As a world traveler who speaks French, Spanish, Italian, and Dutch, I have to admit that it still tickles me whenever I see that the media refers to me as the “Renaissance woman with soul!”

I’m an Author, Radio/TV Personality, Speaker, Coach, Spokeswoman, Designer, Gardener, and NY Times best selling author of Chicken Soup for the Gardener’s Soul, Be the Star You Are!®, 99 Gifts for Living, Loving, Laughing, and Learning to Make a Difference, The Business of Show Business, and Miracle Moments®.

I wasn’t born into all of this “international acclaim”. Truth be told, I was born on a farm in the Napa Valley in Northern California and as the eldest of five children, it was up to me to earn enough money to pay for a college education. I drove tractor, picked fruit, raised sheep and chickens, becoming a state champion rooster raiser in the process.

After being honored as the Outstanding Teenager of California, I was named teenage ambassador to Holland and served as a foreign correspondent for several newspapers. I attended UCLA, the Universite de Bordeaux in France, and graduated with honors from CAL, Berkeley-all financed by my chicken project.. My travel expeditions gave birth to my dynamic writing, speaking, and coaching career. Interviewing is a talent that I enjoy. Tune into my upbeat positive nationally syndicated radio program live and archived every Thursday from 3-4pm PST/6-7pm EST on the world’s largest radio network, World Talk Radio/Modavox/Voice America.. (http://www.ideocast.com/show.asp?sid=118).