Interview Topics
Many of these lend very well to interview, or helping your audience volunteers, or demos, and even field trips to homes under renovation.

Team bonds ~

Loving is an Action Verb  
How does love translate into teamwork?  Homes and families don’t just appear in a snap! You are building your Home Team from the day you declare your love.  Dr Debi helps you translate the idea of love into action.

Oh, Why Do-It-Yourself?  
There are many wonderful reasons that people choose to renovate their own houses.  Explore your reasons to know what to emphasize in your projects - and what to avoid.

Spiritual   
The house means many things to us – inside and out, and will affect how we approach a renovation project.  There are deep meanings to our homes, what are yours?  Understanding each other's deeper meanings helps us to respect these during the project and enjoy more kindness in the home.

Why This Project?   
What special meaning does this project have to your life? Understand the ways in which we can express our inner desires in the projects we plan.  Dr Debi helps home teams understand why their partner has just gone headlong into particular projects; many times these are about issues within the relationship.  Understanding and accepting their motivations can help us to react better, and have long lasting impact on harmony.

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Getting our team together – how to work in harmony

Your Home Team   
The Home Team is the most important asset to the family under any circumstances – and this project is a great platform to develop your family’s team spirit and skills.  How to view your family as a team, developing the right attitudes.

Communication   
Tricks and habits that will help your family build communication during your project.  Team skill building on the basics will keep the players on the bases when the balls start flying.

Decisions  
Making decisions you all can live with.  Dr Debi helps teams through the process of making fair decisions about projects.

Deep Talk   
Deeper harmony – building better communication in your family during the project.  Dr Debi can help teams deal with harder decisions and find their way through the struggle of facing deeper differences.

Leveling the Playing Field   
Learn how to have fair input into decisions and communication together – regardless of each one’s speaking skills.  Dr Debi's pleasant acceptance of all abilities helps teams learn to engage their own various members in fair play in all teamwork.

Planning   
Types of planning that will help you succeed in your project and as a family.  Many folks become overwhelmed and confused when it comes to planning a project.  Dr Debi helps teams learn how to structure the steps involved and develop better plans as a result!

Roles   
Finding agreement on who does what.  Many folks get stuck in stereotypes that limit their flexibility for teamwork.  Dr Debi helps the team define its member's strengths and make assignments that are good for the project and for the Home Team.

Schedules  
How to set up good reasonable schedules that are realistic and flexible and keep you moving ahead.  Many people find that Time is an impossible factor to wrestle with.  Dr Debi helps the Home Team navigate the intricacies of preparing a workable schedule that can finish the job successfully.

Team Balance   
Dr Debi helps the team turn around players that have been counterproductive by identifying and using their strengths for the benefit of the whole team.

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Practical elements of taking on your project

Practical Reality   
Many people find it hard to face reality.  It means facing ourselves and accepting our own limitations and knowing we are still cared for by our loved ones.

Budget   
Oh, money… Dr Debi helps Home Teams look at the realities of money.  Using psychological principles, Dr Debi helps Home Teams sit with each other, remain calm, clear thinking while considering their own financial issues in their projects.

Priorities 
Keeping your eye on the ball throughout the project.  Dr Debi re-establishes the vision with Home Teams that have gone astray.

Time Frames   
Anticipating seasonal and material limitations in your planning – with a touch of family sanity.  Many folks forget about everything else when they start their project, but good planning with encouragement from Dr Debi can meld the family's needs with the project calendar.

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Survival - How the family can adapt to the changes during and after construction

Company!   
Ups and downs of entertaining company while you build.  Life should not cease when you have a project.  Dr Debi has many tips to handle the company safely and for great project opportunities!

Family Life   
Let’s plan for family living while the project is underway.  Dr Debi helps incorporate family life into the project activities.  How to engage the children safely and still get things done, for team enrichment and harmony.

Life Stages   
How does this project fit in with your family’s growth?  Many folks do not consider their family's long and short range plans when they invest in a project.  This aspect of planning can clarify many life issues if we talk about them early on.  Dr Debi helps people anticipate their Home Team's needs 5, 10, and 30 years ahead, for a richer understanding of each other and wiser project planning.

Maintenance
You mean there’s more to do than just build it?  Dr Debi helps Home Teams remember how to keep ahead of their projects' demands on their time.

Perspective   
Getting a new vantage point to appreciate your project and progress.  Learning how to stop and take in a new view is a profitable transition in thinking.  Dr Debi helps us break out of our mental box.

Sanity   
What is sanity? In a torn-up house can one actually remain sane? Some good lessons and tricks to make it happen.  Dr Debi helps with moods, sticky communication, and stubborn thinking that can clog up the project and grind the Home Team to a halt.  Dr Debi cheerfully helps us break loose.

Surprises   
Responding to the unforeseen can bring out our best and worst – flexibility can help us be resilient when the surprises come.  Dr Debi brings her wealth of experience in brain-behavior function to help us to use our brain to its best, even when it has been overloaded and ready to crash.

Where’s the Beef? 
How do you eat when the kitchen is upside down?  Ways to plan great eating strategies that avoid weight gain.  Dr Debi brings many strategies to the kitchen planning and survival table.  A great topic for a demo on TV!

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