MARISA LABOZZETTA

is a multi-award-winning writer and novelist born and raised in Brooklyn , NY . As a teaching fellow in the Graduate School of Languages and Linguistics at Georgetown University , she received a Master of Science degree and completed her doctoral coursework . Her writing journey began when she published her first piece in The Washington Star . She won first prize in the Rio Grande Writers ’ Fiction contest . She was a finalist in Playboy ´ s Victoria Chen Haider Memorial Literary Award for Fiction and the New Letters Literary Awards . Marisa went on to publish stories in the best-selling When I Am An Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple , The American Voice , and Show Me a Hero : Great Contemporary Stories About Sports , among others . In 1999 , she released her first novel , Stay With Me , Lella . She received a Pushcart Prize for her At the Copa collection in 2006 , “ Forecast for a Sunny Day ," from that collection won the Watchung Arts Center Award for Short Fiction in 2010 . Her 2013 novel , Sometimes It Snows in America , and her 2019 novel , A Day in June , were both award winners . Her latest story collection , Men Who Walk in Dreams , was a New Millennium Writings Fiction Award Finalist . Marisa also taught Italian American Studies through literature at Smith College and the University of Massachusetts and fiction writing at Kirtland Community College Controlled Burn . I am honored to have Marisa share her inspiring and empowering story , “ A Timely Reflection of My Life Journey ,” in our Nana ’ s Wisdom section .

LANA GENDLIN AND KARINA

MULLER

are co-founders of HeartCentric LLC , which includes two businesses : HeartCentric Divine Creations and HeartCentric Coaching Collaborative . They are certified life coaches , jewelry artisans , and entrepreneurs who turned their creativity and passion for making spiritual jewelry into a significant component of their business strategy . The ladies empower their coaching clients to look within and utilize their intuition to find the answers they seek for themselves . They realize the pendulum is the perfect tool to help their clients authentically connect to the guidance already inside them . Anyone can learn to use a pendulum to access what is stored in their subconscious and bring it to the surface . Karina and Lana ’ s mission is to empower people to connect to their intuition with the help of a pendulum . Their book , “ Pendulums and Intuition - Practical Advice for Trusting Your Inner Wisdom ,” helps readers untangle indecision with answers on a string . They also learn to discover how to select or make their pendulum , care for it , and start the practice to access their intuition , achieve success , and live a decisively good life . I am delighted to have Karina and Lana share their inspiring and empowering story , “ The HeartCentric Story - Our Divinely Guided Journey ,” for our Spiritual Living section .

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