Heide Banks

Banks began her career as a theatre and television producer who produced projects including the Broadway theatre production of I Got a Girl for You! (The Frankenstein Musical) and American Playhouse specials True West and The Dining Room.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/11/02/theater/stage-the-frankenstein-musical.html |title=Stage - "The Frankenstein Musical" |last1=Holden |first1=Stephen |date=2 November 1986 |website=The New York Times |access-date=29 September 2015}}{{cite web |url=http://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=playhouse+90&p=5&item=T:21265 |title=American Playhouse: True West (TV) |author= |website=paleycenter.org |publisher=The Paley Center For Media |access-date=29 September 2015}} She is an executive producer of the Cannes Film Festival winning documentary Freedom to Choose.{{cite web|url=http://freedomtochoose.net/Film.htm |title=Documentary |website=freedomtochoose.net |publisher=The Freedom to Choose Foundation |access-date=29 September 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150810075742/http://www.freedomtochoose.net/Film.htm |archive-date=10 August 2015 }}{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxpWf9h76uI |title=USM Service Project: Freedom to Choose (Part 1) |author= |website=youtube.com |publisher=University of Santa Monica |access-date=29 September 2015}} She received her Masters of Arts in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica.{{cite web |url=https://aloha.com/experts/heide-banks |title=Heide Banks |author= |website=aloha.com |publisher=Aloha |access-date=29 September 2015}}

In 1996, she authored It Works For Me.{{cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35112637 |title=It works for me! : celebrity stories of alternative healing |author= |via=worldcat.org |publisher=WorldCat |oclc=35112637 |access-date=29 September 2015}} She was also a contributing editor for several books including Chicken Soup for the Soul.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_LWoZV5uTcoC&q=heide+banks+&pg=PT244 |title=Chicken Soup from the Soul of Hawai'i: Stories of Aloha to Create Paradise |author= |date=18 September 2012 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=9781453276976 |access-date=29 September 2015}} As a relationship expert, Banks makes regular television appearances on networks including ABC and CBS and CNN.{{cite web |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Health/WomensHealth/womens-health-relationship-hurdles-overcome/story?id=12770438 |title=How to Keep a Relationship Alive |last1=Donaldson James |first1=Susan |date=4 February 2011 |website=abcnews.go.com |publisher=ABC News Internet Ventures |access-date=29 September 2015}}{{cite web |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/men-think-sharing-problems-is-a-waste-study/ |title=Men think sharing problems is a waste: study |author= |date=31 August 2011 |website=cbsnews.com|publisher=CBS Interactive Inc |access-date=29 September 2015}} She is also a contributor to The Huffington Post and is referenced in multiple bestsellers including Arianna Huffington's On Becoming Fearless...In Love, Work, and Life.{{cite web |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/heide-banks/ |title=Heide Banks |author= |website=huffingtonpost.com |publisher=TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc. |access-date=29 September 2015}}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gFLqTjBqBWwC&q=Heide+Banks|title=On Becoming Fearless...in Love, Work, and Life |author= |date=4 September 2006 |publisher=Little, Brown |isbn=9780759568273 |access-date=29 September 2015}}

In 2004, Banks organized the New York Break Up Club, a social club for people who have recently left romantic relationships. She was a relationship therapist for contestants on The Bachelor and appeared on the 20/20 special Inside the Bachelor: The Stories Behind the Rose.{{cite web |url=http://www.hulu.com/watch/135076 |title=ABC 20/20 Inside the Bachelor: Stories Behind the Rose |author= |website=hulu.com|publisher=ABC Television Network |access-date=29 September 2015}} In 2010 she appeared on the ABC TV special 25 Years Of Sexy: People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive.{{cite web |url=http://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=music+man&p=3&item=105169 |title=25 Years Of Sexy: People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive |author= |website=paleycenter.org |publisher=The Paley Center For Media |access-date=29 September 2015}} The same year she was a featured panelist on TV Guide Channel's Curb: The Discussion.{{cite web |url=http://www.tv.com/shows/curb-the-discussion/season-3 |title=Curb: The Discussion - Season 3 |author= |website=tv.com |publisher=CBS Interactive Sites |access-date=29 September 2015}}

Banks is the Chairman of the Board for A Factor Consulting Inc. in New York.{{cite web |url=http://www.manta.com/c/mb4rllc/a-factor-consulting-inc |title=A Factor Consulting Inc |author= |website=manta.com |publisher=Manta Media Inc |access-date=29 September 2015}} She is the senior advisor to the Ignite-Good Movement and is the official representative to the United Nations for Center for Partnership Studies.{{cite web |url=http://www.lifebyme.com/heide-banks-forgiving/ |title=Forgiving |last1=Banks |first1=Heide |website=lifebyme.com |access-date=29 September 2015 |quote=She's the official representative to the United Nations for The Center for Partnership Studies.}} She is also involved with The Flawless Foundation, an advocacy group for children with brain based behavioral challenges, as well as the non-profit arts association Performa and Phoenix House Drug Treatment Centers.{{cite web |url=https://www.looktothestars.org/news/7537-moby-attends-an-evening-of-gratitude-for-charity |title=Moby Attends An Evening Of Gratitude For Charity |author= |date=15 December 2011 |website=looktothestars.org |publisher=Look To The Stars |access-date=29 September 2015}}{{cite web |url=http://artobserved.com/2013/08/ao-on-site-a-surrealism-salon-organized-by-performas-young-visionaries-and-hosted-by-lia-chavez-monday-july-29th/ |title=AO On-Site – "A Surrealism Salon," organized by Performa's Young Visionaries and hosted by Lia Chavez, Monday, July 29th |author= |date=15 August 2013 |website=artobserved.com|publisher=Art Observed |access-date=29 September 2015}}

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