The IT Factor with Alycia Kaback

Kristy Swanson is probably best known for her starring role in the Twentieth Century Fox feature film, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The film remains a cult classic to this day and was spun off into the popular WB television series Buffy. Swanson began her professional career at the age of nine working in television commercials. By the time she was 13, she had more than 30 commercials to her credit, and had landed her first television series, "Dreamfinders," for the Disney Channel. Swanson went on to star in a long list of films that include: Flowers in the Attic with Academy Award-winning actress Louis Fletcher, Hot Shots with Charlie Sheen, The Program with James Caan, The Phantom opposite Billy Zane and Eight Heads in a Duffle Bag, starring Joe Pesci and David Spade. Tackling her most controversial role, Swanson portrayed a college student discovering her sexuality in John Singleton's film, Higher Learning. Swanson has a long list of guest-starring television appearances to her credit. Most recently she has appeared in episodes of Just Shoot Me!, CSI: Miami and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Swanson appeared in Dude, Where's My Car where she portrayed Christie Boner and Swanson co-starred with Adam Sandler in the summer blockbuster comedy, "Big Daddy."

Nemar Wells steps in for the VOC as Alycia and Nicole welcome the star studded duo of Lou Ferrigno and Roberta Flack to the show!

Listen and hear what the Incredible Hulk has to say about his upcoming trip to Philadelphia for Wizard World, and hear Roberta's memories of the late Michael Jackson!

Best known for his multi-decade contributions to film as a character actor, Metcalf scored broadest recognition, however (and the role with which he permanently became associated), as equestrian Douglas C. Neidermeyer, the sadistic, obnoxious ROTC officer and Omega fraternity president at Faber College, in director John Landis' anarchic blockbuster comedy National Lampoon's Animal House (1978). Metcalf purportedly went in auditioning for lady-killer Otter -- the part eventually given to Tim Matheson -- but picked up the Neidermeyer role when he deceptively convinced Landis that he could ride a horse. He played a very similar character in the Twisted Sister music videos "We're Not Gonna Take It" (as the father) and "I Wanna Rock" (as a high school teacher). Subsequent projects (which placed a particularly strong emphasis on comedic turns) included Where the Buffalo Roam (1980), Mr. North (1988), Hijacking Hollywood (1997), and Warden of Red Rock (2001). The outings Oscar and The Stupids re-teamed him with director Landis. In the late '90s, Metcalf enjoyed a recurring role as The Master on the syndicated supernatural drama series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and became acquainted with producer David E. Kelley, on whose Ally McBeal he occasionally guest starred. Coincidentally, he also played a character called "the Maestro" (real name: Bob Cobb) on two episodes of Seinfeld.

Paul started an agency in his studio apartment with a $10,000 investment from his grandfather, and built one of the most powerful modeling agencies in the world with a client list that was a who’s who in the fashion industry.  Alycia Kaback can’t wait to find out more about Paul’s amazing story on April 18th at 7 PM EST. 

Paul has represented such clients as: Naomi Campbell, Kimora Lee Simmons, Janice Dickenson, Brooke Burke, Carole Alt, Nicky Hilton, Carre Otis, Eva Herizigova, Stephanie Seymour and more.  Paul has trained many of today’s top agents and has opened a school for individuals wanting to become agents.  The school also trains many agencies across the country in the art of creating stars.  Paul’s story was purchased by Warner Brothers, titled “Creation of Monsters”.  Everyone at The IT Factor with Alycia Kaback knows there is a lot to learn from Paul and we really look forward to hearing from him.

Find out more about The Network Talent!

www.TheNetworkTalent.com – “The Network Community is a site with many interactive features. It’s an online magazine featuring some of The Network’s hottest talent. It’s also a place where the public can become a member and be viewed by our various Network Agencies. But most importantly, The Network Community is a platform for industry hopefuls to interact and connect through our site as well as build a social media following. As a member you can take advantage of The Network Community’s live chats several times a month where you can get first hand tips from Paul Fisher, Olga Tavarez and Joseph Villanueva. Lastly, don’t forget to check out The Network Talent’s blogs about fashion, model’s charity involvement, and their personal behind the scenes videos on actual photo shoots!”

J.E. Anzalone is best known as one of the Village People he replaced Glenn Hughes in 1995 as the "Biker/Leatherman" in the disco super group. With the Village People, he as appeared on countless TV shows and a films, including Oprah, Dick Clark's 50th Anniversary of American Bandstand, and three appearances on The Tonight Show, and in the film Down Periscope with Kelsey Grammer and Rob Schneider. Other notable highlights include: opening for Cher on her Living Proof Farewell Tour from 2004-2005, performing at the MLB All-Star Game at the "original" Yankee Stadium in 2008, and appearing in an American Express commercial with Ellen DeGeneres and Beyonce, as well as receiving a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2008. Outside of the VP, J.E. has appeared on stages around the world in various capacities-including playing the role of Berger in the European Tour of HAIR, and as the guitarist in the NYC based punk band SiR. From 1991-93 he starred as Donatello in the world tour of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Coming Out of Our Shells, and later as Raphael in the specials A Turtles' Christmas and Turtle Tunes, and in various TV programs, including Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous. J.E. is currently the host of the Bodhi Blog, a monthly podcast, and The Vibe, a monthly interview program of featured artists, for internet radio station Chakra Radio. J.E. is also a writer; his first novel, the semi-autobiographical Collisions Course, is now available at BarnesandNoble.com and Amazon.com, both in print and for Nook or Kindle download.

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Alycia Kaback and Nicole Carrasquillo talk about the industry with Casting Director Robert Mazza. 

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Over the last 15 years, Troy McClain, CEO of The McClain Companies, has demonstrated a proven successful track record in creating, running, and selling multiple businesses. With an added focus in unique marketing and communications strategies, he won praise from national media outlets, and a seat at the table of the world’s most respected business leaders including Donald Trump, Warren Buffet, and his mom.

Community leaders first took notice of Troy’s entrepreneurial spirit in the early 1990’s when he raised more than $250,000 from private investors to launch, market, and run one of the most successful start-up athletic facilities in Spokane, WA.

Using integrated brand messaging to promote his club, Troy wrote, designed, and implemented a healthy living diet and training program within the gym. He then co-branded it on local restaurant menus throughout the area to support the membership base. That base grew from 0 to 1,400 members in just 2 months.

Troy has come be known as a “go-to-person” for creative financing, business structure, implementation, and creating positive corporate culture. For more than 15 years, Troy has been focused on developing marketing and communications strategies that drive sales and product distribution.

After structuring and financing more than $500 million in residential and business loans, Troy sold another of his companies to a multi-national financial services agency, Pinnacle Financial.

He has led leadership seminars for groups including Lockheed Martin, Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, Monster.com, and Berkshire Hathaway.

Troy has been recorded as one of Idaho’s history makers and received awards including the BBB’s “Integrity Counts”, Idaho Business Review’s “Accomplished Under 40,” and a Gold Medal from the 2009 Special Olympics World Games Committee, for his team’s contributions to the games. The Honorable Dirk Kempthorne, former United States Secretary of the Interior and Idaho Governor, presented Troy with the “Seal of Idaho” for his work as an ambassador of the state.

In 2004, Roberts combined his extensive entrepreneurial experience with his passion for adventure to hit the ground running into the entertainment world. After creating a production company to focus on reality TV and travel shows he quickly found success with his first show, Camp Reality, by selling it to Fox. Seeing the potential in a bigger partnership, he and Alex Boylan joined forces to create Around The World Productions in 2006. Find out more about Around The World Productions. Roberts is also CEO and host of the Yacht Channel.

Roberts earned degrees in business and philosophy from Southern Methodist University (also played football and lacrosse), before working as a consultant for Price Waterhouse LLC and then made a move to the internet industry where he was the seventh employee and became the VP of Marketing and PR for Savvis Communications – a national Internet Service Provider (NASDAQ: SVVS). Burton attended the Kellogg Graduate School of Business and graduated in 2000 with his MBA when he moved west to San Francisco to work for Marc Andreessen’s company, Loudcloud, in the heart of Silicon Valley where he was able to ride the tech boom all the way up…and all the way down.

Burton was also a contestant on CBS’s Survivor: Pearl Islands, raced in the Eco-Challenge: Fiji, a competitor on the competition based Bravo show, Battle of the Network Reality Stars, featured as an inspirational “story teller” in the movie The Compass, and can be found in Spirit of Adventure: Eagle Scouts and the Making of America’s Future (Burton earned his Eagle Scout award at age 14). His passion for travel has led him to over 50 countries on 6 continents around the world.

Roberts grew up enjoying summers in Branson, Missouri at the different Kanakuk Kamps learning to push himself through “exciting adventure in Christian athletics.” Throughout the rest of the year, he was also active in K-Life and the Central Presbyterian Church. Roberts lives in Santa Monica, CA and attends Bel Air Presbyterian Church.

Mark Simon is 25-year in the entertainment industry as a producer and director for live action and animation, writing and lecturing, and amassing nearly 3,000 production credits. Mark has pitched and sold more than 25 production and distribution deals for his original concepts, and worked with Disney, Nickelodeon, The Golf Channel, HSN and other networks pitching in-house productions.

Sell Your TV Concept Now, Inc. is one of three national companies Simon owns and runs in Orlando, Florida. It was inspired by countless requests from both industry insiders and eager outsiders wanting to tap into Mark’s pitching techniques and success record.

His storyboard and animation companies have included clients such as Disney, Universal, Viacom, Sony, HBO, Nickelodeon, FOX, Starz, Steven Spielberg, USA Networks, ABC Television and many others. He is the animation producer of Fox’sTooth Fairy 2 starring Larry the Cable Guy. He is also the author of ten popular industry texts, and lectures around the world at major conferences, entertainment trade schools and universities.

Jeanne Pappas Simon has been a producer, writer, and content creator for the major TV networks and studios in the entertainment industry for more than 25 years.”

She has produced more than 400 television series episodes such as Nickelodeon’sClarissa Explains It All, Roundhouse, Weinerville, Gullah Gullah Island, andAllegra’s Window. Jeanne also created the format for International Blue’s Clues and produced the Cartoon Network’s first live-action series, Carrot Top’s A.M. Mayhem. She also was the writer/producer/director on TNN’s reality series Roller Jam, developed, pitched and produced ZigZag for Animal Planet, which aired for two seasons, and wrote for the ABC series Secrets of the Animal Kingdom.

Jeanne and Mark moved from L.A. to Orlando to help launch Nickelodeon Studios at Universal. While there, she developed the Nickelodeon production management book and produced many of Nickelodeon’s top-rated shows, including half of Nickelodeon’s Saturday night prime-time block, Snick.

In addition to her work in production, she has had notable success as a creator of content. The Gen X network she co-developed for Turner Broadcasting was green lit by Ted Turner and Scott Sassa.

Sell Your TV Concept Now, Inc. helps people to sell their TV show ideas with consulting, conferences, contacts, sample treatments and bibles, fill-in-the-blank templates, training and more. Clients work with a former Nickelodeon and reality show producer and award-winning development to help them to sell their show.

Tiffany Krumins is the CEO, Co-founder and inventor of the AVA the Elephant® brand. After her life changing experience on ABC’s “Shark Tank” she went home and spent months perfecting AVA to make sure she was as safe as she was helpful. She found that it was not necessarily children’s dislike for medicine that made it so difficult. After all, they can flavor it to taste like bubblegum these days! The process was the scary part. Realizing this, her first goal was to hide the medicine dropper completely! Her second was to make the child smile or laugh, hence the sweet voice! And last, but not least, she wanted their new little friend to praise them for a job well done! In a twist of fate, Tiffany was diagnosed with cancer three months after the show (at the age of 28) which made her passion to help sick children even stronger!

Tiffany was considered one of the Top 50 Mompreneurs of 2011 by Babble.com! She was a panelist at Tory Johnson’s Spark and Hustle event as well as a panelist at Mom’s in Business Unite. With mentions on Youngentrepreneur.com, MomInventors.com and many others, she has been coined the “Modern Day Mary Poppins”. AVA the Elephant ® received the Certified Miracle Award in 2011!

AVA the Elephant® is available in more than 10,000 retail stores in the U.S.A., including CVS Pharmacy, Kroger, Safeway, BabiesRUs.com, Drugstore.com, Amazon.com, and Walgreens.com and many more.

February 20th, 2012 Alycia Kaback attended The Event Celebrating Senator John Glenn at The Ohio State University marking John Glenn's orbit of the Earth 50 years ago. In this episode of The IT factor Alycia Kaback shared what she took away from this momentous event.

Then Alycia interviews Keith Fenimore discussing his TV career in developing, packaging and selling TV shows, his book “Hire Me, Hollywood” and his career advice blog on The Wrap.com. Keith will also talk about his “Most Recognized Man in America” social media experiment.

Ms. Kerrie Hopkins is an expert who has had years of academic study, elaborate research, and practice on the correlation between a person's name, and his or her behavior and personality traits. Kerrie's skills have been utilized way beyond her academic circles, and her services are being sought widely from people from different spheres of life. Kerrie has been interviewed on Good Morning America, The Today Show, Fox & Friends, just to mention a few, and has had over 2000 interviews on national, regional, and local Television and Radio Shows, covering every state in the United States, every province in Canada, and five continents around the globe. She is a contributing Celebrity Correspondent for E! Entertainment Network, a Reality TV Consultant for TLC Network as a Reality TV Consultant, a Celebrity Expert for examiner.com (National Edition), and a Relations Expert for examiner.com (NYC Edition). She has also been a political analyst for Fox Network. Kerrie has been profiled in several major newspapers, such as The L. A. Times, The Toronto Sun, New York Daily News, and others. Kerrie has published three books based on her skills in analyzing the name-trait correlation and her years of experience, titled 'You’re SUCH a Dave,' 'How to Never Meet A Stranger,' and her most accomplished book, 'Breaking The Name Code: Define your name, Design your life.'

Earl Morris has been many things throughout his life from illusionist to martial artist and from soldier to bodyguard of “at risk” individuals and Hollywood celebrities and even an actor himself. Earl has spent more than 20 years, providing close personal protection for various dignitaries, high profile personalities around the world and advising various organizations on the prevention and management of violence. He is founder and CEO of Lifeforce One International. Earl is “a man on fire” when it comes to advising, training and empowering organizations and individuals against violence! As an actor, Earl most recently filmed in Australia for the full first season of FOX’s Terra Nova along with his daughter Caoimhe. Earl has been heard and seen in shows in U.S. and Australia, such as ABC Radio - “Conversation with Richard Fidler” as well as “The Ben Fordham Show” in Sydney, Australia, “The Big Couch,” and many others.

Jordan Burnham, a motivational speaker who shares his inspirational story around the world, was in-studio to talk about how he bounced back from the bottom. Danielle DiFerdinando, designer of Danielle Nicole Handbags, is also on the air discussing the path she took to become a successful designer at such a young age.

First on-air is Bob Baker of The Buzz Factor, an expert on getting your name out there and building your brand. Next, Tony Bongiovi-- yes, Jon Bon Jovi's cousin who launched Bon Jovi's career, who is one of the greatest producers of all time.

Ron Roecker is a 20-Year Entertainment Industry Vet; former VP Comms & Artist Relations, GRAMMY Awards for six years; currently Founder & President, Entertainment PR & Brand Marketing Company Enfluence Group. Recently Roecker was featured on E! Entertainment giving insight into Oscar campaigning, answering questions, including “Will Kutcher Kill Portman’s Chance for an Oscar?,” He was again Featured on E! True Hollywood Stories for both Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake; as well as specials, including “30 Celebrity Near Death Experiences,” and consulted for Michael Jackson’s Las Vegas Auction. Ron was a guest on Leeza Gibbons’ nationally syndicated radio show “Hollywood Confidential” as well as Westwood One Radio Networks, ABC Radio Networks and numerous programs on Sirius/XM. He has appeared on news and entertainment programs, including “Entertainment Tonight,” “Access Hollywood,” E!, TV Guide Network, MTV, CNN, Extra, ”CBS Early Show,” as well as featured in international segments for outlets from Japan, China, UK, Latin America, and Canada, among others.

Ron has been inside, backstage and on stage with the entertainment and pop culture communities for the past 20 years, working with the biggest celebrities and brands in the world. His knowledge, passion, wit, charisma and charm have made him the music go-to expert for breaking news, entertainment programming and original content development producers

Celebrities with whom Ron has worked or is working include Mariah Carey, Justin Timberlake, Kelly Clarkson, OneRepublic, Gwen Stefani, Common, Beyonce, Bono, Carrie Underwood, Madonna, Twilight’s Booboo Stewart, Roberta Flack, Cher, Pete Wentz, Zac Efron, Ludacris, Christina Aguilera, Fergie, Will.I.Am, Kanye West, P!nk, Mary J. Blige, Patricia Heaton, Ricky Martin, Green Day, Jessica Simpson, Amy Grant, Queen Latifah, Gloria Estefan, Juanes, Stevie Nicks just to name a few.

See what people have been saying about Ron Roecker:

“Ron is smart, savvy and the go-to guy for all things music and Grammys. I can rely on him to deliver accurate, insightful expertise cued-up and ready-to-go; I can count on him to be very engaging and entertaining. His on-air/on-camera delivery is effortless and charming…I wish we could clone him!”

– Leeza Gibbons
, Emmy-winning TV Personality

“Ron is the GRAMMY Guy.” – Ryan Seacrest

THE GRAMMY AWARDS MADE SWEEPING, HISTORIC CHANGES EARLIER THIS YEAR & CUT ALMOST 30% OF ALL CATEGORIES
(FROM 109 CATEGORIES LAST YEAR TO 78 THIS SEASON)

Nomination Spotlight: Will Betty White Beat Fey’s Bossypants for Best Spoken Word Album? Gaga is first artist in history to have first three albums released all be nominated for Album of the year

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