The Monica Sanford Show

I sit down with Courtney Martin. She's a popular Mommy Blogger, author, entrepreneur and owner of The Courtney Martin Mindset program, helping change the way you think about everything! Helping people find meaning and purpose. She spent 16 years in a very high paced, highly competitive, high stress Pharmeceutical and Cardiac Device sales industry. She was award winning, and tops in sales, unti...

I loved sitting down with these 2; I have known them and worked with them at multiple hospitals. I finally get them to answer my questions about some Hot Topics! This is not my specialty, so I had to bring in some experts! They discuss Women's Health, Men's Health, specializing in Hormones and Weight Loss, YAS the SHOTS that everyone is talking about. Thx to my guests: Dr. Alex Spence and...

I sit down with Attorney Troy Rafferty, with Levin, Papantonio Rafferty Law Firm in Pensacola, FL and the paralegal on his legal team, Ms. Taxie Lambert. We discuss the Landmark Legislation that brought 20million dollars in Compensation to the Dozier School for Boys Survivors. The young boys endured beatings, rape, and torture and some did not make it out of the State run 'reform school' f...

Dr. Tina Taylor, PhD and Program Director of the New Direct Entry Masters in Nursing and Dr. Billy Morales, DNP, and Program Director of the MSN program and Assistant Professor of Clinical Practice. They discuss all the nursing programs offered at UWF in Pensacola. We talk about the amazing leadership of UWF and instructors that are making a difference and preparing the next generation of the Nurs...

I sit down with Ashlee Hofberger, an Entrepreneur, Business owner, Certified Human Resource Leader, Owner of the Wash-Room and now has thrown her hat in the political arena to Run for the open D4 Escambia County Commissioner. She is a Pensacola native, graduate from University of West FL and is ready to tackle local infrastructure, economics, healthcare and more! She started a restoration business...

The Man on a Mission: With a City Motto One City One Mission! I sat down with Mr. Tim Bolduc, the City Manager of Crestview, Florida, the Okaloosa County Seat and nickname Hub City. The city has seen incredible growth with the military, industry, commercial and residential construction, an I-10 bypass, schools, and more. Under his leadership, over the past 5 years, he has been instrumental in the...

Jason Boatwright, Air Force Veteran, Public Affairs Officer with the Veteran's Administration, Bachelor's and Master's, soon to be Doctorate in Social Work and former Legislative Aide for US Congressman Representative Matt Gaetz joins me today in the studio. I am a Doctor of Nursing Practice Nurse Practitioner and also a Disability Claims provider that does disability assessments and we talk about...

Linda "Sonshine" Moorer is my special Co-Host today! She has been in radio behind the scenes as a Program Director and on the mic with her own shows for 35yrs. She joins me today to talk with 2 Powerhouse motivational, consultants, speakers, authors, entrepreneurs and Leaders in the community! They share their messages of how to stay motivated and finding your focus, your purpose and mis...

It's undeniable that Waffle House has a following and it just seems to just get bigger and bigger! What is it about WH? I had questions, so, I went straight to the top! I had the pleasure of sitting down with the Past President/COO Mr. Bert Thornton and joining us in studio is who Bert called the "Next generation running the show", Northwest FL Area Vice President Ms. Krista Artinger...

Pastor Marcel Davis, former Naval Air Station Engineer and Pastor David Alexander III, former Pensacola Police Chief, join me in the studio! Holidays are stressful, financial, traveling, family, etc. I sit down with 2 legendary Pastors, and they share stories of joy, rejoice, hope, inspiration and how to deal with Holiday stress. They grew up together, went to high school together and share fun an...

What a FUN Thanksgiving episode! I sit down with these 2 award winning chefs, caterers & entrepreneurs. We chat about how they became chefs, their recent TOP Awards in the Pensacola, FL The Culinary Legends Wine & Food Classic. their future plans and goals and course their Holiday favorites to eat and to cook. Loved sitting down with these 2 power houses in the culinary world! Their Platin...

Also, on this Veteran's episode joining in on the interview is Retired Marine LtCol David Sanford.  Ryan starts with: He was at work just having a coffee. Then all hell broke out.  He was shot 6 times in a terrorist attack on US soil aboard NAS Pensacola, FL.  Hear what he was hearing, feeling and thinking while someone was trying to kill him. Minute by minute account of the 27minutes. He help...

Have you ever said something and then immediately thought "Wow, that did not come out right!"  My 2023 Summer Leadership Series ended with an amazing guest. I sit down with a linguistic expert, and we discuss everything about Talking and Communicating and how to speak clearly!  With a PhD in Linguistics and Education,  Dr. Laura Sicola has been a Leadership Communication expert, Linguist...

I had the honor to sit down with Retired Navy Captain Tim Kinsella. He talks about his new role as the Executive Director of the new Center for Leadership at University of West Florida in Pensacola, FL. Capt. Kinsella was the Base Commander for one of the largest Navy Bases in the world, home to the Blue Angels, Pensacola Naval Air Station in Pensacola, FL! Under his command he was faced with mult...

Me and my Co-host retired Lt Col David Sanford have a discussion with Steve Anderson, Author of the Wall Street Journal and USA Today Best seller, The Bezos Letters: 14 Principles to Grow your Business Like Amazon. Steve has spent 100s of hours doing a deep dive into Jeff Bezos stakeholder letters and gives us the common principles. Retired Marine Lt Col David Sanford has spent time as enlisted an...

Me and my favorite Co-Host and Marine, my husband David Sanford, sit down with Army Veteran Jamie Wells and discuss all he is doing in the community for Veterans with his Non-Profit Defenders of Freedom Florida. He talks about taking action with different stages of therapies helping with mental health, TBI, combat or non-combat related PTS for all veterans. He also discusses Collaboration with oth...

Christina sits down with me to talk about so many things! She has an MBA and after 15years in the marketing, advertising and sales in Media--TV and newspaper, she is now the Marketing Intelligence Analyst for Florida Power & Light.. She sits on numerous Non-profit Boards and tell us about numerous non-profit fun events and mission of each organization. She discusses losing her mother at a youn...

The ladies of Pensacola IMPACT 100! President Kristin Longley gives us the background on IMPACT 100 and the future! Chair of Membership Susan Bonsignore discusses what it takes to be a member! Chair of Grants Amanda Hindsman tell us how to go through the Grant Process, how we determine who gets the grants and where the money goes --> the Millions ALL go back into our local community.

12/2022: This show is also available on You Tube Channel under Monica Sanford Show Pamela Bolado is a military spouse and the Director of the Military Spouses Chamber of Commerce and small business owner. She also runs a non-profit and has fundraisers to combat human trafficking. Paulette Martin is a very popular, accomplished, chef that runs a popular live Cooking show and she shows her fabulous...

10/2022: Monica Sanford sits down with two candidates running for office in Pensacola, Fl. Escambia County Commissioner District 4 candidate Myra Van Hoose. Pensacola City Council District 6 candidate, Attorney Allison Patton. Together they discuss, safety, EMS, infrastructure, workforce development, who should run the jail, and a lot more! These two powerful ladies both have a background in corpo...

They candidly discuss the Marine Corps and should women be in Combat roles? Women in Combat Arms? Her actions in combat and the IED blast that she received a Purple Heart. They dive into the murder of her mom at the hands of domestic violence abusive relationship. Discussing Drug use. A book written about her. Then I step to the mic and discuss how she came home to be a teacher and then became an...

Healthy eating and Lifestyle Medicine-- Dr. Erin Mayfield, retired OB/GYB and Harvard certified Lifestyle and Wellness Coach and Health Flowers, RN and Certified Plant Based Chef talk about Improving Quality of Life through Eating.  How to manage Hormones from Teens to Menopause! How to manage Good and Bad Cholesterol, and Blood pressure.  Gut health and Anti-inflammatory properties and Benefits o...

A Vantage Point Episode from one of my older shows. Cris Dosev is a retired Marine, a proud conservative Family Man- married over 30yrs and involved in Veterans affairs. He is a Real Estate Developer, and we dive into the real estate market and infrastructure of the District. He is a former candidate for US House District 1 against Matt Gaetz and we discuss that race and now a Candidate for FL Hou...

2020: A Vantage Point show, previously on SoundCloud. There was So Much going on with these two! Ron tells us all about his military days in the Navy and advocacy for his community and of course his plans for D5 if elected. Maggie tells us all about being a Marketing Exec for a Casino and a widely successful woman in business, marketing, hospitality industry.

This was the Most Listened to Episode! This is from my old show Vantage Point. DEC 2019 Malcolm Thomas was the school Superintendent and was the Last elected to the office. At this time the newly appointed Superintendent was waiting to take office. Mr. Thomas sat down to talk about his long time in education, Teachers, School Finance, Parent involvement and more. Of course, we Dive into the Superi...