Fairfax Radio 5-2-2023

Michael LettsOur first guest today is Michael Letts, Founder, President, and CEO of In-Vest logoInVest USA. Michael is a regular guest and expert on our radio and TV shows. He will discuss what is happening with China and Russia and safeguarding our National Security. Michael travels the country with InVest USA, working with different organizations to safeguard our First responders and Police Officers.

Michael Letts is the Founder, President, and CEO of InVest USA, a national grassroots non-profit organization helping hundreds of communities provide thousands of bulletproof vests for their police forces through educational, public relations, sponsorship, and fundraising programs. He also has over 30 years of law enforcement experience, hence his pro-police stance for his brothers and sisters in blue. Those interested in learning more about Michael Letts can visit his official website, www.investusa.org.

 


Beth Ann Blackwood, author of Moving Forward Looking Back.Beth Ann Blackwood is our second guest today and will discuss her new book Moving Forward, Looking Back. Beth Ann is an Amazon Bestselling author and self-employed commercial litigator from Dallas, Texas. Moving Forward Looking Back is a book by author, Beth Ann Blackwood.She is widowed with 4 stepchildren, two step-grandchildren, and 4 recently acquired double step-grandchildren (her term for her stepson’s stepkids). She graduated from Baylor University with a degree in psychology and from Baylor Law School. She has worked in law and politics and is an AV-rated lawyer. Outside work, she is an avid marathon runner, having run 42 marathons, and hopes to compete in a half ironman.

“Moving Forward, Looking Back” is the story of a woman overcoming grief after the death of her husband. Beth Ann tells her story in two parts, before and after the death of Tom, and interweaves them together in a captivating recollection of their life together and how she finds the strength to live again. It is an inspirational back-and-forth journey through the joys and hardships of life. It is a week-by-week catalog of Beth Ann’s first year after her husband Tom’s death, written in real-time. Each of the 52 chapters is broken into two parts, starting with the present and then reflecting on the thirty-two-year tumultuous relationship between two Type A people, from its rocky beginning to its heartbreaking end. Winding its way through the dusty plains of West Texas oil country, Nixon-era dirty politics, high-stakes courtroom battles, and medical setbacks. The book tells in unflinching detail Beth Ann’s efforts to withstand her black hole of grief over Tom’s death by looking back at their imperfect, passionate love story and using every tool available to move forward into her new, unasked-for present. The part love story, part lamentation, part tentative hope, “Moving Forward, Looking Back” will resonate with anyone who has experienced devastating loss. In addition to “Moving Forward, Looking Back,” Beth Ann has authored four additional books. For more information on Beth Ann or to purchase her book, visit Amazon, Barnes, and Noble, or her website, www.bethannblackwood.com.

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