By Claudine Wolk
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Maureen Petrosky, author of the new book, Wine Club: A Monthly Guide to Swirling, Sipping, and Pairing with Friends is my guest in this episode.
You can find out more about Maureen at her website, MaureenPetrosky.com.
I am so excited to introduce this podcast episode.
What better summer topic than wine (and chocolate tasting)
PLUS: If it is your goal to write a 'specialty book' you will learn Author Maureen Petrosky's publishing story. She is an author of several books.
This latest release, Wine Club: A Monthly Guide to Swirling, Sipping, and Pairing with Friends, is an updated version of a successful book she first published in 2005, The Wine Club: A Month-by-Month guide to Learning about Wine with Friends. What an interesting story. The new release is set up in a month by month format that suggests wines and food pairing. Everyone learns and everyone is introduced to great food and great wine.
As a community, we are socializing more and more. What a fantastic and fun way to get together.
In the interview Maureen, Master Sommelier and Trained Chef, shares:
Find Maureen Petrosky at her website and her new book, Wine Club, wherever books are sold.
Thanks for listening. If you like what you hear, leave me a rating!
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Is Joining a Writers Group a Good Idea for Aspiring Writers?
(or a great starting point/)
Join authors Linda Wisniewski, Sandra Carey Cody, and Susan Wagner in a fun, illuminating conversation about Women's Writing Groups. All the women are part of a writer's group created through their connection with the Pearl S Buck House in Bucks County, PA. Not all writers groups are created equal and I was curious about how the groups work and how joining one be might advantageous for writers.
Linda, Sandy and Susan share:
Find out more about these authors and their books at their websites:
Linda Wisniewski at Lindawis.com
Sandra Carey Cody at SandraCareyCody.com
Susan Wagner at SusanEWagner.com
Meet the authors! If you are local, the authors will be attending the Flemington Summer Book Fest being held May 26th thru May 29th from 10-6.
If wish to explore memoir writing, Linda Wisniewski offers a class that starts today. Check it out if you are interested, she may have room for you.
Other resources that the ladies mention in the broadcast:
StoryCircleNetwork.org
International Women's Writing Group
MeetUp.org
International Women's Writing Guild
International Poets
Sisters in Crime
Author's Guild
Pearl S. Buck Writing Center
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Author and Influencer, Kelly Hopkins-Jones, is our guest this week. We chat about her popular Instagram site, @hillside-farmhouse, her book, Someday - a love letter to parents experiencing infertility, her publishing experience, and her baby daughter.
Kelly reveals how she went from advance practice nurse to Instagram influencer. Her Instagram site, @hillside-farmhouse, has over 13,800 followers. Kelly explains how she started to post pictures of her farmhouse remodel in Bucks County and then added posts that paralleled what was going on in her life.
She features fabulous pictures and video on her Instagram about her home renovations (two homes), her struggle with infertility, her fabulous product finds and her baby daughter, as well as products for baby and mom! She offers her advice on how YOU could do the same on your social media:
Consistency, Flexibility, and Connection are key.
Kelly's heartfelt journey to new motherhood through unexplained fertility is shared. She describes the role that writing and publishing her book, Someday, played in that journey.
You can find Kelly's book, Someday, at the link.
Thanks for listening. You can find me at @claudinewolk on Instagram - I need to catch up to Kelly's followers. As if...
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Claudine Wolk Substack: Get Your Book Seen and Sold
Claudine Wolk Website: ClaudineWolk.com
Claudine's Instagram - @ClaudineWolk
You Need To Release Your Creativity Today
Why?
Because if you don’t, your creativity will be lost forever. The world will lose out on your contribution and YOU will miss out on progress toward self-actualization.
In this episode, part of a series by Claudine on Creativity, she introduces Abraham Maslow - the father of humanistic psychology and the creator the hierarchy of needs - of the concept of self-actualization. Using an excerpt from her audio books an example, Claudine shares why your creativity must be shared and why doing so will bring you to self-actualization and simply more darned healthy and happy.
Claudine's Audio book: It Gets Easier and Other Lies We Tell New Mothers
except from Chapter 13, You Complete Me? about Abraham Maslow and Self-actualization
You can find out more about Claudine at her website: ClaudineWolk.com
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"We're going to look for the kind people," said author, podcast host, inspirational speaker and coach Kate Brenton to her five-year-old son recently. On arriving at the airport, Kate realized that their flight home had been closed even though she had checked-in hours before.
Her riveting story is more than a recounting of an annoying airline experience, it's about the human spirit, fellow human beings helping one another, the lessons we teach our kids, and how "looking for the helpful people, the kind people, is as good a piece of advice today as it was when Fred Rogers first proclaimed it on his famous show.
Speaking of looking for the kind people, Kate is one of them. Kate has a new master class that starts March 23rd titled, Sit in Your Center. It is a practical and magical journey of alignment and empowerment for women. More about this class can be found at Kate's Website
Use coupon code: "GATHER" for $100 off the Sit in Your Center Class. Deadline 3.23.23.
Also mentioned in the podcast:
Rebirth Podcast — Kate Brenton
Kate's Book: Rebirth: real-life stories about what happens when you let go and let life lead
Kate's Substack: The Golden Thread
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If you own a business and you suspect that an employee is in a domestic violent situation, how can you help?
Your employee is already feeling vulnerable and work may be the only place he or she feels safe and confident. An employer want to be empathetic but not intrusive, right? How can a business help their employee?
The Standing-Firm.org organization helps businesses to fashion helpful company policies to aid employees suffering under domestic violence. Have a Listen.
On the Standing-firm website is a fabulous video where domestic violent survivors share their inspiring stories and a point of view that you may not have considered.
More information about the Standing-Firm organization and our guest Beth Lewis at the link or contact Beth directly at [email protected].
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Join me and voice actor Marissa Lanchak, my voice acting coach from Voice Coaches, chat about how I landed in a voice acting class and how I ended up narrating the audiobook version of my book, It Gets Easier! and Other Lies We Tell New Mothers... The interview is an excerpt from Voice Coaches Radio Podcast, which Marissa, a very talented voice actor, hosts for Voice Coaches.
I took Voice Coaches Introductory Voice Over Workshop online through my local township. The workshop was $30 and included information about the career of voice acting and the Voice Coaches Class plus an evaluation of my voice to ascertain if voice acting was a possibility for me. I then took the full course, recorded my demo, and landed the job of narration of my book with Harper Collins.
Marissa and I chat about marketing - marketing yourself. She shares her story of how she networked - actual person to person networking - over years to land enough jobs to develop her voice acting career. These marketing tips can be applied to ANY career or business goal. Plus, Marissa is simply fun to listen to - she has a great voice - yes, I am jealous.
If you are considering voice acting, the voice coaches workshop we chat about can be found at the link and with promo code "WOLK" you will get 50% off the workshop - that's $15 to get information about a possible life-changing career. Mention "WOLK" as well if you decide, like I did, to take the full course. (Note: I AM an affiliate)
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Do you have an idea for a children's book and wish to get it published?
Sheryl Bass, Author of Baby Dragon's Big Sneeze, is our guest today.
Sheryl shares her children's book self-publishing story - how she did it and the resources she used as well as the advantages of self-publishing.
Link to full interview with Sheryl Bass, author of the children's book - Baby Dragon's Big Sneeze can be found at my Get Your Book Seen and Sold Substack or wherever you listen to podcasts - Get Your Book Seen and Sold.
Sheryl shares:
PLUS
All about her new children’s book, Baby Dragon’s Big Sneeze
How she used her professional background to share the book’s messages:
You can buy Baby Dragon’s Big Sneeze at book retailers online.
You can find Sheryl Bass at her website: Be-Kind Publishing.com
Sheryl is also on Instagram: Be.Kind.Publishing
A few of the resources Sheryl mentioned:
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