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About Joan Sotkin

Joan Sotkin knows how to create health and prosperity—from the inside out. After years of struggling physically as well as financially, Joan found her calling at age sixty when her Web site ProsperityPlace.com became an Internet sensation. Her dynamic personality and holistic approach to achieving health and wealth have made her a a sought-after coach, speaker, and workshop leader. Joan's thirty years of research into the connection between emotions and money and an equally long personal relationship with alternative healing blazes a pathway to health and prosperity through personal growth rather than quick fixes.

Combining a unique set of skills, Sotkin is currently utilizing her talents to launch a new project NewMexicoNaturalHealing.com. This directory of practitioners, businesses, events, and products synthesizes Joan’s perfected financial skills, knowledge of body/mind healing, and Internet expertise into a Web site that provides a portal where those seeking alternative pathways to health can find practitioners and products representing a full spectrum of healing modalities.

Joan’s unusual blend of skills—financial insight, understanding of the healing community, and intimate knowledge of the Worldwide Web—uniquely qualifies her to bring this project to fruition. NewMexicoNaturalHealing.com benefits the members of the alternative healing community, New Mexico’s economic development and tourism sector while providing previously unavailable access to those around the world seeking authentic healing alternatives.Joan received her BA in English from Rutgers University and subsequently, after brief stints as a schoolteacher and salesperson, worked in radio and television, producing several successful Los Angeles–based shows and becoming a popular guest in her own right. In 1983, while living in Venice County, California, she established a retail business, Joan’s Crystals, selling her personal line of stones in over 600 outlets and through a mail-order catalog.

In 1996, Joan moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she established a Web site development company and published a popular e-zine called The E-Commerce Advisor. In 2000, she decided to focus on ProsperityPlace.com and her financial healing work. Her book, Build Your Money Muscles: Nine Simple Exercises for Improving Your Relationship with Money was published in 2006 and serves as a guide for thousands of readers seeking financial comfort. Joan’s other books include Starting Your Own Business, Nourish Yourself for Health & Happiness, and Prosperity Is an Inside Job. Although she no longer produces new episodes, her podcast, The Prosperity Show, still serves a growing audience.

Joan is an active member of the National Organization of Business and Professional Women, Rotary International, the Santa Fe Chambers of Commerce, and the Santa Fe Business Alliance as well as a former member of the National Speakers’ Association. She consults with private and business clients seeking greater comfort with money and a holistic approach to health.

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