Paolina Milana

Chief Storyteller & Empowerment Coach

Madness to Magic

Published author, speaker, podcaster, content producer, and Founder of Madness To Magic, Paolina Milana’s mission is to share stories that celebrate the triumph of the human spirit and the power that lies within each of us to bring about change for the better. Her professional background includes telling other people’s stories, both as a journalist and as a PR and digital media/marketing executive. She currently serves as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for children in foster care and as an empowering writing coach who uses storytelling to help people reimagine their lives, write their next chapters, and become the heroes of their own journeys. Paolina’s first book, The S Word (She Writes Press, May 2015), earned the National Indie Excellence Award. Its sequel COMMITTED: A Memoir of Madness in the Family published May 2021 and won an honorable mention in the Los Angeles Book Festival. Seriously! Are We THERE Yet?! (October 2020), the first in her “children’s book for adults” series, won an Eric Hoffer Award. Miracle on Mall Drive (November 2020), her first fiction novel, won a National Indie Excellence Award and an Independent Press Award. Her free podcast, I’m with Crazy: A Love Story is on iTunes. A proud first-generation Sicilian, Paolina was born and raised in Chicago. She is married and now lives on the edge of the Angeles National Forest in Southern California.