Supporting the Supporters with Sara Troy and her guest Michael Solomon, on air from June 7th
Along with a long strategic career in both the Air Force and Law Enforcement spanning over almost 15 years, Michael is perfect for helping our Vets and other survivors feel both safe and protected. He offers tips on safety and how to be aware of your surroundings. Michael can also assist you in what to expect when and if you have to appear in court (however he cannot provide any legal advice). Michael is very easy-going, patient, laid back and trustworthy. He has been there to assist his wife in her recovery from being a domestic violence victim to a thriving survivor. When he is not working, he loves to spend time with his wife, Victoria and their three kids. Michael also enjoys fishing, hunting, woodworking, as well as paying it forward in assisting special needs families being that he and Victoria also have a daughter who has special needs. President and Security Advisor.
Giving is not just about making a donation. It is about making a difference.
We are currently in the process of building a kennel system so that we can begin breeding our beautiful golden retriever support dogs. We have been doing all of this plus everything you see on our website out of our own pockets. When we do charge for say some of the classes, we do it for what we pay for the materials. Here soon we will have to take on the expenses of more vet bills, dog food, and so much more. Michael knows first hand how impactful a dog can be, being a Vet who has his own P.S.T.D. he used to wake up with shadows coming through the walls cause him to go for his gun, now with a dog sleeping with him, he no longer has those nightmares.
A dog can sense the pain, anguish, the anxiety the health needs and the fear and more, and with their undying love, they are there for us in a way like no one else can be, so support Michael with his program to get dogs to those in need so they can help those with life challenges navigate life more easily.
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Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guests Nick Zafonte and Jacky “J.D.” Singer, on air from May 31st.
At any given moment as they collaborate on everything from successful indie films, music videos, and original web content to a young adult fiction trilogy and children’s picture books, the freewheeling chemistry between Nick Zafonte and Jacky “J.D.” Singer transcends genres and traditional media classifications that Nick has fondly taken to explaining their collective magic in offbeat mathematical terms: “One plus one equals three.”
Best friends since discovering a mutual passion for storytelling and philosophical conversations in college, the two all-around manic-expressives live and breathe their creativity in a safe space where ideas fly freely, random thoughts and notions are never judged (because any may spark their next big scene, chapter, or project) and they never limit themselves to single solutions that could stifle their vibrant exchanges. Nick’s the big picture/concept, three act structure guy who grooves on cool plot twists, flashbacks, and mindf***s of a premise. Jacky is the British comedy aficionado/chief character motivator whose intuitive understanding of psychology lends itself naturally to fleshing out characters and discovering their hidden truths.
While the two are highly successful in their chosen fields – Nick is Group Creative Director of Civic Entertainment Group (a Ryan Seacrest company) and Jacky is a Registered Senior Client Associate at a prominent Wall Street wealth management firm – each new project provides them an outlet for pure storytelling.
To date, the duo’s most impactful calling card has been the independent full length feature film “No Retreat,” which had its premiere at the Austin Film Festival before receiving acclaim on the indie festival circuit and scoring worldwide distribution on Amazon. Written, directed, and produced by Nick and Jacky, it tells the story of two old college friends, both “failed” artists, reconnecting for a weekend writer’s retreat. Their last attempt to do something meaningful and creative with their lives falls apart as old regrets, insecurity, and unfinished romantic business rear their ugly head.
Nick has produced award-winning ad campaigns for some of the world’s most famous brands, including Pepsi, Lincoln, LG, and Target. His Office Max “Elf Yourself” campaign had a record-breaking half a billion hits in less than five weeks. He’s directed commercials, music videos, web content, including a music video/trailer for Coldplay with Amex. His first feature film, No Retreat, made its premiere at the Austin Film Festival before getting worldwide distribution on Amazon. He’s currently a Group Creative Director, overseeing creative campaigns for some of the world’s top tech and entertainment brands.
J.D. SINGER, Filmmaker Jaclyn started her creative career writing poetry, short stories, and fantasy novels before moving into screenwriting, editing, and producing. With a background in the financial world, working at one of the world’s largest wealth management firms, she combines her varied artistic talents with an extensive knowledge of business, finance, and contractual law.
SHARED BIO
Nick & Jacky have been best friends and collaborators since he helped edit her first book of poetry and she performed practically every job (except animal wrangler) on his first music videos. As an advertising Copywriter and Creative director, Nick has produced award-winning work for global brands including some you may know – ever “Elf Yourself”…? While Jacky rose up the ranks as a financial executive, managing the money of celebrity clients, yes, some you may have heard of – sorry, NDA binding. They have written short stories, novels, and together have produced films, commercials, and music videos, including the feature-film No Retreat, that made its debut at the Austin Film Fest. With an equal love for 3-Act Structure (Nick) and British comedy (Jacky), they are drawn to inspirational stories that explore true human psychology.
As they expand their creative and promotional team, Nick and Jacky have been developing a treasure trove of new concepts, with a number of dynamic projects currently “on the front burner” in the development stages. The first, tentatively titled “In The Shadows,” is a feature length horror/psychological thriller film that draws on Nick’s own traumatic experiences of sleep paralysis, a state between waking up or falling asleep in which a person is aware but unable to move or speak. It often involves frightening visual and auditory hallucinations. Beyond being a personal catharsis, the experiences of the protagonist – who returns to his family home after the death of his parents – is culturally relevant in that they connect deeply with those people in isolation felt (and still feel) during the pandemic lockdowns.
Nick and Jacky are also working on a young adult book series. It’s a futuristic trilogy about a man living a nomadic life in the desert during a time when humanity has fallen from its reign of scientific and technological mastery. In a story driven by curiosity and the need for connectivity, the protagonist is exposed to three unique scientific enclaves – pure biology, pure chemistry, pure physics – and contemplates how the human race arrived at this future state. Their interest in stories at all age levels has even led them to write a pair of children’s picture books.
“We have a large back catalog of ideas that interest us,” Nick says, “so when it’s time for a new project, we pull them out and talk about what interests us most at this stage of our lives, which ideas really call out to us and feel right. Sometimes it’s just personal, but often we consider what would fit well with culture right now. Just as we feel the characters we create often guide the next steps in the narrative, the stories we want to pursue feel more natural in one specific medium as opposed to another. Some simply lend themselves to a sprawling novel trilogy rather than a film or TV screenplay.”
According to IMDB, Nick and Jacky launched their unique partnership on the 2012 short film “The First Day.” Off the record and perhaps less glamorously, their creative exchange actually began when he helped edit her first book of poetry and she performed practically every job (except maybe animal wrangler, though you know how some actors can be), on his first music videos. As an advertising copywriter and creative director, he has produced award-winning work for numerous global brands (including Pepsi, Lincoln, LG, Target).
Originated in 2006, Nick’s Office Max “Elf Yourself” campaign had a record-breaking half a billion hits in less than five weeks. Now a perennial experience, it’s an interactive website where visitors upload faces of themselves or friends and have the option to post the creative video on social media. Globally, over two billion elves have been created to date. Starting his career as a copywriter, he soon moved into directing commercials, music videos, and web content, including a music video/trailer for Coldplay’s Unstaged performance with Amex. In his role as Group Creative Director at Civic Entertainment Group, he oversees creative campaigns for Amazon Fire TV, NBC Peacock, HBO Max, Instagram and Facebook (now Meta), and more.
They’re excited to take their next steps. Jacky says, “My favorite part is diving in and realizing that this is the direction we’re going to go in, starting with those random ideas and plot points and developing them in service of the narrative we’re creating. I love being enveloped in all these different worlds.” While Nick adds, “What I love is finishing one project we’ve been immersed in and leaving that topic behind so that we can explore the next character, story, or idea we’re passionate about. Like, we just made that indie rom com type thing, and now we want to do a horror film, or maybe a sci-fi novel.” And it’s that differing approach to storytelling that makes the sum of their partnership greater than the parts.
– No Retreat – Award-winning Feature Length Indie drama
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Your Health is your choice with Sara Troy and her guest Dr Ernst von Schwarz, on air from May 31st
World-renowned cardiologist and stem cell research pioneer, Dr. Ernst von Schwarz, author of the new book, The Secret World of Stem Cell Therapy: What YOU Need to Know About the Health, Beauty, and Anti-Aging Breakthrough
“Stem cell therapy is considered to be the most important discovery in modern medicine, likely bigger than the discovery of penicillin or the detection of the tuberculous bacteria.”
In our current healthcare system, physicians perform reactive medicine, which means diagnostic testing and pharmaceutical therapy is aimed at improving symptoms that occur secondary to damage or loss of function. Regenerative medicine, on the other hand, aims to repair damaged tissue and restore functionality by recruiting the body’s self-healing properties. With our aging bodies, we do lose the regenerative power of stem cells. Stem cell therapy has the ability to partially induce regeneration of acutely injured or chronically damaged tissues. In fact, most clinical studies testing stem cell therapy for different conditions have shown beneficial results with very little adverse events (unlike the pharmaceutical therapies). However, stem cell therapy outside the frame of ongoing clinical trials is not FDA-approved and is considered experimental.
In this interview, Dr. Ernst von Schwarz can talk about:
The “squaring the circle” challenge: The dilemma of modern stem cell therapy that is the problem of translating reliable basic research into daily clinical practice without business-driven delays by regulatory agencies or avoiding companies and providers who sell false promises to patients for thousands of dollars for the cure of diseases without knowing the risks and potential outcomes.
The process of approvals, costs, why this therapy is not FDA approved: The lack of understanding behind the scientific breakthroughs.
The Relationship Between Aging and Anti-Aging Medicine: The causes of cellular aging, reactive medicine today and sick care versus health care
The Secret World of Stem Cells: Examining these power engines that are a resource for life, growth, and repair in living creatures. Stem cells have the ability to generate and replace cells with unlimited replication.
Heart/vascular & sexual problems and stem cell therapy solutions
His Personal Doubts: The experts, the experiments, the standard of therapies, his basic research and the KISS technique
Dr. Ernst R. von Schwarz, MD, PhD is an Austrian-German-American physician and researcher who is a descendent of a family consisting of more than twenty doctors of medicine throughout the centuries. Dr. Schwarz grew up in Germany and received his Venia Legendi (Professor of Medicine) at the RWTH University of Technology in Aachen/Germany. He is a triple board-certified internist, cardiologist, and heart transplant cardiologist in Los Angeles. He is also a Professor of Medicine at Cedars Sinai Medical Center and a Clinical Professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and UC Riverside. Dr. Schwarz is a world-renowned clinical and academic heart specialist and serves as the Director of Cardiology and Director of the Heart Institute of the Southern California Hospital in Los Angeles, as well as Director and President of the Pacific Heart Medical Group in Murrieta, CEO of Dr. Schwarz Medical Institute of California, Medical Media Lab, and Medical Director of HeartStem, Inc. Dr. Schwarz has published more than 150 scientific articles in international, peer-reviewed journals, several book chapters, and books in cardiology and medicine. He is a sought-after speaker at international scientific conferences worldwide. Dr. Schwarz is one of the thought leaders in modern future technologies, including stem cell therapies for chronic diseases for the heart and other organs. Students from universities from all over the world seek internships with Dr. Schwarz on an ongoing basis. Dr. Schwarz studied medicine at the Universities of Vienna in Austria and the Philipps University in Marburg, Germany, and he worked and earned academic positions at the RWTH University of Technology in Aachen, Germany, the University of Ife in Ile-Ife in Nigeria, a Harvard affiliated hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the University of Texas in Galveston, Texas, and Cedars Sinai Medical Center and UCLA. He resides in Los Angeles and Germany and has clinical practices in Los Angeles, Culver City, and Temecula, California.
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for the LOVE of Music with Sara Troy and her guest John Armato, on air May 31st.
The Drummer Loves Ballads is the debut album of John Armato. Featuring extraordinary music, musicians and moods, it was produced and engineered by some of the industry’s top talent. The album was designed to be a new soundtrack for lazy Sunday afternoons, romantic evenings, and melancholy midnights, but you’ll swear it’s a long-lost jazz favorite.
Featuring more than 25 musicians, including the legends Houston Person and Warren Vaché, The Drummer Loves Ballads is a story more than 40 years in the making. From intimate quartet settings to sweeping orchestral arrangements, it is as rewarding to listen to closely as it is relaxing to listen to casually.
From Christmas toy drums to first lessons, from his first professional gig to a tour of Russia, drums have been John Armato’s constant companion. He has played clubs and concerts from New York City to Napa Valley and was a member of the trio behind Lisa Henry, a winner of the prestigious Thelonious Monk Institute Vocal Jazz Competition.
While the beat and burst of high-energy drums captured his attention early on, it was the swish and sizzle of ballads that captured his heart. It was always about the beauty, not just the bang. (As a kid, after seeing Buddy Rich repeatedly on the “Tonight Show with Johnny Carson,” Armato asked his parents for an album by the drum legend for his birthday, but “one with a whole band playing, not just a bunch of drum solos.”)
Forty years ago, Armato played one of his first jam sessions. That’s where the story of The Drummer Loves Ballads — and the album itself — begins.
A Kansas City native, New York City ex-pat, and now a Sacramento resident, Armato appears on the CDs “Claudette,” by Sacramento vocalist Claudette Stone and “Comfort” by Texas praise singer Lisa Bloecher. The Drummer Loves Ballads is his first release as leader.
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Ignite your heart and soul with Sara Troy and her guest Dr Linda Salvin, on air from May 31st
Dr. Linda Salvin is a metaphysical clinician and psychic with powerful healing abilities. She combines her scientific background with her spiritual gifts into a unique holistic method that will assist you on your life journey and help you find the answers to your most burning questions.
From My Heart to Yours
You wouldn’t have known me for the person I am today. In 1981, I survived commercial airplane crash. As I was sliding down the plane’s emergency chute, I my first of three out-of-body, near-death experiences leaving me out of my body for four months. This marked the beginning of my psychic and spiritual transformation. I have lived to tell you my story.
In 1982 while driving my car, a fire truck hit me. I had another out-of-body experience. Then in 1984, I totaled a car and had the White Light experience. While I was spinning in my car, the light when through my head and roof of the car and I heard a voice. I was given the choice to live or die. From this, I had a new connection to the other side.
It took me 12 years to embrace the gifts I had received and insight I was given. Once I accepted it, my life changed, my career was born and I began helping people on their life journey.
I became a healer after surgery in 1991 and awakened to being a medium, communicating with those on the other side following more surgery in 1996. My life journey is proof that sometimes God has a higher purpose for us than we originally envision. I believe we are all a part of the big spirit in the sky. We all walk in unison if we just stop, watch and observe. Connect with the birds, trees, people, stars, and energy. Find the synchronicity…even when it’s turbulent, it’s all about Love.
Dr. Linda Salvin is an integrative spiritual consultant and metaphysical clinician with a Ph.D. in Metaphysics. She combines a scientific background in epidemiology with her psychic abilities. If you are seeking answers about love, finance, career, relationships, spiritual guidance, health, or wellness, you can book a session for a psychic reading with Dr. Linda Salvin, or consider Wicks of Wisdom—her signature spiritual candle magic.
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