Featured Voices

Barbara J. Beach

  • Role & Affiliations: Active voice in the Patriot’s Voice Foundation and host on the Military Appreciation Channel.

  • Mission: Advocates for Veterans, first responders, and frontline workers. Leads initiatives like “Pet Project,” which places service and therapy dogs to support individuals with PTSD and mental health challenges

  • Programs & Impact: Organizes suicide prevention partnerships, comfort missions (food, care, housing), and educational outreach—including K‑12 programs, concerts, TV, radio, and podcasts highlighting veterans, Medal of Honor recipients, and Pearl Harbor survivors

  • Bio Summary: Barbara combines storytelling, media, and community engagement to honor and support service members and their families, fostering healing, awareness, and respect through every initiative.

Charles “Rock God of Podcasting” McFall

  • Title & Nickname: Known across the digital media world as the Rock God of Podcasting

  • Career Highlights:

    • Over 1,500 podcast episodes since 2004, with live broadcasts starting in 2008; multiple award-nominated shows

    • Co‑founder of Giant‑Size Team‑up network; current Director of Digital Media Track at Dragon Con—curating 60+ hours of content

    • Hosts “EMS Underground” and designs curriculum as an AEMT instructor at the Georgia Institute of EMS, while also managing their social and digital media

    • Collaborated with notable personalities like Adam Curry, Jim Breuer, and Jay Soderberg

  • Personal Note: Paramedic-trained, occasional “save” awardee during his career; married over 20 years with four children

  • Bio Summary: Charles blends his EMT background and passion for storytelling into high-energy, impactful podcasting and event production—as a creator, curator, educator, and entertainer.

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