Swing Vote: Did you personally come up with The Next Chapter? It's very cool.

Kaufman: I batted around the concept for quite awhile. It morphed from a type of New Year's resolution, from tried out "Tune Up For Life" to "The Next Chapter." It just felt like the right verbiage. Your current situation is the old chapter coming to an end, and you want to start with something new -- so that theme really hit home. People are looking for someone to believe in them, and someone to give them an opportunity to do something a little different. The Expo is laying the platform for them. They still have to act and be accountable, but here are the tools. Each solution will be different. We're not going to solve every problem the first time out, but we're going to work with people to at least get them the tools to help solve their own individual problem. As for the exhibitors, it's a great venue with a unique niche market. When you look at the dollars spent within three years of a divorce -- it's huge on personal growth, physical fitness, real estate, mortgage, banking, and huge amounts of money. It's like moving out on your own the first time. You have to recreate almost every wheel. It's an economic hub to tap into and hopefully create relevance and affect change for that "tune up" for attendees' lives.

Swing Vote: Does the Expo address the loss of spouse from being a widow or widower?

Kaufman: The Expo is expected to grow in areas of coverage determined by the market. However, this is still a very young expo and we would like to cover all aspects of separation, but we are still developing the concept and might not have as much coverage in this area for the May event as we would like. We understand this is a very difficult situation to address and hope that we can provide adequate support for this area, but may need to add additional resources in this area as we grow. As always, we are always looking to enhance the needs of those undergoing this change in relationship status and we adjust the Expo towards our attendees' needs.

Swing Vote: Have you found a great deal of divorce within your age group, going back to reunions and finding the statistics for divorce has hit your friends?

Kaufman: I've always been the neighborhood psychologist where everyone comes and talks to me. In my age group, you saw a lot of kids marrying right after high school or right after graduating from college. They thought that was the next phase, the thing you did in life. I don't how in depth they did pre-screening for a life partner, but you go back to a ten year reunion, then a twenty year reunion and you realize these people are all single again. What happened? Could a difference have been made if they had attended an Expo like this one, thought it out better, prescreened it -- would it have led to being happier longer, or a better long-term partner? I can't answer that, but we are focused on an effort to help reduce or minimize the effects of not addressing the issue.

Swing Vote: This Expo can give them the tools to examine a mistake, correct it, and move forward?

Kaufman: Exactly -- by combining quality professionals and services which truly have "the heart of a teacher," we can target the fundamentals of Comfort, Resources and Planning.

Swing Vote: And for the last question -- everyone's going to want to know if you've been married or divorced!

Kaufman: The ironic part of this is I haven't been divorced. I actually come from a family where my parents have been married almost fifty years. But I've been affected by divorce, as in my grandmother, and most all of my friends have been. The statistics speak for themselves and this is a problem worth helping to solve. You could say in some ways this Expo is a way for someone to better prescreen the spouse, or to find out what's important for yourself.