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?No Limits? Award Announced by ROI Media Direct to Honor Business Execs Who Have Overcome Disabilities and Succeeded
“No Limits” Award Announced by ROI Media Direct to Honor Business Execs Who Have Overcome Disabilities and Succeeded
San Diego, California (PRWEB) March 23, 2012
ROI Media Direct, a leading direct response advertising agency, recently announced the First Annual “No Limits” Award, established to recognize professionals from all fields who have overcome significant health hurdles and disabilities to reach their career goals.
“The ‘No Limits’ Award is a vehicle to inspire others with health issues to stay positive and never give up on their career ambitions,” said Patrick Lennon, CEO and founding partner at ROI Media Direct, who refused to let a myriad of major medical issues — including blindness and two bouts with cancer — derail his dreams. “Despite all of the medical setbacks in my life, I feel very blessed, and I’m looking forward to shining a light on the 2012 ‘No Limits’ Award honorees.”
Lennon, whose father was a former prizefighter turned successful real estate developer, received his first life-threatening body blow at six when he was diagnosed with a brain tumor. The doctors didn’t offer his parents much hope, but Lennon would beat those odds only to develop spinal meningitis, a harbinger of more medical challenges to come.
By the time he was 18, Lennon had broken 12 ribs, punctured his left lung, broke his pelvis, and broken his collarbone five times as a result of auto accidents. Undeterred, Lennon, who also overcame alcoholism and dyslexia as a teenager, earned a degree in telecommunications from Pepperdine University, and elected to try real estate sales right out of college.
“I was driving to an appointment one morning when a truck lost some cargo, causing another driver to swerve violently into my lane at high speed,” Lennon said. “My head hit the steering wheel, but I thought I had dodged a bullet. I was wrong. My vision began getting fuzzy, so I went to a neurologist and was diagnosed with an extremely dangerous condition known as hydrocephalus or ‘water on the brain.’”
Lennon was rushed into surgery where doctors implanted a shunt to drain excess fluid and relieve the pressure on his brain and optic nerves. When he awoke, he found himself totally blind. While he eventually regained about seventy percent of his vision, the shunt would malfunction, requiring additional brain surgeries. Several more shunt failures were to follow, with each procedure costing Lennon more and more vision. “One time it failed after a sky diving outing, another time on vacation in Italy of all places, where I had to have more brain surgery,” he said.
Despite the scary setbacks, Lennon doggedly continued pursuing his ultimate dream of establishing his own advertising agency specializing in radio and television media buying. He started his company out of his apartment, and later scraped together enough money for a one-room office in San Diego, hired a part-time media buyer (who is still with the company) and, while being legally blind, began making cold calls and gradually growing his agency. One of those calls was to Dr. Greg Cynaumon, Ph.D., a highly successful marketing professional, author and radio and television scriptwriter.
“We met for coffee, hit it off and began discussing ways we could team up to take my small boutique agency to the next level,” Lennon said. “Greg introduced me to Zeus Peleuses, a long-time radio industry sales executive, and the three of us agreed to a partnership.”
While the business flourished under the new partnership, Lennon’s health took another ominous turn about eight years ago. A routine CT scan revealed a heart aneurysm that could have killed him instantly. Again, he was rushed into surgery where doctors were shocked to also find a cancerous mass in his chest. It was an advanced form of Hodgkin’s lymphoma that was spreading rapidly. Again, his chances of survival were poor. The doctors aggressively treated the cancer first, before turning their attention to the aneurysm. “Here I was married, with a newborn child, the agency on a roll, and now this?” Lennon recalled. “The only word that came to me was ‘Really?’”
Despite nine months of treatment, which included six weeks of chemotherapy and three months of radiation therapy, Lennon rarely missed a day of work. When the treatments concluded, he was bald and virtually sightless, but he was cancer free, or so he thought. “My wife and I went to Hawaii to celebrate the good news. We had a wonderful time, but on the flight home I felt a nodule on the side of my neck. My worst nightmare was soon confirmed – the cancer had returned after just 30 days.”
Now facing the fight of his life, Lennon underwent a stem cell transplant in Houston at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, where “they basically Ajaxed my system with chemo,” he said. He lost 45 pounds over the grueling process that required removing his own bone marrow (for transplanting later), “zeroing out” his white blood count and laying waste to his immune system. The stem cell transplant worked, and at 43, Lennon has been cancer-free for five years, though still legally blind.
“Believe me, after what I’ve been through, blindness isn’t so bad,” Lennon said. “Thanks to advances in technology for the blind, I’m able to handle all of my duties as CEO. There are a few challenges, however, such as not seeing the expressions of people during a meeting, which sometimes means I speak when I shouldn’t. I’ve also been known to walk into the women’s restroom from time to time,” he laughed. “And once I jumped into the wrong car. How did I know? Well, there was a Rottweiler sitting in the driver’s seat looking at me like I was crazy.”
Today, ROI Media Direct, which joined forces with Brand Affinity Technologies Inc. in 2010, has become one of the leading agencies in the direct response industry with California offices in San Diego, Newport Beach and Santa Monica. With annual billings in excess of eight figures and growing, ROI Media has top-tier clients such as LegalZoom.com, LifeLock, Regus and Blinds.com, Lennon believes ROI Media Direct has been successful by treating its clients like partners, “and spending their media dollars as if it was our own money. We work hard to become an extension of their staff.”
Through multiple brain surgeries and disheartening setbacks, Lennon remains the eternal optimist and harbors no bitterness over his disability. “On the contrary, I’ve got an amazing wife, beautiful daughter and two fantastic partners who share my vision about how an advertising agency should operate,” he said. “I’ve been thinking for some time about things I could do to help others who are experiencing disabilities and health concerns of their own, and the ‘No Limits’ Award is an ideal way to do just that. I’m really looking forward to sharing the inspiring success stories of other executives who refused to let disabilities limit their career paths,” he added.
According to Lennon, ROI Media Direct will make a contribution to the Braille Institute and Lymphoma Society in the winner’s name — or a donation to the charity of his or her choice. “In addition, we’re going to create a media campaign celebrating triumph over tragedy in an effort to let others know. There really are no limits,” he added.
If you would like to share your inspiring story in the face of overwhelming health issues, or know of somebody you’d like to nominate for the “No Limits” Award, you can email Alex(at)roimediadirect(dot)com or visit the ROI “No Limits” Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/NoLimitsAward.
Contact: Alex De La Torre
Title: Executive Assistant
Phone: 1-858-412-1400
City: San Diego
Email: Alex at roimediadirect dot com
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“Survivor: One World” will be a “Chernobyl of Estrogen” according to World Renowned Behaviorist Kerrie Hopkins – Creator of Namezook, Inc.
“Survivor: One World” will be a “Chernobyl of Estrogen” according to World Renowned Behaviorist Kerrie Hopkins – Creator of Namezook, Inc.
New York, NY (PRWEB) February 12, 2012
Well CBS has done it again. They revived their successful Reality TV Show Formula that combines studs, thugs & drama queens and exiles them to a secluded location to battle it out using brains, brawn and “Barely There” bathing suits in pursuit of a ,000,000 prize.
Based on their names, and the onomalogic research of Kerrie Hopkins, which of these 18 Cast Members of Survivor will be the most competitive, most annoying, most high maintenance, friendliest & most fun?
Well – for starts – here are the names of the survivors who’ll be battling with each other while pretending to be best alliances: Alicia, Chelsea, Sabrina, Christina, Kat, Kim, Kourtney, Monica, Nina, Bill, Colton, “Tarzan” Greg, Jay, Jonas, Leif, Matt, Michael & “Troy-zan” Troy.
The two most abundant things on the “Survivor: One World” Island will be hydrogen and “balls” & that’s referring to the woman’s side of the island. Wow are these women tough. It’s going to be like a Chernobyl of estrogen in their tribe. Every one of them has a “tell it like it is” attitude and mouth. Kourtney & Chelsea will be the most entertaining of this crew but none of them can refrain from telling everyone else what they should be doing. They’ll all have a fuse that can go off at any time. Their tribe should be called the “Grenades” instead of “Salani,” Christina’s fuse may be slightly longer because a “Christina” is used to dealing with stress – but due to her last name – her fuse will be attached to dynamite.
Forget about getting Alicia, Greg, Jonas or Monica to do work around the camp – it would be easier asking the school bully to borrow some lunch money.
Monica will be shrewd, curious & cautious as to whom she aligns with. She’ll get along best with guys – she knows how to talk their talk – that’s her type of personality. Consequently the women will feel threatened by her – so Monica shouldn’t be surprised when the women steal her bug spray, force her to sleep under the leaky part of the roof or try to use her hair as a starter log.
As for The Troy “Troy-zan” vs Greg “Tarzan” Lantz Smith saga – They’ll be interesting to watch. Think of it as CBS ‘s very own prime time version of “Alien vs Predator.”
If having fun were a sport, Chelsea, Kourtney, Leif, Michael & Bill, would be on the varsity team. In between looking for the Hidden Idol, I’m sure they’ll keep a look out for a tiki bar or volcano party lounge. If one exists, one of these people will find it first – they just love a good time.
Colton, Tarzan-Greg, Nina, Monica & Jonas will all want to be loved; they’ll want it now, it needs to be genuine, unconditional and they’re be willing to pretend to be in an alliance with them to get it.
Chivalry will be the new peanut allergy – if the men see one of their Manono tribe being too nice to the woman’s tribe – which is what a Matt, Michael or Jay would naturally do – his days will be numbered.
Don’t trust Sabrina, Kim, Nina, Monica, Jonas, Michael, Tarzan-Greg, Colton, Troy-zan or Matt as far as one can throw them – they’re there to win. They’ll talk out of both sides of their mouth and nothing will ever be their fault or responsibility. They think quick on their feet and could win a Gold Medal in excuses. They’re use and exploitation of networks, allegiances & alliances will be so shrewd, so strategic and so convoluted that everyone of them – will test positive for B.S.
Kat,Chelsea, Sabrina, Alicia, Kourtney, Tarzan Greg, Matt, Leif and Colton will talk too much – They love to talk – it’s just their nature.
And they all suffer from “gossip dyslexia” – they tend to gossip in front of other people’s backs.
Kim & Troy-zan will be particular, secretive & observant. They’ll know everything about everyone else, but people will know little about them.
Tarzan-Greg, Jonas, Monica, Nina, Sabrina, Alicia & Kim are all “high maintenance” type people. They’ll be the ones who request the Hut with the “Turn Down” service. They like being pampered, and they’re used to having/or are striving to have – all the comforts of life. Hopefully they’ll win the rewards that allow them to stay in hotels etc. To them, having massages, eating great food, and living among luxury – is like returning to their mother ship.
Jay, Leif, Matt, Michael, & Kat (only because of her last name), will be the “Hamburger Helpers” of the island – the type, who are always trying to help out, so as to make things more convenient for everyone else around them.
Tarzan-Greg, Mike, Monica & Alicia will all have black belts in sarcasm. Monica & Bill will be the most fortunate, while “Michael Jefferson” and “Matt Quinlan” have the most affable, all round competitive, yet likable name/personalities.
Kerrie Hopkins consults in 5 Continents on the correlation between a person’s name & their respective personality traits. To learn more about her extensive research – log onto Namezook.com or email her at Kerrie(at)Namezook(dot)com.
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Should be a great season.
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New Young Adult Novel Introduces Engaging Cast of Characters
New Young Adult Novel Introduces Engaging Cast of Characters
BRASELTON, Ga. (PRWEB) January 30, 2012
Stories of young men coming of age are as varied as the young characters themselves. From Madeleine L’Engle’s “A Wrinkle in Time” to Lois Lowry’s “The Giver”, teen fantasy writers have taken their young heroes from Camazotz to utopia. In his new novel “Carlousia: The Passing of the Guard” (published by iUniverse), author E. G. Carter introduces young readers to a new hero and a new world.
In “Carlousia”, readers meet Eddie Caskitt. The worries of making friends, and starting a new school have been weighing him down. But after spending just a few minutes with the kids of Drayton Woods, Eddie realizes that the adventurous summer he was hoping for might just happen after all. Eddie hopes all the fun he anticipates will ease the pain of knowing his grandfather is dying.
With his last bit of strength before he passes away, Eddie’s grandfather whispers that he has left something for Eddie in his barn—and that the tall tales he has been telling Eddie for years are true. With the help of a magic bracelet he finds inside a secret hole in the barn, Eddie and his two new friends, Dan and Scotty, enter a portal where they are suddenly thrust into roles guarding the world of Carlousia. With one slip or miscalculation, they realize the balance of time and a legacy will be gone, and evil will destroy Carlousia and their homes back in Drayton Woods. Now the boys must conquer fear, outwit predators, unfold betrayal, and overthrow evil in a world different from their own—all while pretending everything is normal at home.
“I wanted to provide an epic adventure for young adult readers that taught the values of loyalty, duty, honesty and coming-of-age,” says Carter.
As the three boys in Carter’s suspense-filled “Carlousia” navigate their way through hostile territories, they come to understand the tenants of courage and the power of friendship.
“You can overcome your fears, achieve your goals, without compromising your values and pretending to be someone else,” says Carter, who hopes his novel teaches readers that “you don’t have to go through life problems all by yourself.”
About the Author
E. G. Carter overcame dyslexia and earned his bachelor’s degree at the University of Georgia. Now a successful sales executive and entrepreneur, he currently lives in Georgia, where he is hard at work on the next book in the series. For more information, please visit carlousia.com.
iUniverse, an Author Solutions, Inc. self-publishing imprint, is the leading book marketing, editorial services, and supported self-publishing provider. iUniverse recognizes excellence in book publishing through the Star, Reader’s Choice, Rising Star and Editor’s Choice designations—self-publishing’s only such awards program. Headquartered in Bloomington, Indiana, iUniverse also operates offices in Indianapolis. For more information or to publish a book, please visit iuniverse.com or call 1-800-AUTHORS. For the latest, follow @iuniversebooks on Twitter.
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