Pheasant Phun Hunting Trip in South Dakota for 2009
LISA LAMPANELLI’S HBO SPECIAL, “LONG LIVE THE QUEEN,” AIRS THE NIGHT BEFORE THE SUPER BOWL AT 10 P.M. EST. Make a date with LL and HBO for the airing of Lisa’s first ever one-hour HBO special on Saturday, January 31, at 10 p.m. EST! Share in Lisa’s joy over this momentous event when she joins the ranks of comic greats George Carlin, Chris Rock, and legendary others. If you call yourself an LL loyalist, you can’t miss this momentous occasion! So, watch “Long Live the Queen” and see why HBO is the network that takes comedy seriously.

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I was lucky enough to attend a show that Lisa Lampanelli did here in Dallas, TX at the Addison Improv. She is one of the most hilarious comics out there that leaves it all on the stage, After she’s finished you’ll really see how amazingly funny, smart and great she is. I can’t wait till she comes back and goes back on tour in Texas.
For more information and additional airing times, please visit HBO’s site at: http://tinyurl.com/Lisa-HBO-Saturday
To get a sneak peek at Lisa’s HBO special, visit LL’s MySpace page to see brand new clips from the yet-to-premiere special: http://www.myspace.com/lisalampanelli
Here’s a look at one of the most famous speeches ever made from the late Martin Luther King.
Are you ready for an event that you cannot explain…We just completed A View from the Edge for WorldVentures. Combining theatrics & special effects, with educational concepts, with personal growth and development lessons toss in some amazing lighting and energetic music and you get one of them most amazing events you’ll ever experience. With close to 3,000 people in attendance we kicked off things with a high exciting note on Friday night, with all of the attendees arriving in their limos, walking down the red carpet as the excitement and anticipation filled the arena. Once the show hit the road with our first video opener…it was no looking back from that point on. The owners came out and announced WorldVentures Top 20 Income Earners and Marc Accetta came out and gave a intense, up in your face message that just gave everyone an idea of what they could expect for the weekend. And the rest of the weekend was just that amazing lesson after amazing lesson. Marc Accetta brings forth to the industry what no one else can do, his unique method of delivering the information that he uses and shares with people has helped him to be one of the most sought out after speakers in the Personal Growth arena.
We really spent a countless amount of hours preparing for this year, with various presentations, new characters and also various special effects that we hadn’t used in the past, we really had to have our game faces on the entire weekend. After the first night of the event, you could just tell that the excitement had filled the room, people’s faces would light up and you could see the level of appreciation they had for being there and having their fellow teammates there. The Corporate Team of Mike Azcue, Wayne Nugent, Robert Oblon, Mike Conway & Dan Stammen also came forth with some exciting announcements throughout the weekend including some brand new compensation plan upgrades, a new state of the art back office and a unbelievable donation to Big Brother Big Sister of North Texas.
Now one thing that I get asked over and over again, is how do we choose the music that we play, and it is definitely time consuming going thru tons of songs to find the right one to use at a specific moment. Of course the main theme of the entire weekend is, “Life Will Never Be The Same”, which is also the chorus of “Life”, by Haddaway. Another great song that we used in one of our videos was, “Love Can Move Mountains”, by Celine Dion. There are also several other songs that I’ve previously listed that we’ve used, Don’t Stop Believing, Magic, Crazy by Seal, Son of Man and many others that deliver great messages and in fact I had listed some of them in one of my previous posts from Journey. But as far as the dance songs that I used for the event, one of the songs I used over and over because of the energy and hype was Bob Sinclair’s, “Rock This Party” which is a great song to use for any event, others I used were Cupid Shuffle, Fantasy, Peter Gunn Theme Song, Usher’s famous Yeah, Don’t Stop till you get enough, Get This Party Started, Soak up the Sun, Perfect Day, I need to know. I mean there’s just so many songs that I could stay here all day just listing songs but it is truly the fun part of my job when I can play a song and everyone gets into it and they are excited and just having a blast.
I hope everyone enjoys these couple of videos from the View and we hope to see you next year…
Hello All….I have always been asked how do you choose all the music that you play at seminars or at conventions and I must say that I cannot take any credit for song selection at all. My buddy, Marc Accetta has one of the most amazing ears for lyrics that I have ever encountered. I have been in the music industry for a number of years, played professionally, recorded did the whole tour thing and met some amazing musicians from all genres of music, but never had I encountered someone that knew the lyrics of a song and their meaning and their message as Marc did. I am a drummer so for me beats get me moving and beats is all it takes…
Here are just some of the songs that we’ve used at seminars, Please feel free to comment back with any other songs that we’ve left off as we have obviously because there are just unlimited amounts of music out there, that have amazing messages.
Just wanted to say a very special thank you to everyone that was with me for my birthday this year. This year we were out in Nashville, Tennessee for an Acceleration Training headed by Marc Accetta (www.MarcAccetta.com) for WorldVentures. From their initial conception trainings have now grown in sizes well over the 1,000 person mark with the help of being spearheaded by Marc Accetta, personal friend and mentor to me on a monthly basis throughout the US. I’ve been lucky enough to travel to such places as New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Hawaii, Miami, as well as other great destinations that most people only dream of visiting. This year while in Nashville I had the honor to meet one of Marc’s long time personal friends Laurie Rubidge (www.laurierubidge.com). Laurie has also had amazing success in the Personal Growth and Development industry throughout Laurie Rubidge’s career she has trained tens of thousands of people from all over the globe. Laurie has dedicated over 18 years of her life to inspire and motivate people to be the best they can be. Being that we were visiting he hometown she took the initiative to be in charge of giving us all the hotspots to visit while in Nashville. I was lucky enough to have my girlfriend Melinda with me, also one of my best friends Robert Oblon, which as of this past March in Las Vegas, NV has been named President of WorldVentures at their Annual Convention. This year at the WorldVentures Convention in front of over 4,000 people in attendance we were able to do the first ever WorldVentures concert. It was definitely awesome to play drums along with Robert, as well as having Marc sing a couple of songs. It was something that no one ever expected. A lot of work and time went into this year’s convention and I would have to say that everyone was excited and amazed to see several of WorldVentures reps & employees participate in this year’s concert. Who knows what we’ll pull off in 2009…
On another note, I wanted to give much props to both Robert and Marc, Robert Oblon recently became a big with the North Texas Big Brother Big Sister organization. Marc and Kelly Accetta which have been involved with the Big Brother Big Sister organization already for about 6 years have recently been asked to head the Board of Directors for Collin County chapter of BBBS. Big Brother Big Sister is an amazing organization and I’ve been lucky enough to attend their annual Black Tie and Boots ceremony for the past 2 years and meet one of their top people Mr.Charles Pierson. Just being around Marc and Kelly and seeing all of the positive guidance and support that they have given their little brother has made me realize that I should also apply to join to help out this organization in 2008.
As we all organized ourselves in the lobby at the Gaylord Opryland and waited for the limos the excitement and laughs had already began remembering how on Saturday night I rang in my birthday at the local Jack Daniel’s Saloon with Jeff Bolf singing on stage and also having my midnight birthday drink with Marc, Melinda and the rest of my friends there. We had a great party crew that was getting ready to invade downtown Nashville, so we went to The Stage where we tuned in to a little different kind of music than what most people have seen me listen to…Country! A lot of people think that because I listen to mainstream party music or hip hop then that’s all I listen to but they forget that I was born in South Texas just minutes from the border. And I’ve played in a number of bands where we sometimes had to play some country music, so I was no stranger to Dwight Yoakum, George Strait, Georgia Satellites and many others. On our way out of The Stage we stumbled across Layla’s Hillbilly & Country INN….there they had a great country band that was just jamming out. I had the honor of being asked to come up and jam out with them as you’ll see below and it was definitely fun, a little different than playing with Tejano bands but it was still fun to get back behind the set and jam out in Nashville.
I must say that in the past 2 or 3 months, I’ve been finding myself behind the drum set more and more often. First, in Las Vegas for the WorldVentures Annual Convention, we did some cover tunes from The Beatles, Eddie Money, Stevie Wonder and a couple of other bands. I’ll be sharing some of those videos down the road. Then in April Eddie Head and Jessica his fiancé decided to join their lives together in holy matrimony. I must say both of them are some of the most amazing people that I’ve had the opportunity of meeting, if you want to see some photos from their wedding check out this link…(http://www.perezblog.net/). So during their wedding reception we got an opportunity to get up on stage and jam out for a couple of songs. Then finally in Nashville for my birthday I had the opportunity to play once again. Drumming has always been one of the passions in my life and although I don’t pursue it on a full time base now, I still think that I’ll keep behind a drumset throughout my life and if an opportunity does allow itself where I can squeeze in playing with a band that can handle my crazy traveling schedule well then I am definitely open to the opportunity…That’s all for now…




Hello to all my fellow friends out there. Man has it been a crazy couple of weeks since I last spoke on here about my lunch with Dallas Mavericks Owner, Mark Cuban. Since then we had a awesome training out in Long Beach, with Marc Accetta for WorldVentures, then took ourselves out to Vegas for a day and then back to San Diego, hung out there for Valentine’s Day and got a chance to chill with some friends and have some R & R. Then got back to Dallas and literally had 1 day to pack everything for WorldVentures Annual Event out in Las Vegas. Ben our videographer and myself took to the road and began documenting everything on video, look out for that very soon on MonicoSpace.com
Once we arrived in Las Vegas, it was fun, fun, fun, till obviously the convention, but till then we got a chance to go out and hang at one of my favorite clubs in Vegas, PURE @ Ceasar’s Palace. If you ever want to see what happens to all the money people lose on hands and slot machines, go into PURE and you’ll why not only are they one of the hottest clubs in the U.S. but also how in one night of gambling the entire club was paid for. From there it was off to see some sites down on the Las Vegas Strip, including the Bellagio fountains, The Mirage, MGM, all those multi billion dollar casinos. On the next day, Thursday, my boss and some of the owners from WV got together to go watch the Danny Gans Show…man is that an awesome show to go see, I had been to Vegas about 12 times and never imagined that there was something I hadn’t seen but he is entertaining, funny, just an awesome show to go and watch. The next day is was work, work, work…and that was the case pretty much for the majority of the weekend, WV had their Annual Convention which attracted close to 1,200 people in attendance and a couple more hundred that were staggering in to be blown away by the technology, travel vendors and other news that were announced by Mike Azcue, Wayne Nugent, Robert Oblon and Dan Stammen, now known as the DreamTeam. Marc Accetta, WV Director of Training, once again hit a home run and blew people’s minds away with doing one of his characters from A View from the Edge which is a life altering training that everyone should go through at one point in their lives that show will be occuring in November of 2007. Friday night, we saw the amazing talent of Hypnotism as done by Marshall Sylver, which was an awesome show. Saturday night we had the opportunity to visit Rick Thomas, extraordinary magician, he did a special show for the WV group which was freaking amazing some of the stuff he did on stage, still has me wondering how he did that. As the weekend came to an end, there was still a buzz throughout the air of A View from the Edge and all of the great stuff to come in 2007. Sunday afternoon a special group gathered together to visit at Rick Thomas’s house in Las Vegas and see his amazing habitat for his white tigers and other special animals that he has and uses during his shows, Wow was this a treat!!! Sunday night we all went out and hung out for some much needed beverages and some downtime just hanging out and having fun and partaking in what Las Vegas has to offer.
Las Vegas is a great city, never seems to disappoint anyone who visits there for either their first time or their 20th time, there’s always something new and exciting right around the corner for anyone’s liking.
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Wishing You Health, Wealth and a Wonderful New Year…
May 2007, be the healthiest, wealthiest, most rewarding year yet, and each and every subsequent year simply get better, better and better!
Looking back at everything that occurred in 2006 I can strongly state that it was one of the best years of my life. Everything just seemed to fall into place from business, personal life, my personal relationships with old friends and all of the new friends that I made, my relationship with God everything was balanced. I owe this mainly to my boss, best friend and mentor Marc Accetta, I have the great opportunity of hanging out with Marc on a daily basis day in and day out and I am able to see how he uses the techniques that he teaches in everyday situations that allows him to be one of the most successful Personal Success Coaches in the industry of Self-Help and Life Development. One thing that alot of people do as the time goes by is take on a “why does that happen to me” type of attitude when something wrong occurs in their lives rather than seeing that what occurred is a direct impact of their actions. I have had several friends that this year instead of getting all hyped up with their resolutions to make more money, or lose more weight or change something in their lives that they weren’t excited about, instead are looking at their actions in 2006 and changing what they’re doing in 2007. As my mentor states, In order for things to change, You have to change and in order for things to get better, you have to get better. And that goes for anything, whether its finances, physical, mental, social, spiritual or emotional aspects of someones life. As I close the chapter of my life on 2006, I wish to all of my friends and family the very best in business and life and hope that all of your most amazing desires be reached in 2007 and that you are able to state that 2007 was your best year ever!
Sincerely your friend,
Monico R. Perez
www.MarcAccetta.com - Total Success Coaching
Man oh Man…Has it been some fun and exciting times since I last posted some info on here, as you read from my past posting we were in Austin, TX finishing up an Acceleration training and going straight into final preparations for A View from the Edge, a weekend training that is put on by Marc Accetta(www.MarcAccetta.com) that incorporates the best of Personal Growth and Development with the most high impact entertainment in the industry to come up with Edutainment. There is truly no one out there in the world that does something like this anywhere. So needless to say preparation for this weekend event was put into high gear, we had to get final video projects edited, costumes finalized, powerpoints finalized and still that didn’t even take into account all of the theatre preparation that comes along with the weekend. To kick off the weekend WorldVentures put on a Red Carpet Kickoff Event to the weekend at Republic Bar(www.RepublicDallas.com) where everyone was there having fun, enjoying themselves and partaking in all of the excitement that was brewing up over A View from the Edge.

As Friday night approached and we kicked off the show the level of excitement and curiosity was at an all time high from everyone because this was the first time they were ever going to go through A View from the Edge. Everyone did a fabulous job and we were able to have a life altering training for well over 600 people from the WorldVentures(www.WorldVentures.biz)group which was founded by Mike Azcue(www.MikeAzcue.com) and Wayne Nugent. The people were blown away with excitement and often came up to me and several of our staff just thanking us for such an amazing event that we put on. A View from the Edge takes you on a roller coaster of emotionsof happiness, excitement, sadness, satisfaction, empowerment and belief in yourself. Marc Accetta hit a grand slam home run in the personal growth & development arena with this weekend event. I am just happy that so many of my friends from WorldVentures were able to experience this life altering training, I know and believe that they will take all of the information from this weekend and use it to create many wonderful things in their lives and business.

Now it’s time for some fun!!! I’ll be heading out to the Bahamas within a week, and I am super excited to go out there relax, have fun and maybe even partake in some of the nightlife that Nassau and The Atlantis Resort(www.Atlantis.com) has to offer. Please stay tuned as I’ll be bringing my website live very shortly, final preparations are being made and you’ll have a great opportunity to see just a little bit of what I go through in my day to day life adventures. For now check out… www.myspace.com/BigMoney
Hello All,
This is the first posting that I have here on WordPress.com, I am very excited about beginning this new online journey. I am currently in Austin, TX( UT Texas Longhorn Country) with Marc Accetta at one of his amazing Acceleration Workshops. I have been working with Marc Accetta now for 5 years and it’s been one of the most amazing rides of my life. Getting to travel all over the world, meeting incredible people and building a lifestyle for myself that most people only dream of, is one of the biggest things that I am thankful for. However, a motto that I’ve acquired with working alongside Total Success Coach, Marc Accetta is, “WORK HARD, PLAY HARD“. And that’s definitely something that we’ve been doing, one of the biggest things we’ve just accomplished is launching his brand new website www.MarcAccetta.com, which is one of the most information packed websites that I’ve seen out there on the internet that focus on Personal Success Coaching. Being a Total Success Coach, Marc Accetta helps you get the most out of life spiritually, financially, emotionally, mentally, physically and socially. As I have spent time with Mr. Accetta and acquired his work ethic and morals it has allowed me to live my life to the maximum with no regrets.
One of the biggest things that we are working on currently at this time is,”A View from the Edge” which is a one of a kind training seminar that must be seen to be believed. The company that is having the privilege to view this event is WorldVentures , founded by experienced marketing professionals Mike Azcue (www.MikeAzcue.com) and Wayne Nugent, this company is growing rapidly and it has been such a blast working with them for the past couple of months. This weekend will be without a doubt the most explosive thing that this company and its distributors has seen and the business impact to resonate afterwards will be impressive. We have been working 15-20 hour days for the past couple of weeks preparing every little detail to make this experience one of the biggest events ever. Right after this event takes place Marc Accetta is taking me on an all expense paid trip to Atlantis (www.Atlantis.com) in the Bahamas which will put the ultimate topping on this awesome work filled summer and let us start off the fall with a bang.
Well back to work…check out www.MarcAccetta.com and leave a message and stay tuned because coming very…very…very soon will be www.MonicoPerez.com for now check me out on www.myspace.com/BigMoney
Take Care & God Bless,
Monico Perez