[As stated elsewhere on this website, while I have curtailed my speaking travels, I am willing to discuss how I might be able to help your group. Send me a note through the contact page on this website.]
Supportive people, energizing experiences, and mindful introspection have helped shape what I have done and how I've contributed to the various groups I have collaborated with over the years. This includes how I do (and have done) my best to:
- Advocate for community resilience by helping community members create a safe place to explore, stretch, learn, fail, and grow.
- Facilitate pragmatic conversations to help audiences raise awareness, challenge assumptions, and take action.
- Focus on the practical, not the theoretical.
- Recognize you as leaders with valuable insights about your community.
- Live the mantra: Life is too short to associate with negative people, pessimistic attitudes, and breaking news alerts.
- Love where I live, who I live with, and what I do.
- Have written fifteen (published) books, written and recorded two music CDs, written an upbeat blog (since May of 2010), produced a monthly podcast channel (for five years), and created original videos for my YouTube channel (for more than a decade).
- Take time to build authentic relationships rather than manipulative exchanges.
- Visited (from 2018 to 2022) my community hospital, hospice center, local schools, and the Jacksonville International Airport as part of a nationally certified pet therapy team with my dog, Roxie (who released her first book in 2020).
- Served my Atlantic Beach, Florida community as Vice Chairman of the Mayor's Council for Health and Wellbeing (2022).
- Served on the Board of Directors for Beaches Watch (2019-2021) and the Beaches Watch Program Committee (2019-2022).
- Remain humble and honored when an individual, community group, book club, or workplace team buys, discusses, shares, and learns from my writings.
Honors and Recognition (a few):
*In April 2025, Atlantic Beach Living magazine published a cover story about Laurie and me titled "Meet the Piscitellis: 49 Years of Love, Marriage, and Adventure."
*Named (in 2015) one of the "Fabulous 50" at Florida State College at Jacksonville (a student-nominated recognition of "talented and dedicated faculty and staff.")
*In 2015, Jacksonville University recognized me by adding my name to the list of "Alumni You Ought to Know."
*I also received two Outstanding Faculty Awards. One time, I taught high school and the other time as a college professor.
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* I am not a life coach and do not provide legal advice. I facilitate conversations and help your teams raise and confront important questions about what they do, why they do it, and how they do it.