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  • Bravo’s Top Chef Brother Luck Releasing Memoir

    Bravo’s Top Chef Brother Luck Releasing Memoir

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    Sep 12, 2022

    Chef Brother Luck is an award-winning chef, entrepreneur, and advocate for the pursuit of self-discovery. With a childhood marked by humble beginnings, Brother is on a mission to prove to others that while our past is forever a part of who we are, it does not determine the people that we become. By drawing on his own childhood trauma, Brother uses his life as a testament to prove how pride, courage, determination, and perseverance helped him survive early life challenges and empowered him to achieve great success in the face of adversity. Today, Brother has earned a reputation as a celebrity chef through appearances on Chopped, Beat Bobby Flay, and Top Chef, and also as a successful business owner with the establishment of his restaurants Four by Brother Luck and Lucky Dumpling, both located in his home of Colorado Springs. This fall, Brother Luck will release his memoir “NO LUCKS GIVEN,” taking off the white chef’s coat and going beyond the kitchen to relive his own turbulent life story with the goal of teaching readers that even when life gets hard, there is hope. The book releases officially in stores and online October 4th. 

    About “NO LUCKS GIVEN”

    What would the world look like if more of us cared for more people? What if we were vulnerable in sharing our whole story, the good and the bad, and not just the highlight reel? How could our stories, if authentically told, help others through their pain, grief, or depression? In his new memoir, “NO LUCKS GIVEN,” Chef Brother Luck shares the dramatic story of his childhood, the life lessons he learned on the streets, in kitchens, and in counseling sessions, and compels us to both ask for help and do the hard work of helping others. Through the lens of his own priorities—faith, family, and food—Brother sets the table for meaningful conversation by acknowledging his pain, being vulnerable, and sharing the wisdom he has learned from his mentors. 

    “The fact that Brother Marcellus Haywood Luck IV is still alive to write this memoir is a miracle in itself. The restaurateur and Top Chef contestant now speaks openly about his struggles with depression and how he uses cooking to work through trauma, but he didn’t always have those coping skills. No Lucks Given isn’t a cookbook, but this raw, unflinching account of Luck’s brute-force path from a painful childhood marked by loss, through the violence and excess of youth, and suicidal ideation to get to a stable life as a chef and mental health advocate is plenty good food for the soul.” —Kat Kinsman, Food and Wine Magazine

    To learn more about Chef Brother Luck visit his website, www.chefbrotherluck.com

    For press inquiries contact: Miles Kennedy, Director of Communications

    Miles@chefbrotherluck.com

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  • Deirdre Hade, William Arntz & Sean McNamara on Moments With Marianne Radio Show

    Deirdre Hade, William Arntz & Sean McNamara on Moments With Marianne Radio Show

    The (not so) Little Book of Surprises with Modern Day Mystic Deirdre Hade & Producer of What The BLEEP Do We Know?! William Arntz followed by and enlightening interview on Defy Your Limits: The Telekinesis Training Method with Sean McNamara on Moments with Marianne radio show!

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    updated: Aug 30, 2017

     Tune in for an inspiring show on Moments with Marianne with special guests Modern Day Mystic Deirdre Hade & Producer of What The BLEEP Do We Know?! William Arntz on their new book The (not so) Little Book of Surprises followed by Meditation & Mindfulness Expert Sean McNamara on his new book The Telekinesis Training Method! 

    Click here to listen LIVE http://tinyurl.com/MwMShow OR download the Moments with Marianne app on iTunes & Google Play!

    “The (not so) Little Book of Surprises is a visual feast. It is a road map of mystical insight, poetry, breathtaking photographs and humor in a thoroughly enjoyable combination. A rare gem of inspiration. Surprises is an opening into a new dimension of experience, every page filled with wisdom and insight. It is a book to meditate on—one page a day. A book of hope for our changing times.”

    Jack Canfield, Co-author of Chicken Soup for the Soul®

    The (not so) Little Book of Surprises with Deirdre Hade & William Arntz 

    Deirdre Hade is a Modern Day Mystic, author, guide and poet who has been spiritually adept since childhood she has spent her life communicating with the unseen. She is founder of Radiance Healing & Radiance Meditation, a system of mindfulness for our time. A poet & spiritual teacher of divine inspiration, Deirdre combines the spiritual with the practical to achieve a transformative connection to self – the channel for all things possible.

    William Arntz began his professional career as a research laser physicist, developing wave optics simulators for high energy lasing systems. He the wrote a systems management software system AutoSys, sold his company & focused his company to retire. He realized he could satisfy a life-long dream and use the software proceeds to make a movie. That movie started its life as a small documentary about Spirit and Science, but grew in scope (and budget) and became What the BLEEP Do We Know!? Producing, scripting, and co-directing the film, What the BLEEP went on to become a global phenomenon, with well over 100 million viewers experiencing the BLEEP. 

    The (not so) Little Book of Surprises Merging the mystical poetry and wisdom teachings of Deirdre Hade with the photos and images of award winning photographer Endre Balogh, William Arntz (What the BLEEP Do We Know!?) has fashioned a mind bending journey that twists un-expectantly with every page turn. http://deirdrehade.com/bookofsurprises/

    Defy Your Limits: The Telekinesis Training Method with Sean McNamara 

    Sean McNamara was born in Toledo, Ohio and grew up overseas in Guatemala, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Brazil because of his father’s work assignments. Early incidents of illness and surgery brought about a persistent fear and contemplation of death and of what happens afterward. in his twenties, 

    Sean McNamara became a Buddhist practitioner in order to use meditation as a way to investigate the nature of consciousness and reality. Realizing that many traditions eventually become rigid and limiting out of a need for self preservation, and at the cost of each individual’s unique development, he left the path he had been following. He found Lucid Dreaming and the Out of Body Experience to be especially potent methods for his spiritual inquiry, and free of the dogmatic qualities found elsewhere. He eventually applied his knowledge of meditation toward telekinesis in order to illustrate the themes of interconnectedness and intention to his meditation students.

    Sean currently teaches meditation, Lucid Dreaming, the Out of Body Experience, and telekinesis in Denver, Colorado, with the purpose of showing others that spiritual growth is still possible as an independent, self-empowering, and revelatory path. He is married to Cierra McNamara, founder of Mayu Sanctuary, an ecumenical meditation center in Denver. http://www.mindpossible.com

    Source: Marianne Pestana LLC

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  • Former Disney Star Jennifer McGill & New York Times Bestselling Author Laura Doyle on Moments With Marianne Radio Show

    Former Disney Star Jennifer McGill & New York Times Bestselling Author Laura Doyle on Moments With Marianne Radio Show

    Unbreakable by Former Disney Star Jennifer McGill followed by The Empowered Wife with New York Times Bestselling Author Laura Doyle.

    Press Release



    updated: Aug 29, 2017

    Tune in for an inspiring show on “Moments with Marianne” with special guests: former Disney star Jennifer McGill on her debut album Unbreakable followed by Relationship Expert & New York Times bestselling author Laura Doyle on her new book, “The Empowered Wife: Six Surprising Secrets for Attracting Your Husband’s Time, Attention, and Affection.”

    Click here to listen live http://tinyurl.com/MwMShow or download the “Moments with Marianne” app on iTunes & Google Play!

    Unbreakable with Former Disney Star Jennifer McGill

    Former Disney Channel star Jennifer McGill (“The All-New Mickey Mouse Club,”) is celebrating the release of her debut solo album “Unbreakable” with a live stream full-band concert on exclusively on NewReleaseToday.com’s Facebook Live! Jennifer will perform all 16 songs from the album for the very first time before a live audience, and fans around the world are invited to watch for free – LIVE!

    Performing professionally since the age of 10, Jennifer appeared in all 300+ episodes of “The All-New Mickey Mouse Club,” (1989-1994) alongside fellow castmates Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, JC Chasez, Ryan Gosling, Keri Russell and Britney Spears, among others. She has since performed in shows all over the world and worked with Boyz II Men, Brian McKnight, TLC, Donnie McClurken, Michael W. Smith, Celine Dion and many others. She continues to perform and also serves as a worship leader in Nashville, Tennessee.

    Fox News Channel was the first to announce Jennifer’s return to the spotlight with an exclusive interview and the world premiere of the epic new music video for the album’s title track on FoxNews.com.

    “Unbreakable” includes production from Grammy Award winner Jeff Savage, Michael Whitaker and McGill’s husband Jeff Bohannon, plus mixing by multiple Grammy Award winner Paul Salveson.

    “The Empowered Wife,” with New York Times best-selling author Laura Doyle

    Laura Doyle is a New York Times bestselling author and relationship expert and has a new book: “The Empowered Wife: Six Surprising Secrets for Attracting Your Husband’s Time, Attention, and Affection.” This new and improved edition of her “First, Kill All the Marriage Counselors,” will help readers improve their marriages today with woman-centric practices that will end overwhelm and resentment, restoring the playfulness and passion in marriage.

    Laura has appeared on CBS Evening News, Dateline NBC, The Today Show, Good Morning America and The View. She has been written about in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The London Telegraph and The New Yorker. She is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post. http://lauradoyle.org

    For more show information visit www.MomentswithMarianne.com

    Source: Marianne Pestana LLC

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  • Judith Orloff M.D., Kyle McMahon & Eden Collinsworth on Moments with Marianne Radio Show

    Judith Orloff M.D., Kyle McMahon & Eden Collinsworth on Moments with Marianne Radio Show

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    updated: May 14, 2017

    Tune in on Sunday, May 14th at 8pm EST and Saturday, May 20th at 10am & 10pm EST for a soul inspiring interviews on the Moments with Marianne radio show, with host Marianne Pestana as she talks with Judith Orloff MD about her new book, The Empath’s Survival Guide: Life Strategies for Sensitive People, followed by Kyle McMahon a Warner recording artist and four-time guest on Oprah’s Lifeclass about The Power of Telling Your Story, followed by an insightful interview with Eden Collinsworth, VP at Hearst Corportation about her new book Behaving Badly: The New Morality in Politics, Sex and Business

    Moments with Marianne is heard at Dreamvisions 7 Radio Network & WMEX 1510AM Boston. Not in the Boston area?  Click here to listen LIVE at 8pm EST: http://rdo.to/WMEX

    “Dr. Orloff shows that intuition can help us lead smarter, saner lives. She is a serene maverick.”

    The Empath’s Survival Guide with Judith Orloff, M.D. 

    Transforming the face of psychiatry, Judith Orloff MD asserts that we are keepers of an innate intuitive intelligence so perceptive that it can tell us how to heal — and prevent — illness. Yet intuition and spirituality are the very aspects of our wisdom usually disenfranchised from traditional health care.

    Dr. Orloff is accomplishing for psychiatry what physicians like Dean Ornish and Mehmet Oz have done for mainstream medicine — she is proving that the links between physical, emotional, and spiritual health can’t be ignored. Dr. Orloff is a New York Times bestselling author and is on the UCLA psychiatric clinical faculty. She specializes in treating empaths and sensitive people in her Los Angeles-based private practice. She has spoken at medical schools, hospitals, the American Psychiatric Association, Fortune Magazine’s Most Powerful Women Summit, and alternative and traditional health forums — venues where she presents practical intuitive tools to doctors, patients, and everyday people. In response to her work, The Los Angeles Times calls Dr. Orloff “a prominent energy-based healer”.

    Judith Orloff, M.D. created The Empath’s Survival Guide (SoundsTrue 2017) as a practical, empowering book for everyone who wants to develop their sensitivities and empathy to become more caring people in an often insensitive world. Whether you’re a highly sensitive person, or an empath who absorbs other people’s stress, or simply someone who wants to live a more open-hearted life without burning out or experiencing compassion fatigue—this book is for you. It’s also for the loved ones of sensitive people who want to become more supportive of them. Sensitivity is a great gift that needs to be honored and developed.

    Dr. Orloff’s work has been featured in O Magazine, Forbes, Newsweek, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, Self, Cosmo, The Washington Times, Teen Vogue, Scientific American, and the New York Post. She has appeared on The Today Show, The Dr. Oz Show, CBS Early Show, CNN, PBS, BBC5, and NPR. Dr. Orloff is also an  Elephant Journal, Huffington Post, and Psychology Today. http://www.drjudithorloff.com 

    The Power of Telling Your Story with Kyle McMahon

    Kyle McMahon is an active media millennial. As 111/Warner recording artist K.Mac (Kyle Mac) he is currently working on his debut SchizoSONIC which features such superstar collaborators as Monte Pittman (Madonna, Adam Lambert, Prong), Alex G (Justin Timberlake), The Passengerz (Madonna , Seal, Cher) and The Underground (Justin Timberlake, LFO). His first music video “A Letter 2 My Younger Self (Fatherless Sons)” hit 100,000 views in its first month.

    As a four-time guest on the Emmy-winning Oprah’s Lifeclass, Kyle has become the face of fatherless sons. Through his work with fatherless sons issues, he joined with NBC‘s Veronica De La Cruz and Everclear‘s Art Alexakis to create the Stand Up Man Up Campaign spawned from And Then There Were Two, a non-profit promoting responsible fatherhood. http://www.kylemcmahon.me

    Behaving Badly: The New Morality in Politics, Sex and Business with Eden Collinsworth

    Eden Collinsworth is a former media executive and business consultant. She was president of Arbor House Publishing Co. and founder of the Los Angeles-based monthly lifestyle magazine, BUZZ, before becoming a vice president at Hearst Corporation. She served as the chief operating officer and chief-of-staff at the EastWest Institute, a global think tank.

    After writing a bestselling book in China for Chinese businessmen on Western deportment, she launched Collinsworth & Associates, a Beijing-based consulting company, which specialized in intercultural communication.  

    What is the relevance of morality today? Addressing this question in Behaving Badly with self-effacing wit and unremitting resourcefulness, Eden Collinsworth enlists the famous, the infamous, and the heretofore unheard-of to unravel how we make moral choices in an increasingly complex—and ethically flexible—age. http://www.edencollinsworth.com

    For more show information or to learn more about Moments with Marianne visit www.MomentswithMarianne.com 

    Source: Marianne Pestana LLC

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  • Bestselling Book Moments: Magic, Miracles, and Martinis by Amy Van Atta Slater Released on May 20th

    Bestselling Book Moments: Magic, Miracles, and Martinis by Amy Van Atta Slater Released on May 20th

    Transform Your Life and Break Free of Limitations for Lasting Happiness.

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    updated: May 18, 2016

    ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​If you’re unhappy, struggling through one challenge after another, and feeling disconnected from everyone, you are not alone. Regardless of the reason, unhappiness can permeate every area of life if left unchecked. So is it possible to shift perspectives and live a life of happiness and peace? Engaging and practical, Moments: Magic, Miracles, and Martinis, How To Move Forward In Times Of Uncertainty by Amy Van Atta Slater presents simple steps to take ownership of your happiness, health, love, and prosperity, towards a greater level of self-awareness and success. 

    Moments is the unexpected, life-changing journey Amy takes as she navigates the challenges of divorce, single parenting, chronic Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and her father’s diagnosis of Lewy Body Dementia towards wellness and a fulfilling life. Using this remarkable book as your roadmap, learn how to gain greater empowerment and change your life to have lasting happiness.

    “Moments is a must read for anyone looking to overcome obstacles”

    Douglas Wick, Oscar Award Winning Producer

    As an SVP of a leading technology company, highly sought after leadership mentor, keynote speaker and single parent, Amy Van Atta Slater transforms challenges into opportunities.  It is through her insights on life, business, personal development, parenting and mindfulness, that she has inspired thousands of business professionals and creative thinkers to adjust, rethink and refocus in every field and walk of life.

    After graduating from the University of California at Berkeley, Amy soon became a noted leader in business, and 25 years later, she is consistently inspiring others towards greater levels of success. Motivating the masses with galvanizing speeches, Amy empowers others to build their brands and lead through the cultivation of culture. As a corporate strategy advisor and private executive mentor, Amy cultivates the development of core leadership skills combined with compassion, mindfulness and authenticity. Her unique approach to leadership development has garnered Amy coveted keynote speaking opportunities, such as the 2014 Forrester Research Convention, as a panelist at the Domo Women in Business Tour and as a featured speaker along side Jay Leno at the 2016 Apttus Accelerate conference in San Francisco.

    What people are saying about Moments: Magic, Miracles, and Martinis​

    “A quick burst of inspiration, Moments provides encouragement during life’s most difficult times.” – Lisa Germani, CBS Eye on Detroit Field Reporter, Street Beat On Air Host at CW50 & Producer 

    “Raw and real. Author Amy Van Atta Slater’s take on facing the reality of life with its myriad of challenges and blessings, will leave you validated, refreshed and grateful for the soulful dive.” – Dr. Shawne Duperon, 6 Time EMMY® winner, Project Forgive Founder 

    “A beautiful book, about choices and how they converge on lives. Healing emotions and changing our path after “the perfect storm” we all face during life. To find out that, after all, we are not just left with ruins.” – Valentina Martelli, CEO, IbiscusMedia, TV Host, Producer, Documentary Filmmaker 

    “Moments provides inspiration that will carry you through any challenges life has to offer and keep you knowing you are not going though this alone.” – Michelle Patterson, CEO, Women Networking & California Women’s Conference

    The paperback version of Moments: Magic, Miracles, and Martinis will be released on May 20th, published by Turtle Spirit Press.  Moments is available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and select independent bookstores. 

    To learn more about Moments: Magic, Miracles, and Martinis and Amy Van Atta Slater visit www.AmyVSlater.com 

    Source: Marianne Pestana LLC

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