Mary Olsen Kelly

Mary Olsen Kelly is an author, business owner, public speaker, and eleven+ year breast cancer survivor. Her books include  Chicken Soup for the Breast Cancer Survivor's Soul, co-authored with Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen, #1 Best Tools and Tips from the Trenches of Breast Cancer (published by Books Beyond Borders), Path of the Pearl (Beyond Words Publishing), Finding Each Other and Treasury of Light (both published by Simon and Schuster).

She's a popular speaker at women's organizations, medical conferences and on cruise ships. Topics include "Finding the Pearls", "Survive and Thrive", "Stories that Heal" and "Tools and Tips from the Trenches of Breast Cancer".

Aside from her work as a speaker and writer, Mary is a pearl expert who has traveled to Tahiti and Hong Kong to attend Pearl Auctions with her husband Don. For twenty-two years, she and Don have owned a fine jewelry business; Black Pearl Gallery on Maui, Oahu, Kauai and The Big Island in Hawaii, as well as Miami, Florida, Coral Gables, Florida and Balboa Island, California. (www.e-blackpearl.com)

Mary has a BA, High Honors (1975), and a M FA in Drama and Theater from the University of Hawaii, Honors (1977). She worked in the entertainment industry in NYC, LA. and Hawaii for several decades and now she and now she splits her time between Sedona, AZ, and Pasadena, CA.

Now in her 70’s she still feels there is something she’s meant to do.

As an author with several published books, she’s still an avid writer. Mary feels drawn to create work that will encourage and inspire her generation of Baby Boomers, especially the women. She’s currently writing a few plays and books for that group, and she feels that Bad Grannies is a way to inspire Independence, Courage and Fierceness in women as we age.

WE ARE THE BAD GRANNIES.