Jackie Tantillo

Podcast Host, Voice Over Artist

BIO:
Jackie Tantillo is currently the Host and Exec Producer of the "Should Have Listened to my Mother" Podcast. SHLTMM Podcast is a 2024 People's Choice Podcast Award Winner for best podcast in the "Society and Culture" Category. SHLTMM is also a 2024 Nominee in two additional categories including, "Best Female" Hosted Podcast & Best Podcast in the "Kids and Family" category. SHLTMM is an ongoing conversation about mothers/female role models and the role they play/played in ones life.

Jackie has worked in broadcasting as on-air talent (radio), on camera talent (commercials and industrials), a national and international Voice Over talent, Voice Over Acting Instructor and producer and production coordinator for over four decades.

As a DJ Jackie, or "Juani," her family nickname, had the luxury of sitting down with endless iconic musicians and performers, including Clarence Clemens, Don Henley, Joe Walsh, Kate Pierson of the B-52s, Lou Reed, Roland Orzabal of Tears for Fears, Elvis Costello, and so many more. While an on-air talent, Jackie/Juani, worked in tandem as a stringer for the ABC Rock Radio Network-Young Adult News Call.

Currently Jackie is enjoying her conversations with guests from around the world on her podcast. Jackie emphasizes, "everyone has stories to tell of their mother/female role model and it's important to reflect on that personal relationship whether good or bad."

"You'll be amazed at human nature and how we can overcome our obstacles, says the podcast host. Our mother/son--mother/daughter relationship is such an integral part of who we are. What we choose to do with it, is up to us, not our mother."

Jackie worked at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, NY. Do you believe in miracles? The "Miracle On Ice" Hockey game between the USA and Russia and many more behind the scenes stories of her two weeks in Lake Placid.

The youngest of seven children, six girls and one boy, Italian American family, Jackie was born over seas in Rota, Spain as her father, a Civil Engineer, managed a large project for the US Navy.

Jackie studied at McGill University, Montreal, Canada and State University of New York at Plattsburgh where she graduated with a Mass Media degree.
Jackie resides with her family in the Northeast United States