Fully Empowered Radio July 6th: NYTimes Best-Selling Author Lisa Bloom

Wednesday, July 6th 12 Noon ET

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Lisa Bloom, best-selling author of "THINK: Straight Talk for Women to Stay Smart in a Dumbed-Down World" joins Christine.

Christine came across Lisa when she read Lisa's article on Huffington Post "How To Talk To Little Girls".  It was such a powerful and important message, Christine didn't hesitate to invite Lisa to be on Fully Empowered.

Join a lively and important discussion that will help empower both women and girls!

Lisa Bloom is a national television legal analyst, award-winning speaker and journalist, and trial attorney who urges women to wake up, take control of their minds and their lives, and get informed about what’s happening around the globe in her first book, the New York Times Best-Seller, Think: Straight Talk for Women to Stay Smart in a Dumbed-Down World.

She is a strong advocate for civil rights and the Philadelphia Enquirer has this to say about her:

“Feisty, articulate, and driven — she qualified last week for the Boston Marathon . . . a personal intensity and a fierce sense of outrage about women’s and civil rights, child welfare, and the abuse of power.”     Philadelphia Enquirer

Award winning journalist, television legal analyst, trial attorney and daughter of renowned women's rights attorney Gloria Allred, Lisa Bloom, publishes her first book, the New York Times Best-Seller, Think: Straight Talk for Women to Stay Smart in a Dumbed-Down World (Vanguard Press;  ISBN: 978-1-59315-659-6; $25.99; Hardcover), which boldly argues that the women of today represent a stark paradox. In Think, Lisa showcases that while girls and women shine in many areas (such as outperforming boys at every level of education, preschool through grad school); they have concurrently lost focus and even regressed in some frightening ways. At a time when 23% of women would rather lose their ability to read than their figures, Lisa fears that women are in danger of spiraling into a nation of dumbed-down, tabloid media-obsessed, reality TV addicts.  For example, the majority of us can't name a single branch of government, but nearly everyone can name at least one Kardashian.

In this entertaining, eye-opening and thoroughly-researched new book, Lisa outlines the ways that we as a society, and particularly women, have allowed our brains to atrophy and, very specifically, outlines the damage our ignorance is causing to our personal lives, our nation, and our world.  She shows us the fallout—but also provides the step-by-step solutions for “Reclaiming the Brains God Gave Ya," and seizing back control of your time, your mind, and your life. Lisa’s impassioned plea is for women to connect and become meaningful, proactive contributors both nationally and globally.  Packed with unnerving facts (did you know that 70% of American adults have not set foot in a bookstore in over five years?) and "aha!" moments (Lisa shows one trick that will give nearly every woman an extra hour to think daily), Think gets you thinking again!

Lisa Bloom has been a daily fixture on American television for the last decade.  She is currently a CBS News Legal Analyst, appearing regularly on “The Early Show” and “CBS Evening News with Katie Couric,” as well as the legal analyst for “The Dr. Phil Show.”  Lisa appears regularly on CNN and HLN prime time shows such as “Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell,” “The Joy Behar Show,” “AC 360,” and “The Situation Room.”  She has been featured on “Oprah,” “Nightline,” “Today,” “Good Morning America,” “Rachael Ray,” and many more and she was a nightly panelist on “The Insider” throughout 2010.  From 2001–2009, Bloom hosted her own daily, live, national show on Court TV.

 

In addition, she has published numerous popular and scholarly articles in the Los Angeles Times, Family Circle, The National Law Journal, CNN.com, The Daily Beast, and many more. Bloom has also been profiled, featured, and quoted in many publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Ladies’ Home Journal, Elle, Vegetarian Times, and Variety.

Lisa graduated early and Phi Beta Kappa from UCLA, where she won the national college debate championship, and then from the Yale Law School, where she won the moot court competition.  She currently lives in Los Angeles, where she runs her law firm, The Bloom Firm.  In the past year, Lisa has represented Oksana Grigorieva, Michael Lohan, and Michaele and Tareq Salahi.  TheWrap.com recently named Lisa one of the top five celebrity attorneys in Los Angeles.