Author name: Connie Bennett

Connie Bennett is a former carbs-addicted journalist, health coach, and bestselling author of I Blew My Diet! Now What?, Sugar Shock, and Beyond Sugar Shock.

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New York Singles: How to Attract & Keep Lasting Love with 5 Love Gurus – Dr. Diana Kirschner, Matt Titus, Tamsen Fadal, Debra Berndt & Sherry Amatenstein Mon., May 10

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Singles in New York, learn “How to Attract and Keep Real Love” with 5 Love Gurus on Monday, May 10 at 7 pm at Borders Columbus Circle in New York City. (Please read on if you’re single and not in New York, because there are gifts and special offers for you.)
At Monday night’s panel, which I’m moderating, you’ll get a rare chance to listen to five bestselling love gurus, who have helped millions of women and men find and enjoy romance.
You’ll get secrets the following Love Gurus:
* Dr. Diana Kirschner, author of the bestselling book, Love in 90 Days: The Essential Guide to Finding Your Own True Love.
* Matt Titus and Tamsen Fadal, authors of the bestselling books, Why Hasn’t He Called? How Guys Really Think and How to Get the Right One Interested in You and Why Hasn’t He Proposed? Go From The First Date To Setting the Date.
Debra Berndt, author of the new bestselling book, Let Love In: Open Your Heart and Mind to Attract Your Ideal Partner.
Sherry Amatenstein, LMSW, author of The Complete Marriage Counselor: Relationship-Saving Advice from America’s Top 50+ Couples Therapists.
* Moderator: Connie Bennett, author of the bestselling book Sugar Shock!
At this amazing event for singles, Dr. Diana Kirschner will guide you to find out:
* The 3 most common Deadly Dating Patterns that kill off your chances at love
* How to access your most charismatic and confident identity or “Diamond Self.”
* The single MOST important thing you can do to find love.
* 2 little-known secrets about rapid online dating success.
Matt Titus and Tamsen Fadal will help you discover:
* The do’s and do’s of the Man-agement plan to help you find and keep Mr. Right.
* Where to find eligible men in the New York City
* The secrets of The Boy’s Club (i.e., what men really find attractive)
* How to be the perfect “Bond” girl
Debra Berndt will reveal:
* Her 15 Minutes-to-True-Love Workout—a way to find the man of your dreams without getting out of bed. (This will allow you to not waste time on the wrong guys.)
* The dangers of dating by default. In other words, learn how to get your head and heart to fall for Mr. Right.
* How to become free by conquering the “You are broken” mentality just because you haven’t found the right person yet.
Sherry Amatenstein will share with you:
* Why it’s imperative to put more attention into the marriage than the wedding. People spend a whopping $72 billion on their five-hour-or-so weddings. She’ll tell you how to shift the focus but still have the happy wedding.
* How you can resolve conflict instead of letting it eat away at your love. (You’ll get an amazing little strategy.)
* The short 3-letter word you need to keep out of your relationship.
And I will reveal:
* 3 Foods That Hinder Love & Squash Your Libido & 3 Foods That Boost Your Moods, Rev up Your Sex Drive & Give You Energy.
Please note that whether or not you attend the May 10 at Borders Columbus Circle in New York City, you can get gifts and/or special discounts, because you’re my friends. You’re eligible no matter where you live around the world. Read on to learn about the gifts from the Love Gurus.
About the Love Gurus & Their Gifts or Special Offers to Connie’s Friends
* Dr. Diana Kirschner’s bestselling dating advice book, Love in 90 Days: The Essential Guide to Finding Your Own True Love. is the basis for her PBS Special. It’s just out in paperback with a new chapter on “Dating Games Men Play. Dr. Diana is a frequent guest psychologist on The Today Show ran the “90 Day Love Challenge” on the Fox Morning Show and has appeared on Oprah & Access Hollywood. Special Offer to Connie’s Friends: Dr. Diana Kirschner is giving away $100 worth of free gifts when you purchase the bestseller, Love in 90 Days: The Essential Guide to Finding Your Own True Love. Your FREE Bonus Gifts include: ***The Bonfire of Past Hurts: Free Yourself to Create Lasting Love, a helpful ereport with a step-by-step process for freeing yourself from the painful relationships, breakups, betrayals, unfinished business or other heartbreak from the past; ***Secrets of Rapid Online Dating Success; an ereport on how to use simple online dating strategies to sort through the “DUDs” and quickly find the One that is just right for you; and ***Two Hour-Long MP3 Interviews in which Dr. Diana Kirschner describes 3 things that you can do today to increase your chances of finding a great relationship; talks candidly about her own marriage and give powerful dating tips & relationship advice, as interviewed by love experts, Julie Spira on Ask the Cyber-Dating Expert Radio Show & Gloria MacDonald on The Secrets of Dating and Relationship Success Radio Show. Plus, you can get a free, 60-minute introductory Love Mentor Coaching with trained Love Mentors who have used Love in 90 Days principles to get happily married. They also have backgrounds in transformational work and are closely supervised by Dr. Diana. If you sign up for ongoing love mentoring, you get 10 percent discount. To learn more visit www.lovein90days.com and email Dr. Diana. Make sure to say that Connie referred you to get your discount so you can get the relationship you want.
* Matt Titus and Tamsen Fadal, authors of Why Hasn’t He Called? How Guys Really Think and How to Get the Right One Interested in You and Why Hasn’t He Proposed? Go From The First Date To Setting the Date. Tamsen Fadal, an Emmy Award-winning journalist, can be seen anchoring weekday mornings on the Emmy Award-winning PIX Morning News as she covers the hottest stories of the day. Matt Titus is a nationally recognized matchmaker, lifestyle expert, and dating and relationship coach. He is the founder of Matt’s Little Black Book, a Manhattan based matchmaking and date coaching service that helps men and women find their perfect match and appears regularly on The Tyra Banks Show, The Martha Stewart Show, Fox’s The Morning Show With Mike and Juliet, The CBS Early Show, Today Show, E!, and the Style Network. Matt and Tamsen currently host the weekly, syndicated Meredith Corporation segment, “Ask Matt and Tamsen,” for Better TV, which is viewed in the top 65 U.S. markets. The couple starred in the Lifetime “Matched in Manhattan” reality TV show based on their business as matchmakers and relationship experts on Lifetime. Matt and Tamsen contribute regularly to Glamour Magazine, The Huffington Post, OK! Magazine, USA Today, Elle, TV Guide, Men’s Fitness, Life & Style Magazine, New York Daily News, NY Post, Time Out New York, & Magazine, Tango Magazine, About.com, and iVillage.com. Matt and Tamsen are married and live in Manhattan with two Chihuahuas, Matsen and Parker. Special Offer to Connie’s Friends: Matt Titus and Tamsen Fadal are offering $150 off their 5-week Dating Boot Camp Program, which will teach you how to understand men and find the one who is best for you. You’ll also learn: how to review and evaluate past relationship mistakes so you won’t repeat them; how to choose men based on things that matter; what a man wants to see in a woman’s appearance; how to create a sexier style that will attract the right kind of man; how to develop flirting and dating techniques that will attract the “fantasy man”; and how to always keep the guy interested. In addition, you can get $50 off a Perfect Online Profile, where a member of the Love Consultants will review your profile from a male’s perspective so can create a profile that attracts the right kind of men. To get these discounts, say that Connie referred you and go to www.TheLoveConsultants.com
* Debra Berndt, author of the new bestselling book, Let Love In: Open Your Heart and Mind to Attract Your Ideal Partner. She has helped thousands of singles attract true love with her unique 15-minute Love Workout. She has appeared on Fox News, ABC News, Playboy Radio, as well as in Cosmopolitan, Natural Health Magazine, LavaLife, Match.com, MSN, Complete Woman, Publisher’s Weekly and more. Special Offer to Connie’s Friends Around the World: Debra is offering $20 off to her three-week online class, “Let Love in Bootcamp,” which begins May 11. You’ll learn an easy three-step process to get your mind in the right place to meet Mr. or Ms. Right. To get your discount, my friends need to use the code “sweet2.” Go here for info: http://tinyurl.com/LetLoveIn-Connie She is also giving $20 off a “Love Attraction Set, 7 MP3s that take you through the steps that every single person struggles with on their journey to a healthy relationship. Many people attract their ideal mate within 30 days or less. http://tinyurl.com/LoveAttractionSet-Connie. Just use the coupon code “sweet2.” Expires May 7
* Sherry Amatenstein, LMSW is author of The Complete Marriage Counselor: Relationship-Saving Advice from America’s Top 50+ Couples Therapists. Sherry, who has appeared on many major talk shows, counsels individuals and couples, and she runs relationship seminars around the country.
* Moderator: Connie Bennett, author of Sugar Shock! Connie is a former sugar addict, who is now a “Sugar Liberator,” certified life coach, certified health counselor, host of the Gab with the Gurus Radio Show and creator of the Break Free of Your Sugar Addiction in 6 Weeks Teleseminar/Webinar Program. (www.BreakFreeWithConnie.com) Special Offer to Connie’s Friends: 1 Admission to my Break Free of Your Sugar Addiction in 6 Weeks Program.
Unfortunately, my California-based friend Arielle Ford, author of The Soulmate Secret: Manifest the Love of Your Life with the Law of Attraction, could not attend our Love Gurus program in New York City, but she also is offering an amazing program to help singles find their soulmates, who will love, cherish and adore them. Arielle—who met an manifested the love of her life at age 44—is now sharing her secrets in “The Soulmate Kit,” a step-by-step guide to manifesting Big Love. She shows you how to take control of your romantic destiny using the Law of Attraction. If you think you’ve already “tried” everything when it comes to the Law of Attraction chances, you’ll want to learn how to do “feelingizations,” “feathering the nest,” “living as if,” and “savoring the waiting.” If you’re heartbroken, The Soulmate Kit also includes advice on how to heal a broken heart from Dr. Gay Hendricks, Dr. Joan Borysenko, and Dr. George Pratt. http://tinyurl.com/SoulmateKit-Connie

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Attract Abundance & More at the Hypnosis World Summit: Listen Now for Free

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I just had to share.
You need to know about this great program — the Hypnosis World Summit.
I’m sitting here learning about abundance and the Law of Attraction.
Right now, an expert is telling us about the Law of Attraction and how we may not be using it right.
You can listen now, too. Eager to get the schedule? Sign up here now:
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The speaker, who is being interviewed by renowned hypnotist Tom Nicoli, is absolutely fascinating.
“Our thoughts are creating what we’re experiencing,” says Debi Livingston-Boushey, Director of the
International Spiritual Hypnotherapy Institute, who’s talking about creating “Easy-to-Use Steps to Attract
Abundance.”
Debi also shared how we’re sold by society to buy into negative thoughts such as — nah, I’m not
gonna reapeat them! I’m into thinking positively.
She’s also about to give us tips to shift ourselves into an abundant mindset.
You’ve got to check out this remarkable free Hypnosis World Summit — which runs through May 13.
You can listen for fr*ee to 27 top hypnosis leaders, who can help you change your life.
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At the Hypnosis World Summit, you’ll learn how hypnosis can help with many things.
For instance, you can use it to:
* Lose weight
* End unhealthy eating patterns
* Attract abundance into your life
* End unhealthy eating patterns to lose weight
* Get relief from physical pain
* Learn how color can influence your life and how to use it to your advantage
* Improve study skills and academic results
* Manage your life more easily and relieve tension and stress
* Supercharge the Law of Attraction
* Reduce fear
* Increase your self-confidence
* Clear clutter
* Manage diabetes
* Improve sports performance
* And much, much more.
Click here to get 27 hours of free hypnosis audio instruction, sign up for the Hypnosis World Summit.
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Let me know what you think of this amazing program.

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Hay House Movers & Shakers Alisa Vitti, Helen Kim & Others on Gab with the Gurus

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When you listen to today’s Gab with the Gurus Radio Show today, you can catch my interviews with several accomplished, inspiring guests, who attended the Hay House Movers & Shakers Conference in New York City in December.
The Hay House Movers & Shakers conference — which is next held in Toronto in the fall — is an amazing event designed to help authors, speakers and others bring their message to the world. I heartily recommend this conference to anyone who would like help to reach a broader platform with their programs and services. At this fabulous event, you get to meet and get taught by the amazing bestselling author and life coach Cheryl Richardson and Reid Tracy, CEO and president of Hay House, the largest and most influential self-empowerment publishing company in the world.
Back to my Gab with the Gurus Radio Show. On today’s show, I interviewed Alisa Vitti and Helen Kim, winners of the Hay House Movers & Shakers video contest and other attendees.
Alisa Vitti is a holistic health counselor, who founded Laughing Sage Wellness after she healed herself of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) through food and lifestyle changes. She now helps young women to correct hormonal imbalances using medicinal foods. Her protocol is currently the subject of a clinical study in conjunction with a research physician from Columbia University. As a Hay House winner, Alisa will give a talk at the November Hay House I Can Do It! conference.
On our Gab with the Gurus Radio Show today, you will hear Alisa share her personal tale of how she transformed her health. You’ll also get Alisa’s 3 fabulous tips to women to have better hormonal health. Hint: You’ll be surprised, I suspect, at her recommendations. By the way, one of them is very fun!
Next, you’ll hear my interview with Helen Kim, a mindful financial counselor, workshop presenter, speaker and founder of YourMoneyRelationship.com, a company devoted to helping people gain clarity around their relationship to money so they can make conscious financial decisions.
Through her workshops, coaching programs and products, Helen helps you loosen the grip that money holds over you, allowing you to experience freedom from the inside, out. With her mindful approach, Helen gives you the opportunity to create a positive, dynamic and nurturing relationship to money and therefore, yourself.
On our Gab with the Gurus Radio Show today, you’ll hear Helen give you 3 valuable pointers to “take your financial shadows out of the closet,” as she puts it, so you can make conscious money decisions and to ultimately have a better relationship with money.
As a Hay House Movers & Shakers video contest winner, starting this summer, Helen will host a Hay House Radio Show, Conscious Health, where she’ll cover a variety of topics around your relationship to money.
Although you can’t catch Helen’s show now, I highly recommend that you check out the many wonderful shows that you can listen to on Hay House Radio. (Just click the link below.)
If you seek to reach more people with your empowering messages, I heartily urge you to go to the upcoming Movers & Shakers event in Toronto.
For today’s Gab with the Gurus Radio Show, the four runners-up for the Hay House Movers & Shakers contest — John Duffy, Tina Klonaris-Robinson, Erin Burch and Joelle Prochera — were not available to participate, but several other Movers & Shakers were able to give interviews. For intance:
You’ll learn about the amazing power of vision boards and life coaching with Lauren DiBiase, who offers intuitive life coaching that attracts success. Lauren invites you to her 6-Week Vision Board Tele-Workshop. The class on May 10 is free. (If you sign up, tell her Connie sent you.)
You’ll also get juicy information about bursting (a way to exercise), juicing and more from Berrnadette Penotti, a personal trainer, fitness mentor, author, actress, speaker and actress.
Finally, you’ll learn how to allow, feel and live with Joanne Morton (“Trickydame”), a multi-media artist, who uses words, images and performance to create & promote Magic Passion Love.
Listen now to the Gab with the Gurus Radio Show, where you can be inspired by Alisa, Helen, Berrrnadette, Lauren and Joanne.

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Why Bother to Kick Sugar? Listen to Successful Sugar Kickers Now

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Will I get along better with my loved ones?
Back in 1998, I remember well being very hesitant to quit, too. I didn’t want to!
Now, my coaching clients and members of my Break Free of Your Sugar Addiction in 6 Weeks Program always quiz me to find out if the benefits are big enough to warrant stopping eating all those tasty sweet foods.
Do don’t take my word for it. Just listen to what Successful Sugar Kickers said about kicking sugar.
Please note that these people’s comments were unrehearsed.
I did not prod them into making certain answers.
But you’ll be surprised, I predict, at how excited and wildly enthusiastic they were to now live a sugar-free lifestyle.
You’ll be shocked, I imagine, at how they felt that they had been reborn and how life post-sugar became much happier and healthier for them.
Listen now as my gift to several people tell their stories. (You get to hear my tale, too.)
Listen now by clicking this link.
And, if you, too, become a success story, make sure to contact me, because I want to tell your story, too, to inspire others.
Get inspired and motivated now. Just listen here.
If you’d like help to release your sugar habit, I invite you to Break Free of Your Sugar Addiction in 6 Weeks. You’re welcome to join my program now. Programs are held live several times throughout the year, but you can join at any time and listen to the audio replays.

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Get Secrets to Becoming Slim, Sexy & Sleeveless with Celebrity Wellness Expert J.J. Virgin

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Often, I hear from many of you with questions about how to get fit, toned and lose weight.
It’s time to get your exercise questions answered.
It is my honor and privilege to interview celebrity wellness expert J.J. Virgin next Wednesday, May 12 at 2 pm EST on my Gab with the Gurus Radio Show.
JJ — whose clients have included Hollywood elite, Olympians and CEOs — will tell you how to get fabulous arms such as she has.
She also will share some of the secrets she shares in her new book,Six Weeks to Sleeveless and Sexy: The 5-Stop Plan to Sleek, Strong, and Sculpted Arms.
I also invite you to sign up for a recent program JJ conducted. You can listen now still. Just sign up to catch a replay of this fabulous program, “Is Your Cardio Workout Making You Age Faster, Gain Fat and Lose Your Sex Drive?”
In her free program — which you can listen to at any time — JJ will reveal how your exercise program may be working against you!
She also shared insider secrets on the most effective way to work out for the quickest and most dramatic results, and promote the release of your “young” hormones! And the best part is, it takes far less time than you think, and you don’t even have to go to the gym!
Feel free to spread the word. Just send your friends to http://tinyurl.com/JJExerciseSecrets
And make sure to mark your calendars for next Wednesday when JJ shares more secrets to being slim and sexy on my Gab with the Gurus Radio Show.
Got any fitness questions? Ask them here.

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Michelle Obama Gets Food Companies to Act

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Thank to Michelle Obama’s crusade to combat children’s obesity, major food companies such as PepsiCo and Kraft Foods are changing their products.
She is, in fact, “defining defining her role as first lady by taking on the $600 billion food and beverage industries in a quest to end childhood obesity within a generation,” observes Kate Andersen Brower of Bloomberg Business Week, in an artticle entitled, “Michelle Obama’s ‘Spotlight’ on Obesity Enlists Kraft, PepsiCo.”
“Her lobbying of companies to make products healthier, labels easier to read and limit marketing of unhealthy foods to kids is paying off,” Brower observes.
A month after she began her campaign, “PepsiCo Inc., the world’s second-largest food and beverage company, pledged to stop selling full-sugar soft drinks in schools by 2012.” In addition, Kraft Foods Inc., the maker of Oreo cookies and Oscar Mayer lunch meats, jumped on board, announcing that it would further reduce the sodium content of its products..
Reporter Brower points out that the first lady’s efforts are part of a “movement to recast what the food industry is selling,” according to David Kessler, who was Food and Drug Administration commissioner from 1990 to 1997. “She puts the spotlight on the issue like few others can,” Kessler told Brower.
The American Beverage Association — which represents soda companies — has now joined Michelle Obama’s effort by running a national ad, which claims that the industry is committed to reducing beverage calories in schools by 88 percent.
Things started happening after a well-publicized meeting in Washington on March 16 when the first lady addressed members of the Grocery Manufacturers Association, which represents major food companies such as Kraft and PepsiCo. At that GMA meeting, Obama urged the companies to reduce sugar, fat and salt in their products and “to move faster and to go farther” to make them healthier.
The first lady has “accelerated our focus,” Kraft’s president of health and wellness, Rhonda Jordan, told the Bloomberg Business Week reporter Brower, who then quotes Patrick Basham, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, a Washington-based research group that promotes libertarian policies.
Basham believes that the first lady’s anti-obesity efforts are “in sync with public skepticism about `the motives of big business’ in the wake of the deepest economic crisis since the Great Depression.” He also believes that the recent moves by the companies may be an effort to prevent government crackdown.
“The food industry is terrified of being either legislated out of business or so regulated they won’t be able to do what they want,” Basham told Brower.
What’s intriguing is that Michelle Obama became concerned about child nutrition for personal reasons.
She told audiences at a National PTA Conference in Arlington, Virginia, on March 10, that she got a “wakeup call” when her pediatrician voiced concern about her family’s eating habits.
While I applaud the first lady’s efforts, as always, no matter what changes the large food companies institute, I encourage people to reduce or even eliminate their consumption of processed foods.
Vegetables and fruits that come courtesy of Mother Nature are best for our bodies. Plus, they taste better — something you’ll discover after you cut back on processed carbs.
We just don’t need to consume large quantities of packaged foods that usually have

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