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After healing from over 31 surgical procedures, battling chronic pain management, and keeping depression at bay, Geralyn Ritter has climbed her way back to a life of happiness and healing. Now, you can find her ringing the NYSE bell and organizing events championing for women’s health. But it was a hard-won battle to leave the hospital and be with her family and friends again, which she details in her new memoir, Bone by Bone: A Memoir of Trauma and Healing [Out June 28, 2022 with Core Media Group]. 

It made nationwide news. On May 12, 2015 an Amtrak train derailed traveling to New York City, killing 8 passengers and injuring over 200. Geralyn Ritter was one of those passengers. Her pelvis was shattered and all her organs were pushed up by her heart. Her story begins with this fateful accident and details every resilient step she took to make it to home and back to her family. She goes further to describe her fight to get prescription medications and adjust to her husband as a caregiver. 

A women's healthcare policy advocate and expert as well as a first-hand trauma survivor, Geralyn Ritter can uniquely speak to: 

Please let me know if you would be interested in receiving a copy of Bone by Bone or speaking with Geralyn Ritter.

A recognized expert in healthcare policy, Geralyn Ritter is executive vice president at Organon & Co., a new Fortune 500 healthcare company dedicated to the health of women. She was formerly senior vice-president at Merck & Co., Inc., one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. She has spearheaded global government affairs and policy, led initiatives on corporate governance and corporate responsibility, created and launched a widely acclaimed half-billion-dollar philanthropic initiative to end preventable maternal deaths around the globe, and served as President of the Merck Foundation. In 2020, on behalf of Merck, Geralyn accepted the Disability Employer of the Year award. She is now the author of a memoir about her recovery from the 2015 Amtrak derailment titles, Bone by Bone: A Memoir of Trauma and Healing.

Caught up in the relentless pace of modern life, the demands of work, family and finances can, at times, leave us feeling overwhelmed. The demanding pace of life fosters anxiety, depression, restlessness, anger, irritability or unhealthy habits, like overeating, overworking and addictions. All too often, the daily grind can leave us struggling to keep up, with little or no time for self-care or reflection. We find ourselves merely existing, not living the life we wish to live.

In her new book, A Deeper Wellness, Dr. Monica Vermani provides the tools to create a deep, authentic sense of wellbeing. Drawing from her 25 years of clinical practice, Dr. Vermani takes readers through her tried and true steps of creating incremental, meaningful change. In 18 clear and succinct ‘chapters,’ the author guides readers through healing their pain and trauma, recognizing and confronting the thoughts and behaviors that stand in the way of their happiness and connecting to their authentic self. 

Inspiring and guiding readers to create deep, transformational change in their life, A Deeper Wellness provides a focused, and practical path to healing the past, dealing with the present and building an authentic, connected future — and creating for themselves a lasting, deeper wellness.

Drawing from her decades of expertise as a clinical psychologist and key themes in the book, Dr. Vermani is available for interviews to discuss topics including: 

·         How Do We Know When Our Mental Health Needs Attention?

·         Understanding Our Negative Thoughts and How to Break the Cycles That Lead to Fear and Self-Doubt

·         Do We Really Understand Our Stress? The Four Actionable Tools to Cope and Thrive

·         Are You Trapped in A Cycle of Panic? How to Shift into a Healthy Cycle to Control Feelings of High Anxiety

·         Can People Actually Take Control of Their Mental Health?

·         What’s Feeding Your Anger Funnel? Challenging Your Anger to Spark Meaningful Change in Your Life

·         The Phantom in The Conference Room: Exploring the Causes and Solutions to Workplace Absenteeism Due to Mental Health Issues

·         Dive into Specific Practices and Their Benefits for Anxiety, Stress and Other Mental Health Issues including Mindfulness Medication, CBT, EMDR, Breath-Body-Mind Practice

·         Can People Actually Heal Traumas, Like PTSD, or Are We Never Truly Free from Our Past Hurts?

One of Canada’s highest-rated clinical psychologists, Dr. Monica Vermani is a public speaker, teacher, and author in the field of mental health and wellness. In her private practice, Dr. Vermani provides a multi-faceted treatment approach in treating adolescents and adults suffering from trauma/abuse, mood, anxiety, substance addictions, and other related conditions and disorders, as well as family and couples therapy. She employs a dynamic range of techniques and evidence-based treatment modalities, including psychotherapy, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, (CBT), Mindfulness Meditation – Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)/Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Breath~Body~Mind (BBM), and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprogramming (EMDR). 

Dr. Vermani’s Start Living Corporate Wellness programs were created out of her belief in the importance of good mental health in the workplace. Start Living Corporate Wellness programs support and facilitate individuals’ efforts to overcome the barriers that prevent them from living their best and most authentic life.

Dr. Vermani’s game-changing Start Living Corporate Wellness programs address the underlying mental health issues that impact individual employees and teams. Through a dynamic suite of psycho-education, training, and support, Start Living Corporate Wellness programs keep employees engaged, supported, happy, and whole.

Dr. Vermani believes that good mental health doesn’t just happen, that it deserves the same time, attention, understanding, and effort as our physical wellbeing. To that end, Dr. Vermani’s latest book, A Deeper Wellness, and its companion online A Deeper Wellness Life Lessons mental health program provide the tools to create a deep, authentic sense of wellness and wellbeing. Drawing from her 25 years of clinical practice, she takes readers through the same tried and true multi-disciplinary approach to treatment that has been successful in creating incremental, meaningful change for hundreds of patients and groups.

Peg has been sober for 34 years. She believes that philosophy helped her to get and remain sober, but she avoided Alcoholics Anonymous for the first 20 years of her sobriety because of the concept of a “higher power.” Now, Dr. O’Connor is the author of the forthcoming book, Higher and Friendly Powers: Transforming Addiction and Suffering (Wildhouse Publications, September 1, 2022). 

In Higher and Friendly Powers, Peg O’Connor, PhD, addresses an audience much like herself: those in recovery who have struggled with the Christian-centric God at the heart of Alcoholics Anonymous. She brings our attention to a little-known fact: the term “higher power,” a touchstone in the twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, was coined by William James, philosopher, psychologist, and intellectual giant of the early 20th century. 

Drawing from her expertise in addiction studies and key themes from her book, Dr. O’Connor can discuss:

•               Understanding the Concept of “Higher Power” at the Heart of the 12-Step Program 

•               Why There Must Be Multiple Paths out of Addiction and No One is the Best or Right

•               Why Needs in Recovery Change over Time

•               Are Some People More Susceptible to Addiction

•               Undertaking Spiritual Recovery in AA without a Religious Denomination

•               The Barriers People Face When Seeking Treatment for Addiction

•               How to Talk to People About Their Alcohol or Drug Use

•               Changing Your Relationships with Addictive Substances and Behaviors

•               Good Without God: Recognizing the Difference Between Spirituality and Religion  

Please let me know if you would like to connect on an interview with Dr. Peg O’Connor.

Peg O’Connor, PhD, is a recovering alcoholic of 34 years and has been a Professor of Philosophy at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN for 27 years. She believes that philosophy helped her to get and remain sober. She avoided Alcoholics Anonymous for the first 20 years of her sobriety because of the concept of a “higher power.”  Dr. O’Connor is the author of the new book, Higher and Friendly Powers: Transforming Addiction and Suffering (Wildhouse Publications, 2022) and Life on the Rocks: Finding Meaning in Addiction and Recovery (Central Recovery Press, 2016). She also writes a column, “Philosophy Stirred, Not Shaken,” for Psychology Today that has nearly 2,000,000 total views and select columns have appeared in the print publication. 

Author, speaker, CEO and podcast host, Judy Gaman, was so busy as a 3rd generation workaholic that she didn't even notice life was passing her by. While working on the book Age to Perfection: How to Thrive to 100, Happy, Healthy, and Wise she interviewed centenarian, Lucille Fleming. What started as a short meeting about what it took for Lucille to make it to 100, soon turned into an incredible friendship that spanned nearly four years. Lucille's wisdom, humor, and love of life completely changed the trajectory of Judy's future. In her Best-selling and award-winning memoir, Love, Life, and Lucille: Lessons Learned from a Centenarian, Judy leaves her readers laughing, crying, and finding a renewed sense of perspective. 

Here are a few things that Judy Gaman can discuss:

Judy Gaman is the CEO of Executive Medicine of Texas, author of 7 award-winning books, a national speaker, and the host of the Stay Young America! podcast. She holds a BS in Health Sciences from The George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, a MSPS from GW, and a graduate certificate in Strategic Management from Harvard Extension School. Judy is featured in the media, including Fox News Radio, quite often as a Healthy Living Expert. Learn More About Judy Gaman

1. Interpersonal Communication Conflict Management Strategy

2. Phonetic Micro Expression reading for mastering verbal tell signs.

3. The Famous Buffer-Boomerang Technique

Please feel free to accept my invitation to join your audience for a solid discussion regarding moving abroad and building a company from scratch in Costa Rica. I am available at your earliest convenience to discuss advanced telemarketing strategy, conflict management, interpersonal soft skills, customer support, rhetoric, gamification, employee motivation and phonetic micro expression reading.

Richard’s journey in the call center space is filled with twists and turns. When he was 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers.  Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.

Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain. A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. Giving back to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.

Hello, 

I am Dr. Sharita Speed, I want to introduce my recently published book titled BLUEPRINTS TO UNLEASH YOUR ENTREPRENEURSHIP. This book contains eye-opening information to help new entrepreneurs such as students, young adults, or anybody looking forward to finding a successful navigation path in the business world. According to entrepreneur statistics in the united states, entrepreneurs established 5.4 million new businesses in 2021. This iconic statistic reflects not only the growth of entrepreneurship so far in the economy but also the benefits and impact of diving into entrepreneurship. Blueprints To Unleash Your Entrepreneurship was written based on my experience encountered as a new entrepreneur. I aim to disseminate every piece of information in this book to everyone to get them inspired, motivated, guided, and aware of what it really takes to begin a business in the United States.

Author, Inspiring Business Coach, Entrepreneur, and Dynamic Motivational Speaker, Dr. Sharita Speed, is dedicated to assisting people with life-changing resources, methods, and practical techniques that can lead them to their authentic purpose. While being a Mother, with a wealth of knowledge in business and Finance, she is the Author of, Introducing, “JoJo The CEO, JoJo The CEO & The Unexpected Virus” and founder/CEO of DrS Consulting Group LLC.

A native of Helena-West Helena, AR, she grew up in a world where hardly anyone believed in her even in her family. Sharita spent most of her childhood in these pains of caring for herself but used them as a stepping stone to overcome these odds. With these practical life experiences, she is challenged to help people boost their self-confidence and be willing to embrace success. Sharita has made it her ultimate life’s mission to help individuals understand the importance of Entrepreneurship, Financial Planning, and Financial Responsibility. With her vast knowledge in the finance industry, she is dedicated to assisting people to become more informed and take charge of their financial lives.

An astute Businesswoman & Author, she owns three businesses and brings over decades of experience working with High Impact Business-driven environments. Dr. Sharita is a result-driven, community leader who holds a Doctorate in Accounting, Masters of Business Administration, and Bachelors in Business Administration with a minor in Finance from various elite universities.

Please consider Goal Achiever Inc., providing scholarship awards and school donations to students across the USA as well as charity donations to cancer awareness foundations. The concept launched around the simple idea of goal-setting and achievement by rewarding members for creating and completing goals through a state-of-the art platform and an "Inspiring Story" podcast, which focuses on members sharing their stories. Launched by two Black powerhouse female entrepreneurs and their father, Goal Achiever Inc. donates proceeds to educational and charitable initiatives, promoting any kind of business looking to give back across the country. Inspired by the loss of their cousin Terri Large at 18 years old due to cancer, who achieved her goal of finishing her education before her death, Kayla and Kourtney Ainsworth can comment on the following hot topics:

-Their process in funding endless amounts of school donations, scholarships and charities and how they find the organizations and schools in need

-The founder's (Kederio's) niece Terri Large who was diagnosed at 10 and passed away with brain cancer at 18, but never stopped setting goals and achieving them, and how this inspired the formation of the company to help others in need.

-How their upcoming podcast: Inspiring Stories, School Talk and Entrepreneurial Talk will highlight their participating members, educators and sponsors this May, motivating members to set goals and achieve them.

Kayla says, "Terri Large's legacy has allowed Goal Achiever Inc. to inspire the nation by providing a platform to help set goals and to be heard. Our system is set up so that members can stay on track with their goals, allowing them to create daily reminders and participate in our friendly mobile app game to win cash rewards towards their aspirations. Sponsors can obtain brand recognition simultaneously, while supporting a program that gives back.”

Every Thursday, the company hosts a cash reward giveaway to the lucky winner(s) and in January 2022, they successfully presented their first $500.00 scholarship award. For nearly a decade, The Terri Large: Keeping the Faith Scholarship Award has been awarding Senior Students at Rancho Cucamonga High School. (founded by mother Keysha)

Kayla and Kourtney are two sisters that both graduated from CSU Northridge with a Bachelor Degree in Communications and they’re both mothers. Kayla and Kourtney’s father Kederio is the founder of Goal Achiever Inc. a business dedicated to helping others and giving back. Their story was inspired by their late cousin Terri Large who passed away at the age of 18 years old due to a rare brain cancer. Terri’s vision was to help those in need. A decade later Kederio wanted to carry out Terri’s vision and help a massive number of individuals by hearing their inspiring stories and helping them achieve their goals. Kayla and Kourtney have been honored to be working side by side with their father and to take charge on getting 1 million goal setting individuals across the United States to be a part of an inspirational movement “Goal Achiever 1 million”.

“In 2020, 23% of American caregivers said caregiving had made their own health worse.” ~ AARP ‘Caregiving: The Growing Crisis that Everyone Must Face (May-2022)’ The implications of caregiver burnout are far reaching. Dr. Smink will help your listeners identify the early signs of compassion fatigue and provide actionable steps to self-care. Dr. Edward Smink was a caregiver for over forty years as a registered nurse, chaplain, pastoral counselor, and executive leader. As a survivor of PTSD, compassion fatigue, and burnout, Ed’s choices to move forward and seek opportunities for growth ultimately led him to creating a coaching for caregivers practice. Caregiver burnout and compassion fatigue are at an all-time high and the reality is that most of us will at one time or another be thrust into the role of caregiver. Whether it’s a family member or friend needing help, having access to self-care skills as a caregiver are essential for developing compassion resilience. Newly revised, The Soul of Caregiving reveals how reflection itself can prove to be an extraordinary source of power. Insights gained from reflection strengthen one's confidence and develop a practice of self-care, a key to resilience. In preparation for your interview with Dr. Smink, we would like to offer you a complimentary review copy in the format you prefer (kindle, print, or audiobook). Ed’s one-sheet is also available with program suggestions and interview questions. Thank you for your consideration. Katrina Marsh Wise Media Group PR

Edward Smink, the founder of The Soul of Caregiving Coaching Practice, is an in-demand speaker, coach, and author of The Soul of Caregiving, A Caregiver’s Guide to Healing and Transformation. Edward holds an Associate Degree in Nursing from Newton Junior College, a BA in Psychology from Boston College, an MA in Counseling Psychology, a MA and  PhD in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. He is a former Registered Nurse, Healthcare Executive in Mission, Values, Spirituality, Ethics, End of Life Care, and Community Health. He holds titles as a Board-Certified Chaplain with the National Association of Catholic Chaplains and is an Associate Coach with the International Coaching Federation.