middle class life boat
 
"Life has always been a struggle for the poor. The rich have always weathered change. But the midde class hold a unique and sometimes precarious position between the extremes of rich and poor."
Paul & Sarah
Middle Class Lifeboat
 
   

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For over twenty years Paul and Sarah have been advocates for creating healthy, balanced and fulfilling lifestyles. Before becoming authors of 17 books with over two million copies in print, Paul and Sarah Edwards enjoyed individual careers, Sarah, in private practice as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a PhD in ecopsychology and Paul as an attorney, CEO and political consultant.
Their book Working From Home was the first commercially published book about how to work from home. Always interested in major trends and how they will effect our lives, their seventeenth book, Middle Class Lifeboat: Careers and Lifestyles for Navigating a Changing Economy, released January 1, 2008, provides practical information about what individuals can do to address their growing anxiety about economic and ecological changes in the global economy.
The Edwards live in the mountains of the Los Padres National Forest where they also co-direct the Pine Mountain Institute, offering online continuing education (CE) programs for professionals seeking to help clients deal with the practical and psychological challenges of responding creatively and intelligently to today's economic and environmental realities.

Books
The Edwards’ titles include Working From Home, now in its fifth edition. The Best Home Businesses for People 50+, The Best Home Business for the 21st Century, Changing Directions Without Losing Your Way, Cool Careers for Dummies, 1st and 2nd editions,  The Entrepreneurial ParentFinding Your Perfect Work,  Getting Business to Come To You, Home-Based Business for Dummies,  Home Businesses You Can Buy, Making Money with Your Computer at Home, Secrets of Self-Employment, Teaming Up: The Small Business Guide to Collaborating with Others, The Practical Dreamers Handbook, Why Aren’t You Your Own Boss?, and Making Money in Cyberspace, which received the best general computer book award from the Computer Press Association.  Their books have been made into four audio titles and translated into eight languages. 

Columns
Their print column appears in the Costco Connection. From 1988 until 1998 they were contributing editors and columnists for Home Office Computing magazine and until recently wrote columns distributed through the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, and Entrepreneur Magazine, BYOB, and Homeofficemag.com.

TV and Radio
Paul and Sarah have twenty years of radio experience, having hosted and produced Entrepreneur Magazine's Home Based Biz Show for six years and before that for fourteen years, the Working From Home Show on the Business News Network. They hosted the weekly "Working From Home television show with Paul and Sarah Edwards" on Scripps-Howard's Home and Garden cable network, which the network ran for four years.

Spokespeople and Speakers
The Edwards have been retained by such corporations as Avery-Dennison, Canon, DuPont, Epson, Fuji, Hewlett-Packard, Intuit, Microsoft, Network Solutions, Northern Telecom, Okidata, Sears, Symantec, and Xerox. As spokespeople, they have appeared in nearly 100 U.S. cities. Sharing Ideas, the International Newsmagazine for Speakers, Meeting Planners and Agents, named them "Consummate Speakers for 1996."

Recognition
Paul and Sarah have been the subjects of scores of articles in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Business Week, and Newsweek. They have been featured on television shows like the Today Show, the CBS Morning Show and Oprah.  Paul and Sarah have consulted the White House. They were recognized as the U.S. Small Business Administration's (SBA) Region IX "Small Business Journalists of the Year" in 2006.