Pia Washington Signs Publishing Deal With CelebrityPress To Co-Author New Book

Los Angeles, CA – January 14, 2015 – Author Pia Washington, Co-founder of ECI Group, has joined a select group of business experts and entrepreneurs from around the world, along with best-selling author and business development expert Brian Tracy, to co-write the forthcoming book titled, UNcommon: Common Sense but Uncommon Knowledge from ​Today's ​Leading ​Entrepreneurs and ​P​rofessionals to ​Help ​You ​L​ead an ​Extraordinary ​Life of ​Health, ​Wealth and ​Success. Nick Nanton, Esq. along with business partner, JW Dicks, Esq., the leading agents to Celebrity Experts® worldwide, recently signed a publishing deal with each of these authors to contribute their expertise to the book, which will be released under their CelebrityPress™ imprint.

Author of the book, Attracting the Life You Want: From the Boardroom to the Bedroom, Pia Washington is a dynamic speaker, coach and attraction specialist dedicated to helping people produce extraordinary results in their lives, careers and organizations. Pia is a results-oriented professional with over 20 years of experience across a wide range of industries such as Media & Entertainment, Technology, Biotech, Retail, Financial Services, Healthcare and Manufacturing. As a finance executive, she has achieved extraordinary results for many Fortune 500 companies including NBC Universal, DineEquity, Amgen, Guitar Center, Wellpoint, JP Morgan Chase, Exxon Mobil and Eaton Corporation.

A portion of the royalties earned from UNcommon! will be donated to Entrepreneur’s International Foundation, a not for profit organization dedicated to creating unique launch campaigns to raise money and awareness for charitable causes.

UNcommon: Common Sense but Uncommon Knowledge from ​Today's ​Leading ​Entrepreneurs and ​P​rofessionals to ​Help ​You ​L​ead an ​Extraordinary ​Life of ​Health, ​Wealth and ​Success is tentatively scheduled for release in Summer 2015.

More About Pia Washington:

Pia is a loving mother of four children and she has been happily married to her junior high school sweetheart Levett, for over 20 years. Levett and Pia are principals of The ECI Group which provides consulting and coaching services to Executives, Couples and Individuals. Together the two co-authored the books, Shades of Love: Portraits of Successful Marriages and Love is Never Enough: The Five Essential Elements of Effective Relationships. The vision for their coaching practice is to inspire others to maximize their potential by living an authentic life. The couple has appeared on THRIVE with Sandra Bishop, KKZZ AM 1400, KISS FM 102.7 and numerous internet radio talk shows.  They also publish a relationship blog at www.Lovesneverenough.blogspot.com.  

Pia is an active volunteer with several community based organizations. She is also founder of Novus In Tutum: New Path, Safe Haven which is a foundation that provides support services and transitional housing for women and children in crisis. Pia earned a BS in Finance from The University of Akron, attended Case Western Reserve University’s prestigious Weatherhead School of Management and she received her relationship coaching credentials from The Relationship Coaching Institute. Pia is committed to helping others use Passion, Inspiration and Attraction to achieve the life of their dreams from the boardroom to the bedroom!

You can connect with Pia at:

Pia@PiaWashington.com

www.twitter.com/Piavet

www.ECIGroup.coachesconsole.com

About Celebrity Press™:

Celebrity Press™ is a leading business, health and wellness book publisher that publishes books from thought leaders around the world. Celebrity Press™ has published books alongside Jack Canfield, Brian Tracy, Dan Kennedy, Dr. Ivan Misner, Robert Allen and many of the biggest experts across diverse fields. CelebrityPress™ has helped launch over 1500 best-selling authors to date. 

Learn more at http://www.celebritypresspublishing.com

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Contact:

Matt Collins

Dicks and Nanton Celebrity Branding Agency®

800-980-1626

Matt@DNAgency.com

Pia Washington, ECI Group, life coach, attraction specialist, success coach, UNcommon, CelebrityPress

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14 Compelling Reasons to Use a Relationship Coach

We are REALLY enjoying our journey as husband and wife relationship coaches! The coaching relationship is unique and powerful, and really can help you find fulfillment in your life and relationships. Below are some important reasons to use a Relationship Coach, any ONE of which is compelling enough to get you started on your journey TODAY.

1. YOU VALUE RELATIONSHIPS HIGHLY
   You prioritize building fulfilling personal and professional relationships. You realize that your success and quality of life is directly connected to the quality of your relationships.
2. YOU ARE COMMITTED TO SUCCESS
   You are serious and intentional about having a fulfilling life partnership, family, business, and community.
3. YOU WANT RESULTS
   Working with a coach can move you farther and faster than you can on your own.
4. YOU ARE WILLING TO LEARN
   You realize that you don’t know what you don’t know, and your future success may depend upon access to new relationships skills and knowledge.
5. YOU ARE READY FOR ACTION
   Using a coach can be the most effective means of translating knowledge into practice. One of the most indispensable roles of a coach is to help you use what you already know to make effective choices and take the actions necessary to be successful.
6. YOU ARE OPEN TO MENTORING/SUPPORT
   A Relationship Coach helps you to use your relationships to evolve and develop relationship skills critical to your business success and personal fulfillment. The process of self-discovery, learning about relationships, and how to make successful relationship choices cannot be effectively self-taught or obtained from a book or tape.
7. YOU WANT FULFILLMENT
   You do not want to settle for less or risk preventable failure, and you are willing to give yourself the gift of the support and technology needed to be successful.
8. YOU WANT TO BE TRUE TO YOURSELF
   A Relationship Coach helps keep you honest with yourself, helps neutralize any tendency you may have to settle for less than you really want, is good for providing “reality checks” and being a sounding board.
9. YOU WANT TO BE PROACTIVE
   A Relationship Coach helps you solve problems while they are still small.
10. YOU WANT TO GO BEYOND YOUR LIMITS
    A Relationship Coach holds your highest vision for you beyond your fears and limitations, and helps you overcome your obstacles and challenges.
11. YOU WANT TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY
    A Relationship Coach helps you take responsibility for the quality of your relationships so that you can create them the way you want.
12. YOU WANT TO LIVE AUTHENTICALLY
    Today’s world is filled with challenges to finding and staying on your highest path, telling your truth, and making choices that are best for you. A Relationship Coach helps you identify and live the life you really want, and to be more of the person you really are and want to be.
13. YOU WANT BALANCE IN YOUR LIFE
    Your life is filled with opportunities and conflicting choices. You recognize the importance of creating and maintaining balance in relationships, including the ones you have with yourself and your higher power.
14. YOU WANT NEW POSSIBILITIES FOR YOUR RELATIONSHIPS
    You recognize that a healthy relationship is growing and dynamic. One of the worst things that can happen is to take one another or the relationship for granted. Opening to new possibilities keeps a good relationship getting better with the passage of time. A Relationship Coach helps you to continually discover and implement new and more fulfilling possibilities for your life and relationships.

We are available for individual private coaching sessions OR sign-up for our SPRING 2014 Singles Group Coaching Session at a discounted rate before March 23rd.

Levett and Pia Washington are relationship experts, co-authors of Shades of Love: Portraits of Successful Marriages and coaches dedicated to helping people produce extraordinary results in their lives, careers and relationships.

They are members of the Relationship Coaching Institute and their vision is to inspire others to maximize their potential by living an authentic life to experience true love and happiness regardless of their background, sexual orientation or lifestyle choices. Their signature program The L.O.V.E. Institute teaches clients how to LOVE by “Living Our Values Every-day.” Together since the age of 13, the husband and wife coaching team offers executive and relationship coaching services and hosts conferences, workshops and seminars for couples and singles and provide valuable insight from both the male and female perspectives. For more information, contact them via phone 805-415-5359 or 818-835-2ECI, email strongrelationships@gmail.com website www.Levettandpia.coachesconsole.com Follow them on twitter at www.twitter.com/piavet

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New Year New Love

 

On January 1^st millions of people will begin their new year with resolutions to lose weight, get out of debt or quit smoking with a sense of anticipation and eagerness. These are common resolutions and we cannot underestimate the importance of having health and fitness goals, but having successful, fulfilling relationships is also critical for our happiness and well-being. So if you are single, or if you are in an unhappy relationship, why not resolve to improve your love life in 2014!?! Below are Ten Steps to Finding your Perfect Mate:

1. Start by losing the losers
If you want to find your soul mate you must be available and not involved with people that aren’t right for you. Staying available is hard for a lot of singles, but necessary for finding the love of your life.

2. OK, available now? Next… are you “ready?”

Any unfinished business that might sabotage your next relationship? Legal, financial, emotional, kids, ex, employment? Get it handled!

3. Next, make a list of your top five “requirements”

Requirements are non-negotiable deal-breakers; what you must have or must not have in your relationship. Vow not to get involved with anyone that doesn’t meet all five. Share your list with your closest friends and make them swear to tell you the truth and lock you up if you get off-track.

4. Good job. Now, let’s get crystal clear about this “dating” thing:

If you want to avoid the deadly dating traps, focus on these Four Steps for Conscious Dating:

Step One: Scouting (find compatible people to meet- internet, through friends, getting out there, etc)

Step Two: Sorting (quickly determine if someone you meet has potential)
Step Three: Screening (collect enough information to know if your requirements would be met)
Step Four: Testing (date a few times and compare the reality with the information)
Repeat as needed.
That’s it… nothing more, nothing less. No “trial relationships,” no fun flings; just these four steps.

5. Get support

Don’t do this alone. Dating can be scary and isolating, and your friends and family can be your safety net to help you stay on track.

6. Work it!

Most people meet their soul mate through someone they already know, so let people know you’re looking and network like crazy.

7. Be positive and happy

Success breeds success and misery loves company… your choice.

8. Be the Chooser!

Go after what you want and don’t simply react to what or who chooses you.

9. Be assertive!

If you settle for less, you’ll get less. Ask for what you want and say “No” to what you don’t want.

10. Live a great life NOW while you’re single.

“If you build it, they will come” (from the movie “Field of Dreams”).

Finding your perfect mate is a combination of working on yourself so that you’re ready to attract and keep this wonderful person, and being proactive in your life to go after what you want instead of waiting for it to come to you, or hoping it will just “happen.” If you are serious about finding love, sign up for our Conscious Dating® Finding Your Happily Ever After Program for Singles in 2014. We wish you a Happy New Year and best wishes in your journey to find the love of your life and the life that you love.

Levett and Pia Washington are relationship experts, co-authors of Shades of Love: Portraits of Successful Marriages and coaches dedicated to helping people produce extraordinary results in their lives, careers and relationships.

They are members of the Relationship Coaching Institute and their vision is to inspire others to maximize their potential by living an authentic life to experience true love and happiness regardless of their background, sexual orientation or lifestyle choices. Their signature program The L.O.V.E. Institute teaches clients how to LOVE by “Living Our Values Every-day.” Together since the age of 13, the husband and wife coaching team offers executive and relationship coaching services and hosts conferences, workshops and seminars for couples and singles and provide valuable insight from both the male and female perspectives. For more information, contact them at 818-835-2ECI, email strongrelationships@gmail.com or Follow them on twitter at www.twitter.com/piavet

 

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Why do so many relationships fail? A lesson in Chemistry

Why do so many relationships fail? Why do so many people make poor relationship choices that in hindsight are so oobviously wrong for them? Why do many relationships begin with such deep passion and feelings of connection only to fizzle out after a few years? The answer to these questions can be found by exploring the Chemistry of love and relationships. Knowledge and understanding of the physiological and emotional factors of attraction and awareness of the stages of love can help you make better choices and  lead to stronger and long-lasting relationships.

The feelings we get when we fall in love are boosted by chemicals and hormones that our bodies release during the stages of love. It's what is called "chemistry" and without rational thinking to balance it, chemistry can easily lead you down the wrong path, with the wrong person. Most people fall in love with the superficial attributes of another and don't focus on important compatibility issues, like whether you have shared values, similar life goals, and the same relationship requirements and needs. Newly smitten lovers often idealize their partner, magnifying their virtues and explaining away their flaws. They often ignore red flags because they are "high" on love chemicals. Unfortunately, when these chemicals abate in 18-24 months, reality sets in and many couples realize that they are actually incompatible.

The Three Stages of Love:

Dr. Helen Fisher has identified Three Stages of Love - Lust, Attraction and Attachment. Each stage is driven by different hormones and chemicals and it is important to understand how these hormones affect you and your decision-making in the early stages of falling in love.

Stage 1 - Lust - This is the first stage and is driven by the sex hormones testosterone and estrogen. This stage is commonly mistaken for love at first sight and the attraction is primarily physical and/or sexual.

Stage 2 - Attraction  - This is the love-struck phase when you can think of little else. We like to refer to this phase as limerance or new relationship energy (NRE). Scientists have shown that there are three main neurotransmitters involved in this stage. Adrenaline causes you to sweat, your heart to race and your mouth to go dry when you see your new love. Dopamine causes increased energy, less need for sleep or food, focused attention and delight in the smallest details of this new relationship. It actually triggers an intense rush of pleasure that has the same effect on the brain as taking cocaine! And finally serotonin is one of love's most important chemicals that explains why your new lover keeps popping into your thoughts. Studies have shown that serotonin levels of new lovers are equivalent to that of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder patients.

Stage 3 - Attachment - This third and final phase of bonding is what keeps couples together long enough to build a life and a family together. This is the stage that you can really tell if this person is right for you. There are two hormones associated with this phase, oxytocin and vasopressin. Oxytocin or the cuddle hormone is released by men and women during orgasm. Both chemicals deepen the feeling of attachment and makes couples feel closer to one another after they have had sex. The theory goes that the more sex a couple has, the deeper their bond becomes. The feelings associated with the first two phases of NRE usually wear off after 18-24 months and many people never move on to the third phase. It is no coincidence that on average, most marriages end during the third year. Once the "high" wears off, one or both of the partners may feel that they have fallen our of love and will most likely seek new partners to experience those feelings of NRE again.

So what is the secret to happy long lasting relationships? Don't rush into a serious commitment until you are certain that you have moved into the attachment phase and have a true sense of shared values, ideals and goals. By consciously slowing down the pace, you are less likely to be blind-sided and are more likely to grow a healthy relationship with a strong foundation based on friendship and compatibility.

Levett and Pia Washington are relationship experts and co-authors of Shades of Love: Portraits of Successful Marriages. They are principals of The ECI Group which offers executive and relationship coaching services and hosts conferences, workshops and seminars for couples. Together since the age of 13, the husband and wife coaching team offer invaluable insight into the male and female roles in any relationship. Follow us on Twitter @piavet.

The Marriage Planners

The Marriage Planners – Failure to plan is planning to fail


Athletes do it, so do professional singers, actors and many corporate executives. In order to be the best they can be, successful people hire coaches to teach, train and instruct them on their craft. Often times, it is the coach, who helps devise the game plan which leads and inspires the team to victory. The most significant team or partnership that exists is the one between husband and wife but how often do they have a plan for their success?

We have often stated how it amazes us at how much more time people spend planning their wedding than they do planning their marriage. The wedding should be a meaningful event to be cherished but it is only one day compared to the marriage which will last for a lifetime. Starting your marriage off with a strategic plan designed by a coach sets you up for success. As the old adage goes “failure to plan is the same as planning to fail.” Before you encounter any major problems in your relationship, devise a long-term plan to help you address those issues before they arise.

If you discussed things like whether or not to have children, how many you should have and who will take care of them, you are ahead of the game. But the marriage plan needs to extend far beyond these basics to include extended family, finances, fidelity and any other unforeseen circumstances that could arise. For example, what would you do if your spouse needed to become the primary caregiver for their parent? What happens if you planned on having a dual income family and one of you cannot or will not work? Have you discussed the implications of infidelity? What would you do if your partner cheated? How would you feel if they wanted an open marriage? If one of you were completely paralyzed how would that change the dynamics of your relationship? Have you discussed your deal-breakers? What are the things that are so important to you that you cannot live with or without? With the appropriate amount of support, confidentiality, information and guidance, we can help design a plan to help you navigate through these potential pitfalls while helping you achieve your goal of a successful marriage whether you are just starting a relationship or have been married for many years – it’s never too late!

CONTACT US during the month of March and mention this blog to receive a COMPLIMENTARY Marriage Plan session!


Levett and Pia Washington are relationship experts and co-authors of Shades of Love: Portraits of Successful Marriages. They are principals of The ECI Group which offers executive and relationship coaching services and hosts conferences, workshops and seminars for couples. Together since the age of 13, the husband and wife coaching team offer invaluable insight into the male and female roles in any relationship. For more information contact them at 818-601-2719 or visit their website at www.TheECIGroup.com