For eight years Penna Dexter served as co-host on Point of View with founder Marlin Maddoux. Following his passing in 2004, she has served as co-host and frequently as Kerby Anderson’s guest host. Her...

Adam is an entrepreneur, founder and CEO of OpenTheBooks.com - the world's largest private repository of government spending. Our mission- post “every dime, online” of all local, state, and federal go...

Adam is an entrepreneur, founder and CEO of OpenTheBooks.com - the world's largest private repository of government spending. Our mission- post “every dime, online” of all local, state, and federal government spending at OpenTheBooks.com & in our award winning Open The Books mobile app. My work has been featured at Good Morning America and ABC World News Tonight; USA Today; The Wall Street Journal; John Stossel’s 'Innovation Nation' Special; Forbes Magazine; Investor’s Business Daily; HBO Bill Maher's blog; The Rush Limbaugh Show; Boston Globe; Washington Post; FOX News Channel - including Bill O'Reilly, Megan Kelly, Sean Hannity, & Bret Baier; CBS News; Sinclair Broadcast Group - including Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson; Huffington Post; National Review; The Washington Times; TheHill; Sunlight Foundation; Breitbart; Chicago Tribune; Daily Caller; Daily Beast; and by many other national media, television, and radio personalities. My Forbes online columns have over 2.4 million pageviews.

Andrea Syverson is the founder and president of IER Partners, which has guided and strengthened brands of all sizes with savvy best practices for creating customers for life. Combining her passion of...

Andrea Syverson is the founder and president of IER Partners, which has guided and strengthened brands of all sizes with savvy best practices for creating customers for life. Combining her passion of adventurous listening and working across diverse industries, her “outsider-insider” creative branding and merchandising expertise and objectivity has been valued by companies as diverse as Ben & Jerry’s, Celestial Seasonings, Hallmark, Hershey’s, Compassion International and World Vision. She holds an MBA and has dedicated more than 20 years to providing clients both domestic and international with innovative approaches to branding, product development and creative messaging. She is the author of two books in which she shares her hands-on approach for both brand building and creating customer-centric products that enhance brands: ThinkAbout: 77 Creative Prompts for Innovators, and BrandAbout: A Seriously Playful Approach for Passionate Brand-Builders and Merchants. Andrea grew up a happily devout Catholic. After decades of plaid uniforms and even earning an MBA from a Catholic university, her life took an unexpected turn when she fell in love with a Protestant. She and her husband, Dean, have been partners in marriage, business, and faith for more than 20 years.