Meet The Team
Meet the team at Pickleball Media. Our motto? "If it's not fun, we don't do it!"
Carl Landau is co-author of the new book, Pickleball For Dummies. He has been an entrepreneur since the age of 26 and now in (un)Retirement is founder of Pickleball Media. He has started and sold three successful media companies, published five magazines (software development, winemaking and craft brewing industries). He currently hosts the popular podcast I Used to be Somebody, inspiring 50-plus-year-olds how to build their (un)Retirement good life, including, of course, a little bit about the virtues of the game he loves — pickleball.
Diana Landau is the Content Wrangler for Pickleball Media. As a former corporate Sales & Marketing hack, she came to realize that bigger is not always better. She then found her passion in writing. For seven years Diana wrote/edited/managed the Niched Out News weekly blog. She is now enthusiastically diving into the worlds of podcasts and pickleball. Diana loves to cook and believes she can solve all the world's problems by making a great dinner.
Bekah Darksmith is Pickleball Media's Jack of All Trades. She's coming up on her 25th year in publishing, running marketing & communications strategy for mid-size organizations. Bekah does a little bit of strategy, adds a healthy dose of marketing savvy, and is the team's sounding board on all things content. Bekah is a fairweather Giants fan with strong opinions on players she doesn't know, based on personal characteristics that have nothing to do with baseball (e.g. "I don't like his face!"). She also laughs at all jokes, funny or no.
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