Advice Goddess Radio, Tonight, 7-8pm PT, 10-11pm ET: Dr. Randy Paterson On How And Why To Be Assertive
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Assertiveness isn't about "building a good disguise," Dr. Randy Paterson explains. "It's about the courage to take the disguise off." It's "about being THERE."

Paterson, a clinical psychologist, is the author of the excellent book I've recommended in my column, "The Assertiveness Workbook: How To Express Your Ideas and Stand Up for Yourself at Work and in Relationships," and that's exactly what he and I will be laying out on tonight's show.

Paterson takes a very rational, behavioral approach and gives extremely practical tips for how to change, and this show should help even already-assertive people notice and shore up areas where they could do better.

Listen at this link from 7-8 pm Pacific, 10-11 pm Eastern, or download the podcast afterward:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon/2014/02/03/dr-randy-paterson-how-and-why-to-be-assertive

Don't miss last week's thought-provoking, mind-opening show on the underpinnings of our sexuality.

Dr. Jesse Bering's book, Perv, is subtitled "The Sexual Deviant in All of Us." This is a book about weird sex but it's also a book about all of the ways that even "normal" people fall along the spectrum of "perversions."

This show, like Bering's book, is a fascinating inside look into how our specific sexual desires seem to be shaped in childhood, how sexually not "normal" some of the most seemingly normal people are, and how human psychology leads us to find others' sex practices upsetting and creepy instead of just different from our own.

As Bering writes, "Humans aren't the only sex deviants in the animal kingdom. But we are the only ones to stigmatize each other as disgusting perverts."

Listen at this link or download the podcast:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon/2014/01/27/dr-jesse-bering-on-sex-whats-normal-and-the-sexual-deviant-in-all-of-us

Join me and my fascinating guests every Sunday, 7-8 p.m. Pacific Time, 10-11 p.m. Eastern Time, at blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon or subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher.