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Ambitious leaders with a transformational story want to share their message by writing and leveraging a transformational book to make a bigger impact in the world. Below is information about authors of our official Aurora Corialis titles, selected interviews with CEO Cori Wamsley, and press about our company and our authors.

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Living Kindly, The Dream is in Your Hands, and The Dream is in Your Hands: She Can Do It

by Leigh M. Clark

“Kindness is magic, and no one knows that better than Leigh Clark. Her exciting new book is an inspiring collection of stories that will give you all the feels and make you want to do better, be better.“

  • Meaghan Murphy, Editor in Chief at Woman’s Day Magazine and Author of Your Fully Charged Life

Leigh M. Clark is best known for her work in kindness. Aside from a busy decades-long software career; she has launched a national nonprofit called Kindleigh, and she also runs The Kindness Community across multiple social platforms globally.

Clark is a two-time TEDx speaker and her philanthropic work has been featured on The TODAY Show, The Rachael Ray Show, The Huffington Post and several other media outlets across the world.

Living her legacy and working to elevate the next generation are two of Clark’s biggest initiatives. She believes that, through kindness and supporting others, any dream is possible.

Powerful Synergy: Stories of Entrepreneurship and Motherhood Strengthening Each Other

Featuring Marta Sauret Greca; Including Tanya Bashor, Melissa Ghelarducci-Hancock, Emma Ferrick, Christine Furman, Ashley Fina, Kara Taylor, Samantha Bauer, Priscilla Green, Diane Greco-Allen, Erika Maddamma, and Theresa Ream

Pictured here are several of the authors, plus Cori Wamsley of Aurora Corialis Publishing.

When you hit rock bottom, you know something has to be better …

As a business owner and a mother, you have to consider: What if everything afterward could be that much more beautiful? What if your challenges bring out the best in you?

But we typically never imagine how much more amazing it can be!

Often we get caught in the everyday operations and don’t realize how truly powerful we are. And it’s time we celebrate that!

Powerful Synergy: Stories of How Motherhood and Entrepreneurship Strengthen Each Other is a collection of stories from women business owners who were inspired by their families to overcome their challenges.

Stories of escape from hard situations. Stories of those moments that break us only to build us up again. Stories of truths that were buried because of our busy-ness.

These all make us who we are as business owners, as mothers, as mavericks.

The women of Powerful Synergy want you to know that if you’re going through something, it will be alright. That it will ignite your badass strength and lead you to more of what you desire. Ultimately, it will lead you to harmony between motherhood and leadership, to your purpose.

Let our stories empower you!

Featured author Marta Sauret Greca is the CEO of MEDIA – The Creative Agency, a marketing agency that helps holistic wellness and beauty experts.

Surviving Sh!t Creek: One Nurse's Story of Breakdowns, Breakthroughs, and Transformation

by Lori Ann Lewicki

Lori Ann Lewicki is an ICU travel nurse, life and health coach for nurses, mother of four (ages 26, 24, 19 and 3) and caregiver to her elderly father—so she never gets a day off from being a nurse. She is also an advocate for living your dreams.

Writing Surviving Shit Creek empowered Lori to follow her own dreams. Because she has grown so much as a nurse and a human, she hopes to inspire others to go after their dreams and never quit learning to be better than the day before. 

 Lori graduated from Community College of Allegheny County with her ADN in nursing in 2004 and, being a nerd, also graduated with an associate’s degree in psychology. She obtained her BSN in 2006 from California University of Penn., her PHRN in 2010, had her first CCRN from 2007-2010, her MSN in 2022, and retested for her CCRN in 2024. Lori has also been a certified health coach since 2019. She has worked in the ICU, in the ER, on the ambulance, in medical review, in home care, and as a nursing instructor over her career. 

One of Lori’s dreams was to buy a Harley and get her motorcycle license, which she did in celebration of the completion of Surviving Shit Creek.

Taking Intentional Action: How to Choose the Life You Lead

by Desire Petrich

Desiree Petrich is an author, speaker, corporate coach and trainer, and the host of the Lead With Confidence Podcast, as well as a Certified Practitioner of The Five Behaviors. She founded her company Intentional Action in 2022 after losing her mom unexpectedly just two months after bringing her son home from the NICU.

 Desiree began her leadership journey as the manager of a dementia facility. After leading the company through the pandemic, she shifted out of healthcare and became the events coordinator for the local chamber of commerce. This experience caused her to fall in love with all things business, community, teamwork, networking, and growth.

Desiree’s focus is helping high achievers become great leaders. Through intentional leadership and high-performance coaching, workshop development, keynote speaking and unique teambuilding activities, she has been able to share her love of personal and professional development with others.

To make development opportunities more accessible, Desiree has started hosting leadership conferences, with the first one, the Intentional Leadership Summit, held on August 7, 2024, at Grace Life Church in Marshall, Minn.

Desiree’s podcast Lead With Confidence focuses on helping individuals to know themselves better so they can show up in their own life with confidence and belief in themselves to choose the life they want to lead.

Desiree is a mom of two, avid reader, exercise lover, John Maxwell-certified team member, DISC consultant, and an advocate that everyone is entitled to a fulfilled life of their choosing.

From Struggle to Strength: A Father's Journey with Autism and the Power of Hope and Positivity

by Harry Psaros

A devoted family man, Harry Psaros has been happily married to his wife Michelle for 24 years and is a proud father of two sons, Costa (“Gus”) and Maximos (“Max”). Originally from the steel town of Weirton, W.Va., Psaros has called McDonald, Pa., home for the past two decades.

Professionally, Psaros serves as an executive neuroscience account specialist for AbbVie. He is on the board of directors for the Autism Caring Center, one of the founders of North Fayette P.A.L.S. (an organization for special needs children), president of North Fayette Township’s parks and recreation board, and vice president of All Saints Greek Orthodox Church in Weirton, W.Va. Known affectionately by fans as the “Pitt Guru,” he is a top social media influencer for University of Pittsburgh athletics and the senior writer for Pittsburgh Sports Now.

Empowered: Frame Your Narrative. Own Your Power.

by Serena Sacks-Mandel

Serena Sacks-Mandel is the worldwide chief technology officer at Microsoft for the education industry. Prior to joining Microsoft, she was the chief information officer at two unique technically advanced large public school districts where she enabled student-centric teaching and learning, which resulted in significant improvements in student outcomes.

Prior to pivoting to education, she led innovation and transformation teams at several large companies and provided management consulting at many others. Serena has won numerous state, national, and global awards for leadership, vision, technical excellence, and her commitment to supporting women in technology.

In her non-working time, Serena and her husband Scott are adventure seekers—biking, hiking, traveling, and boating, often with their three wonderful adult daughters.

The Person in the Chair: Becoming Your Authentic Self

by James Protin

My name is James Protin. My professional journey spans 40 years in the engineering and construction industry. Did I mention that I’m not an engineer? It quickly became apparent that I would never be the smartest person in the room, so I had no choice but to become the hardest worker in every room I would enter.

This worked for a time, and I was able to push through my twenties. Then my life went off the rails. Darkness came, and I became an imposter. Words like anxiety, codependency, people-pleasing, and trauma dominated my story. At 35, I was being dismantled by depression. At 40, I thought my life was over, I was stuck, struggling to tread water. So, naturally, I burned it all to the ground. At 45, I started the journey to me. By 50, I started to recognize myself, and those words were replaced with new ones like gratitude, humility, empathy, and forgiveness. At 64, I know my life is just beginning.

A mentor suggested I start journaling as a substitute for traditional therapy … and it’s been one of the best things I’ve ever done. I discovered that I love writing, so much so, that I am writing a book that will publish in 2023. It’s amazing how, when you stare at a blank page and spill your heart all over it, all the feels, especially the ones you don’t like to show people, you unlock everything. What appears on the page is brutally honest, sometimes painful, and always enlightening.

How the F*ck Do I Heal from This? Understanding Narcissistic Abuse and how to Put Your Life Back Together

by Dr. Justine Weber

Justine Weber is a California-licensed psychologist. Her private practice, Serene Shift Psychological Services, is located in Newport Beach, Ca. Justine also has a coaching business where she helps women heal and recover from narcissistic abuse. She is certified in Tina Swithin’s high-conflict divorce coaching and helps women going through high-conflict divorces and dealing with legal battles. Justine is married and is the mother of four beautiful children. She resides in Nevada.

You Are Something New: Life Lessons to Radically Change how You Think about Business

by Meg Seitz

Meg Seitz is the founder and CEO of toth shop, a communications agency that focuses on a human, holistic approach to branding, marketing, and communications. Since 2014, the toth shop team has helped companies, c-suite leaders, and emerging brands articulate their expertise, talent, and value to the world by identifying storytelling gold nuggets that resonate with humans, as well as helping create compelling content and brand-building assets.

Over the last several years, Meg Seitz has taken in life lessons crossing the Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge in Northern Ireland, exploring the crystal caverns of Bermuda, seeing Vienna from the top of St. Stephen’s Cathedral, and in places ranging from Jackson Hole to Sedona and Kennebunkport to Las Vegas.

Meg Seitz holds a bachelor of arts in English from Kenyon College and an MBA from Wake Forest University School of Business. She is a proud Double Drucker, meaning she placed twice in the top 10 (once in third place) for the international writing competition, the Peter Drucker Challenge. She is also proud to have been present in the audience to hear David Foster Wallace’s “This is Water” commencement address live.

She lives in Charlotte, NC, with her fluffy corgi, Winnie, who recently passed therapy dog certification.

Connect with Meg at tothshop.com.

20 Lives Ignited & We Choose Joy

by Linda Laird Staszewski

Linda is a retired industrial engineer, vision board guru, multi-business owner, curator, author, creativity coach. She attended evening classes for over nine years to earn her master’s degree in professional leadership/organizational development. She is results-oriented and mentors numerous women providing support, direction, and goal setting. 

A Dove in the Shadows: My Mental Health Recovery Journey from Paitent to Professional

by Jennifer Silbaugh

Jennifer is a first-time author and a mental health advocate. She is a healthy, strong woman and a daughter, sister, wife, dog-mom, homeowner, artist, handbell ringer, consumer, advocate, and professional in the mental health field. She is dedicated to offering help and hope to those suffering from mental health challenges and finds joy in her family, friends, art, and God.

Jennifer’s journey from patient to professional began in 1993 as a patient seeking help with her own mental health struggles. After many years and some changes in the system, she was (and is) considered a consumer. A tumultuous journey involving a great deal of pain, lots of self-initiated hard work, and some key medical professionals started Jennifer’s advocacy path. Beginning in 2010, she was an advocate for UPMC’s Youth and Family Training Institute (YFTI) and worked on the Peer Support & Advocacy Network’s (PSAN) Warmline from 2011–2013.

A commitment to her own healing allowed Jennifer to become a certified peer specialist from 2013–2020. Jennifer was the first certified peer specialist to receive the UPMC Award for Commitment in Excellence and Service (ACES) in 2015.

A Dove in the Shadows was selected as an American Book Fest Best Book Awards finalist for 2023 and was awarded a The Author Zone Award in nonfiction for 2023.

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