Featured Clients
Dr. John E. Abraham
Nancy Samalin
Nanny Stella
Semra Michaels
The Tom Daugherty Orchestra
Barry Keenan
Nanny Stella
Nanny Stella aka Stella Reid “does not court popularity by watering down her opinions” pretty much sums it up. She stars in NANNY 911, is an author, family consultant, and a real-life British nanny to the stars.
She prides herself on the fact that she was born and raised in Burnley, in the North of England, and accredits most of her approach and success with families to her down-to-earth upbringing.
Nanny Stella’s passion is children - all ages, sizes, genders, and ethnic backgrounds. She began working with children at 13 as the local babysitter and has since become one of the top experts in parenting. She has her nanny accreditation from one of the UK’s top schools, entitling her to call herself a "trained" Nanny. She has worked in LA for the past 20 years for some of Hollywood’s elite families as well as volunteering with children’s charities and families in need.
Her international experience gave her the ideal background to bring America a revolutionary form of child rearing based on the belief of "prevention rather than cure”. Her philosophy is based on the idea of informing and empowering children with the knowledge of what it takes to become a respectful young adult. Her no nonsense approach makes her successful in "telling it like it is" but it is her heart and commitment that inspire change in parents and children.
Nanny Stella’s success has led to the publishing of a book co-authored by her, called “ Nanny 911: Expert advice for All Your Parenting Emergencies,” published by Harper Collins. Many parents have come to consider this the dictionary in dealing with everyday problems of out of control children. She also has appeared on many TV and radio programs lending her help to families in distress.
Stella continues to help families on a one on one basis by offering private onsultations as well as through her speaking engagements. She also travels the country delivering parenting workshops.
Nanny Stella currently resides in Los Angeles and helps families in a variety of ways including as a family consultant, writer for pregnancy magazine, professional speaker throughout the world, and as a baby nurse.
For Booking Information contact Casting New Lives at (858) 375-5751.
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Dr John E. Abraham
John Abraham is a story teller. He has been called a maverick and speaks from his collected experiences as a boy growing up in an ethnic neighborhood, an academician, a governmental official, a local elected official, and as a parent. The common story theme focuses on his youth baseball coaching career experiences with an application to solving problems in the big kid world. For fifteen years he coached his sons’ little league teams. The lessons learned from observing the little kids playing a game enabled him to successfully interact with the big kids that he supervised at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He is the author of a book “From Ballpark to Boardroom: Lessons for CEOs from a Little League Coach.” Via his speaking engagements, John melds his two worlds in an insightful look at the common problems many executives face. His talks include humorous, inspiring, thought provoking and no-nonsense methods of developing and retaining talent and breaking down the corporate bridges to nowhere. John has personally gone from the ballpark, to the boardroom, to becoming one the most sought after speakers and corporate consultants on eliminating roadblocks to performance.
Dr. John E. Abraham retired from the United States Public Service in 2004. He earned his PhD in environmental health from the University of Iowa. In addition, John has a BA from the University of Denver, a MA from University of Hartford, a MPH from Tulane University as well as a MBA from Georgia State University . He holds, or has held, adjunct faculty appointments at Tulane, Georgia Tech, Emory, and the University of Texas San Antonio Medical School, Harlingen Campus.
Currently Dr. Abraham is Chairman of the Cobb County School Board, which has oversight over 107,000 students, 14,000 employees, and a billion dollar budget.
Speaking Topics
Dr John Abraham's website - click here
For Booking Information contact Casting New Lives at (858) 375-5751.
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Casting New Lives is proud to announce that we are adding another great parenting speaker to our list: Nancy Samalin!
Nancy Samalin
Nancy Samalin, M.S. is a best-selling parenting author and a pioneer in the field of parent education. She is one of the leading speakers on parenting issues in the US, Canada & abroad, known for her practical, concrete advice combined with a highly entertaining delivery.
Nancy specializes in a hands-on approach that combines practical advice with an upbeat and humorous speaking style. Her presentations are full of entertaining dialogues and anecdotes that create instant rapport with her audiences. Nancy’s warm and witty keynote speeches are usually followed by an in-depth question and answer period. Best-selling parenting author and internationally-known speaker, Nancy Samalin released her fourth book in September 2002.
Following up on her widely-acclaimed three previous books – Loving Your Child is Not Enough, Love & Anger: The Parental Dilemma, and Loving Each One Best, – the new book, LOVING WITHOUT SPOILING, offers parents 100 tips on setting limits without overindulging their children.
Nancy Samalin and her work have been featured in a variety of media, including frequent television appearances on Good Morning America, The Today Show, 20/20, CNN, and Dateline NBC, as well as radio appearances on National Public Radio, WBZ-Boston, WSB-Atlanta, and WGN-Chicago etc. Nancy’s work is featured in countless magazines including Parents, Redbook, Family Circle, Ladies’ Home Journal, and many other publications.
If your organization would like information on booking Nancy, please let us know. Call us (858) 375-5751.
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Semra Michaels
Semra Michaels is an extraordinary gifted Christian Singer, Songwriter, Musician, Performer and Producer, who can now add Author to her long list of talents!
From the young age of 6, Semra Michael’s powerful vocals and charismatic performances have captured audiences for many years for all generations to enjoy. Semra’s love for the creative arts developed from dancing to singing, songwriting, choreography and acting, to now producing. Continually perfecting her musical abilities and talents by learning musical instruments, vocal technique, songwriting, performance, production and dance lessons has led to choreographing her own shows and dancers. Semra is a very soulful, dynamic, passionate and captivating presence on stage.
Continually performing over the years and entertaining in many clubs, events, competitions, TV and charities, with bands, vocalists, dancers or solo. Semra’s love for music and passion for the arts is evident in her writing and performances, which has led her to write and produce her current EP ‘TheTruth’, also with a great team of gifted professionals.
With well over twenty years of musical and impressive life experiences, Semra was inspired to write a novel about this amazing journey to reach all with inspiration and hope!
Although Semra’s family is from Turkey, Semra was born in Australia, raised Muslim in a family of strong Turkish traditions.
In her book, I was a Muslim then I found Truth is Semra’s road to Christianity. It is written straight from Semra’s heart, about her amazing miraculous transformation about being set free. Free from the confines of legalistic beliefs and traditions, free to choose truth above all circumstances, free to be all you have been created to be.
Semra’s Book and EP was released in November 2009, available on amazon.com
website: www.semramichaels.com.au
For Booking Information contact Casting New Lives at (858) 375-5751.
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The Tom Daugherty Orchestra
The Tom Daugherty Orchestra is a show and dance orchestra featuring an exciting and entertaining "Las Vegas" style show. The group performs a wide variety of music ranging from the original "Big Band" arrangements of the Swing Era, to the "Rock and Roll" of the 1950's, to the contemporary music of today. The orchestra is available for shows, concerts dances, cruises, wedding receptions, corporate events and theme parties.
The Tom Daugherty Ochestra, under the direction of Tom Daugherty Pfrogner, features The Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band Tribute show . The 17 member “tribute” orchestra recreates the sound and the look of the original Tommy Dorsey Orchestra with the original music arrangements.
The 17 member “tribute” orchestra recreates the sound and the look of the original Tommy Dorsey Orchestra with the original music arrangements. In addition, The Sinatra Legacy lives on 
with this special tribute toFrank Sinatra’s music and style. Featuring the vocal stylings of Jarrod Harrah.
Finally, A Tribute to the “Big Band Era”featuring the original arrangements of Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Harry James, Woody Herman, Jimmy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Les Brown, Benny Goodman,
and many other famous Big Bands.
website: www.swinginsounds.com
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Barry Keenan - singer/songwriter/ producer/multi-instrumentalist
Barry Keenan is truly one the best kept secrets in the music business. This is not a cliché. While being relatively unknown, Barry is, and always has been, a serious, talented, and important musical artist whose original songs and lyrics strongly touch almost all of the people who have the opportunity to hear his music…and this happens with all ages and demographics. He is an outstanding vocalist and an accomplished multi-instrumentalist possessing superior creative and technical skills. This is abundantly evident throughout his large body of recorded work as an artist and producer. On top of that, Barry is a proven kick-ass performer, both, as a single or with his band. He is an entertainer that people want to see time after time, night after night. Each of Barry’s shows is wonderfully unique and special, and he never fails to leave his audiences calling for more!
Barry has a lifetime career as a singer/songwriter. He started recording professionally at the age of 13. By the time he turned age 19, he already had his first major publishing deal in New York. His songs have been published by such notable companies as Warner/Chappell, Universal, All NationsMusic, Criterion Music and Peer/Southern Music. As a recording engineer, Keenan has owned and operated two commercial recording studios in the Los Angeles area during the 1970’s and 80’s. He has worked on the recorded music of such notable recording artists as Beck, Warren Zevon, Sting, Devo, Pantera, No Doubt, The Goo Goo Dolls and The Cranberries to name only a few. As a producer, he received his first major break when Miles Copeland (The Police, IRS Records) asked him to produce Adam Ant in 1984. He is the recipient of The Arts For Humanities Award issued by The New World Festival in December of 1983 and was awarded SESAC’s highest honor in Nashville for the songs he wrote for the hit motion picture Kickboxer starring Jean Claude Van Damne.Kickboxer was the biggest selling, #1 worldwide, box office movie for SESAC that year. As a recording artist, he has received commercial radio play coast to coast from stations such as KROQ and KLOS in Los Angeles to WCOZ in Boston. In December of 2009, after spending a year on the Songs Of the Times Music Chart hosted by Neil Young on Neil Young’s“Living With War Today” website, Keenan reached the #2 position with his anti-war song entitled, “Our Comfortable Lives,” produced by Mandi Martin.
For Booking Information, Call Casting New Lives at: bookings@castingnewlives.com
or (858) 375-5751.
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