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Headlined Guests

Headlined Guests that have appeared on BBS Radio TV

Guest Name
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Guest Occupation: Sports Talk Host
Guest Biography:

Jeff Aaron, known as 'The Fish,' is a Sports Talk Host on Fox Sports Radio 1380 KRKO in Everett, WA.  Aaron hosts '3 to 5, LIVE with The Fish' daily at the KRKO studios. 

Prior to joining KRKO, The Fish was a mainstay for years on Sports Radio 950 KJR. 

Guest Category: Sports & Recreation, Professional, High School, College
Guest Occupation: Football Analyst; former NFL QB
Guest Biography:

Hugh Millen (born November 22, 1963) is a former professional football player, a quarterback in the National Football League from 1986 to 1995. Selected by the Los Angeles Rams in the third round (71st overall) of the 1986 NFL Draft from the University of Washington, he played mainly as a backup in ten NFL seasons for the Rams, Atlanta Falcons, New England Patriots, Dallas Cowboys, Denver Broncos, and New Orleans Saints.

Millen currently works as a football analyst for KJR-AM radio and KCPQ television in Seattle, Washington, and lives with his family in Snoqualmie.

Guest Category: Sports & Recreation, Professional, High School, College
Guest Occupation: KOMO 4 News Anchor
Guest Biography:

Eric was the Sports Director at KOMO for many years, but recently he became the anchor for the 5:00 news.

He was raised in Spokane (East Valley High School), and majored in broadcasting in the Edward R. Murrow School of Communications at Washington State University. He also played baseball at WSU (he says with very limited success).

In his 15 years at KOMO, Eric has been awarded more than 25 Regional Emmy Awards, and in 2007 was given the highest prize in local television news, a National Edward R. Murrow Award for best feature story in the country.

He has been in the middle of most of the major Seattle sports stories of the past decade and a half. He was there for the '95 Mariners, and the '96 Sonics, the Seahawks Super Bowl run, too many Apple Cups to count, and the Storm's championship season.

In 1993 he created a popular weekly feature called, "Eric's Little Heroes." Seattle laughed for years at kids running the wrong way, saying the wrong things, and proving every week what sports are truly about. And after being gone for a couple of years, "Eric's Little Heroes" has returned to KOMO 4.

Eric has a wife and two children; a boy and a girl. In his spare time he plays in an adult baseball league, works on his antique Ford, plays piano, and writes music.

Guest Category: Sports & Recreation, Professional, High School, Amateur
Guest Occupation: certified CranioSacral Therapist
Guest Biography:

This information has been taken directlyh from this website located at: http://cranialalchemy.com/about-us/

ABOUT JEANNINE WIEST, author, healer, holistic coach, craniosacral therapist

Jeannine has led a non-linear life, but the constant has always been art and connection.

Born in Lansing, Michigan, Wiest grew up in New York City where she attended the famed High School of Performing Arts. She went on to receive a BFA from Purchase College which led to her becoming a dancer on Broadway. After moving to Los Angeles, she created a successful design firm, designing one-of-a-kind clothes for boutiques around the world. Jeannine re-invented herself as an Emmy-nominated costume designer.  But throughout her 20’s and 30’s Wiest was ill.

 Jeannine was mis-diagnosed twice with cancer.  In seeking answers to resolve her pain she discovered Craniosacral therapy It was only then, as she listened and developed new ways of relating to her body and “old stories” that she healed.  Pain free and impressed by the power of the work, she went into training to become a Craniosacral therapist.  Ten years ago Jeannine finally owned her gifts as a healer.

In her retreat-like office she offers solo Immersion VIP days, small group workshops on Ancestors and Abundance as well as creative Transformation Circle Days.  Virtually she offers VIP day coaching to Heal Your Mojo.

Jeannine’s new book The Alchemy of Self Healing is due out from New Page Books, October 20, 2014.  It’s a 30-day guidebook to having a sensory, healing relationship with your body. Your experience of the book can be augmented with personalized, customized phone sessions via individual and small group virtual circles.  This additional support and accountability is what helps you get the most from her step-by-step system.

Jeannine specializes in working with highly stressed, overwhelmed women, helping them transform the energy trapped in their body so they can reconnect with their creative power and release pain.  She works with three levels, physical, metaphysical and metaphorical to best facilitate your ability to turn what you may now find blah or ordinary, into the version of you which perceives the extraordinary.

A long-time Teaching Assistant for the Upledger Institute, she’s dissected a human cadaver, travelled with a group of therapists to Bali to give cranial treatments to chronically ill children (in the water), and developed her 4-part Cranial Alchemy system. She’s worked with creatives of all kinds from billionaires and executives to Oscar and Tony winners, writers, moms, business owners and corporate escapees! 

We are each creating all the time. The question is: Is it by default? Are we on a hamster wheel creating disease, stress or disconnection? Many of us are.

Jeannine can help you make big shifts and assist you in both healing and rebooting your soul purpose with ease.

http://cranialalchemy.com/

Guest Category: Health & Lifestyle, Alternative Health, Energy Healing, Homeopathy, Sound Healing, Kids & Family, Psychology, Self Help, Spiritual
Guest Occupation: Spoken Word Poet, Singer
Guest Biography:

In another time and on a distant sea, Michael Penrose would have been a stowaway aboard a battered ship. Ignoring monstrous waves looming over the topsail, his stride to the bow would be resolute. The deckhands’ frantic screams would fade to a whisper upon hearing Michael’s voice.

Sailing forward through time, echoes from the past fill warm clubs where Michael performs. His thought-provoking and passionate pieces like A Faraway Place and Blanket of Blue are enhanced with rhythmic grooves. With the soulful Near the Sun, we are reminded that our ship remains battered but a powerful voice beckons us into calm waters.

Guest Category: Music
Guest Occupation: Founder of Liveto110.com, Writer, Certified Holistic Health and Nutrition Coach, Entrepreneur, Hair Mineral Analysis Certified, Author
Guest Biography:

Wendy Myers, CHHC, is the founder and head writer of Liveto110.com. She is a certified holistic health and nutrition coach in Los Angeles, Ca, having attended the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in New York and graduated with a degree in Entrepreneurship from the University of Southern California. She is also certified in Hair Mineral Analysis for the purpose of designing Mineral Power programs for clients to correct their metabolism and body chemistry.  She is currently seeking her masters in clinical nutrition at Bridgeport University in Connecticut.

Look for Wendy’s new book coming soon, The Modern Paleo Survival Guide. You can get a taste of her new book by downloading her free Modern Paleo Survival Guides. You can also download her free 35-page weight loss eBook called the Live to 110 by Weighing Less eGuide. Wendy hosts the weekly Live to 110 Video Podcast and the Modern Paleo Cooking show on her Live to 110 Youtube Channel.

Wendy’s interest in nutrition began with the death of her father from esophageal cancer. Intuitively, she knew his chemo, radiation, and ten medications killed him prematurely. She vowed to find out what made him sick, why he died, what role medications played in his demise, and how she could avoid the same fate. The more Wendy learned, the more she realized that all the answers to health do not lie in our medical system. Food, detoxification and natural healing modalities must be used to compliment the advances in modern medicine.

Wendy’s site Liveto110.com aims to inform you about how to achieve optimum health, energy and vitality. Liveto110.com empowers you to improve your health through the Paleo diet, Mineral Power, detoxification and natural treatments for your health conditions. She urges you to take responsibility for your own health by learning about alternative treatments for your health conditions. Most doctors are only trained to offer medications or surgery, which are not an appropriate first line of treatment for many health conditions. Health is not merely about the absence of disease or symptoms.

Guest Category: Health & Lifestyle, Fitness & Exercise, Nutrition, Philosophy, Self Help
Guest Occupation: CHRISTINE DAY IS A LEADING SPIRITUAL TEACHER, SPEAKER, HEALER, CHANNEL and AUTHOR
Guest Biography:

CHRISTINE DAY IS A LEADING SPIRITUAL TEACHER, SPEAKER,
HEALER, CHANNEL and AUTHOR in the fields of self-development and spiritual growth. Shehas
been working throughout the USA and internationally for the last 15 years. She's the author of two
books Pleiadian Initiations of Light and Pleiadian Principles for Living.She has created many
webinars, online courses, audio and video programs. She has appeared on hundreds of radio shows and
for years she has been working with the Pleiadian initiations around the world.
She is affectionately renowned internationally as the “Pleiadian Ambassador.”
Christine's powerful and heartbreaking personal story has inspired audiences throughout the world.
Born and raised in Australia, she experienced a traumatic childhood involving cult ritual abuse. In
1986, following a diagnosis of advanced systemic lupus, and having been told she had just two months
to live, Christine experienced a profound spiritual awakening with the Pleiadians, which enabled her to
move into a place of self healing. She has now been symptom free for the last twenty-six years. Since
then Christine has been presenting Pleiadian Events, Seminars and Transmissions of Light throughout
the United States and internationally.
She has co-created The Pleiadian Enlightenment Academy which offer on-line transformative courses.
The courses are specifically designed to facilitate and accelerate the process to Self discovery. Christine
believes that the single most important journey that we are to make in this lifetime is the re-discovery
of our Selves; this journey of the re-alignment back to our natural spiritual natures.This sacred
channeled work from the Pleiadians, provides the tools to open up specific energetic dimensional
spaces that afford you the opportunity to move forward and awaken on different levels.
Christine is the founder of FREQUENCIES OF BRILLIANCE, a unique healing modality that was
channeled through her twenty years ago, along with the original Amanae multi-dimensional bodywork.
Her first book,”Pleiadian Initiations of Light” which is based on Frequencies of Brilliance, now offers
this work to a broad general audience with practitioners all over the world, just to name a few: US,
Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, France, Italy and Belgium.
She is a beloved and celebrated Spiritual figure, with an extensive student and practitioner base in
Brazil that study 'Frequencies of Brilliance'. She also holds various seminars, workshops, lectures and
transmissions for the general public throughout Brazil.
Radio Show Host:
Show title: PLEIADIAN TOOLS FOR SELF-REALIZATION via Blogtalkradio
Show Link
In this live twice-monthly show, Christine, presents a new body of information and transmissions of
sacred tones and codes specifically designed to act as energetic keys to unlock the information residing
within the matrix of our cellular structure.
LIVE ON THE 1ST AND 3RD MONDAY OF EACH MONTH AT
12:30-2:pm PACIFIC, 2:30-4pm CENTRAL, 8.30-10.00pm GMT
BOOKS:

Guest Category: Cosmology, UFOs, Physics & Metaphysics, Mental Health, Akashic Records, Angel Communication, Medium & Channeling, Mystic & Seer, Psychic & Intuitive
Guest Occupation: Sports Broadcaster
Guest Biography:

Talk Show Host both sports and general, Pre and Post Game Host, Sports Anchor, Field Reporter, Feature Reporter, Advertising and Imaging Voice, Product Spokesman, Event Emcee, Producer show and live remote/field, Copywriter, Automotive Writer, Web Content Producer, Video Production and Director Specialties, Script Writing, Copy Writing, Public Speaking, Interviewing, working with diverse populations.

Guest Category: Sports & Recreation, Professional, High School, College
Guest Occupation: Holistic Nutritionist and Author
Guest Biography:

Marni Wasserman  is a Graduate of the Institute of Holistic Nutrition in Toronto and the Natural Gourmet Culinary School in New York, and is the founder of Marni Wasserman’s Food Studio & Lifestyle Shop located in midtown Toronto where she teaches her signature cooking classes, and offers collaborative workshops and urban retreats. This is also a place where she features her favourite sustainable superfood products.

As a prominent figure of health and nutrition in Toronto, Marni is a regular contributor to Chatelaine, Huffington Post and Tonic Magazine. She has made several TV appearances, been hosted on radio talk shows, consulted with The Windsor Arms Hotel for vegan and vegetarian menus, and participates in several live speaking and cooking demonstrations. If that wasn’t enough, she is also the author of book Plant Based Diet for Dummies, Fermenting For Dummies and several well-received plant-based eBooks.

Guest Category: Health & Lifestyle, Medicine, Science, Self Help
Guest Occupation: Professor of Medicine at Temple U,
Guest Biography:

Dr Rich Snyder is an osteopathic physician board certified in Internal Medicine and Nephrology (the study of kidney disease). His areas of specialization include kidney disease, high blood pressure, adrenal health and medical education. He is Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at Temple University School of Medicine and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. He is the author of five books including Adrenal Fatigue For Dummies and What You Must Know About Kidney Disease: A Practical Guide For Using Conventional and Complementary Treatments. He is also the High Blood Pressure Expert on About.com

Guest Category: Health & Lifestyle, Medicine, Philosophy, Science, Self Help
Guest Occupation: Medical Doctor
Guest Biography:

Dr. Lorraine Hurley

is the host of Uncommon Awareness.

The shows mission, or objective, is to raise awareness of issues not commonly, or truthfully, reported in the mainstream media or disseminated through the other social institutions that define our day-to-day life. The shows name reflects the following belief; that true awareness is uncommon and that a change or expansion of awareness changes everything. It changes our outlook, our lives, our view on reality and our ability to respond to and engage whatever experience we find ourselves in the midst of. A change of awareness changes everything!

We are in the midst of extraordinary times. What we have been educated indoctrinated or manipulated into believing about the world we live in is being challenged and exposed as a lie of cosmic proportion. This difficult and startling realization is paradoxically a gift. Once we appreciate that we are living in a matrix built on deception, fraud and an insane desire for control we can begin to ask important and relevant questions, we can begin to participate in life mindfully and in empowered ways such that the matrix of insanity is dismantled. In order to exercise our power we must first be aware of how it has been usurped and how we may responsibly and creatively take it under expanded conscious control.

Uncommon Awareness strives to bring guests to the program from extraordinarily diverse backgrounds, interests and accomplishments. There is a huge emphasis on health as it is pretty hard to be aware, awake, conscious and empowered when you don’t feel very well. But we expand the definition of health and we expand the sphere of what is called relevant and reliable information. Health is not just about physical integrity. In addition to nutrition, functional and alternative health practices our show promotes:

  • Awareness of the role of consciousness in the creation of reality
  • Emotional, mental and spiritual awareness, or rather an expanded view of our make-up and abilities
  • The elucidations of quantum physics (gosh I love this stuff !)
  • Ancient wisdom teachings and technologies (love this too!)
  • The extraordinary accomplishments in our world that are never permitted adoption by society and an opportunity to morph our world for the better.
  • The extraordinary abilities that we, as human beings, possess and have yet to develop
  • Ancient healing tools and wisdom being re-discovered and mastered
  • New innovations as keys to acknowledging, challenging and changing paradigms and enabling both personal and collective transformation
  • Dignity and recognition for the accomplishments, potential and vision inherent in the lives and experiences of us all.

Our take on reality is often disturbing at Uncommon Awareness but our goal is not to be another fear-mongering, hand wringing, purveyor of bad news. Our goal is to bring you into an awareness of how you can re-write the script, re-work the experiences of your lives and harvest meaning, purpose and joy out of your daily life.

We wouldn’t be anything without you—the listener. We wouldn’t grow as well as we could without your participation. So please, participate, make your voice and experience known to us. Thank you for your interest in what we are doing!

Guest Category: Education, Health & Lifestyle, Alternative Health, Kids & Family, Medicine, Physics & Metaphysics, Psychology, Self Help, Spiritual
Guest Occupation: Master Astrologer and creator of Spirit Touch
Guest Biography:

Dean Price has spent four decades studying & practicing Astrology, Sacred Geometry, Spirit Communication, & Hands-on Healing. He discovered that the Planets correspond holographically to the Human Chakras, in the same physical order & with the same meaning. From this knowledge he created "Spirit Touch", to understand & clear each person's unique astrological patterns, & reprogram them for abundance, success, & love.  

 

Guest Category: Health & Lifestyle, Physics & Metaphysics, Self Help, Spiritual
Guest Occupation: Filmmaker and a Serial Entrepreneur
Guest Biography:

Jeff Hays is a filmmaker and a serial entrepreneur.  He began making films back in the late nineties.  He is most known for Fahrenhype 9/11 (2004), a response to Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11, and On Native Soil (2006), a documentary focusing on the passionate demand of the surviving family members of 9/11 victims, for an official investigation into the 9/11 attacks.  This documentary, which was narrated by Kevin Costner and Hillary Swank was short-listed for an Academy Award.

Hays’ last project was “Doctored”, The Movie, and is now completing two more films regarding the healthcare system.  “Undoctored and Bought”.  Hays explains, “In recent years my eyes have been opened to alternative healthcare options.  The immediate increase in health I experienced personally after starting down this road is something I’ve just got to share with people.”

Hays is also in production on a new film, “The Wealth Gap” focusing on the widening wealth and income gap and some surprising potential solutions. TWG will be completed in early 2015.

Hays teaches filmmakers and entrepreneurs how to create successful donor crowdfunding projects based on his 7-figure success in crowdfunding.

Hays lives in the mountains of Utah with his dog Abby and works from his office in NY. He’s the father of 9, and grandfather of 12, with new one’s arriving annually…

Guest Category: Business, Health & Lifestyle, TV & Film
Guest Occupation: Spiritual Healer, Sacred Magistry Minister, Author and Ascension Guide
Guest Biography:

Kommany is Spiritual Healer, Sacred Magistry Minister, Author and Ascension Guide

"I am an Angel from the Angelic Realms and I am here in Service for Humanity as Divinely Willed from Prime Creator."

Pure Angel Kommany is a Spiritual Minister and Founder of Unified New Earth Sanctuaries and Angel Star Ascension Collective. After giving her freewill up to the Will of God, she was gifted with the ability to connect deeper within the higher realms and connect her consciousness with the souls of the universe allowing her to become of service in many ways to all of Earth’s Inhabitants.

She donates her time to the upliftment of Humanity in many ways as a Minister, Counselor, Writer, Holistic Healer, and Spiritual Guide.

Kommany Leazer is experienced in all aspects of self-sustainable living and building self-sustainable living communities. She is also a leader for the Angel Star Ascension Collective.

Kommany is available for public speaking engagements and consultations.

Guest Category: Health & Lifestyle, Paranormal, Philosophy, Physics & Metaphysics, Politics & Government, Psychology, Religion, Self Help, Spiritual
Guest Occupation: Former NFL Cornerback
Guest Biography:

Marcus Lavon Trufant[1] (born December 25, 1980) is a retired American football player who was a cornerback in the National Football League (NFL) for ten seasons. He played college football for Washington State University, and was chosen by the Seattle Seahawks 11th overall in the 2003 NFL Draft.



Trufant was selected by the Seattle Seahawks with the 11th overall pick in the 2003 NFL Draft. Coming from Tacoma and graduating from Washington State University, Trufant is considered a hometown favorite. In 2007 Trufant played a big part in the Seahawks defense, intercepting a career high 7 passes and returning one for an 84 yard touchdown. He also deflected 15 passes and made 85 tackles, and was voted into the 2008 Pro Bowl in Hawaii.



Trufant now devotes his time to enriching his community via his Trufant Family Foundation.

Guest Category: Sports & Recreation, Professional, High School, College
Guest Occupation: Morning Radio Host at KLUC in Las Vegas
Guest Biography:

Chet Buchanan is the host and creator of 98.5 KLUC’s Chet Buchanan and the Morning Zoo! Since it’s inception in 1999 it has consistently been one of the highest rated and most beloved radio shows in Las Vegas. In addition to anchoring the morning show, which he was named “Best of Las Vegas” by the Las Vegas Review-Journal for, Chet can be seen just about everywhere in Las Vegas.

Many Las Vegans know Chet from his work on the court at UNLV Runnin’ Rebel Basketball games, appearing as a frequent contributor on Fox 5’s “More at Four,” or holding down a packed schedule hosting multiple corporate, civic, and charity events.

Chet is also the brains behind the annual Chet Buchanan and the Morning Zoo Toy Drive, where he lives and broadcasts live on top of 30 foot scaffolding for 12 days straight to raise toys for thousands of Las Vegas children. Since it’s inception, the 98.5 KLUC Chet Buchanan and the Morning Zoo Toy Drive has grown to become recognized as “The World’s Largest Single Location Toy Drive” and in 2010 filled (14) 50 foot semi trailers, as well as collecting over 2,000 bicycles, and raising over $145,000 in gift cards.

Guest Category: Comedy, Sports & Recreation, Professional, Outdoor, High School, College, TV & Film
Guest Occupation: Chiropractor
Guest Biography:

Dr. Cassius Camden Clay has been in practice as a Chiropractor for 31 years. His focus is on teaching his patients how to treat themselves. The Quick Self Fixes book and DVD series is Dr. Clay’s most effective 32 self-treatments, which make and keep chronically weak muscles instantly strong.  The standard belief that exercise is the only way to make weak muscles strong is false! We now know that we can make a significant number of weak muscles instantly strong and keep them strong using specific connective tissue stretches and joint motions, which we do to ourselves—the Quick Self Fixes.

THE VALUE OF QUICK SELF FIXES ARE COMPREHENSIVE

  • Improve overall strength

  • Help prevent and relieve pain

  • Improve endurance

  • Improve coordination

  • Increase comfort

  • Prevent and speed the healing of injuries

  • Increase vitality

  • Slow the formation of arthritis

  • Enhance athlete performance

  • Increase metabolism and hence burn more fat

  • The Targeted Muscle Testing book and DVD teaches how to perform 31 muscle tests, which are commonly found chronically weak in adults on one or both sides of the body! Dr. Clay personally developed 24 of these muscle tests.

  • Targeted Muscle Testing and Quick Self Fixes compliment each other because these repeatable muscle tests prove that Quick Self Fixes make the previously found weak muscles instantly strong! People who perform the 32 Quick Self Fixes regularly, join “Our Strong Club”. Members of “Our Strong Club” test strong when all of the Targeted Muscle Tests are evaluated. This is truly a unique and cutting edge healing system.

 

Guest Category: Health & Lifestyle, Alternative Health, Energy Healing, Fitness & Exercise, Nutrition, Yoga, Medicine, Self Help, Motivational
Guest Occupation: Painter, Artist
Guest Biography:
ABOUT RICHARD STOCKER and THE COLORING WELL
 
Richard Stocker has been an artist since childhood, and a Somatic Body Worker (Rolfer) for more than 30 years with additional training in Ayurvedic Medicine and a wealth of experience living among Native Americans. He has travelled the world sharing his art as a healing tool, introducing thousands of people to his unique black and white designs and the life-affirming benefits of coloring them. Along the way, this work evolved from its roots as an organization called Hospital Art for Kids (providing cancer families with coloring art to get their minds off their worries and to encourage togetherness) into a company called Richard’s Rainbow bringing Richard’s coloring medicine into prisons, elder-care centers, orphanages, disaster relief areas, and many schools, clinics, and camps. 
 
Now, a new evolution is under way. Together with his partner, Cathy Shap, a writer and mindfulness teacher, Richard has created The Coloring Well to serve another group in need: the consummate and disconnected multitasker. Stress, anxiety, worry, and depression have become epidemic in our homes. Richard and Cathy love to show people that through the creative and meditative practice of coloring Richard’s designs they can tap into the sensitivity that will allow them to handle what needs to be handled in their lives with more grace. And they’ll make something beautiful to view in the process. The world and the future depend on healthy, mindful adults, and The Coloring Well offers beautifully designed creative products to support this. 
 
The Coloring Well Website will be launching soon. If you’d like to receive a FREE design to color and notification of The Coloring Well grand opening.
Guest Category: Arts, Design, Beauty, Visual Arts
Guest Occupation: Author, Healer, Shamanic Energy Work
Guest Biography:

Kelly La Sha has a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Marketing and Cross Cultural Training.  With over 30 years of experience in reading energy and shamanic healing, her expertise is in midwifing souls through their journey to the 5th dimension.  She is the author of Liquid Mirror and co-author of Surfing the Transformational Waves of 2012. 

Link to Video Interviews:

Guest Category: Energy Healing, Paranormal, Philosophy, Physics & Metaphysics, Mental Health, Access Consciousness, Clairvoyant & Telepathic, Shamanism, Psychic & Intuitive
Guest Occupation: Author
Guest Biography:

KATE HOWARTH was born in Sydney, Australia in 1950 and grew up in the suburbs of Darlington and Parramatta,and far western New South Wales. She was forced to leave school at fourteen, due to hardship, and embarked on a didactic education that was followed by an eclectic career, finally working her way to a position where she co-owned and operated Manpower Personnel, a leader in its field.  

Following a fall from a train she was forced to retire and began writing her memoir Ten Hail Mary’s in 2002, which in 2008 was short listed the David Uniapon Award for Indigenous Writers. In 2010, it was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, and won the Age Non-Fiction Book of the Year. Kate is proud of her Aboriginal heritage and is connected to the Wiradjuri and Wonnarua people of New South Wales.

The much anticipated sequel to Ten Hail Marys, titled ‘Settling Day’ published by the University of Queensland Press, is due for release in March 2015.

 

ABOUT 'Ten Hail Mary's' by Kate Howarth...
Abandoned by her mother, almost at birth, Kate was raised by her volatile grandmother and various indigenous relatives.  Abandoned again by her grandmother when she was just 14 year old, Kate was left to fend for herself. At 15 she became pregnant and was sent to St. Margaret’s Home for Unwed girls, in Sydney.  When she refused to give up her child for adoption she was subjected to relentless intimidation that was tantamount to torture.

Ten Hail Mary’s is a remarkable story of courage and determination survival and hope. Although at times shocking in her frankness, Howarth is never self pitying of bitter. Ten Hail Marys went on to win the Age Non-fiction Book of the Year 2010 and was instrumental in opening the door to a full National Senate Inquiry into forced adoption practices in Australia, that resulted in an apology from the Catholic Church and the Commonwealth Govt of Australia.

 

ABOUT 'Settling Day' by Kate Howarth

Following on from her award-winning memoir Ten Hail Marys, Kate Howarth's extraordinary life continues in Settling Day.

Thrust out of her son's life while he is still a toddler, teenaged Kate has to rely on her wits and courage to start life anew. Filled with remorse and an unwavering determination to be reunited with her son, so begins Kate's journey as she fights injustice and prejudice to create a better life. She amasses a fortune helping to build one of Australia's most successful recruitment companies, only to lose it all in a legal battle. Kate once again manages to rebuild her life after a major injury, but is always haunted by her lost son.

Settling Day is a remarkable story of resilience that highlights the still prevalent injustices that many women face at work and at home.

Guest Category: Education, History, News