March 13, 2023

Nina Verkoeyen

Discovering Meta Spirituality With Nina Verkoyeon

Change Your Core Identity By Removing All Spiritual Practices, Rituals, Techniques and Tools to Achieve True Communion With the Source In Days

Verkoyeon Has Been Called “The Modern Female Buddha,” With a Global Following and a New Approach to Embracing the “Truth of Who We Are” That Embeds It in a Way that Changes How We See and Approach Everything and Everyone – Including Ourselves!

Nina Verkoeyen was an incredibly successful spiritual teacher in Eastern Europe, on the cover of Yoga Journal TWICE, and in demand with growing influence. But that was on the outside. On the inside, she was bereft…something was missing and she was desperately searching for it everywhere.  

She had tried every spiritual practice known to man (or almost), but nothing was IT. Until one evening, as she contemplated what Love is and asked this question to the Universe, something profound happened. Everything she knew disappeared. She became one with the Creator and experienced everything and herself AS Love. She received the answer of what Love is. She became the answer.  

That evening her core identity changed. The knowledge of who she is stayed with her and never went away. It changed the way she perceived everything and how she acted in the world. She started writing down her epiphanies and the new vision of every aspect of life seen through the eyes of her new identity. Those writings laid the foundation of Meta Spirituality, a spiritual tradition she later founded, and its landmark work, a course of lectures called The Last Truth, that are intended to share the knowledge that changed her life. 

Meta Spirituality is the philosophy of truth that eschews all spiritual practices, rituals, techniques, and tools that stand in the way of a direct experience with the force of creation and true recognition. Meta Spirituality is the fastest practical method to change your core identity and live in the world with an expanded perception that allows you to live as the Creator, being and expressing Love in every action. She calls this The Last Truth because this is the only real one that exists.

As Nina says: "Meta Spirituality's knowledge is like climbing your Mount Everest—the pinnacle peak of experiencing being the Creator, in the communion with everything—seeing the new 360-degree panorama –a completely new vision of reality—and as that initial experience fades, you return to your world with a new map. Now you see it all from this new perspective."

In this upgrade, there is no separation and lack, no rage or depression, no fear, or as she calls them," distortions" that take you further away from your true self. You create everything—even yourself--from a higher perspective—and if you find yourself slipping, your remembrance will return you to that new-found state of presence. Nina also doesn't see the distinctions of past lives or reincarnation because those speak to a separation she doesn't perceive exists. In fact, she doesn't see herself as a guru or teacher—but as your voice reflected back to you.

According to Nina, if you're ego-mind is running the show, all you'll create will be chaos, conflict, problems, and strife. But if you are creating from the Truth of Who You Are, you'll see a profound change in the flow of everything—even others who are in your presence. And you'll help to create a more evolved and enlightened world—which is why Nina's life is committed to spreading the knowledge and pathway through Meta Spirituality-- an emerging spiritual tradition now taking America by storm, after having conquered much of Europe. Learn more at www.Meta-Spirituality.org.

If you would like to interview Nina Verkoeyen, who has been recently featured on MindValley, LA Weekly, and on the cover of Yoga Magazine, please send an email with the name of the show, your contact information, a proposed date and time, and the calling details. 

Energy Healing, Emotional Health and Freedom, Religion, Self Help, Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual, Access Consciousness, Meditation

Nina Verkoeyen, called "the modern female Buddha" by LA Weekly is the founder of Meta Spirituality an emerging spiritual tradition taking America by storm.

A former psychologist and spiritual teacher, she has 20 years of experience in human consciousness and hundreds of thousands of students worldwide.

In 2016, Nina went through a spontaneous spiritual transformation and acquired spiritual knowledge that profoundly changed her life and work. Since then, her mission has been to spread the message of Meta Spirituality and share it with millions of people.

Nina believes that we have outgrown mainstream spirituality with its focus on intermediaries spiritual tools popularized by mainstream spirituality that are rather detrimental to our personal growth than helpful. Meta Spirituality community is rapidly gaining popularity as more people are becoming ready to enter a direct relationship with The Creator within, saying no more to the lessons of intermediaries and being the student of life rather than the Creator of life.

March 12, 2023

Rick Cutler

I've been a freelance musician in NYC my entire life. From 2005 onward I've released 5 CDs of mostly original compositions. The 6th, coming out March 24, is called The Unfolding. It combines influences of jazz, classical, folk, new age & world music. Mark Soskin, former pianist for Sonny Rollins & acclaimed drummer Billy Mintz appear on the aIbum. I think I'd be an interesting guest on your show as I can discuss how an indie musician can go from being a complete unknown to working with some of the world's greatest stars. I can also discuss the differences between working with them. 

I can also discuss how Buddhism, which I've practiced for 37 years, plays a part in my life & creative process & how a spiritual practice can help that process.

I can discuss what it was like to study with the late jazz great Chick Corea & how I got to know him. Also what it was like to work with Leonard Bernstein & many others listed in the bio.

Other points of interest could be talking about certain points of being an indie musician in this day & age & how it differs from what it was like in the 80s & 90s. 

Another topic would be what it's like to compose music for TV. As you can see in the bio, I co-composed the Emmy nominated theme for Dateline NBC as well all the music for The Gregory Hines Show, a sitcom that aired on CBS in the late '90s.

I could give a more in-depth view of the new album & my previous albums & the creative processes involved. 

I can also discuss what it's like to work in a Broadway show as I did many of them in the '70s & early '80s.

I can discuss what it means to really dedicate your life to music or any pursuit in the arts. 

I can discuss life on the road & what it entails. How it can be incredibly rewarding as well as very tiring. 

I can discuss my formative years, starting to play drums at the age of 5 1/2 & how I was inspired by seeing a band perform at half time in a football game & how the drums struck me as something I'd like to pursue as well as how my parents were very supportive in this. I can also talk about my 2 1/2 years at the Julliard school & how it was prohibitive at that time towards my musical development. (My main passion in music is jazz & , in those days, there wasn't a jazz dept.)

I can also discuss my favorite artists & composers rainging from Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart, Erik Satie & Stravinsky to jazz artists such as Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter & Herbie Hancock & how they've played a significant role in my own music.

Another topic could be how I'd like to do more collaborations with video artists. I have a few on YouTube but would like to dive deeper into that world. 

I can discuss my daily routine of practicing and/or composing every day with very few exceptions, my composing process & how to deal with "writers block." 

I can speak to younger people who are considering taking up an instrument or making a living in music & how they must be passionate about it & to have a "never give up" attitude towards it. I learned the "Never Give Up" attitude from my Buddhist practice. I can also discuss how, for true musicians, there's no retirement as the music is really in your heart & soul. 

Lastly, I can talk about how outside influences such as film can be a source of inspiration, an example being director David Lynch.

Arts, Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Entertainment, Music, Buddhism, TV & Film

USA

March 8, 2023

Monte Schulz

The late cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, son Monte pens his new novel,

filled with robust characters, an unraveling mystery, mayhem, innocence and moral disintegration, Metropolis (Fantagraphics, August 23,2022) by Monte Schulz is a coming-of-age novel with a moral puzzle at its core. This dystopian tome is narrated by college senior Julian Brehm, who lives in a war-ravaged world perverted by eugenics where those who were deemed mentally, morally, or physically unfit were banished to desolate Provinces far from where he lives his uneventful life. Thrust into facing a broader reality by the woman he falls in love with, a bohemian revolutionary, Julian, and ultimately Monte, pushes readers to question ideals while giving them the hope of love.

Monte, who is the eldest son of the late cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, the creator of Charlie Brown and the rest of the “Peanuts” gang and the owner of and teacher at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference, can share with your audience:

Why he walked away from writing Metropolis for 15 years. How he chose to write a novel about eugenics. His best piece of advice which is to read and read widely. Commercial fiction, according to Monte, teaches how to pace a story, while literary fiction can teach how to write better. Best words of wisdom from his famous father -- Only amateurs get writer’s block. Professionals can’t afford it. How he wrote a 600+ page novel without a plot outline. What books he’d recommend to someone who doesn’t read.

Literature, Entertainment, History, TV & Film

USA

About Monte Schulz

Monte Schulz received his M.A. in American Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He published his first novel, Down by the River, in 1990 and spent the next twelve years writing a novel about the Jazz Age. Monte is also a composer, songwriter, and producer whose most recent album is titled “Seraphonium.” In 2010, he became the owner of the Santa Barbara Writers Conference. Monte is endlessly curious and well-versed in world history and theology. He is fascinated by the style and use of innovative language and can be caught engaging in provocative, philosophical conversations about big, far-reaching, imaginative ideas and worldly perspectives. His father is the late cartoonist Charles M. Schulz. He lives in Santa Barbara, CA.

March 7, 2023

Ameerah FATTAL

Greetings, 

Trust you feel fabulous.

Am inspired to be interviewed by your platforms, also plan to start my own Radio Shows. Share solutions of the worlds to the people of this earth is a deep inspiration within.

Find here few pitches. Please choose the subject of your inspiration so we can co-create avenues together.

Pitch 1:
The return of the ancient cycle of the woman according life, every 4 years, pain free and body stays clean.

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This rare cycle reality will become our norm during the new earth renaissance. Being one of the actual womans around cycled every 4 years, imbodying the change leads me to show the way to other womans as monthly cycle stands for high metabolic rate, rapid aging, diseased body and unbalanced biology. 

Acidic forming diet causes mucus to clog the system which can be reversed. By gradually reducing mucus forming foods, cleansing the mucus through herbs protocols, adopting an ancient alkalinizing nutrition, monthly mense gets reversed and menstrual returns to a 4 years cycle, according life, pain free and longevity gets activated.

We are meant to live on earth multiple thousands of years, this reality will become the norm.

Pitch 2:
There is no such thing as Menopause according life.

Accumulation of mucus in the body and in the fallopian tubes creates variety of distortions, cloggs the reproductive system, causes the uterus to disfunction and enters in the unnatural state of Menopause. 

By gradually reducing mucus forming foods, cleansing the mucus through herbs protocol, adopting an ancient alkalinizing nutrition, Menopause gets reversed and menstrual returns to a 4 years cycle, according life.

Pitch 3:
The return of ancient nutrition according life for new earthrenaissance:

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Ancient nutrition is Creation-Made, was naturally created with the Cosmic Arrangement and was on earth milnennias ago. Is high in pH, electric, alkaline, nourishes the cells, is conductive, transfers light codes within us, sustains life and empowers us by reconnecting us to all that is.

Modern domesticated nutrition has been compromised, hybridized, crossbreeded, crosspollinated, are laboratory made, highly acidic and corrosive.

Consuming these ingredients on daily basis causes carbonic acid, uric acid, lactic acid, heavy metals, toxins which builds up mucus causing the body to clog, degenerate and creates all disease known to man.

By gradually reducing mucus forming foods, cleansing metabolism waste through herbs protocols, adopting ancient alkalinizing nutrition, discomforts, deasises gets reversed and the body returns to a high vibrational state, according life.

Favorite Pitch 4:

Many are awaiting for the Tachyonic Regenerative Med-Bed Chambers to be available. More and more  gradually know that we are the walking talking Light Beings, naturally wired to Deprogramme / Reprogramme our quantum organic technology from within.

We have an inner Alexia, an inner Geny in the Bottle, our Spirit. 
Our Spirit is awaiting to serve our purpose. We are progressively  re-inbodying all of our Spirit back into fullness vs. a fractal of spirit self.

The more we imbody our Spirit, the more volume of our light-beingness which naturally expands our abilities. We are the creators incarnated of the New Earth Renaissance.

Being a Deprogrammer Reprogrammer, desinstalling distorted frequencies, dismantling recycling programmings, recurring past timelines is natural to me. The unwanted realities which people tend to recycle is reversible. 

Reprogramming within to start experiencing the inspired realities 
should become the norm. Transmitting to my clients, students on how to command their spirits, install new programmes within  empowers them and unfold fabulous realities.

Mentoring is one of my main purposes, therfore created various courses through my upcoming App.

Each training will have a solidarity purchase for humanitarian projects. 

I make myself available for more informations, when needed.

Stay fabulous.
Meet you on the flip side.
Ameerah.

UFOs, Near Death Experiences, Ghosts, Emotional Health and Freedom, Personal Development, Inspirational, Motivational, Access Consciousness, Psychic & Intuitive

Spain

Ameerah FATTAL is Light Being, a career Quantum Energy Whisperer, Deprogrammer, Reprogrammer, Ascension Accelerator, Ancient Forgotten Nutrition Specialist, Alchemist, Inspirational Speaker & Avangardist Humanitarian for New Earth Renaissance.

She Mentors Self Empowerement, is a Heart's Mind, Body & Spirit Quantum Makeover of 8 + Years of experience where people get instant liberation, feel empowered through one-to-one trainings, live groups, programmes & is now pre-launching her App to difuse her solutions globally.

She’s a Wayshower, inspired by the purpose in realigning people's life & spirit trajectory & reconnect them to their purpose fulfillment.

She transmits ancient cutting-edge sciences & teaches on how to command our spirit & prime creation for new realities.

She is a teacher of the teachers, imbodies the change & contributes in preparing the New Earth Era Renaissance through innovative  projects & humanitarian sustainable solutions.

 

https://www.facebook.com/AncientCodesDancePerformer

March 6, 2023

Elisa Brown

HOODWINKED FROM HEAVEN makes its NYC debut at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Peter Norton's Symphony Space on May 7, 2023.

Originally trained as a classical singer, Elisa Brown is known internationally for her “eloquent voice,” and her “incredible vocal talents with a heartfelt take on life." She  takes us back to her Texas roots in Hoodwinked from Heaven – an original, down-home show she wrote for her late father Bill who suffered with Alzheimer's.

In this heart-warming, knee slapping, one woman show, Elisa kicks up her heels and spins some Tall Texas tunes and tales inspired by true family stories. This show celebrates the deeply American music that kept Elisa’s family alive with hope and laughter and continues the legacy of her father’s character and love.

Arts, Performing Arts, Kids & Family, Music, Angel Communication

USA

Originally trained as a classical singer, Elisa’s “melodious, soulful singing” has been thrilling audiences around the globe for decades. Her ability to sing a wide range of vocal styles – from country to pop to Spanish musical theater and opera – have taken her to solo performances on Off-Broadway, The Bitter End, and Carnegie Hall, as well as to concert venues in South America, Spain, and China, and onwards to her own show on PBS, The Heart of Art with Elisa Brown. Her CDs, The Ave Maria Experience and New World, co-written and co-arranged with GRAMMY winning producer Barry Goldstein, have garnered worldwide praise.

“Romantic” … “wistful in tone” … “inspirational” …

~~ Steve Smith/New York Times, December 1, 2022

“This is truly an amazing CD! When you’re feeling down, need a little healing and connection with the Divine, or just needing energy quietly close your eyes and let Elisa’s voice … inspire.”

~~ Shirley MacLaine

“There are many talented singers, songwriters and performers. That’s not rare. Elisa possesses those talents and one more: charisma in spades. She is unique and someone you will remember.”

~~ Mel Howard, Tony and Moliere Award Winning Producer

March 5, 2023

Ameerah FATTAL

Greetings,

Trust you feel fabulous.

Am inspired to be interviewed by your platforms, also plan to start my own Radio Shows. Share solutions of the worlds to the people of this earth is a deep inspiration within.

Find here few pitches. Please choose the subject of your inspiration so we can co-create avenues together.


Pitch 1:
The return of the ancient cycle of the woman according life, every 4 years, pain free and body stays clean.

This rare cycle reality will become our norm during the new earth renaissance. Being one of the actual womans around cycled every 4 years, imbodying the change leads me to show the way to other womans as monthly cycle stands for high metabolic rate, rapid ageing, diseased body and unbalanced biology.

Acidic forming diet causes mucus to clogg the system which can be reversed. By gradually reducing mucus forming foods, cleansing the mucus through herbs protocols, adopting an ancient alkalinizing nutrition, monthly mense gets reversed and menstrual returns to a 4 years cycle, according life, pain free and longevity gets activated.

We are ment to live on earth multiple thousands of years, this reality will become the norme.


Pitch 2:
There is no such thing as Menopause according life.

Accumulation of mucus in the body and in the fallopian tubes creates variety of distortions, cloggs the reproductive system, causes the uterus to disfunction and enters in the unatural state of Menopause.

By gradually reducing mucus forming foods, cleansing the mucus through herbs protocol, adopting an ancient alkalinizing nutrition, Menopause gets reversed and menstrual returns to a 4 years cycle, according life.


Pitch 3:
The return of ancient nutrition according life:

Ancient nutrition is Creation-Made, was naturally created with the Cosmic Arrangement and was on earth milnenias ago. Is high in pH, electric, alkaline, nourishes the cells, is conductive, transfers light codes within us, sustains life and empowers us by reconnecting us to all that is.

Modern domesticated nutrition has been compromised, hybridised, crossbreeded, crosspollinated, are laboratory made, highly acidic and corrosive.

Consuming these ingredients on daily bases causes carbonic acid, uric acid, lactic acid, heavy metals, toxins which builds up mucus causing the body to clogg, degenerate and creates all disease known to man.

By gradually reducing mucus forming foods, cleansing mucus through herbs protocols, adopting ancient alkalinizing nutrition, discomforts, deasises gets reversed and the body returns to a high vibrantial state, according life.

 

Favorite

Pitch 4:

Many are awaiting for the Tachyonic Regenerative Med-Bed Chambers to be available. More and more are gradually know that we are the walking talking Light Beings, naturally wired to Deprogramme / Reprogramme our quantum organic technology from within.

We have an inner Alexia, an inner Geny in the Bottle, our Spirit.
Our Spirit is awaiting to serve our purpose. We are progressively  re-inbodinb all of our Spirit back into fullness vs. a fractal of spirit self.

The more we imbody our Spirit, the more volume of our light-beingness which naturally expands our abilities. We are the creators incarnated of the New Earth Renaissance.

Being a Deprogrammer Reprogrammer, desinstalling distorted frequencies, dismantling recycling programmings, recurring past timelines is natural to me. The unwanted realities which people tend to recycle is reversible.

Reprogramming within to start experiencing the inspired realities
should become the norm. Transmitting to my clients, students on how to command their spirits, install new programs within empowers them and unfold fabulous realities.

Mentoring is one of my main purpose, therfore created various courses through my upcoming App.

Each training will have a solidarity purchase for humanitarian projects.

I make myself available for more information, when needed.

Beauty, Courses & Training, Alternative Health, Energy Healing, Nutrition, Sound Healing, UFOs, Emotional Health and Freedom, Access Consciousness

Spain

Ameerah FATTAL is Light Being, a career Quantum Energy Deprogrammer, Reprogrammer, Ancient Forgotten Nutrition Specialist, Alchemist, Inspirational Speaker & Avangardist Humanitarian for New Earth Renaissance.

She Mentors Self Empowerement, is a Heart's Mind, Body & Spirit Quantum Makeover of 8 + Years of experience where people get instant liberation, feel empowered through one-to-one trainings, live groups, programmes & is now pre-launching her App to difuse her solutions globally.

She’s a Wayshower, inspired by the purpose in realigning people's life & spirit trajectory & reconnect them to their purpose fulfillment.

She transmits ancient cutting-edge sciences & teaches on how to command our spirit & prime creation for new realities.

She is a teacher of the teachers, imbodies the change & contributes in preparing the New Earth Era Renaissance through innovative  projects & humanitarian sustainable solutions.

 

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March 3, 2023

Denny Meek

One Woman's Raw Journey From The Shadows Of Loss To The Dawning Of Hope 

I thought that you and your audience would find Denny Meek of real interest. Her book Still Standing : A Mother’s Raw Journey from The Shadows Of Loss To The Dawning Of Hope Educates us on how we can still stand among the hardest crisis.  "Still Standing'' is being used in a few different universities in Australia. Every parent’s nightmare is to lose a child. In this rare circumstance, Denny Meek has lived the nightmare not once, but three times. In her Award-winning book, "Still Standing" reveals a poignant, well-written, and shocking look inside the heart, soul, and mind of a mother who has had to grieve over and over unbearable losses. 

Please let me know if you would be interested in having Denny on your program                               

                                                                                      Best regards,

                                                                                         Brittney

It is an inspiring story of one woman’s ability to remain standing in the face of dealing with the loss of an infant, the suicides of her teenagers, domestic violence, and her daughter’s battle with Anorexia Nervosa. 

Denny’s powerful story is told with rawness and immediacy, through snippets of journal entries, both of her and her daughter’s. Readers can relate personally when they see Denny pour her living hell onto a page. “Still Standing is a ‘lived experience’ journey through multiple losses,” suggests Denny. “After reading it, a bereaved mother realizes her grief is normal, and stops beating up on herself.

Still Standing is currently being used in three Australian universities, one of which rewrote a social work subject to use it as required reading, another using it for post-graduate study in grief, specifically suicide bereavement, and the insights from multiple child loss.

“Socially, I would challenge the stigmas of suffering – infant loss, domestic violence, anorexia, teen suicide, grief – by talking about them – the devastation, and the journey through them – openly.” says Denny. She continues by saying. “No two people grieve the same way,” she concludes. “No two griefs for an individual are the same, either. We don’t have to learn how to grieve or love – that’s instinctual. Nothing replaces going deep inside yourself to find your direction for your own way through.”

What is really amazing about this woman is that above all, Denny wants to unburden others.

With her Book Still Standing She lets the reader into a world they would by choice never want to be in. But once allowed there, they can see and feel not just pain, loss, and death – but strength, hope, and  optimism. The strength and sincerity of her spiritual yearning will hearten and inspire as she shows with soul-searching honesty through the depths of her heartbreaks how she's Still Standing.

Denny shares the following insights in interviews:

·Why suicide prevention sometimes just isn’t possible.

·How to help one who grieves a loss.

How one finds the courage to live in the face of death.

·What she does to answer “Why me?”

·The complexities of being a single mother.

·What to do when domestic violence visits your home.

·How to help a child deal with an eating disorder.

·Where our network of mental health support falls short.

·The power of journaling to cope with life’s challenges.

Kids & Family, Love & Relationships, Psychology, Emotional Health and Freedom, Mental Health, Personal Development, Self Help, Inspirational, Motivational

Austrailia

Denny Meek is an author, speaker, and a fighter.

Her book, Still Standing: A Mother’s Raw Journey from the Shadows of Loss to the Dawning of Hope, received an award as a MMH Press Book Award finalist. It is a stirring memoir that raises awareness about several issues, including: domestic violence, infant loss, anorexia nervosa, teen suicide, and grief. The book is being used at three Australian universities to inform undergrad and post-grad students in health sciences, social work, psychology, education, and nursing.

She raised her children primarily as a single mom. Of her four children, three are deceased. One was lost to a rare heart disease as an infant, and two others committed suicide as teenagers on separate occasions.  Denny was in two main relationships that subjected her to domestic abuse. She has had to confront many losses, pains, and challenging situations, but through it all, she has endured, survived, and learned to live again.

Her fulltime mothering was supplemented by a series of odd jobs, from bar staffer to photographer, as well as a professional tarot reader, video editor, and teacher’s special aide.

Born in Moree, outback NSW, Australia, Denny was raised in country town Northern NSW, near Queensland’s Gold Coast. She earned a psychology degree from Macquarie University, Sydney NSW, and later a diploma of freelance journalism by correspondence.  She’s lived in Tasmania, Melbourne Victoria, Gympie Queensland, Coffs Harbour New South Wales, and now on 12 acres, on the southern Gold Coast with her adult son.

On her property lives the world’s second deadliest snake – the Eastern Brown – which was spotted and filmed in ritual combat by Denny – and received over 200,000 views on You Tube.

For more information, please consult:

www.dennymeek.com.au

www.dennymeek.com

Facebook Business: https://www.facebook.com/stillstandingdenny

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/denny-m-1a360997/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meek_and_wild/    

March 3, 2023

Ronna Wineberg

Hi Audie,

I hope all is well. I thought you and your audience might be interested in Ronna Wineberg a Former Public Defender and "Psychology Today" blogger's new book  of short stories- Artifacts and Short stories. It explores relationships and pre and post pandemic  effects on it. 

Please let me know if you would be interested in having her as a guest.

Thanks!

Brittney

A new book of short stories by an award-winning author and founding member of a literary journal highlights both the joys and limitations of love, and the coming together and breaking a part of relationships.

Desire, love, marriage, betrayal, divorce, aging, illness, loss, and fresh starts dominate concerns large and small in Artifacts and Other Stories.

The stories portray familiar relationships – between spouses, lovers, parents, and children, and friends. “The book reflects the fluidity of our contemporary world – relationships in flux, the prevalence of divorce, the often-painful side-effects of divorce, the search for love, and the ability to choose and shape the next chapter of one’s life,” says author Ronnie Wineberg about her fourth book.

A former lawyer and blogger for Psychology Today, Wineberg was awarded a prestigious Fellowship in Fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

"A collection of short stories explores marriage, fidelity, restlessness, and desire ...Wineberg is a skilled writer, and this book may well appeal to women facing similar challenges... unquestionably sharp writing."

—Kirkus Reviews

"In these skillfully crafted short stories all accented with crisp wry dialogue…Wineberg does not shy away from life's messes..hums with energy and originality...a reflective collection focused on
--Publishers Weekly BookLife

“Wineberg is a wonderful storyteller.”

--US Review of Books

Education, Health & Lifestyle, Kids & Family, Love & Relationships, Relationship Counseling, Psychology, Emotional Health and Freedom, Self Help, Dating

Ulster

Ronna Wineberg is an award-winning author of four books, including her newest one, Artifacts and Other Stories, a collection of short stories.

Her latest book was long-listed for the Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Competition and was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award. Over the past three decades, her writings have received recognition that incudes being a finalist for Bread Loaf Writers Conference Fellowship, a finalist for Moment Magazine Short Fiction Contest, winner of New River’s Press Many Voices Project Literary Competition, finalist of Willa Cather Prize in Fiction, and winner of Denver Women’s Press Club Story Contest.

She is the founding fiction editor of Bellevue Literary Review, where she served 21 years as its senior fiction editor, and now is their contributing fiction editor. The publication is credited with publishing the early works of Celeste Ng, who went on to become a New York Times best-selling author. Wineberg has also served as the president of Tennessee Writers Alliance and was a member of the program committee for Southern Festival of Books.

Wineberg was awarded a prestigious Fellowship in Fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Fellowship from Ragdale Foundation, and Scholar in Fiction from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference.

Her work has appeared in numerous literary magazines, including Michigan Quarterly Review, Berkeley Fiction Review, Writers Forum, The South Dakota Review, American Way, Colorado Review, Jewish Women’s Literary Annual, The Tennessean, and Eureka Literary Magazine.

Wineberg’s earlier books include On Bittersweet Place, Nine Facts That Can Change Your Life, and Second Language. She was a regular contributor to the blog of Psychology Today and has appeared on National Public Radio KDSU and WGN Radio in Chicago.

Wineberg is a dynamic guest-speaker and has presented at the AWP Conference, Council of Literary Magazines and Presses, PEN and BRUSH Writing Conference, NYU Summer Intensive Writing Program, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Sarah Lawrence College, Fordham University, and University of South Florida College of Medicine.

She taught a total of five years, including creative writing at University School of Nashville Evening Classes for Adults, and as an Adjunct Professor in English at New York University.

Wineberg was a legal aide, public defender, and a lawyer in private practice earlier in her career.

Wineberg is a member of PEN and Authors Guild. She was a member of the National Arts club in New York for over a decade. She earned a JD from University of Denver College of Law and a BA with distinction from the University of Michigan. She has also completed several master fiction classes at the 92nd St Y. She has lived in Nashville and Denver, and resides in New York City.

February 28, 2023

George Stevens Jr

Oscar for Lifetime Achievement. 15 Emmys. Worked with seven US presidents. Founding Director of the American Film Institute. Co-founded, wrote and produced the Kennedy Center Honors, 1978-2014. Author and playwright. Iconic journalist Edward R. Murrow was a mentor in JFK’s New Frontier.

George Stevens, Jr. has spent an illustrious career behind and around the camera. Finally, a master storyteller shares his own unique and extraordinary story, with touching insight and historical perspective in My Place in the Sun: Life in the Golden Age of Hollywood and Washington that was published last summer to great fanfare. Now, in his own voice, the AUDIO BOOK is available on Spotify and 28 platforms.

Stevens, Jr. tells an intimate and moving tale of his relationship with his Oscar-winning father and how he emerged from his father’s shadow to claim his own place as a major force in American culture through his own exciting career in Hollywood and Washington. Fascinating people, priceless stories and a behind-the-scenes view of some of America's major cultural and political events grace this riveting memoir.

Stevens, Jr. grew up in Hollywood working on film classics with his father and writes vividly of his experience on the sets of A Place in the Sun (1951), Shane (1953), Giant (1956) and The Diary of Anne Frank (1958). He explores how the magnitude of his father's talent and achievements left him with questions about his own abilities and future.

He began to forge his unique bi-coastal career when the legendary broadcaster Edward R. Murrow recruited him to work at the United States Information Agency in John F. Kennedy's New Frontier. He moved from Hollywood to Washington in 1962 and initiated what has been called the Golden Age of USIA filmmaking. In 1967 he became the founding director of the American Film Institute, shepherding the rescue of 10,000 endangered motion pictures (the AFI Collection now contains over 40,000 films), and creating the AFI Conservatory to train a new generation of filmmakers. He created the Kennedy Center Honors and made distinguished films and TV programs that explored social justice.

Stevens, Jr. provides a fascinating look at his pioneering American family that spans five generations in the performing arts. He shows us the private side of the dazzling array of people who cross his path, including Elizabeth Taylor, Sidney Poitier, Alfred Hitchcock, Maya Angelou, Fred Astaire, Robert and Ethel Kennedy, Yo-Yo Ma, Cary Grant, James Dean, Muhammad Ali, Bruce Springsteen, Barack Obama, and many more.

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George Stevens, Jr. has achieved an extraordinary creative legacy over a career spanning more than 60 years. He is a writer, director, producer, playwright and author. He has enriched the film and television arts as a filmmaker and is widely credited with bringing style and taste to the national television events he has conceived.

As a writer, director and producer, Stevens has earned many accolades, including 15 Emmys, two Peabody Awards for Meritorious Service to Broadcasting, the Humanitas Prize and 8 awards from the Writers Guild of America, including the Paul Selvin Award for writing that embodies civil rights and liberties. In 2012 the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted to present Stevens with an Honorary Academy Award for “extraordinary distinction in lifetime achievement.”

Stevens served for eight years as Co-chairman of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities following his appointment by President Obama in 2009.

Stevens is Founding Director of the American Film Institute and during his tenure, more than 10,000 irreplaceable American films were preserved and catalogued to be enjoyed by future generations.  In addition, he established the AFI’s Center for Advanced Film Studies, which gained a reputation as the finest learning opportunity for young filmmakers.

Stevens was executive producer of The Thin Red Line, which was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.  He co-wrote and produced The Murder of Mary Phagan, starring Jack Lemmon, which received the Emmy for Outstanding Mini-Series. He wrote and directed Separate But Equal starring Sidney Poitier and Burt Lancaster which also won the Emmy for Outstanding Mini-Series.  He produced an acclaimed feature length film about his father, George Stevens: A Filmmaker’s Journey and in 1994 produced George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin, which depicted the wartime experiences of his father – one of the most highly regarded directors of all time.  In collaboration with his son and partner Michael Stevens, he produced the feature length documentary Herblock – The Black & The White on the famed political cartoonist Herbert Block for HBO.

Stevens made his debut as a playwright in 2008 with Thurgood, which opened at the historic Booth Theater on Broadway. The play had an extended run starring Laurence Fishburne as Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Fishburne received a Tony nomination and returned to the role in the summer of 2010 with runs at the Kennedy Center and the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. Thurgood was filmed while at the Kennedy Center and shown on HBO in 2011.

In 2006, Alfred A. Knopf published Stevens’ Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood’s Golden Age – the first book to bring together the interviews of master moviemakers from the American Film Institute’s renowned Harold Lloyd Master Seminar Series.  Conversations with the Great Moviemakers – The Next Generation was released by Knopf in April, 2012.

Stevens resides in Washington, D.C. For more information, please consult: www.georgestevensjr.com