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ging conferences and meet up with
the people I’ve connected with online,”
says Syler.
Host on “Sweet Retreats”
Her current hosting gig on Live
Well Network’s Sweet Retreats came
about on a circuitous route. Peggy
Allen, an executive at that network
saw an article about Syler a year ago
in More magazine and contacted her
about another project she had in mind
for Syler. Sweet Retreats, on Sunday
evenings at 7:30PM, highlights a new
trend in which people on vacation rent
apartments or houses instead of going
to a hotel. On the show, Syler takes a
group or family to various locations
where they examine three possibilities
and get to choose one.
Syler says the best decision she
has made in her life was to marry the
right person. Syler and her husband
James “Buff” Parham, an Independent
Media Consultant, have been married
for 19 years. “Buff and I have built a
life together. He’s steady Eddy and
I’m emotional. I couldn’t do what I do
without him.”
“I’m a multi-media brand,” says
Syler who has come a long way in the
past six years. Syler says the most
gratifying aspect of her work is to have
the opportunity to have an intimate
dialogue with the people who follow
her. “It’s talking back and forth,” says
Syler. “If I hadn’t left network news I
could never have done this.” Syler is
happy for the relief she offers women
today. “Women put too much pressure
on themselves and live life on other
people’s benchmarks.” Doing it her
way, Rene Syler is, by her own example,
so much more than a Good Enough
Mother in 2013.
Ronni Diamondstein, owner of Maggie
Mae Pup Reporter is a Chappaqua based
freelance writer, PR consultant, awardwinning
photographer and a School
Library Media Specialist and teacher who
has worked in the US and abroad.
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And Haymount House is the perfect setting for
your Mother’s Day Celebrations.
May 2013 Inside Chappaqua 21