I had a great interview today on BlogTalkRadio with Carmela Tursi Hobbins about her newest book, Celebrations With Carmela’s Cucina. I can’t wait until I get my copy and try some of her recipes (especially Tuscan Bread Pudding with Amaretto Sauce). To listen, CLICK HERE.
Debbie Johnson: new film with Bob Proctor
23 04 2011
Debbie Johnson, is the best-selling author of THINK YOURSELF THIN (and five other books). She is a
respected success trainer and has appeared on national network television shows such as The Carol and Marilyn Show and The Other Side. Debbie wrote THINK YOURSELF THIN after losing 40 pounds without special diets or exercise regimens. She has kept the weight off for over 25 years, strictly using “thinking thin” techniques.
Debbie developed a special technique all her own that she terms “focused imagination.” Her background in education, psychology, sales and spiritual studies gave her the raw materials she needed to come to the realization that fat is only as firm as the imagination believes it to be! Her key point is that the imagination controls the subconscious and the subconscious controls all major glands and functions. Thus, we can control weight via the imagination. MORE…
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Categories : books, health, Radio, Video, weight loss, women's issues
Nancy Hovde, author of Uber Empowerment
18 01 2011
My guest is Nancy Hovde. Her website is Uberempowerment.com. Nancy is the Author of “Uber Empowerment” a book that gives you the tools you need to transform your life to operate at YOUR peak performance–YOUR uber best. In addition, Nancy has written “Uber Empowerment Quotes: 500 Inspirational Quotes for Knowledge, Insight & Wisdom”, a book that offers daily reflection for empowering thoughts that will guide, uplift and inspire you to integrate inspiration, mind-set and motivation into your daily life.
Nancy is a holistic lifestyle empowerment coach. Her focus is in working with top performers and business leaders who want to maintain working at peak performance while still enjoying a balanced life. She also works with those in a transition who are feeling stressed because they are out of alignment with their core values. Nancy Inspires clients to recognize their true gifts and true core values and live these each day or as often as possible, so they are living a life they truly love. She encourages clients that true change can happen when we use our time and resources to develop our minds and spirits, examine our values and let go of issues that hold us back. Through her workshops and one on one coaching sessions with clients, she feels blessed to know she has a part in improving their lives and helping them to feel empowered to become their optimal, uber self. More…
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Becky Henry talks about eating disorders
19 12 2010
My guest Becky Henry, is passionately committed to the empowerment of women and girls. She believes
that true healing comes from love and compassion, and has been a source of strength to countless families living with eating disorders.
Her clients say that the coaching services they were provided, gave them a safe nurturing place to be heard, receive answers and comfort while bringing them out of the dark woods of caring for someone with an eating disorder, to connect with their strength, and save financial resources while reclaiming their lives.
Becky Henry, CPCC, became an “unwilling expert,” as she and her family went down that challenging road that is an eating disorder. They quickly learned that often a family’s sweet daughter “disappears,” as her body is taken over by the eating disorder’s strong and powerful hold on her mind. To listen to the radio interview with Becky, click here. To read the print version, click here.
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Categories : books, Food, health, Publishing, Radio, women's issues
Lyn Lifshin: Queen of the Small Presses, shares secrets to her long-time success
25 11 2010
I’m talking today with poet Lyn Lifshin. Considered to be one of the most prolific poets in modern times, Lyn Lifshin’s poetry books number more than 125. Her works have appeared in most poetry and literary magazines in the country. Her readings and personal appearances across the country at numerous venues, colleges and universities number more than 1000. Lyn has been Poet in Residence at the University of Rochester, Antioch, and Colorado Mountain College. She is the winner of numerous awards including the Jack Kerouac Award for her book Kiss The Skin Off, and Lyn is the subject of the documentary film, Lyn Lifshin: Not Made of Glass. For her unfailing dedication to the small presses which first published her, and for surviving on her own, apart from any major publishing house or academic institution, Lifshin has earned the distinction “Queen of the Small Presses.” She has been praised by Robert Frost, Ken Kesey and Richard Eberhart. Ed Sanders has called her “a modern Emily Dickinson.” Lyn’s poem “No More Apologizing” has been called “among the most impressive documents of the women’s poetry movement” by Alicia Ostriker. More…
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Rhonda Zweber: author of Mommy’s Hats
24 11 2010
After being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007, Rhonda Zweber relied on her faith and humor to get her through her year long treatment. Having three daughters, she and her husband felt it was important to be open and honest with them when they had questions or concerns and to reassure them that God would take care of them. Sally, their youngest, was just four years old and she asked the questions that many friends and family wanted to ask but didn’t. Those questions and their answers developed into a book called, Mommy’s Hats. More…
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Carmela’s Cucina: authentic Italian cuisine and exciting European tours
7 10 2010
Carmela Tursi Hobbins is of Italian heritage with roots in Calabria in Southern 
Italy. Inspired by her travels and studies at La Quercia in Italy, Carmela created her cucina to offer small group lessons in Italian cooking and entertaining. Her experience spans years as the co-owner of the successful catering business, “Occasions Catering”. Carmela frequently travels to Italy with the sole purpose of learning new cooking methods and recipes. More…
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Merle Minda on Famous Minnesota Crimes, and traveling light
5 10 2010
My guest is Merle Minda. A journalist and freelance writer, Merle writes about travel, business,
people profiles and other subjects for a number of national and regional publications, including Delta SKY, Twin Cities Business, Star Tribune, Twin Cities Statement, Minnesota Monthly and others. She published a true crime book, Famous Crimes: Stories of Law & Order in Minnesota (D Media/Minnesota Series 2008.) More…
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Eileen Flanagan: The Wisdom to Know the Difference
21 09 2010
My guest on September 22, 2010, Eileen Flanagan, writes about how to apply the Serenity
Prayer in daily life—to accept the things we cannot change and change the things we should change. She joined me to talk about her newest book, The Wisdom to Know the Difference: When to Make a Change–and When to Let Go. It has been endorsed by the Dalai Lama and won a Silver 2010 Nautilus Book Award. Eileen is also a popular speaker, appearing on television and radio, at national conferences, and on college campuses. Her topics include How to apply the Serenity Prayer, How to Live with Less Anxiety, Finding Your Calling, and Quaker Spirituality. A graduate of both Duke and Yale, she teaches at University of the Arts in Philadelphia. CLICK HERE to listen to an audio version of this interview. CLICK HERE to read a transcript.
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For Pet’s Sake: Jenny Pavlovic and Sid Korpi
14 09 2010
Jenny Pavlovic is a writer, speaker, blogger, animal lover, and biomedical engineer whose life was changed dramatically by her animal rescue experiences in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina. Jenny is the founder of the 8 State Kate Press and the 8 State Kate Fund, and author of the award-winning 8 State Hurricane Kate: The Journey and Legacy of a Katrina Cattle Dog and the new, Not Without My Dog Resource & Record Book.
Jenny grew up in Wisconsin and lives in Afton, Minnesota with her three dogs, Bandit, Chase, and Cayenne.
Sid Korpi is the author of Good Grief: Finding Peace After Pet Loss, and in the creation of this book, she combined her decades of professional experience as an editor, writer, journalist, English teacher, actor, and ordained minister/animal chaplain—with her lifelong devotion to the animal companions who have blessed and shared her life. Surviving a “tsunami of loss” in her own life led to her discovery of spiritual truths that brought her strength and facilitated her heart’s healing. She felt compelled to share these things with others who suffer—often in isolation—from the passing on of their very dearest nonhuman friends, their pets.
Sid lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with her husband Anthony Kaczor and their eight animal friends/family members: Ambrose, Blanche, Keely, and Oliver (Westies); Giles and Xander (cats); and Atticus and Scout (finches).
To listen to this interview, Click Here.
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Mississippi Crow Magazine Issue 10
10 09 2010
Mississippi Crow Issue 10: Fresh Picked
Acrylic on canvas, “Fresh Picked” by artist Megan Duncanson of Alaska is featured on the cover. This issue contains articles by Mary Deal and Valerie Poulin, poetry by Connie Anderson, Kate Pettit, Sue Stein, and Nikki Laliberte.
To preview this issue, you can flip through the electronic version from ISSUU now by clicking on “OPEN PUBLICATION” below:
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Diane Keyes, professional house stager
2 09 2010
One of the nation’s first staging professionals, Diane Keyes has been bringing her innovative approach to the real estate industry for over twenty years. Her unique talents have taken her to four-star restaurants, multi-million-dollar island get-aways and thousands of private homes. And when they needed someone to prepare the Minnesota Governor’s mansion for the Swedish royal family, the governor’s wife called Diane.
Along with being a stager, Diane is an award-winning author and has worked as a floral
designer, lay minister, grief counselor, and book reviewer. Her do-it-yourself staging book, This Sold House, has been endorsed by HGTV’s Joan Steffend and received two Midwest Book awards in both the business and how-to categories. She has appeared on numerous radio and TV shows and is also the author of the popular children’s book, Spirit of the Snowpeople, a book dedicated to helping children deal with grief and loss.
If you’d like to visit Diane’s website or see any of her appearances check out her website at www.thissoldhouse.biz. To read more about Diane, click here, and to listen to the radio broadcast, click here.
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Mary Treacy O’Keefe, Thin Places
30 08 2010
Mary Treacy O’Keefe is co-founder and executive director of Well Within, a nonprofit
wellness resource center in West St. Paul, Minnesota, that provides integrative healing services to people living with chronic and/or live-threatening illnesses. She is a certified spiritual director with a master’s degree in theology, and conducts workshops on spirituality and healing. Her writings have appeared in magazines and books, including Chicken Soup for the Christian Family Soul. Mary talked with Nadia about her wellness work and her book, “Thin Places”. To listen tot he broadcast, click here. A transcript of this broadcast is under construction here.
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Categories : books, journal entry, Publishing, Radio
Roshini Rajkumar talks about her book, Communicate That!
18 08 2010
“It really doesn’t matter what you know if you don’t know how to present
it.” That’s why Roshini Performance Group constructed Communicate That!™, an unparalleled communication toolbox that ensures you always present your best. And that’s not all Roshini does. To listen to Nadia’s interview with Roshini, CLICK HERE.
Roshini is also one of the co-authors of the newly-released Power of the Platform: Speakers on Life. 
The book is an anthology of inspirational, motivational, and business messages, and the co-authors are professional and personal development experts from around the world–including notables Jack Canfield, Les Brown, and Brian Tracy. Check it out.
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What you need to know before you drop your drawers–Maryanne Comaroto
5 08 2010
Author and Relationship Expert, Maryanne Comaroto
Nadia’s exciting interview today with “America’s favorite relationship expert”, Maryanne Comaroto was a eye-opener for the audience. Maryanne is the author of the jaw-dropping book, Hindsight: What You Need to Know Before You Drop Your Drawers. Publisher’s description: “Have you noticed that you have a knack for attracting Mr. Wrong (or Not-Exactly-Right)? When it comes to relationships, timing is everything. Knowing what you need to know before you drop your drawers can save you tons of heartache, money and time. For some of us, finding a man any man totally eludes us. While others have become adept at finding a man, he is rarely the right man, and rarely does the relationship last, nor should it. Let’s face it, there isn’t much worse than literally and figuratively waking up to the reality that we have been sleeping with disaster.
HINDSIGHT: What you need to know before you drop your drawers guides the reader through the challenges of dating and mating in the twenty-first century and shares powerful solutions on how to find the right man, get him, and keep him, so you are fully equipped to create healthy, sustainable, fulfilling relationships. Maryanne Comaroto, award-winning author and media personality, has been inspiring people to create and attract healthy relationships for nearly a decade. In HINDSIGHT she reveals the six tools you must have in your tool belt to create the perfect mate. In her fun-to-read, talking-to-her-girlfriends, storyteller style, Maryanne takes you through the toxic choices we make in dating, and then teaches you how to turn six tools into lifelong skills and Self-Love Prescription exercises designed to help you achieve mastery.”
Maryanne shared with Nadia Giordana lots of inside information about her new book, and about what you can learn from reading it. To listen to the podcast: http://tiny.cc/0a29t.
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Book signing at a hometown festival
26 07 2010
Nadia Giordana, Sylvia Wilkins, Norman Wilkins, and Chuck Kasun
We all had a great time at the fourth-annual, Two Rivers Music Fest and Craft (and book) Fair in my home town, Motley, Minnesota on July 23-24-25, 2010. I signed copies of THINKING SKINNY, and offered the three-volume, documentary journal, 10,000 Days In Alaska by Norman Wilkins (my father)
.
It’s been a monumental task transcribing 27 years of the daily journal entries my father made while living in Alaska. So much that I wasn’t sure we would ever finish the project. But after bringing in an assistant, we are back on track and the three-volume documentary journal is being completed right now. Book one is 454 pages and books two and three are each in the 400 page range.
Norman is an active participant in this process. He’s a stickler for the truth and wants to be certain these journals are complete and accurate with regard to details. This is more than his personal legacy, it’s a piece of Alaska history (similar to the well-known Dick Proenneke materials) documenting daily life along the Glenn Highway at Nelchina (including dozens of families who were friends of Norman and Sylvia). His style is natural, real, and a bit cryptic, writing often in sentence fragments. That’s sometimes the way he talks too, and we made the decision early on to preserve his unique voice for this documentary journal.
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Susan Whitfield interviews Penny Sansevieri about Internet marketing for authors
11 07 2010
I feel that Penny Sansevieri’s book, Red Hot Internet Marketing is so important for authors to read that I’ve linked to a great interview I just read. To read it at Susan Whitfield’s blog, CLICK HERE. Ms. Whitfield is an accomplished mystery writer and a great interviewer. I have the distinct pleasure of interviewing her in a few days. Watch this blog for an update and more info about Susan.
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LinkedIn summer networking event
21 06 2010
Nadia showing Thinking Skinny and 10,000 Days in Alaska
This summer networking event was held at the Airport Hilton in Bloomington, Minnesota.
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THINKING SKINNY is MIPA award finalist
12 05 2010
THINKING SKINNY from Cloud 9 Publishing is a finalist in the 20th Annual Midwest Book Awards (www.mipa.org) Social Science (psychology, family, self-help) category. Here we are at the Award ceremonies May 12th at the Minnesota Center for the Humanities and although we didn’t take first place, I couldn’t be happier. A list of all finalists in all categories appeared in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Pictured below left to right: Connie Anderson (she did the final editing of Thinking Skinny), my husband Chuck Kasun, and me (Nadia Giordana).
Such a thrill to be included among so many great 2009 releases.
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Independent publishing has changed
28 02 2010
I’ve been a writer and publisher since the early 1990′s and over the years a lot has changed. Independent publishing has grown up and come into its own. I have to think that the Internet has helped spread the word and made it possible for legitimate independent publishers to reach the right clients. In addition to that, the Internet has served to educate and raise the sophistication level of the writers and authors themselves. (I’m talking about the predatory, pseudo-publishers that have been taking advantage of naive writers for decades.) It’s not so easy for them anymore. Today’s writer’s are savvy and when they need to check a company out, they know where to find that information. Print on Demand technology has revolutionized the publishing industry as a whole, and there is a fast-growing, vital and exciting community of talented people finding new and viable ways to see their books published and made available literally worldwide. At the same time, we are seeing more and more big publishing houses flounder and cut corners (that’s another article altogether).
One of the best ways for a writer/author to keep a solid footing, is to become involved in local and national conferences and networking organizations. Example: this weekend, I participated in the Bloomington Writer’s Conference and Book Fair in Minneapolis. It was a great experience, though I wish I could have attended more workshops. I did however, have the opportunity to give a 10-minute, televised reading from my book, Thinking Skinny. (I’m not sure when or where it will be aired, but if I can get the clip, I will post it here at the blogsite.) Overall, I learned a lot and loved the one-on-one interaction with the public, talking about my book, and especially getting to know dozens of local writers and publishers.
–Nadia Giordana
Two organizations I can suggest: Midwest Independent Publisher’s Association (MIPA) and the Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Awards.
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