Elodia Tate
is a best-selling author, speaker & motivational coach, who is known
for using humor & story telling to connect with her audience.
She feels blessed and honored to have released a best-Selling book,
"Open My Eyes, Open My Soul: Celebrating Our Common Humanity",
co-created with Yolanda King, daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr., with a foreword by Coretta Scott King. This book is a
special collection of stories and poems that celebrates our
diversity, while reminding us that we are all connected.
The book was featured on "The Today Show", CNN, CBS "The Early
Show", "BET Nightly News", and many others. Elodia has been a
guest on numerous television and radio talk shows, and the book was
featured on shows such as "Tavis Smiley", "Tom Joyner" & "Bev
Smith". They have also had press from "The
New York Daily
News",
"The Boston Globe" , "The Dallas Morning News" and many magazines
including "Essence", "Ebony" & "Science of Mind".
On the road, doing book signings, they continue to speak & perform
excerpts from their book in many venues. They have read, &
performed from the book, in colleges such as "University of Dallas",
"Bethany College" and churches including "The Potter's House" with
Bishop T.D. Jakes, in Dallas,
Agape
Spiritual Center with Rev. Michael Beckwith and "Glide Memorial",
with Rev. Cecil Williams, in San Francisco. They are often welcomed
with standing room only, as people seem hungry for a message of
hope.
Elodia Tate grew up in a culturally diverse neighborhood in San
Jose, CA. Her father is Caucasian & Native American. Her mother is
Native American & Hispanic and spoke English as a second language.
Elodia has four children, ages elementary through college, who are
also blended with African-American.
In the early
1980's Elodia earned a real estate license and worked for fourteen
years in the mortgage industry. She owned and operated two small
brokerage offices, performed as a Loan Officer and has written for
newsletters specializing in the mortgage arena, for homeowners.
She is also a contributor to "Chicken Soup For The African-American
Soul", having co-written a story with Yolanda King, on growing up as
Dr. Martin Luther King's daughter, titled "Funtown".
In the early 1990's, Elodia discovered she had lupus/SLE and chose
to take a natural approach for managing her illness. In 1995 she was
able to put the lupus in remission and started helping others by
sharing her story. She is a certified natural Health Coach, and the
last ten years she has been learning and sharing with others "How To
Take A Natural Approach To Health". She enjoys speaking to small
groups as well as large audiences, and has been labeled as a "Health
Activist" for the right to choose your own path to wellness.
In addition
to raising her children, and her parents, Elodia has many book ideas
in the works, publishes two monthly newsletters and is expanding her
audience through speaking. She speaks on the topics of
Diversity, Health & Wellness and Women's Issues. She
pulls from her own life experiences and uses her craft, of turning
her stories into humor and connects with people from all walks of
life. |
