Your Retiring With Health & Wealth Hosts:

Michael Richards

Has been in radio broadcasting, voiceover and sound production for over 10 years. He was an on-air personality for WINK 96.9 in Fort Myers as well as several other stations in southwest Florida. Most recently Mike has created music and voiceover work for corporate clients. An ardent listener and a gracious host, Mike knows how to listen to his guests and get to the core of their message and asks the questions the listeners want to hear.

Alisa Kura

Majored in radio/TV/film and minored in marketing. After being in the radio industry for 9 years, Alisa changed career paths and joined her family's business, focusing on retirement planning. Her specialty was LTC insurance, but she later branched into income planning and wealth preservation for retirees. Her passion is to help people understand and plan for their two biggest retirement fears: outliving their money and suffering a devastating illness. For the past 11 years Alisa's goal has been to educate people, as she knows first-hand how to deal with LTC issues and the reality of getting older.

Dean Farkas

Dean is a 25 year radio veteran from Cleveland, Ohio. He has worked in markets from Ohio, to Missouri, Virginia and Florida. In the past 10 years, he has specialized in doing voiceovers and production for radio, tv and the Internet nationwide. Dean has owned and managed his own production company, Voice & Vision Productions from Fort Myers, Florida during that time. He currently produces Retiring With Health & Wealth for LTC Global in major radio markets nationwide and is the main announcer that you hear each week on the show. He is the proud father of an 8 year old daughter, and volunteers for the Visually Impaired Center of Southwest Florida and the Humane Society.

Regular Guests:

Lee Eizenberg

Lee Eizenberg, LTCP is a long-term care insurance specialist representing the top long term care insurance carriers in the Cleveland, Ohio and is heard in our WHK listening area. He has earned the prestigious designation of Long Term Care Professional (LTCP) from the Health Insurance Association of America. He is a nationally recognized expert in planning for the cost of long-term care. Lee consults regularly on this subject with individuals, organizations, businesses, financial planners, attorneys and the local media. His articles have appeared in numerous publications.

Brad Boswell

Brad Boswell is one of the top Long Term Care specialists in the San Diego area of southern California and is heard in our KFMB listening area. A graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles, Brad began his health care and financial planning career in 1982 – but he started learning about Long Term Care long before that.

Special Guests:

Jesse Slome

Jesse R. Slome is one of the nation's leading experts in the field of long-term care insurance marketing and sales. Slome is co-founder and Executive Director of the American Association for Long-Term Care Insurance [AALTCI.org] the national association serving insurance and financial professionals who market long-term care financing solutions. The organization, established in 1998 is responsible for creating Long-Term Care Awareness Week (now Month) the largest organized program in support of LTC sales.

Dr. William R. Shankle

Dr. Shankle is a board certified neurologist, specializes in the diagnosis, treatment and management of Alzheimer's disease and related disorders (ADRD). He co-founded the Alzheimer's Research Clinic at University of California, Irvine, in 1987 and served as a clinical director for 10 years. Following that endeavor, he initiated a community based dementia program, the Shankle Clinic, in 1997 to deliver his medical knowledge and share his personal experiences as a caregiver to more patients and families.

Dr. Shankle received his bachelor degree in Biology from Stanford University and his MD from Brown University. He trained as a statistician at the University of Southern California with postgraduate studies at Harvard, as an internist at Cook County Hospital, and finally, as a neurologist at LA County/USC Medical Center.

Jacqueline Marcell

Jacqueline Marcell, BS, is a former television executive, who after the experience of caring for her elderly parents became an author, publisher, radio host, national speaker, and advocate for eldercare awareness and reform. She is the devoted daughter in her best-selling book, Elder Rage, a Book-of-the-Month Club selection being considered for a feature film. Over fifty prestigious endorsements include: Hugh Downs, Regis Philbin and Dr. Dean Edell.

Rona Bartelstone

Rona S. Bartelstone is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, a Care Manager Certified, a Diplomat in Clinical Social Work, a Certified Advanced Social Work Case Manager and a Fellow of the GCM Leadership Academy.

Active in many community and professional organizations, Rona is a founder and past President of the National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers (GCM). She currently is a founder and Vice President of the National Academy of Certified Care Managers (NACCM), an independent, non-profit, credentialing organization. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the American Society on Aging.