Pizza, Verizon, O Mag, Matt Lauer and New York!

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Why I Love New York

Last week, I was in NYC on business with my Monaica Ledell and had the pleasure of meeting so many amazing people – some who are new to my life including Peter Castellotti, owner of John’s Pizzeria in the heart of Times Square who donated (that’s right donated) more than 8 pizzas that I had delivered to various media outlets throughout the city, a taxi driver who found my debit card I left behind in his cab and made the call to my bank to cancel the card (no kidding), one member of a writing duet I hired to help me bang out my memoir who traveled two hours to see me and two hour back out of the city to get home.

Meeting with my Love Mentor

I wrapped up my New York city adventure by seeing my love mentor, Dr. Diana Kirschner – author of How to Find Love in 90 Days, who offered to put me in touch with her literary agent!  I clearly understand the state’s sentiment of “I love New York.”  No where in the world can you find a more diverse, open and welcoming group of people than in New York, New York.

Hey Matt Lauer – it’s me, Nancy!

Monaica Ledell, my General Manager joined me in the city where we traveled to the Today Show where we had a Matt Lauer siting and had high hopes of saying a quick hello.  Sadly, we couldn’t get past his ACE gatekeeper, Jackie Agnolet – even with a book I produced that had a photo of Matt himself, circa 1989.  We even tried delivering a pizza later that day to no avail.  Jackie, if you’re out there, we need to know — what can we do to entice you to give a girl a break here?  Jackie baby – I’m not a stalker – I actually know Matt and was his previous publicist. I believe in six degrees of separation, so if you know Jackie — tell her we send our best and want to connect with her!

Back for New York’s Best Pizza…

From the Today show, we visited John’s Pizzeria and met the owner Peter who graciously saw our pitch to media outlets such as O Magazine, Ladies Home Journal, More magazine, etc. and donated the pizzas!  Thanks to Peter and his staff, we didn’t have to schlep around the city with pizzas, however, we did go door to door with Alise Fisher, our amazing publicist to each and every media outlet to leave messages that we hoped they liked the pizza delivery lunch and were happy to meet again to discuss my story of reinvention!  We had a great lunch at Michaels Restaurant — a great media celebrity spot!
Finally, we wrapped up by having dinner at John’s Pizzeria — yummy as my daughter Chloe would say!

Our Meeting with Verizon…

The following day, Monaica Ledell and I met with executives from Verizon to discuss ways we could help this tele-communications giant with reaching out and targeting other companies who could use their webcast services, in addition to being given an introduction to the person who heads up their small business initiatives.

All in all, NYC is among my favorite places to visit and it’s a mere three hour train ride from Boston!  Nice.

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