Your Personal Champion/Advocate in a stressful MONEY CRISIS

I listen, empathize, research, brainstorm, and fight for justice, restoring what is rightfully yours: money, property, reputation, peace...

Andrea Reynolds

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What do I know about crises? Chances are I've been in your shoes and survived what you're going through. In the past 12 years I've experienced a home invasion while I was home, a dangerous stalker, two hate campaigns for helping police solve a crime, business losses, enormous debt, and homelessness.

When facing a crisis in which we feel anxious, angry, or powerless, many otherwise-brilliant people can see only two options: go or stay. But when we see we have a wide array of do-able options to choose from, we feel more confident, powerful and optimistic.

I am your crisis investigator, your personal advisor, or your advocate when you've been bullied, mistreated or exploited. I act in your best interests when you're feeling mind-numbing stress, anger and anxiety. You'll receive an arsenal of specific steps and solutions. You'll come away feeling supported, powerful, energized.

"Andrea Reynolds has not only developed her left brain and her right brain equally well, but trained them to talk to each other." Vinod Busjeet, Ph.D., The World Bank, Washington DC

"Where others see the world in black and white, Andrea Reynolds sees the world in blazing technicolour." Robert J. Brown, London Polytechnic Institute, London England

Read my story called The Benefactor. This story is typical of what I have experienced in my 12 year experiment. And this story is typical of what you will find in my forthcoming book, The Kindness Experiment. What's really fascinating is that I tell people upfront that I am writing a book to document how people treat me: with kindness, quiet contempt, or downright hostility.

It doesn't matter that the words "The Kindness Experiment" is written in big letters on the van I drive. It doesn't matter that I tell each person - dentist, real estate agent, friend - upfront that I am writing about my experience with him or her... the response is still often very unkind or impolite. Go figure.

If it were me? I'd want to make the best impression possible... even if only to be represented in a book about kindness in a positive light. What I observe instead is what I'd call self-sabotage. So sad.

I will write about my experiences, not as a complaint, but as a means to analyzing the behavior to understand it. I will call it The Kindness Experiment and everyday I collect new material. Everyone is fair game... including the people who enter my essay contests. So you are forewarned.

Twelve years ago I owned a Bed and Breakfast in Toronto where I hosted and entertained authors and visitors from all over the world. It was my dream fulfilled. Then I experienced a home invasion and had to shut down my home and business and leave everything behind to stay safe for 7 years.

I'm one who turns lemons into lemon meringue pie (one of my new talks), so here's what I decided to do....

I wanted to see how people would treat me:

a. if I revealed to professionals and neighbors who didn't know me that something catastrophic had happened to me, and

b. if I treated them with all the kindness I could.

The results were astounding and baffling. It is my experiences over the past ten years that I want to share in both book form and as speaking opportunities in schools, universities, large practices, business conferences, conventions, etc.

I have ideas to share with lawyers, physicians, realtors, teachers, landlords, neighborhood and community groups.

Book publishers may contact me if they want to see my book proposal. crisiswriter@gmail.com

Newspaper editors may publish a sample column for free.

Meeting planners may contact me to discuss my addressing their group's needs when I speak or conduct a seminar.