Synopsis
The Bright Side with Tekneshia interviews people who help advise others to a better and brighter way of life.
Episodes
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A Professor's Book of Secrets
17/11/2014 Duration: 53minJade Heasley is a professor at the Pennsylvania College of Technology in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, where she teaches First Year Experience, a course that empowers students to succeed in college. She is also the bestselling author of 1980s Kid, The Incorrigible Dreamers, How to Rule the World, and Bratty Becky and the Firecracker Kid.
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Vikki Claflin, Living & Laughing with Parkinson's
15/11/2014 Duration: 49minVikki lives in Hood River, OR, where she writes the award-winning humor blog Laugh Lines, sharing the hilarious ups and downs of midlife. She believes that laughter, a good glass of wine, and an econo-sized of Milk Duds are the path to true zen. Vikki has been featured on the Michael J. Fox foundation website, Erma Bombeck's Writer's Workshop, The Huffington Post, Scary Mommy, Generation Fabulous, Midlife Boulevard, Better After 50, and Funny Times Magazine. She also received a BlogHer14 "Voices of the Year" Humor award. Vikki recently released her new book Shake, Rattle & Roll With It: Living and Laughing with Parkinson's, which chronicles her hilarious, and sometimes poignant journey living with Parkinson's disease. Her book is available at Amazon.com. Autographed copies are also available from Vikki at vikki@laugh-lines.net.
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NYC Rapper Five X
14/11/2014 Duration: 01h18minStraight out of Jamaica Queens - listen to his new EP "Five X Genesis" on YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC6ZWEeQnO7Dg1jKPpQ5DYSQ You can follow him on Twitter here - www.twitter.com/fiv3xX
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Rising Star Axel Jordan
12/11/2014 Duration: 01h00sA native New Yorker, AxelJordan uses his sultry vocals and melodic flows to display the intimacy behind the lyrics of his songs. With a versatile vocal range comparable to Jason DeRulo, the rhythmic instrumentals of his bouncy tracks are reminiscent of Usher. His debut album "Shine" is currently available on iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/shine/id924503795 Listen to his two new singles "Fantasy" and "Shine" here - https://soundcloud.com/AxelJordan Check out his official Facebook here - www.facebook.com/axeljordanmusic Follow him on Twitter here - www.twitter.com/axeljordan_
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Actor Lauran De Winter
10/11/2014 Duration: 39minAs a young boy, Lauran grew up in the Netherlands, outside of the little town oud-vossemeer, on a farm. He was a very active kid, always playing outside. And after a short dream of wanting to be a soccer player he decided to focus all his intention on becoming a professional cyclist. And he succeeded, he won various international races. Next to a lot of great memories, Lauran says the cycling gave him a lot of life lessons that are still very valuable to him. He learned determination, to believe in himself, strategy, teamwork, perseverance. To him, these are the most important characteristics you need as an actor. Lauran moved to Australia to work for Unicef and Amnesty International. He is very proud to say within a year he raised over 10 million dollars for charity. This same passion he put in cycling and charity is now fully focused on acting. He resides in Hollywood, California. Lauran has appeared on various TV-shows and movies such as, Spoken and the TV show The Chosen One . Lauran is even more excited
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Bobbie Thompson, Cis-gender Spouse of a Transwoman
08/11/2014 Duration: 54minAfter knowing 'him' for nearly 25 years, then seeing him as a 'female' for the first time in 2006, Bobbie told 'her' she was a freak and didn't want to have anything to do with her. In December 2008, they were married, which was the beginning of this wild and wonderful ride they share called life.
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Rochele Lawson, The Queen of Feeling Fabulous
07/11/2014 Duration: 01h04minRochel Marie Lawson is a Registered Nurse, Ayurvedic Health Practitioner, Holistic Health and Wellness Consultant, International Best Selling Author, Speaker and Radio Show Hostess. She is the President of The Health, Healing & Wellness Company founded to bring holistic health and wellness into the lives of individuals seeking a natural path to wellness. Rochele’s energy, guidance and enthusiasm have helped thousands of people improve their health and wellness, holistically and naturally. She is a successful entrepreneur and is the author of the book “Intro To Holistic Health, Ayurveda Style.” She has her own blog, www.ayurvedahealing.org, is a guest writer for Supermomceo.com blog and a contributing article writer for the International magazine, SIBYL. She has her own weekly syndicated radio show “Blissful Living.” Rochele has spent over 24 years assisting people to achieve optimal health and wellness so that they can live the life of their dreams with more energy, vitality, mental clarity, alertness and
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Lisa Tarves, Metaphysician, CHHP
05/11/2014 Duration: 59minLisa Tarves holds a master’s degree in Metaphysical Science. She is Board Certified as an Expert Holistic Health Practitioner by the American Association of Drugless Practitioners (AADP). Lisa is a certified Usui andTibetan Reiki Master. She is also a certified intuitive, is certified in aromatherapy, color therapy, chakratherapy, reflexology, herbology, hypnosis and crystal therapy. Lisa offers individual intuitive counseling,intuitive readings, hypnosis, energy healing, and much more. Lisa is a published author of a book about her life including the gift to see and communicate with angels. The book explains her core beliefs, which in many cases she refers to as memories of a spiritual dimension most do not remember, but all have experienced. Her book, appropriately titled “Just Believe”, was published inSeptember, 2012. Lisa hosts a weekly radio show on the WriteStream Radio Network called “Just Believe” which airs each Sunday at 7:00 pm Eastern time and covers many spiritual, metaphysical, psychic and pa
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Peer Mental Health Advisor and Author
04/11/2014 Duration: 48minLinda Naomi Katz born on March 21, 1969, by the name of Linda Naomi Baron, raised as a modern orthodox Jew, where mental illness became a factor throughout her life. It had started with her mother when she was in the fifth grade. Her mother had suffered a nervous breakdown and was diagnosed with acute depression. This gave Linda and her family a huge amount of stress. As she was growing up into adulthood, her mother's illness affected her in ways that she too would become a depressed person. Linda had difficulties making friends, developing positive relationships, and maintaining employment. After she graduated college, she also suffered from a mental illness and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Through the years she was faced with challenges that were difficult to overcome, but worked hard to achieve recovery. As part of her recovery from mental illness, she became active and volunteered for a variety of mental health organizations. Linda became a member of NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness or f
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Tom Paladino, Scalar Energy Pioneer
01/11/2014 Duration: 56minTom Paladino is a scalar energy researcher and has 25 plus years experience helping people with chronic pathogenic illness. Tom Paladino's research and work with the scalar energy, began during his undergraduate years. He was inspired by various scientists, i.e., Hieronymus, Moray, Priore' and especially Nikola Tesla, as to the existence of an energy that is not of the electromagnetic spectrum. With this inspiration, he pursued a course of independent study in order to better understand and subsequently harness scalar energy. Scalar energy is also known as prana, chi, radiant energy, zero point energy, qi, orgone, eloptic. After years of experimentation and modification, Tom Paladino has developed a technique using scalar energy that will transmute pathogens quickly and painlessly. This technique facilitates the use of photographs of people who desire to have pathogens transmuted in their bodies. Tom Paladino developed a treatment process whereby he is able to administer the scalar energy reverse-phase
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Healing Diabetes, High Blood Pressure, & Heart Disease with Quantum Energy
29/10/2014 Duration: 01h00sReturning to the Brightside is Quantum Energy Healer, Chris Kehler, his first visit was very popular and he is back! Exploring this unique healing energy modality for health, we are going to look into what it can do for specific diseases such as Type II Diabetes, High Blood Pressure, and Heart Disease. Chris will also run his distance healing energy over the show that just by touching your computer you will feel the quantum energy activating in your body! If you are hitting health roadblocks that you can’t seem to get better check out this show to add another perspective to healing your issues.
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Tracey Birdsall from Dawn of the Crescent Moon
23/10/2014 Duration: 54minTracey Birdsall (born July 6, 1963) is an American actress. Birdsall has appeared in several TV series, TV movies and films. She co-wrote, produced, and starred in the movie short Tick Tock, which has won many top awards at movie festivals. Tracey Birdsall was born in Van Nuys, California. and grew up in Burbank, California.[2] She started performing as a young girl, on stage and in front of the camera. She recalls "My mother drove me to the Gary Dance Studio for lessons constantly as far back as I can remember. She would sew my costumes, drive me to rehearsals, and support me in my shows. It was in my blood, and my fondest childhood memories were on stage." As a teenager, she sang in choirs at local churches. After appearing in a Sunkist Soda commercial, she appeared in several other TV commercials while she attended acting classes and went to auditions. She appeared in the soap opera Loving, hosted Million Dollar Showcase of Homes and was a special news reported for CNBC. Her latest movie Dawn of the Cr
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Allen Vaysberg, Practical Inspiration
22/10/2014 Duration: 59minAllen Vaysberg is the founder of the School of Human Potential and a successful entrepreneur who built several multi-million dollar businesses within the IT consulting industry. Although he was living the "American Dream", deep inside he knew something needed to change because even with all his successes, he still felt unfulfilled. Thus he began his transition away from IT. He recalibrated his life and is now enabling others to do the same. Allen provides practical tools and inspiration empowering the busy modern you to become a well round person, who understands their purpose, lives their essence and continues to expand all areas of their life in a harmonious way.
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Director Antonio James
20/10/2014 Duration: 50minAntonio James was born in Memphis, TN. He was raised by his mother and step-father in Northaven, but spent most of his teenage years in Hickory Hill with his father. He attended dozens of schools by his Freshmen year at Millington Central High School in Millington Central where he graduated in 2003. Several months after graduation James enlisted in the United States Air Force. After one term, he return to his hometown of Memphis where hardships and lack of employment opportunities led him to discover a new hobby, filmmaking. With the help of his uncle - he begin filming music videos for Media Workz and Catina Johnson, short films and commercials. Antonio talents as a director was quickly recognized by the local community where he was hired as a contractor for the Memphis Veteran Affairs Medical Center Public Affairs Videographer. He also became the official videographer for Al Sharpton's National Action Network, Memphis Chapter under Gregory Grant. Shortly after, James decided to quit providing video
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Al Keyser - "The Rent" and Dylan Reynolds- "Nipples and Palm Trees"
16/10/2014 Duration: 56minAl Keyser is an independent content creator that wrote, produced, and starred in - THE RENT TV PILOT - which is based off - THE BEVERLY HILL BUDDIES - a one-act play Al wrote, produced, and acted in at the Beverly Hills Playhouse in October 2013. Al has been writing and acting in projects since he was in Junior High School... In the last few years, he wrote several feature length spec scripts and was a member of Chris Soth's Million Dollar Screenwriting Mentorship Program. He also teamed up with writer/producer Terri Zinner and wrote the animated TV PILOT script CEO BABY. He is currently developing a TV series project with a Los Angeles based production company, as well as marketing THE RENT to be picked up as a series. Al is originally from San Francisco, but also grew up in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He is a single dad to a six year old boy and has worked as a property manager collecting the rent near Beverly Hills for the last 8 years. Dylan Reynolds' sun-drenched sizzler Nipples & Palm Trees bows on Hu
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Celebrity Journalist/Chef Rueben Wood
15/10/2014 Duration: 59minCelebrity Journalist/Chef Rueben Wood is making his mark as he becomes the leader of a young generation of entrepreneurs that have million dollar success dreams. Since the opening of Spaced Out Magazine in 2011 Wood has made a tremendous mark on the entertainment industry, being that the man behind one of the most credible news sources online has just turned 23. Rueben started in the industry 5 years ago as an artist, then known as Yung Bank. Working on production and releasing mixtapes brought him the notoriety he needed to start his hand in marketing and advertising. Always being first to know industry news sparked his interest in journalism and naturally being a writer was no secret to Wood.
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Activist and Legend Danné Montague-King author of The Maybelline Prince
09/10/2014 Duration: 01h03minDanné Montague-King has lived a life that has all the elements of a feature film. A celebrity hairdresser in Newport Beach in the 1960’s Danné shopped with Jane Russell, and styled wigs for Diana Ross. He was living a charmed life, when one day Maybelline heiress, Evelyn F. Williams walked into his shop and set him firmly on a journey that shaped the rest of his life. Danné was living as Evelyn's companion and confidante when she mysteriously died in a fire, and unjust rumors about Danné were rampant along with stories of orgies, twisted sex, drugs and Mafia connections. The Maybelline Prince (Bettie Youngs Books, 2014) is Danné’s riveting account of the life and death of Evelyn Williams and proves that not only is truth stranger than fiction but it's more intriguing as well. The Maybelline Prince is a story culled from the headlines but is also a story of grit and determination and a will to succeed against all odds. The book reads like a novel, but has the heart of a memoir depicting a life well lived
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Momma’s Christmas Cookbook
08/10/2014 Duration: 34minArlene Iaquinto was born in the Bronx, New York, to a middle class Italian family. She developed her love for cooking from her mother-in-law, Lucia Franco. While observing Lucia’s passion for preparing special dishes for her family during the Christmas holiday, Arlene developed the same passion for meal preparation not only during the holidays but whenever family would gather for meals. This strong sense of family and love of cooking prompted her to write down the recipes handed down to her by Lucia. Arlene shares the traditions of an Italian family and hopes to pass those traditions and her love of cooking that Lucia inspired to others through this book.
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Eszylfie Taylor, Founder and President of Taylor Insurance & Financial Services
06/10/2014 Duration: 53minEszylfie Taylor, founder of The Taylor Method; top ranked Financial Advisor, agent, broker, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker & currently President of Taylor Insurance and Financial Services, a brokerage he founded in 2013. **He recently spoke @The American College: 9th Annual Conference of African American Financial Services in Atlanta, GA, http://www.theamericancollege.edu/caafp9-2014 Some career highlights include: · Top 25 agents in the country at New York Life (2012). · Top agent/advisor in Los Angeles/Greater Pasadena with New York Life (2007-2012). · Top agent/advisor in within the African American market at New York Life (2006-2012). · Top producing agent/advisor in the history of the African American market within New York Life. · Top of the Table producer – Million Dollar Round Table. · Agent of the Year for NAIFA’s Los Angeles/Greater Pasadena area since2009. · 100+ cases each year in business and currently maintains over $500MM of in force Life Insurance and $50MM in An
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Steve "The Dean" Williams, Relationship Expert
03/10/2014 Duration: 01h23minAn expert in relationships of all stages from the single life to the married life and all points in between, Steve teaches men and women how to unplug themselves from the dating matrix of TV, Radio, and magazines. Instead, Steve’s upfront no-nonsense blunt dating advice goes against every thing people have been taught. This isn’t “Chicken Soup for the Soul”. Instead Steve believes that In order to get your dating life right with the opposite sex, you first have to get yourself right.