Author: Lucia Matuonto

Treating my patients, meeting new people and writing have always been my passions. I am a physiotherapist specialized in neurological issues. I used to coach the parents of some of my patients. I also gave lectures to other healthcare professionals, teaching them new methods in many different countries. Later, I published a children’s book trilogy titled “Zoe the Crab”. Being a physiotherapist, I was inspired to write about inclusion and diversity for children. “Zoe the Crab” is a bestselling series of fiction books about courage, inclusion and friendship. Zoe is a little crab who lives on the beach with her…

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I remember celebrating my father’s 60th. Birthday, and I did not say this out loud, but definitely thought “he is an old man”. But he lived close to another 3 decades and I am glad he did. His father (my grandfather) was not as lucky, and he died at the age of 49. Now that we are in our 60’s and 70’s and beyond, we just don’t seem as old as our parents when they were our current age. Perhaps it is caused by modern science or perhaps we just lose our eyesight and think we look better than we…

When you want to know who you are, you need to embrace where you came from! This is the case for author Luisa Livorno Ramondo who has just published her debut novel, Beyond the Cobblestones. A story about a young girl’s determination and perseverance in the face of adversity!Luisa grew up as the daughter of Italian immigrants in Philadelphia PA. “Being accepted as an American just because you lived here wasn’t a given,” she says. “I was different from everyone I grew up around; my parents spoke broken English, I was embarrassed about my lunch at school and I was…

Lucia Matuonto had a delightful conversation with the author Thomas Nastek on The Relatable Voice Podcast. Thomas has been writing novels of fiction since 2003 and his writing often reflects old-fashioned values, Christian/Catholic themes, and inspiring messages of hope. His brother, Jeff, had been studying to be a movie director before his cancer. While staying in the hospital with Jeff during the chemo treatments, they discussed turning the novel Wounded Crows Don’t Fly into a movie. They started writing the script, however, by September their sister passed away from complications due to the MS. Then, just two months later, Jeff followed…

by Richard Harris Welcome back to the RV! Today, we are headed to Sydney Australia to speak with Dr. Richard Harris. Richard is a top vascular surgeon in Australia, as well as a writer. His debut novel is called Imagine. He sat down after surgical rounds in that comfortable chair, looking out over the white tiles through the glass to the yellow-orange of the sand and the blues of the ocean and sky. He opened his two computers, one a PC, one a Mac. The PC for research, the Mac for writing and fired them up. Another long stare at…

by Suzanne Casamento The RV is back on the road heading to the Green Mountains in Vermont to talk to Suzanne Casamento who is fresh off a two month stay in Bonaire in the Caribbean Netherlands. Suzanne is the author of the books Fingerprints and Choosing Tally. Her latest book is called All the Moments in Between. When I was a child, there was a lot of yelling in my house, so I would hide in my room or my treehouse and read books. Through books, I visited the Big Woods and the Shores of Silver Lake. I crossed the Bridge…

Lucia Matuonto interviewed Pat Barkley and Judith Obatusa on the “Carpooling with the RV”, which is the new series of the famous The Relatable Voice Podcast. Pat Backley is an author and mother to one beautiful daughter. She is English, but emigrated to New Zealand at the age of 59. She has led an exciting and colourful life, which you can read about in her recently published memoirs: FROM THERE TO HERE (WITH AN AWFULLOT IN BETWEEN) and now, at the age of 70, she has the luxury to spend much of her time writing. Her first book DAISY is a novel, a gentle family saga spanning from 1887 to 1974, based in Alabama, Harlem…

by Ravi B. Sahay – professor Ravi Sahay is a 73 year old former heart patient who is vibrantly healthy and has just published the book My Health Is Your Wealth: Triumphs Over Chronic Diseases & May You BE Healthy: Well-being for Pennies a Day. Based on a decade that saw thousands of published research papers on microbiome, it is abundantly clear that lifestyle changes with healthy eating, exercise and daily detoxification are the way to make us and our country healthy and wealthy. Discovered in 2007, the microbiome is probably the most profound paradigm shifting medical discovery in the…

by Michael SeaverMichael was raised in a West Michigan town of 2,500 residents. His grandfather started the family business, Seaver’s Lawn Service, Inc., in 1953 and Michael’s father, Jack, took over in 1987. From ages 12 through 24, Michael maintained lawns, landscaped properties, and plowed snow, leading crews of five to ten people. He learned the values of hard work, sacrifice and setting long-term goals. Michael and his wife moved to Phoenix, AZ in 2003 to escape Michigan’s snow and join a growing economy. Yet, as it slowed in 2008, they divorced, and Michael suffered minor bouts of depression and understanding…