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Media - Contact Mary Lee Gannon
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24 hours.
PRESS KIT
For Immediate Release
FROM WELFARE TO CEO
PERSONAL TURNAROUND EXPERT GIVES PRACTICAL ADVICE on
HOW to OVERCOME ADVERSITY
PITTSBURGH, PA – Personal turnaround and leadership expert Mary Lee
Gannon is living proof that anyone can turn his or her life around quickly
with simple focused strategies. Her book “Starting Over – 25 Rules When
You’ve Bottomed Out,” her corporate training on overcoming adversity and
her Web site www.StartingOverNow.com are full of specific hands-on
strategies that help people develop leadership skills, make ultimate use
of their time, uncover hidden career opportunities, be a problem solver, be
more persuasive all while keeping a healthy life balance. This is not just
theory stuff – it holds practical steps to a more productive and enriched
life. Listen to an interview with Mary Lee on her Web site www.
StartingOverNow.com.
At the age of 35 Mary Lee was a stay-at-home mother with four children
under seven-years-old living in an unpalatable marriage behind the
facade of a country club life. She filed for divorce as a leap of faith and a
few months later she realized an overwhelming avalanche of litigation
and anger that resulted in her and the children going from a lovely
residential suburb to being homeless, carless, hungry and on welfare.
She understood then that she was going to be the one to provide for her
and her four children and had to figure out a way to do that. She only had
a two-year degree in an allied health profession. Public assistance was
not the way she wanted to live her life. She had done the big cry and a lot
of asking, “Why me?” but that got her nothing but more paralyzed with
fear.
Mary Lee decided to wipe “guilt” and “worry” out of the way with new
behaviors. She shed the habits of “blame” and “complain” like they were
yesterday’s newspaper. Then she proactively defined her transferable
skills, developed her sphere of influence, trained in new skills she had
determined would pay off quickly and within a few short years rose to
become a president and CEO of a large hospital foundation.
“At this point in my career I feel a need to give back,” said Mary Lee who
presents on productivity and personal turnarounds to businesses, the
community, and employment development organizations. “I am very
blessed to have achieved the success that I have but I know that it came
as no accident. I want to help others meet their dreams by using the
shortcuts that I used to work smart, build networks, acquire new skills
and develop transferable skills.”
Unemployment rates are higher than they have been in decades and
many people are suffering because they don’t know how to find work or
where to begin. Whether you are an empty nester who is re-entering the
workforce, an entrepreneur who is looking for a way to network, someone
who has been recently laid-off, a person seeking their first job, starting a
business, going through a divorce, looking for career opportunities,
seeking career advice and education, or simply someone who is setting
new life goals the free worksheets, articles and advice at www.
StartingOverNow.com will help you get to a destination faster while also
balancing other life priorities, family and relationships.
The Web site holds specific critical suggestions and tactics that are laid
out for those who have met despair and need to create a new strategy
with specific tactics including:
· Links for government jobs, wage estimates, starting over after a
divorce, self improvement, resume advice, and business plans
· Worksheets for creating a “Life Balance Chart and Goals”
· Articles and Tip Sheets on the topics of: 10 Interview Questions for
You to Ask That Scream, "I Get the Big Picture!," Are You Leading Your Life
or an Actor in Your Own Drama?, Be the Standout Candidate in the New
Economy, Begin With Your "Success Sketch" and Hang it Where You Will
See It Everyday, Best Careers of 2009 and Free Tuition, Change - Here's
How!, Does Your Resume Look Weathered?, Don't Put an Age Limit on
Your Dreams, Eight Steps To Connect With Someone New - More Than
Networking, Expand Your Job Search - Use Job Search Engines, Find
Your Next Job Via Social Networking Sites, Four Tips for College
Graduates, Freelance During Your Meanwhile Time, Goals - What They
Did for Me, How to Find a Mentor - You Need One, How to Make a Career
Change in a Failing Economy, How to Remember People's Names,
Ideas to Start Your Own Business During Your "Meanwhile" Time, I've
Made a Mistake - What Now?, It's Not Who You Know, It's Who Know You -
How to Network, Know Which Glass is Yours and Take a Friend to Lunch,
Millionaire Women Look Ahead, Recession Resistant Careers, Tell a
Story on the Interview and Capture the Happy Ending, The Marketing,
Advertising and Publicity Puzzle, Transferable Skills – Three Easy Steps to
Changing Fields and many more.
· Links to social networking sites where Mary Lee posts daily career
tips.
· Mary Lee’s Blog, free e-Book “Make Your Wheel of Fortune Spin on
Balance,” and the ability to sign up for her free e-Newsletter “Starting Over
Now.”
Some of the organizations for which Mary Lee has presented include:
Dress for Success, New Choices/New Options Career Development
Service, Workquest, One Vision One Life, Pennsylvania Professional
Employment Network, Urban League of Pittsburgh, Fox Chapel Adult
Education, Pennsylvania Employment and Training Center. She has
been interviewed by msn.com, Forbes.com, eFinanicalCareers.com. Her
WnB Radio interview on MindYourBIZness may be heard on her web site
at www.StartingOverNow.com.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR/TRAINER:
Mary Lee Gannon went from being a stay-at-home mother with four
children under seven-years-old and a successful husband living a country
club lifestyle to the reality of becoming divorced, homeless, carless and
on welfare. She is a guest speaker for women’s organizations, business
organizations and other non-profit groups nationwide. Her Web site is
www.StartingOverNow.com which features blogs, worksheets and
articles. Her book, “Starting Over” will be released by New Horizon Press
in November of 2009. Mary Lee lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Contact
Mary Lee at info@startingovernow.com.
###
Contact Information:
Mary Lee Gannon
Cell: 412-874-3918
info@startingovernow.com
www.StartingOverNow.com
FROM WELFARE TO CEO
PERSONAL TURNAROUND EXPERT GIVES PRACTICAL ADVICE on
HOW to OVERCOME ADVERSITY
PITTSBURGH, PA – Personal turnaround and leadership expert Mary Lee
Gannon is living proof that anyone can turn his or her life around quickly
with simple focused strategies. Her book “Starting Over – 25 Rules When
You’ve Bottomed Out,” her corporate training on overcoming adversity and
her Web site www.StartingOverNow.com are full of specific hands-on
strategies that help people develop leadership skills, make ultimate use
of their time, uncover hidden career opportunities, be a problem solver, be
more persuasive all while keeping a healthy life balance. This is not just
theory stuff – it holds practical steps to a more productive and enriched
life. Listen to an interview with Mary Lee on her Web site www.
StartingOverNow.com.
At the age of 35 Mary Lee was a stay-at-home mother with four children
under seven-years-old living in an unpalatable marriage behind the
facade of a country club life. She filed for divorce as a leap of faith and a
few months later she realized an overwhelming avalanche of litigation
and anger that resulted in her and the children going from a lovely
residential suburb to being homeless, carless, hungry and on welfare.
She understood then that she was going to be the one to provide for her
and her four children and had to figure out a way to do that. She only had
a two-year degree in an allied health profession. Public assistance was
not the way she wanted to live her life. She had done the big cry and a lot
of asking, “Why me?” but that got her nothing but more paralyzed with
fear.
Mary Lee decided to wipe “guilt” and “worry” out of the way with new
behaviors. She shed the habits of “blame” and “complain” like they were
yesterday’s newspaper. Then she proactively defined her transferable
skills, developed her sphere of influence, trained in new skills she had
determined would pay off quickly and within a few short years rose to
become a president and CEO of a large hospital foundation.
“At this point in my career I feel a need to give back,” said Mary Lee who
presents on productivity and personal turnarounds to businesses, the
community, and employment development organizations. “I am very
blessed to have achieved the success that I have but I know that it came
as no accident. I want to help others meet their dreams by using the
shortcuts that I used to work smart, build networks, acquire new skills
and develop transferable skills.”
Unemployment rates are higher than they have been in decades and
many people are suffering because they don’t know how to find work or
where to begin. Whether you are an empty nester who is re-entering the
workforce, an entrepreneur who is looking for a way to network, someone
who has been recently laid-off, a person seeking their first job, starting a
business, going through a divorce, looking for career opportunities,
seeking career advice and education, or simply someone who is setting
new life goals the free worksheets, articles and advice at www.
StartingOverNow.com will help you get to a destination faster while also
balancing other life priorities, family and relationships.
The Web site holds specific critical suggestions and tactics that are laid
out for those who have met despair and need to create a new strategy
with specific tactics including:
· Links for government jobs, wage estimates, starting over after a
divorce, self improvement, resume advice, and business plans
· Worksheets for creating a “Life Balance Chart and Goals”
· Articles and Tip Sheets on the topics of: 10 Interview Questions for
You to Ask That Scream, "I Get the Big Picture!," Are You Leading Your Life
or an Actor in Your Own Drama?, Be the Standout Candidate in the New
Economy, Begin With Your "Success Sketch" and Hang it Where You Will
See It Everyday, Best Careers of 2009 and Free Tuition, Change - Here's
How!, Does Your Resume Look Weathered?, Don't Put an Age Limit on
Your Dreams, Eight Steps To Connect With Someone New - More Than
Networking, Expand Your Job Search - Use Job Search Engines, Find
Your Next Job Via Social Networking Sites, Four Tips for College
Graduates, Freelance During Your Meanwhile Time, Goals - What They
Did for Me, How to Find a Mentor - You Need One, How to Make a Career
Change in a Failing Economy, How to Remember People's Names,
Ideas to Start Your Own Business During Your "Meanwhile" Time, I've
Made a Mistake - What Now?, It's Not Who You Know, It's Who Know You -
How to Network, Know Which Glass is Yours and Take a Friend to Lunch,
Millionaire Women Look Ahead, Recession Resistant Careers, Tell a
Story on the Interview and Capture the Happy Ending, The Marketing,
Advertising and Publicity Puzzle, Transferable Skills – Three Easy Steps to
Changing Fields and many more.
· Links to social networking sites where Mary Lee posts daily career
tips.
· Mary Lee’s Blog, free e-Book “Make Your Wheel of Fortune Spin on
Balance,” and the ability to sign up for her free e-Newsletter “Starting Over
Now.”
Some of the organizations for which Mary Lee has presented include:
Dress for Success, New Choices/New Options Career Development
Service, Workquest, One Vision One Life, Pennsylvania Professional
Employment Network, Urban League of Pittsburgh, Fox Chapel Adult
Education, Pennsylvania Employment and Training Center. She has
been interviewed by msn.com, Forbes.com, eFinanicalCareers.com. Her
WnB Radio interview on MindYourBIZness may be heard on her web site
at www.StartingOverNow.com.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR/TRAINER:
Mary Lee Gannon went from being a stay-at-home mother with four
children under seven-years-old and a successful husband living a country
club lifestyle to the reality of becoming divorced, homeless, carless and
on welfare. She is a guest speaker for women’s organizations, business
organizations and other non-profit groups nationwide. Her Web site is
www.StartingOverNow.com which features blogs, worksheets and
articles. Her book, “Starting Over” will be released by New Horizon Press
in November of 2009. Mary Lee lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Contact
Mary Lee at info@startingovernow.com.
###
Contact Information:
Mary Lee Gannon
Cell: 412-874-3918
info@startingovernow.com
www.StartingOverNow.com
Click here for a complete Press Kit with Q & A.
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to help you:
1. United States of
America's primary source on
career info:
www.onetcenter.org
2. Wage Estimates
www.salary.com and Bureau
of Labor and Statistics
3. Organize Your Job
Search - Post a Question
etc.: www.cvtips.com
4. Starting Over After
Divorce:
www.womansdivorce.com
5. Starting Over for Women:
www.makingbreadmagazine.
com
6. Self Improvement:
www.selfgrowth.com.
7. Job Postings, Resume
Advice and Resources:
www.careerbuiler.com
8. Templates for: business
plans, competitive analysis,
start up costs and more:
www.score.org/business_tool
box.html
9. Federal/Sate/Local
Government jobs:
www.USAJOBS.com
10. U.S. Government's Free
online courses, webinars
and podcasts for workforce
development:
www.onetacademy.com.
| Mary Lee Gannon is interviewed on Mind Your BIZness |
FREE e-book.
Get Mary Lee's FREE
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Wheel of Fortune
Spin on Balance" by
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Gannon's work as a
newspaper reporter,
trade association
executive director,
public relations
consultant,
entrepreneur, and
hospital foundation
president and CEO are
the basis for her free
e-newsletter with tips on
"Starting Over."
Get Mary Lee's FREE
e-book "Make Your
Wheel of Fortune
Spin on Balance" by
clicking here. Mary Lee
Gannon's work as a
newspaper reporter,
trade association
executive director,
public relations
consultant,
entrepreneur, and
hospital foundation
president and CEO are
the basis for her free
e-newsletter with tips on
"Starting Over."
People who use the
FREE resources on
this site are:
* Starting over in
their career or
personal life
* Empty nesters
* Entrepreneurs
* Networking
* Job Seekers
* Starting all over
again
* Going through a
divorce
* Looking for career
opportunities
* Seeking FREE
career advice and
education
* Finding mentors
* Setting new life
goals
To chart your road
map to success
click here for FREE
"Worksheets and
Articles."
FREE resources on
this site are:
* Starting over in
their career or
personal life
* Empty nesters
* Entrepreneurs
* Networking
* Job Seekers
* Starting all over
again
* Going through a
divorce
* Looking for career
opportunities
* Seeking FREE
career advice and
education
* Finding mentors
* Setting new life
goals
To chart your road
map to success
click here for FREE
"Worksheets and
Articles."
Mary Lee Gannon's
Book "Starting Over"
will be released in
November of 2009.
Look for it in stores or
order it from
Amazon.com.
Book "Starting Over"
will be released in
November of 2009.
Look for it in stores or
order it from
Amazon.com.
Follow Mary Lee's tips
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