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★★★★★ A video podcast about the people, work, and ideas shaping culture.

A conversation salon for curious grown-ups

Experience opens doors.
Curiosity keeps them open.

Longtime friends Andrea Sims and Maggie Linton welcome accomplished authors, celebrated guests, and industry voices for smart, warm conversations with substance.

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At the table

Two distinct careers.
One natural chemistry.

Global event strategist · Publicist · Producer · Co-host

Andrea Sims

Founder of Lion’s Share Communications, Inc., Andrea brings more than 30 years of experience producing high-profile events, Hollywood-style public relations campaigns, and television and film projects.

Multi-award-winning broadcaster · Interviewer · Co-host

Maggie Linton

With more than 50 years in broadcasting, television, film, and live production, Maggie pairs a pioneering career with the warm, incisive follow-up questions that invite every guest to speak with depth and honesty.

Andrea Sims · The Queen of PR

Hollywood-scale strategy. Global reach.

Andrea Sims founded Lion’s Share Communications, Inc., a global event and public relations firm, in 1989. Her career spans A-list celebrity galas, awards shows, digital media campaigns, television and film production, sponsorships, fundraising, and major media relations.

Recognized by Forbes in 2006 and 2013 as one of the “World’s Hottest Event Planners,” Andrea is known throughout Hollywood as the “Queen of PR.” She has built a proven record of securing local, regional, national, and international attention for nonprofit organizations, corporations, and individual clients.

FoundedLion’s Share Communications, Inc. in 1989
RecognitionNamed by Forbes among the “World’s Hottest Event Planners” in 2006 and 2013
ExpertiseGlobal events, public relations, digital media, sponsorships, fundraising, television, and film production
MediaA proven ability to attract local, regional, national, and international coverage
Selected clientsOprah Winfrey, Ben Affleck, Sharon Stone, Harpo Productions, Paramount Pictures, Sony Records, Susan G. Komen, Mercy Ships, and United Way

Career in pictures

Andrea in the room

Andrea Sims with Bette Midler — Bette Midler

Andrea Sims with Ben Affleck — Ben Affleck

Andrea Sims with Elton John — Elton John

Maggie Linton · A broadcasting original

More than five decades of firsts

Maggie Linton is a multi-award-winning broadcaster and former host of The Maggie Linton Show, a two-hour weekday talk show on SiriusXM Urban View. A Kansas native, she studied Radio-TV-Film at the University of Kansas and began her career in 1972 as a sports anchor for the KU Sports Network.

In 1974, Maggie became the first woman television sports anchor at KAKE-TV in Wichita. She repeated that milestone at KPLR-TV in St. Louis from 1977–78 and at WTTG-TV in Washington, D.C., from 1980–81.

Maggie and her husband have three grown children and two grandchildren. She has called Howard County, Maryland, home since 1983.

BroadcastHost of the nationally heard Maggie Linton Show on SiriusXM Urban View
TelevisionHost of Starfinder, a 30-part internationally syndicated series inspired by the Hubble Space Telescope
Film & TVAppeared in the original Hairspray and Guarding Tess, and worked on the final three seasons of NBC’s Homicide: Life on the Street
Historic eventsProduction assistant for the World War II Memorial Dedication and President Barack Obama’s 2008 Inaugural Lincoln Memorial Concert
ServiceSAG-AFTRA National Women’s Committee and Honors & Tributes Committee member, and Washington-Mid Atlantic Local board member

Across the years

Maggie in conversation

Authors, artists, athletes, and cultural voices—moments from a career built on curiosity.

Maggie Linton with Martin Luther King III and Tyrese Gibson — Martin Luther King III & Tyrese Gibson

Maggie Linton with writer, director, and producer John Waters — John Waters

Maggie Linton with poet Rita Dove at the National Book Festival — Rita Dove

Maggie Linton with author Carl Weber at a book signing — Carl Weber

Maggie Linton with author Carole Boyce Davies at the Miami Book Fair — Carole Boyce Davies

Maggie Linton with football coach Howard Schnellenberger — Howard Schnellenberger

Maggie Linton with author James Grippando holding his novel Cane and Abe — James Grippando

Maggie Linton conducting an outdoor SiriusXM interview at the Miami Book Fair — Broadcasting from the Miami Book Fair

Maggie Linton with musician Mick Fleetwood — Mick Fleetwood

Maggie Linton with musician and author George Clinton — George Clinton

Maggie Linton with Jane Waldhorn, author R. L. Stine, and Kim Alexander at a book convention — Jane Waldhorn, R. L. Stine & Kim Alexander

Maggie Linton with actor and author Hill Harper — Hill Harper

Maggie Linton with bestselling author Lee Child — Lee Child

Beyond the headlines

Not hot gossip.
Good conversation.

The show draws on decades spent in studios, on sets, at summits, and in rooms where culture is made. Guests are welcomed for what they know, what they have lived, and what they can teach us next.

01 Authors and the stories behind their work
02 Celebrity conversations with context
03 Entertainment and media industry trends
04 Careers, reinvention, and lives well lived

Andrea Sims with actor Kathy Bates — Kathy Bates

Three-photo collage of Maggie Linton interviewing numerologist Lloyd Strayhorn at SiriusXM — Lloyd Strayhorn

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Experience opens doors.Curiosity keeps them open.