Meet the Editors
Heidi Richards Mooney, Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
Heidi is the Founder of The Women’s eCommerce Association, for which WE Magazine for women is produced. She is also the author of eight books and co-author of two including “Rose Marketing on a Daisy Budget.,” and more. She has written hundreds of articles on topics relating to women and business, has produced five ezines, contributed to national and international publications, produces five blogs and hosts a series of webinar events focusing on issues of interest to women. To learn more about Heidi, visit http://www.heidirichards.com.
Gina Aronoff, Associate Editor – Layout & Design
Gina is the Office Manager for Eden Florist & Gift Baskets, Copyright Assistant to Heidi Richards and Associate Editor for WE Magazine for Women. She is responsible for putting the magazine together including layout, linking, and formatting the finished product. She is a detail oriented person who loves to see a project come to life and enjoys contributing her expertise to the overall goals of the organizations.
Laurel Delaney, Going Global Editor
Laurel Delaney runs GlobeTrade.com and LaurelDelaney.com, both Chicago-based firms that specialize in international entrepreneurship. She is also the creator of “Borderbuster,” (www.globetrade.com/generic21.html) an e-newsletter and The Global Small Business Blog (http://borderbuster.blogspot.com), which are both highly regarded for coverage on global small business.
Simone Kelly Brown, Business Editor
Simone Kelly-Brown, the visionary, author, and holistic business coach, behind Own Your Power Communications, Own Your Power Communication’s* (OYPC) Simone is passionate about personal empowerment and encouraging many to own their OWN businesses and to pursue a holistic lifestyle. Simone has reached thousands with her advice and uses her talents best as an author, speaker, coach, and radio show personality. She’s also a certified Small Business Camp coach, who was trained under her mentor, coach and Internet Television Star, Andrew Morrison. Learn more about Simone at http://www.ownyourpower.biz or join her network at http://www.ownyourpower.ning.com
Carole Martin, Career Editor
Carole Martin, America’s #1 Interview Expert and Coach, can give you interviewing tips like no one else can. Get a copy of her FREE 9-part “Interview Success Tips” report by visiting Carole on the web at http://www.interviewcoach.com
Bea Kunz, Earthwise Editor
Bea Joined our team in September of 2007 and her column will make it’s debut with the Winter 2007 issue. Bea Kunz, owns and operates Sage Hill Farms. A Sustainable farm project that grew out of Bea’s desire to return to her childhood roots of living on a farm, and her growing concern for our earth and our food sources. Bea has farming roots that span generations. Along with her recent study and training under a Master Gardener and Herbalist she has undertaken the Sage Hill Farms project with dedication and a determination to make her part of the earth a healthier place to live and to pass on to the next generation. Bea also works in the area of teaching others how to live and practice a sustainable lifestyle. Visit Sage Hill Farms at: http://www.sagehillfarmsandvintagestore.com.
Linda Pereira, Travel Editor
In addition to being travel editor for WE Magazine, Linda is the International Liaison for the WECAI Network. Linda is the senior partner for CPL Events and a graduate in modern languages. As a professional Interpreter she has traveled all over the world accompanying Members of Government and has been present in the most important events which have marked our recent history. Her expertise is protocol and ceremonial etiquette as well as cross-cultural communication have given her a privileged status as a consultant in government circles and at the highest corporate levels. Her work in the Meeting Industry led her to take a Master’s Degree in Adult Education. She is proud to have been responsible for the first ever large-scale meeting to be held in Lisbon and to have played an important role in the two European Presidencies held by Portugal as well as EXPO’98, the last World Exposition of the XXth century. For more information, visit: http://www.cplevents.pt/.
Gina Rafkind, Health & Wellness Editor
Gina is the owner and founder of VedaSun; a company whose mission is to be your Aromatherapy Luminary and inspire you to Break Out and unleash your vibrant inner being by enhancing your awareness practice of using your senses as a pathway to presence. Gina will empower you to melt away stress and anxiety in your life by offering naturally sourced, botanical products, holistic mind~body therapies and inspiring information so you too can choose, with awareness, to live a more joyful life and reconnect to your inner spirit. Visit http://www.vedasun.com for more info and to get her free report, BREAK~OUT, BE~FREE.
Suzannah L. Richards, CLTC. Wealth Editor
Suzannah is Financial Professional with New York Life Insurance. For additional information, please contact Suzannah L. Richards, CLTC at 954-895-8980 or srichards@ft.newyorklife.com.
Lisa R. Tucci, Lifestyle EditorLisa Tucci, Chief Creative Officer of Art&Media Communications has been a Producer & Editor of historical content for over 10 years. Her own Artineraries line of downloadable Tours are known as some of the best audio productions in all of Italy. Lisa is also active on the Board of Directors for Rome’s Professional Women’s Association, where she is the Newsletter Editor & Contributor.
Lisa also acts as Editor for a line of children’s mystery stories, all set in Italy, and published by Aunt Dee’s Attic (Michigan). Since attending the WECAI Network Publishing Webinar, she was inspired to start her own irreverent blog, offering a critical (and sometimes humorous look) at the trials & tribulations of life in Italy. She hopes to publish her vignettes in a book of the same name. You can visit Lisa at Touring Tracks or her blog at Burnt By the Tuscan Sun.
Mary Agnes Antonopoulous, SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR
Mary Agnes is the Social Media Strategist for NY Times Best Selling Author, Christine Comaford and has created successful social media campaigns for Jack Canfield (Chicken Soup for the Soul), Libby Gill, OnePinky.com, and a long list of others. To inquire about the We Online Success in Social Media Class, reach out to Heidi Richards Mooney or Mary Agnes.
Susan Nelson, Susan’s Art & Food Editor
Susan Nelson is a former restaurant owner, published children’s book illustrator, current cookbook writer and humor columnist. No one can fill Erma Bombeck’s shoes but Susie is definitely following in her footsteps, virtually channeling Erma’s style and voice. We want to fill the void left after her untimely death. For more information visit her blog at http://susartandfood.wordpress.com/. Susart is a Syndicated Column and WE Magazine is one of her first National Syndication Publications. We are honored to have her on board!
Bobbi Palmer, Relationships Editor
Bobbi Palmer is a Dating and Relationship Coach for Grown-up Women. Her expertise and gentle guidance helps thoughtful, accomplished women date like a grown-up; with confidence, compassion, awareness, and grace. Bobbi offers individual and group coaching. You can find her at www.DateLikeaGrownUp.com, where you can take your FREE Man-O-Meter test to find out if YOU are ready to date like a grown-up. You can reach Bobbi at bobbip@DateLikeaGrownUp.com or 562.608.8685.
Technology Editor ~ Open
Jeanne Horak-Druiff ~ Wine Editor
Jeanne Horak-Druiff lives in London but her heart and her palate remain resolutely South African. Although she works in the legal field to fund her expensive travel habit, her true passion is for food, wine and writing. She maintains a food blog at www.cooksister.com and has been interviewed by the Wall Street Journal Europe and the BBC. She also contributed to the Digital Dish, a collection of food writing from the Web. When she grows up she wants to live in Plettenberg Bay and lead culinary tours of the Garden Route!
Meet Gabriela Rosenthal, Weight Loss & Fitness Editor
Gabriela Rosenthal is a weight loss specialist with The Center for Medical Weight Loss at University Drive and the face of the Physicians are Changing the Shape of America, a national advertising campaign with CMWL. She has personally lost more than 130 pounds and realized the battle most people fight with weight loss. The Center has helped her overcome these struggles as well as thousands of others. For more information, visit cmwl.org or call 954-966-5700 to start your own success story
Meet Tashia Rahl, Style Editor
Owner of the HLN Company, Fashion stylist, Tashia Rahl has lived and travelled throughout the globe the majority of her life. The daughter of an army colonel and French born mother, Rahl was exposed to a unique journey of living and travelling throughout Europe and the Middle East. A graduate of hood college, Rahl is a product of experience, training and imagination. After studying at the Universite de Strasbourg, France, she styled celebrities in st Tropez, dressed dignitaries in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and personal-shopped for a-listers at Bergdorf Goodman in new York City. Tashia Rahl began the hln company in 1997 in south Florida dressing professionals, high-powered families and singles. She is known for her love of black, high shoes, and personal & confidential approach.
The hln company stands for [all about] the hottest, latest, newest. Its focus is to dress for who you are and what you want. At that moment, it’s not even about who you are, it’s how great you feel and how amazing you look. Visit Tashia online at The HLN Company
EDITORS-AT-LARGE:
Dr. Anita Davis Defoe
Author Anita Davis-DeFoe has long recognized the power, the magic, and the impact of words of wisdom. A true believer in sisterhood, the uplifting of women and girls, and the endless possibilities that inspirational collaboration can create, Dr. DeFoe works to empower others throughout the United States, Africa and the Caribbean.
Anita Davis-DeFoe is an Associate Editor with Caribbean Voice, a South Florida newspaper, and a Life Strategist Columnist for She Caribbean (St. Lucia), and Caribbean Belle (Trinidad). Dr. DeFoe is the Florida Bureau Chief for Caribbean Voice-New York and serves as its editor for EVOLVE, InPowerment for Women, a newsprint for women and girls, and is the of Soulfully Speaking and Spirit in the Village on CaribVoice Radio.
Gillian Hood-Gabrielson
Gillian Hood-Gabrielson, MS, provides customized fitness and intuitive eating programs for women who want to start living now instead of waiting until they lose weight and get in shape. You will learn how to take back your power over food and reignite the relationship you have with your body. Gillian’s coaching specialties include overcoming emotional overeating and fitness motivation, and she also has a special coaching package designed for the entrepreneur! Subscribe to her monthly newsletter, “Stop the Weight!”, and receive your free report, “Six Steps to Guilt-Free Eating” at http://www.healthieroutcomes.com.
Roberta Hart
Roberta is the mother of three young sons rapidly approaching adolescence. She is a 34 year old small business owner and Freelance Writer residing in Western PA. Roberta’s most recent articles and essays have been published in Lilipoh Magazine, Cynics Online, WE Women Magazine, Power Women Magazine and Healthy Place.com. She has lived all her life in a middle class, real world, suburban setting, and uses her skills as a communicator and writer to convey a message, purely in the hopes that someone, anyone is listening. Read more of the wit and and wisdom of Roberta at: http://welcometowords.blogspot.
Dr. LeslieBeth (LB) Wish, Psychologist and Licensed Social Worker. She is nationally recognized for her groundbreaking work with women’s relationship, career and childhood abuse issues, as well as her work with soldiers and their families, especially widows. She offers sound, research-based relationship advice that is unique, innovative and fun-and makes sense. Her areas of expertise include issues such as smart dating, women’s relationship advice, divorce, career and workplace advice, leadership training and more. Find out more about her at www.lovevictory.com
Pam Archer
Pam Archer is the President of Pamela’s Exclusive Floral & Event Design, located in Kingsport, Tennessee. As a professional wedding and event planner, Pam has assisted brides with untangling the financial nightmares they have created, due to a lack of information regarding where to start when planning their weddings. She is the author of “99 Things You Wish You Knew before You Planned Your Wedding”, and writes articles on a variety of topics including business, health and lifestyle. Learn more about Pam at http://www.pamelaseventdesign.com and http://www.archerfitpress.wordpress.com
Teresa Morrow
Teresa Morrow is the owner of Key Business Partners, a virtual assistance company that works to give you back One hour a day so you can focus on making money in your business. She contributes articles and ideas on several blogs around the net as well as being a contributor to other women’s magazines. Teresa also serves on the Florida Board of Advisors for Women in Ecommerce.
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