Adria Manary has a unique blend of talents, many of which she is now devoting to helping individuals and companies reach their highest potential, while giving back to the world. After earning degrees in both Communications and Psychology from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Ms. Manary started her career as the first woman on the marketing communications team at Westinghouse Headquarters. One of the projects that she helped to create and execute won the Gold Award at the New York TV and Film Festival. After leaving Westinghouse, she became the Vice President of Marketing for a small food company. From there she started a sports production company that hosted events in ten cities, raising corporate funds for the Special Olympics. The program was so successful that she was offered the Director of Development position for New York Special Olympics, where she raised over a million dollars. Adria moved back to Washington to marry and decided to try real estate, where she became the rookie of the year and sold an actual castle! Throughout all of her career changes however, she never stopped writing, which is her true passion. Thus, after having her first precious baby, she decided to live out her dream of writing for a living - partly because of her passion and mostly because she could not bear the thought of leaving her child! Since that decision, she has had two more beautiful children and written four books: Kennedys – The Next Generation; Touched By A Rainbow; Mommy Magic; and More Mommy Magic . She has also been a contributing author to the series of books entitled Hot Chocolate for the Mystical Soul and to the new book, The Ugly Truth about Small Business. In addition, Adria created and published the Washington Fun Times newspaper and has written numerous articles for other publications. She speaks nationwide on the subject of parenting and has recently added a new topic to her list of presentations entitled, More Heart…More Money, which provides meaningful ways to improve customer service and increase customer loyalty. She is also working on a book of the same title. In addition to print media, she wrote most of the lyrics and music for her CD, Precious Souls . Although Adria is a woman of many talents who has held many impressive titles, her favorite and most important title will always be, “MOM!”