The Dr. Ward Bond Show

The LACS are one of the clear leaders of the country-rap-rock genre with over 1 billion streams on Pandora, over 500 million views on YouTube and and over 400 million streams on Spotify. 

 

One of the band’s most identifiable songs, “Kickin’ Up Mud” was recently certified Gold, and total album sales are approaching 1 million. 

 

Ladies and gentlemen, none of that has come from radio or big publicity campaigns, it’s all about their fan base spreading the news about their music. 

 

They have performed or toured with Jamie Johnson, Uncle Kracker, Buckcherry, Blackstone Cherry to name a few. 

 

They are here today to talk about their new single, “Hellraisers in Heaven” and so much more! 

 

Let’s welcome Clay Sharpe of The LACS!

Alexandra Allred is a former professional athlete who made sports history when she won the first-ever U.S. women’s bobsled championship when she was more than four months pregnant. 

 

A former fighter and fourth degree black belt, Allred has been teaching martial arts, self-defense and mainstream fitness classes for over 25 years. She is the author of the award-winning book Atta Girl! A Celebration of Women in Sport.

Our guest today is visionary media entrepreneur Joey Canyon. He is the founder and CEO of Canyon Star TV as well as being an award-winning country music singer-songwriter and producer.

 

After developing expertise in a range of production roles throughout the 80s and 90s, Joey Canyon started his own production services company, working on national commercials, documentaries, TV series, and with NFL Films for eight years. He later produced and hosted The Joey Canyon Show, a dynamic, critically-acclaimed country music variety show featuring the best names in traditional country music. His TV show aired on the RFD-TV network before starting his own network, Canyon Star TV.

 

In 2019, Canyon was awarded “Entertainer of the Year” by the Independent Music Network, and in 2021, he was inducted into the Colorado Country Music Hall of Fame. With the March 2022 launch of his global streaming television network Canyon Star TV, he is set to bring the best in family entertainment back to television.

Tonja Rene is an actor turned manager/producer with a passion for film, television and media. She has several television and film credits in supporting and leading roles and new projects in the works as a producer. 

 

Tonja looks forward to projects that require depth and grit. Her background as a performer and visionary goes back to her early childhood where she did modeling as a teen as well as numerous performances as a singer, actor and host. 

 

In this interview, Ward and Tonja discuss what it’s like for a believer to work in Hollywood and how to stay the true to who you are and what you believe. Can Christians work in non-Christian films and still make a difference? 

 

Tonja was drawn back into media and entertainment as a result of a surreal dream she says “rocked her world” while pregnant with her daughter in 2004. In this dream, Tonja was taken on a journey through old Hollywood and God showed her that the church had pulled his Light out of the media and entertainment industries years ago. The Lord asked her to be willing to be, among others, a Light through her gifts and talents.

Director and writer Eirik Veiten wrote and directed his first acclaimed short FRIENDLY PEOPLE in 2010. He has written and directed 14 short films. 

 

His work includes different genres and stretches from high realism to stylized comedy. 

 

His recent short film NIGHT RIDE was awarded the Audience Award at The Norwegian Short Film Festival and has since won 5 awards at festivals around the world. 

 

It has also been nominated for an Academy Award in the Live Action Short Film category for this year’s Oscars.

Director and writer Eirik Veiten wrote and directed his first acclaimed short FRIENDLY PEOPLE in 2010. He has written and directed 14 short films. 

 

His work includes different genres and stretches from high realism to stylized comedy. 

 

His recent short film NIGHT RIDE was awarded the Audience Award at The Norwegian Short Film Festival and has since won 5 awards at festivals around the world. 

 

It has also been nominated for an Academy Award in the Live Action Short Film category for this year’s Oscars.

In a world of 8 billion people, there are those who are named after famous people, in this particular case, what’s it like to grow up with the name of the most famous secret agent in film, James Bond. 

 

Born and raised in Australia on a diet of James Bond films, elaborate thrillers and Errol Morris documentaries. His interest in film grew in high school where he made a run of several short films including SURVEILLANCE - his take on Alfred Hitchcock’s REAR WINDOW - and the mockumentary, FAKES.

 

Today he is here to talk about his new film, THE OTHER FELLOW which is his feature documentary debut.

Multifaceted American jazz pianist and composer Emmet Cohen is one of his generation's pivotal figures in music and the related arts. 

 

Leader of the Emmet Cohen Trio and creator of the Masters Legacy Series, he is an internationally acclaimed jazz artist, a dedicated educator, and the winner of the 2019 American Pianists Awards. 

 

His artistry has taken him to venues and festivals in over 30 countries. And his entrepreneurial energies led to his developing "Live From Emmet's Place," a live-streamed "Harlem Rent Party" that unites a worldwide audience via tens of millions of internet views. 

 

He has released over ten albums as leader and has performed or recorded with the likes of Ron Carter, Benny Golson, Jimmy Cobb, George Coleman, and many, many others.

We have Pastor and Chaplain Steve Austin back with us today as talk more about the healing power of God for your body, mind and spirit and today He, and what I mean by He, is the Lord is going to bring healing to your soul.

 

Steve Austin has been a pastor and Senior Director at Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas for over 20 years. He has overseen 24 ministries and 40 adult Bible classes. 

 

Steve has ministered to thousands of sick people and their families in the largest medical center in the world - the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas - and did hospital chaplaincy training at MD Anderson Cancer Center, the world's top cancer medical facility. 

 

He is the President and Executive Director of Living Hope Chaplaincy, a nonprofit organization that trains and mobilizes volunteers to provide spiritual care to hospital patients, their families, and healthcare workers.

 

We are here today to discuss more from Steve’s very powerful new book, God Heals: Eight Keys to Defeat Sickness and Receive Divine Healing.

Chosen as one of the 100 great children's books of the last 100 years by the New York Public Library.

In this award-winning novel for readers in grades 2-5 illustrated by Jamie Hogan, Naima must find a way to save her mother's golden bangle -- and fix her father's rickshaw. Booklist said this "lively, moving book has surprises that continue to the end," Kirkus promised that "Naima's story will be relished by students and teachers alike," and the Cooperative Center for Children's Books picked it as a must-read global title for children.

 

Mitali Perkins has written many books for young readers, including You Bring the Distant Near (nominated for a National Book Award) and Rickshaw Girl (adapted into a film by Sleeperwave Productions), all of which explore crossing different kinds of borders. 

 

Her goal is to make readers laugh or cry, preferably both, as long as their hearts are widening. And she has done it with Rickshaw Girl!