ABOUT THE OWNER

Mary Faktor is a professional actor, speaker and business owner. A member of the National Speaker’s Association and the National Association of Self Esteem, Mary is personally trained and certified as a Self-Esteem/Life Balance Facilitator by Jack Canfield (Chicken Soup for the Soul.) She has also trained with Dr. John Gray (Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus) is certified Level 2 REIKI, and is certified in Emotional Release Therapy by Dr. Walter Weston (Healing Yourself, Healing Others.)

To keep current, Mary attends educational training such as the Worldwide Summit Conference in San Francisco and Argentina’s SEAL Conference (Society for Effective/Affective Learning). Mary has presented her inspirational workshop “Inner Voices, Smart Choices” in the U.S. and internationally …. From the staff of the prestigious Lincoln School in Buenos Aires to the state conference of DARE Officers in Ohio.

A member of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the Screen Actor’s Guild, Mary is a graduate of The Second City of Chicago and Cleveland and is the Cleveland Coordinator for the Spiritual Cinema Community. She can currently be seen in the Cannes/Sundance-winning, Oscar-nominated film, AMERICAN SPLENDOR, PBS film YOU ARE HERE, and soon-to-be-released film, FIGHTING GRAVITY (with Ed O’Neil). Since 1984, she has been entertaining audiences across the country with her original one-woman comedy show, “The Six Ages of Woman.”

Her inspirational, interactive, and fun workshop, “Inner Voices, Smart Choices,” has been presented to major corporations, associations, hospitals, churches and fundraisers throughout the country. Mary incorporates her message of self-growth with humorous anecdotes and selections of thought-provoking poetry from her book, Inner Voices. Her accomplishments have been featured on various television newscasts and major newspapers throughout the country. Mary is active in the Youth Motivation Task Force and speaks pro bono in Inner City Schools.

Her business, Faktor’s Talent Network, (www.FaktorsTalentNetwork.com) provides professional variety talent, event planning, and creative services to diverse organizations and businesses. Mary has co-hosted the “Today in Cleveland” television show, and can be seen and heard on various radio and television commercials. In 1995, Mary’s boundless energy placed her in the Top 20 Women Business Owners of Northeast Ohio. Her most recent endeavor is THE ANGEL’S NEST (www.AngelsNest.us) Life Balance Retreat House in Peninsula, OH where she sees clients on a confidential basis and conducts intimate weekend retreat workshops of 6-12 people. Mary is a proud mother of two and grandmother of three.