Dr. Shellie Spreads the Inspiration

Dr. Shellie and Carlos Otero Photo Credit: Dennis Rodriguez

Dr. Shellie Hipsky has been keeping herself busy with a book signing/empowerment talk event, hosted by Francoise Owarish-Gross, three magazine photo shoots and multiple red carpet events within the past week to spread her goal of globally educating, entertaining, and inspiring.
The day after the book signing event in Summit, NJ on Tuesday June 18th, she reported to NYC where she was dolled up by celebrity makeup artist and hair stylist, Carlos Otero, who previously completed the looks of mega stars like Jennifer Lopez. Laura Ivan, Dr. Hipsky's stylist, dressed her in Anatomie European Sportswear from head-to-toe for the shoot. The shooting took place in Ivan's home in Battery Park with Dennis Rodriguez as the photographer.
Two women-owned businesses in her hometown of Pittsburgh helped sponsor the photo shoots. The heels were Italian from Primadonna in Shadyside. The jewelry were from Spoiled Chics Boutique in Sewickley.
Dr. Hipsky described the day shooting photos for three magazine articles as a "great deal of fun for the team." Her Inspiring Lives, LLC team and she are looking forward to sharing the pictures and the feature articles on her work on inspiring lives in IMPACT Positive Change Magazine, Pretty Living Magazine, and EPN: The Magazine for Entrepreneurs and Professionals. Dr. Hipsky was delighted when she was contacted by the President of EPN, Maggie Delany, and was told she would be featured on the cover of this magazine. In addition, look out for her on the cover of the international magazine Todo Pilar. This upscale magazine is printed in English and Spanish in Argentina. In it, she wore Dore Designs that were seen on the runways of NY Fashion Week.
She also attended multiple red carpet events, such as the Exclusive Designer Party for one of her favorite non-profit organizations, the Dreams in Heels PR Pink Carpet event, and the Entrepreneurs and Professional Network Red Carpet Summer Soirée at Toshi’s Living Room and Penthouse.
"It's not all about the glitz and glam," stated Dr. Hipsky. "If I hadn’t spent my hours volunteering in the homeless shelters or teaching while there were no cameras around, I certainly would not have these opportunities that are now being presented to me. Lead with your passions and giving in order to achieve the results that deeply matter."

Photo Credit: Dennis Rodriguez

Photo Credit: Dennis Rodriguez

Photo Credit: Dennis Rodriguez

Photo Credit: Ronald Motz

Book Signing in New Jersey

Dr. Shellie Hipsky at the Pittsburgh Lauch Party for Inspiring Lives, LLC

Dr. Shellie Hipsky will be at The Summit Meditation Center on June 18th in Summit, New Jersey to discuss her fifth book "Ordinary People Extraordinary Planet." She will be hosting a book signing and an empowering talk, which would also be in honor of the late Clarel Radicella who left her own legacy and who is part of the book.
The event will start at 5:30 p.m. The Summit Meditation Center is at the 3rd floor of the MONDO building 426 Springfield Avenue Summit, New Jersey (908) 273-7776.
Please be there!!!
She will be attending events and will be doing photo shoots for two magazines in NYC while she is in town.

Shellie Hipsky Wins Award

Photo provided by Shellie Hipksy

On Wednesday, April 3rd, Dr. Shellie Hipsky was presented the 2013 Best Business Women of Pittsburgh Award at the Women's Small Business Association Honoring Extraordinary Women Luncheon for her company, Inspiring Lives, LLC. Moreover, the WSBA president, Suzan Miller, invited Hipsky to become a keynote speaker for a Royal Caribbean cruise to Mexico in March 2014.
"I will be talking about inspiration for empowerment," she stated.
Her talk speech will engage, transform, and relax. She is looking forward to leading the women business owners through her talk and networking poolside! http://www.meetup.com/WSBA-Lehigh-county/events/27854501/
Hipsky is also booked to keynote in multiple other settings soon including many Chambers of Commerce and the United Way’s Powerful Connections for Women Conference in August at Slippery Rock University.
Author of five books such as Ordinary People Extraordinary Planet, according to Hipsky her future book, “Will be about empowering women to become the inspirational women that they are," she explained. She will be interviewing top women of the world for her book on a co-hosted radio show segment with Neil Haley titled Empowering Women.
An Associate Professor, she is also busy teaching at Robert Morris University and has been broaden her classroom syllabi by tapping into her network and bringing established speakers, including an HIV/AIDS expert and humanitarians into her classroom. She will be teaching a global perspective doctoral class this summer and will engage experts internationally via social media discussion boards for this doctoral class.
Please contact her at contact@shelliehipsky.com to book her for speaking engagements or if you can contribute to any of her current empowering projects!

Inspiring Lives With Dr. Shellie on Youtube

The first episode of Inspiring Lives with Dr. Shellie is now available on youtube. Stay tuned for more videos.
Moreover, Shellie Hipksy is sending out a CALL FOR INSPIRING AND EMPOWERING WOMEN for her next book. If you know a woman whose work has inspired you or if you are an empowered woman please contact Dr. Hipsky at contact@shelliehipsky.com.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JigEE8OxPJc

Inspiring Lives with Dr. Shellie

Photo provided by Dr. Shellie Hipsky

Dr. Shellie Hipsky is one busy woman! She juggles motherhood between her career as an educator/professor and her career as an inspiring author/talk show host.
Her show, Inspiring Lives with Dr. Shellie, hit the air this fall on NBC's Pittsburgh Cable News Channel on Monday at 7:30 p.m. The show features guests like Mariama Mounir Camara-Petrolawicz, the co-founder and CEO of There Is No Limit Foundation who takes the batiks created in her homeland of Guinea and puts them on the runway of NY Fashion Week. Moreover, Dawn Diaz with Milagros Day Worldwide has survived two generations of domestic violence and now helps others find their own dreams and goals.
Justin Brown is the executive director of The Education Partnership in Pittsburgh. He has raised over 40 million dollars worth of supplies and resources for the low socio-economic schools. He also works with the school where Hipsky was once the assistant principal.

Dr. Shellie Hipsky with her guest Dawn Diaz

Hipsky deeply connects with many of the guests through humanitarian work. Gertrude Matshe who works with HIV positive orphans in Zimbabwe, has distributed LuvMyWoobie.com blankets in Zimbabwe, and Hipsky has done the samee in the Pittsburgh homeless shelters. She is now co-teaching with Matshe at Robert Morris University since Matshe is RMU's International Rooney Scholar.
Hipsky describes her guests as all having a "tremendous impact" on her. As previously mentioned, she is very involved in the work of some of them, including Roy Juarez (Homeless By Choice), Matshe (Africa Alive), and Sally Powers (Treasure House Fashions) who have all joined her in her work in the homeless shelters. Moreover, Alicia Kozakiewicz, the first cyber predator kidnapping survivor, has worked in collaboration with Hipsky by working together on the National Child Abuse Prevention Month.

Dr. Hipsky with Andrea Kopach at the WPXI studio. 

Hipsky is also the vice president and co-founder of The Learning Mountain, an online tool for children learning to read. This company has now reached an international audience with customers from Europe and Africa. Kozakiewicz and Hipsky used this connection to host a national poster contest to see what safe looks like.
This Monday, November 12, Hipsky will be welcoming Powers as a guest. She is the president and founder of Treasure House Fashions, a non-profit organization aiming at empowering women by reselling fashionable clothes at great discounts. Power's organization has helped over 60 foundations.
Recently, Hipsky and her RMU students collaborated with Powers (who donated clothes, jewelries and shoes), Ashley Thompson's Elliven Spa (which did the makeovers), the Inspiring Lives Team, Dragonfly Studios to take the photographs of the single mothers with their children at the Adagio Healthy Start House for homeless mothers.
She then served as the MC for a successful Treasure House Fashions runway fashion show fundraiser.
Her mission for the talk show is to encourage her viewers to rise above challenges and to find ways to reach out to others through her guests. Her gratitude giving segment of the show co-hosted with Jennifer Hain features products that vie a portion of their proceeds to valuable causes.
Inspiring Lives with Dr. Shellie is also broadcasted on the Manhattan Media Network on Sundays at 10 p.m. and the chats have gone global with comments from Australia to Germany. The Triple Launch Party to showcase Inspiring Lives with Dr. Shellie featured over 400 Entrepreneurs and Professionals from EPN and was hosted by Dreams in Heels PR in NYC. We hope that you will tune in soon.
Here is a list of the remaining scheduled episodes with the dates and times.

Airdate PCNC MON at 7:30	MNN/Web SUN at 10PM	TOPICS	FEATURED GUEST
Nov 12	Nov 25	Divorce	Sally Powers & Nan Cohen
Nov 19	Dec 2	Domestic Violence	Maria Wall & Joel Jaro
Nov 26	Dec 9	Organ Transplant	Fer & Allie Iglesias, and Dr. Shellie’s Dad Dr. Jacobs
Dec 3	Dec 16	Parental Kidnapping	Scott Berne & Jill Zabinski-Berne
Dec 10	Dec 23	Super Mom	Dr. Summer Knight
Dec 17	Dec 30	Education	Justin Brown & Linda Hippert

You can also check the TV show on facebook by clicking here.

Ordinary People, Extraordinary Planet

Photo provided by Dr. Shellie Hipsky

Ordinary People, Extraordinary Planet is Dr. Shellie Hipsky's latest book, which focuses on a dozen of interviews with people who have overcome challenges in their life and are able to inspire others through those challenges.
Hipsky began writing this book while promoting her fourth book, Mentoring Magic, with her cowriter, Dr. Claudia Bavaro. She was at the Ray Leonard's radio show, which is broadcasted in 75 countries and is also named "Ordinary People, Extraordinary Planet." Leonard introduced her to Clarel Radicella, the woman who inspired Hipsky to write this book.
"I was supposed to talk with Clarel about marketing my book," said Hipsky. "As we began to talk, her life story fascinated me, and I started writing her story."

Photo provided by Dr. Shellie Hipsky

Racidella was a mother of three who was diagnosed with AVM and a brain aneurysm, and founded mindyourbiz.org. She had helped a lot of people and in her own way made a great impact on her surrounding before passing away from cancer in July of 2011. She is survived by her three children, and Hipsky had a chance to write her story, which keeps her legacy alive.
"I think people will be uplifted," said Hipsky about what the readers would think of this book. 25 percent of the revenue of this book goes to the charities featured in the book and the Homeless Children's Education Fund, an initiative dear to Hipsky's heart, which she has raised over $35, 000 to support.
In her own way, Hipsky is a living, breathing image of her own book. Because of the academic challenges she faced in high school, she realized that there needed to be a different way of teaching, and decided to dedicate her life to teaching others about this new way.
Her three previous books, Arts Alive! Textbook, The Drama Discovery Curriculum and Differentiated Literacy and Language Arts Strategies for the Elementary Classroom focus on the goal of educating and how to teach using creativity and meeting the needs of the students.
"Every child has a gift to give to the world, and teaching can help with that," explained Hipsky. Her mission to globally entertain, educate and inspire sums up this goal.
Aside from writing books and articles (approximately 100), Hipsky also teaches at Robert Morris University. She does multiple public speaking, such as at  Pepperdine University and the University of Oxford in England. With her foundation as an Associate Professor of Education, Dr. Shellie Hipsky is a co-owner of a wonderful (soon to be launched) e-story book company for young children, Learning Mountain.
Most Importantly, Hipsky will soon be hosting a talk show, "Inspiring Lives with Dr. Shellie Hipsky." One of her first guests will be Alicia Kozakiewicz, a woman who was abducted at 13 years old after chatting with a stranger on Yahoo chat room. Kozakiewicz is now working at Carnegie Mellon University and teaching teenagers around the country about internet safety. 
To learn more about Hipsky's inspirational life and work, please visit her website at http://www.shelliehipsky.com/ and her Amazon author page at http://www.amazon.com/Shellie-Hipsky/e/B002P8TLY6/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1