Nicole O'Dell and Diane Paddison
b'Youth-culture expert, Nicole O\\u2019Dell is the host of Choose NOW Radio: Parent Talk and Teen Talk and the founder of Choose NOW Ministries, dedicated to guiding teens through tough issues and helping parents encourage good decisions. On air, O\\u2019Dell covers peer pressure, dating, purity, drugs, alcohol, modesty, popularity, and anything else that comes up along the way. Nicole writes and speaks to preteens, teenagers, and parents about how to prepare for life\\u2019s tough choices.\\n\\nAs an author, O\\u2019Dell writes both fiction and nonfiction. Her popular YA fiction includes the Diamond Estate Series and the Scenarios for Girls interactive books that feature alternate endings, allowing young girls to decide the outcome for the main character. Her nonfiction for teens includes Girl Talk, which she wrote with her two daughters based on their popular advice column. While her YA resources encourage and equip teens, Nicole also works to bridge the communication gap between teens and their parents. The Hot Buttons series helps parents discuss tough issues with their tweens and teens before the issues pop up in real life. Watch for future Hot Buttons books on subjects like bullying, image, prejudice, friendships, politics, and more.\\n\\nNicole, resides in Paxton, IL, with her husband and six children\\u2014the youngest of whom are toddler triplets.\\n\\nListen as Nicole talks \\u201cHOT BUTTONS\\u201d with Beth and Rob. Work-Love-Pray-cover\\n\\nDiane Paddison: Harvard MBA, chief strategy officer at Cassidy Turley, and two times the only female member of the executive team at a Fortune 500 company. She\\u2019s also a wife, mother and Christian. Author of Work, Love, Pray\\u2014a practical guide to help women balance faith, family and work\\u2014Diane created 4word, a city-by-city and online community of career women. A frequent speaker at national events, Diane speaks to women who feel called to home and career, and to the corporations that need them.\\n\\nListen as Diane shares about her book, Work, Love, Pray\\u2014a practical guide to help women balance faith, family and work. About the book: The ratio of women in today\\u2019s workforce is rising, and old best practices no longer apply. Women launching careers will find wisdom for every life stage in Work, Love, Pray.\\n\\nDiane Paddison shares the ups and downs of her own corporate, personal, and spiritual life. 15 more leaders advise how to progress in your career without compromise. The foreword is authored by a successful executive, Charity Wallace, Senior Advisor to Mrs. Laura Bush and Director of the Bush Women\\u2019s Initiative.\\n\\nApplication questions in every section guide self-assessment. Women are connecting in Work, Love, Pray book studies. Work, Love, Pray is becoming a must-read for husbands, pastors, and mentors.'