The Relatable Voice Podcast

Vivianne is a writer, thinker, and lifelong student, based in La Jolla, California. In her writing, she draws on personal experience and the wisdom of her mentors—poets, philosophers, and great thinkers. Through hardship, demoralization, yearning, searching, loving, inspiration, and growth, Vivianne has discovered the ultimate secret to a life well-lived: a grateful heart. She published her life storyline in a book called,” From Rubble To Champagne” Rising from the ashes of war-torn Berlin to a life of grace, beauty, and gratitude. Vivianne is presently writing her second book, “Lessons Learned About Life and Love.” Living with Intention and with Wisdom from Great Minds. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lucia-matuonto/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lucia-matuonto/support

The RV is in New Zealand to talk to Pat Backley. Pat is the author of the 2020 novel Daisy, the memoir From There to Here, With an Awful Lot in Between and is the co-author of the Barnes and Nobel bestseller The Warrior Women Project, A Sisterhood of Immigrant Women. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lucia-matuonto/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lucia-matuonto/support

The author Elliot Mason talks about his book “The Arlington Orders”. The book is a fictional political suspense thriller based on the true story of the lost treasury of the Confederacy. It follows the path of two historians who accidentally stumble upon clues they believe could lead them to the discovery of the South’s gold and silver reserves that mysteriously disappeared near the end of the Civil War. However, their naïveté makes them unaware that others are searching for it too. What begins as an innocent treasure hunt soon deteriorates into a deadly chase in which the result could change the very future of the nation. His highly anticipated second novel, The Legal Killer, serves as a sequel and covers the controversial issues surrounding the corruption in Department of Justice. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lucia-matuonto/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lucia-matuonto/support

Joseph J. Jordan began his early life in the isolated area of North Devon 'Woody Bay' where he lived with his family. Spending most winters touring the world with his mothers singing career until he was 17 years old but it wasn't until he was 33 that he started his writing career self-publishing his first novella The British Empire of Magic. Subsequently the release of his second novella The Dark Knights' King ( the second book of The British Empire of Magic trilogy) scored the Number 1 spot on the Amazon Hot New Releases chart in both the UK and USA and reaching Number 2 on the best sellers genre specific chart. This resulted in his first novella entering the top 2 best sellers rank. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lucia-matuonto/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lucia-matuonto/support

Brian Rouff was born in Detroit, raised in Southern California and has lived in Las Vegas since 1981, which makes him a long-timer by local standards. The house in “The House Always Wins” is based on an old fixer upper author Brian Rouff and his family lived in from 2002-05 on St. Louis Ave. in Las Vegas. Purchased cheap because it needed a tremendous amount of work, it was an entertainer’s house — previously owned by Jack Eglash, a noted producer of musical shows on The Strip — who had worked with everyone from Sinatra and Elvis to Carson and Rickles. “It was a cool, old, one-of-a-kind house,” Rouff said, “with state-of-the-art appliances from 1960. That house, I always felt, was haunted.” --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lucia-matuonto/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lucia-matuonto/support

James Hill is a science fiction, fantasy and crime author of the Killer series as well as the founder of the publishing company Rockhill Publishing. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lucia-matuonto/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lucia-matuonto/support

For far too long dyslexia has been seen as a curse. It’s time to celebrate the gift that dyslexia can be. According to research, just three per cent of Britons consider dyslexia to be a positive trait. Being a parent of a dyslexic child, and having dyslexia himself, Karl de Leeuw can say with confidence that 99 per cent of dyslexia intervention is based on the notion that dyslexics must ‘correct’ their brains by developing their left hemisphere—commonly associated with logic, mathematics and writing—instead on harnessing the phenomenal power of the right hemisphere—which deals with creativity, intuition and perception. That is the ‘common wisdom’, but Karl asks if it is perhaps time that we flipped this idea on its head and, instead, that we view dyslexia not as a curse to ‘cure, but a ‘gift’ to nurture. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lucia-matuonto/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lucia-matuonto/support

Joseph Holmes aka jmmlove (the “j” stands for Joseph, the “mm” for Mary Magdalene, and “love” for Mary Magdalene’s message of unconditional love) was born on December 13, the feast day of Santa Lucia. He is a survivor of childhood sexual, physical, and emotional abuse as well as a ptsd-disabled combat veteran. He is an Amazon best-selling author with over 45 titles published to date, all helping people discover their Purpose and create lives full of meaning, significance, joy, love, and success. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lucia-matuonto/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lucia-matuonto/support

Tetyana Denford grew up in a small town in New York, and is a Ukrainian-American author, translator, and freelance writer. She grew up with her Ukrainian heritage at the forefront of her childhood, and it led to her being fascinated with how storytellers in various cultures passed down their lives to future generations; life stories are where we learn about ourselves, each other, and are the things that matter most, in a world where things move so quickly. Her debut novel, Motherland was published in March 2020 to critical success and longlisted for The Readers Digest Self Published Book Awards. It was based on an incredible family secret that was revealed by her maternal grandmother, Julia, only recently, and has been described by people as 'haunting', 'powerful and devastating', and 'a fragile and hopeful story of an immigrant family'. She has also worked for Frontline News, has written and edited articles for magazines in NY and the UK, and speaks several languages. She also hosts a YouTube show called 'The Craft and Business of Books' that helps writers understand both the creative side and the business side of the book world. Her current series of 'conversation books', collections of poetry and prose about Grief, Motherhood, and Love, are out in 2021. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lucia-matuonto/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lucia-matuonto/support

Sharon Bazant is a retired teacher living in the Fraser Valley near Vancouver, Canada. She has published two memoirs, Nine Years in Bangkok: Lessons Learned in 2019 and Geckos & Guns: The Pakistan Years in 2021. Nine Years in Bangkok tells the story of her soul's journey in finding enlightenment and transformation in Thailand. Geckos & Guns is a prequel to her first book, chronicling the Bazant family's gripping, and at times, heart-stopping exploits in Islamabad and beyond in the early 1990s. Sharon has donned a variety of professional and personal hats as a seasoned world traveler and long-term expatriate. Some of her greatest adventures occurred during her years on Pakistan and Thailand. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lucia-matuonto/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lucia-matuonto/support