The Anxious Voyage with Mark O’Brien

The Anxious Voyage with Mark O’Brien: The King of Main Street

The King of Main Street: Peter J. Merrick
Forty-Seventh Episode: Peter — The King of Main Street — is an internationally recognized author, writer, and commentator. He helps business owners, professionals, families, and advisors navigate complex financial, tax, and estate planning challenges with clear, practical solutions and holds the Trust and Estate Practitioner (TEP) designation with the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP).
Peter co-authored the dystopian business novel, It Starts With Gold, exposing the hidden forces shaping international markets, vulnerabilities in modern financial systems, and the critical steps required to preserve wealth in uncertain times. It details the ways in which we’re being controlled through narrative control, financial collapse, digital enslavement, biological manipulation, plandemics, inflation, and supply chain disruptions — all intended to crush individual resolve, eliminate sovereignty, and create total dependence on a system designed to strip us of humanity.
Known for his bold perspectives, deep financial expertise, and engaging storytelling, Peter challenges conventional thinking and inspires action. His message is clear: The future belongs to those who prepare. He joins me for what promises to be an eye-opening conversation. We hope you join us, too.
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The Anxious Voyage with Mark O’Brien: The Comeback Kid: Lonnee Rey

The Comeback Kid: Lonnee Rey
Forty-Sixth Episode: Lonnee is a ghostwriter, a story-development coach and editor, a book producer, and an inspiration to countless aspiring writers. She’s developed a series of anthologies that include, 11th Hour Miracles: Amazing Short Stories of Divine intervention; The Advocates, the Healers and Heeding a Higher Calling; Rattled Awake (12 volumes), My Fur Baby Wrote This Book; Bullied: How I Got By; and SPEECHLESS: Giving the #voiceless a Voice. Decades of depression and periods of homeless lit the fire in Lonnee that she now shines and shares with the hundreds of authors she continues to work with. She’s the winner of a 2023 Best Indie Book Award, which recognizes outstanding achievements by independent authors. Lonnie was the guest on my second show, which aired on August 21, 2023. And I couldn’t be happier to welcome here back. Please join us.
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The Anxious Voyage with Mark O’Brien: State Your P.E.A.C.E.: Dave Wolffe

State Your P.E.A.C.E.: Dave Wolffe
Fortieth Episode: Dave developed the Anger Management Power (A.M.P.) Program that’s been used with more than 1,000 teens and 600 others, including parents, college students, and professionals who work with young people. It’s been used with Dispute Resolution and Teacher Education students in several New York area colleges and with parent and professional groups. Dave is committed to helping young people manage their anger in positive ways, to giving them information and methods by which to curtail bullying, and to helping adults who work with youngsters save them from physical, emotional or psychological pain. Dave has been an Adjunct Lecturer/Anger Management Specialist at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan, teaching P.E.A.C.E. (Peace Enhancement Attained-Collaborative Efforts) and a teacher and guidance counselor in the New York City Department of Education.
He joins me for what’s sure to be an hour of enlightenment and learning.
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The Anxious Voyage with Mark O’Brien: Pink-Collar Crime: Kelly Paxton

Pink-Collar Crime: Kelly Paxton
Kelly, the Pink Collar Crime Expert is a Certified Fraud Examiner, a former Private Investigator, a professional speaker, the founder of the Fraudish podcast, the author of the book, Embezzlement: How to Prevent, Detect and Investigate Pink-Collar Crime, and the creator of the website, Pink Collar Crime. Her most recent real job was working as a global investigator for Nike. Before being recruited by Nike, Kelly worked criminal defense and prosecution cases. She also worked as a fraud analyst and background investigator for Oregon’s Washington County Sheriff's Office. She has seven years of experience as a contract special investigator for the Office of Personnel Management and the Department of Homeland Security and was a Special Agent for the US Customs Office of Investigations’ money laundering/white collar crime unit. Kelly joins me for what’s sure to be an exciting, eye-opening hour.
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The Anxious Voyage with Mark O’Brien: Never Say Never

Never Say Never: Jennifer Loehding
Forty-third Episode: Jennifer is a podcast host and a motivational speaker dedicated to empowering women, celebrating achievers from all walks of life, and sharing inspiring stories from trailblazers, entrepreneurs, and visionaries who are making their dreams a reality. As the creative force behind the Starter Girlz Podcast, Jennifer helps individuals succeed in their careers, finances, relationships, and well-being. Her passion for personal growth and empowerment shines through in engaging interviews and uplifting content, inspiring listeners to dream big and achieve greatness. She’s made me an Honorary Starter Girl, and she joins me to shine her light. We hope you join us, too.
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The Anxious Voyage with Mark O’Brien: Dennis and Ali Pitocco

The Journey Within: Dennis and Ali Pitocco
Forty-second Episode: Dennis and Ali lead 360 Nation, a media enterprise dedicated to rediscovering and showcasing humanity at its best. 360 Nation includes BizCatalyst 360, an award-winning global media platform supported by the best writers on the planet; 360 Nation Studios, producing compassionate streaming content; 360 Nation Events, hosting humanity-driven virtual and in-person experiences; and GoodWorks 360, offering pro bono consulting for nonprofits worldwide. They embrace presence, belonging, and compassionate service, allocating resources for good, not for profit and highlighting our human potential for creativity, compassion, and collaboration. Dennis and Ali join me to share their recent pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago and to help us understand our own journeys. Please join us.
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The Anxious Voyage with Mark O’Brien: Bringing Dreams to Life

Bringing Dreams to Life: Dominick Domasky and Cody Sims
Forty-first Episode: Dominick got to publishing and motivational speaking the old-fashioned way: He paid his dues and learned from every experience, from pulling weeds and picking up cigarette butts as a boy working for his father’s landscaping company to being punched, jobless, broke, cut from the team, and out of business. He refused to give up. Through his business, Motivation Champs Media, he now inspires people daily through publishing, screenwriting, a large social media footprint, in person events, and working with nonprofits.
Cody is the founder of RainingCrow Design Studios, offering commission services in illustration, painting, graphic and concept design, and more. He teaches acrylic and watercolor painting and is a co-founder of The Twilight Cottage LLC, selling original art and homemade herbal wares at festivals around the Southeast. He continues to work as an author and illustrator, having worked on more than a dozen books for others over the last decade, while continuing to write and release his own work under the pen name Dani Lebeaux.
Dominick is the publisher and Cody is the illustrator of my recent graphic novel, The Waterloo Diaries: The Bedsore Conspiracy. They join me for a spirited conversation. We hope you do, too.
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The Anxious Voyage with Mark O’Brien: Creative Perspectives

Creative Perspectives: Anne O’Brien
Anne is the founder of The ArtFitters, an interior decorating and design firm. She re-imagines ordinary spaces (residential, commercial, historical, or institutional) to create the extraordinary — beautiful, organized, functional, and comfortable — through adaptive re-use and creative utilization. At an early age, she found herself drawing house plans, enjoying visits to furniture stores, and continually re-staging her bedroom. At age eight, she was more interested in picking out wallpaper, re-upholstering furniture, and re-decorating rooms than going out to play. In her professional life, the scopes of her projects grew larger. Her exposure to styles, materials, and furnishing became more broad. With more than 20 years of experience behind her, Anne is a visually inventive conceptual thinker who always sees the big picture. Because it informs her work, Anne made time for art. She had instruction in sculpting, pottery, Norwegian folk art, wood carving, dress, jewelry, and interior design. She studied painting at the Borgo Rinascimento International School of Art in Farnesi, Italy, and with numerous artists. I’m fortunate enough that Anne is also my spouse.
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The Anxious Voyage with Mark O’Brien: Moral Collapse: The Holocaust

Moral Collapse: The Holocaust
Thirty-ninth Episode: On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, I engaged in a LinkedIn conversation. The comments I posted in that thread drew responses that made it clear I had to amend my thinking. Specifically, one of the correspondents used the phrase, psychological sidestep, that rang like a gong in my head. Since that made it clear I have much to ponder and learn, I invited three of the people who engaged in that LinkedIn conversation to join me on the program. They are:
Melissa Hughes, Ph.D., a psychologist and neuroscientist
Rabbi Yonason Goldson, a speaker, advisor, award-winning podcast host, and teacher of Jewish history and Holocaust studies at Esther Miller Bais Yaakov High School in St. Louis
Sven Lauch, an accredited emotional logic coach.
Please join us for this conversation. If you’re lucky, you’ll learn as much as I do.
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The Anxious Voyage with Mark O’Brien: Transcending Trauma

Transcending Trauma: Daisy Plaza
Thirty-eighth Episode: Daisy experienced trauma and violence in her home and her community from an early age. Later, she struggled through and got out of an abusive marriage. The mother of four children, she refused to let her circumstances dampen her spirit or dim her light. She used her experiences navigating trauma to write her book, I Did it For Her, in which she shares her stories of pain and healing to help others gain hope and strength. Given her extroverted nature, she draws people to her easily. She loves spending time with her children and her grandchildren, healing, living her best life, the occasional chai latte, and writing. She joins me for a soul-stirring conversation. We hope you will, too.
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