Estelle Sobel Erasmus is a journalist, former magazine editor, author, and columnist whose life and lifestyle has completely changed since the birth of her daughter in April 2009. She is an advocate and supporter of local women-owned businesses, sits on the Board of Directors for the national non-profit Mothers & More, and writes a blog called Musings on Motherhood, Mid-life and other Forms of Madness where she covers many topics relating to motherhood and parenting.

One of her goals is to get society to value the unpaid work that mothers and caretakers do, by separating the role of “mother” from the “work” of mothering. Estelle will be reading a story she wrote about the experience of mothering in the upcoming show Listen to Your Mother, and will be covering the Women’s Issues beat at www.examiner.com. She is speaking on behalf of Mothers and More in Toronto on May 9 at a Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (MIRCI) conference called “What Do Mothers Need?” Motherhood Scholars and Activists Speak out on Maternal Empowerment for the 21st Century. The title of her talk is “Rebelling against ‘Mom’: Finding Fulfillment Beyond the Media’s Myths of Motherhood.

Her career in publishing spans over fifteen years. She has been editor-in-chief of The American Breast Cancer Guide, Esthetique, Body by Jake, Women in Touch and Woman’s Own, and a contributing editor to Energy Times, Let’s Live, First for Women and Consumer Guide. Her health, medical, beauty, fitness and travel articles have appeared in Beauty Handbook, Weight Watchers, mia vita, Energy Times, Country Inns, Flair, Folio, For the Bride, ivillage.com, Let’s Live, National Geographic Traveler, New Woman, Oxygen, First for Women, Mamm, The New York Daily News, People and spafinder.com.

Her book, Beautiful Skin, written with prominent dermatologist David Bank, M.D., was named the beauty book of 2000 by Fitness Magazine. She was featured as a visionary magazine editor in Judy George’s book The Intuitive Businesswoman and had a small speaking role on “The Guiding Light”, for which she wrote a behind-the-scenes-story on her experience.

A strategic thinker and planner, Estelle has a proven ability to take complicated material and rewrite and repackage it for the public. Estelle has conceptualized, written and edited patient education and physician education materials for a wide range of medical education clients. She is also a former adjunct professor at NYU.

As a sought-after lecturer and teacher, Estelle is also available to share her knowledge of magazine editing, and advocacy issues at educational and professional conferences.

Ideal Client or Patient: Anyone supporting advocacy for mothers and women.

Benefits or Results: Help with writing/journalism, editing, content curation.

Licenses/Certifications: Director of Mothers & More, a national non-profit. Member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors.

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Estelle Sobel Erasmus
555 North Avenue
Fort Lee, NJ 07024
esobelerasmus@gmail.com
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