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First impressions can take only 6 seconds to make! But if you’re neurodivergent, those quick judgments about you can be misleading.
That’s where the Beyond 6 Seconds podcast comes in! Join me, Carolyn Kiel, as I talk with neurodivergent entrepreneurs, creators, advocates & more about their lives and identities. Their stories shatter misconceptions, break stigma and showcase the vibrance of neurodiversity.
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* Therapy 1st Place
* Health & Wellness (Mental Health) 2nd Place

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Do you struggle to understand the intricacies of therapy and counseling? Join licensed therapist, Steve Bisson, to discuss how therapy can benefit you, using straightforward and direct language, and special guests who have the same mindset. Each episode contains great information to help you think about therapy, and those who attend therapy, in a more down-to-earth matter.

Bibiana Krall, award-winning co-author of Wicked Mist (#3) and The Haunted Series, she is honored to be part of a creative collaboration that began during the pandemic and continues to flourish and grow. She’s a former international travel expert and luxury insider. Bibiana has lived the adventurous life she writes about in her novels, short stories and poetry, highlighting kickass, female protagonists in intuition-driven stories that utilize social narratives and explore the mysterious world. Enjoy twenty-eight titles on Amazon.
Winner of a Pay It Forward Scholarship from Wilkes University CW, Bibiana Krall has been called, ‘a lyrical maven and literary wordsmith.’ -via Goodreads.

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Veronica Cline Barton earned graduate degrees in both engineering and business and has had successful careers in the software and technology industries. Her lifelong love affair with British murder mysteries inspired her to embark on a literary career. She loves all things glamorous; royals, acting, fashion (emphasis on boots and crowns) and loads of yummy foods and cocktails.
She is currently writing the eighth cozy mystery tale in her My American Almost Royal Cousin Series; recently published book 3 in the Haunted Series, co-authored with Bibiana Krall; and released the second volume of holiday, cozy mystery stories on November 1st with the launch of A Novel Noel.
When she’s not traveling the world looking for inspiration, she lives in California with her husband, Bruce and their two cats, Daisy and Ebbie.   

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Helen Starbuck is a third generation Colorado native who has spent her career working as a nurse in the main ORs of several suburban hospitals and a major children’s hospital in the Denver area.
She translated her experience and knowledge of OR nursing into a job as a clinical editor for an OR nursing journal. As a clinical editor, she helped nurse authors fine tune their articles and helped staff journalists understand the intricacies of surgery. The journalists, in turn, helped her understand the often puzzling aspects of the AMA style book—there's a rule for everything!
Helen likes stories about strong women and interesting men. She writes her mysteries from the perspective of an OR nurse and relies on her love of suspense and romance to write her standalone romantic suspense novels. Her theory is, if you don’t like life as it is, you can always write a different ending.
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My first published book was an account of my cancer journey, and a walk through my coming to faith titled ‘When All Else Fails'. I had always been told to write what I know, and at that time, this was all I knew. When that offering was well received I continued, but gravitated to Christian fiction. I have now written, and published many more books, fiction and non-fiction, and find that I love what I'm doing. I know I was born to write. It just took God a while to steer me in the right direction. In what direction is He steering you?
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Mark Piggott, a native of Phillipsburg, N.J., enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1982, beginning a 23-year career. He served on four aircraft carriers and various duty stations as a Navy Journalist before he attained the rank of Chief Petty Officer. He retired from active duty in 2006.
His first novel, Forever Avalon, was published in 2009, followed by his second novel, The Dark Tides, in 2014. The Outlander War: Book Three of the Forever Avalon series from Austin Macauley Publishing was released in 2020. In 2021, he published the start of a new steampunk fantasy series with The Last Magus: A Clockwork Heart from Lulu.com. At the end of 2021, Mark signed with Curious Corvid Publishing as one of their new authors for this small, independent publisher.
His novels have won a slew of awards over the past years. The Outlander War won second place for fantasy in the 2021 Firebird Book Awards, The Last Magus won first place for steampunk, and in 2022, Forever Avalon won second place for fantasy. Additionally, The Last Magus won the Grand Prize for Fiction in the 2022 Authors Marketing Guild Indie Book Awards.
His latest fantasy novella, The River of Souls, in collaboration with poet Ashley Valitutto, was published in 2022 through Curious Corvid Publishing. Coming in 2023, get ready to dive into a steampunk historical fiction, Corsair and the Sky Pirates and the next book in The Last Magus series, Dragonfire and Steel, and the fourth book in the Forever Avalon series, The Prometheus Engine!
He has a variety of short stories published, including two through The Publishing Room and through Curious Corvid Publishing in the Magpie Messenger and their upcoming anthology.
He and his wife, Georgiene, live in Alexandria, Virginia. They have three children.
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Donna Welser retired from business and information technology management, after an amazing, thirty-two year long career working for UnitedHealth Group, Optum. She then pursued a master’s in labor and employment relations at Rutgers University, NJ. while also writing her first book. Donna considers herself an adventurer, apocaloptomist (hopes for the best, prepares for the worst), and world warrior focused on living her bucket list. She and her husband Mark, both previously widowed, took the plunge and married during the COVID pandemic, blending their family of two cats, three dogs, and a full tank of fish in addition to their two daughters, son, and extended families.
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Wilma was born in Pennsylvania in 1964 and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. She began writing at the age of 10 to relieve the pain of her mother’s unrelenting abuse. When she began to receive help for the abuse, she searched for a book on mother-daughter sexual abuse from a daughter’s perspective. There were none available. She decided then, that if she could ever find the courage, she would write her personal memoir, for other daughters searching.  She knew she wasn’t alone. This is her true account of the unspeakable abuse she suffered. Wilma continues to journal and to write nonfiction, poetry, fiction, and humor. She is a public speaker and lives in Arizona with her husband Greg, of forty years. Wilma enjoys coffee, reading, long walks and spending time with her family and friends. This is her first book.
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Dana Storino is an emerging neurodiverse writer, has been published in Wrytimes and has been a guest blogger for ADDitude.com. She also has a short story being featured in the upcoming July issue of Her View From Home. She has two short stories published in separate issues of Gliterary Literary and a poem in an upcoming issue of Poet’s Choice. Dana received her Bachelor of Art degree from Columbia College Chicago. She works full time for Chicago Public Schools as a SECA (special education classroom assistant). Her middle-grade book “The Golden Bee" is currently represented by Max Dobson of Maximus Literary. You can read some of her personal experiences with ADHD and life in general in her WordPress blog, “Oh Look, a Squirrel.” She’s a married mother of three humans, a spunky Dalmatian, Dolly and a cool cat, Bean. 
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