Michael Masterson
Michael Masterson is not your typical businessman. An ex–Peace Corps volunteer, he never took a class in business, doesn’t read the business press, and doesn’t like to talk business. He spends his spare time writing poetry, collecting fine art, and practicing Brazilian Jujitsu. His neighbors call him a bohemian. But he’s also an entrepreneur. He started his first business when he was 11 years old, and in the 45 years that have elapsed since then, he has played an integral part in dozens of successful businesses in a variety of industries.
The last business Michael admits to having helped launch is EarlytoRise.com, an Internet-based company that provides advice and training in “health, wealth, and wisdom.” Started initially as an informal weekly e-mail to a handful of his protégés, it quickly morphed into a $28 million enterprise.
The primary focus of his business life these days, however, is as consultant to Agora Inc., a $300 million, Baltimore-based publisher of information products with offices in England, France, Spain, Germany, South Africa, and Australia.
Notwithstanding clandestine luncheons that erupt into new multimillion-dollar ventures, Michael insists that he has been spending most of his time teaching and writing since he retired, for the second time, when he turned 53.
He writes poetry and fiction (“somewhat badly,” he says), as well as books on business and wealth building (all of which have been Wall Street Journal, Amazon.com, or New York Times best-sellers). “I have a readership that appreciates the way I look at things,” Michael says. “And that is gratifying.”
His non-fiction books include Ready, Fire, Aim: Zero to $100 Million in No Time Flat, Seven Years to Seven Figures: The Fast-Track Plan to Becoming a Millionaire, Automatic Wealth for Grads…and Anyone Else Just Starting Out, Automatic Wealth: The Six Steps to Financial Independence, Power and Persuasion: How to Command Success in Business and Your Personal Life, and Confessions of a Self-Made Multi-Millionaire.
Changing the Channel is his eleventh book and sixth with John Wiley & Sons. He continues to write about starting and developing small businesses on a weekly basis in the EarlytoRise.com e-zine.
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MaryEllen Tribby
MaryEllen Tribby has led the Early to Rise team for the past 2 years as Publisher & CEO. She has over 20 years of publishing and business experience; and most notably, her direct marketing expertise. Since coming on board, she has more than tripled ETR’s revenue in the past 15 months.
Her extensive publishing experience includes serving as President of Weiss Research, managing divisions of Forbes, Globe Communications, Times Mirror Magazines and Crain’s New York Business.
MaryEllen often speaks on expert panels at industry specific events including SIPA, FIPA and DMA. Changing the Channel: 12 Easy Ways to Make Extra Millions for Your Business, co-authored by Michael Masterson, is her first book.
She currently resides in Boca Raton, FL with her husband of 12 years, Patrick, and their three beautiful children, Mikaela, Connor and Delanie.
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