Headlined Guests
Headlined Guests that have appeared on BBS Radio TV
Kellie Ann is unique, and her life story attests to that fact. As a teen mom, adoptive mom, and foster care mom, she has had a lot of great experiences. But there is even more. Just one year after she gave birth to her daughter, she became a great-grandmother.
She is a co-author with Dave Farrow, a two-time Guinness World Records holder for greatest memory, and she is the creator of an online parenting curriculum. Her new book, an upcoming memoir, "Wounded Heart, Graceful Warrior" is her story of overcoming domestic violence.
She has a Marriage and Family Therapy BA. degree and is a Family Intervention Specialist. Her experiences range from teaching, reunification of families, working with at-risk youths, families in crisis, and as a parent coach. She has worked as a nanny, in preschools, correctional facilities, and social work agencies.
Leisa Reed is the Founder of Get Speaking Gigs Now.
You’ve probably heard that public speaking is a powerful way to build your business and attract your ideal clients. But even if you have a desire to be a speaker, you might not know what to talk about, where to go to find gigs, or how to offer your services from stage without sounding salesy.
As the Founder of Get Speaking Gigs Now, Leisa mentors professionals who want to use speaking to grow their business. Clients who work closely with her “Get Their Talk Ready to Rock” and build their speaking skills and confidence through the Speaker's Training Academy.
On today's episode, Leisa will be sharing expert strategies you need to know to build your business through speaking. In our brief connect before the show she shared:
"I was 40 years old when I changed my career path, took a huge leap of faith and became a professional speaker.
I had zero gigs, zero clients and zero email list.
The first gig I had (with 10 people in attendance) led to thousands of dollars in sales.
That first year, I booked 83 speaking gigs in my local area."
LISTEN TO FIND OUT HOW LEISA DID THIS AND HER STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS! Learn how to receive your copy of: Get Immediate FREE Access to the “5 Top Tips to Get More Speaking Gigs NOW”.
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Brian L. Schwalb has committed his legal career to using the law in service of others, advocating for what matters most to the people and organizations he represents. As the District of Columbia's second independently-elected attorney general, Brian is committed to fighting for D.C., advancing the public interest, and ensuring that the law works to make the District safer, healthier, and more equitable for all who live and work here.
Brian is a third-generation Washingtonian. After graduating from Duke University and Harvard Law School, and completing a two-year judicial clerkship, Brian served as a trial attorney in the Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. After completing his service with the Justice Department, Brian entered private practice representing clients – individuals, businesses, nonprofits and families — in a multitude of high stakes matters including advocating for people injured by excessive, unconstitutional police force, defrauded out of their assets, and fighting for their lives on death row.
Among other professional recognitions, Brian is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, whose membership is limited to the top 1% of area trial lawyers and whose careers have reflected the highest standards of ethical conduct, professionalism, civility, and collegiality. Brian is also an experienced law firm leader, having served as Venable’s firm-wide Vice Chairman and then as the Partner-in-Charge of Venable’s D.C. office.
Outside the practice of law, Brian has volunteered his time, legal services, leadership, and mentorship to organizations dedicated to enhancing D.C.’s justice system, mentoring D.C. Public School students, and reducing the local impact of HIV/AIDS. Brian is also an active supporter of cancer treatment and prevention, Holocaust education, and has served as an officer and trustee of his synagogue.
Brian and his wife Mickie Simon live in Ward 3 where they raised their three daughters – Jessica, Allison, and Sydney.
Chief Neil H. Gang has served in law enforcement for over 34 years and has been the Chief of Police for the Pinole Police Department since 2014. He is the Chairperson of the California Police Chiefs Association Organizational Wellness and Resiliency Committee, the Co-chair of the IACP Officer Safety & Wellness Committee, the author of the Asher Model-7 Point Approach to a Culture of Wellness, the host of the 6th Pillar Podcast, is a POST-Wellness Instructor and was named Public Safety Hero of the Year by the House of Representatives in 2020. His innovative work as a law enforcement leader has been featured in several national Police magazines. He is a graduate of the prestigious Northwestern School of Police Staff Command, where he was the president of the class and the recipient of the Franklin M. Kremel Award for excellence in the field of leadership.
Chris has spent the last 20 years helping individuals reach their most important financial goals. In 1999, Chris started his own financial services practice, and since then, has traveled the U.S. working with athletes, key executives and minorities. Chris specifically focuses on the areas of individual and corporate Life Insurance, Disability Income Insurance, Investments*, Unique Tax Reduction Strategies, Retirement Income Optimization and Pension Maximization.
Chris was a communications major at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana. Outside of the classroom, he played on the Fighting Illini basketball team where he was co-captain and earned 2nd Team All Big-Ten honors. After college, Chris played basketball professionally for the Chicago Bulls, San Antonio Spurs, and in L’Hermaine and Vichy, France.
Early in his career, Chris worked as a Northwestern Mutual Financial Network Representative. While there, he received numerous awards and was a top producer. He became a Million Dollar Round Table Member in 2001 - the premier association of financial professionals. In the spring of 2005, Chris moved his financial services practice to the Molyneaux Financial Group, LLC, a general agency of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, where he received the Impact Award in 2006 and Management Council and Leaders Conference Honors in 2007. This agency eventually became MassMutual Chicago.
In 2010 he started his own Agency, where he leads a team of highly skilled advisors, meanwhile still developing his clientele nationwide. He has been featured in numerous magazine articles; Crain’s Chicago Business, GQ, Black Enterprise and African-American Career World.
In 2012 Chris found a way to give back to sports by becoming a member and sitting on the board of the Chicago Concussion Coalition which goal is to make the games safer for children in amateur sports, Founded by Chris Nowitski of the Emmy Nominated movie “Head Games” he finds passion in helping resolve the issue of CTE in sports.
Chris donates his time and efforts to many organizations. He is on the Board of Directors for the Urban League, is part of the United Way’s Young Community Leaders, volunteers for the Big Brothers/Big Sisters organization and joined the board of the SAME Network of Chicago’s RUSH medical center.
In 2013 Chris was nominated to the NBARPA Chicago chapter and served as a Board member; while again qualifying for the Court of the Table of Million Dollar Round Table. He is now considered a Lifetime member of the highly esteemed MDRT.
Chris is a lifelong advocate of diversity and inclusion. He serves as the current Vice President for the Board of Directors for NAIFA DuPage (National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors) & serves on NAIFA’S prominent national committee for the Diversity and Inclusion Task Force. He travels nationally and speaks to diversity groups such as NMA, SNMA, LMSA, CCPA, GAMA, LAMP, ITKAN, MDRT, and NAIFA.
Chris is dedicated to helping individuals develop personalized financial strategies and goals. Chris lives in the western Chicago suburbs with his son, Jordan. Chris is an independent advisor who works on your behalf to represent you the client with all the major insurance carriers and investment providers in the marketplace, to help find the best plan and product for the client.
Call or email Chris today to find out how he can help you build and execute your life-long financial game plan.
Former mayor, council member, planning commissioner, thought influencer, and insider, for years Debbie saw people’s needs go unmet because of gross misappropriation of funds too common in our current political landscape.
Debbie is thoroughly familiar with the workings of municipal government, its issues, and pressing fiscal challenges. She has worked on both sides of local politics as an advocate for good government.
Debbie earned a B.A. from the University of Idaho and was named Scottish Young Businessperson of the Year among other accolades. Her local bakery in Scotland grew to $6m annual income in three years. In addition, Debbie is a residential real estate broker who has negotiated over 500 win-win transactions.
With intelligence officers and auditors as family role models and her background as an investigative journalist, Debbie learned how to get things done. Debbie shares democracy as a participative art that transforms communities through communication. Her practical, multi-faceted, and creative strategies foster well-governed communities.
HRATCH MISSAKIAN
Hratch Missakian is a healer who utilizes a variety of acupressure and body manipulation techniques combined with spiritual and philosophical teachings influenced by the likes of Jesus Christ, Lao Tzu, Bruce Lee, and Buddha.
Born in Lebanon, Hratch studied these philosophies from the young age of thirteen and was deeply moved by their ideas and universal truths. He graduated from Beirut’s prestigious Haigazian University with a degree in business administration and went on to self-teach and master the eastern arts of acupressure, anatomy, and correcting the flow of energy within the human body.
After opening his first clinic, the Pain Relief Center in Pasadena, he transitioned to his current practice in Glendale, California, and has now been healing patients in the United States for nearly 40 years.
His patients often suffer from asthma, back pain, migraines, arthritis, and discogenic diseases, from which Hratch analyzes and creates unique treatment plans that lead to recovery.
He preaches and practices the importance of addressing all aspects of health: from mind and body to emotions and the soul. His latest book, Messages and Quotes from the Universe, contains a compilation of his teachings and philosophies.
SANDRO FRIEDRICH
As musician and composer, Sandro’s strength lies in the originality and passion of his melodic lines, the power of his rhythmic grooves and his ability to competently and flexibly support diverse musical atmospheres. His technical knowledge enables recording jobs via internet in addition to traditional studio work and live performances.
As a studio musician Sandro has recorded for numerous international films, video games and CDs with composers such as Howard Shore, Mychael and Jeff Danna, Atli Oervarsson, Shigeru Umebayashi, Andreas Vollenweider, Tina Turner and many others.
He has performed as an orchestral soloist for presentations of film music, including an international debut performance of Howard Shore’s “Lord of the Rings Symphony” with the 21st Century Orchestra under the direction of Ludwig Wicki and performances of the music of Shigeru Umebayashi under the direction of Dirk Brossé at various international film festivals.
Sandro began his musical education with Baroque music. For over 40 years he has been working with instruments and music of many cultures. His skills have grown to include an astonishing spectrum of over 300 different wind instruments.
ANGEL DAWN
Angel is a born empath, gifted intuitive and rare individual who is one of the world’s few Psychic Astrologers. As a multi-talented, modern-day Mystic, she is also a Certified Evidential Psychic Medium, Animal Communicator, Energy Healer, Reiki Master, and a Spiritual Teacher. And as an innate healer, she naturally imbues a strong healing component in all of her work.. She brings years of dedicated training and mastery under the tutelage of many of the world’s greatest Evidential Mediums and Spiritual Teachers, many whom have taught at the acclaimed Arthur Findlay College of Spiritualism and Psychic Sciences in Stansted, England.
In her Psychic Astrology, she successfully bridges the gap between left and right brain, spirit and matter, the mystical and the mundane to provide powerful intuitive guidance merged with a highly technical understanding of Natal, Predictive, and Relationship Astrology, honed over many years.
Currently, she is working with clients all around the globe and has done mediumship demonstrations in front of the general public. She has also contributed to leading publications including: The Reader’s Digest, Bustle, eHow, and MSN. She has been a featured guest on internet radio, top spiritual podcasts and as an expert in tv and broadcast projects.
Apart from the everyday world, her life experiences have been extraordinary, having had encounters with spirit, extra-dimensional entities, angels and other beings.
Angel Dawn works with the highest integrity, compassion and sensitivity to provide spirit-driven guidance to those in need, from all walks of life. She is an emissary for spirit — a clear channel and bridge from spirit to the human world.
JEFF GOLD
Jeff Gold is a singer-songwriter who was part of the New York Folk revival of the 1970s that included artists such as Shawn Colvin, Suzanne Vega, and Jack Hardy. Jeff has shared the stage with Peter, Paul and Mary, The Roches, and Suzanne Vega, and has also performed at Carnegie Hall.
One of the original founders of the Fast Folk Musical Magazine, Jeff has had his songs accepted into the Smithsonian Institute. His albums Streets Cracked, The Journey and Rear View Mirror have been critically acclaimed; his song Adonoi, which he wrote with fellow songwriter and author Paul Zollo about the Jewish immigrant experience, is performed at synagogues at the High Holy Days in Los Angeles, California and has been profiled in many Jewish publications.
Jeff also has many production credits and has also done extensive studio work as a session Guitarist, and woodwind player.
HERBIE J PILATO
Born and raised in Rochester, New York, Herbie J Pilato is a Los Angeles-based writer, producer, director, actor, TV personality, and singer/songwriter.
His eclectic list of critically-acclaimed pop-culture/media tie-in books includes the just-published 12 Best Secrets of Christmas: A Treasure House of December Memories Revealed (Archway Publishing, 2022), Mary: The Mary Tyler Moore Story (Jacobs Brown Press, 2019), Dashing, Daring and Debonair: TV’s Top Male Icons From The ’50s, ’60s, And ’70s (Taylor Trade, 2016), Glamour, Gidgets and the Girl Next Door: Television’s Iconic Women From The ’50s, ’60s, And ’70s (Taylor Trade, 2014), The Essential Elizabeth Montgomery: A Guide To Her Magical Performances (Taylor Trade, 2013), Twitch Upon A Star: The Bewitched Life And Career of Elizabeth Montgomery (Taylor Trade, 2012), NBC & ME: My Life As A Page In A Book (Bear Manor Media, 2008), The Bionic Book: The Six Million Dollar Man And The Bionic Woman Reconstructed (Bear Manor Media, 2008), The Kung Fu Book Of Wisdom (Tuttle, 1995), The Kung Fu Book Of Caine (Tuttle, 1993), and The Bewitched Book (Dell, 1992).
Pilato recently as a consultant and audio commentator for the Saturn-Award-nominated Blu-ray release of The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman, and as a consultant and on-screen commentator for CNN’s hit eight-part series, History of the Sitcom. He also worked on various Blu-ray, DVD, broadcast, and cable TV documentaries such as Bravo’s 100 Greatest TV Characters, Bewitched: The True Hollywood Story, David Carradine: The E! True Hollywood Story, A&E’s Biography of Lee Majors, TLC’s Behind the Fame specials about The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Bob Newhart Show, L.A. Law and Hill Street Blues, the Syfy Channel’s Sciography series, and the TV Guide Channel’s hit five-part series, 100 Moments That Changed TV, among others.
In addition to his books, Pilato has written for the Television Academy at Emmys.com and Emmy Magazine and has contributed to several other media outlets, such as Closer Magazine, and TVWriter.com, for which he has served as Contributing Editor Emeritus for over twenty-five years.
In 2010, Pilato established The Classic TV Preservation Society, a formal 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to the positive influence of classic television shows. In 2019, he served as a host and co-executive producer on Then Again with Herbie J Pilato, the hit classic TV talk show that premiered on Amazon Prime and Shout! Factory TV.
Pilato’s upcoming books include Retro Active Television: An In-Depth Perspective of Classic TV’s Social Circuitry (Headline Books, 2023), and biographies of Sean Connery and Diana Rigg.
CLARA HASLOP
In 2018 Clara made her Carnegie Hall debut as a top-prize winner of the AFAF International Concerto Competition and was invited to perform the Grieg piano concerto with the Kostroma Symphony in Russia. She has performed under noted conductors Uri Segal, Gaddiel Dombrowner and John Roscigno with the Thousand Oaks Philharmonic, L.A. Doctors Symphony and Virtuosi Brunensis Virtuosi Orchestra in Italy.
Clara was invited by Steinway & Sons in April 2020 to be their young showcase artist on the first Steinway Virtual Masterclass with Christopher O’Riley. She is a prizewinner of international piano competitions such as the Bradshaw & Buono International Piano Competition, International Youth Piano Competition, American Protégé International Piano Competition and Kathryn Gawartin Chopin Competition.
Major venues at which she has performed are Disney Hall, Carnegie Hall, Zipper Hall, Cypress Hall, Sala dei Notari (Italy) and the Thousand Oaks Performing Arts Center.
She has participated in numerous international piano festivals, including Music Fest Perugia in Italy, Puerto Piano International Festival in Puerto Rico, the John Perry International Piano Academy, Vivace Matera International Music Festival, International Philadelphia Young Pianists Academy, Aloha International Piano Festival and the Colburn Young Artists Summer Academy.
Clara was honored to receive a private lesson with Emanuel Ax at Disney Hall. She has performed in masterclasses with Gary Graffman, Simone Dinnerstein, Jerome Lowenthal, Oxana Yablonskaya, Alexander Kobrin, Jon Nakamatsu, John Perry, Arthur Greene, Roberto Plano, Alan Chow and Yoshikazu Nagai.
Clara has studied extensively with Rufus Choi, Dmitry Rachmanov and Ory Shihor. In the summer of 2019 she decided to pursue her undergraduate Piano Performance degree one year earlier than planned and completed both her Junior and Senior High School credits in one year to pursue her dream.
In 2020 Clara started at the Manhattan School of Music as a scholarship student of Prof. Jeffrey Cohen having been admitted at age 17, seven years after she began her piano studies.
Clara has created a transcription of Holst’s “The Planets” for solo piano and plans to perform concerts that include the entire Planets suite with pictures of up-close locations on each planet projected onto a screen. She loves to improvise and is also a writer – currently writing a dystopian trilogy.
DIANA WEYNAND aka COACH D
Diana Weynand is a history maker. She played the women’s professional tackle football with the Los Angeles Lasers, becoming their general manager. Diana, aka Coach D, knows a thing or two about this great game and she is taking her knowledge beyond the field with the mission to empower people to mastermind their lives.
In her book, Diana presents eight Lipstick Football principles (Leap, Immerse, Play, Shine, Track, Initiate, Condition, Kick) derived from the football game and applied into our everyday activities. The Lipstick Football method aims to help readers seize life (carpe vita!) and achieve their highest dreams.
Diana loves writing, coaching, speaking and motivating groups. Given the choice, she’d almost always rather play and throw the ball on a field than watch other people have fun doing it on TV.
I shine when I perform music and produce shows. I’m passionate about protecting nature and the environment, and I commit my leadership skills to climate nonprofit organizations. I’m a sailor and I love being out on the water. However challenging and messy it may be at times; I love my life. As Helen Keller said, ‘Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.’ I choose adventure.
– Diana Weynand
KIM MARGOLIS
Kim Margolis is a singer /songwriter producer from London, England. At the age of 16, he left school with a passion for the music industry, where he found work as assistant engineer/tape operator for Dick James music (Northern Songs). He worked with Reggie Dwight (aka Elton John), Steven Demetre Georgiou (aka Cat Stevens), and other up and coming artists recording mostly early demos. He was then hired by the Decca company to work in their copyright dept and swiftly moved up to staff record producer.
He worked on tracks for David Bowie (The World of David Bowie), and produced various new artists including the classic folk album “Everytime You Move” by Hunter Muskett. After being disillusioned by the record business in 1969 he “dropped out” and went to live on a hippie commune in the Welsh mountains. Always passionate about songwriting and music production, he continued to write and play solo and in various bands and continues to this day to perform and record in the San Francisco Bay Area.
JOSH MORELAND
Josh Moreland is a recording artist from Bradenton, Florida…, known for his big sound in which he calls “Battle Cry Music” its a mix of Pop/Rock & Soul with a cinematic edge to it, referred to as the roaring of the soul.
Moreland is a writer and performer, whose tour and opening show collaborations include acts such as Jason Derulo, Stevie Wonder, Charlie Puth, Rick Ross, Ludacris and Far East Movement. Josh’s most recent tour was in South Korea on Jeju Island, which he held a residency for 7 months equalling to 182 Shows.
Moreland’s sound and performance have been referenced to Imagine Dragons, John Legend, and Kanye West. His writing collaborations have included John Legend and Jamaican charting artist, Nature Ellis and many others.
NATHALIE BONIN
Nathalie Bonin is a composer and violinist from Montreal, Canada now based in Los Angeles.
Composer and Solo Violinist for the Grammy Winning “Women Warriors: The Voices of Change” soundtrack, her most recent album “Queen of Hearts” received multiple accolades including a Nomination from the Music+Sound Award for “Best Use of Production Music in a TV Trailer”, the HMMA Award for “Instrumental” category for her piece “Euphoria” and the Mark Award for “Classical Track of the Year” with “Arrival of the Princess” that was featured on Netflix “Bridgerton” season 2 Finale.
Nathalie has scored the music for numerous movies, short films, and television series as well as theme songs and soundtracks for worldwide audiences including NBC “New Amsterdam”, CBS “Good Sam” (trailer), AppleTV+ “The Oprah Conversations”, Hallmark, Showtime, and numerous other networks.
Concertmaster of La Voix TVA (The Voice) in Montreal for 8 years, she has been a featured violinist with Wynton Marsalis, Ted Nash and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra as well as performed or recorded with: Stevie Wonder, Luciano Pavarotti, Chance The Rapper, YES, Cirque du Soleil, DeadMau5, Alan Parsons, Peter Cetera, Charles Aznavour, Gino Vannelli, Moist and Bran Van 3000. She recently premiered 2 violin concertos by Quinsin Nachoff and Jairo Duarte-Lopez.
Nathalie holds dual citizenship (USA/CANADA) and is Founder and Owner of Kinémuse Productions inc. in Montréal, Canada since 2015.
JULIA VASQUEZ
Julia Vasquez is an artist-engineer and the founder of Prophecy Productions. Besides being a singer-songwriter, poet, dancer, creative director herself, Julia created a network of platforms and programs in entertainment and educational services for others, as well; Prophecy Productions is a creative, arts and education company that manages Biosonica Sound Meditations, Mindful Artistry Creative Co-working Retreats, Voice Alchemy Academy, Official Ecstatic Dance Radio. A major tenet of these productions is the aim at a world which is better than well. Julia’s personal work speaks to timeless, worldly, yet deeply personal experience.
Prophecy Productions, Biosonica, Mindful Artistry and Voice Alchemy Academy and Julia are all on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn. You can also follow Prophecy Productions on Eventbrite to attend future public experiences:
Peter Benson was a normal “mechanic and engineering technician” when he experienced a major awakening process that opened up his connection to his Higher Self and the Angelic Realm. He discovered his angelic origins as part of Archangel Michael’s army of light. Guided by Archangel Michael and Ascended Masters, Peter was guided to create profound Tensor technology with palpable healing properties. His research and creations led him to build Tensor rings (all cubits), crystal-infused anklets & pendants, Merkaba, healing coils, sound frequency amplifiers, PTSD restoratives, and more
Bonnie Serratore is a Master Energy Tracker & Healer.
She accelerates personal healing and growth, furthering one’s spiritual path at a quantum level.
She accomplishes this by clearing the individual of unhealed trauma, limiting beliefs and foreign energies from all time and space, so that the expression of one’s Divine self can shine through.
Bonnie has honed her shamanic healing skills through direct personal experience, and from working with clients and students.
She utilizes the White Light of Creation and does not rely on spirit guides or trance-inducing tools to heal, thus giving her the ability to navigate with clarity the unseen territories of the human emotional and energetic bodies, to help uplift humanity to higher vibrations.
Nancy Perpall is a retired second career divorce lawyer, her first career was in nursing. She published widely as both a nurse and as an attorney. She resides in Lakewood Ranch, Florida, with her husband.
You can connect with Nancy on Facebook at facebook.com/NancyPerpall or visit her website, nancyperpall.com to sign up for her blog, newsletter and learn about new release, Around Which All Things Bend. This romance novel written in upmarket style is receiving rave reviews. It is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and anywhere books are sold.
