Subject: Why ecommerce brands are scrambling to protect their trademarks in 2026

Alt: •The hidden legal risks facing online businesses right now—expert available

•Why trademark monitoring matters more than trademark filing

•The ecommerce trademark attorney helping founders scale smarter

•How franchise brands can avoid costly IP mistakes before expanding

As ecommerce brands, creators, and online businesses continue scaling rapidly, many are unknowingly exposing themselves to significant legal risks including trademark disputes, copycat sellers, AI-generated content issues, website compliance claims, and brand infringement.

Tannia Ospina, founder and managing attorney of Ospina Law Firm, is available to provide expert commentary on:

As both an attorney and entrepreneur, Tannia offers practical, founder-focused insight that translates complex legal issues into actionable business strategy. She is available for interviews, expert commentary, podcasts, contributed articles, panels, and speaking opportunities.

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Subject: Why ecommerce brands are scrambling to protect their trademarks in 2026

Alt: •The hidden legal risks facing online businesses right now—expert available

•Why trademark monitoring matters more than trademark filing

•The ecommerce trademark attorney helping founders scale smarter

•How franchise brands can avoid costly IP mistakes before expanding

As ecommerce brands, creators, and online businesses continue scaling rapidly, many are unknowingly exposing themselves to significant legal risks including trademark disputes, copycat sellers, AI-generated content issues, website compliance claims, and brand infringement.

Tannia Ospina, founder and managing attorney of Ospina Law Firm, is available to provide expert commentary on:

As both an attorney and entrepreneur, Tannia offers practical, founder-focused insight that translates complex legal issues into actionable business strategy. She is available for interviews, expert commentary, podcasts, contributed articles, panels, and speaking opportunities.

Website: www.theospinalawfirm.com

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Michael David McGuire has worked with… and shares fascinating stories from…  some of Hollywood’s most famous personalities - https://studiohousemedia.com/celebrity-talkshows.html.

Michael David McGuire began working in local radio in the mid-1960's... becoming a reporter, TV news anchor, fashion model and actor by the early 1970's. As an actor, McGuire appeared in major projects for Warner Bros, Paramount, Quinn Martin Productions, Disney, ABC-TV, CBS-TV, 20th Century Fox and local TV stations from Coast to Coast.

As a voice-over talent in the 1980's and 90's, McGuire remains one of the highest paid commercial talents in the industry... doing regional and national projects for Tang, Stri-Dex, McDonald's, Macy's, Publix Markets, Pepsi, Dolly Madison Cakes, Norway Sardines, Round Table Pizza, Bank of America, Wachovia Bank, US Army, Mattel, Atari, Safeway, Albertsons... plus local banks, car dealerships, radio stations, TV Promos, grocery stores, political campaigns, hotel/casinos, restaurants and specialty shops across North America. 

McGuire began working as a talent and media development consultant in 1980, appearing in over 800 separate markets across North America, Europe and Asia... and working with high profile clients (sports, celebrity, political, business) on an exclusive NDA basis. Based in New York, McGuire continues as a media, marketing, PR and media development consultant... working with a client base worldwide. For more information, please call (323) 656-3000.

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Pitch: Haunted Happy Hour – Behind the Screams with Jack Bremen

What I wish to be interviewed about: I would love to pull back the curtain on indie filmmaking and share the chaotic, thrilling journey of bringing my latest feature film, Haunted Happy Hour, to life. As a filmmaker who works both in front of and behind the camera, I can give your audience a raw, authentic look at what it truly takes to write, direct, and produce independent cinema today. We can dive into the mechanics of visual storytelling, the evolution of modern horror/thriller genres, and how to maintain creative control in a fast-paced industry.

Why your audience will appreciate these insights: BBS Radio TV listeners are creators, deep-thinkers, and entrepreneurs who value authenticity and passion. Filmmaking isn't just about cameras; it's about problem-solving, resilience, and the universal human drive to tell stories. By sharing the real-world victories and hurdles of Haunted Happy Hour, I will give your audience practical, inspiring takeaways on how to turn a creative vision into a finished reality—regardless of their budget. Plus, everyone loves a good behind-the-scenes look at how movie magic (and suspense) is made!

The unique value I bring to your show: I bring a rare, 360-degree perspective to the conversation. Because my background spans the performing arts, media production, emerging technology, and marketing, I don't just speak "Hollywood"—I speak to the hustle. I can seamlessly pivot from the artistic side of directing actors to the technical side of modern production and the business strategy of indie film distribution. I am energetic, highly adaptable, and dedicated to delivering an entertaining, high-value conversation that will keep your listeners hooked from start to finish.

Jack Bremen is one of the rare individuals who possesses a broad professional skill set and a true zest for life. With experience ranging from the creative and performing arts to marketing and technology, Jack is comfortable both in front of and behind the camera, at his computer, in a business meeting, or on a surfboard. His diverse career has included work in nearly every facet of communications, from academia and technology to media production and photography. Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, Jack grew up with a passion for skateboarding, emerging technology, and storytelling. Feeling a call to head west, Jack moved to Los Angeles. He also continues to write, perform, and is in pre-production on his second feature length film.

Atlanta, GA / Global — May 1, 2026 — Holistic private chef and wellness advisor Evelyn Paul announces the upcoming release of her debut book, Mindless As F*ck, a raw, unfiltered exploration of spiritual awakening, identity disruption, and the challenge of translating transcendence into everyday life.

The book challenges what Paul describes as “performative spirituality,” a growing cultural trend that often prioritizes aesthetics, language, and identity over real-world application.

“This isn’t a book about escaping life,” Paul says. “It’s about learning how to function inside it, especially when everything you thought you knew about yourself changes.”

Paul’s journey began with a spontaneous out-of-body experience, often referred to in Eastern traditions as a Kundalini awakening, which fundamentally altered her perception of reality. Following this experience, she left her business and embarked on a multi-year period of travel and study across India, Greece, Asia, and the Caribbean in search of understanding and integration.

Unlike traditional spiritual memoirs, Paul’s work focuses less on the awakening itself and more on what comes after: rebuilding identity, maintaining emotional stability, and returning to everyday responsibilities while navigating expanded awareness.

Her professional background includes training at the Institute of Culinary Education in New York City, Ayurvedic studies in Kerala, yoga and meditation training in Dharamsala, and shamanic studies in Bali. She has also worked as a private chef for high-profile clients, integrating her wellness philosophy into high-pressure, real-world environments.

Over time, Paul began developing practical tools based on her lived experience, methods for grounding, emotional regulation, self-trust, and navigating internal change while maintaining external responsibility. These tools form the foundation of her book.

Mindless As F*ck also explores:

Rather than positioning spirituality as escape or elevation, Paul reframes it as something that must survive contact with real life, stress, relationships, work, illness, and change.

“This work is not about becoming someone new,” Paul explains. “It’s about remembering what you already are and learning how to function from that place in the real world.”

The book is published under Wise Tracks Publishing and will be released on May 1, 2026. Additional media assets, interviews, and excerpts will be made available upon request.

COACH

What do you do when the person you love is still here—but the way you have always connected no longer works?

In How Old Are You Today? Dementia, A Mother, A Daughter, and The Game That Transformed Their Lives, Glenna Hecht shares the reality of caring for her mother through dementia—and the moment everything changed.

After trying to fix, explain, and correct what was happening, nothing worked. Conversations broke down. Logic created distance. Connection slipped.

Then one question shifted everything:
“How old are you?”

Her mother answered, “Guess.”
And a game began.

What followed wasn’t a cure. It was something more useful: a simple, repeatable way to connect when memory and logic no longer align.

This is not a clinical approach or a caregiving manual. It’s a lived experience that became a practical tool. One that changed their relationship and continues to help others do the same.

MEDIA ANGLES

Glenna Hecht did not set out to write a book about dementia. She was trying to stay connected to her mother when everything that used to work stopped working.

Conversations broke down. Logic didn’t land. Trying to help often made things worse.

Then one question changed the dynamic: “How old are you?”
Her mother answered, “Guess.”
And instead of correcting or moving on, Glenna stayed inside the answer.

That moment became a game. The game became a daily ritual. And that ritual became a way to connect when memory and logic no longer aligned.

Before this, Glenna spent decades leading HR and training inside organizations including Starbucks and Levy Restaurants at Walt Disney World and later founded her own firm, Humanistic Consulting.

Her book, How Old Are You Today? Dementia, A Mother, A Daughter, and The Game That Transformed Their Lives, reflects that experience—direct, unpolished, and grounded in what works.

She speaks on leadership, the How Old Are You Today? game, and leads an HR consulting practice informed by what that experience revealed about leadership, presence, and judgment.

Hello,

Sal Amato is an actor, writer, producer, and novelist whose career spans decades across film, television, music, and emerging media.

His work is driven by a sharp understanding of human behavior and a lifelong fascination with the forces that shape perception, power, and truth.

A performer from an early age, Sal began earning recognition in grammar school for both hosting and acting. By 1978, he was already in the studio with Richard Marx (as a child), performing a Betty Crocker commercial. That same year, he began a DJ career—one he still enjoys today as a hobby.

Sal is a graduate of the Midwestern School Of Broadcasting, earning his “diploma” in 1984 along with his FCC license.

He would go on to appear in films and television projects including Bad Boys (1982), The Untouchables (TV Show), My Best Friend’s Wedding, While You Were Sleeping, Chicago Overcoat, Where It Gets You, Chicago Fire, and The Big Leap, along with numerous commercials and media appearances.

It should also be noted that Sal was one of the youngest performers ever accepted into The Second City, where he trained under the late Don DePollo, sharpening his skills in improvisation, performance, and character-driven storytelling. He later performed stand-up in the early 2000s—“for therapy,” as he puts it.

A true digital pioneer, Sal was working online as early as 1988 as a stockbroker, leveraging technology to gain a competitive edge long before it became commonplace.

By 1992, he was using the early internet to source data in the music industry, and by the mid-1990s, he was already experimenting with CU-SeeMe video technology and building websites in anticipation of the streaming revolution.

In the late 1990s, his work expanded rapidly across technology and media. In 1997, he was selected as the Program Director for A Taste of Chicago’s Cyber City, where he produced shows with tech companies to stream live to millions of people directly from Chicago's lakefront food festival.

During this same period, his work continued through ventures such as Modern Tracks, delivering online and audio services for radio stations, record labels, and trade publications. In 1998, Sal became the first person to stream an internet radio station to an FM signal with “CD audio quality.”

As a lobbyist, he was on Capitol Hill in the late 1990s, helping Congress better understand the digital divide. He collaborated with Hulu in its early development phase, worked with Roku before it became a streaming giant, and helped shape Source Media’s Interactive Channel 

in 1999 by developing and programming original content concepts well ahead of their time.

Sal also played a key role in building Addicted to Radio into a major online platform by expanding its programming and content. At its peak, the online streamer reached more than seven million monthly listeners.

In addition, Sal produced EDM America TV and created “The Beat” format in the Chicago area.

Transitioning into writing and producing, Sal has developed projects that blend entertainment with sharp cultural observation. His work reflects his unique background across performance, media, and technology—combining storytelling with themes of influence, control, and the systems that shape public thinking.

His animated series Bakers in the Burbs has been optioned and is currently in development for streaming, and his mob-vengeance series Joe Caracelli is set to debut on a streaming platform in 2026.

With Hidden Powers: Disclosure From Within, Sal makes his debut in long-form fiction, bringing a cinematic voice and technological authenticity to the page. 

Drawing on decades of experience across entertainment and digital innovation, the novel explores the unseen systems of influence that shape modern society—challenging readers to question not just what they believe, but why they believe it.

In 2024, Sal received the Latin Living Legends Award for his contributions to the industry and his work at the legendary WCYC in Chicago in the 1980s.

When he’s not writing or working, he spends time with his family; loves dogs (he’s been known to pick up strays to help them); loves Golden Retrievers—and, of course, his music.

Sal continues to work across multiple areas of the entertainment industry, including analog-to-digital media preservation—preserving the past while staying firmly focused on what’s next.

FAVORITE MOVIES:

Chariots Of The Gods, Slap Shot, The Formula, Into The Night, Vice Squad, The Godfther 1 & 2, Naked Gun, HIdden Figures, Don't Start The Revolution Without Me, IMproper Channels, Beverly Hills Cop (Just the first one), Absence Of Malice, The Help, Casablanca, Used Cars, Enemy Of The State, All Marx Brothers and Abbott & Costello movies, Up In Smoke, Dreamscapes, Patton, Bedknobs And Broomsticks, Contact, Space Cowboys, Arthur, Jurassic Park, Caddyshack, Back To School, The Other Woman, All Harry Potter movies and about a million more.

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Dr Josette Pelatan is a filmmaker and scholar who connects lived adversity with academic knowledge and visual storytelling. Her work opens honest conversations about homelessness disability mental health education inequity and social justice.

She is the founder of JosetteXMP Productions. She creates films and media projects that promote empathy dignity and social awareness.

Dr Pelatan earned a PhD in Interdisciplinary Health Sciences while facing housing instability and a relapsing neurological disability. During this time she taught herself filmmaking writing producing and voice performance to tell stories often ignored by mainstream media.

Her developing film projects The Prostitute’s Daughter and Homeless with a PhD are based on real experiences. These stories encourage audiences to rethink how society treats vulnerable people. They invite discussion about public health systems structural inequality stigma and resilience.

Dr Pelatan offers audiences a story that goes beyond inspiration. She provides insight reflection and real-world perspective.

She brings knowledge from health sciences storytelling media production and advocacy. She speaks honestly about ongoing challenges and lived experience. Her mission is to elevate marginalized voices through art and education.

Her conversations are thoughtful clear and purposeful. Listeners are invited to reflect on assumptions and consider new perspectives grounded in empathy and action.

Topics she can discuss

Overcoming systemic barriers and redefining resilience
Disability dignity and lived experience
The connection between health sciences and storytelling
Ethical filmmaking and advocacy through media
Homelessness in America and public perception
How media can encourage social change and cultural empathy

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Civil War letters and CIA Trauma; Guest

Gray Mail: Man Replies to 52 Letters from Confederate Ancestor; Unseals Intelligence Scars

Benjamin “Ben” Buckley has spent a lifetime navigating the fault lines between duty, secrecy, and personal cost. But his most revealing conversation began not with a living person—rather, with a fallen ancestor.

Buckley’s Book is Entitled, Remember Me: How Letters from My Civil War Uncle Helped Me Confront my Childhood CIA Attacker

Buckley’s story explores how trauma echoes across generations, how war—whether fought on a battlefield or within institutions—leaves lasting imprints, and how confronting the past can lead to unexpected healing. It also raises broader questions about the unseen human cost of early intelligence programs and the environments they fostered.

This is not just a Civil War story—it’s a story of survival, confrontation, and resolution. Ben Buckley is available to discuss how a stack of 19th-century letters helped him face a 20th-century darkness—and finally reclaim his own narrative.

Buckley’s Book is Entitled, Remember Me: How Letters from My Civil War Uncle Helped Me Confront my Childhood CIA Attacker  

TO SCHEDULE AN INTERVIEW, CALL OR TEXT 540-598-2814 OR EMAIL BOOKINGS@SPECIALGUESTS.COM

Born and raised in the Washington, D.C. area, Benjamin Buckley is a descendent of a Civil War Confederate soldier, Henry Christopher Binns Kendrick, who died at the Battle of Gettysburg. Buckley’s career in the construction industry would take him to many government sites where he encountered how the U.S. was attempting to achieve various national security objectives.

Upon retirement, he discovered 52 Civil War letters written by his great-uncle. In reading them, Buckley discovered a striking emotional and philosophical kinship across 164 years. The letters became a critical aide to help Buckley review the darkest chapters in his own life, how he viewed war and abuse, as well as the shadow cast in his life by U.S. intelligence projects such as the CIA’s MK Ultra.