HUMAN CHRONICLES 57 My name is Merav Richter. And I am a book mentor helping speakers, coaches, entrepreneurs, and other rebels to write, publish, and profit from their best-selling books. I’ve had my name mispronounced so often that I don’t even remember the correct pronunciation. But the one that I answer to, you know, if it’s French or Italian [is Merav] … every place in the world has a different version of it. But Merav is the one most people call me. And, of course, I also answer to ‘M’. And Richter. I always say it’s 10.9 on the Richter scale making shifts on a seismic scale. But people often mis-pronounce it as Richer! The ’t’ is silent. I did not marry the richer guy! My Calling I was in the airline industry for 25 years. Around 2012 I started feeling this need to write. I was always writing creatively in one capacity or another. But in 2012 I felt from my heart a calling to write a book. I wrote a fictional book. I entered a contest and won. Suddenly I had this new identity as an author. And I learnt all the marketing, publishing, and business aspects of how to write a book. When I came out with my second book in 2016, people started asking me to mentor them on how to write books and how to bring them out into the world. Empowering Women Bigger than that and the thing I am proud of and love to tell was I was working to empower all these women to write their books. In 2018 my daughter, my youngest and number one woman, turned to me and said, “Mama, I want to write a book with you. I want to have a front cover and a back cover and acknowledgements and book launch” … everything she had seen me do throughout her life. We wrote a book together, self-published it and became Amazon’s best selling authors on the day it was published. We went on to create a charity Merav Richter Author, Book Mentor continued ... We created a charity organization called ‘Open Skies for Autism’ that brings children to the airport and [take them] on a simulated flight around the airport.
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