The Dr. Ward Bond Show

Saving Abel is a Southern rock band with catchy hooks and heavy riffs founded by Jared Weeks and Jason Null. Their first single “Addicted” broke onto the scene, climbing its way quickly into a cross-over hit from mainstream rock to Billboard Hot 100 and Top 40. 

 

With millions of sales under their belt, it’s easy to see how their self-titled debut album charted on Billboard’s Top 50 and became a certified multi-platinum record. Their debut album delivered two more #1 singles with “18 days” and “Drowning (Face Down),” across multiple charts and solidified this band's name in rock.

 

Saving Abel has received multiple awards from MTV, VH1, BMG, and Music Choice. The band has over 2 billion global streams. Their tours have included some of the top-grossing tours of all time with bands such as Nickelback, Papa Roach, Avenged Sevenfold, Shinedown, and Sevendust to name a few. 

 

Their new single “Baptize Me” just released off their forthcoming album with over 200,000 streams on Spotify and growing.

 

With us today is lead singer Jared Weeks who left the band in 2013, fought multiple addictions and found his way to sobriety. 

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Jeff Carson’s last album, 448 is a 9-track, never-to-be-completed swan song by a man who lived a praiseworthy life. 

 

Lauded by both the Academy of Country Music and the Police Academy, in 2009, after charting 14 singles, including mid-‘90s Billboard-topping “Not On Your Love” and Top-5 father-son anthem “The Car,” Jeff Carson walked away from the music industry completely, and for all the right reasons–to pursue a career in law enforcement, focus on family, and be a strong role model and dad to his son Dayton. 

 

He would serve the Franklin, Tenn. Police Department for 14 years with accommodation.

 

After a 22-year absence from the music scene, but with the recent resurgence of ‘90s country music in the mainstream, Jeff Carson was encouraged to return to the studio to re-record an album of his greatest hits. Tragically, before the album was completed, on March 26, 2022, after returning from a day shift at the police department, Carson suffered a sudden heart attack and passed away.

 

With us today is Jeff’s wife, Kim Carson to share with us the memories of Jeff Carson, his music and his last album 448. 

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In 2018, Jenn Drummond was involved in a car accident.  Rescue workers couldn’t imagine any scenario where she came out of it alive, but she did. 

 

That’s when she realized you don’t get to choose when you leave this life…but you sure can choose how you live it.  Strengthened by this awareness, she set out to live in a more authentic and adventurous way.

 

Inspired to climb a mountain for her birthday, her son raised the stakes by suggesting Mount Everest. Not one to back down from a challenge, she accepted the pursuit. During her training, her coach upped the ante and proposed that she go for a Guinness World Record and become the first woman to climb the 7 second summits. The pursuit matched her desire to live a life of significance, not just success.

 

Today, Jenn is a world record holder who elevates others to master their own summit in life.  She’s a successful business owner and mom of 7 kids who, as you have heard, boldly inspire and brazenly challenge her. 

 

She’s also an international speaker, an author, and host of the Seek Your Next Summit podcast, who’s focused on inspiring others to go beyond success to a life of significance. 

 

Let’s welcome our guest today, Jenn Drummond, who has become the first female world record holder to climb the second highest summits on each of the 7 continents, and to inspire you to climb your own mountains. 

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Brenda Tracy. She is a nurse, speaker, activist, and survivor. In 1998, she reported to police that she was brutally raped by four men, two of whom played football at Oregon State University. 

 

In 2014, she found the courage to come forward with her story and now seeks to make the world a better place for survivors. 

 

As a citizen lobbyist, Brenda has helped with the passage of eight laws in her home state of Oregon. 

 

She has won numerous awards and was named ESPN’s top 25 women in 2016, one of Sports Illustrated most powerful women in sports in 2020, and in 2022, ESPN’s 11 Biggest Power Brokers and Advocates Shaping College Football. 

 

Brenda Tracy is the creator of the “Tracy Rule” which is the most comprehensive serious misconduct policy in NCAA history, and she is the founder of the national campaign and nonprofit, Set The Expectation. 

 

Her message of “men as the solution and not the problem” is transforming the landscape of sports and how we engage in gender-based violence prevention work. 

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Our guest today is Kim Gravel. She is the host of a group of number-one shows on QVC and is a wildly successful entrepreneur, television personality, motivational speaker, and leader in the fashion and beauty industry, but most of all she has a passion for people and seeing them rise. 

 

Her authentic, common-sense style has resulted in Kim being one of the most booked guests on The Steve Harvey Show. 

 

In 2016, Kim partnered with television and on-line retail giant QVC to launch her highly successful apparel line, Belle by Kim Gravel®, and a year later the Belle Beauty® cosmetic line. In five years, Kim has grown her brands from zero to hundreds of millions of dollars in sales. 

 

She is here to discuss her new book, Collecting Confidence, which invites you to look at yourself with a fresh new lens, encouraging you to start where you are and become the person you were meant to be.

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#womenempowerment #confidence #empowerment #faith #inspiration #motivation #encouragement #wellness #beconfident

HERE. IS. BETTER. is an award-winning  documentary film with unprecedented access inside therapy sessions of men and women veterans battling post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). 

 

The film follows four of these veterans, each with diverse backgrounds and service experience, as they undergo the most clinically effective, evidence-based trauma psychotherapies for PTSD. 

 

HERE. IS. BETTER. is directed by Emmy Award-winner Jack Youngelson, and produced by Emmy Award-winner Sian Edwards-Beal and David Beal of Green Hummingbird Entertainment.

 

Jack Youngelson is an Emmy and WGA Award-winning documentary filmmaker whose work has appeared on Netflix, HBO, PBS, Prime Video, and elsewhere.

 

Sian Edwards-Beal is an Emmy Award-winning producer, writer, and director who has created television and film projects for networks including HBO, the BBC, National Geographic, A&E and Food Network. 

 

Both of their resumes are highly impressive and their new film HERE.IS.BETTER. is no exception. 

 

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Cristy Kisner is the author of the gluten-free, dairy-free and processed food-free cookbook, Cristy’s Kitchen. 

 

She is also the owner of the gluten-free, dairy-free and organic bakery-cafe Cristy’s Kitchen in Roswell, Georgia.  She was not a natural-born cook, but when one of her five daughters developed an autoimmune disease and another began exhibiting signs of gluten intolerance, however, she knew that she needed to learn.

 

Cristy began developing recipes in her native Peru, and her friends and neighbors with dietary concerns began coming to her house for baking lessons. 

 

She had one rule: Even if these families had the means to send their cooks and maids to her classes, she would encourage the parents themselves to come, because baking is showing love.

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She is one of the most famous actresses that has ever graced the silver screen. She continues her career into the 21st century with no signs of slowing down. 

 

In 1961, her single "I Just Don't Understand" charted in the Top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100 Charts and her acting debut followed the same year as Bette Davis' daughter in Frank Capra's Pocketful of Miracles. She appeared in the musical, State Fair a year later with Pat Boone before her breakthrough in 1963, with Bye Bye Birdie and Viva Las Vegas opposite Elvis Presley, she then became a Top 10 Box Office movie star.

 

Many of you know her from films such a Carnal Knowledge with Jack Nicholson, Tommy with Roger Daultry and Grumpy Old Men with Walter Matthau and Jack Lemon. And one of my favorites, The Kominsky Method with Alan Arkin and Michael Douglas.

 

She has just released her first album in 30 years, a rock and roll collection of duets called Born to be Wild and she keeps that reputation going by still riding her motorcycle. 

 

And she has debuted her signature fragrance, the limited edition Ann-Margret perfume, benefiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. 

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He is known for his starring roles in over a dozen major Hollywood studio films, such as “April Love” and “State Fair,” and more recently, “The Mulligan,” for which Pat just took home the Grace Award for Most Uplifting Performance In Movies at the Movie Guide Awards in Hollywood. 

 

Now celebrating the 70th anniversary of his career in show business, Pat is the weekly host of his own SiriusXM radio show, “The Pat Boone Hour,” and is continuing a book tour promoting “IF-The Eternal Choice We All Must Make,” (his 28th). 

 

He has sold over 45 million records worldwide and has 38 Top 40 hits and is reconnecting with his Nashville roots with his new true-blue country novelty song, “Grits.”

 

Let’s welcome, THE ICON, THE LEGEND, THE ENTERTAINER, Mister Show Business himself, Pat Boone everyone! 

 

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With us today is James Smith-Williams of the Washington Commanders. He is the Set The Expectation ambassador and founded The Set The Expectation Champions program. 

 

James began his advocacy work with Set The Expectation in 2019 when he was a player at North Carolina State. A devoted supporter of sexual assault survivors, James has organized multiple events and taken every opportunity possible to use his platform to raise awareness and give to survivors and their families a voice. 

 

In his professional career, James was named “The 2021 Week 10 NFL Player Association Community MVP” for his work in Washington, DC as a Set The Expectation Champion. 

 

He was also awarded the “Vital Voices-Voices of Solidarity Award” which is named to the five most impactful men in the world for their global fight to end gender-based violence and their leadership along the way. James has been recognized by Stand Together Foundation as a Community Influencer for his work as an athlete on and off the field. 

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