Episodes

Anthony and Alex welcome special guest, WHITNEY SHAY! Listen in as they are joined by this #1 Billboard Blues Artist sings the praises of her collaborators and tells us about the roller coaster of releasing a hit album just before the world shut down. Whitney lets us in on why she performs and lets everyone in on her vocal injury, surgery and return to the stage. The rising star gets through the 10 Quick Questions unscathed and gives us some nuggets from her own emotional intelligence practices....

Anthony and Alex welcome special guest, WHITNEY SHAY! Listen in as they are joined by this #1 Billboard Blues Artist sings the praises of her collaborators and tells us about the roller coaster of releasing a hit album just before the world shut down. Whitney lets us in on why she performs and lets everyone in on her vocal injury, surgery and return to the stage. The rising star gets through the 10 Quick Questions unscathed and gives us some nuggets from her own emotional intelligence practices....

Anthony Bollotta and Alex Apostolidis are joined by Sara Brown (Sara Brown Events) on this week's Bollotta-Fide. Sara discusses her event work that focuses on corporate award recognition and marketing programs like the Cox Top Tech Awards and how their success and decision to plan the event again are often based on ROI and Statistics. Get to know Sara's fun side with the NEW segements: RAPID 10 INTERVIEW QUESTIONS and the FIDE-FIVE. Hear about how Sara started her business in a nontraditional wa...

Anthony Bollotta and Alex Apostolidis are joined by Sara Brown (Sara Brown Events) on this week's Bollotta-Fide. Sara discusses her event work that focuses on corporate award recognition and marketing programs like the Cox Top Tech Awards and how their success and decision to plan the event again are often based on ROI and Statistics. Get to know Sara's fun side with the NEW segements: RAPID 10 INTERVIEW QUESTIONS and the FIDE-FIVE. Hear about how Sara started her business in a nontraditional wa...

Anthony Bollotta and Alex Apostolidis are joined by Sara Brown (Sara Brown Events) on this week's Bollotta-Fide. Sara discusses her event work that focuses on corporate award recognition and marketing programs like the Cox Top Tech Awards and how their success and decision to plan the event again are often based on ROI and Statistics. Get to know Sara's fun side with the NEW segements: RAPID 10 INTERVIEW QUESTIONS and the FIDE-FIVE. Hear about how Sara started her business in a nontraditional wa...

This week Anthony and Alex have the pleasure of having Paris Sukomi Max on the pod. Listen in as this multi talented producer, entertainer, designer, philanthropist, keynote speaker and entrepreneur gives us an inside look into how she has so much more to offer the world than the typical "Drag Queen". From being family friendly on stage to speaking in public about transgender rights and her HeyAuntieParis mission. Hear how being a RPDR Queen isn't the goal, her time saving techniques and turning...

This week Anthony and Alex have the pleasure of having Paris Sukomi Max on the pod. Listen in as this multi talented producer, entertainer, designer, philanthropist, keynote speaker and entrepreneur gives us an inside look into how she has so much more to offer the world than the typical "Drag Queen". From being family friendly on stage to speaking in public about transgender rights and her HeyAuntieParis mission. Hear how being a RPDR Queen isn't the goal, her time saving techniques and turning...

This week Anthony and Alex have the pleasure of having Paris Sukomi Max on the pod. Listen in as this multi talented producer, entertainer, designer, philanthropist, keynote speaker and entrepreneur gives us an inside look into how she has so much more to offer the world than the typical "Drag Queen". From being family friendly on stage to speaking in public about transgender rights and her HeyAuntieParis mission. Hear how being a RPDR Queen isn't the goal, her time saving techniques and turning...

Anthony and Alex are back in San Diego this week, with some personal chat at the top of the episode. Then this week Anthony brings a recent article he read on the PCMA Magazine website: How to Deal With 7 Curveballs Thrown at Event Organizers to the table. (https://www.pcma.org/how-deal-7-curveballs-event-organizers-big-conferences/) Together they expand on the article (by Dave Lutz, CMP) 7 points like Short Staffing and Room Turnovers. On the second half of the pod, they talk about the American...

Anthony and Alex are back in San Diego this week, with some personal chat at the top of the episode. Then this week Anthony brings a recent article he read on the PCMA Magazine website: How to Deal With 7 Curveballs Thrown at Event Organizers to the table. (https://www.pcma.org/how-deal-7-curveballs-event-organizers-big-conferences/) Together they expand on the article (by Dave Lutz, CMP) 7 points like Short Staffing and Room Turnovers. On the second half of the pod, they talk about the American...

Anthony and Alex are back in San Diego this week, with some personal chat at the top of the episode. Then this week Anthony brings a recent article he read on the PCMA Magazine website: How to Deal With 7 Curveballs Thrown at Event Organizers to the table. (https://www.pcma.org/how-deal-7-curveballs-event-organizers-big-conferences/) Together they expand on the article (by Dave Lutz, CMP) 7 points like Short Staffing and Room Turnovers. On the second half of the pod, they talk about the American...

Anthony is back in Florida dealing with family and Alex is fresh back from a trip to Vegas and they discuss their 2022 air travel woes. Bollotta-FIDE approved Performer, Educator and Producer Janet Hammer (Sweethearts of Swing, Rhythm Express) joins the conversation this week. Janet fills us in on her daily gratitude affirmations, being present during a performance and stories from her career. They discuss being able to tell what’s in a performer’s being during a performance, the challenges of b...

Anthony is back in Florida dealing with family and Alex is fresh back from a trip to Vegas and they discuss their 2022 air travel woes. Bollotta-FIDE approved Performer, Educator and Producer Janet Hammer (Sweethearts of Swing, Rhythm Express) joins the conversation this week. Janet fills us in on her daily gratitude affirmations, being present during a performance and stories from her career. They discuss being able to tell what’s in a performer’s being during a performance, the challenges of b...

Anthony is back in Florida dealing with family and Alex is fresh back from a trip to Vegas and they discuss their 2022 air travel woes. Bollotta-FIDE approved Performer, Educator and Producer Janet Hammer (Sweethearts of Swing, Rhythm Express) joins the conversation this week. Janet fills us in on her daily gratitude affirmations, being present during a performance and stories from her career. They discuss being able to tell what’s in a performer’s being during a performance, the challenges of b...

Anthony Bollotta and Alex Apostolidis discuss a bevy of topics today. Alex is back from a fun trip to Vegas and discusses her Trailer Park Chili and Anthony's lack of cooking skills and a trip to the Shell to see the San Diego Symphony with Michael Feinstein's Judy Garland show. Anthony recounts a story of an interaction with Sid Luft. They get into their observations of San Diego Comic Con set up before the show opens.Then they get into trends with AR and Virtual, the inflation issues and getti...

Anthony Bollotta and Alex Apostolidis discuss a bevy of topics today. Alex is back from a fun trip to Vegas and discusses her Trailer Park Chili and Anthony's lack of cooking skills and a trip to the Shell to see the San Diego Symphony with Michael Feinstein's Judy Garland show. Anthony recounts a story of an interaction with Sid Luft. They get into their observations of San Diego Comic Con set up before the show opens.Then they get into trends with AR and Virtual, the inflation issues and getti...

Anthony Bollotta and Alex Apostolidis discuss a bevy of topics today. Alex is back from a fun trip to Vegas and discusses her Trailer Park Chili and Anthony's lack of cooking skills and a trip to the Shell to see the San Diego Symphony with Michael Feinstein's Judy Garland show. Anthony recounts a story of an interaction with Sid Luft. They get into their observations of San Diego Comic Con set up before the show opens.Then they get into trends with AR and Virtual, the inflation issues and getti...

A bit of a different show this week as Anthony calls in from his childhood bedroom as Alex helps hold down the fort at the office as the Bollotta Family deals with the recent loss of Anthony's father and the experience around it. They talk about their love of July in San Diego normally and Anthony's take on corporate sponsorships in the San Diego Pride Parade and how they could make the biggest impact. Alex has never been to San Diego Comic Con. An some free chat. Enjoy. Submit questions on the...

A bit of a different show this week as Anthony calls in from his childhood bedroom as Alex helps hold down the fort at the office as the Bollotta Family deals with the recent loss of Anthony's father and the experience around it. They talk about their love of July in San Diego normally and Anthony's take on corporate sponsorships in the San Diego Pride Parade and how they could make the biggest impact. Alex has never been to San Diego Comic Con. An some free chat. Enjoy. Submit questions on the...

A bit of a different show this week as Anthony calls in from his childhood bedroom as Alex helps hold down the fort at the office as the Bollotta Family deals with the recent loss of Anthony's father and the experience around it. They talk about their love of July in San Diego normally and Anthony's take on corporate sponsorships in the San Diego Pride Parade and how they could make the biggest impact. Alex has never been to San Diego Comic Con. An some free chat. Enjoy. Submit questions on the...

This week Anthony calls Alex from Louisville, Kentucky as he’s on the road with a client. Loose chat on this episode as the two talk about the serious topic of recently breaking up with a client. Making the difficult decision to let go of a long term client when the staff began to feel disrespected and bullied. They talk about how wanting the same treatment Bollotta gives artists for themselves. They gush over Ross Mathews and the recent experience working with him on a project, personal express...

This week Anthony calls Alex from Louisville, Kentucky as he’s on the road with a client. Loose chat on this episode as the two talk about the serious topic of recently breaking up with a client. Making the difficult decision to let go of a long term client when the staff began to feel disrespected and bullied. They talk about how wanting the same treatment Bollotta gives artists for themselves. They gush over Ross Mathews and the recent experience working with him on a project, personal express...

This week Anthony calls Alex from Louisville, Kentucky as he’s on the road with a client. Loose chat on this episode as the two talk about the serious topic of recently breaking up with a client. Making the difficult decision to let go of a long term client when the staff began to feel disrespected and bullied. They talk about how wanting the same treatment Bollotta gives artists for themselves. They gush over Ross Mathews and the recent experience working with him on a project, personal express...

Anthony and Alex are back with an update on Bollotta Events happening this past week with Drag Shows in San Francisco and Chicago, working with TV's Ross Mathews in Santa Monica and The House of Mercy Game Show Gala in Des Moines. Then they are joined by Heather Mason (CEO/Founder).of the Caspian Agency. Heather lets us know how they attack an event and project more as a strategist over being a "planner". Hear about she finds her inroads with clients based on factual data or connecting with clie...