My Podcast My Rules

Dr. Alan Azrak: a very wonderful dentist, originally from Syria, and was actually a soccer player before becoming a dentist, and as a dentist is full of good advice!

Wyna Liu is a wonderful human being, a great friend, puzzle creator, editor of New York Times game connections, and is very smart and hardworking, and resides in Chinatown NYC! More details in this interview!

Hilary and Selden Illick are wonderful people, GREAT friends, great trauma coaches and family therapists as they’re inspired by being mother/daughter to each other so it runs in the family! They were both so kind and assuring to me and my mother when I lost my language at 22 months old and luckily got it back not long after! They both reside in Boston MA! More details in this interview!

Sue Erikson Bloland is a wonderful human being, a WONDERFUL great aunt, a great psychotherapist and psychoanalyst, inspired by her dad Erik Erikson, and wrote a book about challenges of growing up with a famous father called “In The Shadow of Fame”! She grew up all over the place but currently resides in Hastings on Hudson NY! More details in this interview.

Mark Levin is a wonderful human being, a great friend, a GREAT TV writer, producer, and director, worked on many great shows such as Wimbledon, Nim’s Island, Little Manhattan, Big Mouth, and much more! He grew up in Michigan but currently resides in NYC and LA! More details in this interview.

PJ Mode is a wonderful human being, a WONDERFUL grandfather, grew up in Indianapolis, lived most of his adult life in DC, but currently and forever living in NYC! He is a guy who served the navy through college, worked as a lawyer for many MANY years, covered politics including for Bobby Kennedy, post retirement he’s been studying old maps outside of work and the way they work, as well as being a yo-yo and chess champion outside of work! More details in this interview!

Ben Gross is a wonderful human being and a GREAT cousin, who’s the creator of the online game Bracket City in the Atlantic magazine, started his own restaurant, the Montague Diner, and is a very smart guy and a lawyer! He was born and raised in New York City and lives in Brooklyn. On the podcast, he talks about how he once wanted to be an astronaut, which of his many jobs is his favorite, and why bananas are the only fruit he eats.