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Andy
Landis
Andy
Landis is a producer, author, songwriter,
award-winning playwright, and the founder of Shiny
Penny Productions. Currently she is working in Los
Angeles with composer Tom Bahler, musical director
for Quincy Jones, on the operetta Aesop.
Having just produced the CD I Will Rise for
opera singer Marcia Jones Thom, released in May
2003, Andy is producing and developing a two-CD set
preserving the historic recordings of Tennessee's
Poet Laureate Margaret Britton Vaughn. This
endeavor has the support of the Tennessee Arts
Commission.
Recently,
she worked with Wardenclyffe Entertainment as music
supervisor for the film Wooly Boys, starring
Kris Kristofferson and Peter Fonda. She currently
is developing the feature film, Riding the
Blinds, for which she also will be music
supervisor. Along with hit songwriter Michael
Black, she is writing the script for the romantic
comedy, Crazy Moon. She also is completing
her play, For the Love of
Thoreau.
Andy
has co-written a musical, based on the life of
Minnie Pearl, with Vaughn. In the fall of 2002,
Andy released the CD Sea of Pink written
specific women in the battle against breast cancer.
Her critically acclaimed, award-winning second solo
CD, Stranger, was released on Starsong
Records in 1993. A prolific songwriter and former
staff writer with Warner Chappell, she has
published more than 300 songs and worked with
artists such as Dolly Parton, Ricky Skaggs, Glen
Campbell and the Fairfield Four. Andy has been
nominated for a Grammy and two Dove
awards.
Andy
is a former model who for 12 years owned a
successful modeling company in Los Angeles. A
well-trained actor, she studied with Stella Adler,
Sal Dano, and Tom Kibby, and has a long list of
commercial, television and theatrical
credits.
Her
first book, She Stays, was published by
Thomas Nelson in 1995. Currently, Andy is
developing book concepts with her partner in Shiny
Penny Productions, Susan
O'Dooley Smith.
A
sought-after inspirational speaker, Andy travels
frequently throughout the country, encouraging
others with her own brand of humor and
compassion.
Particularly
gifted at moving others to action, she is known for
putting her hands to the wheel of a cause. She
taught women in prison for more than seven years,
developed a program to provide wigs for children in
medical treatment, served as a national
spokesperson for Compassion International, and
continues to sponsor the Adopt-A-Highway program in
rural Bedford County, Tennessee. Andy lives on a
farm outside of Nashville with her husband, music
producer Steve Buckingham, and their three
dogs.
Andy's
Speaking Topics
(Andy
uses Scripture in her presentations and
incorporates songs from her award-winning CD as
well as recently penned
compositions.)
You
Are the Friend You Need
Learn to be the kind of friend you would want
to have. Andy uses her own brand of humor and
passion to give us pointers on being a courageous
friend. Referring to her co-authored book She
Stays, Andy tells us the true story of an
amazing relationship with the wife of a country
music star and how God used her to heal and save a
high-profile marriage. Along the way, Andy will
remind us that we can be a best friend to
ourselves. After all, God lives within us so what
better place to find Him than right in our own
hearts? That is where to find Him when we need
Him.
Bitter
or Better - We Decide
Life is full of disappointments and failure but
Andy has a way of looking at it all like a lesson
in the fruits of the Spirit. Patience and virtue
come from suffering and pain, or so she says. And
the Word says it, too. Follow Andy in a journey of
discovery and hope through the darker days of her
life. Hear how God spoke to her and through her
making her the women she is today: An overcomer, a
warrior, and spirit-filled woman. Pain is tough and
it can make us bitter or better. And our God gives
us the freedom to choose.
Ride
That Roller Coaster!
Jesus died so we can live! Living fully is a
gift from God that Andy believes we must not miss.
We all know that life is a journey but Andy reminds
us to either get in the drivers seat or let God
steer but for heavens' sake, don't be a back seat
driver! She empowers us to trust God for the
answers, to put the pedal to the metal and drive.
After all, when we get to heaven God will want to
know if we appreciated His gift of life and
freedom. What will we say?
The
Prison Privilege
Andy did volunteer work in the Tennessee Prison
for Women for seven hears starting in January of
19091. In this presentation Andy shares her
thoughts about life in prison and how we all
create, at times, prisons of our own. She gives us
tips on how to break free from the bondage of
prison thinking and how to recognize the voice of
the enemy. "That darn enemy wants us to think he is
God", she says. Andy believes that we all need a
little help in discerning the voice of God. Like
Michelangelo who chipped away all that was not
David, she helps us cut away all that is not
God.
The
Testimony
Andy's testimony is especially powerful and
moving. She tells us of her brush with fame while
living in Los Angeles as a model, actress, and
beauty queen. She gives us a glimpse of a life full
of worldly success with quiet suffering of rape and
sexual harassment. She tells of the victory found
in the faith she discovered in a fast food
restaurant in downtown L.A. and how God slowly and
mercifully changed her life. This is a testimony
you should not miss. Full of laughter and tears,
Andy will reintroduce you to God, His Son and the
Holy Spirit in a way that you may not have heard
for a long time.
Living
with a Loved One Who is Living with Depression
The number of those who are diagnosed with
depression is staggering - it is in the millions.
And that means there are millions more of us living
with people who are depressed. How do we stay
connected to someone who wants to disconnect? Andy
gives hopeful, powerful and poignant ways to
survive what can seem to be unbearable
circumstances. Using stories from her own life,
Andy shows how to thrive and find joy in living
with someone who is depressed. As the numbers of
those with depression mount, we can all learn a
thing or two in this message of hope.
The
Crossroads of Courage: Divine Sisters
There comes a time in everyone's life that is
filled with question, where the test seems
impossible, when we hit that brick wall. Andy has
had several of these challenges when she had a bout
with cancer, when she ended an abusive
relationship, when she was raped. She calls these
her "crossroads" and gives exciting possibilities
found within those challenges offering us ways to
overcome the shame, the blame and the pain. Andy
conducts seminars for recovering survivors, which
promote the experience of helping others and
sharing the load. While sharing her own plan for
recovery, Andy literally carries us with her to the
goal - an honest and open heart.
Plus:
Andy can develop a presentation that is custom made
for your event. Tell us your needs and, as long as
you want your audience to be inspired and
entertained, we know Andy will fit the
bill.
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Andy
and Susan Together
A
Mixed Bag of Fruit - with Plenty of Nuts Tossed
In
Andy and Susan are whipping up a tangy fruit
salad using each of the fruit of the Spirit listed
in Galatians 5. Yum! Be
prepared to taste and see that the Lord is good as
they compare real, everyday fruit to spiritual
fruit and, in the process, uncover the surprisingly
tasty shared characteristics of each. Armed with
plenty of true-life illustrations, they'll give you
a tangible grasp of what the fruit of the spirit
really are and how to nurture them in your life.
(Audience participation is a hilarious must
when these two cooks - or is it kooks concoct a
life-size fruit salad!)
Am
I My Sister's Keeper?
Built around the command to love your God with
all your heart, soul, and mind, and to love your
neighbor as yourself, this presentation takes a
deeper look at what it means to use every piece of
your being in your relationship with God. And it
reveals the truth about loving your neighbor as
yourself. With insight and those trademark stories
from Andy and Susan, you may find that loving
others might be easier, and more fun, than you
think. Includes a startlingly practical and freeing
application of 1 Corinthians 13.
Finding
Joy in the Joyless
Do you hate your job? Do you have fantasies of
overthrowing your boss/ Are you sick of being home
and wish you had a workplace - other than the
laundry room or minivan - to report to? Let Andy
and Susan help you discover the secret of finding
joy in the joyless task no matter where it is. Be
warned, though, Their methods of finding joy may
spark uncontrollable laughter, knee-slapping and
rib-holding. If the joy of the Lord is your
strength, then you're about to get a whole lot
stronger.
Faithful
Friends
There's a reason Jesus sent His disciples out
two-by-two: we need each other. And you may never
find two needier friends than Andy and Susan. Join
them as they openly explore their need for
friendship, fear of friendship, the life-changing
power of friendship, and the New Testament's
undeniable call to love one another fully and
faithfully, with no compromise. Real-life stories
abound as they invite you to peek in on their
friendship (the good, the bad, and the ugly) and
how it has shaped and is shaping them.
Good
Grief
Don't let the title dissuade you. Most of us
are grieving some kind of loss: death, divorce, job
loss, poor health. The good news is that grief is a
journey, and it can take you someplace you want to
be. Andy and Susan are your tour guides on the
rough road of grief, ministering to both your heart
and your head with insight on what grief really is
(it's so simple, you won't believe it), what effect
it has on you (no, you're not going crazy; it's
normal to feel that way), and how you can survive
it (yes, you really can survive it). This is a
presentation filled with hope and tears and humor,
all leading to healing and life.
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