Our other books were selling pretty well so I decided to commission Sarah to write another book. This time it was in a different direction to help women in the workplace. She did the research and put some personal experiences she had suffered through and we released Woman’s Workplace Survival Guide.

The Woman's Workplace Survival Guide is a passionately written guide on problems that affect women in the workplace. Coworkers and bosses present unique challenges, but many women are their own worst enemies - sabotaging their careers and failing to go after what they want. This book encourages women to stop waiting for that big break and start playing offense in their career. Women, more than men, face issues like gossip, envy, criticism, passive-aggressive coworkers, burnout and struggles with a work / life balance. Women will also learn about the old boy network, sexual harassment, unequal pay, communication, self-esteem and self-respect. Not all offices or workplaces are the same, but many of the policies and challenges women face are the same, no matter where they work.

The reviews for this book were very positive and interest was high.

Even with all the work I had done in the drug education arena, there was still so much left to be done. I heard about a local family who had lost a child to an overdose of a oxycodone, a commonly prescribed and legal drug. This illustrated, once again that it isn’t just about illegal drugs. That’s when I started my next film.

I hired a good friend S.S. Schweitzer, Paddy to write a script for me on the subject of prescription drug abuse. It was a broad subject with plenty of room for several films.

We started production. Once again I wasn’t satisfied that we were on the right track and I halted production. Paddy was disappointed but I told him that it wasn't consistent with my vision. I didn’t feel that the message or the target audience was right.

After a couple of months reworking the idea and script, we started again. We threw out the script and went back to the real story theme that had worked so well for my other films. It took about six months to produce but I knew that we had another big hit on our hands.

In 2006 we released Drug Wars – Rx to Die for is about prescription drug abuse and what a serious problem it is with our high school children not to mention the millions of people who are addicted to them. Prescription drugs can be just as deadly as illegal drugs, and often, easier to get. Unfortunately, because these drugs are prescribed by a doctor, many people don’t realize just how deadly they can be.  In Drug Wars - Rx To Die For, addiction treatment experts teach us how these drugs can destroy your body and brain, and victims who have experienced the devastating affects first hand tell their stories.   This film does a great job of telling people about the dangers of prescription drug abuse.

Years ago I had the vision of teens being persuaded to smoke because they thought it was cool. I made some notes about a film where we could sit in the board room of a big tobacco company and listen to the conversation. In 2005 I talked to Paddy about it and we decided to do a film that portrayed the event. I told him that I couldn’t understand the thinking of anyone who would deliberately produce a product that would kill so many people. What must that be like? That was the theme for my next film. The one scene I had in my head the villain says “If you make kids think it is cool to have a nail sticking out of the side of their head, you would have millions of kids running around driving spikes into the sides of their heads.”

This film was totally acted and professionally directed. I brought a director in from Hollywood who had directed several well known films and he did an excellent job. The acting was superb and everyone loved it. I had some edgy music from a well known group in LA do the music and it has all the makings of a great hit.

My older brother Richard passed away in 2006. My relationship with him was estranged. We never reconciled a family incident. I felt bad that he died without any connection with his family. I looked back at when we were young and the abuse he had taken from my father was terrible. I had learned so much about it and I only wish that I would have reached out to him before he died.

Not long after we finished shooting Target Teen, Paddy passed away. He was a really good friend.  He was like the father I didn't know. He was good enough of a friend to tell me when my work stunk.

Not long after that, I had another really good friend, Don Thomson pass away. We used to have dinner with Don and his wife Anita every Friday night. I watched his kids grow up and he watched mine grow up. I was there when he found his father. He was always present at all of my events and was one of my biggest supporters.

It was a bad year for friends.  Between Don and Paddy, I had lost my two best friends. After that, when I met people for the first time, I told them if they wanted to be my friend they would have to take a physical. I wasn’t emotionally stable enough to go through that again.

I could have not known how much my emotional stability was going to be tested in the coming years.

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