Pitch: I hope to awaken and empower everyone by sharing my stories, by describing the realities of being a woman in the Arab world, a woman that was thrust into a world without a soul, that offered up wealth and fame but gave no freedom or happiness. My story is eye-opening and deeply moving, and reveals the taboos and stories that unfold behind closed doors, the hidden traps found within the glamorous circles of fame and fortune, and the journey to something better. 

I am a grand-daughter of Armenian genocide survivors, born and raised in Lebanon. Eight years ago, I remarried and settled down in Montreal with my loving Canadian husband. I spent the past year gathering data and recollections to undertake the writing of my first novel.

My experience includes nearly two decades of journalism and television as an actress and a live T.V, show host and a radio host in the Lebanese and Arabic society. Eventually, I rose through the ranks, living the unspeakable until I gave it all up for a chance at happiness and true love. Through Anna, the protagonist, I am revealing the taboos and stories that unfold behind closed doors, the hidden traps found within the glamorous circles of fame and fortune.

I experienced the downfalls of the show-business industry, and through Masks, exposing its’ uncensored reality. Today – besides being a housewife, reading and watching movies – I am in the process of writing my second novel.

Fame. Betrayal. Passion... Do you have the courage to remove your mask and taste freedom?

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Reviewed by Divine Zape for Readers’ Favorite

Masks by Nataly Restokian is a contemporary romance with a unique twist, a story of love that explores a woman’s unrelenting search for happiness and inner freedom. Anna had never been beautiful or attractive in her younger years. She once was the nerd who got bullied at school, stifled by the norms of society and religion, but she is the woman who broke free and went after pleasure and fame, eventually getting into the circle of Arab celebrities. As her fame grows so too does a disturbing emptiness, a void that inhabits her. Anna is determined to find fulfillment and meaning and neither wealth, sex, nor fame seem to offer her what she deeply desires. When she meets a young Canadian, her heart opens in ways she’d never experienced before. Is she ready to leave her unfaithful husband and the world of glamour and risk all for a man across the ocean with nothing to offer?

Nataly Restokian is an author who knows how to build emotional tension, developing a protagonist whose journey allows readers to understand the world she comes from. There is a striking sensuality in the language that reflects the beauty of the soul of the protagonist. It is interesting how she juxtaposes the sacred with the mundane, societal taboos with the quest for freedom. Her characters are not just enjoyable but real, and she captures the dilemmas of the modern woman in an Arab setting with intelligence, skill, and wisdom. Anna is one of those characters that modern women will root for. I enjoyed the elegant prose, the enticing setting featuring religious and cultural elements, and the winding plot, but above all, the deft character handling got me. Masks is a novel that is bold and that explores the masks most of us are forced to carry. It’s a story of how one woman dares to throw off her mask and face her innermost desires. A must-read!

I am a grand-daughter of Armenian genocide survivors, born and raised in Lebanon. Eight years ago, I remarried and settled down in Montreal with my loving Canadian husband. I spent the past year gathering data and recollections to undertake the writing of my first novel.

My experience includes nearly two decades of journalism and television as an actress and a live T.V, show host and a radio host in the Lebanese and Arabic society. Eventually, I rose through the ranks, living the unspeakable until I gave it all up for a chance at happiness and true love. Through Anna, the protagonist, I am revealing the taboos and stories that unfold behind closed doors, the hidden traps found within the glamorous circles of fame and fortune.

I experienced the downfalls of the show-business industry, and through Masks, exposing its’ uncensored reality. Today – besides being a housewife, reading and watching movies – I am in the process of writing my second novel.

Fame. Betrayal. Passion... Do you have the courage to remove your mask and taste freedom?

Masks is a fiction novel, based on true-life events. It narrates the adventures of a young Armenian girl born in Lebanon in the seventies. She dreams of fame and power in Lebanon and the Arab world and shows resilience and motivation beyond her years. The novel delves into the world of the protagonist, Anna, who is surrounded by social, religious, and sexual taboos. She fiercely breaks the chains to enter the world she has strived to reach, in a seemingly conservative society barely emerging from a civil war. She builds her success on her remaining values, challenging her fate and sparing no means to attain her goals.

As a disappointment to her parents, she walks the challenging paths alone, making her way toward fame and fortune despite lacking the support system to do so. Doors begin to open for her, and she enters the world of Arab celebrities. She is now a public figure in the Middle East, living an immoral married life in a materialistic world surrounded by influential business people and royal family members. She tries, in vain, to fill the void in her soul with sexual adventures and controversy by taking a wide variety of lovers. Her adventures invariably end in misery, doing nothing to awaken her from her numbness. Still, her vivid, out-of-control personality helps her move forward while simultaneously getting her in trouble. In the early stages of her life, she has suffered the unthinkable, being bullied and raped, with the civil war a constant backdrop throughout most of her childhood. The novel delves deep into Anna’s mind as she has flashbacks of the trauma she has suffered, offering the reader a hint of an explanation for her behavior.

In a society in which men dominate women, she is one of the few who realize that fashion, social status, plastic surgeries, and bright smiles are not the answer to happiness. She lives in a world where a girl is only worth as much as her virginity, where women do not dare to ask for a divorce, where the fear of retribution keeps them locked in a cage that is very rarely gilded.

As fame, money, and power slowly eat at her soul, the arrogant Anna falls in love with a total stranger—a young, single bachelor from Canada—after a night of secret passion. That is where the story begins to unravel as she returns home with a scandal in her back pocket, her eyes and ears and heart tuned to this man instead of her husband. Anna realizes that neither her marriage nor her achievements have ever made her happy, so she decides to throw it all away. The lies and deceit that fill the so-called glamorous life she has been leading are floating up to the surface, including her husband’s infidelity and the critical steps she has taken to reach the top.

Marriage, family, career—all destroyed to be united with the stranger. She starts a new battle, this time struggling to change her destiny for someone she barely knows, who lives oceans apart and offers her nothing except his heart.

She risks everything, turning her whole life upside down. Anna realizes that her happiness, inner peace, and love are found worlds away from her own, with someone she would never have expected to be her soul mate. Still, Anna’s sacrifices are not behind her, and the struggle has not yet ended, although she has found what she has needed all her life: redemption and unconditional love.

The stranger enigmatically hints at emotions in Anna that have been hidden for a long time behind the masks of her dark and shallow lifestyle.

The characters in the story are the voices of so many who do not dare to speak up in a world where social and religious standards openly chastise the very actions that behind closed doors have become the ultimate paradigmatic way of life.

Hello,

Caster Volor would like to welcome you to our industrial theatre. A live experience that is half monster and half machine, some might call it a nightmare and some a dream. An over the top macabre celebration of hedonism and excess where in studded leather, satin, and lace we are dressed. A vaudevillian opera with a heavy metal engine running on sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’roll that burns with 300% more hellfire than hell. A shot of 200 proof raw, raunchy, and in your face animalistic intensity with no chaser. Your only Lethal Dose 100 for having a good time all the time. Born from the result of a musical orgy between Alice Cooper, Gun’s n roses, Iron Maiden, and Queen; Rammstein directed and choreographed this scene. Raised by the Beatles and Rolling Stones, worshipping Judas Priest with Motörhead in our bones.

We are Caster Volor and we’re not your same old song and dance, we’re the passion in your heart as well as in your pants. We’re the tongue in your cheek, and the secret you couldn’t keep. Ladies and gentlemen and everyone in between, we here at Caster Volor would like to formally invite you to see our industrial theatre, and to welcome you to our freak show."

On April 19th, 2018, Caster Volor released their debut EP, "A Prelude To The Freak Show" to all digital platforms: iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon, ect. Currently, you can hear their music LIVE on 93x, Rockin 101 - MN Homegrown, IPO DaRanged Online Radio, Xtreme Alchemy Rocks Radio, and Valley FM 89.5 to name a few.

International Award-Winning Entrepreneur (20 awards), renowned International Leadership Speaker, EMCEE and Business Consultant, Nadine Lajoie was retired and a millionaire at age 41 from her financial business. Ex-Champion Motorcycle Racer at 180mph, now a Champion Yacht Racer, she trains and “IN-Powers” businesses and employees worldwide about leadership, high achievement, success, champion mindset, business and marketing, to INCREASE Productivity and BUILD systems, with her “Prosperity R.A.C.I.N.G System™".  Nadine's passion, energy, knowledge and experience, whilst performing live songs during her trainings, will guide and TRANSFORM you at 180 mph!

Featured on Forbes, USA Today, ABC, FOX and CBS Money Watch, #1 Best-Selling Author of “Win The Race of Life”, 4 times Book Award finalist (USA/London), she also co-authored with Les Brown, another #1 Best-Seller book: ”Fight for your Dreams”.  Nadine was featured in magazines along with Oprah Winfrey, Donald Trump and Zig Ziglar and shared big stages like TEDx, California Women’s Conference, among Top Speakers in USA, Canada, Africa, India and Canada, including Jamie Lee Curtis, Les Brown, Tom Hopkins, Marcia Cross, Jeane Houston, Marianne Williamson, Stedman Graham, Michael B. Beckwith, Mark Victor Hansen, Dr. John Gray, Adam Markel, Berny Dohrmann and JT Foxx.

Hello, Cornbread Murphy here. .

I'm an accomplished musician, producer and performer who has spent many years in the music industry (local, regional and national)

I am also a singer/songwriter who specializes in acoustic indie rock produced with a 'world music' flavor, which makes for an interesting fusion of sounds.

I am a record label owner (Aldersong Records est.2012) My latest release called 'Any Day' was performed, recorded, mixed and mastered in my own studio.

After all of these years, I feel like I have some expert insights into all facets of the music industry.

Thanks for your consideration.

Cornbread Murphy

mikejoyce.music@gmail.com 440-429-6908

Cornbread Murphy is an American Singer/Songwriter, Producer and Performer Based out of Cleveland, Ohio He specializes in Acoustic Indie Rock with a a 'world music' flavor.

He also has an extensive library of Ambient/Instrumental material.

Releases: Any Night 2014 Whales at the Gate 2016 Any Day 2019

Owner of Aldersong Records est. 2012

My book Spiritual Spice was edited by my late brother. I had everything but the cover for over a year and just couldn't seem to pull it together. Knowing that he was dying soon, I finally had the cover created and sent him a proof copy. He got to see it, hold it and just in time, as it was 3 days before his death. I released it later that month when I did his Celebration of Life and it was an Amazon #1 new release and then #1 best seller. His death itself is a beautiful story I like to share so that not only do we empower ourselves in living this life by working on knowing ourselves, but we also can learn not to fear death and how it can a beautiful transition. Spiritual Spice is not a heavy read, rather a book you add to your library to use when you need a little help empowering yourself. It can be used to find an answer, a daily message, or perhaps a mantra for the week. Within the pages, you will find thoughts and sayings that inspire clarity, direction, enlightenment, and personal growth.

Sharon Hess is a transformation expert, spiritual adviser, author & speaker. Her esoteric teaching began in 1992 facilitating “A Course In Miracles” and has evolved into empowering thousands through her spiritual yet practical approach. Her background consists of helping create then run million-dollar businesses, while she was studying and teaching Universal Laws and how they apply in our everyday lives. Sharon now combines Universal Law with her business knowledge and life experience to give you strategies that will bring results. Her keen insight helps those that have a bigger vision for themselves experience exactly how to create an amazing life and business at the level they desire. Sharon believes that we all have hidden potential and will help you find yours while using the compassion and humor she is well known for.

My story is one of a guy who took the long way around to do what he loves....muisc. From joining the school band, the death of both parents, joining the navy, 5 children and 2 degress before getting back to writing, producing and recording.

Christopher the Grey

Influenced by old school artists like Prince, Public Enemy and Rakim to current artists like J Cole, BoB and Bryce Vines, Christopher the Grey uses their mastery to create meaningful music.

Inheriting a love for music from his parents who also dabbled in song writing. With that creative gene, The Grey started writing and performing at an early age but stopped after the loss of his parent in his early twenties.

With maturity and life lessons, The Grey love for music only excelled in his heart and long for the good old days of rap when lyrics were spoke life and became anthems. 

After an extended break, The Grey returned to music releasing two singles in 2016 and performing at a few open mic events in various cites. Now, back with the release of his EP, Not So Common which features 5 songs. The lead off single being, I Am Sorry.

Walking Between Worlds: A Spiritual Odyssey

By Athena Demetrios

An Astonishing Memoir: One Woman's Journey from Darkness to Light

The Powerful Spiritual Experiences and Guidance that Healed Traumatic Childhood Wounds Impacting Much of Her Life

Now a Sought-After and Gifted Channel and Medium, Athena Demetrios Demonstrates the Riches That Can Unfold From the Relentless Pursuit of Self-Discovery

Greetings: 

It reads like a novel worthy of a film or TV mini-series. But Athena Demetrios' memoir is no work of fiction. Walking Between Worlds: A Spiritual Odyssey is a courageous and unvarnished revelation of a deeply painful--yet uplifting--journey from darkness to light, a healing that would not have been possible without the extraordinary multi-dimensional spiritual experiences she opened herself to embrace.

For more than 30 years, Athena repressed the most traumatic memories of her childhood. Raised in abject poverty in a dysfunctional and alcoholic environment, and terrorized by a repulsive boarder who lived in the root cellar bent on repeatedly raping a six-year-old child, Athena succumbed to a downward spiral of melancholy and despair. Without recalling the memories, she had no knowledge of the reasons behind her suppressed rage, and why she pushed people away and engaged in self-destructive love relationships. Struggling with recurring thoughts of suicide, she desperately sought answers. 

And they began to unfold...It had been apparent that Athena had a window into other worlds when as a teen, she clearly saw her father in her bedroom doorway on the night following his burial. Now, in her darkest hour, the teachings of Saint Germain awakened Athena to the higher laws of the universe through a powerful spiritual experience. Ready to take the next step, she sought out a trusted psychologist and hypnotherapist to access the repressed memories. The stunning revelations that emerged accelerated her healing journey. And with that door flung open, she began to spontaneously experience previous lives, premonitions, visions, and communication with those beyond the veil-each experience contributing to her healing and spiritual growth.

However, the process was not rapid. It took years of heroic willingness for Athena to confront her demons. Through it all, we see her evolve as a result of the painful interactions in her life--a suitor with a secret, a daughter she pushed away, and the struggle to forgive her alcoholic and irresponsible mother--all the while, becoming a highly successful and in-demand makeup artist for film, TV and commercials.

Guided by a being she calls her "mystical muse," the charming Dr. James Martin Peebles with his thick Scottish brogue, Athena explored both earthly and cosmic mysteries--and the uncannily familiar sense of having known Dr. Peebles before. Now, ready to step out on her own, she studied to become a channel herself, all the while slipping "between worlds," with a variety of jaw-dropping experiences.

We share Athena's odyssey as she continues on to overcome victimhood and peel away the layers of pain and despair through exploration of the spirit-emerging with hope, insight, forgiveness and a newfound love for life.

Today, she lives a fulfilled and spiritually guided life in Chico, CA, as a gifted, sought-after medium and channel for Dr. Pebbles. And you will need to read the book to discover the remarkable connection between the two of them! She also leads seminars in higher consciousness and the Ascended Master teachings.

Walking Between Worlds: A Spiritual Odyssey is a compelling read that evokes the spirit of Odysseus' wandering in search of home and the visceral emotional impact of Jeannette Wall's bestselling childhood memoir The Glass Castle. 

Uncomfortable with the term survivor, Athena is a spiritual thriver, drawing from powers here and beyond to find her path home and discover peace. If you would like to interview Athena Demetrios for the insights and inspiration she can offer to your listeners, please send an email with the name of the show, your contact information, a proposed date and time, and the calling details

Missi Hatfield 
(772) 332 0528 
Missi@ConsciousMediaRelations.com   

Jackie Lapin
(818) 707 1473
jackie@consciousmediarelations.com

Athena Demetrios is a spiritual intuitive, a medium and a channel. She maintained a successful career in the film industry as a make-up artist while exploring the world of the unseen. Her sensitivity as a psychic began to accelerate when a powerful spiritual experience opened doors into other dimensions. 

Awakened in her darkest hour by the Ascended Master Saint Germain and guided by his teachings, she began her journey towards healing and transformation. Through hypnotic regression that enabled her to explore repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse, she regained her power. 

Athena became a channel for the grand spirit of Dr. James Martin Peebles, a 19th century spiritual philosopher she affectionately calls her Mystical Muse. Today, she facilitates seminars in higher consciousness where she shares the tools and insights of her own odyssey, assisting and empowering others in the discovery of their own Divine Presence.

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News from Rich Procida

May 6, 2019

Rich Procida (562) 665-3317 Rich_Procida@Justice.com

Silencing Progressive White Men is Not a Good Idea!

Progressive Writer Answers Question that has Baffled Presidential Candidates

Author, attorney, and activist, Rich Procida, has published an article at LAProgressive.com entitled “Progressive White Men Need to Step Up, Not Back!”<https://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-white-men/>  The idea that white men should step down to allow people of color and women their turn to lead and govern has cast an illusion over the left. The issue has come up in discussions with presidential candidates and no one has been able to come up with an answer.

In his article, Procida argues that there is no lack of opportunity to participate in the movement. “There is no shortage of free speech and  no scarcity of freedom of expression.” He writes:

Shutting out white progressive men weakens the movement because it in effect silences and suppresses the participation of fellow progressives. This is exactly what our enemies want us to do: censor and repress one another so that they don’t have to. When we silence white progressive men, we silence the movement.

“What we need is more speech. More people rising up. More people speaking their truth. . . We do not need to censor any progressive voices,” Mr. Procida argues.

Mr. Procida is available to for interviews some mornings and most afternoons and evenings. He is an attorney and he produces a podcast so he is comfortable with public speaking. He has a Yeti microphone so the sound should be good. He recently MC’ed an event as part of the California Poor People’s Campaign Bus Tour. He writes about politics and progressive Christianity for LAProgressive.com and on his blog at ModernLectionaries.blogspot.com.Please feel free to reply to this email or to call him at (562) 665-3317. He lives in Whittier, California.

Rich Procida is an attorney and author who writes about Progressive Christianity, social justice, and the supernatural for LAProgressive.com and Modernlectionaries.blogspot.com. He also produces a podcast called "Bible Study for Progressives.'   He is especially adroit at discussing the intersection between religion and politics.

About AGENT OF INFLUENCE:

From New York Times bestselling author of SPY SECRETS THAT CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE—a practical business book on how to use proven spy techniques to better bolster your business strategies – from self-advocation to selling to interviewing to—what everyone wants—making more money.

Even if you’ve never seen a James Bond film or never met a real-life CIA Officer, you know that spies are geniuses at surviving covertly. Their ability to communicate in code is practically written into their DNA, and while it’s true that spies receive some of the best survival training in the world, there’s another, more critical skill a spy must have to survive: business savvy. Spies employ a range of techniques to survive in diverse environments, but to be effective, they must know how to successfully persuade others. Fail to make the sale, and they could end up in a foreign prison….or worse!

Spies may be the best salesmen in the world, but the truth is that we—normal, everyday people—are also selling ourselves all the time. We sell our ideas to colleagues at work, to our friends and partners, and maneuver to achieve success in the form of promotions, higher salaries, and recognition from our peers. The stakes may not be as high for civilians as they are for spies, but the skills required for both to be successful are ultimately the same.

In AGENT OF INFLUENCE: How to Use Spy Skills to Persuade Anyone, Sell Anything, and Build a Successful Business (on sale: June 4, 2019), former CIA Officer and founder of Spy Escape & Evasion, Jason Hanson pulls back the curtain on how anyone can use spy tactics to become a more successful and business-minded individual. Highlighting easy to follow techniques like the SADR method (Spotting, Assessing, Developing, and Recruiting), Jason’s message will appeal to those looking for a competitive leg up, and who entrust the insider secrets of spy practice to take them from CIA to CEO.

Jason Hanson is a former CIA Officer, security specialist, and New York Times bestselling author of Spy Secrets That Can Save Your Life. Jason is a highly sought-after expert on safety and survival, and has appeared on The Rachael Ray Show, the Today Show, Dateline, ABC’s Shark Tank, and elsewhere. He currently lives in Cedar City, Utah, with his family.