Pushing Upward, Adler’s breakout novel, won the Los Angeles Book Festival Award and was the Hay House “Pick of the Month.” Andrea wrote the screenplay with Gerald DiPego and is co-producing the film.
Andrea pioneered Holistic/Spiritual Marketing in the late ’80s and founded HolisticPR.com. Her three books on Holistic Marketing: PR for the Holistic Healer; Creating an Abundant Practice; and the winner of the Axiom Business Book Award, The Science of Spiritual Marketing: Initiation into Magnetism sell worldwide. She toured the globe presenting her workshop, The Tao of Marketing, and has written over 50 articles on holistic/spiritual marketing, translated into five languages.
Andrea has been an international speaker, workshop presenter, and consultant. As a keynote speaker, she has spoken at conferences, including: The Science and Consciousness Conference, Natural Awakenings Annual Conference, Mountain Biz, The Holistic Medical Assoc., INATS (International New Age Trade Show,) and Expo Ser in Mexico City with Deepak Chopra.
A serial entrepreneur, Andrea recently co-authored, SPANDA CARDS for the Entrepreneurial Spirit, a 52-card desktop oracle (published by Beyond Words) , bridging ancient wisdom and business acumen. The deck is not just for entrepreneurs, it’s for anyone wanting to cultivate the entrepreneurial spirit and move from mundane thinking to higher states of consciousness.
In the late ’70s, Andrea pioneered Professional Organizers in NYC, where she coordinated, supervised and expedited moves for the elite in New York City and created satellite offices to support her clients on both ends of the move. Her work was praised in moving magazines and the New York Times.
After a short stint as a journalist in the early ’80s for The Times Herald Record, in upstate New York. After three suicides occurred at a local high school, Adler wrote a grant and received $60,000 from Senator Cook to create the Off Off Main Street Theater Company The company toured successfully for eight years. She also presented theatrical programs to drug and alcohol facilities, formally incarcerated men and women at the Foundation Center in Harlem, and to women and teenagers-in-crises at shelters throughout New York State.
Andrea tapped into her PR/Marketing gifts and raised thousands of dollars for The Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse of Sullivan Country and went on to became a highly respected marketing consultant in Silicon Alley (NYC) during the Internet boom, serving several dot.com companies prior to receiving their IPO’s.
In 2017, Andrea wrote, directed and produced, “Old-Fashioned, Naughty, Everything: A Glimpse of Emily Dickinson,” an original one act (based exclusively on Emily’s poems and letters), performed at the Marsh Theater in San Francisco. She also has co-written and directed three videos for the American Film Institute.
Andrea is currently working on her film, Pushing Upward, directing one-person shows, presenting workshops, and creating a documentary on the History of the I Ching.
She is listed in Molly Lavik’s book: Going Supernova: The Bold Paths of 101 Superachievers.
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