Vincent James and Joann Pierdomenico are founders of the non-profit Keep Music Alive and the international music holidays Teach Music Week (March) and Kids Music Day (October). Each year, they partner with 750+ music schools and stores in over a dozen countries to offer free lessons to new students and to hold special events that benefit and celebrate kids playing music. These events include student performances, instrument petting zoos, drum and ukulele circles, and instrument donation drives. Kids Music Day Ambassadors include celebrities Julie Andrews, Jack Black, Sarah McLachlan, Kenny Loggins, Michael Feinstein, Vanessa Williams, and Pat Benatar. In 2019, they produced more than a dozen Musical Instrument Petting Zoo events with keyboards, guitars, ukuleles and dozens of different percussion instruments throughout the Philadelphia region at schools, libraries and other public spaces. They will hold their first-ever virtual instrument petting zoo on June 20 at a local library! Vincent and Joann are the authors of the 88+ Ways Music Can Change Your Life book series. Each edition features more than 100 inspirational music stories from around the world, many contributed by well-known artists. They donate 80% of book sale proceeds to music education and service non-profit organizations. They are currently seeking inspirational music stories for Volume 2, to be published in November 2020. Vincent and Joann are helping to promote a virtual Make Music Day in the Philadelphia area on June 21, 2020. Founded as Le Fete de la Musique in France in 1982, it encourages musicians of all styles and abilities to put on free public performances. Info: www.keepmusicalive.org

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Keep Music Alive with Founders Vincent James & Joann Pierdomenico

Tim Meyer "dwells in a dark cave near the Jersey Shore." He's an author, husband, father, podcast host, blogger, coffee connoisseur, beer enthusiast, and explorer of worlds. Tim writes horror, mysteries, science fiction, and thrillers, although he prefers to blur genres and let the stories fall where they may. His soon-to-be-released next project is a compilation of four novellas by Chuck Buda, Frank Edler, Armand Rosamilia and Tim, titled "Beers and Fears: Flight Night" (Evil Epoch Press). Info: timmeyerwrites.com  

Tim Meyer: Author, Podcast Host, Blogger, Coffee Connoisseur, Explorer of Worlds

Writer Chris Moore was a high school dropout who want on to attend Columbia University based on his fiction writing skills. Chris became a ghostwriter and the co-author of a dozen books, as well as a novelist. His first novel is about a pandemic [written before Covid-19]. His next novel will be about an exiled exorcist who must still perform his duries for lost souls who visit him in exile. Info: WriterChrisMoore.com  Book publicist Scott Lorenz is President of Westwind Communications, a public relations and marketing firm that has a special knack for working with authors to help them get all the publicity they deserve and more. Scott works with bestselling authors and self-published authors promoting all types of books, whether their first or15th book. He's handled publicity for books by CEOs, CIA officers, Navy SEALS, homemakers, doctors, lawyers and adventurers. Scott's clients have been featured by Good Morning America, FOX & Friends, CNN, ABC News, The New York Times, PBS, LA Times, USA Today, Washington Post, Woman's World and Howard Stern. Info: www.Book-Marketing-Expert.com  

Novelist / Ghostwriter Chris Moore and Book Publicist Scott Lorenz

Bruce Outridge started drawing at age ten and had to learn it on his own, since art classes at school didn’t include drawing instruction. In fact, he used to get detentions in school for what he now charges hundreds of dollars an hour in his art business! At 16, Bruce's passion for drawing somehow turned to driving and he spent 25 years driving transport trucks across North America, which taught him more about dealing with people than school ever did. He still works closely with the trucking industry, speaking about business and careers on his podcast, The Lead Pedal Podcast for Truck Drivers. At age 40, Bruce went back to school and learned creative writing, marketing, and business. He started his art business in 2003 part-time. In 2006, he stopped driving trucks to devote himself to the business full-time. Bruce has created comic books, built an art business, expanded into a consulting business, and now a speaking business. Bruce helps people be more creative – with content marketing and art entertainment for events – through his podcasts, books, articles, a television show, and as a motivational speaker. Info: BruceOutridge.com

Ultimate Creativity: Bruce Outridge – Writer, Comic Books, Caricatures, Artist…

In these challenging times, are you lacking the resiliency to cope with major disruptions to your world, your work, your family and your lifestyle? Help is here from Eileen McDargh, CSP, CPAE, CEO (Chief Energy Officer) at The Resiliency Group.Since 1980, Eileen has helped organizations and individuals transform the life of their business and the business of their life through conversations that matter and connections that count. She is known as a master facilitator, an award-winning author, and an internationally recognized keynoter and executive coach. Eileen draws upon practical business know-how, life's experienc es and years of consulting to major national and international organizations. Her programs are provocative, playful and often hilarious. In 2020, Eileen was ranked third in the World’s Top 30 Communication Professionals based on a global survey of 22,000 business professionals by Global Gurus International, a British-based provider of resources for leadership, communication and sales training. Eileen has written six books. Her seventh, Burnout to Breakthrough: Building Resilience to Refuel, Recharge, and Reclaim What Matters will be published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers in Summer 2020. www.theresiliencygroup.com Find Eileen on Twitter @macdarling, linkedin.com/in/eileenmcdargh, www.facebook.com/pages/Professional-Speaker-Eileen-McDargh-CSP-CPAE/405748766188727.

Need To Be More Resilient? Eileen McDargh to the Rescue!

Macy Harjot Matarazzo aka Rev LunchLady is a Love Coach, Speaker, Improvisor, Puppeteer with BA in Theater and a Masters of Puppetry from Central School of Speech and Drama. Most recently performing as the Rev LunchLady, she brings her super-triple trademarked readings of vintage recipe cards to people who are hungry for tasty insights on their life. Her creative mission is focused on helping single women who want real lasting love to have the healing, tools and strategy to get there without sacrificing who they are. After working with Macy, women have the experience of living in full confidence where they can speak and be who they are, appreciating their true beauty, quirks and all, making it inevitable that the perfect love shows up. Macy brings her clients a magical combination of Regenerating Images in Memory (RIM) Facilitation to clear emotional blocks, Kundalini yoga and consciousness tools to help women who want to feel more connection, self-love, joy and purpose.   Macy's Unicorn Love Story Started With One Decision… "It’s amazing to think that ONE moment, ONE person, ONE “click to open” was the beginning of my love story. Since it’s changed everything in my life for the better. My job. My home. My town. My health. My awareness. I know I am lucky to have the kind of relationship I have… Larry totally adores me for who I am,  “gets me” and makes my life so much easier. People tell me all the time how CUTE we are and how LUCKY I am to have Larry in my life.  A funny, smart, creative jewish Doctor.  Jackpot! Truth is….it took THIRTY YEARS to find Larry." Tune in to hear the rest of their love story. www.BigHappyLove.com

Love Coach, Improvisor, Puppeteer Rev LunchLady aka Macy Harjot Matarazzo

Armand Rosamilia is a New Jersey boy currently living in sunny Florida, where he writes when he's not sleeping. He's happily married to a woman who helps his career and is supportive, which is all he ever wanted in life... He's written over 150 stories that are currently available, including horror, zombies, contemporary fiction, thrillers and more. His goal is to write a good story and not worry about genre labels. He not only runs two successful podcasts...Arm Cast: Dead Sexy Horror Podcast - interviewing fellow authors as well as filmmakers, musicians, etc. and The Mando Method Podcast with co-host Chuck Buda - talking about writing and publishing – but he owns the network they're on, too! Project Entertainment Network. He also loves to talk in third person... because he's really that cool.    

Armand Rosamilia – Thriller and Zombie Story Writer & Podcaster

Time on your hands? Would you like to get creative but think it's not in you? Dr. Minette Riordan is a risk-taker and curiosity seeker who loves jumping feet first into business building and art making. Her mantra is, “How hard can it be?” A modern day Renaissance woman, Minette is an artist, writer, award-winning entrepreneur and advocate for creativity as essential to the well-being of all people and our planet. Minette is the founder of the Conscious Creativity Method™, a simple and effective transformational process for helping people activate their creativity. She believes that when we are all working in our highest and best creative genius, we can solve all the world’s problems. More about Minette… www.MinetteRiordan.com  

Think Creatives Can't Be Good In Business? Dr. Minette Riordan Says You Can!

Are you ready to your own create interior spaces that reflect balance and harmony, inspiration and joy, and are environmentally safe and beautiful?  akaRadioRed welcomes Charisse Marei, author of Eco-Conscious Home: Creating a Healthy Lifestyle In Your Heart & Home (One Room At A Time). As a passionate advocate for a healthy eco-living lifestyle, Charisse focuses on transforming interior spaces into beautiful, breathe-able dwellings to support the home, well-being, and the natural environment. Her mission is to empower and inspire you with the necessary tools of the trade to begin your own transformational journey. Through the power of the 3Rs –– Release – Renew – Revitalize ––  Charisse Marei helps us create an eco-conscious lifestyle that honors the connection between home and well-being, and the spaces where we work and play. From her book: "I reminisced about various stages of pulling together each room in my home. I embraced my intentions and created selections that led to the final design. You see, there is so much more than what meets the eye. The overall design process involves being conscious of what we breathe, touch, and hear, how we feel, and why we freely enter a room, to Release, Renew, Revitalize (3Rs). It did not stop there, for once the final touches were in place, the need to maintain balance and harmony became essential.Daily, weekly, monthly, and semi-annual rhythmic routines were part of the plan." Info: www.CharisseMarei.com  

Time on your hands? Create your Eco-Conscious Home with Charisse Marei!

Juliet Dillon Clark is the Founder of Super Brand Publishing, offering an expertise-first approach that comes directly from her own disillusioning personal experience with her first book back in 2008. "I thought my background with traditional publishing would make self-publishing easy. Nothing could have been further from the truth. My big mistake was subscribing to the theory that all one had to do was write a book, self-publish, and BAM – instant bestseller! What I soon uncovered, though, was a business model that made lots of money for the self-publishing company while setting authors up for failure through business practices." To remedy this, she created Super Brand Publishing, a platform-building tool to show brilliant, entrepreneurial authors a new way of expanding their visibility in the marketplace well ahead of publishing their books, by building their audiences and generating revenue in advance. Her tool assesses audience obstacles, generates leads, and qualifies leads for businesses. Her simple technology can be used on social media, from the stage, and at workshops to build email lists and create conversations that build long- term relationships with potential clients. Juliet's podcast, Promote, Profit, Publish, helps entrepreneurs understand how to use great tools in the coaching and small business spaces. Juliet is the author of Pitch-Slapped: How to Serve, Not Sell, and six mystery novels incuding Granny Heist – Detective Lindsay Carter Book 3 and Dead By Dawn – Detective Lindsay Carter Book 4.

Super Brand Publishing's Juliet Clark, "Pitch-Slapped: How to Serve, Not Sell"

The Party is Suzanne Wexler's recently launched IGTV series and newsletter where she shows her audience how to kick up their heels and enjoy life to the max! Suzanne Wexler is a journalist who divides her time between Montreal and the North Country in New York. Reporting on the latest in culture and lifestyle, she helps older generations understand younger ones and enables younger generations to thrive.  She wrote about "Selfies" before they were calle selfies, and now reports on the latest in wedding trends and green fashion. Suzanne’s up-coming collection of coming-of-age memoir stories will be available soon, featuring hilarious stories about reconciling two very different sensibilities. The first comes from Suzanne’s outspoken peachy-keen relatives from Louisiana and Georgia, who dish passionately about beauty, fashion, work, and relationships. Meanwhile, Suzanne leans more towards camping than make-up, as do her all-too-cool Northern friends and family where she grew up in Montreal. After striking out on her own, Suzanne nearly dies (a couple of times) and tragedy strikes. Suddenly, the stunning power of her Southern matriarchs is revealed. Info: www.SuzanneWexler.com  

The Party with Suzanne Wexler

Michael D. Huggins, MBA (Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania) worked his way up to the roles of Chief Operating Officer, President, and Chief Executive Officer of several medical device firms. But in 2009, Mike pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor as a responsible corporate officer for illegal activity, of which he was unaware, that occurred under his watch. He and three other executives were sentenced to prison. The high-profile case drew national media attention and Mike’s world unraveled in the blink of an eye as he was whisked to the Federal Detention Center in Philadelphia. How did Mike get through prison? The yoga he had practiced and taught years before incarceration turned out to be his salvation behind bars. Upon his release from prison, Mike declined lucrative offers to return to the corporate world, and instead founded the non-profit organizationTransformation Yoga Project, which serves people impacted by trauma, substance abuse and incarceration through trauma-sensitive yoga programs. Michael is the author of Going Om: A CEO's Self-Discovery Behind Bars. www.GoingOmBook.com https://TransformationYogaProject.org www.MDHuggins.com

Michael D. Huggins: "Going Om: A CEO's Self-Discovery Behind Bars"

Lori Hammel is a New York based actress who has worked in film, television and theatre. Feature film work includes the Coen Brothers' Burn After Reading and the upcoming thriller Blood Conscious. TV includes Jessica Jones, Master of None, 30 Rock and High Maintenance. Lori received an Excellence in Acting Award at the New York International Fringe Festival. She is co-author of Minding the Edge – Strategies for a Fulfilling, Successful Career as an Actor and is a contributing author for Acting for the Stage (Focal Press). Lori stars as Meyers the Director in SPLIT, the miniseries on Amazon Prime Video. Yael Shavitt is an Israeli-born actress and filmmaker based in NYC. She is the creator, writer, lead actress and editor of tSPLIT on Amazon Prime Video. As an actress, she's performed at venues including the Public Theater with Obie Award winners 600 Highwaymen in "The Record" and New Ohio Theatre in the musical/opera "Outside of Eden". She is a founding member of the theater collective Asylos. Yael co-created the documentary feature film, "If You Pull North" (Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival). Hannah Hancock Rubinsky is the producer of SPLIT. She has spent most of her life in production. Molly McGaughey, a filmmaker and comedian based in NYC, is the director of SPLIT. Molly's directing work has been featured worldwide at festivals in New York, London, Toronto, Austin, Los Angeles and New Zealand.            

Meet the Actors, Writer, Producer & Director of SPLIT on Amazon Prime Video!

Meet the couple at the heart of The kindHuman Foundation, a non-profit 501(c)(3) set up to fund clean water projects. TJ Foltz was a youth pastor and a single dad of 2 from Philadelphia. For TJ, starting a bottled water company with no experience in the beverage industry, no money,  no plan – and donating 100% of the net profits to charity – was not part of his life plan. But that’s what happened. Hear how he turned 2 pallets of drinking water into a million dollar company and, even better, clean water for more than 130,000 people around the world. Meg Foltz, a critical care nurse at a local hospital, packed up a team to help with the 2010 Haiti earthquake crisis. There, she found a full-blown cholera crisis that changed her life trajectory and motivated her to use her platform and her voice to get people clean water for their health. Along the way, she fell in love with TJ, the CEO of a little-known company called Humankind.  All direct donations to kindHuman are tax deductible. Humankind is a for-profit beverage-selling business that send funds to the Foundation, which works with valued partners to provide clean drinking water around the world. Iwww.BeHumanKind.com  

Drink Up: Clean Water for the World from HumanKind

Why did Michael Jordan, Muhammad Ali and Tom Brady all have coaches? Because a coach sees them objectively, knows how to bring out the best in them, and is expert in motivating them. David R. Cook, author ofHow To Be A GREAT Salesperson…by Monday Morning! and an award-winning leading authority on sales training, has a way of motivating people to bring them to a level of excellence they never knew possible. Whether you're in sales now or just want to know how to effectively persuade and motivate others to be part of your goals in life, tune in to hear Dave. His book has sold 50,000+ copies worldwide, earned 130+ Five Star Reviews on Amazon, and was named a Top 10 Must-Read Book by Top Sales World. Info: DavidRCook.com   Steven Mark Kahan, the author of Be a Startup Superstar (Wiley Publishing and Audible), has successfully helped to grow six start-up companies from early-stage development to going public or being sold, resulting in  $3+ billion in shareholder value. He is the CMO at Thycotic, which will become his seventh start-up. Steve inspires teams and organizations to take on the impossible and succeed. His book teaches graduating college students and young professionals how to earn a great living doing what they love by igniting their career at a tech startup. And if you're older with a zest for technology and seeking a new career path, Steve's advice is for you, as well. Info: www.BeAStartupSuperstar.com

David R. Cook: Be a Great Salesperson! & Steve Kahan: Be a Startup Superstar!

READ MY LIPS is not your usual blah-blah-yada-yada, Q&A interview talk show where the host and guests use a canned script. akaRadioRed engages indie authors, musicians and filmmakers in lively, spontaneous, unpredictable conversations that uncover who they really are, what drives their creativity, and what's next in their journey. Featured topics: Fiction. Non-fiction. Music. Film. Relationships. Careers. Family. Entrepreneurs. Food. Health. Love. Producer/host Bonnie D. Graham akaRadioRed, a former WGBB-AM1240 NY talk radio producer/host, thanks the thousands of BTR listeners! @RadioRed777 on TWitter.

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