Debbie Elicksen Email & Phone Number

I spent most of my adult life living in a locker room.Growing up, I wanted to be different and non-traditional. When I was 11, I wanted to coach the Boston Bruins; and when I was working in football, I dreamt of becoming NFL commissioner. With no degree, except a broadcasting certificate, I gumshoed my way into becoming a paid professional writer and publisher. Told that women couldn’t sell advertising, I was hired by a few magazines and a cable news channel, and then sold ads in junior football, and for a Triple A farm team of the California Angels when I was their PR director.I was told women couldn’t work in the NHL, and I became an accredited NHL reporter, writing for NBC Sports, Associated Press, Hockey Canada, and others. I served 18 years as an administrator in Canadian junior football, was the first female president of a football conference in Canada, and was inducted into the 2018 Alberta Sports Hall of Fame as part of back-to-back championship teams.Having had no real-life role models to emulate, pop culture characters and inspirational stories from the sport arena were what drove me. I was lucky to find two exceptional male mentors: a broadcasting instructor that told me I was good enough when I couldn’t see it; and The Hockey Maven, Stan Fischler, who opened the door a crack so I could barrel in.For 10 years, I was known as the go-to-person to get your book published. It was a job description I invented that didn’t exist. I worked on over 150 books for self-published authors and traditional publishers, including a few bestsellers. I personally wrote and published 18 books, and currently have two more in the cue.I conducted numerous workshops, training sessions, and keynotes on how to use digital media to improve literacy, marketing, and create products with. I was also a member of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers.

Listed skills include Social Media Marketing, Social Media, Editing, Blogging, and 44 others.