About Me
I have always been an entrepreneur at heart and taken action on my ideas.
I was born and raised in Brooklyn, U.S.A., of Italian decent in an Italian neighborhood. I’m spunky! You can take the girl out of Brooklyn, but you can’t take the Brooklyn out of the girl! Some say “slow down Donna!” But that old New York lifestyle is engrained in me.
I live with my husband, David Merrill for the past 21 years. He is not only my husband, but my best friend and business partner. We have 3 dogs who we refer to as our furbabies. We moved from NYC to Ithaca NY where life is great. Small town, great restaurants and plenty of nature.
As a Psychic for nearly 30 years, I developed a storefront business with a small budget, and a great idea. I posted in my storefront “7 minute quickies” $10. Why? I knew everyone had ten bucks in their pocket and the word quickie got their attention.
I did this to build a clientele. To my surprise, it worked faster than I could handle. I still run that business called Mind Over Matter of NY Inc. Now I do it by phone or Skype. Of course, there are no more quickies, but serious repeat clients. The best part of this business is that I NEVER advertised. It started back in the old days, so I wrote articles, appeared as a guest on radio stations, and also had my own radio show in Westchester NY for a year. SOCIAL NETWORKING THE OLD WAY….
SOCIAL NETWORKING THE NEW WAY…
Now I am doing the same thing with Social Networking, and Online Marketing . My old “7 minute quickie” has become Attraction Marketing. My endless radio spots and shows became my blog. My word of mouth is now handled by Social Media.
MY PURPOSE:
I’m the gal who can show you many ways how to overcome obstacles in your business. It isn’t easy running your own business, being the CEO of You Inc. There are emotional and mental issues that rise so my purpose is the following:
1. Achieving your goals. Long term and short term to help you achieve success as quick as possible.
2. Time Management! This is where most of us get stuck. I have several modalities to teach you how to master it.
3. Keeping a steady course! We all reach the point of melt-down if we are working so hard. I have many ways to show you how balance your energy & time.
4. Relaxation techniques. I can help you take a short time during your day to achieve relaxation and cleansing of your mind in a short time so you can get back to your work and achieve what you set out to do during the day.
Basically, I’m your life coach, cheerleader and mentor. This is what I believe my purpose because I’ve been doing this for years and want to show you how. Why? So YOU can grow to a purposeful life!
I work all day with people sorting out problems. I’m a great problem solver and have created my Online Business which gives me joy. I want to spread that joy to you.
Blessings,
Donna

Hi there Donna,
You have a great and interesting story, with quite a few things I can relate to, and you jogged my memory to get Kim Kiyosaki’s book Rich Woman and read it!! Love your ‘backyard’ too how cool – so just wanted to say Hi !
Regards
Denise Gray
Thank you for your comment. I love Rich Woman…it gave me so much inspiration
Thanks Denise,
Kim Kiyosaki’s book “Rich Woman” is one of my favorites!