Tell us about yourself. I’m Chadd Ciccarelli—author, strategist, and former Amazon exec. I spent over a decade inside Amazon, launching global programs, scaling high-growth initiatives, and leading over 1,000+ interviews as a Bar Raiser. I deal in frameworks that work...
Roderick Edwards (aka RoderickE) is a multi-genre author of over 30 books on topics as wide ranging as an autobiography of his being left for dead at the hospital at birth and his subsequent adoption at age 4 and reunion with his birth family at age 50. Or a series of books on WW2 cargo pilots that served in India with one of the men returning to the USA to develop the satellite program during the space race with the Soviets. RoderickE also has time travel fictions, books on politics, race relations, religion, philosophy, and poetry. Sometimes called the “Bansky of Books” due to his unexpected style that bypasses the cookie-cutter market-driven fare, you’ll be certain to find something you will enjoy, or you will dive into a new genre with seamless crossover.
Susan Bradford brought her Midwestern, Minnesota roots to 1960’s Berkeley where she transformed into an enlivened hippie and then set out hitchhiking on sailboats, living and working in the South Pacific and Asia in search of direction and meaning in her life.
Her global pilgrimage coupled with her joy of discovery. indomitable spirit, and passion for understanding the world around her deeply influenced her later work as a psychologist, political activist, and environmentalist, including co-founding the Hawaii Land Trust. Susan divides her time between Maui and Minneapolis.
Kevin O’Connor enjoys chronicling the stories of families and friends through tracing genealogical histories, writing, and picture collections. His prior writing includes personal letters, articles in professional publications, dissertations, anthologies, and presentations delivered at conferences, seminars, and webinars. He brings people together personally and professionally. Collaborating with friends and relatives, he plans family and class reunions. He sings and performs in theaters. He is active with SMART Ride, a bicycling group that rides annually from Miami to Key West, raising funds for HIV awareness, treatments, and education. He was an elementary teacher, principal, professor, and curriculum coordinator in California, Illinois, and Florida from 1973-2020. In his final educational position, he authored content and provided training in areas including support for substitute teachers, LGBTQ advocacy, and Sexual Health/Family Life. He resides in Ft. Lauderdale with his husband, Leon. Their family includes five sons and seven granddaughters. He references further connections to this book, continues his stories, and highlights perspectives about his interests at www.kevinoconnorauthor.com
Michelle Rice-Gauvreau is a native Mohawk woman born in Canada and raised in Connecticut via an illegal adoption, which was commonplace for many native babies throughout many years across North America. She is a compassionate advocate for all adoptees looking for their own truth, peace and hope. She hopes to instill her strength to any adoptee struggling to find their way.
Michelle now works as a legal professional for a prestigious law firm. She resides in Connecticut with her husband of many years, and her two senior cats. She enjoys traveling and learning more about native cultures far and wide.
Michelle is available for interviews and/or speaking engagements in person or virtually.
This book, Who Am I? is available to purchase in bulk at a discounted rate.
Polly Letofsky spent five years walking around the world, and six years writing the book about it. But it was worth it, her long awaited first book, 3mph: The Adventures of One Woman’s Walk Around the World has won top honors at the 2011 IPPY Awards as Best Travel Memoir, Best Memoir at the 2011 Writer’s Digest Best Book Awards, and was a Finalist in the USA Book Awards.
You can invite Polly to your book club! Polly has made a unique offer to readers of 3mph. If your book club reads 3mph she would be honored to visit your book club as well! She can visit by Zoom, or if you’re in the Denver metro area the club usually has a pot luck of the foods represented in her book. (She tended to talk about food a lot…), and sure, maybe some of the wines of the various countries as well.
Polly’s GlobalWalk — The Documentary has been produced by Newcastle Productions, currently showing on PBS channels across the United States (and available on Amazon).
After a horrible experience publishing her book, 3mph: The Adventures of One Woman’s Walk Around the World, she started her own publishing company, My Word Publishing, where her team of 15 Publishing Consultants help authors through the maze of self-publishing — all while they keep 100% of their rights and royalties. She was awarded Best Woman Owned Business by the Colorado Business Women.
She currently lives in Denver where she continues to work hard on behalf of authors, and is also a motivational speaker, teaching the lessons she learned on the road. She loves biking, her cats, and still walks.
Rachel Boehm is an award-winning journalist, turned workplace wellness organizer and advocate. Her experiences with school and workplace bullying, fat shaming, disordered eating, perfectionism, and verbal and emotional abuse began at a young age and continued into her late-twenties.
Embracing a survivor’s mindset, Boehm now views her journey as a calling to transform the way individuals and organizations view well-being, the beauty of the human body, metrics of success, and the fragility of time.
Boehm was raised in Austin, Texas. A love for the fine arts, film, and television took her to Southern California for undergraduate studies and to pursue a career in the industry.
A quarter-life crisis fueled by the tumultuous nature of the industry and a realization of society’s flawed definitions of beauty and success, sent her on a multi-year soul-searching quest. She traveled back to Austin, then on to the UAE, Syria, Jordan, Europe, and New York City, before accepting a graduate studies scholarship with American University in Journalism and Public Affairs. Following commencement, she moved to Northern Virginia.
This journey is detailed in her memoir I Am NOT!, which in many ways provides the backstory for her 2018 self-published collection of quips and lessons learned, Tripping in Public.
Today, Boehm works at an individual and organizational level to change the dialogue around the workplace well-being experience. She shares her story and works to help others: redefine success and beauty; develop mindfulness and self-compassion; and embrace the art of the “always something” mindset.
Through her many endeavors (day job, side hustle, and private practice), Boehm seeks to help everyone bring their best selves to work and life, and to truly love the skin they’re in.
Before Brooke Jones was the Best Selling author of the Amazon #1 Best Seller (in the “Short Biography/Memoir” category) “WHY ARE THERE MONKEYS? (and other questions for God)”, she was an award-winning Los Angeles and San Francisco Radio Personality, and was named “LA’s FUNNIEST LADY”. A long and tedious battle with Breast Cancer brought her radio career to an untimely end and transformed her Stand-Up Comedy career into a Sit-Down Comedy career. Ably assisted by her alter-ego, Ima Crone, Gypsy Crone Queen of Snarklandia, and her Camp Meme-A-Day Memes (some of which actually TALK), she names, blames and, with any luck shames the knuckleheads, nincompoops and nimrods who populate this glorious (and fragile) planet.
Constantine was born in St. Petersburg, Florida and raised by his mother and his aunt. A wholesome Boy Scout and frontman for Tampa ska/punk band: H1N1, he attended St. Petersburg College for his Associate of Arts and New College of Florida for his Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. He escaped to Colorado in 2015 where he served with AmeriCorps and later pursued his dream to become a wilderness therapy field guide, completing 550 field days.
He enjoys writing,
tea, cooking, brooding, dancing, yoga,
astronomy, reprehensibly long walks, movies, being outdoors
etc. & suchforth.
Rosemary T. Mupambwa – Relationship Coach and Life Transformation Coach and the author of this very powerful book EXHUME OR HEAL – A WIDOW’S MEMOIR GETTING HER GROOVE BACK
The book is about a widow’s journey from the time she lost her husband until when she found healing, love, and transformation. The author, a widow herself, lost her husband in July of 2000 and was left with three children, the youngest was five. All that Rosemary Mupambwa saw in front of her was black. Widowhood had a color, and it was black. … horrifying pain, sorrow, shattering loneliness, insurmountable grief, worry, rejection, betrayal, and hardship. The author takes you from when she bonded with her widowhood baggage; how this kept her stuck and shackled in her brokenness. The author shows that crying about the pain and loss without taking action to heal, is self-destructive behavior. The book goes over different healing therapies the reader can easily try out. Readers learn how to forgive the past and let go of the brokenness and bitterness. Healing and Forgiveness are continuous processes. They are never quick fixes. Rosemary picked up the pieces of what was left and transformed her life. This book prepares you to get back into the dating scene with A BANG! It teaches you techniques for dating smart and becoming a love magnet. This is a must-read book, as it addresses several obstacles faced by a widow and how to overcome them. In the end, you will come out a reinvented and stronger woman, ready to start over again.”
I won’t compete with several e-book titles I have out which provide biographical material on me. There is volume I of my official bio, “THE FIRST 85 YEARS ARE THE HARDEST,” I became distracted and have to date failed to publish volume II. Then there are my times in music, an avocation, titled, “IT AINT FINE IF IT DON’T RHYME” which offers over 60 years of lyrics plus bits and pieces on artists I’ve recorded or who recorded my songs – folks such as Paul Simon, Carl Perkins, Fred Neil, Lillian Briggs and some 25 others. “THE ZSA ZSA AFFAIR” is also biography, covering a few of my 20 years on Madison Avenue, leading up to the production of a TV commercial with Zsa Zsa Gabor and an aborted partnership in a cosmetics company in her name which we had planned. There is a delicately handled more personal bio, titled, “MY HILARIOUS SEX LIFE” which got some raving reviews but like most ebooks, sad sales. But wait, there’s more. You like biography? I’m a veritable bio machine. My very latest, titled, PANIC IN PERFORMING is a very brief bio of my performing years which is how and where I started in my working life, and which I continued intermittently while multi-tasking, writing, producing, marketing, you name it. In my 89th, year I was called to an audition for a bilingual role in a lozenge commercial, for which, apparently they auditioned from coast to coast. It was for an English and a French version of the same commercial and I figured that would be easy. I spoke French before I learned English, which is really my fifth language. The English version was a breeze but I had spoken Parisian French, not French Canadian, and the director gave me the line in French which sounded like Godforsaken gibberish and I panicked. I’m pretty effective aping dialects or accents but his version sounded so dreadful to me I simply panicked and couldn’t do it. I had never in my life panicked before in the performing arts and this prompted me to review my performing efforts from the age of six on when I did a solo dance performance which got me enough applause to addict me to the habit. The book is partly a psychological self-analysis along with several pages of photos covering a part-time career that started in 1933. And since my motto is – “I grew too old to retire and then became too busy to die,” I look forward to playing an action hero on my 100th birthday. To me, one of the most interesting biographical efforts I put out may be the postscript in my eBook adaptation of my screenplay ONE HUNDRED NAKED GIRLS in which I trace the development of that story over a period of over 40 years. This book adaptation, by the way, is my most constant and best seller among the twelve titles I have.
Can we skip this part? (laughs) Talking about myself is a lot harder that writing, that’s for sure. Let’s see… I grew up in southern California, spent a lot of years in northern New Mexico. I’ve been living here in New Zealand for over a decade now.
I’m mostly a musician, I guess, with a background in horses as well. I’m a senior lecturer in music at a major university here, but I got my degrees later in life. I teach recording, songwriting, stagecraft and performance skills and other things. My research lies in the area of digital culture and ecosystems, exploring how this digital age is affecting humankind in general, and music and the arts especially.
I spent most of my musical years out there playing music. I play a whole bunch of varied and weird instruments. In addition to guitar, I play mandolin, banjo, Dobro, accordion, lap steel, pedal steel, bass, piano, and a few other obscure instruments like mandocello, Theremin, and the musical saw. I play on a lot of records as a recording session musician for other artists, and I have four or five of my own albums out there in the world.
I was a saddlemaker for many years, and I still keep my hands in the leatherwork from time to time. These days it’s usually me, ruining a perfectly good guitar by covering it in fancy carved leather. Sort of cowboying it up. Not practical, but it’s a lot of fun.
As for writing books, this is the first full length work I’ve done (unless you count my doctoral thesis… but nobody actually reads those, do they?). I’ve been a songwriter most of my life, so I do a lot of short form writing; poems, blogs, short stories. And academic conference papers for geeks like me.
Oh, and I have two grown daughters who are a LOT smarter and more worldly than I’ll ever be.
I was born and raised in Honolulu. I attended Punahou School and also UH-Manoa. I spent every summer with my grandmother on her horse ranch on the east end of Moloka’i. She gave me my first horse when I was four. That mare dropped a foal the morning after I “rode her to death,” according my grandmother. My father told his mother to never mention I had Hawaiian blood because of the discrimination he experienced as a boy growing up in Honolulu.
I bounced around during my college years, attending the University of Colorado, the University of Hawaii, and UC-San Diego. I received a BA in English Lit at UCSD and went on for my MFA at San Francisco State University. While at SFSU, I was the first student in the history of the school to sweep the poetry awards in the all-school competitions.