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Quick Facts About Connie:
- Connie is an accomplished, playful and empowering journalist, author, essayist, blogger, columnist and PR consultant, who specializes in health, wellness, lifestyle, personal empowerment, entertainment, social networking and entertainment.
- She can write or pitch about any topic imaginable—from medical research to hot products to the latest celebrity fad diet.
- Connie is widely published, with dozens of nationally renowned newspapers, magazines and websites. (See list below.)
- Skilled in many formats, Connie is equally at home writing books, investigative articles, celebrity profiles, quirky personal essays, trend pieces, provocative columns and impassioned blog posts, as well as press releases and other PR collateral.
- Connie is comfortable interviewing everyone from celebrities to top business executives to people struggling to overcome seemingly insurmountable problems.
- As a reporter and editor, Connie has covered most beats, including health, wellness, science, entertainment, lifestyle, business and religion.
- In addition to being a journalist, Connie is in demand by companies and entrepreneurs, who hire her to create compelling, concise, winning copy for company newsletters, websites, brochures, advertorials and press packets.
- Back in 1998, Connie did what many journalists do—she heavily relied on sugar “fixes” and quickie-carb treats to help her meet article deadlines and get “energy bursts.”
- Now, for nearly 12 years—after receiving “Get off sugar now!” orders from her doctor, Connie only eats “real,” wholesome, nourishing food such as organic veggies, low-sugar fruits, legumes, high-quality fish, farm-raised chicken, free-range beef (occasionally), nuts, seeds, no wheat and only goat’s milk yogurt and cheese.
- Since she’s a “culinary puritan” and exercise aficionado (look for her in the gym, on the bike trail, on the ski slope or on tennis courts), Connie has more energy than most. She also possesses an astonishing ability to concentrate for hours at a stretch and has a clarity that once eluded her.
- Eating right and working out enabled Connie to research and writer her much-acclaimed book SUGAR SHOCK! (Berkley Books, Penguin Group). Among those who've said kind words about the book are Dr. Mehmet Oz, film producer Harvey Weinstein and Dr. Christiane Northrup. (Read rave reviews about the book here.)
- First off, Connie regularly writes articles, columns, helpful how-to pieces and blogs posts for her Sugar Shock Blog, as well as the Huffington Post and Psychology Today Blogs.
- She regularly helps clients by writing press releases, develop a platform, create good story angles and implement media pitches.
- She is also at work on her next three books. First up is SUGAR SHOCK! for Teens.
- In addition, Connie is is completing The Smart Diet Habits of Highly Successful Losers: Your Easy, 30-Day Plan to Slim Down, Get Energy, Boost Your Libido & Get a Life Rocks! This long-awaited follow-up book is an unparalleled diet book that offers overweight and obese people hope and a simple program that helps them embrace a healthier, happier life. (Details coming soon.)
- Connie also is planning her book, Bitten in the City: Surprising Facts & Fallacies About Lyme Disease.
- Connie is active in a number of ways, from speaking to writing to media interviews to social networking. For instance:
- She hosts the “Gab With the Gurus Radio Show,” for which she interviews top experts and bestselling authors in the fields of health, nutrition, personal empowerment, marketing, social networking, romance and blogging. Previous guests have included Dr. Mehmet Oz, Suzanne Somers, Lisa Rinna, “Father of Fitness” Jack LaLanne, Marilu Henner, “The Secret” teachers Lisa Nichols, Joe Vitale and Marci Shimoff, relationship expert Dr. Barbara DeAngelis; “FlyLady” Marla Cilley (Sink Reflections), Skinny Bitch Kim Barnouin, journalist Gary Taubes (Good Calories, Bad Calories), healing/personal empowerment expert Dr. Bernie Siegel, “Celebrity Fit Club” host Harvey Walden, IV (No Excuses Fitness Workout), creativity expert Julia Cameron, blogger Melissa Lafsky (“Opinionistas”) and many more. (Listen to live or archived radio shows since at www.GabWithTheGurus.com.
- Connie hosts a popular blog (www.SugarShockBlog.com), where she posts timely, provocative, informative items about sugar-shocking and other health news, research and trends, as well as inspiring, helpful how-to articles and other empowering tidbits.
- She maintains her Sugar Shock website, which gets hundreds of thousands of visitors a year.
- She has contributed to a variety of sites, including eDiets.com, SheKnows.com and HealthNewsDigest.com.
- Connie talks at wellness conferences, hospitals, community centers, health clubs, spas, fitness centers, corporations and adult education classes.
- To inspire and empower fans on a regular basis, Connie also publishes a Motivating Morsels™ ezine, which is distributed to her fast-growing mailing list in the thousands. Subscribe here.
- Connie also is a media guest, who has appeared on many TV and radio shows, including “CBS News Sunday Morning,” WCBS-TV, “KTLA Morning Show,” “Oprah & Friends Radio,” “The Howard Stern Show,” and Gary Null’s “Natural Living.”
- In addition to her writing and speaking, Connie—who is known as the Smart Habits Girl™—offers private and group coaching and presents group Break Free With Glee™ coaching programs to people around the world.
