Ali Skylar

Ali Skylar is an blogger/vlogger, author, playwright and composer. She is the creator of Sucky to Soulful, an online personal growth website where she shares quick and easy shifting tools. As part of her “shifting” philosophy, Ali has written two courses, Transforming “Ahh Crap!” Into A “Wholy Shift!” and “Parenting SOULutions” that help people and parents step into a happier, healthier and more meaningful way of “being” and “doing.”  She has written personal growth books (Life Sucks..Just Kidding!, Shiftitudes and The Blue Butterfly) and is the Content and Marketing/Digital Director for a business development company, Capitalize On Your Uniqueness.

Ali has also been a parenting blogger for the Star Ledger’s Newspaper, NJ.Com, wrote and toured a children’s musical nationally for over 15 years, developed and taught music programs for schools throughout NJ, and recently brought to life her passion project, What About Me? – a musical dramedy about Julie, a working mom who on the verge of an existential breakdown, returns home from a weekend personal growth workshop and decides to quit her job and write a musical! This throws her family into disarray as Julie strives to juggle family responsibilities and personal fulfillment.

Ali has been married over 34 years to her husband Jamie Greenberg,and they have two children, Lexi Lyric (a Broadway bound performer) and Chaz Harper (an aspiring EDM composer and DJ).  Ali grew up in Manhattan, went to the High School of  Performing Arts as a classical French Horn Player, and after college worked at ICM Artists and PolyGram Records. Living half of her life in NYC and half in NJ, she proudly identifies herself as a “New Jorker.”