Paula Nelson
Paula Nelson
She is known to millions around the globe from her financial commentaries on CNN Business News and the Today Show. Her books have sold more than 2 million copies and have been published in more than ten languages.
Career
Before the age of 30, she co-founded three electronics equipment companies -- and took one public; penned The Joy of Money, the first of her books on success, strategy and opportunity in the 21st century. The Joy of Money (Bantam) was a run away bestseller offered by eight book clubs including Book of the Month Club.
She became the first woman deliverying regular reports on money, finance and business on NBC's Today Show alongside Jane Pauley and Tom Brokaw.
Squired away by Westinghouse she joined Hour Magazine and PM Magazine. Finally serving as co-anchor and finanical correspondent for CNN Business News where she worked with Lou Dobbs, Stuart Varney and Bill Hartley.
Her fifth book, Soar with Your Strenghts, co-created and authored with Donald O. Clifton, launched the Strengths movement around the globe and was followed by five follow-on New York Times Bestsellers.
Her clients include IBM, AT&T, American Express, Royal Bank of Canada, Nordstrom, Ford's, Merrill Lynch, Dartmouth ns, Indiana University, UCLA., as well as the Government of Peru.
A thought-leader on the topic of the Opportunity Economy, she has shared the podium with Sir John Templeton, Lou Dobbs, Gloria Steimen, Benezir Bhutto, Dr. David Burns, Joan Rivers, Les Brown, Sherry Lansing, Dr. Mae Jemison, General Norman Schwartkoff, Governon Jerry Brown, and more. Paula has been profiled by or written for Newsweek, People Magazine, Success, Barron's, The Christian Science Monitor, Reader's Digest, Bottomline and more and has been interviewed on NPR, CBS, NBC, CNN, PBS and hundreds of local radio and television stations araound the US and internationally.
Personal life
Paula travels from New York where she lives with her husband and their two Shih Tzu puppies.
Books
Where to get money for everything: A strategic guide to today's money sources (1982)
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"You might be trying to raise cash to go back to school, send your kids to college, start a business or keep one going.
Whatever the need, this book walks you through the proven approaches to securing the funding.
Read this book if you need to: ■ Establish a strong credit rating ■ Get out of unmanageable debt ■ Finance your new car ■ Obtain money to start a business or keep one going ■ Negotiate more successfully to achieve your money-getting goals"
Paula Nelson's Guide to Getting Rich (1986)
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"A warm and witty guide to breaking through the economic wall chock full of practical examples.
Written with women in mind at a time when more women were entering the workforce, but few of them were getting rich.
Eight pragmatic principles serve as guideposts to help readers understand their own interests and goals before making the right investment choices: ■ EO(2): Economic Orbit of Opportunity ■ STP: Spot It/Test It/Package It ■ PTP: Put Yourself in a Position to Profit ■ NCR: No Cash Required ■ PAPA: Profitable Attitude/Profitable Action ■ RTRG: Risk Taking/Reward Getting ■ PEP: Passion Equals Profit ■ HALT: High Action/Low Talk"
The Joy of Money: The Woman's Guide to Financial Freedom (1986)
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"This book, synthesizing more than 20 years of research, creates the definitive answer to help anyone understand where the real money-making power lies.
It offers a powerful, eight-part plan that helps readers rewrite their own money rules.
This book features: ■ Original, tested system from the only woman financial author with hands-on experience as an entrepreneur, financial expert and commentator and consultant to clients around the globe both large and small.
■ Step-by-step strategies to pinpoint money talents and attitudes.
■ Guideposts to help readers stay on course and avoid old, bad habits.
■ Straightforward advice to minimize worry and focus on growth.
■ Vivid and inspirational case histories."
Soar with Your Strengths (1992)
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"Focus on Strengths and Manage your weaknesses became a globe leadership message and practice in the 90's and remains so today.
The core of the book is The Strengths Theory, co-created by Dr. Donald O. Clifton and Paula Nelson and is used in today's most successful businesses and organizations to increase productivity and performance including Facebook, Disney, Nordstrom, Federal Express and hundreds more.
Soar with Your Strengths is the seminal, original work on the topic of Strenghts and remains one of the most accessible.
Available in more than 12 languages, this invaluable book will show you: ■ How to recognize your hidden talents - and those of others.
■ How to manage your weaknesses and keep them out of your way.
■ Why old sayings about success and money may be crippling you.
■ How to use proven strategies to increase productivity, performance and health.
■ Why talent and strengths do best in the framework of a mission - and how to find yours.
■ What you can do right now to improve every part of your life."