Marilyn Suttle, CVP knows how to overcome adversity and come back stronger. After the World Trade Center Attack on 9-11 in 2001, her speaking business nose-dived, taking her from a 6-figure income to a devastating 4-figure income. With a series of "Suttle" Shifts she reinvented her business and bounced back. 

She transferred her skills, gained new skills, blogging about and interviewing leaders of world-class businesses, and used the power of masterminding to emerge as an expert at creating long-term win-win relationships with internal and external customers. A major publisher paid her and her coauthor an advance for their first customer service book, featuring Singapore Airlines, Chicken Soup for the Soul, and 8 other companies that excel at maintaining cultures of customer service excellence. It springboarded her forward. She's been listed on Global Gurus list of Top 30 Customer Service Speakers Worldwide for 3 years. Then, Covid-19 put a wrench in her business once again. It was time for more "Suttle" Shifts.  She dived into Zoom, becoming double certified as a virtual presenter. 

Seeing the need for leaders to keep relationships strong with customers and remote working employees, she now educates them on ways to create engaging connections. What happens on the inside of a business, eventually shows up on the outside. Her virtual engagement strategies help leaders and teams work well together, so they can serve their customers well in these uncertain times. As a speaker, she sees the importance of creating exceptional experiences over platforms like Zoom and trains fellow speakers and leaders to use virtual engagement strategies to build trust while strengthening connection, collaboration, and service excellence. 

Bio:

When it comes to retaining customers there's nothing subtle about Marilyn Suttle, CVP. She's an internationally recognized customer & team engagement speaker, featured expert on TV News, and national print. Marilyn works with organizations that want to stand out as a provider of choice, leaders who want teams to create lasting customer relationships, and people who want to work well together. Her engaging programs show virtual audiences how to make Suttle Shifts for breakthrough success using relationship strengthening practices and growth mindsets. A Certified Virtual Presenter, and Certified Experiential Trainer, her programs endear customers to organizations, and leaders and teams to their highest potential. 

Marilyn Suttle, CVP

Certified Virtual Presenter I Trainer, Coach

CEO of Suttle Enterprises LLC, CX expert, Communication Pro 

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Holly J. Benjamin, MD, FAAP, FACSM, FAMSSM is a Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Rehabilitation Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Chicago and the Director of the Primary Care Sports Medicine program.  She is a past-vice president of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and previously served on the Board of Directors for the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM).  She was recently appointed as the inaugural Associate Editor for Continuing Medical Education for the prestigious international Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine (CJSM). She is a team physician for the University of Chicago NCAA DIII athletic program, the WNBA Chicago Sky, US Soccer, USA Triathlon and the Bank of America Chicago Marathon. Dr. Benjamin has presented and published at the local, regional and national level on a variety of sports medicine topics and is known for her contributions to sports medicine education.

Don McLean

Grammy award honoree, Songwriter Hall of Fame member,

BBC Lifetime Achievement Award recipient 

His smash hit

“American Pie”

resides in the Library of Congress National Recording Registry and was named by the Recording Industry of America (RIAA)

a top 5 song of the 20th Century. 

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This year marks the 50th anniversary release of the iconic song, American Pie. In celebration of this legendary song, Home Free and Don McLean teamed up for a special collaboration which was released on Friday, January 29th.  An official music video will follow on Wednesday, February 3rd, “the day the music died” -- the day Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. Richardson died tragically in an Iowa plane crash -- 62 years ago. 

We’re excited to use this release and this platform to continue to draw awareness to the National Independent Venue Association’s (NIVA) work in raising money for emergency grants for independent music venues and promoters so that 2021 does not become the year the stages died, too.  We’ll be pushing Home Free fans to donate to NIVA and making sure they’re aware that just because The Save Our Stages act passed, that the work is not done.  

Don McLean is a Grammy award honoree, a Songwriter Hall of Fame member, a BBC Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, and his smash hit “American Pie” resides in the Library of Congress National Recording Registry and was named by the Recording Industry of America (RIAA) a top 5 song of the 20th Century. A New York native, Don McLean is one of the most revered and respected songwriters in American history. After paying his dues in the New York club scene in the late ‘60s, he went on to score mega-hits like “Vincent (Starry, Starry Night),” “Castles in the Air” and many more. His catalog of songs has been recorded by Madonna, Garth Brooks, Josh Groban, Drake, Weird “Al” Yankovic, and countless others. In 2015, one of McLean’s four handwritten manuscripts of the lyrics to “American Pie” was auctioned by Christies, selling for just over $1.2 Million. 2019 honored Don with a star on the Las Vegas Walkway of Stars and his song “And I Love You So” was the theme for Prince Harry and Megan Markle’s wedding. Now in 2020, Don signed a recording contract with Time Life to release his catalog of recordings as well as the highly anticipated new album Still Playin’ Favorites, which was released October 23rd. “American Pie” will be featured in the Avengers Black Widow and the Tom Hanks movie BIOS and much more to be announced. And when you think things are slowing down, not so for Don McLean! 2021 will mark the 50th anniversary of American Pie with a world tour to follow.

"American Pie"

By Home Free and

(feat. Don McLean)

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TEN YEARS AFTER

legendary drummer

R  I  C    L   E   E

NEW MEMOIR

“From Headstocks To Woodstock –A Drummer’s Tale”

and release Deluxe Version of 

'A Sting in the Tale'

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Ric Lee has penned a new memoir called From Headstocks to Woodstock focusing on his long music career, including his adventures with the famous U.K. blues-rock outfit.

The 448-page tome is available now exclusively from Lee's official website, RicLeeTYA.com.

"It was something I'd always wanted to do, and I actually started it more than 10 years ago, but kept stopping and starting for various reasons," Lee explains in a statement. "Then a chance conversation with a friend in Los Angeles persuaded me to get it finished."

Ten Years After was led by singer guitarist Alvin Lee and had a series of popular albums in the late 1960s and early '70s. In the U.S., the band is best known for their scorching performing of "I'm Going Home" at the 1969 Woodstock Festival and their hit "I'd Love to Change the World," which peaked at #40 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1971.

Ric says some of the highlights in the book for him are "[m]y early days in bands in the Mansfield (my hometown) area, my stories about meeting people like Sir David Frost, Muhammad Ali, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Miles Davis and many others, and, of course, playing at Woodstock."

Lee adds that he hopes his memoir will "also be an inspiration to any aspiring young musicians to keep going against all adversity to finally win through."

While Alvin Lee died in 2013 at age 68 from heart surgery complications, Ten Years after has continued on and currently is led by Ric and founding keyboardist Chick Churchill.  The band is working on a new studio effort that's due out later this year and is planning to release a deluxe version of its 2017 album A Sting in the Tale in March.

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A Sting in the Tale (Deluxe Edition)

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For fans of Alvin Lee, Ten Years After, and Classic Rock! Over fifty years since the release of their eponymous debut album in 1967, Ten Years After has returned with a new studio album containing twelve tracks titled “A Sting In The Tale”. This “Deluxe Edition” also contains 4 live tracks from the bands recent tour including an amazing rendition of the smash hit “I’d Love To Change The World”, which remains as relevant today as when first released in 1971. The beginning of their meteoric rise to fame can be pinpointed to their performance at The Woodstock Music and Arts Festival in August 1969. The audience were blown away by the intensity of the band’s performance and their unique combination of Jazz, Blues and Rock, and their enigmatic frontman Alvin Lee. This made them one of the biggest bands of the early 70’s. As well as original members Ric Lee (Drums) and Chick Churchill (Keys), the band now features Bass Icon Colin Hodgkinson (Peter Green, Spencer Davis, Chris Rea) and multi-award winning Guitarist/Vocalist Marcus Bonfanti (Van Morrison, Ginger Baker, Ronnie Wood). The title “A Sting In The Tale” reflects the same sentiment Ric & Chick wished to convey in the 2015 live album “The Name Remains The Same”. Although the band lineup has changed and the music continues to evolve and grow fifty years on, the sound of the band will always be heavily rooted in the way they paved the way during the late sixties and early seventies and will never forget its incredible heritage. This new record is the ‘Sting’ in the continuing Tale of Ten Years After.

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of Ric’s Memoir

“From Headstocks To Woodstock –

A Drummer’s Tale”

by Ric Lee

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Following the Woodstock Festival in August 1969 and the subsequent movie in 1970, Ric's band, Ten Years After, became huge on the world stage. Ric's autobiography charts the journey from the coal mining town of Mansfield in the UK to performing alongside the greats and in some of the biggest venues of the music scene: The Newport Jazz Festival with Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention, Miles Davis and The Godfather of Soul, James Brown all became part of Ric's life and enhanced the band's burgeoning worldwide appeal. Other festivals: The Miami, Atlanta and Texas Pop Festivals, 1970's Isle of Wight Festival (with Jimi Hendrix and The Who) and headlining London's Albert Hall, New York's Madison Square Garden and Tokyo's Budokan, further exposed the band's music to a global audience. It's thought that Ric performed to almost 4 million people a year between 1969 and 1975, not including the estimated 300,000 to 500,000 who saw their amazingly powerful performance at Woodstock nearly fifty years ago. A must read for anyone who wants to find out more about the music scene in the mid twentieth century and at a time when revolution in music was in the air.

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L-DIXON

L-Dixon is a multi-passionate creative seeking to help uplift humanity through his various outlets. Whether it be through entrepreneurship, music production, web design, writing or video production, his focus is on utilizing those skills to manifest a vision of a freer, more sustainable and abundant world.  

As the founder of Autonomite, L-Dixon has helped amplify many prominent activist and freedom oriented brands such as NeverGetBusted, The Dollar Vigilante, Anarchapulco and The Freedom! Line.  He currently spends most of his time Co-Producing the FREEDOM PORTAL show with Foster Gamble of ThriveOn. 

ANGELA COVANY

CEO/ Founder of Publishing Company: Havana Book Group LLCDirector for Global Society For Female Entrepreneurs in Ventura Ca. (GSFE)Previous Director for National Association For Female Executives in Ventura and Santa Barbara, Ca. (NAFE)

Angela is a published Author/ Artist/ Illustrator. Her first book Titled “SILVER LINING ABSTRACTS” was published in June of 2016.

She has also been a contributing author in the adult coloring book. Holiday Express, both published through Blue Star Press The Anthology Titled “Entrepreneurial Women of Faith,” and is a contributing author in Robbie Motter’s Book Titled “It’s All about Showing Up; The Power is in the Asking.”

Angela has been recognized with 3 separate awards by two seated presidents from 2016-2021 for her dedication to her community. One of those awards was the Lifetime Achievements Award.

Angela has also been awarded by many city and state municipalities recognizing the efforts Angela has made to help others personally and professionally.

JOAN E. WAKELAND

Joan Wakeland-Taylor was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica,W.I. She graduated from the University of Technology as a Pharmacist in 1964. She migrated to the United States and continued her Career in the Pharmaceutical Industry.

Joan is a Published Author and Speaker. She has received many awards for her achievements throughout her life, including The Lifetime Achievement Award from two Presidents of the United States Of America. She is well respected by her peers and clients.

Joan is the Director of the Riverside, and of Hemet CA, affiliates of the Global Society of Female Entrepreneurs and the Past President of the General Federation of Woman’s Club Menifee/Sun City chapter. She  has dedicated herself to the GSFE organization and the success of its members as well as the success of the Woman’s group. She gives her time and talent to touch lives and make a difference. “That is her passion, making a difference.”  In her work she touches many other 501 c3 non profits. She serves on the GSFE Advisory Board.

Joan is the past President Of GFWC Menifee Sun City Woman’s Club and serves on the Advisory Committee Circle of Promise Member for the Susan G Komen Foundation in the Inland Empire.

KELLY D. SMITH

Kelly encountered many challenges in life that were devised to stop her from experiencing the best life has for her. Kelly found she was not alone. In the midst of calamity, sorrow, and suffering, she found God and the faith to get through the difficulties of life.

Learning that fear has the power to control her life if she let it, Kelly discovered she could be a victim or a victor, her choice. Fear is just a word that is powerless unless she gives it power. The word of God freed her, healed her, and set her life on an amazing path.

Kelly is an author and dynamic speaker. She has a Master’s degree in Special Education with 21 plus years of experience. Recently, in 2020, she was a recipient of the All Women Rock Award, CD Wilson Events. Senator Morrell awarded her The Woman of Distinction for the city of Menifee 2017. Some of her other awards include The Senate Certificate of Recognition 2017, The President’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and The President’s Volunteer Service Award, 2016 recognized by seated President Obama.

Kelly is a #1 best-selling author of Your Amazing Itty, Bitty Book on Faith, 15 Chapters to Overcome Fear and Live a Life of Victory, available in digital and paperback from Amazon.