LUCINDA MONROE KING

Singer Songwriter at Universal Music Publishing, Lucinda Monroe is a shamanic practitioner, healer and facilitator of Earth Healing techniques. Using a variety of healing instruments: Shamanic Sami drum, Ancient Egyptian Harp, vocal toning & 7 Crystal Tones Alchemy singing bowls she uses to blend together to create a unique healing sound journey that is as magical as it is healing.

GINA PERO

Gina Pero is the CEO and Founder of Gina Pero LLC and Embracing You. She is a Professional Speaker, ICF Certified Life Coach and Certified Movement Specialist.

She received a BFA from the University at Buffalo. Gina has been featured at the Velocity Dance Convention, in Dance Informa Magazine, in My Vegas Magazine, on the cover of Holistic Fashionista, and in numerous podcasts and media.

Gina is a highly regarded leading expert, trainer, & speaker traveling to over 30 cities a year. Also, she is the host of her own popular podcast “The Gina Pero Show.” Due to Gina overcoming scoliosis as a teenager and becoming a professional dancer, a Radio City Rockette, and healing her own brain and spinal injury holistically, Gina’s expertise in teaching high achieving performers and creatives, adds a new kind of lifestyle in health, business, and career.

Gina is passionate about empowering her audiences and high achieving clients with her step-by-step systems so they can easily implement and perform with ease and confidence. Plus, with her proven techniques, her clients and audiences learn how to live an aligned and abundant lifestyle right now. Gina has a life-long commitment to being the Best of the Best for her audiences and clients. Whether she is speaking to a group of twenty or hundreds, Gina ignites and activates the atmosphere, with her mastery in communication and innovative approach.

Jeffrey C. Hall, a combat veteran of the Persian Gulf War, was appointed National Employment Director for the more than 1 million-member Disabled American Veterans (DAV) on March 31, 2014. From the DAV National Headquarters located in Cold Spring, Kentucky, Hall oversees special employment initiatives and works with private and public sector entities to develop and build partnerships to address joblessness and underemployment as well as facilitate job fairs and lead efforts to connect veterans and employers.

A native of Goodland, Indiana, Hall earned an associate’s degree in fine arts from Vincennes University, Indiana in 1986. He also earned certification in the lawyer’s assistant program from Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois in 1994. He graduated from the management and leadership training program at Prince George’s Community College, Largo, Maryland in 1996.

Hall enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1988 and served as a member of B Company, 3rd Battalion, 41st Infantry Regiment, Tiger Brigade, 2nd Armored Division. On March 11, 1991, while serving in the Persian Gulf War, he was wounded when his vehicle struck an Iraqi anti-tank mine, resulting in concussion blast injuries to his lower and upper extremities. Following medical treatment and intensive physical therapy, Hall returned to duty and was honorably discharged in 1992.

Hall joined DAV’s professional staff as a national service officer in 1993 at the Chicago, Illinois, DAV National Service Office. In 1996, he was assigned to the position of National Appeals Officer at the Board of Veterans’ Appeals office in Washington, D.C., and was appointed Assistant Supervisor in Louisville, Kentucky in 1997. In 1999, he was appointed supervisor of the Chicago, Illinois, DAV National Service Office. In 2004, he was simultaneously promoted to Supervisor of the New York, New York, National Service Office and National Area Supervisor of Area 10. He was appointed Assistant National Legislative Director in 2010 and served in that capacity until his current appointment. He is also a member and former President of the National Guild of Attorneys in Fact, Inc.

Hall is a life member of DAV Chapter 19 in Cold Spring, Kentucky. He lives in Union, Kentucky, with his wife, LeeAnne, and their three children.

Matthew Landis

Born July 22, 1969 in Ramapo, New York, just north of NYC. 

Played college basketball for Springfield College, MA. 

Served in the USAF during the Gulf War period in the early 1990s.

Have 3 beautiful daughters and 3 grandchildren. 

Had a great sales career but was suffering from PTSD, depression, anxiety and ADHD. 

Got involved with some bad decisions and needed help. 

Became homeless in 2014 in Georgia.

Lost everything and then the VA in Wyoming picked up a really broken man, and offered help. I went through the treatment program here twice, and on my 3rd attempt, I decided to do something different. I needed a  change...I wasn’t sure what that meant but I met a counselor that had hiked the Pacific Crest Trail and a month later I was in Washington, about to hike 2,653 miles south to Mexico. Along the journey...the course of my life began to change. I met other veterans on trail who were also not well, and are now life-long friends. After the 2018 hike, I decided to hike it again. Another 2,653 miles...but by then, I knew I needed to help other veterans experience what I just did. So in 2019 I hiked the PCT again. And that's when the calling for suicide prevention became what I'm doing now.

V I N N Y

A P P I C E

AND

BROTHER CARMINE APPICE

PAY TRIBUTE TO

RONNIE JAMES DIO

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH VINNY APPICE

A special Ronnie James Dio tribute video By Carmine & Vinny Appice will be releasing soon. This Dio video celebration will commemorate the ten-year anniversary of the passing of the late, great singer, who died on May 16, 2010 from cancer. The video will be released on Sunday, May 16, 2020 on YouTube and on the Internet in general.

Besides being a close friend, Vinny Appice was also a longtime musical sidekick of Dio’s, performing with him in Black Sabbath and Heaven & Hell.  Vinny also performed with Rick Derringer and, as a sixteen-year old in 1974, met John Lennon at the Record Plant Studios in New York during the recording of Lennon’s classic Walls and Bridges album, adding background hand claps to the hit single Whatever Gets You Through the Night.  And he and his original bandmates from the first Dio lineup reformed in 2012 as Last in Line to record and perform live. A consummate performer and drummer, Vinny also is a brilliant clinician, performing clinics and master classes all across the globe as well as making appearances in films and television.

 He has recorded and co-written songs on over 25 albums and CDs including many multi-platinum records. Touring the world for over 2 decades resulted in selling millions of records!

Vinny's drumming can also be heard on numerous movie soundtracks including Wayne's World 2, Heavy Metal, Iron Eagle and Bedazzled. Vinny, the author of drum instruction book "Rock Steady" and DVD "Hard Rock Drumming Techniques" has performed incredible powerhouse drum clinics around the globe also. Numerous books have been written about Black Sabbath and Dio with the authors always mentioning Vinny's unique powerful drumming style!

Some of the boys that got Vinnie’s drumming blood flowing......John Bonham, Buddy Rich, Billy Cobham and Mitch Mitchell.

For more information about Vinny Appice

Carmine Appice

And Ronnie James Dio

visit … 

Vinny Appice website - https://www.vinnyappice.com 

Carmine Appice website - https://www.carmineappice.net

Ronnie James Dio website - https://www.ronniejamesdio.com

Discography

with

John Lennon...Rick Derringer...

Black Sabbath and DIO

John Lennon

Walls and Bridges (hand claps on "Whatever Gets You Thru The Night"; uncredited) (1974)

Rick Derringer

Derringer (1976)

Sweet Evil (1977)

Derringer Live (1977)

Black Sabbath

Mob Rules (1981)

Live Evil (1982)

Dehumanizer (1992)

Black Sabbath: The Dio Years (2007)

Live at Hammersmith Odeon (2007)

Dio

Holy Diver (1983)

The Last in Line (1984)

Sacred Heart (1985)

Intermission (1986)

Dream Evil (1987)

Strange Highways (1993)

Angry Machines (1996)

Inferno - Last in Live (1998)