Some Sunday nights don’t just land — they recalibrate the frequency.
This week’s SHAKE IT OFF WITH MERT & LUCAS, LIVE! brings two thinkers whose work explores the inner and outer forces shaping how we live, heal, and understand the world. From personal transformation to global conflict, it’s a two‑hour conversation built for listeners who want depth, clarity, and the courage to confront what’s underneath.
Hour 1: Dr. Monica Vermani — Author, A Deeper Wellness
We open with the return of Dr. Monica Vermani, a previous guest and a voice our audience knows well. A clinical psychologist and author, Dr. Vermani’s work in A Deeper Wellness maps the journey from trauma to balance with honesty, compassion, and a rare ability to make complex emotional terrain feel navigable.
This hour explores the mechanics of healing — why we get stuck, how we move forward, and what it really means to build a life rooted in clarity rather than chaos. Expect a conversation that blends science, story, and lived experience, delivered with the warmth and candor that made her earlier appearance a listener favorite.
Hour 2: Scott Gibbs — Author, Toward the Turning
Then we widen the lens with Scott Gibbs, whose book Toward the Turning examines one of the most volatile forces shaping the modern world: identity. Gibbs explores how inherited identities — religious, national, cultural — collide and calcify, fueling extremism, fear, and the cycles of violence that defined the post‑9/11 era.
Drawing on philosophy, psychology, and global conflict, Gibbs argues that the real battleground isn’t ideology — it’s the deeper, often unconscious ways groups define themselves against one another. His work challenges listeners to rethink how nations, movements, and individuals construct meaning — and how those constructions can either entrench division or open the door to transformation.
Expect an hour that’s probing, philosophical, and unafraid of the deeper questions: Why do groups cling to destructive narratives? How does identity become weaponized? And what would it take for societies — and individuals — to turn toward something more humane?
About the Hosts
• Lucas A. Ferrara — New York attorney, law professor, award‑winning film producer, and editorial strategist. Lucas blends legal acuity with narrative precision, shaping conversations that cut through noise and get to the marrow of the moment.
• Mert Roberts — A seasoned commentator whose wit, clarity, and grounded analysis keep every discussion sharp, surprising, and unmistakably alive.
Tune In
LIVE on AM970 Radio or the AM970 mobile app | Sunday, August 9 | 7–9 PM (Eastern) Replays stream everywhere: Apple, Amazon, iHeart, Spotify, and more. More info: shakeitofflive.com
Some shows entertain. This one reminds you why live conversation still matters — because when the right voices meet at the right moment, something shifts.
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