Inside Scoop Live!
168 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWelcome to The Inside Scoop Live podcast, where we bring you captivating conversations with independent authors.
In each episode, we go beyond the pages of the books and delve into the minds of the authors themselves. Our engaging host sits down with these literary maestros, providing a platform for them to share their inspirations, writing processes, and the stories behind their captivating works.
Whether you’re a devoted fan or new to their writing, The Inside Scoop Live podcast takes you on an intimate journey with authors from various genres and backgrounds.
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Almost Full Circle - An Interview with Jacqueline Greer Graham
September 30, 2022 15:38 - 38 minutes - 38.3 MBJacqueline Greer Graham is a Canadian citizen who was born in Montserrat, British West Indies. She has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from York University, and a Medical Office and Laboratory Assisting Diploma from Career Canada College. Jacqueline is a former manager at the Canadian Institute for Health Information. She is now a business owner, pursuing her passion for telling stories. Almost Full Circle is her debut book. Jacqueline also enjoys singing and dancing, and is a health...
”Life is Inevitable” An Interview with Daniel Santos
September 06, 2022 12:30 - 23 minutes - 22.8 MBDaniel Santos is a twenty-one-year young adult author, born in Manila, Philippines, and immigrated to the U.S. at a very young age. He’s spent most of his life living in the West while occasionally flying home to visit his family. When he’s not listening to music, playing video games or just doing things people of his age engage in, he’s writing. Daniel’s writing usually consists of fantasy fiction that delves into the paranormal. He likes to focus on characterization and letting the reader ...
Going Short: An Invitation to Flash Fiction by Nancy Stohlman
August 23, 2022 18:09 - 27 minutes - 27.2 MBNancy Stohlman's book Going Short: An Invitation to Flash Fiction, won a 2021 Reader Views Gold Award and was re-released as an audiobook in 2022. Her other books include After the Rapture, (forthcoming 2023), Madam Velvet's Cabaret of Oddities, and The Vixen Scream and Other Bible Stories, among others. Her work has appeared in the Norton anthology New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction and The Best Small Fictions 2019, as well as adapted for both the stage and screen. She teaches at the Un...
My Favorite Girlfriend and the Golfing Adventures With Frankie Series by Paul Sturm
August 10, 2022 18:27 - 35 minutes - 35.4 MBPaul Sturm actually started writing poems as a teenager, attempting to impress young ladies, though to no avail except for a smile or two. Many years later, the author worked in a high pressure career prompting him to escape by reading and writing for the fun of it. The author's amusing sense of humor provided the perfect backdrop for his hilarious books. Another important aspect of his writing could be gleaned from an episode of 'The Twilight Zone' titled "Walking the Distance." In that e...
Automatic Stay - An Interview with Author Mark Shaiken
June 30, 2022 12:50 - 34 minutes - 33.8 MBMark Shaiken lives with his wife Loren and their dog Emily in Denver, CO. He schooled at Haverford College and Washburn University, and practiced commercial bankruptcy law for several decades before moving on in 2019 to write, volunteer and play music. In addition to his latest legal thriller, "Automatic Stay," he is the author of "And . . Just Like That - essays on a life before, during, and after the law" and "Fresh Start," a legal mystery. Mark is currently working on his book, "Unfair ...
Exit to Morvana - An Interview with Marilynn Wood
June 12, 2022 18:25 - 32 minutes - 32.3 MBBooks have been a part of Marilynn Wood’s world for as long as she can remember. She was influenced by her maternal grandmother, a teacher, who exposed her to reading and writing at an early age. She wrote her first story in first grade and caught the literary bug, though it would be many years later for her dream to become an author was realized. What started as a book about the socio-economic problems on our planet took a turn to SciFi when a UFO experience caused her to wonder about bei...
Strategy Quest: An Interview with Paul Sacco
May 19, 2022 19:28 - 23 minutes - 18.3 MBIn his role as President of Propheta Lucro Management Consultants, Paul Sacco develops and delivers leadership development programs that enable people to create, verify and decide ideas for strategy, innovation, and complex problem-solving. He is also the author of Strategy Quest – The Executive Guide for Finding Business Opportunities. Paul is a graduate of the University of Toronto, where he earned both a B.A.Sc. and an MBA. He is also a certified MBTI Practitioner. Paul's volunteer exper...
Self-Publish and Succeed: An Interview with Julie Broad
May 16, 2022 18:36 - 25 minutes - 25.9 MBJulie Broad, founder of the self-publishing services firm Book Launchers and Amazon Overall #1 Best-Selling Author, knows what it takes to successfully self-publish a book. Her popular YouTube channel, BookLaunchers.TV, embodies the hashtag of #noboringbooks helping nonfiction authors write and market books people want to read. Julie’s titles include More than Cashflow, which topped Amazon, The New Brand You, and her latest book, Self-Publish & Succeed. A recognized real estate investor, su...
Bop-It and No More Covid - An Interview with Jessica Wohlgemuth
May 09, 2022 18:14 - 22 minutes - 22.5 MBJessica Wohlgemuth is a country prairie girl who grew up on a little hobby farm passionate about animals. Her two favorite bunnies were named Flip and Flop. Oh, how she loved her soft fluffy pets! Now with nieces and nephew spending hours chasing their own bunnies, she couldn’t help but imagine what life would be like if bunnies lived in a sort of people world, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. To learn more about Jessica Wohlgemuth and her work visit her Etsy shop: The Hidden Pine T...
”Spit” An Interview with Daniel Lassell
May 04, 2022 17:07 - 31 minutes - 31.7 MBDaniel Lassell is the author of Spit (Wheelbarrow Books / Michigan State University Press, 2021), winner of the 2020 Wheelbarrow Books Emerging Poetry Prize selected by Gabrielle Calvocoressi, and winner of the 2021-22 Reader Views Gold Award for Poetry and the Inside Scoop Live Award for the Most Innovative Poetry Book. He is also the author of a chapbook, Ad Spot (Ethel Zine and Micro Press, 2021), and his poems have appeared in the Colorado Review, Cherry Tree, and Prairie Schooner, among...
Garvey Feinstein - An Interview with Julian Tryst
May 03, 2022 11:22 - 22 minutes - 21.8 MBJulian Tryst is a fiction author from Canada who likes to observe the messed-up aspects of human nature and make stories out of them. For more information about Julian and his work, visit his website at https://juliantryst.com/ TOPICS OF CONVERSATION: About Garvey Feinstein: Hollywood Predator Inspiration behind the story Satire, erotica and writing about human nature A reading from the book Reader reaction to the story Cover creation What's next for Julian Tryst? GARVEY FEIN...
Happy Jack Sad Jack - An Interview with Mark Bello
May 02, 2022 12:02 - 27 minutes - 27.3 MBAs an attorney and civil justice advocate, author Mark M. Bello draws upon over 40 years of courtroom experience in his Zachary Blake Legal Thriller Series. A Michigan native, Mark received his B.A. in English Literature from Oakland University and his law degree from Thomas M. Cooley Law School. After working extremely high-profile legal cases, Mark wanted to give the public a front-row glimpse of what victims face when standing up for justice. Combining his legal experience and passion f...
Scatter Seeds of Kindness - An Interview with Kristin Bloch
April 24, 2022 13:04 - 31 minutes - 30.6 MBKristin Bloch first began rhyming words together at a very young age. Soon these words expanded into poems and stories that enchanted family and friends. A compilation of those writings was recently released in her first book, Walk Through a Field of Flowers. Kristin works full time and has earned an MBA degree from the University of Phoenix. Kristin is also a certified personal trainer and certified Pilates instructor, teaching several classes each week. Scatter Seeds of Kindness is her sec...
”You Have the Right to Remain Silent” An Interview with Mark M. Bello
April 19, 2022 14:34 - 30 minutes - 31.7 MBAs an attorney and civil justice advocate, author Mark M. Bello draws upon over 40 years of courtroom experience in his Zachary Blake Legal Thriller Series. A Michigan native, Mark received his B.A. in English Literature from Oakland University and his law degree from Thomas M. Cooley Law School. After working extremely high-profile legal cases, Mark wanted to give the public a front-row glimpse of what victims face when standing up for justice. Combining his legal experience and passion f...
A Slippery Shadow - An Interview with Gary D. McGugan
April 14, 2022 19:48 - 26 minutes - 27 MBRecently awarded a Gold Medal by Reader Views 2021-22 Literary Awards in the Mystery/Thriller category, writing started for Gary D. McGugan after a 40-year career in the world of business. He’s worked in supermarkets, sold appliances, distributed motorcycles, launched an automobile dealer network, and provided financing to help businesses grow. Every industry was very different from the other. Each company had a distinctive culture and character, but all were units of large corporations with...
Farewell the Dragon - An Interview with Lee Barckmann
April 08, 2022 16:07 - 27 minutes - 26 MBI grew up in Barnegat NJ, and had a Huck Finn childhood, surrounded by woods, streams, and meadows. In the 1950s, 1200 people lived there. I have two younger sisters, Laura and Liza, both now professionally accomplished, with kids and husbands. Our Dad, a merchant seaman for most of his life, had a small business raising lab mice for companies like Squibbs and Merck. He was an amazing story teller, a great little league coach, and a town character. Mom was from the mountain region of North C...
Still on Fire: Field Notes from a Queer Mystic - An Interview with Jan Phillips
March 24, 2022 21:32 - 40 minutes - 38.1 MBJan Phillips' quest has taken her into and out of a religious convent, across the country on a Honda motorcycle, and around the world on a one-woman peace pilgrimage. She is the founder and Executive Director of the Livingkindness Foundation, which created a Learning Center in Nigeria and supports anti-racist creative projects by black women in the U.S. Jan is the author of eleven award-winning books and a thought leader who bridges spiritual intelligence, evolutionary creativity, and socia...
”Wisdom” - An Interview with Jason Merchey
March 21, 2022 13:43 - 37 minutes - 36.7 MBThe founder of Values of the Wise, Jason Merchey is also a philosophical thinker, master’s level psychologist, proponent of the research ideal, social critic, author / essayist / blogger, and a student of the tradition of arts and letters. Growing up Jewish in a suburb of Los Angeles, he grappled with sociocultural, familial, religious, psychological, and self motivation issues that led to much of the insight he has today. After junior college, he earned a bachelor’s degree summa cum laude i...
An Interview with B.A. Bellec Author of PULSE
March 18, 2022 14:31 - 33 minutes - 31.5 MBB.A. Bellec’s debut novel, Someone’s Story, won the Reader Views Reader’s Choice Literary Award for Young Adult Book of the Year. Someone’s Story is a young adult coming-of-age book and has seen good support over Instagram, YouTube, and Goodreads. One of the aspects that makes Bellec’s projects unique is he includes musicians in his novels and then he actually produces the songs as his book goes through the editing stages. Bellec was born in Richmond, BC, and raised in Langley, BC, before s...
Town Lawe - An Interview with Author Bruno Pirecki
March 12, 2022 17:36 - 30 minutes - 31.7 MBBefore devoting himself to writing, award-winning author Bruno Pirecki spent over two decades as a Nashville entertainment industry executive, specializing in strategic alliances and artist relations. A native of Capitol Hill in Seattle, Washington, he spent his formative years enjoying the beauty of the San Juan Islands and the mountains of the Pacific Northwest. He is a thirty-year resident of Franklin, Tennessee, and lives downtown with his wife, Jennifer; their three rescue cats; and one...
California Chrome: Our Story - An Interview with Perry Martin
March 04, 2022 20:12 - 29 minutes - 30.7 MBPerry Martin’s career was in performing root cause failure analysis for the USAF performing “aircraft mishap investigations” and then for the private sector involving failures in high reliability equipment. His first book was Electronic Failure Analysis Handbook, published by McGraw Hill in 1999 and was a comprehensive overview of the use of root cause failure analysis in developing more reliable electronic equipment. “California Chrome Our Story” documents the development of a champion race...
They Called Me Mama - An Interview with Gloria Swift
March 02, 2022 20:27 - 34 minutes - 33.8 MBGloria A. Swift immigrated to the United States in 1973 and served in the United States Army where she received many "firsts" in awards and recognition. Ms. Swift also served as the first female police officer on the Foster City Police Department. Those were the days when it was difficult for black women to integrate into a white, male-dominated profession. Ms. Swift is a retired educator who holds multiple degrees and credentials in Education. 'Thank You, Ms. Swift - It's Not about As and ...
Chaos Above the Sand - An Interview with Bruce Thomas
February 25, 2022 20:04 - 30 minutes - 30.1 MBBruce Thomas was raised in Farmington, Missouri, by two loving parents. Playing four sports in high school while playing in the band, singing and acting in a local play, he obtained a fantastic education and well-rounded childhood. After high school, Bruce was appointed to the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado. After four years of strenuous physical and mental activities, he graduated in 1980 as a second lieutenant with a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering. After gr...
The Savage Path: A Memoir of Modern Masculinity - An Interview with David L. Savage
February 22, 2022 15:54 - 36 minutes - 34.7 MBDavid L. Savage grew up as an Air Force brat in West Texas with a deep and rich scouting background beginning in Cub Scouts, achieving the rank of Eagle Scout, and earning the bronze, silver and gold palms, then establishing and leading a high adventure Explorer Post before heading to Texas A&M University to study engineering. The summer after graduating from Texas A&M, he worked as a backpacking guide, or Ranger, at Philmont Scout Ranch and Explorer Base in Cimarron, New Mexico. David has...
Grydscaen Dark: An Interview with Natsuya Uesugi DuBois
February 18, 2022 19:48 - 34 minutes - 32.6 MBA writer with a BA in English, a minor in Japanese, an art degree in animation, and an MBA in International Management, certificate in Social Engineering and multiple awards for articles on Net Neutrality, Privacy, LGBT Youth Homelessness, Cybersecurity and Cyberbullying, Natsuya Uesugi is writing his dream of showcasing fictional minority characters in positions of power. Of Mixed Multi-cultural heritage (Indigenous, Asian, French, Scottish, Dutch, African-American), he sees life through t...
An Interview with B.A. Bellec - Author of Someone’s Story
January 24, 2022 18:12 - 27 minutes - 27.4 MBB.A. Bellec’s debut novel, Someone’s Story, won the Reader Views Reader’s Choice Literary Award for Young Adult Book of the Year. Someone’s Story is a young adult coming-of-age book and has seen good support over Instagram, YouTube, and Goodreads. One of the aspects that makes Bellec’s projects unique is he includes musicians in his novels and then he actually produces the songs as his book goes through the editing stages. Bellec was born in Richmond, BC, and raised in Langley, BC, before s...
Cape Henry House - An Interview with Jolly Walker Bittick
December 18, 2021 16:21 - 21 minutes - 21.3 MBJolly Walker Bittick grew up in Sequim, Washington and served in the U.S. Navy from 2005 to 2009. He is a freelance writer, avid historian, and passionate outdoorsman who has traveled extensively over the course of his life. He draws inspiration and literary prowess from his experiences in numerous career fields and a multitude of social environments. From his time in retail, military, sales, and civil service, as well as his time living in rural, suburban, and urban environments, Jolly has ...
The Colored Water Fountain - An Interview with Dr. Calvin James
November 10, 2021 12:17 - 20 minutes - 20.5 MBDr. Calvin James began his creative journey when he was nineteen. He taught himself how to play guitar, started writing music, and founded a record company, Climax Records, Inc. in 2001. He released his first album, “City” in 2004. Around 2011, he took an interest in writing and gradually shifted his focus away from music to writing children’s stories. Once he finished graduate school in 2018, he decided to share all the music and stories he had written and founded Calvin James Creates in 20...
This Too Shall Pass - An Interview with Marisa Billions
November 01, 2021 17:58 - 21 minutes - 21.8 MBMarisa Billions is a high school English teacher and holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Criminology. She is the author of the fiction novel, This Too Shall Pass and is working on her upcoming second novel. Marisa lives in Southern California with her wife, Stephanie and son Alexander and two Boxer Dogs, Max and Ruby. To learn more about Marisa Billions and her work, visit her website at: https://marisabillions.wordpress.com/ Topics of Conversation: About This Too Shall Pass Genre-...
The Journey - An Interview with David A. Fiensy
October 21, 2021 11:27 - 29 minutes - 28.1 MBDavid Fiensy has a passion for teaching and preaching the Bible and for thinking about and articulating theological ideas. After graduating from Duke University with a Ph.D. in New Testament, David Fiensy taught for seven years at Kentucky Christian University. He then served a two-year tenure at The Institute for the Study of Christian origins in Germany. Upon returning to the United States, he accepted a church pastorate for six years and then resumed teaching at Kentucky Christian Unive...
Scarlet At Crystal River - An Interview with Randy Overbeck
October 15, 2021 10:26 - 33 minutes - 32.8 MBDr. Randy Overbeck is an award-winning educator, author and speaker. As an educator, he served children for four decades in a range of roles captured in his novels, from teacher and coach to principal and superintendent. His thriller, Leave No Child Behind (2012) and his recent mysteries, the Amazon No. 1 Best Seller, Blood on the Chesapeake, Crimson at Cape May and Scarlet at Crystal River have earned five star reviews and garnered national awards including "Thriller of the Year--ReadersFa...
Be a J.E.D.I. Leader, Not a Boss - An Interview with Omar Harris
October 13, 2021 19:42 - 26 minutes - 26.6 MBOmar Harris is a former pharmaceutical General Manager (GSK, Allergan), Intent Consulting and Tympo.io founder, motivational speaker, and bestselling author, with over 20 years' experience building high performance organizations on 4 continents. Having managed multibillion dollar brands and led extensive organizations while working in the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and the US, he innovated blueprints for J.E.D.I. Leadership (leading with justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion) and s...
You Are Enough! An Interview with Charlene Wheeless
October 11, 2021 20:08 - 33 minutes - 33.5 MBCharlene Wheeless is the founder of her namesake firm Charlene Wheeless LLC. She is a renowned business and communications professional, author, speaker, and executive and life empowerment advisor. Additionally, she is the senior advisor for equity and justice at APCO Worldwide, a global advocacy and communications consultancy. Wheeless is the chairman of the board of trustees for the Page Society and the HCA Virginia Reston Hospital and serves on other industry and community boards. She h...
Betrayal at the Border - An Interview with Author Mark M. Bello
October 07, 2021 17:08 - 38 minutes - 37.2 MBAs an attorney and civil justice advocate, author Mark M. Bello draws upon over 40 years of courtroom experience in his Zachary Blake Legal Thriller Series. A Michigan native, Mark received his B.A. in English Literature from Oakland University and his law degree from Thomas M. Cooley Law School. After working extremely high-profile legal cases, Mark wanted to give the public a front-row glimpse of what victims face when standing up for justice. Combining his legal experience and passion f...
Moe Fields: The Special Bond Between Fathers and Sons - An Interview with Stuart Z. Goldstein
September 21, 2021 22:36 - 45 minutes - 45 MBStuart Z. Goldstein was one of the longest serving PR Spokespersons on Wall Street. As Managing Director of Corporate Communications & Public Affairs for the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) in New York, the largest trade clearing house ($5 trillion daily) and central securities depository in the world. “Goldstein surely was the highest profile corporate communications executive in the securities services industry,” according to Global Custodian magazine. “In a position w...
Becoming an Angel of Change - An Interview with Bineta Ngom
August 16, 2021 18:29 - 36 minutes - 35.7 MBBineta Ngom was born in Senegal, West Africa, in 1964. She grew up without her father, who died when she was a little over four years old, and was raised by her mother, who taught her how to appreciate life and serve people in need, even when the family was enduring hardship. Bineta came to America in 1994 to pursuit her dream, to give her children the opportunity she never had as a child, and to empower the global community by sharing her stories and by working with parents to raise philan...
Boston My Blissful Winter - An Interview with Translator Paulette Boudrot
August 12, 2021 14:31 - 32 minutes - 32.6 MBPaulette Boudrot earned a BS in Education from Bridgewater State University, an MA in French Language and Literature from Middlebury College in Vermont, and a diploma in Twentieth-Century French Literature from the Sorbonne, University of Paris as a Fulbright Scholar. Paulette taught French and ESL in elementary schools, colleges, and universities in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. During the 1980s, she transitioned from education to administration at the French Cultural Services at the Fren...
An Interview with Jennifer Yeates Camara - Author of Reduction Fired
July 09, 2021 12:08 - 37 minutes - 37 MBJennifer Yeates Camara is a poet living in Vancouver, Canada. She is the youngest of 13 children, born to an extremely poor family in Ontario, Canada. She grew up in an old house that someone had paid her father to haul away, albeit without plumbing as the water was never hooked up! Jennifer's early life in the 70s included an outhouse, a well, and a wood-burning fireplace. Jennifer's parents were both avid readers and often recited poems by memory. Reading was ingrained in her siblings, t...
An Interview with Marjorie Anderson - Author of La Clave
June 23, 2021 13:34 - 26 minutes - 27 MBMarjorie Anderson is a native Virgin islander, retired bank executive, co-funder and former executive director of the GREATER Philadelphia Minority Business Strategic Alliance. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Morgan State University, a Master of Science in Management from La Salle University, and is a graduate of the Wharton’s School Management Program of the University of Pennsylvania. Her book “The Key” is a Reader Views Literary Awards Winner. Marjorie curr...
An Interview with Erik Steidl - Author of "Ayal the Arrow Boy"
June 18, 2021 10:58 - 31 minutes - 35.8 MBErik Steidl was born and raised in Medina, Ohio as the third of six children. He wrote his first book, titled A City Slicker in Texas, for a Power of the Pen competition in fourth grade and never looked back. He has always found joy in writing, both creatively and academically. He attended Liberty University where he crammed a four year degree into six years, graduating in 2012 with a B.S. in Teaching English as a Second Language with minors in Spanish and Youth Ministry. Erik is marrie...
Walking in a Minefield - An Interview with Del Bates
May 31, 2021 14:09 - 29 minutes - 31.5 MBDel Bates is an author, speaker, and an enthusiastic encouragement to many. She has been on leadership with Aglow International for numerous years. Her hope is to see the lost saved and healed through those meetings. She has self-published two books and has numerous stories in various publications. Crosslink publishers released her latest book on Spiritual Warfare, “Walking In A Minefield” in June 2021. Del and her husband have the joy of being snowbirds between Florida and Michigan. Michig...
The SwiftPad Trilogy - An Interview with S. Lee Barckmann
May 26, 2021 17:25 - 31 minutes - 32.6 MBLee Barckmann grew up in Barnegat NJ, and had a Huck Finn childhood, surrounded by woods, streams, and meadows. In the 1950s, 1200 people lived there. Later on, he studied Economics and History at the University of Kansas, moved to Eugene, Oregon, and met his wife Mary. He did various jobs for a time, then the two of them packed it up and went to China where Lee taught English. After two-and-a-half years, they returned to the US, settled down and had a family and Lee spent the next 30 yea...
Tomorrow's End - An Interview with G.R. Morris
May 17, 2021 21:00 - 33 minutes - 36 MBGeoffrey Morris is a 10 time award-winning author. He has garnered much acclaim for his debut novel, Tomorrow’s End. He not only won a prestigious Dragonfly book award, but a Feathered quill and received multiple 5 star reviews from many websites. He was a philosopher and a graduate from seminary studies before taking writing courses in college. Topics of Conversation Philosophical Fiction A Sixteen-Year-Old Savior How Tomorrow's End evolved over 20 years Thoughts on reading and horr...
The World We Choose - An Interview with Kevin Kunkel
May 02, 2021 09:24 - 33 minutes - 33.5 MBKevin Kunkel believes people are fundamentally good and altruistic. He writes books to reflect that belief. Kevin fully intends to fix the screen door this spring or by fall at the latest. Kevin writes bios in the 3rd person because it comes off as more professional and writing in the 5th person gets confusing. Kevin lives in Minnesota with his wife and 2 sons. He complains that Hollywood movies don't understand real cold. TOPICS OF CONVERSATION How the world is getting better and inspir...
Isle of Dragons - An Interview with Author L.A. Thompson
April 27, 2021 19:05 - 26 minutes - 26.2 MBAuthor L.A. Thompson knew she wanted to be a writer at a young age. She longed to create worlds and characters that would draw people in and transport them to another time and place, which she achieves in her novel Isle of Dragons. L.A. loves fantasy and witchcraft and by combining those elements in her stories with different historical periods, she creates a world that's in an industrial era caught between technology and magic, exploring the two's unique interplay. TOPICS OF CONVERSATI...
Life in the Chastity Zone - An Interview with Author Holly Brandon
April 25, 2021 18:34 - 31 minutes - 32.4 MBHolly Brandon breaks free from her analytical side to produce Life in the Chastity Zone. Holding a PhD., M.S., and B.S. in Civil Engineering, Holly is best known for her published works in the Journal of Earthquakes, Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibrations, and Earthquake Science. Unbelievable as it may appear, many of the scenes in Life in the Chastity Zone are based on true-life experiences. Holly invites readers to follow Chastity on her crazy and hilarious adventures in her se...
Life of a Firefly - An Interview with Author Sandra Brown-Lindstedt
April 16, 2021 20:33 - 25 minutes - 23.8 MBSandra Brown-Lindstedt was born and raised in Chicago and moved to Portland with her three children when she was thirty-three. After working as a medical secretary for many years, she decided to go back to college and her my degree graduating from Lewis & Clark College in Portland Oregon with bachelor's degrees in Theater and English. She’s also worked in New York, on stage productions, art and design. She’s won two first place short story awards and three poetry awards, publishing the wor...
Deciduous - An Interview with Author Michael Devendorf
April 03, 2021 13:17 - 41 minutes - 44.2 MBMichael Devendorf served as a chief executive for a national organization and crafted corporate communications for the business community and the workforce. He traveled from coast-to-coast meeting fascinating people and visiting remarkable places presenting his message on company culture to audiences that included industry leaders and political figures. Those events have fallen into the crevices of his mind and sometimes crawl their way out to influence his writing today. Captivating storyte...
A Web of Deceit - An Interview with Author Gary D. McGugan
March 23, 2021 14:23 - 29 minutes - 30.2 MBWriting started for Gary D. McGugan after a 40-year career in the world of business. He’s worked in supermarkets, sold appliances, distributed motorcycles, launched an automobile dealer network, and provided financing to help businesses grow. Every industry was very different from the other. Each company had a distinctive culture and character, but all were units of large corporations with operations around the globe. Travel has always been a large component of his business roles and he’s n...
Awakening the Soul of Power - An Interview with Author Christian de la Huerta
March 16, 2021 17:28 - 26 minutes - 28.7 MBAward-winning author Christian de la Huerta is an acclaimed speaker at various settings, including universities, conferences, corporate training, spiritual communities and the TedX stage. Audiences find Christian's message particularly relevant in these times. Christian also practices as a spiritual coach and a leadership development consultant whose work ranges from individuals and couples in private practice to major corporations and non-profit groups. Topics of Conversation: What is the...