Jory Fisher, host of Heart & Soul for Women of Faith, specializes in helping Christian women entrepreneurs integrate calling, confidence, and clarity into their business so they can serve the people they’re meant to serve and glorify God through success. Before opening her coaching and consulting firm in 2008, Jory had worked 15 years as an attorney focusing on family, juvenile, and criminal law; four years as an assistant professor and associate dean of Liberty University School of Law; and three years as the Executive Director of the Child Abuse Prevention Center in Central Virginia. She holds professional certifications from the International Coach Federation, the Institute for Life Coach Training, the Career Coach Academy, the Christian Coaches Network, and the True Purpose™ Institute. She and her husband Dave live in Lynchburg, VA and are the proud parents of seven purposeful and successful children.  For more information, please visit www.womenfindpurpose.com.

Jory’s Success Tips:

• “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God…”  (Luke 12:31)
• “Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances…”  (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18)
• Find, follow, and fulfill your divine calling.
• Persevere in reaching your goals.
• Love others. Love yourself.
• Forgive others. Forgive yourself.
• Freely give.
• Freely receive.
• Have fun!!!!!

Jory’s Favorite Quote:

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding.  In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct thy paths. ~Proverbs 3: 5-6

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My youngest daughter Brett (youngest by four minutes) is about to complete her plebe year at the U.S. Naval Academy.  My “middle” daughter Jana (Brett’s twin sister) is flying home as I write, inwardly pleased with her awesome GPA as a freshman at SMU and ready for a well-deserved break.  And my oldest daughter Becca is winding up her first year as a bilingual teacher with Teach For America in inner-city Dallas.  All girls purposeful.  All girls determined to make a positive difference.  All girls a special blessing to their mama.  Happy Mother’s Day indeed!

Even as I think about how amazing my daughters are, I pay special tribute to my own mom, Josephine Ellen Hingson (1920-1999), and to the thousands of other military wives and mothers who aren’t able to live out their purpose with joy.

A war-time bride and mother, Mom lived in the shadow of my father’s exemplary naval career.  She never “found” herself, much less her purpose.  It’s fair to say she hated her life even though she loved her family with all her heart and soul.  My daughters and I are so fortunate that we are free to explore why we’re here on earth and to serve others as we feel led.  Mom couldn’t or Mom didn’t.  I’ll never know for sure.  I just know I was raised by a woman who struggled to make sense of life…a life that took her husband away from her for months and months at a time….a life that included orders to move to locations that never would have made her “bucket list”… a life she tried to escape, several times.

I’m so sorry, Mom.  I didn’t understand.

But I know you’re happy now.  Laughing your wonderful laugh and smiling your beautiful smile.  May you sing and dance and paint forever and ever!  With Dad at your side.

I love you, Mom.  Happy Mother’s Day.

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Balance.  How do people (and squirrels) do it?????  I gave up long ago.  But at least I try to integrate a healthy dose of F*U*N into my life.  Just this morning I saw a news clip about the healing qualities of laughter. The cardiologist being interviewed said it’s especially good for the prevention of heart disease.  Yes!  Laughter is good for our hearts and souls.  Patch Adams got it right!

I wonder what you do to bring joy and laughter into your life.  I smile at cute pictures of water-skiing squirrels.  I laugh with my teen-aged daughters (who are an endless source of amusement).  I watch romantic comedies with my husband.  I attend Broadway musicals as often as our budget allows.  I crack up over the antics of our toy poodle. And I share good times with friends.

If we’re going to live purposefully, passionately, and joyfully, we must be intentional about weaving fun into our lives.  Working too much will zap our energy and sap our soul.  This weekend I’m in Chicago visiting friends and attending a leadership conference.  Without a doubt, F*U*N is high on our agenda.  How ‘bout you?  What fun activities do you have planned?

Curious minds want to know.

Joyfully,

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About Cheryl Donovan

An award-winning author, Bible teacher, and evangelist, Cheryl has a heart for women who are struggling with life’s twists and turns. “My message to them is even when we can’t diagnose the problem, changing their mindset can break the chains of bondage.”   Cheryl is Founder and President of Worth More Than Rubies Ministries in Houston, Texas.  Her books, CD’s, and devotionals are meant not only to entertain, but also to minister and encourage.   She exhorts and encourages her listeners and readers to deepen their intimacy with God and arise to their divine calling and destiny.  Not afraid to deal with hard, relevant issues, Cheryl delivers in-your-face messages that have drawn women and men to follow her messages with enthusiasm.

Cheryl’s Suggestions for a Successful Life

1)      Stop blaming others for your issues.

2)      Be responsible for your actions.

3)      Look for the positive in each situation (think good thoughts).

4)      Stop waiting on others to affirm you.

Cheryl’s Scripture Verse for Today

“Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.”  Philippians 4:8

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About Elisabeth von Trapp

Elisabeth von Trapp built upon her famed family’s passion for music to create her own artistic style—ethereal yet earthy, delicate yet powerful. Singing professionally since childhood, she has enthralled audiences throughout the United States, Austria, and Russia performing as wondrously in European cathedrals as in Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center.

Elisabeth’s cathedral program includes sacred and secular music extending from Gregorian chants and songs of 12th century mystics to early American hymns, spirituals, and Psalms set to her own compositions.

Her concert repertoire ranges from Bach to Broadway — from Schubert to Sting. Elisabeth’s five self-produced albums have been featured on National Public Radio, BBC-Radio, Japanese National Radio, and CNN Spanish Radio; she has appeared on CBS’ Eye on People, ABC’s Good Morning America, and BBC-TV. Critics have called her voice “hauntingly clear,” “joyfully expressive,” and “simply beautiful.”

Find out more about Elisabeth and her music at www.elisabethvontrapp.com.

Elisabeth’s Quotes for the Day

“Gesang is Dasein…… To Sing is to be…” ~Reiner Maria Rilke

“Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous….. for they may act on their dream…. and make it possible.” ~T.E. Lawrence from Seven Pillars of Wisdom

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The business building techniques Anthony speaks on include:

1. Find Your UVP
2. Start on the Cheap
3. Constant Forward Motion
4. Think SERVICE
5. Work on the Business, not in the Business
6. Become a Thought Leader
7. Rally Your Fans
8. Surprise and Delight
9. And more…

About Anthony Centore

Anthony Centore, PhD is the Founder of Thrive Boston Counseling in Cambridge, MA (www.thriveboston.com). As a Therapist and Life Coach, Dr. Centore helps couples in crisis as well as clients struggling with life issues including depression, anxiety, anger, self-image, and others.

Dr. Centore has published research in the Journal of Mental Health Counseling and has published writings on a wide variety of subjects. He recently authored a textbook entitled The Therapist’s Clinical Guide to Online Counseling and Telephone Counseling: The Definitive Training Guide for Clinical Practice.

Dr. Centore has been quoted in numerous publications including the Boston Business Journal and The Boston Globe. He has also been interviewed on ABC News Boston.

Anthony’s Coaching Suggestion

Anthony advises us that we must LOVE WHAT WE DO.  On the dark days, he says, it will be our passion and love for our business that will keep us moving forward.  He also suggests that we LEARN AS WE GO.  “I want to stress the word LEARN.  Become a sponge. Start spending time with successful business people and learn how they did it.  Make lots of small mistakes and learn from there. Read lots of books on small business, branding and marketing, and customer service. Get to the point where you go on Amazon. com and are frustrated because you’ve already read every four and five star book in their business section.”  Anthony emphasizes the word GO.  We must execute and test our business idea, he says, as soon as possible and not just continually plan.

Anthony’s Quotes for the Day

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”  ~Socrates

“Starting a business is about Constant Forward Motion.”  ~Fredrick Marckini, Founder of iProspect

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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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The BeliefCloset Process™ is an easy-to-master guided process that enables you to examine the beliefs you inherited or took on in the past, test them for viability today, and discard the ones that don’t work anymore and replace them with beliefs that will serve you better. Our old limiting beliefs are like outfits you once wore, but have outgrown. It’s time for a makeover!

Lion teaches this potent methodology to coaches and therapists worldwide. Reports of profound changes in the psyches and lives of clients continue to pour in.

About Lion Goodman

Lion is a workshop leader, author, coach, and businessman. He has 30 years of business experience and 35 years of study, practice, and research in psychology, philosophy, personal development, and spiritual evolution. As an executive search consultant and career coach, he worked with more than 250 companies across the U.S.

He teaches The BeliefCloset Process™ to coaches, therapists, and facilitators of transformation worldwide. He is the founder of the Sacred Centers’ Coach Training program, a whole-person coaching methodology based on the chakra system.

Lion is the author of Menlightenment, a book for awakening men, and is a co-author of the book, The Heart of Healing, along with Deepak Chopra and others. His fiction and non-fiction articles have been published internationally.

More information is available on his websites: BeliefCloset.com and EverydayAwakening.com.

Lion’s Coaching Suggestion

Lion suggests that you begin examining the hidden and transparent beliefs that are running your life.

Ask yourself, “What do I believe about ____________? “  Spend a few minutes writing down your beliefs about each of the following topics:

• Myself
• My body
• My health
• My work
• My sexuality
• My abilities
• My limitations
• My attitudes
• My family
• My relationships
• My soul, spirit or spiritual self
• Money & Finances
• God/Spirit/Source
• The world
• Good & Evil
• Life & Death
• Truth
• The past
• The future
• My beliefs

2.  Circle the beliefs that you believe may be behind the difficulties in your life.

3.  For the circled beliefs, ask yourself the following questions:

• Has this belief been beneficial or detrimental to me in my life?
• Was this belief indoctrinated into me?  If so, by whom?  Did I ever consciously choose to believe it?   If so, when?   Why did I do so?
• What has been the advantage of having this belief?  How has it served me in my life?  What did I get or gain by having this belief?  What did I avoid by having this belief?
• Who would I be without this belief?
• What would I prefer to believe instead?

4.  Download the free BeliefCloset Jump-Start Kit by signing up on www.BeliefCloset.com/jsk1.  Listen to the BeliefCloset Audio Guide, which will take you through the BeliefCloset Process so you can eliminate and replace three of your limiting or negative beliefs that you don’t want anymore.

Lion’s Quote for the Day

“We are as gods.  So we might as well get good at it.” ~Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalog

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About Nat Couropmitree

Nat Couropmitree supports clients internationally as a life coach and as the host of the popular weekly radio show, Law of Attraction Success Radio. He supports his clients to see the root cause of their frustrations, challenges, and struggles and then effectively empowers them to shift away from those patterns. He supports his clients to reinforce and expand their new and improved reality by helping them develop new self-nurturing habits. Nat is very skilled at taking the insurmountable and transforming it into the doable through the use of simple action steps. He loves helping his clients to see that they already have within them all the tools they need to make the profound life changes they desire.

To learn more about Nat and to listen to his radio show, visit ProsperityLighthouse.com

Nat’s Coaching Suggestion

Nat has found that being passionate and purposeful requires us to know what we personally want in life—to know what makes us happy and brings us joy.  To become clear about what we truly want, he suggests the following:

1. Create two columns on a piece of paper.
2. In the first column, write down everything you don’t like and don’t want.
3. In the second column, write down everything you do like and do want (which is often the opposite of whatever you wrote in column one).
4. Make room for what you want in your life now by actually scheduling it into your day and week.  This will help change old patterns that may be keeping you from a life full of purpose and joy.

Nat’s Quote for the Day

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs.  Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do it!  Because what the world needs are people who have come alive.” ~Dr. Howard Thurman

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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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