What’s Your SPARKLE Effect? (Kristi Olson)
As a multi-faceted female entrepreneur, you have a unique gift to share with the world. When set in motion, your innate greatness is brilliant, dazzling, and reflects your inner light. When you authentically share your SPARKLE Effect™ with the world, you step into:-Wild Success
-Abundant Profitability
-Connection to a Global Vision
-Greater Service to More People
-Living Out the Beauty of Your Purpose.
Learn how to breakthrough to success as a heart-centered woman entrepreneur as you work through the 3 Zones of your SPARKLE Effect™: the Discovery Zone, the Marketing Zone, the Life Zone. Discover ways to deliver your marketing message in a way that authentically aligns with your gifts, your values, your purpose, and your lifestyle. Mastering these three zones will allow you to find the freedom to show up as YOU as well as give your clients what they need. As a coach, expert, or consultant, you truly need to master your mindset so you can magnetize your marketing efforts as you tell your unique story of success.
About Kristi Olson
Kristi is an Entrepreneur Success Strategist for Women, a Certified Coach, and International Speaker with over 20 years of experience in business development & marketing for corporations and non-profit entities.
As an Entrepreneur Success Strategist and Mentor, she works with women entrepreneurs teaching you how to Master Your Mindset & Magnetize Your Marketing™ so you can become Wildly Successful and Abundantly Profitable in Life & Business.
“You will experience transformation and revelation as you identify your Voice, your Strength, and the Beauty of your Purpose. Someone is not being helped when you don’t share your gifts. The effect of your dream impacts a world.”
Kristi’s Success Tips
1. Find the freedom to show up as YOU.
2. Give your clients what they want — teach them what they need.
3. Become visible and be seen as an expert.
4. Design a business that aligns with your values and lifestyle.
5. Engage with your niche market “on purpose” with generosity and graciousness.
Kristi’s Favorite Quote
“And then the day came, when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to Blossom” ~Anais Nin
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ONPURPOSE@WORK (Kevin W. McCarthy)
October 19, 2011 by Jory · 3 Comments
Most people and organizations haven’t got a clue why they exist. This empty strategic core costs time, money, relationships, business, health and more. Clarify your purpose and begin making better and more frequent decisions aligned with your purpose. That’s being on-purpose!
About Kevin W. McCarthy
Kevin W. McCarthy is the author of The On-Purpose Person and The On-Purpose Business. He is a world authority in leadership regarding the meaningful integration of life and work and has pioneered the message, concepts, and language of On-Purpose® since the late 1980s.
As the Chief Leadership Officer of On-Purpose Partners, he’s a highly respected business advisor for small and middle market organizations as well as an executive advisor and coach to CEOs, executive directors, and company presidents. His work on deep strategy, alignment, and practical execution has turned around many companies as well as helped healthy companies experience remarkable and sustainable growth.
Kevin is a natural leader in business and civic endeavors. He serves as the Board Chair of the Central Florida Christian Chamber of Commerce and also served as the Board Chair for Lifework Leadership. His work on boards has ranged from academic institutions, not-for-profit organizations, and for profit businesses. A professional member of the National Speakers Association, Kevin says his goal with audiences is to stir their hearts, advance their thinking, and inspire them to action.
Authentic, inspiring, entrepreneurial, intelligent and creative are the qualities most often attributed to this thought leader by his peers, clients, and audiences.
On October 26, Kevin begins a six-week interactive business building experience called ONPURPOSE@WORK. One deserving listener will be awarded a full scholarship. Will it be you? Explore more at http://www.ONPURPOSEATWORK.com
Kevin’s Success Tip
Be Yourself.
Prosper.
Make a Difference.
Kevin’s Favorite Quote
Love God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength.
(Found in Mark 12:30 and Luke 10:27)
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Inspired Women Succeed (Diane Cunningham)
July 13, 2011 by Jory · 2 Comments
Inspired Women Succeed by surrounding themselves with other women. Diane will share the reasons she launched the National Association of Christian Women Entrepreneurs, and the 3 ingredients you need to succeed.
Learn how your unique strengths can build your God-given dream, as you move forward towards your purpose. Diane will share how losing her career caused her to step out in faith into the entrepreneurial journey.
About Diane Cunningham
Diane Cunningham, M.Ed. is the President and Founder of the National Association of Christian Women Entrepreneurs.
Diane is a “business therapist,” coach, speaker, facilitator, and entrepreneur. She founded the National Association of Christian Women Entrepreneurs in May of 2010 to help women connect, create, and collaborate. Under her leadership, NACWE has grown from 0 to 165 members in the first year and 45 women attended the 1st Annual Conference for the Association, The Inspired Women Event.
She has a Masters Degree in Education (Guidance and Counseling) and is an author of “Dear Female Entrepreneur, My Friend” and co-author of Inspired Women Succeed just released in May 2011: www.inspiredwomensucceed.com Diane says her mission is to “inspire women to dream big, catch on fire, and change the world.”
Please visit www.nacwe.org or www.dianecunningham.com for more information about our guest.
Diane’s Success Tip
Connect with people who can help you as your create a life that you feel passionate about.
Create an environment of growth both in your office and in your mind as you move forward.
Collaborate with others along the journey as the more we help others, the more we help ourselves. Give as much as you can. Teach all that you know. Work together.
Diane’s Favorite Quote
Catch on Fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn. ~John Welsley
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Coaching in the Missions Community (Sherri Dodd)
How can we help missionaries last longer and be more effective? Coaching in missions is still a relatively new concept; but Sherri Dodd, the founder of Advance Global Coaching, is already making a difference in the emotional and spiritual health of today’s cross-cultural workers.
In this broadcast, Sherri shares some of the stresses of missions work and how coaching helps missionaries grow in their personal life even while serving on the field. Listen to find out how God has uniquely prepared Sherri to live her life of purpose and passion.
About Sherri Dodd
Sherri Dodd is the founder and CEO of Advance Global Coaching. She is a certified Life Coach who has been coaching since 2003. She has over twenty-five years experience as a career missionary in Europe. In her role as pastor’s wife in international churches, she worked with diplomats, international executives, military personnel, teachers, professors, missionaries, and church leaders from over 40 different countries and 25 different denominational backgrounds.
Sherri understands the pressures of adjusting to new cultures, learning new languages, moving nationally and internationally.
She and her husband Randy have been married almost 36 years and have two grown daughters and one teenage son. Sherri knows what it takes to build a ministry, a home, and a family.
Sherri is a gifted communicator and public speaker with an encourager’s heart.
Sherri’s Tips for Success
There is great joy in “doing your part”. None of us can do it all, but each of us can humbly before God ask what He wants us to do. There is no greater fulfillment than knowing you are being the unique expression of God’s love to the world in whatever format He has for you. God is not impressed with self effort. That is a dead end street. He longs to live through us every day. Purpose and passion are so closely connected. Don’t ask God for more until you are willing to use what you have already been given.
Sherri’s Favorite Quote
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways, acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths. ~Proverbs 3:5-6
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Goal Setting for Personal and Professional Success
Last week we talked about tithing as a way of saying “Thank you, God, for all the good I’ve received” – tithing as a way of acknowledging God as our Source. This week we focus on Goal Setting – what Edwene Gaines considers the second Spiritual Law of Prosperity.*
What do you want your life to look like? Your business to look like? What do you want more of? I don’t mean in general; I mean specifically! (Edwene loves to tell the story of a woman in one of her workshops who wrote down the goal, “I want more love in my life.” When she got home, her neighbor gave her a pregnant dog!)
As a coach and mentor, I am continuously asking my clients to set goals for themselves and for their businesses. As an entrepreneur, encouraged by my own wonderful coaches, I do the same. It wasn’t until recently, however, that I fully grasped the importance of writing down those goals and making sure they are specific and tied to a date by which they will be attained. A vague sense of success, prosperity, doing good in the world just won’t get us where we want to go.
But wait…there’s more.
Edwene asks us to pray daily, “Father, what must I change about myself in order to achieve my goals?” Yikes! I have to change???? You mean if I want to be a respected, inspirational speaker, I have to let go of my fear and insecurities? You mean if I want more clients, I have to get out there and network? I can’t just work long hours at my computer?
Pastor and author Eugene Peterson says this about that: “Busyness is the enemy of spirituality. It is essentially laziness. It is doing the easy thing instead of the hard thing. It is filling our time with our own actions instead of paying attention to God’s actions. It is taking charge.” Hmmmmm. Food for thought.
I gift you with the following “10 Steps to Successful Achievement,” which Edwene teaches in her workshops and seminars (Edwene Gaines Seminars, LLC). As you do this exercise, imagine what your life would look like if there were no limitations. What makes your heart sing?
- In a notebook, dedicated to your goal setting program, write down all of your desires, no matter how large or small.
- Choose the 12 most important desires and write them on this paper in order of importance to you. Be very specific.
- Be open and receptive to change. Pray daily, “Father, what must I change about myself in order to achieve my goals?”
- Determine the date by which you desire to achieve each goal.
- Read your goals at least three times every morning and every evening.
- Imagine yourself achieving each goal.
- Accept your success now. Act as if you had already achieved. Take positive action toward your goals.
- Don’t tell others. Keep your goals private, between you and God. (Exception: your coach, mastermind group, people you trust who won’t rain on your parade.)
- Cross off the goals as they are achieved and continue to add new ones.
- Remember, God’s highest law is LOVE.
Three Steps to Living an Abundant Life (Caroll Schwartz)
March 23, 2011 by Jory · 4 Comments
Do you believe it’s possible to have what your heart truly desires? Would it surprise you to know that it’s quick and easy to make any heartfelt dream come true? Caroll Schwartz, the Practical Prosperity Coach, is living her life purpose every day by delivering the Divine message to the world, “Prosperity is your birthright!” During the past five years, Caroll has helped over 200 clients unlock the “secret” of HOW to create their life their way. While her three-step prosperity formula is simple to understand, there ARE potential pitfalls. Caroll will share some amazing stories of how her clients made the power of the Law of Attraction work for them easily and reliably to create exactly what they want – usually in 30 days or less. And most importantly, she’ll share how to overcome internal blocks that can stop you from having the abundant, fulfilling and prosperous life you deserve.
About Caroll Schwartz
Caroll Michel Schwartz became a full-time professional coach in 2004, with a 30-year corporate background in marketing research, sales training and fundraising.
She is a Certified True Purpose Coach ™, who loves helping her clients discover what they are meant to be and do in life, as well as a Certified Dream Coach™ who guides individuals and groups through a step-by-step program that guarantees to make any life dream a reality.
In 2006, she developed her own specialty, Practical Prosperity Coaching, in which her clients use a simple 20-minutes-a-day formula that Caroll guarantees will make any goal a reality, usually in 30 days or less.
As an adjunct to coaching, Caroll regularly presents workshops and tele-seminars and is a published writer and editor.
She is a native Southern Californian who happily resides near the coast with her realtor husband, Rick, and stepson, Matthew.
Caroll’s Prosperity Coaching Suggestion
America’s Dream Coach and my mentor, Marcia Wieder, says that “Our beliefs are never neutral. They either move us toward our dreams or they hold us back.”
The number one way you can make your Big, Juicy Dreams come true is to challenge your old, limiting beliefs and replace them with new, empowering beliefs that will inspire you and move you toward your dreams. There are many methods for transforming beliefs. An easy one is simply to interview yourself – usually by journaling.
Start by examining ONE area of your life where you are experiencing less abundance than you would like – career, money, relationship, friendship, etc. Ask yourself, “What do I believe about this?” And then make a list of EVERY “truth” you think you know about that topic. Remember, these beliefs of yours are not really “The Truth.” They are your interpretation of the truth, based on your past experiences or the past experiences others have shared with you.
Begin to question each of your beliefs in detail by answering questions such as, “How do I know that’s true (about money)? Who says? Is it ALWAYS that way for EVERYONE? Can I think of ANY exceptions to this rule?” This will cause a little uncertainty to open up your subconscious mind. Then ask yourself the Million Dollar Question: “What do I NEED to believe in order to succeed here?” The answer will help you create a new belief that will empower you to reach your goal instead of holding you back.
And the subconscious mind is reassured by “proof,” so you can look to either someone you know personally or even a public figure like Oprah who seems to be living according to the new, empowering belief you would like to adopt. What abundance do they seem to have in THEIR life? If it is possible for THEM to succeed, might it be possible for YOU, too? (The answer, of course, is “Of Course!”)
If you would like the list of 12 questions I give to my clients to help them quickly transform an old, limiting belief into a new, empowering belief, email caroll@practicalprosperitycoach.com with “Change Beliefs” in the subject line.
Caroll’s Quote for the Day
“The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.” – Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
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Becoming a Life Change Artist (Kathy Jordan)
March 9, 2011 by Jory · 2 Comments
Leonardo Da Vinci, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Berthe Morisot… What do the world’s greatest artists have in common with people in the midst of a major life transition? The skills they used to produce their masterpieces are the same skills required to make successful shifts, whether it’s finding a new career, a new purpose or calling in life. Dr. Kathy Jordan, co-author of “Becoming a Life Change Artist” will discuss the groundbreaking approach made popular in their book and workshops. Life change is not an orderly step-by-step process. Instead, like all creative processes, it is full of stops and starts. We’ll talk about the 7 key skills the most creative minds of history shared, that anyone rethinking their future can cultivate. Join us to learn about Kathy, her purposeful work, her book and the 7 skills we can use to spark the luminous creativity that lies within each of us.
About Kathy Jordan
Dr. Kathy Jordan is an innovative coach, Reiki energy healing teacher, and co-author of the recently published book “Becoming a Life Change Artist: 7 Creative Skills to Reinvent Yourself at Any Stage of Life” with Fred Mandell Ph.D. Kathy integrates her expertise in creative skill-building and mind/body practices to help people create more meaningful and joyful lives. She specializes in providing strategies for midlife women as well as survivors of abuse, trauma, and chronic illness to live creatively despite difficult challenges. She is also a corporate consultant highly regarded for her inventive and practical approaches to managing strategic change and enhancing bottom-line performance. In addition, she provides writing and editorial guidance to help individuals and businesses craft compelling messages true to their voice and vision. Kathy lives in Colorado Spring, Co.
Kathy’s Coaching Suggestion
What If You Reframed a Problem as a Creative Dilemma?
Creative dilemmas arise out of a tension between the current state of our lives and a sense that things can be better or different. Creative Dilemmas are sources of innovative breakthroughs in art as well as in life. Without them the history of art would be a series of boring reproductions rather than lively bursts of expressive originality. Our lives, too, would take on the familiar but boring patina of repetition if it were not for the uncomfortable but necessary tensions that give rise to our creative dilemmas. When we understand creative dilemmas as the entry point into the creative process, we are more likely to face them for what they are, even welcome them, as unsettling as they may be, as opportunities for personal growth and reinvention.
Think of yourself or a client at the threshold of change. How could you or your client benefit from reframing a current challenge as a creative dilemma?
Kathy’s Quote for the Day
“I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life, and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.” ~Georgia O’Keeffe
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Even the Lone Ranger had Tonto! (Kate Steinbacher)
Going it alone is old fashioned and self centered and, frankly, makes life difficult! Kate believes in working smarter NOT harder and has discovered that collaboration is the way of doing it. Do you want to learn to work less and accomplish more? Join us for this fun and engaging conversation and go away with tools for your success!
About Kate Steinbacher
Kate Steinbacher, PCC: is a consummate entrepreneur, collaborator, and agent for fun and change as well as a coach, speaker, and prolific writer of self-development articles. She’s enjoyed being a corporate HR manager for a fortune 100 company as well as a Cruise Director on board luxury cruise ships. A business team manager and speaker/emcee for American and International groups, Kate has also served as an active Business and Personal Coach since 2001.
“Coach Kate” has owned, operated, and marketed four successful small businesses. Currently she is a principal in The Coaching Advantage and Co-Founder of The Coaches Console along with her business partner Melinda Cohan.
Change and action have always been allies for Kate’s success. Not only is she passionate about people and business and fostering positivism and possibility, but also about fostering individual and corporate greatness through the use of professional coaching skills. Part of Kate’s driving force is her passion to get the world coached and her sense of fun.
Kate’s Coaching Suggestion
1) Kate suggests that we examine our lives to discern where we are going it alone—and why. Do we have to go it alone or can we delegate the job in ways that allow others to shine and that allow us to learn new ways of accomplishing the task?
2) She also suggests that we review our connections and contacts to discover who might be our “Tontos” in the work place and/or at home. We should then evaluate their strengths and discuss with them how we can collaborate to accomplish more with less effort.
Kate’s Quote for the Day
“Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.” ~Katherine Hepburn
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