Since the release of his Human LP, Folk-Pop artist Joseph Eid has been garnering
considerable buzz. He has been featured in American Songwriter Magazine’s “Best New
Music” column and was named as one of the 100 Hottest Live Unsigned Artists by Music
Connection Magazine.

His song, It’s Only Love, was featured in a Universal Pictures film starring Sharon Stone called “All I Wish.” His EP, Watch It Fall, was released in Spring 2017. No Depression music journal called it “mesmerizing and empowering.” His single Listening to Madonna was spun in department stores nationwide. It also earned a semi-finalist spot in the annual International Songwriting Competition.

His latest album, “Back to the Living,” enjoyed airplay by college radio stations across the country. Thank You (a song from his latest album) is featured in the critically acclaimed independent film The Outwaters.

Joseph’s childhood and exposure to different cultures has shaped and colored his writing,
perspective, and voice as an American artist. He was born in West Africa to Lebanese parents. At the young age of 11, Joseph’s family immigrated to the US where they made the suburbs of New York City their new home. The arts at home were only supported as a hobby and highly discouraged as a career. While he wished for a life in music, young Joseph’s artistic endeavors were limited to high school musicals and plays.

During his college years, Eid studied psychology and pre-med. After his first semester at medical
school, his dream got too big to hold and Eid made the bold choice of dropping out to move to New York City to pursue music. While back in New York, Joseph Eid picked up a guitar, joined a band, and the songs poured out like rain. His journey then led him to Los Angeles where he started playing regularly at music showcases and hosted several of his own weekly music nights. During those first years in Los Angeles, he wrote dozens of new songs and recorded his first full-length LP, Human.

Known as a dynamic solo performer, Joseph Eid has brought his one-man live show to many of Los Angeles’ premiere music venues. He also plays regularly at private homes, restaurants, hotels, wineries, and clubs all over Southern California. His greatest passion is split equally between songwriting and playing live. There isn’t a day that goes by where he isn’t grateful for the moment he decided to answer his calling. To be able to follow one’s heart is one of life’s greatest gifts.

I’m a Florida boy. Didn’t see snow till I was a junior in college at Michigan State University. I graduated in 1957 (Dick Nixon gave the commencement address) and came to New York and Allied Stores hired me as an executive sales Promotion trainee—for $3400 a year—I took home $200 a month after taxes.

Yes, I remember those days. They didn’t hurt. A few years later, married by then, we had our first child—in Syracuse. I was up to $6,000 a year as a copywriter. When my second daughter came along 19 months later, I was working in NYC for a small ad agency for $9,000 a year. Overnight (it seems) I was a creative copy supervisor in a giant agency, and we were richer than Croesus—I was earning $30,000 a year. We lived in Larchmont, NY, as pretty and nice a town as you can find for raising children. Then one day, because I always knew there were other trees to climb, I accepted a big job as Creative Director of the largest advertising office in South America—J. Walter Thompson’s Buenos Aires, Argentina office. They moved the four of us plus all our furnishings of a nine room house.

It was exciting. The girls were 11 and 9, and we were there for some politically circus-worthy years—Peron, who had raped Argentina in earlier years with his killer wife, Evita at his side, returned to Argentina, and the Argentines did the impossible—re-elected Juan Peron as President, and he named his new wife, Isabellita, as Vice-President. Then Juan died, and She, yes, that one, became La Presidente! What else happened those years? Oh yes, Nixon resigned, whenever I was in NYC on business all people could talk about was Watergate, but all that mattered to me were The Peronistas in Argentina; the Junta in Chile; and the Tupamaros in Uruguay. I learned back then you can’t live on two continents. And besides, I had Ford, Pan Am, Kodak and Lever Brothers, depending on my creative leadership, plus a staff of 40 Creativos. My secretary was a young Communist. He didn't speak one word of English. Working overseas puts a lot of demands on you.
 

In 2013, by divine intervention, I ended up at a Master Hypnotist Society, Hypnosis Boot Camp.  I knew no one and to this day I really don’t know how I ended up there. But, it was meant to be and I have been with the Master Hypnotist Society and under Scott McFall’s mentorship ever since.  2015 is when The Canadian Hypnosis Academy, a division of the Master Hypnotist Society Canada was created.

Sarah Kendzior is the author of three books: THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY: Dispatches from the Forgotten America (2018), HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America (2020), and THEY KNEW: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent (2022).

Sarah wrote op-eds for The Globe and Mail (2016-2020) and for Al Jazeera English (2012-2014) and contributed to dozens of other academic and mainstream publications. She co-hosted the podcast Gaslit Nation (2018-2023). You can view her latest writing (as well as her original photography) in Sarah Kendzior's Newsletter.

Kendzior has a PhD in anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis, where she researched politics and digital media in authoritarian states of the former Soviet Union. Dr. Kendzior applied the skills she gained studying Uzbekistan to cover the autocratic rise of the host of THE CELEBRITY APPRENTICE. 

Megan and Chuck Marra, Casting Directors

Megan Foley was born in New Orleans and raised in Houston. She moved to Santa Barbara then Los Angeles in college and graduated from Cal State Northridge a long time ago!!!!

Megan began casting in 1986 with the wonderful Sharon McGee where she discovered that casting was a blend of acting, directing and teaching...all things she really loved to do. She opened her own company in 1987. Chuck joined her a year or so later and they have been working together ever since. They have cast over 3500 commercials, dozens of films and several TV shows. Megan has so much information in her head that she wants to share with actors to help them release their dream of “making it” in the business.

Cloe is a singer/songwriter and angelic frequency channeler. She loves to use her voice as medicine, transmitting codes of healing as she performs in both live and studio environments. Her music is infused with messages of unconditional love, self-love and inner child healing.

Cloe previously ran a successful YouTube channel garnering 6.5 million subscribers, but took a step away from her role as an influencer to submerge herself in the world of songwriting and develop her skills as a vocalist and musician.  She still uses her YouTube channel to share content related to music, such as her “Story of a Song” series, which are in-depth short documentaries about the process of creating each of her songs.

She also loves to produce and direct music videos and bring her music to life visually. As much as the world of video creation will forever be a passion, music has always been her greatest joy and she’s so excited to finally be stepping into this artistic expression. 

Chris Lombard works with people and their horses to help them connect with each other. Through his one-on-one work and his clinics he works with many different people and horses across America.

There is joy, challenge, and much opportunity for growth when learning alongside a horse, and Chris’s goal is to help people get a feel for their own unique path in that journey.

Chris has written two horse related books: Land of the Horses, which chronicles his two years traveling the American West discovering his connection to horses, and The Horses In Our Stars, which looks at our journey within and the love and fear we experience both in life and with horses. He lives in Maine.

Jimmy Pearson is a unique and soulful artist, vocalist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor. He brings an unparalleled energy to his music and to the stage, which will leave you dancing for days. His music is a place where he can speak fully about his experiences in life and the growth that comes from them.

Originally from Oberlin, Ohio, Jimmy has been rocking the west coast since 2013. His style is a healthy mix of soul, funk, alternative, and unintentional pop. He also has scored multiple films, bringing his unique flavor to the screen, and has even composed original music for these films, as well as appeared on screen in some of them.