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Create Your Miraculous Life: It's Never Too Late

Wendy L. Darling

For Those Who Wonder If Life Has Passed Them By...

Wendy Darling Gives You a Plan to Get Back in the Game & Get Those Dreams Realized Now!

The Booster Shot That Inspires and Propels Your Soul and Spirit To Go For It! 

Greetings! 

If you've been telling yourself it may too late to fulfill your dream, find your purposeful path, have the relationship you want, start a family, or even find love again later in life, regardless of the reason (age, money, family commitments, marriage breakdown, exhaustion, health, past failure, lack of education...) think again! 

You have a Fairy Godmother in Wendy L. Darling... 

That's what her clients and followers call her because they have all but given up, and she makes the miracles happen...with or without her magic wand!

In her lovingly written, gently urgent manual for reinvention, Create Your Miraculous Life: It's Never Too Late, Darling guides you through the tools to reset your passion, focus, energy and mindset on the life that has eluded you, the one that is waiting and ready for you to step into! Once you've recaptured that, your dreams and intentions unfold seamlessly.

Recognized worldwide as an expert on navigating change and achieving desired results, Wendy, has more than 40 years of experience as a business and life transformation expert, keynote speaker, master healing practitioner, management and organizational development consultant, executive, entrepreneur, and radio talk show personality. Her Miraculous Living Institute provides seminars, training courses, personal coaching and retreats to reignite the pilot lights of individuals, couples and company executives. 

Using her own life as a template, Wendy is brutally honest about her own personal meltdown-sabotaging her marriage, losing custody of her son, a near-fatal accident after falling over a wall at Dallas-FT Worth Airport resulting from fainting from illness when she shouldn't have been traveling, the loss of her successful corporate career. 

And then the glimmer of hope...starting over and succeeding beyond her wildest dreams. Even finding love again when she thought it would never happen at her age. Most importantly, Wendy refused to give up and she'll inspire you to be unstoppable, too. She'll also relate many stories from her clients and friends that illustrate that miracles are not nearly as rare as you may think-they happen every day! 

Wendy's proprietary Miraculous Living Method is at the core of her success. As part of that process, she invites clients and now readers to fill out the Personal Results Accelerator, which jumpstarts the reassessment process of where to focus for faster transformation. (https://WendyDarling.com/MiraculousLifeBook). Wendy also trains experts in her highly acclaimed program.

Wendy gives you the tools to spot and stymie those "Mischief Makers," the thoughts and doubts that undermine your vision. She gives your soul and spirit the booster shot it needs to go for it! 

Says Wendy: "I know what it's like to keep trying to "make" life work. I know what it's like to feel empty and lonely. I know what it's like to work on making a living and attempting to grow a business. I know what it's like to run out of steam, wondering if my dreams were ever going to come true. I cannot even imagine how much ice cream, dark chocolate, and boxes of Kleenex I've used throughout the years. And I also know what it's like to take a breath and somehow begin believing again. So, this book is going to be about what I have learned. By the end of this book, I am going to show you how to reach for the stars, turn your life around, and have your heart's desires fulfilled.

"I believe with every fiber of my being that the desires of your heart were put there to remind you of who you really are, what you are capable of experiencing, and having you stretch not only to reach your potential, but to make your mark in life. I believe we are all born with gifts that, when cultivated, have the ability to make a difference. And the theme of "it's never too late" is now very timely, maybe even critical. It's never been more important for you to step up and step out. For you to offer whatever gifts and talents you have, to be a part of the healing our world needs. THIS IS YOUR TIME!"

It's never too late to book Wendy L. Darling for an inspiring and compelling interview that's a gateway to personal miracles! Please send an email with the name of the show, your contact information, a proposed date and time, and the calling details

Create Your Miraculous Life was written during very challenging times: a global pandemic, political and social unrest, to name a few. Yet, Wendy dug deep and shares ways to best support you, regardless of your circumstances. Everyone needs and will benefit from this information of purpose, passion and performance. You can now make living a miraculous life happen for you! ~ Stedman Graham, New York Times Bestselling Author, Speaker, Entrepreneur

Create Your Miraculous Life - It's NEVER Too Late will not only inspire you, you will be guided to the steps to take to fully awaken your deepest desires and finally learn how to materialize them. Those desires are yours. And they are there waiting for you to open your arms to receive them. ~ September Dohrmann, CEO, CEO Space International 

As human beings, we have two choices how we respond to the inexorable march of time: 1. We can live in fear that our time is running out or 2. We can act with the knowledge that it's never too late to be, do and have the important things in life. In this inspiring and powerful book (which is a quick and entertaining read), Wendy Darling teaches perspectives and techniques for creating an increasingly miraculous life - no matter how long you have been on this planet. This is, quite literally, wisdom for the ages. ~ Steve Farber Founder, The Extreme Leadership Institute Author, Radical Leap, Greater Thank Yourself and Love Is Just Damn Good Business 

The sign of a master is that they live what they facilitate in others. The sign of a masterful author is that they convey a lifetime's worth of wisdom in an incredibly easy-to-read way. The sign of a masterful trainer is that they translate their wisdom into easy-to-implement processes that invoke miraculous shifts. Wendy Darling embodies all of these things in this book. Give yourself the gift of allowing it to guide you toward creating a miraculous life. It truly is never too late. ~ Dr. David Gruder Integrative Psychologist and 12-Awardwinning Bestselling Author

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Wendy Darling is the founder of the Miraculous Living Institute, a personal and professional growth organization offering presentations, seminars, retreats, and private coaching.  Wendy is a recognized expert on navigating change and achieving your desired results.  Her transformational system, the Miraculous Living MethodTM, provides the vehicle for achieving those results with greater ease and speed.   

With more than 40 years of experience as a business and life transformation expert, Wendy is also a keynote speaker, master healing practitioner, management and organizational development consultant, manager and executive, entrepreneur, radio talk show personality,

Wendy has a way of presenting simple, yet profound questions, ideas and thoughts in a way that her clients are motivated, but more important, inspired to action. She guides people to the core of their desires, navigating them to their best path to achieve their desired results.  She blends traditional business ideas with innovative techniques and practical life skills.

Wendy has designed and delivered more than 50 seminar and presentation topics to well over 200,000 people across the United States.  Some of her signature presentations and programs include:  CREATE YOUR MIRACULOUS LIFE - It’s NEVER Too Late; LIVE LOVE LEAD: The NEW Formula For Ultimate Fulfillment and Success; The Miracle of Attracting Love Now (for singles); More Money Now; Loving Yourself Lean; The ROI of Collaborative Relationships; Winning At Business By Mastering Your Inner Game.

In addition, Wendy has provided consulting and keynote presentations to some of the country’s leading organizations.  Wendy now trains and certifies coaches and practitioners in The Miraculous Living Method transformational system, so their clients are able to achieve easier and faster results.

Wendy is a former contributing columnist for Metro Family, Dallas Family, Today’s Dallas Woman, Today’s Innovative Woman and hosted her own radio shows on CBS The Sky Radio, and also in Boca Raton, Fla.  She has been featured in Forbes and other publications, and as a guest on numerous radio, podcasts and TV shows.  Wendy is the #1 best-selling author of Create Your Miraculous Life - It’s NEVER Too Late and The Miracle That Is Your Life.

Wendy holds a Bachelor of Science degree in education, a Master of Education in counseling psychology, a Specialist’s degree, and post-graduate work in Management and Organization Development from the University of Missouri – Columbia.  Clients have dubbed Wendy as their personal “fairy godmother” for her ability to help them live the life of their dreams. 

Create Your Miraculous Life: It’s Never Too Late
John Mallett
Shifting a “Renter’s Mindset” to Help Close the Black Gap in Homeownership 
 
New research from UC Berkeley titled “The Roots of Structural Racism Project” reveals a widening gap in homeownership that leads to inequities in health, income, and even life expectancy. 
 
Interview op: Housing Industry Expert and Author John W. Mallett grew up in the projects and became passionate about home ownership and supporting others in becoming homeowners.  Mallett discusses the “Renter’s Mindset” that holds many eligible homeowners back and offers insight and tips on how to shift that mindset and become a homeowner.
 
Talk Points:
46% of Black households own their homes vs. 77% of White households.  25% of Black renters are mortgage ready but don’t know it. The “Renter’s Mindset”- Historical patterns that have created inequitable Black homeownership undeniably persist and should be reversed. However, the ‘renter’s mindset’ that has been ingrained in many people who were raised in rentals has also held many eligible homeowners back.  Busting the myths that keep prospective buyers out of the market: You can put as little as 3% down (not 20%) Your down payment can be a gift (don’t have to have saved it yourself) You can have less than perfect credit (credit score doesn’t have to be over 700)  Homeownership as a transformative journey- The hard and soft benefits of homeownership.  “Projects to Penthouse”- How Mallett’s childhood in the projects led to a passion for homeownership. 
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About John W Mallett, America’s Mortgage Coach™
 
Known as America’s Mortgage Coach™, John W. Mallett has the unique ability to demystify the complexity of home loans and financing into easy to understand concepts. He has distilled those concepts in his book Buy Your first Home Today!, a comprehensive player’s manual for anyone sitting on the sidelines of today’s hypercompetitive housing market.    
 
John has personally originated over one billion dollars in mortgage loans over the last two decades and is the founder and President of MainStreet Mortgage, located in Westlake Village, California. He received his undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University and an MBA degree from the University of Southern California. John and his wife, Carol, are the parents of three phenomenally talented and amazing children and reside in Southern California. 
 
Learn more at www.JohnWMallett.com 
 
Other Sample Topics:
The 3 Keys to Win in Today’s Hyper-Competitive Housing Market Homeownership and the Single Woman Busting the myths that keep prospective buyers out of the market Should Homebuyers Pull Back? Have We Entered a Bubble that is About to Burst? Refinancing Do’s and Don’ts Reverse Mortgages Homeownership: A Mindset From the Projects to the Penthouse… How Mallett’s childhood in the projects led to a passion for homeownership
Jasmine Zhang

With a conceptual approach, Chinese-born and Oakland-based interdisciplinary artist Zhang Mengjiao, aka Jasmine Zhang’s work investigates social issues of “immigration” and explores questions pertinent to the autonomy behind being a woman of color, Chinese, artist and human being. Her socially engaged art takes the form of photography, texts, painting, performance video, and sculptural installations. Her first solo show entitled “For the Sake of… the Artifice!”, takes place in Los Angeles at the Kylin Gallery (8634 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA, 90211) from June 19th-July 3rd, and she will then go on to host an exhibition in San Francisco shortly afterwards. 

Her official name on her passport is Zhang Mengjiao, however she named herself ‘Jasmine’ in adaptation to the western world. In pursuit of professional art education, she attended the San Francisco Art Institute, where she earned an MFA degree with honor for her Zoom performance work entitled “I Married to Your Whole Country Babe!”, which refers to how Asian women have been fetishized, recognized as prostitutes or as VISA brides who take advantage of marriage historically. By recognizing that her art practice is a response to what is happening around her, she acknowledges that her work is a collaboration between herself and the society. Working on empowering herself and gaining autonomy as a woman of color, as Chinese who opposes to the current PRC government’s rhetoric and broadcasting, as an Asian who constantly gets microaggressions, as an individual whose privacy is being eroded in this digital age we are immersed in, as a foreigner with an unstable VISA, and also as a female figure whose images get distorted and misperceived by mass media, she has learned to consciously conform and adapt as a way of manifesting her non-compromising. This discourse can be seen in “Oh Shit!”, which is a ballot screen printed onto a toilet paper roll satirizing the fallacy of democracy and narrating the oppressed voice of immigrants in a twisted and humorous way.


Brought up and educated by Chinese traditional value systems where each individual is accountable for the prosperity and adversity of the world, she feels obliged to make community-based engagement activities and artwork to empower not only herself. While conceptualizing to work with a community, she rethinks how to enter the community from an artist vantage. What role should the organization take, and what kind of reciprocal exchange system should she build in between herself and the community. In order to support her community, she strives to create a new narrative that contains a reciprocal exchange system. Through this system, she is determined to challenge the white supremacy and American gaze that has oppressed her as a woman of color, a non-citizen, and a human being.

We would love to set up an interview with Zhang Mengjiao to discuss her upcoming art exhibition and her work as an artist.

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Brought up and educated by Chinese traditional value systems where each individual is accountable for the prosperity and adversity of the world, she feels obliged to make community-based engagement activities and artwork to empower not only herself. While conceptualizing to work with a community, she rethinks how to enter the community from an artist vantage. What role should the organization take, and what kind of reciprocal exchange system should she build in between herself and the community. In order to support her community, she strives to create a new narrative that contains a reciprocal exchange system. Through this system, she is determined to challenge the white supremacy and American gaze that has oppressed her as a woman of color, a non-citizen, and a human being.

We would love to set up an interview with Zhang Mengjiao to discuss her upcoming art exhibition and her work as an artist.

Whitney, Caitlin & Morgan

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With a conceptual approach, Zhang Mengjiao tries to increase the dynamic between audience and author by objectifying emotions and investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations.

Her works never show the complete structure. This results in the fact that the artist can easily imagine an own interpretation without being hindered by the historical reality. With Plato’s allegory of the cave in mind, she makes work that deals with the documentation of events and the question of how they can be presented. The work tries to express this with the help of physics and technology, but not by telling a story or creating a metaphor.

Her works are an investigation into representations of (seemingly) concrete ages and situations as well as depictions and ideas that can only be realized in photography.

Her works directly respond to the surrounding environment and uses everyday experiences from the artist as a starting point. Often these are framed instances that would go unnoticed in their original context. By demonstrating the omnipresent lingering of a ‘corporate world’, she tries to develop forms that do not follow logical criteria, but are based only on subjective associations and formal parallels, which incite the viewer to make new personal associations.

Her works demonstrate how life extends beyond its own subjective limits and often tells a story about the effects of global cultural interaction over the latter half of the twentieth century. It challenges the binaries we continually reconstruct between Self and Other, between our own ‘cannibal’ and ‘civilized’ selves. By examining the ambiguity and origination via retakes and variations, she presents everyday objects as well as references to texts, painting and architecture. Pompous writings and Utopian constructivist designs are juxtaposed with trivial objects. Categories are subtly reversed.

Sally Dubel

This is long, sorry! Hello, my name is Leni Dubel. I wanted to see if you would like to possibly interview my Mom. The reason being is that she has written a book about welcoming illness and disease to the body like a cherished guest to self-heal it. The book (called “An Appropriate Conversation With Cancer”) contains an actual conversation with cancer itself. 

I have been communicating with Spirit since 2003 and found that you can communicate with basically anything once you learn to commune with the trees, animals, etc. Everything has a frequency and an energy and back in 2016 my Guides taught me to welcome any illness to the body to heal it. We began with no prior experience for self-healing, no ability there. We worked with a deathly mold allergy that I had (I had unknowingly spilled an entire gallon of water onto the floor and it grew mold which was making me quite ill to live in.) 

So, each time I breathed it in and it made me sick my Guides told me to welcome the mold to my body like a cherished guest. And by day three or four I had healed the allergy! But not only that, I also was able to heal the effects completely, of the allergy medicine that I had been taking those few days. Suffice it to say that I went from being very sick and feeling terrible from the combination of the two, to feeling amazing. 

So, myself and the Guides came up with an exercise for self-healing which we have been giving away ever since. I have used the exercise to self-heal literally thousands of things since then. How the book comes in to play is that our friend had cancer. And my Mom came up with the idea to write a book in conversation style between myself, my Spirit Guides, the cancer, my Mom and our friend. 

She subsequently passed because she refused to work with the exercise but that was fully her choice. Another interesting thing that has occurred is that in 2016 I was somehow downloaded with the ability to communicate with my Ego. Myself and the Ego spoke all night that first night and despite my former spiritual beliefs that the Ego was bad and blah, blah, it turns out that the Ego is actually a Guide to the emotions! I think the folks who thought poorly of the Ego must not have known it at all. 

If I had not connected with the Ego in 2016 we would not have been able to write the book because my entire life changed EXPONENTIALLY for the better when I became friends with my best friend Martin (my Ego). And by better I mean that I could actually speak with my Guides much more fluently, allowing information to flow to myself a lot easier. 

Anyway, I’m not really an interview person. I tried a handful of them back in 2016 and was too nervous and did not like it. But my Mom is much more outgoing. We really are trying to get the message out there of self-healing and working WITH as opposed to against the Ego in a harmonious way. Have a wonderful day. 

Leni Dubel

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I follow my daughter who gets information from her Spirit Guides. We use this as our main spiritual teaching in life. 

Daisy Papp

The world is changing rapidly, so is society. Clearly, change is inevitable. The only answer 'how' to succeed healthily as a species is LOVE. Love is the answer. The most written about, sung about, philozophized topic in human history is love. Let me share the "How To" with your audience. My podcast has listeners in 51 countries. www.baldandblonde.live

When love is taught in schools globally change in all our lives is possible within the shortest amount of time. Moral and integrity can be learned in easy to understand, fun ways. My clients around the world achieve results beyond their wildest dreams. So can you!

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Daisy Papp was born and raised in Germany, speaks 3 languages fluently and has spent a lifetime helping others. In fact, some state that Daisy is the world's best-kept secret!

Daisy is the founder of SelfRecoding®, the secret recipe for healing the past, clearing the present and generating a predictable future in the shortest amount of time. Daisy has extensive experience through years of extraordinary training in the fields of NLP, EFT, Energy Psychology, and other modalities from world-known psychologists, neuroscientists, and leaders in the coaching industry.

Daisy has a proven track recordd and has spent hundreds of hours conducting seminars and workshops. She has helped individuals, couples, world champions and Fortune 500 CEO's on all continents, showing an unrivaled commitment to her profession with more than 10 thousand hours of one-on-one sessions completed. Her three books have been sold in over 50 countries.

Daisy Papp now lives in the sunny Florida Keys and is bringing her expertise to the podcast Bald and Blonde, teaming up with the renowned "Baldwarrior', Kathi Tait from Australia. Together they are embracing the globe and helping millions of listeners change their lives through Mindset Evolution, the focus of the podcast.

Daisy was a signed artist with EMI Music as a singer/songwriter. Her music is aired on radio stations in Europe and the US, her visual art is exhibited in myseums around the United States and collected by art connoisseurs with private collections around the globe. Her podcast has listeners in 51 countries.

 

The Formula for Finding True Love
Jolene and Jason Tierney
Greetings,
 
We would like to ask about being considered as a guest on your show.
 
Using Dolores Cannon's Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique we've channeled beings from a parallel dimension that wish to assist humanity.
 
We are enthusiastic about sharing this beautiful message, contained in our book "A Quest of Transcendence", published by Ozark Mountain Publishing. It follows a young woman's (Malemene) journey from the age of 12 to 21, with her dragon, Auberone,
telling of her multi dimensional existence and development of her spiritual awakening.
 
We would be happy to send you a copy and also additional copies to give away to your audience.  We look forward to hearing from you.
 
Kind regards,
Jolene and Jason Tierney
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Jolene has a background in Sociology and the esoteric arts of Psychic Channeling, Reiki, Sekhem, Tantra, and other healing modalities. Her vast experience as a therapist has provided the platform for delivering a unique insight into how the supernatural dimensions interweave our own. She is passionately dedicated to sharing information that allows us to remember the truth of who we are.

 Jason is qualified in various hypnosis techniques but favors Dolores Cannon’s method because of the access to Source that it provides. He has completed nearly two hundred sessions since learning the technique from Dolores herself in 2011. Thirty-four of those are contained within this book. His extensive study of the spiritual aspects of life, beginning in 1999, has proven immensely beneficial in understanding the intricacies of delving into past lives, future lives, and other dimensions.

Jolene and Jason reside in the Illawarra, on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia.

A Quest of Transcendence
Amy B. Scher

In her powerful, heartwarming and hilarious memoir, THIS IS HOW I SAVE MY LIFE: Searching the World for a Cure: A Lyme Disease Memoir (Gallery Books; Paperback; On sale 5/18), Amy B. Scher tells a fiery and unbounded story of how to take life into your own hands when all hope is lost; by believing in the power of self healing and the miracle of survival. It’s the perfect post-COVID story of real female heroism. Amy would be a great interview.

Praise for THIS IS HOW I SAVE MY LIFE includes: 

A Good Morning America “Most Anticipated Reads” pick for May 2021

“A heartwarming and inspiring story that will change the way you look at life.”—Vikas Swarup, New York Times bestselling author of Slumdog Millionaire

"Amy Scher is a brave warrior and a wonderful writer. She is a living example (very much living!) of what it looks like when a woman takes her health, her heart, and her destiny into her own hands. My hope is that this book will inspire many other women to do the same."—Elizabeth Gilbert, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and Big Magic

“An Eat Pray Love-like memoir.”—Pam Grout, #1 New York Times bestselling author of E-Squared

 

In THIS IS HOW I SAVE MY LIFE you travel with Amy from California to the Mayo Clinic in Minneapolis and finally in India as she shares her uplifting story of pure determination to heal herself from her late-stage, chronic Lyme disease. 

As her body began to rapidly deteriorate and she had exhausted all options, Amy found a highly experimental trial that had just as likely a probability of killing her as it did curing her…but it was in Delhi, India. She packed her bags and her parents hoping for an answer. 

In an interview, Amy can discuss: 

What it means to be resilient in a post-COVID world.

How to reframe your mindset around challenges that are daunting or painful.

The writing process of her memoir; especially how sharing our vulnerabilities can transform pain for others.

How to reclaim your life and what that means.

I’d be more than happy to send a PDF if you’d like to dip in. Watch Amy on Ticker News here or check out her Washington Post essay here. If you’d like to schedule an interview with Amy, please let me know. I’d be happy to put you in touch!

Cheers,

Sammi

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About the author: Amy B. Scher is an award-winning and bestselling author of four books about human’ing and healing. She’s been featured in The Washington Post, Daily News (New York), Cosmopolitan, CNN, CBS, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, The Times of India and more. Scher was also named one of The Advocate’s “40 Under 40.” Amy’s books have been translated into sixteen languages. She currently lives in New York City with her beautiful wife and bad cat.

Deborah Morgan

Shockingly 1 in 4 Kids in the U.S struggles with a chronic health condition like anxiety, autoimmune, adhd, autism, asthma, arthritis, IBS, colitis, eczema and the list goes on!  My son is one of those children.  The journey my beautiful boy has taken me on, to witness the incredible power of the body to heal when given the support it needs, has been a great gift.  Because of this experience I went back to school to study nutrition and founded Kid’s Health Revolution, dedicated to teaching other parents the power they have to profoundly improve their children’s health and happiness. 

It is my mission to make as much of an impact on our children’s health as humanly possible!  I would love to share my story and teach your listeners some simple changes that will create the opportunity for balance and health so our kids and families can thrive.

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Deborah Morgan is the creator and head revolutionary at Kid’s Health Revolution, a resource and community for parents of kids with chronic health conditions. She is the fierce mama bear of one busy little boy who was diagnosed with an autoimmune condition at just 2 years old. She was told there was very little that could be done, but Deborah refused to give up.  She did what everyone told her couldn’t be done and used diet and natural approaches to dramatically improve her son’s health.

This experience inspired her quest to transform the way we approach children’s health, by supporting parents in using the essential tools of nutrition, microflora balancing and lifestyle.

Feeling lost and overwhelmed in the search for solutions to help her son almost stopped Deborah from taking action, it is why she founded Kid’s Health Revolution.  A safe place for parents to find a sense of community, to feel less alone, to find trustworthy information based on both science and personal success and to feel empowered to take action.

Deborah is a Certified Holistic Nutrition Consultant and GAPS certified practitioner. Through her online community, you tube videos, workshops, coaching programs and one on one consulting, Deborah is helping parents make the changes that will support the future health and happiness of our children. 

Tonia Shimin

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"The Art of Symeon Shimin" With text from Symeon Shimin, Edited and Curated by Tonia Shimin

From Hollywood to Beloved Children’s Book Illustrator to Muralist and Painter of Justice, Symeon Shimin Left His Mark and a Legacy that Resonates Today 

Can you recall it to memory? The most iconic movie poster in history—Gone With the Wind! 

It was created by a man who was also equally one-of-a-kind.  Whose life could rival the drama in that storied film. And who stood for those less-favored by an America of the mid-20th century—poor children, people of color and the beaten—in his fine art.

And now a beautifully-illustrated coffee table book,  presents for the first time a view of the life and art of this Russian-born, New York-based, Jewish artist. The Art of Symeon Shimin, returns this man’s life to the forefront, as many of the issues that roiled his images are now still making headlines. Symeon, as his daughter Tonia Shimin, reminds us today was an influential figure in multiple spheres. 

Acclaimed as an illustrator of children’s books, Shimin is also known as the painter of the original Gone With the Wind movie poster and the creator of Contemporary Justice and The Child, the highly praised mural located in the Department of Justice Building, Washington, DC. Throughout his life, 1902-1984, Shimin's deep involvement in the quest for justice and human rights was paramount to the way he lived and painted. Showcasing the only cohesive collection of his fine art, this book brings into focus a unique and meaningful perspective of his extraordinary gifts. In addition, the autobiography and essays in the book provide a unique and meaningful contribution to the world of art.

Symeon’s works grew out of his own experience with oppression and poverty. Escaping the violent pogroms in Russia in 1912, Symeon arrived in New York as a 10-year-old with his family, but found a hard-scrabble life on the streets of Brooklyn, helping to support the family by delivering groceries 13 hours a day. With a passion for music he sought to become a musician, only to be denied by his father. Instead the youngster turned to drawing “with fidelity to reality.” 

Symeon spoke his rage and demand for justice through his paint brush. But much of his work embodied and celebrated the beauty of humanity. His work, lauded by Time Magazine, The Washington Post, Art News and Art Journal has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, National Gallery in Washington, Art Institute in Chicago, the Whitney Museum of Art in New York City and the Chrysler Museum of Art. To see some of these images, visit www.symeonshimin.com

But while much of his art career may have faded into history, his children’s books have continued to populate the shelves of youngsters worldwide. Whether his own or with some of the leading children’s and Jewish authors of the 20th century, he was revered in his later years by the children’s book world.  

And with the publication The Art of Symeon Shimin and cries for justice ringing out in our land again, this seminal artist demands revisiting. His daughter Tonia can ably tell his story and speak of her memories as she watched her father soar in Hollywood and yet struggle with the plight of those who were disenfranchised and oppressed by injustice. 

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Tonia Shimin Author Biography

As a dancer Tonia Shimin performed in the companies of Martha Graham, Jose Limón, Pearl Lang, The Ypsilanti Greek Theater and as a soloist with Anna Sokolow's Player's Project, Mary Anthony Dance Theater and Repertory West Dance Company. She has had an extensive teaching career in the United States and abroad. Her choreographic works have appeared in the United States, the Czech Republic, Russia, Germany, Turkey, Switzerland, Greece, Italy and Mexico.   An award winning dance filmmaker, for among others the documentary Mary Anthony: A life in Modern Dance, her awards have included support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Santa Barbara Dance Alliance. Currently she is Professor Emerita of the Department of Theater and Dance at the University of California, Santa Barbara and continues her creative work in the USA and abroad. Most recently she has curated, edited and with Mercury Press International published the award winning book, The Art of Symeon Shimin, on the remarkable work of her father, whose fine art is here shown in a collection for the first time.

The Art of Symeon Shimin