I'm getting social with The Ricki Lake Show!

For the past several weeks, I've had the great pleasure and honor of working with the fabulous people at The Ricki Lake Show on Weight Loss Wednesday. But the conversations go beyond just losing weight, I talk about  fitness mindset and mental strategy, which tend to be the one spot people miss when they finally jump onto their fitness wagon. This has been an amazing opportunity to share some of my wisdom and invite my fit friends and professionals to share theirs. It's really a day for discussion, ideas, advice and support. Social media at it's connecting-best!

But Ricki Lake isn't just doing this with fitness, her team has been reaching out to specialists, authorities, and social media hot shots around the web to build a brand new, never-before-done community - The Friends of Ricki. Created side by side with Ricki Lake, her team, and the amazing duo Dabney Porte  and Britt Michaelian of Social Media Girlfriends, they are taking social media where it hasn't been before, TV!  The Friends Of Ricki are creating an on-line community  like no other where their on-line presence will be closely tied to their on-air presence for an absolutely "real" show about real people and topics. I am honored to be among the 30 Founding members and am thrilled to both ride the ride, and propel it up up UP!

Over the coming months, as The Ricki Lake show gets close to airing (September of 2012), the producers will be looking at the "Friends Of Ricki" community for ideas, stories, authors, experts and leaders to help build and create hot topics…they could be YOU. Find the Friends of Ricki on Facebook, Friends of Ricki on Twitter and get to talking with the hashtag #FriendsOfRicki. Also check out the The Rick Lake Show Facebook Page!

And don't forget to join me Wednesday's! Find me on The Friends of Ricki wall or the SmashFit wall and ask a question, get some cheering, or lend a hand to someone else. It's what this smashtastical social media place is all about!

-Heather Frey