On The Right Path- NBA Coach Brett Gunning, Award-Winning Author Stacy Padula, and Executive Producer Mark Blutman

NBA Coach Brett Gunning, Award-Winning Author Stacy Padula, and Executive Producer Mark Blutman - Walk With Me Podcast

 

The On The Right Path” book series has been endorsed by Joel Osteen, Pastor of Lakewood Church

 

Author Stacy A. Padula of Plymouth, Massachusetts has accrued years of experience working with adolescents as a private educational consultant with extensive experience in the fields of college counseling and tutoring, as well as a mentor, life coach, and youth group leader. For roughly eight years, she was the director of a private education company, where she managed a staff of thirty tutors and developed all company curriculum. In 2016, she founded South Shore College Consulting & Tutoring, and in 2019, she founded another company: Briley & Baxter Publications, a publishing company built on the model of giving back to animal rescues.

 

Publications: Stacy is the author of nine Young Adult novels with her tenth and eleventh in the works. Her "Montgomery Lake High" book series, which is young adult Christian fiction, was released between 2010-2014. In 2016, Barnes & Noble chose Stacy to be a featured author for its teen book festival. In 2019, she began releasing a new book series titled “Gripped,” which takes place in the same world as "Montgomery Lake High" but focuses on different main characters. In 2019, Stacy Padula also wrote her first screenplay, an adaptation of her novel “The Aftermath” and worked on writing a pilot for “Gripped” that has been highly embraced by Hollywood producers. In 2020, Stacy began writing a third book series with NBA Coach Brett Gunning. Geared towards children ages three through eight, Stacy and Brett’s soon-to-be-released “On The Right Path” book series has been endorsed by Joel Osteen, Mike D’Antoni, and Kevin McHale as a series that belongs in every school, library, and household.

 

Awards: Stacy Padula was featured in Marquis Who’s Who in America (2018) for excellence in literature and education, Marquis Who’s Who in the World (2018 & 2019), and Cambridge Who’s Who for Young Professionals (2009). In 2018, she was awarded the Albert Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2019, the International Association of Top Professionals (IAOTP of New York, NY) chose Stacy Padula as its “Top Educational Consultant of the Year.” Then in 2020, she was named “Empowered Woman of the Year” by IAOTP. Each of her novels have risen to best seller status in a variety categories on Amazon from 2010 onward. From February through March of 2019, “Gripped Part 1” was the #1 New Release on Amazon Kindle in its category. In November of 2019, “Gripped Part 3” was the #1 New Release on Amazon in Paperback and on Kindle in 3 different genres. In May and June of 2020, “Gripped Part 4” became the #1 New Release on Amazon in multiple genres as well.

 

Stacy writes young adult novels in the hopes of preparing teens to face the “war zone” that is high school—to help kids deal with the stress and peer pressure and to encourage them to “steer a straight path, pursue God, and not fall for the false promises of the world.”

 

Brett Gunning

 

Brett Gunning has spent the last 26 years coaching in College and the NBA. He began his career in 1994 as an assistant coach for Jay Wright at Hofstra University. Over the next seven seasons, he was a part of a staff that turned Hofstra into an American East powerhouse, posting a 72-22 (.766) record from 1998-2001.

 

Mark Blutman

Mark Blutman is a producer and writer, known for Boy Meets World (1993), Girl Meets World (2014) and Ghostwriter (2019).