Summit Your Life is now “Conversation Crossroad” on BlogTalkRadio.com beginning February 15th Monday through Friday!

Posted on February 12, 2011 by Garrison

2010 was an exciting year for the Summit Your Life radio program on 1400 WSTC/1350 WNLK. We earned a berth on the Pepsi Refresh Project, garnered a feature article in AOL.com and drew press in many newspapers.

We also attracted an impressive roster of guests including:
CNBC anchor and author Maria Bartiromo
New York Times columnist and author Joe Nocera
Emmy-nominated filmmaker and mountaineer Chris Warner
Hit TV show “Project Runway” winner Irina Shabayeva
“UFO Hunters” TV series host William J. Birnes
CNBC anchor and author Michelle Caruso-Cabrera
Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer at SETI
World renowned fashion photographer and “America’s Next Top Model” judge Nigel Barker
White House doctor and author Connie Mariano
Joe Kane, “the best movie critic in America” (Entertainment Weekly)
History-making NASCAR twins Amber and Angela Cope
Psychic Jeffrey Wands
“Blind Descent” author James Tabor
“Lotus Eaters” author Tatjana Soli
“Go-Givers” author Bob Burg
and so many others…
With the show going to 5-days a week, we have the opportunity to interview more exciting guests and to offer listeners even more variety and content.

And, we are putting together an exciting menu of advertising opportunities for sponsors that will include “live” and pre-recorded spots as well as Internet-based advertising far below broadcast prices. In addition, sponsors are not locked-in to 13-week campaigns but rather they can now have custom runs for as long as they want as well as single show options. They will be able to get their message out with more frequency and significantly save advertising dollars.

“Conversation Crossroad” gives us the wonderful opportunity to grow our listenership internationally with support from and exposure on BlogTalkRadio.com.

2011 will be a great year for “Conversation Crossroad” and we’re delighted you will be taking the journey with us!

Betty-Lynn and Garrison

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Summit Your Life FINAL SHOW on 1400 WSTC/1350 WNLK

Posted on January 17, 2011 by Garrison

Join hosts Garrison and Betty-Lynn for this final broadcast of the Summit Your Life radio program on news-talk 1400 WSTC/1350 WNLK. You won’t want to miss it. And STAY TUNED: Summit Your Life is moving FEBRUARY 15th to a new home, new hours and a new name!!! Keep up with the latest news at www.SummitYourLife.com.

Listen to the podcast here.

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Psychologist Barbara R. Greenberg, Co-Author of Teenage as a Second Language, Guest on January 8th

Posted on January 8, 2011 by Garrison

Join hosts Garrison and Betty-Lynn for the podcast of the January 8, 2011 Summit Your Life radio interview with psychologist Barbara R. Greenberg, co-author with Jennifer Powell-Lunder, Psy.D., of Teenage as a Second Language: A Parent’s Guide to Becoming Bilingual.
Listen to the podcast here.
Be sure to check out the authors’ exciting new website where you can order Teenage as a Second Language: A Parent’s Guide to Becoming Bilingual directly and get access to a wealth of the information on the topic. Access the website here.
To contact the authors:
Barbara R. Greenberg, Ph.D.: bgreenbergphd@hotmail.com
Jennifer Powell-Lunder, Psy.D.: jplund@optonline.com

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Newly re-elected 4th District Congressman Jim Himes on Summit Your Life December 18th

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Garrison


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Peter Hay, Music Industry Veteran and Head of Twin Vision, Talks about Indie Music on December 11th

Posted on December 11, 2010 by Garrison

Join hosts Garrison Leykam and Betty-Lynn White for the December 11th Summit Your Life radio program interview with music industry veteran and head of Twin Vision, Peter Hay. Listen to the podcast of the interview.

Twin Vision was launched seventeen years ago by PETER HAY whose career spans thirty-five years in the music industry. He spent eight years at London Records where, as an integral member in the A&R department, he was instrumental in the development of the careers of ZZ Top, Dave Edmunds, Thin Lizzy, Al Green, John Mayall, and Savoy Brown. He also worked on publicity and promotion for the Moody Blues, Van Morrison, Tom Jones, and the Rolling Stones.

In the mid-Seventies, Hay traveled frequently to Austin, Texas to work with artists who were part of the burgeoning progressive country scene there (a prelude to what is now called Americana).

Hay went on to provide A&R, promotion, publicity, marketing, and operations management for independent labels like CAM, SWS, Polish, NEO and artists, including Bonnie Raitt, David Spinozza, Ronnie Spector and The Dead Boys.

Check out the Twin Vision website.

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“Summit Your Life” Indie Radio Talk-Show Host to Author New Book

Posted on December 5, 2010 by Garrison

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NY Times Business Columnist Joe Nocera talks about his Best-Selling Book, “All The Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis” on December 4th

Posted on December 4, 2010 by Garrison

Join hosts Garrison Leykam and Betty-Lynn White for the December 4th Summit Your Life radio program interview with Joe Nocera, co-author of the new book, All The Devils Are Here: The Hidden History Of The Financial Crisis. Listen to the podcast of the interview. Order the book.

Despite dozens of previous books on the financial crisis, the full story is like the legend of the blind men and the elephant: almost everyone has missed the big picture. Until now. In their new book, All The Devils Are Here: The Hidden History Of The Financial Crisis, Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera put all the pieces together to reveal not just what happened in the Fall of 2008 but how we got there after decades of little-noticed changes.

Two of America’s most acclaimed business journalists, Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera, finally give us the full elephant in All The Devils Are Here: The Hidden History Of The Financial Crisis. Joe Nocera is a business columnist for The New York Times and a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. Before joining The New York Times in 2005, Mr. Nocera spent 10-years at Fortune where he was a contributing writer, editor-at-large, executive editor and most recently editorial director. He has won three Gerald Loeb awards and three John Hancock awards for excellence in business journalism. He was a finalist for a 2007 Pulitzer Prize.


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New York Times Business Columnist and Author Joe Nocera to be Dec. 4th Guest on Summit Your Life Radio Program

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Garrison

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Stella Black: Classical Crossover Artist, Composer, Conductor Takes “Pop-Opera” to New Places Nov. 27th

Posted on November 23, 2010 by Garrison

Join hosts Garrison and Betty-Lynn for this Summit Your Life radio program interview with Stella Black, classical crossover artist, composer and conductor.

Stella Black, Conductor, Composer, and Performing Artist is a published voting member of the Recording Academy. As an award winning songwriter, she is currently writing for television and film score submissions.

From modest beginnings in the rural South where Country and Blue Grass were a given to Arias in Lieder and Chanson in Europe, Stella is at home with multiple genres given her status as a Metropolitan Opera and Southeastern Opera Vocal Winner. Through International Audition in 1997, Stella was invited to attend the prestigious, American Institute of Music Studies in Graz, Austria, where she was selected to be a featured Concert performer for the Austrian Summer Festivals. Stella has a Master’s Degree in Music in addition to post graduate studies in Vocal Pedagogy, Performance, and Composition. Her primary instrument is voice, second to piano and synthesizer.

Stella writes Classical, Adult Alternative, New Age, Healing, Country, Latino, Broadway, and Light Jazz. Her multi-faceted writing style reflects the many influences that have shaped her as an artist. It is no surprise that Stella Black’s NEW Compostiion consists of Opus 1 through Opus 22. This Orchestral work mergers the coloration and ambiance of many cultures reflected in it’s name, THE TRAVELER. THE TRAVELER C2003-2009, IS DUE FOR RELEASE SPRING OF 2011.

Stella is inspired by many cultures due to her background in Opera and Classical Music lending her current performance and writing towards International World Genres and New Age. Other Classical crossover performers such as Il Divo, Andrea Bocelli and Josh Groban have been well received by what has been dubbed the “Pop-Opera” or “P’Opera” movement. In addition to being an accomplished Vocalist, Stella found her international creative nitch as a Composer attending the 2006 Cannes, France Music and Film Festival. She has recorded throughout the U.S. and Europe and loves each new experience.

In addition, Stella is an award winning ASCAP Plus new songwriter, a 2006 Finalist in three categories of the ISC International Songwriting Competition and a finalist in the ISC People’s Choice Awards. She is also an active member of ASCAP, NSAI, WWSWA and AFTRA. To purchase or download Stella’s CD’s online, please visit www.cdbaby.com

The Official Stella Black Website.

“Thanks” to our producer and engineer today, Jill Camerota!


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The Feast: “Unlikely Town Spawns New Indie Talk Radio Program” by Peyton Dougherty

Posted on November 21, 2010 by Garrison

“Unlikely Town Spawns New Indie Talk Radio Program” by Peyton Dougherty in The Feast

Connecticut’s indie talk radio scene has a new duo, whose popular life improvement-themed show is broadcasting from the most unlikely of towns: Westport.

Fairfield County’s posh retreat for commuting investment bankers, child-rearing yupsters, and elderly curmudgeons is also the base of operations for Garrison Leykam and Betty-Lynn White, hosts of the ‘Summit Your Life’ radio program on 1400 WSTC/1350 WNLK in Fairfield County.

The program began as a way for Leykam to to cope with his own unemployment. Since it’s an unpaid brokered radio job, he’s had to host, write material, and locate guests and sponsors on his own. The program launched in February, and initially focused on unemployment in the area (yes, even Fairfield County is hurting), featuring local officials involved in job creation and placement. Since then, the show has expanded its focus and attracted higher-profile guests, including CNBC anchors Michelle Caruso-Cabrera and Maria Bartiromo and ‘Ice Road Truckers’ star Lisa Kelly. They’ve booked an eclectic and entertaining slate that also includes former White House doctor and author Dr. Connie Mariano, UFO enthusiast William J. Birnes, and Emmy-nominated filmmaker and noted rock climber, Chris Warner. They even scored an interview with Governor Dan Malloy.

The show is also available on a podcast, which is where it has received substantial attention, increasing its downloads by over 25 percent each month, from July through October. Leykam and White are savvy, do-it-yourself types, who are also marketing themselves on Facebook and Twitter. Indie radio doesn’t have a tremendous foothold in Connecticut, but it is certainly nice to see people focusing their energy on the cause, and bringing the area some much-needed cultural relief.

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