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LisaMarie describes her bio as one of survival from being abused as a child, and finally letting go all traces of hate from her heart to become a Health and Life Coach and most recently, Wedding Wellness Expert. Both her parents died a sudden yet peaceful death. For a long time, she felt orphaned due to the loss of her parents. She said: "I know it's the way it's suppose to be. But I think they wanted to die before me." However, she is comforted by the fact that she had the opportunity to say goodbye to her father who told her he loved her and that she was the most adaptable person he ever met. She has kept that loving memory of her father alive with her for many years and it helped her whenever she faced any challenges.

While many people make various resolutions, LisaMarie's main goal for 2013 is to "forgive everyone and set my heart free." Without a doubt it was a struggle to find peace in the midst of chaos and difficulty. However, she describes her pathway to happiness as both freeing for her while being a teachable moment for her daughter.

Motherhood...

One of LisaMarie's proudest achievements is the privilege of being a mother. In today's society where many children lack parental affection and guidance, her daughter feels extremely grateful to have had both her parents throughout her life. She considers LisaMarie her role model and she has been married since October 2012. Motherhood has certainly brought happiness to LisaMarie's life. She said: "We were proud that my daughter had her married parents there. It meant a lot to her."

Marriage...

LisaMarie has been married for thirty years to her loving husband. Like a fairytale story, she was very fortunate to find her soulmate right after High School. He has loved, cherished, encouraged and accepted her for the empowered woman she has become.

Battling Cancer & Lupus...

Lupus is an autoimmune disease where the body's immune system becomes hyperactive and attacks normal, healthy tissue. This results in symptoms such as inflammation, swelling, and damage to joints, skin, kidneys, blood, the heart, and lungs. International superstar Singer, Toni Braxton has been battling the disease for many years. LisaMarie describes her own experience with both Cancer and Lupus as illnesses which kept her trapped for many years. However, through much research and experimenting with products she has found a way to create a healthy balance in her life. By taking control of her life, she had found her strength. Today, her mission is to support and help other women who have been through similar experiences and to give them hope.





LisaMarie has loved every job she has ever had and since then everything, including her life experiences, has come together now. She believes you should live, love, but laugh and as such she cherishes her unique sense of humor. LisaMarie has spent considerable time, creating programs, services and products she believes will help other women. Her commitment and service to empowering the lives of other women has become a lifetime passion and purpose. Being a Health and Life Coach has been extremely gratifying because she has lived through many painful experiences and can boldly share her experiences. She looks back on her story with a fresh new attitude, knowing that it was beautifully written for her and even though she walked in the midst of chaos for a long time, her faith, hope and the love of her family helped her to discover her true purpose.

Healthy is the New Beautiful..


"It doesn't matter what stage of life you are in as long as you feel you are ready to be better than you ever imagined you can be. For a long time I thought it's over. Then I started watching Martha Stewart. First getting organizing. That's the key to a fresh start. Once your surroundings are in place you can center your mind. Then I was able to breathe again. I planted some herbs. They grew..."See More












Wedding Wellness Business...


Before you get married get organized in your lifestyle with Wellness both mentally & physically. Get all your papers in order, you'll need them forever. This isn't boot camp. It's a fun, effective way to be stress free and blissful from this day on. Take a look at our programs and take good care of yourself.


"This isn't a boot camp this is a I'll fit in my dress and still like my mother at the end of the journey. We don't plan the wedding we coach what's happening & the journey ahead. With a fun box of Martha Stewart wellness & spice." -LisaMarie

To benefit from LisaMarie's Life Coaching & Wedding Wellness services, join her this October 2013 at The Pacific Amphitheater Red Carpet Event in California.






Contact LisaMarie:

Twitter: @BridalWellness

Website: Healthy Is The new Beautiful   and Wedding Wellness

Blog: HolidayMermaid2@tumblr
Email: Weddingwellness@aol.com, and healthyisthenewbeautiful@aol.com
Call-let's live your life: 949-378-8715


Thank you for reading!
Copyright 2013 WBPE
Winsome Campbell-Green
www.cgwritingservices.com

BIO:

Linda Edgecombe, CSP, HoF is an award winning Celebrity Humorist Speaker, Trainer and Consultant.  Her footprint is seen and experienced around the world.  Her mission is to get people Fired up and Ready to Shift or Get off the Pot!  Her "non-BS" approach is refreshing, engaging and relevant. She is a bestselling author and her promise is to help her audiences to create powerful shifts, become more accountable and build on momentum. Change has never been this sexy!  She energizes every room as she leads people to loosen up, lighten the load and laugh. Her audiences are motivated and show how they can shift their perspectives on life, and work themselves. She has been featured in the Wall Street Journal as an expert in "Shifting Perspectives".  Currently, she is filming her reality show “Reset TV”, where she gives advice to busy families and out of control work teams.   Her message is as welcomed as a deep belly laugh and as profound as an honest look in the mirror.





Interview with Linda Edgecombe

1: Tell us a little about who Linda Edgecombe is and what is your vision/mission:

I always joke and say that Linda Edgecombe is a mother of 2 and a wife of one.  I love to laugh and I love to make people laugh.  I am a deep thinker who lives a big life full of good family, friends, food and laughter.
Throw in a good glass of red wine and that's a good day.  My biggest mission is to get people to create new stories in their lives.  It's those of us in the end with the best stories that win.
I have been speaking and writing for the past 23 years.   And even though I am not as keen as I used to be to get on another flight,  I just love being on stage.  What can i say,  I am a leo and on stage is my "happy place"  Just give me that mic.


2: What inspired you to become a Motivational/Professional Speaker?

In my last job, I was required to go and give 10 -15 minute presentations for the organization I worked for.  I have always had an irreverent sense of humor and I have a "low give a shit" factor (you probably can't print that. )  So I like going to the edge.  I like mixing the pot a bit.  People sit up and take notice when it's not the same old porridge they are used to.  One day,  someone called me out of the blue and asked if I could speak at their convention,  so I scrambled to figure out how to fill an hour and literally from there,   the phone started to ring.  I knew fairly quickly that the funnier I was, the more bookings I got.
And here I am 23 years later.


3: You have been called the "Re-Set Expert For Crazy Times". What are the main issues people generally come to you about and what advice do you recommend?

Most of my clients are looking for a good ole kick in the butt for themselves and their staff.  They know that my delivery is a no BS approach surrounded by lots of laughter and energy.  Everything I or anyone could ever say to any audience out there, has ALREADY been said.  I just try and say it in a way that resonates differently.   I like it when people say I am a breath of fresh air.  or,  can we take you home,  or even better:  " I haven't laughed like that in a long time"  My recommendation is when we are more accountable for our life outside of work, it changes how we see and experience our work.  So,,, take it back. (your life that is)




4: Confidence is everything. How do you find the confidence to move masses of people to have faith in themselves? 

Courage and confidence does not come to anyone before they go to do or try something new.  It comes after they have done it.  It comes after they have walked through it. When I started,  I could not hold a piece of paper because I was shaking so much.  Just walk into whatever it is you want to try.  And take the word 'hover' out of your vocabulary.  The entire planet hovers.  MOVE on something,  anything!

5: You have been privileged to travel across the globe as a Speaker and Entrepreneur. What are 6 lessons of success you would pass on to other women around the world?

We (women) are all the same.  Although we are different,  we are predictable.  I do charity work in Nepal and out in the smallest villages, with no TV or other media,  these women, still fix their hair when we take photos.

• Drop the guilt and shame.  I have suffered from depression 3 times in my adult life and yes even motivational speakers have to work on their mental health.  Let me say it again,  you are not crazy. 
• Move your body for at least 30 minutes 5 days a week.  I don't care how,  just get more oxygen in your blood system 5 days a week.
• Find your own funny faster.  Laugh more,  it alone can change your life.  It pulls people together and builds bridges.  Figure out what makes you laugh and get on it.
• Stop wasting energy on what size you are,  now coming from experience I figure I have spent 50% of my time and energy worrying on my size.  when people I speak to and work with and cook for,  Don't even remotely see me that way
• Nurture your friendships and girlfriends especially.  I have this saying that is on my office wall.  "We gather our friends because they will always support our case,  but our best friends will tell us when we are no longer cute after we've had too much wine"
• It's cliche but the truth is we can do anything we put our mind to.  Go and set one goal this year that simply scares the hell out of you.

Programs and Publications:

You can find out more about Linda's programs and publications as well as her annual Women's Wellness Weekend at:  www.lindaedgecombe.com

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Bio

Kathleen Pooler is a writer and a retired Family Nurse Practitioner who is working on a memoir and a sequel about how the power of hope through her faith in God has helped her to transform, heal and transcend life’s obstacles and disappointments:  domestic abuse, divorce, single parenting, loving and letting go of an alcoholic son, cancer and heart failure to live a life of joy and contentment. She believes that hope matters and that we are all strengthened and enlightened when we share our stories. In her own words: "Along with sharing my writing journey with you, I want to reach out and share how hope works in my life and to hear how it works in your life. We are all strengthened and enlightened when we share our stories. Perhaps, it will help you find your own pathway to hope."

 Interview with Kathleen Pooler

1. Where are you from?
I was born in Schenectady, New York, home of the General Electric Plant in eastern New York State. My family moved to Corning, New York when I was five. Since then I have lived in three different states-Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Missouri before circling back east to my roots in 1990. I currently live in Amsterdam, New York at the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains.

2. What are the names of your current books?

I have two stories published in anthologies. The first is “The Stone on the Shore” in The Woman I’ve Become: 37 Women Share Their Journeys From Toxic Relationships to Self-Empowerment”(Pat LaPointe, 2012). The second one is “Choices and Chances: A Mother’s Tough Love Saves Her Son’s Life” in My Gutsy Story Anthology ( publication pending 9/13, Sonia Marsh)

3. Tell us your latest news and what projects you are currently working on:
I am working on two memoirs. The first memoir,Choice’s and Chances: My Jagged Journey to Self(working title) chronicles my journey into and out of two emotionally-abusive marriages. In a brief phrase it is about “finding and believing in one’s voice.” It is in the final editing stage and I plan to query small publishers in the next few months.



The second memoir, Hope Matters: A Memoir of Faith (working title) is about how the simultaneous battles of a cancer diagnosis (Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma) and my teenaged son’s descent into alcoholism which brought me to my knees and deepen my faith. In a phrase,  it's “a story of how the power of hope helps overcome life’s obstacles.” It is in the first draft stage, 75% completed.


4. When and why did you begin writing?

For years, like many others, I have felt I had a book inside me. I have enjoyed writing since I was about ten years old when I wrote plays for my maternal grandmother, Nan and all her little Italian lady friends. I can still recall seeing them gathered in the living room sipping coffee and chattering on in Italian. I never understood a word, but I can still feel their fascination and loving attention as they hushed each other when I stood at the archway to announce the play would begin.

As I grew older and began facing life with all its complications, I found myself journaling my way through the heartaches of relationship failures, the searing pain of divorce, the exhaustion of being a single parent, the terror of loving and living with an alcoholic son, the deaths of my best friend, Judy as well as Nan, my father as well as facing my own cancer diagnosis. Journaling became my pathway to healing, capturing moments of need, longing, passion, creativity—my life.

5. What inspired you to write your first book?

In 2000, I started out writing about being the mother of an alcoholic son, a topic that was foremost in my mind. As I began to write, I realized I couldn't tell his story until I told my own. In 2009, I began taking workshops in memoir writing through The National Association of Memoir Writers with Linda Joy Myers. After three years of continuous workshops, I had piles of vignettes to shape into a story. The story I had started writing in 2000 is not the story I have ended up with in 2013. It has been through the writing that I have found my story, which has morphed into two memoirs.

6. Do you have a specific writing style?

Journaling has helped me to find the seeds of my stories. I like to free write with no editing then go back and revise. I try to journal daily and I always journal when I have reached a point of difficulty or frustration, either in my life or in my writing.

7. Is there a message in your book that you want readers to grasp?

Yes, with Memoir #1, I want to inspire others who have found themselves in abusive relationships to look at their role in enabling abuse and to find their own way out.

With Memoir #2, in sharing how the power of hope through my faith in God has helped me to overcome life’s challenges, I want to encourage others to find their own source of strength in their life challenges. Hope matters.

8. Do you see writing as a career?



Absolutely! When I “retired” from my beloved nursing profession as a family nurse practitioner in 2011, I wanted to focus on my writing. It hasn't taken long to realize I did not “retire”, but I had “transitioned” into another career. There is no greater gift than to be doing what you love to do.




9. Can you share a little of your current books with us?

Here is the logline for Memoir # 1, Choices and Chances:
 “How does a young woman who comes from a loving, stable family make so many wise decisions when it comes to career, but so many wrong choices when it comes to love, so that she ends up sacrificing career and having to flee with her children from an abusive second marriage? What is getting in her way and why does she keep taking so many self-defeating detours?”

10. Here is the logline for Memoir #2, Hope Matters: A Memoir of Faith:
"When a cancer diagnosis meets her teen son’s spiral into alcoholism, a woman, twice-divorced and alone, is forced to dig deeply to find the faith that has always been there. This sends her on a journey of self-discovery about her life, her faith and her hope for a second chance..."

11. Have you designed the covers as yet?

This is on my to-do list. I have explored several options, including contracting with a book designer ( 1106 Design).

12. What was the hardest part of writing your books?

I think the hardest part has been uncovering the layers of my story and facing the pain of my own self-defeating choices. I’ve had to work on self-forgiveness and compassion so I can tell my story in a way that conveys lessons learned.  When I realize I would make different choices today, I feel the growth and transformation. Memoir writing is a long, deliberative process. Often times I've had to put it all aside and let it simmer before I revisit it.

13. Do you have any advice for other writers?

Being connected to our own purpose for writing will help to propel you through the challenges of writing. When I looked around at my current life of peace and contentment, I realized I wanted to share my journey through the pain to hope so as to inspire others.


Our stories matter. We are all enriched, inspired and empowered when we share them. The only way to do this is to write even if it’s not for publication. Write for yourself first and be open to where the process takes you. Show up!

Emotional distance from your story helps you to see it as a story so you can reflect on the meaning behind the events rather than use your writing to process your feelings. That you can do in a private journal, which can be the seeds for your story. If you are going to write for publication, never ever do so to disparage another. When we present ourselves as fully human and vulnerable, our reader will be able to connect and find their own story in our story.

If you are writing for publication, commit to excellence in every phase of the process—learn your craft, hire professional editors, book cover designers,etc. Develop your audience and establish your platform via social media, market yourself  and your message before you publish.

14. Do you have anything specific that you want to say to your readers?

I want to invite you, my readers, into my story in a way that will help you identify with your own stories. You have not been alone. I hope you will find your own strength within and believe that you can find your own source of peace and joy in your own lives. Mostly, I want to have the time we spend together be enjoyable and life-affirming.

Blog:

Kathleen Pooler blogs weekly at: Memoir Writer’s Journey: Sharing Hope One Story At A Time

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Published Works:

One of her stories “The Stone on the Shore” is published in the anthology: “The Woman I've Become: 37 Women Share Their Journeys From Toxic Relationships to Self-Empowerment” by Pat LaPointe, 2012.




















Another story: “Choices and Chances” is published in the mini-anthology: “My Gutsy Story” by Sonia Marsh, 2012.


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Copyright 2013 WBPE
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Tina Brown has always thought of herself as being a little different from most people in terms of the way her mind works.  While it's true that she's an educated, professional, black woman, who has an AWESOME relationship with the LORD; she still struggles with truly understanding WHO she really is, beyond the labels that others have given her.

 Through the journey of authorship, she is beginning to appreciate her life experiences and recognize how it has shaped the many levels of her personality.

 But of course, in her own words: "I am still a work in progress!"
Currently, Tina Brown lives in Stroudsburg, PA with her daughter. She is  a Human Factors Engineer by day,  and an Author by night. Her first book, A Life Not My Own, is the story of her childhood and young adult life. There's love, loss, loneliness, triumph and more within the pages.
When you read her book, YOU will to feel as if you are just having a chat with the author. She said: "I want YOU to feel what I describe in the book. I want YOU to know that ALL things are possible with perseverance and God's help! My next story is created from conversations that my grandma and I have had over the years. So far, I like how the characters and the storyline are unfolding".