Empowering Children To Feel Safe, Loved, & Significant
Author, Illustrator, Speaker And Entrepreneur
Healing Conversation #340
— “The moment you believe in yourself and how much you matter, is the moment you become unstoppable!” – Michelle Nelson-Schmidt
Valeria Teles interviews Michelle — she is the author of The Whatif Monster Chapter Book Series
Michelle Nelson-Schmidt has been an author/illustrator since 2011 when her first two books, Dogs, Dogs! And Cats, Cats! were released. She has since published fifteen additional books for children. She’s currently creating a series of early reader chapter books based on her most popular picture book, Jonathan James and the Whatif Monster.
Michelle travels the country extensively during the school year visiting schools with a goal to talk to as many children in this country as she can to share her message of dreaming big and attaining your goals through hard work and perseverance. Michelle strives to create books for children that will make them feel safe, loved, and to help them understand how very much they matter to this world. Her books are filled with inclusion and diversity so that as many children as possible will see themselves within her books.
Since 2011, she has spoken in schools, libraries, and community centers in 43 states, visited over 1000 schools and spoken with over a million children. She’s a tireless advocate of literacy and empowering children through books. With hundreds of thousands of books sold, she is one of her publisher’s best selling authors.
— This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life to the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.
