Messiah Community Radio Talk Show

Paul Smith is one of the world’s leading experts on business storytelling. He’s a keynote speaker, storytelling coach, and bestselling author. Good leaders ask, “How do I tell better stories?” Great leaders ask, “What stories do I need to tell?” Will you be a more effective leader if your stories are well-crafted and delivered? Of course. And I spend most of my professional time teaching leaders exactly that. But the truth is, the story you tell is more important than how you deliver it. You’re probably not an actor or a public speaker. You’re a leader. Your audience doesn’t expect perfection. They expect you to be decisive and helpful. If you tell a story that helps them do their job better, but you stutter a little, don’t make good eye contact, or even butcher the surprise ending, your audience will still learn from it. But if you tell them an irrelevant or unhelpful story even though you deliver it in a way that would make a Shakespearean actor proud, your audience will never forgive you for wasti

We need a bigger vision for the city. It's not enough to plant individual churches in isolation from each other. The spiritual need and opportunity of our cities is too big for any one church to meet alone. Pastors Neil Powell and John James contend that to truly transform a city, the gospel compels us to create localized, collaborative church planting movements. They share lessons learned and principles discovered from their experiences leading a successful citywide movement. The more willing we are to collaborate across denominations and networks, the more effectively we will reach our communities—whatever their size—for Jesus. Come discover what God can do in our cities when we work together. Neil Powell is founding pastor of City Church Birmingham in England, and also serves as co-director of 2020birmingham, a church planting movement for the city of Birmingham. He is the director of City to City UK and a chair of City to City Europe, an organization that helps local leaders plant churches in the

This new book by Milan Dragicevich, officially released in March 2019 by the Hackett Publishing Company, is a bold and innovative approach to contemporary actor training. By adapting the classical principles of rhetoric, today’s actor learns to send a powerful vocal “charge” into the act of speaking, strengthening expressivity and range, vocal bravery and command. The book seeks to rediscover the lost art of persuasive speaking, ultimately transforming an actor’s relationship to language, from Shakespeare to Stoppard, from Shaw to Hip-Hop Theater, igniting a spark that will create a more evocative, courageous, and thrilling performance. I bring a large cargo of passion, energy, discipline, and commitment to the classroom. Students learn best when they are inspired by the material, see vibrant applications of the work to their own growth, and therefore actively seek new knowledge, ways of connecting various paths across a subject field. I strive to inspire this impulse in every student, compassionately (ye

Dr. Edmund Bourne, Ph.D. has specialized in the treatment of anxiety disorders and related problems for more than two decades. For many years he was director of the Anxiety Treatment Center in San Jose and Santa Rosa, California. His best-selling anxiety workbooks, which have helped hundreds of thousands of readers throughout the world, include The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook, Healing Fear, Beyond Anxiety & Phobia, Coping With Anxiety, and Natural Relief for Anxiety. Dr. Bourne is frequently interviewed by the media, and his work has been featured in numerous magazines, such as Psychology Today, Natural Health, Cosmopolitan, Fitness, and Bottom Line Personal. Dr. Bourne currently lives and practices in Northern California and Florida. He maintains a commitment to helping create world peace by teaching people how to create greater peace in their lives. The Anxiety Phobia Workbook is a practical and comprehensive guide offering help to anyone who is struggling with panic attacks, agoraphobia, social fear

Ivana Chubbuck is the founder and director of the Ivana Chubbuck Studio and creator of the cutting edge and widely adopted Chubbuck Technique. There are 16 ongoing classes at the Ivana Chubbuck Studio, ranging from introductory to master classes. The Studio maintains a focus on producing and nurturing working actors, writers, and directors in a rigorous professional environment. It is our mission to empower our students with the tools to become successful and to make dynamic, empowered choices in their work. Some of the actors Ivana has worked with during her 35-plus year career include Academy Award winners and nominees: Charlize Theron, James Franco, Halle Berry, Brad Pitt, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jon Voigt, Sylvester Stallone, Elisabeth Shue, Djimon Honsou, Terrence Howard, Catherine Keener, Jared Leto. Ivana’s students are well represented at the Academy Awards, Emmys, Golden Globes, Tonys, and many other international movie, television, and theater awards. Her work with Judith Light on her Broadway sh

David Rosenthal is one of the nation's top voice over coaches, as well as the founder of InternetVoiceCoach.com. He has 20 years of teaching and voice over coaching experience and has helped many people get their start or further their career in the industry. He is also the Co-Owner of the Global Voice Acting Academy or GVAA. As an actor, David has been cast on-camera in over 60 national television commercials, including Toyota, Pillsbury, Citibank, Sprint, Enbrel, True Value Hardware, Pizza Hut, and Alka Seltzer. He was also the host of UPN’s Rave Reviews for three years. As a voice over talent, David has over 1000 voice over credits to his name in all areas of the industry, including almost 70 video games. He especially loves to coach character and commercial voice over. Aside from Voiceover and his photography hobbies, David Toback serves as the Chief Operations Officer for the Global Voice Acting Academy (GVAA), managing the day-to-day operations. David joined the team in 2016 after co-creating th

We don't care about what we don't see. Countless people are invisible to us. We overlook the poor and homeless, partly because we don't share much space with them. More seriously, we often choose not to see the realities around us. We hold misconceptions about who is deserving or not, or make false assumptions about people's poverty being their own fault. Terence Lester calls us to see the invisible people around us. His personal encounters and real-life stories challenge Christians to become more informed about poverty and homelessness, and to see the poor as Jesus does. When we see people through God's eyes and hear their stories, we restore their dignity and help them flourish. And when we recognize our own inner spiritual poverty, we have greater empathy for others, no matter their circumstances. Let love open your eyes. Discover how seeing leads us to act with compassion and justice—as God intends. Terence Lester is a minister, speaker, community activist, author, and founder of Love Beyond W

Many bemoan the decline of the church. We hear a steady stream of reports about how droves of people, especially younger generations, are abandoning Christianity. But new research shows that unchurched Americans are surprisingly more receptive and open to the Christian faith than is commonly assumed. Researcher and practitioner Rick Richardson unveils the findings of the Billy Graham Center Institute's groundbreaking studies on the unchurched. A study of 2000 unchurched people across the country reveals that the unchurched are still remarkably open to faith conversations and the church. Even unchurched "nones" and millennials are quite receptive if they are approached in particular ways. In this book you will also find best practices from further research into the top ten percent of churches that most effectively reach the unchurched. People who were previously unchurched share what actually moved them to faith and Christian commitment. And the research shows that churches and organizations can be trans

Dr. Randal Pinkett has established himself as an entrepreneur, speaker, author, scholar and community servant, and one of the leading voices for his generation in business and technology. He is the co-founder, chairman and CEO of BCT Partners, a multimillion-dollar research, consulting, training, technology and analytics firm based in Newark, New Jersey. BCT Partners mission is to provide insights about diverse people that lead to equity. BCT works with corporations, government agencies and nonprofit organizations in the areas of housing and community development, economic development, children and families, health, education, diversity and inclusion, and energy. A partial list of BCT's clients includes: Johnson & Johnson, Ford Foundation, Pfizer, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Annie E. Casey Foundation, Citigroup, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Hewlett-Packard, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Facebook and Microsoft. Prior to founding BCT Partners, Dr. Pinket

Joe Loesch is an award winning spoken word producer, voice actor and coach.  Joe has produced over five hundred audiobooks, voiced dozens of national commercial ads, audiobooks, corporate narrations and cartoons for the Disney channel. He produces the Baby Looney Tunes sound-books. Joe teaches voice acting throughout the country with VoiceOverXtra.com and in Nashville for Alan Dysert's The Actor's School.  Joe Loesch is the founder and coach of Booth Camp. He teaches all-day intensive workshops in Nashville and around the country. He has over 30 years experience in voice-over, and has been successfully coaching voice over students for more than twenty years. Joe is a full time professional voice actor, coach, and spoken word producer. He's passionate about the business and has an enthusiastic, positive, and humorous personality which he conveys to all of his students. His love for teaching, combined with his extensive creative writing and VO  career helps his students to develop a broad range of skills.

New research finds that Christians are less involved in spiritual conversations today than we were twenty-five years ago. As society has changed, it seems we have become more uncomfortable talking with people about our faith. We are reluctant conversationalists. The reality is that many of our churches and communities are shrinking instead of growing. What can we do about this? Don Everts, himself a reluctant witness, grew up assuming that spiritual conversations are always painful and awkward. But after falling into one spiritual conversation after another, he was surprised to discover that they aren't. Don's surprising—and sometimes embarrassing—stories affirm what Scripture and the latest research reveal: spiritual conversations can actually be a delight. Unpacking what God's Word says about spiritual conversations and digging into the habits of eager conversationalists, Everts describes what we can learn from Christians who are still talking about their faith. With original research from the Barn

Anne Ganguzza is a professional voice actor, coach, and producer located in Orange County, CA.  An award-winning Director and Executive Producer, Anne is a three-time 2018 SOVAS Nominee for Outstanding Narration Demo, Best Voiceover, Outstanding Commercial Demo, Best Voiceover, and Outstanding Podcast. She is also a recipient of the 2017 Voice Arts Award for Outstanding Narration Demo, Best Voiceover, as well as a five-time 2017 SOVAS nominee for demo production.   Her voice is described as professional, believable, warm and friendly. Her voiceover experience includes corporate and industrial narrations, e-learning and online learning tutorials, telephone voice mail, IVR, on hold messaging,  commercials, infomercials,  live theater broadcasts, audio books, government/educational promotional videos and advertising, and more! She has many years’ experience in public speaking and corporate & educational training, and is an exceptionally clear and concise technical speaker, able to make your difficult scrip

Dan Lenard has become a recognized industry expert and consultant in home studio set–up and problem solving, specifically for voice over artists new to the industry , or experienced, but with little or no self-recording experience. With more than 30 years behind the mic and in commercial studios, along with a long list of happy clients, you can feel confident that your questions will be answered correctly and problems solved quickly. Visit https://www.homevoiceoverstudio.com/ He is also Co-Host of the popular weekly live webcast of East-West Audio Body Shop with George Whittham, which talks about home voice over studios, presents guests from the voice over industry and other industry news. Dan Lenard is also a Founding Board Member and Vice President of Technical Standards for World-Voices Organization. An industry association representing voice actors with home studios around the world. George Whittam will get you started in the right direction, or help you improve the quality of your recordings

Christopher Currier is the Director of Trade Marketing for Sennheiser and Neumann in the Americas. He is also the voice of Neumann and Sennheiser microphones for radio and television commercials. He has worked for the company for 15 years and is the voice of their telephone system, trade shows and all locally produced video content (some content comes direct from their parent company in Germany). He's also completed corporate voice work for IBM, HP and Emerson Process Management. Christopher is also the host of a popular podcast as he explains in his own words. The WorldWide Countdown Podcast is for lovers of popular music.  Our primary goal is to expose you to pop music from around the world that you might not have heard before.  In addition, we’ll keep our eyes on the big songs making waves both here in the U.S. and around the world.  We’ll even try to throw in some of the fun and unique information behind the songs and artists we feature on our show.  A veritable fountain of pop music potpourri! Th

Katie Leigh is a multi-faceted voiceover veteran. She is beloved as Connie Kendall in the world’s longest running international radio drama, Adventures in Odyssey. Other roles she's played include Baby Rowlf in the Emmy Award-Winning Jim Henson's Muppet Babies cartoon series, Honker Muddlefoot in Darkwing Duck, Sheila the Thief in Dungeons and Dragons, Richie in Richie Rich, Sunni Gummi of Disney’s Adventures of the Gummi Bears, Alex in Totally Spies and young Han Solo for Lego Star Wars: Padawan Menace, and many others. She also has decades of experience in every form of Voiceover from toys, to games to radio, to e learning, specializing in boys and girls voices and many foreign accents. With a state-of-the-art studio, she is ready to connect via every form of patching to yours usually with as little as 12 hours notice. Visit Katie's website at: www.katieleigh.com

Celia Siegel Management is known for creating strong personal brands for voice talent and marketing those brands to the max-in a way that’s authentic to each voice actor. No matter where you are in your voiceover career, my team and I can help you make sound business choices and strategize for success. Before founding & building CSM, I was a top West Coast talent agent (CESD). The fact that I am also a certified business and life coach comes in handy in many ways for my clients’ emotional and financial well-being. I help talent identify when taking classes and auditioning has become a full time job instead of the actual paying work, and how they can fix that by turning activity into a powerful career. My multi-leveled expertise and extensive knowledge of the ever-changing voiceover industry helps voice actors across the globe grow their VO business and take their careers to the next level. Celia is a voiceover industry insider renowned for championing and growing voiceover talent careers. She is the

The Art of Voice Acting covers all aspects of the craft and business of performing voiceover. This sixth edition is reorganized and completely updated to include the latest information on how to get started in voiceover, performing techniques, setting up a personal recording space, voiceover demos, the basics of running a voiceover business, working with agents, unions, and much more. Dozens of URL’s are included with additional resources and several chapters include all new scripts written specifically for this edition. Two new chapters include contributions from some of the voiceover world’s top professionals. Additional content can be found on the Voice Acting Academy website at AOVA.VoiceActing.com. This is the perfect tool for aspiring voice performers, radio announcers, and stage and screen actors.

VO Atlanta is where the voiceover community comes together for an interactive experience you won’t find anywhere else.  From seasoned professionals to those just getting started, VO Atlanta provides a welcoming environment where everyone is welcome.  Those attending VO Atlanta will experience four exceptional days of interactive learning from the industry’s top leaders in voice acting, recording, editing, and more. VO Atlanta is also home to the VO Exhibit Hall which is packed with sponsors and exhibitors offering you a chance to experience the best and latest in voiceover training, technology, equipment, and services. If all this wasn’t enough, VO Atlanta also provides several opportunities for you to relax and connect with others from around the world. We want to change your definition of what it means to attend a voice-over conference. That’s the VO Atlanta Experience! Bringing People Together With all the technology advancements, it’s easy to be isolated which is why VO Atlanta is all abou

Dr. Mitch Glaser is the President of Chosen People Ministries in New York. He has been extensively involved in Jewish evangelism in several countries and was instrumental in helping to establish a congregation among Russian Jewish immigrants in New York. He is the co-recipient of Christianity Today’s Award of Merit in the Apologetics/Evangelism category for 2009, for the book To the Jew First: The Case for Jewish Evangelism in Scripture and History, co-edited with Darrell L. Bock. He is also the coauthor of The Fall Feasts of Israel and has written many articles for Christian periodicals and has taught at leading evangelical schools such as Fuller Theological Seminary and Moody Bible Institute. Mitch earned a Master of Divinity degree in Old Testament Studies at the Talbot School of Theology and a Doctor of Philosophy in Intercultural Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary. Mitch and his wife have two daughters. Find out more about the book Messiah in the Passover: https://messiahinthepassover.com/fr

Robert has appeared on National Television many times.  He is best known as the DAD on the 2012 Chevy SUPER BOWL COMMERCIAL, HAPPY GRAD.  He has appeared several times on Travel Channel's "Mysteries at the Museum", Discovery ID's "My Dirty Little Secret", History Channels "Engineering an Empire", a Recurring Role on Discovery ID's "Watching the Detectives" and several others.  He has appeared in a Guest Starring role on "The Perfect Murder" and "I'd Kill for You." Robert's very first venture into the acting field was a show called "American Experience: Hijacked!" which aired nationally on PBS-TV and was narrated by Campbell Scott. Since that time, he has appeared in numerous national projects with many big name stars, both in acting and voice overs such as: Hugh Grant, Drew Barrymore, Brad Garrett, Kristen Johnson, Patrick Dempsey, Susan Sarandon, Amy Adams, James Marsden, Denis Leary, Tatum O’Neal, James Gandolfini, Michael Imperioli, Edie Falco, Uma Thurman, Will Smith, Russell Crowe, Denzel Washington,