BIOGRAPHY: Andrea Reynolds
BIO
Andrea Reynolds, an energetic 72, lived in Erie Pennsylvania for 9 years after having lived in Canada from the age of 23. In 2017 she began moving to Sun City Center, Florida, and sold her Erie home in 2019.
Born and raised in Erie, she graduated from McDowell High School in 1967 and Kent State University (Ohio) in 1973 – where she excelled in her marketing classes – and emigrated to Toronto, Canada that same year.
From 1980 to 1998, she ran a thriving public relations consultancy in Toronto with clients like Campbell Soup Co. and Coca-Cola Ltd. After threats from a dangerous stalker, she abandoned her business and went into hiding for eight years. An entrepreneur, she has enjoyed being a teacher, voice-over talent on commercials, a talk radio host, a seminar/workshop presenter, a freelance broadcaster on national television, and newsletter publisher.
She is the author of 34 titles, and has been an instructor for The Skills Exchange, The Learning Annex, and more recently, Pennwriters. She launched Morgan Chadwick Books and has edited book manuscripts for other authors.
More than likely, Andrea Reynolds has already been where you are now. She knows what it's like to walk in your shoes. As a result, she not only has empathy for your situation, but she has found good solutions through trial-and-error, and now that she is free of major crises in her own life – we all have little, everyday challenges – she has the wisdom and clear thinking to brainstorm good, healthy financial options for you. She becomes your advocate when you need her to be.
Andrea Reynolds was considered "least likely to succeed" by her high school teachers and classmates. With financial backing from her great aunts, full-time work, and playing the stock market, she was able to attend 7 universities in 3 countries (United States, England and Canada). She graduated with a combined Bachelor of Science degree in both marketing and family studies from Kent State University. Other schools were Hiram College, Edinboro State College, University of Oxford, University of Toronto, Ryerson University, Fashion Institute of Technology (New York).
In her former life as a marketing strategist, she was hired by some of the most brilliant experts and independent professionals in the world as well as Fortune/Financial Post 100 corporations. She was retained by clients as far away as London, Cairo, Dublin, Sydney and Singapore for her marketing solutions and strategies.
She has hosted and co-hosted talk radio in both the United States and Canada, hosted a television show, and appeared as a guest expert on countless radio shows including CBC's "Morningside" with the late Peter Gzowski, and "Basic Black" with Arthur Black. She has appeared on "Frost Over Canada" hosted by British interviewer Sir David Frost and appeared multiple times on "Breakfast Television," "Lunch Television," "Shirley," "The Dini Petty Show," 4 programs on the Life Network, Global News at Noon, and the CBC Evening News.
An outspoken critic, Andrea has been quoted in many periodicals: Time, Success, Entrepreneur, USA Today, Globe and Mail, National Post, The Korea Times, The Financial Post, Canadian Business, Canadian Living, and Sales and Marketing Management. She has critiqued candidates for Canadian Prime Minister and Premier of Ontario for Canadian Press wire service, The Toronto Star, The Toronto Sun and The Globe and Mail. She has been listed in Who's Who in Toronto and Who's Who in Canadian Women.
She has authored numerous books, manuals, reports, and booklets; published how-to books for over 30 years; published 6 newsletters; written for national magazines and newspapers; written advice columns since she was 15; led seminars, and addressed many professional and business associations. Her first book received a tongue-in-cheek Connie Award from Canadian Business Magazine "for outstanding contribution to Canadian Capitalism."
