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Why is "Sales" such a dirty word, with our guest Steve Klein
May 07, 2021 04:00 - 36 minutes - 32.8 MBToday's Big Time Talker podcast guest Steve Klein grew up in the Midwest, later attending college where he studied broadcasting and communications. He went on to work as a one-man news staff for a local radio station, quickly learning that those who become successful are those who do what everyone else doesn’t want to do. He was fired from his News Director role and quickly moved into a sales role, selling for the radio station. His sales work, which saw him land over 400 referrals a month a...
Character actress and author Joanie Marx talking Hollywood and her new book
April 30, 2021 04:00 - 34 minutes - 30.8 MBOur guest on today's show is an inspiring presence in the world of entertainment and a pioneer in business. Joanie Marx has enjoyed over 30 years as a full-time character actress in Hollywood. Her credits include the 2009 theatrical release “Funny People” starring Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen; numerous shorts and dozens of theater productions. Marx is the co-founder of a multi-million-dollar consumer product business. She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, with a degree i...
Leadership Without The Title with Dr. Wendy Norfleet
April 23, 2021 04:00 - 31 minutes - 28 MBOur Big Time Talker podcast guest today is Dr. Wendy Norfleet, the CEO and founder of Norfleet Integrated Solutions (NIS). NIS specializes in working with clients to fulfill their training, leadership development, and career service needs. Wendy is the author of "Leading Without the Title: A Blueprint to Growing into Leadership" and holds life coach, leadership development, and career development certifications. She was one of Jacksonville Business Journal Women of Influence 2020 and has bee...
Personal and Celebrity Brands with Expert Suzanne Tulien
April 16, 2021 04:00 - 46 minutes - 41.6 MBBrand expert Suzanne Tulien helps individuals and businesses align their strategy, employees, and customer experience with their unique Brand DNA. She says her work on branding creates conscious accountability for folks to walk their talk from the inside out, because authenticity and consistency is compelling + trustworthy. Solo-professionals are especially near + dear to her heart. She helps them identify + define their "Personal Brand Presence" to create powerful alignment in their way of ...
Pro Baseball Scout and College Coach Claudio Reilsono is our guest
April 09, 2021 04:00 - 46 minutes - 42 MBIf you like sports, you're gonna love this week's show and our special guest Pro Baseball Scout and college head coach Claudio Reilsono. Claudio has been the Head Baseball Coach-Carnegie Mellon University since 2005. He's also: Carnegie Mellon University District V Conference Champions 2015 & 2016General Manager/Professional Baseball Scout- Global Scouting Bureau19 Years Professional Baseball Scout22 Years College Coach9 Years High School CoachSigned 62 players to Pro contracts all over the ...
Steve Hughes has tips on overcoming the fear of speaking through improv comedy!
April 02, 2021 04:00 - 34 minutes - 30.5 MBThis week's Big Time Talker podcast guest is Steve Hughes. a professional speaker and funnyman based in St. Louis MO who says that his unexpected journey to professional speaking began when my brother-in-law issued a dare while we were enjoying a breakfast frittata. Yes, a frittata. We get the frittata story and lots more, including how you can overcome your fear of speaking and how using improv comedy can help you do it. We also make note of the fact that Steve's website address first con...
Learn to "Screw The Commute" and lots more with this week's guest Tom Antion!
March 26, 2021 04:00 - 35 minutes - 31.4 MBSpeaker, consumer advocate, author, and more Tom Antion joins us on this week's Big Time Talker podcast powered by Speakermatch.com! He's a fascinating guy, with lots to say. Here's just some of what we didn't get to about Tom during the podcast: -Tom has never had a job. For the past 44 years, he has formally owned his own business. Starting from scratch Tom owned 5 apartment buildings and a hotel BEFORE he graduated from college. -Tom owned and operated the second largest nightclub in the...
New movie "Soundtrack To Sixteen" filmmakers The Shakespeare Sisters join us!
March 25, 2021 03:30 - 25 minutes - 22.7 MBIn this bonus episode of the Big Time Talker podcast, moviemakers The Shakespeare Sisters join us to talk moviemaking, teen angst and more. The British coming of age story of a boy and girl growing up in London in the noughties (2000's), dealing with the everyday insecurities that make your world implode at sixteen has received a 100% fresh score on RottenTomatoes.com. You can check it out at www.Cinequest.org through March 30th. The Big Time Talker podcast is a service of our pals at S...
Documentary filmmaker Laura Plancarte tells us about her new movie NON WESTERN
March 25, 2021 03:00 - 13 minutes - 11.3 MBIn filmmaker Laura Plancarte's new documentary, you'll meet Thaddeus and Nanci, a Native /Non-Native Montana couple, in the lead up to their wedding, as they face their biggest challenge yet. Thaddeus wants Nanci to convert to his Northern Cheyenne way of life, even if it means that Nanci needs to take on a subordinate role. Both Nanci and Thaddeus were adopted as teenagers by families of different ethnicity: Thaddeus by a white Christian family, and Nanci by the Lakota tribe. It's no coincid...
Filmmaker Nicholas Woods joins us to chat about his new movie Echoes of Violence
March 25, 2021 02:30 - 20 minutes - 17.6 MBIn this special bonus episode of the Big Time Talker podcast, we're talking about movies during the Cinequest film festival! In the timely new crime thriller ECHOES OF VIOLENCE, a beautiful South African immigrant travels from Sedona AZ to Los Angeles to seek revenge against the immigration lawyer who ruined her life. We chat with the movie's director and screenwriter Nicholas Woods about the timeliness of his new film, premiering at Cinequest.org through March 30th just as the immigration ...
Maintaining Small Businesses During COVID with Guest Expert Shelly Berman-Rubera
March 19, 2021 04:00 - 28 minutes - 25.1 MBTimes continue to be tough for small business owners around the world, including here in the U.S., as the pandemic lingers on. Small business expert Shelly Berman-Rubera joins us with tips, tactics and strategies to help entrepreneurs get through some of the toughest times since the Great Depression. She's the author of 101 TIPS TO SMALL BUSINESS RESULTS, available at Amazon.com and bookstores everywhere. Visit Shelly on line athttps://smallbusresults.com. Subscribe today to the Big Tim...
Longtime Beach Boys band member Bobby Figueroa from California Surf Inc. guests!
March 12, 2021 05:00 - 55 minutes - 49.5 MBGo behind the scenes and find out what is was like to tour and record with one of the most legendary bands of all time, The Beach Boys, as the Big Time Talker podcast welcomes longtime band member Bobby Figueroa to the show! Bobby was brought into the Beach Boys family in 1974 to play drums and percussion and sing alongside Dennis Wilson, and spent almost two decades with the group, before becoming the band leader of the Larry Sanders Show on television. Now, he's the leader of California S...
Author, Speaker, Filmmaker and Serial Marriage Guy Evan Money joins the show!
March 05, 2021 05:00 - 43 minutes - 39 MBToday's Big Time Talker Podcast guest Evan Money tells it like it is: "My bride and I both come from normal dysfunctional families, raise your hand if you can relate : ) When we first got married our starry-eyed quest was to live happily ever after and bring each other's dreams to life. The challenge was, we had no money, like an old cell phone battery we were always in the red. My bride had a low paying high stress job and I had a struggling business. We drove junky cars and lived in a post...
Caring for Kids in Crisis with Play Therapy Expert Beth Mullins-Hughes
February 26, 2021 05:30 - 50 minutes - 45.5 MBThis week's guest Beth Mullins-Hughes is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in both Alabama and West Virginia, a Registered Play Therapist Supervisor, and a Certified Trauma Therapist. Beth specializes in the treatment of traumatized children, along with their families. We talk with her about how play therapy works, the effects of the pandemic on today's kids, kids being over-medicated, her mobile therapy bus that rolls across Appalachia, and more on this week's Big Time Talker po...
Harlem Globetrotter legend Nate Branch joins the podcast!
February 19, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 59.1 MBFrom 1967-83, Legendary Harlem Globetrotter Nate Branch entertained millions of fans on basketball courts around the world, television variety shows, guest appearances with the 'Trotters on television programs, and his likeness was even featured in some of the day's most popular Hanna-Barbera cartoons (Nate was "Fluid-Man", and voiced by none other than Scatman Crothers!) Along with his legendary teammates Meadlowlark Lemon, Curly Neal, Geese Ausby, Sweet Lou Dunbar and the rest of the gang ...
Calvin Fisher, author of the new sci-fi novel NORTHFIELD talks books with us!
February 12, 2021 05:00 - 20 minutes - 17.8 MBIn Calvin Fisher’s “Northfield”, clouds of neon death have suffocated the earth’s surface for over a decade. When Mark Northfield gets blackmailed in this world into an assassination mission, his only choices are to accept his own execution or corrupt himself forever. Find out more about “Northfield” and author Calvin Fisher online at https://calvinfishermedia.com/ And, be sure to subscribe to the Big Time Talker podcast at iTunes, Stitcher, and other platforms, or ask Alexa to play the Big...
Chip Rowan from Beautiful Rainbow Cafe in Alabama is our special guest!
February 05, 2021 05:00 - 43 minutes - 39 MBToday's Big Time Talker podcast (powered by Speakermatch.com) guest is Chip Rowan, the head honcho at the amazing Beautiful Rainbow Cafe, an award-winning vocational training program of the Gadsden AL City Schools...and one of the cities best lunch spots! Its mission is to use innovative strategies to enable adolescents and young adults with significant cognitive disabilities to acquire employment and functional academic skills through organic gardening and sophisticated food production. The...
Media Bias and how to avoid it with expert Vanessa Otero
January 29, 2021 05:00 - 49 minutes - 44.6 MBToday's Big Time Talker guest is Vanessa Otero, the creator of the Media Bias Chart, the viral image that prompted many lively discussions around the internet about where people get their news. In addition to being a practicing patent attorney, Vanessa is the head of Ad Fontes Media, fulfilling the need revealed by the popularity of the Media Bias Chart—the need for an easy-to-understand, reliable news rating system. Through this company, Vanessa impacts the way consumers and organizations de...
Lynyrd Skynryd, Billy Ray Cyrus Tour Manager Paul Abraham joins us
January 22, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 57.9 MBGoing on the road with a bunch of talented musicians isn’t all glitz and glamour, says today's Big Time Talker guest Paul Abraham, but a more enjoyable job would be hard to find. Paul takes us behind the scenes, offering intimate details of the kind of life a roadie or a musician leads. Having grown up in the Mississippi Delta, the Birthplace of the Blues, Paul’s interest in music flourished and would expand into a wide range of sounds—from classical to classic rock, from country to bluegra...
America's Psychiatrist Dr. Carole Lieberman joins us at the Big Time Talker!
January 15, 2021 22:30 - 36 minutes - 32.6 MBDr. Carole Lieberman's multi-dimensional career as an internationally renowned "Media Psychiatrist" is always leading edge! On TV, Radio and the Internet, in Film and Print,, Dr. Carole's insights help people seize the moment to live happier, more fulfilling lives. Emmy nominated as the talk show host of "Dr. Carole's Couch". Dr. Lieberman analyzes the psychological impact of world events, as a guest and/or host on all major media outlets and in her keynote speaking engagements. Viewers will...
How To Speed Up The COVID-19 vaccine distribution with expert Dean Fanelli
January 09, 2021 00:00 - 34 minutes - 30.3 MBThe U.S. has administered more than 4.2 million coronavirus vaccine doses but is lagging behind several other countries as hospitalizations continue to surge following the holidays. The federal government had repeatedly promised 20 million people would have received their first shots by the end of the year; they didn't come close. Dean Fanelli, Ph.D., a vaccine expert and an expert on pharmaceutical- and chemical-related technologies, joins us on the Big Time Talker podcast to discuss the va...
Author Kevin Miller stops by to chat about his new book White Skies Black Mingo
December 29, 2020 05:00 - 52 minutes - 47.2 MBAuthor Kevin Miller's new book "White Skies, Black Mingo" is set in the 1800s, as a young Native American girl from the Ohio Seneca tribe flees an epidemic with her mother and grandmother and after being orphaned, ends up in the darkest hours of the Civil War. The book is a fascinating read based on author Kevin D. Miller's family history, and he joins us as a special guest on this edition of the Big Time Talker Podcast, powered by Speakermatch.com. Kevin is a veteran of the United States A...
Journey lead singer Arnel Pineda joins us from his home in the Phillippines!
December 23, 2020 15:30 - 36 minutes - 32.5 MBFilipino singer Arnel Pineda landed his dream job as the lead vocalist for the iconic band Journey after someone sent the band a YouTube video of Arnel belting out a Journey hit in a karaoke bar. He was soon given an audition for the job, and the rest is history. Now, 14 years later, Arnel continues in his role with Journey, while also pursuing an active solo career. And, due to the pandemic, he's able to spend lots more time with his wife and children at their home in the Philipines. We h...
Movie and TV Gorilla Don McLeod Joins Us To Talk Up His New Book Gorilla Tales!
December 10, 2020 01:30 - 1 hour - 58.3 MBDon McLeod has made a very good living, for a very long time, doing very strange things. But he does them in a place that rewards that sort of behavoir, Hollywood. You've probably seen Don in a movie, TV show or commercial but just didn't know it...first he was a top mime, touring the world with Diana Ross as part of her show (!). Then, he wore a $30,000 gorilla suit in dozens of movies, TV shows, commercials and goofy personal appearances. That led to lots of creature features, special ef...
Ron Sowell, Musical Director of NPR's 'Mountain Stage' joins the podcast!
November 26, 2020 00:30 - 51 minutes - 46.7 MBMusician, singer, songwriter and producer Ron Sowell set out to be an attorney. He was even the president of his student body in college...but then music took him away on a lifetime journey. Now, he's the Musical Director for NPR's "Mountain Stage", heard on almost 300 radio stations nationwide each week and he's performed with the biggest artists on the planet. Hear his amazing life story, which begins in of all places Roswell New Mexico...and yes, he does have some inside skinny on UFO's ...
Navigating Life's Journey author Richard V. Battle joins us
November 20, 2020 11:00 - 34 minutes - 30.3 MBHow many of us wish we could get a do-over for 2020? Richard Battle can give you a much-needed shot of optimism as we head into the holidays and then 2021. Richard is the award-winning and Amazon best-selling author of six previous books including his latest Navigating Life's Journey-Common Sense in Uncommon Times, along with Conquering Life’s Course,Unwelcome Opportunity, The Four-Letter Word That Builds Character, The Master’s Sales Secrets, Surviving Grief by God’s Grace andThe Voluntee...
WV Music Hall Of Fame 2020 Induction With Executive Director Michael Lipton
November 12, 2020 11:00 - 34 minutes - 30.6 MBThe West Virginia Music Hall of Fame induction telecast happens Saturday, November 14th at 7pm ET on West Virginia Public Television and online at www.wvpublic.org. Hall of Fame Executive Director Michael Lipton gives us the lowdown on this year's inductees, his favorite part of being associated with the Hall Of Fame, playing in the Mountain Stage house band and lots more. If you're a music fan, you won't want to miss this podcast. The Big Time Talker Podcast is powered by our friends at...
Documentary filmmaker Abigail Child on her new movie Origin Of The Species
November 10, 2020 11:00 - 38 minutes - 33.9 MBToday's guest on the Big Time Talker Podcast powered by Speakermatch.com is Abigail Child, who has been at the vanguard of experimental media since the 1980s. In her latest project, she offers viewers an eerie and exciting look into the present and future of artificial intelligence through the perspectives of robotics scientists, entrepreneurs, and even a Black lesbian robot named BINA48. Exploring AI’s design, potential medical applications, and exploitation in the arena of fantasies, Child’...
Live Children's Theater In The South Bronx Changes Lives At Open Hydrant Theater
November 03, 2020 11:00 - 40 minutes - 35.9 MBOpen Hydrant Theater Company @ The Point's mission is to maintain an ensemble-based theater company in the densely populated, yet under-served, Hunt's Point community of the South Bronx. Their purpose is to produce yearly seasons of creative works based largely on, but not limited to, non-traditional, interactive interpretation of Shakespeare's plays, as well as other literary classics and work by new playwrights. Making theatre a family experience is a priority. Luis Cardenas from Open Hyd...
Veteran Character Actor Chris Ellis Joins Us Live From Hollywood!
October 27, 2020 10:00 - 41 minutes - 37.3 MBActor Chris Ellis first burst on the scene in the film DAYS OF THUNDER, and since then he's appeared in dozens of Hollywood blockbusters and dozens more hit television series. Get his behind the scenes stories about working with Tom Cruise, Ron Howard, Tom Hanks, Jennifer Garner of lots more! Find out which movie cast still has lunch together every Thursday 25 years after filming wrapped on their film, which major star broke down in tears on the set and was unable to film and why, which star...
We talk with the cast of the new Pureflix series THE DARK
October 22, 2020 10:00 - 31 minutes - 27.7 MBIt's the Seventh Year of the Tribulation, and the world is in ruins. Christianity has all but disappeared, except for small bands of believers who are hiding, surviving — and waiting for the Second Coming. That's the premise behind the new end times action/adventure mini-series "The Dark," now streaming on Pure Flix and also available at Amazon. Big Time Talker podcast pal Kevin Sizemore (Pastor Peter Braxton) stars in the series, and Kevin and his castmates Silvo Wolf Busch (The Dark), All...
The Entertainment Industry Shutdown During The Pandemic With Agent Jack Forman
October 20, 2020 10:00 - 42 minutes - 38.4 MBThe music and live event industry has been affected dramatically by the pandemic. Live entertainment worldwide is down 90% since March, putting hundreds of thousands of entertainers and behind-the-scenes workers on the sidelines. We talk with industry insider Jack Forman, President of Manhattan-based booking agency BiCoastal Productions about the state of the live entertainment industry, what will happen moving forward and when, and whether there will still be many, if any, venues left for l...
Theo Peoples from the Temptations, Four Tops and Voices Of Classic Soul!
October 16, 2020 10:00 - 38 minutes - 34.1 MBR&B singer/songwriter Theo Peoples has an amazing story to tell; he's the only singer to ever be a member of two of the most legendary vocal groups of all time: the Temptations AND the Four Tops! Theo dishes about how that happened, what life is like singing with music legends, his famous wedding guests, singing at the Superbowl, dueting with Aretha Franklin, writing a hit song on the Tempts comeback album and lots more. Plus, he fills us in on his new group VOICES OF CLASSIC SOUL with fo...
Wrestling Fans-Don't Miss This Conversation with Diana Hart
October 13, 2020 22:00 - 57 minutes - 52 MBDiana Hart is well known to fans of pro wrestling. She comes from what is arguably the most famous wrestling family of all time, the Harts...and her romantic novel series takes place in that rough-and-tumble world that she knows like few others. We talk with Diana about the famous and not-so-famous folks she grew up around, the amazing way she was raised in a family filled with pro wrestlers, her time in the WWE spotlight, her books, her relationship with the other big family dynasty in wres...
Conservative Comedy Writer Tanner T. Roberts Joins Us
October 09, 2020 10:00 - 22 minutes - 19.9 MBThe Big Time Talkers Podcast welcomes political satirist and author Tanner T. Roberts to our microphones from his home in Houston, Texas. Tanner graduated from Texas A&M in 2013 with a B.S. in Economics and released his debut book, Dumb Politics: The Political Rhetoric and Blissful Ignorance of a Generation, in 2019. It reached number one on Amazon's new release lists for several weeks and received an award for Best Non-Fiction by the Texas Authors Association. Tanner's second book, 101 Tips...
Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna Guitarist Jorma Kaukonen Talks Tunes With Us!
October 06, 2020 04:00 - 26 minutes - 23.1 MBJorma Kaukonen is our guest on today's encore presentation of the Big Time Talker podcast powered by Speakermatch.com! Jorma is an American music icon-a founding member of Jefferson Airplane who still tours with Airplane member Jack Casady in Hot Tuna, which started as a Jefferson Airplane side project 50 years ago. A member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Jorma was ranked by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the 50 greatest guitarists of all time. For the past 30 years, he's lived and...
Author and Naturalist Melanie Choukas-Bradley Talks About Her New Book and More!
October 01, 2020 22:00 - 34 minutes - 30.8 MBOur Big Time Talker podcast guest is Melanie Choukas-Bradley is a Washington, DC author and naturalist who leads field trips, tree tours and forest bathing walks for the Audobon Naturalist Society, U.S. Botanic Garden, the Smithsonian, Rock Creek Conservancy, the Nature Conservancy, Politics and Prose, the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies and other organizations. Melanie’s newest book is Finding Solace at Theodore Roosevelt Island, illustrated by Tina Thieme Brown, with a foreword b...
Documentary filmmaker on the October 1st anniversary of the Vegas mass shooting
September 29, 2020 02:00 - 43 minutes - 39 MBMONEY MACHINE tells the story of the worst mass shooting in U.S. history when Stephen Paddock killed 58 people and wounded hundreds more during a country music festival in Las Vegas. We chat with award-winning documentary filmmaker Ramsey Dennison about Paddock's motivations, the massive coverups after the shooting, and how the shooting victims and the families of those killed got ripped off in their settlements, while the attorneys made over $100 million dollars representing their "best i...
Free Legal Tips That You Won't Freakin' Believe from Attorney L. Scott Briscoe
September 25, 2020 10:00 - 22 minutes - 19.7 MBAs a small-town Southern WV lawyer, L. Scott Briscoe has seen, and heard some pretty amazing things. He posts the most outrageous courtroom shenanigans on his "Free Legal Tips" social media blog. Now, he's going viral with over 50,000 views to his page, a Reader's Digest feature article and an upcoming book on the way! Scott shares some of the biggest, craziest and funniest things he's seen and heard on this episode of the Big Time Talker podcast, powered by Speakermatch.com. Check out Sco...
Former Supremes Sherrie Payne and Susaye Greene talk Motown and More!
September 22, 2020 10:00 - 57 minutes - 51.8 MBThe Supremes set the standard for girl groups and Motown music history, and two of the Supremes hang out and talk about the tunes, the times and so much more on this Big Time Talkers episode, sponsored by Speakermatch.com. Sherrie Payne and Susaye Greene helped carry the Supremes torch into the 1970's after Diana Ross departure from the group, and they've got an amazing story to tell. We touch on their early years, how they produced and co-wrote songs for Motown, the challenges of being bot...
Former Drifters Lead Vocalist Joe Blunt Brings His Smooth Self To The Show!
September 18, 2020 10:00 - 55 minutes - 50.3 MBToday's Big Time Talker guest Joe Blunt became a member of the legendary Drifters in 1975. During his years with TheDrifters, Blunt was privileged to perform alongside two inductees into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and perhaps the most prolific lead singers in The Drifters’ storied past — the legendary Ben E. King and the late great Johnny Moore. Blunt was also featured as lead singer on some of The Drifters album tracks released during that period. After several years of TV appearances,...
Helping Kids In In The Arts During The Pandemic With ApplaudOurKids.org
September 15, 2020 10:00 - 25 minutes - 22.6 MBOn today's Big Time Talker Podcast sponsored by Speakermatch.com, we talk with Jodi and Melissa from the Applaud Our Kids Foundation, which provides 100% funding for children ages 7-18 who meet the financial needs requirements to take ongoing lessons in vocal instruction, dance, acting, and instrumental music for the entire school year and for summer programs. The students take these ongoing lessons at local performing arts studios close to their homes. Applaud Our Kids believes that financ...
The Lost Art of the Follow Up with Wanda Allen
September 11, 2020 10:00 - 24 minutes - 21.4 MBOur Big Time Talker Podcast guest Wanda Allen is an International Speaker, Coach, Corporate Trainer and she’s the author of "Follow Up Sales Strategies" and "Follow Up Savvy". Prior to founding her company, Wanda had a very successful 25-year corporate career. She started as a secretary when she was 19 and worked her way up the corporate ladder and was promoted to Senior Vice President at the age of 30. She was a business banker and worked with sales teams throughout her corporate career. Sh...
Singer/Songwriter Bob Malone Talks Tunes and more on the Big Time Talker Podcast
September 08, 2020 10:00 - 20 minutes - 17.7 MBThe Big Time Talker Podcast, powered by Speakermatch.com welcomes singer/songwriter and keyboard wiz Bob Malone to the show. Bob has toured the world as a solo artist for two decades and has played keyboards with rock legend John Fogerty since 2011. He is also a busy session player and arranger, and is featured on the latest Ringo Starr record, “Give More Love.” His recording of “You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch” is featured in the worldwide trailers for the upcoming Illumination/Universal movi...
Alain Nu, The Man Who Knows, Talks Mentalism and More with the show!
September 04, 2020 10:00 - 30 minutes - 26.7 MBAlain Nu mysteriously appears on this episode of the Big Time Talkers Podcast powered by Speakermatch. Alain is an American mentalist, illusionist, television personality, author, and speaker. He is known for demonstrations of ESP, mind reading, telekinesis, metal bending, and illusions. Nu's career as an entertainer has spanned more than three decades, with performances and appearances in many countries. He's a Las Vegas mainstay, a regular fixture on TV, and has now cleverly pivoted in th...
Covid-19 : Lockdowns On Trial researcher and author Michael Betrus joins us
September 01, 2020 10:00 - 41 minutes - 36.7 MBOur guest on the Big Time Talker Podcast powered by Speakermatch.com is the author and researcher Michael Betrus. The COVID-19 pandemic swept the world in 2020, resulting in most governments locking down their countries in an effort to slow the spread, so hospitals didn't get overwhelmed at once. These lockdowns came at a huge cost to the citizens of the world. In his new book COVID-19: Lockdowns on Trial, Michael provides you with a fast-paced journey through the pandemic and its spread. ...
We Go Behind The Microphone With Legendary Country Music Interviewer Lew Dobbins
August 28, 2020 09:00 - 37 minutes - 33 MBOn this episode of the Big Time Talker podcast powered by Speakermatch, Hall of Fame country music DJ Lew Dobbins shares stories of his many friendships and interviews with some of the biggest names in the business. George Jones, Tammy Wynette, Charlie Daniels, Faron Young, Conway Twitty and so many more have been Behind The Microphone with Lew Dobbins...which, not coincidentally is the name of his Headline Books release! If you're a country music fan, don't miss this one...the Big Time Talk...
Augie's World author John Brown stops by the Big Talker Podcast with Burke Allen
August 25, 2020 10:00 - 53 minutes - 47.7 MBMore than fifty years ago, John Brown was drafted into the US Army and a few months later was provided an all-expense-paid tour of Southeast Asia. He served a year in Vietnam (1969-70) as an Army enlisted man in the Americal Division. When John returned from Vietnam and was admitted to graduate school, he decided to write about his experiences in the war. He wrote a couple of chapters and sent them off to a few literary agents - all of whom uniformly replied that no one would pay to read an...
Getting a pandemic reset with results expert Felicia Searcy
August 21, 2020 10:00 - 31 minutes - 27.7 MBFelicia Searcy’s mastery is helping people create a life they love. Her purpose is her passion: to empower you to discover and express your best self as you create the life that you love. She is an award-winning transformational coach, international speaker, author, and minister who has helped thousands create a path for living their dream life. We chat with her about overcoming the hand that's been dealt to us with the pandemic, and how to turn life's lemons into lemonade on today's Big Ti...
Aerosmith, Fleetwood Mac keyboard tech Bruce Hendrix with backstage stories
August 18, 2020 10:00 - 33 minutes - 29.3 MBBruce Hendrix has spent the past two decades circling the globe as the keyboard and guitar tech for some of the music industry's biggest artists. Now, like thousands of other music industry pros, he is sidelined by COVID-19, and there is no word on when the music will play again. Get great behind the scenes stories from Bruce, plus find out how the music industry is coping with the collapse of the live concert industry. The Big Time Talker podcast is s service of Speakermatch.com!