Find Your Buried Treasure – Enrich Yourself and the World (Betty Liedtke)
Although she’s had an active and fulfilling life, Betty Liedtke found herself questioning her worth and value in the marketplace when, in her mid-50s, she tried–and failed–to identify her own special and unique qualities.
She became doubly frustrated as she attempted to make the transition from popular Toastmasters speaker to paid professional speaker, and from weekly newspaper columnist to author of a full-length motivational memoir. Her two-year quest to find her own special gifts and unique qualifications led to the discovery that what is most special and unique about each of are gifts and talents we don’t even realize we have. They feel so common and ordinary to us that we don’t recognize their existence or value.
Betty now helps other people find their buried treasure and use their gifts to enrich themselves and the world.
About Betty Liedtke
Shortly after her second child was born, Betty Liedtke developed breast cancer, followed by severe heart damage from chemotherapy. These experiences taught her firsthand the importance of attitude, determination, and a sense of humor in dealing with anything life throws at us.
Betty is a writer, professional speaker, and Certified Dream Coach®. She is a Distinguished Toastmaster, a member of eWomenNetwork, and a graduate of the prestigious Loft MasterTrack program from the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis.
She is also the founder and CEO of “Find Your Buried Treasure,” a company whose mission is to help people discover their strength, stretch beyond their ability, and achieve their greatest dreams. One of her strongest convictions is that nothing is impossible if we want it badly enough and are willing to do the work to achieve it.
Coaching Suggestion
Betty suggests using the following steps as a Treasure Map to Find Your Buried Treasure:
1. Look at everything you do in your life, and ask yourself these questions about each of them.
- Do I love it?
- Am I good at it?
- Is it rewarding in some way (financially or otherwise)?
2. Identify anything you can do to help you answer “Yes!” to all three questions—and do it.
3. Pay attention to the things people compliment you on, seek your advice about, or admire and appreciate about you—these are great clues.
4. Ask yourself: “What would I dare to try if I knew I couldn’t fail?”
- Now imagine what steps you’d have to take and what work you’d have to do in order to make that happen.
- Take the first step.
Betty’s Quote for the Day
“How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it.” ~Robert Brault
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The Sky is Green and The Grass is Blue – Turning Your Upside Down World Right Side Up! (Deb Scott)
Deb talks about what she does best–helping others transform “bad” into great and being happy in the process. Anything bad, she says, can be transformed into a diamond you love. During this program, you will obtain tangible tools and resources to help you accomplish this personal transformation.
About Deb Scott
Deb Scott is a motivation and lifestyle consultant, specializing in working with business and corporate environments to transform poor interpersonal dynamics and low-energy groups into high-powered, successful, dynamic teams. A biology major in college, Deb became an award-winning sales and leadership specialist with 20 years of background in cardiac surgery sales. Now she applies her sales and business background to motivational speaking and consulting in the fields of sales, marketing, advertising, hiring, and team building. “The Sky Is Green and The Grass is Blue – Turning Your Upside-Down World Right-Side-Up!” is her first book.
Deb has battled and dealt with depression, other people’s alcoholism, a dysfunctional family, sexual abuse, and religious doubts. Yet she has emerged as a happy, successful executive who trains others to follow a proven path to happiness. Now she teaches the same life-changing techniques that enabled her to overcome her challenges.
Coaching Suggestion
To “sabotage ourselves for great success,” Deb suggests that we write down three goals or affirmations on sticky notes and place one note on our bathroom mirror, one in a pair of shoes we don’t wear very often, and one in our car or near the coffeepot. These little “mind vitamins,” as she calls them, will help our lives come to life in a big way.
Deb’s Quote for the Day
“Be yourself. Everybody else is already taken.” Oscar Wilde
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Graceful Divorce Solutions – Splitting Apart and Staying Whole (Marcy Jones, JD)
Marcy wants to help people who are thinking about divorce, separated, or already in the divorce process. The divorce statistics are staggering. Almost 50% of first marriages, 67% of second marriages, and 73% of third marriages are ending in divorce. “It’s time we do it better,” Marcy asserts. “I want to help keep people out of what I call the ‘legal vortex’ and help put them back in the driver’s seat, rather than with lawyers or in the legal system, so they can go through the process more ‘gracefully’ in a way that preserves their relationships. It’s still a challenging time, but it doesn’t have to be the nightmare it turns into for so many people. Especially if children are involved, it’s important that mom and dad still be able to talk to each other and get along.”
About Marcy Jones
Marcy Jones is an author, speaker, lawyer, coach, and advocate for change – change in the way lawyers represent clients in divorce, change in the legal system, and change in the way people divorce. She has practiced family law since 1995, going to law school after her own divorce and with two young children at home.
Marcy has worked as a domestic violence prosecutor and as a private practitioner specializing in collaborative divorce and mediation. She’s also a certified personal coach.
She has just published her first book called Graceful Divorce Solutions: A Comprehensive and Proactive Guide to Saving You Time, Money, and Your Sanity. She wrote this book to get essential information to people BEFORE they go to a lawyer to enable them to make the best choices for themselves and their family.
Her ultimate goal is to help people go through divorce better–with integrity and dignity.
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Why Manners Matter (Susan Schlossberg)
Haven’t we all been just a tad bit anxious when attending social networking events? Haven’t we all been on the receiving end of dead-fish handshakes and in-your-face rudeness? Since 2002, Susan Schlossberg has directed the National League of Junior Cotillions (NLJC) in Lynchburg, Virginia. She strongly desires to promote kindness, civility, and gracious behavior—so lacking yet so vital to our society. Helping a painfully shy young student become a confident young person…transforming a timid college graduate into a polished professional. Such challenges are what fills Susan with purpose, passion, and joy! The NLJC program trains not only young people in manners, etiquette, and social dance–it also provides greatly needed etiquette training to professional adults.
Listen to this episode to learn how to:
- Make a positive and lasting impression face-to-face as well as by phone and email;
- Mix and mingle with grace and ease;
- Show appreciation and gratitude in your day-to-day actions; and
- Get the most out of life by treating others with honor, dignity, and respect.
About Susan Schlossberg
Susan Schlossberg, a native of Lynchburg, Virginia, graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in education and retired after 20+ years as a travel consultant. Since 2002, Susan has directed the Lynchburg Chapter of the National League of Junior Cotillions, teaching students about manners, etiquette, and social dance. In her spare time she serves as a substitute teacher and is very popular with her students because of the respect she models, gives, and expects in return. Susan lives in Roanoke with her husband Neil and her youngest son Daniel. She enjoys traveling, music, minor league baseball, and doting on her two cats.
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