# The Goal Whisperer

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Podcast: [The Career Guy](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-career-guy-3712690)
Published: 2025-03-16T17:31:00+00:00
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## Resource

This interview is with Debra Eckerling. Debra has a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Wisconsin -Madison and is the author of 52 Secrets for Goal-Setting and Goal-Getting. She is a speaker and consultant who assists people in achieving their goals. Her specialty is coaching authors with book proposals. She is a podcast host of GoalChatLive and the Taste Buds, a food writer for non-cooks, and the founder of DebMethod.com. In this interview Deb explains how her ambitions were to pursue a more creative direction but, as an alternative, she developed her career as a freelancer. She reflects on her early years employed at Barnes and Noble and how an opportunity to build a support group for writers came to be. Her story continues as she talks about moving from Chicago to Los Angeles, where she constructs a support group similar to the one she did in Chicago. However, this time, it expanded to attract entrepreneurs, freelancers, and other independent professionals. She talks about how this endeavor was only part-time and highlights that her day jobs in finance and project management helped her develop skills in the above undertakings. She conveys her experiences working for publishing firms and how this industry has changed. There is insight into how these firms work and what they look for in potential authors. From this, Debra conveys how she developed her passion for assisting authors in developing and presenting their book proposals. Deb takes the listener through her journey as she developed her workshops on setting and achieving goals, eventually leading to her methodology, The D*E*B Method. We talked about her practice, how she established this business, and how she works with clients. She shares her experiences as an author. We discuss her first book, which was…

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