The Authors

 Clare X. Gailey

 Clare has been living the bohemian life in New York for almost ten years. This has  involved a lot of thinking, talking, loving, jazz, chocolate, wine, omelets at her  favorite cafe in the West Village, writing novels, plays, and screenplays, acting in  one-acts and short films, learning how to cook, throwing five-course gourmet dinner  parties (still can’t make omelets though!), checking coats in a basement club,  proofreading, editing, co-writing, helping all of her bohemian friends on their  spiritual and artistic journeys, and being helped in return. One of her greatest  achievements has been taking her former status as a painfully shy wallflower and  burning it to ashes. Sometimes it’s not easy to identify the milestones in this kind of  life, and that really freaks out her Inner Critic. But the best revenge is pure joy!

 

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Jacquelyn B. Fletcher

Jacque is an award-winning author, professional development coach, speaker, mother, stepmom, wife, and explorer. She battles daily with the Inner Critic, the Inner Ugly, the Inner People Pleaser, The Heavyweight…etc., and blogs about it at www.101smackdowns.com. She is both the best and the worst boss she’s ever had and the author of A Career Girl’s Guide to Becoming a Stepmom (HarperCollins 2007) which won a 2008 iParenting Media Excellence Award. Her blog at www.becomingastepmom.com draws thousands of visitors a month from all over the world. Since she and Clare began smacking down their fears together ten years ago she has taken acting classes, tried out for a play, started her own freelance writing business, met a groovy fella and married him, written and sold a book, lost weight, had a baby, gained weight, lost weight again. She’s an experienced and passionate speaker who feels one of her main goals in life is to help other people learn about the art of the smackdown: Deep KNOWLEDGE of self meets OPTIMISM meets ACTION.

 

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