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| SUZE ORMAN |
| America's #1 Financial Expert |
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 Suze Orman is a best selling author and two-time Emmy Award-winning television host, who has been called “a force in the world of personal finance” and a “one-woman financial advice powerhouse” by USA Today.
Orman is one of the best selling authors of all time having written 10 consecutive NY TIMES best sellers and having over 30 million copies of her books in print all over the world. She also is the contributing editor to “O” The Oprah Magazine, the Costco Connection Magazine and for the last eleven years host of the award-winning Suze Orman Show, which airs every Saturday night on CNBC. Over her television career Suze has accomplished that which no other television personality ever has before. Not only is she the single most successful fundraiser in the history of Public Television, but she has also garnered an unprecedented seven Gracie awards, more than anyone in the 35-year history of this prestigious award. The Gracies recognize the nation’s best radio, television, and cable programming for, by, and about women.
In October 2010 Forbes honored Orman as one of “The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women.” In May 2010 Orman was presented with an Honorary Doctor of Commercial Science degree from Bentley University. In that same month, Orman received the Gracie Allen Tribute Award from the American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT); the Gracie Allen Tribute Award is bestowed upon an individual who truly plays a key role in laying the foundation for future generations of women in the media. In October 2009 Orman was the recipient of a Visionary Award from the Council for Economic Education for being a champion on economic empowerment. In July 2009 Forbes named Orman 18th on their list of The Most Influential Women In Media. In May 2009 Orman was presented with an honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Illinois. In May 2009 and May 2008 Time magazine named Orman as one of the TIME 100, The World’s Most Influential People. In October 2008 Orman was the recipient of the National Equality Award from the Human Rights Campaign. In April 2008 Orman was presented with the Amelia Earhart Award for her message of financial empowerment for women. Saturday Night Live has spoofed Suze five times during 2008-2011. In 2007, Business Week named Orman one of the top ten motivational speakers in the world—she was the ONLY woman on that list, thereby making her 2007’s top female motivational speaker in the world.
In 2011, America’s most trusted personal finance advisor was featured in “Ask Oprah’s All Stars” alongside Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. In 2012 Orman premiered a 6-part series “America’s Money Class with Suze Orman” on OWN, providing tangible advice and offering viewers a chance to win up to $50,000. This show drove more traffic to Oprah.com than any other show for that year.
Orman grew up on the South Side of Chicago, earned a bachelor’s degree in social work at the University of Illinois and at the age of 30 was still a waitress making $400 a month. |
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| Barbara Corcoran |
| Judge on ABC's Shark Tank, Real Estate Entrepreneur and Author |
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 Barbara Corcoran’s credentials include straight D’s in high school and college and twenty jobs by the time she turned 23. It was her next job, however, that would make her one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the country, when she borrowed $1,000 from her boyfriend and quit her job as a waitress to start a tiny real estate company in New York City. Over the next 25 years, she’d parlay that $1,000 loan into a five-billion-dollar real estate business named The Corcoran Group. She sold the business in 2001 for seventy million dollars.
Corcoran is the best selling author of If You Don’t Have Big Breasts, Put Ribbons on Your Pigtails, Nextville: Amazing Places to Live the Rest of Your Life, and Shark Tales: How I Turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business. Her books cover business and entrepreneurship, her struggles in school, and her mother’s kitchen-table wisdom for success in the business world.
Corcoran is the real estate contributor for NBC’s Today Show and CNBC, and she’s a columnist for the Daily News, MORE magazine, and Redbook. She also serves as a judge on ABC’s hit entrepreneurial reality show, Shark Tank.
As a speaker, Corcoran brings her front-lines experience and infectious energy to every person she meets. Motivational, inspirational, and sometimes outrageous, Barbara Corcoran’s tell-it-like-it-is attitude is a refreshing approach to success. |
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| Steve Adubato, Ph. D. |
| Communication Coach, Best Selling Author |
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 Steve Adubato, Ph.D., enjoys a distinguished career as a broadcaster, author, university professor and motivational speaker. A trainer and coach in the areas of communication and leadership skills, Adubato also served in the mid-1980’s as New Jersey’s youngest state legislator at the age of 26.
Adubato currently anchors three PBS broadcasts — Caucus: New Jersey, an Emmy Award-winning public affairs television series; NJ Capitol Report, a news program covering New Jersey political issues on a weekly basis; and One-on-One with Steve Adubato, a compelling program giving insight into today’s world through interviews with actors, authors, journalists, CEOs, artists and educational innovators who each share their experiences and accomplishments. Adubato also conducts in-depth interviews for NJ Today, which airs weeknights on the new NJTV and covers news, politics and policy from across the state.
These series reach more than 10 million viewers in six states (NJ, NY CT, PA, DE, MD) through a variety of television outlets including PBS stations THIRTEEN (the New York flagship station), WLIW (Long Island’s PBS affiliate), WHYY-TV 12 (the Philadelphia affiliate), WLIW WORLD, and the new NJTV. Adubato's programming also airs on FiOS1 and on TCN-The Comcast Network. Adubato has been the recipient of four prestigious Emmy Awards for his work on public television. In 1995, 2000 and again in 2001, the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences presented Adubato with Emmy Awards in the category of “Best Host.”
In addition to his work on public television, Adubato has appeared on the TODAY Show, CNN, FOX News, FOX 5 in New York and CNBC as a media and communication analyst. He has also provided expert on-air commentary for NPR—National Public Radio. Adubato currently provides political commentary on 770-WABC, the #1 talk radio station in the country, as well as WOR-710 AM and has hosted on both networks.
In addition to his career as a broadcast journalist, Adubato is a Rutgers University visiting lecturer with a Ph.D. from Rutgers in the field of mass communication and a Masters from the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers. He is also a “distinguished visiting professor” at Montclair State University in the field of broadcast journalism. Adubato’s research and writing has focused on the role of the media in American society and the current state of journalism.
A much sought-after motivational speaker through his company Stand & Deliver, Adubato has conducted communication and leadership workshops for a variety of clients in the corporate and non-profit sectors. Stand & Deliver is a dynamic, hands-on professional development and executive coaching program, which Adubato created to help today’s professionals reach their potential as leaders.
Most recently, New Jersey Monthly magazine named Adubato one of the top five most powerful media figures in the state. In the past, New Jersey Monthly selected Adubato as one of the “50 Most Interesting People” in the state as well as one of the “25 Most Influential People in the State.” Adubato writes a weekly column focusing on communication and leadership for The Star-Ledger, New Jersey’s most widely circulated newspaper, which reaches over 1 million readers. He is a syndicated columnist who contributes to New Jersey Monthly, the Atlantic City Press and njvoices.com.
Finally, Adubato is the author of the books, Speak from the Heart: Be Yourself and Get Results (Simon & Schuster), which was featured in Fortune Magazine, as well as Make the Connection: Improve Your Communication at Work and at Home and What Were They Thinking? Crisis Communication: The Good, the Bad and the Totally Clueless, both published by Rutgers University Press. His fourth book is entitled You Are the Brand and examines the brand strategies of over thirty individuals and companies. |
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