Featured Clients
Dr. John E. Abraham
Nancy Samalin
Nanny Stella
Semra Michaels
The Tom Daugherty Orchestra
Barry Keenan
Steve Mugglestone
Jade Hendrix
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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Steve Mugglestone
International Medium, Visionary, Spiritual Healer and Author
Steve is a Natural Medium Clairvoyant who is passionate about bringing truths and comfort to people via the Spirit realm, sharing his knowledge, gifts and abilities. From One to One Readings to large audiences Steve feels obliged and privileged to help.
Steve has lived a very varied life; in business at an early age somehow he managed to live in the fast lane. He left school at the age of 13; he says he felt out of place, and uninspired. By the age of twenty he had a wife and two beautiful children, a very large house and he said loads of goodies, Porches, Rolls Royce’s and so on. He said somehow it all was just unfolding. At the age of twenty two he was divorced due to a betrayal of his best friend and wife. Steve said he never thought there would be light at the end of the tunnel so to speak after the split up of his family. By the time he was 23 years old his psychic abilities were showing in a powerful way. Problem was he had little knowledge of how he knew. So in more fear than curiosity he tended to ignore, rather than embrace his gifts. On numerous occasions people were astounded with witnessing undeniable evidence from the so called un-known. From vision dreams and video scenes within his mind, he is also just gifted with a knowing. He usually sees the head and shoulders of a person in spirit when they arrive in front of the person he is reading for, the sitter.
Years went by, as a business man he found the stress of modern living testing, for several years suffering severe at times crippling anxiety attacks. By the time he was 33 he had looked at alternative ways of controlling, understanding emotions and life style. Steve says he has awakened to his true self. Being naturally clairvoyant, clairaudient, and clairsentient, spirit messages can arrive to him in many forms, on occasions he knows of their presence by smell and taste also. He is very gifted in psychometrics; by holding items Steve is usually able to reveal their history. Also being a medium this more often than not links him into the spirit realm where a reunion of souls often occurs. Looking above a candle flame, fire or at water he can see visions of future events with amazing accuracy. Visions also arrive periodically. Known for his compassion, validations within one to one readings and shows. He travels across lands and seas sharing his gifts. He says above all he hopes to help spread knowledge, where spirituality and science can merge to create a better wisdom for all beings. Playing a part in bringing peace as a global family. He shares the sentiments of many who understand we need to think, feel and care as a global community in order to move forward in a loving way. While individuality allows freedom of expression, on a higher awareness we are all one.
Steve Mugglestone is truly dedicated to raising spiritual awareness.
Steve’s new book, The Awakening, is his AMAZING TRUE LIFE STORY OF A JOURNEY OF SELF DISCOVERY INTO THE LIGHT OF OUR SPIRIT WORLD.
MAY TRUTH ROLL DOWN FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD
LIKE HOLY WATER
IN AN EVER FLOWING STREAM
Steve will be bringing his Physic Medium Show to the United States for Limited engagements in 2011. For Booking information please contact bookings@castingnewlives.com
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Jade Hendrix
Jade was born March 2nd, 1988 in Oxnard, California. Despite her current residency in Las Vegas, Jade will always be a California girl at heart. She grew up backstage, watching her mother sing back-up for world-renowned artists such as Natalie Cole, Barry Manilow and Tom Jones. Jade was the kid making all the noise and causing mischief behind the curtains. It was there that her love for music sprang.
Although Jade loves nothing more than getting on the stage today, it didn't start out that way. Being the quintessential middle child, she was always more comfortable being the wallflower and watching her siblings step into the spotlight. Even in her seventh-grade choir class, Jade was content to lip-sing, too shy to let her voice out. All of that changed once she got to high school.
Jade went to Happy Valley School, a private school for the performing arts in Ojai, California. During her time there, Jade tested the waters with her music, learning to play a few instruments and finally picking up the microphone. It was there that she began to study artists such as Judy Garland, Lena Horne, Joni Mitchell, Donny Hathaway and James Taylor. Their music influenced her sound. Under the guidance of her music and drama teachers, she began writing her own music and experimenting with her audience. She gained a sense of courage when it came to performing, and reveled in the chance to sing for her peers. But despite her newfound confidence on stage, it wouldn't be until Jade was well out of high school that she entered the realm of the entertainment industry.
During her third year of college, Jade caught the ear of producer Dan Voss Jr., who then encouraged her to take a leap of faith and step into the limelight. Through his guidance, and her mother's grace and wisdom, Jade went into the studio to record her debut album. Musical greats such as Steve Madaio of Stevie Wonder fame, grammy award-winning bassist Rick Fierabachi, and her mother, Sharon Hendrix are just a handful of the talents that recorded on this project.
Jade's approach to music is authentic and true, with a sweet soprano voice that moves you. For more information on booking Jade Hendrix go to jadehendrix@castingnewlives.com.
Click here to listen to her new album
Related website: www.JadeHendrix.com
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