Paxton Quigley is the author of the best-selling book series, "Armed & Female." She briefly was a bodyguard to well-known public figures & also taught 7,000 women how to shoot a handgun for self-defense. She received her training at the top U.S. schools including Executive Security International, Lethal Force Institute & Gunsite Academy.
Tom Brokaw on "NBC Nightly News" called her “guru” to millions of women. Morley Safer on "60 Minutes" saw her as “the great persuader.” Oprah Winfrey described her as “an expert on women, on home intrusions and rape.”
No stranger to the media, Paxton Quigley has appeared on more than 300 TV and radio shows in the U.S, including "Oprah" (twice), "Sixty Minutes," "The Today Show," Good Morning America," "The Larry King Show," "Bill Maher," "Regis & Kathy Lee Show," 'NBC Nightly News" (twice), "CBS Evening News,” “Fox & Friends, "Charlie Rose," “NPR: All Things Considered," "Entertainment Tonight," "Extra (six times)," "Access Hollywood," "Court TV," "The Sean Hannity Show," "The Howard Stern Show," "The O’Reilly Factor," & "Hardball With Chris Matthews." She was profiled on the front pages of the Wall Street Journal & Investors Business Daily, People, Glamour, Marie Claire, Time, Harper's Bazaar, Ladies Home Journal, etc.
Paxton Quigley hosts a radio show called "Cannabis Healing With Paxton Quigley," The program has 297 outlets, including terrestrial radio, cable radio, iTunes, iHeart Radio, Aha Radio, Roku & others, with a listening audience of 250,000 listeners in California alone & four million on the West Coast, cumulatively on any given Sunday. The national reach for "Cannabis Healing With Paxton Quigley" is estimated at 7 million listeners cumulatively on any given Sunday, with audio streaming daily (Mon-Sun), giving "Cannabis Healing" a total of 76 weekly airings on mobile app or via website.
Paxton Quigley was an Executive at Playboy Enterprises, Inc. & reported to Hugh M. Hefner & Christie Hefner. She is a graduate of Northwestern University in Communications & received her Masters Degree in Anthropology from the University of Chicago.
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