Warrior Traditions Podcasts

Dr. Kevin Keough, co-host of North Star Guardians Podcast, interviews Dr. David Givens, author of Crime Signals: How to Spot a Criminal Before You Become a Victim published by St. Martin's Press.

David Givens began studying body language at the University of Washington in Seattle. He served as Resident Anthropologist and Director of information services and programs at the American Anthropological Association in Washington, D.C. for more than a decade. He is currently Director of the Center for Non-Verbal Studies in Spokane, Washington. He teaches in the Department of Communication Arts at Gonzaga University. He offers seminars on nonverbal communication to diverse audiences, including lawyers, judges, social workers, salespeople, physicians. He works with law enforcement agencies and the U.S. Intelligence community.  Dr. Givens is also the author of Love Signals: A Practical Guide To The Body Language of Courtship.

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Dr. Kevin Keough, host of Warrior Traditions, interviews Dr. Linda Nielsen, author of Embracing Your Father: How to Build the Relationship You Always Wanted with Your Dad  published by McGraw-Hill.

A nationally recognized expert on father-daughter relationships, Dr. Nielsen has been teaching, conducting research and writing about adolescents and father-daughter relationships since 1970. A member of Phi Beta Kappa and the recipient of of the outstanding graduate's award in teacher education from the University of Tennessee in 1969, she taught high school for several years before earing an MA in Counseling and a Ph.D. in Educational and Adolescent Psychology.

She joined the faculty of  Wake Forest University in 1974. Since 1991 she has been teaching her "Fathers & Daughters" course- the only college course in the country that focuses exclusively on father-daughter relationships. Her research and advice have been featured on a PBS documentary.   Visit Dr. Nielsen's website.

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Dr. Kevin Keough, host of Warrior Traditions, interviews Dr. Les Carter, author of Grace and Divorce: God's Healing Gift to Those Whose Marriages Fall Short published by Jossey-Bass.

Dr. Les Carter is a psychotherapist in private practice in Southlake, Texas.  He is the best selling author of 20 books including The Anger Workbook: A 13-Step Interactive Plan to Help You and his latest, Enough About You, Let's Talk About Me. Over the years he has conducted many seminars across America focusing on emotional and spiritual well being.  Visit his website.

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Dr. Kevin Keough interviews Dr. Paul Babiak, co-author of Snakes In Suits: When Psychopaths Go To Work published by Collins.

Part two of a two part interview

Paul Babiak, Ph.D. is an industrial and organizational psychologist and president of HRBack Office, an executive coaching and consulting firm specializing in management development and succession planning. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Harvard Business Review, and Fast Company.  He lives in Duchess County, New York with his wife.  Visit Dr. Babiak's website.

Dr. Kevin Keough interviews Dr. Paul Babiak, co-author of Snakes In Suits: When Psychopaths Go To Work published by Collins.

Part one of a two part interview-  We apologize for the abrupt cut-off of the interview due to technical difficulties.  The conversation is picked up in part two.

Paul Babiak, Ph.D. is an industrial and organizational psychologist and president of HRBack Office, an executive coaching and consulting firm specializing in management development and succession planning. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Harvard Business Review, and Fast Company.  He lives in Duchess County, New York with his wife.  Visit Dr. Babiak's website.

Dr. Kevin Keough interviews Ms. Geri Weis-Corbley founder and publisher of the Good News Network.

Geri Weis-Corbley graduated with a degree in TV/Radio from Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland, and went on to work in TV news and video production in Washington, D.C., in the 1980's. That's when she first conceived of the Good News Network as a television show and cable network (abbreviated GNN, like CNN). Ten years later she left her freelance career in television to raise a family at home during the 1990's.

In 1997, she could stand it no longer. The declining state of the U.S. news media and the rising tide of the Internet combined to compel her into action. She bought some software and created the online edition of the Good News Network, premiering in August 1997.  Visit the Good News Network website.

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Dr. Kevin Keough interviews Dr. Thomas Holm, author of The Great Confusion in Indian Affairs: Native Americans and Whites in the Progressive Era published by University of Texas Press.

Dr. Thomas Holm (Creek/Cherokee; Ph.D., 1978, University of Oklahoma) came to The University of Arizona in 1980 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science.  He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1986 and to Full Professor in 1995.  In 1982 Professor Holm, Robert K. Thomas, Larry Evers, Vine Deloria, Jr., Emory Sekaquaptewa and N. Scott Momaday developed the M.A. program in American Indian Studies.  In 1994, Professor Holm transferred full time to the American Indian Studies Program.  He has taught over fifteen Native-related courses, nine of which he developed.  He has served as the chair of over thirty-five M.A. committees in both Political Science and American Indian Studies at The University of Arizona and has sat on a number of doctoral committees in American Indian Studies and for the departments of History, Political Science, Education, and Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies.

 Professor Holm served as the chair of the first Ph.D. graduate—J. Diane Pearson—of the U of A American Indian Studies Program.  Four doctoral students whose dissertations he supervised—Pearson, Jeff Boyd, Elise Marubbio, and Ian Record—have had their work published as books.  Professor Holm is currently supervising two doctoral dissertations.  Twice the recipient of the Outstanding Native American faculty award, he has also been selected for an Excellence in Teaching Award during the U of A’s “year of the Undergraduate” in 1988.  In 2004 he was honored with the Graduate College’s Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring Award. 

Since receiving his degree from the University of Oklahoma, Professor Holm has published over 50 articles, books, pamphlets, government reports, book reviews and essays, editorials and book chapters.  His 1996 book, Strong Hearts, Wounded Souls: The Native American Veterans of the Vietnam War was a finalist for the Victor Turner Prize in ethnographic writing in Canada.

 His most recent articles and book chapters have dealt with the historical militarization of Native American peoples and the development of the “Peoplehood Matrix” as a theoretical construct for Native American/Indigenous Peoples Studies.  A contributor to a large number of historical dictionaries and encyclopedias, Professor Holm has also been called upon to add to forthcoming works on peoplehood, Native American diasporas, Native American leadership, and the late Vine Deloria’s contributions to scholarship.

 Professor Holm currently is working on another book, tentatively entitled “Warfare and the Cherokee State” under contract at the University of Nebraska Press.  In 2006 he completed a book for younger readers, entitled Warriors and Code Talkers: Native Americans and World War II for Chelsea House/Facts on File.  It will be released in the spring of 2007.  He is a reviewer for several academic presses and journals and is an advisory/editorial board member of Ethnic Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity, Red Ink and Wicazo Sa Review.
 Recently, Professor Holm has written two novels: the first is a mystery set in 1920’s Oklahoma and the second an action/adventure set in South America.  The mystery, entitled The Shelby Rose, is to be published by the University of Arizona Press in 2008.  The action/adventure novel is still under consideration at a commercial press.  His latest academic book, The Great Confusion in Indian Affairs: Native Americans and Whites in the Progressive Era was released in 2005 by the University of Texas Press.  

A Cherokee-Muskogee Creek from Oklahoma, Professor Holm has served on numerous Native American boards, panels, and working groups.  He is a Marine Corps veteran of the Vietnam War and has taken part in several federal programs dealing with veterans’ affairs.  In the 1980’s he served as an advisor for the Readjustment Counseling Services and as a member of the Native American commission on veterans’ affairs for the Veterans’ Administration.  Professor Holm also has done presentations on Native American veterans before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. 

In 2001, he was appointed to the Council of One Hundred Chiefs, Leaders, and Scholars for the American Indian Graduate Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the organization that handles the Gates Millennium and American Indian Scholarship Fund scholarships.  Visit Dr. Holm's website.

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Dr. Kevin Keough interviews Dr. C. Scott Littleton about his study and research into and first hand experiences with UFO's.

 

A native Californian, C. Scott Littleton received his B.A., M.A.,and Ph.D from UCLA, and has taught anthropology at Occidental College in Los Angeles for many years. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at UCLA in 1957. In 1991 he received The Graham L. Sterling Memorial Award, given annually to a distinguished member of the Occidental College faculty. He’s also received grants from the John Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation (1963), the American Council of Learned Societies (1972, 1978), the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (1983), and The American Philosophical Society (1983). In 1960-61, he was a Haynes Foundation-Town Hall Fellow.

He is considered an expert in comparative mythology and folklore, as well as in traditional Japanese culture, having lived and taught in Tokyo on several occasions. Littleton is the author of 8-9 scholarly books, including The New Comparative Mythology (3rd Edition, University of California Press, 1982), From Scythia to Camelot: A Radical Reinterpretation of the Legends of King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table,and the Holy Grail (paperback edition, Garland Publishing Inc., 2000), and Understanding Shinto (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), and numerous articles in professional journals.

He has also researched the mythological dimensions of the UFO phenomenon, and his article "Divine Rebels, Alien Dissidents: Does the Mythology Surrounding Lucifer, Prometheus, and the Ancient Mesoamerican Deity Quétzalcoatl Reflect a Pro-Human Faction in the 'Alien Raj'?" has appeared in UFO Magazine. He has authored one science fiction novel. His latest book, 2500 Strand: Growing Up In Hermosa Beach, California, during World War II  is scheduled for release within the next few weeks.  Visit Dr. Littleton’s website.

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Dr. Kevin Keough, clinical psychologist and host of Warrior Traditions and North Star Guardians, interviews Sifu Glen Doyle about Irish stick fighting.

Born in Avondale (Middle Arm), Newfoundland, Canada, Glen Doyle began his martial arts education at a very young age. Greg Doyle, Glen's father, was a military man who was also a marathoner and a boxer. Greg ran for Canada many times and boxed for the Canadian Armed Forces during and after the Korean War.

Greg felt his son would need the education of the fighting arts to help give him confidence and drive. At the tender age of four, Glen put on his first pair of boxing loves and began his pugilistic career. Under the strict guidance of his father, Glen continued to train for over eight years in both boxing and the Doyle family style of Irish stick fighting.

However, at age twelve, Glen startled his father with an observation about his boxing art. He told his father that although boxing was an outstanding sport for both endurance and coordination, he found it limited in its realism for street combat. Glen sat his father down and mapped out boxing limits with respect to striking and defending below the waist, and weight disadvantages.

With the support of his father, Glen decided to look for a more complete fighting art. The search took him through a sampling of the Japanese and Korean arts, and even into the military for a few years to test out its hand-to-hand combat program. Nothing seemed to make him feel complete.

Then in 1983, strictly by chance, Glen met an elderly Chinese gentleman, Mr. James Lore (Lore King Hong). Lore was a Hung Gar Gung Fu teacher at the Jing Mo Kung-Fu Club, which operated out of the Chinese Community Center of Ontario. Glen watched one class and signed up...the partnership had begun.

For the next five years, Glen trained every day for six to seven hours and moved up his club's pecking order. Though Glen was not Chinese, he threw himself totally into both his martial art and the Chinese culture and became a recognized face in Toronto's Chinatown, earning the Chinese name of Lok Siu Fung (after a figure in Chinese mythology).

Glen's next step was the competition circuit, and on his first outing he won the Eastern Canadian Championships and won a chance to compete in the Canadian National Championships, which saw teams from all over Canada and numerous teams from the U.S. The competition was fierce, but Glen emerged as the Canadian Champion, and would keep the title, until he stepped down to pursue other interests in the form of training sports teams and adopting his fighting theories to all aspects of life -- from self-defense to self-help.

Developing his and martial arts cross-training techniques, Glen went on and became the martial arts coach for figure-skating mega-star Elvis Stojko (who still works with him), ice dancers Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz,Pro-Roller Hockey teams, AHL and OHL players, soccer teams, football teams and more.

Glen now offers unique, highly effective martial arts cross-training classes and seminars specifically tailored for hockey,figure skating, running, soccer, basketball, and other sport. Using his keen ability to analyze motion and movement within sport, he takes the muscle explosion, muscle awareness, focus, breathing, power, control,and emboldening self-confidence found in the martial arts and directly applies them to each specific sport and athlete. This streamlined approach allows the athletes to reap many of the benefits of martial arts that are directly applicable to their sport without the time required for studying martial arts in the traditional manner.

Glen's style, flair, and open approach to his martial arts has landed him on the cover of numerous magazines, seen him perform at both national and international events, on television shows throughout Canada and the U.S., and even won him the prestigious honor of being the special guest performer at the historic Opening Ceremonies of the World Wu Shu Championships in 1995, held in Baltimore. It was the first time the games had been held outside Asia, and the event was to be seen by millions via satellite.

Always looking for new ways to spread his teachings, Glen accepted assignments as a fight choreographer for Cynthia Rothrock and for Canadian film and television programs. This helped him realize his potential to both teach and learn, and Glen began to set aside much of his time to explore this area. Studying film arts and screenwriting at Ryerson University and then journalism at Humber College, Glen developed new creative avenues to increase his power to teach and invent. However, he did not want to stray from the purity of his art, and he still had a drive to continue to educate and help those wishing to better themselves so Glen decided to put some of his thoughts and ideals into a book entitled The Martial Artist's Way. It is not a picture-filled "how to" book, but rather a simple set of thoughts and suggestions for those wanting to get more from their martial art or sports experiences.

Glen recently opened his own martial arts club in Milton, Ontario. The Céad Bua Club offers traditional Kung Fu, Irish stickfighting, Sports Cross-training, as well as Theatrical Martial Arts forFilm. Contact Glen at cead_bua@yahoo.ca for more information.

Glen has made foray into the entertainment world via screenwriting. He has had three of his scripts produced within the last few years - and they have been seen at numerous international film festivals and TV networks. Look for Sometimes a Hero, The Circuit, and Circuit II at a video store near you.

Visit Sifu Glen Doyle's website.

Dr. Kevin Keough, clinical psychologist and host of Warrior Traditions and North Star Guardians, interviews Sifu Glen Doyle about Irish stick fighting.

Born in Avondale (Middle Arm), Newfoundland, Canada, Glen Doyle began his martial arts education at a very young age. Greg Doyle, Glen's father, was a military man who was also a marathoner and a boxer. Greg ran for Canada many times and boxed for the Canadian Armed Forces during and after the Korean War.

Greg felt his son would need the education of the fighting arts to help give him confidence and drive. At the tender age of four, Glen put on his first pair of boxing loves and began his pugilistic career. Under the strict guidance of his father, Glen continued to train for over eight years in both boxing and the Doyle family style of Irish stick fighting.

However, at age twelve, Glen startled his father with an observation about his boxing art. He told his father that although boxing was an outstanding sport for both endurance and coordination, he found it limited in its realism for street combat. Glen sat his father down and mapped out boxing limits with respect to striking and defending below the waist, and weight disadvantages.

With the support of his father, Glen decided to look for a more complete fighting art. The search took him through a sampling of the Japanese and Korean arts, and even into the military for a few years to test out its hand-to-hand combat program. Nothing seemed to make him feel complete.

Then in 1983, strictly by chance, Glen met an elderly Chinese gentleman, Mr. James Lore (Lore King Hong). Lore was a Hung Gar Gung Fu teacher at the Jing Mo Kung-Fu Club, which operated out of the Chinese Community Center of Ontario. Glen watched one class and signed up...the partnership had begun.

For the next five years, Glen trained every day for six to seven hours and moved up his club's pecking order. Though Glen was not Chinese, he threw himself totally into both his martial art and the Chinese culture and became a recognized face in Toronto's Chinatown, earning the Chinese name of Lok Siu Fung (after a figure in Chinese mythology).

Glen's next step was the competition circuit, and on his first outing he won the Eastern Canadian Championships and won a chance to compete in the Canadian National Championships, which saw teams from all over Canada and numerous teams from the U.S. The competition was fierce, but Glen emerged as the Canadian Champion, and would keep the title, until he stepped down to pursue other interests in the form of training sports teams and adopting his fighting theories to all aspects of life -- from self-defense to self-help.

Developing his and martial arts cross-training techniques, Glen went on and became the martial arts coach for figure-skating mega-star Elvis Stojko (who still works with him), ice dancers Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz, Pro-Roller Hockey teams, AHL and OHL players, soccer teams, football teams and more.

Glen now offers unique, highly effective martial arts cross-training classes and seminars specifically tailored for hockey,figure skating, running, soccer, basketball, and other sports . Using his keen ability to analyze motion and movement within sport, he takes the muscle explosion, muscle awareness, focus, breathing, power, control,and emboldening self-confidence found in the martial arts and directly applies them to each specific sport and athlete. This streamlined approach allows the athletes to reap many of the benefits of martial arts that are directly applicable to their sport without the time required for studying martial arts in the traditional manner.

Glen's style, flair, and open approach to his martial arts has landed him on the cover of numerous magazines, seen him perform at both national and international events, on television shows throughout Canada and the U.S., and even won him the prestigious honor of being the special guest performer at the historic Opening Ceremonies of the World Wu Shu Championships in 1995, held in Baltimore. It was the first time the games had been held outside Asia, and the event was to be seen by millions via satellite.

Always looking for new ways to spread his teachings, Glen accepted assignments as a fight choreographer for Cynthia Rothrock and for Canadian film and television programs. This helped him realize his potential to both teach and learn, and Glen began to set aside much of his time to explore this area. Studying film arts and screenwriting at Ryerson University and then journalism at Humber College, Glen developed new creative avenues to increase his power to teach and invent. However, he did not want to stray from the purity of his art, and he still had a drive to continue to educate and help those wishing to better themselves so Glen decided to put some of his thoughts and ideals into a book entitled The Martial Artist's Way. It is not a picture-filled "how to" book, but rather a simple set of thoughts and suggestions for those wanting to get more from their martial art or sports experiences.

Glen recently opened his own martial arts club in Milton, Ontario. The Céad Bua Club offers traditional Kung Fu, Irish stickfighting, Sports Cross-training, as well as Theatrical Martial Arts for Film. Contact Glen at cead_bua@yahoo.ca for more information.

Glen has made foray into the entertainment world via screenwriting. He has had three of his scripts produced within the last few years - and they have been seen at numerous international film festivals and TV networks. Look for Sometimes a Hero, The Circuit, and Circuit II at a video store near you.

Visit Sifu Glen Doyle's website.