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Lawrence Kane has been studying and teaching martial arts since 1970, often putting what he learned into action while working stadium security part time. The bestselling author of 30 books, he earned a Beverly Hills Book Award and Presidential Prize, a USA Best Book Award, three National Indie Excellence Book Awards, two eLit Gold Medals, an Independent Press Award, a Next Generation Indie Book Award, and a Living Now Book Awards Gold Medal, among other honors. He has been interviewed by FOX News, The Jim Bohannon Show, Computerworld, Forbes, Art of Procurement, Le Matin, Sourcing Industry Landscape, Information Week, Police Magazine, Negotiations Ninja podcast, and more... Listen NOW to discover, "5 Martial Arts Secrets To UNLEASH Your Business Breakthrough." --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/30minutehour/support

Upcoming Event!How Can Mindfulness Help You Reach Financial Independence?Do you want to reduce money anxiety, but don't know who to trust?Would you like to learn how to set up and manage your own retirement plan?Do you want to know how we create a passive income stream you can't outlive?If yes, join us and learn how to answer the 4 critical financial independence questions:Am I on track for financial independence?What do I need to do to get on track?How do I design a mindful investing portfolio?How do I manage that portfolio and my income over time through changing markets?Learn more: https://courses.mindful.money/financial-independence-bootcampMaria Brito is an award-winning New York based contemporary art advisor, entrepreneur, author and curator. She was selected by Complex Magazine as one of the twenty power players in the art world and Art News says, ‘she's one of the visionaries shaping that world.' A Harvard graduate, originally from Venezuela, her first monograph “Out There” published by Pointed Leaf Press in 2013, was the recipient of the USA Best Book Awards in both the Art and Design Categories. Today, Maria joins the show to discuss working with Diddy and Gweneth Paltrow, entrepreneurship, and common misconceptions about creativity.

Yael Unterman is an international lecturer, author, and Bibliodrama facilitator living in Jerusalem. She holds MAs in Jewish History and Creative Writing. Her books are Nehama Leibowitz: Teacher and Bible Scholar (finalist, 2009 National Jewish Book Awards) and The Hidden of Things: Twelve Stories of Love & Longing (finalist, 2015 USA Best Book Awards). She is an international lecturer and has facilitated over 700 workshops in the 'modern midrash' Bibliodrama method, invented by Harvard Professor Peter Pitzele. She has also published numerous essays, stories, and reviews, and created and performed her own biblical solo show, "After Eden". Gems:Expect delays on your journey.Be open to new ideas.Teach text and interpretation.Bibliodrama allows each person to put themselves into the shoes of the character from the story or text.It allows participants to gain a deeper understanding of the text.Learning Torah is fun!It is a powerful technique that uses various parts of the brain.We tend to remember things better when emotions are involved.Bibliodrama gives people their own voice. Help each student find their path.Keep Torah learning alive for children. Parenting On Purpose This course will help you better understand your child and build a deeper connection.Amazon We receive a small commission for any items purchased through my Amazon link.Buzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched! Start for FREEDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show

In today's episode, I am thrilled to have the remarkable Lisa Boucher as my guest. Lisa is not only an author, but also a trained polo horse handler, former bartender, and a registered nurse. After transforming her own life, Lisa got sober at the age of 33, and her incredible story has touched the lives of many. Her book, Raising The Bottom: Making Mindful Choices in a Drinking Culture, received accolades including being a finalist in the International Book Awards in health, addiction, and recovery, and winning the USA Best Book Award in women's health in 2017.Highlights:Overcoming Challenges in the Medical CommunityHealing from TraumaEmbracing Faith and TrustThe Common Denominator of StruggleEmpowering Insights for Sleepful NightsLinks:https://lisaboucherauthor.com/https://www.instagram.com/lboucherauthor/https://www.facebook.com/RaisingtheBottom/Support the showOh, and by the way, if you didn't know, I have an awesome course called Creating Healthy Boundaries; it's affordable, easy to follow, and will make a big difference in how you feel. Check it out here.If you aren't part of the Confident Sober Women Facebook group, it's a great place to be. There are over a thousand other sober women there building lives they don't want to escape from. Come on over and join us.And if you haven't read my memoir, grab a copy today and maybe a second one for a friend. There is so much hope in recovery, and I shared my story so raw and vulnerably so that others would know they aren't alone and that there is a way to live well, manage relationships, parent your kids, and have a healthy body, all while staying sober. Grab a copy of Recovering in Recovery: The Life-Changing Joy of Sobriety wherever books are sold.

First pages are impossible… so we're hearing from authors about how they got them right. In this episode, Amina Gautier discusses the first pages of “Lost and Found,” the first story in her collection The Loss of All Lost Things. She explains how the story prepares the reader thematically and stylistically for the stories that follow, how she manipulates voice, avoids graphic representations of abuse and violence, and how she has produced a record-number of published short stories (hint: it has to do with working on many stories at once).Gautier's first pages can be found here.Help local bookstores and our authors by buying this book on Bookshop.Click here for the audio/video version of this interview.The above link will be available for 48 hours. Missed it? The podcast version is always available, both here and on your favorite podcast platform.Amina Gautier is the author of three award-winning short story collections: The Loss of All Lost Things, which won the Elixir Press Award in Fiction, Now We Will Be Happy, which won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize, the USA Best Book Award in African American Fiction a Florida Authors and Publishers Association Award Gold Medal in Short Fiction, and was Long-listed for The Chautauqua Prize in Fiction, and At-Risk, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, and received an Eric Hoffer Legacy Award and a First Horizon Award. Gautier has published a record number of one hundred and forty-five short stories for which she has received numerous prizes, fellowships, and grants. For her body of work, Gautier has been the recipient of the PEN/MALAMUD Award for Excellence in the Short Story.Thank you for reading The 7am Novelist. This post is public so feel free to share it. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 7amnovelist.substack.com

In conversation with Jennifer Weiner Acclaimed for their explorations of marital fidelity, friendship, and the difficulties of connecting in modern life, Sadeqa Johnson's novels include And Then There Was Me, Second House from the Corner, and Yellow Wife, the harrowing tale of an enslaved woman forced to barter love and freedom while living in one of the Antebellum South's most infamous slave jails. A Kimbilio Fellow, former board member of the James River Writers, and a Tall Poppy Writer, she is the recipient of the National Book Club Award, the Phillis Wheatley Award, and the USA Best Book Award for best fiction, among other honors. In The House of Eve, Johnson follows two 1950s-era young Black women whose lives collide amidst taboo love affairs, ambition, and pregnancy. ''One of the biggest names in popular fiction'' (USA Today), Jennifer Weiner is the beloved number-one New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen novels-including Good in Bed, All Fall Down, Mrs. Everything, and In Her Shoes. She is also the writer of two YA books about a diminutive Bigfoot and an essay collection titled Hungry Heart, an intimate and honest meditation on yearning, fulfillment, and her many identities.  (recorded 2/9/2023)

Vicki Cody grew up in Burlington, Vermont and graduated from the University of Vermont in 1975, with a BS degree in education. For the next 33 years she was an Army wife, supporting her husband in his career. While raising their two sons and moving all over the United States and overseas, she served as a coach and mentor for Army spouses and as an advocate for Army families.Vicki has received numerous awards for her work on behalf of military families. In 2007, she was written into the Congressional Record in a tribute to her by Congressman Sylvestre Reyes, for her writings about Army life and her contributions to the nation as an Army wife and Army mom. In 2021, Vicki, along with her husband Dick, received the General Creighton Abrams Medal for Service from the Association of the United States Army.She is the author of Your Soldier, Your Army: A Parents' Guide and most recently, the revised edition, Your Soldier, Your Army: A Family Guide, both of which were published by the Association of the United States Army. This book is free of charge to everyone. To date, over 500,000 copies of these books have been distributed. Her articles have appeared in numerous military magazines and publications.Her first memoir, Army Wife: A Story of Love and Family in the Heart of the Army was published in 2016 by She Writes Press. Army Wife won the 2016 USA Best Book Award for narrative non-fiction, was a Finalist for the 2016 Foreword Indies Book of the Year in the military category, and was listed in Kirkus Reviews Top Indie Books of 2016.Her new memoir, Fly Safe- Letters from the Gulf War and Reflections from Back Home, was released in August 2021 by She Writes Press. Fly Safe was a finalist for the 2021 Best Book Awards in the History/Military category; made the Kirkus Reviews 2021 list of Great Indie Books worth discovering; and is a finalist for the Military and Front Lines Book Award in the Chanticleer International Book Awards.She and her husband of forty-six years live in the Washington, DC area. Their two sons, both Apache helicopter pilots, continue to serve on active duty in the US Army.

Episode 61 of the Stories to Love podcast is up! Our guest today is Sadeqa Johnson.Sadeqa Johnson is the award-winning author of And Then There Was Me, Second House From the Corner, Love in a Carry-on Bag and Yellow Wife. Yellow Wife is a 2022 Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy finalist, a BCALA Literary Honoree, the Library of Virginia's Literary People's Choice Award winner, and a Barnes & Noble book club pick in paperback. Her other accolades include winning the National Book Club Conference Award, the Phillis Wheatley Book Award, and the USA Best Book Award for Best Fiction. She is a Kimbilio Fellow and teaches in the MFA program at Drexel University. Originally from Philadelphia, she currently lives near Richmond, Virginia, with her husband and three children.In this episode, Sadeqa and I discussed how she married family history and a loose YA idea to come up with The House of Eve. We talked about how she navigates history as an author and a second point of view in The House of Eve that begged to be unearthed. Finally we talked about the story within a story that nudged its way into the bookI loved this conversation with Sadeqa, and I took so much away from it, notably how intuitive she is. Her stories, her ideas, the way she pieces parts of The House of Eve together…she was open to these changes. She even had mentioned it with Yellow Wife…that that story chose her, and it was the catalyst that nudged her off the contemporary fiction path to historical fiction. It felt like so many aspects and features of The House of Eve chose her too. To me, this episode was a reminder to keep my ears and eyes up. Maybe heed those nudges. Perhaps not self-reject quite as quickly. And as a storyteller, listen to what our characters are trying to say. At the moment, I'm editing my first book in my Harlequin series coming out spring of 2024, and re-listening to this conversation came at a perfect time. Links discussed:Our Kind of People by Lawrence Otis GrahamDorthy Porter Gladys BentleyRiver Sing Me Home by Eleanor ShearerThe Pieces I Am ***Preorder Tif's next book WHEN JASMINE BLOOMS, a contemporary fiction inspired by Marmee of Little Women, about a woman who suffers a great tragedy, wonders 'what if' and it comes true.Note: some links are affiliate linksContact Tif at tif@tifmarcelo.comPlease check out her website for podcast submissions

Vicki Cody talks about her books Army Wife: A Story of Love and Family in the Heart of the Army and Fly Safe: Letters From the Gulf War and Reflections from Back Home. This is episode 513 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.  Vicki Cody grew up in Burlington, Vermont and graduated from the University of Vermont in 1975, with a BS degree in education. For the next 33 years she was an Army wife, supporting her husband in his career. While raising their two sons and moving all over the United States and overseas, she served as a coach and mentor for Army spouses and as an advocate for Army families. Vicki has received numerous awards for her work on behalf of military families. In 2007, she was written into the Congressional Record in a tribute to her by Congressman Sylvestre Reyes, for her writings about Army life and her contributions to the nation as an Army wife and Army mom. In 2021, Vicki, along with her husband Dick, received the General Creighton Abrams Medal for Service from the Association of the United States Army. She is the author of Your Soldier, Your Army: A Parents' Guide and most recently, the revised edition, Your Soldier, Your Army: A Family Guide, both of which were published by the Association of the United States Army. This book is free of charge to everyone. To date, over 500,000 copies of these books have been distributed. Her articles have appeared in numerous military magazines and publications. Her first memoir, Army Wife: A Story of Love and Family in the Heart of the Army was published in 2016 by She Writes Press. Army Wife won the 2016 USA Best Book Award for narrative non-fiction, was a Finalist for the 2016 Foreword Indies Book of the Year in the military category, and was listed in Kirkus Reviews Top Indie Books of 2016. Her new memoir, Fly Safe- Letters from the Gulf War and Reflections from Back Home, was released in August 2021 by She Writes Press. Fly Safe was a finalist for the 2021 Best Book Awards in the History/Military category; made the Kirkus Reviews 2021 list of Great Indie Books worth discovering; and is a finalist for the Military and Front Lines Book Award in the Chanticleer International Book Awards. She and her husband of forty-six years live in the Washington, DC area. Their two sons, both Apache helicopter pilots, continue to serve on active duty in the US Army. We will focus on Vicki's books - Army Wife: A Story of Love and Family in the Heart of the Army and Fly Safe: Letters from the Gulf War and Reflections from Back Home. So much to learn! Powerful books! But wait... The new intro and outro music was written and performed by Brian K. Buffington. Connect with Brian at briankbuffington@gmail.com or go to his website at  https://briankbuffington.com/ He is an awesome musician, comedic power, teacher, trainer, technology guru, and overall creator of all that is cool. Thanks, Brian! Oh, yeah... Could you do me a favor? Please go to my website at https://www.stevenmiletto.com/reviews/ or open the podcast app that you are listening to me on and would you rate and review the podcast? That would be Awesome. Thanks! Hey, I've got another favor...could you share the podcast with one of your friends, colleagues, and family members? Hmmm? What do you think? That would so awesome! Thanks for sharing! Thanks for listening! Connect & Learn More: www.vickicody.com https://www.facebook.com/people/Vicki-Cody/100011167440813/ Length - 50:48

International multi award winning author Michelle Worthington is an international multi award-winning author, screenwriter and business woman. Shortlisted twice for the Children's Book Council of Australia's picture book of the year, two-time winner of the International Book Award and finalist in the USA Best Book Awards, Michelle also received a Gellett Burgess Award and a Silver Moonbeam Award for her contribution to celebrating diversity in literature. Michelle was the recipient of the 2018 AusMumpreneur Gold Award for Business Excellence and the winner of the 2018 Redlands BaR award for Best Start Up Business. Michelle is also a real life book fairy. Her magic powers include turning coffee into award-winning books. Anthology Angels and Share Your Story, she waves her wand to coach aspiring authors and illustrators all over the world achieve their dreams of publication. Whether she's a fairy, a mermaid, a pirate or an elf, Michelle celebrates empowering readers and storytellers to dream big. An energetic and dynamic storyteller Michelle is dedicated to encouraging a strong love of reading and writing in young children and conducts author visits at primary and special schools, libraries and bookstore storytelling and publishing workshops for adults. She especially enjoys meeting people through her speaking engagements for women's groups and charities. She is also available for speaking engagements, book signings and school visits. She helps aspiring authors write and publish picture books with her range of online courses, runs diverse workshops, and if you are thinking of becoming a writer yourself check out Anthology Angels and her self paced online course Write A Picture Book at Michelle Worthington – Share Your Story (https://shareyourstory.digital/). Feel free to contact Michelle if you require any more information. https://www.facebook.com/michelleworthington.author https://twitter.com/michelle_author https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelleworthingtonauthor/ https://www.youtube.com/user/mworthingtonauthor https://www.instagram.com/michelle.author/ https://www.pinterest.com.au/michellewauthor/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/radiotonitv/support

Warren Hammond is known for his gritty, futuristic KOP series. By taking the best of classic detective noir, and reinventing it on a destitute colony world, Hammond has created these uniquely dark tales of murder, corruption and redemption. KOP Killer won the 2012 Colorado Book Award for best mystery. His last novel, Tides of Maritinia, was released in December of 2014. His first book independent of the KOP series, Tides is a spy novel set in a science fictional world. Josh bio: Joshua Viola is a 2021 Splatterpunk Award nominee, Colorado Book Award winner, and editor of the StokerCon™ 2021 Souvenir Anthology. He is the co-author of the Denver Moon series with Warren Hammond. Their graphic novel, Denver Moon: Metamorphosis, was included on the 2018 Bram Stoker Award™ Preliminary Ballot. Viola edited the Denver Post #1 bestselling horror anthology Nightmares Unhinged, and co-edited Cyber World—named one of the best science fiction anthologies of 2016 by Barnes & Noble. His first novel, The Bane of Yoto, won the USA Best Book Awards, National Indie Excellence Awards, International Book Awards, and Independent Publishers Book Awards. His short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies, including DOA III: Extreme Horror Anthology, Doorbells at Dusk and Classic Monsters Unleashed. In 2022, he became the creative director of comics and novelizations for Random Games' videogame franchise, Unioverse, a new series from the creators of Grand Theft Auto and Donkey Kong Country, and the writers of Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Halo 4. When he isn't writing and editing, Viola dabbles in art. In 2020, he collaborated with his husband, Aaron Lovett, on AfterShock Comics' Miskatonic #1 Cover Alpha Comics variant. As a video game artist, he worked on Pirates of the Caribbean: Call of the Kraken, Smurfs' Grabber and TARGET: Terror. Viola is the owner and chief editor of Hex Publishers in Denver, Colorado. www.hexpublishers.com www.denvermoon.net www.unioverse.com www.joshuaviola.com www.warrenhammon.net For video versions of these podcasts, follow: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBP81nfbKnDRjs-Nar9LNe20138AiPyP8 Host: Mark Stevens: https://www.writermarkstevens.com/   Intro Music by Moby Gratis: https://mobygratis.com/ Outro Music by Dan-o-Songs: https://danosongs.com/

Episode 53: Sharing new secrets with Author Patricia Sands on The Storytellers. Patricia Sands lives two hours north of Toronto, but her heart's other home is the South of France. An avid traveler, she spends part of each year on the Cote d'Azur and once a year co-leads a 16-women, 12-day tour of the Riviera and Provence. Her award-winning 2010 debut novel, The Bridge Club, is a book club favorite. The Promise of Provence, which launched her three-part Love in Provence series was a finalist for a 2013 USA Best Book Award and a 2014 National Indie Excellence Award, an Amazon Hot New Release in April 2013, and a 2015 nominee for a #RBRT Golden Rose award in the category of romance. Drawing Lessons, Sands' fifth novel, also set in the south of France, was released by Lake Union Publishing in 2017 and was a Finalist in the Somerset Literary Book Award 2019. The Villa des Violettes miniseries released in 2019/20 and Book 4 is anticipated in 2023. Her just released novel is The Secrets We Hide. She is also busy writing a novella, Lost At Sea, to be included in the nine-book Sail Away series that will publish in January 2023. Find out more about Patricia at: http://www.patriciasandsauthor.com Facebook https://www.facebook.com/patricia.sands.9 and https://www.facebook.com/AuthorPatriciaSands Twitter https://twitter.com/patricia_sands Bookbub https://www.bookbub.com/authors/patricia-sands Goodreads - http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4381348.Patricia_Sands Instagram https://www.instagram.com/psands.stories/?hl=en The Storytellers hosted by Grace Sammon, focuses on individuals who choose to leave their mark on the world through the art of story. Each episode engages guests and listeners in the story behind the story of authors, artists, reporters and others who leave a legacy of storytelling. Applying her years of experience as an educator, entrepreneur, author, and storyteller herself, Grace brings to listeners an intimate one-on-one experience with her guests. Visit Grace at her website www.gracesammon.net. Contact Grace about being a guest on the show, email her at grace@gracesammon.net Follow Grace: On Facebook https://www.facebook.com/GraceSammonWrites/ On Instagram https://www.instagram.com/GraceSammonWrites/ On Twitter https://www.twitter.com/GSammonWrites On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grace-sammon-84389153/ #TheStorytellers #Storyteller #Storytellers # Storytelling #AuhtorInterview #LetsTalkBooks #LeaveYourMark #AuthorLife #StorytellerLife #ArtofStory #AuthorTalkNetwork #BookishRoadTrip #AuthorTalkNetwork #AuthorsOnTheAirGlobalRadioNetwork #author #france #hawaii #travel #lovereading #novel #noveltalk #photography #mentalawarness The Storytellers is a copyrighted work © of Grace Sammon and Authors on The Air Global Radio Network.

Episode 53: Sharing new secrets with Author Patricia Sands on The Storytellers. Patricia Sands lives two hours north of Toronto, but her heart's other home is the South of France. An avid traveler, she spends part of each year on the Cote d'Azur and once a year co-leads a 16-women, 12-day tour of the Riviera and Provence. Her award-winning 2010 debut novel, The Bridge Club, is a book club favorite. The Promise of Provence, which launched her three-part Love in Provence series was a finalist for a 2013 USA Best Book Award and a 2014 National Indie Excellence Award, an Amazon Hot New Release in April 2013, and a 2015 nominee for a #RBRT Golden Rose award in the category of romance. Drawing Lessons, Sands' fifth novel, also set in the south of France, was released by Lake Union Publishing in 2017 and was a Finalist in the Somerset Literary Book Award 2019. The Villa des Violettes miniseries released in 2019/20 and Book 4 is anticipated in 2023. Her just released novel is The Secrets We Hide. She is also busy writing a novella, Lost At Sea, to be included in the nine-book Sail Away series that will publish in January 2023. Find out more about Patricia at: http://www.patriciasandsauthor.com Facebook https://www.facebook.com/patricia.sands.9 and https://www.facebook.com/AuthorPatriciaSands Twitter https://twitter.com/patricia_sands Bookbub https://www.bookbub.com/authors/patricia-sands Goodreads - http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4381348.Patricia_Sands Instagram https://www.instagram.com/psands.stories/?hl=en The Storytellers hosted by Grace Sammon, focuses on individuals who choose to leave their mark on the world through the art of story. Each episode engages guests and listeners in the story behind the story of authors, artists, reporters and others who leave a legacy of storytelling. Applying her years of experience as an educator, entrepreneur, author, and storyteller herself, Grace brings to listeners an intimate one-on-one experience with her guests. Visit Grace at her website www.gracesammon.net. Contact Grace about being a guest on the show, email her at grace@gracesammon.net Follow Grace: On Facebook https://www.facebook.com/GraceSammonWrites/ On Instagram https://www.instagram.com/GraceSammonWrites/ On Twitter https://www.twitter.com/GSammonWrites On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grace-sammon-84389153/ #TheStorytellers #Storyteller #Storytellers # Storytelling #AuhtorInterview #LetsTalkBooks #LeaveYourMark #AuthorLife #StorytellerLife #ArtofStory #AuthorTalkNetwork #BookishRoadTrip #AuthorTalkNetwork #AuthorsOnTheAirGlobalRadioNetwork #author #france #hawaii #travel #lovereading #novel #noveltalk #photography #mentalawarness The Storytellers is a copyrighted work © of Grace Sammon and Authors on The Air Global Radio Network.

Change is constant and it is speeding up even faster now. One indication is the number of people pivoting in their lives. This requires us to be able to adapt with agility. Most importantly, unleash our creativity to fulfill our potential in our pivot. Kellee talks with Maria Brito, a leading expert on creativity. She will share how we can better tap into our creativity, to successfully transition in our ongoing pivots, especially in today fast-paced changing environment.Maria Brito is an award-winning New York-based contemporary art advisor, entrepreneur, author and curator. Her bestselling book How Creativity Rules The World was published by HarperCollins Leadership in March 2022. In 2015, Brito was selected by Complex Magazine as one of the 20 Power Players in the Art World and in 2020 she was named by ARTNEWS as one of the visionaries who gets to shape the art world. A Harvard graduate, originally from Venezuela, her first monograph “Out There” published by Pointed Leaf Press in 2013, was the recipient of the USA Best Book Awards in both the Art and Design Categories. She has written for publications such as Huffington Post, Elle, Forbes, Artnet, Cultured Magazine, Departures, and the Gulf Coast Journal of Literature and Fine Arts from the University of Houston, Texas. For several years, Maria has taught her creativity course in companies and, in 2019, she launched Jumpstart, an online program on creativity for entrepreneurs based on years of research and observation in both the areas of business and art. Maria and her projects have been featured extensively in national and international publications including The New York Times Style Section, T: The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, W Magazine, ELLE Magazine, Harper's Bazaar, Time Magazine, New York Magazine, The New York Observer, The Daily Beast, The Economist, Interview Magazine, VOGUE Italia, VOGUE Mexico, VOGUE  Latin America, VOGUE Brazil, VOGUE China, VOGUE.com, ELLE Décor Spain, Departures, Forbes, Blouin ArtINFO, Hamptons Magazine, Condé Nast Traveler, Architectural Digest, Modern Luxury, Refinery29, goop, Billboard, Marie Claire Australia, Marie Claire Spain, Allure, The Coveteur, House Magazine, House Beautiful, Buro 24/7, Latina, Modern Magazine, and more.

Jennifer Lieberman is from Maple, Canada and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from York University in Toronto. She has appeared in over thirty stage productions in Toronto, New York City, Los Angeles, Europe and Australia; including her Award-Winning solo-show Year of the Slut, which her novel Year of the What? was adapted from. In addition to her performance career, she has penned a number of screen and stage plays; her short films Leash and Details which both screened at the Festival De Cannes' Court Métrage among other international film festivals as well as the wacky web-series Dumpwater Divas. More information can be found about Jennifer at:http://jenniferliebermanactor.comDr. Figueroa-Otero is the author of the School of Life trilogy: Spirituality 101 For the Dropouts of the School of Life, Spirituality 1.2 For the Disconnected from the School of Life, and Spirituality 103: The Key to Forgiveness. His books received awards from institutions like the Benjamin Franklin Award, NIEA Award, Readers Favorite, Beverly Hills Award, and USA Best Book Awards. They have also received great reviews by Focus on Women Magazine and the Kirkus Book Review, among others.https://www.ivanfigueroaoteromd.com/The Douglas Coleman Show now offers audio and video promotional packages for music artists as well as video promotional packages for authors. We also offer advertising. Please see our website for complete details. http://douglascolemanshow.comIf you have a comment about this episode or any other, please click the link below.https://ratethispodcast.com/douglascolemanshow

Jennifer Lieberman is from Maple, Canada and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from York University in Toronto. She has appeared in over thirty stage productions in Toronto, New York City, Los Angeles, Europe and Australia; including her Award-Winning solo-show Year of the Slut, which her novel Year of the What? was adapted from. In addition to her performance career, she has penned a number of screen and stage plays; her short films Leash and Details which both screened at the Festival De Cannes' Court Métrage among other international film festivals as well as the wacky web-series Dumpwater Divas. More information can be found about Jennifer at:http://jenniferliebermanactor.comDr. Figueroa-Otero is the author of the School of Life trilogy: Spirituality 101 For the Dropouts of the School of Life, Spirituality 1.2 For the Disconnected from the School of Life, and Spirituality 103: The Key to Forgiveness. His books received awards from institutions like the Benjamin Franklin Award, NIEA Award, Readers Favorite, Beverly Hills Award, and USA Best Book Awards. They have also received great reviews by Focus on Women Magazine and the Kirkus Book Review, among others.https://www.ivanfigueroaoteromd.com/The Douglas Coleman Show now offers audio and video promotional packages for music artists as well as video promotional packages for authors. We also offer advertising. Please see our website for complete details. http://douglascolemanshow.comIf you have a comment about this episode or any other, please click the link below.https://ratethispodcast.com/douglascolemanshow

Marsha Scarbrough, author of Honey in the River: Shadow, Sex and West African Spirituality, is a freelance journalist, who has had over 100 articles published in national magazines. Honey in the River has been awarded First Place in the 2016 New Mexico Press Women Communications Contest Awards and Honorable Mention in the 2016 National Federation of Press Women Professional Communications Contest. It was also named a Finalist in the USA Best Book Awards and the New Mexico Book Awards. Marsha's first book, Medicine Dance: One woman's healing journey into the world of Native American sweatlodges, drumming meditations and dance fasts, published by O Books, John Hunt Publishing, was named First Runner Up for the 2009 Zia Award by New Mexico Press Women as well as a finalist in USA Book News National 2007 and 2008 “Best Books” Awards and the 2008 New Mexico Book Awards. Marsha spent 17 years scheduling, planning and running the sets of major feature films, prime time television series as an Assistant Director in Hollywood. Along the way, Marsha traveled with Buddhist teacher Joan Halifax, danced with movement guru Gabrielle Roth, earned a brown belt in karate from martial arts legend Tak Kubota, participated in Native American healing ceremonies and produced workshops for a Nigerian master drummer. In 2006, Marsha moved from her native Los Angeles to Santa Fe, New Mexico. In 2017, she moved to Madrid, Spain.

Our guest this week is William Jack Sibley author of "Here We Go Loop De Loop" -- Sibley is a fifth generation Texas rancher, an award-winning author and a versatile writer whose work has spanned from the likes of writing dialogue for television's Guiding Light to serving as a contributing editor at Andy Warhol's Interview Magazine, to seeing his plays produced off-Broadway and regionally. Sibley is the author of a dozen screenplays, nine stage plays, and three novels (Any Kind of Luck, Sighs Too Deep For Words, and Here We Go Loop De Loop). Sibley's previous works have won the National Indie Excellence Book Award and USA Best Book Award while succeeding as a finalist in the Lambda Literary Award, Foreword Reviews Book of the Year, and more. Sibley currently is the Secretary of the Texas Institute of Letters, as well as a member of The Dramatist Guild and the Writers Guild of America. He lives in San Antonio. Get his books here "Here We Go Loop De Loop" "Any Kind of Luck" "Sighs Too Deep For Words" --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brianbielanskiletstalk/support

Guest, Jon Land, bestselling author of more than 40 novels Jon Land is the USA Today bestselling author of 50 books, including ten titles in the critically acclaimed Caitlin Strong series: Strong Enough to Die, Strong Justice, Strong at the Break, Strong Vengeance, Strong Rain Falling (winner of the 2014 International Book Award and 2013 USA Best Book Award for Mystery-Suspense), Strong Darkness (winner of the 2014 USA Books Best Book Award and the 2015 International Book Award for Thriller, and Strong Light of Day which won the 2016 International Book Award for Best Thriller-Adventure, the 2015 Books and Author Award for Best Mystery Thriller, and the 2016 Beverly Hills Book Award for Best Mystery. Strong Cold Dead became the fourth title in the series in a row to win the International Book Award in 2017 and about which Booklist said, “Thrillers don’t get any better than this,” in a starred review. It was followed by Strong to the Bone, winner of the 2017 American Book Fest Best Book Award for Mystery Suspense and the 2018 International Book Award for best Mystery as well as Thriller. It was followed by Strong as Steel (April ’19) about which Suspense Magazine proclaimed, “Get ready to sink your teeth into what just might be the best novel of 2019.” The book went on to win the 2019 International Book Award for Best Thriller/Adventure. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/cindy-gilman/support

In conversation with Jennifer Weiner, bestselling author of numerous books including In Her Shoes and most recently Big Summer Yellow Wife tells the harrowing story of an enslaved woman forced to barter love and freedom while living in the most infamous slave jail in Richmond, Virginia. Sadeqa Johnson is the award-winning author of four novels, each exploring themes of marital fidelity, friendship, and the difficulties of connecting in modern life. Her accolades include being the recipient of the National Book Club Award, the Phillis Wheatley Award and the USA Best Book Award for best fiction.'' (recorded 1/25/2021)

Maria Brito is an award-winning New York-based contemporary art advisor, author, and curator. A Harvard graduate, originally from Venezuela, her first monograph “Out There” published by Pointed Leaf Press in 2013, was the recipient of the USA Best Book Awards in both the Art and Design Categories. In this episode our hosts talk to Maria about art, artists, galleries and curators in America today and where this massive industry is heading.Episode Highlights: 8:41 - Art can be an entry point for education and for very challenging conversations without having to get to a contentious point. I think all that is left in the world is human beings and their souls. 17:55 - In the past 5 years, a lot of collectors and galleries have been paying more attention to black artists; some people were not happy with the results of the election and started paying attention to opposing views. 25:55 - You mentioned the art world is still in New York - are the artists still here? Has the internet done anything to the flatten the geography of where artists create and work? Learn more about our guests:Maria Brito:WebsiteInstagramTwitterLearn more about the Accutron watch here, and follow @AccutronWatch on Instagram. Subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify to hear new episodes as soon as they're released.Follow our hosts on social media:Bill McCuddy: Facebook  / Twitter 

Join Kody Bateman for episode 75 of his Relationship Marketing podcast with guest Meridith Elliot Powell. Meridith Elliott Powell was voted one of the Top 15 Business Growth Experts to watch by Currency Fair, a Top Sales Experts To Follow by LinkedIn, and one of the Top 41 Motivational Sales Speakers. Meridith Elliott Powell is an award-winning author, keynote speaker and business strategist. Meridith worked her way up from entry-level to earn her position in the C-Suite. She is a Master Certified Strategist, Executive Coach and Certified Speaking Professional, a designation held by less than twelve percent of professional speakers. Meridith is the author of 6 books including Winning In The Trust & Value Economy (a finalist in the USA Best Book Awards) and her latest: Own It: Redefining Responsibility – Stories of Power, Freedom & Purpose which was named “Top 50 Sales Book for 2018” In her book she shares how to build cultures that inspire ownership at every level to create profits at every turn. Her seventh book: The BEST Sales Book Ever – Cut The Excuses and Send Sales Through The Roof, with Hall of Fame Speaker Connie Podesta – is due out at the end of April Her area of expertise is in helping audiences and listeners understand the strategies and skills needed to succeed in today’s economy. Her latest book, OWN IT: Redefining Responsibility, goes into detail about how the changes in this economy have created a new customer and a new employee, and why that calls for a new approach to leadership at every level. In addition, she helps employees understand specifically what they need to do to ensure they become the employee that companies strive to keep. She is passionate about the term responsibility, and the impact it has when companies and employees embrace it, and actually integrate it into their culture. Meridith is passionate about helping her audiences attract more business, retain top talent, and turn uncertainty competitive advantage.

Maria Brito is an award-winning New York-based contemporary art advisor, author and curator. A Harvard graduate, originally from Venezuela, her first monograph “Out There” published by Pointed Leaf Press in 2013, was the recipient of the USA Best Book Awards in both the Art and Design Categories. In 2015 Brito was selected by Complex Magazine as one of the 20 Power Players in the Art World and in 2020 she was named by ARTNEWS as one of the people who gets to shape the art world. She has worked on product collaborations with artists such as Kenny Scharf, Erik Parker, Katherine Bernhardt, Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Nir Hod and many more. In 2016, Maria curated “Greek Gotham” presented at Dio Horia, Mykonos with the participation of sixteen New York-based artists including KAWS, Austin Lee, Nina Chanel Abney and Raul de Nieves. A full-color catalogue with an introduction by Jeffrey Deitch was written and designed by Maria to commemorate this exhibition. In 2019 she created and hosted "The "C" Files with Maria Brito", a TV and streaming series for PBS's new station "ALL ARTS". The same year she also curated two exhibitions: “The Thousand and One Nights,” the inaugural show of Artual Gallery in Beirut, Lebanon with seven American artists including Holly Coulis, Allison Zuckerman and Rosson Crow and "MUSE", Shona McAndrew's first New York City exhibition at CHART Gallery in Tribeca. Maria and her projects have been featured extensively in national and international publications including The New York Times Style Section, T: The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, W Magazine, ELLE Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Time Magazine, New York Magazine, The New York Observer, The Economist, Interview Magazine, VOGUE Italia, VOGUE Mexico, VOGUE Latin America, VOGUE Brazil, VOGUE China, VOGUE.com, ELLE Décor Spain, Departures, Forbes, Blouin ArtINFO, Hamptons Magazine, Condé Nast Traveler, Architectural Digest, Modern Luxury, Refinery29, goop, Billboard, Marie Claire Australia, Marie Claire Spain, Allure, The Coveteur, House Magazine, Lifestyle Mirror, House Beautiful, Buro 24/7, Latina, Modern Magazine, The Daily Beast, and more. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/liana-zavo/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/liana-zavo/support

Inspiration, Ideation and Innovation — chat with Naveen LakkurFor this episode, I had a very stimulating conversation with Naveen Lakkur, the founder and Chief Innovation Coach at the Institute of Inspiring Innovation and a serial author with three books to his name. As a practitioner, he has built companies, mentored and implemented commercial ideas worldwide, and identified methods and models from these experiences that can enrich the experiences of entrepreneurs and innovators.Mr. Lakkur defines innovation as the creation of something that is new or doing something different or making something better. It is viewed not as an exclusive exercise but a democratic one and an opportunity for all entrepreneurs and executives to expand their horizons by combining creativity with innovation and imbibing human values to generate meaningful ideas.Learnings from BooksIn his first book “Inseparable Twins”, Lakkur introduces the concept of paired principles, such as values and innovation — concepts that are dissimilar from each other but generate a new power when they come together.The second book, “FOUND: Transforming Your Unlimited Ideas Into One Sustainable Business” is a Book for Ideation, won four international awards, including the ‘USA Best Book Awards' in the entrepreneurship category. It is targeted at people looking to work smart by helping them categorize different ideas and identify the winning one. No idea is a bad idea, and the book teaches readers to classify them by sorting and distilling, take responsibility and action, and utilize them to bring out their potential. It emphasizes that ideation is a crucial step in the innovation journey that many entrepreneurs tend to overlook.His third book “a Little Extra™: A Book of Illustrations for Extraordinary Results” uses brief and powerful messages for developing the right mindset for success. Lakkur pushes the point that only a little extra is required to change the outcome, to overcome the gap between the ordinary and extraordinary. All three books emphasize the need to link human values with innovation to make it meaningful and to democratize innovation by giving everyone the knowledge and power to innovate.Create. Operate. Disrupt.Lakkur uses Indian mythology or the principle of God as a metaphor to explain the fundamentals of innovation. He identifies the holy Hindu Trinity of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva with the three letters in GOD — ‘G' as Generator, played by Brahma; ‘O' as Operator, the role played by Vishnu, and ‘D' or disruptor, which is Shiva. Through this, he shows how even godly roles are organizationally well-defined and are metaphors for an innovation journey or a product lifecycle. One has to create, operate, and disrupt, and keep reinventing — these elements are the foundation of entrepreneurship.Another principle is that of the inseparable twins. The consorts of these gods represent the paired principles that Lakkur proposes. Brahma's wife, Saraswati, as a goddess of knowledge, counterbalances his role as a generator, rather main resource provider for creation. For Vishnu, the cash flow required for operations — from fundraising to revenue generation to expense management and investment — is represented in the form of his wife, Lakshmi, goddess of wealth. Shiva's wife Shakti symbolizes the power that is the essential resource for disruption. They are ideally paired to bring optimal results. The takeaway is that entrepreneurs need to realize that it is not a single approach, but the application of these paired principles that enhance their creativity and enables their mission & vision.

Patricia is an accomplished International Contemporary Artist. She is the President of Patricia Karen Gagic Art Enterprises Inc. represented by Gallery on the Bay in Hamilton, Ontario, Artworld Fine Art in Toronto, Art Productions New York, F@CEC in France and Paul Fisher Gallery in West Palm Beach and Miami. Patricia has exhibited her art in many countries around the world such as Britain, Germany, France, Austria, and Switzerland. In 1999, Patricia began her studies with master artist Dragan Dragic in Savoillan, France. In 2007, she was an Honorary Commissioner at the 52nd Venice Biennale in support of Transcendental Realism – art of Adi Da Samraj.In December 2018, Patricia received the Gold Medal in Photography from the Salon Nationale Beaux Arts (SNBA) at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris. She is also the recipient of the Silver Medal by the Societe Academique Arts, Sciences and Letters of France and she is recognized as a Top 60 Masters by ATIM in New York. In addition to her artwork, Patricia is an award winning author. She has written the books “Karmic Alibi” and “Karma and Cash”. Karmic Alibi received the 2017 Book Excellence Award, was an award finalist in the 2014 USA Best Book Awards, and a finalist in 2015 International Book Awards, all in the non-fiction narrative category. She is currently in the process of finalizing the following publications: “The Black Snowflake”, “Thirsters and Quenchers”, and “The Mind of an Artist” with an expected release sometime in 2020. She has co-authored in several best-seller books including: “The Voices of Inspiration”, “RockStar Success Stories”, “Rock Your Life”, and “Sexy without Boundaries”. Patricia has spoken on stages including the Harvard Club of Boston and in September 2019 at Carnegie Hall in New York.Patricia is a dedicated humanitarian with projects in Haiti and Cambodia. She is a member of the Ontario Cabinet for Friends of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, a member of the Sir Edmund Hilary Foundation Board of Directors and an Advisor to AiDa, Academy of Imagination and Dramatic Arts. Due to her involvement in many categories, Patricia is the recipient of many awards, nominations, and recognition. In 2013 she was knighted as a Dame of the International Order of St. George Grand Prior of Canada.She has won and been nominated by the “Status of Women’s -Woman of the Year”, “YMCA Peace Medal”, “YWCA Women of Distinction and the Award of Excellence by the Toronto Women’s Expo”. Patricia was recognized by Women’s Executive Network as one of the Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada, awarded the BMO Arts and Communication category in 2015. In 2016 Patricia was the WXN Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada recipient in the Royal Bank Champions category. She received the WXN Top 100 award in the BMO Arts and Communication category in 2017. In 2018 Patricia was inducted into the WXN Top 100 Most Powerful Women Hall of Fame. When Patricia isn’t painting, writing, or leading humanitarian projects, she loves to meditate. She is a Certified Meditation Specialist/Facilitator completing her Certification in Applied Mindfulness and Transformative Mindfulness and Mindfulness without Borders from Factor Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto https://parkbench.com/blog/patricia-karen-gagic-art-enterprise-ltd-gallery-on-the-bay-art-photography-mill-pond-richmond-hill-patricia-gagic

Dorene O’Brien is a Detroit-based creative writing teacher and writer. Her stories have won the Red Rock Review Mark Twain Award for Short Fiction, the Nelson Algren Award, the New Millennium Writings Fiction Prize, and the international Bridport Prize. She has won fellowships from the NEA and the Vermont Studio Center. Her work has appeared in the Baltimore Review, Madison Review, Chicago Tribune, Montreal Review, and others. Voices of the Lost and Found, her first fiction collection won the USA Best Book Award for Short Fiction. Her second full-length collection, What It Might Feel Like to Hope, released in 2019 by Baobob Press was named first runner-up in the Mary Roberts Rinehart Fiction Prize and won a gold medal in the 2019 Independent Publishers Book Awards (IPPY).The stories take place in Detroit and small towns in the upper Midwest, and they’ve been described as “gritty.” They feature characters ranging from a man barely surviving eight compulsory blind dates with daughters of his mother’s friends, to a tarot card reader who schemes to save Detroit from blight and casinos, to a research scientist whose Alzheimer’s diagnosis leads him to find new meaning in the crystals he can no longer study.https://baobabpress.com/books/what-it-might-feel-like-to-hope/https://www.doreneobrien.com/

Jon Land on Discover Your Potential Jon Land is the USA Today bestselling author of 50 books, including ten titles in the critically acclaimed Caitlin Strong series: Strong Enough to Die, Strong Justice, Strong at the Break, Strong Vengeance, Strong Rain Falling (winner of the 2014 International Book Award and 2013 USA Best Book Award for Mystery-Suspense), Strong Darkness(winner of the 2014 USA Books Best Book Award and the 2015 International Book Award for Thriller, and Strong Light of Day whichwon the 2016 International Book Award for Best Thriller-Adventure, the 2015 Books and Author Award for Best Mystery Thriller, and the 2016 Beverly Hills Book Award for Best Mystery. Strong Cold Dead became the fourth title in the series in a row to win the International Book Award in 2017 and about which Booklist said, “Thrillers don’t get any better than this,” in a starred review. It was followed by Strong to the Bone, winner of the 2017 American Book Fest Best Book Award for Mystery Suspense and the 2018 International Book Award for best Mystery as well as Thriller. It was followed by Strong as Steel (April ’19) about which Suspense Magazine proclaimed, “Get ready to sink your teeth into what just might be the best novel of 2019.” The book went on to win the 2019 International Book Award for Best Thriller/Adventure. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/cindy-gilman/support

In this week’s episode, we amplify the voice of The Literary Lobbyist -- Dawn Michelle Hardy. Dawn holds dual titles in publishing— book publicist and literary agent. She is the President of Dream Relations PR & Literary Consulting, and also the brainchild behind Publishing in Your Pajamas, a virtual writers conference that educates and empowers aspiring and debut authors.  In the publicity space, Dawn Michelle Hardy has aided novelists and non-fiction authors for 17 years on their climb to publishing success by using strategic promotions to expand their readership, build their brands, win awards and garner national and local media attention. She is an award-winning publicist, conference speaker and sought after book publishing consultant who believes that promoting writers and their work is truly about discoverability, access, and an entrepreneurial approach. Her clients have won a wide range of awards including the IPPY, USA Best Book Award, Eric Hoffer Award and a sports narrative that was Shortlisted for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing.  Some of the authors she has serviced with book publicity include, Sadeqa Johnson (Love in a Carry-on Bag)  Jayne Allen, (Black Girls Must Die Exhausted), Tia Williams (The Perfect Find), Clint Smith (Counting Descent), D. Watkins (The Beastside: Living and Dying While Black in America), Resurrection to Rejection by Steven Eugene Carter, and From the Block to the Boardroom by Tracey Syphax. As a Literary Agent, her client's body of work includes a biography on Nicki Minaj, NBA-Allstar Allen Iverson, the Superbowl winning Seattle Seahawks and The New York Jets, along with a memoir that was adapted to the screen with the Syfy Channel, an essay collection and a forthcoming narrative on self-care for black women publishing in 2021. Listen in as we speak about Dawn's journey in the world of publishing. What you'll learn: Dawn's early career years as a literary agent & publicist and what sparked the establishment of her own agency. What a typical day looks like for her in both spaces serving as a literary agent & publicist. The type of content and body of work she's looking to represent and tips on how to partner with her. Key tips on how to author your memoir in 2020 and additional services and resources she's offering to assist you in your writing goals. CONNECT WITH: Dawn Michelle Hardy IG: TheLiteraryLobbyist | FB: DreamRelationsPR | LinkedIn: Dawn Michelle Hardy Websites: http://dreamrelationspr.com/ https://publishinginyourpajamas.com/ Rapid Fire Questions: Are you more productive at night or in the morning? What book had the most significant impact on you? Books mentioned in our conversation: Becoming -- Michelle Obama His Testimonies, My Heritage -- Kristie Anyabwile & Kim Cash Tate  Year of Yes -- Shonda Rhimes True to the Game -- Terri Woods This site contains affiliate links to products. We may receive a commission for purchases made through these links at no additional cost to you. OUR NARRATIVE FROM OUR PERSPECTIVE! Connect with us Click Here To Join The Melanated Conversations Collective Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/melanatedconvos/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/melanatedconvos Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/melanatedconvos/ DON’T MISS AN EPISODE OF MELANATED CONVERSATIONS! Click here to subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts. Click here to subscribe to us on Stitcher. Click here to subscribe to us on Spotify. Click here to subscribe to us on Google Podcasts.  LOVE THIS EPISODE? PLEASE CLICK HERE TO LEAVE US A REVIEW ON APPLE PODCASTS!  [music: "Fly" by Makaih Beats]  

Bob Van Laerhoven is a full time Belgian/Flemish novelist who published (traditionally) more than 40 books in Holland and Belgium. In Belgium, Bob was a four-time finalist of the ‘Hercule Poirot Prize for Best Mystery Novel of the Year’ with the novels ‘Djinn’, ‘The Finger of God’, ‘Return to Hiroshima’, and ‘The Firehand Files’. In 2007, he became the winner of the Hercule Poirot Prize with ‘Baudelaire's Revenge’, which also won the USA Best Book Award 2014 in the category ‘mystery/suspense’. "Baudelaire's Revenge" is also published in French and in Russian. Bob’s collection of short stories ‘Dangerous Obsessions’, first published in the USA in 2015, was chosen as the ‘best short story collection of 2015’ by the San Diego Book Review. The collection has been translated into Italian, (Brazilian) Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.  ‘Return to Hiroshima’, his second crime novel in English, was published in May 2018 by Crime Wave Press (Hong Kong). The British quality review blog Murder, Mayhem & More has chosen ‘Return to Hiroshima’ as one of the ten best international crime novels of 2018. MMM reviews around 200 novels annually by international authors. Also in 2018, the Anaphora Literary Press published ‘Heart Fever’, his second collection of short stories. ‘Heart Fever’ was one of the five finalists of the American Silver Falchion Award. Bob was the only non-American finalist. The collection has been translated into Italian and Spanish. A German translation is currently in production. To learn more about Bob Van Laerhoven and his work, please visit bobvanlaerhoven.be/en.

Scott Brennan is the president and chief accelerated success expert at BOLDbreak, Inc.  He has formerly been an award-winning business owner as well as an award-winning and successful corporate executive, repeatedly leading his teams to develop and deliver innovative services to the marketplace. Scott is now an award-nominated-author of the book, “The Surging Team“, which was honored as an Award-Winning Finalist in the Business Management & Leadership category by the 2015 USA Best Book Awards and is now available on Amazon, as well as the author of an innovative video training series, “10 BOLDskills for Accelerated Team Success“, as an exciting companion resource to his book. Favorite Quote “If you are frozen by fear, look down, stay in your three-foot world and take one step forward at a time”~Mark Owen Key Points 1. Learn to be on the Lookout for Opportunities within the Problems So often the difference between a successful person and a failure is simply perspective. One will choose to see a set of circumstances as an opportunity, another as a problem. The better you can become at asking quality questions and searching for the opportunity in adversity, the more successful you will be. So often it has been said that the greatest fortunes are made during the greatest recessions and this is true in life as well, if you can find a way to make any challenge or “failure” a positive, you will succeed at whatever you set your mind to. 2. Engage Your Team with Stories  If you are looking to build a dynamic and surging team, it is essential that you engage the team in whatever task they have before them. The greatest way to achieve this is through the art of storytelling. Learn to craft masterful stories about where the team is headed, to tell masterful stories about adversity that has been overcome and successes in the past, and you will have a team with an unstoppable connection and vision. 3. Learn to Build on Strengths The greatest mistake any leader can make is placing his subordinates in a place of weakness. Often, team members with excellent potential must be let go simply because upper management never bothered to find out what they were really good at and what made them tick and therefore put them in a place where they could not thrive. Do yourself and your team a favor and take some time to connect with them, learn their strengths, learn their weaknesses, and put them in positions reflective of their personality. When you do, your team will develop unstoppable momentum in business and in life. 4. Relationships Matter At the heart of everything we do in this life is relationships. They amplify the human experience and give some sense of meaning to our confusing and often frustrating existence. If you get the relationship piece right, your life will be full and joyful, if you get it wrong, no amount of success will fulfill you.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jeffrey Blount is an award-winning author of two novels, Almost Snow White, winner of the 2013 USA Best Book Awards, and Hating Heidi Foster, winner of the 2013 Readers Favorite Book Award for young adult literature. He is also an Emmy award-winning television director. During a 34-year career at NBC News, Jeffrey directed a decade of Meet The Press, The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, The Chris Matthews Show and major special events. Jeffrey speaks on issues of race, social justice and writing. He's also an award-winning scriptwriter for films on display in the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture. Born and raised in Smithfield, Virginia, he now lives in Washington, DC.  ABOUT THE BOOK - THE EMANCIPATION OF EVAN WALLS “If you aren't already ‘woke,' you will be after reading this book.”—Mary Batten, author of Aliens from Earth EVAN WALLS IS TERRIFIED by the birth of his first child because he doesn't want her to suffer the isolation he had as a child. Seeing his torment, his wife, Izzy, prods him to explain. He tells of being a black child growing up in the racially charged 1960s. Inspired to overcome the racism and class status imposed on blacks, he dreams of a life bigger than that lived by most everyone he knows in the small Virginia town of Canaan. He is resented by friends and family for desiring a life better than theirs. Among the smartest in his class, Evan becomes a target of white kids threatened by the forced integration of their schools. Caught in a crossfire of hate from whites and his own people, who question whether he is black enough, Evan is often alone and bewildered. Only the love of his great grandmother, Mama Jennie, and his mentor, Bojack, keeps him on track. Together, they help Evan find perspective and peace.

Kevin Short is the author of Sell Your Business for an Outrageous Price: An Insider's Guide to Getting More Than You Ever Thought Possible. A must-read for business owners who need to do some real homework on the sale process. During today’s episode, Kevin tells me why he wrote the book and why companies are willing to pay outrageous prices for an acquisition. He walks me through Clayton Capital’s process and has some deal breakers and keys to performing good due diligence. He also has insight into the current market and why the climate is changing and should be taken advantage of now. What you will learn: Why Kevin wrote his book. The difference between financial and strategic buyers. Why a seller should avoid financial buyers. How the Clayton Capital team finds the right buyer. How a client’s inside market knowledge is beneficial to Kevin and his team. How Kevin aligns client wants with the right buyer. The difference between business brokers and investment bankers. Things that are deal breakers for a buyer. Why due diligence is so important to a buyer. The role of a good experienced financial team. What is a 330 H-10 Election? Advice for telling employees about a sale. How to cope with deal fatigue. Takeaways: Hearing these stories will build your knowledge and prepare you for your business sale. Links and Resources: GEXP Collaborative Sell Your Business for an Outrageous Price: An Insider's Guide to Getting More Than You Ever Thought Possible by Kevin Short Clayton Capital Partners About Kevin: Kevin Short is the Managing Partner and CEO of Clayton Capital Partners, a St. Louis-based investment banking firm specializing in merger and acquisition advisement. Beginning in 2007, Thomson Reuters, FactSet Mergerstat and Investment Dealers’ Digest all ranked Clayton Capital Partners as a top U.S. M&A firm. In 2017, Acquisition International M&A Awards awarded the firm the distinction of being the Best M&A Investment Banking Firm. It was also named a 2017 finalist for U.S.A. Boutique Investment Bank of the Year by the M&A Atlas awards. Clayton Capital Partners is also the winner of the Wealth & Finance Investment Bank of the Year. Kevin is also the author of Sell Your Business For An Outrageous Price published by AMACOM. The book has received 11 awards, including the Axiom Book Award Bronze Medal for Entrepreneurship, Indie Book Award, USA Best Book Award, The Great Midwest Book Festival Award, San Francisco Book Award, National Indie Excellence Award, New England Book Festival, International Book Award, The London Book Festival Award, Book Excellence Award and was a New York Book Festival Finalist. Many of the awards are from international competitions! The book synthesizes Kevin’s experience in selling mid-size companies ($10MM - $250MM in

Kevin Short is the author of Sell Your Business for an Outrageous Price: An Insider's Guide to Getting More Than You Ever Thought Possible. A must-read for business owners who need to do some real homework on the sale process. During today’s episode, Kevin tells me why he wrote the book and why companies are willing to pay outrageous prices for an acquisition. He walks me through Clayton Capital’s process and has some deal breakers and keys to performing good due diligence. He also has insight into the current market and why the climate is changing and should be taken advantage of now. What you will learn: Why Kevin wrote his book. The difference between financial and strategic buyers. Why a seller should avoid financial buyers. How the Clayton Capital team finds the right buyer. How a client’s inside market knowledge is beneficial to Kevin and his team. How Kevin aligns client wants with the right buyer. The difference between business brokers and investment bankers. Things that are deal breakers for a buyer. Why due diligence is so important to a buyer. The role of a good experienced financial team. What is a 330 H-10 Election? Advice for telling employees about a sale. How to cope with deal fatigue. Takeaways: Hearing these stories will build your knowledge and prepare you for your business sale. Links and Resources: GEXP Collaborative Sell Your Business for an Outrageous Price: An Insider's Guide to Getting More Than You Ever Thought Possible by Kevin Short Clayton Capital Partners About Kevin: Kevin Short is the Managing Partner and CEO of Clayton Capital Partners, a St. Louis-based investment banking firm specializing in merger and acquisition advisement. Beginning in 2007, Thomson Reuters, FactSet Mergerstat and Investment Dealers’ Digest all ranked Clayton Capital Partners as a top U.S. M&A firm. In 2017, Acquisition International M&A Awards awarded the firm the distinction of being the Best M&A Investment Banking Firm. It was also named a 2017 finalist for U.S.A. Boutique Investment Bank of the Year by the M&A Atlas awards. Clayton Capital Partners is also the winner of the Wealth & Finance Investment Bank of the Year. Kevin is also the author of Sell Your Business For An Outrageous Price published by AMACOM. The book has received 11 awards, including the Axiom Book Award Bronze Medal for Entrepreneurship, Indie Book Award, USA Best Book Award, The Great Midwest Book Festival Award, San Francisco Book Award, National Indie Excellence Award, New England Book Festival, International Book Award, The London Book Festival Award, Book Excellence Award and was a New York Book Festival Finalist. Many of the awards are from international competitions! The book synthesizes Kevin’s experience in selling mid-size companies ($10MM - $250MM in

D. P. Lyle is the award-winning, best-selling author of both fiction and nonfiction books. Sunshine State is the third in his best-selling Jake Longly mystery series. Earlier books in the series were finalists for the Shamus Award, Foreword Book of the Year Award, and USA Best Book Award, and included on Suspense Magazine’s Best Books of 2016 list. He is world renowned for his forensic expertise—the author of MacCavity Award winning and Edgar Award nominated Forensics for Dummies, now in its second edition. As a forensics expert, he has worked with the writers of popular television shows such as Law & Order, CSI: Miami, Diagnosis Murder, Monk, Judging Amy, Peacemakers, Cold Case, House, Medium, Women’s Murder Club, 1-800-Missing, The Glades, and Pretty Little Liars. He is a frequent speaker and radio and TV guest as well a valued forensic consultant to crime novelists. He is also International Thriller Writer’s V.P. for Education and responsible for CraftFest, Master CraftFest, and ITW’s online Thriller School. Lyle has an undergraduate degree and a medical degree from the University of Alabama. He completed an Internal Medicine residency at the University of Texas at Houston and Cardiology Fellowship training at the Texas Heart Institute. He practices cardiology in Orange County, California. Matt Coyle is the Anthony Award-winning author of the Rick Cahill crime series.

João Cerqueira has a PhD in History of Art from the University of Oporto. He is the author of eight books. The Tragedy of Fidel Castro won the USA Best Book Awards 2013, the Beverly Hills Book Awards 2014, the Global EbookAwards 2014, was finalist for the Montaigne Medal 2014 and was considered by ForewordReviews the third best translation published in 2012 in the United States. It is published in six countries. Jesus and Magdalene won the silver medal in the 2015 Latino Book Award. The short story A house in Europe received an honorable mention in the Glimmer Train July 2015 Very Short Fiction Award. A British national, Chris Mingay has lived and worked in Portugal for the last 15 years. A degree in Modern Languages from the University of Birmingham, and a love of foreign culture, especially that of his adoptive home, has led to his involvement in a series of translation and journalistic endeavours. With his own translation agency and working as a freelance journalist for a number of publications, Chris entered the world of literary translation with João Cerqueira’s award-winning The Tragedy of Fidel Castro.

Voted one of the Top 15 Business Growth Experts to watch by Currency Fair, and one of the Top Sales Experts To Follow by Linked In. Meridith Elliott Powell is an award-winning author, keynote speaker and business strategist. With a background in corporate leadership and sales, her career expands over several industries including banking, healthcare and finance. Meridith worked her way up from entry-level to earn her position in the C-Suite. She is a Master Certified Strategist, Executive Coach and Certified Speaking Professional, a designation held by less than twelve percent of professional speakers. In addition, Meridith is an invitation-only author for LinkedIn, having published more than six courses on their prestigious education networks.   She has a cutting-edge message, rooted in real-life examples and real-world knowledge. She is the author of five books, including Winning In The Trust & Value Economy (a finalist in the USA Best Book Awards) and her latest “Own It: Redefining Responsibility – Stories of Power, Freedom & Purpose (named Top 50 Sales Book for 2018) about how to build cultures the inspire ownership at every level to create profits at every turn. She is also an invitation only author for LinkedIn. Meridith is regularly featured in publications such as Forbes, Fast Company, Inc., Investment News, and American Banker among others. High energy and highly interactive, Meridith’s helps leaders and business owners learn the new rules of success today. How today’s economy has changed. How that has changed today’s customers and employees. And specifically how that impacts your business. In her highly engaging keynote-speaking sessions, Meridith shows her audiences how to attract more business, retain top talent, and leap into position to win in this new economy. No walking on coals, no breaking boards, just real-life strategies you can put into place first thing Monday morning. Meridith Elliott Powell Business Growth Expert MotionFirst 359 Dingle Creek Lane Asheville, NC 28803 (888) 526-9998 (Business) (828) 243-3510 (Mobile) meridith@meridithelliottpowell.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kim Drew Wright is an award-winning writer with fiction and poetry published internationally by over a dozen literary journals and organizations, including, The Pinch, The Milo Review, Sixfold, and in an anthology, What We Carry Home. She graduated in journalism from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill and enjoyed a career in advertising. She currently resides in Richmond, Virginia, with her husband and three children. The Strangeness of Men is her debut collection, which won a Silver IPPY Award and Finalist in USA Best Book Awards. Following the 2016 election Kim started that now famous group Liberal Women of Chesterfield County and Beyond and has inspired women across the country to become more engaged in local politics, advocacy, and grass roots organizing. Discover more about Kim: https://www.liberalwomenofchesterfieldcounty.com/https://www.kimdrewwright.com

Increasingly clients are looking to technology for support reaching health goals.  While different apps exists to support daily behavior change, advances in meditation technology offers one the ability to  quickly change mental states anywhere, anytime, by connecting to a smart phone and listening to encoded sound.  These sound-based tools create opportunities for deep healing at your fingertips.  Join Dr. Joel Kreisberg in his conversation with John Dupuy, the founder and CEO of iAwake, a leading source of meditation technology.  We've learned a lot about how to  change brain waves gently and effectively.    Bio: John Dupuy is a native of Texas and grew up in Latin America. John is a veteran of the United States Army, where he served in Europe as a military police investigator. John has a Bachelor's degree from Texas State University in Modern Languages (German and Spanish) and a Master of Arts degree in Transpersonal Psychology from John F. Kennedy University. John is the founder of Integral Recovery, has published various articles on the subject, and in 2013, his book Integral Recovery: A Revolutionary Approach to the Treatment of Alcoholism and Addiction was published by SUNY Press, later to win the 2013 USA Best Book Award. John is the founder of Integral Recovery, has published various articles on the subject, and in 2013, his book Integral Recovery: A Revolutionary Approach to the Treatment of Alcoholism and Addiction was published by SUNY Press, later to win the 2013 USA Best Book Award. John is a pioneer in using brain entrainment technology clinically for the treatment of addiction, depression, and other mental disorders.

DP Lyle, MD is the Macavity and Benjamin Franklin Silver Award winning and Edgar, Agatha, Anthony, Scribe, Silver Falchion, and USA Best Book Award nominated author of many non-fiction books as well as numerous works of fiction, including the SAMANTHA CODY, DUB WALKER, and JAKE LONGLY thriller series and the ROYAL PAINS media tie-in novels. He has worked with many novelists and with the writers of popular television shows such as Law & Order, CSI: Miami, Diagnosis Murder, Monk, Judging Amy, Peacemakers, Cold Case, House, Medium, Women’s Murder Club, 1-800-Missing, The Glades, and Pretty Little Liars. He was born and raised in Huntsville, Alabama where his childhood interests revolved around football, baseball, and building rockets in his backyard. The latter pursuit was common in Huntsville during the 1950’s and 60’s due to the nearby NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center. After leaving Huntsville, he attended college, medical school, and served an internship at the University of Alabama; followed by a residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Texas at Houston; then a Fellowship in Cardiology at The Texas Heart Institute, also in Houston. For the past 35 years, he has practiced Cardiology in Orange County, California. Thorne and Cross’ new thriller, MOTHER, is available now. Visit Tamara and Alistair at their websites: tamarathorne.com and alistaircross.com This is a copyrighted, trademarked podcast owned solely by the Authors on the Air Global Radio

Anysia returns to talk about her other book, Discovering the Medium Within. Anysia Marcell Kiel, MFA, is a lifelong healing medium who has been able to communicate with spirits, since she was a very young child. She is the award-winning author of Discovering The Medium Within: Techniques and Stories From A Professional Psychic Medium, which received a 2013 USA Best Book Award, 2013 Living Now Gold Medal Book Award, 2014 New England Book Festival Award, and 2015 Indie Spiritual Book Award. She is also the author of Discovering the Healer Within: Use Chakras and Intuition to Clear Negativity; Release Pain released in by Llewellyn Publication in August of 2017. Anysia holds an MFA in creative writing and enjoys sharing information and exercises via her blog for people interested in learning more about mediumship development and healing. She is the founder of the Soul-Centered Healing Method,™ a system of healing that incorporates Divine energy. The healing method identifies and clears the root causes and energetic imprints of illnesses, disease, trauma, and repetitive life patterns. Anysia created Soul-Centered Healing LLC, a spiritual healing center in Toms River, NJ through which she provides healing sessions, classes, lectures, and events. Anysia lives in New Jersey with her two children, Brayden and Briella, who have the same abilities as their mother. You can visit her online at www.anysiakiel.com.

Anysia Marcell Kiel, MFA, is a lifelong healing medium who has been able to communicate with spirits, since she was a very young child. She is the award-winning author of Discovering The Medium Within: Techniques and Stories From A Professional Psychic Medium, which received a 2013 USA Best Book Award, 2013 Living Now Gold Medal Book Award, 2014 New England Book Festival Award, and 2015 Indie Spiritual Book Award. She is also the author of Discovering the Healer Within: Use Chakras and Intuition to Clear Negativity; Release Pain released in by Llewellyn Publication in August of 2017. Anysia holds an MFA in creative writing and enjoys sharing information and exercises via her blog for people interested in learning more about mediumship development and healing. She is the founder of the Soul-Centered Healing Method,™ a system of healing that incorporates Divine energy. The healing method identifies and clears the root causes and energetic imprints of illnesses, disease, trauma, and repetitive life patterns. Anysia created Soul-Centered Healing LLC, a spiritual healing center in Toms River, NJ through which she provides healing sessions, classes, lectures, and events. Anysia lives in New Jersey with her two children, Brayden and Briella, who have the same abilities as their mother. You can visit her online at www.anysiakiel.com.

Voted one of the Top 15 Business Growth Experts to watch by Currency Fair, Meridith Elliott Powell is an award-winning author, keynote speaker and business strategist. With a background in corporate sales and leadership, her career expands over several industries including banking, healthcare, and finance. Meridith worked her way up from an entry-level position to earn her seat at the C-Suite table. Meridith is a Certified Speaking Professional ©, a designation held by less than twelve percent of professional speakers, and a member of the prestigious Forbes Coaching Council. She has a cutting-edge message, rooted in real-life examples and real-world knowledge. She is the author of four books, including Winning In The Trust & Value Economy (a finalist in the USA Best Book Awards) and her latest Own It: Redefining Responsibility – Stories of Power, Freedom & Purpose about how to build cultures that inspire ownership at every level to create profits at every turn. Meridith writes, speaks and is passionate about helping her clients understand everything they need to know about how to make this economy start working for them. High energy and highly interactive, Meridith’s keynotes, workshops and innovative coaching programs help leaders and business owners learn the new rules of success today, including how today’s economy has changed, how that has changed today’s customers and employees, and specifically how that impacts your business.Meridith Female Keynote Speakers Meridith Speaking to VOYAIn her highly engaging keynote-speaking sessions, Meridith shows her audiences how to attract more business, retain top talent, and leap into position to win in this new economy. No walking on coals, no breaking boards, just real-life strategies you can put into place first thing Monday morning. www.MeridithElliottPowell.com

Journey into Wellness with Stacey Chillemi Stacey Chillemi is a popular and recognizable health and lifestyle reporter and expert, columnist and health host. Author of The Complete Guide to Natural Healing: A Natural Approach to Healing the Body and Maintaining Optimal Health Using Herbal Supplements, Vitamins, Minerals, Fruits, Vegetables and Alternative Medicine and Natural Remedies for Common Conditions: How to Prevent, Heal and Maintain Optimum Health Using Alternative Medicine, Herbals, Vitamins, and Food, along with 20 other published books, Stacey is the founder of The Complete Herbal Guide , which currently has over 300,000 monthly visitors. Stacey has been a guest on numerous lifestyle and health-related TV and radio programs, and is a recognized health and natural remedies expert, with over 20 years in practice as a Health Coach. Stacey has been a guest on the Dr. Oz Show, local news, and numerous radio shows. http://www.staceychillemi.com Fearless Fabulous You! with Melanie YoungMelanie Young knows how to face challenges with grit, grace and wit and re-frame them to make things happen for the better. She a motivational muse for anyone who feels stuck and who wants to reignite their personal or professional brand and she is a living example of turning stumbling blocks into stepping stones.After surviving breast cancer, Melanie wrote her first book, Getting Things Off My Chest: A Survivor’s Guide to Staying Fearless & Fabulous in the Face of Breast Cancer (Cedar Fort Inc./2013), to help newly diagnosed women stay focused and make smarter choices about caring for their well-being during and after treatment. Getting Things Off My Chest received both the 2014 International Book Award and USA Best Book Award for Cancer Health topics. http://www.melanieyoung.com

Voted one of the Top 15 Business Growth Experts to watch by Currency Fair, Meridith Elliott Powell is an award-winning author, keynote speaker, and business strategist. With a background in corporate sales and leadership, her career expands over several industries including banking, healthcare, and finance.  Meridith worked her way up from an entry-level position to earn her seat at the C-Suite table. Meridith is a Certified Speaking Professional ©, a designation held by less than twelve percent of professional speakers, and a member of the prestigious Forbes Coaching Council. She has a cutting-edge message, rooted in real-life examples and real-world knowledge. She is the author of four books, including Winning In The Trust & Value Economy (a finalist in the USA Best Book Awards) and her latest Own It: Redefining Responsibility – Stories of Power, Freedom & Purposeabout how to build cultures that inspire ownership at every level to create profits at every turn. Meridith writes, speaks and is passionate about helping her clients understand everything they need to know about how to make this economy start working for them.

Amina Gautier is the author of three award-winning short story collections: The Loss of All Lost Things, which won the Elixir Press Award in Fiction, Now We Will Be Happy, which won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize, the USA Best Book Award in African American Fiction a Florida Authors and Publishers Association Award Gold Medal in Short Fiction, and was Long-listed for The Chautauqua Prize in Fiction, and At-Risk, which won the Flannery Oâ??Connor Award for Short Fiction, and received an Eric Hoffer Legacy Award and a First Horizon Award. Gautier has published a record number of short stories.

We are committed to bringing you additional information about DOL; how you and your advisors can cope with it and profit from it. In order to do that, we have another industry expert, Stig Nybo, with us.  He is a 25 year veteran within the retirement services industry. Stig has had the opportunity to help build several organizations within the retirement plans business, helping propel them into a leadership position. His leadership experience includes sales, marketing, and responsibility for the overall organization. Most recently, he served as President of US Retirement Strategy for Transamerica, where he led work on the DOL rule. He is an award winning author for the book Transform Tomorrow – Awakening the Supersaver In Pursuit of Retirement Readiness; a 2012 book focused on changing saving behavior that received multiple awards, including two USA Best Book Awards in the categories of Social Change and Business – Investing. He has a passion for sharing best practices to improve retirement outcomes and frequently writes industry articles and speaks at industry meetings. In 2013, he was named 5th most influential person in the retirement plan industry by 401k Wire.] Book Stig for your next advisor event or wholesaler meeting through Wholesaler Masterminds Speakers Bureau.    

Bill welcomes Hélène Cardona to the show. A poet, literary translator and actor, Hélène is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a Hemingway Grant and the USA Best Book Award. Her books include three bilingual poetry collections, most recently Life in Suspension (Salmon Poetry, 2016) and Dreaming My Animal Selves (Salmon Poetry, 2013), and two translations, Beyond Elsewhere (White Pine Press, 2016) and Ce que nous portons (Éditions du Cygne, 2014). With Yves Lambrecht, she co-translated Walt Whitman’s Civil War Writings for the Iowa International Writing Program’s WhitmanWeb. Her acting credits include Chocolat, Jurassic World, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, The Hundred-Foot Journey, Muppets Most Wanted, X-Men Days of Future Past, Happy Feet 2, Mumford, & many more. Don't miss it!

DP Lyle, MD is the Macavity and Benjamin Franklin Silver Award winning and Edgar, Agatha, Anthony, Scribe, Silver Falchion, and USA Best Book Award nominated author of many non-fiction books as well as numerous works of fiction, including the SAMANTHA CODY, DUB WALKER, and JAKE LONGLY thriller series and the ROYAL PAINS media tie-in novels.  He has worked with many novelists and with the writers of popular television shows such as Law & Order, CSI: Miami, Diagnosis Murder, Monk, Judging Amy, Peacemakers, Cold Case, House, Medium, Women’s Murder Club, 1-800-Missing, The Glades, and Pretty Little Liars. He was born and raised in Huntsville, Alabama where his childhood interests revolved around football, baseball, and building rockets in his backyard. The latter pursuit was common in Huntsville during the 1950’s and 60’s due to the nearby NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center. After leaving Huntsville, he attended college, medical school, and served an internship at the University of Alabama; followed by a residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Texas at Houston; then a Fellowship in Cardiology at The Texas Heart Institute, also in Houston. For the past 35 years, he has practiced Cardiology in Orange County, California. Thorne and Cross’ new thriller, MOTHER, is available now. http:Visit Tamara and Alistair at their websites. This is a copyrighted, trademarked podcast owned solely by the Authors on the Air Global Radio  

Summary: In this episode I talk to Dr Kathy Gruver about diet, fun, flying and she even tells about a very useful mini meditation we can do at any time of the day.  Kathy Gruver, PhD is an award-winning author and the host of the national TV show based on her first book, The Alternative Medicine Cabinet (winner Beverly Hills Book Awards). She has earned her PhD in Natural Health and has authored five books, Body/Mind Therapies for the Bodyworker and, Conquer Your Stress with Mind/Body Techniques (Winner Indie Excellence Awards, Beverly Hills Book Awards, Global E-book Awards, Irwin Awards, Finalist for the USA Best Books Award). Her latest book, Journey of Healing just won three awards (USA Best Book Awards, Pinnacle Awards and the non-fiction category of the London Book Festival) and she co-wrote Market my Practice.   She has studied mind/body medicine at the famed Benson-Henry Institute for Mind-Body Medicine at Harvard Medical School and has been featured as an expert in numerous publications including Glamour, Fitness, Time, More, Women, Wall Street Journal, CNN, WebMD, Prevention, Huffington Post, Yahoo.com, Ladies Home Journal, Dr. Oz’s The Good Life, First, Women, Massage and Bodywork magazine, and Massage Magazine. She has written dozens of health and wellness articles and contributing posts. Dr. Gruver has appeared as a guest expert on over 250 radio and TV shows including NPR, SkyNews London, Morning Blend in Las Vegas, CBS Radio, and Lifetime Television, and has done over 200 educational lectures around the country for everyone from nurses in the Middle East to 911 dispatchers in New Orleans, corporations around the US and teachers in her own backyard. She is currently working a project for the military to create and institute a stress reduction program. For fun and stress relief Dr. Gruver does flying trapeze and hip hop dance.  Links:   http://www.kathygruver.com/ In this particular episode you will learn: - Why it's important to put some lightness into healing from Anxiety & Stress - Why we have to honor where everyone is in their journey - We have a choice as to how we will show up each and every day - We can't always stop the stress but we can choose how we interpret it -  Why flying on planes isn't always just about the turbulence its about the whole experience - Why food choices have such a big impact on the way you feel - Mini Meditation - Inhale "I am"  Exhale "At peace" (I Love This)

Michelle Segar is a motivation scientist and author of "No Sweat! How the Simple Science of Motivation Can Bring You a Lifetime of Fitness.” She is Director of the Sport, Health, and Activity Research and Policy Center at the University of Michigan, and Chair of the U.S. National Physical Activity Plan’s Communications Committee. No Sweat was chosen as the #1 book in Diet/Exercise in 2015 by the USA Best Book Awards, and when released, it became the #1 Exercise & Fitness book on Amazon. During the interview, Michelle talks about how our interactions from physical activity constructs our meaning for exercise, what she means by the depletion of will power, the self-determination theory, framing behavior, tips for helping clients stick to exercise, and how gamification can help clients fuel their desire for more exercise. Visit: fitnessbusinesspodcast.comEmail: info@activemgmt.com.auPhone: +61 2 9484 5501Twitter: @fitbizpodcastFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/fitnessbusinesspodcast/

Turning the Tables; Emmy-Winning Investigative Reporter Hank Phillippi Ryan interrogates DP Lyle, MD Bio D.P. Lyle:  DP Lyle, MD is the Macavity and Benjamin Franklin Silver Award winning and Edgar, Agatha, Anthony, Scribe, Silver Falchion, and USA Best Book Award nominated author of many non-fiction books as well as numerous works of fiction, including the SAMANTHA CODY and DUB WALKER thriller series and the ROYAL PAINS media tie-in novels. His essay on Jules Verne’s THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND appears in THRILLERS: 100 MUST READS and his short story “Even Steven” in ITW’s anthology THRILLER 3: LOVE IS MURDER. He has worked with many novelists and with the writers of popular television shows such as Law & Order, CSI: Miami, Diagnosis Murder, Monk, Judging Amy, Peacemakers, Cold Case, House, Medium, Women’s Murder Club, 1-800-Missing, The Glades, and Pretty Little Liars.

View fullsize Today we discuss The Buddha from Babylon: The Lost History and Cosmic Vision of Siddhartha Gautama with author Harvey Kraft.Harvey Kraft is an American author, and a Spiritual Archeologist adept at interpreting ancient mythic language. Mr. Kraft’s new alternative biography of the historical Buddha titled The Buddha from Babylon is the culmination of 15 years of research into the Buddha’s lifetime and enlightened visions. The book is this year's double winner of the USA Best Book Awards for Eastern Religions and Non-fiction World History. The Buddha from Babylon: The Lost History and Cosmic Vision of Siddhartha Gautama By Harvey Kraft Harvey Kraft explores human history from a spiritual perspective, rather than the traditional method based on military conquests. His research method employs archaeological findings, translating and interpreting mythic literature and iconography, unearthing hidden meanings embedded in ancient linguistics, and exploring the cosmology of existence through visionary insights. As a student of Buddhism for forty-seven years, his personal quest has been to unearth the meaning of Buddhist wisdom. Mr. Kraft’s new biography of Siddhartha Gautama is the culmination of his aspiration to explore the Buddha’s original teachings and enlightened scope. Reviewers have recognized it as a “seminal work.” Today Mr. Kraft lives with his family in California. He is a sought-after speaker and consultant. In 1998 Mr. Kraft lost his 23-year-old daughter, Lani, after a heart transplant operation. She had encouraged her father to share his understanding of Buddhism. Trying to deal with her passing, he embraced her inspiration to follow the path she pointed him in. His work is dedicated to her.

The current state of addiction recovery treatment—worldwide—is a disaster. There is virtually no education in our medical schools or the schools that train our counselors and therapists about the disease of addiction. While there are many breakthroughs occurring in our understanding of the disease of addiction as a genetic, neurological, social and spiritual disease, there has been no serious effort—outside of Integral Recovery—to bring all of these disparate fields of study under one roof and knit them together so that they actually work and cover all the essential bases of this disease. The Integral Recovery map provides the evolutionary scaffolding for us to hold a truly holistic, integral approach to healing our beloved addicts, and Integral Recovery practice is the vehicle that carries us on this journey. This evolutionary framework is grounded in John Dupuy’s two decades of working with addicts and their families, a decade’s work of using Integral Recovery in his own healing journey, and also in his work with his many students and clients. In this lecture, John Dupuy dialogues with Dr. Bob Weathers about the past, present, and future of Integral Recovery and how attendees can apply this knowledge and these practices to their own lives and to the lives of those with whom they work. Dupuy also uses visual aids to facilitate a deeper understanding of the Integral Recovery map and the evolutionary framework that it provides. Once one understands this map, they will never see the world or the disease of addiction in the same way. Those who view this lecture will be able to: - Describe the Integral Recovery approach. - Identify who and what an addict truly is—not someone who is abusing drugs or chemically dependent. - Understand the disease of addiction in a more deeply integral and holistic way. - Describe the basics of the Integral Recovery map and the practices that are essential for recovery from addiction. Speaker Bio: John Dupuy is the founder of Integral Recovery, a revolutionary approach to the treatment of addiction and alcoholism. He has over two decades’ experience working with addicts and their families and has co-founded two wilderness therapy programs. Dupuy travels internationally to teach and inspire on the subjects of Integral Recovery, Integral Transformative Practice, and the use of brainwave entrainment technology to deepen one’s meditation practice in the treatment of addiction, depression, PTSD, and other mental disorders. He is CEO of iAwake Technologies, has taught at John F. Kennedy University for four years, and now teaches online courses to both individuals in recovery and professionals at the Integral Recovery Institute. Dupuy also coaches individuals privately via Skype. He is the author of Integral Recovery: A Revolutionary Approach to the Treatment of Addiction and Alcoholism, winner of the 2013 USA Best Book Award in Health: Addiction & Recovery. A passionate blues guitarist, singer and songwriter, Dupuy has recorded three albums of original material.

The Total Tutor Neil Haley will interview award winning author Stephen Maitland-Lewis. He is the author of BOTTICELLI'S BASTARD (Glyd-Evans Press/August 11, 2014). It is the new mystery novel from , award winning author Stephen Maitland-Lewis, which deals with the bizarre relationship between a fine art restorer, Giovanni Fabrizzi, and an old master portrait by an unidentified artist of the 16th Century.  Obsessed to learn the truth of the painting's origin, Giovanni becomes increasingly convinced the painting could be the work of one of history's great artists – Botticelli - which if true, would catapult its value. In learning the painting's past, Giovanni believes the portrait was stolen during the greatest art heist in history – the Nazi plunder of European artwork. As Giovanni persists in his quest of discovery, he exposes far more truth than he ever wanted to know. There is a strong element of magical realism that runs throughout the novel, which has received much advance praise from such notables as: Sir Ronald Harwood, Oscar winning writer of THE PIANIST;  Arnold Kopelson, Academy Award winning producer;  Walter Liedtke, Curator of European Paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; J. Patrice Marandel, Chief Curator of European Paintings & Sculpture, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and authors M.J. Rose, Gully Wells and Stephen Jay Schwartz. Stephen's last novel, AMBITION, received numerous accolades and was a Finalist in the 2013 USA Best Book Awards and the 2014 International Book Awards. AMBITION also garnered the 2013 Rebecca Reads Reader's Choice Award for Best General Fiction. Stephen's earlier book, EMERALDS NEVER FADE, won the 2012 Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Historical Fiction and the 2011 Written Arts Award for Best Fiction.

Have you ever wondered what life is REALLY like on the Other Side? What could possibly be waiting for us when our time on earth is over? What does it mean for our lives today? Spiritual medium and researcher Jeffrey Marks set out to find the answers in the second volume of his book "The AfterLife Interviews." Starting with a list of  regarding about the Other Side, Jeffrey went directly to the spirits for answers. Using an analytical approach, Jeffrey recorded fourteen mediumship sessions with individuals from various faiths and backgrounds, and interviewed their friends and loved ones from the Other Side. The result is the most direct and accessible description of the nature of the afterlife compiled in modern times.  Tune into this interview to catch a glimpse of what emerged from his research including huge insights to the nature of the dying process itself; the Life Review; the new spiritual body; new knowledge acquired after passing and more.  The Afterlife Interviews: Volume I was a Finalist in the 2013 USA Best Book Awards in New Age Non-Fiction.

The Alternative Medicine Cabinet with author Dr. Kathy Gruver Dr. Kathy Gruver, host of the TV series; The Alternative Medicine Cabinet inspires and challenges people to take control of their health. She offers alternatives to Western medicine, prescriptions and surgery and encourage the balanced combination of ancient and modern. Dr. Kathy educates people about mind/body medicine. Her first book, The Alternative Medicine Cabinet was selected as a winner of the Beverly Hills Book Awards and finalist for the IndyExcellence Awards and using that as a resource, Dr. Kathy advises people how to regain control of their health. She has written two additional books, Body/Mind Therapies for the Bodyworker and other health proffesionals and the newly released, Conquer your Stress with Mind/Body Techniques (Selected as a finalist for the USA Best Book Awards and voted one of the top 50 reads for 2013). Dr. Kathy Gruver offers a fresh, inspired perspective on how to achieve better health. For more information visit: http://thealternativemedicinecabinet.com/

Sadeqa Johnson visits The Wealthy Speaker Show to share her novel, "Love In A Carry-On Bag." Sadeqa is going to be attending the 43rd Annual Congressional Black Caucas (CBC) Conference, as part of the Authors Pavilion at the Washington, DC Convention Center, Sept 19-21. Paul Lawrence Vann interviews Sadeqa and along with listeners, look forward to obtaining the inspiration behind her phenomenal book. Love In A Carry One Bag is a novel about people who are in a long distance relationship and all of the intracacies involved. Sadeqa Johnson is a public relations expert and has worked with the likes of: JK Rowling, T.D. Jakes, Bebe Moore Campbell, Amy Tan and many more. Sadeqa is the recipient of several literay awards to include: 2013 Phyliis Wheatley Award for the Best Fiction Book and the 2013 AABMC Award for Best Romance. In 2012, Sadeqa's book received the USA Best Book Award for African-American fiction. Love In A Carry-On Bag was selected as Black Expressions Book Club alternate and OOSA Book Club pick in 2012. Tune in, listen in and call in with questions on our toll-free listener line (877) 404-1615 and or join us in the web chat room: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/paullawrencevann 

Alexander Galant will be with us again today to talk about his new project and his research on Dracula. Yes, the real Vampire story. Alexander is a Canadian, residing in Toronto. His debut novel Depth of Deception (A Titanic Murder Mystery) was published in March 2012 to coincide with the centennial anniversary of Titanic. It has been awarded 'Finalist' for E-Book: Mystery/Thriller/Adventure (2012 International Book Awards) as well as Best New E-Book: Fiction category (USA Best Book Awards 2012).  His short story thriller Remember Me is part of the Starship Goodwords anthology by Carrick Publishing, and his other short story, Same Crime Tomorrow is available exclusively through Amazon.  Alexander is currently finishing up his next novel,  LUTETIA (Darkness Beneath the City of Light) a historical thriller featuring a young Victor Hugo and his journey into the dark underworld of Paris and exposure to those he later referred to as 'Les Misérables'. Because he has so much time on his hands (sarcasm) he decided to create a continuing on-line novelization Dracula sequel at www.undead-series.com. Alexander has also written and directed several short films which have won awards in festivals around the world, including WorldFest Houston's Silver Remi (Suspense-Thriller) for The Missing Piece, a Bronze Remi (Horror/Fantasy) for his vampire short First Light and his comedic spoof  Star Wars: Blasted Behavior won Best Foreign Sci-Fi Short at the New York International Film Festival and was a Finalist in the Atom/Lucas Film Star Wars Fan Film Competition (George Lucas was one of the judges).