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Guest Occupation: Politician, Activist
Guest Biography:

To provide solutions to problems that individuals/organizations have to address, while building better trust-based relationships with everyone around me. In short, I love to Solve Problems, Help/Encourage People, Increase Revenues, Travel the World, Learn New Things, and Greatest - Leave A Positive Legacy for My Children, Family, Friends, and Community!

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

- Experienced Leadership of Process Improvement, Quality Management Systems, Strategic/Project Planning, Change Management, Validation, & Regulatory Affairs.

- Led process improvements to reduce operational expenditures and meet budgetary requirements.

- Customer focused by addressing problems and providing cost effective solutions to satisfy customer expectations.

- Experience in the Pharmaceutical/Biotech/Medical Device/Nutraceutical, Blood Banking, Retail, and Automotive Manufacturing environments.

- Extensive experience in dealing in environments such as the FDA, MHRA, EMA, ISO, etc.

- Certified Auditor (CQA/CHA) of domestic and international businesses regulated by governmental agencies.

- Extensive business background in international environments; traveling to more than 50 countries to date.



Personal Summary

I am actively involved in being a loving husband & father to my family; volunteer at the Adams County jail by teaching the Bible & life skills to men, missions to help the poor locally and/or the world, & listening/helping anyone in their time of need. I have traveled to 54 countries & all 50 US states. Overall, loving and enjoying life, God, family, friends, work, sports, traveling, etc.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anil-mathai-0ab1436/

Guest Category: News, Politics & Government, Society and Culture
Guest Occupation: Columnist for USA Today, Senior Fellow for National Security Affairs
Guest Biography:

James S. Robbins (born 1962) is an American commentary writer for USA Today and Senior Fellow for National Security Affairs on the American Foreign Policy Council. He is the former Senior Editorial Writer for Foreign Affairs at the Washington Times, an author, political commentator and professor, with a focus on national security and foreign and military affairs.

James S. Robbins is a columnist for USA Today, Senior Fellow for National Security Affairs at the American Foreign Policy Council and a member of the advisory board to the National Civil War Museum. Formerly, he was an award-winning editorial writer at the Washington Times, professor at the National Defense University, and special assistant in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.



Dr. Robbins holds a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. His books include Erasing America: Losing Our Future By Destroying Our Past (2018), The Real Custer: From Boy General to Tragic Hero (2014), This Time We Win: Revisiting the Tet Offensive (2010) and Last in Their Class: Custer, Pickett and the Goats of West Point (2006).

Dr. Robbins’ books include The Real Custer: From Boy General to Tragic Hero (Amazon #2 in Military Biography), Native Americans: Patriotism, Exceptionalism and the New American Identity (Amazon #1 in Nationalism), This Time We Win: Revisiting the Tet Offensive (Amazon #1 in American Military History and Vietnam War History) and Last in Their Class: Custer, Pickett and the Goats of West Point.

Dr. Robbins has appeared on hundreds of national and international television and radio programs, including on Fox News, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, and CSPAN among others. His articles and commentaries have appeared in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and more.

Dr. Robbins’ awards include the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joint Meritorious Civilian Service Award, the Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association Division A, First Place award for editorial writing, and the U.S. Department of State Secretary’s Open Forum Distinguished Public Service Award.

Dr. Robbins holds a PhD and Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and a Master of Arts and Bachelor of Arts Cum Laude with High Honors in Political Science from the University of Cincinnati.

Guest Category: Literature, Business, Legal, History, Military, News, Philosophy, Politics & Government, Society and Culture
Guest Occupation: Business Strategist, Author, Coach
Guest Biography:

Adversity is an Adventure!



Divya Parekh is a Business Strategist, Author and Coach who survived an accident which triggered medical debts which piled up to over $35,000 for two years. After almost losing her sanity and her business, she discovered how to shift her mindset and move towards healing. She now shares how to manifest your dreams in life and business and helps many others do the same.

Divya has worked with thousands of entrepreneurs, coaches, consultants, and leaders from a wide array of industries, who are ready to play full out, experience the joy of impacting others and expand their reach, business, and revenue. Together, they work to achieve success through coaching, authorship, consulting, authority positioning, media exposure, course building, speaking, and strategic marketing. Also, she loves holding “Get Work Done” masterminds and speaking at leadership, entrepreneurial, and women’s conferences. She is an avid proponent for oceanic sustainability, nature communing, and mentoring young students and women to help them create opportunities for themselves and their communities.
 
As an author, Divya has been invited as a media influencer to publicity conferences and summits, including sharing the virtual platform with industry leaders like Jack Canfield and JJ Virgin. Divya’s books and strategies have been endorsed by the likes of Brian Tracy, Marshall Goldsmith, Kevin Harrington (Original Shark from Shark Tank), Joe Theismann (Super Bowl World Champion and Entrepreneur), Rhonda Vetere (Global CIO/CTO and 2019 top 50 most powerful Tech Women), Sherry Winn (Two-time Olympian) and many more….



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Guest Category: Business, Education, Health & Lifestyle, Psychology, Self Help
Guest Occupation: Darryl is a spiritual medium who channels an enlightened extraterrestrial entity named Bashar.
Guest Biography:

Want to learn more about UFOs and metaphysical topics? My guest is DARRYL ANKA who is a writer-director-producer at Zia Films LLC, a company he owns with his producing partner and wife, Erica Jordan. Darryl has an extensive background in miniature effects, storyboards and set design and has worked on some of the biggest sci-fi and action films over the past thirty years, such as Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Iron Man and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. He is also an internationally known public speaker on UFOs and metaphysical topics. Over twenty books of his seminars have been published in the United States and Japan and recordings of his talks have been sold to thousands of people around the globe. Bashar info: https://www.bashar.org/   

Guest Category: Earth & Space, Entertainment, Health & Lifestyle, Paranormal, Philosophy, Psychology, Self Help, Spiritual, Theory & Conspiracy
Guest Occupation: GOP Colorado legislative candidate
Guest Biography:

Biography taken from: https://www.braigforsafety.com/about

My name is Larry Braig.
For 34 years as a Denver Firefighter,
my highest priority was your safety.
I promise to protect you and your family,
because your safety is still my top priority.
Larry Braig for Colorado House District 9
 
WHERE I COME FROM
How blessed can a person be to have had an occupation that forever changed who you thought you were, and each day helped further shape what type of person you would become?
 
What if you discovered as I did, that a job once seemingly out of reach due to my own doubts, as to my ability to actually do it, became the one thing I felt I was put on earth to do?
 
Then, spend the next thirty four years doing it.
 
That defines my career as a firefighter, and later as an officer, for the Denver Fire Department. A career so meaningful and important to me that I couldn’t imagine myself doing anything else.
 
My career was full of thousands of varieties of emergency calls, with thousands of face-to-face interactions with people undergoing all manner of illness, injury, stress, hardship, or predicament. My job as a Denver firefighter, with proper training and equipment, was to help people during the course of my duties. To me, and others like me, it wasn’t a job but a vocation; to help, serve, and protect all people regardless of their circumstance. In other words, everyone I came in contact with should receive the same, professional level of attention in finding solutions to any given problem, no matter their background, with respect and compassion. It was in my job description, and anything less would have been contrary to what I grew up believing: being a firefighter just cemented my mindset of treating others the way I’d like myself, and my family to be treated.
 
It wasn’t always perfect, flowers didn’t spring up out of my very footsteps year after year. But I can honestly say, my ideals carried over into the physical and emotional component of my work, and that, in turn, was of some value to the people I served.
 
I retired from the Denver Fire Department as a Lieutenant in September of 2018. My family and I have lived in Southeast Denver for twenty seven years. The last fourteen years of my career were spent protecting that same neighborhood. I am proud of my service record, and my extensive involvement in the community lasts to this day. I am deeply committed to our church, and regularly deliver and distribute food at Hopes Provision food bank. In addition, I am certified and have been recently deployed by Team Rubicon, a worldwide disaster response organization.
 
My hardworking mother Rosalie, brought our small family to Denver from Wyoming in 1967, and was married to my stepfather, Stan Anderson soon after. I attended Denver Public Schools, graduating from North High and went on to Metropolitan State University where I enrolled in the Professional Pilot program. A family emergency forced my decision to not continue my education or earn my degree.
 
My wife Sharon and I have been married for 24 years, and have two wonderful children, and one beautiful grandchild. Our son Ezra attends the University of Nations, in Kona, Hawaii, an international missionary school. And, our daughter Taryn lives in Grand Junction, CO with her husband Patric and their new son Milo. Patric is a wine maker and co-founder of Sauvage Spectrum Winery. 
Guest Category: News, Politics & Government
Guest Occupation: National Appeals Director, Veteran Warriors
Guest Biography:

Holly Ferrell is Veteran Warriors’ National Appeals Director and oversees all veteran caregiver related matters.  In this role, she handles cases of various natures: those who have had their applications denied; those who have been discharged; those who are attempting to resolve issues with the VA staff; those veterans and their caregiver who are attempting to decide whether to apply and whether they meet eligibility; those veterans who require assistance with applying; those who are looking for other resources or possibly that their veteran requires more care; and any other related matters.

With her clinical background, the majority of her time is spent assisting veterans whose Caregiver Program applications have been denied and those that have been discharged from the program with properly drafting their appeals, including assisting the veteran and caregiver with gathering the proper documentation and medical records to prove they were wrongfully denied.  On a case by case basis, Holly will represent a veteran and their caregiver with their appeals either onsite or via teleconference.  There are often times where she is required to help open the dialog between the veteran and the VA to discuss potential administrative errors on a Veteran’s Eligibility Assessment, misconduct, or other wrongdoing by VA.  She has oversight of all the organization’s cases regarding the public law’s clinical and administrative eligibility for the Caregiver Program, requiring her to spend a lot of time discussing options with veterans or caregivers regarding Program eligibility and whether there may be other more suitable programs.

When Holly is not assisting other veteran families, she enjoys spending time with her family.  Holly’s husband is a post 9/11 Army veteran, which allows her to relate closely with the veteran caregiver community.  Daniel and Holly have four children, three boys and a little princess, and one four-legged fur-child.  With two of their four children knowing life before the military discharge and two only knowing the veteran lifestyle, she has strived to ensure her children are well rounded, compassionate, and understand that their lifestyle is not typical for many of the peers.  She and her family frequently help other families who are attempting to transition out of the military to navigate the veteran family lifestyle, particularly with navigating the VA and adapting to a new way of life.

Guest Category: Education, Health & Lifestyle, Kids & Family, Medicine, Military, News, Politics & Government, Self Help
Guest Occupation: Associate Professor, Loyola University Chicago, Department of History
Guest Biography:

Elizabeth Tandy Shermer (Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara, 2009; B.A. University of Virginia, 2003) is an Associate Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago where she teaches courses in twentieth-century United States history, with an emphasis on in the fields of capitalism, business, labor, political ideas and ideologies, regional development, and urbanization. She previously taught at Claremont McKenna College in California.

Shermer has written extensively on twentieth-century U.S. political and urban history.  She is the author of Sunbelt Capitalism: Phoenix and the Transformation of American Politics (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013), editor of Barry Goldwater and the Remaking of the American Political Landscape (University of Arizona Press, 2013), and co-editor, with Nelson Lichtenstein, of The Right and Labor in America: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012). Her articles have appeared in the Journal of American HistoryAmerican Historical Association PerspectivesBloomberg NewsHuffington Post, and History News Network.  Her article “General Motors vs. General Electric,” November 26, 2012, History News Network, was recently named an “Editor’s Pick” for 2012.

Shermer was previously the assistant director at the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy at the University of California, Santa Barbara from 2005 to 2009.  She was also the Paul Mellon Fellow of American History at the University of Cambridge from 2010 to 2012 where she taught graduate-level American history courses and lectured in the US history survey. Shermer was the recipient of the 2011 Lancaster Dissertation Award in the Humanities and Fine Arts from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the runner-up for the 2011 Council of Graduate Schools/UMI Distinguished Dissertation Award in the Arts and Humanities.  She was the student Commencement Speaker at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2009.

Shermer currently serves as co-editor of the book series “American Business, Politics, and Society” at the University of Pennsylvania Press which explores the relationship between governmental institutions and the creation and performance of markets, firms, and industries. She is a contributor to Bloomberg.com’s Echoes Blog which places economic current events in historical perspective.  Shermer is currently a Scholar-in-Residence at the Newberry Library.

Research Interests

Modern United States, capitalism, urban history, politics and public policy, labor and working-class history

Courses Taught

  • HIST 461: 20th Century America
  • HIST 212: U.S. Since 1865
  • HONORS: History of Recent Events (2012 Election)

Selected Publications

Sunbelt Capitalism: Phoenix and the Transformation of American Politics (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013).

Barry Goldwater and the Remaking of the American Political Landscape, ed.(University of Arizona Press, 2013).

The Right and Labor in America: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination, ed. with Nelson Lichtenstein (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012).

“Banking on Government” in Steven Conn (ed.), To Promote the General Welfare: The Case for Big Government (Oxford University Press, 2012).       

 “‘Take Government Out of Business by Putting Business into Government:’ Local Boosters, National CEOs, Experts, and the Internal Dynamics of Mid-Century Capital Mobility,” in Julian Zelizer and Kim Phillips-Fein (eds.), Business and Politics in Postwar America (Oxford University Press, 2012).

“Origins of the Conservative Ascendancy: Barry Goldwater’s Early Senate Career and the De-legitimization of Organized Labor,”Journal of American History 95 (December 2008), 678-709.

Guest Category: Education, Entertainment, History, Kids & Family, Politics & Government, Self Help, Variety
Guest Occupation: Singer Songwriter, owner of Standing O' Music
Guest Biography:

JULIAN MIRANDA: OWNER OF ~STANDING O’ MUSIC~ WHICH IS A MANAGEMENT, DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION COMPANY FOR YOUNG TALENT IN THE AREA OF MUSIC. BEING A SINGER/SONG WRITER FOR THE PAST 15 YEARS AND HAVING WORKED WITH & TRAVELED WITH SUCH GREATS AS, AND APPEARED ON:

* Opening for Ray Charles 

* Opening for Stephen Bishop

* Opening/ Singing w/ Ms. Oleta Adams

* Singing & Recording  w/ Freddie Revel

* Opening act for Marrianne Williamson

 * Touring w/ Jessica Simpson – 1 year 

* World Tour Enrique Iglesias- 4 years 

* Rick James -2 yr Ebony Eyed Duet 

*  Teena Marie 7 yrs as Vocal Captain. 

* Star Search 

* Natalie Coles Big Break 

* Signed to Paisley Park 

* Signed to Michael Simbello

* 92.3 The Beat HOME JAMS Winner

* Jingles, Radio Spots, Commercials 

* Vocal Coaching

* AGT

JULIAN IS ACTIVE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ALL OF HIS YOUNG ARTISTS.

“WE COVER THE FULL GAMET OF MUSICAL SERVICES FROM MANAGEMENT, ARTIST DEVELOPMENT, VOCAL COACHING, STYLIZING, MUSIC CONSULTING, PRODUCTION: BOTH IN THE RECORDING OF MUSIC, ON-STAGE MUSIC & SONG WRITING.”

Guest Category: Performing Arts, Entertainment, Music