'Knowledge and understanding about your fears
are the keys to eliminating them'
- Elise Ballard

Elise Ballard is a professional actress and independent filmmaker and producer. She started her career in entertainment working as an actress in New York, Austin, TX and Los Angeles, and began producing in Los Angeles as a partner in an independent production company that produced feature films distributed by Lionsgate and Monarch Entertainment.

Her critically acclaimed directorial debut, Lord of the Wiens: A Dachumentary, a movie about the annual Wiener Dog Races in Buda, TX, became a cult hit, receiving considerable national press coverage, playing film festival circuits and PBS, and still sells to lovely dachshund fans worldwide.

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Since then, she has created, directed and produced numerous projects including BackStage: Behind the Scenes segments for Time Warner cable?s Publik Music channel; FitPack, a series of short exercise regimens and viral ads by NYC celebrity trainer Joel Harper, and the 2008 & 2009 YOU dvds accompanying the YOU book series by world-renowned & best-selling authors, Drs. Mehmet Oz & Michael Roizen. She is currently in development on several projects, including an educational project based in positive psychology and her first book, Epiphany, a collection of fascinating stories of people's greatest epiphanies in life.