Founder Shelley Lewis is an author, co-founder of the website Howdini.com, a wife, a mother and a daughter. She began her second career as a writer and website owner and she’s never regretted it for a minute, except at certain times when she misses that large salary she use to earn as a network executive. But she doesn’t miss the work. Shelley spent the first 25 years of her career in mainstream media as a producer and executive producer of news programs for NBC, ABC, and CNN. She was also a co-creator of Air America Radio, and served as vice president of programming for two years. She has her new book: 5 lessons I didn’t learn from breast cancer and the big one I did; a modern girl’s guide to breast cancer (she hates the word survivor), her ‘Tumor Sniffing’ Dog, Chester, and her new website Howdini! We will talk about it all.

Introduction

Shelley Lewis is an author and co-founder of an interesting new website called Howdini. She spent 25 years of her career as a producer and executive producer of news programs for NBC, ABC and CNN and co-creator of Air America Radio. Her new book: 5 lessons I didn’t learn from breast cancer and the big one I did; is a modern girl’s guide to breast cancer. She is a new entrepreneur and loving it.

Emmy Award winning producer, Jamie Bright Forman, has more than a decade of experience as an associate and booking producer for network news and syndicated talk shows. With eight years on staff at Dateline NBC working with Stone Phillips and Jane Pauley, no one knows more about what it takes to get on TV today. Jamie left her full-time job at Dateline to become a mom…then she started her own company Your Media Coach; teaching and coaching authors and experts how to effectively pitch the media on a tight budget. Jamie gets rave reviews from her clients, such as“…She is incredibly smart, creative and truly dedicated to helping her clients attain success.” A word of advice when working with Jamie…record your sessions…no one I know talks faster than Jamie.