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Tami Walsh, M.A. is President of the San Diego based teen and parent empowerment company, Teen Wisdom™. Tami has been coaching teen girls since 1999 and is the first life coach for teen girls in the U.S. She is committed to impacting 2 million teens by 2012. Tami has appeared on several local and national radio and television shows including TLC’s 10 Years Younger and NBC’s “The Other Half.”

Tami has been a featured expert on the Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.com website, has spoken to over 10,000 teens nationwide, and is the author of the top selling “Did-Wells” Journal for teen girls and popular audio series, “Communication: Turning Battles Into Bridges With Your Teen” for parents.

Currently Tami can be seen in the feature film, “The Compass” with other world renown speakers and authors including Les Brown and Brian Tracy. Tami is a graduate of UCLA and received her Master’s Degree from Loyola Marymount University. To learn more about Tami’s programs and services, please visit www.teenwisdom.com
Twitter: @tamiwalsh

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Doug Gfeller is Co-Owner of Executive Forums of Orange County and a Master Certified Coach. Doug has been facilitating executive forums and coaching CEO’s and their direct reports for the last 15 years in Orange County. He is a member of the International Coach Federation, Past President of the Orange County Chapter and one on the founding members of the Professional Coach and Mentors Association.

As co-host of CRITICAL MASS: The Radio Show, Doug uses both his business experience and his coaching background to dig deeper than the usual surface issues with his guests and to help them develop new perspectives on common management problems.

As founder and President of Gfeller Development, a residential building company, he spent over 20 years dealing with the daily issues facing a top executive. This experience and his training as a professional coach have allowed him to help other executives deal with the issues that keep them awake at nights. In addition to his coaching services, he frequently runs Strategic Planning Meetings and training seminars for his clients. Doug is on the Board of Directors of Storm Industries and Chairman of the Compensation Committee.
www.TheCoachingPerspective.com
www.LATalkRadio.com/Critical.php
www.Linkedin.com/in/Gfeller

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Lorin Beller Blake is an author, entrepreneur, speaker, coach and inspirer. Lorin has been an entrepreneur since she was laid off from her first job in her early 20’s. Since then, she has owned a number of businesses, one of which she grew with a partner to a 3 million dollar firm and then sold it. And now she owns Big Fish Nation: A business and professional development firm designed for women business owners exclusively. Lorin and the Big Fish team, integrate hard core business skills with a spiritual approach to success. Lorin is currently writing her third book. She is available to speak for Women Business Owners Groups nationally and internationally and always brings a fresh, spunky and inspiring message.

Lorin is a mom to a 3 year old. She and her family live in Austin, TX where she can found out for morning walks, wake surfing, or kayaking. Lorin is also a volunteer on the Board of the National Association of Women Business Owners. Lorin does not just believe women can be successful business owners and have a full, balanced and relaxed life but more importantly is doing it! And wants to inspire everyone she meets to be their best self and design a life that is wildly successful and fun too!
www.bigfishnation.com and www.lorinbeller.com
Twitter: @LorinB

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David Adams is a seasoned coach, author and speaker. He brings over 20 years of experience to his role of helping attorneys improve their business development and leadership skills. He is committed to helping attorneys achieve that ideal combination of professional success and personal fulfillment.

David has consulted and coached at law firms such as Fenwick, Lindquist, Orrick, Howard Rice and Townsend. He has also had the privilege of working with large multi-nationals including Bank of America, DDB Needham, Wells Fargo, Stanford Hospital, and Vision Services Plan.

David’s career includes extensive sales and marketing experience. He held executive positions in sales and marketing at high technology firms including Plantronics, IUS and MicroPro. He was the president of Micro National, one of the nation’s first value added resellers. David subsequently founded Just Results to provide management and technology consulting services to law firms.

David holds a Masters in Neuro-Linguistics and is a Certified Professional Behavioral Analyst. He obtained his CPCC credential from the Coaches Training Institute, and is a graduate of the Co-Active Leadership program. He is also certified in the MBTI, and Daniel Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence model and the corresponding 360 assessment.

David is an active member of the Legal Marketing Association, the International Coaches Federation and the Professional Coaches and Mentors Association. He is the author of numerous articles and the book, Q&A in Business, published by Macmillan Publishing. David is a frequent speaker at Bay Area Bar Associations and has presented at legal industry conferences such as the Association for Defense Trial Lawyers and the Legal Marketing Association annual conference.
www.clearimpactllc.com

Friday is quickly approaching, and we are super excited to have our Blogging Success Forum! Below are the bios of our two panelists. I’m sure this will be a popular class, so please make sure to save the date: This Friday, May 15th, from 10-11am PST / 1-2pm EST.

Rick Burnes is Inbound Marketing Manager at HubSpot, a leader in marketing software for small- and medium-sized businesses. He is the editor of HubSpot’s Inbound Marketing Blog, which is consistently featured on the AdAge Power 150 top media marketing blogs. In addition to his work on the blog, Rick develops videos, research, case studies and webinars on new approaches to online marketing. Prior to HubSpot, Rick was co-founder of Faneuil Media, a startup that provided inbound marketing solutions for local businesses. From 2001-2004 Rick worked at NYTimes.com, where he managed the launch of new sections, including search and theater. He started at The Times two months before 9/11 and spent his first year working on the Pulitzer-Prize-winning Nation Challenged section. He has also worked at Google, The Moscow Times and The New Bedford Standard Times. Rick is active on Twitter and occasionally posts on his personal blog. He resides in Cambridge, MA.

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Roger Matus is a well-known commentator on the use of email, IM, and messaging technologies. He was CEO and founder of the email archiving company, InBoxer, which he recently sold to Safecore, Inc. At Safecore, Roger is now the Executive Vice President. He has been in the software business for about 25 years, and worked on the development of an email product back in 1983. Since February 2007, he has been the author of the blog Death By Email, which Roger says was essential to growth and successful sale of his company.

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Cindi Schmitzer is the married mother of four who lives in Sparta, New Jersey. She is the co-owner of LTDchix, a company who created a line of funny tees targeted specifically toward moms. She grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and attended Penn State University where she received a bachelor’s degree in accounting. She eventually married and has moved around quite a bit with her husband’s job. In fact, they brought their four kids home to four different addresses. Her and her business partner founded LTDchix about three years ago. In the past few months, they have started a blog relating to their business. On the blog, they share funny tales about motherhood and news about their business. The blog web address for LTDchix is www.blog.ltdchix.com.
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Amy Martin:
Most recently, Amy spent three seasons with the Phoenix Suns developing their Digital Media platform and integrating new and existing marketing partner brands within all Suns digital channels. Such digital touch points include, mobile marketing programs, official social networking forums, virtual websites and official team property sites.

Amy’s area of expertise involves layering social media strategies to create one cohesive digital brand universe. She has developed a proprietary formula to mix traditional digital measurement with social media metrics. Her most recent example of social media success is the growth of Shaquille O’Neal’s digital brand via Twitter implementing strategies such as “Random Acts of Shaqness” and “ShaqDay”.

Digital Royalty, Amy’s new business venture, focuses on digital integration and social media strategies to help brands and athletes build their digital universe through the following methods:

·      Creating a digital roadmap which guides brands to establish an integrated network of traditional digital and social media touch points – all working together in digital symphony.

·      Exposing and evolving brand personalities, digitally. Educating brands on the balancing act of being social with human qualities while wearing the ever-necessary brand management hat.

·      Converging traditional and digital media to leverage the brand’s Return on Influence (ROI) and maintain one comprehensive marketing strategy.

Prior to founding Digital Royalty and working for the Phoenix Suns, Amy was an account supervisor at a full service ad agency working with clients such as the Arizona Cardinal, Phoenix Coyotes and Super Bowl XLII. She is a graduate of Arizona State University with a degree in Marketing and Business.

www.TheDigitalRoyalty.com

www.Twitter.com/The_Real_Shaq

www.Twitter.com/PhoenixSunsGirl

Marc A. Pitman
Marc A. Pitman is the author of Ask Without Fear! and founder of FundraisingCoach.com, a website dedicated to practical ideas for fundraising more effectively. Internationally recognized by such organizations as Reuters, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Chronicle of Philanthropy, and the American Marketing Association as a thought leader, Marc helps individuals and organizations raise more money than they ever thought possible! His lively presentations at conferences and fundraising seminars get him invited to various organizations including Blackbaud’s Conferences for Nonprofits, Habitat for Humanity International, and the Association of Fundraising Professionals.
http://fundraisingcoach.com/
http://twitter.com/marcapitman

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Kate Nasser
Kate Nasser, The People-Skills Coach, celebrates her 20th year in business inspiring and teaching customer service and teamwork to diverse audiences. She is feisty, smart, down-to-earth, funny, and just wild and different enough to inspire growth and change in all who hear her people-skills messages.  She has a natural GPS about people and has used it for 20 years to spring them to greatness. As a professional speaker, Kate activates audiences with wisdom, energy, humor, caring and realism. She has BS in Mathematics, Phi Beta Kappa and Masters in Organizational Psychology.
http://katenasser.com
http://twitter.com/katenasser

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Alan Stevens
Alan Stevens is a Professional Speaker, Media Coach and Author. Based in London UK, he speaks internationally, and has spoken in over 25 countries in the past three years. He specialises in PR and media matters and is in great demand as a conference host and keynote speaker. In 2010, he will become president of the International Federation for Professional Speakers.
http://www.mediacoach.co.uk/
http://twitter.com/mediacoach

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Donna Amos
Donna has over 20 years experience working with solopreneurs to develop their marketing and sales strategies in order to build their businesses. Her experiences as an entrepreneur, sales trainer, management in the corporate world, as well as her formal coach training make her uniquely qualified to support others as they create and grow their business.
http://www.solopreneurs.org
http://www.donnaamos.com
www.twitter.com/donnaamos

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Monikah Ogando
Known as The Business Explosion Coach, Monikah Ogando is impactful, dynamic and charismatic. Monikah received two undergraduate degrees from the University of Miami, where she put herself through college with her independent spirit and entrepreneurial motivation and graduated by the age of 20. Her first job out of college as a financial planner, Monikah soon discovered that the majority of her clients were business owners, and the best way to help them was to assist in MAKING money, not just investing the money they already made. By learning from her clients, Monikah created an entrepreneurial program for other financial planners to reach their clients as she had. When she made $124,000 in three months of teaching the program, she knew she was onto something big. Today, small business owners and entrepreneurs seek Monikah’s advice to help them turn their businesses into profit-producing powerhouses, and more importantly, live their lives with purpose and freedom. Monikah’s coaching and consulting challenge people to marry their humanity to their businesses, and their profits to their purpose.
www.fanaticalfocus40.com
http://twitter.com/MonikahOgando

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Crystal Williamson
Crystal new to Twitter, but has already found it helpful in gaining new clients! She is a certified small business coach/consultant who loves to help holistic and helping professionals with their technology presence and computer applications. She started as a computer trainer in 1990. After being downsized, she transitioned from the corporate world to coaching and became certified in 2007. She has her own coaching and computer consulting business called Coaching with Crystal. She has a Blog Talk radio show on Wednesdays at 8 pm (ET) where she talks about computer/learning trends and concepts for the beginning and already established entrepreneur. She’s facilitating a technology coaching teleseminar in April 2009 to give guidance for newer small business owners.
www.coachingwithcrystal.com
http://twitter.com/coachcrystal

I’m really excited to offer my first interview, using my *new* Kodak zi6 video camera! It was a Valentine’s present from Nirzhar – thank you, hubby! I wanted my first video to really count – and I think I captured it! John Gray spoke at the International Coaching Awareness Day this past Friday, and I asked if I could interview him on one point he made during his talk. Mainly, he stated that the reason he was so successful was because he stayed true to his essence. I wanted to know more about that so I could share it all with you! It’s kind of funny, too, because it is my very first video with the new camera, so I had it pointing at the floor when I started shooting! Too funny!