Jerry Smith and Michelle Riklan – Reinvention Radio Guests

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Jerry Smith

Jerry Smith is the author of Does God Give Us More Than We Can Bear? and is the personification of survival and persevering through whatever obstacles life puts in your way. His grandmother died giving birth and his mom was born a deaf-mute and abandoned. Later, his mom was raped, Jerry was born, and subsequently abandoned. He grew up in foster care, worked his way through college and married. As if Jerry hadn’t suffered enough, his wife was murdered, grandson killed at 15, and he attempted suicide. By age 50, Jerry finally realized happiness and success, earned his CPA and owned 6 real estate offices before retiring. At 64, he was diagnosed with an incurable lung disease and given 6 months to live. Not one to rest on his laurels, Jerry found a cure in Germany, made with a serum using his own blood. 2 years later, he became the first known person in the world ever cured of Pulmonary Fibrosis. Jerry speaks extensively on the subject of hope and can absolutely help reinvent how you deal with life, its tragedies, and your inner strength to triumph regardless of your circumstances.

For more information, please visit www.jerrysmith.org.

Michelle A. Riklan

Michelle A. Riklan is the owner of Riklan Resources and co-founder of one of the internet’s largest personal development sites, www.SelfGrowth.com. She holds a B.A. in Theatre, English Literature and Speech Communications from Hofstra University and a M.A. in Speech and Interpersonal Communications from New York University. Her areas of expertise include employment, employee relations and training and development. With a combined 20 years of in-house corporate and targeted consulting experience, Michelle services large corporations as well as small businesses and individuals in all aspects of Human Resources and Career Management. As a Certified Professional Resume Writer and Certified Employment Interview Consultant, Michelle has written hundreds of resumees and coached clients through all phases of the job search. Michelle can help reinvent how you think about positioning yourself, your business and making a name for yourself in the ever increasing crowded marketplace.

For more information, please visit www.RiklanResources.com.

Susan Rice-Lincoln, Becca Brown and Monica Ferguson Murphy – Reinvention Radio Guests

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Susan Rice-Lincoln

Susan Rice-Lincoln is the author of Mastering Web 2.0, How To Transform Your Business Using Your Website and Key Social Media Tools, mobile marketing expert, professional blogger, social media specialist, and graduate of the prestigious Social Media Academy in Palo Alto, CA. An advertising veteran of Ogilvy & Mather and BBDO, she became an entrepreneur in 1994 and started her own communications company. Today, Susan consults an array of clients around the world on how to tap into the potential of the ‘best of the web’ through mobile marketing, social media and SEO. She promises to help reinvent how you tap into the power of the web and leverage its capabilities to take your business to the next level.

For more information, please visit www.masterthenewnet.com.

Becca Brown and Monica Ferguson Murphy

Becca Brown and Monica Ferguson Murphy are the co-founders of Sole Mates, a simple, yet ingenious product that protects heels from breaking or collapsing into soft surfaces. Becca and Monica met while students at Columbia Business School and teamed up to create a product that would finally put an end to this costly and distracting problem. The result of their efforts led to the creation of the SoleMates High Heeler®! Both spent years in high finance at Goldman Sachs before opting to reinvent their lives and follow their entrepreneurial spirit.

For more information, please visit www.thesolemates.com.

Loretta McNary – Reinvention Radio Guest

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Loretta McNary

Loretta McNary is known for her high energy, can-do-attitude. She is the host of her own TV talk show, empowering speaker, philanthropist and Founder and President of PINK EAGLES, a girl’s social etiquette, leadership, development and entrepreneurial training non-profit organization based in Memphis. Loretta is an in-demand media guest who has been recognized as a woman of influence who continually inspires others to seek and live in their purpose. Her mantra, “a great leader is a humbled servant first who serves others with humility, respect, dignity and integrity,” is a guidepost she encourages everyone to leverage while reinventing how you view yourself and your influence over others.

For more information, please visit www.lorettamcnary.com.

Sydney Biddle Barrows – Reinvention Radio Guest

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Sydney Biddle Barrows

Sydney Biddle Barrows is better known to millions as the “Mayflower Madam.” In the 1980’s, after seeing an opportunity to make ends meet (no pun intended), she founded a refined and upscale escort service named Cachet. Though it was eventually shut down by New York’s finest, her name was forever etched in New York folklore. Her first book, Mayflower Madam, reached #1 on the NY Times bestseller list; Fortune Magazine named it one of The Ten Best Business Books of the Year and business schools across the country, including Harvard, used it in their curriculum. Her fourth book, Uncensored Sales Strategies, co-authored with Dan Kennedy, was published in January of 2009. Today, Sydney is a successful business consultant who focuses on the Client Experience. She is also a Roadblock Removal specialist who promises to help reinvent how you eliminate the internal blocks that stand in the way of doing what you want to do, being who you want to be, and living the life you want to have.

For more information, please visit www.SydneyBarrows.com.

John Bul Dau – Reinvention Radio Guest

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John Bul Dau

In 1987 at just 9 years old, John Bul Dau survived fleeing from Sudanese government troops while leading thousands of younger children through violence and starvation on a journey of more than 1,000 miles.  5 years later and after over half of the boys had died from starvation and attacks, they arrived in a refugee camp in Kenya.  In 2001, John was selected along with 140 other Lost Boys to pursue the “American Dream” and came to America. When in the US, John worked as a security guard while completing his Associate’s Degree and started his BA in Policy Studies at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship. The documentary God Grew Tired of Us, produced by Christopher Quinn and narrated by Nicole Kidman, was released in 2006 and featured Dau and several other Lost Boys as they journeyed from Kenya to the US.  The film won several awards and pushed John Dau into the spotlight. John’s first book entitled God Grew Tired of Us: A Memoir, was published in 2007.  John has lived a remarkable life of cultural adaptation, now as a human rights activist for the people of South Sudan. John will inspire you to reinvent how you find your strength.

For more information, please visit www.johndaufoundation.org

Judy Marcus and Barry Sorkin – Reinvention Radio Guests

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Judy Marcus

Memory training expert Judy Marcus, known as the Memory Lady®, teaches powerful brain-friendly strategies for business and everyday life. Author of Where Are My Keys?®, creator of the LOVE Memory Method®, and member of the National Speakers Association, Judy teaches people of all ages how to make remembering unforgettable! Judy wants to help you reinvent the way you think about the skill of remembering. She will also share her unique approach to living a brain-friendly lifestyle. After all, life is better when you trust your brain to remember!

For more information, please visit www.memorylady.com.

Barry Sorkin

Barry Sorkin is a former IT professional who left his safe, comfortable career to pursue his dream of bringing great American BBQ to Chicago. Mr. Sorkin spent over a year researching the industry, developing the concept, writing a detailed business plan, finding a location, securing financing, fine-tuning recipes, managing the buildout and planning the opening. The result is SMOQUE BBQ. Opened in 2006, SMOQUE quickly developed a reputation for serving some of the best real Southern BBQ in Chicago and garnered national attention from dozens of media outlets including Bon Appetit, Gourmet, The Food Network’s Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives, and The New York Times. Barry will help you reinvent how you think about not having to create a brand new wheel but, instead, painting it your own color.

For more information, please visit www.smoquebbq.com.

Marie Dubuque and Darryl Rosen – Reinvention Radio Guests

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Marie Dubuque

Marie Dubuque is a certifed life coach and author. As the host of a popular advice channel on YouTube, she helps viewers with everything from how to deal with  job interview jitters to what to talk about on a first date. Her main focus is to get the word out that shyness is not a character flaw and she wants to help reinvent how you can take advantage of life’s consistent challenges and learn to truly enjoy life.

For more information, please visit www.youtube.com/mariedubuque.

Darryl Rosen

Darryl Rosen used to be the man with the special bottle of wine. He started in his family’s business, Sam’s Wines & Spirits, part-time as a teenager and full-time in 1990. Under his team’s unwavering commitment to superior customer service, sales and management practices, Sam’s grew from a single store with revenues of approximately $14 million to a multi-store chain with revenues of nearly $70 Million. At the apex of Sam’s success, Darryl’s family sold the business and he began reinventing his life. In just 3 years, Darryl has built D Rose & Associates into a nationally known sales and managerial training and development firm whose client roster includes suppliers, distributors and retailers in more than 20 states. Darryl is the author of three books, including Unleashing Your Inner Sales Coach – How To Inspire, Motivate and “Coach” Your Sales Team to Success. Darryl promises to help reinvent how you view the process of transition and move your life into a new, positive direction.

For more information, please visit www.darrylrosen.com.

Rayna DuBose and Stephanie Ike – Reinvention Radio Guests

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Rayna DuBose

Rayna DuBose is a true survivor and serves as an inspiration to us all. A former stand-out high school and college basketball player for Virginia Tech, Rayna was hospitalized with meningococcal meningitis on April 2, 2002 and, in early May, doctor s amputated parts of all four limbs due to tissue damage caused by the infection. In the Fall of 2003, after extensive rehab and being fitted for prosthetic limbs, she returned to school. Her amazing recovery has garnered national attention including features on HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, CBS Sports’ Final Four preview program and the CBS Early Show. She has also received numerous awards including the Wilma Rudolph Student-Athlete Achievement Award which is awarded to student-athletes who have overcome major adversity in their lives to excel as students and athletes. Rayna will help reinvent how you deal with life, its adversities, and the power of your mind, body, and spirit.

For more information, visit www.raynadubose.net

Stephanie Ike

Stephanie Ike is a Nigerian born activist, model, entertainer, and entrepreneur who lives by the motto of ‘With God all things are possible.’ As founder of the ‘Voice of Hope,’ Stephanie highlights everyday individuals and celebrities and believes that everyone has a story to share with the world. Ms. Ike has recently been recognized by Nigerian Voice Magazine as a woman of influence who is ‘carving a new image for the country of Nigeria.’ Stephanie promises to help reinvent how you think about turning dreams into reality.

For more information on the Voice of Hope Campaig, visit http://funds.gofundme.com/3o0x8

Dr. Elaine Fogel Schneider and Versandra Kennebrew – Reinvention Radio Guests

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Dr. Elaine Fogel Schneider

Dr. Elaine Fogel Schneider is the author of the newest iPhone Apps Baby Massage Basics and Massaging Your Baby – The Joy of TouchTime, and a recognized international expert in the fields of touch and communication. Elaine earned a Ph.D. in psychology, has two Masters of Arts degrees and is the Executive Director of TouchTime® International, LLC, and Founder of Baby Steps/Community Therapies which provides comprehensive family-centered early intervention services in the Antelope and Santa Clarita Valleys in northern Los Angeles County. Dr. Schneider teaches medical personnel, paraprofessionals and parents about TouchTime, setting the foundation for ultimate well-being, secure attachments, and Positive Caring Communication. A frequent media guest and recipient of numerous local and national awards, Dr. Schenider is committed to promoting happy, loving families in nurturing environments and can help reinvent how you the leverage the power of touch.

For more information, please visit www.touchtimeinternational.com.

Versandra Kennebrew

Versandra Kennebrew is the author of Thank God for the Shelter: Memoirs of a Homeless Healer, homeless advocate, self-improvement teacher and national speaker. After more than 20 years in the retail industry, downsizing and the economic stump triggered by the terrorist attacks of 9/11 crippled this entrepreneur, landing her in a Detroit area shelter for women. Depression nor poverty could keep her down. Today, she speaks at colleges and universities across the country and can absolutely help reinvent how you overcome life’s challenges, change your perspective on what it really means to hit “rock bottom” and leverage the power of your potential to create the life you want.

For more information, visit www.thankgodfortheshelter.com.

Pamela Meyer, Ph.D. – Reinvention Radio Guest

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Pamela Meyer, Ph.D.

Pamela Meyer, Ph.D., is the author of From Workplace to Playspace: Innovating, Learning and Changing Through Dynamic Engagement and Quantum Creativity: Nine Principles to Transform the Way You Work as well as a teacher of business creativity, improvisation and organizational theory at DePaul University. Pamela works with organizations worldwide using the improvisation strategies she learned in her years building creative teams in professional theater while helping her clients create dynamic work spaces for innovating, learning and changing. Pamela promises to help you reinvent how you think about where you work and how the space where most of us spend 40+ hours a week can become fun, energizing, and engaging.

For more information, please visit www.meyercreativity.com