Wanda Novak...who is she?
Ms. Novak hails from a small,High Plans farming community. She was raised on an Indian Reservation in Nebraska. Her Mother, a renaissance woman, was a r...view moreWanda Novak...who is she?
Ms. Novak hails from a small,High Plans farming community. She was raised on an Indian Reservation in Nebraska. Her Mother, a renaissance woman, was a registered nurse and anesthetist. Her Father though only possessing a fifth-grade education, was a successful cow trader, rancher and farmer. They were never soft on their only child. Wanda was never allowed to say the word “can't” but was instilled with independence and self-reliance.
Wanda earned her first significant income raising 4-H calves (age 10). She was a champion figure skater at age 14-16. While attending Kansas State, she worked as a secretary, trimmed poodles and traded ponies. She has since continued her education in numerous fields including banking, advertising, broadcast, public relations, real estate, property appraisal, farming, ranching, veterinary work, business consulting, training and coaching,m investments, commodities and stock brokering.
Wanda was the first woman livestock market-reporter on a major livestock terminal in Omaha. She also worked at Skelly Oil as an assistant to the vice president of advertising, working with network radio and TV shows that Skelly Oil sponsored. Later, Wanda was executive assistant to the richest man in Kansas. She worked with him in over 20 corporations that he owned throughout the U.S.
Wanda worked in advertising, broadcast and publicity relations in Austin, TX. She was helping with President Kennedy's trip to Austin when he was killed in Dallas. She continued her work in advertising,m broadcast and public relations with projects for President Lyndon Johnson and Governor John Connally. During that time, Wanda Originated the first written “Tour of the Capitol” in Austin; it is believed this text is being used to this day.
Wanda worked with several movie stars handling P.R. For John Wayne's “Alamo, “Who Shot Liberty Vance”, plus public appearances of TV stars from Bonanza and Gunsmoke, as well as many well-known night club entertainers.
Returning to the Omaha area, she worked in advertising and P.R. Wanda was the first woman vice-president of a major ad agency in Omaha and later, the first woman to sell television advertising time in the U.S. At a time when the industry and the media were totally male-dominated. Ms. Novak, now widely known as “Wonderful Wanda,” was a top producer in her field.
For seven years, Wanda worked in advertising by day then she tend a herd of four-hundred mother cows, a feedlot of one-hundred twenty head and played the commodities market for another ten to twelve hours of the day, seven days a week. This is how she took her annual income from $4,200 to over $500,000 annually.
After a series of personal tragedies she began a study of life and the spirit. In this pursuit she travel to various countries examining their philosophies She delved into several spiritual studies in the U.S. /she Continues her pursuits of knowledge and matters of the spirit as well as business.view less