What do you get when you pull together a senior citizen / wild woman, a perennially dumped romance writer, and a secretive cab driver and put them in a taxi on the road to Weeki Wachee? One riotous ride. Dumped, duped, and depressed, Joni Herrschwitz has just about given up when a serendipitous meeting with brazen, 78-year-old former professional mermaid Ruby Witherspoon puts Joni on a wild, life-altering road trip in a yellow cab headed south. From New York to Florida, Ruby, Joni, and their cab driver, the mysterious Maria Munoz, stop at every tacky, kitschy tourist trap along the way. Their destination--Weeki Wachee, Florida's fading attraction where mermaids have performed for more than sixty years. When Ruby neglects to inform her stick-in-the-mud daughters of her plan, they send out an alert, and to their chagrin, the entire country gets involved in the search. And when a New York shock jock starts to tango with Ruby on the radio, things get chaotic--and dangerous. The road to Weeki Wache is lined with adventure and life. Just open your eyes and swim along for the ride.
Fawn Germer once had a boss tell her she wasn't going anywhere. She sure showed him.
"In life, you are lucky when you have a good mentor," she says. "I had a tormentor." But she learned plenty from him.
Global leadership speaker Fawn Germer is the Oprah-featured, best-selling author of six books, which is remarkable considering that her first book was initially rejected by every major publisher in the United States. Fawn's relentless self-determination led that first book onto the best-seller list, then into the hands of Oprah Winfrey, who told the world how "very inspiring" Fawn's work was.
Fawn has interviewed more of the nation's most accomplished leaders and trailblazers than any other speaker. She is a four-time Pulitzer-nominated journalist who wrote for The Miami Herald, The Washington Post and U.S. News and World Report. She is one of the nation's most sought-after keynote speakers, and her recent clients include Kraft, NASA, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Ford Motor Co., State Farm, 3M, GlaxoSmithKline, Accenture, SAP, PepsiCo, FritoLay and many, many others.
Fawn is based in Clearwater, Fla. but travels internationally, teaching people how to embrace their power and deliver more courageous and creative performance. She is one of America's most sought-after keynote speakers on leadership.
