About Cheryl Edwards

Born in 1969, I grew up an only child in Williamsville, New York, a suburb of Buffalo (Go Bills!). Despite all the ‘talks too much in class’ report card comments, I eventually made it to the State University of New York at Buffalo (Go Bulls!), where I majored in pre-law and minored in environmental studies. I basically wanted to be Erin Brokovich long before I’d even heard of Erin Brokovich. However, I met a cute boy the week after graduation and had my ass kicked by the vocabulary portion of the LSAT one too many times, so it wasn’t long after that I gave up my dream of law school and went in a different direction.

You could say my illustrious sales career began at age sixteen when I was tapped to hand out cheese samples at the local grocery store where I worked as a cashier. From there, I went on to sell clothes, jewelry, computers, houses, and drugs. But even though they were just the pharmaceutical kind, that doesn’t make me any less of a badass.

Fast forward to 2004, when that cute boy and I, along with two cute boys of our own, moved to join the rest of my family in Florida, where I continued to work in real estate. While I spent some free time reading, running, biking, working out, jet skiing, and snow skiing, when I wasn’t working, most of my time was spent as a helicopter mom—the Apache kind.

Thanks to Toastmasters, Dale Carnegie, and being a wedding officiant three times over, I’m not one to shy away from public speaking. I’m even putting it to good use these days promoting my book. And when I’m not writing, I run my own real estate brokerage. Because it turns out wordsmithing also comes in handy when marketing condos to snowbirds, too.

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The big WHY behind the book

10 Fun Facts

  1. I wouldn’t mind being arrested. It’s not like I’m looking for jail time. I’m really just in it for the mugshot.
  2. I don’t like coffee. There, I said it. No expresso martinis, no mocha whatevers, not even tiramisu. I tried to like it, but when twelve creamers and twenty-seven sugars didn’t help, I gave up.
  3. My party trick is that I can recite Dr. Suess’s ABC in its entirety on command—a side effect from reading your kids a lot of bedtime stories.
  4. While driving, I like to sing Disney princess songs at the top of my lungs. I’m no American Idol contestant, but thanks to middle school select chorus, I’m definitely dive bar karaoke material.
  5. I love cheese. Coincidentally, I just recently learned that my great-grandfather used to own a cheese factory in Switzerland.
  6. I got my motorcycle license at age 55, so like Tom Cruise, I can now do all my own stunts.
  7. I’m dying to learn how to whistle super loud with my fingers in my mouth. #hockeymomgoals
  8. I’m a pretty good cook if I do say so myself. My rum cake even won a blue ribbon at the county fair.
  9. Born on December 13th, I’m the epitome of a Sagittarius: honest, optimistic, adventurous, independent, and feisty. They don’t call it a fire sign for nothin’.
  10. The only celebrity I’ve ever met was Doc from The Love Boat. However, I’m more of a Gopher girl.