In this powerful episode of Frank About Health, I sit down with cancer survivor, patient-advocate, and healthcare disruptor Matthew Zachary for a raw, urgent conversation about what happens when the healthcare system runs out of compassion—and patients are left to fend for themselves.This is not a feel-good survivor story. It’s a truth-telling reckoning.Together, we explore what it means to be “out of patients” in a system that treats people like data points—and why the next phase of healthcare must be driven by lived experience, not bureaucracy.If you’ve ever asked, “Why does surviving feel harder than the illness itself?”This episode is for you.An unfiltered look at MZ's journey with Brain Cancer— from diagnosis to survivorship — and why so many patients feel abandoned after treatment ends.A reframing of hope — not as toxic positivity, but as agency, voice, and systemic accountability.Learn about his podcast "Out of Patients" and his other Advocacy work.Website: www.matthewzachary.com/LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/matthewzachary/Instagram: www.instagram.com/thematthewzachary/?hl=enPodcast: www.outofpatients.com/www.karenrossnow.comwww.frankrharrison.com

The audience will learn what burnout really is and why it’s not your fault. How caregiving impacts your brain, body, relationships, and identity. Signs you’re approaching collapse even if you think you’re “handling it”. Practical strategies to reclaim energy, boundaries, and emotional balance and how to shift from survival mode to sustainabilityCaregiver burnout is one of the most widespread yet least talked-about public health emergencies. Whether you're caring for a parent, a partner, a child, or even managing your own chronic stress, this episode gives you tools, validation, and hope. Dr. Todd Otten brings frontline medical experience, real-life insight, and a compassionate roadmap that speaks directly to those who feel overwhelmed, unappreciated, and exhausted.This episode doesn’t just educate—it validates lived experience. It lets caregivers know they are not invisible, and they are not alone. Anyone navigating stress, responsibility, or emotional overload will walk away with clarity and tools that immediately improve daily life.Dr. Otten is a board-certified family physician and co-founder of Our Quadruple Aim, a movement that challenges the status quo in healthcare and promotes patient experience, quality care, lower costs, and professional wellness. He has over 20 years of experience in providing quality patient care, leading teams, and managing projects in various settings, including the United States Navy, where he was honored as the naval flight surgeon of the year in 2006 for the Atlantic Fleet.Website: doctorsonsocialmedia.com/todd-r-otten-md/LinkedIN: www.linkedin.com/in/todd-r-otten-md-faafp-173028277/Facebook: www.facebook.com/todd.r.otten/Instagram:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DIJIvWjI3vJ/www.karenrossnow.comwww.frankrharrison.com

This episode gives your audience hope, creativity, healing, and empowerment — all through the unlikely but powerful intersection of fashion, science, and memory.In this inspiring episode of Frank About Health, fashion disruptor Lacie Cupani joins memory expert Vicki Mizel for a transformative conversation on how science, style, and healing intersect. Lacie shares her journey from medical research to creating Cupani Fashions, where her surgical precision, innovative stitch techniques, and energy-based use of color bring emotional uplift and empowerment to her models. As she competes for the Style Icon title to launch a 2026 global fashion show benefiting the Elton John AIDS Foundation, Lacie highlights the importance of diversity, inclusion, and fashion as advocacy for HIV awareness. Vicki complements this mission with her Brain Sprouts™ Memory Program, revealing how creativity, emotional engagement, and positive energy strengthen cognitive resilience. Together, they offer a powerful vision of how fashion and memory can heal, inspire, and ignite global change.Lacie Cupani:Website: www.cmgworldwidefashionweeks.com/cupani-fashion.htmlFacebook: www.facebook.com/lacie.cupani/Instagram: www.instagram.com/cupanifashion/?hl=enVote For Lacie Cupani for 2026 Style Icon: styleicon.org/2025/lacie-cupaniVicki Mizel:Website: vickimizel.com/Brain Sprouts Memory Program: www.brainsproutsmemory.com/LinkedIN: www.linkedin.com/in/vickimizel/Check out Vicki Mizel at: https://iremembervicki.com/

The Transformative Bond Between GenerationsListeners will learn about the multiple health and wellness benefits of cultivating and sustaining intergenerational bonds in their lives. They will learn unique ways to connect with people from different generations as they consider the legacy they hope to leave. They will consider the eternality of love, and explore the lifelong influence of intergenerational relationships.Dr. Dale Atkins, author of The Turquoise Butterfly, is a well-respected psychologist, author of 8 books, and a frequent guest expert in the national media. She has specific expertise in families, caregiving, aging well, kindness, and resilient adaptation to life’s changes. We will discuss the myriad emotional, mental, spiritual, and physical benefits of creating and maintaining intergenerational bonds, whether between children and their grandparents, or their aunts, uncles, or family friends. No matter what our age, these bonds have the power to transform us in unexpected ways. Dr. Atkins will draw from her book, her research, as well as her professional and personal experience to offer pragmatic suggestions for creating lasting connections between generations.Website: www.drdaleatkins.com/Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/drdaleatkins/Instagram: www.instagram.com/drdaleatkins/?hl=enYouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC0CM_yRL19VMfUsngDBLpsAwww.karenrossnow.comwww.frankrharrison.com

A more holistic "Whole Being" approach to medicine will be discussed in comparison to existing Western medicine views.Dr. Tom Ingegno DACM, LAC, is a clinician, speaker, and best-selling author of "The Cupping Book." With over 24 years in integrative and functional medicine, he owns Charm City Integrative Health, dubbed the "Future of Medicine" by futurist David Houle.Featured in consumer and professional media, Dr. Tom uses modern research, traditional practices, and humor to make complex treatments understandable, helping patients and practitioners develop no-nonsense approaches to thriving.His podcast Irreverent Health with over 180 episodes is an incredibly passionate and conversation-worthy for a myriad of health topics from biohacking to life-extension, acupuncture, wearable technologies, psychedelics, supplements, health charlatans, weight loss fads, public health policies and philosophical arguments about digital consciousness. On Frank About Health, we will show this as an act of responding to Healthcare Disruption!Website: www.charmcityintegrative.com/Podcast: irreverenthealth.com/LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/baltimoreacupuncture/www.karenrossnow.comwww.frankrharrison.com

Deepak Saini returns to give us updates on his Podcast, his Practice and progress on his journey to become a CentenarianDeepak Saini returns to Frank About Health after appearing on both Frank About Health and The A Train To Sedona and we followup on his path to being a Disruptor with his Vitality Unleashed programming.We will also pay tribute to Linda Marsanico and discuss the impact that has played in his health journey from different perspectives including spirituality, public speaking, podcasting and his overall plans for longevity.Website: deepaksainihealth.com/LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/deepak-saini-aa486215a/Facebook: www.facebook.com/deepak.saini.848981/www.karenrossnow.comwww.frankrharrison.com

We will have the chance to discuss Spirituality and it's role and impact on health. We will have another recipe from Joey's Kitchen displayed and We will learn more about alternative treatments.Shervon Laurice returns to Frank About Health after having developed her own podcast on Talkradio.nyc entitled The Expansion Room. This episode brings the spiritual conversation into play as we bring together the spiritual elements involved in healthcare. Weather the journey is through nutrition, psychedelics or Love and Compassion, we will show how the common thread of spirituality does it's best to maximize overall health and wellness.

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This episode serves as the launch of Frank About Health's Voices of Disruption CampaignAnshar Seraphim returns to Frank About Health to help me launch my first ever Voices of Disruption Campaign where over the next 12 episodes I will feature guests that have developed strategies, solutions and advocacy programs to combat the upcoming healthcare changes we will all be facing in 2026.Anshar and I will discuss several key programs that we have seen get dropped, cut or just plain cancelled and the kinds of innovations that we can all develop to obtain resolution to the gaps that have been created in our healthcare system.I will provide insight into the type of guests that will be coming up throughout the season to help emphasize those solutions for all of us to get on board with.LinkedIN: www.linkedin.com/in/anshar-seraphim-516120159/Facebook: www.facebook.com/anshar.seraphim/Linqapp: linqapp.com/anshar_seraphimYouTube: www.youtube.com/user/AnsharDark

This is a review of the past season of Frank About Health to recap some of the tributes, lessons learned, insights and recommendations for living with a better quality of life.This episode of Frank About Health celebrates the extraordinary resilience of individuals who turned life’s disruptions into opportunities for renewal and growth. It advocates for the power of creativity, caregiving, and innovation—whether through sobriety and reinvention, the healing role of nutrition and family, or emerging tools like AI that open new channels of communication. It also educates listeners on the value of science, hope, and community: from understanding the correctness of mRNA vaccines, to learning how artistic expression, alternative therapies, and healthy living practices can transform lives at any age.iremembervicki.com/frankrharrison.com/

Vicki Mizel will discuss her memory program and also bring life experience into how she further developed it. Spanning mental and neurological health, she has even discussed ways to engage and feel more quality of health, even when dealing with other diseases.Vicki Mizel was trained as an educator and public speaker. She began teaching the Brain Sprout’s Memory Method in 1980 to school children in public high schools. Within a short time she trained executives in Fortune 500 corporations such as IBM, Rolm, Prudential, Hewlett Packard; taught through community college, both seniors and Alzheimer’s patients; and gave public seminars nationally and internationally. She also produced a highly successful audio-tape Mp3/CD program on memory training.After 20 years of teaching and training, Mizel returned to graduate school to receive her Master’s degree in psychology. She now offers her programs to therapists, heath care practitioners, medical facilities, spouses and caregivers of Alzheimer’s patients and their loved ones. She also trains actors with learning scripts and characterization.Mizel also assists individuals, pre-retirees and companies through career transition with her program, “Passion Quest: Finding the Work You Love and Loving The Work You Do! “She is the author of the book, Love Remembers.” This book is the culmination of her knowledge and expertise, offered to the reader in her belief that we can all retrieve, enhance and cherish our memories. (A guide to help caregivers and spouses of Alzheimer’s loved ones.)Memory Program: brainsproutsmemory.comWebsite: vickimizel.com/LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/vickimizel/For Speaking Engagements: iremembervicki.com/

It is the anniversary of 9/11 and while I won't pay direct tribute to the events of that day I will show in a solo episode the self-advocacy that we need to be aware of going forward with our health.This particular episode reflects on the chaos that is going on in our healthcare system 24 years after the worst terrorist attack in our nations history. I was fortunate to appear in the audience of The View on Monday and the discussions that happened both on air and behind the scenes were a reflection of how we need to begin this new season with our focus on our own healthcare with vigilance. The events of 24 years ago brought the country together and looking at where we are today there is a chasm on our own self awareness and I intend to inform the truth, resourced information that people must be aware of when it comes to Vaccines, Legislation occuring in 2026, Reminder of Healthcare Disruption and ways to manage and diffuse misinformation.www.frankrharrison.com#Disruption, #MRNA, #mentalhealth

Healthy Aging is living an engaged productive life motivated by will and not by the biological changes that occur as we get older. Learn how to remain engaged, independent and productive as each year progresses.A lawyer and former diplomat, Otho Eskin served in the U.S. Army and in the United States Foreign Service. He was Vice-Chairman of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, participated in the negotiations on the International Space Station, was principal U.S. negotiator of several international agreements on seabed mining and was the U.S. representative to the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. Eskin is active in the Washington theater scene and is a playwright whose work has appeared in New York, Washington D.C., and Europe.We will explore how his thriving post-diplomatic career underscores the mental, emotional, and social dimensions of healthy aging:Purposeful engagement—writing novels, producing plays—keeps brain function, memory, and creativity sharp.Social connectivity—through theater, literary communities, interviews—supports emotional well-being.Reinvention—embracing new roles later in life models adaptability and resilience.Website: othoeskin.com/Facebook: www.facebook.com/othoeskinauthor/Instagram; www.instagram.com/othoeskin/?hl=en

Autism is a spectrum of conditions and a prime example of neurodivergence. Anshar will discuss living with the myriad of communication, sensory and other challenges and will describe how to adjust living with them. An example of this is by creating a powerful tool for the neurodivergent community AskAnshar 5.0 using his own Learning Language Model.Anshar Seraphim is a consultant specializing in high-stakes negotiation, sales psychology, and neurodiversity, known for his expertise in applied behavioral psychology and cognitive neuroscience. He is also a public speaker, writer, and founding member of The Octopus Movement, a group of nonlinear thinkers. He transitioned from a nonverbal state with autism at age 11 to becoming a specialist in communication and interpersonal dynamics, leveraging his personal experience to help others succeed. LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anshar-seraphim-516120159/#AskAnsharTune in for this healthy conversation at TalkRadio.nyc

John Beyer returns to Frank About Health to further discuss his book Live A Little Better and to share the story of his son's challenges with Autism and growing the business Spectrum Designs.Listen In to here the story of a John Beyer's Journey from Alcoholism to Sobriety and how he managed to create a successful company and even begin his journey into releasing music and revitalizing his life with family. All documented in his book Live A Little Better.JOHN BEYER is a singer and songwriter from New York and the founder of Men on the Move, a top moving and storage company on the East Coast. He is an advocate for autism awareness and support and has served as chairman of the Long Island Chapter of Autism Speaks, a founding board member of Spectrum Designs Foundation, and as a founding member of the David Center. He currently lives on Long Island with his wife, Amy, and his daughter, Lauren, who insisted he tell his story.John Beyer shares his remarkable journey from a chaotic home marked by addiction and neglect to building a thriving moving-and-storage business on the East Coast and having the strength in recovery to deal with the additional challenges of supporting his family in particular his son who was able to build a business of his own known.LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-beyer-b976338/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/johnbeyermusic/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johnbeyermusic/Author Page: https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/John-Beyer/232139178 #JohnBeyerTune in for this healthy conversation at TalkRadio.nyc

The audience will see a preview of the documentary Being Frank: For A Healthy Future and will also hear about how the show has evolved while paying tribute to previous shows, guests and discuss how we will manage disruption going forward.In this milestone 150th episode of Frank About Health, host Frank R. Harrison is joined by Phyllis Quinlan and John Beyer for a powerful reflection on the show’s journey from personal disruption to public advocacy. The episode pays tribute to the late Reatha Grey, features an exclusive clip from Frank’s upcoming documentary, and highlights how caregiving, creativity, and community converge to preserve dignity and mental health. John Beyer shares his inspiring story of recovery through music, while Frank and Phyllis explore the evolution of Frank About Health into a larger mission under Health E Media, LLC. This special broadcast celebrates resilience, legacy, and the next chapter in transforming healthcare through media and truth-telling.Frank = www.frankrharrison.comPhyllis =https://mfwconsultants.com/John = https://www.johnbeyermusic.com/#Frankabouthealth150Tune in for this healthy conversation at TalkRadio.nyc

Listen In to here the story of a John Beyer's Journey from Alcoholism to Sobriety and how he managed to create a successful company and even begin his journey into releasing music and revitalizing his life with family. All documented in his book Live A Little Better.JOHN BEYER is a singer and songwriter from New York and the founder of Men on the Move, a top moving and storage company on the East Coast. He is an advocate for autism awareness and support and has served as chairman of the Long Island Chapter of Autism Speaks, a founding board member of Spectrum Designs Foundation, and as a founding member of the David Center. He currently lives on Long Island with his wife, Amy, and his daughter, Lauren, who insisted he tell his story.John Beyer shares his remarkable journey from a chaotic home marked by addiction and neglect to building a thriving moving-and-storage business on the East Coast in his gripping memoir, LIVE A LITTLE BETTER: One Man’s Journey of Survival, Sobriety, and SuccessLinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-beyer-b976338/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/johnbeyermusic/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johnbeyermusic/Author Page: https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/John-Beyer/232139178Tune in for this healthy conversation at TalkRadio.nyc

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After a long time of commitment to your aging parents, once they have transitioned, you sense grief and loss of self. With resiliency, creativity and agency, you can reclaim your identity. The audience will learn 2 examples of how to recover in one instance and prepare in another.Author, mental health therapist and attorney Annie Guest takes us on her journey to process grief over her parents’ final struggles and appreciate the fullness of their lives. It has also helped her take stock of her own life and find her way forward.Guest takes us through her journey of reinterpretation in DESIGN FOR YOUR MIND: How a Family Caregiver and Mental Health Therapist Renovated her Home to Recharge Her Life—and Didn’t Break the Bank (B.D. Walsh Publishing) and shows us the magic of how she transformed her home sustainably and on a budget.Website:https://www.annieguestdesignforyourmind.com/Amazon:https://www.amazon.com/Design-Your-Mind-Caregiver-Therapist/dp/B0DVRGQQFT#Designforyourmind, #burnout, #resilencyTune in for this healthy conversation at TalkRadio.nyc

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