Dr. Ronda Beaman has been Chief Creative Officer for the global research and solution firm PEAK Learning, Inc., since 1990. As a national award-winning educator, Dr. Beaman is Clinical Professor of Leadership at The Orfalea School of Business, California Polytechnic University. She is Founder and Executive Director of Dream Makers SLO, a non-profit foundation granting final wishes to financially- challenged, terminally-ill adults, and serves on the Board of Directors for the National Pay It Forward Foundation. She was recently named a Stanford Fellow at the Distinguished Career Institute.
Her national award-winning book, You’re Only Young Twice, has been printed in five languages. Her memoir, Little Miss Merit Badge, was an Amazon bestseller and was featured at The Golden Globe Awards. Her children’s book, Seal With a Kiss, is designed to improve skills for beginning readers and is offered at Lindamood-Bell Learning Centers internationally. My Feats in These Shoes will be released in Spring 2021.
Dr. Beaman is an internationally recognized expert on leadership, resilience, fitness, education, and life coaching. She has conducted research in a host of areas, written many academic articles and books, and won numerous awards. She was selected by the Singapore Ministry of the Family as their honored Speaker of the Year and named the first recipient of the National Education Association’s “Excellence in the Academy: Art of Teaching” award. She has been selected as a faculty resource for the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) university in Argentina, Kyoto and India, where she received the highest speaker ratings among 36 elite faculty. She has been featured on major media including CBS and Fox Television, USA Today, and is a national thought leader for American Health Network.
Dr. Beaman earned her doctorate in Leadership at Arizona State University. She is also a certified executive coach and personal trainer with multiple credentials from the Aerobic Research Center. Her family was named “America’s Most Creative Family” by USA Today and she won the SCW National Fitness Idol competition.
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Did you pursue publishers or did you opt to self-pub? I sent a book proposal in a shoe box to publishers, keeping my fingers and toes crossed.
If published by a publisher, what was your deciding factor in going with them? I sent the proposal to publishers I thought would be receptive to an upbeat, happy person’s memoir, and Adelaide fit the bill.
If published by a publisher, are you happy with the price they chose? I would like to be able to give it away, as I think it will help a lot of people realize they can make their lives what they choose, but for a price, I think it’s fair.
Did you purposefully choose a distinct month to release your book? No.
How did you choose your cover? The publisher designed it, with my shoe wall at home in mind.
Did you write your book, then revise or revise as you went? I wrote it all, first draft, then went back 5 times though to revise. Writing is really re-writing.
Did you come up with special swag for your book and how are you using it to help get the word out about your book? I have, so far. Bookmarks and shoe horns..I give them away at signings, leave them with tips at dinner, give them to people I run across in airplanes, stores, etc.
Did you consider making or hiring someone to make a book trailer for your book? If so, what’s the link? A friend did this for me: https://youtu.be/CVARnSlY1Og
What’s your opinion on giving your book away to sell other copies of your book? See answer about book price, give them away!
What are three of the most important things you believe an author should do before their book is released? Create a launch team, gift your launch team, plan a signing party with your launch team.
What are three of the most important things you believe an author should do after their book is released? Get reviews on Amazon, take copies with you wherever you go, be proud that you accomplished this!
What kind of pre-promotion did you do before the book came out? I worked on an Instagram site.
Do you have a long term plan with your book? No, just to enjoy this current ride.
What would you like to say to your readers and fans about your book? There are no emotional bunions in My Feats in These Shoes…this book is all about resilience, grit and the desire to make your life a page turner!
Inside the Book
Title: MY FEATS IN THESE SHOES: A SOLELY ORIGINAL MEMOIR
Author: Ronda Beaman
Publisher: Adelaide Books, NYC
Pages: 190
Genre: Memoir / Inspiration
BOOK BLURB:
If memoirs, done right, tap the right sort of personal journey to ignite fresh insight and inspiration into the human journey, then what better way to humorously and poignantly illuminate the sequential steps and stages of life than with shoes?
“My Feats in These Shoes” is an exuberantly spunky woman’s spirited and irrepressible romp—slips, missteps, leaps, scuffs, and twirls—toward becoming something bigger, something better, something more.
Far from serving up trauma porn (or emotional bunions), this memoir is an upbeat, humorous, affectionate and affecting coming of age memoir that ends each chapter with a ‘Put Yourself in My Shoes’ section for readers to consider their own strides in pursuing an out of the shoe box life.
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