Frankie's guests are the producer and director of Elvis's '60 Comeback Special Steve Binder, novelist and author of Forbidden City Vanessa Hua, and senior vice president of global commercial operations for the Verizon Business Group: Wendy Taccetta

Steve Binder (pronounced like Fender)
BOOK: Elvis '68 Comeback
The Story Behind the Special
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Elvis-68-Comeback/Steve-Binder/9781645176732
Steve Binder is an Emmy and ACE award-winning producer, director, writer, educator, and Golden Globe nominee. Steve has written, produced, and directed dozens of television specials, including multiple Diana Ross specials and Petula with British singer Petula Clark and Harry Belafonte.
In 1968, Steve conceived, directed, and produced ELVIS, The ‘68 Comeback Special. TV Guide called this landmark event “the second greatest musical moment in television history next to the Beatles' debut on the Ed Sullivan Show.” https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004596/

Vanessa Hua
BOOK: Forbidden City
https://bookshop.org/books/forbidden-city-9780399178818/9780399178818
Vanessa Hua is an award-winning, best-selling author and columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. For over two decades, she has been researching and writing about Asia and the diaspora. Her books, which integrate many of the themes she covers, are critically acclaimed. Vanessa Hua's forthcoming book, Forbidden City, has already been hailed “magnificent” by Publisher’s Weekly, and is getting rave reviews. http://www.vanessahua.com/

Wendy Taccetta
verizon.com/smallbusiness
Wendy is Senior Vice President for Nationwide Small Business and Channel Chief for Verizon Business. As such, she is responsible for driving results in several strategic areas of the business. Wendy's focus is on developing a customer-centric Partner Program at Verizon. Channel Partners has called their strategic focus "a historic revamping" of Verizon’s channel program. Their ambition is to make it easier than ever before to partner with Verizon. https://www.verizon.com/about/our-company/who-we-are