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Diana Wentworth’s entrepreneurial journey and how she grew her success
Hi everyone, and welcome back to this episode of Success to Significance. I am so happy that you took time out of your busy day to listen in and hear all the beautiful stories of people breaking through their glass ceilings, and really it’s everything from success to significance. It’s not success and now I’m significant. It’s all of the pieces that we’re all, uh, challenged with on a regular basis. So I wanna say thank you so much for taking time out of your day. I am so grateful. And don’t forget to subscribe to us on YouTube so that you can see. These podcasts as well as listen to them. And today I am so honored, and this has been a long time coming because we’ve had so many busy schedule changes, but I am so honored today to introduce you to my guest who is uh, Diana Wentworth.
She is a New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of 10 books. She would be most known to all of us as being the first co-author with Jack Canfield and with Mark Victor Hansen, who are. Dear friends of mine, I love them so much. In the popular book, chicken Soup for the Soul, which has sold over 500 million, um, copies.
I mean, it’s absolutely, and Diana is a lifetime entrepreneur. She hosted a long-running television series with her late husband Paul, and founded The Inside Edge, which I wanna talk about too, which is a weekly, um, breakfast speaker forum that she, that she, uh, does. And, um, and I also wanna talk about a lot of different things.
I absolutely am charmed by Diana. I’m charmed by the way she carries herself. I’m charmed by, uh, what she’s accomplished in her life. And if there was anybody that has had a lot of breakthroughs in her time here on earth, I would say it’s Diana. So welcome to our show. Diana. Thank you so much for being here.
Oh, it’s such a joy to be with you, . I’m really happy, Jen. Thank you for inviting me.
Of course. Thank you so much. So let’s kind of, let’s get started because I know you’ve got this really great story going back to Chicken Soup because, and, and maybe I should ask you this, was, was Chicken Soup the launch for you?
Or had you had, well I think you had the TV show before him, but tell us what was that launch for you and then how you got involved in chicken soup?
Okay, well, my first late husband and I had a fabulous career in cooking and entertaining, and we had a cooking school on Sunset Boulevard, our first cookbook, one Cookbook of the year.
Um, and that was a huge honor and that really launched us. So we did five more after that and then cooking seemed to lose its luster. For me. It was always about gathering people together and women went back into the work, you know, went, entered the workplace in 1985 and. Our career was falling apart because I didn’t wanna be a super chef.
I didn’t wanna be competitive. I wanted to just have people around the table, kind of like ina Garton, you know, I was an early version of her. And, um, Long story short, Paul and I ended up going to Russia with a bunch of incredible thought leaders. Dennis Weaver, Mike Ferrell from Mash, Swami saa, um, all these incredible people.
And it changed our life because we noticed that people around the table were sharing their resources and they were encouraging each other and having these deep conversations and connections were happening. And I said to Paul, We don’t have to cook the food in order to gather the people. . And so we started the inside edge and this is, uh, almost, uh, 40 years ago.
Get to know Diana Wentworth:
Diana von Welanetz Wentworth is a New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of ten books. She was the first coauthor with Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen in the popular book Chicken Soup for the Soul (500 million sold). As a lifetime entrepreneur, she hosted a long-running television series with her late husband Paul von Welanetz and founded the Inside Edge (www.InsideEdge.org), a weekly breakfast speaker forum in Southern California that helped launch the careers of many of the most celebrated authors and transformational speakers of the past thirty-five years including Jack Canfield, Dr. Barbara DeAngelis, Dr. Susan Jeffers and Louise Hay. She is a certified life coach and yoga teacher. Film rights to her popular romantic memoir, Send Me Someone: A True Story of Love Here and Hereafter, were purchased by the Lifetime Network.
Always a futuristic thinker, Diana originated the party concept over 36 years ago of showing up as your future self in five years. Jack Canfield, speaking recently acknowledged that he has used that party concept as the closing of every training he has done since his Inside Edge days. He also said that the Chicken Soup for the Soul series would not have existed without Diana and the Inside Edge.
At the age of 80, Diana is considered a legend. She is a living example of the word “Encore!” Expressing her passions for personal evolution, spreading joy and community building through a series of new projects related to living your most amazing life in your mastery years (after 60), she sparks renewal in all she meets.
Get In Touch with Diana
EMAIL: Diana@dianawentworth.com
WEBSITE: www.DianaWentworth.com
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