Legends - Extraordinary Lives

Legends honors Freewater and their founder Josh Cliffords This company has moved from success to significance. Visit www.freewater.io today.
FreeWater Inc. is a revolutionary marketing channel that utilizes premium spring water as a new type of advertising medium while prioritizing philanthropy and sustainability. Ten cents from each beverage is donated to charity to build water wells for people in need. We only need 10% of Americans to choose FreeWater so we can solve the global water crisis permanently.

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Jane Fricke is one of the great solo and duo singers of our generation. Her collaborations with Johnny Duncan, Merle Haggard and Charlie Rich are legendary. The defining song of Janie's career is her smash hit It Ain't Easy Being Easy. You can now purchase her complete hits available where ever music is sold.
Hear about Janie's musical influences from Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Rita Coolidge and Dusty Springfield. And enjoy learning about her early career doing jingles for brands such as Red Lobster.

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Legends celebrates legend maker John Nelson of LFM Management. John Nelson created LFM Management LLC to represent some of the biggest and most diverse names around the globe and seize sponsorship opportunities for them. A former New York State litigator, Nelson named his company after his first client introduced him as his "lawyer, friend, and manager." Today, the company specializes in brand relationship management for content creators, including FGTeeV (27 M), Fousey (17M), Keemstar (12.6M), Ricky Berwick (13.2M), RoraPickles (49.2K), PhillyBeatzU (53.8K), and Ship (253.5K), to name a few. In sync with the philosophy of the clients the company represents, LFM Management believes that its clients have built huge brands without being forced to embark on a traditional career path, and that each client's 'sense of normal' adds to their unique voice and popularity—a necessary ingredient to growing a substantial audience. For more information, please visit www.lfmmanagement.com

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Legends features Ed Hajim, author of On the Road Less Traveled. For the first 18 years of his life, he went in and out of 15 orphanages and foster homes. While this was a disadvantage, he turned them into advantages. He adapted to change and as a business leader, he learned to embrace change. You will enjoy this conversation with a person who directs his emotion toward creating positive traits and accomplishments.

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Ian Joseph Somerhalder is an American actor, model, activist and director. He is known for playing Boone Carlyle in the TV drama Lost, Damon Salvatore in The CW's supernatural drama The Vampire Diaries and Dr. Luther Swann in Netflix's sci-fi horror series V Wars. Ian is now a well known environmentalist motivating Americans to a better version through energy saving tips!

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Eric Metaxas has done some so much that I will only mention a couple of highlights. He is the NYT #1 bestselling author of Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World nd other NYT best sellers. He just published Fish Out of Water: A Search for Meaning. It is a wonderful book, and I urge you to read it—whether you know anything about Eric or not. Better writing is hard to find. . It is an extraordinarily well written book, which is funny and filled with what the back cover copy correctly calls “Runyonesque” characters. While hugely entertaining, it is a memoir that looks back at Eric’s childhood, adolescence, college and post-college days that ultimately has him struggling with a lack of purpose and meaning in his life—and how he overcame that.

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Young Legends honors Mia Carruthers, music composer and Associate Creative Director at Gwynne Sound. Gwynne is a leading Audio Agency, providing sonic identity to brands like ADM (Archer Daniels Midland.) Hear Mia's explanation of an Audio Agency- like a branding agency, they specialize in all things audio....unearthing a sonic logo, how is the brand heard, how does your brand show up in an audio only lane like podcasts. Gwynne is THE go to agency to take your brand to the next level. Work with young legends like Mia Carruthers who have audio brains. So focused....so in tune....so fresh.

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This is one of B.J. Thomas' very last interviews. Listen to the love in his heart and the sweet song he sings to his beloved wife. What a touching ending to a good man's life that brought his fans so much joy. Crossing genres, BJ Thomas is one of the most distinctive voices with hits like “Hooked on a Feeling” and “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head.”

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Bill Mechanic, a respected entertainment-industry veteran, formed his own production company, Pandemonium Films, after serving as a top studio executive for eighteen years. He produced Hacksaw Ridge, arguably one of the greatest world war featured films ever made. DARK WATER was one of the first film produced by Mechanic, but it will be quickly followed by Terry Malick's The New World, which he executive produced, at year-end. Most recently, he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Fox Filmed Entertainment from 1993 through June of 2000. In this position, he oversaw all operations of the studio including worldwide feature-film production; marketing and distribution activities, as well as all worldwide operations for Fox Video; Fox Interactive; Licensing and Merchandising; and Fox Music.
During his tenure at Fox, the company significantly expanded its production capacity by creating four film divisions-Twentieth Century Fox, Fox 2000, Fox Searchlight Pictures, and Fox Family Films. Among the hit films produced under his supervision were: Cast Away, Best Picture Academy Award winner Titanic, X-Men, Academy Award winner Moulin Rouge, Independence Day, Ice Age, Entrapment, Big Momma's House, Minority Report, What Lies Beneath, Planet of the Apes, Men of Honor, Sexy Beast, Never Been Kissed, There's Something About Mary, Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition, Best Picture Academy Award winner Braveheart, Academy Award winner Boys Don't Cry, Quills, Mrs. Doubtfire, Speed, True Lies, Die Hard with a Vengeance, The Full Monty, Dr. Dolittle, The X-Files, Me, Myself & Irene, The Thin Red Line, Ever After, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, Broken Arrow, Courage Under Fire, Soul Food, Anastasia and Waiting to Exhale.

Under Mechanic, the studio also released Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, the new chapter in George Lucas' epic saga, in 1999.

As a result of his leadership, in 1998 Twentieth Century Fox was the number-one studio in worldwide box-office gross. That same year, Fox Music produced five of the top ten selling soundtracks: Titanic, Hope Floats, Doctor Dolittle, Bulworth, and Ally McBeal. In addition, during his reign the studio produced six of the top ten grossing movies of all time and six of the top ten selling live-action videos-both domestically and internationally-including the best-selling video in history, Titanic. Fox produced the number-one grossing films worldwide in 1995, 1996 and 1997 with Die Hard with a Vengeance, Independence Day and Titanic. In all, the studio earned 72 Oscar nominations including 5 Best Picture nominations under his management.

Prior to joining Fox, Mechanic served as President of International Distribution and Worldwide Video at The Walt Disney Studios, overseeing international theatrical, worldwide home video and worldwide pay television. He began at Disney in 1984, subsequently building its home-video units both in the United States and overseas from minor industry players to nearly double the size of their nearest competitors. The division grew from $30 million in revenue to over $3 billion and is now responsible for 15 of the top 20 all-time best-selling videocassettes. He pioneered the concept of direct sales to mass merchants, which has become an important part of the home-entertainment business.

One of Mechanic's critical moves was when he ended a five-year relationship between Disney and Warner Bros. for the overseas distribution of the Disney studio's theatrical product and set up BVI, the first completely new international theatrical distribution organization in more than three decades. In its first full year of operation, the unit became the industry's #1 Distributor.

Prior to this, Mechanic served as both Senior Vice President of Walt Disney Home Video and Vice President of Pay Television Sales for the company. During this period, he also oversaw network specials for Disney Television and his programs were nominated for several Emmy Awards.

He serves on the Board of Governors for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Board of Counselors for the prestigious USC Film School and the Board of American Friends of the National Film Theatre of England. He has been honored with the Showman of the Year Award by the Producers Guild and has received a Crystal Award from Women in Film. In 1998, he was elected into the Video Hall of Fame, and in 2001 he became the first Hollywood executive to chair the jury of any of the major international film festivals when he served as President of the Jury for the Berlin Film Festival.

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Steve Keller is Pandora's guru of audio branding and sonic identity. Hear about why brands are not using audio strategy, and sonic logos early enough in the brand process. Steve has specific data to prove the impact of an audio strategy.

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