Writers Rotation

Send us a text message about this episode! Jenny Leigh Hodgins is the founder and CEO of YourCreativeChord , where creativity and inspiration meet transformation. With over 30 years as a performing pianist, vocalist, composer, and educator, she guides individuals in nurturing creativity and transforming challenges into opportunities for a fulfilling life. Her 37-year Buddhist practice blends pract...

Send us a text message about this episode! George Jreije is the Lebanese-American author of the Shad Hadid fantasy series, the upcoming Bashir Boutros series, and the upcoming graphic novels Tarik’s Bazaar Adventure and Lilo and the League of Librarians, all with HarperCollins. He has written horror and science fiction short stories published in collaboration with UNICEF and others. He is a featur...

Send us a text message about this episode! Jess Janz is a writer, community facilitator, and creator of Dinner With Strangers, which brings 20 people from different walks of life to share their stories over a meal. Her work examines identity, connection, and what binds us all together. Jess has hosted events for Wealthsimple, lululemon, Altea Active Club, The W Hotel, and Writers Collective of Can...

Send us a text message about this episode! Juliana Piesco is a versatile multiartist whose work spans visual arts, performing arts, and literature. Born in São Paulo, Brazil, Juliana studied both Law and Arts at the Universidade de São Paulo. Over the past year, she has embraced a nomadic lifestyle, journeying across all Brazilian states and aspiring to explore every Latin American country. Julian...

Send us a text message about this episode! Megan Tusing is an actor, award-winning audiobook narrator, producer and coach raised in the Blue Ridge Mountains of West Virginia, now based in Brooklyn. She developed a love of storytelling and a passion for language at a young age when first introduced to William Shakespeare (theatre camp nerd here!), which eventually led her to pursue a career in acti...

Send us a text message about this episode! Renee Puvvada is a nonfiction book marketing consultant, author, and adventurer from Atlanta, Georgia. She has always loved writing, and she started her entrepreneurship journey selling self-published books online. Her most successful book to date about rainwater harvesting ( Harvesting Rainwater for Your Homestead , available on Amazon ) sold 10,283 copi...

Send us a text message about this episode! Christina Noll is a marketing manager with over 25 years of experience in content creation, strategy, and management. Currently, she is a project manager with WG Content, a healthcare marketing agency based in Cincinnati. Previously, she was the global strategic messaging manager for Lexmark International. During her time at Lexmark she also served as the...

Send us a text message about this episode! Liza Holland is owner of Holland Management Services and host of the “Education Perspectives” podcast. She specializes in communications and systems thinking, with a focus on bringing change to education by connecting business and education to create a school experience that better prepares students for the information age we live in today. She does this...

Send us a text message about this episode! Neil Kesterson has been a sound designer for film, video, television, radio, audiobooks, theatre, games, web, and multimedia since 1985. His very first sound design job was to recreate the Bell X-1 rocket plane breaking the sound barrier, of which pilot and aviation legend Chuck Yeager said was the most realistic depiction of the historic event he had eve...

Send us a text message about this episode! Vince Edwards has worked for Fortune 100 companies, nonprofits, banking, and financial institutions. In 2006 he started his own consulting firm, Empire Builders. As a business consultant, Vince has worked with companies from every industry and level. He has helped raise millions in capital for these companies. He has served as CEO, COO, CIO and CMO along...

Send us a text message about this episode! Sofia Hussein is  the founder and editor-in-chief of DINYA magazine . She is a creative powerhouse driven by her love for music, photography, and design. Raised in a multicultural family, Sofia's upbringing bestowed upon her a diverse set of influences that enriched her artistic perspective. With a background in fashion and costume design, Sofia purs...

Send us a text message about this episode! Henry Chien is a writer bringing investing insights to empower individual investors.   A former equity research analyst, Henry has a decade of Wall Street knowledge. His work has been used by the world's largest trading desks and investment funds, including J.P. Morgan, Citadel, Credit Suisse, and Bank of Montreal.   Henry’s work has been featured in...

Send us a text message about this episode! Hanna Wheeler is a Belgian Canadian living in Toronto, where she works as a copywriter and translator from Dutch into English. You can find her at her desk by the big window or in one of a dozen of her favorite coffee shops in the city (her favourite in Canada). As a translator, she has worked on both fiction and nonfiction, from historical biographies an...

Send us a text message about this episode! Donna Ison is a playwright, award-winning performance poet, and the author of two novels, with a third on the way. She also produces activist theatre, including the upcoming "The Art of Audacious Aging." She currently serves as the managing editor for Eyes On Eyecare digital magazine.  Kathie's note:  When did I meet Donna? Early aughts, I...

Send us a text message about this episode! Natalie Ferris is a marketing strategist, direct response copywriter and the founder of Story Strategies . She's been obsessed with storytelling since second grade, when she used to skip recess to hide in the classroom closet and write "novels." It wasn't until her first years in the working world that she discovered the power of story...

Send us a text message about this episode! Carla King is an adventure travel author, journalist, blogger, speaker, and writing and publishing coach. In 1995, Carla pioneered the art of the internet travelogue (now called blogs) with stories about breakdowns in small towns all around the USA from the saddle of a Russian Ural sidecar motorcycle. Other trips on unreliable indigenous motorcycles took...

Send us a text message about this episode! Lisa Van Hoever is a writer and the designer behind Local Color Branding . Through Local Color, Lisa accidentally fell into small-business marketing as well, which is where you’ll find her delving into the world of digital advertising, communications automation, content marketing, and the like. In her former life, she served as an executive assistant in t...

Send us a text message about this episode! Amanda “Mandy” Ralston is a founder and CEO, award-winning entrepreneur, international thought-leader, and 25-year veteran practitioner and subject matter expert in behavior analysis and autism. She has been certified as a behavior analyst since 2002. During her career she has founded two clinics that provided applied behavior analysis services to hundred...

Send us a text message about this episode! Jin Maley (they/them) is a classically trained actor who has been living and working in Los Angeles since 2012. Jin portrays the Communications Officer Ensign Kova Rin Esmar in Star Trek: Picard . Their other television credits include Silicon Valley, Shameless, As We See It, NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, Criminal Minds , and Bones . Their film credits include...

Send us a text message about this episode! Sarah Anne Leroux is a new mama and teacher living in Ontario, Canada. She considers herself a creative and feels blessed to have an impact on the future generation of writers. If it's not obvious by her episode, she has truly found her passion: teaching English to high school students. Currently reading John Warner's "Why They Can't W...

Send us a text message about this episode! Tanya J. Tyler is the pastor of First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Ruidoso, New Mexico. Her sermons are on the church's website. She is a 2006 graduate of Lexington Theological Seminary in Lexington, Kentucky, and a 1981 graduate of Rockford College (now University) in Rockford, Illinois. She worked in the promotion/advertising creative...

Send us a text message about this episode! Lacy Robinson is a licensed funeral director/embalmer and a certified funeral celebrant. She offers funeral home clients more than 15 years of success developing and facilitating customer service training programs. Lacy is a Worsham College of Mortuary Science instructor and a business development consultant for Johnson Consulting Group. She graduated fro...

Send us a text message about this episode! Ted Emrich is a play-by-play announcer for college football and basketball on ESPN and Westwood One. He has also covered eight Masters Tournaments, three Olympics, three College World Series, and the McDonald’s All-American Boys and Girls Games the last two years. Ted has filled in on NBA telecasts with the Dallas Mavericks and New Orleans Pelicans and on...

Send us a text message about this episode! Welcome to the Writers Rotation podcast. I’m your host, Kathie Stamps. I love words: the way they look and feel when you write them by hand or by keyboard; I love the sound of words, their meanings and contribution to communication. How much writing do you do for your job? There are so many ways to earn a living with writing and all kinds of different typ...