My blog
I’m so proud to share that Become the Fire won the Gold Medal from the Readers’ Favorite International Book Awards! “Readers’ Favorite is proud to announce that Become the Fire by Elisa Schmitz won the Gold Medal in the Non-Fiction – Motivational category,” writes Readers’ Favorite. “The Readers’ Favorite International Book Award Contest featured thousands…
Read More
Leadership means motivating yourself and others to make the world a better place. That’s how I define what it means to be a leader, and that’s how I kicked off my author talk last week at Northwestern University. I was honored that Stephanie Lawson, who I met though my work with the NU Council of…
Read More
“Become the Fire” has gone global. During her recent visit to South Korea, Foot Locker CEO Mary Dillon was asked to sign a copy of Become the Fire, for which she wrote the Foreword. While meeting with her team in Seoul, a Foot Locker associate approached Mary with a copy of the book. Mary not only signed the book, but…
Read More
In honor of Pride Month (and anytime), a gentle reminder to my peeps, from my peeps: Inside, we’re all the same. Love is love. 💜💙💚💛🧡❤️ According to the Library of Congress, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Pride Month is celebrated in June each year to honor the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in New York…
Read More
We have some very exciting news: the audiobook version of Become the Fire: Transform Life’s Chaos into Business and Personal Success, is on sale right now for 75 percent off! This is the first time the “Become the Fire” audiobook has been on sale and it’s for a “limited time only,” according to the publisher…
Read More
Paula Boggs was just 21 years old when she jumped out of a perfectly good airplane. If you had told her even a few months before that she’d be leaping from a military C-130 the summer between her junior and senior years of college, she would have laughed. But despite being afraid of heights, Paula…
Read More
Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism holds a very special place in my heart. That’s because it was shortly after graduating from Medill with my master’s degree in journalism, and while expecting my first child, that I decided to create my first business, a pregnancy magazine that evolved into iParenting, a leading parenting website that…
Read More
I had a full circle career moment last week when Telemundo Chicago broadcast an interview with me about my book, “Become the Fire,” to celebrate Women’s History Month (“Mes de La Mujer”). Their news anchor, the amazing Anabel Monge, a 10-time Emmy-award-winning broadcast journalist, interviewed me about Become the Fire and how women can be…
Read More
You don’t need a lucky leprechaun to lead you to the pot of gold at the end of your rainbow. You can find it on your own. To achieve your goals, don’t focus on what you don’t have or can’t do. Instead, leverage what you do have and what you can do. To manifest the…
Read More
Wondering how to take your ideas and make them realities? You’re not alone. Many people have lots of great ideas but, for one reason or another, they don’t follow through on them. To encourage more people to manifest the lives they want, I shared tips about how to live your dream life and achieve your…
Read More