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Speak Up Talk Radio Network

Speak Up Talk Radio Network brings you select podcast hosts, guest interviews, talk radio programming, and author services with a charitable twist. Network funds the pillowcase project to brighten the living spaces of women and children's homeless shelters.

  1. NOV 14

    Farial English Author Interview

    Farial English lives in a small rural community with her husband and two dogs. Several years ago, they moved from their home in a Chicago suburb to an old farm in upstate New York. Surrounded by woods and fallow fields, their dogs run free and Farial spends most of her time outdoors, planting and tending flowers, growing vegetables, and caring for colonies of honeybees. Over the years, Farial jotted down story ideas and stashed them away thinking that someday she would write and publish a book of her own. The birth of her grandson inspired her to dust oN those ideas and write her first picture book for young children, Charlie and Sophie’s Great Escape. VISIT THE WEBSITE

    22 min

  2. OCT 30

    R.G. de Rouen Firebird Book Award Winner Author Interview

    R.G. de Rouen is a graduate of the Institute of Children’s Literature in Connecticut and writes fiction that inspires a love of reading with a pinch of humor along the way. Throughout his 25+ years as an elementary teacher throughout the world, he has also been an advocate of animal and nature protection which he brings into his nonfiction stories.Books For Benjamin, his first picture book, has been widely recognized and received several awards, including the Readers’ Favorite Silver Medal. Like his fictional character Benjamin, R.G. de Rouen can’t live without books! Mother To Elephants, a non-fiction picture book biography, portrays the life of Dame Daphne Sheldrick. Her dedication in rescuing baby orphan elephants in Kenya, serves as a great inspiration to children and adults alike.  VISIT THE WEBSITE

    32 min

  3. OCT 24

    S.P. Somtow Firebird Book Award Winner Author Interview

    Born in Bangkok, Somtow grew up in Europe and was educated at Eton and Cambridge. His first career was in music and in the 1970s he acquired a reputation as a revolutionary composer, the first to combine Thai and Western instruments in radical new sonorities. Conditions in the arts in the region at the time proved so traumatic for the young composer that he suffered a major burnout, emigrated to the United States, and reinvented himself as a novelist. His earliest novels were in the science fiction field but he soon began to cross into other genres. In his 1984 novel Vampire Junction, he injected a new literary inventiveness into the horror genre. After becoming a Buddhist monk for a period in 2001, Somtow decided to refocus his attention on the country of his birth, founding Bangkok’s first international opera company and returning to music, where he again reinvented himself, this time as a neo-Asian neo-Romantic composer. According to London’s Opera magazine, “in just five years, Somtow has made Bangkok into the operatic hub of Southeast Asia.”  Somtow’s current project, the Siam Synphonietta is a youth orchestra he founded five years ago, using a new educational method he pioneered and which is now among the most acclaimed youth orchestras world-wide. VISIT THE WEBSITE

    46 min

  4. OCT 22

    Aurora Lothbrok Firebird Book Award Winner Author Interview

    Aurora Lothbrok was born and raised in Northern Minnesota. She began her lightsaber training at Michigan Tech, where she studied biology, and continued onward to the University of Iowa to study pharmacy. Her love of the outdoors and penchant for adventure took her north to Alaska, where she resides with her hubby, dog, and internet famous cats Nebula and Gamora (as seen in Newsweek and The Dodo). Her favorite hobby is roller derby. VISIT THE WEBSITE

    26 min

  5. SEP 12

    Bill DeBarba Returns to Share his 2nd Edition – The Process of Living

    Bill DeBarba is a four-decade entrepreneur. He began the classic back- bedroom-office business, developing custom software for local companies. His company, BusinessWare Services, Inc. (BWSI), grew until he had a staff developing products and providing services to a base of loyal customers around the country. Over his 40 years of ownership and management, Bill DeBarba’s unique approach to customer relations has been a key factor in his success. Notably, he has never had a customer resort to legal action to resolve issues. His ability to empathize with customers and engage them in The Process of problem-solving has not only resolved issues but also retained their loyalty. Bill is an accomplished public speaker with years of experience. His knowledge of business and other types of organizations offers the benefit of being able to focus on your objectives. If you would like to learn more, please get in touch with him at bill@theprocessofliving.com VISIT THE WEBSITE

    31 min

  6. AUG 15

    Marnie Maton Firebird Book Award Winner Author Interview

    A graduate of The George Washington University, Marnie is an award-winning global marketing executive and author who writes about leadership, strategic planning, and empowerment. Marnie knew she wanted to be a writer at the age of thirteen. In Vote for You: Take Your Seat at the Table, the pandemic inspired her to chronicle her journey as a woman and first-generation immigrant child from the suburbs of Los Angeles to the boardrooms in Austin, Santa Monica, and London and all the places in between in search of her seat at the table. Outside of office hours, Marnie enjoys traveling the globe and uncovering new ways to connect with people over incredible meals. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her son and puppy, Rocky. VISIT THE WEBSITE

    29 min

  7. AUG 15

    David Grinnell Firebird Book Award Winner Author Interview

    David is a poet, author, and literary scholar from Cleveland, Ohio. He was born 1992 in Norfolk, Virginia, but grew up in the suburb of Bedford. In 2014 he attended Cleveland State University and graduated with his bachelors in English. Grinnell specializes in Romanticism, the Gothic, and draws inspiration from vulnerability. He reflects and portrays love alongside hope, melancholy, and even occasional despair. Currently, he is a funeral director apprentice at St. John Funeral Home. VISIT THE WEBSITE

    39 min

  8. AUG 14

    Mark Shaiken Firebird Book Award Winner Author Interview

    Mark lives with his wife Loren and their dog Emily in Denver, Colorado. He practiced commercial bankruptcy law for almost forty years before moving on in 2019 to write, volunteer, travel, and play music. He is the author of the following books in his award-winning 3J Legal Thriller Series, all set in Kansas City, with a backdrop of Jazz, BBQ and history: “Cram Down” (2023); “Unfair Discrimination” (2022); “Automatic Stay” (2022); and “Fresh Start” (2021). He is also the author of “And . . Just Like That – essays on a life before, during, and after the law” (a memoir of a not famous lawyer- 2020). And today we are sharing his newest work titled – It’s What Makes Me . . . Me: A Retired Attorney’s Relationship With Life and Times.   VISIT THE WEBSITE

    28 min
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Speak Up Talk Radio Network brings you select podcast hosts, guest interviews, talk radio programming, and author services with a charitable twist. Network funds the pillowcase project to brighten the living spaces of women and children's homeless shelters.

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