Raymond Arroyo
New York Times Bestselling Author, Fox News Contributor and Co-Host, Billboard Chart Topping Vocalist
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Raymond Arroyo
Biography
Raymond Arroyo is an internationally known, award-winning broadcaster, producer, Billboard chart-topping vocalist, and New York Times Bestselling author. As a Fox News Contributor and Editorial Advisor to the top-rated, The Ingraham Angle, he has created the popular “Seen and Unseen” and “Friday Follies” segments that have become audience favorites. He regularly files reports for Fox News and is host of the cultural Iheart podcast, "Arroyo Grande with Raymond Arroyo". Previously, Mr. Arroyo served as a CNN contributor and co-anchored top rated events from Europe and the US for the network.
As founding News Director, Managing Editor and Lead Anchor for EWTN News, and has hosted The World Over Live since 1996. The show is seen in more than 350 million homes on six continents each week and heard on more than 500 AM/FM affiliates and a stand alone Sirius channel throughout the US.
Known for his penetrating interviews, Mr. Arroyo has interrogated the leading figures of the day. Highlights include: The first exclusive, sit down interview with Mel Gibson about his film, “The Passion of the Christ”; Mother Teresa of Calcutta; Kevin Costner; multiple Presidents,Supreme Court Justices, a groundbreaking interview with comic legend, Jerry Lewis, and the first and only English language interview with Pope Benedict XVI.
Mr. Arroyo also worked for the Associated Press, The New York Observer and the political columnist team of Evans and Novak.
He is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts where he studied with renowned acting instructors: Stella Adler, Bobby Lewis, Uta Hagen, and Beatrice Straight. He has acted and directed in New York and London.
Mr. Arroyo has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN Headline News, Access Hollywood, Tucker Carlson, Erin Burnett Outfront, and NPR. His work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Newsweek, Time Magazine, The New Yorker, and elsewhere.
His debut album “Raymond Arroyo: Christmas Merry and Bright” topped the Billboard Holiday and Jazz charts and was the number one Jazz vocal release on Amazon and Barnes & Noble for months. He produced and hosted the PBS, award-winning musical special, “Christmastime in New Orleans” (Verve/Universal), featuring Wendell Pierce, Jim Caviezel and the city’s great chefs. He is producer and host of the Fox Nation special, “An American Christmas Together” with Jose Feliciano, Dion DiMucci and Kellie Pickler, and a Billboard Chart topping PBS Christmas special and CD “The Birth of Christ” hosted by Liam Neeson (Sony Classics).
Five of his adult books, including his biography of Mother Angelica, were all New York Times Bestsellers. His first picture book, “The Spider Who Saved Christmas” was also a New York Times Bestseller. Additionally, he is author of the bestselling Will Wilder series (Random House) and Turnabout Tales (Harper Collins) for young readers. In 2015, Mr. Arroyo founded Storyented.com, a literacy initiative to inspire reading by connecting the world’s great authors and their readers. Mr. Arroyo resides in New Orleans with his wife Rebecca and their three children.
Raymond Arroyo
Featured Keynote Programs
Why Stories Matter
With seven New York Times Bestsellers to his credit, Arroyo, who has written for adults and young audiences, shares the power of stories well told. Why do they matter to our future? And how to tell stories about your cause or business that move the heart and soul.
Finding Hope in Dark Times
Arroyo has befriended Popes, saints, and some of the most inspiring people in history. In this uplifting talk, he shares how to find hope--and how to embody it for others.
Habits of a Cloistered CEO
The Business Wisdom of Mother Angelica
In this hilarious and inspiring talk, Raymond Arroyo, author of the New York Times Bestseller, "Mother Angelica: The Remarkable Story of A Nun, Her Nerve, and A Network of Miracles" describes how Rita Rizzo, a handicapped, impoverished, child of divorce became Mother Angelica: founder and CEO of the world's largest religious media empire.
This dramatic talk takes listeners on a journey into the life of one of America's most fascinating and unpredictable CEOs; a woman who transformed a makeshift studio in the backyard of her Birmingham monastery into a global cable network reaching over 100 million households on 6 continents.
During his talk Arroyo extracts the lessons and principals that made Mother Angelica the success that she is. Lee Iacocca, the former CEO of Chrysler has called Mother Angelica: "a woman who may well be the patron saint of CEO's". The founder of Domino's Pizza, Tom Monaghan has described her as "one of the greatest entrepreneurs of all time", and called Arroyo's presentations of her work "both inspiring and entertaining." Experience what these leaders already know, and take home the practical business wisdom of a woman who has succeeded against the odds.
"Unless you are willing to do the ridiculous, God will not do the miraculous." --Mother Angelica
Raymond Arroyo
Featured Books
Will Wilder #3: The Amulet of Power
by Raymond Arroyo
Twelve-year-old Will Wilder is back to protect the town of Perilous Falls after he's given an amulet with a lock of Samson's hair. But Will's strength will be pushed to the limit when a new demon causes unimagineable havoc. Will Wilder yearns to join the Perilous Falls Middle School football team. But he was never big enough or strong enough to make the cut, until he comes in contact with a talisman containing the fabled locks of Samson. But using the Amulet of Power attracts dark forces to Perilous Falls like moths to a flame. Suddenly, hunched creatures are shadowing people around town, graves are being disturbed, the music of a mysterious DJ lulls half of Perilous Falls into a stupor, and to top it all off, Will is convinced that a teammate may be a demon himself! As he tries to identify the demon before it causes untold havoc, Wilder family secrets will be unlocked, the limits of physical strength and the power of friendship are tested--and Will might even score a touchdown or two.
The Relic of Perilous Falls
by Raymond Arroyo
Fans of Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians and Peter Lerangis’s Seven Wonders series will embrace this epic adventure in a rollicking new series by a New York Times bestselling author.
Will Wilder didn’t mean to unlock his otherworldly gift. But that is exactly what happens when Will “borrows” a sacred relic believed to protect the town of Perilous Falls for nearly a century. Even though his intentions are good, the impulsive twelve-year-old unwittingly awakens an ancient evil endangering all of Perilous Falls.
As boats sink and hideous creatures crawl from the rising waters, it is up to Will to confront a nightmarish enemy and set things right before it is too late. Along with his sweet—if lethal—great-aunt Lucille, the curator of a museum of supernatural artifacts, Will proves that the actions of one twelve-year-old boy can change the world.
Will Wilder didn’t mean to unlock his otherworldly gift. But that is exactly what happens when Will “borrows” a sacred relic believed to protect the town of Perilous Falls for nearly a century. Even though his intentions are good, the impulsive twelve-year-old unwittingly awakens an ancient evil endangering all of Perilous Falls.
As boats sink and hideous creatures crawl from the rising waters, it is up to Will to confront a nightmarish enemy and set things right before it is too late. Along with his sweet—if lethal—great-aunt Lucille, the curator of a museum of supernatural artifacts, Will proves that the actions of one twelve-year-old boy can change the world.
The Relic of Perilous Falls
by Raymond Arroyo
Fans of Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians and Peter Lerangis’s Seven Wonders series will embrace this epic adventure in a rollicking new series by a New York Times bestselling author.
Will Wilder didn’t mean to unlock his otherworldly gift. But that is exactly what happens when Will “borrows” a sacred relic believed to protect the town of Perilous Falls for nearly a century. Even though his intentions are good, the impulsive twelve-year-old unwittingly awakens an ancient evil endangering all of Perilous Falls.
As boats sink and hideous creatures crawl from the rising waters, it is up to Will to confront a nightmarish enemy and set things right before it is too late. Along with his sweet—if lethal—great-aunt Lucille, the curator of a museum of supernatural artifacts, Will proves that the actions of one twelve-year-old boy can change the world.
Will Wilder didn’t mean to unlock his otherworldly gift. But that is exactly what happens when Will “borrows” a sacred relic believed to protect the town of Perilous Falls for nearly a century. Even though his intentions are good, the impulsive twelve-year-old unwittingly awakens an ancient evil endangering all of Perilous Falls.
As boats sink and hideous creatures crawl from the rising waters, it is up to Will to confront a nightmarish enemy and set things right before it is too late. Along with his sweet—if lethal—great-aunt Lucille, the curator of a museum of supernatural artifacts, Will proves that the actions of one twelve-year-old boy can change the world.
Mother Angelica: Her Grand Silence
by Raymond Arroyo
"Even now, I still meet with Mother in memory and in spirit. And though I miss her physical presence, the writing of this work has allowed me to once again spend long hours with her and share her essence with others. This final book in the canon captures the last bittersweet years of a faithful woman who, in her grand silence and through her pain, touched more lives and did more good than anyone imagined. It also gives us an opportunity to have one last visit with the sister we called 'Mother.'" - Raymond Arroyo For more than a decade, the beloved, wise cracking nun who founded EWTN, the world's largest religious media empire, was confined to her cell at Our Lady of the Angels Monastery in Hanceville, Alabama. Though Mother Angelica is still seen and heard by millions each week in reruns on seven continents, the private drama within her monastery, her personal supernatural encounters, and the prolonged suffering she endured has remained hidden. Until now. In a moving, dramatic conclusion to his four New York Times bestselling Mother Angelica books, Raymond Arroyo completes the saga of this singular nun with his most intimate book yet. Here are Mother Angelica's spiritual battles in her cell--including encounters with the devil. Revealed for the first time is the personal request Mother made of God--which sheds light on her long silence. Here are the unrevealed episodes of hilarity and inspiration; from playing possum (to avoid undesirable visitors to her room), to undertaking a secret trip to the far East, to blessing her nuns as they leave her care to create new monasteries, Mother Angelica's spunky spirit shines through the narrative. Mother Angelica Her Grand Silence, the touching, climactic coda to the Mother Angelica canon also offers readers the personal testimonies of people around the world who were spiritually transformed by Mother during her long public absence. And for the first time, the author writes movingly of his personal relationship with Mother--the highs and the lows. Eleven years after the release of the definitive biography of Mother Angelica, audiences want to know the rest of her story. This is it.
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