Linda Margison
arts
Lori Lyons
business
Lori is a non technical person in a technical world. She has the ability to explain marketing and business strategies in words people actually understand. Lori is the owner and creative director of Igniting Your Business, a website design and digital agency company serving small businesses all over the world. Her program, Make Your Marketing Simple, helps frustrated entrepreneurs navigate today’s marketing and digital maze.
Lori will be launching her podcast, The Encore Entrepreneur, this summer for those starting a second or third business and are in their middle and “prime older years.” They are confused and dazed and really do not know where to begin with marketing their new business. The digital landscape is ever changing. The Encore Entrepreneur Podcast will be a varied format including guests sharing their marketing success stories as well as guest experts. She is also working on a book to be released by the end of the year for the Encore Entrepreneur. Lori is a speaker, author, and a fun podcast guest in addition to directing her amazing Igniting Your Business team.
Lori lives in Atlanta with her husband and son. She loves her Atlanta Braves baseball, any football game that is playing on TV and Angel’s Envy bourbon and a good glass of Chardonnay.
Kenneth C. Bator
comedy
As the CEO and founder of the Police Officers’ CU Association, Ken Bator is the perfect Category Director for True Crime podcasts. Ken is an entrepreneur, author, and speaker. In addition to managing his own firm – Bator Training & Consulting – since 2001, he has produced and hosted multiple shows: Beyond the Call, the podcast for law enforcement professionals and those that support them; Branding the Experience, a YouTube show that discusses how to create environments where employees actually want to come to work and customers want to keep coming back; Cool Culture Corner, a podcast on how to better involve our teams for better productivity, better profits, and growth; and, most recently, Public Safety Talk Radio, the podcast for all of our heroes in public safety including law enforcement professionals, firefighters, EMTs, corrections officers, healthcare workers, and more.
In addition to Ken’s writing in Podcast Magazine, his articles have appeared in many trade publications including The Credit Union Journal, Lifestyle Entrepreneur, CU Business Magazine and ABA Bank Marketing. Ken is also the author of The Formula for Business Success = B + C + S and The Strategic Planning Workbook.
Born and raised in Chicago, he earned a Bachelor of Science in Finance and an MBA in Entrepreneurship from DePaul University as well as a Certificate in Integrated Marketing from the University of Chicago. Ken currently resides in Southern California with his wife, Pegi, who is a fellow True-Crime fan.
Linda Margison
education
Christine Franklyn
fiction
Christine Franklyn is the founder of the Good Living Network and uses a variety of platforms, including her blog, to help busy people free themselves from burnout and live more vibrantly.
She is a lifelong communications professional and award-winning radio host turned integrative nutrition health coach. Her specialty is helping high-achieving entrepreneurs nourish their mind, body and soul to show up with magnetic energy in every area of their lives, from media appearances and sales calls to quality time with the family.
She has lived in Canada, Boston and London, travelled to 18 countries and counting, and has been featured on podcasts, radio shows and blogs.
When she isn’t writing or speaking about strategies for boosting your energy and mental clarity, she can be found outdoors, soaking up the sunshine with her husband in her home country, Barbados.
Dan R. Morris
Gadgets, Gizmos & Gear
Dan R Morris is the founder of Audience Industries, an audience building company. He and his partner Rachel Marie Martin do 2 day in-person workshops around the globe. They also run BC Stack every June, and Podcaster’s Kit every October. Dan does the behind the scenes work for Rachel’s FindingJoy.net, a motherhood blog that sees 100,000 people per day.
His podcast, Tracing the Path, is an ode to the storytelling days of Paul Harvey, Charles Kuralt and Charles Osgood. Each episode is a story you don’t know about something you thought you did.
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government
Christine Franklyn
Health & Fitness
Christine Franklyn is the founder of the Good Living Network and uses a variety of platforms, including her blog, to help busy people free themselves from burnout and live more vibrantly.
She is a lifelong communications professional and award-winning radio host turned integrative nutrition health coach. Her specialty is helping high-achieving entrepreneurs nourish their mind, body and soul to show up with magnetic energy in every area of their lives, from media appearances and sales calls to quality time with the family.
She has lived in Canada, Boston and London, travelled to 18 countries and counting, and has been featured on podcasts, radio shows and blogs.
When she isn’t writing or speaking about strategies for boosting your energy and mental clarity, she can be found outdoors, soaking up the sunshine with her husband in her home country, Barbados.
Roifield Brown & Luke Baxter
history
Roifield has created a number of podcasts including history ones, such as How Jamaica Conquered the World and 10 American Presidents.
Luke is a long-term fan of History Podcasts and is heavily involved in the History Podcast community. Roifield and Luke are two of the presenters on The Things That Made England. They also work together as organisers of the History Podcast Conference – Intelligent Speech.
Michelle Abraham
Kids & FamiLy
International speaker, avid traveller, mom of 2, podcast producer and host of Amplifyou and Blissful Parenting Podcasts, Michelle Abraham.
Voted #16 the last two years on Podcast Magazine’s list of the Top 50 Moms in Podcasting, she was also awarded Entrepreneur of the Year and nominated for People’s Choice Award by Business from the Heart. Michelle is the founder of Amplifyou, described by Shark Tank alumni Kevin Harrington as North America’s top podcast management company.
Amplifyou specializes in done-for-you services, helping visionary entrepreneurs with a powerful message to spend their time in the content creation zone while her team produces and publishes their podcasts, supporting the hosts from all over the world in making a lasting impact with their podcasts.
Michelle and her team manage over 65 shows weekly. Michelle has been sharing her passion, mentoring podcasters since 2012 when listening to podcasts saved her from post-partum depression in her journey as a new mom. An advocate for the freedom lifestyle, she walks her talk, living off the grid on a lake and boating her kids to the school, all while running her successful all-online podcast management agency.
Kelly Poelker
PODCAST INDUSTRY NEWS
Dan Morris
The Professional Podcaster
Dan R Morris is the founder of Audience Industries, an audience building company. He and his partner Rachel Marie Martin do 2 day in-person workshops around the globe. They also run BC Stack every June, and Podcaster’s Kit every October. Dan does the behind the scenes work for Rachel’s FindingJoy.net, a motherhood blog that sees 100,000 people per day.
His podcast, Tracing the Path, is an ode to the storytelling days of Paul Harvey, Charles Kuralt and Charles Osgood. Each episode is a story you don’t know about something you thought you did.
Eric Nevins
Religion & Spirituality
After years of working in the financial industry, Eric Nevins launched his podcast, Halfway There, to tell the whole story about the spiritual journey. He quickly found the community podcasting is known for and started a group to bring Christian podcasters together.
Eric founded Get Curious Media to serve Christian businesses and ministries launching their own audio content platforms. He holds a Master of Divinity from Denver Seminary and still lives in Denver with his wife, four kids, and a wonder dog.
Constance Drew
Science
Constance Drew is a certified six-figure Business Breakthrough Coach (MBBC-Kendall Summerhawk) specializing in helping content creators to quickly launch podcasts without faking it until they make it. She is a Social Media Marketing Expert who helps entrepreneurs to grow profitable & sustainable businesses. Constance has over 12 years of experience in social media marketing with a certificate in Social Media Management Pro.
Constance has worked with and taught over a thousand business owners and professionals how to use technology to streamline their businesses and professions to greater results in less time. She has managed high profile clients’ multi-million-dollar litigation Electronic Discovery for NYC & Washington, DC top tier international law firms. Constance has managed a Help Desk and oversaw Network Operations for the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) and acted as a technology trainer for the USDOJ (United States Department of Justice) in Washington, DC. Constance holds a MBA and B.A. in Education.
Constance is a soon to be published author of “A Drive with a Serial Killer”.
Gin Keller
Society & Culture
Gin believes in sharing messages of hope, gratitude, healing and courage.
Gin has worked as a social worker, travel agent, and consultant.
She has also helped raise over $750,000 for area non-profits with charity poker tournaments.
Gin was in the Army Reserve & ROTC and has a Master’s in Business Management, and majored in Sociology/Anthropology. She is also a graduate of Coach University.
Neil S. Haley
Sports
Neil Haley is the Founder, CEO and host of the “Neil Haley Show” a radio show that airs 7 days-a-week in more than 180 countries and is syndicated on 120 stations. His interviews reach an average of 2-million listeners per week. His love for helping others coupled with his strong personality, help him deliver the best solution for business or promotion. Even though Neil’s background is in education, his passion is in radio and media.
Some of his guests include: Tom Arnold • Ne-Yo • The Voice Finalists • Brett Farve • Kevin Harrington • Sam Waterston • London Brown • Les Brown • Isaac Bruce • Don Most • Kathy Ireland • Lia Dias • Rob Van Dam • Howie Mandell • Tim Russ • Vin Rock • Steve Austin • Linda McMahon • Newt Gingrich • Mel Brooks • Paul “Triple H” Levesque • Barry Williams • Fran Drescher • Jackie Martling • Xzibit • Liza Gibbons • Kurt Warner • Sarah Megan • Randall Cunningham • Steven Jackson • Ryan Clark • James Worthy • Art Rooney II • Mel Brooks • Newt Gingrich • Kerry Walsh Jennings – In addition, interviews with New York Times Best Selling Authors.
Neil shifted gears out of the education process into a media specialist. He quickly learned that his passion for radio was the bridge to a new profession in social branding and total marketing services for entrepreneurs.
Laura Steward
Technology
Kenneth C. Bator
True Crime
Raven Glover
TV & Film
Former CNN & CBS radio personality Raven Blair Glover a.k.a. The Talk Show Maven ,is known by many as the “Queen of Interview Marketing & Conversion”.
Her radio journey didn’t begin until she was 55 years of age at the ICU of a hospital while being by her mom’s bedside.
Since then she’s gone on to become a 5 X award winning show host, producer of Amazing Women And Men Of Power network, winner of the Outstanding Global Women Leadership Award, the Giant Community Leader award, and proud recipient Barack Obama’s 2016 President’s Lifetime Achievement Award,
Raven is the prime definition of thriving beyond your circumstances. As a survivor of an emotionally abusive childhood she’s pushed past her pain and broke through barriers to building her broadcast media empire from the kitchen table.
Although she enjoys having conversations with icons of influence her true passion for over a decade has been spotlighting ordinary people just like her, who have extraordinary stories to share with the world ”One Inspiring Interview At A Time”.