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Best-Selling Author, “Cheap Cabernet: A Friendship”
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Key Points Cathie Addresses by audience
Cathie tailors each of her presentations to the audience’s particular interests and needs and brings lively, often self-deprecating, yet very real experience to a room. Below are key topics Cathie uses with great success in speaking:
For the Business Audience
- Quick overview of her publishing story
- Unsexy secrets to success
- Why giving up is often the only (good) way to go
- Bottom-feeders and how being one pays off for you and your business
- Top 6 surefire steps to stardom
For Women’s Organizations, Including the Philanthropic-Related
- Quick overview of her personal, professional, and publishing life
- Starting at the bottom has its advantages
- When faith isn’t enough (but it’s all you’ve got)
- There’s always a back door in
- Five resources always available
- You’re bigger than you think
For Writers and Publishers
- Forget everything you’ve been told about publishing
- Write what you want to read
- Love your project more than life itself or throw it away and start over
- Research what’s worked for others in the past year (& improve upon it)
Cathie Beck’s Professional Speaking Bio
Cathie Beck is the Denver-based author of the award-winning memoir, Cheap Cabernet: A Friendship, a wickedly funny and smart memoir about female friendship. Iris Dart, author of Beaches endorsed the book’s jacket and heralds Cheap Cabernet: A Friendship as “an achingly poignant memoir that reminds every woman to call her best friend right away.” Cheap Cabernet: A Friendship is garnering worldwide acclaim, including nominations for several awards. (http://www.amazon.com/Cheap-Cabernet-Friendship-Cathie-Beck/dp/1401341543/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top)
Cathie is a sought after keynote speaker and regularly presents to regional and national audiences with enthusiastic acclaim. Women’s groups, business associations, industry-specific audiences, and publishing communities schedule her for motivational and dynamic presentations. With her commitment to women and philanthropic work, Cathie is a sought-after presence for community enriching events across the country.
She enthusiastically customizes her discussions to embrace the needs of the particular audience, always designing her topics with credibility and legitimacy.
Examples:
For The Business Audience:
Cathie has owned and run a successful Public Relations agency in Denver for over 15 years. Moreover, in 2009, she took herself as her own PR client and self-published her memoir, Cheap Cabernet: A Friendship, selling so many copies, the book hit No. 1 Amazon Movers & Shakers — a rare and much-desired feat.
Twenty-two book publishers and sixteen literary agents in the U.S. and UK eagerly witnessed her success and jockeyed to represent her and Cheap Cabernet: A Friendship. She chose one of the best-known agents in the publishing industry from the largest talent and entertainment agency in the world (the William Morris Agency in Manhattan, Beverly Hills and London). That agent held a three-house auction and sold Cheap Cabernet: A Friendship to Hyperion Books in New York. Hyperion published her memoir in July 2010.
She is also a long-time business writer. Her work has appeared in the Denver Business Journal, The Los Angeles Times and numerous other publications and she is currently The Wine Wench for ColoradoBiz Magazine (www.cobizmag.com).
She is a savvy and accomplished business woman in her own right and can and does speak to the issues relevant to women and to business communities.
For Women’s Organizations, Including the Philanthropic-Related
Cathie speaks from the heart — and with the credibility that only a woman with her life experience can offer:
Abandoned and divorced at age 22, she single-handedly raised two children alone — no financial or familial support — securing private educations and a graduate degree (with honors) for herself
A former welfare mother who also often worked two jobs, Cathie delivers hope and practicality to those women who, because of circumstances, life’s events, and the marginalizing of the disenfranchised, feel left behind and without options.
For Writers and Publishers
In addition to self-publishing her award-winning memoir and landing a book contract with a major publisher, Cathie has lived the life of a writer who’s paid the dues.
She can speak — with passion and promise — of how a writer can build a career virtually from nothing. She motivates writers to get the help they need, find resources often off the grid, and aim high in order to reach writing and publishing goals.
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See a list of Cathie’s speaking engagements and appearances.
