Posted by Elena del Valle on December 28, 2015
Penance album cover
Photos and song: Mindless Sound Records, LLC
On January 12, 2016, Mindless Sound Records, LLC will release Penance, Lyrical Justifier’s solo debut hip hop album. An aspiring artist for 14 years, Lyrical Justifier wrote all the songs on the album. Scroll down to listen to Music Is My Blood, a single from the new album.
Lyrical Justifier
Lyrical Justifier is the artist name of Stephen C. Sebastiao, the United States born son of a Portuguese father and a Brazilian mother. The album features 17 songs and includes the music of DJ SoulBuck (Beat Minerz Radio, DJ for Doodlebug); Gordon Nelson Jr., a former Gloria Gaynor background vocalist; Jamal Coltrane; Richard Reiter, an Emmy Award Winning Composer and sax and woodwind player; as well as several independent vocalists. Brother Noyze The Mad Musician produced the album and designed the album cover.
Posted by Elena del Valle on October 26, 2015
Doug Simon, CEO, D S Simon Media
Photo: Doug Simon
A podcast interview with Doug Simon, CEO, D S Simon Media, is available in the Podcast Section of Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations, HispanicMPR.com. During the podcast, he discusses his company’s Media Influencers Report with Elena del Valle, host of the HispanicMPR.com podcast.
Doug is also the founder of D S Simon Media now Simon Media. His firm pioneered Internet Media Tours and its unique approach to guiding clients, PRketing, was awarded a trademark by the US patent office. He’s provided strategic counsel and executed campaigns for Pfizer, Fidelity, Lincoln Financial, Macy’s, HOOD, the Consumer Electronics Association, Whitney Museum of American Art and the American College of Physicians.
To listen to the interview, scroll down until you see “Podcast” on the right side, then select “HMPR Doug Simon” and click on the play button below or download the MP3 file to your iPod or MP3 player to listen on the go, in your car or at home. To download it, click on the arrow of the recording you wish to copy and save it to disk. The podcast will remain listed in the October 2015 section of the podcast archive
Posted by Elena del Valle on July 6, 2015
Susan Deehan, chairwoman, Actionable Intelligence Technologies
Tim Deehan, president, Actionable Intelligence Technologies
Photos: Actionable Intelligence Technologies
A podcast interview with Susan Deehan, chairwoman, and Tim Deehan, president, Actionable Intelligence Technologies, is available in the Podcast Section of Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations, HispanicMPR.com. During the podcast, they discuss how white collar crime goes largely unsolved with Elena del Valle, host of the HispanicMPR.com podcast.
Susan and Tim are cofounders of Actionable Intelligence Technologies. She has developed an award-winning proprietary software that helps law enforcement agencies and forensic accounting firms around the globe find and prosecute large, complex financial fraud schemes, and recover money back to the victims. Tim works in product development, operations and sales at the company.
To listen to the interview, scroll down until you see “Podcast” on the right side, then select “HMPR Susan Deehan and Tim Deehan” and click on the play button below or download the MP3 file to your iPod or MP3 player to listen on the go, in your car or at home. To download it, click on the arrow of the recording you wish to copy and save it to disk. The podcast will remain listed in the July 2015 section of the podcast archive.
Posted by Elena del Valle on May 18, 2015
Alejandro Monteverde, director, Little Boy
Photo: Metanoia Films
A podcast interview with Alejandro Monteverde, director, Little Boy, is available in the Podcast Section of Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations, HispanicMPR.com. During the podcast, he discusses his film Little Boy (see With video New film about believing in the impossible) with Elena del Valle, host of the HispanicMPR.com podcast.
Alejandro is a Mexican writer whose first feature, Bella, won the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival, and brought him the American by Choice Award for its positive contribution to Latino art and culture in the United States. His second feature, Little Boy, was picked up for general release by Open Road and had its debut in theaters nationwide April 2015.
Little Boy, produced by his company, Metanoia Films, tells the story of a boy willing to believe the impossible in order to bring his father back from World War II. Alejandro is developing his next film, The Hidden Ones. It is a dark international thriller about a brilliant killer murders the twelve holiest monks on earth and the young FBI agent who dives dangerously deep into the killer’s demonic world. He and his wife Ali Landry, an actress and former Miss USA, live in Los Angeles with their three children.
To listen to the interview, scroll down until you see “Podcast” on the right side, then select “HMPR Alejandro Monteverde” and click on the play button below or download the MP3 file to your iPod or MP3 player to listen on the go, in your car or at home. To download it, click on the arrow of the recording you wish to copy and save it to disk. The podcast will remain listed in the May 2015 section of the podcast archive.
Posted by Elena del Valle on March 16, 2015
Lara Pizzorno, MDiv, lead author, Your Bones
Photo: Lara Pizzorno, MDiv
A podcast interview with Lara Pizzorno, MDiv, lead author, Your Bones, is available in the Podcast Section of Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations, HispanicMPR.com. During the podcast, she discusses how too many phosphates are killing us with Elena del Valle, host of the HispanicMPR.com podcast.
A member of the American Medical Writers Association for more than 25 years, Lara is the editor of Longevity Medicine Review, and senior medical editor for Salugenecists, Inc., and Integrative Medicine Advisors, LLC. She regularly writes review articles for physicians on issues related to healthy aging for Integrative Medicine: A Clinician’s Journal, covers the breaking research on bone health via video clips available on YouTube, and edits The World’s Healthiest Foods weekly newsletter.
A member of the American College of Nutrition, she is a contributing author to the Textbook of Functional Medicine and the Textbook of Natural Medicine; co-author of The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods, and lead author of Natural Medicine Instructions for Patients. Her book Your Bones: How You Can Prevent Osteoporosis & Have Strong Bones for Life, Naturally, was translated into German and Polish.
Phosphates Table courtesy of Lara Pizzorno – click to enlarge
To listen to the interview, scroll down until you see “Podcast” on the right hand side, then select “HMPR Lara Pizzorno, MDiv” and click on the play button below or download the MP3 file to your iPod or MP3 player to listen on the go, in your car or at home. To download it, click on the arrow of the recording you wish to copy and save it to disk. The podcast will remain listed in the March 2015 section of the podcast archive.
Posted by Elena del Valle on January 26, 2015
Laurence Shatkin, Ph.D., author, Your Guide to High-Paying Careers
Photo: Laurence Shatkin
A podcast interview with Laurence Shatkin, Ph.D., author, Your Guide to High-Paying Careers, is available in the Podcast Section of Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations, HispanicMPR.com. During the podcast, he discusses high paying careers with Elena del Valle, host of the HispanicMPR.com podcast.
Laurence has been a writer and researcher in the field of career information for 35 years. He was one of the developers of the SIGI PLUS (System of Interactive Guidance and Information) career information system at Educational Testing Service, and he has developed and adapted similar systems for use in the United States, Australia, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. He is the author or co-author of more than two dozen books about careers. He lives in Titusville, New Jersey.
To listen to the interview, scroll down until you see “Podcast” on the right hand side, then select “HMPR Laurence Shatkin, Ph.D.” and click on the play button below or download the MP3 file to your iPod or MP3 player to listen on the go, in your car or at home. To download it, click on the arrow of the recording you wish to copy and save it to disk. The podcast will remain listed in the January 2015 section of the podcast archive.
Posted by Elena del Valle on November 10, 2014
Scott Bowen, general manager, Webs
Photo: Webs
A podcast interview with Scott Bowen, general manager, Webs, is available in the Podcast Section of Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations, HispanicMPR.com. During the podcast, he discusses online marketing best practices for small businesses with Elena del Valle, host of the HispanicMPR.com podcast.
Scott is responsible for the Webs Digital Services Division of Vistaprint, dedicated to providing online marketing tools to the world’s smallest businesses including Webs, Pagemodo, Facebook page builder, and ContactMe.
Before joining Webs in 2012, he spent seven years at OpenText Corporation, an independent provider of enterprise content management software solutions. During that time, he was senior vice president, Cloud Services, and president, Digital Media Group.
To listen to the interview, scroll down until you see “Podcast” on the right hand side, then select “HMPR Scott Bowen” and click on the play button below or download the MP3 file to your iPod or MP3 player to listen on the go, in your car or at home. To download it, click on the arrow of the recording you wish to copy and save it to disk. The podcast will remain listed in the November 2014 section of the podcast archive.
Posted by Elena del Valle on September 8, 2014
Amiel Handelsman, executive coach and author, Practice Greatness
Photo: Amiel Handelsman
A podcast interview with Amiel Handelsman, an executive coach, is available in the Podcast Section of Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations, HispanicMPR.com. During the podcast, he discusses how to practice great leadership with Elena del Valle, host of the HispanicMPR.com podcast.
Amiel, a change consultant based in Portland, Oregon, is the author of the 2014 book Practice Greatness: Escape Small Thinking, Listen Like A Master, And Lead With Your Best. He has two decades of experience helping leaders and organizations rise to the challenge of complex change.
To listen to the interview, scroll down until you see “Podcast” on the right hand side, then select “HMPR Amiel Handelsman” and click on the play button below or download the MP3 file to your iPod or MP3 player to listen on the go, in your car or at home. To download it, click on the arrow of the recording you wish to copy and save it to disk. The podcast will remain listed in the September 2014 section of the podcast archive.
Posted by Elena del Valle on April 21, 2014
Kristen Schiele, Ph.D., assistant marketing professor, Woodbury University
Photo: Kristen Schiele, Ph.D.
A podcast interview with Kristen Schiele, Ph.D., assistant marketing professor, Woodbury University, is available in the Podcast Section of Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations, HispanicMPR.com. During the podcast, she discusses how companies can utilize online reviews with Elena del Valle, host of the HispanicMPR.com podcast.
Kristen’s research focuses on Marketing Technology such as Online Review Analysis and Big Data Analytics, the Experience and Behaviors of Digital Consumers, and Consumer Culture. Prior to becoming an assistant professor at Woodbury University, she was an adjunct professor at California State University, Fullerton; California Polytechnic University of Pomona; and Vanguard University.
Kristen has over nine years of prior industry experience at The Irvine Company, Susan’s Healthy Gourmet, and as an independent marketing consultant. She is the former chief marketing officer of Fit for Green.
To listen to the interview, scroll down until you see “Podcast” on the right hand side, then select “HMPR Kristen Schiele, Ph.D.” and click on the play button below or download the MP3 file to your iPod or MP3 player to listen on the go, in your car or at home. To download it, click on the arrow of the recording you wish to copy and save it to disk. The podcast will remain listed in the April 2014 section of the podcast archive.
Posted by Elena del Valle on January 13, 2014
Deborah Koons Garcia, director, Symphony of the Soil
Photo: Lily Films
A podcast interview with Deborah Koons Garcia, director, Symphony of the Soil (see With video Documentary highlights importance of healthy soil) is available in the Podcast Section of Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations, HispanicMPR.com. During the podcast, she discusses her film with Elena del Valle, host of the HispanicMPR.com podcast.
At Lily Films, her Mill Valley, California production company, Deborah has made fiction, educational and documentary films. For the last fifteen years, she has focused primarily on films about soil, agriculture and the food system.
Her film, The Future of Food, premiered at Film Forum in New York City. It continues to play widely around the world in theaters and at film, food and farming festivals and conferences and at thousands of community-organized screenings. She has personally taken her film to innovative venues such as Google headquarters, Burning Man arts festival in the desert of Nevada, and shown it to inmates in the gardening program at San Quentin prison.
Symphony of the Soil premiered at the Smithsonian in the spring of 2012 and has been playing at film festivals, conferences, theaters and community screening all around the world since then. In October 2013, The New York Times gave the film a very positive Critic’s Choice review.
She was recently awarded the John de Graaf Environmental Filmmaking Award at the Wild and Scenic Film Festival for her body of films on soil, agriculture and sustainability.
To listen to the interview, scroll down until you see “Podcast” on the right hand side, then select “HMPR Deborah Koons Garcia” and click on the play button below or download the MP3 file to your iPod or MP3 player to listen on the go, in your car or at home. To download it, click on the arrow of the recording you wish to copy and save it to disk. The podcast will remain listed in the January 2014 section of the podcast archive.
