Meet Roslyn
In the early 1990's, Roslyn worked for a Dale Carnegie Training Franchise selling public speaking courses never knowing that she would one day become a professional public speaker herself.
She then worked for a major New York book publisher representing hundreds of authors to book wholesalers across Canada. Little did she know that she would eventually become a published author and help other aspiring authors with her own Author Coaching program. Roslyn Franken is now an award-winning author and speaker dedicated to educating and inspiring people with her books and author presentations. She is best known for her latest book entitled, Meant to Be, about her parents’ amazing survival and triumph over tragedy as Holocaust and atomic bomb survivors who meet, marry and make a beautiful life together against all odds. She also reveals the profound lessons learned from her parents about resiliency in the face of adversity while fighting her battle with cancer at the young age of 29. Her book is the 2022 GOLD Winner of the NFAA Nonfiction Book Awards. At 39, Roslyn chose to fight back once again, only this time to win her battles with food and weight issues once and for all. How did she do it? The answers to that question formed the basis for her first book entitled, The A List, in which Roslyn shares her 9 guiding principles for healthy eating and positive living that she followed throughout her weight loss journey to a healthier body and happier life. She also offers private and group weight loss coaching programs based on her book.
After receiving great book reviews, Roslyn decided to take her books from the page to the stage with presentations she delivers to audiences of all ages, cultures and backgrounds from students to seniors, faith-based groups and community organizations to corporations, cancer groups, and more. She delivers her presentations in person and virtually via online platforms such as Zoom. Roslyn's presentations are typically followed by time for Q & A and book signings.
Now she is taking her book, Meant to Be, from the stage to the screen with a feature film adaptation currently in development for production. Roslyn was the GOLD winner for Best Author in the 2022 & 2023 Hernando Sun Readers' Choice Awards Knowing what a lonely and challenging process writing can be, Roslyn also offers an Author Coaching program to help facilitate the writing and publishing process for aspiring authors eager and ready to get their inspirational stories out of their head, onto the page, and out to the world, once and for all.
Roslyn has been a guest on numerous television and radio shows and featured in newspapers and magazines across North America and abroad.
She is also host of the How to Thrive after 35 podcast and co-author of Death Can Wait, a fundraising book for cancer research and cancer patient programs.
Roslyn has a Masters degree in Human Systems Intervention (the study of how people self-learn and change as individuals and in groups) from Concordia University in Montreal, Certification in Organizational Psychology with a focus on Executive Coaching through the Professional School of Psychology in California and MBTI® Personality Type Assessment Qualification from Psychometrics Canada.
Roslyn regularly gives back to the community through donations of her book, services and as host of the internet radio show How to Thrive after 35. Her personal interests include portraiture, the healing arts, cooking and song writing and she is happily married to Elliott Smith, a professional comedy magician. |
Roslyn Franken, inspirational public speaker
and award-winning author of MEANT TO BE, THE A LIST and co-author of DEATH CAN WAIT |