Join us at Empowerment Library on Tuesday, September 2^nd at 7 PM Eastern for a hilariously funny conversation with Janette Barber & Laura Banks, Authors of Embracing Your Big Fat Ass! You don’t want to miss this show!!

Embracing Your Big Fat Ass is not your typical self help book. It is the truly genius weaving together of real stories and anecdotes that artfully balance between the hysterically funny and deeply poignant struggles & experiences commonly faced by women everywhere.

This book encourages women toward self empowerment, self love, and self acceptance, all the while making you cry until you laugh and laugh until you cry.

Janette Barber, a former stand up comic, is a 6 time Emmy award winning TV producer (winning for The Rosie O’Donnell Show & The View). She is also a writer, having co-authored the USA Today Bestseller, “Breaking the Rules” with her writing partner Laura Banks.

Janette is a former TV Food Network Host and executive producer. She has been a spokesperson for Molly McButter where she created original low fat recipes and healthy eating tips for their website and ad campaigns. Janette wrote a year-long recipe column in the famed cook book section of First for Women Magazine, “Winning at Slimming with Janette.”

Currently she creates healthy recipes for her blog, www.janettesblog.com and is now in development with ElmLife on creating a web-based, interactive, artificially intelligent software guide. An animated version of Janette, herself, will host the guide and interact with users to help them develop better, healthier eating habits.

Janette has lost over 100 pounds and has maintained that loss for over twenty years largely by learning new ways to make favorite recipes so that they tasted fattening but were actually healthy. This was the concept behind her TVFN show, “Lighten Up! with Janette and Christina,” which she co-hosted with Martha Stewart producer, Christina Deyo.

Laura Banks has toured the country as a stand up comic and improvisational player originally working with Whoopi Goldberg in the troupe Spontaneous Combustion in San Diego. Next came starring roles in three indie films for Roger Corman, followed by the Manhattan Dating Project in 2002, which Laura wrote, produced, and starred in.

Laura has hosted the TV talk show Inside Space for the SciFi Channel as well as having hosted a TV infomercial for the famous Pierre Michael Salons, 5th Ave. at the Trump Tower, New York. Her radio career began writing and performing nationally syndicated comedy bits for Dick Clark’s United Stations Radio Networks. She was also the voice of the NBA (National Basketball Association).

She then co-authored, with writing partner Janette Barber, the USA Today Bestseller Breaking the Rules, Last Ditch Tactics for Landing the Man of Your Dreams (Career Press) and Love Online (Career Press).

Laura is the host of Star Gal Radio, broadcasting on CRN Digital Talk, and writes a humorous astrology column on Tarot.com, boasting a million readers per month.

Laura is also currently the co-owner of Targeted Nutritionals, LLC with her business partner, Dr. Alan Pressman working as a producer within the radio infomercial industry.