About Loving Magazine!

Loving is a lifestyle and 'lovestyle' magazine for the woman who wants a life of Balance, Vibrance & Bliss. She is willing to develop her inner and outer beauty from a foundation of loving more fully, to create a life she loves. Loving features an editorial mix of personal growth focused on the relationship with self, creating a balance home and work environments, fashion and self-image, health, career, and enrichment, including travel. Upbeat, romantic, and heart-centered, Loving Magazine is meant to be a life enriching and friendly monthly ‘visitor.’

Maria Carter

Founded by Maria Carter, CEO of Fall In Love With Your Life®, Loving Magazine was created from her passion to make a difference in the world through Love, one woman, one family at a time.

Through Fall In Love With Your Life®, Maria produces world class programs and resources that teach life enhancing and enriching skills to women, children, and families, as well as business programs. She recently produced 100 audio expert interviews for John Assaraf of OneCoach, a featured teacher in the movie, The Secret.
She draws upon her experience of working with companies built upon achievement and excellence such as with the America’s Cup, U.S. Olympic Training Center, with Robert G. Allen and his partner, Mark Victor Hansen, co-creator of Chicken Soup for the Soul, and as a director of a speaker’s bureau.
Maria has been through overwhelm, a child with raging temper tantrums, divorce, cancer, losing herself in her marriage and children, and more. She’s authentic to her work being happily married to the love of her life, Michael, for 26 years, has two fabulous children, and loves her work as CEO of Fall In Love With Your Life®, guiding others in transforming their lives to loving it!
Maria is the author of the bestselling book, Fall In Love With Your Life: 365 Love Notes for Romancing the Self-Critic Within, published by Morgan James Publishing in New York.

Foreword is by Nely Galan and endorsers include Louise Hay, Jack Canfield, Jorge Cruise, as well as some of the board members profiled below.

 

Maria 'assembled' a team of editorial and business advisors to ensure the success of the magazine, including:

Marci Shimoff

Marci Shimoff is the woman's face of the biggest self-help book phenomenon in history, Chicken Soup for the Soul. Her six bestselling titles in the series, including Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul and Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul, have met with stunning success, selling more than 13 million copies worldwide in 33 languages and have been on the New York Times bestseller list for a total of 108 weeks. Marci is one of the bestselling female nonfiction authors of all time. In addition, she's a featured teacher in the international film and book phenomenon, The Secret. Her new book, Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out, offers a revolutionary approach to experiencing deep and lasting happiness. It immediately soared to #1 on many bestseller lists including Amazon and Barnes & Noble.com, and debuted at #2 on The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. www.HappyForNoReason.com  www.MarciShimoff.com

 

Janet Attwood

Janet Attwood is a visionary, a transformational leader, and a world humanitarian. Janet is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller, The Passion Test – The Effortless Path to Discovering Your Life's Purpose. She and her co-author, Chris Attwood, have trained to date, more than 450 Passion Test Facilitators around the world. Janet is co-founder of one of the largest online magazines in the world, Healthy Wealthy n Wise Magazine. Twice a month Janet hosts HWnW “Passion Series” where she interviews people in the top of their field on what it takes to live a passionate life. For her ongoing work with homeless women and youth in lockdown detention centers, Janet received the highest award for volunteer service in the U.S., The President’s Volunteer Service Award from the President of the United States. Janet recently launched The Passion Test™ for Kids, The Passion Test™ for Teens, The Reclaim Your Power Program for the Homeless and The Empowered Teen Series for kids in lockdown detention centers. www.ThePassionTest.com www.JanetAttwood.com

 
Esperanza Universal

Esperanza Universal is the co-creator of the Systems of Universal Law Institute. Since 1990, S.O.U.L. has taught Unconditional Love and Individual Freedom to multitudes of people throughout the world from all walks of life. Esperanza first began to use these universal teachings in her practice of law, as she was a litigation attorney when she first realized these truths. With the applications of these universal truths, clients' cases would settle in a few weeks, when in the past these same cases would have taken several years of litigation. Esperanza no longer practices social law, she teaches only Sacred Law. She graduated from college with a degree in Psychology, has a Masters Degree, law degree, and a degree in metaphysics. Esperanza practiced as an attorney including serving as an Assistant City Attorney and in her own private practice. Her interest was to become the first Hispanic congresswoman. Prior to her legal practice, Esperanza was a psychotherapist, probation officer, child welfare worker, and an Equal Employment Opportunity Officer. She served on various civic organization boards and commissions in the region of San Diego, the state of California, and on a national level.

 
Larry Gengin

Murray Smith is a visionary, strategic thinker and sound decision maker with a proven track record of success at building businesses, corporate turnarounds and start-ups. He has 25 years of diverse experience in both the private and public business sectors serving as owner, director and officer for 13 companies in a multitude of industries. As President of Merchant Banking Services, he provided executive services to: Digital Media, which developed into the #1 private TV network in USA, Canada and Europe with over 200 corporate clients including Bank of America, CIBC, McDonalds, Lottery Corporation, etc.; and Telemedia Inc., a TSX listed company with 32 radio stations, 26 magazines, 34 non-daily newspapers, book publishing and POP media. He was Chairman of the communications task force and responsible to expand company interests in the interactive, point-of-purchase and multi-media industries including Mediasat (wholly-owned subsidiary of Telemedia), a point-of-purchase satellite data and audio broadcast network that grew to have more than 1,000 locations, adding to Telemedia revenues of $300M in 1992. Murray is an international bestselling author. The Answer: Grow Any Business, Achieve Financial Freedom & Live an Extraordinary Life shares the wisdom, insights and nuggets for how small business owners can grow their business, achieve financial freedom and improve their lives. He is now CEO/Chairman of MainStreet Corporation, the business growth network for owners, professionals and entrepreneurs who are in pursuit of living their dreams. Learn more about Murray at www.GetTheAnswer.com.

 
Larry Gengin

Larry Genkin is a CEO, entrepreneur, business consultant, speaker and author. He is the creator of the "Thought Leadership Marketing" methodology used by over 50 of the Fortune 500. Larry is arguably the best in the world at being able to look at a business and uncover hidden sources of business opportunity. He has captured the respect of billionaires, CEO's, best selling authors, and marketing gurus. He's personally owned six businesses in six different industries, created over 170 joint ventures including partnerships with companies such as: USA TODAY, Forbes and Time Inc., and with over 125 publishers. He’s a pioneer in custom publishing with clients that include IBM, Microsoft, Intel, American Express, Wachovia, Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent, Cingular, eBay, Lucent, MIT, and many others. He is the Founder, CEO & President of Larstan Publishing Inc., Founder & Publisher, Blogger & Podcaster Magazine, an Online Advertising Pioneer aggregating together thousands of bloggers and podcasters to launch the Blogger & Podcaster Ad Network in the Fall of 2008. Larry also is a New Media Expert, serving on the Board of Advisors for the International Blogging and New Media Association. www.LarryGenkin.com

 
Pat Burns

Pat Burns is an Infopreneurial and Entrepreneurial Advancer, helping business people and organizations advance to their next level. She started as a single mom in real estate sales to become the top 10% in sales nationwide and a regional recruiting manager. Then she helped others advance: among them, a multi-billion dollar business, International Trading Corporation, in Saigon and Bangkok, and The Inner Circle, a high-end membership program with partners Mark Victor Hansen and Robert G. Allen. Mark is the co-creator of the phenomenally successful Chicken Soup for the Soul book series (80 million sold and growing). Bob created the "buy real estate nothing down" industry with his number one New York Times bestselling Nothing Down book and seminar series. As director, Pat selected unique venues and extraordinary events such as a private dinner in the famous Topeka Palace, spending a day at the Abandoned Baby Center in Nairobi, Kenya, hiking the summits of Mt. Whitney and Mt. Kilimanjaro and a private interview with His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Pat's extensive talents are currently wrapped up in three projects: ThePatBurns.com, Grandparents Rock enterprise based on her successful publication of Grandparents Rock: The Grandparenting Guide for the Rock-n-Roll Generation and, along with her partner Barry Ackerman, the hugely successful Orange County Children's Book Festival. As cofounder, she serves as the Executive Director.

 
Jill Lublin

Jill Lublin - Praised as a modern-day Dale Carnegie for how to be influential, Jill authored Get Noticed…Get Referrals: Build Your Client Base and Your Business by Making a Name for Yourself (McGraw-Hill, June 2008). She is also the coauthor of the national bestselling books, Networking Magic and Guerrilla Publicity, the PR bible. Jill is the founder of GoodNews Media, Inc. and hosts the TV program, Messages of Hope, and the nationally syndicated radio show, Do the Dream. Jill is a popular international speaker who teaches powerful publicity, networking, and how to be influential techniques. As the CEO of the strategic consulting firm, Promising Promotion, Jill has trained companies in innovative techniques to improve bottom line results. In the past twenty years, she has worked with ABC, NBC, CBS, and other national media, and knows what the media wants. Jill has been featured in The New York Times, Women’s Day, Fortune Small Business, Inc, and Entrepreneur Magazine, and on ABC and NBC radio and TV national affiliates. www.JillLublin.com

 
Linda Hollander

Linda Hollander is a successful entrepreneur and author of the #1 bestselling book, Bags to Riches: 7 Success Secrets for Women in Business. A popular international speaker, she is the industry leader in teaching entrepreneurs about small business success and attracting corporate sponsors. Her passions are business, investing, promotion and packaging (she is a “Bag Lady”, after all). She has over 20 years of experience as a small business owner and does small business consulting. Her clients include Disney, Cisco Systems, Mattel, Universal Studios, Ocean Spray, Sears and Nissan. As the founder of the Women's Small Business Expo, she has engineered massive empowerment events that take place every year all over the country. She was nominated for the best women-owned business award by the National Association of Female Executives and she has over 20 years of experience in business, sales, marketing, design, promotion, and creating lifetime customers. Her upcoming book, Women Hold the Purse Strings, will give companies powerful strategies for marketing to successful women. www.wealthybaglady.com 

 
Joy Bounds

Joy Bounds is a Certified Court Mediator, Commercial Arbitrator, Community Conciliator, Legal Facilitator, and Court Settlement Master. She regularly teaches and participates in court-related and commercial conflict prevention and conflict resolution. She currently serves as a legislative advisor to the State of Hawaii. Early in her professional career, she held the positions of senior project engineer, project manager, and consultant to and for Hughes Aircraft Company. Among her many professional work projects during her career with Hughes Aircraft Company was serving as manager of the design team that invented radar devices for fighter jets and overseas contracts. Later she served as project manager and contracts specialists for Exxon Company USA, which included overseas contracts in Japan and various locations in the U.S. She currently serves on several Boards of Directors including: Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR) - Hawaii Chapter; Hawaii Children's Trust Fund; State of Hawaii Judiciary Committee for Equality and Access to the Courts (CEAC); Hawaii Chapter - Association of United Nations; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) - Hawaii Branch; Joint Venture Education Forum; Hawaii Peace Center; Ethnic Education Foundation. She served in the past as President, Hawaii State PTSA and a member of the State of Hawaii Keiki Caucus. For many years Joy has maintained a consulting business, providing contract advice and negotiations for major corporations, state agencies, and federal departments.

 
Jared Silver

Jared Silver connects business professionals with their target audience as quickly as possible through Results Based Visual Marketing. From publicity photographs to on-line videos... headline and sales copywriting to photo retouching, he “gets you seen and gets you sales.” His company, At A Glance Marketing, bases its approach to marketing from the premise that, "It may not be fair, but people do in fact judge a book by it's cover (you) by the first impression you make... It happens in a matter of seconds." During the last 30 years Jared's clients have included AT&T, Abbott Labs, Anixter Wire & Cable, Brunswick Corp, CuisineWare Cookware, Kitchens of Sara Lee, Baxter Healthcare, Jelly Bellies Jelly Bean Company, Kraft Foods, Washburn Guitars, Willie & Max Saddle Bags, plus numerous small business owners, entrepreneurs, and authors.  In the early 1990’s, Jared was sponsored by the Eastman Kodak Company to provide his lighting seminars to professional photographers. Jared's direct response marketing mentors include Ted Nicholas, Jay Abraham, Joe Sugarman, Zig Ziglar, Tommy Hopkins, Mac Ross, Robert G. Allen, and more. His newest At-a-Glance Marketing tools include The Elevator Speech Video, Executive Portrait Specialists and RetouchXpresshttp://www.AtaGlanceMarketing.com