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November 1, 2010 Jeff Cavins
Jeff Cavins is recognized both nationally and internationally as an exciting public speaker and Bible teacher. He communicates the Catholic faith at a level that everyone can understand, taking theological truths and expressing them in a practical way. He is the creator of the popular Great Adventure Bible Study series published by Ascension Press.
November 8, 2010 Martino Cartier Martino Cartier Owner, Stylist at Martino Cartier Salon at Giovanni & Pileggi Sewell, New Jersey
November 8, 2010 David Raymond
The Emperor of Fun and Games Biographical Sketch: "Fun Making Money" Moving directly from college student to campy green fur-ball, Dave Raymond pioneered the field of sports mascots with his innovative inhabitation of the world-renowned Phillie Phanatic. He was the original Phanatic, and his vision and performance skill spawned a revolution in the mascot industry, leading sportscaster and baseball analyst Tim McCarver to name the Phanatic the "best mascot in baseball" in 1993.
November 13, 2010 Kirk DeWindt
Known for his level-headed approach to love, Kirk DeWindt is best know for his attempt at sweeping Ali Fedotowski off her feet on ABC's prime time show, "The Bachelorette." (Unfortunately, his attempt failed after bringing her back to meet the family). Currently residing in Minneapolis, MN, this down home midwestern boy was brought up learning how to make his own fun. Kirk is currently the owner of his own personal training business, hosts social and radio events, and fills in as a co-host on Twin Cities Live on ABC.
November 22, 2010 Stephanie Dolgoff
Stephanie Dolgoff is the author of My Formerly Hot Life (Random House). She writes for many magazines, including Self, Health and Parenting, and blogs for More.com, as well as her own popular blog formerlyhot.com. She has been a contributing editor at Real Simple and editor-at-large at Parenting, the features director at Self, and the executive editor at Glamour. Among other publications, she's written for The New York Times, the New York Post, O: The Oprah Magazine, Fitness, Parents, Redbook and Ladies Home Journal. Stephanie lives with her husband and twin girls in Manhattan.
November 22, 2010 Lisa Figueredo:
Lisa Figueredo Lisa M. Figueredo is the Publisher of Cigar City Magazine, a Bi-Monthly publication available for subscription. Lisa's shares her vision, and passion regarding her blended culture, history, and family with this motto: Rediscover. Remember. Relive. http://cigarcitymagazine.com
November 29, Joseph Pillsbury
Joseph Pillsbury is the author of The Prank which won the 2010 Next Generation Indie Award for Best Young Adult Fiction. He is also the creator of the world's first web cartoon strip, www.Bogworld.com www.bogworld.com . To purchase Joseph's book, The Prank, www.thepranknovel.com .
November 29, 2010 Mike Sullivan
Michael J. Sullivan is the author of Necessary Heartbreak. He is an author and writer living in New York who graduated from St. John's University. Michael hosted several news and sports radio shows on WGBB on Long Island, NY, and WEVD 1050AM (now ESPN radio) in New York City. He also worked on the ESPN college basketball show and contributed college and high school hoop information to SportingNews.com. Sullivan is currently working on the second book of the trilogy called The Greatest Christmas. His agent, Irene Webb (irenewebb.com), i
December 1, 2010 Janet Zappala
Janet Zappala is a six-time Emmy Award winner, a Golden Mike recipient, and an
Associated Press First Place Award Winner. She spent many years in front of the camera as a TV Anchorwoman for Philadelphia and Los Angeles. She is a Certified Nutritional Consultant and Author of My Italian Kitchen~Home-Style
Recipes Made Lighter & Healthier. To purchase Janet's book, My Italian Kitchen,
go to www.janetzappala.com
December 1, 2010 G.L. Henderson G.L. Henderson Author, Radio Personality and The King of Relationship Drama www.artistfirst.com Wednesday 10pmEST/7pmPST
December 8, 2010 Emily Cavins
Emily is the author of My Heart Is a Violin: The Autobiography of Renowned Violinist/Composer and Holocaust Survivor Shony Alex Braun www.shonyalexbraun.com and co-editor of Amazing Grace for Mothers. She is the developer of the “Great Adventure Kids” www.greatadventureonline.com bible study materials that center around teaching children the plan of salvation history and based on her husband Jeff’s The Bible Timeline: The Story of Salvation bible study available through Ascension Press. Emily and Jeff lead annual pilgrimages to the Holy Land to walk in the footsteps of Jesus, and to Greece, Turkey and Rome. Emily has written “Family Night” which brings the Sunday bible readings alive with activities, snacks and discussion questions, found at www.catholicfamilynight.com. She is currently a student at the University of Minnesota finishing her degree in Classical and Near Eastern Archeology. She has participated in several archaeological digs in Israel. Emily is the proud mother of three daughters, Carly, Jaki and Antonia. One of her favorite hobbies is traveling with her husband of over thirty years, Jeff Cavins.
November 8, 2010 Toni Branner
Toni T. Branner is the director of Fitness Concepts; a professional speaking and wellness consulting firm in Charlotte, NC that provides seminars on topics of anti-aging, peak performance, athletic motivation, stress management, and optimal exercise programs. Toni is a National Marketing Director for NSA Juice Plus. She is the fitness director for the Mecklenburg Aquatic Club where she designed unique fitness and strength programs for all ages for 20 years.
December 15, 2010 Don Shapiro
Don Shapiro is the author of the book in the making “Life Is A Fork In The Road” about following our inner wisdom to make better choices. He is collecting real life stories and insights so he can discover core truths about how we can listen and trust messages of guidance we receive from within us and beyond us. This book project has already attracted over 16,000 fans from 155 countries on Facebook www.facebook.com/lifeisaforkintheroad
December 15, 2010 Kim Barnoin
Kim Barnouin is the co-author of Skinny Bitch, a book that has been a New York Times bestseller for over two years and has sold more than 2 million copies and has been translated into 23 languages. Since penning the first tough-love manifesto, she has followed up with four more books in the Skinny Bitch series. Her "Healthy Bitch Daily" blog (www.healthybitchdaily.com), launched in 2009, delivers advice on food, fitness, sex, money, shopping, and more. Kim holds an MA in Holistic Nutrition. She lives with her husband and son in Los Angeles, CA. Kim's SKINNY BITCH:Ultimate Everyday Cookbook of Crazy Delicious Recipes that are Good to the Earth and Great for Your Bod on sale now Running Press.
December 22, 2010 Valerie Frankel
Valerie Frankel is a bestselling novelist and an award-winning journalist. She's written twenty books (e.g., The Accidental Virgin and The Girlfriend Curse), and contributed to dozens of publications including the New York Times, Self, Allure, Glamour, Parenting and Good Housekeeping. Her memoir, Thin Is the New Happy, about overcoming bad body image after 30 years of dieting and self-loathing, was recently described as "Rueful, zestful and surprisingly funny," by the New York Times. Recently, Val co-authored "Men Are Stupid . . . And They Like Big Boobs: A Woman's Guide to Beauty Through Plastic Surgery" with the legendary Joan Rivers.
December 22, 2010 David Nghiem
Dave's book, Jackfruit is based on his expeditions as he cycled through ten
countries for 300 days ~ 2000 miles through Peru, Bolivia, Central
America, and Mexico. On his second expedition he cycled 3729 miles between Peru, Brazil, and Argentina.
December 29, 2010 Meg Corrigan
Meg is the author of Then I am Strong: Moving from My Mother's Daughter to God's Child. The story chronicles Meg's existence with her alcoholic mother, her codependent father, and her over-responsible sister. After surviving a rape at gunpoint, Meg turned to God.
December 29, 2010 Leonard Simone
Leonard has been working and living in Southeast Asia since 1992, designing and manufacturing jewelry for various markets around the world.
Leonard is going to tell us why an American from New Jersey decided to live in Thailand and how he was in Vietnam when it first opened up to Americans in 1993-1994
December 29, 2010 Ty Brown
Ty was on Ali's season of the Bachelorette and is now "livin" his dream as a country singer with a really cool new CD out!!! Listen to this interview Ty even plays his music for us!
January 5, 2011 Jean Chatzky
Jean Chatzky, award-winning journalist and best-selling author, is the financial editor for NBC’s Today, a contributing editor for More Magazine, and a columnist for The New York Daily News. She blogs daily at www.JeanChatzky.com
She is the author of seven books, including her newest, Not Your Parents’ Money Book: Making, Saving, and Spending Your Own Money, and recent release, Money 911: Your Most Pressing Money Questions Answered, Your Money Emergencies Solved, a New York Times best seller. She is also the author of The Difference: How Anyone Can Prosper in Even the Toughest Times and best sellers Pay It Down: From Debt to Wealth on $10 A Day (New York Times and Business Week best seller) and Make Money, Not Excuses (Wall Street Journal and New York Times best seller).
In 2010, Jean was honored with the Books for a Better Life award for her book The Difference, and in 2009, the Consumer Federation of America awarded Jean the Betty Furness Consumer Media Service Award for her nearly two decades of pioneering personal finance education. She has also received the Clarion Award from Women in Communications, a Gracie Award from American Women in Radio & Television, Inc., and was named one of the best magazine columnists in the country by the Chicago Tribune. Jean lives with her family in Westchester, NY.
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January 5, 2010 Phillip Bloch
Hollywood’s premier fashion stylist Phillip Bloch has worked with Halle Berry (Golden Globes, The Emmy’s, The SAG Awards); most known for styling for her historic Oscar win, he has also styled Michael Jackson and River Phoenix (for their last photo shoots), and countless Hollywood notables such as: Sandra Bullock, Salma Hayek, Nicole Kidman, Beyonce, Jennifer Lopez, Mariah Carey, Meg Ryan, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox, Julianna Margulies, Faye Dunaway, Will and Jada Pinkett-Smith, Forest Whitaker, Charlie Sheen, Samuel L. Jackson, Jim Carrey, John Travolta.
· In addition to his styling career, Phillip is a published author, Elements of Style (Time Warner 1999) and The Shopping Diet (Simon and Schuster 2010). He has also been a contributing writer for ABC World News.com, British Elle, Fashion Quarterly and Detour. He has appeared regularly on television since 1998, as a frequent correspondent on VH1, MTV, CNN, ABC, E! and Style Network. His notable appearances on daytime television include an exclusive interview with Barbara Walters on The View, Oprah, Good Morning America, Regis & Kelly, CBS This Morning, The Today Show, and The Tyra Show. With primetime appearances on Style me with Rachel Hunter, Glam God with Vivica A. Fox, How Do I Look? America, Canada, and Britain’s Next Top Model, and Extreme Makeover, he has also done cameos on Denis Leary’s “Merry F#%$in Christmas”, and HBO’s hit show Entourage.
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· As an actor he has been featured on the big screen in a number of movies that have premiered at the Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals including but, not limited to; Bruno, The Unseen, Gospel Hill, Delirious, Dirty Laundry, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, The Intern, Death of a Dynasty, he is most recently featured in the Halston documentary Ultra Suede, and shot a cameo for in the romantic comedy Booted and the next Oliver Stone film, Wall Street 2.
January 12, 2010 Jeremy Anderson
Yes I have horses and a cowboy hat! After I retired from baseball in college (injuries), I went to law school and worked for a big law firm. I left the firm to try my luck with a little Greek girl on Season 5 of the Bachelorette, making it to the final three before a stubby snowboard instructor convinced DeAnna that it’s better to be the “Rad” one than the right one!! After two more years at the law firm I left and started my own practice. On January 11, I (along with two Dallas friends) founded Franchise Players, Inc., a sports agency currently focused on representing a roster of 6 NFL football players, 2 CFL, and 5 current draft prospects from TCU, The University of Texas at Austin, Arkansas, and The University of Oklahoma. Our website will be launching in a matter of days. I’m just a small town guy with a big heart and even bigger dreams
January 12, 2010 Michelle Kujawa Michelle Kujawa was a contestant on ABC's "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelor Pad."She is currently a college student studying medical diagnostic sonography in Orange County, California. She is quoted as saying, "I live life to the fullest and love adventure. I try anything once, if not twice. I am an Aunt to three boys and one girl. I am dating and couldn't be happier in who I am dating."
January 12, 2010 "Men Are Talking Segment" Panel of Men talking about what women are thinking. Panel included Kirk DeWindt, Lenny Simone, G.L. Henderson, Jeremy Anderson. Emails, phone questions answered. Topics from sex, money, dating, and more.
January 19, 2011 Diane Kress
Diane Kress, RD, CDE, is a registered dietitian and certified diabetes educator with more than twenty-five years' experience in medical nutrition therapy. She is well known in the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut tristate area as a leading authority on innovative diet counseling. After years of practicing as a traditional nutritionist, she researched and developed the proprietary program presented in this book, specifically for those patients who could not succeed with traditional diets. The Metabolism Miracle has already provided over six thousand of her private practice patients with remarkable results involving permanent weight loss and decreased medications with improved blood sugar, blood pressure, cholesterol, and overall well-being.
Diane Kress's specialty areas include dietary treatment of morbid obesity, weight reduction, diabetes management and prevention, metabolic syndrome, and cardiac care nutrition. She has worked in the clinical settings of hospitals, has consulted for school systems, and currently owns and directs her own private practice, the Nutrition Center of Morristown, in Morristown, New Jersey.
Janury 19, 2011 Jonathan Novack Jonathan Novack is best known for having his heart broken by Ali on ABC's The Bachelorette and The Bachelor Pad. He's appeared as a stand-up comedian, opening for big names like Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Wright and has appeared at the Houston Laff Spot and Improv, as well as the Hollywood Comedy Store, Improv, and other spots around L.A. He's been on Net, The Dish on E! Reality Obsessed, Extra TV, and is also a freelance journalist; writing for Radar Online and Life & Style Magazine. Prior to moving to LA, he spent three years pointing and smiling at KPRC- TV for millions of people in Houston, TX.
January 26, 2011 Bonnie Kaye Internationally Recognized Relationship Counselor and Author to many books including "The Gay Husband Checklist" Ms. Kaye has been a guest on Oprah, Good Morning America as well as many other media outlets..........
January 26, 2011 Jesse Kovacs Jesse Kovacs heads Kovacs Brothers’ sales, marketing and public relations efforts. Perhaps most recognizable for his stints on “The Bachelorette: Season 5” and “Bachelor Pad,” Jesse was a professional baseball player before joining the family wine business.
January 26, 2011 Jonathan Maxwell is a Georgia-based writer and editor. He holds a BA in English, along with a psychology minor and a paralegal certificate. Murderous Intellectuals: German Elites and the Nazi SS is his first book. The book examines why so many well-educated professionals- such as doctors, lawyers, and scientists- willingly joined the Nazi SS, the notorious group that spearheaded the Holocaust. His second book- Piltdown Man and Other Hoaxes- is a lighthearted examination of scientific frauds through history. As a freelance editor, he has worked for the publishing giants Harcourt and Pearson. Jonathan's book is nominated for the Allbooks Review Editor's Choice Award (Best Non/fiction Book)
February 2, 2011 Dr. Diana Kirschner Psychologist Dr. Diana Kirschner is a recurring guest on the Today Show, appeared on Oprah and starred in a PBS Special on love. Her new book is Sealing the Deal: The Love Mentor's Guide to Lasting Love. Dr. Diana has helped thousands heal from heartbreak, date terrific partners, deepen their relationships, and find lasting love. Her free date tips and relationship advice newsletter is available at her website:
February 2, 2011 David Good
David gained national notoriety in 2009 when he first appeared on ABC’s “The Bachelorette: Season 5” (Jillian Harris’ season). On the show, he won the first-impression rose. Among the male contestants, David was also chosen to be a team member for the day by the Harlem Globetrotters. This past summer David was the winner on ABC's The Bachelor Pad.
February 2, 2011 Gail Maria Forrest I’m cheap, hate to shop and have anxiety about driving more than 100 miles alone. "Shopping makes me nuts, as after 10 minutes rifling through a clothing rack I desperately run for the nearest exit with some poor sales girls running after me “Ma’am
would you like me to put something in a dressing room for you?” “No, I’m double parked” I shout back as I high tail it out the door. Sometimes it’s difficult to be me.
February 9, 2011 Immaculee Ilibajiza
Aaron McCargo
Antonella Nester