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Melanie Notkin is the founder of SAVVY AUNTIE: A Celebration of Modern Aunthood - a multiplatform lifestyle brand for cool aunts, great-aunts, godmothers and all women who love kids.00:00 - Intro4:36 - Israel vs Hamas7:46  Anti-Semitism19:45-  Source of Courage21:41 Silent Majority 26:53 Gender Dysphoria35:00 Ignored Men40:11  Boss babe51:56 Childless Women58:22  Patriarchy 1:05:40 - Man-hating women1:11:02 - EndingMelanie is a foremost expert on the emerging demographic of childless, often single, women. Her data and insights on the PANK (Professional Aunts No Kids) – the influential and growing female cohort she uncovered and coined in 2008 – have been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, CNN and more.In this conversation, Savvy Auntie, author and advocate Melanie Notkin and Candice, explore a range of topics, starting with reflections on the Israel-Palestine conflict and perspectives on transgender issues. The dialogue then delves into the complexities of modern relationships, including the evolving roles of women, societal expectations, and the impact of career choices on family planning. Notkin critiques certain feminist ideologies and emphasizes the importance of open communication in relationships. Join us for a thought-provoking discussion that spans contemporary global issues and the intricacies of love, marriage, and societal norms.Melanie Notkin's website: melanienotkin.com/Candice's socials: linktr.ee/candicehorbaczLady Ballers Trailer: https://youtu.be/Py2MzGtmaJ0?si=HHZQvo1eGDyqY98g ⚠DISCLAIMER⚠ Under no circumstances does the cast of Chatting With Candice endorse, support, or condone all views and opinions presented by guests on the show. The cast of Chatting With Candice is here to provide balanced discussion about a variety of hot-button topics and encourage all viewers to do their own due diligence before purchasing, supporting, sharing, or promoting anything mentioned by our hosts or guests. The Chatting With Candice platform is for informed discourse on a variety of topics and designed to provide a balanced view of current events, sensitive subjects, and relevant matters that permeate our current culture. Listen responsibly and do your due diligence accordingly.Support the show

Savvy Auntie, Melanie Notkin, opens her heart to us and it's all warm and fuzzy and why can't we have that feeling between us in spite of our born differences? We don't know if Jews listen to anyone even when our wellbeing is on the line but maybe women, with their natural ability to embrace and bring together, can make us do things even when we don't initially want to do them. Sounds like growing up. Maybe it's what we need. Melanie's digital signature: melanienotkin.com T/IG/FB: @SavvieAuntie Listen to the mystery book podcast series: https://anchor.fm/thejewfunctionpodcast Link to Seth's book: https://www.antidotetoantisemitism.com/ FREE audiobook (With Audible trial) of The Jewish Choice - Unity or Antisemitism: https://amzn.to/3u40evC LIKE/SHARE/SUBSCRIBE Follow us on Twitter/Facebook/Instagram @thejewfunction NEW: Support us on PATREON patreon.com/thejewfunction

In this week's episode of Spinsterhood Reimagined, I talk to founder of the Savvy Auntie Community, author and entrepreneur, Melanie Notkin.Melanie is an entrepreneur, author, media contributor, speaker, marketer, and a leading voice of childless, often single, women and men. In 2008, she founded ‘Savvy Auntie: A Celebration Of Modern Aunthood,' a multiplatform lifestyle brand for cool aunts, great-aunts, godmothers and all women who love kids. Melanie is author of two books, ‘Savvy Auntie: The Ultimate Guide for Cool Aunts, Great-Aunts, Godmothers and All Women Who Love Kids'; and ‘Otherhood: Modern Women Finding A New Kind Of Happiness.' In this episode, Melanie and I talk about how she set up the Savvy Auntie community in 2008; her six nieces and nephews (including two sets of twin girls!); and how she coined the term PANK (Professional Aunt No Kids).We discuss Melanie's journey of not having children, and how she always had a vision of what she thought her life would be, which included a wedding in her back yard and twin girls; how in her mid-30s she went through an incredibly difficult time as she realised she may not have children of her own; how she wrote about her grief of not having children in her book, Otherhood, and how her desire for children felt like an ‘existential yearning.'Melanie also talks about being happy that she never had her eggs frozen; how feelings of desperation and anxiety around not having children can come to an end with the arrival of menopause; and how those women who aren't willing to settle for a ‘lesser love' - the ‘reinvented spinsters' - tend to be at a certain level of success in their lives. Follow Melanie on Instagram: @savvyauntieFollow Melanie on Twitter: @SavvyAuntieUK Link to Melanie's book, Savvy Auntie: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Savvy-Auntie-Ultimate-Great-Aunts-Godmothers/dp/0061999970 UK Link to Melanie's book, Otherhood: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Otherhood-Modern-Women-Finding-Happiness/dp/1580055710/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3CCW1PZSI3BZ4&keywords=otherhood&qid=1663096908&s=books&sprefix=otherhood%2Cstripbooks%2C80&sr=1-1 US Link to Melanie's book, Savvy Auntie: https://www.amazon.com/Savvy-Auntie-Ultimate-Great-Aunts-Godmothers/dp/0061999970/ref=sr_1_2?crid=7FKGW1YCEET5&keywords=savvy+auntie&qid=1663097183&sprefix=savvy+auntie%2Caps%2C136&sr=8-2 US Link to Melanie's book, Otherhood: https://www.amazon.com/Otherhood-Modern-Women-Finding-Happiness/dp/1580055710/ref=sr_1_1?crid=11XVVOC4BAG3L&keywords=otherhood&qid=1663097215&sprefix=otherhoo%2CaMelanie's Website: www.melanienotkin.com Join my private Facebook Group: Join my private Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1870817913309222/?ref=shareFollow me on Instagram: @spinsterhoodreimaginedFollow me on Twitter: @LucyMeggesonEmail me: lucy@lucymeggeson.com  Check out my website: www.lucymeggeson.com 

In this episode, Greg hosts Melanie Notkin, an entrepreneur, author, media contributor, speaker, marketer, and a leading voice in childless, often single, women and men from New York City. She is the founder of SAVVY AUNTIE: A Celebration of Modern Aunthood - a multiplatform lifestyle brand for cool aunts, great-aunts, godmothers, and all women who love kids. Melanie is a foremost expert on the emerging demographic of childless, often single, women.Greg and Melanie discuss Melanie's book Otherhood: Modern Women Finding a New Kind of Happiness, becoming the SAVVY AUNTIE, being a PANK (Professional Aunt No Kids) the powerfulness of femininity, the attack on masculinity, chivalry, what women want, the importance of play for boys, and much moreIf you enjoyed this conversation, be sure to subscribe!————————————Follow Melanie Notkin on Twitter @SavvyAuntiehttps://twitter.com/SavvyAuntieAnd check out her website: http://melanienotkin.com/————————————Follow Me On————————————All Platforms: https://linktr.ee/GregEllisFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/realgregellis/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ellisgregInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/realgregellis/ ————————————Show Notes————————————[00:00] Respondent introduction[01:07] Greg introduces this week's guest, Melanie Notkin[01:23] Where Melanie grew up and her childhood in NY.[03:16] Melanie's book Otherhood and finding happiness outside of motherhood[07:14] Wisdom, knowledge, and fulfillment[09:33] Becoming the SAVVY AUNTIE and PANK (Professional Aunt No Kids)[12:31] Women having children later[16:11] Feminism and toxic masculinity; Women becoming more masculine and Men becoming more feminine.[16:33] "Third and fourth-wave feminists have created an entire generation of men they are not attracted to." GE quoting MN[17:39] "It is a little ironic to be equal to people you don't like." MN[22:39] The most powerful thing a woman can be is feminine.[23:23] The Shadow Self and the genesis of toxic masculinity[26:53] The Importance and utility of relationships and falling in love.[27:23] "A relationship doesn't take away. A relationship adds. The right relationship makes you better. When you have a champion with you, you don't need to self-empower; you've got someone behind you that can help push you along." MN[30:03] Love is a skill to be learned not, not just an emotion to be felt. GE[31:57] The Feminine Mystique and the misunderstanding around what she was saying[33:46] The attack on masculinity[38:17] Chivalry [42:10] Melanie's experience with dating and having the man choose the restaurant.[45:47] What woman want [52:49] Should the man always pay on dates?[56:39] The dance between masculinity and femininity[01:02:20] Decisiveness[01:04:42] The problem with the word "empowerment."[01:09:03] Inhumane Resources and the Oppression Olympics.[01:12:37] "Victimhood is the new social currency, and its economy is booming." GE[01:12:49] The women marches and how girls are doing great and boys are falling apart.[01:16:19] Importance of boys and play. [01:16:49] Warren Farrell[01:24:19] The Philosophical Queue [01:25:04] Where does Melanie find meaning?[01:25:40] The most meaningful moment of Melanie's life[01:27:36] The Urban Pioneer: Where does Melanie go to think, where she goes for peace and quiet.[01:29:27] Melanie's favorite song [01:31:12] Writing Melanie's epitaph [01:31:33] Melanie's one wish [01:31:55] What the future has in store for Melanie[01:34:07] The Respondent[01:38:19] Why Greg & Melanie wrote their books[01:39:04] Podcast filler words #GregEllis #MelanieNotkin #SavvyAuntie #Feminism

What happens when you always wanted to be a wife and mother, but you haven't met your person? Well, if you're author Melanie Notkin, you start a fabulous brand called, Savvy Auntie! Melanie joins us for a vulnerable and candid discussion about how to embrace and thrive in a life we wouldn't have scripted. We center the conversation around her poignant and powerful book, Otherhood. Specifically, we delve into: How women of The Otherhood manage their ongoing and currently unmet desire for marriage and family. The question almost every woman of The Otherhood has asked herself, “Should I settle for a ‘good enough' guy in order to have children?” How to handle invasive and insensitive questions/comments about your life e.g. “You must have focused too much on your career!” or “Didn't you want kids???” The prevailing, yet inaccurate, assumption that women of The Otherhood delayed marriage and child bearing. Grieving the loss of the life we'd expected, while embracing the joys of the life we have! Despite the fact our lives haven't played out as planned, we women of The Otherhood, can be assured our nurturing and influence make a profound, positive impact on the children we didn't create, yet choose to love. Single is the New Black - Audiobook Audible: smarturl.it/SITNB-Audible iTunes: smarturl.it/SITNB-iTunes Dr. Karin Website: http://loveandlifemedia.com/ Instagram: @dr.karin

Richard and Chris talk with Melanie Notkin about her mission with Savvy Auntie, and the economic, cultural and emotional power of PANKs (Professional Aunts, No Kids). This powerful demographic is often overlooked by the toy business, and yet it's one that represents outstanding potential for driving toy sales...if they are acknowledged and addressed. Listen in on this lively conversation, and we promise you'll be inspired to find new ways to reach and engage this market segment that spends more than $250 per year per kid in their lives. In The Endcap Chris and Richard continue the conversation, discussing the implications of new figures showing declining birthrates and fertility rates, what that means for the toy companies and ways to thrive in this dynamic market. The Playground Podcast is supported by Global Toy Experts, The Toy Guy, Precise.tv and ChizComm. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-playground-podcast/support

This short segment first appeared as the Endcap on our conversation with Savvy Auntie, Melanie Notkin. Chris & Richard talk about new numbers on declining birthrates, implications for the toy industry and some ideas of how toymakers might respond to the changing market. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-playground-podcast/support

Melanie Notkin is the founder/creator of the popular Savvy Auntie lifestyle brand. Notkin’s book on the subject, Savvy Auntie: The Ultimate Guide for Cool Aunts, Great-Aunts, Godmothers, and All Women Who Love Kids, was a Wall Street Journal bestseller. Her second book, Otherhood: Modern Women Finding a New Kind of Happiness is also a bestseller. Together, Melanie and Stef explore the concept of choosing happiness.  Produced by LegRoom Creative Engineered by www.podcaststudioservices.com

Melanie shares her discovery of purpose through her pain   Twitter: @therocsworld Twitter: @SavvyAuntie Site: SavvyAuntie.com

“A life beyond my expectations”: Melanie Notkin talks Generation PANK (Professional Aunts, No Kids) aka women who are childless by choice, chance, or challenge, the complex feelings raised by modern fertility science, and the wonders of Aunt-hood. The post Ep 53 SavvyAuntie.com Founder Melanie Notkin appeared first on Midlife Mixtape .

Melanie Notkin, founder of Savvy Auntie, the first community for cool aunts, great aunts, godmothers and all women who love kids (but might not have them) discusses her book Otherhood and women who are childless, not by choice, but by circumstance. She and Bridget cover the assumptions people make about childless women, being told that […]Sponsored by Away Travel Join the conversation and comment on this podcast episode: https://ricochet.com/podcast/walk-ins-welcome-bridget-phetasy/melanie-notkin-and-bridget-talk-wasted-womb-shaming-what-it-is-and-why-its-terrible/.Now become a Ricochet member for only $5.00 a month! Join and see what you’ve been missing: https://ricochet.com/membership/.Subscribe to Walk-Ins Welcome w/ Bridget Phetasy in Apple Podcasts (and leave a 5-star review, please!), or by RSS feed. For all our podcasts in one place, subscribe to the Ricochet Audio Network Superfeed in Apple Podcasts or by RSS feed.

Melanie Notkin, founder of Savvy Auntie, the first community for cool aunts, great aunts, godmothers and all women who love kids (but might not have them) discusses her book Otherhood and women who are childless, not by choice, but by circumstance. She and Bridget cover the assumptions people make about childless women, being told that they should have settled if they wanted kids, and how Bridget feels like she kept hitting snooze on her biological clock. Find out how feminism made men lazy, why you’re only as loyal as your options in the age of social media, and how in the battle of the sexes everyone seems to be more confused than anything. Don’t miss an incredibly honest conversation about Melanie’s ability to take the source of her greatest pain – not having children – and turn it into something that helps countless people – women and men.

Minter Dialogue Episode #297Melanie Notkin founded a robust and thriving community, called SavvyAuntie. As such, Melanie is a leading voice of a group of women that has $61B in buying power. She's a national best-selling author having penned SavvyAuntie (2011) and Otherhood, Modern Women Finding a New Kind of Happiness (2014). She's also a speaker and marketing expert. In this conversation, we discuss how Melanie founded and built up the community, her insights and innovations, tips for marketers wanting to build or approach a community, plus she's provided us with a scoop. Meanwhile, please send me your questions as an audio file (or normal email) to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes to rate/review the podcast. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Are you  P.A.N.K? aka Professional Aunt NoKids? This often unsung and uncelebrated large demographic of our population is the subject of my guests BREAKTHROUGH on this episode.  Melanie Notkin is the national best-selling author of Savvy Auntie: The Ultimate Guide for Cool Aunts, Great-Aunts, Godmothers, and All Women Who Love Kids and the founder and personality behind Savvy Auntie, the beloved lifestyle brand celebrating modern aunthood. Notkin is the foremost expert on the emerging demographic of childless, often single, women in North America. She has shared her research, writing, and popular voice as a contributor to The New York Times, The New York Post, The Huffington Post, and PsychologyToday.com, among others, and she appears regularly on national television, radio, and the web. Otherhood, her second book, was inspired by her life in New York City. On this episode of BREAKTHROUGHS with Jordan Murphy she shares generously about how SAVVY AUNTIE came about and the process that has lead her to success as an entrepreneur.

Otherhood! More women today are not having children, more than ever before. Whether by circumstance or by choice, and Author Melanie Notkin is talking about it. Today we celebrate the women who are who are totally in love with your nieces or nephews, friends’ kids. And open a dialogue of the challenges modern women, even A list celebrites have on the quest to otherhood.

In this day and age, we hear a lot about women balancing it all: work, relationship, kids, life, etc. But what about women who work, who aren’t married and/or don’t have children? My guest today Melanie Notkin is a media entrepreneur: author, marketer, keynote speaker, and lifestyle personality. In 2007 she founded Melanie Notkin Media, Inc. - the first and only multiplatform media company designed for the growing global demographic of childless, often single, women. Savvy Auntie is the name of her popular and beloved lifestyle brand and bestselling book for cool aunts, great-aunts, godmothers and all women who love kids. The brand appeals primarily to Melanie’s proprietary PANK® (Professional Aunts No Kids) demographic of 23 million American women. In celebration of this "childfull" demographic, Melanie established Auntie's Day® in 2009. Savvy Auntie: The Ultimate Guide for Cool Aunts, Great-Aunts, Godmothers, and All Women Who Love Kids (Morrow/2011) is a national bestseller. Her latest book is called Otherhood: Modern Women Finding a New Kind of Happiness. This is Melanie’s reported memoir on childless, often single women who expected love, marriage and motherhood. Before becoming a media entrepreneur, Melanie was an interactive and print beauty editor and interactive marketing and communications executive for global Fortune 500 companies.

Melanie Notkin is a media entrepreneur, author, speaker, marketer, and a leading voice of childless, often single women.  She is the founder of the Savvy Auntie lifestyle brand and is also the national best selling author of the book, SAVVY AUNTIE: The Ultimate Guide for Cool Aunts, Great Aunts, Godmothers and All Women Who Love Kids and Otherhood: Modern Women Finding A New Kind of Happiness. You can find out more about Melanie’s work here. Melanie believes that being childless for her was due to circumstance. She always wanted to find love, get married, and have a child with that man and yet she remained single. She is 46 and always expected to have found that love and would not settle for anything less. Unfortunately, whilst she hoped it would happen before her fertility waned, she has remained without a child. What do you think are some of the reasons that women are facing? “Social infertility” is an increasingly used term.  Melanie uses the term “circumstantial infertility,” the pain and grief over not having a child because you don’t have a partner and you would prefer to have a child with a partner.  It is a global Western trend and is a global phenomenon. There was a 15-page feature in DE Morgan, the largest daily in Brussels for Mother’s Day on “Otherhood”,  the title of her second book. “I think that part of it has to do with the fact that women today, our generation, the daughters of the feminist movement born in the 60s, 70s, 80s, imagine we’d have the social, economic, and political equality our mothers didn’t have when they were born. Naturally we’d have the husbands and kids that they did have. Plus the education and the financial stability, and independence, alas many of us had not been able to find that love.” Melanie thinks it’s partly because of the even split in education and in financial strength and ability. This generation of single women are among the most well educated, most financially successful, often the most fit and fabulous. These are the most A+ women who can’t find a match.  It’s not because they are too picky, it’s that they want to have a partner who challenges and supports them and to feel that the person adds value to their life and family. Also, on the women’s side, we’ve been told, believed, and in some ways agree that in order to be equal to men, we have to become a little more like men. Women have lost our femininity and trying to shoulder a lot of the traditional roles that men often participated in. Melanie thinks that we are all a little confused about how we should act and truthfully feels that we get turned on by courtship. It seems that there is work to do on both sides to try to bring that together in a more balanced way.  She believes that the simple solution is honesty. Melanie learned to only agree to dates that only work for her. This means that she would make the man work and choose the place of venue rather that her making the decision. We have to understand as women, that there is tremendous power in our femininity. If there weren’t such great power in our femininity, there wouldn’t be such male misogyny. It’s actually our femininity that is threatening to men than there is masculine energy. As women, we nurture everyone around us so we need to be aware and know how to use that femininity appropriately. How did Savvy Auntie come about? Savvy Auntie came about before Otherhood. Melanie had the idea in 2007 and she launched it in the summer of 2008. She was in her late 30s and always expected to be married and have kids by then. The most important people in her life were her nephews and nieces. She didn’t know what to do, what they were in to, and all the things parents were talking about. Often, women who don’t have children can feel left out because they are spending a big part of their life without kids. Melanie then got the idea that there needed to be a community just for them, which is how Savvy Auntie was born. She was a marketer by trade so she knew there was a business in that. When is International Aunties’ Day? International Aunties’ Day is always on the fourth Sunday in July so this year it will be on July 26. What do you typically do on that day and what do you do to celebrate that day? How does that work? Just like Mother’s Day, it’s a day to celebrate and honor the aunt or godmother in a child’s life. It’s up to the families how they want to celebrate that day but it could is simply be a Skype call to communicate or with a card or a hug. It’s a way to acknowledge how much you love and care about them and how much they mean to you.  What is your definition of “childfull” and how did that word come about?  Melanie struggled with the words “childless” and “childfree”. Childless is the generic term for a woman or man who doesn’t have children. It has the word “less” in it and nobody wants to feel less than. Childfree is the implication of one that is free from children. Melanie does not feel childfree because she has children in her life. “Childfull” means that one’s life is full of children they love. This sounds very positive and most women who don’t have a child of their own but have a child in their life would agree to that term. Melanie titled her book Otherhood because it’s not motherhood. Feminists talked about the idea of women being second to man, that women are other to man, and that equality would mean that we are no longer other to man. Childless women often feel other to mother. Melanie thinks that our next stage of liberation and feeling equal of our own equality movement is to show that we are equal to mother and that we are not other to mother. It is a good way to show we are fighting for that sense of equality. There was a study done in Australia that showed how even among self-assured, confident, successful women, the feeling of otherness can make a woman feel less than. It’s interesting how people now choose the natural period in a woman’s life when to have children. People often make stereotypes that can be damaging and are not valid at all. It can be a lot of pressure on a woman who’s not necessarily responsible for her circumstances. Melanie thinks that one of the stereotypes are called “career woman.” If you are single at 40 and don’t have children, most people will identify you as a career woman meaning that you care more about your career than a family which can be completely incorrect. Melanie talks about women freezing their eggs in their mid to late 30s even 40+ in order to have children once they find a man. It’s quite an expensive process that women are doing. Two major companies, Apple and Facebook, said that they would fund up to $20,000 for women to freeze their eggs, which is an extraordinary gift. Melanie calls it “The Dating Bermuda Triangle” where women are between the ages of 35 to 40 and men often think that the women are desperate for children. The truth is that she could be feeling desperate and can be a challenging and tough time for her. One should know that this whole process reverses itself. Once the woman is in her 40s, all of a sudden a man who is in his 40s or 50s, starts to wonder why isn’t that woman desperate for me and he becomes more desperate for the woman who was once the confident one. However the woman of the “otherhood” will never settle for lesser love because if they were to have done that, it would have been at age 22 when their eggs were much fresher. What do you think is the way forward and how do you think we can address this? Are there more women than men in that age group? Melanie thinks that it can be very helpful to be more honest. We have to be the ones to expect something different from ourselves. Once we start doing this, the conversation will start to change and the way the conversations are told back to society, through media, marketing, etc, that’s when things will start to change. There are so many women leading fulfilled lives creating things for themselves when they come to a point where: They either didn’t choose to have children by choice. It just did not happened due to circumstance. “Babies are born from the womb, maternity is born form the soul, and there are many ways to mother.” Melanie states that this was not the life she expected but it is in many ways a life beyond her expectations. She is doing things she never expected to do. People have asked her if she had any regrets. Her response is no but beyond that, the way she looks at life is, “Regret is behind me and my love and my life is ahead of me and if I’m back there in regret, I’ll never meet him and I’ll never life the life I was meant to live.” The only advice she gives to “otherhood” is to the reader to turn the page and start her next chapter. She wants everybody to move forward. What happens to many of us is that we get stuck. Many of us live on this “borderline regret.” “Do I choose A or B?”  Melanie wants every listener to make a choice and once you’ve done that, you’ll be free and you’ll be living the authentic life you’re meant to live. Be honest with yourself/ Have honest conversations with others. Don’t live in that regret and try not to be stuck in that grief. As children, we’d imagine and dream what our future would be like. We do that today as adults and we don’t let go of what our imagination had decided our life to be. Whoever is feeling stuck and that their life isn’t the way they want, write down 10 things that you appreciate abut yourself and the accomplishments you’ve made. Then you’ll realize all of the things you actually have rather than what’s missing.  Who would you say are your most inspirational role models of women? Diane Von Furstenberg – her mother is a Holocaust survivor. Elizabeth Gilbert – childfree by choice No matter how you feel, there are women like Diane who are born out of the ashes. Sometimes it takes those low moments to realize that change is about to happen. What would you like to leave the world as your legacy? “Move forward and keep going.” You can find out more about Melanie’s work here.

Melanie Notkin is America’s premier Savvy Auntie, empowering the nearly 50% of American women who are not moms to celebrate all they do for the children in their lives, while living their own lives to the fullest. She launched SavvyAuntie.com, the first online community for aunts and godmothers, in the summer of 2008 to wide-acclaim. The website includes expert content designed specifically for aunts, activities, community and trendy gift ideas.Melanie will share the secrets of how to get the best from our relationships with children. Whether you are an aunt, great aunt, or godmother.  Photo Credits: Ana Schecter

Will teens be penalized for their crazy postings as they apply for college and jobs? Admission officers and recruiters are checking online information in this technological age. What do your postings say about you? Cynthia Brian and Heather Brittany look into the dynamics of online hiring and firing. This ultimate guide for cool women who love kids, Savvy Auntie by Melanie Notkin is the perfect gift for any aunt. Filled with expert tips and advice on everything from “What to expect when she's expecting,” how to throw a savvy-chic baby shower as well as money and gift giving suggestions, Savvy Auntie celebrates the nearly 50% of American women who may not have children of their own, but unconditionally love and support moms. Flowers talk. Floriography is the language of flowers. One can send secret coded messages expressing feelings that my not be communicated in person or by words. Resident Garden Goddess, Cynthia Brian, explains the significance of flower speak!

Melanie Notkin is America’s premier Savvy Auntie, empowering the nearly 50% of American women who are not moms to celebrate all they do for the children in their lives, while living their own lives to the fullest. She launched SavvyAuntie.com, the first online community for aunts and godmothers, in the summer of 2008 to wide-acclaim. The website includes expert content designed specifically for aunts, activities, community and trendy gift ideas.Melanie identified this influential segment of women, which she has dubbed PANKs (Professional Aunts No Kids), when she herself became an aunt. In February 2009, she guest posted for Lisa Belkin’s parenting blog in The New York Times to explain the value of aunts and godmothers in family life. The term has also appeared in More Magazine, TrendCentral.com, Washington Post, The Record, The Star Ledger, Dallas Morning News among others. On July 26, 2009, she launched Savvy Auntie’s Day, the first national holiday to honor aunts and aunt-hood.As child lifestyle expert and tastemaker, Auntie Melanie has been featured numerous times on NBC, CBS, ABC, CW, FOX News and Better TV showcasing the coolest kid trends of the season. She was also contributing editor at Toy Wishes Magazine and serves on the Toy Industry Association Toy of the Year Nomination Committee. read more

Melanie Notkin is America’s premier Savvy Auntie, empowering the nearly 50% of American women who are not moms to celebrate all they do for the children in their lives, while living their own lives to the fullest. She launched SavvyAuntie.com, the first online community for aunts and godmothers, in the summer of 2008 to wide-acclaim. The website includes expert content designed specifically for aunts, activities, community and trendy gift ideas.Melanie identified this influential segment of women, which she has dubbed PANKs (Professional Aunts No Kids), when she herself became an aunt. In February 2009, she guest posted for Lisa Belkin’s parenting blog in The New York Times to explain the value of aunts and godmothers in family life. The term has also appeared in More Magazine, TrendCentral.com, Washington Post, The Record, The Star Ledger, Dallas Morning News among others. On July 26, 2009, she launched Savvy Auntie’s Day, the first national holiday to honor aunts and aunt-hood.As child lifestyle expert and tastemaker, Auntie Melanie has been featured numerous times on NBC, CBS, ABC, CW, FOX News and Better TV showcasing the coolest kid trends of the season. She was also contributing editor at Toy Wishes Magazine and serves on the Toy Industry Association Toy of the Year Nomination Committee. read more

Business Innovation: Starting your own business is workable even if you lack marketing capital. Listen as Melanie Notkin tells you what she's learned about social-networking sites and how they can help you get your message out there.