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About Danielle LaPorte | DanielleLaPorte.com

Danielle LaPorte is the outspoken creator of The Desire Map, author of The Fire Starter Sessions (Random House/Crown), and co-creator of Your Big Beautiful Book Plan, and soon-to-be publisher of Danielle Magazine, launching this September. An inspirational speaker, former think tank exec and business strategist, she writes weekly at DanielleLaPorte.com, where over a million visitors have gone for her straight-up advice — a site that’s been deemed “the best place on-line for kick-ass spirituality”, and was named one of the “Top 100 Websites for Women” by Forbes.

Danielle has been featured in Elle, Body + Soul, Vogue Australia, Better Homes & Gardens, Globe & Mail, The National Post, The Huffington Post, Entertainment Tonight, USAToday and BusinessWeek.com. She was a news show commentator for CBC, and is a former director of a Washington-DC think tank, where she managed a team of analysts studying global trends for the likes of the Pentagon and the World Bank.

A list of “Top 10 Blogs by Women That Might Change Your Life,” describes Danielle LaPorte like this:

“She’s confidently contrarian, feminine, decisive, and creative. She combines spirituality with sound business principles. She has an e-program, a line of chic, minimalist notecards, and gives coaching sessions at $1000 a pop. She’s been listed, ranked and quoted. At the core of her success is her ability to write. She writes beautifully, lustfully, and poignantly and is quite possibly the most talented and insightful writer publishing on the web. If you haven’t experienced www.daniellelaporte.com, you are missing the best of the web.”

Based in Vancouver, BC, you can find her on Facebook, Twitter @daniellelaporte and Pinterest.


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Sassy, Delicious, Definitive Inspiration At It's Finest!

Danielle LaPorte has a fabulously sassy and definitive writing style with content to offer anyone who dares to contemplate the question "Should I dream? Dare I hope for more?" … If there was a mind map for the dreamer, this would be it! Read the full review.

- M. Morales

Danielle’s unique combination of pragmatism and love of profit, with high minded inspiration and dream, breathed life into (my) questions - enlarging them and illuminating them until I found the answers that were just right.

- Bri Saussy | MilagroRoots.com

I think I'm going to make listening to @daniellelaporte #DesireMap a prerequisite to becoming a client of ours. Would create ease & flow.

- Erin Blaskie | ErinBlaskieInc.com

“Having access to this level of information like this has NEVER been possible before – it made me feel like a CIA agent that had ‘TOP SECRET’ insider information to make my book proposal UNDENIABLE to publishers. Right from the start, I got a HOT subtitle, updated my table of contents + am now creating a book proposal my Agent will just be fired up to shop around for an even better advance than we thought.”

– Hillary Rubin | HillaryRubin.com

The Fire Starter Sessions is a modern masterpiece that will impact millions of lives, for generations to come. It’s outrageously inspiring, wise, and actionable. I simply cannot recommend it enough. Prepare for a religious experience. You’re going to fall in love with this book.”

- Marie Forleo | MarieForleo.com