singles’ lives.
My guest this week is Delaine Moore, author of The Secret Sex Life of a Single Mom, Seal Press. February, 2012. A speaker and a journalist, Delaine gets down to the good, bad, and “naughty” of life after divorce. Oh yes, and the sex.
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Take Seven: Empathy and Open-mindedness
By: Dr. Gaby Cora
In a recent study with 46 adults with at least one gay parent, 28 out of the 46 spontaneously reported being more empathic and open-minded than other adults with straight parents.
Gay parents talk about teaching their adoptive children tolerance and understanding, and go out of their way to become foster parents or adopt children as they navigate complicated systems and adoption agencies.
Jesse Walters and David Traupman share the story of how Faith came to their lives and their challenges within government agencies when they tried to adopt a foster son years earlier.
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Take Six: On Life, Death, and Healthcare
By: Dr. Gaby Cora
Different Lives, Different Cultures, Different Experiences
Catherine and John Graves’s story describes the challenges of being the sole-caregiver to a spouse with a life-threatening disease: a glioblastoma, or brain tumor. This article describes how she struggled with his personality changes as the frontal lobe location of the tumor affected Graves’ affect, cognition, and judgment. Catherine describes becoming anxious, depressed, and with post-traumatic stress after his death. Caregiver burnout is not unusual in these cases. Instead of post-traumatic stress, this is a constant stress situation that tends to be under-recognized and under-treated.
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Take Five: Diversity and Hispanics
By: Dr. Gaby Cora
Sixteen percent of our US population is Hispanic and yet, what does this number even mean? We are constantly asked about our race: White, African-American, Asian, and at one point, Hispanic was added to the palette of colors as if being Latino or Hispanic were purely an ethnic or cultural characteristic.
While language is a unifying factor for Hispanics, it is a matter of culture that brings them together. Thirty years ago, Hispanics were depicted as exotic characters with heavy accents and colorful attires. Today, Hispanics have become more immersed in our US culture and you may not even tell there is any accent at all.
Join me in Dr. Gaby’s Take as I discuss diversity and Hispanics: watch my interview with advertising and marketing expert, Maverick Linda Lane Gonzalez. Linda shares her story of how one of her ancestors and one of our US legends bridged the US and Hispanic cultures more than a hundred years ago.
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It’s Showtime
By: Dr. Gaby Cora
Welcome! What a pleasure it is to share the lessons learned and exciting projects with you! Dr. Gaby’s Take: Make Life Interesting is all about the amazing people I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing and the valuable lessons I’ve learned from them.
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Are Alphas Healthier Than Their Counterparts?
By: Dr. Gaby Cora
Alpha males and females have intrinsic characteristics—aside from being competitive, controlling, and more aggressive, they are also born healthier, more energetic, and more resilient.
Sure, they can get themselves in to more stressful situations by virtue of being more dominant and on the front lines at all times, which in turn make them more vulnerable to personal attacks. Alphas get to have more head-to-head physical, emotional, and intellectual confrontations or plain collisions. Their innate ability to endure frontal assaults may exceed others’ genetic capabilities to sustain stress itself.
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Do you hold your loved ones hostage?
By: Dr. Gaby Cora
There are multiple ways in which people reciprocate their feelings: some exchange love for love and create lasting relationships that help one another experience happiness and growth. Others control their loved ones through guilt, money, or power.
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Massive loss of jobs contributes to significant increase in depression
In this survey carried at Rutgers, two thirds of the respondents who lost their job expressed feelings of depression. Most surveyed were laid off with no advance notice. Living on a paycheck, most borrowed money from family and friends. Most responders experienced increased relational problems with their partners and family members, had trouble sleeping or increased their alcohol or drug consumption.
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Life-Work Balance in the Holiday Season
Many still struggle keeping the holiday flame alive this season. Employers are asking the best of their employees while employees fear that they may lose their jobs unless they give it all.
How can we find some positive balance between working hard and keeping our sanity? How to handle increasing demands in the workplace and at home, staying in good shape and living up to the family’s expectations for gifts and favors?
These are some tips to continue to balance life and work during the holiday season:
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