Big Chicken with Maryn McKenna

Maryn McKenna is a journalist and author who specializes in public health, global health and food policy. She has reported from epidemics and disasters, and farms and food production sites, on most of the continents, including a field hospital in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, a Thai village erased by the Indian Ocean tsunami, a bird-testing unit on the front lines of West Nile virus, an Arctic graveyard of the victims of the 1918 flu, an AIDS treatment center in Yunnan, a polio-eradication team in India, breweries in France, a “Matrix for chickens” in the Netherlands, and the Midwestern farms devastated by the 2015 epidemic of avian flu.

She writes about science and food for National Geographic and for magazines and websites in the United States and Europe, including The New York Times Magazine, NPR, Newsweek, Vice, FiveThirtyEight, Wired, Scientific American, Slate, Modern Farmer, Nature, The Atlantic, and The Guardian. She is the author of the award-winning books SUPERBUG and BEATING BACK THE DEVIL: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service. http://marynmckenna.com

Grief, When Will This Pain Ever End with Paula Shaw

PAULA SHAW, CADC, DCEP is a Grief and Addictions Therapist. She is also a Best Selling Author, Keynote Speaker and Transition Radio Talk Show Host. For more than 20 years, Paula has been passionate about helping people navigate the stress of Change and Challenge. She uses mind/body tools and techniques to help people ease and eliminate stress, depression, anxiety and the conditions they exacerbate like weight gain, relationship distress, career challenges, lack of energy and self-destructive, addictive behavior. http://www.paulashaw.com