Damone J Presley is the Coordinator of the Frogtown Rondo Action Network (FRAN). He was born and raised in the Rondo Community of Saint Paul, and is the proud father of ten children and grandfather of three. Damone is passionate about his involvement as the Community Founder and Director of Vision In Living Life (VILL) “Change is Possible”, a Building Healthy Lifestyle Leadership program. As part of this program, he developed a six-lesson curriculum that he teaches to youth ages 12-21.

Damone has seen many changes in the Rondo Community, both positive and negative, during his lifetime. The goal of FRAN is to get residents and community partners working together for the community to Strive, Thrive, and Prosper. In the VILL “Change is Possible” Building Healthy Lifestyle Leadership program, the Youth Leadership group, directed by Damone, has made great progress within the Rondo Community, including policy work that resulted in passing a bill for decreasing window signage.

Currently, he is working on policy change around tobacco sales that will prevent youth from getting access to tobacco products. Damone is a Public Speaker, Mentor, and Advocate for community issues that bring residents to the table to use their voices to better their community. He has worked with MPLS Urban League, Amicus , African American AIDS Task force, and Breaking Free. Damone has also worked in the health field and has a duel certification in training the trainer from the Saint Paul Red Cross.

DANI SHAY

Dani Shay is a singer/songwriter, actor, and activist, who is most well known for her TV spots on America’s Got Talent (top 48) and The Glee Project 2 (top 12). She’s had multiple videos go viral on YouTube, and her latest, “One”, was premiered with the Grammy-Award winning band, FUN, and their LGBTQ organization: The Ally Coalition. She is a Founding Member of Be More Heroic, a proactive youth campaign, and travels to perform and speak at schools all around the US. Dani mixes vulnerability and humor in her music, which allows her to deliver deep messages in a clever way.

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DEANNE ADAMSON

Deanne Adamson, founder of Being True To You Integrative Recovery Coaching, is paving a new era of addiction recovery through revolutionary in-home recovery systems. Deanne trains and certifies Addiction Recovery Coaches to work one-on-one with clients in need allowing for a perfect coach-client match. Deanne mentors the coach-client relationship for many individuals and families. Deanne provides free lectures to the public about the new age of addiction recovery and the importance of continuity of care. Deanne illustrates how basic principles of life, individually refined and cultivated for thee, allow people to more naturally mature out of their addictions in their own way, with less struggle, for their own highest reasons.

Deanne has a Master’s in Mental Health Counseling, and an academic background relating mostly to spiritual psychology. Deanne started with psychotherapy and then transitioned pretty quickly to recovery coaching. The strategies of coaching felt in higher resonance with her passion to help others. Over the last five years Deanne has found her craft and mission to help people understand and transcend the limits of addiction. Deanne spends her days weaving recovery models into customizable yet scalable systems that can influence the masses. If you or someone you know needs help with addiction, one of the best things you can do is contact Deanne.

Guest for Your Show

From Chaos to Clarity: Getting Unstuck & Creating A Life You Love

By Alex Bratty

A soup-to-nuts guide for how to recognize why you're stuck, how to unstick it, and how to create a life you want - a life that works for you!

Amazon #1 Bestseller!

Alex Bratty was a superstar in the public-opinion polling field. One of the youngest partners ever in a prestigious Washington research firm, her job was to listen to people and find out what they think and how they feel. She tuned into their emotional responses to get deeply in touch with their "whys" in life.

The irony is that during the 15 years she was rising to the very top of her field, she wasn't listening to her own inner voice to discover her true emotions, to pay attention to her deepest desires and to understand why she was so miserably stuck in her own life!

Through tremendous trial and error, she finally found her way. And now she's giving other people the shortcut--through her remarkable book From Chaos to Clarity: Getting Unstuck & Creating a Life You Love--the essential quick-start guide to getting your life back on track.

Who amongst us hasn't felt stuck at one time or another? Maybe you're stuck right now! We all know that feeling of not knowing what to do next, or how to break out of the same old patterns of behavior, or listening to all that negative chatter that tells us we're not enough. As Alex puts it, when this happens, we keep ourselves running in place, playing small and safe.

Help is on the way! Like having a personal coach encouraging you, urging you gently and specifically, From Chaos to Clarity,  an Amazon.com #1 bestseller, gives you the tools to take back control of your life, to stop struggling and to focus on how to create a life you truly want, rather than one you think you should want.

Alex knows that empty feeling. She wasn't fulfilling her life's purpose and she felt trapped in a life that was like a hamster wheel she couldn't get off. In her quest to find the missing piece, she embarked on a personal development journey that helped her uncover the true essence of what she wanted: to help people and to be of service in a way that would contribute positively to the world. In the book, Alex shares her own struggle with being stuck and how she moved from a life that felt unfulfilled, constricted, and frustrated to one that is expansive and filled with love, abundance, and joy.

From Chaos to Clarity provides a step-by-step guide for clearing the gunk from your path and getting you moving with alacrity to the REAL life awaiting. Alex offers examples, charts to fill out and questions to ponder that lead you to the answers you may not have been able to discover on your own. Along the way, you will learn:

• To understand what's really keeping you stuck (not always what it appears)
• To reprogram your mind to dash those limiting and long-held beliefs about yourself and others
• To connect with your true self and recognize you already have the answers to your burning questions
• To release the past once and for all
• To embrace the present and the future whilst being open to all possibilities
• To clear your mind so you can find space and time to create
• To identify what you really want, your calling, and your higher purpose

Alex's From Chaos to Clarity puts you back in the driver's seat of your life and reminds you that you can have a life you love! Each chapter provides the tools to get unstuck and to be a deliberate creator of your own life!

To book Alex Bratty for an empowering and dynamic interview that can get your listeners unstuck in their own lives, please send an email with the name of the show, your contact information, a proposed date and time, and the calling details.

"From Chaos to Clarity is a step-by-step, soup-to-nuts guide to reclaiming freedom, joy, love and abundance in any area of your life where you are not creating the results you desire. Learn the art of getting unstuck, and you will forever have a reliable formula for transforming any challenge and manifesting any outcome you want to create."-- Christy Whitman, NY Times Best-Selling Author

"A powerful book that charts a clear course from the darkness of being stuck to the bright light of clarity and opportunity. Read this book and transform your life!"- Tom Bird, Renowned Book Whisperer & Best-Selling Author

"A profound renewal of self! With passion and enthusiasm, Alex gives us a step-by-step guide to reprogramming our belief system. It's Your Turn to leave burnout, depression, and exhaustion behind. You only have to read this book once to reach the richness and goodness that is within you. UNSTUCK is a personal transformation experience." - Tom Puetz, author of Secret Choices

"An inspiring call to self-action and betterment, packaged in an easily digestible and approachable form. This book will help to prepare, challenge and guide the reader to receiving the amazing life that awaits those willing to receive it, by re-calibrating from an outward to an inward focus in the personal search for answers and direction."-James "Mick" Andzulis, MBA, MSF, PhD, Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University.

…After miraculously surviving the most horrid-unimaginable- unenviable sexual abuse as a boy…

A native of Chalatenango, El Salvador, Perto left his village as a refugee and escaped to Guatemala and Mexico. Perto is now living in Houston, Texas in the U.S.

Perto has since worked in different types of jobs, and has volunteered as a red cross blood processor and health and safety bilingual instructor. in 1997 perto organized his own company Ph homecare mgmt, llc. provided caregivers training, caregivers services, and care case management. After successfully managing his own company for 15 years, Perto Herrera became an author and continued his calling to help needy people, especially victims of sexual abuse and/or trapped in poverty......

Perto himself is a survivor of severe sexual molestation and abuse, as a young boy raised in a poverty-stricken family in a small village in El Salvador. The personal lessons learned had led the author to fulltime writing, speaking, and philanthropic efforts to help sexual abuse victims and individuals trapped in poverty......

Three to four times a year Herrera travels to meet face-to-face with sexual abuse victims, parents and family members of victims, and men who are abusers. In 2010 on an early trip to El Salvador, Perto actually met two of the men who sexually abused him as a boy, talked with them, hugged them, and forgave them. His message to victims is how to survive and escape from abuse through courage, faith, and concerted action. His message to parents is to believe their children and protect them, among anything and anybody......

Perto also has paid the costs to send six children to college to escape poverty and enter professions such as law, business and teaching. He has pledged to spend 75 percent of the proceeds from his books and conferences to help needy and/or abused persons. Perto’s personal story of abuse is told in his first book, “The Invincible Flying Eagle” … “El Aguila Invencible Volando” Book One. This painful and shocking memoir tells the story of how Perto was abused by 11 people (nine men and two women) over a period of five years until the day his saving grace – in the form of an eagle, attacked his most dangerous abuser. The eagle, Perto believes to be a messenger from God, guided him toward a safer place and a new chance at life...... I believed and understood the message and the messenger Perto says.

After escaping from his village as a pre-teen, Perto was captured by guerrilla forces and forced to serve as a child warrior in the rebel army. When refusing to use a rifle to kill anyone, Perto was punished several times but ended up being a radio operator for the commanding general. Lying to a priest about wanting to become a priest, Perto was able to escape the Army with the help of monks and lived in two convents in Central America before fleeing to Mexico and then to the United States......

Summing up his mission, Herrera says: “I want the needy ones and victims of abuse to know that they are not alone anymore. I am here for them as they strive toward the pinnacles of personal recovery.”......

LEN OSANIC - Host of Black Op Radio

Denny Taylor is Professor Emeritus of Literacy Studies at Hofstra University and founder of Garn Press. She began teaching in 1968 in the East End of London; there were 43 children in her first kindergarten class. She has been continuously engaged in ethnographic literacy research since 1977 and was inducted into the Reading Hall of Fame in 2004. She has written thirteen books and published 40 articles and chapters on literacy in family, school and community settings.



Dr. Taylor regards art, literature and science inseparable. She is a lifelong activist and scholar committed to nurturing the imagination and human spirit.

Dr. Taylor is also the director of the International Center for Everybody’s Child at Hofstra University, which provides assistance to teachers and children in the aftermath of catastrophic events, supports international educational projects, and maintains an international network of teachers, doctors, social workers, and mental health professionals who can assist teachers working with children in crisis. Her ethnographic research focuses on the impact of catastrophic events on the lives of children and the social response of the educational community to mass trauma. Her field work includes research in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. She provided first response support in the Gulf Region in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. One of her most recent publications, The Kate Middleton Elementary School: Portraits of Hope and Courage, published by Scholastic, provides support for teachers who are first responders following a catastrophic event. 

Dr. Rosa is a member of Save Our Schools, United Opt-Out, and the Badass Teachers Association. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at the University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth, an activist, writer, and researcher working with youth. He serves on a number of boards and works with several organizations both locally and nationally whose work is ultimately concerned with the healing of humanity.



Ricardo Rosa's current research centers on emerging articulations of educational privatization and its effects on organizational behavior in educational settings and possibilities for transformative leadership. His research also focuses on curricular theory and praxis within and beyond the boundaries of normative schooling.

I was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, but moved to Pacific Palisades in southern California when I was three. My dad had an office in the house, but then built one in the back yard so he could find some peace to write by getting away from my sister, me and our menagerie of dogs, cats and even two pet rats.



Always preferring the East Coast, the change of seasons and the slower pace of small college towns, I remained in upstate New York to attend college. First Alfred University and then transferring to Elmira College where I earned a degree in Elementary Education with a minor in English.  Upon graduation I substitute taught, worked at a school for children with special needs, and then was a preschool teacher at Cornell University's Early Childhood Program & Cooperative Nursery School.

        

I have always loved writing. If my dad liked my writing he said so. Conversely, if not, he would declare it “interesting.” I wrote predominately poetry until I was published in The Twilight Zone, The Original Stories, an anthology, in which I adapted two of my father's teleplays, One for the Angels and The Changing of the Guard into short stories. The latter was subsequently published in The Twilight Zone Magazine. Additionally, I have had poetry published in The Cornell Daily Sun and Visions. I am represented by Erica Spellman-Silverman at Trident Media Group.

Recently I started work on a novel and continue to promote my father's legacy as a Board Member of the Rod Serling Memorial Foundation.

Since I can remember I’ve been deeply fascinated by plant life. As I child I loved having my hands in the dirt. I spent a lot of time alone in the backyard eating strange bugs and poisonous berries. This deep connection to the natural world and the spirits of the plants encouraged my self-study. After many years of self-practice I began honing my studies and completed an advanced medical herbalism program led by Paul Bergner at the North American Institute of Medical Herbalism in Boulder, CO. Teaching people about herbs is what I live for. I specialize in dream-work, stress relief and aphrodisiacs. I also trained with indigenous shamans in the jungles of Ecuador, learning many healing practices including cleansings (limpias), purgatives and herbal bathing.

In 2011, I created this herbal company Dream Catcher Botanicals so I could share these exquisite medicines. We joyfully handcraft my products including potent tinctures, exotic teas, incenses, and rare species of seed from all around the world. We use organic or wild crafted herbs and only the finest most vibrant ingredients available to produce these lovely products! We carry a special line of handcrafted Rare and Exotic plant medicines from all around the world. We strive to have excellent quality products made with love for Dream Enhancement, Divination and Healing.

Owner of Wiccan Moonsong, Priestess, Writer, Artist, and Mom to two amazing little ones. For those who may not know me I am a Wiccan Priestess, and highly intuitive.  I also work closely with the Angels and my guides.  I work with several divination methods, holistic healing, intuitive counseling, and I teach. 

My second guest, Board Certified Gastroenterologist Lawrence Hoberman, MD, is the creator of EndoMune Advanced Probiotic and founder of Medical Care Innovations. He has spent more than 40 years practicing medicine and is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology. Frustrated by the lack of options to treat his patients suffering from Irritable Bowel Disease (IBD) in the early 2000s, Dr. Hoberman met with a PhD microbiologist to identify a combination of bacteria that might work to destroy the harmful bacteria living in the intestines, improving and maintaining the health of adults. The result is the development of his own effective probiotic supplement: EndoMune Advanced Probiotic.

Dr. Hoberman currently sees patients as a part of a health and wellness practice that stresses preventative medicine. He is in practice at Health by Design, located in San Antonio, Texas. He is available for speaking engagements about digestive health and the benefits of probiotics and has spoken at several conferences. 

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 author of What You Need to Know About Dialysis: The Secret to Surviving and Thriving on Dialysis and is also the High Blood Pressure Expert on About.com

KAYD CURRIER

Actor/ Model/Stuntsman Kayd Currier is a curious study in the polarity of opposites. While maintaining an easy, natural, rugged American masculinity, he is simultaneously emotionally sensitive and open, with a developed feminine side. The dichotomy of contrasts creates a most interesting male archetype—the sensitive tough guy with the heart and soul of a poet–strong yet vulnerable. The Brad Pitt visual references are obvious, as well as the Fallen Angel model that Heath Ledger and Kurt Cobain personified, without the victimized tragedy. With his quintessential American mannerisms, good looks and boyish charm, he easily represents the new order of a young Hollywood star in a hip and contemporary way.

Originally from the New England area, Kayd had first lived in Boston, then in Arizona before coming out to the West Coast to pursue an acting career. Born July 22, 1983 in Derry, New Hampshire to Heather Angers, a nurse and to Richard Currier, an avid motorcycle rider who would later operate his own machine shops, Kayd was placed on a motorbike from age one, and was riding his own first motorbike at three years old! At 17 Kayd Started racing motorcycles then in 1998 became a factory sponsored motorcycle roadracer. Kayd has also owned multiple motorcycle shops. Specializing in custom builds, rigging for film and motorcycle stunt specialties.

Kayd’s professional work history in Arizona and Hollywood includes a host of stunts, dramatic leading roles in film and TV such as LEGION, THE END TABLE, Born to be a Star, The Cure and many and a Sci-Fi feature film, ISF1. He also hosted TV shows, including 37 episodes of STARQUEST. His California theatre experience includes THE NEXT STAGE THEATRE featuring PINK FLOYD: THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, Angry young women. While his modeling work includes a striking SUE WONG fashion campaign for the noted designer. Kayd also recently did the campaign for designer, Antonio Barragan’s DEMON RIFF, a contemporary collection of Avante-Garde menswear.

MARCO AIELLO

Throughout Marco Aiello’s music career, people have often struggled to define his style. This isn’t the cliche story of an artist with an original sound – but rather, an exploration of what happens when the son of struggling Italian immigrants experiences powerful artistic influences from two vastly different musical cultures.

The result is evident on Aiello’s first solo album August Light, where there’s an undeniable intimacy. Aiello’s voice and vocal phrasings draw you in with a softness that glows as it bounces around the musical textures of acoustic guitars merging with telecaster counter melodies. There’s a vulnerability and sweetness that is the foundation of the songs on August Light – and Aiello is able to be soft without compromising his command for your ear. There’s intensity behind every note – and by the time you’ve listened to the entire album, you’ve experienced a dynamic vocal style that’s rare in today’s singer-songwriters. Aiello unleashes his voice at just the right moments, too. Aiello is so confident with tenderness, that in the movements in August Light where there is explosion – it has a deeper and dramatic impact. The vocalist and producer are clearly intentional about this – Mike Castonguay (imaginationsurplus.com) supports Aiello with arrangements and musical choices that accentuate Aiello’s take on songwriting – which is oddly modern and throwback at the same time. Castonguay approaches August Light like a young Daniel Lanois flirting with Phil Spector while throwing in some of Aiello’s 70’s Italian singer-songwriter influences. It’s strange – but it’s comforting to hear the “wall of sound” approach work so well with such a quieter and acoustic based record.

The haunting thing about Marco Aiello’s voice is that while it stands out with phrasing, tonal qualities and cadence that’s uniquely his – it’s immediate and familiar at the same time. Why shouldn’t it be? You’ve heard this voice before even if you weren’t aware of it. Aiello has spent his musical career using his voice in so many ways within professional entertainment – the chances you haven’t heard him before are unlikely. You’ve heard or seen him on every major network whether it’s NBC, CBS, MTV or even NICKELODEON. You’ve heard his voice on TV, Films and national commercial jingles. When the Grammys honored the Beatles, a jingle featuring Aiello’s voice rendering a take on “Hello, Goodbye” for Target was aired. Whether it’s a songwriter singing in the background in AMC’s Mad Men, an inspirational song during The Biggest Loser – or an American car commercial where “that guy sounds reminiscent of Bono – but different” – his voice has been there all along. He toured nationally with his acoustic band – “The Red” – and gained critical acclaim for being a skilled live performer. Reviewers like to muse that Aiello’s performance style “makes you feel like you’re hanging out with him in his living room” – and he is one of those performers that easily commands an audience. August Light is the album that finally captures that very essence – and packages it in a way that a bigger audience can explore. This record elevates Marco Aiello’s emergence in an extreme way because Castonguay is the producer that figured out how to introduce a strange talent so that it’s accessible and timely. The 11 songs on August Light don’t hurt either – this is a songsmith who isn’t afraid to push the boundaries of songwriting while keeping every track true to its immediate goal – connecting with a listener in the simplest and most direct way possible.

“I’m often asked about my ‘sound’ and how I came up with it,” explains Aiello. “You don’t come up with a sound – your sound is a reflection of who you are and what your soul is here to express. I was introduced to music very young by my father. On the one hand, he was listening to great American artists from the 60’s and 70’s – The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd… On the other, he played records by Italian Singer-Songwriters – Lucio Battisti, Umberto Tozzi, Pooh – wow what a mouthful, right? Kids growing up here would never have accessed this music – these were legit Italian folk and rock artists. They had very original arrangements, weird production, poetic lyrics and were known for being great singers – not because they were necessarily technical singers – they just had expressive and passionate voices. My earliest memory in life – is sitting in front of my father’s stereo, I must have been 3 or 4. My first conscious thought that I remember was – ‘Wow – somebody made that music and now i’m listening to it.’ It happened with spreads of music that to anyone else would seem conflicting. That blend – that insane distance between the two cultural frameworks in music merged inside of me at a really young age. It was a time when my family was immigrating to a new country and it was an unstable time – that music got written inside of me and maybe it was confused. Maybe the code had to get screwed up for that mini version of me to process it. I think some of the tendencies in my music are perhaps unfamiliar to American ears – and that may give the illusion of a new sound – but I’d argue that it’s only the feeling of it that is foreign. American artists are the coolest – they are the epitome of brilliance and cool and emotional power. Italian artists from the 70’s were ridiculously vulnerable – there’s this place they were willing to go as artists that’s pure and a raw exposure of personal flaws and pain – and there’s a courageousness there that you can’t ignore. I consider myself an American artist in that my music is speaking directly to an English speaking audience. But then there’s that blend of Italian influences – a language I still speak. It’s something that’s deep in my soul and I feel like August Light captured the emotional signature of the two coming together.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYOTQEH8TUU

Dr Demartini is considered one of the world's leading authorities on human behavior and personal development. He is the founder of the Demartini Institute, a private research and education organization with a curriculum of over 72 different courses covering multiple aspects of human development.  

His trademarked methodologies, the Demartini Method and the Demartini Value Determination, are the culmination of 42 years of cross-disciplinary research and study. His work has been incorporated into human development industries across the world.  

Dr Demartini travels 360 days a year to countries all over the globe, sharing his research and findings in all markets and sectors. He is the author of 40 books published in over 29 different languages. He has produced over 60 CDs and DVDs covering subjects such as development in relationships, wealth, education and business. Each program is designed to assist people to activate leadership and empower themselves in all seven areas of their lives: Financial, physical, mental, vocational, spiritual, family and social. 

Dr. Carla Garcia is a board certified Doctor of Oriental Medicine with more than 15 years of experience in Thermography, the best alternative to a Mammogram, and over 30 years in complimentary medicine. She has performed thousands of screenings in the U.S. and Canada. She has trained in the United States and Germany and is certified as a Clinical Thermographer by the American College of Clinical Thermology, the only Non-Profit, Medical Thermography Board in the United States.  Dr. Garcia has been serving the Santa Fe, Albuquerque area for more than 15 years.

Anne Leighton's Poetry Book, THE LEIGHTON EXPLOSION

Officially Released!  

Our second segment of the show today welcomes another special guest … Anne Leighton who is president of Anne Leighton Media * Music Services * Motivations a multi-faceted company that helps artists who need development, marketing and/or promotional services in their careers. Some of her clients include … Ian Anderson/Jethro Tull/Martin Barre, Blackmore’s Night, Grand Funk Railroad, Gentle Giant, Orleans, KKB (with Bruce Kulick), Shun NG & Magic Dick, The Strawbs, The Family Stone, and Jann Klose to name just a few.

 Anne’s worked in radio at WZIR-Buffalo, WRNW-Briarcliff Manor, WFUV-Bronx, WBUZ-Fredonia, and was an editor at HIT PARADER magazine, plus freelanced for a number of magazines including FELINE WELLNESS, CATFANCY, MUSCLEMAG INTERNATIONAL, INSIDE KARATE/KUNG FU, GOLDMINE, and CREEM. Anne’s play’s include REACH FOR THE SUN, which was performed by Poets Repertory Theater of Long Island, ONE WAY TO HEAVEN performed by the San Antonio Living Church, and THE PASSION OF MARY which was read at the Kingsbridge Library Center in her hometown of the Bronx.

Her latest project is Anne Leighton's Poetry Book, THE LEIGHTON EXPLOSION which will be released on October 15^th.

I’ve worked with Anne for several years now and she’s one of the best in the business.

It’s my pleasure to welcome Anne Leighton to The Ray Shasho Show!