Legends - Extraordinary Lives

“Shellye Archambeau has achieved amazing success through a clear strategy of setting goals, making plans, and intelligent risk-taking. In this book, she's now sharing these strategies with us: why to set an ambitious plan and how to achieve it. Highly recommended.“
―Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Start-Up of You. Hear Shellye talk about leading companies, and her book Unapologetically Ambitious.

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Legends welcomes William Lee Golden of The Oak Ridge Boys. He joined the Oaks in 1965. The band just released The Front Porch. Hear about his calling to sing inspirational songs and his last year of recording 44 different songs (5 major projects in the last 12 months. William has found his healing in music. Listen to the touching story of losing William's first wife with pancreatic cancer. William also talks about the tough life of being on the road 150 days a year. His book Behind the Beard tells it ALL.

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Genuine expertise has become more valuable than ever. In this podcast, author David C. Baker inspires our audience to narrow their focus with greater courage, urges everyone to articulate more concise points of view and steers you to greater clarity as professionals.

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Legendary Texas country western band The Pearl Snaps are featured on today's show along with their lead singer Lisa "Lefty" Rainbolt Maher. This is one of the greatest bands in the Austin area that hyper-focuses on entertaining audiences with authentic, two step dancing music along with waltzes. This fun band plays mostly fast-paced original songs mixed with some classics from Patsy Cline, George Strait and Hank Williams. Hear the inside story on the song Going Broke, written by Lefty Rainbolt. Book this incredible band for parties, corporate events, weddings or wakes. You are guaranteed to get a strong dose of Texas traditional dance music, wear out your boots, and be changed forever by this tour de force band. Visit www.thepearlsnaps.com. Hear the rest of this legendary band on future Legends shows.

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Nick Dotin and his legendary dance hall- Mercer Dance Hall- are featured on today's show. There are stories that emanate from Texas and then there are dance hall stories that are legendary. Today's show is no exception and Nick shares the insiders view on running Mercer. Make sure and visit Mercer Dance Hall just outside of Dripping Springs, Texas. You can dance to The Pearl Snaps band on the third Sunday of each month for Nick's matinee show. Do church, lunch, then dance your Sundays away.

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Legendary author Bill Halamandaris, mentee of Viktor Frankl, marks the anniversary and legacy of Martin Luther King. Read www.spiritualcommonsense.com today. Bill was in Washington D.C. during dramatic times of change. Enjoy his reflection on this important event.

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Anna McCoy epitomizes the success to significance journey. Anna is a Senior Business Strategist and CEO of The EBW Foundation. Anna is a principal and chief st rategy and global officer of Urban America, a private real estate equity and development firm,
founded in 1998. Her 25-year unique background brings a multitude of diffierent operating experiences, she is both a creative thinker and influential collaborator. She facilitates Urban America’s New Tax Market Credit program and its women empowerment initiatives.
The New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) was designed to increase the flow of capital to businesses and lowincome communities by providing a modest tax incentive to private investors. UA is a certified CDE and has received $267M in NMTC allocations since 2006 and has deployed over $800M in low and moderate communities over the past 18 years through its real estate investments and master plan developments.
She is a published author of three books, Walk Powerful at Zero, Woman Act Now and Building Generational Wealth. In 2016, from the President Barak Obama, she received the Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award for Volunteer Service. Mrs. McCoy is the recipient of the Women of Excellence Award from Epitome Magazine, named “The Power Connector” by Effiectual Magazine, published in Nigeria. She was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Divinity from St. Thomas College.
She appointed Ambassador at Large by WOLMI.

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Legends, hosted by Rick Tocquigny, welcomes the incomparable Kris Kimura, founder of Parker Jazz Club, Texas' very finest jazz club. Kris is an award winning vocalist and woodwind specialist based in the “Live Music Capital of the World” – Austin, TX. For almost two decades, Kris has performed with many of Austin’s best bands including Ghandaia, Grupo Fantasma, Dario y su Comborican, Mr. Fabulous, Rotel & the Hot Tomatoes, the Pictures, Boombox, Monster Big Band, and MANY others. Kris has also shared the stage with many national and international artists including Michael Feinstein, Johnny Mathis, George Duke, Diana Krall, Elvis Costello, Doug Lawrence, Marcus Printup, the Temptations, the O’Jays, the Buckinghams, Arthur Latin, Butch Miles, Ignacio Berroa, Ndugu Chancler, and many others. In addition to a very busy career as a sideman in various projects, Kimura has led his own bands – The Kris Kimura Quartet/Quintet, the Kris Kimura Jazz Orchestra, the Wasabi Big Band, and the Wasabi Grandé Big Big Band.

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Our Legends series continues with Irlene Mandrell, famous for her role on The Barbara Mandrell Show and Hee Haw. Hear Irlene's love for Karen Carpenter, love for God and Country. Now a parent and grandparent, she is teaching music to her offspring.

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Enjoy the extraordinary talent of Kenny Aronoff. He is humble musician who has been through so many experiences. He has played on 300 million albums  75 Letterman shows,  SNL's, Grammy's, and multiple Kennedy Honors shows. 
Teamwork is what makes success, but Kenny strives to be band's MVP. 
Hear about how Kenny embraces fear. Over a long period of time, he learned to work with fear. He perseveres through fear by "loving what he does most." According to Kenny, "In order to function in life, you must move through fear. "
This show also answers the question ...does a location or city inspire creativity? Learn about the geniuses and polymaths of Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
Get Kenny's insight on his mantra of "listen, learn, lead and understand that you are not the boss." Kenny has learned to SERVE THE SONG. For this legend- The song is his hero. 
Visit www.kennyaronoff.com to follow the exploits of this legend. 

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