Amilya Antonetti has been sharing her knowledge and experience building business, brands, and the life skills needed to do it with people all over the US and Canada. She’s built several multi-million dollar companies and is known for her business turn-around and brand extension skills in several industries.
Amilya Antonetti turned a family crisis into founding one of the fastest growing privately held household product companies in our time. She has been credited as one of the pioneers of the “human and Earth friendly” movement and champion to bring “Green” mainstream. She not only became a household name in the US, she took Canada by storm
with her alliance with HBC (Hudson Bay Company) by rolling out one of the largest “Human and Earth household campaigns” in Zellers, Home Outfitters, and The Bay stores with her line of Amilya’s Soapworks products and books. Amilya appeared on Dini Petty (Canada’s Oprah) and visited over a dozen cities throughout Canada on a TV & Radio, Media tour, and book signings. She then returned to conquer the US with one of the most talked about success stories of our time, a true life David and Goliath story. Amilya is the mom who took on corporate giants and Won.
Amilya has received numerous business awards and accolades such as 2010 “Smart Woman of the Year Award”, Fastest Under Forty -Woman to Watch, The Kauffman Foundation Entrepreneur Award, and 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies, The Wells Fargo Award of Excellence, Inc. 500 and more.
Her management has been recognized by Working Woman magazine as one of the top 100 Best Places to Work, and she’s been nominated twice for Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of The Year. Amilya’s life-changing story has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey show as well as NBC, CNBC, CBS, ABC, and MSNBC. Amilya can be seen weekly on FOXNEWS as “The Small Business Voice” as well as a featured expert on WPIX mornings and The Dr. Steve show.
Amilya has been highlighted in numerous magazines such as People, Time, Inc., Entrepreneur, and Forbes. Her journey has captured the hearts and minds of individuals worldwide as she shares her story in several best sellers such as the “Chicken Soup for the Soul” series, “You got to read this book! 55 people you need to meet” by Jack Canfield. Her business model we once considered “out of the box” is now a required study at many business schools worldwide. Amilya is a world-renowned speaker and has graced the stage with amazing leaders such as Zig Zigler, Oliver North, Katie Couric, Hillary Clinton, Tony Robins, John Assaraf, Ellen DeGeneres, and Donald Trump just to name a few.
After the sale of Soapworks, Amilya today sits at the helm of AMA Productions (Known for her business turn around and brand extension skills) and Lucky Napkin LLC “Where great ideas launch.” Together her companies specialize in evaluating and securing IP for inventors, universities, and business owners and strategically create the right business model to roll out to mass markets. Amilya is considered an expert in Electronic Retail (QVC, ShopNBC, and HSN), as well as infomercial as both a spokesperson and product creator. She also has some of the most sought after contacts in big box retailers and in-depth knowledge in the MLM (Multi-level marketing), info marketing, and franchise arenas.
She is not done yet, Amilya is committed to helping people live a life by design and was thrilled to bring out her 2nd book, “The Recipe: A fable for leaders and teams” where she shares the lessons that she has learned along the way in her candid, straight forward manner that is empowering, but most importantly can be used in anyone’s life right now. She credits much of her success to her amazing team and her belief that we are more powerful together than we are apart. Her belief is that there is NO solo success. “Teamwork is the key to all goals both personal and professional.”
She is now taking the powerful work she does as a turn around specialist and brand exten¬sion expert to her own TV show. She has teamed up one of today’s best and brightest TV networks.
Amilya is a proud mother of a teenager and a tot. She balances life with offices in California, and New York, NY. She is most often found in New York.