anyone familiar with these people?

Our parish is bringing in two people for events, and I was wondering if anyone has seen them or heard of them.One is Tish Short, she is a speaker and may possibly be a singer?The other is Fr. Andrew Apostoli, who I hear is on EWTN. He will be doing a weekend retreat with our parish. People at the parish were excited to have them. I don't know them. Any of y'all?