The Powder Keg of Awesome

Tamara Dorris was back in the studio to talk about her latest book and to chat about a bunch of other stuff, too. Check it out...it's funny. (P.S. This is also the final Powder Keg episode to air on Blog Talk Radio. You can find us at our new home over on LibSyn by clicking here. 

The one where Jackie, Jerry, and Michael bid farewell to BlogTalkRadio and say "Hello!" to Libsyn! As usual, we wander off the rails a little, and by the end there's been some fun discussions about life, the universe, and everything in between.

Hey kids...still working on the re-boot of the Powder Keg. Pardon our dust as we spend a little more time making a better program. In the meantime, please enjoy this classic with Micia Mosely! Join us as we talk with Micia Mosely. Micia is a comedian AND educator and she is funnier than hell. Micia is going to be performing in the 2013 Sacramento Comedy Festival!  Micia and Jackie went to High School together in Brooklyn, New York. Micia splits her time between NYC and Oakland, CA and she's been a much sought-after Powder Keg guest. 

While we do some housekeeping on the Keg this week, please enjoy this replay of our interview with Tess Vigeland. Tess Vigeland is a veteran journalist, and a well-known voice to millions of American radio listeners. She is the CEO of Tess Vigeland Productions, a Los Angeles-based multi-media company. Until November 2012, Vigeland was the host of Marketplace Money, a weekly personal finance program that looks at why we do what we do with our money. 

Join Jerry and Jackie as they chat with special guest Christopher Cook, artistic director of the Green Valley Theatre in Sacramento as we talk about community theatre and whatever else comes up---you never know what may happen when theatre people are in the house! 

Join us as we chat with photographers Constance Faulk and Eric Vogel.  Constance & Eric are an intimate portraiturist duo who shoot sexuality in all it's glory. They say, "Sex positive intimate photography is what we do. Our shoots are fine art, private couple commissions, and various commercial projects. We believe that erotic, sexy photography not only CAN be a source of strength and inspiration for everyone, it SHOULD strive to be." Tired of outside forces dictating what sexy is or is not, Constance and Eric joined their talents to pursue a visual journey through the erotic and sensual. A difficult task given that the visual media has all but been saturated in terms of gloss, blatant, sexual imagery. With various projects and their own relationship as tools, they continue to depict incredibly personal acts and moments, often times putting the viewer right in the middle of the emotions experienced. Together they continue to inspire, arouse, and educate audiences worldwide.

Norm! So here we go again. One of the main problems with international guests (especially the ones calling in from the rurals of Southeast Asia) is the internet connection. So this time, we pre-recorded just to make sure nothing gets dropped. Check out our convo with Norm, and enjoy a fresh perspective on the world around you!

Join us as we have our quarterly show with our favorite finance person, Stacey Powell of the Finance Gym.  

They say 5 times is a charm and that's good because today will mark the 5th appearance of Norm Schriever on the Powder Keg of Awesome. Norm is to us what Alec Baldwin and Christopher Walken are to Saturday Night Live.  The reason why we keep asking Norm back on the show (aside from the fact that he's super handsome) is because he is out there in the real world, making real stuff and being real about it. There's no BS with the Schriever and we love him for it. Norm is in Cambodia right now and he has a new book out: The Book Marketing Bible: Essential marketing strategies for self-published and first-time authors, or any writer looking to skyrocket sales. (not an affiliate link).

Join us as we chat with Josh Mathe. Josh is a speaker, author, fitness expert, nutritionist, ultra endurance athlete, and life adventurer - Josh Mathe is passionate about squeezing every last drop from life, and helping others do the same.  Josh owns One10 Performance & Nutrition and serves at the Executive Director for the Sustainable Health Institute.  While much of his time is spent speaking at events or running through the wilderness, he still makes time for individual clients (personal training, nutrition consulting, and business coaching) because the human touch is central to his core philosophy.  Josh is working on a new book, In The Footsteps of Greatness, One man's journey to conquer his demons & the entire 223 mile John Muir Trail

Join us as we chat with author Dan Waldschmidt about his new book, Edgy Conversations. Dan is an International business strategist, speaker, author, and extreme athlete. His consulting firm, Waldschmidt Partners International, solves complex marketing and business strategy problems for savvy companies all over the world. 'EDGY Conversations is a gut-wrenchingly honest, no-holds-barred discussion about confronting and fixing the beliefs and behaviors that limit your ability to be amazing. It tackles head-on the uncomfortable yet powerful truth that pain, fear and love – yes, love – have a huge impact on success.

 Join us as we chat with Rob Nicholson, founder of The Nicholson Center, in Ohio. Rob is an old friend of the crew and he's had a tough winter in Ohio. The severe cold this winter has kept his clients home and resulted in the closure of his center.  Rob is currently on a mission to save the Nicholson Center. 

Join us as we chat with Pamela Slim, author of the new book Body of Work.  Pamela Slim is an award-winning author, business coach and speaker. She spent the first 10 years of her business as a consultant to large companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Charles Schwab and Cisco Systems, where she worked with thousands of executives, managers and employees. In 2005, she started the Escape from Cubicle Nation blog, which is now one of the top career and business blogs on the web. In the last 8 years, she helped hundreds of entrepreneurs to start successful businesses. Pam's first book Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur was released in Spring, 2009 and won Best Small Business/Entrepreneur Book of 2009 by 800 CEO Read. Her new book, Body of Work, gives a fresh perspective on the skills required in the new world of work for people in all work modes, from corporate to non-profit to small business.

Join Jerry and Jackie as they sit down with entrepreneur Jeffrey Louie of Capsity Offices Co-Working Space in Sacramento, CA.

Join Jerry and Jackie as they chat with psychologist Mark Ettensohn, PsyD. Finally Jackie will not be the only shrink in the room! Mark is a therapist in private practice in Sacramento and he's also an actor. 

Join Jerry and Jackie as they chat with Sacramento filmmaker Christina Marie of Cow Town FIlm Productions. Christina is making a new film called "The Dark". Christina says, "Last year we set out to break Roger Corman's film making record of shooting a movie in just 72 hours (Little Shop of Horrors 1960).  We shot in an abandoned haunted hospital in Northern California using 3 extraordinary Indie film crews running 30 pages a day and finished in just 58 hours without compromising on quality, stunts, and Practical FX!"

Join Jerry and Jackie as they chat with author, musician and playwright Larry Kirwan. Larry is best known as the front man of the New York-based group Black 47. He is the author of the novels Green Suede Shoes: An Irish-American Odyssey and Rockin' the Bronx. Currently Larry's play, "Hard Times: An American Musical" is performing in New York City. Larry is also the host of "Celtic Crush" on Sirius Radio.  Larry's band, Black 47, recently announced that they will be retiring in November 2014 after 25 years together. They just recorded a new album, "Last Call" which will be released later this year. 

  Join Jerry and Jackie as they chat with Dr. Paul Lanning. Dr. Paul Lanning serves as Managing Director of RPR Fundraising, overseeing client relationships and day-to-day operations while serving as lead counsel for a select number of clients. He previously served as President and CEO of the Foundation for California Community Colleges for more than four years from 2007 to 2011. Under his leadership, the Foundation entered a new era in which a number of groundbreaking initiatives were launched to benefit, support and enhance the California Community College system. Key successes include securing the largest gift to any two-year system of higher education in the nation's history, raising national awareness of the need for greater private support to public two-year colleges, creating the organization's resource development and marketing/communications departments to increase the Foundation's capacity to attract support, and continuous growth and enhancement of numerous programs and services that impact California Community Colleges.

? Join Jerry and Jackie as they talk to Srinivas Rao of theskooloflife.com and unmistakablecreative.com. Srini is a surfer and a writer. His most recent book is "The Art of of Being Unmistakable".  Srini says, "I believe there are things you should have learned in school but never did. In April 2009, I completed my MBA at Pepperdine University. After two degrees, 10 years of work experience,  and a series of failed relationships I never felt more unprepared for life. A few weeks later my bank balance literally hit zero and I moved back to my parents house. It seemed like I was right back where I started at the age of 18 when I went off to UC-Berkeley for my first degree.  That summer I became obsessed with surfing because I needed a way to escape how bad my life had become. That was the start of an incredible journey of riding waves, building a media empire, and sharing my ideas with the world. I became a student of The Skool of Life."

Join us as we interview long time PKA listener and all-around Linchpin, badass  and blogger Mo Nishiyama. He writes the popular Blog de Meaux from his perch in Portland, Oregon. 

Join us for our annual Holiday show!

Join us as we chat with Rebecca Dickson. Rebecca is:  Founder of Write Raw (#writeraw), creator of #justwrite, author, editor and writing coach.

Join Jackie and Jerry as we riff without a guest today, back to our powder keg basics. 

Join us as we chat with Casey Bankford and Kevin Madsen of SlimBooks.com  "SlimBooks are bite-sized, brilliant books, that you can read in an hour or two. Nothing longer than 100 pages. Books you can actually finish. More fun to write, more fun to read, and easy to share."

Join us as we have our quarterly show with our favorite finance person, Stacey Powell of the Finance Gym. We will, in keeping with the Thanksgiving theme, be talking about gratitude and finances, but in our usual irreverent, fun Powder Keg way. 

Join us as we sit down with Tracy Saville of the Possibility Media Group.  Tracy has visioned, built, and/or executed lasting, impactful businesses, social impact initiatives, and helped design and drive innovative creative and business development strategies that drive profit and game-changing impacts for people, organizations, companies, and government for more than 25 years. She believes that technology and creativity gives us the tools to think divergently about how best to re-shape the future of our children and their children's children.

Today on the Keg, Jerry and Jackie will be chatting with Chris Brogan, yes THE Chris Brogan, THAT Chris Brogan...  Chris is the CEO & President of Human Business Works, an education publishing and media company dedicated to helping professionals work better, do the work they want and be brave. He is the co-author of The Impact Equation, and Trust Agents. He hosts a terrific podcast "The Human Business Way". Jackie had the good fortune to meet Chris at The World Domination Summit in Portland this past July. 

Yep, it's that time of the month again. Join us and our Wine Wednesday ambassador Christine Trice of OMG Wine for our monthly Wine Wednesday feature. We will be featuring a local winemaker. 

Join us as we chat with Phil Gerbyshak, Milwaukee based badass and all around cool guy. Phil Gerbyshak is the chief connections officer who works with small businesses and organizations to increase employee & customer engagement by using social media to create and build relationships. He helps them understand it's really not about the tools; it's all about the conversations they participate in and the connections they create and cultivate. Phil worked in IT for much of the past 15 years, and has focused his efforts on understanding and leveraging the social media space for over 8 years. His work building relationships using blogs was spotlighted in the 2005 book What Nobody Ever Tells You About Blogging and Podcasting: Real Life Advice from 101 People Who Successfully Leverage the Power of the Blogosphere.

Every year we like to do a show with the cast of the Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Green Valley Theatre in Sacramento. Join us as we broadcast live from the theater for fun and live music brought to you by the Transylvanians of Rocky Horror. 

Yep, it's that time of the month again. Join us and our Wine Wednesday ambassador Christine Trice of OMG Wine for our monthly Wine Wednesday feature. We will be featuring a local winemaker. 

Tess Vigeland is a veteran journalist, and a well-known voice to millions of American radio listeners. She is the CEO of Tess Vigeland Productions, a Los Angeles-based multi-media company. Until November 2012, Vigeland was the host of Marketplace Money, a weekly personal finance program that looks at why we do what we do with our money.  

Bet you didn't think anyone could make teaching proper grammar both fun and entertaining? Well, you thought wrong. You haven't met Marcia Riefer Johnston, author of Word Up! How to Write Powerful Sentences and Paragraphs (And Everything You Build from Them)" "Marcia used to write letters by the boxful. She has contributed posts to her daughter's Peace Corps blog, texts to her son's Droid, and answers to her husband's crossword puzzles. Her words have landed on billboards, blackboards, birthday cakes, boxes of eggs, and the back of her book. She lives in Portland, Oregon." I got to meet Marcia in Portland this past summer and she is a delight!

Join us as we chat with musician Steve Schalchlin. I bet you have never heard of Steve? That's okay, neither did we, until Steve brought down the house at the World Domination Summit in Portland in July 2013.  Steve is a composer, lyricist, singer and pianist. From his website, "The Bonus Round"... "I call this the Bonus Round because I shouldn't even be alive. (In the Bonus Round, time goes faster and the prizes are better.) I survived a deadly bout with AIDS in 1996 and have gone on to win awards for my songs in the musical THE LAST SESSION(The 1998 LA Drama Critics Circle Winner for Best Music & Lyrics, for instance) -- co-written byJim Brochu who won Best Book)."   Steve is funny, entertaining and inspiring.  Tune in and see! 

Join us as we talk with Micia Mosely. Micia is a comedian AND educator and she is funnier than hell. Micia is going to be performing in the 2013 Sacramento Comedy Festival!  Micia and Jackie went to High School together in Brooklyn, New York. Micia splits her time between NYC and Oakland, CA and she's been a much sought-after Powder Keg guest. 

Yep, its that time of the month again. Join Jerry and Jackie and our Wine Wednesday ambassador, Christine Trice of OMG Wine for our monthly Wine Wednesday feature. We will be interviewing a local winemaker about how they are making stuff go in the world. 

Today's show will be massively exciting on several fronts. For one, it's our 100th episode. Nearly two years after we decided to finally execute on our idea of hosting a show together, well, we haven't killed one another (or anyone else) and we are still lighting the keg week after week.  We have a very special guest on the show today (making this a "very special episode", Mike Rohde of Rohdesign. Mike is the brains behind "Sketchnoting". He even wrote a book about it. You may recognize Mike's work from the 37 Signals book Rework--he did the illustrations.  I met Mike at the World Domination Summit in Portland back in July. We bonded over an Elk Burger. It was awesome. Tune in and see what I am talking about. 

Join us as we interview the always badass and funnier than shit Erika Napoletano, aka Redhead Writing. This year Erika had a run-in with some poachers who plagiarized her work word for word. I invited her to join us on the show to talk about poachers. You can assume there will be lots of swearing, not just because we're talking to Erika, but because we hate us some poachers.

Join us as we kick it old school on the Keg: back to basics. No guests. Just a good old-fashioned riff, Keg style. 

Yep, its that time of the month again. Join Jerry and Jackie and our Wine Wednesday ambassador, Christine Trice of OMG Wine for our monthly Wine Wednesday feature. We will be interviewing a local winemaker about how they are making stuff go in the world. 

Join us as we sit down for an in-person conversation with author Norm Schriever.  You're probably wondering "why is Norm appearing on the show AGAIN??" (He was just here in May). Well, for one, it's our show, we book who we want to. But really, Norm is a PKA favorite and in addition to his new book out: South of Normal, he told us he was going to be in Sacramento one last time be

Join us for our quarterly show with Stacey Powell. Stacey is the founder of Creating Answers and the Finance Gym. Stacey says, "The day I started blogging for Forbes was the day I stopped hiding behind my 'financial expert' persona, and started Telling the Truth. I was an auditor at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, I grew a not-for-profit from $500,000 to $3,000,000, and I've financially co

Join us as we chat with Eric Sterling of Portland, Oregon. Eric started a little company called Digital Pour. He makes electronic beer boards that bars can use to advertise different beers as well as track keg levels and all kind of other crazy metrics. 

Join us for our monthly Wine Wednesday feature!

Join us as we chat with our old friend Richard Hassman, aka the business resource guy. Richard has long been a fixture on the Sacramento scene, but he is leaving us and moving to Boston to be with his girlfriend. 

Join Jerry and Jackie as they interview CJ and Tammy Renzi. CJ and Tammy are a Texas couple who fell into the trap of working too much and not taking care of themselves. Finally they said "enough!" and changed their entire lifestyle, both their careers and as a couple. They recently published a book about the experience: The End of Wishing Our Days Away. Join us as we talk to them about this incredible take charge transformation. 

Join Jerry and Jackie in the studio as we interview Nicole Lundeen from Fat Red Couch, Inc. FRC are interactive media publishers, based here in Northern California, out of San Rafael.  Nicole is responsible for founding the company and directing the production and development of over a dozen titles. 25 years experience in multi-media production plus 15 years of entrepreneurial leadership. Founder of several start-ups engaged with developing product and content creation and delivery. Background includes management roles at Autodesk and California Closets. Education, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Yep, its that time of the month again. Join Jerry and Jackie and our Wine Wednesday ambassador, Christine Trice for our monthly Wine Wednesday feature. We will be interviewing a local winemaker about how they are making stuff go in the world. 

The robots are coming back! Join Jerry and Jackie as they bring back Graham Ryland, local entrepreneur and founder of Barobo, Inc. Graham was a speaker at TEDx Sacramento in August 2012. Barobo Inc. is launching a $40,000 

Join Jerry and Jackie as they interview local author Tamara Dorris. Tamara has a new book out, Secrets of a Spiritual Guru: Real Estate, Yoga & Lies (Guru 1) (Volume 1)    

Join Jerry and Jackie for their monthly Powder Keg feature, "Wine Wednesdays" with Christine Trice of OMG I So Need A Glass of Wine or I'm Going to Sell My Kids".  Christine snagged us an interview with Cheryl Murphy Durzy, proprietor of Mommy Juice Wines.  http://www.mommyjuicewines.com/