Enthusiastic about Karen Salmansohn
Enthusiastically Spiritual: Uplifting Conversations on Trust, Intuition & Spiritual Perspectives
Teresa & Tom Shantz
5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Savvy, fiesty and amazing is what I would call my guest this week.
Her name is Karen Salmansohn and she has a masterful ability to take real life situations, and bring them forth through her books, posts, video courses that is straight to the point and makes you say “hells yes to that!” and “I want some of what she’s got.”
For over 25 years, Karen Salmansohn has been a multi bestselling author with 2 million books sold globally. Plus she’s the founder of a popular (high traffic and high domain authority) personal development website called NotSalmon.com. She has over 1.5 million social media followers and 90K newsletter subscribers.
Karen began her career working in NY top advertising agencies (Young and Rubicam, J. Walter Thompson, McCann Erickson, etc). She won CLIOs her first year in the business and became a Senior Creative Director in her 20’s. She quit because she was passionate about using her skills as a writer and designer to author books and screenplays.
Her first book was a funny novel she sold to St. Martin’s Press (which received rave reviews from the comedians Jon Stewart and Rita Rudner – as well as Publisher Weekly, Marie Claire, LA Times, Entertainment Weekly, Chicago Tribune etc). Her novel was also optioned by Miramax to be a movie starring Marisa Tomei.
She then also received TV development deals from Miramax, Brillstein Gray, NBC, Nickelodeon and MTV. Soon after Karen began writing a range of psychological non-fiction books she called “self help for people who wouldn’t be caught dead doing self help” – because they merge psychology with stylish graphics and feisty humor.
Her first book of this kind was called “How To Be Happy Dammit” and became an instant bestseller, selling 350,000 copies. It’s been highly recommended on Oprah and Psychology Today (who each invited her to become an online columnist), featured in the PBS documentary, “This Emotional Life” and an Eminem music video!
After this wildly successful book she continued to author a variety of bestselling psychological books, published by top publishing houses including Random House, Rizzoli, Chronicle, Workman, Simon and Schuster – and recommended by Deepak Chopra, Madonna, Tony Robbins, Goldie Hawn, Peter Guber, Arianna Huffington, Tim Feriss, Tony Hsieh and then some.
In the last few years Karen began creating video courses for personal development, which quickly became a very profitable venture. As a result, Karen is now mainly focusing on producing more of her successful video courses. She also has a half finished second novel she is working on completing.
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| 0:16.1 | Another episode of enthusiastically spiritual. I'm your host Theresa. So we are all unique souls walking our unique paths. The path that we express our uniqueness to me is one of the most |
| 0:21.7 | exciting aspects of our journey. As we move through our |
| 0:24.5 | journey it's often layered with obstacles some challenges that may lead us into the |
| 0:29.5 | feelings of unhappiness, some doubt, anxiety, and some fears. |
| 0:33.9 | I feel it's our mission while we're here to find that support through our journeys, |
| 0:38.3 | especially those times when things are not all rainbows and unicorns. |
| 0:41.8 | You know what I'm talking about? So that's what my guest comes in today. Her name is Karen Salmonson and she has a masterful ability to take real life situations and bring them forth through her books, post video courses that |
| 0:57.2 | I'm telling you are straight to the point and makes you say, hell's yes to that and I want some |
| 1:02.0 | of what she's got. For over 25 years |
| 1:05.5 | Karen Salmonson has been a multi best-selling author with 2 million books sold |
| 1:11.1 | globally. Plus she's a founder of a popular high traffic and high domain |
| 1:15.8 | authority personal development website called not salmon.com. She has over 1.5 million social media followers and 90 K newsletter subscribers. |
| 1:28.0 | Karen began her career working in New York top advertising agencies, Young and Rubicum, J Walter Thompson, McCann Ericsson, etc. |
| 1:37.0 | She won CLIOs her first year in the business and became a senior creative director in her 20s. She quit because she was passionate about using |
| 1:45.7 | her skills as a writer and designer to author books and screenplays. Her first book was a funny novel |
| 1:52.4 | she sold to St Martin's Press, which received rave reviews from the comedians John Stewart and Rita Rutner, as well as publisher weekly Marie Claire, L.A. Times Entertainment Weekly, Chicago Tribune, and others. |
| 2:06.3 | Her novel was also optioned by Merrimax to be a movie starring Marissa To May. |
| 2:11.1 | She then also received TV development deals from Miramax, Burlstein Gray, NBC, Nickelodeon, MTV. |
| 2:18.0 | Soon after Karen began writing a range of psychological non-fiction books she called Her with stylish graphics and feisty humor. |
| 2:34.0 | Her first book of his kind was called How to Be Happy Damn It and became an instant bestseller selling 350,000 copies. |
| 2:42.0 | It's been highly recommended on Oprah and Psychology today, who each |
| 2:46.6 | invited her to become an online columnist. |
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