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Faith Rumer is a Dynamic Presence & Authentic Communication Coach, speaker, and author of the best-selling book Truly Be Seen and Heard.

For over 25 years, she has helped creative professionals, leaders, and entrepreneurs unlock their authentic voice, elevate their presence, and connect with impact.

A professional singer-songwriter and performer, Faith has shared stages with legends like Rod Stewart and Earth, Wind & Fire, and sang the National Anthem for 50,000 people.

As the founder of Raising Your Impact and The Artist First Voice & Acting Studio, Faith blends artistry, science, and personal transformation to help her clients confidently express themselves and expand their impact. They step out of invisibility, embrace their true voice, and create lasting influence in their careers, organizations, and lives.

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54 years into a spectacular marriage, here to do Tikkun Olam, repairing the world.  Been a legal secretary, a Stage Mom (great stories there too), and a charity worker, loving my home, my garden, my cats.

My book, “Are Relationships For Suckers?” is my legacy.  We make all the mistakes and STAYED TOGETHER, working out the solutions, all of them.  I need to share all of that with anyone who’ll listen, to stop all the unnecessary heartbreak, fear of commitment, pain and sorrow love can cause and find the joy that doing it well brings.

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Dr. Sarah Jefferis holds a BA and MA from Hollins University, an MFA in Poetry from Cornell, and a PhD in American Lit/Creative Writing from Binghamton University. Poetry publications include Lucky to Have You (Finishing Line Press, May 2026). Forgetting the Salt (Foothills Press, 2008) and What Enters the Mouth (Standing Stone Books, 2017), as well as poems/essays that have appeared in The North American Review, The Catamaran, The Cimarron Review, Rhino, The American Literary Review, and others. She has been a poetry and essay fellow at the Saltonstall Foundation of the Arts, the Community of Writers, MASS MoCA, and the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference.

In addition to being a Senior Lecturer at Cornell, where she teaches rhetorical writing, she is also the CEO and intuitive writing coach of her own writing consulting business, called Write. Now, whose mission includes using yoga/meditation to help clients overcome writer’s block. She offers poetry readings and keynote addresses on the use of writing as a healing modality. As a Lisa Nichols Certified Facilitator and a certified Vinyasa and Yin Yoga teacher, Dr. Jefferis founded Mat to Pen, a Yin Yoga workshop that designs reflective journal prompts to help participants move from post-traumatic stress to post-traumatic growth in personal transformation.

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