Sonny Melendrez

Jesse Cole: Find Your Yellow Tux – How To Be Successful By Standing Out

Jesse Cole is the owner of the Savannah Bananas. The Savannah, Georgia team currently have sold out every baseball game for three straight seasons and have a waiting list in the thousands for tickets. In this nugget-filled episode, Jesse chats with Sonny about how to take a business from nothing (he started with 2 season…

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Lisa Hurst: The Improv Sherpa

About Lisa Lisa Hurst uses Experiential Education along with Applied Improv to facilitate collaboration and innovation for corporate, medical, and student organizations. For more than a decade, she has been an active member of the improv communities in San Antonio and Austin. Her consulting company Improv To Grow, offers dynamic personal and professional development programs in all aspects of life. Lisa’s Official…

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Gavin Edwards: Kindness and Wonder – Why Mister Rogers Matters More Today Than Ever

Sonny spends time with NY Times best-selling author, Gavin Edwards. His new book, “Kindness and Wonder – Why Mister Rogers Matters More Today Than Ever” is a pop culture celebration of Fred Rogers and the enduring legacy of his beloved, award-winning PBS show, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood that offers essential wisdom to help us in our…

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Susan Bennett: The Voice of Siri

Susan Bennett never set out to land what has become “a gig of a lifetime.” In fact, she had no idea she was creating one of the most famous phone characters in the world of AI: The voice of Siri for the Apple iPhone. Sonny caught up with her at her home in Atlanta to…

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Stephanie Scheller: The Disruptive Growth Designer

Stephanie Scheller is a “disruptive growth designer.” After three years in corporate America, she ramped up her sales training and coaching business in only four and a half months to completely replace her corporate income and walked away to run Scheller Enterprises, a company focused on disrupting the way the world goes into and stays…

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Rita Moreno: An American Treasure

Rita Moreno is an American treasure. She is the first performer to have won a Oscar, Tony, Grammy and Emmy: an Oscar for West Side Story in 1961; a 1972 Grammy Award for her contribution to “The Electric Company”‘s soundtrack album; a Tony Award in 1975 for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for “The…

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Jerry Mathers: Leave It To Beaver

Leave It To Beaver began as a delightful television series in the 1950’s and 60’s and is now a worldwide phenomenon. The show’s star has become an American icon. I am extremely excited to have Jerry Mathers – The Beave himself – as my special guest on this show! Leave It To Beaver is the…

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Bradley Jay Stewart: Saved From The Fire

It was November 2010. While hosting a conference in Ft. Worth, I reconnected with my dear friend, Brad Stewart. After dinner, he invited me to a rehearsal for his church choir. When we arrived at the small church in Arlington, he asked me to come and sit in the choir. I said, “Brad, I don’t…

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Gary Mule Deer: A Life In Four Letter Words

Gary Mule Deer has been making audiences laugh hysterically for for 58 years and he’s just getting started! He has shared the stage with over 100 show biz icons, from Sinatra to Willie Nelson and Johnny Carson to Johnny Mathis, all of whom have considered Gary their peer. Sonny chats with and is entertained by…

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Whitney Allen: Making It to The Big Time

In February of 1977, my friend, singer/songwriter, Alan O’day called and asked if I wanted to premiere his new song, “Undercover Angel,” on my radio show on KMPC in Los Angeles. When I heard the song, I told Alan, that it was a “mega-hit” and said I had an idea of how we could have…

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