It’s no secret that working in a male-dominated industry as a woman has its drawbacks. From getting screamed at by bosses to being overlooked by male colleagues and judged by other women, René Murata has experienced it all.

But after 15 years of navigating the challenges of working as a female physicist alongside male chemical engineers, she began to realise that themould she had been forcing herself into just didn’t fit. Then, once she set up

her own consulting business in the area of process safety management, she started to play around with her management style, and soon found something that was empowering both to herself and the people she was leading

René Murata has only ever had one boss that was a positive role model, while many others sought only to belittle those they managed. But she knows from experience that in order to get the best out of people, you need to listen well, communicate effectively,and understand the power of your words.

Now a Transformational Leadership Coach, she teaches women how to incorporate the best of the masculine and feminine energies in leadership, using a methodology that seeks to empower both manager and managed

Now a Transformational Leadership Coach, too, she draws on the experience she has gained in learning to lead with compassion, and has developed a teachable methodology to help others do the same.

She understands that the essence of our being is rooted in love, and that in order to get the best out of people as a manager, we must draw on that. It is her belief that feminine power is very often missing from leadership, and as a result she has found that combining business strategies with the “soft skills” so often attributed to women is the best way to effectively manage both teams and individuals.

With plenty of credentials to her name, including an MBA in Global Enterprise Management, two Bachelor’s degrees in Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and several years in management roles,Rene’ is the ideal coach for women who want to lead with both power and compassion, without giving up who they are.

Born in Colorado and now living in Italy with her husband, she applies her leadership ethos to everything she does, determined as she is to live her life with consideration and self-belief.

Barry's non-fiction book Alice: Life Behind the Counter in Mel's Greasy Spoon (A Guide to the Feature Film, the​ TV series, and More) is available at all major book stores. He is currently working on a book called The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew on Film, TV, and Stage for BearManor Media. Barry wrote the script for the VR series Maren’s Rock, which was produced by Daniel Gaucher and PKVR. He is developing a feature-length screenplay based on the award-winning short film Departures for Running Fountain Productions. Barry has scripted over 40 audio-drama adaptations and original productions. He is a staff writer for KSVR's Radio Theater Project, which is in its ninth season, and the forthcoming new series, The Liberty Boys, currently in preproduction with Colonial Radio Theatre. His plays have been performed throughout the U.S. and in Canada and the United Arab Emirates. They include Triangle and The Porch at the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival and The Lollipop Lady and Dead Body by Turtle Shell Productions. Barry served as head writer on the episodic, comedy-horror, TV show In the Cellar and the Telly Award-winning series The Wisdom Tree.

Barry has presented at various conferences including the National Dramatists Guild Conference and BCC's Aspiring Writers Conference. He is available to present on writing for stage, screen, audio-drama, TV writing, and marketing approaches.

Alice: Life Behind the Counter in Mel’s Greasy Spoon takes you behind the scenes of one of television’s most beloved sitcoms. It all started with Martin Scorsese’s Academy Award–winning film Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore. Learn how the movie and series were developed, peruse the fact-filled episode log, and test your Alice trivia knowledge with a fan quiz featuring over 120 questions.

In his new book, “The Deacon: An Unexpected Life,” Tom Fargnoli illustrates the trials and tribulations that life can bring, as well as the resilience of the human spirit.

Tom tells his story in a relatable compelling way. Taking the reader from Tom’s time studying law enforcement to computer programming to working as a magician and serving as a deacon of the Catholic Church. He married his high school sweetheart and had two children and five grandchildren. Then his “Unexpected Life” took a turn for the worse. His wife took her own life. After his wife’s passing in 2016, Tom had to make a difficult, challenging decision.

Tom is ready to shine a light on suicide and normalize talking about it. So much so all the proceeds from his book will be going to suicide awareness. Fargnoli lives in Clarksboro, New Jersey just on the outskirts of South Philly, and is very excited to share his new book.

JM Landels, writer and illustrator of the Allaigna's Song trilogy and co-founder of Pulp Literature wears far too many hats. The strange mix of a degree in Mediaeval English Literature, a misspent youth fronting alternative punk bands Mad Seraphim and Stiff Bunnies, and a career as a childbirth educator and doula informs her work. These days, when she isn't writing, editing or drawing, she can be found heading up the Mounted Combat Program for Academie Duello in Vancouver BC where she swings swords and rides horses for fun and profit.

Melinda Curtis is the USA Today bestselling author of light‐hearted contemporary romance. In addition to her Sunshine Valley series from Forever, she’s published independently and with Harlequin Heartwarming, including her book Dandelion Wishes, which was made into a TV movie - Love in Harmony Valley, starring Amber Marshall. She lives in Oregon’s lush Willamette Valley with her husband - her basketball-playing college sweetheart. While raising three kids, the couple did the soccer thing, the karate thing, the dance thing, the Little League thing and, of course, the basketball thing. Now when Melinda isn’t writing and Mr. Curtis isn’t watching college basketball, they do the DIY thing.

About the Author

Marty Essen began writing professionally in the 1990s as a features writer for Gig Magazine. His first book, Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents, won six national awards, and the Minneapolis Star-Tribune named it a “Top Ten Green Book.” His second book, Endangered Edens: Exploring the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica, the Everglades, and Puerto Rico, won four national awards. His novels, Time Is Irreverent, Time Is Irreverent 2: Jesus Christ, Not Again! and Time Is Irreverent 3: Gone for 16 Seconds are all Amazon #1 Best-Sellers in Political Humor. Hits, Heathens, and Hippos is Marty’s sixth book, and like all of his books, it reflects his values of protecting human rights and the environment—and does so with a wry sense of humor. Marty is also a popular college speaker, who has performed the stage-show version of Cool Creatures, Hot Planet on hundreds of campuses in forty-five states.

Around the World in 90 Minutes is a high-energy show/lecture presented by multi-award-winning author Marty Essen. It features interesting facts, humorous stories, and the best of the thousands of photos he took while traveling the world for his book, Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents.

One part lecture, one part theater, one part slideshow, one part comedy—Around the World in 90 Minutes is the type of show where the audience has fun laughing at the stories, oohing and aahing at the photos, and then, when it's all done, they realize just how much they've learned

Fiercely passionate at his core, Dmitry Badiarov is a professional

designer of high end, concert grade violins, as well as a musician,

mentor and entrepreneur.

He currently sells his beautifully crafted instruments to world class

violinists, after many years of toil and turmoil studying the ancient

secrets of acoustics, and several more of attempting to sell his wares

in a in a competitive industry where factory-made instruments are now

flooding the market. Now known within the classical music world as

the Ambassador to Ancient Traditions, he credits his successes to the

business skills which helped him get his name out there.

Known in the classical music world as the Ambassador to Ancient Traditions, Dmitry Badiarov has made a name for himself as the maker of fine, original violins, using the secrets of the ancient masters.

It is not just the secrets of design which have helped him to gain success, though, but the secrets of business, too. These days, he passes on his knowledge of crafting and selling classical instruments to other ambitious creators, giving them the tools they need to get guaranteed results.

Then something happened. The voices echoing from the campus lecture halls to the Hollywood microphone grew louder and louder about unfairness, injustice, and racism. There was a desperation, a pleading in their tone at first that was neglected by the evidence -- the reality around them. But, like a wounded animal fighting for its existence, the quiet cries turned into deafening screeches. As the words reverberated through the years and the claims became more extreme, they gathered a fervor and rage not seen before, morphing into a dark and ugly hubris.

Justn and those around him were shocked at these cries especially when every statistical measure consistently showed the opposite trend. They began to wonder if they were just insulated, blind to the truth. "Un-Corrected," Justn’s first published work, was the result of this search for an answer.

About Un-Corrected: A Good Man's Struggle Against Political Correctness Run Amok

Steve Schmidt’s manuscript was intended to comically mock the growing allegiance of a population to a dark, divisive ideology in 1920’s pre-Nazi Germany. Unfortunately for Steve, innocent intentions often generate negative consequences. Showing a budding romantic interest in his manuscript on campus, it “triggered” not only her, but a series of events that led to national news, even involvement in the political debate between candidates for President of the United States. Steve’s newfound infamy brings his film to life, but not without consequences. He, and his film, have become pawns in the chess game between competing political campaigns. Our clueless hero is forced to navigate the minefield of both Hollywood political correctness and the dark underbelly of divisive national politics in an oft-hilarious path to sanity. * Contains some profanity and adult situations.

An international dating coach who has been focused on how busy professionals can date safely and successfully when the relationship and dating industry have been focused on manipulation techniques, scripts and dating apps that often create short term and superficial relationships.

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Relationships have such a huge part to play in our lives, which makes it so important for us to meet the right person to create the right foundations with, to share memories with and to live a loving life with.

You've worked hard to be where you are right now, ensure that you share that life with someone special.

Behavioural Profiler - Hypnotist - Life Coach - NLP Master Practitioner & Trainer

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Andy Andrist is one of the funniest people alive, whether in his stand up work, or on his podcast Issues With Andy, co-hosted by Brett Erickson, Chad Shank, and Greg Chaille, Andy has a gift for exposing the humor in the darkest corners of life.

Andy Andrist draws his remarkable comedic courage from the same place he extracts his unique world view: Straight out of another bottle of domestic light beer. His is a world overrun with overweight women, trailer parks, special athletes, Wal-Marts and death. Needless to say, Andy’s world is trashy, poignantly idiotic and friggin’ hilarious.

Andy’s genius comes from his understanding that people everywhere just want to stop thinking, get drunk, watch the game, and maybe get a sloppy piece of action before tomorrow becomes another day.

So even when Andrist riffs on women who lie their way to handicapped parking permits, or when he talks about betting on Special Olympians, he’s really not making fun of those people. His real disdain is reserved for people like you and me, the Average Joes who are satisfied with being, well, average.

During Andrist’s two seasons on the writing staff of Comedy Central’s The Man Show, he kept the censors so busy redlining his outrageous sketch ideas that carpal tunnel syndrome became more rampant than the common cold.

That experience, in addition to his many years as a top protegé of comedy’s neutron bomb, Doug Stanhope, has Andrist primed to break loose as a headliner in his own right. His special brand of enlightenment will make you see your world – and yourself – differently.