Episodes

Today, akaRadioRed welcomes three Creatives who know no bounds. Maryann Ridini Spencer has produced movies and series for CBS-TV, Showtime, SyFy, TMC, USA Networks, and Time Warner Cable, including co-producing / writing the teleplay for Hallmark Hall of Fame’s The Lost Valentine, starring Betty White and Jennifer Love Hewitt. She is the host of PBS-TV’s Simply Delicious Living with Maryann®. Glen Dunzweiler is a filmmaker/producer and social entrepreneur whose documentary yHomeless? is on Amazo...

Today, akaRadioRed welcomes 4 Creatives with Heart. Carol Novello is fthe ounder of Mutual Rescue™ and author of Mutual Rescue: How Adopting a Homeless Animal Can Save You, Too. Her first short film, “Eric & Peety”, launched on Valentine’s Day 2016, has been viewed 100M+ times and was the 2016 NY Times #1 #CA video news story. Tammie Sykes is the co-owner and Global Marketing Officer at Dion Michaels, a skincare line for men of all skin types and ethnicities. Tammie and co-owner Simone Randle ar...

Today, akaRadioRed welcomes 3 hard-working Creatives. Rebecca Murtagh is a creative turned futurist on a mission to share the Good, Bad & Ugly of AI. Before her career in technology and entrepreneurship, Rebecca was a creative director in the San Francisco Bay area and a graphic designer with an art, musical and writing background. Valerie Fitzgerald is president of the Beverly Hills-based Valerie Fitzgerald Group, ranked among Coldwell Banker’s Top 10 agents nationwide, the author of Heart and ...

Today, akaRadioRed welcomes 4 active Creatives. Shel Harrington is a humorist, Family Law attorney and law professor who writes for a (chronologically!) mature audience at FatBottomFiftiesGetFierce.com and has 490,000+ followers on her smile-inducing Fat-Bottom-Fifties Get Fierce Facebook page. Marilyn Bushey, co-author of Retirement Your Way: The No Stress Roadmap for Designing Your Next Chapter and Loving Your Future, is a serial entrepreneur and has owned or co-owned four businesses. Rudy Poe...

Today, akaRadioRed welcomes five [yes, five!] versatile Creatives. Monica Parker, star of the one-woman show Sex, Pies & A Few White Lies, is the author of Getting Waisted (A Survival Guide to Being Fat in a Society That Loves Thin) and “Oops! I Forgot to Save Money. Marion Zola has written poetry, screenplays, sitcoms, and produced a vampire movie. She is the author of “All The Good Ones Are Married” and “Romancing The Dog, The Struggle to Make a Pound Dog Happy in Beverly Hills.” Glen Williams...

akaRadioRed welcomes three dedicated Creatives. Barbara A. Kerr, Ph.D. coaches individuals, teams, and organizations in emotional intelligence skills, which are significant to success and well-being. She has written a novel for youngsters as well as a decision-making book for middle-schoolers. Dr. Amanda Banks is the author of Amazing Race: Inspiring Leadership Lessons Based on the Life of 1968 Olympian and Coach, Jarvis Scott. She is a church youth director and drill team instructor. Joyce Wils...

Maya Angelou said, You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Today, akaRadioRed welcomes four Creatives who prove her right. Liz H Kelly is the Goody PR and Goody Business Book Awards Founder, author of “8-Second PR” and podcast host of “8-Second Branding” who promotes authors and brands with a WOW story. Gena Cox is an organizational psychologist, executive coach, speaker, and author who uses data-based insights and stories to advise executive leaders at Fortune 500 comp...

akaRadioRed welcomes four inspiring creatives. Surviving a near-fatal car accident, Australian rock singer Michele Blood created positive Affirmation Songs that resonated with millions worldwide. She has co-written and created 80+ books, music CDs, audio programs, TV shows, and videos on positive thought. Shawndra McWhorter has been communicating with animals since 2000. She has done animal rescue work in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, Chile, Peru and around the US. Author of What They...

akaRadioRed welcomes three ground-breaking creatives. Jake Schwartz, who performed his first magic trick at age 2, is one of the fastest-rising stars of magic in the US and the world. He has performed for Fortune 500 companies, professional sports teams, and nearly 30 TV appearances. Natasha Miller is CEO of Entire Productions, one of the fastest-growing companies in America for 3 years. She is a trained classical violinist and accomplished jazz vocalist. Lorna Greyling is a TV presenter, actres...

akaRadioRed welcomes three heartful creatives. Sej Saraiya is an award-winning ethnographic and fine-art photographer and filmmaker whose work has taken her where not many dare to go deep into Asia and the Americas, capturing images that tell stories and wisdom of remote cultures. Jeff Allen, co-founder of the nonprofit Monkey’s House a Dog Hospice & Sanctuary, wrote the book “Where Dogs Go To Live!” and produced the animated music video “Life’s a Dog Bone Chew it All Day Long!” Robert Toporek, ...

akaRadioRed welcomes three super-creatives. Denise McDonald Dorman is an award-winning creative prized for her work in marketing, public relations, TV, and video production. Denise wrote Rolling Thunder: The Art Of Dave Dorman”, about her husband, the #1 Star Wars artist. Her comedic memoir “Blood Orange (and Other Secrets I've Only Told My Friends)” and podcast, Cool People I Know, are set to debut in December 2021. Mitch Breitweiser is a comic book illustrator and creator with 20+ years workin...

akaRadioRed welcomes three dynamic creatives. Michael S. Fenster, MD, aka Chef Dr. Mike, is the world’s only interventional cardiologist, professional chef, and professor of culinary medicine – all at the same time. Dr. Ron Kaiser, 84, is a positive health psychologist, medical school faculty, podcaster, TEDx speaker, and author of REJUVENAGING®: The Art and Science of Growing Older with Enthusiasm. “If I knew how much fun old age would be, I’d have grown older faster.” Peter LeSar owns multinat...

akaRadioRed welcomes three outspoken creatives. Mary Oves is head writer of the lifestyle blog The Chrysalis Collective, a freelance journalist, college professor of English, a contributor to the Erma Bombeck Humor Writer's Guild, and a presenter at global Soaring Spirits events. She is the author of This is Widowhood: The Ups, the Downs, the In-Betweens, coming in 2022. Eddie Goodman started the Conflict Resolution Support Team (CRST) Safe Schools Program in California schools to keep kids safe...

akaRadioRed welcomes three creatives. Ron San Miguel is a singer/songcatcher, recording artist, instructor of Yang Style T’ai Chi Ch’uan, Reiki practitioner, community activist, career-long civil servant, and author of MODERN DAY MYSTIC – Journey of a SongCatcher. Dr. Eileen Forrestal, after 32 years as an Anaesthesiologist MD putting people to sleep, changed course to start ‘waking people up’. Her memoir is The Courage to Shine: Find Your Voice and Discover the Healing Power of Your Words. Mich...

akaRadioRed welcomes four heartful creatives. Cathay Reta, with a 35+ year career in adult literacy, is the author of Keep Walking, Your Heart Will Catch Up, about her pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago in Spain. Cathay says pilgrimages, which are making a comeback, can help people heal after personal loss. A NY Times Critics' Pick and Emmy nominee, composer/producer/arranger Ruth Mendelson has been writing award-winning scores for documentaries, HBO, National Geographic, Discovery Channel, Di...

akaRadioRed welcomes three inspiring creatives. Mustafa Ammar, founder and CEO of the global coaching company The Passion MBA, started as a pharmacist, then became an international diplomat and investment banker. Dr. Yvonne Vissing, a pediatric, community sociologist and the US policy chair for the Hope for Children UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Policy Center in Cyprus, is the author of 13+ books. Dave Combs, songwriter and photographer, has written over 120 songs and recorded 14 albu...

akaRadioRed welcomes three diverse creatives. Dennis Glennon, owner of Dennis Glennon Photography, is an award-winning wildlife, landscape, and dog photographer. He is the creator of the children’s picture book Buddy’s Magic Window. Lori Myren-Manbeck is a geriatric psychologist, business owner, and host of the podcast Inclusivi-TALKS Sustainability. She is the author of You Can Save the World with tips for living a more sustainable life. Nancy Allen, founder of IMPACT Training & Development, In...

akaRadioRed welcomes four dedicated creatives. Christine McKay is a Harvard MBA, Business Negotiation Strategist, host of In the Venn Zone podcast, and the author of Why Not Ask? A Conversation about Getting More. She has negotiated with over half of the Fortune 100 and hundreds of other companies in 53 countries. Noble Wassup Gibbens, a West Point grad, former Infantry Officer in the US Army and entrepreneur, was clueless about handling his emotions. Today he teaches Emotional Intelligence on h...

akaRadioRed welcomes three creatives. Mickey Royal is a former gangster, drug dealer, legendary pimp, mob enforcer, pornographer and bestselling author. The FBI uses his book, The Pimp Game: Instructional Guide, as a textbook for agents to get into the minds and inner workings of human traffickers. Dr. Rachel A. Winston, the President and CEO of Lizard Publishing, has published six books in 2021 while hunkered down and quarantined in hotels. She is masterful at getting free rooms and maximizing ...

akaRadioRed welcomes three diverse creatives. Dr. Jennifer Ewald is a university linguistics professor and the Founder and Director of The Farmette, a 501c3 donkey and horse rescue, sanctuary and adoption service in Pipersville, PA. Darius Alexander Ross went from inner city poverty to create a lucrative real estate business and become a philanthropist and a social activist for minimum wage and the millionaire tax. Rob Cornilles, author of The Sales Game Changer: How to Become the Salesperson Pe...

akaRadioRed welcomes two dedicated creatives. Eileen Torres has created Latin-themed events for the Kennedy Center, National Geographic, various Smithsonian Museums, arts complexes, and organizations, and composed liner notes and selected music for Starbucks Coffee’s Mambo Mio CD. She serves on the board of a foundation that recruits musicians in grades 8-12 for the only Latin jazz music camp in the US. Armineh Keshishian is founder and Artistic Director of Evolution Dance Theatre, which has cre...

akaRadioRed welcomes four creatives. Margaret Welty has taught thousands to draw starting with scribbling and stick figures, created commissioned artworks for public and private institutions, and hosts Draw Here Now on YouTube. Beth Dessen Duffy, a former Senior Public Affairs Representative at PECO who educated people about home energy conservation, created the Christmas Tree of Kindness App to keep the holiday focus on kindness and giving. Dr. Alan Thomalla is a licensed psychologist who works...

akaRadioRed welcomes four creatives. Melane Mullings is a venture catalyst, cancer survivor, former RN, author of “Lemonade! Squeeze Your Challenging Life Experiences Into a Successful Business” and owner of Aere Management Consulting. Michelle A. Reinglass is a reformed lawyer turned mediator, a contributor to the Amazon #1 bestselling book “Women Who Empower” and author of the upcoming book, “How To Break Free From Addiction to Busy.” Evelyn Ortiz Camacho is a Puerto Rican fashion designer cre...

akaRadioRed welcomes three dedicated creatives. Brad Borkan, the author of When Your Life Depends on It: Extreme Decision Making Lessons from the Antarctic and Audacious Goals, Remarkable Results: How an Explorer, an Engineer and a Statesman Shaped Our Modern World, has always been fascinated with how people and businesses can make better decisions. Rhonda Harris-Choudhry, a professional psychic/empath, spiritual counselor, author, artist, musician, metaphysician, high priestess, and healer, tea...