Burke Allen's Big Time Talker Podcast — by SpeakerMatch

Richard V. Battle is a business consultant, speaker and the author of six books including his latest award-winning Conquering Life’s Course-Common Sense In Chaotic Times. Not immune to personal challenges, Richard has survived an apartment fire that his neighbor died, experienced financial ruin with the Texas real estate collapse in the 1980’s, divorce, experienced two heart procedures, survived c...

Dreama Denver is our guest today on the Big Talker Podcast to talk all things Gilligan, plus Dobie Gillis and her new children's book "Four Bears In A Box"!  Visit Dreama online at www.bobdenver.com. 

Molecular Geneticist turned FEAR Strategist, Author, TEDx/International Speaker Robin Joy Meyers helps us understand the actual, real science of fear, which couldn't be more timely as we all deal with the coronavirus pandemic Robin specializes in science-based strategies and techniques for self-awareness, mindset, leadership, balance/boundaries and what she calls the "positive power of fear." We'l...

The book Einstein's Compass and the fictional adventures of it's lead character, a young Albert Einstein, has often been compared to another teenaged science whiz, Harry Potter! Listen as host Burke Allen talks with Einstien author Grace Allison Blair about her award winning Young Adult novel, and why March 14 (observed as ‘Pi Day’ celebrating the popular and well-known mathematical constant ‘pi’)...

Intimate and deeply moving, WHERE IS NANCY? (see the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62p9Ik1ceOQ), the new documentary feature from acclaimed indie filmmaker Thiago Dadalt and Producer Dru Miller, will have it's world premiere at the Cinequest Film and Creativity Festival Sunday, March 8th at 5:00 p.m., at the Hammer Theatre in San Jose, California.  The heartache begins when Nancy P...

Phoenix, Oregon is a touching new film comedy of midlife reinvention and the redeeming power of friendship along with pizza, bowling, and comic book art.  Defying their shared murky midlife haze, Bobby, a bartender and aspiring graphic novelist played by James Le Gros (Drugstore Cowboy, Living In Oblivion and co-star of the new Amazon Prime Al Pacino series Hunters) and his best friend, chef Carlo...

Richard Battle, speaker, advisor and award-winning author of  Conquering Life’s Course and several other well received books will be joining Burke Allen, host of BlogTalk Radio tomorrow, January 15 at 10:30 am ET for an inspiring conversation on how to overcome grief. Battle and his wife lost their 9-month-old son suddenly and unexpectedly, and Richard also experienced a death in his family on Chr...

How would you feel if you woke up one morning to learn the name you've used all your life is NOT your real name? And, when you find out why, it leads to you uncovering your direct connection to an infamous murder mystery in a small midwestern town in the 1920's, the results of which are still reverberating today. Heart of Steel is an incredible true story that begins when Air Force veteran Kevin M...

Join host Burke Allen and his special guest Jack Owens, retired FBI agent and SWAT team leader and author. Jack shares his thoughts and considerable insight from 30 years with the bureau on gun ownership, assault weapons bans, mental health of shooters and how the FBI interacts with local law enforcement to try to keep us safe. Interestingly, in his FBI career spanning over three decades, Jack nev...

Join host Burke Allen and his special guest Dr. Stephen Cook from Virginia Theological seminary. The noted author and speaker will share his thoughts on the "thoughts and prayers" rhetoric that follows incidents of tragic gun violence in the wake of deadly shootings in El Paso and Dayton, what the Bible says about mental illness, and how a loving God could permit incidents like this to happen.  It...

Former Assistant Chief US Senate Watergate Committee counsel David Dorsen moves away from his scholarly non-fiction works to delve into a contemporary and witty fictional account of President Donald J Trump in his new novel Moses v Trump.  Moses v Trump opens with a New York federal judge mourning the death of his wife and wondering what direction his life will turn. That’s when the libel case (Mo...

AUGIE'S WAR is an outrageously funny, but deadly serious story of growing up and coming of age as the son of Italian American immigrants in small town America...and then serving in the Vietnam war.   Young soldier Augie Cumpton must find a way to survive his deployment to Vietnam. So he escapes the horror and insanity of war by retreating to his safe haven; a cerebral sanctuary where he can reflec...

Award winning author Prestell Askia has dedicated a quarter century to finding solutions for committed couples with challenges in their relationships. Her advice, stemming from interviews with some 500 couples, is not for those teetering on the edge of divorce. She is not a therapist, a psychologist or a psychiatrist. She is the "Love Doctor". In her book. she takes the reader through the pieces o...

In the wake of the mail bombing scare and the horrific shootings at the synagogue in Pittsburgh, much discussion is taking place about how to best tamp down the escalating rhetoric on both sides that has led to political violence. Former John McCain campaign staffer, Army vet, and physician/researcher Dr. Rob Cohen recently spent time interviewing historian and author Dr. Peter Turchin about this...

"Chronological age", according to C. Vicki Gold, “is just a number". She says all you need to do is Learn your ABCs! In this case, Align, Breathe and Center. A highly experienced physical therapist and passionate presenter and educator, Ms. Gold is on a mission to demonstrate how nearly everyone can enjoy a full, more active life by learning a few basic movement principles and techniques. For a mo...

It can be said with some certainty, Dustin Turner is the Navy SEAL left behind, as if he had been abandoned in a clandestine SEAL operation on some far-away beach.  In 1995, Turner had successfully completed SEAL training and was about to receive his Trident insignia. He had received orders to Central America. Then, his world was turned upside down. “Dusty” Turner has spent more than half his life...

Award winning author Prestell Askia has dedicated a quarter century to finding solutions for committed couples with challenges in their relationships. Her advice, stemming from interviews with some 500 couples, is not for those teetering on the edge of divorce. She is not a therapist, a psychologist or a psychiatrist. She is the "Love Doctor". In her book. she takes the reader through the pieces o...

SURVIVING DREAMLAND is a historical fiction novel by Bill Penoyar based on what he observed during his time in Iraq with the US Agency for International Development. While in country, he assisted the U.S. reconstruction efforts in Anbar, Baghdad, Basrah, and Erbil Provinces and also served as the USAID adviser for the RegionalThreat Team, Strategic OperationsDirectorate, in support of United State...

Join host Burke Allen as he talks with NASA Engineer Russell Werneth about his work on the Hubble Space Telescope and training astronauts with future New York Times best selling author, Homer Hickam.  Russ will also give his thoughts on NASA and their collaboration and competition with private companies like SpaceX and more. Russel L. Werneth holds master’s degrees in mechanical engineering and en...

What if a doctor in the Washington, DC area discovered how to solve a healthcare financing problem that has been around for what seems a millennium?  What if he wrote a book describing how he would virtually solve the health crisis that has vexed the experts and caused political turmoil and divisiveness for years?  What if he based his monetary incentives aimed at creating a healthy America by rew...

They say you never get a second chance to make a first impression.  Dr. Edward Dreyfus believes that cliche went out the window years ago.  He's been making first, second and third impressions for 80 years, and, as he says, "I'm just warming up." Dreyfus, a Los Angeles-based clinical psychologist, sex therapist, life coach, author and holder of a black belt in karate, takes a line from the 19th Ce...

Academy award winning screenwriter Ted Tally (Silence of the Lambs) calls THE SPECTRUM CONSIRACY "...a wild, white knuckle ride, pedal to the metal right from page one!"  We talk with author Craig Faris about his new book, the craft of writing a great thriller, and how the rough and tumble politics influenced his book.  Don't miss this fascinating conversation with one of the hottest up and coming...

Join host Burke Allen and his guest, author Cary Allen Stone for a chilling look at human nature in a context where the lines between right and wrong become sadly blurred. "Through A Mother's Eyes" is a compelling account of one woman's life, and what drove her to kill her six-year-old son. Stone interviewed the Mother behind bars, and his harrowing book explores how everyday choices shape our per...

T.T. Michael Perhaps you wouldn’t characterize the Finance Manager of your local automobile dealership as an Amazon best-selling author—until you get to know T.T. Michael. He has worked for the past decade at a Toyota Dealership in Illinois, but he is in the driver’s seat as the writer of, Fire War, a political thriller set in the year 2076. See what happens when the United States, Canada, and Mex...

MayCay Beeler is a spirited vivacious American aviatrix, record breaking pilot, best-selling multi award-winning author, television personality, veteran TV host/producer/journalist, spokesperson, and active FAA Certified Flight Instructor with a passion for all things flying. BUCCANEER - THE PROVOCATIVE ODYSSEY OF JACK REED - ADVENTURER, DRUG SMUGGLER AND PILOT EXTRAORDINAIRE WINNER 2016 Hollywood...