26 JUN. 2024 · Thank you for being part of the conversation.  This is Play It Forward.  Real people.  Real stories.  The struggle to Play It Forward.  Episode 629 is with author Shaunie Henderson.  Her book is Undefeated Changing the Rules and Winning on My Own Terms Shaunie Henderson (1.8 million followers on Instagram) left her marriage to Shaquille O'Neal with nothing more than her five young kids and her car and became a trailblazing media mogul, philanthropist, and creator of the hit TV franchise Basketball Wives. In her debut book, UNDEFEATED: Changing the Rules and Winning on My Own Terms, Shaunie Henderson-wife, mother, entrepreneur, producer -- opens up about finding love, offers advice for raising strong, smart, grounded Black children in today's world, and reveals how to define your career and personal life by your own terms in this inspirational memoir.

19 JUN. 2024 · Thank you for being part of the conversation.  This is Play It Forward.  Real people.  Real stories.  The struggle to Play It Forward Episode 628 with entertainment journalist and author Sean O’Connell.  His new book is Bruce Willis Celebrating The Cinematic Legacy Of An Unbreakable Hollywood Icon When some of the most important parts of Hollywood are looked over, Sean O'Connell didn't want Bruce Willis' career to fade off into the sunset.  From being one of the top notched entertaining bartenders in New York to purchasing his own town in Idaho.  How about the writers and directors that Bruce helped out along the way?  This book is history in forward emotion as well as motion.   

6 JUN. 2024 · Thank you for being part of the conversation.  This is Play It Forward.  Real people.  Real stories.  The struggle to Play It Forward Episode 627 with radio personality and social media influencer Liz Luda. Her rich background in radio and vibrant personality has led her to the very dot on the map that inspired and empowered her dreams to become a connection to radio and internet listeners as well as viewers.  She understands the expectations of today's leading communicators and delivers with an amazing hitting record.  

23 MAY. 2024 · Thank you for being part of the conversation.  This is Play It Forward.  Real people.  Real stories.  The struggle to Play It Forward Episode 626 is with Kathy Higgins CEO Of Healthier Generation. The non-profit https://www.healthiergeneration.org/ is expanding its work to give all young people a chance a t lifelong good health and the opportunities that come with it.   Healthier Generation has partnered with https://www.healthiergeneration.org/campaigns/kohls-healthy-at-home to provide a wealth of tools in English and Spanish to help families eat healthy, stay active, bolster mental/social/emotional health, combat stress and more.   A $5 million donation from Kohl’s Healthy at Home to Healthier Generation is helping to expand the new, Healthy at Home Playbook for Schools, which provides schools with the necessary resources to be named one of America’s Healthiest Schools.  (Nearly 3,000 schools have been honored with this recognition.)

16 MAY. 2024 · Thank you for being part of the conversation.  This is Play It Forward.  Real people.  Real stories.  The struggle to Play It Forward Episode 625 with actress now author Bonnie Bartlett Daniels.  Middle Of The Rainbow Emmy Award winning actress, Bonnie Bartlett Daniels is still at it in front of the camera at 94 years old. The actively working actor (Little House on the Prairie, Golden Girls, Home Improvement, Twins, ER, Parks and Recreation and Better Call Saul, to name a few) has finally opened up with her life story and the not-so-pretty experiences she endured during the "Golden Age" of film and TV for her memoir Middle of the Rainbow. Now, Bonnie Bartlett Daniels herself narrates the Audible audiobook of Middle of the Rainbow, giving listeners a chance to hear her personal narrative in her own voice. 

10 MAY. 2024 · Thank you for being part of the conversation.  This is Play It Forward.  Real people.  Real stories.  The struggle to Play It Forward Episode 624 with singer songwriter Sarah Reeves. With fans clamoring for the full track after she shared a raw demo on her social platforms, Sarah Reeves officially releases “More Than Enough” on Friday, May 3rd. The pop artist penned the self-affirming original following heightened insecurities amidst a painful divorce. The song’s viral success, however, stems from its universal message and Reeves’ uncanny ability to craft transparent lyrics that hit deep. The vibrant, 808-heavy anthem renounces the lies that tell us we’re not worthy of love and insists our value is not dependent on our relationship status or the opinions of others.

2 MAY. 2024 · Thank you for being part of the conversation.  This is Play It Forward.  Real people.  Real stories.  The struggle to Play It Forward Episode 623 with U.S. Ambassador Ira Shapiro the author of The Betrayal How Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans Abandoned America. The Founding Fathers gave the U.S. Senate many functions, but it had one fundamental responsibility—its raison d’etre: to provide the check against a dangerous president who threatened our democracy. Two hundred and thirty years later, when Donald Trump, a potential authoritarian, finally reached the White House, the Senate should have served as both America’s first and last lines of defense. Instead, we had the nightmare scenario: today’s Senate, reduced through a long period of decline to a hyper-partisan, gridlocked shadow of its former self, was unable to meet its fundamental responsibility. Shapiro documents the pivotal challenges facing the Senate during the Trump administration, arguing that the body’s failure to provide leadership represents the most catastrophic failure of government in American history. The last section of the book covers the Senate’s performance during President Biden’s first year in office and looks forward to the 2022 Senate elections and beyond.

17 ABR. 2024 · Thank you for being part of the conversation.  This is Play It Forward.  Real people.  Real stories.  The struggle to Play It Forward Episode 622 with Alyssa Crosby from NBC’s The Voice. Alyssa is a self-proclaimed cat lady. When Alyssa is not performing on stage, you can usually find her at home with her fiancé, five cats and puppy. Alyssa loves to write songs and sometimes serenade her animals with her music. Having grown up around singers, Alyssa's mother had a deep connection to music and started her own karaoke business when Alyssa was just a kid. Alyssa enjoyed karaoke throughout most of her life, and when she was in her early 20s decided to start a band. Putting out an ad on Craigslist for more band members was just the start of her current band, WildCard. All the other band members are men in their 50s, but she enjoys holding her own as the only woman on the stage  

10 ABR. 2024 · Thank you for being part of the conversation.  This is Play It Forward.  Real people.  Real stories.  The struggle to Play It Forward Episode 621 with Steven Gaines the author of All You Need Is Love The Beatles In Their Own Words.  An oral history of The Beatles from never-before-seen interviews.   All You Need Is Love is a groundbreaking oral history of the one of the most enduring musical acts of all time. The material is comprised of intimate interviews with Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, their families, friends and business associates that were conducted by Beatles intimate Peter Brown and author Steven Gaines in 1980-1981 during the preparation of their international bestseller, The Love You Make, which spent four months on the New York Times bestseller list in 1983 and remains the biggest selling biography worldwide about the Beatles.   

4 ABR. 2024 · Thank you for being part of the conversation.  This is Play It Forward.  Real people.  Real stories.  The struggle to Play It Forward Episode 620 with actor Brett Gelman, author of the new book The Terrifying Realm Of The Possible: Nearly True Stories. A daring and hilariously neurotic literary debut from the acclaimed actor and comedian Brett Gelman (Stanger Things, Fleabag, LOVE).   Enter the wonderfully weird, always uncomfortable, side-splittingly funny world of THE TERRIFYING REALM OF THE POSSIBLE, where your worst fears of who you are or might become are always just around the corner. In Gelman's masterful short stories, you'll meet five individuals, each navigating a uniquely strange stage of life:   ABRAHAM AMSTERDAM (the child) MENDEL FREUDENBERGER (the teenager) JACKIE COHEN (the adult) IRIS BELOW (the senior) Z (the dead)