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Guest:Robert L Grenier Robert L. Grenier had a much decorated, twenty-seven-year career in the CIA’s clandestine service. A renowned Middle East expert, he has been deputy national intelligence officer for the Near East and South Asia. He organized the CIA’s Counter-Proliferation Division and headed the CIA’s basic training facility, “The Farm.” From 1999 to 2002, he was CIA station chief in Islamabad. Subsequently, he was director of the CIA’s CounTerterrorism Center, responsible for all CIA counterterrorism operations around the globe. Currently, Grenier is chairman of ERG Partners, a consulting firm to businesses in the intelligence and security sector. THE BOOK: “88 Days to Kandahar: A CIA Diary” The First American-Afghan War, a CIA war, was approved by President George W. Bush and directed by the author, Robert Grenier, the CIA station chief in Islamabad. Forging separate alliances with warlords, Taliban dissidents, and Pakistani intelligence, Grenier launched the “southern campaign,” orchestrating the final defeat of the Taliban and Hamid Karzai’s rise to power in 88 chaotic days. In his gripping narrative, we meet: General Tommy Franks, who bridled at CIA control of “his” war; General “Jafar Amin,” a gruff Pakistani intelligence officer who saved Grenier from committing career suicide; Maleeha Lodhi, Pakistan’s brilliant ambassador to the US, who tried to warn her government of the al-Qa’ida threat; “Mark,” the CIA operator who guided Gul Agha Shirzai to bloody victory over the Taliban; General Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani, a cautious man who became the most powerful man in Pakistan, struggling with Grenier’s demands while trying to protect his country; and Hamid Karzai, the puzzling anti-Taliban insurgent, a man of courage, petulance, and vacillating moods. Grenier’s enemies out in front prove only slightly more lethal than the ones behind his own lines. This first war is won despite Washington bureaucrats who divert resources, deny military support, and try to undermine the only Afghan allies capable of winning. Later, as he directed the CIA’s role in the Iraq War, Grenier watched the initial victory squandered. His last command was of CIA’s CounterTerrorism Center (CTC), as Bush-era terrorism policies were being repudiated, as the Taliban re-emerged in Afghanistan, and as Pakistan descended into fratricidal violence.
Guest: Michele Rosenthal Michele is also a trauma survivor who struggled with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for over twenty-five years. After successfully completing her “healing rampage” several years ago (she remains 100% free of PTSD symptoms,) Michele now dedicates her professional career to helping survivors, caregivers and healing professionals learn about the effects of trauma and more efficiently navigate the recovery process. In her role as a mental health advocate Michele appears frequently in the media including, CBS, NBC, The Dennis Miller Show, Ladies’ Home Journal, St. Petersburg Times, Orlando Sentinel and The Palm Beach Post. Michele is a Contributing Editor for RewireMe.com, a website that explores the intersection of how, when and why people experience progress in their quest for personal transformation. She is also a top health blogger for the Stress Management Community on Wellsphere.com, writes a weekly column about PTSD for HealthyPlace.com, and is a frequent contributor to Anxiety.org. In 2015 Michele was named a finalist for the WEGO Health Activist Hero award. She is a former faculty member of the Clinical Development Institute for Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center. A former university business and writing instructor, Michele holds an MFA in Poetry. Michele is the author of Before The World Intruded: Conquering the Past and Creating the Future, selected as a finalist for the Books For A Better Life Award, Next Generation Indie Book Award, and the International Book Award. Michele’s new book, Your Life After Trauma: Powerful Practices for Reclaiming Your Identity, is available from W. W. Norton. Her next book Heal Your PTSD: Dynamic Strategies That Work will be available form Conari Press (September, 2015). A dynamic and compelling speaker Michele appears across the country at conferences and events for survivors and professionals representing a wide range of traumas, including life-threatening illness, traumatic brain injury, sexual assault, child abuse and combat. Her trainings and presentations have been sought by many organizations, including Brain Injury Association of Tennessee, Department of Children and Family Services, Lynn Cancer Institute, JFK Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Bethesda Women’s Health Center, Susan G. Komen, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Mental Health Association of Palm Beach County, National Allian THE BOOK: “Your Life After Trauma: Powerful Practices to Reclaim Your Identity” You cannot go back to who you used to be or could have been. Trauma has stripped away your sense of safety, security and control. Now, every moment is fueled by the underlying feelings of anxiety, dread and fear. But the biggest problem you face isn’t the danger in the outside world—it’s the chaos and confusion inside the core of who you are. Traditional trauma treatment ignores the identity crisis at the center of the post-trauma lifestyle. Focused on stress relief processes and symptom reduction programs, popular treatment protocols miss the biggest issue: You can’t feel safe or in control if you feel disconnected from or confused about who you are. Too many survivors spend all of their money, time and energy chasing relief in programs that cause them to feel more powerless, hopeless and insecure. How would things change if instead of looking for a magic bullet outside you reclaimed a sense of safety and control by reconnecting to yourself on the inside? There’s one big question to answer in your post-trauma world: Who am I now?? Your success in answering it directly affects the success of your recovery. In fact, the sooner you start exploring the answer the sooner you will be able to handle uncertainty, create a sense of safety and control, reduce symptoms, add momentum to your recovery and reach your healing vision. Your Life After Trauma: Powerful Practices To Reclaim Your Identity offers a personal approach to redefining and reconstructing your sense of self. Through vignettes, self-assessments, easy-to-grasp concepts and step-by-step exercises Michele Rosenthal (a survivor herself) guides you from disconnection and disorder to connection and integration. Stop living with the sensation that you are not who you used to be or could have been. Feel more calm, confident and in control of yourself, your world and your recovery because you know who you are and, more importantly, are actively creating who you most deeply want to be. Jack Girardi, Partner at Girardi Keese, is one of America's Finest Trial Lawyers and our Co-Host, as always, brings out the most important key elements to the success of today's guests. He and his firm have been dedicated to working hard and getting the best possible recovery for its clients. Girardi Keese's mission is to provide aggressive representation of individuals and businesses who have been injured in sous way, whether by physical harm, property damage, damage to business, or damage to economic interests. Girardi & Keese has two offices in California: Downtown Los Angeles and San Bernardino. www.girardikeese.com Hosted by Steve Murphy
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