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akaRadioRed welcomes two dynamic creatives. Right or left brain? Shamila Nduriri is living proof that you can succeed at both. As a Career Coach and Mentor, she helps people stop settling by creating the life they want, using her 3-step F.I.T. Formula™. And as the Founder and Creative Director of Dalasini, Shamila designs fine jewelry that helps people tap into their innate magic. “Sometimes all we need is a little reminder that everything we want and everything we aspire to be, is already inside of us.” Prior to becoming a psychotherapist, Robert Grigore (AKA The Celebrity Saviour) was the lead singer and rhythm guitarist in the band Earthbound George, despite family pressure to become a doctor or a lawyer. Robert began with fine art, then picked up the guitar to learn to play Black Sabbath's Iron Man, then tested his vocal chords with Green Day's Good Riddance. Music and art were his first therapies. Join akaRadioRed for Read My Lips: Finding The Creative Magic In You!

akaRadioRed welcomes two creatives who help us make sense of the world. Lois Farfel Stark is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and author of The Telling Image: Shapes of Changing Times. “I’m intrigued by how shapes, shape us. To think out of the box, you have to know the box you are in…in Africa, the Middle East and around the globe, I saw how tribal cultures understood the world as a Web…in round thatched huts…Western cultures view the world as a Ladder…[as] in skyscrapers. Change your shape and you change your thinking. Peter Michael Marino is a NYC native who has worked extensively as a producer, director, writer, teacher, and performer whose work has been seen on five continents. He has been crowned a Pandemic Performance Pioneer. Off-Broadway, he played the comic relief in STOMP for 5 years. He is the librettist of the musical “Desperately Seeking Susan featuring the hits of Blondie. Join akaRadioRed for Read My Lips: The Many Shapes of Creativity.

akaRadioRed welcomes two creatives talking about fun ways to earn extra money. Kimberly Stewart of Be Weird Make Money is a Profit From Your Passions consultant who helps design super-personalized income streams for people who feel like they don’t fit into cultural norms. She specializes in Hallowe’en-based and gaming-based businesses. www.beweirdmakemoney.com Danielle Roberts is a Medicare expert and co-founder of Boomer Benefits, a licensed insurance agency helping baby boomers navigate entry into Medicare in 48 states. She blogs about creative side hustles for post-retirement boomers to earn extra income. daniellekroberts.com/best-side-hustle-ideas-for-retirees Join akaRadioRed for Read My Lips: Getting Your Creative Side Hustle On.

akaRadioRed welcomes two hard-working creatives. Melissa Concessio (BBus) is a Business Strategist and Personal Development Expert who helps individuals and companies develop creative solutions to logical problems. She is the author of Go Find Yourself: Brutal Life Lessons to Stop Fighting Yourself and Start Loving your Life. Melissa helps people develop creative thinking skills such as problem solving, communication, collaboration and adaptability that directly translates into results. Jerry Zezima writes in a humor column that has run in newspapers nationwide and abroad, and is the author of 5 books based on his good-natured, self-deprecating view of the world. As “a chilling example of just how low journalistic standards have sunk”, he has won six humorous writing awards from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. Jerry says he has no interesting hobbies. Join akaRadioRed for Practical Creativity: Learning to Love and Laugh At Your Life.

akaRadioRed welcomes creatives two passionate, no-holds-barred creatives. Dr. Diana Wiley, PhD, MA, BA, is the author of Love in the Time of Corona: Advice from a Sex Therapist for Couples in Quarantine. Her recent video, “Laugh and Play Together”, recommends laughter yoga, dancing, body painting, bubble baths, and role play to help couples reconnect via fun. Dr. Diana is a marriage and family therapist, board certified sex therapist, and radio host. www.drdianawiley.com Susan Corso, D.D. is the author of The Mex Mysteries fiction series about high femme, intuitive investigator Mexicali Rose “Mex” Stone, who lives in a pink Victorian house and travels the world solving crimes using clues in Broadway lyrics. Susan is an omnifaith metaphysician, intuitive, certified Reiki Master, and author of God’s Dictionary. She writes a daily essay on the spiritual lessons in the coronavirus pandemic. www.susancorso.com Join akaRadioRed for Creative Intimacy, Sensuality and Spirituality.

akaRadioRed welcomes two creative door-openers. Alton Accola is the founder and artist liaison for Behind The Mic, featuring video interviews with 100 global music artists, educators, and industry specialists including Bobby McFerrin, The Manhattan Transfer, and Lee Greenwood. Their mission is to foster global harmony through vocal harmony, providing vocal groups with a worldwide media platform uplifting the human spirit through diversity, generosity, humility, love, and honor.” behindthemic.org Justin Pogue wrote the book Rental Secrets “for anyone who currently lives in a rental home or is looking to do so. He explains the sources of power, hidden in plain sight, that help individuals impact how much they pay for rent. His insights also help landlords think creatively about their relationship with their residents. Rentalsecrets.net Join akaRadioRed for Read My Lips: Opening Doors With Creativity.

akaRadioRed welcomes two smart, savvy creatives. Yi Zhou is a polyglot artist whose video works have been shown at Shanghai Biennale, Venice Biennale, Sundance Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival. As an influencer, she endorses global brands including Levi’s, Clarins and Shiseido. In 2011, she founded her personal brand company YiZhouStudio in Shanghai and Hong Kong and in 2018 in LA. She is developing her first feature film, Stars and Scars, as director. yizhouworld.com Sarah Dacey Charles’s 30-year acting career spans Broadway, Film and Network TV. Her Broadway and National Touring credits include Les Miserables, 9 to 5, The Musical and Sunset Boulevard. On TV, she has played principle roles on House of Cards, Jessica Jones, Madame Secretary, Elementary, Law & Order: SVU, FBI and more. For her portrayal of Barbara Stanwick in the indy film, Agnes Moorehead is God!, Sarah won the LIFF Best Actor Award. sarahdaceycharles.com Join akaRadioRed for Read My Lips: Brainy Creativity.

akaRadioRed welcomes in-demand creative influencers. Treva Brandon Scharf is an ICF-certified life coach, dating expert, fitness pro, blogger, and marriage first-timer at 51. She writes about empowerment, surviving singledom, and finding love at her blog, The Late Blooming Bride. As a post-50s influencer and a voice for strong, independent women, Treva hosts the podcast Done Being Single with husband Robby. www.donebeingsingle.com Brian Fried is a serial inventor whose inventions reach consumers through mass retail, infomercials, home shopping channels, catalogs, and online retailers through licensing and manufacturing. The author of Inventing Secrets Revealed and You & Your Big Idea, Brian mentors and represents inventors and celebrities throughout the process. On his Got Invention Radio show, he has interviewed the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and Lori Greiner from ABC's Shark Tank. www.brianfried.com Join akaRadioRed for Read My Lips: Serial Creatives Paying It Forward!

Producer/host akaRadioRed’s Cool Conversations with Creatives welcomes two determined, dedicated, successful creatives. Cindy Cipriani, co-owner of Cipriani Remodeling, transformed her life from the depths of despair to an award-winning multi-million-dollar builder, home remodeler and salesperson, mentor, author and grief recovery specialist. Based on her business ventures and personal experiences, Cindy trains corporate teams with “The 5C Solution™ – Discover Clarity and Confidence in Times of Change.” When she's on duty as a military police officer, Mychelle Bell’s uniform is itchy and unflattering. She’d always wanted to be in the fashion world but was alarmed by toxic polyester. In 2018, she started Belle Clothing & Accessories Company, sourcing plant-based fabrics and natural dyes from India to create stylish, quality, medicinal pieces of investment that transform a woman’s lifestyle. Join akaRadioRed to Power-up Your Creativity: From Challenges to Celebration!

akaRadioRed welcomes two non-stop creatives who keep pushing boundaries. New Yorker Joanna Bonaro is an actress, writer, producer, and snger who has appeared on TV’s Law and Order: SVU, Boardwalk Empire, The Sopranos, on film and Off-Broadway. She created and stars in the comedy TV pilot, Good 'n Screwed. Joanna formed brainybeautyproductions.com to advocate for and create female-driven content for women 40+. She created and hosts the Terrace Truth Talkin’ podcast for women in their 40s–60s. Brad Forenza is a writer of original films and plays, and a performer. His solo show, Squeaky (Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme), has performed around the US. As an actor, Brad has appeared in theatre, TV, and film, including the upcoming feature, A Case of Blue. “If I understood anything from Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George, it was that art is about communicating something new…saying something fresh and novel in spite of risk.” Join akaRadioRed for Read My Lips: Creatives Acting Out!

akaRadioRed welcomes two outspoken creatives. Rev. Dr. Angela Yarber, queer clergywoman, professor, and author, has painted 150+ folk-feminist iconography paintings, collages, and subversive sister saints that have been featured on the Tiny House Nation TV show, NPR’s Progressive Spirit, Ms. Magazine, and Maya Angelou’s Memorial Celebration. Her non-profit, The Tehom Center, empowers marginalized women through art, writing, retreats, and academic courses. tehomcenter.org Gregor Collins went from producing reality TV to acting on stage, TV and independent feature films. He is the author of The Accidental Caregiver, chronicling his experience caring for Holocaust refugee Maria Altmann. Gregor’s side-project is the iphone video micro-documentary series, Humans in My Phone. His advice: “It's just not enough to do what you love. That's not living. Do what you love, with love. That's living.” gregorcollins.com/humansinmyphone Join akaRadioRed for Read My Lips: Loving Your Creativity!

Producer/host akaRadioRed’s Cool Conversations with Creatives welcomes two passionate creatives. Jessica Klingbaum, Certified Aromatherapist, is an essential oils expert and educator. She started her company, Be Hip and Healthy, after 20+ years as an Emmy-nominated TV producer “because network news to essential oils is the natural next step, right?” Jessica teaches the massive benefits of incorporating essential oils into our everyday home life and work life. Susan Corso’s life is eclectic, to put it mildly. An ordained minister with a 35+-year spiritual counseling practice, she has worked on Broadway and is also the author of two series of novels. The Mex Mysteries are about a high femme intuitive investigator who solves shady mysteries involving Broadway, finding answers in the show lyrics. And, under the pseudonym Vivienne Hartt Quinn, she writes the Butch-Femme romance series, Boots & Boas. Join akaRadioRed for Read My Lips: Open The Damn Door When The Creative Muse Knocks!

akaRadioRed welcomes two creative powerhouses. In 2014, life coach Kate Johnson took her own advice and followed her passions: raising goats, making cheese and teaching. Now the owner and main Cheese Coach at the artisan cheesemaking school The Art of Cheese, Kate is a regular contributor to Countryside Network’s Goat Journal. Her fourth book, Tiny Goat, Big Cheese!, is part memoir and part cookbook. Before becoming a screenwriter, Samantha Shad was a Beverly Hills entertainment attorney and member of the bar in three states. She has written 20 feature film scripts for major Hollywood studies, including Class Action (Twentieth Century Fox), and feature length and episodic television for the major TV networks, including the long form movie Vanished Without A Trace (NBC-Universal). Samantha is the author of The Write To Happiness: How to Write Stories That Change Your Brain and Your Life”. Join akaRadioRed for Read My Lips: The Sweet Taste of Creative Success.

Producer/host akaRadioRed’s Cool Conversations with Creatives welcomes two well-read creatives. While doing research for her memoir, The Other Madisons: The Lost History of A President's Black Family, retired pediatrician Bettye Kearse discovered the creative roles food and wine played when President James Madison and Dolley entertained at the White House. Tune in to find out if a famous ice cream brand was named after this first lady. www.BettyeKearse.com Red welcomes back Susan Corso, an ordained minister and spiritual counselor who applies her experiences working on Broadway to the plots, colorful characters and detailed sites of her novels. In The Mex Mysteries series, a high femme intuitive investigator solves shady mysteries involving Broadway by sleuthing the show lyrics for answers. And under the pseudonym Vivienne Hartt Quinn, Susan writes the Butch-Femme romance series, Boots & Boas. susancorso.com Join akaRadioRed for Read My Lips: Let’s Drink to Creativity!

Producer/host akaRadioRed’s Cool Conversations with Creatives welcomes two determined, dedicated, successful creatives. Cindy Cipriani, co-owner of Cipriani Remodeling, transformed her life from the depths of despair to an award-winning multi-million-dollar builder, home remodeler and salesperson, mentor, author and grief recovery specialist. Based on her business ventures and personal experiences, Cindy trains corporate teams with “The 5C Solution™ – Discover Clarity and Confidence in Times of Change.” When she served as a military police officer, Mychelle Bell’s required uniform was itchy and unflattering. She’d always wanted to be in the fashion world but was alarmed by toxic polyester. In 2018, she started Belle Clothing & Accessories Company, sourcing plant-based fabrics and natural dyes from India to create stylish, quality, medicinal pieces of investment that transform a woman’s lifestyle. Join akaRadioRed to Power-up Your Creativity: From Challenges to Celebration!

Producer/host akaRadioRed’s Cool Conversations with Creatives welcomes two dedicated creatives. We’ll drink in advice on happiness, pandemic isolation and business success from Susie Selby, award-wining owner and winemaker of Selby Winery in Healdsburg, CA. Susie attributes her early success to being an “exceptionally good forklift operator”, cellar master and assistant winemaker. She’s made wine for actors and athletes and was featured at the White House by three administrations. William L. Silvaneus’s life has centered on human services, mostly with disenfranchised individuals and trauma victims – the subjects of his thriller novel, A CERTAIN MERCY–Why Are Grand Islands Most Vulnerable Dying Violently? The Immediate Past President of the Nebraska Writers Guild, he has published nonfiction articles and written adult curriculum for 30+ years, and enjoys watercolor painting, ornamental egg decorating, and writing poetry. Join akaRadioRed for Take A Sip from the Creativity Fountain!

Producer/host akaRadioRed’s Cool Conversations with Creatives welcomes two triumphant creatives. At 23, Ellie from the Deli Peterson was divorced and raising three children on $80 a week. Her body was unhealthy, her mind chaotic, her spirit full of fear, self-pity, anger, worthlessness. To heal herself, Ellie created the Meditative Movements™ technique, which reduces anxiety, depression, and fatigue, and improves emotional and functional well-being for chronic health issues. meditativemovements.com. CJ “The Badass Grandma” Scarlet wrote Badass Parenting: An Irreverent Guide to Raising Safe, Savvy, Confident Kids and PG-rated Heroic Parenting to help parents transform their kids into little badasses who can protect and defend themselves from dangerous people. A former roller-skating carhop, forest firefighter, and U.S. Marine photojournalist, CJ is one of the “Happy 100” people on the planet. www.cjscarlet.com Join akaRadioRed for The Creativity Brick Road: From Mad to Glad!

Producer/host akaRadioRed’s Cool Conversations with Creatives welcomes two very successful creatives. Novelist Jan Hurst’s autobiographical romantic drama story, His Sunrise My Sunset, inspired the 2019 movie, Sunrise in Heaven starring Corbin Bernsen. A widow, mother, grandmother, and retired executive, Jan built a business career over 30 very eclectic years in multiple business disciplines. She and her husband, Steve, were married 44 years, the first 24 spent following his Air Force career. Comedian and writer Eddie Sarfaty’s acerbic stand-up captures the everyday absurdities of life, blending self-deprecation and sarcasm with a sharp instinct for the ridiculous. Mental: Funny in the Head is a collection of his humorous autobiographical essays. Eddie teaches standup and improv. Join akaRadioRed for The Creative Spark: Bringing Your Life Story to Life.

Producer/host akaRadioRed’s Cool Conversations with Creatives welcomes two passionate creatives. Deb Colameta found a formula for decluttering and financial success by leveraging the power of online yard sales. Her #1 best-selling Best Offer, Best Life! uses entertaining stories to motivate people to sell their household excess through social media. She hosts the popular podcast Upcycling with Deb and runs live workshops and DEBinars on how to achieve selling success online. TheDebSite.com Dave Rogers is a serial investorpreneur, mastermind facilitator, speaker and author. With investments in more than 50 companies, he shares real life experiences and infuses humour, wisdom and alternative perspectives into workshops, keynotes, masterminds and consulting services. Dave the author of Awesome Coaching, Rev Up Your Coaching Business and co-author of Entrepreneur X Factor, Six Dimensions of TOP Achievers. continualshift.com Join akaRadioRed for Read My Lips: The Creativity X-Factor.

Producer/host akaRadioRed’s Cool Conversations with Creatives welcomes two passionate creatives. Jessica Klingbaum, Certified Aromatherapist, is an essential oils expert and educator. She started her company, Be Hip and Healthy, after 20+ years as an Emmy-nominated TV producer “because network news to essential oils is the natural next step, right?” Jessica teaches the massive benefits of incorporating essential oils into our everyday home life and work life. Susan Corso’s life is eclectic, to put it mildly. An ordained minister with a 35+-year spiritual counseling practice, she has worked on Broadway and is also the author of two series of novels. The Mex Mysteries are about a high femme intuitive investigator who solves shady mysteries involving Broadway, finding answers in the show lyrics. And, under the pseudonym Vivienne Hartt Quinn, she writes the Butch-Femme romance series, Boots & Boas. Join akaRadioRed for Read My Lips: Open The Damn Door When The Creative Muse Knocks!