2015 Rhode Island Home Based Business Champion

Patricia Raskin

Patricia Raskin, host of the Patricia Raskin Positive Living radio show, is a nationally recognized, multi-media radio talk show host, award-winning producer, speaker and author. She is recognized by her peers and listeners as the “powerhouse voice” behind lifestyle, health and wellness, inspirational and personal growth talk radio. A “positive media” pioneer for over twenty-five years, Patricia has been hosting and producing media programs and serving as a catalyst for creating positive change through programs that focus on the positive side of life. Patricia helps listeners turn obstacles into opportunities and challenges into solutions to make their dreams come true through her renowned interviews with the “best of the best” motivational, spiritual, health, and self-improvement experts.

Relocating from North Carolina to Rhode Island in 2007, Patricia had to cultivate new relationships and find new outlets to deliver her message. Choosing WPRO, the largest talk station in Southern New England, helped Patricia get traction in a new territory and expand her business. Fast.

Growth was achieved by creating a unique niche in media broadcasting. Serving as a positive conduit between her guests and audience with the goal of helping both, she found a need for lifestyle and business experts and owners to communicate their message in a non-traditional format on talk radio. There was, and still is, no other program like hers on Rhode Island airways. Raskin offers her guests their own platform; in essence, their own radio show, through her brand and program. Listeners are interested in self-improvement and positive thinking, while businesses are interested in expressing their message on long form radio. Patricia is the facilitator and media marketer, thus bringing the two together in an informational, educational format.

Each month, Patricia highlights a SCORE client’s business on her radio show. Listeners can call in to ask questions and learn more about the featured organization, while entrepreneurs benefit from an opportunity to engage potential customers and spread the word of how their product or service meets the customer’s needs.
Raskin now hosts and produces several radio programs on air, online, and on demand—on terrestrial radio and on the internet. In addition to many local and regional experts, nationally renowned guests have included Dr. Maya Angelou, Dr. Memhet Oz, Joan Lunden, ABC Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary, Ernest Borgnine, Elliot Gould, Patty Duke, Doris Roberts and Dean McDermott.

Moreover, Patricia has authored two books: Success, Your Dream and You focuses on the five ‘P’s for success —Purpose, Passion, Planning, Persistence, and Patience—in her goal to stimulate a creative working system that will combine business success with internal satisfaction and peace. Pathfinding: Seven Principles for Positive Living helps readers overcome personal struggles and achieve both internal and external success by: honoring ones heritage; being in the precious present; using one’s imperfections to perfect life; honoring ones innate talents and abilities; focusing on the positives; respecting, nurturing, and protecting relationships; and seeing miracles in everyday life.

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