Our Authors

Mike Diamond is an author, television personality, director, life coach, and interventionist. He is best known for his work on the hit TV shows NY Ink and Bondi Ink Tattoo Crew, which is currently nominated for a Logie Award for Best Reality Series. After winning a green card in 1997, Mike moved from Australia to the US where he found work on various television projects. He eventually found himself properly introduced to the world of tattooing when he made an appearence on Miami Ink. To the outside world, Mike looked like he was living the dream but, on the inside, Mike was spiritually bankrupt and miserable. He realized that if he didn’t turn his life around, he was going to die. April 16, 2006 was the day Mike Diamond got sober. Since then, Mike has literally helped hundreds of people on the road to recovery. He is on beck and call to all his clients and friends, helping them through their life problems and battles with addiction.

Natalie Diaz is a worldwide premier twin parenting authority. With over a decade of experience after creating Twiniversity, Natalie has single-handedly changed the way expecting and new parents of twins operate. A twin parent herself, Natalie has made twin parenting information mainstream with her bestselling book What To Do When You’re Having Two, her award-winning website Twiniversity.com, the most inclusive twin parenting app on the market, her extraordinary podcasts, and creative and educational classes about all things twins. Today, she’s reaching over 2 million families a week with Twiniversity’s nurturing and supportive environment created just for twin families.

Natalie is also a twin-specific lactation consultant, a child passenger safety technician, and a trained Lamaze educator. She’s received numerous accolades within the baby and parenting industry and has been featured in major worldwide publications and on national television helping the world have a better experience with their own twin parenting adventure.

Emilio DiIorio is a renowned artist and sculptor, former systems engineer, orthopedic surgeon, and CEO who has studied the science and art of creativity throughout his career. He has a degree in engineering from New York University and attended NYU’s Stern School of Business. Following business school, DiIorio studied anatomy at the University of Ghent before deciding to enroll in medical school. He completed his medical degree in orthopedic surgery at Boston University and the Lahey Clinic. After four decades in practice as an orthopedic surgeon, DiIorio became the founder and CEO of a health network in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley. In 2019, he sold the company and continues the practice and study of sculpture, the fine arts, and the creative process, which he has pursued for decades while serving as a physician and entrepreneur. He currently owns and operates Atelier Lucca—sculpture studios, gardens, and a private art gallery in the Lehigh Valley—where he sculpts and works alongside his team and his wife and cofounder, Amanda. He divides his time between homes in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Pocono Mountains, Pennsylvania; and New York City.

Scott Dikkers is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, comedy writer, comedian, and founder of TheOnion.com. His visionary leadership at The Onion, his groundbreaking comic strip, Jim’s Journal, plus his multiple top-10 comedy podcasts make him one of the most influential pioneers in comedy history. Rolling Stone named him one of its top 10 favorite writers. Entertainment Weekly designated him “the funniest person in America” and placed him on the “It List” of the hottest celebrities in show business. He graced the cover of Time magazine (as an incredibly tiny dot in a photo mosaic), which named him one of the top 50 movers and shakers online. Scott’s books on the craft of humor, the How to Write Funny series, have taught the craft of comedy to aspiring comedians around the world. His mentees have gone on to win multiple Emmys, Grammys, and an Oscar.

Robert L. Dilenschneider formed The Dilenschneider Group in October, 1991. Headquartered in New York and Chicago, the Firm provides strategic advice and counsel to Fortune 500 companies and leading families and individuals around the world, with experience in fields ranging from mergers and acquisitions and crisis communications to marketing, government affairs and international media.

Prior to forming his own firm, Dilenschneider served as president and chief executive officer of Hill and Knowlton, Inc. from 1986 to 1991, tripling that Firm’s revenues to nearly $200 million and delivering more than $30 million in profit.  Dilenschneider was with that organization for nearly 25 years. Dilenschneider started in public relations in 1967 in New York, shortly after receiving an MA in journalism from Ohio State University, and a BA from the University of Notre Dame.