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American Real TV is a self improvement talkshow with a mission to raise global consciousness in hopes to inspire, empower and enlighten our listeners through the stories of our guests. The show is hosted by Roger L. Brooks and broadcast through various online channels including YouTube, Facebook, iTunes and our website. A new episode is released each Sunday! Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/american-real/support
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Sunday Aug 19, 2018
EPISODE #50 | FR. MIKE BASSANO | I AM; THE MISSIONER (PART II)
Sunday Aug 19, 2018
Sunday Aug 19, 2018
AR EXCLUSIVE EPISODE | FR. MIKE BASSANO | I AM; THE MISSIONARY (Part II)
This week on American Real, we bring you Part II of this series and welcome Fr. Mike Bassano, a Catholic priest who was ordained for the Diocese of Syracuse before eventually becoming a Maryknoll missioner.
In this episode, Fr. Mike Bassano discusses his current work as a missionary in South Sudan.
How to help the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers’ Mission:
Monetary donations can be sent to the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, P.O. Box 302, Maryknoll, N.Y. 10545-0302.
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Music by Richard Schulman. "The Chapel" from the album "Light of Assisi."
Photographs by Paul Jeffrey.
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Sunday Aug 12, 2018
EPISODE #49 | FR. MIKE BASSANO | I AM; THE MISSIONER (PART I)
Sunday Aug 12, 2018
Sunday Aug 12, 2018
AR EXCLUSIVE EPISODE | FR. MIKE BASSANO | I AM; THE MISSIONER (PART I)
This week on American Real, we welcome Fr. Mike Bassano, a Catholic priest who was ordained for the Diocese of Syracuse before eventually becoming a Maryknoll missioner with the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers.
Learn about Fr. Mike's early life, as well as his Maryknoll Mission life and experiences in Chile, Thailand, Tanzania, and his current work and ministry in northeastern South Sudan. #EveryoneHasAStory
Stay tuned next Sunday for: FR. MIKE BASSANO | I AM; THE MISSIONER (Part II).
How to help the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers’ Mission:
Monetary donations can be sent to the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, P.O. Box 302, Maryknoll, N.Y. 10545-0302.
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Sunday Aug 05, 2018
EPISODE #48 | ROGER BROOKS | HOW AMERICAN REAL WAS BORN
Sunday Aug 05, 2018
Sunday Aug 05, 2018
AR EXCLUSIVE EPISODE | ROGER BROOKS | HOW AMERICAN REAL WAS BORN
As we close in on our 1-Year Anniversary, American Real's founder and host, Roger Brooks puts himself in the HOT SEAT when interviewed by the show's Producer and Director of Operations, Michael Leonard.
This is the last interview released in the original AR studios, which will end Season 1 (where nearly 40 episodes were recorded).
In this episode, Brooks talks about his background, the new era of producing content, how American Real was born and the direction it's going in the future.
#EveryoneHasAStory #podcast #americanreallivetribe21
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If you're feeling adventurous and are interested in your own hero’s journey, I’d like to personally invite you to join our LIVE TRIBE Group and experience the power of LIVE VIDEO. Posting LIVE 60-second videos will help build skills of confidence, commitment, leadership and accountability – all while growing your network with likeminded people from round the world. You’ll quickly see how turning up each day gives you more clarity, purpose and transparency in realizing the power of your own story. Build the Best You and join our group of high achievers while practicing to be more present and focused. Click on the link below and start your 21-day Challenge and Experience today.
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Sunday Jul 29, 2018
EPISODE #47 | JAROD MILLER | JUNGLE JAROD: ANIMAL EXPLORER
Sunday Jul 29, 2018
Sunday Jul 29, 2018
AR EXCLUSIVE EPISODE | JAROD MILLER | JUNGLE JAROD: ANIMAL EXPLORER
On this week’s episode of American Real, we bring you Jarod Miller, a zoologist and the television host of Animal Exploration with Jarod Miller, a syndicated TV show that has aired since 2010.
In the documented series, Jarod is a personal tour guide to the world of animals as he visits various zoos around the country providing a close-up view of featured animals. Jarod is a talk-show favorite, and is a regular on Rachel Ray, but has also appeared with Jay Leno, Jimmy Fallon, Conan O’Brien, Jenna Bush and Dean Kane to name a few. He has been mentored by Jack Hanna and has been fascinated with animals for as long as he can remember.
So, sit back and relax, as Jungle Jarod: Animal Explorer takes us along for a walk on his remarkable adventure.
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Join me today and PODCAST YOUR PASSION! https://www.americanreal.tv/pyp
If you're feeling adventurous and are interested in your own hero’s journey, I’d like to personally invite you to join our LIVE TRIBE Group and experience the power of LIVE VIDEO. Posting LIVE 60-second videos will help build skills of confidence, commitment, leadership and accountability – all while growing your network with likeminded people from round the world. You’ll quickly see how turning up each day gives you more clarity, purpose and transparency in realizing the power of your own story. Build the Best You and join our group of high achievers while practicing to be more present and focused. Click on the link below and start your 21-day Challenge and Experience today.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/185274145533399/?source_id=682189021992136
AMERICAN REAL
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Sunday Jul 22, 2018
EPISODE #46 | HOWARD GINSBURG | ESCAPE FROM THE HOLOCAUST
Sunday Jul 22, 2018
Sunday Jul 22, 2018
AR EXCLUSIVE EPISODE | HOWARD GINSBURG | ESCAPE FROM THE HOLOCAUST
On this week’s episode of American Real, we bring you Howard Ginsburg, who discusses his recent family tour to many ancestral sites in Belarus — a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. Belarus was the hardest-hit Soviet Republic in WWII and remained in Nazi hands until 1944, where 90% of the cities and more than 1 Million buildings were destroyed during that time. The Nazi Generalplan called for genocide ethnic cleansing or enslavement of most or all of the Belarusians, for the sole purpose of more living space for Germans.
The history teacher comes out in Howard Ginsburg, as he shares his parents’ escape from the Holocaust, before their fateful meeting and ultimate flee to the US.
???? ???? ????Have you ever thought about starting your own PODCAST? If so, join me and Podcast Your Passion! I’ll take you through my 8-week course, where I’ll mentor you to build a world-class podcast. I’m only taking on a small group of people who want to share their passion through broadcasting where I’ll have you up on iTunes and YouTube within weeks, so you can Podcast YOUR Passion.
Join me today and PODCAST YOUR PASSION! https://www.americanreal.tv/pyp
if you are interested in finding your voice to live out your purpose… I’d like to personally invite you to join our LIVE TRIBE Group and experience the power of LIVE VIDEO. Posting LIVE 60-second videos will help you build skills of confidence, commitment, leadership and accountability – all while growing your network with likeminded people from round the world. You’ll quickly see how turning up each day gives you more clarity, purpose and transparency in Building A Better You. Join our group of high achievers while practicing to be more present and focused, as you learn to value the power of your own story. Click on the link below and start your 21-day Experience today.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/185274145533399/?source_id=682189021992136
AMERICAN REAL
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Sunday Jul 15, 2018
EPISODE #45 | ALAN THONG | THE ASIAN ICEMAN
Sunday Jul 15, 2018
Sunday Jul 15, 2018
This week American Real brings you our very first remote episode with our special guest, The Asian Iceman - Alan Thong. Alan is a movement master, International storyteller, trainer, motivation speaker and an ambassador of WHM (Wim Hof Method - The Iceman (Wim Hof)). He lives to debunk the myths created by mankind and wants to move mankind forward with beliefs that serve us better.
This is an episode you will not want to miss!
Now, if you are interested in finding your voice to live out your purpose… I’d like to personally invite you to join our LIVE TRIBE Group and experience the power of LIVE VIDEO. Posting LIVE 60-second videos will help you build skills of confidence, commitment, leadership and accountability – all while growing your network with likeminded people from round the world. You’ll quickly see how turning up each day gives you more clarity, purpose and transparency in Building A Better You. Join our group of high achievers while practicing to be more present and focused, as you learn to value the power of your own story. Click on the link below and start your 21-day Experience today. https://www.facebook.com/groups/18527...
AMERICAN REAL YouTube: http://bit.ly/2zVQDLO Website: https://americanreal.tv/episodes/ Facebook: https://facebook.com/americanrealtv/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/rogerlbrooks/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/rogerbrooksAR EXCLUSIVE EPISODE | ALAN THONG | THE ASIAN ICEMAN
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Sunday Jul 08, 2018
EPISODE #44 | JARED CAMPBELL | GLIMPSE OF BLUE
Sunday Jul 08, 2018
Sunday Jul 08, 2018
AR EXCLUSIVE EPISODE | JARED CAMPBELL | GLIMPSE OF BLUE
On this week’s episode of American Real, we bring you award-winning singer/songwriter, Jared Campbell.
Jared talks about his unique presentation-style, as he uses music as a motivational tool while performing for our future generations at school-wide assemblies. He mixes humor and story with uplifting, thought provoking and emotionally heartfelt music.
Jared’s message focuses on overcoming obstacles, anti-bullying, respect and leadership. He takes us along for a ride on his journey of wanting to become a rock-star to ultimately finding his passion through the power of music. His inspiring story gets to the core of how one can reinvent themselves in order to live out your life purpose.
At the end of the episode, stay tuned as Jared performs "Written On Your Face," live in studio - a song he wrote for a book project I launched called "FACES," which was dedicated at the time to our daughter, Alexis, who underwent seven surgeries before for the age of three to remove a benign tumor from her face.
Now, if you are interested in finding your voice to live out your purpose… I’d like to personally invite you to join our LIVE TRIBE Group and experience the power of LIVE VIDEO. Posting LIVE 60-second videos will help you build skills of confidence, commitment, leadership and accountability – all while growing your network with likeminded people from round the world. You’ll quickly see how turning up each day gives you more clarity, purpose and transparency in Building A Better You. Join our group of high achievers while practicing to be more present and focused, as you learn to value the power of your own story. Click on the link below and start your 21-day Experience today.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/185274145533399/
AMERICAN REAL
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Sunday Jul 01, 2018
EPISODE #43 | MELISSA KILLELEAGH | MY GREATEST GIFT
Sunday Jul 01, 2018
Sunday Jul 01, 2018
AR EXCLUSIVE EPISODE | MELISSA KILLELEAGH | MY GREATEST GIFT
This week on American Real, we bring you Melissa Killeleagh, who came to us through the American Real LIVE TRIBE group and is one of its founding members.
Melissa has her own podcast, the Melissa Killeleagh Show and is a dedicated Mompreneur, who actively balances the role of mom and entrepreneur, conducting nearly 100% of her business from her smartphone.
Melissa discusses the importance of education in her life, and how reading from a young age provided her with a foundation to excel in academics as well as in the business world. She gives us tips about turning adversity in opportunity, and that we have the ability to change our lives in an instant, at any moment.
We talk about energy, her definition of success and how her son Jack is her greatest gift in life. Melissa provides insight about the LIVE TRIBE, the American Real Academy and how owning our stories is perhaps the bravest thing we’ll ever do.
Now, if you are interested in finding your voice and sharing your story… I’d like to personally invite you to join our LIVE TRIBE Group to experience the power of LIVE VIDEO. Posting LIVE 60-second videos will help you build skills of confidence, commitment, leadership and accountability – all while growing your network with likeminded people from round the world. You’ll quickly see how turning up each day gives you more clarity, purpose and transparency in Building A Better You. Join our group of high achievers to practice being more present and focused in valuing the power of your own story. Click on the link below and start your 21-day Experience today.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/185274145533399/
AMERICAN REAL
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Website: https://americanreal.tv/episodes/
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Sunday Jun 24, 2018
EPISODE #42 | BEN TANZER | DEFINING NARRATIVE
Sunday Jun 24, 2018
Sunday Jun 24, 2018
AR EXCLUSIVE EPISODE | BEN TANZER | DEFINING NARRATIVE
On this week’s show, we bring you award winning author, and my old high-school friend, Ben Tanzer.
Ben brings us to an intimate place of the personal narrative… beginning with the importance of finding and eventually owning your own story in order to gain confidence, which leads to opportunity.
Ben discusses the competitive world of writing, and how he took his stack of rejection letters from publishers and turned them into motivation — eventually getting published seven times over.
Ben and I converse about his LIVE TRIBE experience at American Real and what he took away from it over the 21-day period.
Ben Tanzer is a guy that lights up the room with his presence and I hope you come away a better person, as I did, from this thought-provoking conversation.
If you had only 60-seconds per day to tell your story... what would you say?
Join our group, make it LIVE and multiply that by 21 and you have #AmericanRealLIVETribe21 and the 21-Day Challenge. https://www.facebook.com/groups/185274145533399/
-A movement of reflection, accountability, commitment & self development.
-The group was designed to help BUILD A BETTER YOU — all while connecting with people from around the world!
Try our 21-Day Experience. A safe place to share, a great place to network and THE place to find your voice and your passion so you can truly value and take ownership of your life story!
Join us today. Space is limited.
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AMERICAN REAL
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Sunday Jun 17, 2018
EPISODE #41 | ROGER D. BROOKS | MY DAD, MY HERO
Sunday Jun 17, 2018
Sunday Jun 17, 2018
AR EXCLUSIVE EPISODE | ROGER D. BROOKS | MY DAD, MY HERO
Happy Father's Day to all the wonderful dad's in the world!
On this week’s episode of American Real, we bring you a special Father’s Day edition with my Dad, My Hero, Roger D. Brooks. As the patriarch of our family, my father has lived out a lifelong legacy of kindness and goodness touching countless lives over his 80-years.
Not only is he a family man, but my dad has genuine care for people with an extended network of family and friends that reaches near and far.
I have had the honor and privilege of watching and learning from him my entire life, as he lives his own by being REAL… a role model of honesty, integrity and wholeness. But, my father’s story doesn’t end there. In fact, it’s only the beginning.
My father is an identical twin, but the twins were separated at birth… adopted and raised more than one thousand miles apart.
My father grew up in Miami.
His twin brother Tony was raised in Upstate New York.
As fate would have it, at the age of 25, they would be reunited in a moment of mistaken identity.
My dad provides specific details of their story in this episode… some he’s never revealed before about the experience and how it changed the course of his life.
After their reunion, the twins were asked to go on countless talk shows and news programs, sharing their story with the world. Eventually, they were asked to be the subject of a book, The Twins Who Found Each Other, documenting the details of their life journey.
In addition, they became the subjects of many scientific experiments regarding nature vs. nurture, revealing the incredible power of our genetic makeup, no matter our environment.
My father always says, “There’s no stronger bond than having a twin… there’s is no stronger relationship then having an identical twin.
He often asked his twin brother and his brother often asked him… what would it have been like if they were raised together. They both agreed and saying, it’s something we’ll never know… that’s it, it’s something we’ll never know.”
On August 16, 2016… my father lost his brother… his other half. On that day, he also lost a big piece of his heart…
I’ve been holding back this episode for months… wanting to release it on Father’s Day, because to me, the greatest gift I can give anyone, is the gift of a person’s voice in sharing their story.
#EveryoneHasAStory
If you had only 60-seconds per day to tell your story... what would you say?
Join our group, make it LIVE and multiply that by 21 and you have #AmericanRealLIVETribe21 and the 21-Day Challenge. https://www.facebook.com/groups/18527...
-A movement of reflection, accountability, commitment & self development.
#ChangeTheWorldIn60Seconds!
-Designed to build confidence, commitment, consistency and accountability—all while connecting with people from around the world!
Take our 21-Day Challenge. A safe place to share, a great place to network and THE place to find your voice and your passion so you can truly value and take ownership of your life story!
Join us today. Space is limited.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/18527...
AMERICAN REAL
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Website: https://americanreal.tv/episodes/
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