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Leslie Glass

CEO Reach Out Recovery, Author, DocumentarianReach Out Recovery

Florida

Member Since June 2021

About

Leslie Glass is the CEO and Co-founder of Reach Out Recovery the popular addiction recovery/healthy lifestyle website with her daughter Lindsey Glass. Before becoming a recovery writer and advocate, Leslie worked in publishing and at NY Magazine where she wrote the Intelligencer column. She is the author of 15 novels, including 9 NYTimes bestselling Sgt. April Woo suspense novels. In 2011, Leslie and Lindsey launched Reach Out Recovery to provide information and coping skills to the 120 Americans directly impacted by addiction. They produced the American Society of Addiction Medicine Media Award Winning Documentary, The Secret World Of Recovery. In 2014, they produced the WEDU PBS teen prevention documentary, The Silent Majority. Leslie is the author of the children's coloring book, My Family Is Hurting, What Can I Do and the Teen Guide To Health.

Published content

Has Working From Home Broken Our Connections?

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When the pandemic hit, our lives were changed forever.

How CEOs Can Help Employees With Addiction In The Family

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Mental health education and addiction recovery support is good for business.

How Business Can Become Recovery-Friendly

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The profound conflict between honesty and anonymity is particularly painful in business environments.

12 Ways Business Leaders Can Articulate a Vision With an Uncertain Future

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To survive in business long term, leaders must be able to respond and adapt to sudden changes. Nothing is ever certain in business. The products and services provided by companies solve real, current problems, but the mission that fuels a business is bound to change as time goes on. Leaders must be able to pivot and adapt their organizations in a changing environment. Despite the challenges presented by a fluctuating market or evolving times, it’s still possible to effectively make and achieve goals that help secure a business’s future. Below, members of Newsweek Expert Forum share their expert advice on the best strategy leaders can use to create a vision for the future of their organization among uncertainty.

How Business Can End the Addiction Epidemic

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Ending addiction in the workplace is good business.

Five Ways to Build Genuine Connections Virtually

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Establishing and maintaining a robust network of authentic connections is the key to finding new opportunities. It takes time and effort to ensure the establishment of an authentic relationship. The same is true in business where remote and hybrid operations over the past year have made networking essential for finding new opportunities.  With social media and virtual meetings being more widely used, we’re no longer limited to just the traditional means when it comes to interacting with other people. However, business leaders must be careful to not make the mistake of thinking that continually building new connections and sustaining contacts virtually with their network is supposed to be all about business. Here, five members of Newsweek Expert Forum share tips on how to build genuine relationships in a virtual environment.

Company details

Reach Out Recovery

Company bio

Reach Out Recovery is addiction recovery and healthy lifestyle website and publishing company created by recovery advocates and mother/daughter writing team, Leslie and Lindsey Glass. Writing for people impacted by mental illness and addiction, Leslie and Lindsey are innovators who believe that recovery is the biggest untold story in America. They are the producers of award-winning documentaries and dozens of articles that help people cope with addiction in their families. Leslie and Lindsey have themselves traveled the recovery journey. While the addiction epidemic continues to proliferate, the Glass team is now dedicated to bringing business into the recovery picture to help promote education and a healthy lifestyle. Business leaders have the reach and resources to make a lasting cultural change for the public good. 2021 marks Reach Out Recovery's tenth anniversary bringing recovery information and support to the 120 million Americans directly impacted by addiction. This vast untapped market and is also a large underserved population that is provided virtually no support or education from accessible sources. Located in Sarasota Florida and Los Angeles California, Reach Out Recovery has a worldwide audience for its more than 1300 original articles that simplify complicated medical and psychological information. Reach Out Recovery welcomes guest and sponsored posts from experts on relationships, addiction, recovery, education for teens and all aspects of the healthy lifestyle. Reach Out Recovery publishes books including, 100 Tips for Growing Up, My 20 Years of Recovery, by Lindsey Glass; The Teen Guide To Health, What Every Teen Needs to Know, by Leslie Glass, workbooks and other tools for recovery and they healthy lifestyle. The website has daily updates and new contents and an active social media platform.

Industry

Health

Area of focus

Addiction recovery, healthy lifestyle, recovery lifestyle

Company size

2 - 10

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