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Jack Buckley, Aspiring Film Maker and Producer Talks Animation and His Latest Film, A’Taka

This is a family friendly movie. For 8 and up. For kids and parents to watch together. For families to get the popcorn out and queue up on Netflix or Discovery+ or whatever channel you want, and enjoy it. Yes, it would be GREAT to see on a streaming service. Jack is open to that. So, if you know someone who knows someone who is related to the powers that be at one of the streaming services, get in touch! I want to see this movie with my grandkids.

By Yvonne DiVita January 31, 2022 Big Ideas, Smart Conversations with Yvonne

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PodcastGuests and Founder Andrew Allemann for the Podcaster in You

We live in the world of podcasts, don’t we? The word is spoken thousands of times a day. Different shows are mentioned hundreds, if not thousands, of times a day. If you don’t have a podcast, you better be appearing on podcasts. If you aren’t, you are invisible.

By Yvonne DiVita January 20, 2022 Podcasting, Smart Conversations with Yvonne

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Natural Born Coaches Founder Marc Mawhinney Talks Life and Coaching and Groceries

Coaches and small business professionals, alike, will get valuable advice and insight from this Smart Conversation. The success Marc has created for himself didn’t come overnight, nor did he ‘buy’ it. He worked organically to build the tribe he has and he can help you do the same.

By Yvonne DiVita January 15, 2022 Big Ideas, Business Coaching, Smart Conversations with Yvonne

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Should My Post Be This Long or That Long?

Indeed. How long should your book be? Should it be 100 pages? 200 pages? 300 pages? More? The easy answer is – it should be […]

By Yvonne DiVita December 11, 2021 Books, Writing

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Great Pets, Great People, Great Times with Brock Weatherup

He was a guest on Smart Conversations because he’s a friend, was once a colleague, and because he has such a wealth of stories to tell about life, business, and the adventure of being in the pet space.

By Yvonne DiVita December 3, 2021 Big Ideas, Business Coaching, Smart Conversations with Yvonne

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Tom Van Winkle of Hinsdale Humane Society Talks Up American Association of Pet Parents

It’s not that these people want to give up their pets, it’s that they don’t see a way out. Tom is working to change that. One way he does this is by working with food pantries to donate some of the extra food he receives in donations, to them.

By Yvonne DiVita November 27, 2021 Big Ideas, Smart Conversations with Yvonne

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Aleasia Hurt from HURTNPOET Shares 7 Cs of Resilience

Over time, she learned she could create poetry out of the stories people told her. I am so fascinated by that because I feel that all of life is poetry. If we just stop to listen, we would hear the sounds of poetry all around us. We would see the colors of poetry drifting in the breeze. For Lisa, it helped her create a world of confidence, empowerment, and reward. That sense of giving back, whenever she could deliver a poem to a person, created from their story. It gives me chills! It’s exactly what story is all about.

By Yvonne DiVita November 19, 2021 Big Ideas, Business Coaching, Smart Conversations with Yvonne

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The Adventures of Miss Twiggs and Company by Lucy Forsting

Lucy believes we spend too much time ‘intellectualizing’ – and isn’t that the truth? I know I spend a good bit of time justifying my behavior and the behavior of others by thinking it through, rather than allowing my ‘intuition’ or my ‘heart’ dictate how I should feel about a situation.

By Yvonne DiVita November 3, 2021 Big Ideas, Smart Conversations with Yvonne, Writing

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How to Publish Your Book in Hardcover on Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing

Until recently, if you wanted to publish your book in hardcover on KDP, that was not an option. That’s all changed, since the beta release of the KDP hardcover option. Here’s how it works and how to make it easy on yourself.

By Tom Collins October 28, 2021 Books, Copyright & Legal Stuff, Writing

Your Brand Your Message Deb’s Business – Talking Marketing with Deb Goeschel

Deb’s backstory of how she got started goes all the way back to when she was a toddler and loved performing for her mom and other family members. We all have those memories, don’t we? It’s good to share them on your website and in your blog because it can easily bring you closer to your core audience – people who will be touched by that story of you as a child, and will relate to it because they, too, have those memories.

By Yvonne DiVita October 25, 2021 Marketing your book, Smart Conversations with Yvonne