welcome to the show. i m susan sikora. ready to clean-up your financial act? consumer savings expert regina from surf my ads.com coaches consumers on how to crack the code and find the best deals when shopping online. hi. hi, thank you for having me. what code? that is what a lot of people say. the thing is when you are shopping online and you get to the retailer s check out box and you see that, a lot of people skip over it because they don t know where to find one. we think i don t have a code, they didn t offer me a coupon. sometimes, some websites will offer you something after you ve done a couple, in other words you are a repeat customer. right. there might be incentives like that that they do offer it to their repeat customers. the average do consumer going to a site for the first time can typically find some money. promotional codes.com or promo codes.com, all of these have tens of thousands of codes from everything from target to home depot to travelocity,
welcome to the show. i m susan sikora. want to take your small business to the star level? then you want to meet my first guest. now if you use make up you may know her from her local boutiques. tv infomercials and regular appearances on qvc. meet leslie. she took the san francisco based bare essentials cosmetics, created bare minerals make up and made the company a household name. a company name which sold for $1.7 billion in 2010. wait a minute, weren t we in the thick of a recession by then? how did she do it? let s ask the executive chairman of bare essentials and creator of bare minimals leslie. i would come any time to see you. and in full disclosure i m a fan. let s get toism this is a local girl makes good story. it s not all about make up. we should tell people especially guys who say, make up, what is mineral make up. first is the foundation. the foundation we all used to use was a liquid foundation and had a lot of chemicals in it and along with ingredients
hi, i m susan sikora. and welcome to bay area focus. it s no secret that many folks are newly in need and must ask for help to keep their families fed. good news, bay area food banks give groceries to those who need them. maybe you can help or perhaps you need help. either way we welcome back paul ash, executive director at the san francisco and marin food banks and chanel comes back with whole foods. good to have you here. i guess in the nick of time certainly. ourer food drive is on and we will talk about that in a minute. first of all how much is the need increase since last year? it s still increasing. but the good news is compared to the last two years when it just felt like a landslide. it seems to be leveling off a little bit. we still are serving the same folks that have come to us. at least it s not growing at that incredible rate is that frightening. has the profall of who needs help, has that changed? it has shifted. we are seeing people who worked recently
welcome to the show. i m susan sikora. most of us who are pain-free cannot imagine living a flief constant pain. but consider this, chronic pain afflicts over 50 million americans and there is a good chance at least one member of every family will fall prey to it. so says dr. peter, medical director and cofounder of the bay area pain and wellness center in los gatos. how do you manage chronic pain? a diet of painkillers your only relief what are the causes? for answers we welcome the doctor. good to have you here. thank you. let s talk about chronic pain and aassume and in my intro i wrote it that way is that chronic pain is constant and never leaves. is it true. it s by definition chronic and very different than acute pain which is what we experience we experience when we first get injured like we break a bone or tear a ligament and inflammation and swelling and we know that hurts a lot. as the injuries starts to heal and the pain goes away. very different than chroni
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