Contributing Authors

Fi Jamieson-Folland D.O, is a Lifestyle Consultant, with over 20 years experience in Europe, Asia and New Zealand as a qualified osteopath, educator, writer, certified raw vegan gluten-free chef, speaker, health mentor and Health Brand Ambassador. She loves to globe-trot with her husband Chris (NZ, USA, UK and Indonesia are current favourites) relishing an outdoor lifestyle and time with family and friends. See Fi in action: https://youtu.be/S5xU96gvpMQ

Sean O’Rourke is a Cyber Liability Insurance (CLI) consultant for Combs & Company, a full service insurance brokerage firm headquartered in NYC. Sean works with small- and mid-sized businesses to mitigate the myriad of risks posed to their technology and data. Sean has worked in the technology arena for 20 years, so he has a unique approach when discussing the value of CLI to businesses. Sean can be reached at [email protected] or 646.736.3737.

In no particular order, Adrian Miller is a Business Growth Architect, sales consultant, trainer, author, avid traveler blogger, columnist, hockey mom, amateur photographer, theater lover, movie goer and networker extraordinaire.She launched her sales consulting business 26 years ago and since then has worked in pretty much every industry and with companies large and small. She brings passion and enthusiasm to every engagement and is well known for her sense of humor and highly practical and results-driven approach that she takes with all of her clients.

A sales veteran of 25 years, Michele Pratt has taken territories and business from the ground level to over $7million annually. Her B.A. in English and Public Relations provided the foundation of great communication with her clients. Michele has been a recipient of several sales awards such as Chairman’s Club, 100 plus club. Tenacity, gentle persistence and follow up are her keys to success. She’d like to share this experience with you. Visit https://prattconsulting.wordpress.com/ to hear more.

After building websites for over 20 years, Bruce Chamoff has become the first web design coach in the world. He is passed just building a pretty websites. He strives to build websites that make his clients money."Anyone can build a website, but most people cannot build a website that converts". Working with mom and pop shops to Fortune 500 companies, Bruce has strengthened the web presence for over 1,000 companies around the world and has spoken at web design conferences. Bruce has also created several streaming TV channels. When he is not being an entrepreneur, Bruce spends time with his daughter and writes original music with his band.

Stephanie Larkin is the founder and president of Red Penguin Books and Web Solutions, a book and web publication company for over a decade. She is the author of Write That Book!, 365 Reasons to Celebrate! and SCORE with Social Media. Stephanie is the host of television’s Technically Speaking, an award-winning educational cable TV series airing in Queens and Long Island, as well as Between the Covers - the show for readers, and writers, and lovers of books, and a third show—The Author Corner—will be premiering on Verizon and Optimum this fall. Stephanie teaches marketing at Nassau Community College and NY Institute of Technology.

Steve Isaacson. Professional. Creative. Experienced. After working in the Live Music business for many years, Steve began his journey into the Printing and Graphics fields by working with his dad to create M&M Bindery - one of NYC’s best print finishing operations. He started his firm, Isaacson Associates - a full-service printing brokerage in 1979. It has completed thousands of print projects for entrepreneurs to Fortune 500 companies. Steve has over 40 years of knowledge + creative experience and his goal is to “Make First Impressions Last” by using “old school” marketing techniques to promote his clients’ brands. While always an entrepreneur, Steve loves spending time with Carol, his wife of almost 30 years and his family & friends. Steve also serves his community as a member of the Environmental Commission and on the Board of Directors for the Northern Valley Earth Fair (Northern Bergen County, NJ). For all of your printing needs, you can connect by email at [email protected] and by phone at 212:226.4477.

Eileen Lichtenstein, MS. Ed. CEO, Balance & Power, Inc. is a Certified Anger Management Specialist (CAMS), EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) Practitioner, Life-Career Coach and Author “SOAR! with Resilience®”, eBooks and Moving Meditation™ Fitness audio program eBooks/Products She works with individuals, couples and small groups in in her Long Island office as well as video skype. Eileen also facilitates interactive trainings on your site for anger control/ stress management, bullying prevention, greater productivity and to boost confidence, focus, critical thinking and creativity Eileen offers a FREE 20 minute phone consult: 516 623 4353 [email protected]

David Abeshouse is a New York Metro area Business Dispute Resolution Lawyer, Arbitrator, and Mediator, as well as ADR Law Consultant. In addition to representing parties in Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) proceedings, he serves as an impartial neutral Arbitrator on the Commercial Panel of Neutrals of the American Arbitration Association, the International Centre for Dispute Resolution, and other national and international forums, as well as a forum-based and private Mediator, and ADR consultant to other lawyers. David has been honored with membership in the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals (NADN), the College of Commercial Arbitrators (CCA), and NY Metro Area SuperLawyers (ADR Law), and possesses the highest ratings from Martindale-Hubbell and AVVO. He regularly speaks at public engagements, and publishes articles online and in print nationwide and regionally.

Stephanie Shalofsky, founder of The Organizing Zone, specializes in working with small companies with up to 25 employees down to solopreneurs in home offices to gain control over their work environment resulting in improving productivity and profits. Stephanie brings to her work the discipline, professionalism and project management skills that comes from years of corporate employment. She combines that with her impressive leadership and organizing credentials including work on the national committees in NAPO (National Association of Professional Organizers) and within its New York chapter where she served as President for 2 years. This combined with her training as a Certified Productive Environment Specialist and her non-judgmental and empathetic style enable her to create highly functional and organized workspaces for her clients.

Deborah Roth, MA, PCC is a Career & Life Transition Coach and Relationship Coach, and has spent the last 35+ years coaching, training and speaking in all sectors of the business world. After completing her Master’s degree in Psychology and becoming ordained as an Interfaith Minister, she founded her business, Spirited Living™ (www.SpiritedLiving.com) in 1998. She offers a number of powerful, structured programs for groups and individuals, guiding them through all kinds of life and career transitions, and also speaks and teaches on the subjects of managing life’s big changes, radical self-care, everyday spirituality, conscious relationships… to name a few.

Nancy A. Shenker is Founder & CEO of theONswitch marketing and a professional writer and speaker. A former C-level executive, she worked at Citibank, MasterCard, and Reed Exhibitions (producers of ComicCon), prior to launching her business in 2003. She is the publisher of three online communities (Embrace The Machine, sheBOOM, and Bleisure Living). Nancy holds a Bachelors Degree in English and Psychology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a Graduate Publishing Diploma from NYU. Nancy is also a mother of two daughters and a grandgirl and an avid baker, reader, and technology geek.

JLK Creative helps established service and product based businesses create a cohesive marketing strategy to evoke conversation, engage prospects and nurture them through the sales funnel. They are effective out sourced creative and marketing partner for their B2B/B2C SMB clients. The JLK team has expertise in strategy planning, messaging and design conceptualization, through ongoing management. Analytics and user data plays a big part in how JLK informs clients on recommendations and its an anchor to their transparent ROI driven philosophy.What Do We Create? We don’t just build websites, we build the “right” type of site for your business model with the precision content and compelling branding. The same holds true for our collateral marketing design, logo conceptualization, direct mail campaigns and social media advertising.What’s New? JLK has earned a Silver Certified Sharpspring status and have become one of a few select agencies in all of the New York area to help clients utilize this easy-to-use and robust automated marketing platform.

Finding “the story” and digging deep to understand the life of a business and its brand is where the true gems lie. Simone has an innate ability to connect people to businesses using authentic communication and tools to create marketable edge.Masters educated in Journalism, Simone’s decades of journalism, marketing, communications, and strategic experience have been gained in Australia, NZ and globally. Today she enjoys helping SMEs and large organisations as an external marketing communications resource, managing web builds, and high level content creation.

Steve has a Bachelors Degree in Accounting and a Masters Degree in Information Systems, both from Hofstra University. He has more than thirty years working in corporate roles, as well as more than four years as an entrepreneur. He has led teams ranging in size from two to one thousand professionals globally. Steve has a passion for helping others grow to their fullest potential.

Marty has developed brands and brand strategies for some of the world’s largest companies, across industries and for existing and new companies, products and services.He has a deep understanding of branding and how a company’s message must connect on an emotional basis to engage with target audiences to generate awareness, engagement and sales.

Beau Karch is an experienced marketing communications professional with proven skills in strategic business development, writing/editorial work, and client-facing presentations. He has led teams in the creation of internal and external communications and worked across various service lines and practice areas for professional services and law firms — such as Deloitte, KPMG, and Paul, Weiss — as well as in academia and the performing arts. Beau excels at working on deadline and at managing multiple writing assignments simultaneously. His personal and professional writing can be found on Medium.com and LinkedIn.

My name is Laura Allen (some people call me “The Pitch Girl”). I can show you how to make a great first impression and close BIG deals through effective pitching. I once sent a three foot tall steel pyramid to Star Wars director George Lucas in a pitch that yielded $60 MILLION for my client. Please visit: https://www.thepitchgirl.com to learn more.

We offer a wide range of services including, but not limited to, the following: the ones mentioned in our Home page; career, life and dating coaching; all personal, executive and virtual assistant services, attending meetings, trade shows and/or conferences in your place; planning parties; getting quotes from and interviewing contractors; making travel arrangements; doing online research; organizing, i.e., residences, offices, home offices; apartment, house, child and pet-sitting; escorting you or your loved ones to and/or from medical appointments and procedures and taking notes of doctors' comments, when requested; referring health care providers; getting tickets; choosing restaurants and making reservations; scheduling various appointments; writing, proofreading and editing; providing expert resume services and training for interviews; working with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other software programs; creating personal e-cards, print cards, and invitations and sending them out; designing Web sites, etc. We are, also, available to provide companionship for seniors and the homebound.

Edie Reinhardt is founder of RDT Content Marketing LLC. She is a former practicing attorney with over 20 years of experience in marketing, communications, and publishing for the professional services sector. Active in several industry organizations, Edie is also a recipient of the Excellence in Communication award from Long Island Business News. She writes and speaks regularly on how to effectively market your business.

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I am a business owner, entrepreneur, accomplished senior executive, and attorney with 25+ years of public, nonprofit, and private sector leadership.

Keith has a diploma in security business management, is a qualified carpenter with over a decades experience, has a certificate in audio engineering and a multiple black belt in martial arts.He is an aspiring life coach, working full time for an international airline while running a parenting blog and juggling a busy family life with running three martial arts classes.Strongly identifying as an introvert he uses this mindset in approaching all aspects of life through a lens of mindfulness while keeping true to his core values and principles.

Dafna Adler is the principal designer in the firm 'Interiors by Dafna Adler'. The firm provides interior design services for both residential and commercial spaces in the NYC metropolitan area. You can learn more about her business from the web site www.interiorsbyDafnaAdler.com.

Monica Bennett is an empowerment coach, teaching the laws of nature to live in joy and harmony with the self, the community and the world. She gives mind-set training talks and workshops for corporations, groups and businesses. She also has a doctorate degree in Naturopathy, is a Certified Reflexologist, Certified Nia dancer, and a Certified biodynamic gardener.

Bennet Gold is an award winning marketing/advertising professional with extensive knowledge in design (logos, print, web), printing, social media and more. He has 35+ years of experience in which the last 24 years have been running Gold2 Creative. His clientele consists of all types of small to mid size businesses. Bennet is easy going and a good listener with a sharp sense of humor.When not helping businesses succeed, Bennet likes to spend time with his family, gardening and has a passion for music.

Joshua Spitalnik is the founder of The Law Office of Joshua D. Spitalnik, P.C., a boutique construction law firm providing outside legal counsel to contractors, subcontractors, surety companies, real estate owners, material suppliers, architects and engineers in the metropolitan area. In 2017, Josh was named to Super Lawyer's Rising Star list for Construction Litigation. ( www.spitalniklaw.com)

Sherry Goldman is founder and president of Goldman Communications Group, an award-winning public relations/marketing communications agency. Sherry started her entrepreneurial agency 21 years ago, after holding senior management positions in international public relations agencies and editorial positions in both print and broadcast media, to provide strategic counsel and PR programs to companies including start-ups, brands, and non-profit organizations looking for 'big agency thinking and expertise' but not big agency fees. Sherry has twice been awarded the prestigious Silver Anvil Award (the PR industry's Oscar) and is featured in Public Relations Cases (Ninth Edition). She is also an adjunct professor in public relations at LIU/Post and serves on Hofstra University's (her alma mater) Herbert School of Communications Advisory Council. To learn more, visit www.goldmanpr.net.

Beth Silver of Doubet Consulting has been helping entrepreneurs and business owners nationwide leverage their business assets to increase sales, improve customer communications, and maximize brand effectiveness for over twenty years. Small business owners’ and non-profit organizations turned to Beth and her team at Doubet Consulting as they become “brand ambassadors” who enthusiastically promotes and communicates their organization’s vision and goals. Beth has fun working with clients, and they know it! From creating internal and external marketing programs to cultivating strategic partnerships, to public relations programs, Beth understands the importance of creating a businesses’ unique niche and how that impacts the bottom line.When Beth she is not working, Beth is Miles and Matthew’s mom and Evan Pilchik’s wife.

A native of England and current Connecticut resident, I’ve spent my entire career fulfilling my passion; working with children. After earning a degree in childhood education and development, I was a nanny in the private sector for over ten years and published two children’s books (“A New Hat for Mommy” and “Picnics and Puddles: The Adventures of the Giggling Pig & Friends”). In 2006, I founded The Giggling Pig Art and Party Studio to give children the opportunity to be more creative. Compassion, creativity and art are the foundation for my studios (Shelton and Bethel, CT). I love making connections with children through art and helping them to be confident, kind and expressive. We offer art classes for toddlers through adults in our studios along with off-site private parties for adults or children. I recently spoke at the Smart Hustle Small Business Conference 2016 in NYC and was excited to win two silver awards at the 13th annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business for two categories; Female Entrepreneur of the Year, Consumer Services and Maverick of the Year. I am looking forward to the launch of Giggles On The Go in 2017. This is an art subscription that will be available nationwide. With a decline in good quality art programs in school, I wanted to focus on reaching as many families as possible with our art lessons. I am also excited about partnering with Chelsea Piers in Stamford, CT to offer corporate and team building paint parties. The Giggling Pig Art & Party Studios are certainly growing and I look forward to seeing what 2017 brings.

John heads Follis Inc and Big Idea Video which meets the growing need for more compelling, creative web video. Previously, John headed one of Mad Ave's hottest agencies, Follis/DeVito/Verdi with campaigns that received press in The Wall St Journal, NY Times, USAToday, TIME, Forbes, and The Harvard Business Review. John also performed stand-up comedy at the Gotham Comedy Club, once, and then decided not to quit his day job.

International author, lecturer and consultant, Scott Hornstein works with clients to gain a competitively superior understanding of their prospects, and their responsibilities to the buying center.B2B clients include: Microsoft, IBM, HP, AT&T, Merrill Lynch, The Phoenician, Viryd Technologies, and Franklin Covey. The Peelle Company, PaperDirect, and AmerInst Professional Services.His articles and interviews have appeared in Brandweek, Adweek, MENG blog, CRM, Catalog Age, BtoB, and more. He has lectured for the ANA, AMA, DMA, NYU, Fordham, Mercy, Pace, and Connecticut State Universities.Services include: - Getting to a better understanding of your customer through voice of customer depth research, persona creation, quantitative study - Helping your customer to better understand you through branding, positioning, and messaging - Generating interest, involvement, and engagement through lead generation and nurturing programs - Finding the road to continuous improvement through customer feedback, satisfaction, and referral.

Sam Liebowitz, known as The Conscious Consultant, is a mentor, coach, speaker, healer and serial entrepreneur. He has been in business for himself since 1993 and has owned several successful businesses, including a software consulting firm, a video publishing business and an internet business for aerospace engineers and managers. His current ventures include Talking Alternative Broadcasting, an Internet Radio Station which reaches over 100 countries worldwide, The Conscious Consultant, a coaching and mentoring service which promotes sensible, ethical, moral and conscious ways to build careers and businesses, and Double Diamond Wellness a healing center to which he brings his high level business and intuitive skills. In these various roles Sam has inspired hundreds of people to live that are happier, healthier and more fulfilled. Sam has lectured in several venues in New York City, including being a featured speaker at TEDxUpperWestSide in 2016.

Carolyn is a web designer, email marketer & social media marketer who works with small businesses and non profit organizations to help them with their online and offline marketing needs. Carolyn believes that small businesses deserve the same quality of marketing as larger businesses in spite of the fact that they have fewer resources available to them. Carolyn has garnered much prestige as the go to person for all your web design, email marketing & social media needs. Carolyn is a Certified Constant Contact Solutions Provider and continues to stay on the cutting edge of web design, email marketing and social media marketing. Carolyn holds a Bachelors degree in Graphic Design from SUNY College @ Buffalo

Judy Katz has ghostwritten, published and publicized 45 books so far. Judy also has a publishing arm, New Voices Press, and along with self-publishing helps promote her authors' books to serve them as "the ultimate marketing and reputation-building tool." Judy is a proud member of the Author's Guild and many other prestigious professional and networking organizations. Her website is www.katzcreativebooksandmedia.com. Judy can be reached at 212-580-8833 or [email protected].