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Today I spoke with Cevin Solvin about "The War on Kids: Why This Filmmaker Wants to End Compulsory Schooling"

Cevin has made documentary's and written the book The Student Resistance Handbook.

Cevin Soling stands as a pioneering force in American literature and filmmaking, seamlessly weaving profound narratives across both mediums.

Renowned for his innovative storytelling, Soling’s literary works and cinematic creations redefine...

Madelyn Simon can only be described as an original go getter.

In 2020 when the world was locked down, Madelyn started to think about the stories she once told, and inspired by her own life and art, she put ideas to paper and through her art teacher, pictures filled the words on the page and Poppy came to life. Seven books later we have a wonderful series which helps children understand the world around them, how to find courage and...

Katherine Davis Gibbon has written has written her own unique books to help children learn words is a way only the visual mind can understand.

Words children can learn, and the way they can learn is an amazing process where the word is a character a thoughtful process which brings a word into a 3D concept, a person, an analogy, a metaphor, so much more than a one dimensional space.

This process of illustration not only helps a chil...

Annie Fox is an author of books for children and teens.

Annie loves making art, baking, gardening, photography, hiking in the San Francisco Bay Area, traveling, and, most of all, being with her husband David and her family, including Gracie the Dog.

The Little Things That Kill: A Teen Friendship Afterlife Apology Tour was her debut novel and Leeta Simtar: A Life on Two Planets is her latest.

Every author has a journey.

Mine beg...

Kit Karson is an author who sends some of her day, day dreaming the perfect way to murder someone and it's all part of good research. When you write murder mysteries, you spend a lot of time thinking about how to plan a murder, what motivates a killer, and how do they get caught.

We dive into the writing process and how Kit discovers her characters, the writing process and how she doesn't know herself who the killer is.

Kit Karson ...

On November 5, 2017, Devin Kelley shot and killed 26 people and wounded 22 others at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, United States. Kelley was subsequently shot and wounded, then killed himself.

It is the deadliest mass shooting in Texas history and the deadliest at an American place of worship, surpassing the Charleston church shooting of 2015.

Kelley was then confronted by and traded fire with Stephen Wille...

David Singer is an internationally acclaimed musician whose performances include the White House for President Jimmy Carter and later for President Bill Clinton.

He was a guest artist for many seasons with the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society and performed chamber music concerts with Yehudi Menuhin, Yo-Yo Ma, Rudolf Serkin and members of the Guarneri and Emerson String Quartets.

David Singer is an Emeritus co-Principal Clarin...

Today I spoke with Dr Callaghan, who has worked around the world from Cardiff to Paris, helping the ingredient suppliers to cosmetics companies understand the law, the application of the law and consumer rights.

Dr Callaghan knows what right and wrong and knows what the cosmetic companies don't tell you.

Do you know the dangers of buying from farmers markets?

Do you know the regulations around organic foundation?

Do you know wh...

THE LIFE GUIDE FOR TEENS is all about empowerment.

This one-of-a-kind self-help book is designed to help teen readers take ownership of their own wellness, problem-solving, and growth.

Renowned pediatrician and Psychology Today contributor Dr. Anbar has helped thousands of teens through mental and physical health challenges—not by solving their problems for them, but by helping them tap into their inner wisdom, strength, and resi...

Alex R Johnson is a film make, producer, Writer, Father, Husband, you get the idea.

Most of all he's a passionate man who loves to write, create, to tell stories and today we talk about the agony of writing and why it has so much pleasure.

The book is set in 1990's and the main character is a private investigator in Mayor Rudy Giuliani's New York, and what a time to be in New York, all the energy and excitement, that is unless you'...

Air Traffic Controller Harold tells me about his life from growing up in poverty to working as an Air Traffic Controller, and along the way I tell him how young he looks.

Harold's amazing story starts with his life growing up with a schizophrenic mother who bullied him, and despite all of this.

Harold still went to School and to college, and then changed paths when he learnt there was a life controlling what was in the air.

Where t...

Dr joe Joe McManus and I discuss the motivations behind his book and his personal experience growing up and why he became an advocate for change.

Where are the lines of division, the differences between the US and Europe, the history of slavery and impact it still has today. Most of all in this episode you had two people with different experiences and different opinions, talking and listening.

As we all should! and then maybe w...

Does anyone know when Motown really started it, and who really started it. The music was influenced by the generations before, it's roots deep in Gospel Music and God.

The two synonymous with each other, and one Band in particular Gladys Knight and The Pips can stake a claim to the title.

There's so much more to the story and Lady Dhyana Ziegler knows more than most. As a child growing up in the family she saw first hand how the ba...

In this episode I spoke with Robert Walker about his trilogy of books.

A fictional story at the heart of a medieval fantasy. Is it good vs evil, or rich vs poor and we discus how corruption takes over good people and makes them do things they'd always sworn to protect.

The nearly finished trilogy is filled with medieval battles and political corruption and takes the reader on a journey to somewhere not yet finished.

Robert Walke...

Alretha Thomas is an actress and a write, but which came first and how did the skillset evolve. Learning to tell her story and understanding the art of acting is telling the story of the person, the character will spill their own beans if you can stay in the moment.

Alretha explains how staying present enables the character to step into their own.

Using experience, imagination Alretha beautifully explains how she brings characters ...

In today's episode I spoke with Michelle and we discussed her new book, The Lunatic and what happens when the protagonist gives up their social media.

And is this a dilemma many of us have experienced.

Do we feel like slaves to our phone, and are too afraid to put them down.

The Lunatic delves into this dilemma, alongside the everyday life of someone who works in a book store.

The broader scope of The Lunatic lies in the real w...