Meet Carrie!

Carrie Silver-Stock, MSW, LCSW, author of the award winning, Powder Box Secrets: Seven Tips to Help Teen Girls Achieve Success, and founder and CEO of Girls with Dreams.com, has a dream of creating an amazing global community of teen girls. Carrie’s forthcoming book, Secrets Girls Keep, published by HCI, best known for Chicken Soup and the Soul series, will be out in Fall 2009.

Carrie wants to start a movement and revolution for girls to not only stop putting each other down, but to design a safe place they can get new ideas and support for some of their toughest problems. The mission is simple: to create a place founded on friends, dreams, and action where girls will empower one another to build their best lives. Girls will learn how to be leaders and take action in their own lives and in the world.

Carrie has collaborated with organizations like Girls Inc. and the Girl Scouts. As a former radio talk show host, social worker, and life coach, Carrie has also appeared on Today in St. Louis (KSDK/NBC), ABC Radio, On the Road with IV, Guidelines for Mental Health (Cable TV), Women’s Media, CKOM radio, Working Women’s Show, numerous St. Louis venues, and has had articles published in a variety of media outlets. Carrie has taught at local colleges and presented workshops at University Missouri St. Louis. Carrie served as an advisory board member for the Go the Distance Project.

Carrie’s favorite activities are spending time with her husband, two boys, and two dogs and staying active. She especially loves walking, boating, water-skiing, pilates, and hanging out anywhere near a beach, even though her current home is in St. Louis, Missouri.