The National Action Organization was founded by Maryanne Comaroto. Board members are Doug Childers, Carol Aceves, and Meb Phillips.
About Maryanne
Maryanne Comaroto is known as America’s leading relationship expert. Maryanne is an award-winning author, seminar leader, radio personality and frequent guest on TV and radio talk shows around the country. Her weekly radio show, Maryanne Live!, reaches three million listeners monthly worldwide.
Through her books, radio show, and media appearances, Maryanne provides a powerful and positive blueprint for creating healthy, fulfilling, sustainable relationships. Her unique approach starts with developing personal insight; “Great relationships begin within!®”
Maryanne is the relationship columnist for The Beverly Hills Times, and a go-to expert for Hollywood Life, In Touch Online, and many other online publications. Her blogs on such websites as TheSavvyWoman and SheKnows are read by thousands of readers worldwide.
Maryanne is the author of the award-winning book, Skinny, Tan and Rich: Unveiling the Myth. Her newest book is Hindsight: What You Need to Know Before You Drop Your Drawers!
Maryanne founded SHOMI, LLC, a personal development corporation, in 1998, and is CEO and founder of the National Action Organization, a 501(c)3 non- profit committed to changing the way our culture values women. Maryanne conducts transformational workshops, lectures and awards the Certificate of Responsible Relationship (CORR®).
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About Doug Childers
Doug Childers is an author, ghostwriter, collaborator and editor.He has worked on hundreds of books. Over the past twenty years he has ghostwritten more than twenty books in the fields of psychology/spirituality, memoirs, body/mind medicine and fiction. His co-authored books include: The White-Haired Girl (St. Martin's/Picador) with Jaia Sun (an Alternate Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club); The Energy Prescription (Bantam/Random House) with Connie Grauds; Minding Your Business (Mandala Press) with Horst Rechelbacher (winner of the Nautilus Gold Award for Conscious Leadership in Business); and Bridge Between Worlds (Kramer/New World Library) with Dan Millman.
A 3 degree black belt in Shaolin Temple Boxing, Doug has also studied and taught martial arts, self-defense and meditation for over three decades. His approach combines practical self-defense techniques with psychological tactics and meditative awareness. You can find out more about Doug at www.dougchilders.com
About Carol Aceves
Mrs. Aceves is currently CEO of her household. She volunteers for the LITA (Love Is The Answer) organization, Redwood High School, and works as a freelance editor on various projects. Her past experience includes work in the Human Resources field in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has been on the NAO Advisory Board since its formal inception in 2006.
About Meb Phillips
Mary Beth (Meb) is the mother of three children. Elizabeth, her oldest, was abused as an infant by a neighbor’s nanny, shaken so hard that one doctor said it was like throwing her from a two-story window onto concrete. As a result, Elizabeth was comatose for ten days, became totally blind, was paralyzed on her right side and suffered seizures. Meb completed her Ph.D. in clinical psychology, investigating the effects of child victimization on mothers, and continued to work as an organizational development consultant, and as a therapist. She was the founding parent advocate in the development and passage of legislation to establish the TrustLine Registry in California, a model program designed to check the background of childcare providers and was honored at the White House for her work in preserving health and safety standards for child care in California and nationally.
Meb has extensive experience in the area of advocacy for children and the disabled. She served on the Executive Committee of the Authentic Voices of the National Call to Action, and as a member of the California TrustLine State Advisory Committee. She has served in an advisory capacity to several statewide child abuse prevention and child care efforts, including a federal project on the inclusion of children with special needs in child care and a statewide program to educate the public about shaken baby syndrome. She has been a keynote speaker at numerous state and national conferences, as well as making frequent appearances on national television news and talk shows to speak on the issue of child abuse.
