Mary Piccolo has always been in touch with her dream. She had a very turbulent upbringing, which did not help in the manifesting of that precious dream. She gained strength and conviction through those years and in her mid 20s discovered that she had an extreme talent for sales and marketing. Mrs. Piccolo had a long haul to the top, but now over a decade later she is a self-made millionaire. Perhaps more impressive though is that she attained that success without forgetting where she comes from. "Dedicated, disciplined, strong-willed, but soft-hearted" is how she is best described. Mary Piccolo's most endearing trait is that she is willing to help anyone with a desire to lift themselves up and soar to new heights. As the former Vice President of Marketing for a Direct Sales company for over four years, she focused her career on the education and training of the company's thousands of associates. In an effort to understand the challenges of the field representatives, she elected to spend a year "in the trenches" as a field representative. For the four years prior to her in-house corporate career she held top sales performance positions in several companies, including Tru Dynamics and Excel Telecommunications. Mrs. Piccolo has also held marketing and sales positions for ClubMed, Southwest Arrangers, and Continental Airlines. As a successful sales leader, she then entered the public speaking arena, where she has shared the stage with notable speakers such as Mark Victor Hansen (Chicken Soup For The Soul), Robert Allen (No Money Down), Dolf de Roos (Real Estate Riches), Sharon Lechter (co-author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad), Tom Hopkins (The Art Of Closing The Sale), and Omar Periu (Investigative Selling), as well as famous celebrities like Art Linkletter and Ed McMahon. Today, Mrs. Piccolo has developed a new passion in life, being "mommy" to Samantha Rae Piccolo, her and her husband Jim's first child. As first a seasoned marketer, then a corporate executive, and now a mother, Mary Piccolo has a well-rounded and complete understanding of the challenges and demands faced by women today. This understanding is what makes her indispensable as a business leader and community leader, where she fosters others' dreams of success and helps to make those dreams a reality.