Episode 37: Tech and Children's Book Maven Becky Benishek

Published: May 9, 2019, 1:45 p.m.

b'Episode 37 of the Mavens Do It Better Podcast features Becky Benishek. Becky is a three time recipient of the Microsoft MVP award, is a one of a kind conference speaker and is the author of the following children\\u2019s books: The Squeezor is Coming!, What\\u2019s At the End of Your Nose?, Dr. Guinea Pig George and Hush, Mouse!\\u202fComing soon. She is also a engagement and technology strategist for the Crisis Prevention Institute in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. \\n \\nBecky and Heather caught up virtually from Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Marina del Rey, California. \\nListen in as Becky, and Heather talk about: \\nBeing a writer her entire life and the power of setting an intention to publish her first Children\\u2019s Book while enjoying some strawberry mead complete tips and tricks on book publishing having been both self-published and now with a publishing company. \\nBecky\\u2019s start in IT and career working in both technology and marketing, currently training nurses, teachers, security guards techniques to keep children and adults in safe for the Crisis Prevention Institute, an international training organization that specializes in the safe management of disruptive and assaultive behavior located in Wisconsin. \\nThe serendipity of a collaboration with each of her Children\\u2019s Books illustrators \\u2013 one of the books becoming a coloring book from black and white drawings that she loved and developing characters through words becoming drawings and full-fledged on the page characters.'