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The Neil Haley Show opens with a Celebrity Interviews simulcast alongside Greg Hanna welcoming beloved actress and producer Roma Downey, who reflected warmly on her years playing the angel Monica on Touched by an Angel before turning to her new family drama The Baxters, launching on Amazon Prime Video for Easter. Downey explained that she first came to the material as a fan, unable to put down Karen Kingsbury's Redemption series, and reached out to the author for the rights to adapt it. The result follows Elizabeth and John Baxter, played by Downey and Ted McGinley, and their five adult children, a multigenerational family of faith who turn to prayer when life brings them to their knees. She called it a bingeable hope opera made for families to watch together, and shared that her own real-life daughter and Kathie Lee Gifford's daughter Cassidy both appear in the show. Adapting the books meant updating the 9/11-era storyline to a contemporary event with Kingsbury's blessing. Asked the most important thing she has learned, Downey offered that courage is not the absence of fear but taking action despite it, and that creative people must take the risk and start, trusting the ducks to line up afterward. She invited listeners to find her on Instagram and Facebook. Find The Baxters on Amazon Prime Video.
Neil then welcomed author Willem Geri, the pen name of accomplished trial lawyer Bill Greenberg, to discuss two novels, Postwar and The Escape: La La La. Geri explained that he never set out to write fiction; when his law practice shut down during the 2020 pandemic, he sat at his desk with nothing to do and simply began, finding himself a hundred pages in before he realized he was writing a book. Postwar, rooted partly in his own father's World War II experiences in Europe, follows a combat veteran turned attorney in 1948 Berlin as he navigates the war's lasting consequences and a profound romance. The Escape: La La La is a good-versus-evil chase story about a young woman fleeing a Russian oligarch across the Mediterranean and eventually to the United States, a book he said some producers are now interested in filming given its resonance with current events involving Russia and Ukraine. Geri described writing as an escape in which he watches the movie unfold in his mind, and credited his decades as a litigator, who argues to juries without notes, for the research skills and persuasive instincts he brings to fiction. Married fifty-two years and practicing alongside his daughter, he is already at work on a third novel, Sevastopol. Find Willem Geri's books on Amazon.
The program continues with a Reignstorm Radio Show simulcast featuring co-host Michael Aguas, who delivered a practical installment on long-term capital gains. Aguas explained how gains are realized and taxed when an appreciated asset is sold, why a large single-year gain can create a painful liability, and why planning before a transaction is far more powerful than after. He walked through offsetting gains with capital losses and year-end tax-loss harvesting, the three-thousand-dollar limit on deducting net losses against ordinary income, loss carryforwards, and the nuanced role of depreciation recapture, cautioning that none of it should ever be figured out for the first time on the tax return. Listeners were pointed to reignstormmediagroup.com.
The show closes with a Storehouse Media Group simulcast featuring Sherrie and returning guest Jodi Corbett on the greatest resource in life. Opening in prayer, Corbett named the Bible, while Neil offered living water, and the conversation settled on wisdom. Drawing on Proverbs 4 and Proverbs 8, they explored how wisdom is personified as present with God at creation, and reflected on Solomon, who asked God for wisdom to lead rather than riches, was blessed abundantly, yet squandered much of it late in life through poor choices, a reminder to keep one's heart focused on God.

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