Nail tech, salon owner, coach, industry speaker — and now best-selling author. As a contributor to the Live the Life You Love series of inspirational books, nail tech Erin Synder Dixon is in excellent company. You can find her inspirational stories alongside those of well-known authors Deepak Chopra and Dr. Wayne Dyer in this year’s Wake up … Live the Life You Love, Giving Gratitude and the earlier release, Wake Up … Live the Life You Love, Seizing Your Success.

An NSI educator and the owner of Nail Care Services in Newport News, Va., Dixon became involved with the book series after striking up an idle conversation with Mark Victor Hansen — the co-author of Chicken Soup for the Soul — at a conference. When he heard she was trying to get some of her writing published, he set her up with a friend who turned out to be Live the Life You Love’s Steven E. Schmidt. Dixon thinks her dual careers are a natural fit. “After all, part of what we do with clients and students is motivation,” she says.

Nail tech Erin Snyder Dixon is a contributor to Wake up … Live the Life you Love, Giving Gratitude, which reached the #6 spot on barnesandnoble.com.