Guest for Your Show

Power Your Profit: Bestselling Author & Podcast Host Susie Carder 

Susie Carder, The Profit Coach, Built and Sold TWO $10 MILLION Businesses--Now She Shows People How to Go from $10,000 to $10 Million in Their Businesses

The Siren of Scaling-Up Brings Her Knowledge, Experience and Wit to Her Podcast

Imagine you are a single mom with two small girls, fresh from cosmetology school, a hairdresser just getting by on $25,000 a year.

Now imagine you have built and sold two powerhouse businesses for $10 Million each, coached 100,000 entrepreneurs to increase their revenues by 3000%, and become an international bestselling author and host of a fast-rising podcast "Power Your Profit." 

So let me introduce you to Susie Carder-the woman who transformed from the first into the second in just a few short years and is now sharing her genius and her "rebel spirit" with others to help them make the kind of huge business and lifestyle leap that is her signature.

Susie has an infectious, fun personality that makes her a firecracker on stage in person and on her podcast! She has worked with and been the trusted colleague of John Assaraf, Lisa Nichols, Steve Harvey, Doug Carter and Paul Mitchell. She has been featured on John Lee Dumas' #1 rated internationally acclaimed podcast Entrepreneurs on Fire.

Her journey from low-paid hairdresser to visionary business leader creating multiple multi-million ventures was fueled by her unique gift of simplifying complicated issues by creating simple proven systems that are guaranteed to create dramatic growth for any company.

Susie's go-for-it passion was seeded in her childhood, where she was raised in a lower-income family with lots of siblings. With money scarce, she learned quickly that if she wanted something more, a she had to find a way to pay for it-and she did, working multiple jobs! Cosmetology ultimately provided the skill, but "seeing things differently" gave her an edge. Her first step was to find a way to buy the shop in which she worked, turning it into a hugely successful commission-based salon and spa, then creating a business teaching her successful business practices to other salon owners. Those were her initial multi-million-dollar ventures. And not the last!

Leveraging her expertise for the benefit of other entrepreneurs is what fires her up today, through her coaching programs, courses, books, her podcast and 160,000 followers on social media.

Among the guidance Susie offers is:

On her podcast, Susie offers priceless wisdom for business owners, entrepreneurs-in-training, and those yearning to be their own boss. She is at the top of her field, and has the hindsight of what NOT to do and knowledge of what TO DO. www.poweryourprofitspodcast.com 

 You can see more at www.SusieCarder.com or take Susie's Free 10-Point Business Planning Assessment at www.susiecarder.com/freebizassessment

If you would like to interview Susie Carder - the woman who holds that wealth is your birthright -- on scaling your business from $10,000 to $10 million, and get a copy of her new book Power Your Profit, please send an email with the name of the show, your contact information, a proposed date and time, and the calling details.

Susie Carder is a globally recognized profitability coach and inventor of the Predictable Success Method™. Her radical business strategies have helped thousands of entrepreneurs and small business owners achieve exponential growth and triple their profits.

You’d never guess behind Susie Carder’s multi-million dollar success, best-selling author title, and fire engine red lipstick,that she grew up with a very different set of numbers: 9 siblings, 3-bedroom home, poverty-level neighborhood.

When failure is not an option, creative solutions manifest themselves. If you just know to look for them, opportunities eclipse everything else. This is what Susie believes after a life filled with obstacles, setbacks, and some shock-worthy wins.

Susie soon became passionate about helping other business owners achieve what came naturally to her –growth and sustainability.As she led business after business to success, the true test of her talents came unexpectedly. A serious car accident threatened Susie’slife and instantly took her away from her business. As she took time off for surgery and healing, something incredible happened behind the scenes. Not only did her business stay afloat, it expanded tenfold.

The systems she created enabled her staff to carry on without her. So many business owners live in fear of not being able to work, however as Susie healed, her business thrived. Susie’s calling became crystal clear: Bring this level of freedom to others.

Shake It Off Leadership-

Achieving Success Through the Eyes of Our Labels

By Betsy Cerulo

Who Defines You? You or Others? Can You Choose Your Labels and Use Them to Empower Yourself and Your Business? YES! Betsy Cerulo Shows You How!

Are you ready to stop allowing others’ perceptions and labels of you limit what you can accomplish? Have you had enough of the outright or subtle undermining of your career or self-esteem by the ways people “categorize” you or the way you categorize yourself? 

Betsy Cerulo had her fill, and so she stepped up to claim her labels and make them her fuel for greater success! 

And in her new book Shake It Off Leadership—Achieving Success Through the Eyes of Our Labels, she will gift you with the guidance on how she did it…and how it can transform your life and your business!

Betsy felt the sting of disempowering external perceptions early. Her mother made no effort to hide she favored the boys in the family over the girls, and that they could have nearly unlimited freedom, but the females had to live according to a specific standard. And then, in college, when she came out, after falling for one of her classmates, she began to experience the sting of unkind and discriminating labels. In business, as she tried to rise as a young executive search professional, she found her way blocked and her salary less simply because she was ”a woman.” 

 But with skill and determination, she built a hugely successful boutique professional staffing and executive search firm. AdNet/AccountNet, Advocates for Workplace Excellence and Equity. But along the way, she decided to throw off the limitations of those labels, embrace those she was proud of, and choose the labels that she wanted to define her!

Betsy won’t put up with “the nonsense” she hears come out of the mouth of those who attempt to diminish women, the LGBTQ+ community and racially diverse people. She challenges them. 

 Instead of suffering the insulting brand of dyke or lesbian with a sneer, she decided to make her sexuality a proud hallmark of her success, attaining the first government 8A certification based on Gender and LGBT discrimination. This allows a company to bid for government contracts with less competition. Then, she went on to co-found the Maryland LGBT Chamber of Commerce and the Maryland LGBT Foundation, built it into a robust organization that attracted many mainstream sponsors. As a woman-owned business, she fought the discrimination of banks that refused loans, and found those that would treat her with respect. 

Betsy learned how to shake-off the slights, disappointments and roadblocks in building a successful business—not just the issues related to discrimination, but with all of the gumption, wisdom and courage it takes to create a thriving enterprise, with quality, happy, engaged staff and curation of clients that are an asset to the business. She’s discerned a style of SKAKE IT OFF LEADERSHIP, that will empower any leader with the skills, wisdom and strength to successfully create or grow a business, while insuring balance and personal fulfillment.

Each chapter in Shake It Off Leadership provides lessens, new perspectives and an enriching Shake It Off tip at the end. Betsy’s personal story is woven throughout as an inspiration for those who have struggled with the labels that have disempowered them.

Your listeners will find astute insights on every page. Every business can benefit from leader who stands in her, his or their strength -- and who can spot and act on strengthening the weaknesses within themselves and their company—just as Betsy Cerulo has done.

If you would like to interview Betsy Cerulo, please send an email with the name of the show, your contact information, a proposed date and time, and the calling details. 

In 1990, Betsy Cerulo founded AdNet/AccountNet, Inc., a Baltimore-based company with a powerful mission of being “Advocates for Workplace Excellence & Equality”. AdNet is a Professional Staffing & Executive Search firm focused on providing exemplary Human Capital Management services to government and corporate clients throughout the United States. AdNet places subject matter experts with Accounting/Finance, Human Resources and Legal expertise. Since 2011, AdNet excels at identifying and managing teams of individuals who provide Equal Employment Opportunity Compliance Services, as well as Reasonable Accommodation assistants who handle administrative tasks for government and corporate employees who are blind or deaf. The company is 8a, LGBTE and WBE certified.

Betsy is the Co-Founder and Past President of the Maryland LGBT Chamber of Commerce, which successfully launched in 2017 and was awarded Rising Star Chamber in 2018 by the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce. In 2021, Betsy and eight community leaders founded the Maryland LGBT Foundation, which is a 501c3/non-profit entity, working in partnership with the Maryland LGBT Chamber. Betsy serves as the Board President. The Foundation generates resources and works to activate, educate and mobilize the LGBTQ+ community to access opportunity and wealth generation.

She also serves on the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce certification committee, which verifies that eligible businesses are majority-owned by LGBT individuals. This certified LGBT Business Enterprise designation allows businesses to better compete for corporate contracts. Betsy is a member of the Women’s President’s Organization, which is a global peer advisory group for female CEO’s.

Betsy is a passionate activist pushing for equity and equal rights for women and all diverse groups.

Betsy is the author of Shake It Off Leadership-Achieving Success Through the Eyes of our Labels and a children’s book, Miss Crabapple and Her Magical Violin, which tells a story of how the quietest child in a group can light up dreams when we ask questions. She is also a contributing author of two compilations Women Living Consciously and Keys to Conscious Business Growth.

Can People Be Rid of Their Virus’, Bacteria, Fungi and Protozoans Via a Remote Process Can People Be Rid of Their Virus’, Bacteria, Fungi and Protozoans Via a Remote Process Using a Photograph?

Tom Paladino Picks Up Where Nikola Tesla and Galen Hieronymus Left Off Their Scalar Energy Research, Creating an Instrument that Can Disassemble 40,000+ Harmful Pathogens in the Body

Can people truly be rid of their virus’, bacteria, fungi and protozoans via a remote process using a photograph?

Ask the thousands who have been reporting remarkable recoveries for everything from Lyme Disease, HIV symptoms, hepatitis, herpes, MRSA, Epstein-Barr, psoriasis, chronic sinusitis, parasites, and much more, thanks to Tom Paladino’s Scalar Energy Quantum Healing programs!

And a variety of his medically-diagnosed clients have the proof—Viral Load Tests showing the elimination of the pathogen after exposure to the Scalar Energy Healing Sessions.

Paladino’s life’s work has been the pursuit of a device to concentrate and direct Scalar Energy, work that was initiated by scientists Nikola Tesla and Galen Hieronymous. Scalar Energy is often called prana, chi, zero point energy, qi or orgone—an unseen and unmeasurable quantum energy in the body and throughout the physical world. It was when Hieronymous’ widow Sara revealed to Paladino private notes from the world-renowned scientist and allowed him to see the inner workings of their initial instruments that the foundation was laid for the Paladino’s acclaimed system that was first brought online in 2012. 

Paladino’s Scalar Energy Pathogen Cleansing, which took nearly 20 years to perfect, requires only a photo of an individual—a focal point--to work it’s extraordinary treatment process, whereby Paladino administers the scalar energy reverse-phase angle harmonic of a pathogen, causing that agent of infection to disassemble or fall apart. There are no side effects when these bacterial, fungal, viral and protozoan cells disassemble as they simply transmute into elemental carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, iron, phosphorous, calcium, etc. Once the causative agent has been eradicated, the symptoms disappear...and that’s precisely what his clients have been raving about.

Individuals register on www.scalarlight.com in a simple process that can be for one or recurring months, and email their photo. They are then notified each day by email when the protocol has been completed. 

People who may be suffering from some type of bacterial, fungal, viral and protozoan infection or condition are encouraged to participate in his Body of Proof Study. He encourages them to secure a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test–a viral load test–before and after they register for treatment, and provide those findings, so they can be counted among the scientifically-proven Scalar Energy success stories. 

Paladino’s mission is no less than to heal the world—to eliminate pathogens in everyone’s bodies globally. And he believes it can be done! He has passionately pursued his quest to harness Scalar Energy since he was a child first reading about Tesla and today, through his diligent study, development, research trial and error, he has the revolutionary breakthrough that does, in fact, control and direct the remarkable quantum energetic force of Scalar Energy.

You can take advantage of a 15-day FREE scalar light regimen that Tom is offering on the www.scalarlight.com home page to experience it yourself!

If you would like to interview Tom Paladino (or like to have him make a return visit to your show) to catch up on the latest in his Scalar Light Research and Healing, please send an email with the name of the show, your contact information, a proposed date and time, and the calling details. 

Scalar energy is the fundamental life force found everywhere in the world, space and universe. It originates from the sun and stars. Chi, prana, OM, mana, life force, torsion energy or zero-point energy are synonymous terms for scalar energy.

Tom Paladino began research with scalar energy during his undergraduate years. Inspired by various scientists, especially Nikola Tesla (the genius who invented alternating current), he was curious to learn more about the existence of an energy that was not of the electromagnetic spectrum. He pursued a course of independent study in order to better understand and subsequently harness scalar energy, as this emerging science is not taught at the university level.

One of his scientific predecessors was T. Galen Hieronymus, a resident of Georgia and one of the few scalar energy researchers in the United States in the last century. After Galen’s death, Tom was given access to the researcher’s notes and his instruments.

Some of Galen’s inventions, according to a 1977 magazine article, were “quasielectronic instruments that could (a) analyze the component elements of an ore sample without spectroscopic, chemical or other orthodox methods, and, most surprising of all, (b) influence (even kill) living organisms, even from vast distances, with no scientifically understandable mechanism at the other end.”

Tom theorized that all energy in the universe initiates as scalar energy; and that the sun of our solar system and the stars of the universe are the points of origin, “the storehouses,” for scalar energy. He further theorized that scalar energy is instructive energy, as the entire universe is instructed by this Divine Essence. Subsequently, all spiritual, cognitive, emotional and physical action in the universe is initiated and maintained by scalar energy instructions. Scalar energy provides order in the universe.

Based on these theories and the work of scientists who came before him, Tom was able to develop scalar energy instruments capable of harnessing and transmitting instructive energy to heal human subjects remotely. You can think of this as similar to a radio broadcast with his instruments as the broadcaster, and your body as the receiver. The difference is that the energy transmitted is not electromagnetic, and is therefore immeasurable by traditional science.

Tom’s instruments provide a remote, fast, harmless and painless treatment process that has successfully healed patients with HIV/AIDS, Ebola, herpes, hepatitis, Lyme disease, and over 400,000 pathogens that cause disease. They administer the scalar energy reverse-phase angle harmonic of a pathogen, thereby causing that agent of infection to disassemble or fall apart. Bacteria, viruses, fungi and protozoan, can all be disassembled, representing a cure for thousands of diseases. Once the causative agent of a pathogen disease has been eliminated, the symptoms associated with that infection decrease or disappear altogether.

Tom makes available a 15-day FREE scalar light regimen to the general public on the www.scalarlight.com home page.

So Empowered

Discover the Five Layers of the Body to 

Take Control of Your Life

By Lillian So

 In the Quest for Success, Peak Performers Often 

Lose Sight of Their True Brilliance and Settle for a Life that is Unsatisfying, Unhealthy and Un-Fully Realized

Amazon #1 Bestseller!

If you are on the edge of burnout—or already there; if you are proud of being a workaholic; if you brag about how little sleep you can get by with; if you believe you must fuel your body with energy drinks and coffee to stay energized; if you are so focused on building an empire that you forget to enjoy the journey….then Lillian So’s message is for you!  

 Her book, So Empowered, Discover the Five Layers of the Body to Take Control of Your Life, will be a revelation to you! 

You will see yourself in its pages…and you will experience another way to live, one that will give you a life that is far more fulfilling, lived with your cup full instead of nearly always running on empty, with relationships that renew you, money that flows without hamster-wheel effort, a body that lovingly supports you at your optimum and an awareness that you are not alone, that you have a life-long support system and safety net. 

Lillian So can guide you because she has been there! A Korean-American daughter of immigrants, she was wounded by family members complaining about her weight as a child, and so she unconsciously strived to prove them wrong by building an early career as a fitness trainer with a degree in Kinesiology from the University of Illinois. Moving to the West Coast, she created a thriving business that often had her training 40 clients a week. She was making lots of money and living the life she had imagined!

Until she wasn’t… Until burnout struck and she experienced a terrifying panic attack. A trip home to the embrace of family enabled her to take stock, that something required change. She came home and ultimately signed on for yoga teacher training. It was exactly what she needed to slow down, get in touch with her body and open her spiritual channels. It was there that she learned about the 5 Layers of the Body. 

Lillian created a regimen to regain an optimal relationship with each of them: The Physical Body, The Energetic Body, The Mental-Emotional Body, The Wisdom-Spiritual Body and The Bliss Body. In her book, she offers specific exercises and a series of questions that enable you to come into right alignment with each of these. True Peak Performance is not possible without each of these functioning in wholeness, and interacting optimally with their corresponding layers.  

Today, Lillian calls herself a “facilitator of transformation.” Not only is she a fitness professional, yoga therapist, and life coach, but she is certified in a dozen fitness and mind/body modalities, been trained in Jungian psychology at the International School of Analytical Psychology Zurich and schooled in non-violent communication. She combines that into a coaching program where she offers psychological safety, group facilitation and compassionate communication. A passionate community builder and entrepreneur, she is the founder of SOfit SF, Inc and the Somethod, where she guides high performing individuals to living an easier, unlimited and fully rewarding life. 

Lillian can illuminate for your audience:

·        How to eliminate the never-ending “to-do” list

·        How to get out of your head and drop into your body and why that is so important

·        How to make space for the reflection that can change everything

·        How to “treat your body like the fanciest dream house you’ve ever owned!”

·        How to do a powerful exercise that gives you a way to reframe your day from its highest and lowest points. 

If you would like to introduce Lillian So, this delightful compact powerhouse of a woman, to your audience so she can get them So Empowered, please send an email with the name of the show, your contact information, a proposed date and time, and the calling details. 

Lillian So is a Korean-American daughter of immigrants. As the founder of SOfit SF Inc. and the SOmethod, she is a passionate community builder and entrepreneur. An integrator and facilitator of transformation, Lillian helps people heal, grow, transform, and find what they didn’t know was missing in their lives. She has more than 20 years of industry experience creating psychological safety, group facilitation, and compassionate

communication.

Starting in early childhood, she felt anxious at family holidays because many family members expressed their “concern” about her weight and size. That led her down a dark path of low self-esteem, body image issues, and eating disorders at a young age. She started dieting and working out when she was barely 11 years old.

By the time she reached high school, she was able to channel that energy into competitive sports and fell in love with fitness, which gave her a great deal of confidence.

That continued through college where Lillian decided to study Exercise Physiology and Kinesiology, and began working in fitness clubs. It was then she knew that she wanted to turn her passion for physical training into a career. In 2007, she moved to San Francisco, where she started working at multiple gyms and stacking her schedule to train 40 clients a week. She quickly achieved her goal of becoming financially secure.

But that’s when things began to slide. Lillian was burning herself out. Her relationships weren’t fulfilling, she didn’t feel seen, loved or appreciated -- no matter how hard she worked. She realized her health was declining. And that’s when she had her first panic attack.

That experience sent her into deep self-reflection. She yearned to know why she felt the way she did, seeking to understand her thoughts and behaviors. She asked: “Why am I repeating patterns of miscommunication and frustration in my romantic relationships? Has my childhood and upbringing negatively impacted my relationships, career, and future?” Lillian realized there was more to it and was ready to dig deeper.

That’s when she began to attend to her own self-care. Lillian hired her first acupuncturist and therapist. As she became more grounded and clear-headed, she decided to enroll in yoga teacher training. Within her first week, everything started to click and make sense… this was the missing piece she was looking for.

Lillian’s initial yoga teacher training brought everything together and validated her belief that one’s body is connected to their thoughts, emotions, energy, and how someone perceives themselves. She learned that this influences behaviors, reality, connection to an individual soul’s purpose, or lack thereof.

She was hooked, and after several more trainings and certifications, she became a yoga therapist, which is the highest level you can attain in the field.

She also trained as a mentor in nonviolent communication (NVC). Learning NVC enabled her to hear her own deeper needs and those of others through in depth listening and compassion. She took everything she discovered there and through yoga -- and applied it to self-expression, finding her voice, setting boundaries, and communicating her needs. Through NVC, she learned how to be in healthy relationships with everyone in her life.

From there, Lillian was able to incorporate all that into her personal training practice and take it to the next level. It was then that she started to see herself as a facilitator of transformation. Under her direction, clients connected with their physical bodies, thoughts, and feelings, applying all the practices Lillian had learned along her own personal and professional journey, into a seamless integration of health and fitness, mind-body connection, heart-centered communication, and so much more.

After more than a decade of helping hundreds of people transform their lives, Lillian knew that what she offered could benefit many, many more people. So, she committed it all to her new book: So Empowered! Discover the Five Layers of the Body to Take Control of Your Life.

Says Lillian: “I want to teach as many people as possible how everything is connected so they can be healthy and happy in every way. I am committed to helping people get to the bottom of what’s holding them back .I truly believe that by understanding the five layers of the body you can transform every aspect of your life and start seeing and feeling transformation in a short amount of time.”

Guest for Your Show

The Gift of Shift

Discover the Key Within to Unlock Your Best Life

By Ann Papayoti (with Tracey MacDonald)

The Gifts Just Keep on Coming…

You Can Welcome Them Or Resist!

Recognizing and Embracing the Elegantly Wrapped Gift of Change and Adaptability Hidden in the Hardship and Challenge

Ann Papayoti has endured some of life’s most brutal blows—her college best friend deliberately stealing her high school sweetheart; the loss of an infant child just shortly after he was thought to be out of danger, a belligerent and abusive husband, a child born with epilepsy and other neurological disorders, a family suicide, being bitten by a poisonous snake that resulted in months of chronic illness before being diagnosed, relinquishing a cherished foster teen whose actions threatened Ann’s family, and much more…  

And despite them all, Ann found the gift hidden within each of these experiences. The gift of choice in how to respond to the challenge. 

In her new book, The Gift of Shift: Discover the Key Within to Unlock Your Best Life, written with fellow life coach Tracey MacDonald, Ann uses many of these experiences to show how one can open that gift lovingly. Instead of freezing up, becoming resistant or giving in to depression, resignation or other unhealthy emotions, one can choose a better, more life- affirming, adaptable approach that can lead to new possibilities and a better pathway forward.

Using “Gift” as the central theme of the book and each individual chapter, Ann relays incidences in her life that tested her at the deepest level, and how she rewrote her story to find the nugget of truth that provided hope, healing, resolve and wisdom.

Cleverly written, with charm and heart, the chapters include The Gift of a Band-Aid, The Gift of Charlie Brown,The Gift of Grits, The Gift of Buoyancy, and more. As she states, the gift of the book itself, is to give readers “a clearer picture on how to make shift happen for yourself. It starts with becoming aware of your thoughts, feelings and actions, and in time, the key to help you unlock a lighter, happier, and freer version of yourself.”

Each chapter includes questions the reader can ask her or himself to explore a parallel experience or lesson learned, and then a place to write their own story for reexamination, under the new light of the Gift of Shift. The book is written as a guide to make it easy to CHOOSE CHANGE!

Ann is an international life, leadership and relationship coach. She is an International Coach Federation Accredited Professional Certified Coach, and a member of the Association of Integrative Psychology. Dedicated to waking people up to living their best life by helping them untangle from their past, Ann further helps them align with their values and connect to their higher purpose. Ann inspires people by sharing her personal experiences of loss, transition and triumph. Ann is especially known for the personal and compassionate way she guides people to their own insights and growth.  

The Gift of Shift is Ann’s gift to those who are struggling with life’s unforeseen consequences, and fear what is ahead. She shows how easy change can be once you embrace the gift within the challenge, and set your course for a lighter heart, an alternative emotion, and a surrender within the moment.

If you’d like to interview Ann Papayoti on The Gift of Shift, please send an email with the name of the show, your contact information, a proposed date and time, and the calling details.

Missi Hatfield

(772) 332 0528

Missi@ConsciousMediaRelations.com

Jackie Lapin

(818) 707 1473

Jackie@ConsciousMediaRelations.com

Ann Papayoti has always been the go-to girl for friends experiencing problems. She could have started her own ‘Dear Annie’ column decades ago! In fact, her high school yearbook quotes a classmate describing her as a “good listener.” Little did she know then that listening with empathy was an invaluable, innate skill that would become foundational to her life’s work. Ann is the founder of SkyView Coaching. She is an international life, leadership, and relationship coach, speaker, writer, educator, and co-author of The Gift of Shift, an intimate self-help book. She is an Expert Contributor for YourTango Media and has been featured in MSN, Google, Yahoo, Apple News, and more. Ann has spoken at conferences, summits, and commemorations, both live and online, throughout North America. She captivates, educates, and inspires audiences by sharing her personal experiences of loss, transition, and triumph. Ann helps people rise above life’s painful and challenging moments, so they can revive their life and thrive once more. She is known for the personal and compassionate way she guides people to their own insights and growth, having helped thousands of people with their personal and professional goals. Her credentials include a B.A. in Journalism and Communications and multiple professional certifications, including Certified Professional Coach (CPC), Master Energy Leadership Index Practitioner (ELI-MP), and NeuroLinguistics Programming Practitioner (NLP). Ann currently resides in a charming little town near Dallas, Texas, with her family. This almost empty-nester rises and shines each morning by teaching group fitness classes before beginning her workday. With a love of dance since childhood, Zumba is her passion, along with loaded lattes and page-turner books. To learn how she can help you or to book her for an event, connect with Ann on her website (www.skyviewcoaching.com,) Facebook, or Instagram.

Deborah Grayson Riegel is a keynote speaker, executive coach, and consultant who has taught leadership communication for Wharton Business School, Duke Corporate Education, Columbia Business School’s Women in Leadership Program, and the Beijing International MBA Program at Peking University. She writes for Harvard Business Review, Inc., Psychology Today, Forbes, and Fast Company, and has been featured in Bloomberg Businessweek, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. She is the author of “Go to Help: 31 Ways to Offer, Ask for, and Accept Help” and "Overcoming Overthinking: 36 Ways to Tame Anxiety for Work, School, and Life" and consults and speaks for clients including Amazon, BlackRock, Google, KraftHeinz, PepsiCo, and The United States Army.  You can find her online at www.deborahgraysonriegel.com.

How Each Of Us Can Leverage The Power Of Gratitude To Improve Our Overall Mental Wellness. I will answer this question through my experience as a faith leader in an inner-city truth who has witnessed the power of gratitude and meditation in changing people's lives. These practices help people climb stop rolling around in the past and future and embrace the present moment--practices that cannot be understated for a full and healthy life. 

Alan Davey is the senior minister of an inner-city church in Toronto, Canada, and Adjunct Professor of Christian Spirituality and Worship at Tyndale University and Seminary, also in Toronto. He is co-author with Elizabeth Davey of three books—Climbing the Spiritual Mountain, Abba’s Whisper, and The Passionate Bride, all with Wipf and Stock Publishers. His latest book Walking the Line: Embracing the Imperatives of Jesus (Wipf and Stock) has just been released.)

In his new book Income and Wealth, lifelong educator David Parker shares the perspective and principles on which he has built a successful career as an entrepreneur and investor. The lessons that Parker shares with readers in this thought-provoking, transformational work encapsulate the author’s 40-year study of economic history and principles. This new book arrives just when millions of Americans -- indeed, people worldwide -- are desperately searching for the wisdom and insight that can help them rise above the financial problems facing every sector of business and society.

When he began his teaching career, Parker broke with conventional wisdom. He chose a different path from the majority of his colleagues in the educational field.  Rather than place his faith and his future in the teachers’ union or the government, Parker’s intellectual curiosity drove him to explore why government intervention in any aspect of our lives – from education to healthcare – is doomed to failure, and how individual action, regardless of annual income, can lead to the accumulation of wealth. While some might label his political views, especially his disdain for government intervention, “conservative,” Parker calls himself a “classical liberal” – adamant that citizens should not be forced to support programs inconsistent with free market economics. The result of Parker’s scholarly inquiry into the proper role of government in our lives -- Income and Wealth -- is the result of 30 years of study and 30,000 hours of annotated reading of the world’s foremost experts on the subject of political economy including Aristotle, Adam Smith, F.A. Hayek and Ayn Rand.

Known for his “unconventional wisdom,” Parker shares common ground with many individuals currently identified as “Progressives,” in his belief that virtually everyone – even those earning minimum-wage income – have the opportunity to create wealth.  “Most people in this country don’t realize they are living way beyond their means,” Parker says. The prescription he advocates for wealth creation may not be easy – but it is certainly effective. He urges all young people, regardless their earning power, to invest half their annual income. “Even those not especially creative or brilliant,” he says, “will generate significant income from their investments within ten years.” 

As the author shares in Income and Wealth, individual responsibility and initiative are essential keys to achieving financial success – and, in fact, is the only sustainable path to this goal. As readers will discover, Parker not only presents a compelling case for the benefits of free market economics, and he also shares principles and insights that can be used as the building blocks for a step-by-step plan for financial prosperity.

As “a classical liberal,” Parker believes our government should be based on a foundation of social, political and economic freedom.  “Freedom in these three areas is fundamentally interconnected,” Parker says. “The degree to which you restrict one – for example, constraining economic freedom through a policy such as rent control – inevitably results in an equal constraint on the other two areas.” Further, he says it is important to remember that this nation was built on simple, fundamental principles. The U.S. Constitution, for example, is written on a single page. Our government’s tendency to overcomplicate issues and interfere in the free market has been a disaster – as we have seen.”

In addition, he notes, America’s business community has no lack of ingenuity when it comes to circumventing government policy and law – regardless of the political party pushing for such regulation. This fact, Parker believes, underscores the preeminence of free market forces, as business naturally seeks to be free of government constraint. 

David Parker began his career in education at the age of 24 and served students of San Francisco’s inner-city public elementary schools for 40 years as a music teacher, followed by 10 years as a volunteer. While pursuing his career in education, Parker also became a very successful real estate investor. It was success in business that focused his writing, teaching and career as a professional musician. Parker’s career as a musician is similarly impressive. He spent 20 years as member of the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra and 15 years as leader of the Dave Parker Sextet, which has headlined at San Francisco’s Fillmore Jazz Festival.

As Income and Wealth approached publication, Parker was already hard at work on his next book.  His thoughtful essays have been featured in The Economist, The Financial Times and several prestigious law journals. In addition to being an author, entrepreneur and investor, David Parker is also a proud father and grandfather.  In his later years, his mother Gertrud Parker – who passed away earlier this year at the age of 96 – served as a powerful inspiration, with her international acclaim as an artist as well as a civic leader in San Francisco.

Over the past two years, there has been a massive increase in online child enticement and exploitation, along with teen depression, self-harm, and suicide. Children are isolated, lonely, afraid, and looking for a connection with others – predators know this and are intentionally targeting children everywhere! 

Consider these numbers: 10, 8, 98 and 21 

• 10 is the average age of the child being groomed online  

• 8 is the number of days a predator can groom and recruit a  child into sending nudes or leaving home to meet a stranger 

• 98 is the percent increase in child online exploitation between 2020 and 2021 

• 21.7 million reports of child sexual exploitation made to the CyberTipline in 2020 included 65.4 million images, videos, and other files. 

Now more than ever children are at risk for online child exploitation and they do not even have to leave home for it to happen. Any mobile app with a chat feature can put a child at risk. Nor is this isolated to children with lower incomes. Any child can be targeted! 

There are many organizations that help recover children from forced slavery, there are fewer that are focused on the exploitation of children.  

Paving the Way Foundation has taken on this mission—in a big way!  

Headed by founder Jan Edwards, Paving the Way Foundation is committed to empowering communities to be a fierce disruption in the cycle of child trafficking and online exploitation through highly engaging and empowering educational programs. Starting with its Award-Winning Film, Trapped in the Trade, the organization takes the audience through one girl’s journey of being targeted, groomed, recruited, and trapped into being sold for sex. This short film does not have a happy ending, leaving the audience a little raw with hearts and eyes wide open to what they can do to prevent exploitation. The sequel is on the way to take the viewer inside how trafficking rings operate; along with an inside look at how law enforcement, victim advocates, and NGOs work together to safely recover victims who are ready to leave their life.

But more than this, Jan is spearheading a national information campaign with schools, parents, teens in middle and high schools, the media, and other critical organizations on how to spot, resist and report perpetrators—how NOT to get ensnared!  

As part of Paving The Ways’ mission, Jan does monthly Parent Tech Talks to cover a variety of topics parents need to know - - and offers tools to start those difficult conversations with their kids on this topic. Because of the current environment, she’s designing an interactive book for parents to use with their teens to open up effective communication, so they feel taken care of, heard, and protected. Being a teenager is a challenge and most parents do not fully understand what their kids are dealing with both at school and online. Based on the films, this interactive book will have real stories, from survivors, from law enforcement about ways to stay safe and families who have lived experience, either as a victim or parent of a victim. Each section will give the family an opportunity to discuss what happened in that chapter with the characters, speculate on why they are doing what they are doing, and do the critical thinking on what actions they might take in those situations.  Jan Edwards spent more than 25 years as an executive in sales and marketing working with organizations like Time Warner, Bright House, the United Nations, and other international groups, before being invited on a mission to Ethiopia to help orphaned and endangered children. It was seeing two young girls being shepherded by two older men, that she was introduced to modern-day slavery. She came home and began educating herself on the extent of what was transpiring in her own country. Jan was moved to action, knowing her professional skills could be applied as a leader, educator to protect children, and end child sex trafficking. Jan has been featured in Huffington Post, Marie Claire UK, NBC, and iHeart Radio as an expert in prevention. Jan was awarded Humanitarian of the Year and Community Impact Leader of the Year. Trapped in the Trade was also featured on CNN. 

Paving the Way, which has directly reached more than 16,000 children and parents in the past four years, launched Lights on for Children, a one-day annual awareness campaign that asks families to install a blue light bulb on their porchlight to raise awareness and shine a light in the dark of this heinous crime.  

For many years, Jan fought the myths that trafficking was an “over there’ issue. She is a force to be reckoned with regarding the urgency of this topic, however, with the recent headline revelations focused on Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and R.  Kelly there is a renewed eagerness to welcome Jan and Paving the Way to deliver this vital message to schools, churches, and youth-based organizations. To know more, go to www.pavingthewayfoundation.org and www.trappedfilm.com 

If you would like your audience an opportunity to learn what they need to know as a parent, teen, educator, or someone who wants to help, interview Jan Edwards. Please send an email with the name of the show, your contact information, a proposed date and time, and the call-in details. She is an engaging, straightforward, and knowledgeable influencer on this topic. Audiences have praised the segments she’s been on as informative and helpful.  

Jan Edwards is the founder and President of Paving the Way Foundation, an organization that is a fierce disruption in the cycle of child trafficking around the globe. This is accomplished through education and training programs that empower communities to break the cycle. Paving the Way has educated over 16,000 youth and adults over the past 4  years. Ms. Edwards has been featured on TV, podcasts and radio shows as an influencer on prevention education. Jan has been awarded Orlando Magazines Women of The Year,  Woman on the Rise Community Impact Leader in 2019, and Non-Governmental Agency of the Year, 2021. She is also the Chairperson for the Seminole County Human Trafficking Task  Force.  

Jan is the writer, co-director, and producer of the award-winning film, Trapped in the Trade,  which won Best Script in the London Indie Short Film Festival and was featured on CNN.