TV HOSTING CLASS! Hosting for Brands + Home Shopping Channels
Like Christmas, my annual Hosting for Home Shopping, Infomercials & Branded Content class with Sean De Simone only happens once per year and this year it’s July 21st in New York City. There is a lot of opportunity in this space for experienced hosts, lifestyle experts and influencers but it’s highly competitive. Sean has cast […]
7 Bevelations That Will Change Your Life
“Do The Work, Identify Your Intentions, Know Your Worth, Don’t Be Tempted By Shiny & know that things are subject to change so REMAIN OPEN” – Bevy Smith I’m starting off 2017 sharing the incomparable Bevy Smith’s professional story because it could be your story. Bevy made it happen. A one-woman tour de force, […]
My Personal Manifesto Part One (A Work In Progress)
ICYMI corporate and personal manifestos have replaced mission statements. Manifestos are not new and they are all around us. The Declaration of Independence is a manifesto as is Dr King’s I Have a Dream speech. This is what a good manifesto does: Clarifies your vision and purpose while connecting us to you emotionally. Once you […]
How To Get Through When Positivity Isn’t Enough
I was multi-tasking as per usual when I heard a ping and these words caught my eye: What to do when positive thinking doesn’t work. I’m a positive thinker by nature but 2016 has been a hella hard year for many of us from personal challenges to the exceptional number of game changing artists lost […]
My Q&A With Amy Vanderoef: Risk, ReInvention, Reward
Aside from my family, the New York Rangers one day winning The Stanley Cup again and maybe Idris Elba becoming a friend, nothing warms my heart like great feedback from a client. Yes, my ego enjoys the boost. But more than that it confirms my purpose: To help people be heard in order to do […]
Baxter Abel: Training The Trainer
A month ago, on Easter Sunday, we brought Baxter home from Sean Casey Animal Rescue in Brooklyn. An enormous yellow lab, we joke Baxter is part Labrador, part polar bear and all Abel. What little we know of Baxter’s backstory (or Baxstory – get it?), he was picked up on the streets of the Bronx and […]
How To Be A Champion
Is it just me or does your dad send you tons of email forwards? I don’t know how he has time for golf or gets anything done in retirement with all the email forwarding he does. The good news is he finally learned to cut and paste and bcc… I cannot lie I hit delete […]
How To: Podcast According to Mike Janela
Podcasts are all the rage. So I was flattered when Mike Janela invited me to be a guest on his podcast. Mike took one of my TV Hosting Classes in 2015 and ran with the idea of focusing on what you can control in your career: Marketing yourself. Guess what? Not long after our interview, Mike […]
2nd Annual Abel Intermedia Gift Guide
Wondering what to give the performer, guest expert or job seeker in your life? Help is here with the 2nd Annual Abel Intermedia Gift Guide. How About Give The Gift Of… A paid subscription to Netflix, Hulu or Amazon Prime so they don’t have to keep using your login information. The media landscape is now […]
How to Nail Every Audition & Interview
Please forgive the click bait title. I’m experimenting with following best practices marketing advice from successful bloggers. The subtitle is Everyone Needs a Haka. Because developing your personal Haka will allow you to nail every audition and interview. Most of them, anyway. Mental preparation is huge. We talk about getting in the zone. Do you have […]