Hello, I'm Dr. Stephen Hassan, and I'm absolutely honored and delighted to have my mentor for my doctoral program, Dr. Judy Stevens Long, here with me today on the influence continuum.

Before we get started, Judy, I want to just read a little background on you, if I may.

You are a Ph.D. Faculty Emerita at Fielding Graduate University, where you served as

Associate Dean for Curriculum Development from 2001 to 2008. And from 1996 to 2000, Judy, you developed and directed the first online degree program in the

country, the MA, in organizational development and effectiveness at Fielding.

Judy is also Emerita from Cal State, Los Angeles, where she focused on adult development

and published the first edition of Adult Life, Developmental Processes, and Four Subsequent

Editions. Her research publications range from works on child development to work on

death and dying. In fact, she's the author of

Living Well, Dying Well, a guide to choices, costs, and consequences with co-author Doria Bardell.

She is currently editing the International Handbook of adult development and wisdom for Oxford University Press,

and is currently working with hospice of Santa Barbara as a death educator and patient service volunteer.

Judy, you and I were connected through Michael Commons, who talked me into getting the doctorate and said, go to fielding.

I'll supervise your research, and he connected me to you, and you were actually about to retire, but you took me on.

Thank you, thank you.

And said, I'll see you to the end, Steve.

Let's do this.

Let's do this.

And I'm getting such incredibly positive feedback, Judy, from the doctoral dissertation work on undue influence and the bite model of authoritarian control.

So, Judy, your book, which is, for those able to look at the video, is behind you, living well, dying well.

And as an expert in developmental psychology, this is a very topical moment.

Because so many people are experiencing death anxiety, the war in Ukraine, threats from Putin and nuclear.

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