Cheryl Lovell on Healthcare Entrepreneurship, Consulting, Compliance, Growth, and the Future of Post-Acute CareIn this special simulcast of The Neil Haley Show and the Storehouse Media Group Podcast, Neil “The Media Giant” Haley welcomes Cheryl Lovell, founder and executive of CLC Group, for a conversation about entrepreneurship, healthcare operations, consulting, regulatory complexity, growth, and the opportunities—and risks—inside the post-acute healthcare industry. Lovell’s entrepreneurial journey began after serving in the U.S. Navy and deploying during the Gulf War. She originally intended to pursue nursing, but after leaving the military in the early 1990s, she found the nursing-school and employment landscape unexpectedly difficult.That obstacle pushed her in a different direction.Through Webster University, Lovell discovered the emerging field of healthcare administration. She earned a degree combining business and healthcare administration, followed by a master’s degree in business, and says she quickly fell in love with the business side of healthcare.After working for other organizations, Lovell eventually reached the point many entrepreneurs do: she believed she could build and operate healthcare companies differently on her own.Over the years, she owned and operated businesses in home health, hospice, private-duty care, and palliative care. After selling those companies, she moved into consulting, helping other healthcare entrepreneurs and operators build, improve, reorganize, and grow their organizations.Today, CLC Group focuses primarily on healthcare organizations that need help identifying problems and opportunities.Lovell says her work often begins with a simple question: What is the owner actually trying to accomplish?From there, she evaluates the entire operational picture. The solution may involve reorganizing operations, improving sales and marketing, pursuing an acquisition, launching a new service, creating a startup, correcting inefficiencies, or simply identifying what she calls a “leaky bucket” inside the organization.Her experience covers a broad range of post-acute healthcare, including home health, hospice, private-duty home care, palliative care, assisted living, independent living, and skilled nursing.Neil and Lovell also explore one of the biggest misconceptions about healthcare entrepreneurship: the belief that healthcare is automatically an easy or recession-proof investment.Lovell says she increasingly sees entrepreneurs entering healthcare from unrelated industries because they assume demand will remain strong regardless of the economy. But they may underestimate just how complicated the regulatory and reimbursement systems can be.That is especially true in home health.Lovell describes home health as one of the most complex post-acute businesses because payment is not necessarily based on a simple daily or hourly rate. Reimbursement can depend on multiple factors, assessments, expected care needs, and changing patient conditions.That complexity creates challenges not only in billing, but also in operations, staffing, compliance, forecasting, and cash flow.Another significant challenge is regulation.Lovell discusses the pressure healthcare operators face from fraud, waste, abuse concerns, CMS oversight, and changing rules. Good operators often become extremely risk-averse because the consequences of making the wrong decision can be significant.But she also warns that avoiding every risk can prevent a company from growing.The goal is not to ignore regulations. It is to understand them well enough to make intelligent decisions while still being willing to innovate, expand, and adapt.Marketing creates another unique challenge.Lovell explains that much of post-acute healthcare depends on B2B relationship building rather than conventional consumer marketing. Companies often need trusted relationships with referral sources while simultaneously building confidence with patients and families.Technology and AI may help support that process, but Lovell believes personal relationships remain incredibly important.There is no single “silver bullet” sales engine.Successful organizations need to understand their specific market, strengthen referral relationships, use technology appropriately, and create systems that consistently move opportunities forward.Lovell has worked with organizations ranging from startups to companies generating approximately $150 million in annual revenue, and she says many of the underlying challenges remain surprisingly similar.Operators need clarity.They need to understand where money is being lost, where opportunities exist, what regulations are changing, where staffing problems are developing, and whether their current systems can support future growth.Neil and Lovell also discuss how quickly healthcare can change. Regulations, reimbursement structures, market demand, technology, and investment opportunities can all shift within a few years.That makes experienced guidance increasingly valuable for entrepreneurs entering the industry without a healthcare background.Lovell’s message is clear: healthcare can be an incredible business opportunity, but it is not a simple business.Entrepreneurs must understand compliance, reimbursement, staffing, operations, marketing, and the human side of care before assuming that strong demand automatically creates success.For healthcare companies that are struggling, growing, launching, acquiring, or considering major operational changes, Lovell says she can often identify core problems quickly and help point leadership toward practical solutions.Listeners can connect with Cheryl Lovell and CLC Group at [email protected] more information about media, marketing, publishing, and ghostwriting, visit StoreHouseMediaGroup.com.

Music Icon KC of KC and the Sunshine Band, Actor Kristoffer Polaha, NFL-Veteran-Turned-Author Andre Hardy, and Boxing Legend ButterbeanThis edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with a Celebrity Interviews simulcast live from the grotto, co-hosted by Greg Hanna, welcoming music icon KC of KC and the Sunshine Band. KC reflected on a life steeped in music, growing up in a family where relatives cut radio commercials and gospel records and everyone gathered around the piano to sing and dance. He recalled an almost premonitory certainty that music was his path, and traced his break to a Miami record store that put him near where records were being made, where he crossed paths with Steve Alaimo of Dick Clark's Where the Action Is and found a mentor and father figure in the legendary Henry Stone, soaking up publicity, sales, marketing, and studio work while doing whatever it took to learn. Decades on, with hits like Get Down Tonight, That's the Way I Like It, and Shake Your Booty still filling dance floors, he marveled that his music simply lives on and on, and said he remains grateful for the whole ride.Neil then welcomed actor Kristoffer Polaha to talk about both his humanitarian work and a new series. A World Vision ambassador since 2020, inspired by Bono and by Meghan Markle, Polaha described the organization's disaster response, rushing food, clean water, books, and trauma kits into devastated communities and staying to rebuild long after the news cameras leave, and pointed viewers to the gift catalog at worldvision.org, where the bracelets he and his wife design help fund the work. He then previewed American Hostage, in which he plays mortgage-company president Dick Hall, taken hostage for sixty-three hours by Tony Kiritsis in a harrowing true 1977 Indianapolis standoff that unfolded live on the radio through reporter Fred Heckman, played by Jon Hamm, opposite Giovanni Ribisi. Polaha praised the Shawn Ryan series and director Adam Arkin's choice to film it in real time like a play, and noted he prepared by reading Hall's own long-delayed memoir. He also shared his directorial debut, Mimics, a Goonies-style romp with Stephen Tobolowsky and Chris Parnell, on Tubi.Neil next joined a simulcast, co-hosted by Michael, welcoming Andre Hardy, an NFL veteran reinvented as a crime novelist with his debut, Tear the City Down. Hardy, a lifelong reader sparked in third grade by a Bob Gibson biography and later by Walter Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress, drew on his work for the Los Angeles Review of Books and a ghostwritten memoir to craft a layered protagonist, a fixer for a crooked power broker who longs to get out and be present for his daughter, only to be pulled into the disappearance of a star running back. He called the book both a love letter to and a critique of San Diego, and teased a next novel built around an NIL deal gone bad. Find him at andrehardy.com.The program closes with another Celebrity Interviews simulcast from the grotto, with Greg Hanna, featuring boxing legend Butterbean. He recounted rising from the Toughman circuit, where he won all he was allowed to before turning pro, named Larry Holmes as the most famous fighter he faced, and rattled off knockouts including a roughly eight-second finish, a memorable stoppage of Lewis Monaco, and the wrestler he flattened at WrestleMania. His philosophy was simple: skip the dancing and strategizing, give the fans who came for a real fight their money's worth, and try to knock somebody out, which he said is exactly how a fighter earns a following. Asked about dream bouts, he said he always wanted Mike Tyson and would relish shutting up Jake Paul, while calling the on-again Tyson-Paul talk a scam. Catch KC and the Sunshine Band on tour, Kristoffer Polaha in American Hostage, Andre Hardy's Tear the City Down at booksellers, and Butterbean wherever the fights are.

Shark Tank's Robert Herjavec, Author Todd R. Mitchell Jr., and AI Office Hours with Pat RileyThis edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with a Total Celebrity conversation with Robert Herjavec of ABC's Shark Tank. Herjavec reflected that none of the Sharks expected a show about five people talking business to become a hit, and were amazed to find it embraced above all as a family show, one that gives viewers hope and inspiration. Even after nine seasons, he said, the creativity of the entrepreneurs who walk in, and the dreams and stories behind their products, never cease to astonish him. He described the experience as a pressure cooker on both sides of the pitch, with far more happening behind the scenes than makes the edit, and spoke fondly of the very different personalities on the panel, some sharp with numbers and some not, and the spirited Shark fights that give the show its spark. Drawing on his own journey from an immigrant who arrived with next to nothing to building a major cybersecurity company, Herjavec framed the program as a celebration of passion, persistence, and the belief that a great idea and a compelling story can change a life. He said he is proud to be part of a platform that, more than anything, gives people permission to chase what they believe in, and reflected that the same qualities the Sharks look for in a pitch, resilience, clarity, and heart, are the ones that carry entrepreneurs through the hard years after the cameras stop rolling.Neil then welcomed author Todd R. Mitchell Jr., joined by his fiancee, to talk about his book Never Gave Up. A gifted athlete who earned a college basketball scholarship and went on to arena football, Mitchell described how alcoholism shadowed every opportunity, and said that had he reached the pros, the money would have arrived long before he reached the root of the problem, likely leaving him broke, homeless, or worse. He traced a hard road through homelessness, incarceration, and car accidents, and credited his turnaround to faith and to a partner who visited him daily in rehab and stood by him through relapse, understanding that recovery is a process rather than a single decision. The look on his daughter's face one difficult day became another anchor, and he spoke of the patience it took his fiancee to walk beside him without giving up. Today Mitchell has earned a film production degree from Miami Dade College and launched Born From The Ashes Mitchell Production Studios in Jacksonville. Never Gave Up is available on Amazon, where it has been a number-one new release.The hour closes with an AI Office Hours simulcast, where Neil and co-host Pat Riley traded practical lessons from their week of experimenting with artificial intelligence assistants and agents. Neil opened by joking that his own AI assistant had been running him through a drill-sergeant week. Riley's hard-won takeaway was simple: when a setup is working well and running cheaply, do not tinker with it, recounting how a small change quietly burned through his budget faster than expected before he reined it back in and returned to what had worked. He also shared a favorite story making the rounds, of a traveler abroad who set an AI agent to keep scanning a shelter's listings until it flagged the person's lost cat. The pair returned to their recurring theme that AI is a powerful multiplier for a human who stays in charge, watching the costs and keeping a hand on the wheel, rather than a set-and-forget replacement. Find Robert Herjavec on Shark Tank and Todd R. Mitchell Jr.'s Never Gave Up on Amazon.

NFL Legend Barry Sanders, Actors Mariette Hartley and Jerry Sroka, Author George Goodsaid, and Dr. Paul CoronaThis edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with Pro Football Hall of Famer Barry Sanders and his advocacy campaign, Tackle PBA. Sanders explained that PBA stands for pseudobulbar affect, a little-known neurological condition that triggers sudden, uncontrollable episodes of laughing or crying that do not match how a person feels, and noted the effort was spurred in part by a Gridiron Greats Assistance Fund survey linking head injuries among former players to PBA-like symptoms. Stressing that the condition is treatable and that the goal is awareness, he encouraged anyone who recognizes the signs to take the self-assessment at tacklepba.org and speak with their doctor.Neil then welcomed a Celebrity Interviews simulcast from the grotto, co-hosted by Greg Hanna, with married actors Mariette Hartley, an Emmy winner remembered for The Incredible Hulk and her classic Polaroid ads with James Garner, and Jerry Sroka, a veteran actor and comic. The couple, who married in 2005, wrote and star in the romantic comedy Our (Almost Completely True) Love Story, directed by Don Scardino, a warm, wisecracking, largely autobiographical look at finding love later in life, though they cheerfully admitted the on-screen bird-store meet-cute was invented. Trading affectionate banter, they spoke about the vulnerability of opening their lives to audiences and the labor of love it took to bring the film to the screen with friends and family.The hour continued with author and educator George Goodsaid, whose book Catholic Positive Energy shares the same name as the YouTube channel he launched during the pandemic. Goodsaid, who holds a master's degree in Catholic theology from Catholic International University, described a personal journey of leaving the church as a boy and returning at nineteen, when mentors reignited a passion for the faith that he had never fully explored. He said he wrote the book to tell that backstory and to use his faith to spread joy, hope, and encouragement, describing his mission, with a smile, as trying to be a kind of Catholic Mr. Rogers who reminds people of their worth as children of God. He credited the amazing people he has met in recent years with changing his life for the better and drawing him out of a season that was not always filled with positive energy. Warm and upbeat, he framed the book, his first step into Catholic writing and speaking, as an invitation to find hope and joy in everyday life and to remember one's own significance, no matter what challenges arise.The program closes with a return visit from Dr. Paul Corona, physician and author of The Corona Protocol: 3 Secrets to Success and its companion Prescriber's Guide, two of his six books written to teach other doctors his method. He laid out the three principles at the heart of the protocol: understanding the mind-body connection and how stress produces real physical, or somatic, symptoms; grasping the full spectrum of bipolar disorder rather than the manic caricature many picture; and treating patients toward genuine remission. He framed the approach as decades in the making and rooted in getting to root causes rather than settling for surface fixes, and noted that his recent books are written as training manuals to pass that method along to fellow physicians. Neil, who admitted he could not resist a little teasing about the Corona name given the beer and the later virus, kept the focus on the doctor's work and his platforms, including his reality series and website. Find George Goodsaid's Catholic Positive Energy at georgegoodsaid.com and Dr. Paul Corona at drpaulcoronamd.com.

Rudy's Dan Ruettiger, Author Benton Savage, and Bestselling Novelist Grace Lynx JenkinsThis edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with a Just Two Choices celebrity segment, co-hosted by Rico Rokowski, welcoming Dan "Rudy" Ruettiger, the real-life inspiration behind the classic sports film Rudy. Ruettiger, who grew up the thirteenth of fourteen children, shared warm, funny memories of a household so full his fiercely organized mother once kept a chain and lock on the refrigerator to keep track of the food, and reflected on the years of setbacks and the sheer determination that carried him against long odds to suit up for Notre Dame and, in the final moments of a game, get onto the field for a single, unforgettable play. He framed his story around what he calls the power of the dream, the choice to chase what others say is impossible, and the discipline and faith it takes to keep going when the door keeps closing. Decades after the movie made his name a byword for perseverance, Ruettiger said his mission now is to help others believe their own dreams are worth the fight. He spoke about the two choices he believes everyone faces every day, to move toward a dream or away from it, and about surrounding yourself with people who lift you rather than hold you back. His enthusiasm, Neil noted, is as genuine as the story that inspired millions, and Ruettiger encouraged listeners to stop waiting for permission and take the first small step toward whatever they have been putting off.Neil then welcomed author Benton Savage to discuss his book The Stoic Alcoholic: It's Not Only About Counting Days. Savage, who has published four books in the last few years after two decades of writing, explained that he began the project as a daily sobriety journal titled around the first 366 days, wrote productively for about a hundred days, then stumbled, set it aside, and eventually returned to it, deciding his own recovery mattered more than the book and that finishing it could help others. Its core message, he said, is that while staying sober and the day count genuinely matter, a single bad day does not erase months or years of progress, and no one should treat a slip as total failure or a reason to give up, since tomorrow is simply another day to begin again. He also offered candid advice to fellow writers, that a book is only a tool and that no PR team or talk-show appearance replaces an author getting out and speaking to people directly, adding that the shift toward flexible, independent publishing had finally opened doors that the traditional houses kept closed for years. Throughout, he framed the work less as a memoir than as encouragement for anyone in the same fight.The hour closes with a conversation with bestselling author Grace Lynx Jenkins about her thriller Sight and her first book signing, held at a Barnes & Noble on Alabama's Eastern Shore. Jenkins recalled arriving expecting to sell only three or four copies, bringing thirty-nine, and walking out with just three, and said what warmed her heart most was meeting fellow authors and reviewers and, above all, watching parents bring their young children into the store, a reminder of how much early reading and critical-thinking skills matter. One little girl, she delighted to report, proudly announced she had already written three books of her own, the kind of moment, Jenkins said, that makes the work worthwhile. She encouraged aspiring writers to keep going and to champion reading in the next generation

Actor Corbin Bernsen, Novelist Leah Harper Bowron, AI Entrepreneur Arturo Del Rio Jr., and Jesus and Ugly Jody with Jody CorbettThis edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with a Total Celebrity conversation with actor Corbin Bernsen, familiar from L.A. Law and Psych, about his heartwarming family film When We Last Spoke. Bernsen reflected candidly on navigating a strange, uncertain season, restoring his longtime Los Angeles family home and pouring himself into writing, and said that without his faith he might have thrown in the towel. Turning to the movie, based on Marci Henna's novel, he described playing Walt, a grandfather who, alongside his wife Ruby, played by Melissa Gilbert, takes in their two young granddaughters after the girls' father is sent to Vietnam and their mother leaves to chase a singing career, with Cloris Leachman appearing as Walt's eccentric, poetry-quoting mother. Bernsen said he is a sucker for a simple, well-told story about redemption and the human spirit, and related deeply to Walt as a father of four sons at the settle-down stage of life who is suddenly pulled back into raising children. He praised his young co-stars and his decades-long friendship with Gilbert, whom he joked he has known since the two were puppies, and reflected that a book and its film adaptation are really different universes, two distinct ways of telling the same story. He called it a touching, tender film full of the human spirit and kindness.Neil then welcomed author Leah Harper Bowron to discuss her novel Colorblind, newly re-released. A lawyer who handled real estate, wills and trusts, and bankruptcy work before turning to fiction, Bowron explained that the writing bug she developed drafting legal documents eventually led her to novels. Colorblind, she said, is deeply autobiographical, drawn from what she witnessed as a child when her all-white sixth-grade class in Montgomery, Alabama was integrated in 1968. She recalled an openly segregated society of separate drinking fountains and restrooms, and how the city first brought an African American teacher into the white school before busing any students, based on fact but reshaped, she noted, to make the story richer for readers. Bowron, who also spent time teaching in a special education classroom, said the experience shaped her lens on difference, and she opened each chapter with a line from Maya Angelou, whose words meant a great deal to her. Written years ago and only now finding fresh readers, the book, she said, is a hopeful reflection on empathy and learning to see past color.The hour continued with a Storehouse Media Group simulcast featuring Arturo Del Rio Jr., founder of Lakeside Growth and its Stack Growth platform, on artificial intelligence and automation. A serial founder on his third AI company, Del Rio argued that as powerful as AI has become, it is the humans running the machines who matter most, cautioning that the costliest mistake is trusting an automated system to run unchecked. He explained that general chatbots and purpose-built automation are different tools, that large models can drift toward average output or lose the thread of a long exchange, and that success comes from matching the right tool to each task and keeping a knowledgeable person in the loop.The program closes with a Jesus and Ugly Jody simulcast, where host Jody Corbett shared the story behind his Five Stones Ministry. Rooted in David gathering five smooth stones to face Goliath and refusing Saul's armor so he could fight the way he knew how, the ministry, a vision Corbett said came to him while he was still with the FBI, reflects his belief that God works through the willing and the humble. Find Corbin Bernsen's When We Last Spoke on Amazon and Leah Harper Bowron's Colorblind wherever books are sold.

Stan Against Evil's John C. McGinley, Children's Author Laure Stack, and Investigator Melissa SandbergThis edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with a Total Celebrity conversation with actor John C. McGinley, beloved as Dr. Cox on Scrubs, about the comedy-horror series Stan Against Evil and its second season. McGinley pitched the show, in which he plays a cantankerous small-town sheriff who discovers his New England home sits atop a witch's curse, as essentially Archie Bunker fighting witches, and said he was pleasantly caught off guard when The New York Times named the first season one of its ten best new shows, a stamp of validation for a scrappy genre comedy. He explained that the hardest and most important thing the team guards is tone, aiming for the sweet spot between the pure terror of The Exorcist and the pure fun of Scooby-Doo, landing somewhere near An American Werewolf in London, funny without ever declawing the monsters. McGinley noted that horror fans at Comic-Cons in San Diego, New York, and Silicon Valley will not forgive a show that softens its creatures, so the production respects them, tapping the department heads of The Walking Dead during their hiatus in Atlanta to make the effects look as good as they do. That discipline, he said, is finally paying real dividends, both with critics and with the loyal genre fans who make the difference. He spoke about relishing a role that lets him blend his comedic timing with the darker, sharper edges of his craft in a single character.Neil then welcomed author Laure Stack to discuss her bestselling children's book Howie the Unusual Bear: The Heartwarming Journey of Courage, Friendship, and Embracing What Makes You Different. A lifelong educator, mainly a special education teacher and resource specialist who helped kids with learning disabilities keep pace with their classrooms, Stack now lives in the mountains, substitute teaches from kindergarten through high school, and stays busy skiing, hiking, and even skydiving. She traced her writing back to childhood, when she made her own little books about animals and plants, a dream she finally had time to pursue after retiring. Stack said Howie grew out of watching how wonderfully different today's kids are, and how much they need to feel that what sets them apart is a strength rather than something to hide. She reads the books to students herself, delighting in the moments a child connects with the message, and, alongside three more published titles and several on the way, is exploring stories drawn from her own animals and adventures. Her wish is simply for young readers to see their differences as a gift.The hour closes with a Criminally Good with Sherrie and Jen simulcast, presented by Storehouse Media Group, welcoming Melissa Sandberg, host of the Dog With a Bone podcast. A self-described civil investigator rather than a police officer or private eye, Sandberg takes on overlooked, low-profile cold cases to give victims and their families a voice, affectionately calling her listeners the Dog Pound. She traced a path from a childhood love of solving mysteries and two decades in hospice care to the investigative work that became her passion, noting that not being in law enforcement makes people more comfortable opening up to her. She shared a chilling reminder to trust one's instincts, recounting how, while gathering information on a case, she unknowingly crossed paths with a man later charged in a young woman's death, and said her mission is simply to keep pushing until families get their answers. Find John C. McGinley on Stan Against Evil, Laure Stack's Howie the Unusual Bear at booksellers, and Melissa Sandberg's Dog With a Bone wherever you get podcasts.

Ghostbusters' Ernie Hudson, Author Paul Shemella, and Retired Captain and Author Donna Roman HernandezThis edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with a Total Celebrity conversation with actor Ernie Hudson, beloved as Winston Zeddemore in Ghostbusters. Hudson recounted that the role was anything but a given, since director Ivan Reitman, with whom he had worked the year before on Spacehunter, initially felt he was wrong for the film and would not even see him. It took months to land an audition, which he eventually won. Hudson said he always believed Ghostbusters would be a hit, given the funny cast and sharp script, but never imagined it would endure for decades and inspire such fiercely loyal fans. He recalled how, after Ghostbusters, fans and strangers alike began sharing their own ghost stories with him, a fitting lead-in to his appearance on the paranormal series The Haunting Of, airing Saturday, September 10th at 11 a.m., in which he revisits and shares personal experiences with the unexplained. Grateful and busy with a slate of projects, he said it is a great time in his career and that he feels blessed.Neil then welcomed author Paul Shemella, a retired Navy SEAL captain, lecturer, and caregiver whose memoir Into the Mist: An Alzheimer's Journey chronicles his wife Lena's illness and his devotion to her. Shemella explained that dementia is an umbrella term, like cancer, covering some hundred conditions, of which Alzheimer's is the most common at roughly seventy percent, with other forms requiring different approaches. He spoke candidly about starting out knowing nothing, even about a wife whose healthy living seemed like it should have prevented the disease, and about learning as he went. He pointed to encouraging research and to lifestyle habits that can lower risk, and framed his work, sharing what he wishes he had known, as a ministry to help other caregivers cope more effectively. He counts himself lucky that Lena, now unable to speak or walk, still smiles, and his mantra is to live from one smile to the next.The hour closes with a Criminally Good with Sherrie and Jen simulcast, presented by Storehouse Media Group, welcoming Donna Roman Hernandez, a retired thirty-year New Jersey police captain turned award-winning filmmaker, author, podcaster, and victim advocate. Roman Hernandez shared that she pursued the badge because she admired her father, an Essex County constable, only to endure decades of abuse from him at home, and she chose law enforcement anyway to help others who might have a bad parent too. Rising from a Newark 911 dispatcher to captain of an all-male department, a promotion she had to fight to have affirmed, she served as the county's domestic violence liaison and a trainer for the attorney general's office, all while never disclosing her own experience, out of a fear, common among officers and especially women, of being seen as weak. Her memoir, Battered Blue, released through her company Blue Force Films, weaves in her late mother's handwritten diary to honor a dying wish to tell their shared story. She reflected that the community she served became a kind of shield of armor, a place where, unlike in her childhood home, she felt safe and could see the good her work did, and that surviving the danger at home made the street feel manageable. Above all, she spoke of transforming pain into empathy and purpose, meeting victims not as someone reciting a training guide but as someone who has lived it. Find Ernie Hudson on The Haunting Of, Paul Shemella's Into the Mist on Amazon, and Donna Roman Hernandez's Battered Blue wherever books are sold.

America's Got Talent Host Terry Crews, Author Chris Kline, GildaGram with Dr. Gilda Carle, and the Wounded SistersThis edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with a Total Celebrity conversation with Terry Crews, host of America's Got Talent, ahead of the show's nineteenth season. Crews, an unabashed fitness devotee, joked with fellow big guy Neil about staying in top shape and called working in entertainment a total privilege. He explained that he landed the hosting job almost by design, telling his agent to push the envelope and make him a guinea pig by putting him where audiences would never expect to see a former athlete his size. That willingness led first to hosting the spinoff AGT: Champions and then the flagship, a run now six seasons deep with no end in sight, and he said he wants to make it impossible to imagine the show without him. Recalling how, as a Midwestern kid, performing in Los Angeles felt as far off as going to Mars, Crews described his favorite part of the job as reassuring wide-eyed contestants that they truly belong on that stage. His enthusiasm for the talent, he said, is genuine.Neil then welcomed returning guest, author Chris Kline, to discuss her autobiography, newly re-edited and re-titled Diamond in the Rough after a first release as Shake, Rattle, and Roll. Klein explained that she reissued the book with a fresh cover and edit once she was unhappy with the original production, and walked through a life story she frames around faith and the supernatural, from her years as a missionary to encounters she recounts as true rather than spooky. Where a previous book of hers was a novel tracing demonic influence passed down through four families, this one is her own account, offered, she said, both for readers who believe in the supernatural and for those simply curious to learn more. She presented the experiences throughout as her personal testimony.The hour closes with a series of simulcasts. On GildaGram, Dr. Gilda Carle weighed how earlier generations let children roam until dark and even ride the subway alone, asking whether today's caution raises kids to be independent or fearful, while acknowledging the world has genuinely changed. In a second segment, she turned to the universal ordeal of a crying baby on a plane, praising the passenger who offered to hold an overwhelmed mother's infant and framing the moment as a public test of maturity that only the baby is allowed to fail. Finally, on the Wounded Sisters podcast, bestselling author Mary Shearer Eckert marked her thirtieth wedding anniversary with a reflection on faith as the bedrock of a lasting marriage, giving thanks for the blessings and the hard times alike. Find Terry Crews on America's Got Talent and Mary Shearer Eckert's Wounded Sisters on Amazon.

Golden Globe Winner Meg Tilly, First Responder and Author James Meuer, and GildaGram with Dr. Gilda CarleThis edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with a conversation with Golden Globe-winning actress Meg Tilly about the Netflix film War Machine. Tilly first reflected on growing up in a big blended family of twelve, where her sister Jennifer Tilly broadened everyone's horizons, writing plays for the kids to act out and dreaming grandly enough to show them there was a whole world for the taking. A dancer who had performed on the series Fame, Meg fractured her back and could no longer dance, and, with dyslexia making the era's fallback jobs impractical, realized acting was something she had done her whole life. Jennifer let her crash in her Los Angeles apartment and showed her the ropes. In War Machine, a layered satire from director David Michod, Tilly plays Gene McMahon, the wife of Brad Pitt's four-star general. She spoke about portraying the quiet strength and loneliness of a military spouse who raises a child largely alone while her husband serves, and about the film's deeper reckoning with the human and political cost of war, where every action, like a pebble dropped in a lake, sends ripples outward. Praising Michod's talent and Netflix's craftsmanship, she said it is the rare film that rewards a second viewing and leaves audiences knowing a little more than before, and predicted it would spark strong reactions, which she welcomed. Now also a published novelist, she said she felt blessed to have played her part in it.Neil then welcomed James Meuer, a longtime first responder and author of Damaged: A First Responder's Experiences Handling Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Meuer described PTSD not as a weakness but as a normal response to abnormal events, explaining how the brain refuses to let go of what it has seen, surfacing as anger, hypervigilance, sleeplessness, and flashbacks that can be triggered by something as small as a dog barking, and how the culture of being ten feet tall and bulletproof keeps too many from admitting they are struggling. Over a career from 1986 to 2011, he said, the hardest calls involved children, and the one that haunted him most, a young girl he writes about in the book's first chapter, stayed with him for decades. Years later he found her memorial online and left a note, and her mother reached out, a reconnection that finally lifted a guilt he had carried and brought him peace. He was candid that for years he had stuffed every difficult call into a backpack he never unloaded, until it finally broke him, and that counseling, friends, and simply talking things through were what turned it around. His message throughout was that the hardest and most important step is asking for help and talking about it, that first responders are human, and that healing is possible.The hour closes with two GildaGram simulcasts featuring Dr. Gilda Carle. In one, she explored the growing phenomenon known as living apart together, couples who sleep in separate bedrooms, or even keep separate homes, and report happier, stronger marriages, sharing the story of a woman who has thrived doing so for twenty-five years. In the other, she reacted to an article about adult children pressing wealthy parents to buy them homes and bankroll their lifestyles, sharing one father's insistence that his children first learn to earn so that whatever they build rests on firm ground rather than sand. She used it to champion self-reliance and to argue, drawing on her own lean early years, that the closest bonds are often forged while building something together from nothing, and offered pointed commentary on a culture of entitlement. Find Meg Tilly's War Machine on Netflix and James Meuer's Damaged wherever books are sold.