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Send us a text Blake Lindsay is the Communications and outreach manager with Envision Dallas. Visually impaired since infancy, Lindsay offers a unique perspective on all aspects of Envision Dallas’ programs. Blake is well-known as Blazin’ Blake. A voice talent on large and major market radio stations such as 106.1-KISS-FM Dallas Fort Worth. He manages his own production company called Blazin’ Blake Productions in his free time. Blake has also authored three books. Out of Sight Living: A Sightle...

Send us a text Kern Carter is a published author and writer out to prove that writers are the true superstars of pop culture. Kern dreamed of being a superstar author since he wrote his first book at eight years old. Now Kern have deals with the biggest publishers in the world and am ready to bring that dream to full manifestation. But this has been a journey. Kern self-published his first two books and became a full-time writer while raising his daughter on his own. Kern built a name for his se...

Send us a text Deadair Dennis Maler is a Boston-based comedian, actor, writer, & podcaster who has been heard on SiriusXM and radio stations across the country. He's been featured on festivals nationwide, is the Comedy Editor for DigBoston, and hosts the podcast So, What Do You Really Do? He's funny, loud, abrasively social, and allergy free since 1981. He is a quick-witted, smart, and funny comedian with intriguing stories. He is a former radio morning show producer who specialized in making q...

Send us a text Todd is a Licensed marriage and family therapist and licensed clinical social worker with 35+ years of experience helping couples and individuals heal themselves from crises such as trauma and infidelity. He also help couples rekindle the passion and aliveness in their relationship. Todd is a firm believer in combining healing modalities into his practice. He incorporates EMDR, Emotional Focused Therapy and Meditation to help promote optimal healing and living for his patients. ...

Send us a text Meditative Animal is singer songwriter Nick Mirisola's music project. It is indie alternative folk rock with jazz, blues, hip hop, funk, and reggae influences that come together in a timeless original sound. Frequently featuring other artists, Nick plays guitar, harmonica, hand percussion, keyboards, and bass in addition to singing, and writing the songs and lyrics. Nick also does the artwork. He is a lay Zen monk, shaman, ordained Dudeist priest, and self dubbed Duddha. Nick has...

Send us a text JD Slajchert is an American novelist, speaker, and philanthropist. The former University of California, Santa Barbara basketball star debuts his second novel, “Darling, You’re Not Alone” in the fall of 2022. NOVELIST A young adult novel, “Darling, You’re Not Alone” explores the philosophical contention that if extraordinary darkness exists, then so too must extraordinary light. Slajchert explains, “We know all too well about the mindless tragedies that take place regularly in our...

Send us a text Vic Ferrari, author of NYPD: Through The Looking Glass: Stories From Inside America’s Largest Police Department, The NYPD’s Flying Circus: Cops, Crime & Chaos, Grand Theft Auto: The NYPD’s Auto Crime Division, and NYPD: Law & Disorder is a retired twenty-year member of the New York City Police Department who refuses to write in chronological order. With no formal training or Harvard degree, Vic’s managed to write four behind-the-scenes books about his former employer. With remarka...

Send us a text Anizzy breaks barriers in the industry by making out-of-era music that combines elements of Bollywood with the traditional sounds of today’s R&B. Born in Kerala, India and raised in Houston, Texas, Anizzy follows an unconventional path to R&B fame and is eager to share his message with the world. Anizzy began producing music at 18 years of age. As an Indian man, he was facing pressures from his family related to his career aspirations. The stereotypes enforced by many Indian house...

Send us a text Osnat Benari is a product and leadership coach for companies and professionals. She has over 20 years of product management experience working for companies like Diligent, Verizon Media, WeWork, and BBG Ventures and named one of the product-led-growth top influencers . Osnat serves on the advisory board for Audioburst, as well as Computer Science at Hunter College. Osnat is an advocate for resilience and mental health in the workplace. Her first book, Starting from Scratch - Manag...

Send us a text Author and tax strategist Dohn Thorton helps people legally lower their taxes to almost ZERO and get 100% lawsuit-proof asset protection by using his copyrighted trust. If you are in need of an expert to talk about how to keep more of what you earn, drastically increase your cash flow, and how to create more generational wealth by using the immense tax savings this strategy will generate? Invite Dohn to be a speaking guest. http://financialfreedom4u.now.site

Send us a text Courtney is a dirty thirty something entrepreneur from Minnesota with a double major in criminal justice and massage therapy. We know...it didn't make much sense to us either. Until we dove deeper into her back story and got to know the woman beneath the tough girl image. Her father, a Cuban immigrant, was imprisoned when she was born, and spent over 20 of her first 25 years incarcerated. These arrests led to her first encounter with law enforcement--as well as having a duty weapo...

Send us a text Andy Frye has written for Rolling Stone, ESPN, and Forbes, and has interviewed scores of rock stars and athletes from Smashing Pumpkins to Shaquille O'Neal. In June 2022, Andy published NINETY DAYS IN THE 90s: a Rock N Roll Time Travel Story—a novel about the 1990s music scene and 90s pop culture. I have written for Rolling Stone, ESPN, and currently interview pro athletes and sports legends for Forbes. In June, I published my first novel, NINETY DAYS IN THE 90s, a plot-driven fi...

Send us a text Angie Hyche, certified professional organizer®, has been a professional organizer & member of NAPO (National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals) since 2016. She lives in a small town in Northeast Tennessee called Kingsport. She worked in the fields of medicine and education before she started her business, Shipshape Solutions. Angie loves speaking and writing about organizing as much as doing the actual organizing work. She is the author of Unholy Mess: What ...

Send us a text Dr. Andrew Lustig is a worldwide humanitarian Naturopathic Doctor/EMT/I and the President/Founder of Global Outreach Doctors. He has provided medical care in hospitals, ambulances, local clinics, mud huts and even under trees around the globe. For the past sixteen years Andrew and/or his teams have worked in disaster and poverty conditions in remote regions of the world including Ukraine, Iraq, Bangladesh, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mexico, Grenada, Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuado...

Send us a text Colin C. Thompson, is the founder of Oligye Enterprises (Shanghai), a company focused on business consulting, coaching, and training. Colin has been coaching since 2016 and holds a coaching certification by the International Coaching Federation (ICF). As a result of his coaching services, individuals, teams, and organizations have developed and enhanced their work and leadership skills essential for success in both personal and professional environments. Your mind is your best fr...

Send us a text alzheimer's disease is growing in epidemic proportions. The number affected in the U.S. alone is more than 20 million -people. (That's the population of Florida.) In his book, blog, and speaking engagements Carlen Maddux shares how art made his wife radiate with joy and confidence; how his family learns to lessen the strife in the midst of their crisis; and much more. NOVEMBER IS NATIONAL ALZHEIMER'S MONTH. This is not an old person's disease - hundreds of thousands of young fami...

Send us a text Michele has toured the world transforming lives by many thousands. She has been featured in Marie Claire and hundreds of major magazines, podcasts, radio, and TV shows globally. The reason major corporations worldwide like Nestle, T-Mobile, Malaysia Airlines, and promoters of major seminar events hire Michele is that not only is she entertaining Michele shares techniques that allow others to change and grow. Every audience is uplifted because what she teaches works fast. Jack Can...

Send us a text Nicholas Kemp is a Japanologist, researcher, solopreneur, and author of IKIGAI-KAN: Feel a Life Worth Living. He is the founder and head coach of Ikigai Tribe, a small community of educators, psychologists, coaches and trainers who serve others using the ikigai concept. www.ikigaitribe.com

Send us a text Ronny Leber is an energetic keynote speaker, TV host, stadium host, and legacy coach who has entertained millions of people, live, and worldwide at major sporting events, corporate events, and seminars. A conversation with Ronny is an opportunity to hear the story of how he was inspired to become a professional public speaker along with incredible tips for your audience to improve their public speaking skills. As a keynote speaker, Ronny Leber loves to motivate his listeners, fi...

Send us a text Ise (ee-say) is an Emmy Award winner, Inspirational Speaker and Men’s Self-Mastery Coach who's the founder of The Divine Man Self-Mastery Coaching Program that trains individuals and teams alike to perform as their highest self fulfilling his mission of "Once you have YOU, you have everything!" Emmy Award winner, Inspirational Speaker and Men’s Self-Mastery Coach, Iseluleko Ma’at El 0 (a.k.a. Kiko Ellsworth) combines his vast array of rigorous life lessons, education and entertai...

Send us a text Jasper has been involved in the financial services arena for over a decade, working in an array of capacities. Jasper has held positions with Lincoln Financial Group, Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, Northwestern Mutual, Prudential and a variety of non-profit organizations that focus on promoting financial literacy to underserved communities. He is the founder of a financial empowerment initiative that is working to disrupt generational poverty, it’s called The #BuildWealth Movement...

Send us a text When it comes to the hospitality and entertainment business, Travis Talbot has done it all across North America, and around the globe. Travis has been the visionary behind award-winning concepts in various cities that include the Avant-Garde concept Crush Champagne Lounge, and the infamous Snatch Rock n' Roll Lounge. Travis has worked with some of the world's most renowned and celebrated chefs. He has also appeared on network TV shows like Restaurant: Impossible, co-developed co...

Send us a text Chicago native Michael Fosberg has spoken at nearly a thousand high schools, colleges, government agencies, corporations, law firms and not-for-profits since 2005, utilizing his award winning autobiographical story, told in the form of a one-man play, as an entry point for meaningful dialogues on race and identity. He has collaborated with a number of professional diversity practitioners on programs to foster deeper dialogue in corporate settings and at educational institutions. H...

Send us a text Stephanie Cotsirilos As author of the novella My Xanthi and published finalist in Mississippi Review's Prize in Fiction, Stephanie writes about humor, injustice, and the resilience of the human heart. Tapping her multiracial family and careers on and off Broadway and as a lawyer, Stephanie is also author of songs and scripts produced in New York, short stories, and essays. Last year, as inaugural Krant Fellow at Storyknife’s Writers Retreat in Alaska, Stephanie rediscovered the i...