Other Projects
A dynamic speaker, Joe Serio brings a lifetime of incredibly diverse experiences to every one of his presentations. Here are just a few of the other interesting worlds he has lived in or peeked into over the years.
— Raised in a family of 12 kids, Joe grew up outside New York City and lived the “cheaper by the dozen” reality, observing and recording years of experiences and lessons learned.
— He lived among the Chinese in the People’s Republic of China before and during the vast changes and great influx of foreigners. He studied Chinese, traveled the country, gave lectures in a secret Chinese security institute, and got a firsthand look at how the Chinese live.
— As an amateur musician, he has played the harmonica at a house party in Paris, in a night club in London, at a police barbeque in Warsaw, at a police academy in Barcelona, for KGB agents in Moscow, and for prison wardens in Texas. He got his start playing in a Russian rock ‘n roll band in the late ‘90s.
— He arranged for a Hollywood production company to get inside Russian prisons to shoot a documentary for A&E’s Investigative Reports.
— Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, he got access to and translated from Russian into English a book of secret crime statistics prepared specially for Gorbachev and the other Soviet leaders.
— He drove a taxi in New York, meeting a variety of interesting, joyful, sad, and desperate passengers along the way.
— For six years he has been the editor of Crime and Justice International. Hailed by readers as an important publication, CJI can be found in the libraries of top law enforcement officials, police academies, and universities around the world.
— He’s been quoted and cited in newspapers, reports, and textbooks around the world. His writing has been required reading in universities of foreign countries.
— He has studied the underlying reasons for fear and has gone to great lengths to understand and triumph over his own fears.
Public Speaking Topics
Public Speaking for the Faint of Heart
Hear how Joe overcame a deep-seated fear of public speaking and performing and how you can too. Keynote, half-day, and full-day trainings.
Writings in Progress (Updated Regularly)
Resurrecting the Dreaming Tree: Claiming the Life I Imagine
This book will feature a lifetime of observations and experiences in an effort to distill lessons and return to a time of innocent dreaming to reach the goals we set for ourselves while finding peace in our hearts. To read samples, please click on the titles below.
— Turkmenistan Cemetery
— Victor The Russian Mafia and Other Stories: Recollections and Reflections from the former USSR
— Pharmaceutical Extortion
Overcoming Fear: How I Triumphed in Spite of Myself
Growing up, Joe found even some of the most common tasks daunting. This book tells of his fear of public speaking, swimming, writing, school, music, and learning foreign languages, and how he conquered them. The text includes the steps he took and the thought-change process he underwent in order to give himself a chance to succeed.
Publishing
Crime and Justice International
For the past six years, Joe Serio has been the Editor in Chief of Crime and Justice International. If you’re interested in issues of global crime and justice, you’ll want to look through the archives of CJI for the past six years at http://www.cjimagazine.com/archives_PDF/index.html. CJI is currently getting a new, free, online presence that will be an invaluable resource to academics, practitioners, students, and the lay person.
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