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February 2, 2016
Bringing Inspiration to Earth
"If you're an author and you want to make a difference, write about what made a difference to you."
Robert Sharpe took his own wise advice and finally made the leap to follow his life purpose. He has created two powerfully positive books and his radio show, Bringing Inspiration to Earth.
In this interview, Robert and I discussed how people's adversity can often lead to something positive.An example he gave was the response from women to author Donn...
January 20, 2016
Get Turned On In Life, Love, and Business with Speaker Joanna Kennedy
Passion and Intimacy Expert Joanna Kennedy helps singles and couples who struggle with love and sex to put the healthy, hot and happy back into dating and relating. She helps her clients create a life where they fall in love over and over again, where the sex stays hot, and the love runs deep.
Joanna's transformation takes her from finding success in the male-dominated,high-tech corporate world, but at the cost of giving up herself and healthy relationships. Her adventure took her on a journ...
December 7, 2015
Jumping Into the Parade with Author Tim Brown
Tim Brown was living the American dream for anyone looking in from outside. He had a growing business, a beautiful family, and a busy social life.Like many of us, Tim had always equated his self-worth with his work, buying into the idea that if you "make it in the world out there, and you'll be fine in here."
But after losing millions of dollars when the economy went south in 2009, he came close to suicide more than once.Jumping...
November 27, 2015
Rock your relationship with Devon Kerns
Devon Kerns is passionate about his mission to help people cut through relationship pitfalls and finally find the crazy and passionate love they dream of.While Devon's relationship advice is for all of us,he focuses on singles to help them make good decisions before they make long-term commitments. His advice is to "get clear on who we want, on who has the characteristics that bring out the best in us."
Devon was a business coach who...
November 18, 2015
You Have the Answers with Phyllis Lundy
What dreams did you have as a kid? As a future career coach, Phyllis toyed with many dreams, alternately deciding to be the next Marie Curie, an astronaut, a Broadway star, an ambassador, a poet, and an artist. Now she teaches career changers to go back to those childhood dreams to understand what they love to do and how to explore new dreams and find their purpose.
Phyllis started her training business, Lundy Leadership, after she was "pushed out of the nest" of her corporate job. Phyllis says that she sees this with many of her career coaching clients, too. "They are more willing to get creative about what they really want to do" when something like that happens.
Phyllis teaches "change resiliency," helping individuals and organizations move through transition more smoothly to get to a better place.
She says we can "put aside our fears and brainstorm, engage the other part of our brain to imagine the possibilities."
The essence of her book, You Have the Answers, is that we all have the answers inside - but we need to ask the questions and calm the fear to access those answers.
The book contains stories of how to "move through the barriers to access our own inner wisdom." Listen to our talk to learn what it means to "follow the threads of desire" and how to let a glimmer of an idea start to turn into a glow and then into a fire!
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Takeaways:
Pay attention when you start to notice questions or thought about how you're dissatisfied with some part of your life. "Don't ignore the question."
Stop and get still. Recommended song - Learn To Be Still
Let yourself ask the questions - "If I could do anything I wanted with my time, what would I do?" "Can I make a contribution in a better way to the world?"
Journal your way to the answer. "Writing helps get all the garbage in my brain out of my brain, and then I can write myself into a solution."
Links
You Have the Answers: Discovering Your True Life Path ... One Question at a Time
By Phyllis Lundy
Connect with Phyllis Lundy:
Women of Denver Events:
The Abundant EntrepreneurBeing Your Authentic Self in BusinessNovember 17, 2015
The Gratitude Connection: Your Survival Guide for the Holidays
Positively Powered with Amy Collette
Can you even imagine being relaxed and having fun during the holidays? As a former world-class worrier, Amy knows the stress that can come with gift-giving, gatherings, and super-woman expectations. Approaching life with a sense gratitude changed all that. Her tips will help you shift from worry to peace.
In this short episode you’ll learn how to take the stress out of the season, make great decisions with confidence, connect more deeply, and even have some fun!
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Links
From Worry To Peace free meditation
Unleash Your Inner Author Workshop - to finally write and publish your world-changing book - starting soon!
Connect with Amy at: amy@amycollette.com
November 4, 2015
The Spirit Tree with Marilee Ross
Marilee took the true story of her mountain community's struggle with losing their treasured trees and crafted a touching book about friendship, gratitude, and the power of encouragement. Her book, The Spirit Tree, has been called "a children's book for all ages." Adults say, "My son or daughter loved the book, but I sat there crying."
One of the very special trees was turned into a beautiful carved bear that now greets everyone who enters the property. When Marilee sat down to write up the report about the changes that had taken place, she said, "All of a sudden a voice came to me. 'You have to write this story from my point of view.'" Marilee said, "I never had this happen before. A tree was talking to me! But absolutely, I knew it wasn't my story, it was the story of what happened in the forest." So instead of writing an ordinary report about why the trees were cut down for fire safety, she wrote about what happened from the point of view of the tree and his forest friends.
When the bear was presented and Marilee read the story to the community, the reaction was incredible - people were crying and hugging each other. It wasn't long until her beautiful story became a published book called The Spirit Tree.
In this intimate interview, Marilee shares how she was inspired to appreciate nature as a child, and reads some of the lyrical poems from the book. Enjoy!
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The Spirit Tree
By Marilee J. Ross
Order The Spirit Tree on Amazon.com (see photo, left)
For signed copies of the book, contact Marilee at: 303-808-4765 or marileebrad@aol.com
Meet the Author Event: Marilee Ross and Amy Collette
City Stacks Book Store
1743 Wazee St., Denver, CO 80204
Sunday, November 15th
3:00-5:00pm
October 28, 2015
Sustainable Family Communities with Bob Miller
Bob Miller's transformational moment came when he walked into an orphanage and met the kids who changed his life. "That week hit me like an emotional brick. Nothing had touched my heart that deep in my life." His visit started a journey to adopt two children and develop a visionary approach to poverty and orphan communities. After years traveling the world as a speaker and consultant, Bob says that "I would never have imagined a goal of adopting two children, but it has become the single most significant experience in my life."
Bob began to see the "developmental gap" between his adopted kids and the children who were still stuck in institutions or in poverty. There was a widening gap in social skills and education. He began to wonder how to get kids out of institutions, out of poverty, and into real families that are stable. "That's the seed that started our initiative."
Working with a group of experts, Bob started to understand that the way out of poverty was to develop sustainable family communities. What might be done so that kids don't wind up in the orphanage in the first place? How can these communities help not only themselves but help people create prosperity in their communities?
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Takeaways
Bob's vision includes:
Creating a business that provides jobs, generates profits, and leave the ownership and profits in the communities. This is a unique in approach to helping people escape poverty.Profits from the business build homes, clinics, and provide education. The communities create the services that they need. "Communities are designed to be economically self-sustaining, environmentally sustainable, food sustainable, and also socially sustainable."Each community helps start new communities. It replicates itself, keeping more kids out of poverty and allowing families to adopt children.Links
Poverty as my Teacher: Learning to Create Sustainable Family Communities - free book
For more information, see: sustainablefamilycommunities.org
Recommended reading: You Are the Placebo by Joe Dispenza
Conact Bob at: bobm@sustainablefamilycommunities.org
October 21, 2015
Transformation Minisode with Amy Collette
In this episode, Amy talks about the power of transformation. It usually sneaks up on us when we least expect it, and it can come from trauma, pain, and loss. But the personal transformation that happens through these painful times can be life-changing.
Listen in as Amy relates the stories of some of her inspirational guests. She tells how their experiences have shaped their characters, helped them find their purpose, and how they now make a difference in the world - helping raise the positive vibration of the planet!
October 7, 2015
Millionaire Marketing with Debra Jason
Debra Jason's new book, Millionaire Marketing on a Shoestring Budget, helps entrepreneurs make the daunting task of marketing your business manageable - even fun. She hopes to encourage and empower small business people to "step outside their comfort zone, to follow the strategies in the book to increase their visibility and grow their business, and to create a lifestyle that they love."
Although she's a "big fan" of social media marketing, she emphasizes face-to-face connections as a valuable way to grow your business, too. These connections help you build the KLT (Know, Like, Trust) factor that makes you the go-to person to do business with or refer to friends.
In this informative interview, Debra shares some of her favorite strategies for growing your business and attracting happy customers who you love to work with.
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Takeaways
Favorite strategy for visibility and exposure is speaking. It's also the most fun.
What should you speak about? Make two lists - what are you knowledgeable about? What are you passionate about?
Take a leadership role in your business. Get involved in organizations. Volunteer to be on a committee, help out and become more visible.
On staying positive:
Journal what you're grateful for.
Have an attitude of success - instead of assuming that prospects might say no, assume that people will say yes!
Feel the fear and do it anyway: Imagine the worst scenario and then imagine the best.
On worry and stress:
To get over fears - keep moving forward. Take a step toward your goal, such as going to Toastmasters if you're afraid of speaking.
Avoiding overwhelm - take small steps, don't try everything at once.
Links
By Debra Jason, Foreword by Joel Comm
Website: WriteDirection.com
Magnetic Copywriting: Convert Your Content From Mediocre to Monetizing - use the coupon code positive20 for a 20% discount
Millionaire Marketing on a Shoestring Budget Workshop - based on strategies in the book - Nov. 10 Workshop - at Boulder Digital Arts
MillionaireMarketingOnAShoestringBudget.com - Buy an autographed book directly from the author, Debra Jason
