deborah pardes - BIOGRAPHY

As VP of Stories and Voices at Swell, an emerging audio platform, Deborah has participated in more than 30K conversations, including serving as the host for conversations with global thought leaders, including inventor Steven Wozniak, director Nicole Holofcener, and famous actor and orator Stephen Fry. Deborah was a featured speaker at SXSW, with more than 1500 participants and a lively Q & A about the future of social audio. She has hosting corporate podcasts and live public broadcasts including Get Smart Radio and Pause Podcast for Standard Homeopathy. The latter was a series of live, recorded events in Los Angeles that covered the facts and misconceptions of women’s health and menopause. Deborah is also the founder of Artists for Literacy, an educational non-profit that empowers low-level readers with access to complex texts through alternative means. Her Songs Inspired by Literature (SIBL) project secured the support of the California State Library and participation of A-list artists, including Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, Tom Waits, and Suzanne Vega. Media coverage has included NPR, BBC, New York Times, and RollingStone. Her Arresting Knowledge news literacy project teaches basic media literacy skills, along with bias training. She has facilitated these workshops across the country, in a variety of community-based organizations, public libraries, and schools, including University of Rhode Island, Stanford University, and Columbia School of Journalism. 



Deborah earned a BA in English from Barnard College at Columbia University. She was a participant in juried Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars Program. She is the coauthor of Climbing Out from Under: A Handbook For Heartbreak, available on Amazon. She’s a music composer and producer, with six albums to her name.

Deborah's Book

Heartbreak. It steals your oxygen, making it hard for you to breathe. The sheer force of it leans on your body like a building settling into the ground. Heavy. Oppressive. It leaves you no choice but to buckle under its weight. And in this compressed space, you wonder what the next sensation is going to be. Where can you possibly go from here? 

Start here. 

Heartbreak is universal. It happens when dreams die, when lovers leave, when someone or something you counted on as a constant is no longer there. But the pain heartbreak causes can be eased, understood and, ultimately, worked through to bring you to a place of purpose and joy. 

Climbing Out from Under: A Handbook for Heartbreak is a practical, affirming, and inspiring manual for moving through heartbreak to wholeness. Dr. Caron Post and Deborah Pardes marry the science and art of change and transformation to help readers build knowledge, skill, and capacity—not merely to cope but to grow. Their roadmap includes: 

• A time-tested method to stop emotional overwhelm in its tracks
• Tools to build skill and capacity for dealing with uncomfortable and painful feelings
• The secret to breaking attachment to old patterns and making peace with loss
• What to do when you feel isolated, alone, and unaccepting

With proven successful strategies and true stories of pain and revival, Climbing Out from Under: A Handbook for Heartbreak will inspire immediate action and deliver powerful personal results, and is destined to become the go-to companion for life’s inevitable heartbreaks—big and small. 

Join our community at www.climbingoutfromunder.com 

Small enough to read in one sitting and deep enough to carry around for a lifetime...