Bright Side With Tekneshia

Mr. Locario has been featured on Vh1, FUSE, The Dish Network, TLC, ABC Family, The Tyra Banks Show and Anderson Cooper. He has also written for FlaglerHill.com and the Fort Green New York Times Blog. What separates Mr. Locario from other relationship gurus is his no nonsense realistic approach to the dating game and the game of life. The idea is to give men and women the knowledge, truth, and confidence to understand what they want. Thus, helping create the best options for themselves in Love and in Life.   Mr. Locario’s dating advice is accessible through online videos, blogs, and his website (www.mrlocario.com). He is also available for individual support and counseling. In addition to his relationship analysis work, Mr. Locario is a rap artist and actor. In 1996, he founded the entertainment company ITAKKS Inc.. For the last 14+ years, he has and still performs under the name of “Trends” in New York, California, Florida, and New Mexico. He was also featured on TV stations such as ABC Family Network, MTV,

Thad "Tim" Addleman Author, Columnist, Scientist Age: 47 Hometown: Batavia, NY BS Biology, Cornell, '90 MS Behavioral Biology, Emory, '93   Tim has done extensive research into why men are the way they are.  When it comes to faithfulness in relationships, Tim has isolated several genetic markers that reveal much about why men have a hard time being faithful to one woman.  Tim can break down the 5 reasons men have such a problem keeping to one relationship.   Tim's recent research also includes later-life relationships.  These joys and pitfalls of love later on can be tremendously rewarding if we go into them with a prepared state of mind.

Troy Spry is a certified life and relationship coach and “Reality Expert”. Troy started a blog called XKLUSIVE THOUGHTS as a way to invite the world to share in the many interesting thoughts and conversations he had about life, love and the lessons they taught him.  He is known for his passion about helping people live life on purpose and his passion towards helping create a positive narrative about relationships and marriage!  His popular blog, inspirational morning messages, lunchtime discussions, and personal one-on-one relationship and life coaching have landed Troy a position as an official staff writer for the award winning website BlackAndMarriedWithKids.com and for celebrity matchmaker Paul C. Brunson. Troy is a dating expert and contributor for DatingAdvice.com and has been listed as a premier coach by BlackMenRock.net. Troy has also been a featured guest on HuffPost Live!  Troy’s mission is simple: to inspire individuals to first become better people so that they can become better mates, create bet

Leonardo “The Companionator” Bustos is one of the world's foremost experts on Baby Boomer Relationships. This author of 4 books and dozens of videos has helped thousands of grateful clients rediscover their “love mojo” in order to find and connect with their ideal love match.     As a speaker and consultant, he's fascinated countless audiences with his ready to use practical advice and sage wisdom. Leonardo has just finished creating the Mate Acquisition Program, an online dating course that uses software, data and coaching to help singles find their best love match available in the shortest time possible. 

Villa J Powell has been inspiring, motivating, and empowering people for the last 25 years.  She is the C.E.O. of Powell Opulence Group.  Additionally she has served as Executive Director of several Non-Profit Organizations, Senior Pastor of Bethel A.M.E. Church, and an Associate Professor at Arizona Western College and West Angeles Bible College.  Her goal as an inspirational speaker is to be an agent of transformation. She is comfortable working one on one, with small groups, and with huge groups.  She is author of the book: Thirty Day Journey Toward Transformation.    After living in Massachusetts, and the Southwestern United States, Villa returned to sunny Southern California.  She is a “Valley Girl” and resides in the San Fernando Valley with her husband Darvell.    

Mike Podlesny is a 3rd generation home vegetable gardener and the author of the book Vegetable Gardening for the Average Person as well as the creator of the Seeds of the Month Club where members receive non gmo, heirloom variety seeds every month. You can listen to Mike each week on the Vegetable Gardening Podcastwhere he interviews gardening industry experts.   Mike`s vegetable gardening tips and tricks have been featured in newspapers, magazines and blogs around the world. He has also appeared on ABC and NBC talking about vegetable gardening.

Michael Hurst is a dating coach, author and speaker based in Washington, DC.  His book Become That Guy: Become Irresistibly Attractive is a comprehensive resource for dating and self-development. Starting in high school Michael made a conscious effort to figure out what it took to become better when it comes to meeting women. While in college 11 years ago he discovered the early stages of what is now known as the Pickup Artist (PUA) movement which helped him develop more power and choice in his dating life with women. His new book “Become That Guy” is a comprehensive resource toward dating and self-development based on over 11 years of  experience in the Pickup Artist/men’s self development community. Michael rediscovered the Men’s Pickup Artist Movement in summer 2007 when a woman he went home with had a copy of the book “The Game” on her bedside table. The phrase “Become That Guy” refers to becoming the kind of guy who is naturally attractive to women. Learning to become more attractive to women is about

Writer/director Mike Kravinsky has written a terrific movie calledGEOGRAPHICALLY DESIRABLE, which fixes around a TV newswoman.  It has some hilarious and insightful things to say about the media industry.  Blair Bowers plays the lead role.   Synopsis : A driven, overworked and sleep deprived TV News woman's life is derailed when she inherits a house and dog in a small quirky town

Del Weston is a writer, producer, director and the creator of the Action On Film International Film Festivals. Weston has had television programs on NBC Los Angeles, The AOF Channel, Spike TV, Reality Racing The Rookie Challenge on ESPN II, Feelin' Good. Weston is best known for his feature films, Camden, Split and Sunny and RayRay. Del Weston has done stunts in Rocky V, Asylum and Reality Racing The Rookie Challenge. He was also director of photography, co-writer and postproduction supervisor on the Joe Pesci, Oscar De La Hoya and Gary Stevens documentary, Behind The Gate. Weston hosts the weekly Television series, Del Weston On Film that airs on the Time Warner Cable, Champion Broadband networks, and nationally on PEG Media. Links: www.aoffest.com           www.delwestononfilm.com           http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0922939/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1  

Health educator with a Bachelor of Education in Biology and Physical Education. Certified as a Master of Holistic Health, Natural Health and Herbal Practitioner, Iridologist, Contact Reflex Analyst, and works with several energy balancing techniques. Studied and used nutrition, healthful lifestyles and natural therapies since 1985. She has completed certifications through the Wild Rose College (Terry Willard), Natural Therapeutics Institute (Dr. Jack Richardson) and Tree of Light Institute (Steven Horne, AHG & Carl Robinson), Dr. Versendaal, DC and others.Passion is empowering people through education of their own bodies, herbs and overall health on all levels.  Travels internationally to teach and lecture on natural health and writes for herbal publications.  Ms. Benoit shares her knowledge by teaching courses in Herbology, Nutrition, Lifestyle, and Health Assessment. She was Canadian instructor for Tree of Light Institute’s Certified Herbal Consultant program for 10 years, as well as lecturing and tea

What controls your brain? In W. Dennis Parker’s book Spiritual Mind Management, he reveals the observed functioning of the spiritual mind and how to use this information in new hypnotherapy techniques and protocols. As the Owner/Operator/Primary Instructor of Certified Hypnotherapy Training School, Dennis believes everyone can benefit by learning these new mental skills to overcome negative self-limiting beliefs and behaviors, eliminate inappropriate habits, and conquer maladaptive behaviors. This powerful information teaches individuals personal problem solving of past sensitizing events resolving emotions that inhibit them from moving forward and achieving their goals. After 23 years as a certified clinical hypnotherapist, Dennis wishes to share with the public what he has discovered and developed as new spiritual mind management techniques. Spiritual Mind Mastery Book Detailed in his book, Spiritual Mind Management, these techniques help parents and grandparents obtain the skills and techniques to assi

The film will hit DVD and Blu-ray this October, but premieres at Frightfest in the UK next month. Somewhat of a reboot of the popular WRONG TURN series, the new film is directed by Valeri Milev, and recently wrapped production in Bulgaria. Synopsis : A sudden and mysterious inheritance brings Danny and his friends to Hobb Springs, a forgotten resort deep in the West Virginia hills. Hobb Springs is being looked after under the watchful care of Jackson and Sally, a socially and awkward couple who introduce Danny to the long lost family he's never known. Soon, Danny is forced to choose between his friends and his bloodline. The beautiful Sadie Katz has one of the lead roles in the film, but the studio have asked us to stay zipped in regards into the who’s and what’s of her character.  She has plenty more to say about the movie though! Genre fans will already recognize Sadie from her roles in SCORNED, which she also co-wrote, HOUSE OF BAD, and MEANING OF VIOLENCE.

Kim Ades, MBA is president and founder of Frame of Mind Coaching and JournalEngineTM Software. Author, speaker, entrepreneur, coach, and mother of 5, Kim is one of North America's foremost experts on coaching with a focus on mindset. By using her unique process of coaching she works with clients who are intelligent, driven, and ambitious and helps them examine and shift their thinking in order to yield extraordinary results. Kim is the Author of “What You Focus on Grows”– a book filled with short stories specifically designed to build the reader’s mind muscle.  For more information about Kim and her unique coaching approach, go towww.frameofmindcoaching.com.  

Cynthia White is an Actor, Director, Writer, Producer and Acting Coach. She has coached hundreds of professional actors and acting students all over the country and world through IndependentActor, a talent development and career coaching consultancy for Actors and Performing Artists. Her book on acting technique and creative career development, Your Castable Types®: Understanding How The Industry Perceives Your Talent Will Maximize Your Acting Success, is published by Smith & Kraus and available at bookstores in the USA, Great Britain, Australia, Israel and India as well as online retailers such as Amazon.com. Your Castable Types® has been added to the permanent performing arts collection at thirty-nine college and university libraries including NYU, Yale, Columbia, Brown, Emerson and UNC. IndependentActor has been profiled by WomenArts for an amazing 99% success rate with clients auditioning for graduate and undergraduate acting programs and is a past recipient of grant funding from The Women’s Venture F

Raised – Atlanta, Georgia from age 4 on Diagnosed – Epilepsy – Petit Mal Temporal Lobe – age 6 Diagnosed – Multiple Sclerosis in 1986 Career – taught middle school for over 15 years – certified to teach in  Georgia, Connecticut, and West Virginia & North Carolina Accomplishments: put in a two mile long nature trail in Danbury,  Connecticut and wrote a book of environmental activities for teachers  and students to utilize while on the trail. I was presented the key to the  city of Danbury by the Mayor. ” Healing Words, Life Lessons to Inspire” published by Tate Publishing  was nationally released on February 22, 2011. I speak to many groups  on topics ranging from,”Awareness of the Self” to “Parenting” and  “Healing Relationships.” I also speak to groups on the topics of Epilepsy  and Multiple Sclerosis as those are the situations I had to deal with  in order to learn what I needed to learn. This book was entered for  nomination for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for 2012. Selected to be one

Sarah Wendell is author of the book Everything I Know About Love, I Learned from Romance Novels, co-author of the book, Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches’ Guide to Romance Novels, and co-founder of Smart Bitches Trashy Books.com, one of the most popular blogs examining romance fiction. The site specializes in reviewing romance novels, pondering the history and future of the genre in digital form and in print, and bemoaning the enormous prevalence of bodacious pectorals adorning male cover models.  In her quest to celebrate the romance genre and the women who read and write it, Sarah has appeared on Good Morning America, The Today Show, The Gayle King Show on The Oprah Winfrey Network, the Canadian Broadcasting Company’s Steven and Chris Show, NPR’s All Things Considered and on Too Many Books. She has been quoted in People Magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Post, USA Today, New Jersey Monthly, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Los Angeles Times Book Blog, Redbook, Metro:New York, a

V. Frank Asaro, JD is a lawyer, musician/ composer, inventor and theorist who authored the non-fiction book, Universal Co-opetition, published (Oct.2011), The Tortoise Shell Code, novel (2012) and now, A Primal Wisdom (April, 2014), the non-fiction corollary to his novel and a 2d, expanded edition to Universal Co-opetition. He began developing the theory of co-opetition not long after he was selected out of law school as lawyer-clerk to the California Courts of Appeal. He went on to receive the highest-category law career peer review, Preeminent, Martindale Hubbell rating, and appeared in Who’s Who in American Law, and Who’s Who in the World. Engaged in litigation most of his career, he honed skills proving or disproving facts and stories – a handy talent for a novelist and a theorist. Moreover, as a patent holder, he shows a creative knack. This he calls upon in weaving the most exciting tale of The Tortoise Shell Code, a fiction work in Admiralty – one of his fields, and in nailing the theories of this non

Gloria Washington was born in San Francisco, CA raised military and traveled the US.  Joined the US Army in 1999 separated in 2005. Have three wonderfully curious children ages 13, 9, and 6.  Became an Entrepreneur and got involved with Network Marketing in 2000 and have been on a mission ever since to help individuals find success in entrepreneurship. Back again is Betty Mayfield. She is the author of Secret Struggles of a Single Mother. Also the CEO/Founder of a nonprofit organization S.M.O.O.T.H. (Single Mothers Overcoming Our True Hurt).

Megan Cyrulewski has been writing short stories ever since she was ten-years-old.  After attending Grand Valley State University, Megan eventually settled into a career in the non-profit sector for eight years.  She decided to change careers and went back to school to get her law degree from Thomas M. Cooley Law School.  While in school, she documented her divorce, child custody battle and postpartum depression struggles in her memoir which is slated to be published on August 2 by Black Opal Books.  Megan lives in Michigan with her 3-year-old daughter who loves to dance, run, read, and snuggle time with Mommy.  Megan also enjoys her volunteer work as a Board Member with Troy Youth Assistance, a non-profit in Troy, MI.  

SUZANNE GLOVER – Author of The Effective Positive Thinking Program, motivational speaker, hypnotherapist and actress is a personal development professional who inspires and ENCOURAGES YOU TO BECOME YOUR BEST! Suzanne has a unique approach to helping people because she mixes her background as a professional model and actress with effective hypnosis and positive thinking techniques to give extraordinary tools that work inside and out for better communication, presentation and a successful mindset. Suzanne is one of those self help authors and presenters who is passionate about getting more out of life for herself and guiding others to do the same. As well as being an author, motivational speaker, hypnotherapist and actress, Suzanne is fast coming to be one of the new thought authors of today. She not only writes about how our mental states bring forth our experiences in life through Infinite Intelligence, she also advocates using today's technological advances such as brainwave meditations and subliminal af