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Do you ever look at a pencil and think about how it shaped you as a child?  I fell in love with the eraser.  I couldn't stand how my writing didn't look like everybody else.  I've learned though to trust a thought.  To put it on paper to be used as a tool multiple times down the road.  

This is Play It Forward. Real people. Real stories. The struggle to Play It Forward. Episode 299 with Damon DiMarco author of Tower Stories. Damon DiMarco's Tower Stories: An Oral History of 9/11 (20th Anniversary Commemorative Edition), eternally preserves a monumental tragedy in American history through the voices of the people who were in New York City on that fateful day. At the same time, the...

I’m C.T. When I’m not hosting podcasts I’m in the real world. Everybody has to work. My job is C.S. Customer Service. Solutions, relationships and generating motivation to keep my team pumped and connected to every guest who chose to stop in to pick up a few things or large baskets with everything. This is C.T.C.S. Episode 6 Never The Same Day Twice

September 13, 2021 The one good thing about the Covid 19 lockdown has been the reimaging of how grown men are wearing their hair. Be it on the face or on the head, it looks like long and wild are back to stay. Long hair is more than a Rock Star attitude. It’s a level of here I am and this is who I am. I understand fashion fads. I grew up in the age of Farrah Fawcett and Shawn Cassidy. Then bald be...

In 2007, Chris Vaugn was arrested during a funeral for his wife and three children. He would be tried and convicted of their murders. To this day he maintains no memory of what occurred that tragic day 20 years ago. Murder in Illinois follows the complicated circumstances that led to Vaughn's conviction, as well as the forensic evidence his supporters believe proves his innocence- in attempt to an...

There are two New Orleans: the glamorous party city that tourists see and the day-to-day reality of the heavily segregated Black neighborhoods outside the French Quarter. That more real New Orleans is defined by economic inequality, street violence, drugs, and institutional racism. For the young people born and raised there, it is the land of no opportunity—indeed, many struggle just to survive to...

When you can't turn it into a do...  Stop teaching yourself how to quit...

This is Play It Forward. Real people. Real stories. The struggle to Play It Forward. Episode 298 with Zainep Mahmoud, Senior Director for Capital One Business. The latest findings and key takeaways from Capital One Business’ survey of small business owners. Zainep will discuss how business owners are feeling as the country continues to reopen, their outlook for the future, and the issues that are...

OWN’s hit series Family or Fiancé heats up the summer with an all-new season beginning Saturday, July 17. In the series – which last summer ranked #1 in its time slot across broadcast and table with African American women – couples and their disapproving families are brought together under one roof for a series of activities designed to strengthen bonds, explore differences, and see their relation...

When saying yes to everything is creating reasons to start saying no...

Full of heartbreak and despair, grief and uncertainty, but most importantly, happiness and hope, Matt intimately dives into the psychological and emotional torment that ensued after his father’s death. With heartbreaking vulnerability, he details how his incessant quest resulted in a devastating act of violence that stripped away his innocence as a young man. Now, twenty-eight and sober, he teache...

This writing instrument.  It's been part of my morning pages for nineteen years.  I don't call them pens.  It cheapens their need and that spoils their performance.  Does using several different writing instruments play with the strings connected to our heart?  What I don't do is journal on a computer. Using all ten fingers generates distance.  Besides that, the lette...

This is Play It Forward. Real people. Real stories. The struggle to Play It Forward. Episode 297 with Dometi Pongo from MTV’s True Life Crime. Dometi Pongo {pronounced dō-muh-TEE} is the host of the hit MTV series True Life Crime and multiple MTV News video franchises including its flagship digital program, “Need to Know,” which provides award-winning analysis of trending news stories.

Nick Newell will have his life story told in a new film due out on Aug. 6 with former "Teen Wolf" star Cody Christian playing the Bellator veteran and former World Series of Fighting title contender. "Notorious Nick" stars Christian alongside Barry Livingston, Kevin Pollack and Elisabeth Rohm in a film that will document Newell's rise up from the wrestling room until eventually becoming a mixed ma...

September 8, 2021 A growing thunderstorm is heard outside my writing window. Nature on the move. It’s path nearly predicted by man’s digital devices. Human emotion, what if it too could be studied and or predicted just like the weather? Would you run from the truth? Hide from the cure? Because of the actions and reactions of the past eighteen months, science is currently looking into a gel like su...

BRITTA LUNDIN’S coming-of-age story, LIKE OTHER GIRLS is at once tear-jerking and funny, thought-provoking, and real. Our preconceived notions about gender, sports, sexuality, and friendship are turned upside down in this tender and absorbing novel. LIKE OTHER GIRLS is about accepting yourself, accepting others and learning that there is no one right way to be a girl or to stand up for that right...

I have an endless desire to watch documentaries.  I believe it's because my typical sources of bad news aren't delivering new bad news.  Its a different headline but the stories are the same every day.  I've got to get my fix.  So I leap over to television to watch documentaries.  I'm not so weird.  The number most listened to podcasts around the world are crime podca...

This is Play It Forward. Real people. Real stories. The struggle to Play It Forward. Episode 296 with Karen Gravano and Karina Seabrook from Families Of The Mafia on MTV. Filmed through the lens of a true-crime docuseries, MTV’s gripping Families of the Mafia delves into the lives of five notorious mafia-tied families as they continue to navigate away from the underlying life of organized crime th...

Up-and-coming hard rock band PSIDIUM hails from the Pacific Northwest. The band wants to take hard rock in a new direction. Their debut album Blood In The Water came out in the spring of 2021. Stream the album now on digital platforms everywhere. Blood In The Water features the single "Fightin’ Time." Guitarist and vocalist Colin Burgeson says, "'Fightin' Time' is basically about that first talk y...

Amy Bruni, co-star and Executive Producer of the hit paranormal series Kindred Spirits , has over 20 years of paranormal investigation experience. Prior to that, Amy was a star of SYFY's popular paranormal program Ghost Hunters , exploring the most haunted locations in America as the team's historical researcher. Amy also runs her own paranormal travel company, "Strange Escapes", and her first boo...

September 7, 2021 I’m not a visionary. I’m visualist. I hold onto the vision of what’s in my present and turn its aura into energy. There’s endless vibrations in the atmosphere. As a writer, a spiritualist and an animal speak believer, I am present to make a choice as to which direction the path shall grow. We spend a lot of time inside negative energy because too many incredible things have come...

Six months after Paola Santiago confronted the legendary La Llorona, life is nothing like she'd expected it to be. She is barely speaking to her best friends, Dante and Emma, and what's worse, her mom has a totally annoying boyfriend. Even with her chupacabra puppy, Bruto, around, Pao can't escape the feeling that she's all alone in the world. Pao has no one to tell that she's having nightmares ag...

As a child I had a long term vision to participate with the world of broadcasting.  I paid my dues. Wait.  What constitutes such a statement?  There are no rule books or emails that lay claim to what is or isn't paying your dues.  Obscurity and denial.  Addiction and affection.  Greed and poverty.  Sacrifice and territory.  This is where my mother would step...

This is Play It Forward.  Real people.  Real stories.  The struggle to Play It Forward. Episode 295 with television, movie and voiceover actor Robert Bathurst.   You’re a coward. Time and again, as the New Year approaches, that charge is leveled against Armand Gamache. It starts innocently enough. While the residents of the Québec village of Three Pines take advantage of the de...

I’m C.T. When I’m not hosting podcasts I’m in the real world. Everybody has to work. My job is C.S. Customer Service. Solutions, relationships and generating motivation to keep my team pumped and connected to every guest who chose to stop in to pick up a few things or large baskets with everything. This is C.T.C.S. Episode 5 Whoa What’s That On The Floor?