Paul Sladkus
304 episodes listed below
Community-minded conversations with creative doers.
Good News To Go: Authors is a warm, loosely structured interview series built around creative work, community service, and peace-minded public events. Recent conversations move from jazz drumming and children’s books to Times Square outreach, art exhibitions, philanthropy, and anniversary galas.
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Good News To Go: Authors is an interview show about creative people, civic energy, and the small public acts that make a community feel more human. It is not limited to authors in the narrow sense. Recent episodes feature musicians, visual artists, children’s book advocates, performers, philanthropists, investors, and organizers connected by a shared language of peace, service, and encouragement. The conversations are loose. They often begin with a burst of greeting, a personal connection, or an event plug, then wander into life story, craft, and purpose. Dorota Piotrowska talks from Poland about leaving Harlem, raising a family, playing drums, keeping the body strong, and finding freedom in jazz. Sharmika Davis Boyd describes Quickie Kids, children’s books, Queens libraries, and the desire for every child to hold a book of their own. Tony Orlando brings show-business memory into a conversation about gratitude, integrity, storytelling, and the blessing of a long career. Andreas Deutschman connects business experience, sustainability, philanthropy, and a climate-themed story meant for young audiences. Dr. Dana York speaks about the Lions Club and a gala celebrating 250 years since 1776. Other excerpts move through feminist art, Times Square exhibitions, piano performance, custom dresses, tango, and the friendships behind stage presentation. The show’s style is affectionate and highly personal. It prefers praise, invitation, and momentum over adversarial questioning. Listeners hear names of events, libraries, concerts, public stages, and community spaces as part of the show’s texture. The result feels like local access media with global intentions: messy at times, sincere throughout, and committed to spotlighting people who want their work to help others.
Made for: For listeners drawn to upbeat interviews about arts, children’s books, philanthropy, peace outreach, and public service. It especially suits people who enjoy informal conversations with civic and spiritual warmth.
What sets it apart: The show blends author-style promotion with community-event organizing, so interviews often become bridges to libraries, galas, Times Square stages, and peace-focused gatherings. Its charm is the unpolished immediacy of people encouraging one another in real time.
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A grounded jazz conversation about home, stamina, and the body behind the beat.
Piotrowska frames home and music as parts of the same life, not a tug-of-war. The move back to Poland comes across as a deliberate family choice, shaped by her Polish husband, a shared hometown, and the pull of being nearer grandmothers and relatives.
A warm, loose conversation about children's books, literacy, and getting books into children's hands.
Sharmika Davis Boyd's segment keeps its focus on children's books, literacy, and the work of getting books into kids' hands. It moves through Queens, a family of 12, and the idea that a message can reach children through libraries as well as books sold online.
A hopeful, peace-centered conversation that links human wholeness to practical local action.
Dr. Robert Atkinson's appearance returns to a simple but sturdy idea: peace begins with seeing human wholeness, then carrying that understanding into everyday action close to home.
Philosophy for steadier ordinary life.
Live sermons for hard spiritual questions.
Moral clarity in spoken form.
Raw resistance from Key Largo.
Good News To Go: Authors features Daisy Jopling discussing the July 4th production Nimham-Washington at Constitution Island.
Cathleen Beerkens presents Your Creator Matrix as a 13-chapter guide to consciousness, personal stories, and integrative health.
Dorota Piotrowska discusses her decision to move from Harlem to Wrocław, Poland during COVID to start a family while balancing her musical career.
This episode features an interview with Sharmeika Davis-Boyd, an author, entrepreneur, and community leader, discussing her organization QIKYKIDZ and her background.
This episode features an interview with Tony Orlando, where he reflects on his career, memories from 1974 at CBS, and his perspective on life and legacy as he approaches his 82nd birthday.
This episode features an interview with Andreas Deutschmann, a global investor, former J.P.
An interview with a Lions Club president about an upcoming gala celebrating 250 years of American independence.
An interview with a multidisciplinary artist about her practice and upcoming show in Times Square.
Host interviews a woman about her stunning dress and her friendship with the designer Pilar, discussing their creative collaboration.
Coverage of an auction for the estate of Charles Strauss and Barbara Seaman, featuring memorabilia and manuscripts.
Host Paul Slatkes interviews award-winning travel writer and best-selling author Margie Goldsmith about her life, travels, and writing career.
Host Paul interviews Iranian author and poet Ather Sivathi about his background and current events in Iran.
An asset protection attorney discusses legal strategies to safeguard personal assets from lawsuits, taxes, and other financial threats.
Jeffrey Weiss discusses his award-winning memoir about starting an endurance fitness journey at age 48 that led to completing Ironman races and ultramarathons as a transformative midlife experience.
A podcast episode featuring an interview with a musician discussing their origins and musical journey.
Host Paul Slatkes interviews 13-year-old actor Hudson Hensley about his role in the film Song Sung Blue, playing Kate Hudson and Hugh Jackman's son.
An interview with Rabbi Esther Leon Schwartz about her Jewish upbringing, Shabbos traditions, and Holocaust experiences.
An interview with author Joel Steele about his book empowering people to live in 'on' mode, using sports icons as inspiration.
Robert Atkinson, Ph.D., ties his book The Way of Unity to the song “What the World Needs Now Is Love, Sweet Love,” and says he is starting a Substack series called “Love” for “Living a Unitive Vision.” He describes the book in three parts: wholeness and unity as the universe’s natural order, unitive principles such as unitive justice and unitive economics, and action to restore world peace.
This episode features an interview with author Alicia Woodford about her memoir 'Free to Be Me,' which explores themes of trauma, healing, and personal transformation.
Interview with Richard Anderson about his visionary new book on colonizing Mars, touching on AI ethics and space exploration.
The host plays a song and shares holiday greetings from a honeymoon, blending personal updates with music.
An author discusses his book about personal resilience, sharing his story of surviving a car accident and a health crisis.
An interview with Dr.
This episode features an interview with composer Randy Edelman discussing his creative process for film scoring and his upcoming holiday performance at Carnegie Hall.
This episode is a promotional advertisement for San Francisco Towers, a senior living community that emphasizes cultural, intellectual, and social engagement for independent living.
This episode discusses Bruce May's book 'Emergence', which explores the birth of artificial superintelligence through a character named TAO, blending themes of technology, espionage, and Taoist philosophy.
A political activist discusses election day activities, fusion voting in New York, and endorsements for local candidates.