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Making a Career Change to Writing, with Carole Townsend, Award-Winning Author, Journalist, and Speaker

October 2, 2023 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

Making a Career Change to Writing, with Carole Townsend, Award-Winning Author, Journalist, and Speaker

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North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 704)

Award-winning author, journalist, and speaker Carole Townsend joined host John Ray on North Fulton Business Radio to talk about her transformative journey to a career in writing. They discussed how she got started with writing, why she left the security of her marketing career to pursue writing full-time, books she’s written, her choice to pursue journalism as well, her advice to others who have yet to pursue their own dreams, and much more.

North Fulton Business Radio is broadcast from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in AlphaBretta.

Carole Townsend, Award-Winning Author, Journalist, and Speaker

Carole Townsend has been a print correspondent and blogger for nearly twenty years. Also an award-winning author of six books, she has established a reputation as both an ardent researcher and an engaging writer. She has also taught writing workshops in the metro Atlanta area for nearly ten years.

Townsend is a graduate of Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee. Her books are rooted in the deep South, mainly in Georgia and its rich history. Carole has been a guest on CNN, FOX, ABC, NBC, CBS, NPR, and other major network news, talk shows and podcasts, to discuss her books and related topics.

Townsend is also a writing coach, having taught writers’ workshops for ten years, with her soon-to-be-launched company WRITE ADVICE COACHING (www.writeadvice.net) coming WINTER 2023. She is passionate about teaching aspiring writers how to be the strongest writers they can be, while also teaching them about the business of writing, publication and publicity.

A well-known advocate for women, Townsend devotes much of her time speaking to groups of women about pursuing their real dreams – those they’ve had for most of their lives and deferred because of, well, life.

The author resides in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband and their two beloved dogs. When she’s not writing, Carole enjoys gardening, cooking, spoiling their grandchildren, and travel.

Carole’s Books
Southern Fried
Red Lipstick and Clean Underwear
Magnolias, Sweet Tea and Exhaust
Blood in the Soil (WINNER – FINALIST, 2017 GA Author of the Year)
Peachtree Corners, Georgia: The history of an innovative and remarkable city (WINNER – 2022 GA Author of the Year, WINNER – the Whitworth-Flanigan Book Award)
Major League Deal: How the Braves Came to Cobb

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Questions and Topics in this Interview:

How did you get started with your writing career?
What books have you written and in what genres?
Why a journalist, too?
What did you do before becoming a journalist and author?
What made you decide to make the change from being a corporate Marketing Director to a writer?
What is the message that you have to share with people who have yet to pursue their real dream?
As a speaker, what message do you have to share?
How has pursuing the dream you’ve had since you were a little girl changed your life?

North Fulton Business Radio is hosted by John Ray and broadcast and produced from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta. You can find the full archive of shows by following this link. The show is available on all the major podcast apps, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, Amazon, iHeart Radio, Stitcher, TuneIn, and others.

Renasant Bank has humble roots, starting in 1904 as a $100,000 bank in a Lee County, Mississippi, bakery. Since then, Renasant has become one of the Southeast’s strongest financial institutions with over $13 billion in assets and more than 190 banking, lending, wealth management, and financial services offices in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida. All of Renasant’s success stems from each of their banker’s commitment to investing in their communities as a way of better understanding the people they serve. At Renasant Bank, they understand you because they work and live alongside you every day.

Since 2000, Office Angels® has been restoring joy to the life of small business owners, enabling them to focus on what they do best. At the same time, we honor and support at-home experts who wish to continue working on an as-needed basis. Not a temp firm or a placement service, Office Angels matches a business owner’s support needs with Angels who have the talent and experience necessary to handle work that is essential to creating and maintaining a successful small business. Need help with administrative tasks, bookkeeping, marketing, presentations, workshops, speaking engagements, and more? Visit us at https://officeangels.us/.

Ava Leigh Stewart, Filmmaker, Artist & Author

September 27, 2023 by John Ray

Hello, Self . . .

Ava Leigh Stewart, Filmmaker, Artist & Author

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Ava Leigh Stewart, Filmmaker, Artist & Author (Hello, Self… Episode 29)

Ava Leigh Stewart, filmmaker, artist and author, joined host Patricia Leonard. Ava and Patricia talked about creativity, following your intuition, tenacity, procrastination, failure, the life of an artist, advice for being creative, and so much more.

Hello, Self… is presented by Patricia Leonard & Associates and produced by Arlia Hoffman in association with the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX®.

Ava Leigh Stewart, Filmmaker, Artist & Author

Ava Leigh Stewart is a prolific author whose work extends from fiction to non-fiction novels, as well as illustrated poetry books. Stewart is also a screenwriter and contributor to many publications. She works in the entertainment industry creating content for film and television.

Stewart has written, produced, and directed feature and short films, television shows, commercials, and music videos. Stewart launched her film career after earning a film degree in London, England. She garnished attention after directing, producing, and writing an award winning short film entitled, Keepers of the Gate. In 2011, she completed a feature narrative film debut entitled, South of Southern. In 2015, she finished Paradise Garden, which is a feature documentary about historic preservation. She has created two original television shows, Sisters of Suburbia and OOPARTS. She continues to work on a myriad of production projects.

She began her career climbing the ranks of news production in the department of production and graphic design for CNN Television. She was nominated by her superiors to spearhead the team that implemented digital asset management across all divisions of CNN and Turner Broadcasting. She took a position at CNN Digital Networks and was instrumental in CNN’s coverage of September 11th, The War in Afghanistan, and The War in Iraq.

Her poetry books include, Intus, Beyond Fear, Revealed, Fledgling Darlings, Symphony of Chaos, and Waxing Eloquent. The poems and illustrations explore our history, mystery, and human experience. She continues to work on new innovative writing projects.

She is also an artist and her work has been exhibited worldwide. She was chosen as a finalist in the 2009 Red Bull Art of Can competition for her sculpture Alternative Energy displayed at the Union Station museum in Washington D.C. Her photography was featured in the documentary, “A million little pieces,” that debuted in San Francisco in 2009. She was featured in an exhibition at the Emily Harvey Foundation and The Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York for her graphic design entitled “Memoirs of Oblivion.” In 2014 and 2015, she was selected as a finalist for the International Women in Focus photography competition.

She recently released “Finster,” a film about Howard Finster, the grandfather of the Southern Folk Art movement.

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About Hello, Self…

Hello, Self… is a biweekly podcast focused on inspiring stories of turning dreams into reality. Join coach and author Patricia Leonard and her guests as they share life-changing Hello, Self… moments.

Hello, Self… is brought to you by Patricia Leonard & Associates and is based on the new book by Patricia Leonard, Hello, Self.., available here.

The show is produced by Arlia Hoffman in association with Business RadioX®. You can find this show on all the major podcast apps. The complete show archive is here.

Patricia Leonard, Host of Hello, Self…

Patricia Leonard is President of RUNWAY TO SUCCESS, a division of Patricia Leonard & Associates located in Nashville, TN. She is a MESSAGE ARTIST speaker, career & business coach, author and magazine columnist. Patricia consults with clients on leadership, empowerment, career management, entrepreneurship and the power of language. Her work is focused on helping clients find their runway to success!

She has a professional background in management, human resources, corporate training, business consulting and talent development. Patricia has worked with companies in the service, music, banking, manufacturing, publishing, warehousing, healthcare, academic, retail and financial industries, and has taught management classes as an adjunct professor.

Patricia has a degree in Human Resource Management, is certified as a Career Coach and Consulting Hypnotist and is MBTI qualified.

Her volunteer energies are focused on Women in Film and Television-Nashville, where she is a Board Vice President; Dress for Success as the Advisory Board President; and International Coaching Federation-Nashville where she held Board roles for several years.

Patricia is the author of Wearing High Heels in a Flip Flop World, BECOMING WOMAN…a journal of personal discovery, THE NOW, HOW & WOW of Success, Happenings, a full year calendar of inspirational messages and a spoken word album titled, I AM…

She enjoys songwriting, creating poetry and has written a one-woman show and artistic speech she performs titled Hello, Self…, about a woman in midlife reinventing herself, which led to her new book by the same name, available here.

On the personal side, Patricia, describes herself as a woman, lover of life, mother, grandmother, career professional and message artist; AND in that order! Her goal is to continue inspiring others, of any age, to START NOW creating and expanding their Runway to Success.

She believes that life is a gift, the way we wrap it is our choice.

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Nicole Myden with Nicole Myden, LLC and Lisa Boettcher and Sage Aubrey with House of Nectar

September 21, 2023 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Nicole Myden with Nicole Myden, LLC and Lisa Boettcher and Sage Aubrey with House of Nectar

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Nicole Myden with Nicole Myden, LLC and Lisa Boettcher and Sage Aubrey with House of Nectar

Nicole Myden, LLC – a boutique shop, run by PR industry veteran, Nicole Myden, on a mission to help small business owners get the press coverage they deserve.

Nicole Myden has been connecting people and brands with the media for 23 years. Her career began in 2000 in Los Angeles working in entertainment publicity for Disney, FOX on American Idol, and films for Sony Pictures Classic.

Since then, Nicole has produced publicity campaigns in every niche with popular and well-known brands in the arenas of fashion, beauty, consumer products, lifestyle, health, wellness, tech, food, hospitality, medical, entrepreneurship, and more.

Her clients have been featured across an array of media outlets including Forbes, The Today Show, Good Morning America, Los Angeles Business Journal, Phoenix Business Journal, Women’s Wear Daily, Oprah Magazine, Glamour, Marie Claire, and USA Today. Additionally, Nicole has held upper management executive roles at some of the most prestigious and award-winning agencies in the industry and had the honor of receiving company awards from both the industry and her peers.

Since relocating from Los Angeles to Scottsdale in 2016, Nicole has a great passion for mentoring and helping small business owners discover they are worthy of press opportunities and teaching them step-by-step systems and principles to garner those opportunities on their own.

She has mentored thousands of small business owners through in-person workshops, conferences, and one-on-one mentorship sessions. Her clients have experienced a variety of results, including landing magazine covers and features, local and national television segments, podcast and radio interviews, newspaper and online features, industry awards, and speaking engagements.

Nicole has been featured and seen on stages, at masterminds, trade shows, and conferences, and in the media teaching small business owners. Nicole prides herself on teaching through energetic alignment, a positive mindset, and practical tactics, to deliver results and buzz.

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House of Nectar is the world’s first creative wellbeing brand to fuse energetic healing with brand mastery.

They believe that brands who transcend, cut through the noise and shift cultures can no longer be built with conventional methods—so they take an unconventional approach instead.

They build the talent behind the brand to find their truest calling, and then, the brand alignment follows.

Their method is holistic, intuitive and highly strategic. It’s a journey of inner work and brand discovery where they arouse authenticity, resurrect brand identity, story, strategy and positioning. The methodology is unorthodox, highly intentional and part of a creative awakening.

The House is here to guide brands, hold sacred space for them, and push them past the status quo.

Sage Aubrey is a cult-followed fashion entrepreneur, visionary and personality, featured in Vogue, WWD and Purse Blog, low key style icon, and mom to three cool AF little girls.

Sage founded her first accessory business when she was 15 and built nationwide distribution. She was recognized as a 30 Under 30 Entrepreneur at 26 for her success in women’s brick & mortar & online retail businesses and scaled Sage Aubrey Handbags to a globally distributed brand––with a successful Omni-channel sales strategy––coveted by celebrities and street style mavens the world across.

Sage’s career is built on her instinct, fortitude, and relentless self-expression. Her mission is to use her 20 years of bootstrapping to champion the next generation of brand owners with creative direction, vision and leadership.

Sage’s twin passions have entwined into her business, House of Nectar, a multi-dimensional creative wellbeing brand.

Lisa Boettcher is an ultra-efficient Creative Brand Strategist and mom of 4 tiny humans. Lisa’s career is built on her strong sense of strategy and the intuitive, futuristic approach she takes to her work––some of which has been featured on Target, in Forbes and Vogue.

Lisa founded, bootstrapped and sold a niche accessory fashion brand in under 5 years and with a decade of experience helping female founded brands scale through strategy, visuals, communications, community building, product design and development, she’s now guided by her desire to share creativity and the inner workings of identity with her community, whether through experiential offerings, with clients or on her social channels.

Lisa carries a high frequency of energy, a sixth sense and hard-won wisdom to further the impact brands of all sizes have on culture. Running alongside her career, she is a deep-rooted exponent for personal wellbeing practices and the process of unleashing yourself to discover the truest, most authentic version within.

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Edie Hand, Author of Women of True Grit

July 6, 2023 by John Ray

Hello, Self . . .

Edie Hand, Author of Women of True Grit

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Edie Hand, Author of Women of True Grit (Hello, Self… Episode 23)

Edie Hand, author of Women of True Grit, and founder of the community by the same name, joined host Patricia Leonard to discuss her life experiences that have shaped her work, her books, and the wisdom she’s gained. She and Patricia discussed what it means to have grit, the value of stories, resilience, and much more.

Hello, Self… is presented by Patricia Leonard & Associates and produced by Arlia Hoffman in association with the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX®.

Edie Hand, Founder and International Author, Women of True Grit

Edie Hand is the founder and international author of Women of True Grit, a sisterhood and community stemmed from The Edie Hand Foundation that takes stories and turns them into empowerment for women to succeed in business and in life.

The Edie Hand Foundation started over fifteen years ago in honor of her three young Blackburn brothers she lost too soon. Having gone through irritations of loss, grief, illness, and set-backs Edie exemplifies “True Grit” and has built a movement transforming challenges into Pearls of Hope.

GRIT stands for “Great Resilience Is Transformative” and Edie is passionate and devoted to supporting women and providing them the tools to do hard things and turn them into beautiful situations.

The message she shares is not heartwarming, its heart moving and aims to build strength in whichever audience is listening and face their hardships with “Pearls On, Swords Up!”

Find Edie’s books here.

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