Have you ever felt like you're not enough? Single mom, attorney, business owner, and executive search professional Carrington Smith spent a lifetime trying to be someone else—to fit in, to be loved, to keep the peace, and to make others happy. Until finally, Carrington discovered that her own path to happiness wasn’t based on fitting in but on standing out—celebrating her uniqueness and owning her past. 

In her debut memoir, Blooming: Finding Gifts in the Shit of Life (Scribe Media, November 16, 2021), Carrington combines wit and wisdom to share her journey through the shit, with a positive attitude and a shift of mindset, into a life bursting with joy, opportunity, and purpose. From trauma to triumph, through the depths of sexual assault, religious mind-fuckery, family rejection, body dysmorphia, mid-life metamorphosis, physical scarring, and death into happiness, forgiveness, empathy, purpose, belonging, and joy, Blooming is a poignant, powerful account of finding your way through the shit.

You can connect with Carrington at www.carrington-smith.com and follow her on Instagram @carringtonatx.

Carrington Smith is a single mom, attorney, business owner, and executive search professional. Despite being born with a silver spoon in her mouth, life gave her a hard kick in the tail. She has survived sexual assault, two divorces, piles of debt, abuse, religious mind games, the death of loved ones, and the loss of close friends.

In her debut memoir, Carrington combines wit and wisdom to share her journey through the shit, with a positive attitude and a shift of mindset, into a life bursting with joy, opportunity, and purpose. A graduate of UT Austin and Tulane Law School, Carrington resides in Austin, Texas, with her two teenage boys.

How do we start the conversation about changes that could lead to better futures for the unhoused and the communities we live in? Social worker and author Sherman S. Haggerty has context and solutions to offer. With decades of experience as a homebuilding executive and director at Volunteers of America Northern California-Northern Nevada, Sherman is available for interviews, expert commentary and Q&As with actionable steps and concrete strategies your audience can use to fight homelessness.

According to Forbes, 580K people in the United States are losing their chances to leave homelessness behind and become respected, contributing members of their communities. Partly due to policy changes at the federal level, the prospects for the unhoused are sinking to an unprecedented low. Sherman offers practical solutions, not only for our government leaders but also for the average person, including physical and mental health programs, volunteer and community outreach, the destigmatization of homelessness and so much more.

Sherman Haggerty is an experienced social worker and can discuss:

Learn more about Sherman and his book, Hope Disappearing: A Population Left Behind (Izzard Ink, November 9, 2021), at pastorhaggerty.com.

Sherman has a master’s degree in management from the Peter F. Drucker Graduate Management program at Claremont College. He worked as an executive for thirty-five years in homebuilding and land development for two large public companies. He retired in 2008. While working in Sacramento, he served on the board of directors for the North State Homebuilders Association, acting as the board chair in 2000. While on that board, Sherman worked with a handful of those board members to start a new nonprofit in 1999 titled HomeAid. That organization was developed as part of the National Homebuilding Association initiative to help supply new beds for the transitionally homeless in their communities. Over the last 20 years HomeAid has worked to provide hundreds of new beds and several new facilities to serve the homeless and other vulnerable citizens in the Sacramento region.

He was asked to join the Volunteers of America board of directors in 2005, where he served until December 2013. In 2010 he was voted into the California Homebuilding Foundation’s Hall of Fame, based in part on the community service work he had been a part of in Sacramento. In January 2014 he voluntarily stepped down from the VOA board to run the daily operations at Mather Community, a transitional housing homeless program with the goal of growing their employment program. In the six years he was responsible for the program, they served well over one thousand clients, many of which left homelessness for good. Between August 2015 and April 2019, he completed a three-year program to become an ordained minister with Volunteers of America, focusing his work on trauma and moral injury.

Not everyone believes in the power of the stars, claiming that astrology and tarot may or may not be real. This astrologer and tarot reader for 15+ years says she can make anyone a believer in the cosmos in just 5 minutes. Lisa Stardust has just released a book called “The Astrology Deck,” a 70-card deck for dummies who can discover how retrogrades, moon phases, and sun signs impact love, friendship, career, and personality. An accompanying instructional booklet and interactive birth chart for astrological readings make it a must-have accessory for modern mystics and the spiritually curious. Stardust can chat with you about the following hot topics:

The birth charts of Princess Diana and Charles in tandem with the movie Spencer 

Sex and the City character by zodiac sign in tandem with the reboot 

The last 2 eclipses and Venus retrograde of 2021 and why that matters in our daily lives

What to manifest in 2022 by zodiac sign 

How to celebrate NYE by zodiac sign and 2022’s astrological aspects/year in review

The 4 Mercury retrogrades of 2022 and what is Mercury retroshade?

How to read your birth chart + Self-care + tarot/astrology 

Behind-the-scenes of being an on-call astrologer for a week 

Why 2022 is an amazing year for cosmic love

Why is Lisa Stardust so connected to the stars? She says, “My family was magical— my great grandmother was a tarot reader, grandmother a Cuban magical practitioner who practiced magic,  and my dad’s family (including my dad) were famous Kabalistic healers. I was born with this in my DNA.”

For more information, please visit the below and for press inquiries, readers, book and interviews, please contact Kat at CEO@do-tellpr.com or call 3054905911

Website URL: lisastardust.com

Facebook: @lisastardust

Twitter: @lisastardust_

Instagram: @lisastardustastro

Book- https://www.amazon.com/Astrology-Deck-Guide-Meanings-Cosmos/dp/1797206915

Lisa Stardust is a NYC-based astrologer and author of the bestselling Saturn Return Survival Guide: Navigating This Cosmic Rite of Passage from Hardie Grant Publishing and The Astrology Deck: Your Guide to the Meanings and Myths of the Cosmos from Chronicle Books. She is the resident astrologer at Oprah Daily, Refinery29, Teen Vogue, and The Today Show.

When the subject is leadership, business podcasts and their expert guests often focus on theory, the textbook learnings of what exemplary business leadership is supposed to entail.  I can offer your listeners a much more entertaining and informative segment based on real life examples of exemplary leadership in action.  In my book "21 Lessons Learned in Leadership", I gathered 21 individual leadership in action stories, true to life experiences offered by professional people in real business situations.  These stories are relevant, practical, and easily identifiable for anyone wishing to improve their business skill set.  These stories and their outcomes are the foundation of exemplary leadership in action.  Your listeners will appreciate the recognition of situations that will have them thinking of their own challenges, and will also have them tuning in for more useful answers.  Leadership in Action is Leadership Defined! 

Ted Kulawiak is a highly respected sought-after sales management, leadership coach and business consultant.  As the president of Ted Kaye Sales Management Training LLC, Ted utilizes his significant business experience coupled with a personalized and innovative problem-solving approach to guide clients to reach their desired business goals.  He held senior sales leadership and training positions in the advertising and media sales industry, selling television, direct mail, outdoor, and newspaper advertising space over the course of 25 years, the majority of which he spent working for the 3M Company in their national advertising division.

Post advertising career, Ted transitioned to higher education and enjoyed a 19-year career in executive leadership positions, including as the vice president of enrollment at Westminster College in Missouri, vice president of enrollment at Bisk, an online program management company in Florida, and also at DeVry, Inc., in Illinois.  He led the online admissions efforts for DeVry University, Keller Graduate School of Management, and Chamberlain College of Nursing.

 Ted holds a BS in journalism from Northern Illinois University, and an MBA from the Keller Graduate School of Management. After teaching graduate level classes in sales and advertising management for six years at Keller, Ted earned an Executive Certificate in Leadership and Management from the University of Notre Dame.  He is the author of “21 Lessons Learned in Sales Management” and recently published his second book “21 Lessons Learned in Leadership”

Our country now depends on imports of two million tons of natural rubber from five Asian countries, China and Vietnam among them, without capacity to produce it now for American producers of 40,000 products that depend on it.   The Defense Department states that Natural Rubber is a strategic material that is vital to our national security, yet we are vulnerable to disruption by China, my ag enterprise will focus on building capacity to current and future needs of this vital commodity.   Along with growing two plant species that offer a high quality natural rubber we will grow many other species of value as fiber, food, and medicinals.    Plant material left over will be used to make BioCoal briquettes to replace coal as a clean burning biofuel.    As a Vietnam vet who served with the Navy, and later in the Army, I still keep the oath I took to serve our country, and to defend it against enemies, foreign and domestic, building a natural rubber industry, along with other vets looking to get back into the civilian world, and homeless folk, is my way to help make America Great Again. 

Served in the Tonkin Gulf, on the attack aircraft carrier, USS KITTY HAWK, later became a newspaper reporter, and editor of a 12 page weekly paper at a naval air station in Florida.  In the Army, stationed in Germany, was awarded the Army Commendation Medal for my work in a job I had to learn from scratch, managing a complex personnel management system.  At North Fort Lewis, in Washington, I worked for the 9th Division Air Defense Artillery Brigade headquarters, and on the Fast Attack Vehicle project with the High Technology Test Bed.  As a civilian I have handled a Univac System 80 mainframe computer, have been active in sales, marketing, advertising, even did a couple of commercial fishing contracts in Alaska, and lived to tell about it.   Since leaving the military I have spent decades looking for solutions to end thirst, hunger, homelessness, and energy deficits, and have found them, will shortly be in a position to showcase these answers at the White Tiger Farms, and our glamping resort to welcome guests and visitors from around the world. 

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We have a story for your podcast recently captured a full length with face features, man ghost in a cemetery while conducting a paranormal investigation we wanted to reach out to you about some Extreme Paranormal Evidence we experienced in a Haunted Cemetery. Our names are Laynee and Don Archer we call ourselves Spectrewaves Paranormal, there are only two of us in our group, we have been investigating together since 2006, but both of us have always been very passionate about finding answers on where energy goes once we die. Laynee is a Sensitive, she can pick the spot out where they think they will capture the most Paranormal Evidence on their hunts. Don and Laynee have acquired the skills to use and interpret the scientific tools that they use at every Paranormal Investigation they conduct This story is just in time for Halloween for your listeners!!!! On September 18, 2021 Spectrewaves, Laynee and Don of Oak Forest, Illinois went to Forest Home Cemetery & German Waldheim Cemetery in Forest Park, Illinois USA. The Moon was full, Spectrewaves conducted a Paranormal Investigation. First, before jumping to the paranormal evidence here’s a little history on Forest Home Cemetery & German Waldheim Cemetery. The land before it was a cemetery was burial grounds of the Native American of the Potawatomi Tribe. The German Waldheim was incorporated in 1873, & Forest Home Cemetery was incorporated in 1876, in 1969 the two cemeteries officially merged, and it was named Forest Home, which is the English translation of the German word Waldheim. Thousands of immigrants living in Chicago whose deceased were not welcome in Chicago cemeteries were buried here. The non-sectarian policies of the cemeteries, their location, their non-denominational nature, and the significant number of fraternal and union plots made these cemeteries the burial place of choice for a wide range of individuals. After Laynee & Don from Spectrewaves reviewed the Paranormal Evidence Captured on September 18, 2021. They captured a man in a photo, but no man was present, this photo was taken by the 1.5-million-dollar Mausoleum surrounded by huge columns. Laynee and Don of Spectrewaves Paranormal always take at least three or more pictures in one setting, that way you can compare the photos, to make sure what you think is paranormal is really paranormal, and most importantly debunk if it appears in every photo!!! After reviewing the other photos in the same session, no other picture has what we think is a man present. It seems he has a paperboy hat on, with suspenders along with a bag, looking as if it’s his work tools. The Man seems to be in his mid-40's. His features are very defined and there’s no mistaking there is someone in the photo, His body is somewhat transparent. Laynee and Don of Spectrewaves Paranormal have tried to debunk this photo but we can’t. The features of the man are very defined, and we believe this image to be a paranormal capture. Below is some of the Evidence on video we captured at Oak Home Cemetery that I wrote a little about for your consideration. Spectrewaves Laynee and Don Paranormal Investigation that night at Forest Home Cemetery in Forest Park was very active!!! The Paranormal interactions, while conducting a Paranormal Investigation our Spirit box which fast sweeps AM/ FM Radio frequencies to allow Spirits to communication with us, a name was spoken in the Chapel "Rich Malloff" along with a Spirit telling us to take picture we will see him, and a boy saying Hi to his mom. Plus more: the video Link is below Another Paranormal strange encounter that night that Spectrewaves Laynee & Don received was they had a Paranormal Figure crawling and rolling on the ground, in between the gravestones. They captured this entity on their 3D Mapping Camera called a SLS Kinect. The video is below: De Angela was another name Spectrewaves received on the spirit box along with a spirit telling us "30 steps." Spectrewaves Laynee and Don's Mel Meter kept spiking with high readings, this device detects electrical energy, a spirit took credit for spiking their device telling us though the spirit box. Along with stating "yes" they will allow us to see a spirit on the 3D mapping camera which was in the last video. The video Below is where you can Hear De Angelas name. Whether you are a believer in the Paranormal or not, this evidence sure puts you in the mood for the Halloween Season!!! Along with giving you some thought on life. To view more on Laynee and Don from Spectrewaves Paranormal Investigations follow them on YouTube under Spectrewaves Spectrewaves. Happy Halloween!!! Please let us know if you need anything else for this story to be told Thanks!!! We look forward to hearing back from you! Thank you for your time, Laynee & Don Spectrewaves Paranormal Spectrewaves Paranormal LLP YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVOpVJVWo0A9IkLR9WPcFAQ Website: https://spectrewaves.weebly.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/spectrewaves-spectrewaves-6a7903168/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/spectrewavesllp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Spectrewaves-LLP-159501931280217/ Instagram: www.instagram.spectrewavesllp/?hl=en

Spectrewaves Paranormal Laynee & Don explore different areas looking for scientific proof of the paranormal.  Laynee & Don of Spectrewaves Paranormal utilize the latest equipment, Using multidisciplinary methods, along with the most extensive and diverse arsenal of technology which helps Laynee & Don from Spectrewaves Paranormal communicate with the other side the Paranormal.  Spectrewaves Laynee & Don use the Paranormal evidence they obtain on Paranormal Investigations to share and educate the public.

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For your upcoming stories, please consider certified pre and post-marital coach Jacqueline Del Rosario or Dr. Jacquie, America’s Marriage Coach, using practical solutions to relatable societal issues stemming from people’s individual homes. With 25 years of experience, Dr. Jacquie has regenerated couples with her philosophy of the seven pillars of compatibility as well as conferences and intensive training, providing skill-based learning that shifts relationship trajectories

Dr. Jacquie has dynamic topics for singles, married couples, professional associations, universities, and churches from personal empowerment, entrepreneurship, education, to program development and ecclesiastical teaching including:

-Dating time wasters: how to change the lens of a relationship and know when to pull out- Realizing what the relationship has given you, but also taken away from you to know when to walk away

-How to navigate tough relationships, find your tribe and mentor, without dismissing relationships of people that are close to you

-4 Ways to tell if he’s the best or just a beast: What is our role in the relationship demise and closure tips?

-7 rules to follow when banking on financial alignment for a happy marriage and why arguments are healthy for relationship evolution

-Difference between a marriage mate and a soul mate and why it’s ok to differ in temperament but not in core values

As the founder of ReCapturing the Vision (RTV), a globally recognized nonprofit dedicated to breaking generational cycles for handicap low-income children and families, Dr. Jacquie has designed programs affecting youth and families and authored 12-curricula utilized in schools around the country, receiving over $20 million in state and federal funding.

Media kit: https://www.drjacquie.com/wp-content/uploads/rrdelrosariomediakit-2020.pdf

More about Jacqueline Del Rosario:

Dr. Jacquie has been featured on Fox, KTLA, CNN, GWN, Hallmark ABC and NBC affiliates, TV One, Bravo, Huffington Post, Bloomberg Newsweek and The Real Housewives of Atlanta. Dr. Jacquie’s uncanny way of hearing what you didn't say and seeing what’s obscure has helped her build a solid practice working with couples and singles across the country.

Dr. Jacquie has been invited to the White House twice and collaborated on public policy. She shaped national standards for teen pregnancy prevention programs as a participant on The White House National Advisory Panel. She has lobbied on the Hill and presented at a host of national conferences. 

As an educator, author, advocate, counselor and visionary, Dr. Jacquie holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology, a Master’s and Doctorate in Education, with an emphasis on conflict resolution and curriculum development. She continues to light a path towards an enriched life and resides in Miami, FL with her husband of over 25 years and two sons.

Healthy Fashion is a forward-thinking book that tunes into a modern lifestyle. Fashion as modern medicine is a relatively new concept, an advanced approach.  It taps into the potential of what fashion is and can become. It is made to inspire, empower, and invoke this sense of  a positive attitude, that’s new-dimensional.  This book will certainly broaden perspective, and make the reader feel + look beautiful.

Alyssa Couture is a fashion author and fashion entrepreneur. She feels fashion is an opportunity to attain health and healing. She claims the existence of fashion can be interpreted and experienced with a deeper purpose: fashion as an alternative medicine for mind/body/spirit. Her sole motive is to bring fashion into its course as a therapeutic, healing tool. To awaken the consciousness of the human spirit via fashion into its transmission of divine activity for overall human wellbeing and ultimate planetary awakening. She had founded three small businesses, only one of which she is currently producing. The business she is focused on is her fashion campaign HEALTHY FASHION: creating innovative solutions for a healthier kind of fashion. It’s a platform to raise awareness of the health effects of apparel. Healthy Fashion discloses important, relative content to revamp fashion for a healthier planet, but above all, it serves for the health and livelihood of humans. It is to empower and preserve Earth, humans, and plant service .

Amy Nordhues is a survivor of both childhood sexual abuse and sexual abuse as an adult at the hands of a mental health professional. She is a passionate Christ-follower and expert on the healing God provides. She has a BA in Psychology with minors in Sociology and Criminology. Her devotions have been published in The Secret Place (Judson Press) and include: A Big Softy, Winter 2018, Fixer Upper, Summer 2019 No, Thank You, Summer 2021 and Unveiled, Fall 2021. She blogs at www.amynordhues.com. A married mother of three, when she isn't spending time with her family, writing, reading, or creating photo books, she can be found laughing at her favorite comedians.