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Please stay tuned for an important message from fresh books about great invoice and accounting software for your small business, and look for some information on careof to help you build a vitamin routine that’s made just for you and your health goals. More on them just ahead, so please stay tuned. Today’s show is with Diana Wentworth, New York Times bestselling author and founder of inside edge. All right, here’s some info on Diana. Diane is the New York Times bestselling author of ten award-winning books and the co-author of two Chicken Soup for the Soul titles. She hosted a long-running television series and founded the inside edge in weekly breakfast forum in Southern California that helped launch the careers of many of the most celebrated authors and speakers of our day. Welcome to the show Diana, it’s so great to have you. Diana: I’m excited. Tony: Diana I am psyched up, there’s so much to talk about and we’ve got some surprises here for our audience but first things first. I would love to know, how did it all start for you what’s your backstory, and I know that’s a load of question because you’ve done so much in your life. I probably confused you like where do you start but kind of give us just a little bit of story but I’m going to ask you some questions along the way Diana: Okay, well you know I’m getting up there in years so this could be a very long talk here. I was born in Beverly Hills and grew up in Beverly Hills in a really interesting family. My father was an entrepreneur and he founded Beverly Hills Federal Savings and Loan. He had come from a background of absolutely only eighth grade education and he was just very clever and was able to really make a fine living. I think I picked up that entrepreneur thing, and I also picked up his interested in the interest in the metaphysical. I had a brother who unlike most people’s brothers, who played football and baseball, and things like that. My brother wanted to take four years of Latin in high school so he could translate St. Thomas Aquinas and see if Catholicism was the true religion you know. A really different kind of family but it was great because my brother is interested in all the different religions. I had him drive me when he got his driver’s license to all these different traditions you know. We went to Hindu temples, Christian Science churches, and Catholic churches, and Greek Church, and it was just really fascinating to get this kind of huge overview of spirituality and religion. So, I would say I grew up as a girl, young woman who was very interested in the metaphysical and I was always fascinated with energy and how contagious it was. I wanted to learn more about that but in those days, it really wasn’t very much information. There were the Theosophists and there are a few groups but I just started reading on my own and growing on my own. The most important thing to me always, I was quite boy-crazy was to find just the right partner in life and to live a life of partnership. I didn’t really have any models for that, my parents didn’t get along but it was something that just wasn’t my number one priority. A whole lot of very magical things started happening because I went on a trip. I broke an engagement to a very, very, very wealthy man suddenly just knowing that he wasn’t going to be the right situation for either of us, and went on a trip to what they called the Orient in those days to Asia. My first morning in Hong Kong I woke up very early in the morning and for some reason I knew it was weird at the time. I got dressed, there’s about 6:30 in the morning and I went down and I stood in the lobby and was asking myself what I was doing there. The restaurant wasn’t even open, there was nothing going on. The elevator door opened and out walked a man and it was like I recognized him immediately, and we were engaged three days later. That was Paul Vaughn Annette, and we were married for 25 years and we had an amazing creative career together. He passed away at 25 years and you know I would still be married to him but we had a long career in cooking and entertaining. My passion was gathering people around a table and cooking, and I had gotten to study a little bit in France and I also studied with a chef who gave classes from the Beverly Hilton Hotel and I just knew a lot about cooking. So, when Julia Child was on the air doing her French cooking, I was somebody who’d actually studied that and had quite a bit of experience, so I started cooking in my kitchen, and I had no idea that that was going to lead to an amazing career because the interest in food and entertaining was just something, it was like a wave that was coming up a wave of the future. As I look back at my long life, I see that I have ridden several waves when I had to reinvent myself of things that were just coming into the interests of society, and food, and entertaining French cooking, and it was a big deal then. Paul and I actually ended up writing six cookbooks. The first one which took five years to write, one cookbook of the year in the category of entertaining, and I actually know a picture of Martha Stewart on one page in house and garden magazine and me on the other one saying cooking experts east and west. So, our career in food kind of paralleled each other for a while until I went off on a tangent. But I had a cooking school on Sunset Boulevard and Wolfgang Puck used to teach there and it was the early days of all that excitement about food, and it was just an amazing thing. We were eventually hired by Robinson’s department stores, and then by national department stores to travel and bring our food, and it was really quite exciting. We had our own television show eventually and then something happened where women suddenly decided they didn’t want to spend a week cooking a dinner that would be gone in a few minutes, and they wanted to go back in the workplace or to enter the workplace really for the first time. So, Paul and I were finding ourselves without a career and that was the time when we did our first reinvention. We joined a very outrageous seminar that was really there to break your ideas about what you thought you could achieve. At that seminar, it was called impact, we met some people who would be eventually become quite famous, so it was there that I met Jack Candied, Barbra DeAngelis, and aminute imperium who was very influential people that would be very important in my future. In that seminar, we were invited to go on a trip that would be a breakthrough trip into the Soviet Union, it was the height of the Cold War, and I was intrigued by the people who were on that tour. Rama Vernon who was really known as the MA yoga in this country and Barbara Marx Hubbard, and let me see, there was Dennis Weaver and Mike Farrell from mash, and the real patch Adams, and the author Alan Cohen. I just really wanted to hang out with these people more than I wanted to go into the Soviet Union but I remember being in tears the night before we went. I was on the phone with a friend, She said what is the matter with you, and I said I just know I will be forever changed by this trip because Paul and I had been trying to figure out how we were going to make a living. Our whole cooking career was falling apart and we didn’t have a lot of time before we were going to have to sell our house and make some different kind of moves. On this trip, we went first into Helsinki, and we were there for three days with Swami Satchidananda, and all these amazing people in the world. What I began to notice was that these people began sharing resources, these were activists, these people were loners. So, I noticed that they began sharing resources and then that they were able to move ahead in the things that they wanted to do because they were connecting with like-minded people, and it just was so intriguing, and it would just spanked my imagination so much. So, when Ted in Nepal and I have returned to the United States, we read about something in New York called power breakfast, and this was really kind of the beginning of the years of networking, and we were intrigued by that. People met early in the morning networking I already knew about because we’ve been doing that in this seminar that we’ve been taking. And we thought, why not have an early morning meeting where were used to these six to eight in the morning meetings at impact. Why didn’t we meet from 6:30 to 8:30 in the morning and invite people, and create a breakfast that would be more than a seminar, every breakfast that would be a well-known speaker, and we can have table processes that allowed people to really get to know each other. We would discourage business cards, like most of the networking organizations. Everybody was just trading business cards like crazy but we had a determination that people would connect for who they really were, that they would connect authentically. So, we put together a board of advisers that included Jack Candied, and Mark Victor Hansen, and Dr. Barbie DeAngelis, and some people that we knew because those people would attract other people but we’re interested in that kind of thing and it was all about possibility and creating world peace and lifelong learning. For some reason, it just tapped into something that was ready to be born, it was way ahead of its time. So, that was the next waves that we surfed in our career and it became very popular, very quickly. We met at the Beverly Hills Hotel which people loved because they would drive up and have their car taken by a valet, it made them feel successful already. We met every week from 6:30 to 8:30 in the morning on Tuesday, and within three months we also have one in Orange County. Then about four months after that, we had one in San Diego. So, Ted and I were on the road Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and it became our full-time work, and within about six months we had almost a thousand members of people who attended these breakfasts and created what they called sub edges. We had a business edge that was run by one of our members, you could go sit before the business edge in the evening and kind of showcase your business and get their feedback on what would be great for you to do, what would be your next step. 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That’s where Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen got together and decided to do the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. And I would give these parties where you had to show up as who you were going to be in five years, and that was really confronting but you had to show up all dressed to the part and talk about how you got there to this place, and then you were going to reach in five years. There was a woman who had never written a book yet named Dr. Susan Jeffers and she wanted to write a book. So, she showed up at the party in a limousine with her husband all just formal wear and everything, and she had three mock books. She said that she had just returned from her third New York Times best seller tour. In five years, she actually did have three New York Times bestsellers. The first one was called feel the fear and do it anyway. Another member who was there all the time and who only had a tiny book was Louise Hay. When I think back of all the people whose careers were born there at the inside edge, it’s really the most fulfilling part of my life I think because it still continues to this day. It’s almost 34 years now that we have been meeting, we’re still hearing the greatest speakers here in California. It’s just quite magical, my life has been really quite magical. Tony: Dianna, so fascinating one of life we’ve only touched upon it and I want to make some comments about some of the points and along the way. By the way, my wife and I this December we will be together 26 years, and the topic of discussion that has started this off on our journey to this day is religion, spirituality. We’ve studied the world’s greatest religions multiple times, we still continue. It’s such a fascinating subject, just very interesting on the parallels that you have, so I just wanted to comment upon that. Diane I met you earlier this year and you have such a great story and there’s so much I want to talk about but I have to ask you the one thing right now. I’ve got to talk about Elvis, you met Elvis, you hung out with them, and you got to tell us your Elvis story please. Diana: Okay, well how much detail do you want? Tony: It’s an hour show. Diana: Well, actually the strangest thing happened and the thing that made me believe in magic, and believed in something beyond was in about 1959. I was in a sorority at UCLA and I was not the Pledge porch, and we were playing the music really loud and I said hey can you turn that music down, and somebody said oh Dianna doesn’t like Elvis Presley, and I had this sudden moment of clarity that was so weird. Well, I said to them, actually I do like him and I’m going to date him someday, and they all looked at me like did their jaw drop. My jaw drop because I had no idea where that came from, it was the weirdest thing in the world. About two months later, my mother took me a drink bringing a summer vacation to Europe. I’d never been to Europe before and our first stop was in Paris, and we were going to be on a Cook’s Tour. So, we were staying in a hotel called the Prince de Gaulle hotel near the Arc de Triomphe. So, about the second day there, I was walking to the hotel with my mother and this young boy was about 14 came running after me. I had just turned 18 and he said Diana, Elvis Presley is in the dining room, and I’m too scared to ask their autograph, would you do it, so I said sure. So, we walked to the dining room and the dining room was closed but Elvis was standing there with a couple of his entourage, his bodyguards. I just walked up to him and I said hi, I’m Diana Webb from Beverly Ellis and my friend Bobby would really love to have your autograph. So, we chatted for a few minutes and then that evening our tour went to the Moulin Rouge and it just happened that Elvis and his entourage were at the Moulin Rouge up in the balcony and everybody was making a very big deal about it. And out in the lobby during the intermission, I saw the bodyguards and when we got back to the hotel our bus drove up and we went into the hotel and there was Elvis with his bodyguards and he asked my mother if he could take me to the Lido that night. Now, I don’t really know what was behind that as I think back on it. He was so gorgeous, he was in his army uniform, he had his hair cut really short, and he was such a gentleman, he really was. I think that he just needed a girl to go or somebody on his arm so that he wouldn’t be completely mobbed. As we walked in, I mean really, really were mobbed as we began to walk into the Lido which was a nightclub with topless dancers and things like. I was only 18, I was such a kid but anyway it was a great thrill and they had a table set up for him which is practically on the stage. There’s all these topless women running around but he was just very attentive to me and held my hand, and he signed autographs, it was really sweet. And then we went back to the hotel and he invited me up to his room, and he had a guitar there, and he sang the song from Moulin Rouge to me and that was it for our first date. I went back to my room and then the next day as I was getting on the bus to leave for the next city I got a note. One of his bodyguards came running up to me as I was about to board the bus, and I still have that note. He gave me his phone number there in Bad Nauheim, he was living in off the army base. This was just about the same time he met Priscilla, she was younger than I was but I say this a few months before he met her. So, anyway, he gave me his phone number and said to call when I got to Bad Nauheim and I did. I didn’t realize that he had, well I mean to be spotty but where the tour was stopping. So, he said he would pick me up and be spotted, he hadn’t been there before but somehow the public got word of it. The parking lot was mobbing his car and one of his bodyguards came into the hotel and got me, and took me out, and there he was and they had on this turquoise sweater with black laces and he’d been smoking a little cigar or something. He was all sweaty from that and I was scared, I mean I had seen him, he looked so kind and gentlemanly in his army uniform but this was a different one, this was a little bit more of the rocker. But anyway, we got in his car, drove, the Lamar Fike was the name of the bodyguard that was driving, and we went to Bad Nauheim and turned into a street where there was just a mob of people. There I said, what is this, a street fair or something and he no, this is where I lived Dion. His house was just surrounded by people who were so intrigued by him. So, we went in and the bodyguards cook dinner for us. He had instruments there: he could play the piano or the guitar, I think it was the trombone or something, no it wasn’t, maybe a saxophone, I can’t remember exactly. Anyway, he sang for four hours, and just all the songs we knew, I mean it was just an amazing thing. He went over to the window at one point, had pulled down the shade that spins up and there were all these faces in the window because the people were all listening to the music. I got back to the hotel about 4 in the morning, it was pretty exciting but then I went on, I didn’t know that I’d ever see him again, don’t he told me to write to him and I knew how to do that. This is the Tony DUrso show, just ahead the chat continues with Diana Wentworth, New York Times bestselling author and founder of inside edge. But first, it’s time for us to take a short break, see you back here in just a moment. [Music] Change starts here, change starts now. 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Diana has extensive credentials as the author of seven award-winning cookbooks including Chicken Soup for the Soul cookbook which sold nearly one million copies and now back to the chat with Diana. Diana: and he send Christmas cards, and he just kind of went on like that. Then one day, I was at Beverly house and I had just been engaged. Brooklyn engagement was turning into… my father’s house was right on Sunset Boulevard, and I heard a honking and there was a limousine then Elvis waving at me, and so the phone rang a little later and he asked if he could come over and pick me up and my parents were pretty excited. The funny thing was that my girlfriend’s, they sorority did not really believe I had actually dated him because that was too strange. At a later date, I would take them to his house for his birthday party and it was really fun. But anyway, I went out with a couple more times, it wasn’t a big lover and I think the big thing I got out of it though was how did I know was going to meet Elvis Presley. I mean I didn’t say that I was going to date Cary Grant, Ricky Nelson you know, I mean it was so strange, there was no explanation. So, I began to trust that I could trust these knowings that seemed to come to me, and indeed I did meet my future husband Paul. And as Paul was dying, he said Diana I don’t want you to be alone, and I said send me someone, he said, I will. And be in my book, send me someone tell us the story. I actually sold that book, the film rights sold that book to lifetime. Within two months, my next husband came and joined the inside edge, and I was remarried within eight months. So, I’ve been married 29 years now. Tony: That is so touching, thank you so much for sharing that. Diana, the book that you wrote, “send me someone” that became into a film or just sold the film rights. Is that out in the film or is it coming out in the film? Diana: It actually did not make it big, they weren’t satisfied with the script until I have the rights again, and I have somebody else who’s interested in it right now. But, it is a wonderful story for people who sense the presence of people who have passed and who believe that they can still communicate because there are some very poignant touching stories in there about how I knew that Ted was indeed the person that fall his sound. It gives you goosebumps when you hear some of those stories. Tony: That is so cool, and as you said just a little bit earlier, it’s magic, it call it the woman’s intuition. There really is something behind that where you just know something and that’s just amazing. I love that story on Elvis, and that is just so cool. Diana: I use the words expect magic where my coaching site, I love to work with people one-on-one. I have an ability to see how people can take their life experience and that the path that they’ve had and what they love you know like Rumi the poet. Rumi says follow the thread of what you truly love, it will not lead you astray. I’ve spent my life doing that, so I love working with clients and helping them kind of find that tread when they lose it and see something that becomes bigger than what they have imagined. Tony: Oh, very good and we can find out about your coaching in your counseling at Diana Wentworth.com? Diana: That’s right. Yeah, on the homepage, there’s a little button for the expect magic coaching. Tony: All right, sounds good. Well, great, I do hope that a number of the audience reaches out to you on that. Diana, I did want to ask about you hosted a very long running television series with your late husband, can you tell us about that? Diana: Oh, that was called the new way gourmet, and that was on me a lifetime Network when it first started, and they ran it for years. It was a lot of fun, it was scary. We had people in our crew, we had three cameras, and a cooking show is fraught with all kinds of danger as you can imagine because even our funniest show was when every single thing went wrong. The director told me never to stop the tape that he would save stop the tape and we would reshoot something. but this one day, everything in the world went wrong. The stove caught fire, Paul broke an egg all over the counter, I mean it was just so strange and I was beginning to feel all, it was really frightened but they let me go through the whole show. The stove caught on fire and I walked by it and I said oh nice little fire we are going there, and it was just crazy. That was by far our most popular show. That was the end of our cooking career and glad we don’t have to cook for a living anymore, you know shipping all those pots and pans and trying to do things so perfectly on the road, it was crazy. Tony: Now I’m curious about one thing, is a television series the reason that it was on the road as opposed to just in in a studio all the time? Diana: It was in a studio but I was thinking of our earlier part of our career where we were traveling for department stores, we were the headliners of food fairs that were put on by newspapers like in Milwaukee, and in Cleveland, and there would be 4500 people in the audience, and we would do it four times. But, we had to bring all of our own food, and pots, pans. If we were doing it in television like Good Morning America, we’d have to have parsley for the centerpiece in our suitcase, and it would mildew. I really respect out literally and clicking, and I’m so glad that I don’t have to do that anymore. Tony: That’s amazing there. How many years did you have that for? Diana: Well, the show was on for three years. Tony: That’s a long time for a cooking show, and I believe that you we’re not particularly in competition but Martha Stewart Rand like the East Coast side, and you were sort of like the Queen on the west coast side, something like that? Diana: That’s the way it was for a while, yeah and luckily we were able to jump into our career at the inside edge and I still do that kind of as a sideline but we’re always reinventing ourselves. I think that the gift of life is that we don’t get too comfortable but we have to figure out what is our highest expression of what we’re here to do and find a way to do that. So, some of these roads that we take just kind of suddenly come to an end and we have to look firm for a secret path or something into the next adventure. Tony: so true, and I like to talk a little bit more about the inside edge which as I understand it has been and is an incubator for some very well-known successful people. Do you still have multiple venues or where is it, tell us more? Diana: Right now, it is in Orange County at the Pacific Club on Wednesday mornings, and people can look at inside edge door and see who our speakers are and so on. It was there as I said one morning Jack Canfield was speaking and Mark Victor Hansen was sitting next to me and Jack told the audience that he wanted to do this book, he wanted to call it Chicken Soup for the Soul and it would be all these stories. He sat down and then Mark leaned across me and said, I’m going to do that book with you, and Jack said you are. So, I felt like I was like the womb for this and the sperm and the egg came together there. The funny thing that was really amazing about it and my most successful business story so far is that the Chicken Soup for the Soul book took off. You know they were turned down by over 100 publishers because people thought anthologies didn’t work. But what happened was, the first book became very popular than the second book and then QVC wanted a cookbook. Everybody thought Chicken Soup for the Soul was a cookbook and they kept saying we can’t do a cookbook, we can’t do a cookbook, and then QVC wanted to order over three-quarters of a million copies and they suddenly decided that Oh Diana could do that. So, I got to do the Chicken Soup for the Soul cookbook which was the third one in the series and I was the first co-author then. I remembered that day so well. They said, can you get this done in three months and I said does it have to be done, they said yes it has to be done in three months. That meant not only done but published. They said what do you need to start and I said well I need an advance. I’d always I attend six cookbooks and I’d always gotten an advance to pay me to go to work on it, and the publisher said well I’m sorry we don’t give advances. I said well, you know you can do this in-house, you don’t really need me, and he said we’ll give you third of the book. So, I knew instantly that this was going to be extremely profitable because of the success of the other two books. And sure enough my first royalty check was two hundred and seven thousand dollars for three months. So, that was abundance for sure and so much fun. That book kind of brought me back into the cooking world in an interesting way and I’m really grateful to them, they’re my heroes for sure. Tony: That’s amazing and I believe you’ve written two Chicken Soup for the Soul books? Diana: Yes, I did another one with Jack, and Marc, and Dan Mailman called chicken soup to inspire body and soul. That one was further down the line. There are now some 200 different titles, and the whole franchise has been sold and so on but we were in the early days and that cookbook was so much fun to do which gave me a whole another shot at cooking, at least talking about it Tony: Absolutely amazing as I seem to recall if memory serves me right that franchise has sold well over a hundred million books. Diana: Oh that’s true, yes I say it’s more like two hundred and some. This is the Tony DUrso show, just a head. The check continues with Diana Wentworth, New York Times bestselling author and founder of inside edge but first, it’s time for us to take a short break. See you back here in just a moment. [Music] We don’t follow wailing, join us The Voice America influencers Channel. Hey guys, how would you like to be a best-selling author or sell a product or service in high-volume. These are just some examples of what you can do with click funnels. 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Today’s shows with Diana Wentworth, New York Times bestselling author and founder of inside edge. Diana lives in southern California and is married to Ted Wentworth. Both are featured on who’s who in America and who’s who in the world. Now back to the chat with Diana. Diana, before we go, I wanted to make sure I talked about you’re an advocate for people leaving the legacy, can you tell us all about that? Diana: Well, that was another magical story because I went to a meeting out here at Palm Springs where we live now and I noticed a woman who stood up and asked a question and it was almost as if I recognized her. Very beautiful woman, and I ended up standing next to her and we started talking. She’s an actress and a producer. Her name is Kate Zenna and she and her partner David Wolfe have a company called ZennaWolfe’s legacy films. That’s Z E N N A W O L F E legacy films.com. I ended up becoming a partner with them and creating legacy films. This is something that’s new in this age of digitization where you can actually have studio quality interviews of you, your family. It can be in your home, it can be in a studio, and then you can digitize all of the photographs, or letters, and memories programs from school things and so on so that your family has an amazing legacy film. They did one that ran three and a half hours for a family in Pasadena where four of the five siblings sat around in a beautiful environment with makeup, and lighting, and everything talked about just kind of reminisce about their childhood, and the stories about the father, and the mother, and the camping trips, and all of that. The whole family loves to be able to watch this. They can just download it from a link and look at it from their phones. They play this on Thanksgiving and so on, and it’s a fabulous, fabulous thing for people to consider doing who have big families, and want to really present the memories and the personalities of the people in the family. So, I get to be like out there speaking on the road about it. I love to speak about legacy, and I speak at libraries and private clubs, and all over the place about creating a legacy. And it’s not something that one has to have lived an amazing life to do because we all have a legacy to share, we all have a ways to mine the meaning of our lives and share what we’ve learned. So, that’s how I met you, you were at an event where I was speaking about legacy and what it means and sharing all sorts of work about that. Tony: Yes, we were at the spirit summit hosted by David Fagan and Allison Larson and such a great event and your story was so good. I love that idea leaving a legacy in. If I recall right in going through the website which will also go in the show notes for the audience ZennaWolfe legacy films.com. I believe you have a not a testimonial but you had there’s a note there, there’s something there from Robert De Niro saying how important this is. I thought I was very taken by that. Diana: Right, Robert De Niro slide is really good because he said he always thought that it would be great to capture his mother on film and ask her all these wonderful questions so he would have bad and good. He just didn’t realize it is urgent, it is important to go ahead and do this kind of thing because he doesn’t have that, he never took that action. Tony: How interesting, and if people go to your main site dianawentworth.com in case they forget the other URL can they navigate to the legacy? Diana: Yes, they can, there’s a link to it there. I love to work personally with the people and help them identify the meaning in their lives. For me, it really comes down to what kind of joy we’ve had in our lives, what has brought us joy, what kind of joy have we given to the world, and just beginning to connect those joyful notes. We can begin to see what a legacy film or a Legacy Project, there’s lots of other projects. I like to lecture on cruise ships especially because I love people to think of their trip as a journey, as a fun of a spiritual journey. So, because we’re so present when we’re traveling, we’re in a new city every day, we’re looking around, we’re seeing things we’ve never seen before, and thinking about them in comparison to our regular lives. So, I encourage people to make these beautiful books. That you can make on your Apple, iBooks, and insert the photographs, and write about your story, and it becomes something that your family can have for eternity, really it becomes an heirloom. Tony: I can vouch for that so much. My father would not talk about his war days and no one ever pressed him, and we had pieced together very little information. I actually gave a speech on him once and I had people in the audience crying about his life in the war in the world. I was always thinking later, it would have been so good to just have more information and have his story for the family and the kids and so forth to pass down. So, I totally believe in leaving the legacy and I encourage everyone to go check this out. It is so important for your family’s sake, not necessarily for yours but it’s something you definitely want to pass on down. Diana: Right, Stephen Covey says there are certain things that are fundamental to human fulfillment. The essence of these needs is captured in their praise to live, to love, to learn, to leave a legacy, and there’s so many opportunities to do that. And thinking outside the box, there’s just lots and lots of ways to do that. It can be just a recording, it can be anything you like but with digitization and computers being so versatile and making videos yourselves. It really is right for exploration. Tony: Totally agree, and one last thing Diana, if I’m not mistaken I recall this from the spirit summit event where you spoke you are a very big advocate for bullying, can you tell us about that? Diana: Well, we’ve had several speakers on bullying lately and I had a client who was bullied in high school. So I began working with her, she’s a singer, her name is McKenna Wagner. She was wanting to sell her CDs and she was trying to figure out her music career and how she was going to get more notice. As we began to work together, I began to see outside the box and this bullying thing she mentioned that in she would like to go into high schools, she would like to have a book that she could take and share without lesson girls to have them have more self-esteem. I thought well, that is your service in the world doing that and instead of getting people to try to come to see your concert which is always feels very egotistical you know come and hear me, you can have people invite people to a benefit concert for this book she wrote a beautiful book about the five keys and support the printing of that so that she could go into schools. So, she became a life coach, I introduced her and helped her get that done and she started a charity and she wrote a book while we were just in the seventh weeks that we were coaching. She got the book all done, I mean it was really exciting, so that’s probably maybe the story that I told that made you notice that I did care about people being bullied. Tony: I think so I’ve written a book on bullying addressed toward the younger person especially the person that goes to schools but also in the workplace as well. I’ve written a book on that and I’m just working on my strategy of what I’m going to release that because doing radio and everything else has kind of changed kind of my life and where it goes but I am very interested in that, I am very much an advocate for that. I’ve seen up close the effects of bullying and some very bad things, and I really want to do something about it, so I totally support anyone that does anything on that that’s very cool. Diana: Yes, you know fighting for the underdog has always been something that I’ve loved doing. Tony: For sure, absolutely. Diana, you’ve had such an amazing life that you keep going from one to the next, to the next, to the next. You keep setting new plateaus, it is magic for you. Can I ask what your future holds because you still have it seems like you still have so much more to accomplish? Diana: I do, I’m writing a book that is sort of a sequel to send me someone because I’ve been married to Ted Wentworth now for 29 years and he is a piece of work. He’s written several books, one is how build a better spouse trap which is aiding strategy and how he found me. He also wrote a book called the enlightenment code and it is an amazing book about meditation and the spiritual life. And we’d love to take road trips at this point in our lives. We just get in a car and we call it the road trip to surrender because we don’t really know where we’re going, we just know the first day where we’re going to go and then we decide while we’re on the road, and we have ended up having all these amazing adventures. So, the name of my new book that I’m trying… I never use the word try. That I will have done by my birthday in March it’s called the road trip to surrender, a love story of aging, adventure, and the meaning of life. So, it intersperse road trip stories with flashbacks to how I really began to see magic building in my life and what I think is important for people to learn much younger than me. So, it’s lots of fun writing a new book, it’s my eleventh book. Tony: Absolutely, amazing, absolutely. I love it and perhaps will meet you on the road sometime where we’re not too far away from each other and I know we both like to go out in the wild so to speak. Diana: More comfortable in inside edge every other Wednesday, just go to the website. Let me know when you’re coming and I’ll set a place for you. Tony: I will definitely look that up. Diana thank you so much for that invite, absolutely love that. Diana Wentworth, New York Times bestselling author, written a zillion books, ten books so far. Founder of inside edge, it just goes on and on and on what you’ve done. Thanks you so much Diana. Diana: Thank you Tony, I was just enjoying it right here with you Tony: Pleasures all mine, and please when you have another update especially when that next book comes out I want you back on. Diana: Okay, sure. I will do that. Tony: All right, thank you so much. Diana: Thank you Tony: Bye, bye Diana: Bye, bye Tony: For my amazing audience, thanks so much for listening. Remember success awaits those who persevere and remain steadfast despite the odds. Be righteous join me on the next episode of the Tony DUrso show, We hope you’ve enjoyed this week’s edition of the Tony DUrso show with his key influencers. Be sure to tune in again next Friday at 4p.m. Eastern Time 1p.m. Pacific time on The Voice America influencers Channel.