Journey To Success

This is an interview with well known and cutting edge wellness and lifestyle coach Lauren Jawno.

Over the past 5 years, Lauren has been a highly sought after keynote speaker for hundreds of public and private events across Canada, and is a frequent guest on both television and radio as an expert on the subjects of fitness, nutrition and lifestyle. She is well known for her interactive presentation style and ability to make complex information practical and easy to understand.

Lauren is a regular columnist for iRun Magazine and has also written for and been featured in numerous national publications.  She is professionally affiliated with a select group of leading sports and health and wellness facilities in Toronto.

She is the creator and author of Change4Good - The Ten Essentials for Food, Fitness and the Good Life. This weight management and wellness program, and now published book, focusses on changing habits around attitude, behaviour, nutrition and fitness in order to achieve optimal health.

"Lauren has accomplished in Change4Good [her program and book] what few nutritionists and/ or personal trainers have:  a portable, intelligent, and compassionate guide to managing not just your weight, but your overall welllness and lifestyle attitudes."

www.jawno.com

Debbi Dachinger is a Media Personality. Her specialties are: Radio & TV Show Hosting, Spokesperson, Bestselling Author, Goal Achievement Expert, Frequent Interview Guest, Keynote Speaker, and Radio Coach (Teaches A-Z How To Be Interviewed and Get Booked On Right Shows), also How to Host Your Own Show. Her “Dare to Dream” Radio Show is syndicated on 7 stations and heard by 2+ million listeners. She’s been featured in magazines, news sources around the world, and is a sought-after guest on radio and television. She’s a top-notch radio personality, was an award-winning actress and singer, a successful motivational speaker, a professional voice over artist, and was a popular jewelry designer. Awards or Accolades to mention: Editor’s Pick: Featured Intriguing Creator, Broadcasting Industry Lifetime Achievement Award, Featured in multiple news sources, Inducted into the Who’s Who Hall of Fame for entertainment, Opened a workshop for don Miguel Ruiz, Seen in the documentary film “Girl’s Rule,” about Self-Esteem and Confide

Debbi Dachinger is a Media Personality. Her specialties are: Radio & TV Show Hosting, Spokesperson, Bestselling Author, Goal Achievement Expert, Frequent Interview Guest, Keynote Speaker, and Radio Coach (Teaches A-Z How To Be Interviewed and Get Booked On Right Shows), also How to Host Your Own Show. Her “Dare to Dream” Radio Show is syndicated on 7 stations and heard by 2+ million listeners. She’s been featured in magazines, news sources around the world, and is a sought-after guest on radio and television. She’s a top-notch radio personality, was an award-winning actress and singer, a successful motivational speaker, a professional voice over artist, and was a popular jewelry designer. Awards or Accolades to mention: Editor’s Pick: Featured Intriguing Creator, Broadcasting Industry Lifetime Achievement Award, Featured in multiple news sources, Inducted into the Who’s Who Hall of Fame for entertainment, Opened a workshop for don Miguel Ruiz, Seen in the documentary film “Girl’s Rule,” about Self-Esteem and Confide

Michael R. Drew is a maverick who gets results. He has become the world’s most successful book promoter, having launched over 75 consecutive books onto best-seller lists, many of them number-one titles.

Beyond merely helping authors’ books to sell well, Michael has benefited from these writers’ insights into social trends. He himself has observed up-close the shifting dynamics of society— as with his work on Pendulum—and has seen firsthand the rapid and long-term changes in the publishing industry and how content reaches today’s varied audiences.

Michael honed his skills at such respected publishers as Bard Press, Entrepreneur Magazine, Longstreet Press and Thomas Nelson Publishers, among others. He has mastered the intricacies of publishing and, in adapting to today’s fast-evolving industry, Michael founded Promote A Book to work directly with writers to help them spread their message.

My eclectic life ranges from singer-actress on stage and in film and TV in Europe to opening my own school for drama and dance in Zimbabwe – having studied Modern Dance in Paris. There, I designed my first veggie ‘slimming-trimming’ courses - actress Sharon Stone briefly was one of my clients.  Local and international folks crowded my school, Stage Studio. Then I became a professor of Film (MfA Columbia University, NY), taught at SVA in New York and at Yale University, among others, and after some award-winning, rather idealistic independent movies, I became a MOTHER - which I still consider the greatest job on Earth.

Nevertheless, I added the MA in Waldorf Education (Witten-Annen, Germany), just to further explore my ‘futuristic’ educational ideas and, did I mention, by then I spoke 5 languages – confirmed by 16 years of a corporate job using them. Where does healthy food fit in? It’s been in my life all the time! Growing up organic and raising my kids vegan and chemical-free, becoming a solar-promoting, raw foodist now almost a decade ago, I teach positive, deeply joyful and intensive living to parents and kids. The best base for a happy life is keeping our body healthy.  Therefore, it all starts with the foods we eat.  Most recently, I was fortunate enough to find investors through the health food store Green Earth in Oneonta NY where I developed my product line Johanna’s Raw Foods.  My books, Raw Foods-R-Awesome, and Once Around The USA should be in print and available online very soon. Johanna’s Raw Foods, JRF, can now be found in over 100 health food stores on the East Coast.

Michael R. Drew is a maverick who gets results. He has become the world’s most successful book promoter, having launched over 75 consecutive books onto best-seller lists, many of them number-one titles.

Beyond merely helping authors’ books to sell well, Michael has benefited from these writers’ insights into social trends. He himself has observed up-close the shifting dynamics of society— as with his work on Pendulum—and has seen firsthand the rapid and long-term changes in the publishing industry and how content reaches today’s varied audiences.

Michael honed his skills at such respected publishers as Bard Press, Entrepreneur Magazine, Longstreet Press and Thomas Nelson Publishers, among others. He has mastered the intricacies of publishing and, in adapting to today’s fast-evolving industry, Michael founded Promote A Book to work directly with writers to help them spread their message.

My eclectic life ranges from singer-actress on stage and in film and TV in Europe to opening my own school for drama and dance in Zimbabwe – having studied Modern Dance in Paris. There, I designed my first veggie ‘slimming-trimming’ courses - actress Sharon Stone briefly was one of my clients.  Local and international folks crowded my school, Stage Studio. Then I became a professor of Film (MfA Columbia University, NY), taught at SVA in New York and at Yale University, among others, and after some award-winning, rather idealistic independent movies, I became a MOTHER - which I still consider the greatest job on Earth.

Nevertheless, I added the MA in Waldorf Education (Witten-Annen, Germany), just to further explore my ‘futuristic’ educational ideas and, did I mention, by then I spoke 5 languages – confirmed by 16 years of a corporate job using them. Where does healthy food fit in? It’s been in my life all the time! Growing up organic and raising my kids vegan and chemical-free, becoming a solar-promoting, raw foodist now almost a decade ago, I teach positive, deeply joyful and intensive living to parents and kids. The best base for a happy life is keeping our body healthy.  Therefore, it all starts with the foods we eat.  Most recently, I was fortunate enough to find investors through the health food store Green Earth in Oneonta NY where I developed my product line Johanna’s Raw Foods.  My books, Raw Foods-R-Awesome, and Once Around The USA should be in print and available online very soon. Johanna’s Raw Foods, JRF, can now be found in over 100 health food stores on the East Coast.

Dr. Nicole Lipkin is a business psychologist at Equilibria Leadership Consulting, an international business/organizational solutions company based in the US.

She is a firm believer that companies that understand the importance of developing their future leaders will find themselves in the best organizational standing when the older generations step out of their leadership roles and pass the baton to the next generation of capable leaders. She also specializes in crisis leadership and preparedness, helping leadership teams, organizations and human capital effectively plan for and recover from crisis.

She is the keynote lunch speaker at the 2013 Authentic Leadership Summit Sept 30th in Charlotteville, VA. See authenticleadershipsummit.com for more information.

Dr. Nicole Lipkin is a business psychologist at Equilibria Leadership Consulting, an international business/organizational solutions company based in the US.

She is a firm believer that companies that understand the importance of developing their future leaders will find themselves in the best organizational standing when the older generations step out of their leadership roles and pass the baton to the next generation of capable leaders. She also specializes in crisis leadership and preparedness, helping leadership teams, organizations and human capital effectively plan for and recover from crisis.

She is the keynote lunch speaker at the 2013 Authentic Leadership Summit Sept 30th in Charlotteville, VA. See authenticleadershipsummit.com for more information.

Author April J. Ford brings to the show - 

Tom Sutter

DS&P Insurance Services

Vice President - Business Development

Tom Sutter is a dual career professional – the serious job that pays the bills and the fun job that pays the heart and soul.  At DS&P Insurance Services, Inc. (www.dspins.com) in Palatine, IL Tom has taken on the business development and sales leadership roles which involve the recruiting, training and development of commercial insurance producers while maintaining and growing his own book of commercial insurance and employee benefits clients. 

Tom also co-founded and is the president of Cal’s All-Star Angel Foundation (www.calsangels.org), a 501c3 non-profit organization located in South Elgin, IL that grants the wishes of children battling cancer and financially assists their families.

Training and coaching has been a part of Tom’s life since his college days.  He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from Northern Illinois University where he was also involved as a pledge trainer with the Sigma Chi Fraternity. Having a blended family of six children whom are all active in sports, Tom enjoys spending his spare time coaching one or more of their baseball and softball teams each spring and summer.

Having lost his oldest child, Cal, to leukemia in August of 2006, Tom and his wife, Cal’s step mom, Stacey enjoy spending their spare time helping other families battling pediatric cancer cope with their struggles through their non-profit organization.  Their children are also actively and enthusiastically involved in carrying on their older brother’s legacy of always caring about others above anything else.