Dr. Bill Winston

Dr. Bill Winston is the visionary founder and pastor of Living Word Christian Center, a non-denominational church located in Forest Park, Illinois, and Tuskegee Christian Center in Tuskegee, Alabama.

Other entities under his leadership include nationally accredited Joseph Business School in Forest Park, with eleven other partnership locations across the U.S. and internationally; Living Word School of Ministry and Missions; Forest Park Plaza (a 33-acre shopping mall); Washington Plaza (in Tuskegee); and Golden Eagle Aviation among others.

He’s also the founder of Bill Winston Ministries (a ministry outreach that shares the Gospel through television, radio, and other media), and president and founder of Faith Ministries Alliance (FMA), an alliance of more than 540 churches and ministries in over 30 cities and eight countries that are under Dr. Winston’s ministerial covering and leadership. FMA’s influence reaches approximately 108,200 people in the U.S. and overseas.

Charles Payne

Charles V. Payne is the Chief Executive Officer and Principal Analyst of Wall Street Strategies, Inc. (WSSI), which he founded in 1991. With less than $10,000.00 in start up capital and working from his apartment, he launched WSSI to provide a unique brand of stock market advice. Through this service, subscribers (money managers and individual investors) began to reap sizeable profits and the firm developed a national reputation as provider of timely and effective equity analysis. Today, WSSI provides information to over 120,000 registered subscribers, in more than 60 countries as well as several of the largest bank/brokerage firms. Charles oversees a team of stock analysts that cover specific industry groups, in addition to monitoring the entire market and individual sectors on his own.

Charles' passion for the stock market began when he was 14 years old. He told his mother then that one day, he would work on Wall Street.

Charles got his start in the industry in research at EF Hutton in 1985. After two years, he switched gears and accepted a position with boutique brokerage firm, Greentree Securities. It was there that he first saw a niche for independent and timely equity advice, which led to the creation of Wall Street Strategies. Due to the success of his guidance and stock selections, Charles has become well sought after by many highly respected finance-oriented radio, web and television programs. He is widely recognized in the media as a leader among the analyst community and is routinely contacted for his market opinions by several prestigious news organizations.

On June 2, 2014, Fox Business Network launched Charles’ new show “Making Money with Charles Payne” which is featured daily at 2pm EST. He is a member and occasional host of “Varney & Co” and in addition, he is a guest-host on several shows including “Cavuto on Business” and “Your World”.

Over the years, opinions and articles on Charles Payne have been featured in prestigious news organizations such as Reuters, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times. He has been the keynote speaker at numerous investment conferences, grass roots events and educational gatherings worldwide.

Charles recently published his latest book, “Unstoppable Prosperity” and is also the author of “Act Fast, Be Smart and Get Rich,” which debuted in April 2007.

Charles was awarded the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Man of the Year Award in 2009.

Charles attended Minot State College and Central Texas College during his time in the Air Force and Majored in Criminal Justice.

Hobbies include drawing and painting along with reading non-fiction books.