Burke Allen's Big Time Talker Podcast — by SpeakerMatch

Our 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 consum...

Our 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...

Brand 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...

If 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...

This 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 c...

Speaker, 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 hote...

In 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 w...

In 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 differen...

In 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 time...

Times 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 e...

Go 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 becomin...

Today'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...

This 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,...

From 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...

In 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 th...

Today'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...

Today'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...

Going 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...

Dr. 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 gu...

The 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 pharmaceuti...

Author 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...

Filipino 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'...

Don 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 show...

Musician, 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...

How 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 Th...