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akaRadioRed welcomes two versatile, non-stop creatives. US Army Colonel Deb Lewis is a West Point graduate from its first class with women. She survived the 9/11 Pentagon attack while serving on the Joint Staff antiterrorism team. Colonel Deb’s experiences leading under fire inspired her unique 'Mentally Tough Women' program to help women handle more stress – not de-stress – and put it to work for them. She retired after a 34-year military career. Tune in to hear how she spends her time now! Ran...

akaRadioRed welcomes three very creatives. Christy Whitman, Transformational Leader, Celebrity Coach and Law of Attraction expert, says “There is no limit to the amount of happiness that we, as human beings, can experience.” She is the author of the NYTimes bestsellers The Art of Having It All and Taming Your Alpha Bitch, and international bestseller Quantum Success. She is the founder and CEO of the Quantum Success Learning Academy & Quantum Success Coaching Academy. On a sunny Southern Califor...

akaRadioRed welcomes two artistic creatives. Drawing was Lucie Marlo’s first love and she won local art competitions as a child. After earning a Ph.D. in Nutrition and opening wellness centers, she continued painting. Her art is now in corporate and private collections in Canada, the US, Europe and South Africa. Lucie's paintings have a reoccurring theme: maintaining optimism through life's trials and tribulations. www.marlostudios.com Matthew Hudon is the General Manager at his family-owned Wes...

akaRadioRed welcomes two smile-dedicated creatives. Renae Baker, aka Mrs. Christmas and Carol Boss, is a specialist in Christmas and holiday spirit. In 1997, she founded and became the director of I S.M.I.L.E. in New York Productions, a company of Broadway holiday carolers. She is the author of the bestselling book, Defeating Scrooge – How to Harness the Power of Christmas Carols to Revive Your Spirit Any Time of Year. Dr. Gary Sprouse, aka The Less Stress Doc, is a primary care physician in Mar...

akaRadioRed welcomes two dynamic creatives. Right or left brain? Shamila Nduriri is living proof that you can succeed at both. As a Career Coach and Mentor, she helps people stop settling by creating the life they want, using her 3-step F.I.T. Formula™. And as the Founder and Creative Director of Dalasini, Shamila designs fine jewelry that helps people tap into their innate magic. “Sometimes all we need is a little reminder that everything we want and everything we aspire to be, is already insid...

akaRadioRed welcomes two creatives who help us make sense of the world. Lois Farfel Stark is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and author of The Telling Image: Shapes of Changing Times. “I’m intrigued by how shapes, shape us. To think out of the box, you have to know the box you are in…in Africa, the Middle East and around the globe, I saw how tribal cultures understood the world as a Web…in round thatched huts…Western cultures view the world as a Ladder…[as] in skyscrapers. Change you...

akaRadioRed welcomes two creatives talking about fun ways to earn extra money. Kimberly Stewart of Be Weird Make Money is a Profit From Your Passions consultant who helps design super-personalized income streams for people who feel like they don’t fit into cultural norms. She specializes in Hallowe’en-based and gaming-based businesses. www.beweirdmakemoney.com Danielle Roberts is a Medicare expert and co-founder of Boomer Benefits, a licensed insurance agency helping baby boomers navigate entry ...

akaRadioRed welcomes two hard-working creatives. Melissa Concessio (BBus) is a Business Strategist and Personal Development Expert who helps individuals and companies develop creative solutions to logical problems. She is the author of Go Find Yourself: Brutal Life Lessons to Stop Fighting Yourself and Start Loving your Life. Melissa helps people develop creative thinking skills such as problem solving, communication, collaboration and adaptability that directly translates into results. Jerry Ze...

akaRadioRed welcomes creatives two passionate, no-holds-barred creatives. Dr. Diana Wiley, PhD, MA, BA, is the author of Love in the Time of Corona: Advice from a Sex Therapist for Couples in Quarantine. Her recent video, “Laugh and Play Together”, recommends laughter yoga, dancing, body painting, bubble baths, and role play to help couples reconnect via fun. Dr. Diana is a marriage and family therapist, board certified sex therapist, and radio host. www.drdianawiley.com Susan Corso, D.D. is the...

akaRadioRed welcomes two creative door-openers. Alton Accola is the founder and artist liaison for Behind The Mic, featuring video interviews with 100 global music artists, educators, and industry specialists including Bobby McFerrin, The Manhattan Transfer, and Lee Greenwood. Their mission is to foster global harmony through vocal harmony, providing vocal groups with a worldwide media platform uplifting the human spirit through diversity, generosity, humility, love, and honor.” behindthemic.org...

akaRadioRed welcomes two smart, savvy creatives. Yi Zhou is a polyglot artist whose video works have been shown at Shanghai Biennale, Venice Biennale, Sundance Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival. As an influencer, she endorses global brands including Levi’s, Clarins and Shiseido. In 2011, she founded her personal brand company YiZhouStudio in Shanghai and Hong Kong and in 2018 in LA. She is developing her first feature film, Stars and Scars, as director. yizhouworld.com Sarah Dacey Charles’s...

akaRadioRed welcomes in-demand creative influencers. Treva Brandon Scharf is an ICF-certified life coach, dating expert, fitness pro, blogger, and marriage first-timer at 51. She writes about empowerment, surviving singledom, and finding love at her blog, The Late Blooming Bride. As a post-50s influencer and a voice for strong, independent women, Treva hosts the podcast Done Being Single with husband Robby. www.donebeingsingle.com Brian Fried is a serial inventor whose inventions reach consumers...

akaRadioRed welcomes two non-stop creatives who keep pushing boundaries. New Yorker Joanna Bonaro is an actress, writer, producer, and snger who has appeared on TV’s Law and Order: SVU, Boardwalk Empire, The Sopranos, on film and Off-Broadway. She created and stars in the comedy TV pilot, Good 'n Screwed. Joanna formed brainybeautyproductions.com to advocate for and create female-driven content for women 40+. She created and hosts the Terrace Truth Talkin’ podcast for women in their 40s–60s. Bra...

akaRadioRed welcomes two outspoken creatives. Rev. Dr. Angela Yarber, queer clergywoman, professor, and author, has painted 150+ folk-feminist iconography paintings, collages, and subversive sister saints that have been featured on the Tiny House Nation TV show, NPR’s Progressive Spirit, Ms. Magazine, and Maya Angelou’s Memorial Celebration. Her non-profit, The Tehom Center, empowers marginalized women through art, writing, retreats, and academic courses. tehomcenter.org Gregor Collins went from...

akaRadioRed welcomes two creative powerhouses. In 2014, life coach Kate Johnson took her own advice and followed her passions: raising goats, making cheese and teaching. Now the owner and main Cheese Coach at the artisan cheesemaking school The Art of Cheese, Kate is a regular contributor to Countryside Network’s Goat Journal. Her fourth book, Tiny Goat, Big Cheese!, is part memoir and part cookbook. Before becoming a screenwriter, Samantha Shad was a Beverly Hills entertainment attorney and mem...

Producer/host akaRadioRed’s Cool Conversations with Creatives welcomes two well-read creatives. While doing research for her memoir, The Other Madisons: The Lost History of A President's Black Family, retired pediatrician Bettye Kearse discovered the creative roles food and wine played when President James Madison and Dolley entertained at the White House. Tune in to find out if a famous ice cream brand was named after this first lady. www.BettyeKearse.com Red welcomes back Susan Corso, an ordai...

Producer/host akaRadioRed’s Cool Conversations with Creatives welcomes two determined, dedicated, successful creatives. Cindy Cipriani, co-owner of Cipriani Remodeling, transformed her life from the depths of despair to an award-winning multi-million-dollar builder, home remodeler and salesperson, mentor, author and grief recovery specialist. Based on her business ventures and personal experiences, Cindy trains corporate teams with “The 5C Solution™ – Discover Clarity and Confidence in Times of ...

Producer/host akaRadioRed’s Cool Conversations with Creatives welcomes two dedicated creatives. We’ll drink in advice on happiness, pandemic isolation and business success from Susie Selby, award-wining owner and winemaker of Selby Winery in Healdsburg, CA. Susie attributes her early success to being an “exceptionally good forklift operator”, cellar master and assistant winemaker. She’s made wine for actors and athletes and was featured at the White House by three administrations. William L. Sil...

Producer/host akaRadioRed’s Cool Conversations with Creatives welcomes two triumphant creatives. At 23, Ellie from the Deli Peterson was divorced and raising three children on $80 a week. Her body was unhealthy, her mind chaotic, her spirit full of fear, self-pity, anger, worthlessness. To heal herself, Ellie created the Meditative Movements™ technique, which reduces anxiety, depression, and fatigue, and improves emotional and functional well-being for chronic health issues. meditativemovements....

Producer/host akaRadioRed’s Cool Conversations with Creatives welcomes two very successful creatives. Novelist Jan Hurst’s autobiographical romantic drama story, His Sunrise My Sunset, inspired the 2019 movie, Sunrise in Heaven starring Corbin Bernsen. A widow, mother, grandmother, and retired executive, Jan built a business career over 30 very eclectic years in multiple business disciplines. She and her husband, Steve, were married 44 years, the first 24 spent following his Air Force career. Co...

Producer/host akaRadioRed’s Cool Conversations with Creatives welcomes two passionate creatives. Deb Colameta found a formula for decluttering and financial success by leveraging the power of online yard sales. Her #1 best-selling Best Offer, Best Life! uses entertaining stories to motivate people to sell their household excess through social media. She hosts the popular podcast Upcycling with Deb and runs live workshops and DEBinars on how to achieve selling success online. TheDebSite.com Dave ...

Producer/host akaRadioRed’s Cool Conversations with Creatives welcomes two passionate creatives. Jessica Klingbaum, Certified Aromatherapist, is an essential oils expert and educator. She started her company, Be Hip and Healthy, after 20+ years as an Emmy-nominated TV producer “because network news to essential oils is the natural next step, right?” Jessica teaches the massive benefits of incorporating essential oils into our everyday home life and work life. Susan Corso’s life is eclectic, to p...

Producer/host akaRadioRed’s Cool Conversations with Creatives welcomes two passionate creatives. Christian de la Huerta is an award-winning author, TEDX speaker, personal transformation coach and retreat facilitator for 30 years. He designs inspiring, transformative and life-changing group and individual retreats at sites that combine natural beauty with spiritual significance: Peru, Hawaii, Egypt, Southern France, Colorado, ancient underground caves, whale watching and lava flows into the ocean...

Producer/host akaRadioRed’s Cool Conversations with Creatives welcomes two creative women whose passions are transformational coaching, and theater and music, respectively. Maki Moussavi is a transformational coach, speaker and author whose mission is to help professionals who are overwhelmed, stuck or unfulfilled despite the outward appearance of success. “Time to get out of your own way. Transformational coaching is not for the faint of heart.…You can be grateful and still want more.” Her news...