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R Don Steele's Bio
DON ON TV and RADIO Montel Williams, Jenny Jones, Dick Clark's THE OTHER HALF, To Tell The Truth, A&E's Love Connection Series [Joanna and Don were featured in the May-December Romance, The X Show and many local LA tv shows. [Please see The X Show and The Other Half right here at the site. Just click on VIDEOS on the opening page.] I have done over 400 radio interviews since 1987. I give great interview!
Three times a year, I conduct The Right Attitude Workshop for 20 men. Joanna does a Dress for Successful Dating Workshop six times a year and Advanced Dating Skills for graduates of that workshop twice a year. Everything is here in Los Angeles.
Don's first job was at age 12. In the heart of Appalachia, he was the Saturday telephone operator in his home town of Shippenville, Pennsylvania, population 258. He earned ten cents an hour. At 16, he worked as an embalmer's assistant for the summer. The next summer, he was an oiler of strip mining equipment, a muddy, cold, dreary, dangerous task. Those two jobs convinced him to get an education. He attended Clarion State, Penn State, USC and Cal State Fullerton to earn a BA in Philosophy and Cal State Northridge for his MA in Psychology. He interned with Nathaniel Branden at the Biocentric Institute in Beverly Hills. After becoming a Marriage, Family and Child Counselor in 1976, he worked with Branden and was in private practice. He began writing his own books in 1984. Additionally, Don has worked for more than 20 aerospace, defense and engineering companies as well as the Republican National Committee and many political campaigns both in LA and in Hawaii.
Beyond writing, other passions include a deep, abiding hatred for hypocrites, bureaucrats, poverty pimps and nearly all politicians; a lifelong devotion to anthropology, philosophy; astronomy and cosmology plus a long-term love affair with Hawaii, consummated in 1996. He and Joanna Bardot Lopez live in Whittier CA, with their number one dog Wolfie, number two dog, Tootsie, African Grey Sunny Rose and Snookums II the Cat.