Episodes

Oct. 30, 2023

Read My Lips: Treat-Not-Trick Creativity!

akaRadioRed welcomes three Hallowe’en-spirited creatives. Meg Hafdahl’s novels are “an intricate tale of betrayal, murder, and smalltown intrigue” (Horror Addicts). She co-hosts the podcast Horror Rewind. Mark Leslie Lefebvre...
Oct. 23, 2023

Read My Lips: Career-Shifting Creativity!

akaRadioRed welcomes three resilient creatives. Sonny Blaze®, a former 4th generation sheep shearer, is an award-winning bespoke jewelry designer, gemologist and the creator of CODA, the first interchangeable jeweled faceplat...
Oct. 16, 2023

Read My Lips: Illustrating Creativity!

akaRadioRed welcomes three bold creatives. Jerry Bennett is a full-time comic book artist, illustrator and art director who has created licensed art for Lucasfilm and Marvel, and storyboards for Mattel and Dreamworks. He has ...
Oct. 9, 2023

Read My Lips: Driven Creativity!

akaRadioRed welcomes three prolific creatives. Veronica Karaman, 8-time best-selling author and high-performance coach for athletes and achievers, is a Women’s US Open golf pro who taught her 85-year-old mother to play golf. ...
Oct. 2, 2023

Read My Lips: Creativity by Design!

akaRadioRed welcomes three on-the-go Creatives. Fern Brady, a former foreign correspondent, is a prolific novelist, children’s book author and poet, as well as a publisher, teacher, and head of the Houston Writers Guild. Lind...
Sept. 25, 2023

Read My Lips: Serious Creativity!

akaRadioRed welcomes three non-stop Creatives. Steven Long is the publisher of 12 Willows Press, an environmental book publisher of fiction and nonfiction, crafting literature that grapples with environmental challenges while...
Sept. 18, 2023

Read My Lips: Conscientious Creativity!

akaRadioRed welcomes three dedicated Creatives. Cheryl Peyton has authored 12 books, including the thriller Six Minutes to Midnight and a 7-book mystery series a la Agatha Christie. She is a painter and the President of the A...
Sept. 11, 2023

Read My Lips: Ageless Creativity!

akaRadioRed welcomes three dedicated Creatives. Mariann Aalda was one of the first African-American daytime soap opera heroines, starring as criminal attorney DiDi Bannister on ABC’s The Edge Of Night. Today, she’s “prosecuti...
Aug. 28, 2023

Read My Lips: Working Your Creativity!

akaRadioRed welcomes three hardworking Creatives. Judi Thietten is an acrylic abstract artist, business owner, USA Pickleball Ambassador and Certified coach, vocalist, organist, pianist, song and lyric writer, and the author ...
Aug. 21, 2023

Read My Lips: Commemorative Creativity!

akaRadioRed welcomes three family-centric Creatives. Mark Steven Porro has appeared in television, film, and stage, written screenplays and a short film, and started five non-profits. He is the author of A Cup of Tea on the C...
Aug. 14, 2023

Read My Lips: Repurposing Creativity!

akaRadioRed welcomes three on-the-go Creatives. Carol Tanzi, ASID, aka Goddess of Garbage, is celebrating 50 years working and owning a San Francisco Bay interior design business with an emphasis on recycling, reusing, repurp...
Aug. 7, 2023

Encore: Read My Lips: Pioneering Creativity!

akaRadioRed welcomes four innovative Creatives. Kalee Boisvert is the author of MoneyWise Mabel’s Bursting Bank, a children’s financial literacy picture book, and non-fiction Make Money Your Thing: Ditch the Shame and Design ...
July 24, 2023

Read My Lips: Ground-Breaking Creativity!

akaRadioRed welcomes three non-stop Creatives. Keith Saltojanes, Founder of Improv-LA creative training center, has taught improv techniques worldwide and holds a Guinness World Record for the Longest Improv Show. He is a Sto...
July 17, 2023

Read My Lips: Investing In Creativity!

akaRadioRed welcomes three Type-A Creatives. Brenda Prater Sellers, serial entrepreneur, philanthropist and trade magazine Man of the Year, wrote “You Slept Where? Calamities of a Clumsy Businesswoman,” chronicling her life f...
July 10, 2023

Read My Lips: The Joys of Creativity!

akaRadioRed welcomes three challenge-driven Creatives. Pamela Jane Nye, Owner and CEO of the non-profit Neuroscience Nursing, Limited, and Operation Scrubs, Inc., teaches at the UCLA School of Nursing’s Nurse Practitioner / C...
June 26, 2023

Read My Lips: The Degrees of Creativity!

akaRadioRed welcomes three highly educated Creatives. Dr. Mark A. Hicks, the author of Learning Love, is a ghostwriter, life coach, counselor, minister, professional house-sitter / pet-sitter, and has earned four college degr...
June 12, 2023

Read My Lips: Committed to Creativity!

akaRadioRed welcomes three dedicated Creatives. Dr. Cynthia Colón is the author of Be Committed. Get Admitted!: 7 Steps to College Admission Success, founder of College Essay Bootcamp and host of Destination YOUniversity podc...
June 5, 2023

Read My Lips: Banking on Creativity!

akaRadioRed welcomes three innovative Creatives. Gene Pranger, creator of The Do Something Wonderful Protocol and the original Interactive Teller Machine (ITM) video banking platform, holds 30+ US patents, trademarks and copy...
May 22, 2023

Read My Lips: Artful Creativity!

akaRadioRed welcomes four diverse Creatives. Peggy McColl, a manifestation expert, has written 21 fiction and non-fiction books, translated into 37 languages, including the Savy Wisdom series. Pitz Quattrone is a world-travel...
May 15, 2023

Read My Lips: Cycles of Creativity!

akaRadioRed welcomes four active Creatives. Szifra (Shifra) Birke is a personal and professional connector, Executive Leadership Coach, co-author, and tandem biker. Sara Ting is president and founder of World Unity Inc., a TE...
May 8, 2023

Read My Lips: The Taste of Creativity!

akaRadioRed welcomes three happy Creatives. Leslie M Grigg, co-founder of the Grigg Tater Tots Legacy Foundation, was a stockbroker for E F Hutton until CBS Monday Morning called him about the history of Tater Tots. Toni Gitl...
May 1, 2023

Read My Lips: Building Creativity!

akaRadioRed welcomes three visionary Creatives. Angelique Medow at age 5 wrote a lemonade stand business plan, with the goal to heal her family with truth and interior redecorating. She has since founded two more companies – ...
April 24, 2023

Read My Lips: Sailing Into Creativity!

akaRadioRed welcomes three high-achieving Creatives. Christa M. Okon is a semi-retired attorney, artist, novice sailor and the author of “Poppo the Magic Kitten Arrives,” a Grimms Brothers’ style fairy tale with scary events,...
April 17, 2023

Read My Lips: Walk-The-Talk Creativity!

akaRadioRed welcomes three hard-working Creatives. Graciela Tiscareño-Sato, President of Gracefully Global Group, founded a publishing firm for groundbreaking literature and online classes to showcase contributions of Latinos...