LISA R. DELMAN, MA

Author, Marketer, Speaker

Lisa@TheHeartProject.com

Lisa R. Delman is founder of the international Letters From The Heart Project and author of Dear Mom, I’ve Always Wanted You to Know: Daughters Share Letters from the Heart (Penguin, 2005).

This book was born out of Lisa’s cathartic letter-writing experience after her mother suffered a near-fatal heart attack. She felt compelled to create a sacred online space and invited women to express their deepest emotions to their mothers (alive or passed on) via letter writing.

Women cared. Diverse women from around the world sent her more than 1,500 letters. These letter-writers conveyed the feelings, struggles, and victories of everyday living, the complexities of the daughter-mother relationship, and the rawness of humanity that intricately connects us. They showed the need for the Letters From The Heart Project and its mission—to emphasize the importance of expressing our feelings so we can bring more value to our lives.

Lisa passionately connects hearts through her speaking engagements, brand and team building, media engagements, and other happenings. That includes creating the Dear Mom play based on her book, Dear Mom. It is in workshop production with the Women’s Theater Project, http://www.womenstheatreproject.com. What began as simple letters written from Lisa’s heart has blossomed into a multi-organization endeavor to reach women all over the world.

The Letters from the Heart Project has received national media attention from radio stations, newspapers, magazines, and TV. They include the Hallmark Channel, Leeza Gibbons Show, Ask Heloise Show, Channel 6 NBC, NBC TV affiliate Been There Done That, Telemundo TV, Today’s Family Today TV, Miami Herald, Palm Beach Post, Palm Beach Illustrated, Catholic Explorer, NY Daily News, and National Examiner. She has spoken on panels at the Miami Book Fair, Inspirations…A Women’s Event held by Mommy Mentors & Gilda’s Club, Wise Women’s Weekend, Inspiring Women’s Success Conference, Women’s Balance Event, and ABWA chapter event. She also leads her own heart-shops.

Lisa comes to this project with a master’s of arts degree in organizational design and effectiveness, and a bachelor’s of science in advertising. Working in corporate sales and marketing for 15 years, her efforts helped increase revenues tenfold. Currently, she’s teaching liberal arts courses an adjunct professor at University of Phoenix.

Known for using her communication and marketing skills to create goodwill and profitability in all her endeavors, Lisa brings a wealth of experience to this Dear Daughter book and project. She is collaborating with Robyn Freeman Spizman to invite mothers all over the world to write letters to their daughters. Lisa & Robyn believe that capturing the deepest thoughts, feelings, and reflections from mother to daughter will become an irreplaceable present that will be treasured forever. 

KATE POTTER – Coach, Psychotherapist, Facilitator Kate Potter, MA, LMHS, is a professional life coach and licensed psychotherapist. For more than 15 years, she has been assisting clients in the United States, Europe, and the Caribbean to create their own visions and fulfill their missions. Kate has developed an appreciation of the ever-changing face of multicultural, pluralistic populations. From high school teens to single moms to women undergoing life changes and from pre-school and elementary children to individuals wanting loving and healthy relationships, no community seems foreign to Kate. Kate has been a producer/host for Priority 1 Production Group in San Jose, California, a non-profit television and film organization that features leaders on children's issues. She joins the Letters From The Heart Project as a master coach, co-facilitator of its workshops, and senior trainer for its coaching program in production. Kate has been working with Lisa Delman, the visionary and founder of the Project, since its inception.

ROBYN FREEDMAN SPIZMAN

Author, Media Personality, Consumer Advocate

SpizAgency@aol.com

www.RobynSpizman.com

Robyn  is one of America’s foremost authors, promoters, and media personalities with an expertise in gift-giving.

Viewing books as gifts, Robyn understands what it takes to write and promote them. In addition to writing dozens of books, she co-founded with her husband The Spizman Agency, a public relations firm specializing in book publicity for authors and experts.

As an author, Robyn has written or co-written books in the area of gift-giving—The Giftionary: An A-Z Reference Guide for Solving Your Gift-Giving Dilemmas . . . Forever! (St. Martin's Griffin, 2003), Make It Memorable: An A-Z Guide to Making Any Event, Gift or Occasion...Dazzling! (St. Martin's Griffin, 2004), When Words Matter Most: Thoughtful Words and Deeds to Express Just the Right Thing at Just the Right Time (Crown, Random House, 2006)—careers for women—Women for Hire's Get-Ahead Guide to Career Success (Penguin Group, 2004) and Women For Hire: The Ultimate Guide to Getting A Job (Penguin Group, 2002), and the four-book Author 101 Series on book-related topics. She received The USA Today Award for outstanding literary contribution with author H. Jackson Brown, Jr., for their best-selling book Life's Little Instruction Book For Incurable Romantics A Pulse-quickening Collection For And About People In Love.

As a book promoter, Robyn publicizes her own books as well as those of the agency’s clients, which include Oliver Stone, Larry King, Ahmet Ertegun, William Diehl, Mark Victor Hansen, The Motley Fools, Al Ries, Captain Eugene Cernon, Bill Bonano, Stephen J. Cannell, Faith Popcorn, Wally Amos, Reverend Robert Schuler, Wolfgang Puck, Catherine Hughes, Roger Ebert, Joel Siegel, and more. Due to her extensive contacts, she was chosen to recruit leading-edge thinkers for the “Think About It” program, which she’s overseen for Turner Broadcasting for the past nine years.

As a speaker, Robyn reports on books, memorable products, and how-to topics. She’s spoken to women’s groups and businesses throughout the country about getting published and promoting books through the media. They have included the National Charity League, Author 101 University at Book Expo, and Women For Hire Career Expo.

As a media personality, Robyn appears weekly on NBC Weekend Morning News in Atlanta, Georgia, and on Star 94’s The Giftionary ™ Show with Cindy and Ray, which is based on Robyn’s book The Giftionary. Star 94 is one of the Top 40 #1 radio shows in the country. She has also been a weekly columnist for The Atlanta Journal Constitution for four years.

As a consumer advocate, Robyn has been featured on the NBC WXIA TV affiliate in Atlanta for two decades. She has achieved fame as one of the nation’s experts on gift giving, hot products, and holiday seasons through her appearances on the Today Show, CNN, CNNfn, Headline News, The Discovery Channel, HG-TV, Talk America Radio, USA Radio Network, The Michael Jackson Show, New York One, and more.

In addition to appearing on more than 100 television segments and radio shows, Robyn has been featured in hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles, appearing in USA Today, The New York Times, USA Weekend, Parade Magazine, Family Circle, Woman’s Day, Cosmo, Parents, Sesame Street, Entrepreneur Magazine, Disney, Sky Magazine, Ladies Home Journal, Cosmo Girl, Redbook and more. Robyn also serves on the National Advisory Council of The Make-A-Wish Foundation.