The Douglas Coleman Show w_ Thomas Russo Jr. and Kristine Raymond

Published: July 23, 2021, 7 p.m.

Mr. Russo is a competent and confident servant leader; a proven visionary and strategic thinker with highly effective communications and organizational skills. Mr. Russo previously served as an elected official in two NJ municipalities. He was a Committeeman in Bernards Township from 2014–2017. He served as a Councilman, Council Vice President, and Council President in Parsippany-Troy Hills Township from 1998–2005, earning the distinction as the youngest-ever elected Governing Body member in the history of the Township. Mr. Russo has also dedicated time to countless political campaigns from 1992–2014 attending several inaugurations and conventions.

He was selected as part of the inaugural class of young elected leaders at the 1st National Young Elected Leaders Conference, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University. He was also chosen by the NJ Herald in 2009 as one of 40 influential people in Sussex County under the age of 40.
He recently published his first book, a memoir of his life experiences and how he gave up New Jersey politics and found faith as a born again Christian. The purpose of his book, There Are No Politics In Heaven, is to help individuals work through their brokenness and improve their lives with spirituality as their cornerstone.

Thomas is a very unique guest in that he successfully combines politics, religion, and humor.
Take a look with him into the mirror of his life, where he faced childhood challenges, rode political highs and lows, achieved external greatness with internal emptiness, confronted the psychological demons within, experienced a religious transformation, and lived to fight another day. Join him on this rollercoaster ride of newfound faith, hope, perseverance, and the ability to change.
He also has over 23 years of experience in municipal and county government as well as the nonprofit sector. Mr. Russo is also an adjunct professor at three colleges in New Jersey: Pillar College, Seton Hall University, and Fairleigh Dickinson University. He is also president of Russo Communications, LLC, a consulting firm in Basking Ridge, NJ.

http://nopoliticsinheaven.com

It wasn’t until later in life that Kristine Raymond figured out what she wanted to be when she grew up, an epiphany that occurred in 2013 when she sat down and began writing her first novel. Over a dozen books in multiple genres later, there are a multitude of ideas floating around in her head thus assuring she’ll never be idle.

When a spare moment does present itself, she fills it by navigating the publishing and promotional side of the business. When not doing that, she spends time with her husband and furbabies (not necessarily in that order) at their home in south-central Kentucky, gardens, reads, or binge-watches Netflix.

http://kristineraymond.com


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