By Kelly Price
motivational speaker and blogger on her website
and other national publications.
All of her accomplishments and successes
shine even greater when considering the punches
she has taken right to the gut along her journey. I
do not want this article to be a tragic life story, but
I cannot make it clear the extent of her success
without at least taking a look at the things Reno has
been crushed by along the way. It is also important
to look at the punches so that we all may learn to
duck if the swing were to come our way.
Tosca Reno is the reason we interview. I
spent hours preparing for our interview, learning
everything about her, but after a nearly two-hour
interview, I was really beginning to know her. She
graciously and candidly spoke with me. She is
powerful, honest, intelligent, and inspiring. My
goal for you is to get to know her, too. Tosca is a
successful author, fitness model, and motivational
speaker. She is a Certified Nutritional Therapy
Practitioner. Yes, she is pretty, sexy, blonde,
Canadian, blah, blah, blah; truly she is a
sweetheart. But, all of these wonderful attributes
cannot cover up the tragedies, challenges, and
traumas in her life. She speaks honestly about
them. She hopes that someone will benefit by
hearing her journey and she is beginning to
realize how the honesty of her telling will also help
her to heal.
Tosca is the successful author of a line of
books based on a clean-eating technique, “EatClean Diet®”. She has marketed “Eat-Clean®”
into a successful brand of products. Her programs
work, not only because of Reno’s entrepreneurship,
but because they are based on her knowledge
as a Certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner.
Tosca has also transformed her once over-weight
body into a fitness model body. She is also a
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Tosca was born of Dutch immigrants who
lived in Nazi-occupied Holland. She grew up in
a strict Catholic home. She felt her home was an
abusive environment. Then, maybe predictably,
she went into an abusive marriage. She has a
life-long habit of taking care of others and being
the best supporter for everyone in her life. Taking
care of herself and honoring herself are things
she is learning to do, as we all are, hopefully.
Unfortunately, we do not always realize we are
stepping from one bad situation to another, not
until we have come to a crisis point in our lives
or maybe that moment when a trusted friend has
been honest.
Tosca married again. Her second husband,
Robert Kennedy was a good person, eager to
please, a husband she was able to build her career
with. Together, under his publishing company,
Robert Kennedy Publishing, under the masthead of
Canusa, Tosca built her “Eat-Clean Diet®”. Robert
was charming, he ran the publishing company and
Reno continued to write books. “I worked my butt
off on my books; they were universally successful
with 25 million dollars in sales.” It was a great
“joint” venture. Along with publishing “Eat-Clean®”
books, Robert was publishing fitness magazines,
Clean Eating, Oxygen, Muscle Mag International,