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Join KCRA TV morning news anchor Deirdre Fitzpatrick for a podcast that asks her favorite question: how did you do that? Her guests wrote the book, launched the product, won the race, influenced social media or figured out a must-try life hack. Master your mindset while learning how to live bigger and better.
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Thursday Feb 18, 2021
How To Close The Deal On Love With Holly Parker
Thursday Feb 18, 2021
Thursday Feb 18, 2021
How are your relationships doing after a year of living through a pandemic? If you've broken up with a friend or romantic partner, you're not alone.
Maybe it's time to start looking at relationships the way you might look at a house for sale.
Holly Parker is our guest this week. She's one of the top-selling real estate agents in New York City. The "Million Dollar Listing" type of agent. She's sold more than $8 billion of luxury real estate.
Her new book is "Back on the Market: A Realtor's Guide to Love and Life." It's Holly's personal story of emerging from divorce while applying a lot of the concepts she's learned through real estate.
This is the book Carrie Bradshaw would have written if she did open houses.
On this Dying to Ask:
- How the real estate principles of staging and marketing can be applied to your relationships.
- What it's like on shows like "Million Dollar Listing" and why you're likely to see Holly on her own show soon.
- And how to kickstart your hustle as an entrepreneur if you find yourself dragging as the pandemic drags on.

Thursday Feb 11, 2021
Why This Is The Perfect Time To Make Goals For 2021
Thursday Feb 11, 2021
Thursday Feb 11, 2021
I purposely didn't do a "goals" episode in January. I mean, 2020 was hard enough without the pressure of resolutions. But then, I started thinking maybe goal setting is EXACTLY what we need, despite the pandemic.
The utter loss of structure from commutes, distance learning and working from home has left a lot of people struggling to find motivation to think about goal setting. But life coaches and time-management experts say the act of setting goals can ground you in a world that keeps on spinning.
The ultimate goal-setter is back on the podcast this week.
Tim Collom first appeared on "Dying to Ask" at the beginning of 2020 to talk about his 20-year habit of forming 100 goals every year. Many of you have asked: "What happened to that goal guy?"
Many assumed Tim ditched the list given the pandemic.
Nope! He doubled down on the goal list, and wait until you hear what happened next.
On this Dying to Ask:
- Why you need to write down some 2021 goals
- 10 topics to focus your goal setting
- How to know a goal is worth putting on your list
- The goal Tim just crossed off the list that's seriously ruining his sleep

Thursday Feb 04, 2021
Why You Should Schedule Fun First Into Your Calendar
Thursday Feb 04, 2021
Thursday Feb 04, 2021
Are you thriving or surviving? Most of us are the latter these days as we near the one-year anniversary of the term "social distance."
Maybe we all need to schedule more fun into our calendars?
Really, schedule the fun. Plan your happy.
That's been Carmen Micsa's secret for 20 years. Carmen is a successful real estate agent, mom of two and burgeoning rapper.
She starts each week by scheduling fun things first and then everything else. It's like having dessert before dinner.
And, you know what? Carmen is having one of her best years yet personally and professionally, despite the pandemic.
On this Dying to Ask:
- The skills Carmen learned growing up in a Communist country that made living through the pandemic easier
- Why Carmen started scheduling fun first and the instant impact it had on her mental health
- Tips to rearrange your calendar for optimal energy and better weeks
- How a middle-aged mom became a rap star

Thursday Jan 28, 2021
Jamie Hess On How Influencers Make Their Money
Thursday Jan 28, 2021
Thursday Jan 28, 2021
How do influencers make money? I scroll Instagram and am borderline obsessed with knowing how girls posing with purses are paying their bills.
Spoiler alert. Most aren't paying the bills.
In this episode, we're getting a rare behind-the-scenes look at the world of influencers with @nycfitfam, aka Jamie Hess.
Jamie worked for nearly two decades in the fast-paced world of public relations in New York City. She especially loved working with health and fitness clients. She started the @nycfitfam page on Instagram to document her fit lifestyle with her husband.
@nycfitfam became a thing. A big thing. Soon, health and fitness brands were approaching Jamie to try their products and post links to their companies.
Jamie left public relations to turn her side hustle into a full hustle. Two years later, she's carved out a lucrative career in front of the camera on social media and on TV, as a QVC fitness expert.
Jamie credits two things for her success as an influencer.
First, she understands what brands need, thanks to her years in PR. And second, her mom is Joan Lunden. Yes, that Joan Lunden. Jamie says her mother's influence breaking ground in television news on "Good Morning America" laid the foundation for her work ethic.
On this Dying to Ask:
- How Jamie turned a side hustle into a full-time gig
- Her warning for anyone thinking about trading a traditional job for a life on Instagram
- How she turned her home into a TV studio to continue on-camera work for QVC
- What it was like growing up on TV during Joan Lunden's 20 years on "GMA"
- Why Jamie and her husband left NYC in the middle of the pandemic and never went back
- The two words Jamie says at the end of every day to stay on track personally and professionally

Tuesday Jan 26, 2021
BONUS: Fitz And Team USA Start The 6 Months To Tokyo Countdown
Tuesday Jan 26, 2021
Tuesday Jan 26, 2021
The countdown clock to the Olympic do-over is going. In six months, Tokyo will host the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics. It's the first time an Olympics has been rescheduled and it's created worries, frustrations and challenges for athletes, fans and media.
In this episode, Fitz catches up with two-time Olympian and gold medalist Maggie Steffens. Maggie is the captain of the women's water polo team.
On this Dying to Ask:
- How Team USA is training during a pandemic
- How Olympians shifted their mindset to fine tune their mental edge
- And why Maggie and Fitz say the Tokyo Olympics could be the best Olympics ever

Thursday Jan 21, 2021
3 Ways To Slow The Brain Drain With Dr. Christine Koh
Thursday Jan 21, 2021
Thursday Jan 21, 2021
"Right now is a lot."
That one sentence sums up life for all of us these days. Dr. Christine Koh, a brain scientist turned lifestyle expert turned influencer, tweeted that gem recently.
It was so good and so dead-on that I reached out immediately to pick her brain about how to calm the overwhelming feelings so many of us are dealing with in 2021.
Christine's take on life in the time of COVID-19 is equal parts helpful and humorous. Her scientific background explains the why behind our overwhelm. Her uncanny knack to connect with people, especially women, provides the how in dealing with all that life is throwing at us these days.
On this Dying to Ask:
- The tweet that took me down a Christine Koh rabbit hole
- How a Harvard-trained scientist became a lifestyle expert, influencer and podcast host
- And the three things you can do immediately to slow the brain drain

Thursday Jan 14, 2021
Fitz Issues The 'Phone A Friend' Challenge To Tackle COVID Fatigue
Thursday Jan 14, 2021
Thursday Jan 14, 2021
It's my first solo episode of the season. And, in this show, I'm talking about a phone call I got from a friend that changed my outlook on everything.
COVID fatigue is legit. A University of Colorado study found 4 in 10 Americans are stressed and/or anxious. Only 4 in 10? This past year has been, well, a lot. In a lot of ways. In ALL the ways.
Living with constant low-level anxiety is the new norm for people trying to work, home-school, not catch COVID-19, etc. And even the most resilient people hit the wall. I did. And, I had no idea it was happening until a close friend called and said, "I'm doing a welfare check."
It was a game-changer and a major reality check.
On this Dying to Ask:
- What I did that prompted my friend's phone call.
- I outline the "phone a friend" challenge and explain why we need to regularly check in on friends and family.
- And the three things that constitute "self-care" in my world these days.
Here's the previous podcast referenced in this week's episode.

Friday Dec 25, 2020
Say This, Not That With Writer CEO May Habib
Friday Dec 25, 2020
Friday Dec 25, 2020
Words matter. Now more than ever.
Use a word out of context or a word that is no longer politically correct and you can hurt someone or, in extreme cases, lose your job.
Silicon Valley entrepreneur May Habib is the CEO of Writer. Writer is AI software designed to take the words out of your mouth. Writer's artificial intelligence highlights questionable language and offers more acceptable phrasing. It basically saves you from yourself. And, it protects companies in a cancel culture.
What kinds of words?
Elderly, addict and master bedroom are all controversial words. What's wrong with them and what should you say instead?
On this Dying to Ask:
- How May started Writer
- How artificial intelligence catches controversial words and phrases and why companies are relying on this kind of protection more and more
- Why you should be open to updating the words you use
- And May and Fitz bond over the ridiculous fun they had working on college newspapers

Thursday Dec 17, 2020
Finding Humor In 2020 With Kerri Pomarolli
Thursday Dec 17, 2020
Thursday Dec 17, 2020
If you don't laugh, you'll cry. How many times have you said that in 2020?
Comedian Kerri Pomarolli is known as "Hollywood's favorite good girl." She's a devout Christian and known as a clean comedian. Translation: She doesn't swear in her act and you can play her stuff with your kids in the room.
Kerri earns a living acting, doing standup and giving motivational keynote addresses for Fortune 500 companies.
That all came to an immediate halt in March with the pandemic.
On this Dying to Ask:
- Why a sense of humor is as important as a mask in dealing with the pandemic
- How Kerri has pivoted a career in comedy while working in her living room
- And how she got a gig writing Hallmark movies

Thursday Dec 10, 2020
How Nancy Grace Keeps Her Grit
Thursday Dec 10, 2020
Thursday Dec 10, 2020
Grit: defined as courage and resolve.
That definition should have a picture of Nancy Grace next to it. She is a legal commentator, former prosecutor and TV icon.
She was the biggest name on HLN for 12 years. Some 4.5 million people watched her coverage of the Casey Anthony trial in 2011. And, she's been parodied on "Saturday Night Live." You know you've made it when that happens.
Her interest in the law and obsession with justice started after her fiance Keith was murdered. Since that time, she's dedicated her life to being a voice for crime victims and their families.
Her latest TV venture is "Bloodline Detectives." It shows how modern forensic technology is cracking cold cases.
Nancy's latest book is "Don't Be a Victim: Fighting Back Against America's Crime Wave."
And, like the rest of us, she's spending most of the year in quarantine dealing with kids, nonstop cooking and laundry that never ends.
Through it all, she's managed to grow her grit and maintain her trademark energy and passion.
Guest host Teo Torres and I were dying to ask: "How do you grow grit in a year like 2020?"