The Debbie Nigro Show

When Backhands Are The Business! I invited my pal Peter Kaplan to swing by the show today and take a bow for receiving The Hy Zausner Lifetime Achievement Award last week from the USTA! Peter has a well-established reputation for the camps he runs in Long Island's Westhampton. Peter's Westhampton Beach Junior /Adult Tennis Academy was just selected among the top 20 world wide and number 1 in the East for the 10th year in a row.
He also offers accommodations at his Grassmere Inn a couple of miles from the complex of a dozen courts at his Eastside Tennis Academy.
Peter Kaplan
@westhamptonBeachTennis
The Grassmere Inn
Maybe you want to take a shot at some tennis before the summer crowds get into full blown commotion.

Peter Kaplan's Westhampton Beach Tennis Academy May/June Special. Daily rates start at just $99/person, double occupancy, for 1 hours of private tennis instruction, accommodations at highly honored Westhampton Beach Grassmere Inn, breakfast, and beach access. Additional private instruction available at $45/hr. Ask, too, about their other specials, including USTA, group, and family discounts. For more information and reservations, phone 914-234-9462, email [email protected] or visit westhamptonbeachtennis.com

Federico Tozzi Secretary General Executive Director For The
Italy – America Chamber of Commerce has news about this amazing Italian food event coming up! The Authentic Italian Table is the IACC's highly-anticipated annual restaurant showcase event, featuring a selection of special tasting menus, prepared by a hand-picked group of NYC’s best and most authentic Italian restaurants. The following restaurants will be participating in this year's edition:

Caffe dei Fiori Ristorante
Marco Polo Ristorante
La Nonna Bella
Tarallucci e Vino
Obicà
Scriptum Brooklyn
Sola Pasta Bar
Luzzo BK
San Carlo Osteria Piemontese
I Trulli
Keste
Tiella
Maiella

Guests also have the opportunity to sample wines, spirits and other specialty food products by a selection of high-end Italian brands.
This year, they will also be featuring a rooftop bar with a selection of Franciacorta products.

(PS Franciacorta produces THE high end Italian Bubbly)

Authentic Italian Table is the IACC's highly-anticipated annual restaurant showcase! These are AUTHENTIC Italian Restaurants That have received the Italian Governments Seal of Approval.

My listeners have been given a NON MEMBERS DISCOUNT CODE!
USE CODE "debbienigro" valid for purchasing one ticket at the "non member price" listed on the website link below.
Once the code is entered the price will be discounted by $80!
Heres' the Link :
https://www.italchamber.org/civicrm/…

Cant' wait! When I'm happy I eat! When I'm nervous I eat! You get the picture! I like to eat.

Italy America Chamber of Commerce

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Saturday is 'Oyster Day'. Thought You Might NOT Want To Celebrate This Particular Week ...

Alert Issued For Raw Oyster Norovirus Outbreak

OMG now we have to worry about hidden toxins in Tomatoes? Quinoa? and Brown Rice? Renowned Cardiac Surgeon Dr. Steven Gundry went to a LOT of trial and error to learn about LECTINS - which cause inflammation in your body. Gluten is one of the predominant 'lectins' but otherwise 'innocent' produce also fit the category. Dr. Gundry's massive New York Times bestseller, The Plant Paradox, has dramatically improved the health of hundreds of thousands, and has changed the conversation around gut health, inflammation, weight loss and more. Meet him today on the show at 10:21am eastern.
Dr. Steven Gundry
gundrymd.com

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The first ever WAG-A-THON Is ON! You. Your dog. One month. 26.2 miles. Are you in? The Guiding Eyes for the Blind Wag-A-thon is a virtual marathon that you and your dog do together. During the month of May, you and your four-legged best friend are being challenged to walk or run a cumulative marathon – all while raising critical funds to support Guiding Eyes for the Blind’s mission to provide guide dogs to people with vision loss. Today you'll meet Thomas Panek on the show! Thomas had been a runner from a young age, so even when he lost his sight in his early 20s, he continued to compete in road races! And like any blind runner, he has relied on volunteers to guide him. He's now the C.E.O. and President of Guiding Eyes For The Blind in the NY area and he's coming on the air to announce the “Virtual Marathon in a Month” Fundraiser - Asking All Americans to Run or Walk 26.2 Miles with their Dogs This May!

give.guidingeyes.org
A Blind Runner and His Very Good Boy
Guiding Eyes for the Blind
Wag-a-thon Fundraiser

Thomas Panek is the president and chief executive officer of Guiding Eyes for the Blind, a New York-based nonprofit organization that provides exceptional guide dogs to individuals with vision loss. Under Panek’s leadership since 2014, Guiding Eyes continues to be an international leader and pioneer in the service animal field. Panek, who lost his vision in his 20s, is himself a guide dog user, and is currently partnered with Guiding Eyes guide dog Gus.

About Guiding Eyes for the Blind:
Guiding Eyes for the Blind is dedicated to creating and supporting life-changing connections between people and dogs. We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides superbly bred and trained dogs to people who are blind or visually impaired. Our dogs are known for their exceptional temperaments and success at helping people gain independence and to expand their horizons of opportunity.

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Which of these will become the Patron 2018 Margarita of The Year? In honor of Cinco de Mayo Day I'm giving a shout out on the show today to Patron Tequila. They're holding a contest to find out which margarita will go down in margarita history! (Thanks to Patron some of my dance moves have already gone down in history...just sayin).

Patrón Tequila
patrontequila.com/margarita-of-the-year

Not all women are natural-born mothers some are deeply imperfect and that’s OK. I love people like Janelle Hachett who have the courage to speak to imperfection. Janelle started a very popular blog called "Renegade Mothering" in 2011 because she needed to know if the rest of the mothering world was crazy or she was. Pregnant at twenty-one by a man she’d known for only three months, she felt trapped and unfulfilled trying to be a “good” mom and turned to alcohol and drugs for relief and meaning. For ten years, she grappled with addiction, rehab, rock bottom, therapy and finally, sobriety, in a way she never expected. Sober and still married to that man she’d only known for three months, Janelle is now the mother of four and just happy to be here. Her book, "I’M JUST HAPPY TO BE HERE: A Memoir of Renegade Mothering" is Janelles unapologetic, raw, darkly funny, and inspiring memoir, chronicling her never-before-told journey from young motherhood to abysmal addiction and, eventually, a recovery she never imagined possible. I welcome her with open arms today on the show at 10:20am eastern.

renegademothering.com
Renegade Mothering

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You Know How I Always Got A Guy? (lol Or A Girl?) Today you'll meet 'A Dancing With The Stars Star' in honor of the hit TV show season kick off last night. Christian Perry has been on DWTS since the very first season as well as the traveling tour. He is a film and television dancer and choreographer and a master ballroom dance coach who now enjoys teaching as a hobby in the Greenwich, CT area. He's dancing over to the studio this morning at 10:40am eastern to share his ballroom breakdown of not only the athletes on this seasons' show, but the inside scoop on the pros as well! In the photo here Christian is dancing with his professional partner the lovely and talented Annette Perry. (Who his wife might be a little jealous about if she wasn't already his wife which she is!)

Back To Business! Social Freakin Media For Mortals! Where should YOU be putting your energy over the next 12 months ? Hmmm. Jon Winkel Head of Digital at SquareWheelGroup in Stamford, CT joins me to go over the list of digital options. Never met a guy I like listening to so much about this stuff which confuses the heck out of the rest of us. Jon has lead transformative marketing efforts that take companies and brands from stagnant to digital-forward. As the creator of Objective Marketing, Jonathan drives the process and methodology behind marketing brilliance. He and his brilliant co-horts at SquareWheelGroup are ahead of the curve and rocking the digital world. Tune in to my show today at 10:20am eastern 1490 WGCH.

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Successful Founders Of Big Tech Companies Are Buying BICEPS? Actually they're buying themselves youth in many forms because they can - they have the money. Shout out on the show today to Digg and writer Benjamin Goggin for his report "Why Tech Founders Get Hot." Noted in this piece...A 2014 study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, found that people in lower income brackets exercised less, drank less water and were more likely to eat unhealthy food. A 2012 study found that as wealth increases, so to do healthier food choices like buying whole produce or whole grains. Some sociologists believe that healthier eating and wealth are correlated simply because the wealthy can afford better food. Goggin went on to say, 'Founders with access to fountains of youth may also be connected to Silicon Valley’s obsession with defying age and living forever.' AND... 'Google and Alphabet have invested billions in anti-aging efforts, including their top-secret company Calico, whose core mission is to study aging, and Verily (formerly Google Life Sciences). Great article if your interested in this sort of staying alive stuff!
So much for that secret company! LOL

Crack Me Up! My longest radio fan STILL listens to me from Florida every day because I crack him up and make him smile. What a riot! I had to invite Leslie Dubois to be my radio guest today when he sent a warm hello from Florida last week that he was 'listening'! OMG he's been listening since I was on the air as a morning DJ in NYC on WPIX back when! What the heck have I been saying all these years to keep him interested? I'm going to ask him today when he calls into the show at 10:21am eastern. Leslie and his wife recently bought a condo near Fort Lauderdale because the winters were getting to be too harsh and since they are both retired. Their children still live on Staten Island so they'll come see them in the summer. (I think I'll invite him to co-host with me when he comes back up this way lol). 

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For $99 YOU can be up and selling YOUR product or service from anywhere in the country in 15 minutes! All thanks to my sharp and sweet gal pal Holly Hurd, Founder of VentureMom.com. Holly is announcing on the show today that 'The National Venture Mom Marketplace is LIVE!'

Love Holly. She has figured out how to help you scale your business quickly. Whether you have a tunic, a handbag, a granola bar, or a dog collar, whether you provide pet sitting, style bookcases or teach young adults interview skills, the VentureMom Marketplace is where your customers will be looking for you. (You and your product do need to apply to be approved though). Tune in at 11:35am eastern to hear how it works. To sum it up for you - $99 gets you up and running with a storefront in a flash. After that it's $19 a month and VentureMom.com also takes 19% of every transaction for handling all the details like...A Branded Storefront, Your Product List, Your Order Management System, Your Shopping Cart, Your Market Optimization, and Your Additional Distribution. You get paid immediately upon a sale! And it's non-exclusive so you can still sell your products or services everywhere else.

I love this so much I will be putting up my own storefront today! What will I be selling? (wink) I'll let you know once it's up! I'm excited I never had an online storefront before because I didn't have the time to figure it out. Holly did.
Go Holly.

https://venturemom.com/sell/

Trending Tuesday! #NationalPigsinaBlanketDay! Who Knew!
OMG I'll have to celebrate! (Carefully though as I've got a pigs in a blanket problem lol) Came across #Hopper the Instagram planner & scheduling tool that posts for you -based in the UK. They have 1000s of customers in 55+ countries. Who Knew? (Probably because I might be the only one without an Instagram account which I cannot explain but intend to do something about and maybe I'll let Hopper help me) #Hopper puts out'Trending', a regular digest of the months upcoming top trends and hashtags and this is their new visual calendar of the hottest trends for April. Love it and will now ask a very important question...Who else out there wants to celebrate #NationalPigsinaBlanketDay with me?

Hopper HQ
https://www.hopperhq.com/…/trending-months-hashtags-hot-to…/

Back To Business! Did you know that 'Behavioral Science' is one of the hottest trends in business today? It's about understanding the reasons behind the all-too-human behavior, choices and decision-making in our personal, financial and business lives. A growing number of companies are using it as a way to be more predictive and better understand human nature, motivate employees, engage customers, increase productivity and improve outcomes. Enter 'PeopleScience.com' which is like a really great dinner party, where all the invited guests are thought leaders in behavioral science, industry and you.
It's a centralized resource featuring experts from academia, business, public policy, journalism and related spheres of influence. 'PeopleScience' is led by Editor-In-Chief Jeff Kreisler who joins the show at 10:20am eastern today.
He's the bestselling author – with Dan Ariely – of Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter, one of the top business books of 2017 according to Business Insider, Huffington Post, Audible and The Washington Post, which called it “a brilliant and accessible look at behavioral economics.”

Jeff is also a financial columnist (TheStreet.com), recovering attorney (Princeton, Virginia Law), award-winning comedian (“Laugh out loud, roaring” – CNBC, “Hilarious” – Chicago Tribune, “Delectable” – New York Times) and on-air pundit for MSNBC, CNN Headline News, FoxNews and Sirius XM.

Jeff Kreisler
www.peoplescience.maritz.com

You Can Now Order Pizza To Be Delivered Where? Wherever You Happen To Be! A Beach Chair! A Public Monument! Etc. Pizza lovers can place an order online to be delivered to more than 150,000 outdoor hotspots throughout the country and have their pie delivered 'wherever' they are. Thousands of local parks, sports fields and beaches are now Domino Pizza Hot Spots. “We listened to customers and their need for pizza delivery to locations without a traditional address,” Russell Weiner, president of Domino’s USA, said in a statement

Before rolling out the program nationwide, Domino's first began testing it at hotspots in Miami last year. Significant new locations include the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, by the iconic Las Vegas welcome sign, and even next to a statue of soul legend James Brown in Augusta, Georgia.

The Today Show - Domino's now Delivers Pizza to Picnic Blankets and Iconic Monuments

Are Soulful Psychics The New Love Coaches? Yes it seems that's the trend. Matters of the heart are complicated. (Ya Think?) Just ask Lisa Salvatore, a gal with a 'gift' for guidance (understatement). We all possess emotional, relationship related baggage, and lately many are turning to soulful psychics to help better understand it all. Lisa who's also a certified health and wellness coach as well as well as a coach for your soul will tell you, "Everything is energy".
I can tell you first hand from the moment she connects, she tunes into your frequency. (It's like she's psychic lol )
I invited Lisa on the show today because of my own uncanny experiences with her. She uses her gifts of clairvoyance (clear vision), clairaudience (clear audio/hearing), clairsentience (clear sensation/feeling), clairscent (clear smelling), clairgustance (clear tasting), and clairempathy (clear emotion). Along with the above, she uses Tarot and Angel cards to enhance the information she's receiving and to address any specific questions you may have. She always encourages those who come to her to keep an open mind and an open heart. After all she says, you may not always hear what you want to hear, but you will always here what you need to hear to catapult you forward on your journey. Lisa says she's simply a conduit for information, and the more open you are, the more you shall receive! if you are open and seek information about your love life you will enjoy her. There are some very interesting people on this planet! Tune in 10:20am eastern today.

Sessions- Lisa Salvatore
www.lisasalvatore.com

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Our Love of Guidance: Why We Crave Relationship Advice.
Shout out on the show today to PsychCentral.com and YourTango for this great piece on relationships and why we have the need to know where we stand in relationship to others relationships. (You got that?) "Everyone in the world survives because of their relationships to other beings." "Relationships are the most important things in our lives. Without them, nothing else matters. We understand this and we know it to be true, so we take advice for relationships wherever we can get it. Whether these relationships are familial, platonic, or romantic, we know that it’d be impossible to live without them."

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A Nice Gal After My Own Heart Joins The Show Tomorrow. I caught Fran Hauser's 'coming soon' book announcement on Linked In a month or so ago and KNEW instantly it was a WINNER. So... I wrote her a blind hello and introduced myself. She knew I got it. Today Fran joins the show at the top of the hour to talk about her new book, 'The Myth of The Nice Girl: Achieving A Career you Love Without Becoming A Person You Hate'. It's taking the media by storm as I knew it would because there are so many 'nice girls out there' who struggle to find the balance between being 'too nice' and being a bitch. I'd always felt my own being 'too nice' in business was a detriment at times but guess what ...I actually did it right so I won't apologize because Fran says a key 'Nice Girl Rule'... is Don't Apologize Too Much! She's great and has hit a nerve and serves up some great advice! Tune in top of the hour 10:06am eastern

Fran Hauser
www.franhauser.com

Fran Hauser is a long-time media executive, startup investor and celebrated champion of women and girls. Best known for her role building PEOPLE.com – one of the biggest media brands online – Hauser made the leap to early stage investing in 2014, funding and advising consumer-focused companies such as HelloGiggles, Mogul, The Wing and Gem&Bolt. 18 of the 20 companies in Hauser's portfolio are founded by women, highlighting her broader commitment to increasing the representation of female founders and investors.

THE MYTH OF THE NICE GIRL: Achieving a Career You Love Without Becoming a Person You Hate - deconstructs the negative perception of "niceness" that many women struggle with in the business world and will resonate with smart, professional women who are looking for real advice to take their career to the next level.