Straight Talking with Kelly “Where Real Conversations Happen”

Welcome to Straight Talking with Kelly Armstrong where you will meet the most talented, intelligent, and creative people who come to share tips, resources, and knowledge on various topics.

The guest comes from a magnitude of industries that include Education, Music, Television, Theater, Fashion, Culinary Arts, Hospitality, Health and Wellness, Mental Health, Community Advocates, and much more!

Episode #11 Straight Talking with guest Brian Gorman

Join me and my guest Brian Gorman to hear about his publishing company Gorman House Publishing and how it is giving a platform to writers that want to be published.

About Brian
Email: bgorman357@yahoo.com

Website: www.gormanhousepublishing.com

Twitter: bgorman357

YouTube: bgorman357

Instagram: bgorman357

Facebook: bgorman357

LinkedIn: bgorman357

Brian Gorman is a giver, connector, and people mover. He engages people through Diverse City, where he does project management and develops marketing campaigns; First Place Campaigns, where he consults, develops political strategy, and executes ballot access, field plan, and get out the vote initiatives; Custom Resources, where he develops and implements community activism activities through connecting needed resources; Soul Selector DJs, where he is the general manager of a DJ trade organization; and Gorman House Publishing, where they strive to tell stories that resonate with the most overlooked. His personal aspiration is to be an example of freedom, justice, and equality while setting people on the path of self -determination.

About Kelly Armstrong Your Host:

Email Address: Imagemaker86@hotmail.com Instagram:
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Kelly Armstrong has more than 25 years of experience in public relations and image consulting. As the founder of Artist Development/Imagemaking, Armstrong enjoys helping people “be their best, by looking and feeling their best” in body and spirit by giving advice about skincare, makeup, grooming, overall personal appearance, presentation skills, and job readiness training, she also teaches Image Consulting at City College of San Francisco. Armstrong has worked with KKSF Radio, partnered with the Plant Recording Studio and stores like Wilkes Bashford, she has dressed artists for album covers and videos she has freelanced as a makeup artist with clients that included CBS 5 (KPIX), San Francisco’s Mayor Willie Brown, and taught makeup classes through CCSF Extended Education Program. Faz Restaurants, Marriott Marquis Hotel, Chevron, Renaissance Entrepreneurial Center, Independent Living, Brookside Hospital, and San Francisco Unified School District, and others have also benefited from Armstrong’s public relations and image consulting expertise.

Working in the underserved Bayview Hunter’s Point neighborhood in San Francisco, Armstrong is the Founder of the Primed & Prepped: A Hospitality Management/Culinary Arts Mentoring and Job Training Program at the Bayview Hunters Point YMCA. The purpose of the program is to help mitigate the barriers to employment for young males and females of color.

Formerly on San Francisco State University’s Hospitality Management Advisory Board, she chaired the PR Committee, she was a part of the Program Advisory Committee (PAC) with SAE Expression Media College. Armstrong has previously served as a Board of Governors with the Recording Academy, she created and co-chaired the Urban Outreach Committee of the Recording Academy (a.k.a. The Grammys) and she was an inaugural member of KQED’s Community Advisory Panel. She has volunteered with The National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI). Armstrong is married, resides in San Francisco, and has a passion for food, fashion, and music