Conversations with Coach Ian Scott

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Robert has extensive background in executive and leadership coaching, advertising, marketing, world celebrity reputation management, and broadcast media relations. He is currently owner of Fame Coach, a Florida based consulting firm specializing in helping individual and corporate clients achieve and maintain fame with positive bottom-line results as well as utilize the power of philanthropy.

One of America's top experts on handling challenging celebrity issues such as constantly being in the public eye, he is known for creating strategic ways to utilize the media and live appearances to advance positive message points that improves ones popularity and reputation. He has worked for numerous Fortune 500 corporations and prominent CEOs, entertainment and sports clients including East Coast publicity for the late comedian Bob Hope as well as projects for Sony Entertainment, Texaco, Paddington Corporation, Clairol and charities like Cystic Fibrosis.

To learn more about Robert Stack, visit his website:
http://www.famecoach.com

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Mark Strange’s extensive experience in martial arts spans over 24 years. Drawing upon his considerable skills and natural performing style as a talented martial artist, Mark turned to acting and action performing and has worked on a number of feature films along side Jackie Chan, Cary Tagawa, Richard Ng, Ian McKellen and many other established actors.

Mark Strange’s martial arts career began with a string of martial arts tournament successes, including having represented Britain in the 2002 Chin Woo championships in China; Euro-British Full Contact Champion in 1999; and the MAI National Chinese Forms Champion in 1992.

Mark then turned to acting and action performing in the late 90’s with a string of TV and film appearances, including a role in the cult series ‘Roddy Smythe Investigates’. Mark took a key supporting role in the feature film ‘Fist of Justice’ in 2005, and had the immense privilege of working with Jackie Chan and Donnie Yen in Hong Kong on Columbia Tri-Star’s ‘The Medallion’ and ‘The Twins Effect’ and on Warner Bros. ‘Batman Begins’. Mark then took the leading role in his debut independent feature film ‘Displaced’, which also featured Ian McKellen (‘Lord of the Rings’, ‘X-Men’) who provided the voice-over. The film went on to secure world wide distribution and introduced Mark to a global audience.

Mark’s second starring role was in the acclaimed British independent film ‘Underground’, produced by Intense Productions, which allowed him to further hone his acting and action performing skills to an even higher degree. The film won an honourable mention award at the Accolade Film Festival in California for stunts, and also starred Joey Ansah (‘The Bourne Ultimatum’) and Danny John-Jules (‘Red Dwarf’, ‘Blade II’), with the stunts and fights arranged by Mark Strange and Dave Forman (‘Batman Begins’, ‘The Last Samurai’). The film is currently on general DVD release in numerous countries, including the U.S.A. by City Lights Media and Warner/Elektra/Atlantic Corporation (WEA), Latin America, Japan, Poland, Argentina, Canada, Australia and pay TV channel HBO. ‘Underground’ will be released on DVD nationwide in the UK on May 18th, 2009.

In June 2007, Mark secured a supporting role in the epic action drama ‘Bodyguard: A New Beginning’, which was shot on location in Hong Kong and the UK. In this film he worked alongside renowned Asian actors Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (‘Memoirs of a Geisha’, ‘The Last Emperor’, ‘Mortal Kombat’), and Richard Ng (‘Winners and Sinners’, ‘My Lucky Stars’). A UK/Hong Kong Co-Production, the film is due for worldwide release in 2009.

So what next for Mark Strange? In addition to his continued work as an action martial arts performer, he is expanding his undoubted repertoire as an actor, with the varied range of roles he has lined up in the years to come.

Visit the official website of Mark Strange here:
http://www.markstrange.net

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Almost 1 in 5 Americans lived with an alcoholic while growing up, an experience my guest today knows all too well. Abandoned by his mother, the Australian native spent his childhood in the care of an extremely abusive alcoholic stepmother, while his father was incarcerated.

In addition to the physical and verbal abuse he suffered, he lived in absolute squalor for much of his youth. Even to this day, although having achieved many goals despite his childhood experiences, he admits that he still struggles psychologically and emotionally.

Because of his childhood experiences, he has now set off on a global mission to help others both survive child abuse, and to help them see that, in his own words: “No matter where you come from you can achieve something in life.”

To learn more about Steven Murphy, visit his official website: http://www.thepyjamaboy.com. You can also purchase copies of his book directly from his website.

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Philippa Jane Ballantine is my guest today, a New Zealand author and podcaster. Philippa's Award winning work includes: Weavers Web, Digital Magic, and Chasing the Bard, for which Philippa was Awarded the Sir Julius Vogel Award for best novel in 2009, and Weather Child.

Philippa's work in the arena of podcasting includes:

1.Weather Child
2.Weavers Web
3.Erotica a la Carte
4.Whispers at the Edge

She also provides a guest voice to 11 other podcasts.

To learn more about the talents of Philippa Ballantine, visit:http://www.pjballantine.com. You can follow Philippa on Twitter: @philippajane. Chasing the Bard, and Digital Magic are available in paperback from Amazon.com.

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Dr.Tony Alessandra is a prolific author with 18 books translated into 49 foreign language editions, including the newly revised, best selling The NEW Art of Managing People; Charisma; and The Platinum Rule.

He is the originator of the internationally-recognized behavioral style assessment tool - The Platinum Rule®. And today, we're going to be talking about The Platinum Rule.

To learn more about Dr Tony Alessandra, visit: http://www.alessandra.com or to find out more about The Platinum Rule visit:http://www.platinumrule.com. To take the Platinum Rule Assessment: http://www.platinumrule.com/assessmentorder.asp

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Making his third appearance today on Conversations, is Social Media specialist, Tee Morris.Our interview with Tee Morris today, focuses on the release of his first solo title on a social media topic: ALL A TWITTER : A Personal and Professional Guide to Social Networking with Twitter.

Tee began using Twitter back in the Spring of 2007. As of this interview, Tee has: 3,393 Followers: he is Following: 3,198 people on Twitter, and has made
39,347 Tweats!

A companion blog and podcast for the book is available at: http://www.allatwitterbook.com. Tee & I also did an interview, in which I featured as the guest for the companion podcast: Bird House Rules. Watch this space for the release of my interview on how and why I use Twitter!

You can follow Tee Morris on at http://www.twitter.com/teemonster or http://www.twitter.com/ITStudios.

Follow me Coach Ian Scott on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/CoachIanScott

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Joining me on the show today, is Jim Cathcart, a world leader among professional speakers. Jim is a professional speaker of 30 years, he was inducted into the Professional Speaker Hall of Fame; He is the recipient of The Golden Gavel Award and The Cavatt Award. Jim is a past President of the National Speakers Association, and has made over 2,700 presentations to clients worldwide.

Jim is the author of 15 books, including The Acorn Principle, and Relationship Selling.

To learn more about Jim Cathcart, his products and services, visit: http://www.cathcart.com. To learn more about Coach Ian Scott, visit his official website:
http://www.coachianscott.com. Browse our new online store:
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