Mary McDonough is an actress best known for her role as Erin Walton on the hit TV series The Waltons. We discuss the outside influences that shaped her life and how she resiliently overcame setbacks from her memoir, Lessons From the Mountain.
Here is the lineup of guests on BRAINSTORMIN’ with Billy the Brain for Monday, April 18, 2011. Listen at www.BrainstorminOnline.com or on AM 1400 in Ventura at 10 o’clock am Pacific time.
Tim Walsh had his game idea turned down by every toy company in America. Did that deter him? No. He went on to produce and sell the game himself. We discuss the toy and game industry in the United States and have him give some of the history behind many of our favorite toys.
Nancy Altman is an authority on private pensions and Social Security. She was Alan Greenspan’s assistant in 1983 when he worked on the Social Security amendments. We discuss the Battle for Social Security and hear her “almost painless” plan for putting the program back on track.
William Sherden writes about one of my favorite topics, Unintended Consequences. He looks at the interconnections between things and ideas and shows the interconnections between them. We discuss his latest book Best Laid Plans.
Here is the lineup of guests on BRAINSTORMIN’ with Billy the Brain for Friday, April 15, 2011. Listen at www.BrainstorminOnline.com or on AM 1400 in Ventura at 10 o’clock am Pacific time.