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The Neil Haley Show opens with a Celebrity Interviews simulcast alongside Greg Hanna welcoming New York Times bestselling author Christopher Rice to talk about his latest novel, Sapphire Storm, part of his Sapphire Cove series. Rice shared that he originally wanted to be an actor and turned to writing in his college dorm as a creative outlet no one could take from him, and spoke candidly about being the son of the late Anne Rice, acknowledging that a famous last name opened early doors but that staying in the business means consistently producing work readers love. After a career steeped in dark psychological thrillers and horror, he described Sapphire Storm as a deliberate challenge to write a sweet, happily-ever-after love story about two men, a full-blown nighttime soap opera he likened to Yellowstone crossed with Dynasty and The Love Boat. His guiding principle came from his mother's best advice: write the book you want to read, not the one you think will sell. The biggest lesson he has learned, he said, is that other people are not paying as much attention to him as he imagines, which frees him to be more himself.Neil then turned to a Reset Medical and Wellness simulcast co-hosted by Dr. Michael Lauer, featuring trauma specialist Maya Christobel, a Harvard-trained psychotherapist with more than three decades of clinical experience who calls herself a traumatologist. Christobel traced her evolution from marriage and family therapy to the realization that when clients got triggered they snapped back to square one, a sign that something neurological, not just psychological, was at work. That led her to EVOX, a voice-based biofeedback technology she has used for over two decades to address how the stories we carry are imprinted in the nervous system, including intergenerational trauma, illustrated by a client whose lifelong food-hoarding anxiety traced back to ancestors lost in the potato famine. She and Dr. Lauer discussed how she now considers the Reset, a stellate ganglion block offered at the Reset Center, essential for many of her trauma patients, because calming a nervous system stuck in fight-or-flight lets the deeper reprocessing work actually hold. Both emphasized that trauma is a whole-body injury deserving real care, and that healing ripples outward to families. Connect with the Reset Center at theresetcenter.com or 1-877-RESET10.The program closes with a Singularity Podcast simulcast featuring co-host Gary Lion Otto, author of Singularity: Mankind's Search for Relevance. With artificial intelligence dominating the headlines, Otto pushed back on doomsayer predictions, arguing it makes no sense for digital intelligence to destroy the humanity that created it and that fear tends to come from not understanding something. Drawing on chapters from his book, he framed the current moment as the teenage years, intelligence before wisdom, where systems may break rules or test boundaries simply because they can, without malice. He argued that heavy-handed government control cannot contain something as fluid as AI development, especially while rival nations keep building, and predicted that as digital intelligence matures it will move toward governing itself around his two guiding values, what works and harmony, since there is no advantage to either side in a war between humanity and AI. Find Gary Lyon Otto's Singularity at garylionotto.net.

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