Insights with Dick Goldberg

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Patient Advocacy

Insights with Dick Goldberg ·

2026/09/30

Increasingly, getting good healthcare requires having to know how to navigate the system. That is where the relatively new service of patient advocacy comes in. How do these advocates help clients better navigate the healthcare system while struggling with health issues? Why can they sometimes be so necessary to help facilitate better outcomes? Dick’s guest, […]

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39:26

Food Insecurity

Insights with Dick Goldberg ·

2026/09/17

In our country, the wealthiest in the world, tens of millions of people worry about not having enough food to feed their families. How generous are we to those less fortunate? What needs to be done to help with food insecurity? Dick’s guest, Michelle Orge, is President and Executive Director of Second Harvest Foodbank of […]

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33:38

Chronic Mental Illness

Insights with Dick Goldberg ·

2026/08/31

Many Americans suffer from mental health issues but when do these issues rise to the level of chronic mental illness? Who are the chronically mentally ill and what care and treatments are the best protocols? What do those connected to them need to know to best support them? Dick’s guest, Dr. Gina Bryan, DNP, APRN, […]

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36:10

Women in Prison

Insights with Dick Goldberg ·

2026/08/12

Dick’s guest, MaryAdele Revoy, devoted five years working with women incarcerated in a maximum security prison, navigating some of the most difficult moments of their lives. She shares her thoughts from her experience in the criminal justice system as a crisis intervention worker at Wisconsin’s maximum security prison for women, Taycheedah.

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34:21

Loneliness in Minorities

Insights with Dick Goldberg ·

2026/07/30

Dick’s guest, Prasanta Verma, the author of Beyond Ethnic Loneliness: The Pain of Marginalization and the Path to Belonging, discusses loneliness in America. In 2023, the Surgeon General declared loneliness a national epidemic and compared its health impact to the equivalent of smoking 15 cigarettes a day.

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43:25

Online Dating Deception

Insights with Dick Goldberg ·

2026/07/15

There is a 50/50 chance you met your current partner online dating. It’s the new world of dating but some level of deception is common. Why do some people deceive? What is catfishing? How do you navigate around these issues? Dick’s guest, Dr. Catalina Toma is a Professor of Communication Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison. […]

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34:39

Parasocial Relationships: Fans, Followers & Pseudo...

Insights with Dick Goldberg ·

2026/07/01

There are celebrities and online influencers who have thousands, sometimes millions of followers and fans. These people often feel they know the celebrity and may believe they are connected to them personally. This is called a parasocial relationship. It is a one-way relationship and it is widespread in our culture. How does this happen? How […]

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29:39

Root 2 Rise: Helping Troubled Teens Turn Their Lives...

Insights with Dick Goldberg ·

2026/05/20

Dick’s guest, Denise Hanson, is the Founder and Executive Director of Root 2 Rise, a non-profit organization that actually pays a stipend and gives class credit to teens on the verge of dropping out by having them help elementary school kids do better in school.

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Teenage Mental Health

Insights with Dick Goldberg ·

2026/05/06

The CDC reports 40% of high school students have persistent sadness or hopelessness. About 20% have seriously considered suicide and 9% have attempted it. These bleak numbers are significantly worse than 25 years ago. How can these troubled teens be better helped? Dick’s guest is Dr. Steven Stein, a licensed psychologist and founder of North […]

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34:08

Must Ask Questions Before Marriage: Premarital...

Insights with Dick Goldberg ·

2026/03/18

What are the tough questions you and your partner need to explore before you commit long term? Dick’s guest is Michael Reddin, a Licensed Professional Counselor at Madison Psychiatric Associates in Madison, Wisconsin.

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40:25

When Adult Children Push Their Parents Away: Rupture...

Insights with Dick Goldberg ·

2026/03/04

Adult children sometimes cut off their parents by refusing contact. As many as 25% of adults have been estranged from at least one of their parents. A mild form of this estrangement is a rupture that is short term and perhaps less profound. What are the leading causes and what can be done to heal […]

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35:08

Lessons About Dementia (Encore)

Insights with Dick Goldberg ·

2026/02/04

Dr. Lee Hansen, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Author of Forgetting and Forgotten: Dementia and the Right to Die, shares with Dick his experiences and all he learned about dementia while taking care of his wife during her ten year battle with this all too common disease.

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49:11

America’s Response to Nazi Treatment of Jews

Insights with Dick Goldberg ·

2026/01/21

In Germany in 1938, Kristallnacht, or Night of Broken Glass, was sanctioned by the Nazi government. Synagogues and Jewish businesses were burned, 91 Jews were murdered and 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to concentration camps. By the end of World War II, six million Jews were exterminated in these camps. In these years, […]

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35:43

Disordered Eating

Insights with Dick Goldberg ·

2025/12/17

About one in eleven Americans will suffer sometime in their life from disordered eating. Treating eating disorders can be extensive, arduous and very expensive, ranging from thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars. What are the problematic disordered eating patterns and how can they best be treated? Dick’s guest, Carolyn Karroll is a Licensed Clinical […]

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37:27

Prison & Jail Reform

Insights with Dick Goldberg ·

2025/10/22

There are currently about 2,000,000 people incarcerated in the United States. Some say this system of justice is thoroughly unjust, costly and needlessly punishes instead of rehabilitates. What can be done to improve or even fix this system? Dick’s guest, Diane Endres-Ballweg is a business owner, philanthropist and author who recently attended the Advanced Leadership […]

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38:33

Mass Shootings (Encore)

Insights with Dick Goldberg ·

2025/09/11

Since 2006, there have been over 600 mass shootings in the United States, resulting in more than 3,000 murders. Why these large numbers? Who are these mass shooters? How can we intelligently address this issue? Dick’s guest, Dr. Richard LaBrie is a Clinical Psychologist who specializes in mass and individual trauma.

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40:42

Inside Immigration & Deportation Today

Insights with Dick Goldberg ·

2025/08/07

There are currently somewhere between 11 and 18 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. These are people with no legal rights to be living in this country. Should they be expelled immediately? If so, how? Is the Trump administration executing these deportations within the law? Dick’s guest, Grant Sovern is an immigration attorney with […]

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40:05

Understanding & Preventing Suicide

Insights with Dick Goldberg ·

2025/07/09

Suicide in America is on a steady longterm rise. Over 49,000 people took their own lives in 2023. Why is this? What can be done to prevent suicide when someone you know may be at risk? Dick’s guest, Tom Butero is a licensed independent clinical social worker in Massachusetts and has devoted the last 50 […]

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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI)

Insights with Dick Goldberg ·

2025/05/15

What can be so objectionable about diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)? It is a framework used in schools and organizations to create environments in which all individuals feel valued, respected and supported regardless of race, age, gender, disability or sexual orientation. Can it actually be discriminatory as described by President Trump and the Supreme Court? […]

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38:02

Reducing Accidents & Fatalities in Your Community

Insights with Dick Goldberg ·

2025/04/16

Every community has its share of accidents, tragedies and suffering. Imagine an agency that is tasked with looking after a whole community and all the responding agencies to help facilitate a reduction in accidents, hospitalizations and overdoses. Dick’s guest, Cheryl Wittke has spent the last 25 years as the Executive Director of Safe Communities.

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