Fox News National News Correspondent and Emmy Nominated, CB Cotton, joins Matthew Mayer on the Going Solo Podcast as she shares her inspiring life’s journey of love, loss and the musical notes in between.



A proud graduate of the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at UNC, CB’s journey begins in North Carolina with a story of love. Cotton shares how her interracial family upbringing shaped her perspective, her personal history, and the way music weaves through her life as both solace and celebration.



A hard working beginning with a blue grass environment, CB takes us back to her humble beginnings, the experience of losing her brother at a very young age, and how her love of music and guitar took root. Influenced by legends like Stevie Ray Vaughan, Lenny Kravitz, and Joe Bonamassa, CB’s skill on the strings rivals her prowess in journalism.



Source: FOX NEWS Website: CB Cotton currently serves as correspondent for FOX News Channel (FNC), based in New York City. She joined the network in February 2023. Most recently, Cotton contributed to the extensive coverage of the attempted assassination of former President Donald J. Trump. Prior to this, she provided viewers with live reports surrounding the Anti-Israel campus protests at Columbia University.



Previously, she covered the arrest of the four suspects who assaulted two New York Police Department officers in January 2024. Additionally, she reported on the 2024 UN Security Council meeting, former President Trump’s New York civil fraud trial and the December 2023 Albany, New York temple shooting. Before her role at FNC, Ms. Cotton served as a reporter for ABC affiliate KMGH-TV in Denver, Colorado, where she was the station’s lead night side reporter focused on crime, justice, and law enforcement. During her tenure, she covered the city’s breaking news stories, including the Boulder King Soopers supermarket shooting and the December 2021 Marshall fire. She has also reported on alleged police misconduct.



Previously, Ms. Cotton served as a multimedia journalist at ABC affiliate WKRN-TV in Nashville, Tennessee. Cotton began her journalism career as the Jacksonville, North Carolina bureau chief for NBC affiliate WITN-TV. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Ms. Cotton holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in broadcast and electronic journalism.



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From growing up in a town with no stoplights to reaching millions of listeners worldwide, #1 Billboard Charting Artist Matthew Mayer has built a career as bold as the music he creates. With over 17 albums, two Telly Awards, and a viral presence on streaming platforms, his solo piano compositions have captivated audiences globally, including his Piano Lullabies album amassing over 250 million streams. Beyond performing—having toured Croatia’s national theaters and collaborated with renowned composers—Mayer is dedicated to uplifting independent artists through SoloPiano.com and his Going Solo podcast, where he dives into the journeys of extraordinary individuals navigating their own independent paths in music, media, and beyond.

Seen by millions worldwide, Faith Salie of ‘CBS Sunday Morning’ and NPR’s ‘Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me,’ shares intimate, funny, and inspiring stories on her life with Matthew Mayer on The Going Solo Podcast. As a Rhodes Scholar and Recipient of Harvard’s prestigious literary award, the Bowdoin Prize, Salie’s career is beyond impressive as she continues to share joy, hope, gratitude, grace, and….To Coda….Faith.



Faith Salie (Source: Wikipedia) Faith Coley Salie (born April 14, 1971) is an American journalist, writer, actress, comedian, television, radio, and podcast host. She is a contributor to CBS Sunday Morning and a panelist on NPR’s Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!. She hosted Science Goes To The Movies on PBS and CUNY TV. She is a storyteller for The Moth, with her story viewed over 4 million times. Her first book, Approval Junkie, “a collection of daring, funny essays chronicling the author’s adventures during her lifelong quest for approval,” was published by Crown in April 2016. Salie adapted it into a solo show which she performed Off-Broadway at the Minetta Lane Theater in New York City in 2021. The play premiered at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta in 2019.



Salie was born in South Weymouth, Massachusetts, to Robert Salie and Gail Coley Salie. She grew up in Dunwoody, Georgia, with her two older brothers. Salie was raised Roman Catholic. Salie began dancing at age three and decided she wanted to be an actor after getting the lead in the fourth-grade class play. She began performing professional children’s theatre at 13. In college, she performed in plays and musicals with Matt Damon, Mo Rocca and China Forbes. Salie graduated in 1989 from North Springs High School in Fulton County, Georgia (now Sandy Springs, Georgia). She enrolled as an undergraduate at Northwestern University and transferred after one year to Harvard University. She graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard with a degree in history and literature of modern France and England. She won Harvard’s prestigious literary award, the Bowdoin Prize, as well as the Jonathan Levy Award for best actor. Chosen for a Rhodes scholarship, she earned an M.Phil. in Modern English Literature from Magdalen College, Oxford.



Upon moving to Los Angeles from Oxford, Salie appeared in small roles on Sweet Valley High and Married… with Children before being cast on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. She played the role of Sarina Douglas in two episodes, “Statistical Probabilities” (1997) and “Chrysalis” (1998). Salie, as Sarina Douglas, appears on a Deep Space Nine trading card. Salie starred in the 2004 Bravo improvisational situation comedy Significant Others, as well as other television sitcoms and dramas, including Sex and the City and Unhappily Ever After, in which she played goth girl Caitlin Blackpool for a season. As a stand-up comedian and “pop-culture pundit,” she appeared on several VH-1 shows including Best Week Ever, I Love the…90s, and Undateable. In 2006, Salie moved to Manhattan to host the Public Radio International show Fair Game from PRI with Faith Salie. It was a daily satirical news and entertainment show and podcast. On Fair Game, Salie interviewed hundreds of newsmakers including Lorne Michaels, Jimmy Carter, Anthony Hopkins, Zach Galifianakis, Leonard Nimoy, and Chelsea Handler. She was a regular contributor to an ethics column for O, The Oprah Magazine. Salie has appeared as a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The O’Reilly Factor, and Anderson.



Since Fair Game, Salie has hosted many podcasts, including Wait Wait Naked and Ashamed (about the 20th anniversary of Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!), Broadway Revival for Audible, Real Good for Stitcher, One Plus One for Wondery,

Emmy Award Winning Journalist, Shaun Robinson, shares her remarkable career, with Matthew Mayer of The Going Solo Podcast. Robinson brings us along her inspiring journey from Detroit, Michigan to Hollywood. From hosting 16 years on NBC’s Access Hollywood to hosting one of the most popular shows on TV today – 90 Day Fiance. From breaking barriers to always giving back, excited to share our fun conversation coming soon on the Going Solo Podcast. Robinson’s story is both one of leading the way and inspiration. She is the CEO of S.H.A.U.N Foundation for Girls, https://www.shaunfoundationforgirls.org, which was created to help girls and young women have access to opportunities that they need to succeed in life.



Always a professional, with an unstoppable drive to push forward, enjoy this fun conversation with Mayer and Robinson on The Going Solo Podcast



More About Shaun Robinson via Wikipedia: Robinson’s career began in Detroit at WGPR-TV (now WWJ-TV), the first African-American owned television station in the U.S. After that Robinson was a medical reporter and weekend anchor for WISN-TV in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where her series on women and cancer garnered her an Associated Press award. She also served as host of the daily talk show Milwaukee’s Talking. Robinson later joined newly formed KEYE-TV in Austin, Texas, in 1995, as a reporter and anchor where her series “Profiles in Power”, focusing on women who made an impact in Central Texas, earned Robinson an American Women in Radio and Television award. In 1999, she started working as a weekend anchor and correspondent for Access Hollywood, a job that eventually lasted for 16 years. Before joining Access Hollywood, Robinson was a reporter and anchor for WSVN-TV in Miami, Florida. During her tenure there, Robinson anchored coverage of both the Clinton impeachment hearings and of Hurricane George, which devastated the Florida Keys. She traveled to Oklahoma to profile survivors of the Oklahoma City bombing.



She filled in for Meredith Vieira on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire for the week of June 8–12, 2009. She has contributed reports to television shows NBC Nightly News and Today. In October 2010, Robinson was a guest star on a celebrity edition episode of the game show Don’t Forget the Lyrics. She played and won $10,000 for her selected charity, Girls, Inc. Robinson co-hosted the NBC coverage of the Tournament of Roses Parade with Al Roker in 2011 and 2012.[1] She has provided coverage for the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, Emmy Awards and Grammy Awards.[1] In 2016, Robinson began hosting Tell All specials for TLC’s 90 Day Fiancé and its spin-offs.[4] In 2019, Robinson landed the role of Kris Kensington on BET’s Games People Play.[4] In February 2020, Forbes published an article about Robinson as part of the magazine’s an ongoing series “The Secrets of Successful Women.”[4] Her first book titled Exactly As I Am: Celebrated Women Share Candid Advice with Today’s Girls on What it Takes to Believe in Yourself was published on March 31, 2009, by Ballantine Books. The book of motivational advice and anecdotes presents quotes and stories from role models notable for confidence, determination and generosity. The book inspires girls to find their inner strength, become confident, and believe in themselves.



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Gwendolyn Osborne is an actress and former model who spent 12 years on The Price Is Right as a model from 2005 to 2017. Osborne was recognized as one of the “longest-running woman of color on a daytime game show”. Osborne spends time with Matthew Mayer on the Going Solo Podcast, talking about her extraordinary journey from Bath, Somerset London, to Hollywood. Osborne’s consistent work ethic, combined with her forward looking belief system, has enabled her to stand out among the elite. Most famously for casting as one of the elite Amazonian Women on the set of Wonder Woman 1984.



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Gwendolyn Osborne began as a runway, print, and commercial model that helped set the stage for becoming one of the models on The Price is Right show. A consummate professional, Gwendolyn was a part of the show for over 12 years and gained a historical accolade as the longest-running woman of color model on a game show. She would then join the cast of Wonder Woman 1984 as one of the Amazonian Women. It was on the set of this blockbuster movie where she captured her inner strength and power and truly took stock of what it meant to be a real-life Wonder Woman. She pushed the boundaries of her physical and mental strength while mastering her craft as an actor, transcending her experience into her everyday endeavors and passion projects.



Matthew Mayer, from Canistota, South Dakota, is a #1 Billboard Charting Artist. In recent years, Matthew’s music has become synonymous with the explosion of viral online content and music streaming. From his 2022 album ‘Piano Lullabies’ quickly amassing more than 50 million streams on Amazon Music, to his latest hit ‘When Flowers Grew Wild’ being used as the soundtrack to more than 90,000 Instagram Reels from creators across the world. Having experienced first hand the journey of a small town pianist turned international performer, Matthew has dedicated much of his life to the genre of solo piano, helping other independent artists shine in the process, as well as building relationships with successful entrepreneurs, artists, and people of all creative types, in pursuit of understanding their journey and success. From developing and teaching a first of its kind course (The Business of Music) at his alma mater at The University of South Dakota, to founding SoloPiano.com – an online platform dedicated to celebrating and promoting the largest collection of independent solo piano artists (Over 400 Artists Worldwide) – Matthew continues to dedicate himself to spreading the timeless magic of solo piano music.



Today, you can find Matthew Mayer’s music on all major streaming platforms and discover more about the journey of all aspiring creatives and artists on his Podcast, Going Solo. Follow Matthew on IG: www.instagram.com/mayersolopiano www.matthewmayer.com

Movie Director, Anthony D’ Ambrosio shares with Matthew Mayer, the remarkable, daunting, rewarding, story behind his most recent film “Triumph of the Heart,” along with sharing personal experiences into his own journey that lead to the making of this film.



Triumph of the Heart (Triumph of the Heart) is a feature film about St. Maximilian Kolbe and his companions’ triumph over darkness. Where most stories about Kolbe end, when he volunteers to take the place of a prisoner in an Auschwitz hunger cell – This story starts there…..In Triumph of the Heart, St. Kolbe joins nine condemned men in a starvation bunker and fights to forge a brotherhood of hope in the darkest place on earth.



You can support this film on Kickstarter Here: https://www.kickstarter.com/…/triumph-of-the-heart-0



In Anthony’s own words from the Triumph of the Heart Kickstarter Page:



“I grew up Catholic. Went to seminary. Left seminary. Fell in love. But just before I got engaged… I got sick. An undiagnosed medical condition destroyed my life. I couldn’t sleep, my relationship ended, I could barely hold down my job, and there was no cure or end in sight. Amid that darkness, I lost my faith, and I wanted to die. But Kolbe’s story stuck with me. As I meditated on how Kolbe built a brotherhood in that dark place, a light broke through. I wrote this story to share Kolbe’s answer to my suffering and doubt with a world that desperately needs it. Kolbe is a saint for us and for our age.”



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Matthew Mayer is a #1 Billboard Charting Artist and Host of the Podcast Going Solo. Mayer embarks on speaking to successful people in their craft, who have gone solo to pursue their dreams.



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