Jul 22, 2025 3-5pm ET
Tuesday on The Robert Scott Bell Show:
Hour 1
Special Guest: Mary Beth Gonzalez
Mary Beth Gonzalez is the wife and widow of Dr. Gonzalez. She founded The Nicholas Gonzalez Foundation a few months after Dr. Gonzalez died in 2015. Mary Beth proudly carries the torch for her late husband so that Dr. Gonzalez’s legacy of healing through nutrition is accessible to the world. She is motivated by his enduring love for his patients and by her sincere belief in his protocol. The effectiveness of his work confirmed to her repeatedly that this was groundbreaking knowledge that could change the face of modern medicine.
For more than 30 years, Mary Beth helped New York City-based business thrive through rapidly changing environments with her own blend of strategy and perseverance, creativity and analysis. Her strengths in driving revenue and brand growth propelled her into senior sales and marketing leadership roles at established brands such as Time Inc., NBC Universal, and Univision as well as start-up companies. Throughout her career, Mary Beth developed partnerships and content for several leading health websites. She is a builder of brands that educate and connect people to products and services that make meaningful differences in their lives.
During their 15 years together, Mary Beth consulted for Dr. Gonzalez on many aspects of his private medical practice. While Dr. Gonzalez was the quarterback, linebacker and defensive end, Mary Beth was the coach. She managed his office staff recruiting, created his lecture presentations, supervised his speaking appearances and oversaw his website development. At conferences, Mary Beth managed book and DVD sales booths and guided people to the content that best suited their needs. On an informal basis, Dr. Gonzalez and Mary Beth often discussed the importance of sustaining The Gonzalez Protocol® and the business challenges of running a single practitioner office of alternative medicine. Her love for him and her faith in his brilliance drive her daily to ensure that his protocol remains available to all who seek to heal through nutrition. She has been on The Gonzalez Protocol® for preventative health since her third date with Dr. Gonzalez in 2000.
Mary Beth is a cum laude graduate of Middlebury College with a B.A. degree in English and economics. She is the CEO of Gonzalez Guidance Group LLC, Publisher of New Spring Press and the Founder, President and Treasurer of The Nicholas Gonzalez Foundation.
Special Guest: Mary Swander
Mary Swander is an award-winning writer of drama, poetry and nonfiction with a national and international reputation. She has published books with major New York publishing houses as well as university presses. She has won grants and awards from such places as The National Endowment for the Arts, the Whiting Foundation, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her latest book is The Maverick M.D., a biography of Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez. The Iowa Women’s Hall of Fame recognized Mary Swander recently by naming her as one of the four honorees for 2022. Mary is a member of the Iowa Writers Collaborative. Read Mary Swander’s Buggy Land and Swander’s Emerging Voices. She founded Blazing Star Literary Journal. Her podcast is Mary Swander’s Buggy Land. Mary Swander is the Artistic Director of Swander Woman Productions, a theatre troupe that performs dramas about food, farming, and the wider rural environment. She is also the Executive Director of AgArts, a nonprofit designed to imagine and promote healthy food systems through the arts. Swander’s productions include Map of My Kingdom, Vang, Farm-to-Fork Tales and Squatters on Red Earth. Swander’s recent play, Squatters on Red Earth, about the white settler land grab from the Native Americans, premiered in June and will go on the road in October, 2023. Her latest book is The Maverick M.D.: Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez and His Fight for a New Treatment for Cancer (New Spring Press). The former Poet Laureate of Iowa, Swander has published scores of books of poetry and nonfiction as well as essays, magazine articles, individual poems and radio commentaries in such places as National Public Radio, The Nation, The New York Times Magazine, and Poetry Magazine. She is best known for her poetry book Driving the Body Back and for her memoirs Out of this World and The Desert Pilgrim. An emerita Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Swander taught creative writing for thirty years at Iowa State University and was a visiting writer in-residence at Interlochen Arts Academy, the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program, the University of New Mexico, and the University of Alabama. She now gives workshops on poetry, nonfiction and playwriting, as well as farmland transition, for other colleges and universities and nonprofit organizations. She received her own M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. Swander continues to tour her dramas from coast-to-coast in venues that include farmers’ barns to New York University, The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, The Mayo Clinic, and the Idaho Wine Commission. In addition to Squatters on Red Earth, her touring productions are: The Girls on the Roof, an adaptation of her poetry book with the Eulenspiegel Puppet Theatre; Vang, a play about recent immigrant farmers; Map of my Kingdom, a play about farmland transition; and Farm-to-Fork Tales, a storytelling performance. Mary Swander also gives solo performances of her own work, playing the banjo, the harmonica and the spoons. She has dual U.S./Irish citizenship and teaches in Ireland in the summers. The rest of the year, she lives in an old Amish one-room schoolhouse, raises goats and has a large organic garden where she grows most of her own food.
Hour 2 Special Guests:Terry, Ann Ochs, Kathleen Devine, Ewa Cendrowicz, Virginia Somersall and Andrea Sorvillo
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