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Kita Szpak

Kita Szpak is a Canadian author, publicist and speaker who has taken her career direction from promoting others to stepping into the spotlight herself. With two honours degrees in Education and German (Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada), along with an initial speaker’s certification from Fred Pryor Seminars, and business management certification from Queen’s University School of Business, Kita has combined her entrepreneurial expertise, media relations savvy, outstanding people skills, and writing creativity to be in front of an audience as well.

A former competitive figure skater in her adolescent years, Kita learned early on the value of superb presentation skills to inform, entertain, and inspire an audience. Her years of being coached have put her in good stead to coach and promote clients in the corporate and artistic arenas. She has coordinated events, media, book, and CD launches, in addition to artist showcases. Kita has placed artists on Canada AM, The Canadian Gospel Music Awards, North by Northeast, CBC Live, Canadian Music Week, the Blues Challenge in Memphis, and New Artist Radio in Nashville.

Kita has also marketed Ballet Jörgen Canada for several of its productions including Cinderella, Romeo and Juliet, Nutcracker, and Anastasia. While contracted to a local communications agency, she also had the opportunity to promote such artists as Alan Jackson, Vince Gill, Matt Dusk, Carrie Underwood, Roch Voisine, David Clayton Thomas, Jo Dee Messina, Andrea Martin, and Cirque du Soleil’s Michael Jackson World Tour among others.

Two decades years ago, Kita started writing. First telling her stories to her three now adult sons, she eventually published her first children’s book “You’re Special Wherever You Are” at the end of 2009. (The book was honoured as a finalist in the 6^th Annual U.S. Indie National Excellence Awards in the Children’s Inspirational/Motivational category in June 2012).

Transitioning into the “big people” sphere, Kita co-wrote “Tipping Point to Happiness” – a little 7-step guidebook with a big message in 2010. As a follow up to the book’s release, Kita completed a U.S. radio campaign focusing on happiness, earning the title of “happiness expert” along the way. The book earned her the title of one of the top 50 authors you should have read in 2012-13 on TheAuthorsShow.com. She subsequently released “The SIMPLE Life: Shiny Objects Not Required” with Motivational Press in 2014. Kita secured local coverage and interviews for The SIMPLE Life with the Ottawa Citizen, Rogers TV, and CTV as well as placing the book in area bookstores.

Furthermore, this initial exploration into well-being has taken Kita on a spiritual path to becoming a divine healing-hands practitioner/guide, with continued research in the fields of religion, neuroscience, positive psychology, mysticism, quantum mechanics, and philosophy.

Raised Roman Catholic, she has had an abiding interest in the essence of Christianity, however it was reading the historical novels “The Expected One” and “The Book of Love” by Kathleen McGowan that galvanized her continued study of Mary Magdalene, early Christianity, and the role of the Divine Feminine as it impacts us now.

With this in mind, she participated in the “Magdalene sacred journeys” in April, 2024, to “discover the Provencal Tradition (her arrival in Provence with the companions) as well as her history in Cathar Country in connection with this community of Good Men and Good Women living in the 12th and 13th century in Occitania based on the principle of the Gnostic communities of the first Christians.”

Ever important to Kita, to impart the importance of happiness and well-being to others, has her writing a column “Happiness Formula for Parents” for area magazine Ottawa Parenting Times as well as a weekly blog Kita’s Gentle Message that she posts to her website: kitaszpak.com; to her LinkedIn page linkedin.com/in/kita-szpak; her facebook fan page facebook.com/kitawriterspeaker; and her twitter account @kitaszpak.

Kita’s latest work, The Legend of the Beagle Boys, a middle-grade fantasy, is with local publisher, Baico Publishing Inc. as well as being pitched to a US publisher. Happily, the children’s stories keep coming too. “My Big Brother is a Cat” is one of a number of Kita’s menagerie of animal characters that embody her message to kids and adults everywhere: be yourself! And when not writing, you’ll find Kita outside. She’s a happy runner- having done seven marathons including Boston.