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Making It BIG! Finding Wellness Along the Bumpy Road to SuccessEmme, the world's leading plus-size supermodel, Revlon cover girl, television host, clothing designer and best-selling author is a vocal advocate for people of all ages to be fit and healthy by embracing an active wellness lifestyle while simultaneously rejecting societal pressure to conform to one standard of individual beauty. Having triumphed over her own share of tragedies and roadblocks, Emme has a unique knack for turning even the worst of what life dishes out into a learning tool for growth. Join Emme on this journey as she helps open even the narrowest of minds and encourages us to reflect on and embrace change or at least give personal growth a chance! Be it giving up dieting, throwing your scale out the window, meditating, or surviving cancer, she models how to prevent adversity from getting the best of us. It is for this reason that she is a trusted example and positive role model to young and old. You'll leave inspired and ready to take on new challenges and you'll have had a few laughs along the way.
Bring it On...A Cancer Survivor's Story of Action!Emme reveals her own cancer and its treatments-including the emotional, physical and psychological obstacles that she was driven to overcome. Emme delivers an intimate, proactive view of her battle with Hodgkins Lymphoma. She shares her personal and uplifting journey through the medical maze of cancer highlighting her own efforts to marry conventional medicine with holistic care. Emme discusses her quest for reliable information as well as the healing methods she used in conjunction with her chemotherapy and even her post-treatment. She speaks to the benefits of the additional therapies which helped maintain her vivaciousness and how the combination of conventional and holistic approaches can offset the negative affects of chemotherapy, without affecting the protocol itself.
Morning Has Broken, A Family's Journey Through DepressionMarried to a man in the depths of depression, and with an infant daughter, Emme found herself struggling to keep her family intact. Emme shares her inspiring story as the caregiver during her husband's battle and triumph over clinical depression.
Six million American men are diagnosed with depression annually, while millions more remain undiagnosed, suffering silently. Emme adamantly reminds us that "depression is not a weakness, it's a disease." As described in her book, Morning Has Broken; A Couple's Journey Through Depression, Emme speaks candidly about the proactive role she took with regard to Phil's care. It's a story of hope that emphasizes the need to destigmatize depression through advocacy.
Emme is a New Jersey mom on the Verge of Green! Share her funny and relevant life experiences, as she highlights the importance of recycling in a fast-paced and often ego-centric world. Emme reflects on the joys and hardships of balancing her hectic family life with living and promoting a more green existence in her home and community. Friends have fondly called her thrifty and frugal, yet she prefers being known as "resourceful!"
Emme recalls a childhood family road trip when her father threw some trash out the car window and despite her protests, he kept driving. With an even greater awareness of the impact we each have on the planet since the birth of her daughter in 2001, Emme began to explore ways to reuse and recycle plastic bags, bottles, and containers before they hit the trash. From not owning a microwave, using mass transit whenever possible, and choosing green baby products to picking up garbage along the Jersey Shore and in her hometown, Emme believes that if we each do just one additional thing, the impact on the world can be huge. As Emme says, "being greenly aware takes time, patience and a humble attitude. Few people pick up after themselves and even fewer pick up after others."
Emme stepped up her green efforts in 2007 when she was diagnosed with Stage 2 Hodgkin's lymphatic cancer. Out went all conventional household cleaners, filters were placed on all water sources in her home, green juicing became a daily routine, and Emme embraced a more self-sustainable lifestyle with her family including more carpooling, bus rides and bike riding.
Good intentions aside, it requires daily effort to keep green living a priority. Emme's hilarious real life quandary of living green will leave you questioning how you can personally embrace a greener lifestyle and how to use your voice to make changes happen. You will connect, commiserate and learn from her life lessons while relating to her recycling efforts as the ever growing pile of glass jars, twine, used wrapping paper and hand me downs leaves her screaming, "enough is enough!" (But just for a second!)
Speaker Information
Emme, the supermodel, television personality, best-selling author, lecturer, clothing designer, and women's advocate has a clear mission: to awaken the inner magnificence inherent in each of us. It's no wonder People magazine selected her twice as one of the "50 Most Beautiful People" and Ladies' Home Journal chose her as one of the "Most Important Women in America" and one of the "Most Fascinating Women of the Year." And the accolades don't stop there: she was honored as a Glamour magazine "Woman of the Year" and as one of Biography magazine's "25 Most Influential Women."
Currently, Emme brings her love of clothing to QVC with "me by emme", her signature line of comfortable, trend forward, sportswear separates in sizes 2-26. Emme burst onto the scene as the world's first full-figured supermodel and, as host of E! Entertainment Television's "Fashion Emergency", she quickly became a popular icon not only in the United States, but around the globe. Emme's television and radio appearances are innumerable, but most recently, she was seen on ABC's "Good Morning America", NBC's "Today Show", "Oprah", CBS's "The Early Show", CNN's "American Morning", "20/20", CNN Headline News' "Showbiz Tonight", "Montel Williams Show", Court TV's "Catherine Crier Live", "Entertainment Tonight", "The Insider", and as guest host of the "Joan Hamburg Show" on WOR Radio, not only as a fashion expert but advocating for women on important issues including lifestyle, the green movement, mothering, and body image.
Always a trendsetter, Emme became the first full figured model ever to land a spokesperson's contract with a cosmetics company when she signed with Revlon. Her views have set a refreshingly new standard of beauty both here and abroad. She is also the first full-figured model to have a high fashion collectable doll sculpted in her likeness.
A best selling author, Emme chronicled her extraordinary life and rise to success in her first book, True Beauty (Putnam/Perigee, 1997). Emme then shared her passionate perspective on life when she penned her second book entitled Life's Little Emergencies (St. Martin's Press, 2003). Morning Has Broken: A Couple's Journey Through Depression, by Emme and Phillip Aronson (NAL, 2006), chronicles their struggle and triumph over Phil's depression. What Are You Hungry For? (Harper Collins, 2007), is a newly released children's book that addresses the reality that children have many hungers, including emotional ones. Emme's status as an influential columnist was evident when she wrote her Ask Emme column for MODE magazine, and in 2008 she began to post on her "Simply Green with Emme" blog on iVillage.com, discussing her commitment to the green movement from the perspective of a multi-tasking mom. She can also be found blogging as a challenge coach on the iVillage Supercharge Change for Better Health Community Challenge and on the Huffington Post as a body image expert.
Emme is a vocal advocate for people of all ages to be fit and to live a healthy lifestyle while simultaneously combating societal and peer pressure to be something other than what comes naturally. One of her main messages is aimed at increasing awareness and raising funds to help treat eating and body image disorders. She was the first model to speak to these issues before a congressional sub-committee in Washington, D.C. Says Emme, "We live in a society that is based upon the attainment of unrealistic beauty. I want women to know their self-esteem is not contingent upon their dress size."
Emme's popularity as a lecturer is well earned. She promotes and exemplifies a wellness lifestyle, positive body image and self-esteem and self-acceptance as a sought after keynote speaker. She lectures at national workshops and seminars, prestigious universities including Yale, Harvard, and NYU as well as middle and high schools around the country. A cancer survivor, Emme is vocal about the need to advocate for oneself when dealing with issues of health.
Emme serves in more ways than one. She is the Chair Ambassador of the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA), is on the advisory boards of Ophelia's Place (Syracuse New York's eating disorder resource), Hearts of Gold (enhancing the lives of New York City's homeless women and children), Safe Horizon Champions for Children (moving victims of violence from crisis to confidence), Ethosquare (a new online media environment) and is an Ambassador for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Born in New York City, Emme was raised in Saudi Arabia and returned to the US as a teenager. Syracuse University awarded Emme a full athletic scholarship where she excelled both academically, earning a degree in speech communications, and as a member of the crew team. Emme was invited to the US Olympic Team trials, as well as several US National Team trials. She was later inducted into the Syracuse University Orange Plus Hall of Fame for her significant contribution to women's athletics and to the sport of rowing. After graduation, she spent two years in Flagstaff, AZ where she was a reporter and morning anchor for the NBC affiliate KNAZ-TV.
Emme and her daughter reside in Northern New Jersey with their pet gold fish, Goldie.
Testimonials
"What I love about Emme is that she dares to be a real woman, she's saying to people that beautiful women come in all shapes and sizes - and ages."
- Linda Ellerbee
"The audience couldn't get enough of her. Very warm, engaging, personable and inspiring."
- Fall Fashion Women's Show