Featured Speakers for November 2007
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Kelly McCausey |
Internet Radio and Podcasting changed Kelly McCausey's business and it ended up changing her life.
In early 2002 Kelly turned to the internet to help earn extra money providing web and graphic design services. Already employed full time, she wasn't making enough to make ends meet. As a single Mom, Kelly wanted to earn more without sacrificing the amount of time she had to be home with her son.
It was in 2003 that she first learned about internet radio. She became so enamored with web audio that she launched a short audio newsletter for work at home moms. The newsletter was only five minutes a week and quickly grew listeners. This got her thinking about how to bring more audio content to the web.
Work at Home Moms Talk Radio launched in November 2003. The show has grown to over 1250 weekly listeners and is celebrating it's 200th show and fourth anniversary this fall.
Kelly is now a busy internet marketing coach, helping other moms build profitable web based business that give them the freedom to enjoy their families through a private membership site and one on one consulting. She has also recently acquired Moms Talk Network and is in the process of merging all of her projects together into a rich online environment for moms to enjoy.
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Shannon Cherry, APR, MA |
Shannon Cherry is a mom of twin girls, an entrepreneur who works at home and a professional writer and speaker living in Albany, NY.
She is the founder and president of Cherry Communications and its subsidiary, Be Heard Solutions. Working with small business owners and entrepreneurs, her goal is to help them to find their voice, tell their story and be heard.
A former TV and newspaper journalist, Shannon has aggressively designed and developed dozens of innovative public relations and marketing strategies. Her clients have appeared on the pages of USA Today, the New York Times, Money Magazine, Associated Press, and Parents and have been featured on the Today Show, CNN, The History Channel, Good Morning America, and Oprah.
Shannon is the co-author of two books: Become Your Own Great & Powerful: A Woman’s Guide to Living Your Real, Big Life and Parenting Beyond Belief (Amacom Books, 2007). She also is the blogger behind www.mommy-inc.com, the only online blog about an entrepreneur mom with twins.
Three things about Shannon:
She’s an accomplished mezzo soprano who has sung with BB King and for Christopher Reeve.
She did her first interview broadcast when she was five: asking Joe DiMaggio some very pointed questions.
She’s married to a Brit and have grown to like Manchester United (his home team).
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Jennifer Gniadecki |
Jennifer Gniadecki is the owner of Marketing Curve, a company specializing in online presence and personality creation on the Internet.
From blogging to social networking, you'll find Jennifer most at home building online relationships between companies and consumers. A firm believer in simplicity, you won't find her throwing around buzzwords and jargon - the true power of words is when you can communicate in a way that lets the person you're talking to truly understand what you mean.
From buying a car to landing a date, she believes that "Life is Marketing" and once you understand marketing, you'll see the world in a different light. In between reading business books and trashy crime novels, her favorite hobby is networking. Getting to know other people is a fascination that allows her to have a social life in spite of having a family to tend to. Jennifer attended DePaul University, and currently resides in the lovely southern suburbs of Chicago, Illinois.
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Kristen Beireis |
Kristen is a life enthusiast. What does that mean? Well, it means she is enthusiastic about life! She creates her life every day by making choices that fit for her. She loves her work, her husband, her environment, the people she connects with every day etc...you get the picture.
IN THE PAST
Kristen has been a Music Teacher, Secretary, Administrative Assistant, Office Manager, and Professional Singer & Actress. She always seems to be in more than one job at a time.
Kristen grew up in the mid-west, moved out to the east coast and then moved back to the mid-west. "Yeah, the east Coast was exciting, but nothing beats a quiet neighborhood with friendly people. "
LIFE/BUSINESS IT'S ALL ABOUT PLAYING
Kristen currently runs two businesses and she loves working in both of them...ah, if there were only time in the day for another 3! "The fun part is when I get a new idea and I get to set everything up to make that idea become reality."
Amazing Steps Coaching – Kristen is all about supporting others in creating amazing lives and/or businesses. Her clients come to her tired of constantly searching for the “next best thing” that will get them there. Kristen supports them in ending the search and starting the action that will create success…one step at a time.
Virtual Helper 4 U - A Virtual Assistance company that works specifically with Coaches. Kristen is the brains behind the client attraction, programs & Services, and systems management. She created the company to help Coaches work less and Coach more. Kristen is very dedicated to helping Coaches succeed in their businesses.
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Felicia Slattery |
Felicia Slattery is a communication consultant, speaker and coach specializing in training home-based business professionals to see more cash flow through effective communication with their clients and target audiences. She teaches teleseminars, leads workshops, publishes written and audio materials, and offers private coaching to individual clients on improving their communication skills. Having taught communication skills for more than a decade, Felicia knows what it takes to help her clients see results. She offers a free e-course as well as a number of other free resources available on her website: http://www.communicationtransformation.com.
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Whitney Hoffman |
Whitney Hoffman is the producer and creator of the LD Podcast and CEO of Hoffman OmniMedia. She is a regular contributor to the GNM Parents Blog, and her own blog about New Media and Life in general called Parent's Eye View. She has been instrumental as a consultant to the Podcamp Foundation, and has helped organize Podcamp NYC ( 1.0 & 2.0), Podcamp Philly, and Podcamp Boston 2. Whitney and her husband, Dr. Matthew Hoffman, have 2 children, both of whom have learning disabilities.
Whitney has a degree in Developmental Biology from the University of Pennsylvania and a JD from Penn State- Dickinson School of Law, and has been balancing work and parenting from early on. In addition to podcasting and blogging, Whitney has a few part-time "real" jobs to keep her amused, which her husband jokes will eventually add into a full time job.
Whitney has had several "regular" jobs, including consulting for Madden & Patton LLC., helping to design the NFL's ADA compliance program for the Super Bowl, and providing on site disability services for the Super Bowl for eight years. She contributed chapters to Public Assembly Facility Law, a book on the legal aspects of public assembly facility management.
While she is an attorney by trade, at home, she reports that her worth is often determined, by the children, purely by the quality of the last peanut butter sandwich.(Was it cut properly? Were the pieces symmetrical? - It's worse than Top Chef) When asked where she lives, she is often heard to remark, "In a tan minivan on I-95." When people ask her what she does at a cocktail party, she responds "I'm a pediatric logistics specialist when I'm not working my job in dispute resolution for minors." (Of course, we all know this means driving kids to and from everywhere, while maintaining peace between siblings in the backseat, but don't tell everyone.)