Nicole O'Dell and Diane Paddison

Real Life with Beth and Rob

Youth-culture expert, Nicole O’Dell is the host of Choose NOW Radio: Parent Talk and Teen Talk and the founder of Choose NOW Ministries, dedicated to guiding teens through tough issues and helping parents encourage good decisions. On air, O’Dell covers peer pressure, dating, purity, drugs, alcohol, modesty, popularity, and anything else that comes up along the way. Nicole writes and speaks to preteens, teenagers, and parents about how to prepare for life’s tough choices. As an author, O’Dell writes both fiction and nonfiction. Her popular YA fiction includes the Diamond Estate Series and the Scenarios for Girls interactive books that feature alternate endings, allowing young girls to decide the outcome for the main character. Her nonfiction for teens includes Girl Talk, which she wrote with her two daughters based on their popular advice column. While her YA resources encourage and equip teens, Nicole also works to bridge the communication gap between teens and their parents. The Hot Buttons series helps parents discuss tough issues with their tweens and teens before the issues pop up in real life. Watch for future Hot Buttons books on subjects like bullying, image, prejudice, friendships, politics, and more. Nicole, resides in Paxton, IL, with her husband and six children—the youngest of whom are toddler triplets. Listen as Nicole talks “HOT BUTTONS” with Beth and Rob. Work-Love-Pray-cover Diane Paddison: Harvard MBA, chief strategy officer at Cassidy Turley, and two times the only female member of the executive team at a Fortune 500 company. She’s also a wife, mother and Christian. Author of Work, Love, Pray—a practical guide to help women balance faith, family and work—Diane created 4word, a city-by-city and online community of career women. A frequent speaker at national events, Diane speaks to women who feel called to home and career, and to the corporations that need them. Listen as Diane shares about her book, Work, Love, Pray—a practical guide to help women balance faith, family and work. About the book: The ratio of women in today’s workforce is rising, and old best practices no longer apply. Women launching careers will find wisdom for every life stage in Work, Love, Pray. Diane Paddison shares the ups and downs of her own corporate, personal, and spiritual life. 15 more leaders advise how to progress in your career without compromise. The foreword is authored by a successful executive, Charity Wallace, Senior Advisor to Mrs. Laura Bush and Director of the Bush Women’s Initiative. Application questions in every section guide self-assessment. Women are connecting in Work, Love, Pray book studies. Work, Love, Pray is becoming a must-read for husbands, pastors, and mentors.