Welcome to Read My Lips Radio, a lively hour of unscripted conversations with savvy creatives.

Producer and host, aka Radio Red, asks novelists, artists, photographers, designers, comedians,

actors, musicians, composers, screenwriters, directors, and

technology innovators about their creative passion, inspirational muses, and how they create.

Ooh, how those lips can talk. Now, here's AKA Radio Red.

Radio Red in the house. Happy to be here.

Where else would Radio Red be on a Monday at 5 p.m. Eastern or wherever you are in the world?

This is Read My Lips where I talk to very creative people.

And interestingly enough on my shows over the years, people I invite sometimes don't know that they're creative.

And when they find out, when I ask them to delve deep into what they do,

their life, their career, their business, their home, how they do everything, how they relax,

how they do anything, they say, you know, I didn't know I was a creative. But today is different

because I have invited four esteemed, very special people. They are all friends of mine through an online poetry group.

And I'm very proud to know them.

Two have been on the show before, and two are brand new, and you're going to meet them in a minute.

But before we do anything formal there, my guest, just wave hello to LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube,

and wave hello virtually to the Voice American Empowerment

channel.

We're empowering and we're going to share some poetry and art and pictures with you.

Now, before we do anything else, I want you all guests to please make the sign of the

letter L with your fingers, the sign of the letter L.

And on the count of three, you're going to join me in saying hello, L, L, L, just like that, at that speed. One, two, three, you're going to join me in saying hello, LLL, just like that, at that speed. One, two,

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