I am an award-winning author and TV producer, host and speaker who has also made an indelible mark in the corporate world. Most recently, I have served as Vice President Affiliate Relations/Head of Talent for Westwood One/Metro Television as a nationwide talent recruiter, coach and consultant to news stations. I am also a performance coach to creative and media professionals, working with people in the business world, as well as film, TV, radio, print, music and the Internet, bringing them the experience, techniques and inspiration to take their businesses, ideas, careers and media savvy to new levels of success.
DISC trained, I have served as personnel consultant and motivational speaker for companies which include Price Waterhouse Coopers, Bayer Pharmaceuticals, Vineyard Bank, Olvera Street Merchants Association, Silk Cloud INC., and AIA Studios, as well as a media trainer, and featured presenter at educational conferences and professional associations. My book, Stop Waiting For Permission! (Havenhurst), A book about not taking "No" for an answer (featuring interviews with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jenny McCarthy and Burt Rutan just to name a few) was the recipient of the Walsh Foundation Best Personal Growth Book of the Year for 2010.
A certified practitioner of Hypnotherapy, Neuro-linguisitc Programming, and Timeline Therapy™, I've been tapped as Relationship Coach and Consultant for Tough Love, the relationship-themed reality show on VH-1, as well as for the Garcelle Beauvais talk show pilot THRIVE. I am also the creator and executive producer of Born Schizophrenic the Discovery Health Channel docu-series chronicling the life of Jani Schofield who was diagnosed with Child Onset Schizophrenia at the age of 3. The show was the recipient of the 2010 CINE Golden Eagle Award for Excellence in Documentary Programming. I have appeared as a relationship expert on Judith Reagan's talk show, and Morning Living on Martha Stewart Radio, and as a regular on Candace Bushnell's Radio show Sex, Success, and Sensibility.
I also contribute my family advice blogs to "The Kitchen Table," an author's spotlight page on Maria Shriver's California Women's Conference site, and also recently partnered with attorney Bradley P Boyer for a series of articles on maximizing success in business published in legal journals all around the country.
A Life Coach helps you create a specific strategy for your life. Your coach is a career strategy and life direction expert who understands your needs and circumstances. When your life seems to be going in a direction you never anticipated, your coach can be there for you when YOU want and need! Whatever you dream about being, changing, or accomplishing...get started today! You deserve to have a life you love.
*One hour is recommended for the first session
One-Hour Session $100/hr
Half-Hour Session $75/hr
If you're ready to create a lasting breakthrough in your life now, your commitment to the work we do together will allow you to achieve that breakthrough.
*One hour session is recommended for all new clients
Four One-Hour Sessions - $325
Eight Half-Hour Sessions - $475
Ten Half-Hour Sessions - $600
As one of today's most prolific television hosts and news personalities, Steve's current endeavor is as host of the new Discovery Channel series, "Cool Stuff and How it Works". Steve is also known for hosting the popular series "Ground Rules!" on HGTV, and "The Human Edge" on the National Geographic Channel, as well as "Dream Decoders" for the Discovery Health Channel. And For the past several years, Steve has been a familiar face and voice to Southern Californians as an entertainment correspondent, and TV weather and traffic reporter. His work as a member of the top-rated weekend team for "Today in L.A. Weekend" on KNBC-TV channel 4 earned him the Golden Pylon Award for his commitment to ridesharing.
Steve also serves as host of both the international music video program "'The American Chart Show," and the video game review show "Cybernet". Recently, Steve was tapped by Sirius Satellite Radio to write, produce and edit a documentary special for the California's Women's Conference, interviewing such attendees as California First Lady Maria Shriver, Duchess Sarah Ferguson, and his holiness The Dalai Lama, to name a few.
In 1992, Steve began his broadcasting career covering the devastation during the Los Angeles riots. As a reporter for Metro Networks, Steve covered the 1992 Landers Earthquake, the 1993 Laguna and Malibu fires, the notorious O.J. Simpson Slow Speed Chase, and the 1994 Northridge earthquake.
In the winter of 1995, Steve joined the "Suzi Landolphi Show" on KMPC as sidekick. During his tenure with KMPC, Steve also served as guest host for KCET-TV pledge drives. In the fall of 1997, he joined KCBS-TV, Channel 2 News as a Breaking News Reporter in the helicopter covering a wide variety of stories from high-speed police pursuits to El Niño! Steve's news savvy and love for show business led him to an Entertainment Reporter position at Metro in 1998, covering film press events interviewing Hollywood's elite, as well as covering the red carpet for the Academy Awards.
His writings have been quoted in "The New Yorker", and he holds a practitioners certification in Neurolinguistic Programming and hypnotherapy.
In his spare time, Steve is an active member of the radio-play group KSOAP.com, writing and directing original works such as "The Serum Trail," and volunteers for Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic.
"Stop Waiting For Permission" is the book that takes the question asked by millions of people around the world every day, "Why aren't I happy?" and answers it. A bold statement, until you realize that as a certified Hypnotherapist, Life Coach, and TV and Radio host in the life empowerment field, I have dedicated most of my waking life to that question exhaustively meeting and conversing with, reading letters and hearing from, and helping scores of people who all battle with the same demon: A feeling of being "incomplete." By addressing the 'No's' people come from in life, I have found a fresh, new and lasting approach to real enlightenment down to the deepest unconscious level, and Stop Waiting For Permission! takes you there..
"Steve has brought together concepts, and most importantly steps for action, that tap into powerful approaches to prosperity and empowerment. We each have the gift within to create our own prosperity, and Steve has absolutely opened that up to anyone who reads this book."
Matthew B. James, MA, PhD
President of American Pacific University and Advanced Neuro Dynamics
"With wisdom, intelligence and humor, Steve Truitt has crafted an essential tool for prosperity in these difficult times."
Carrie Stevens, CEO
Envi-image.com, Founder, GreenYourImage.com
"Steve is an amazing person and is brilliant at getting people on the right track with their lives."
Candace Bushnell
Author: Sex and the City, Lipstick Jungle
"Steve loves his work... Steve lives his work. He has a passion for what he's doing that's contagious. And he's authentic, you can't learn from someone if they're not authentic."
Mindy Burbano-Stearns
TV Personality, Philanthropist
"I am jealous of Steve Truitt."
Peter Bart
Editor in Chief, Variety Magazine
Winner: Walsh Seminars Best Personal Growth Book of the Year - Second Place: Reviewers Choice Literary Award - Gold Medal Finalist: Next Generation Indie Book Awards.
As a certified practitioner of Hypnotherapy, Timeline Therapy and Neurolinguistic Programming, I can help you find your way through a "stuck" situation, where you may have never felt you could have a breakthrough. Relationships and Addiction are my specialty.
I am available for consultations by phone. To setup an appointment for your complimentary over-the-phone consultation, you can email me using the form on the left or call the number below.
