About Barb
BARB SCALA
Lifestyle Coach, Radio Host, Speaker, Author, On Air Talent, Program & Event Producer
Known for inspiring individuals and audiences alike to live balanced, happy, healthy and fulfilled lifestyles, Barb is host of Bloom Talk Radio and co-author of Sanity Savers: Tips for Women to Live a Balanced Life.
An attorney who bloomed through her own reinvention, Barb is also founder of the Bloom lifestyle brand and President of Bloom Services LLC, offering life and career coaching and consulting to help individuals design “success” life plans, and partnering with businesses and organizations to produce purpose driven special events.
From her own transitions and working with people who are re-designing, re-building and re-inventing their own lives, Barb created a life design program called Seeds for Success to help people make changes in their lives and careers and live authentic lives. Barb also speaks to national organizations, conferences and Fortune 500 companies about life-work balance, self and career development and lifestyle design. Her book, Sanity Savers, has been featured on NBC’s Today Show.
Sanity Savers: Tips for Women to Live a Balanced Life
Audiences and individuals alike connect with Barb’s effective, energetic and creative style. She often appears on radio and television talking about her Seeds for Success, recently on Better TV about career makeovers and as part of a Women in the Workforce panel on WTNH’s CT Style. As host of her own web radio show, Bloom Talk, Barb also interviews such notable guests, authors, leaders and “real” people who are blooming. She is often quoted on career and life transitions in magazines and periodicals such as the NY Daily News.
Co-founder of the Women’s Images: Inside & Out Conference, Barb is a trailblazer and spokesperson for lifestyle development and is an active member in her community having been involved with many organizations including CancerCare, Breast Cancer Network of Strength and the annual Connecticut Health Conference.
The mother of two teens, Barb is based out of the Connecticut Shoreline and continues to Bloom!
Leadership & Other Community Activities: Co-founder of the Women’s Images Conference; co-creator of CancerCare of CT Girls’ Night Out events; founding member of Divorce Solutions of Connecticut; health conference planning committee and advisory council member for the Women and Family Life Center; member of the International Coaching Federation; president of the Council of Beaches for the Town of Westbrook; and team captain/chair for Breast Cancer Network of Strength’s Walk to Empower.
Speaker/Program Production for many notable organizations and companies such as: Association of Women Business Leaders, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Breast Cancer Network of Strength, Citi Smith Barney Women & Co. Symposium, CT Green Scene, CT Women’s Expo, Esteemed Woman Foundation, Holistic Moms, Merrill Lynch, R.J. Julia Booksellers, Sacred Heart University, The Learning Center, Women@Work Network, Women’s Business Development Center, CT Women’s Health Conference, Yale New Haven Hospital Women’s Series, YWCA Center for Women’s Leadership.
TV Clip: Career Makeover on Better TV
TV Clip: Barb Bloomin’ on CT Style Show
TV Clip: Turning Life Around & “Seeds for Success” on Better CT