![]() But what I always want people to know though, is this: I was ready. If that sentence sounds dramatic, IT IS! It’s been absolutely crazy. That little video changed the trajectory of my life. Today it has been viewed over 100 million times all over the world. We posted that video the next morning before I went off to work and by the time I left work at 3 p.m., it had almost a million views. Until one night I made a video called Red Ribbon Week. “By the end of the first week I had 470 followers, and I thought that was amazing! I would just put up silly, little videos for me and my 470 friends and family. Her success comes as a result of years of hard work that began when she first created a public Facebook page and, as she notes, “was off to the races” with her unique and inspiring storytelling. ![]() This year has been spent getting the word on my book out by traveling and doing appearances from ‘Megyn Kelly’s Today’ show to Hallmark’s ‘Home and Family.'” “Last year I traveled all over the United States as a public speaker for civic group, corporations, benefits, galas, schools, etc. ![]() Radke returned to Nashville last week for a stop at Parnassus Books as part of an ongoing national tour to promote her debut book, “Eat Cake Be Brave,” which was published by Grand Central/ Hachette earlier this summer. Moreover, Melissa, her husband David (also a Belmont alum), and their two children, Remi and Rocco, will be the subjects of a new USA network unscripted family comedy series set to premiere this fall. The Lufkin, Texas native has become an internet sensation with online videos that have reached over 59 million people on her Facebook page alone, and she has amassed a following of more than 325,000 across her social media channels. The path to her current national tour isn’t what alumna Melissa Radke expected from her life’s journey when she was a Belmont University commercial music student in the late ’90s, but despite the bumps in the road, she wouldn’t have it any other way. Viral video sensation preps for new USA sitcom, offers advice to current Belmont students
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