Dare to Live Your Dream
with Barbara Sher

Barbara Sher is one of my favorite authors in the world, with a real genius for helping other people uncover their authentic dreams and desires and then to go out into the world and make them real.

In this show, Barbara worked with me and a couple of callers on clarifying what it is we really enjoy doing, which according to Barbara is the key to bringing your genius to life!

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About Barbara Sher

Barbara Sher is a business owner, career counselor, and the bestselling author of six books on goal achievement and teamwork. She has taught team building, goal-achievement, communication skills, networking and brainstorming in schools, companies and at conferences all over the world.

She has appeared on national and local radio and television, including Oprah, The Donahue Show, The Today Show, 60 Minutes, CNN and Good Morning America.

Her first book   Wishcraft: How to Get What You Really Want (Viking, Ballantine Books) has sold over a million copies since its first printing in 1979. The book came from Sher's 1972 motivational innovation, Success Teams, small groups whose members meet weekly to help each other find and achieve their dreams. The Success Teams were an instant hit and were written up on the front page of The Wall Street Journal and in The New York Times. By 1976, Sher was running workshops to teach people how to create Success Teams throughout the United States and Europe. Today, Sher's teams are operating in colleges and universities, career centers, Fortune 100 companies and entrepreneur associations in countries from the US. to Nepal, Siberia, Israel, Canada, Thailand, Australia, and Bulgaria.

When Sher discovered that many people were unsure of their goals, she began hosting problem-solving sessions and developing dozens of powerful techniques that freed people from "goal-paralysis." These techniques are developed and refined in all her books, workshops, audio courses and television specials.

Barbara Sher's next three books were published by Dell/Delacorte: The New York Times best-seller I Could Do Anything if I Only Knew What It Was was followed in 1996 by Live the Life You Love in Ten Easy Step-by-Step Lessons , which won the first award ever given for "Best Motivational Book of the Year" by the Books For A Better Life Award Commission.

Her fifth book, It's Only Too Late If You Don't Start Now, How to Create Your Second Life at Any Age, a highly unconventional look at the second half of life, has turned ideas of midlife on their ear and her hilarious hour-long PBS special by the same name has been submitted for an Emmy nomination and is winning accolades wherever it is shown.

The latest book,   Barbara Sher's Idea Book , published by Genius Press Unltd in 2003, is the first in a new series called How to Do What You Love Without Starving to Death. This book and other new books and tapes can be found as they become available at   www.geniuspress.com .

Two more PBS specials followed her first: "Live the Life You Love/Map to Success," and "Barbara Sher's Idea Party". Her originality, humor and compassion continue to create excitement and draw new supporters to public television year after year. Her work has been called "standup comedy with a message," In 2000, She won an honorary PhD from Lasell College in recognition of her "extraordinary achievements .. and inspirational leadership in helping people to attain their personal and professional dreams.

Presently, Barbara consults with individual clients, runs lively interactive workshops as well as telephone classes and idea parties, speaks in front of companies and organizations around the world and travels every spring and fall to her second home in Central Turkey where she has started a foundation called Hands on Hips, Inc., to teach e-commerce to village weavers. (To see photos of the village, go to   www.kilimwomen.com )

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