Dr David Priess - The President's Daily Brief, A Book Of Secrets - Dr. David Priess has been a lot of things, he's worked at the CIA, briefed the nations top officials, today, however, he's an author who writes fascinating books. 

There are two books that we discuss The President's Book of Secrets, which chronicles the history of the President's daily brief. This book allowed David access to all of the living Presidents, VPs and many senior officials. 

Pete A Turner, Jon Leon Guerrero, Break It Down Sh

You’ve written the next Game of Thrones, the next Harry Potter or maybe the next hottest book to hit the top shelves and think that’s that, with the start of a brand new day you’re set for an overnight success story. Boy, you could not be any more tragically wrong!!! Every good book needs a good publisher.

Tom Reale is the COO of Brown Books Publishing and with his decades-long experience, he helps us explore behind the scenes of the written word. We have, the ever lovely, Gaby Jeurgens co-hosting w

Mark Safranski joins Pete A Turner with author, think-tanker Dr Mike Mazarr. 

Mike's book is called, Leap of Faith Hubris, Negligence, and America's Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy

Why is the invasion of Iraq viewed as a tragedy? Mike explains to us and draws conclusions to help us better understand by comparing and contrasting past conflicts to Iraq. Mark, brings his experience understanding presidential security council dynamics to push the show to even great depth and uniqueness.

Austin is an actor, performer and rapper. He' most noted for playing the lead the role of Hamilton! You know, from the worldwide smash hit Broadway musical...ya that one. Also, Austin Scott is from Benicia, CA, just like Pete A Turner and Jon Leon Guerrero. So we hat/tip and salute to all of our Benicia family as we celebrate Austin's incredible success. Most importantly, we know the people that know Austin, before his breakout stardom & everyone agrees, he's a fantastic dude, we love him and you will too

Anytime we can record with James Earley, it's a great day. We've got Larry Batiste and Claytoven Richardson back to wrap up our chat about their multi-decade work with the NAMM Show's TEC Awards. Jon Leon Guerrero hosts at Bay View 2, Larry, Claytoven and James and they dig into to some food and talk about music. The show really jumps when they talk about how getting with the right producers vaulted Janet Jackson into the artist we know today.

We wanted to share this episode a bit early. The day Pete A Turner recorded it, the current event of the day was Pres Trump's announcement that he was pulling troops out of Syria and northern Iraq. 

Our guest is Naval EOD tech, Kenton Stacy's wife Lindsey. See, Kenton was hit by an IED in November of 2017. He lost the use of his arms and legs, vision in an eye and his voice to the blast. 

In Lindsey's words, I feel like I'm living in a nightmare and I'm just hoping that someone will wake me up.

What kind of life do you want to create after you turn 50? Realizing that marketers avoid the largest demographic to EVER! exist, it appears there's quite a bit of opportunity in the 50 and over business space. 

Diana focuses on helping "MaturePreneur" mindsets with folks who have been through life's hardest challenges. Whether it's being suicidal, waylaid by health problems, or just work down by life, Diana has the concepts that help refound lives and help launch a late-life renaissance.

Fitz Tasevski - The Beginnings Punk Rocking Around Europe - Fitz is a punk rock frontman for The Beginnings. He also has his own side project called Black State. Of course, he's also a web website designer and graphic artist. 

Fitz came to us by way of our Producer Damjan Gjorgjiev who, when asked to find us Balkan guests, said, "Let's get Fitz." We did and he's dope. You are going to love how Fitz sees the world and how he's making a living in the music industry.

Every year NAMM celebrates the people and companies that make or work with the instruments, equipment and software that drive the music industry. The TEC Awards have been recognizing Technical Excellence and Creativity. 

This celebration is called the TEC Awards and it happens at the NAMM show in Anaheim each year. Jon Leon Guerrero and Pete A Turner attended the show in 2019 and sat down with Larry White and Claytoven Richardson the music directorial team for the awards show.

Brian Solis had a book to write, but doing the work proved impossible. He cleaned his garage, re-organized his library, everything except write that book.  

It wasn't writer's block, he's authored plenty of books...sorting through this problem lead Brian to shelve that book and start a new one examining how to get his life, attention and order back into his life. That book, from Wiley is called Life Scale and it's fantastic. 

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