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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Develop Your Personal Brand: Uniquely Express Who You Are and What You Do (Sherry Dutra)
How well does your personal brand clearly, consistently, and authentically express who you are? How effectively do you distinguish yourself from other service providers in your industry?
Whether you’re just starting a new business or an experienced entrepreneur looking to increase your business results, it’s time to decide how you want to be known in your market—in a compelling and unforgettable way. You will do this by developing a personal brand. Brands are not just for big corporations. In fact, a personal brand will serve as an important key to your success. A personal brand will help clearly and consistently define, express, and communicate who you are, whom you serve, and why you have chosen to dedicate your life and work to serving your target market so that you can attract your most ideal clients and repel those who are less than ideal. Personal branding is far more than just what you do. It is you—uniquely you. It allows you to distinguish yourself and what is unique about who you are and what you do from everyone else.
This interview topic is based on Michael Port’s bestseller, Book Yourself Solid. Sherry Dutra, a certified Book Yourself Solid Trainer and Coach will discuss the key components of developing a personal brand and provide you with tips and exercises to help you create your own or enhance what you already have in place.
Small Business and Career Management Coach, Sherry Dutra, CPC, and owner of Dutra Associates, LLC, is a Certified Professional Coach who helps professional service providers get all the clients they want even if they hate marketing and sales. Sherry specializes in coaching baby boomer, corporate professionals who have left or are considering leaving their corporate positions to start their own service-based business. Through her coaching, she helps business owners build financial freedom while expressing their passion and purpose in the world.
Her coaching credentials include:
* Certified Professional Coach – iPEC
* Certified Trainer for the iPEC Program
* Certified Book Yourself Solid Trainer and Coach
She also holds an MBA from Rivier College and a BA in Human Development from Boston College.
Sherry draws upon her extensive corporate background in leadership development and career management to clearly define desired client outcomes and partner with the client to support their achievement of tangible and sustainable results.
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Five Secrets To Explosive Growth Interview with Brian Duvall
Brian Duvall has gone from selling cell phones & office equipment to being the CEO of two Chambers of Commerce where he was named one of the region’s Top 20 Under 40. He has gone from being the CEO of an extreme sports company to being unemployed for up to a year twice in his career.
Through it all he has felt that he was capable of greatness but couldn’t seem to find the right opportunity. Then one day he was fired from his last job and hired by his first client to do for them the very thing that got him fired.
Today, Brian owns Duvall Media – a marketing company that is on track to earn over $1 million helping clients sell more of their products & services.
Brian and his wife of more than 22 years have three kids of their own, one adopted child and three foster kids all over the age 13.
In this episode of Heart & Soul, Brian will share the five secrets to explosive growth that have helped him take his start-up company to a quarter million in sales in the first nine months.
- “Freely ye have received, freely give.” Even when you are unemployed you still have these two priceless assets that can be leveraged to launch massive growth.
- “Find Your Lynda.” Now is not the time to be shy or think you can go it alone.
- “Fear Worse Than Death.” This is something nearly every person on the planet can do but few do well. It costs nothing but is one of the MOST powerful secrets you already have.
- “Stupid To Say No.” Remember the Golden Rule? Now use the Platinum Rule and watch your business grow.
- “Streets of Gold.” This one strategy can literally give you EVERYTHING and will lead to explosive growth beyond anything you ever imagined.
Be sure to take notes because he also shares some tips on how you can take action now to experience explosive growth in your own business.
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Legacies of the Heart Interview with Donna Krone
Donna Krone is the founder and owner of Sacred Conversations™, an organization focused on creating and delivering transformational programs in the area of Life Purpose, Leadership and Legacy.
Donna is living her purpose and creating her own legacy, working with individuals to create more authentic heart-centered lives. Formerly a registered nurse and a financial advisor, Donna completed coaching certification and leadership training through The Coaches Training Institute, a premier international coaching school accredited by the International Coach Federation.
Donna is also a licensed “Third Age Fulfillment Coach” and, in 2009, she achieved the honor of becoming the 5th Certified True Purpose Coach worldwide. Her programs are presented at notable venues such as the Positive Aging Conference in Florida, the ASA/NCOA Aging in America conference in Washington D.C., and the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, MA. Donna lives in Lakeville, MA.
Donna Krone’s first 40 years of life were no different than most. She was so busy doing her best to respond to what life brought to her that she brushed away the bigger questions of designing her life. But according to developmental theorists, she was right on schedule when in her early 40s something inside her started to change. Despite a successful career as a financial planner, Donna had this nagging sense “This is not what I’m meant to be doing” and it wouldn’t stop until she paid attention. She finally listened to that inner voice and created a life of purpose and meaning in her business Sacred Conversations™.
As you move into this next stage of life, Donna will show you how sacred conversations can help you develop the confidence to share what is most deeply meaningful to you with family, friends, and your broader community—what she calls legacies of the heart.
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Wake Up to Your Dreams with Beth Scanzani
Did you know…that over the course of your life, you may spend more than six years dreaming?
Your sleeping dreams can provide you with amazing guidance, insight, and creative solutions to life’s challenges and opportunities. On May 5th, Beth Scanzani will talk about the language of dreams and how you can remember more of what you dream. She’ll also talk about seven buried treasures you can discover in your dreams and will share tips on how to you can begin to develop a more conscious relationship with your sleeping dreams and your “higher self.”
Dream work is a powerful and rewarding way to access your own personal life coach—the one who knows you from the inside out and who has your best interest in mind and heart. Itʼs amazing what humorous and significant insights you can have as you unravel the mysteries and metaphors of your dream images and stories!
Beth Scanzani
A multi-faceted Life and Leadership Coach, Beth Scanzani helps her clients live a more authentic, meaningful, and joyful life through her broad knowledge of coaching practices, psychology, organizational leadership, neuroscience, quantum physics, positive psychology, spirituality, the True Purpose™ process, and dream work.
Her coaching certifications include:
- True Purpose™ Coach
- Professional Empowerment Coach
- Energy Leadership Coach
- Dream Coach/GL
- Theoretical Foundations of Coaching
In addition to her training and experience as an individual and group coach, Beth uses her extensive background as a successful human resources executive, along with various assessments, to help her clients achieve breakthrough results while creating fundamental shifts that enable them to actualize their life dreams.
Today, Beth joyfully lives the dream life she purposefully created, doing work she loves from her ocean side office north of Boston.
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Purpose and Passion through Self-Awareness with Hile Rutledge
Since the late 1980’s the topic of Emotional Intelligence has expanded our concept of what it means to be intelligent and effective.
Through a number of models, authors and tools, Emotional Intelligence has given us new ways of regarding ourselves, our relationships, and the developmental choices we have. Living with purpose and passion means moving toward fulfillment of our potential personally, professionally, and emotionally. Emotional Intelligence gives us a compass to understand the navigation of all these element of life.
In this episode of Heart and Soul, Hile Rutledge introduces us to two of the most popular tools that contribute to increased Emotional Intelligence—the EQ-i® and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)™. CEO and Owner of OKA (Otto Kroeger Associates), Hile Rutledge is author of many books and training resources on personality type and Emotional Intelligence as well as an experienced organization development consultant, trainer, and public speaker. He has a robust background in management, sales, adult education, and leadership development. Hile’s primary area of expertise is the use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator? and the EQ-i assessments as self-management, leadership, and communication tools. He has a B.A. in Humanities from Hampden-Sydney College and a Master of Science in Organization Development from the American University (AU/NTL). Hile resides with his wife and two sons in Falls Church, Virginia.
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The Power of Networking with Sheila Savar
April 14, 2010 by Jory · Leave a Comment
Are you a terrific or terrified networker?
Do you know what networking can do for you, professionally and personally? Have you heard the expression, “It’s not what you know, but WHOM you know”? It’s true! Those who understand the importance of developing a network comprised of diverse contacts are in- demand Power People. They never have to fear loss of income or business due to lack of sales, finding or losing a job, finding new business or new employees, buying or selling their business or home, or even finding the best doctors or daycare centers. Why? Because they just have to turn to their network of contacts and ask!
This radio interview is based on Sheila Savar’s book The Power of Networking. We’ll discuss the importance of creating a networking strategy as well as essential networking DOs and DON’Ts.
Author and speaker Sheila Savar aligns her mission with her passion: helping people succeed personally and professionally so they may lead more joyful and rewarding lives.
Sheila shares her message through keynotes and developmental facilitations that have earned her international acclaim with global business leaders such as Microsoft, AOL, The World Bank, and State Farm.
In 2009, Sheila was admitted to Vistage as an Expert Resource Speaker. Vistage is a prestigious international executive leadership organization with over 15,000 CEO members in 16 countries. Only the best speakers, facilitators, and consultants (those who consistently deliver actionable ideas and real take-home value to diverse groups of business leaders) are invited to join this elite group.
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Crossing the Great Divide: The Mid-Life Transition with Rachel Conerly
April 8, 2010 by Jory · Leave a Comment
Like the salmon that travel the long and often treacherous journey, we are following an instinct impossible to resist. Yet most of us find ourselves unprepared for the scope and magnitude of what we’ll face in mid-life. Life seems to come apart more than it comes together.
The things that generated life for us in the first half no longer do, and they may even sap life instead. Without a road map and an inner guide, we may perish. The mid-life transition is about birthing new life and new possibilities. It is a time when we’re to take everything we are and everything we’ve learned in the first half and use it for divine and purposeful work in the world. The mid-life transition is our calling to new and abundant life. Our understanding of and relationship to this archetypal transition will make all the difference!
Rachel Conerly’s mission is to help leaders find their purpose and lead in accordance with their calling. She founded Collaborative Leaders, Inc., an organization whose work is to create a critical mass of leaders capable of addressing the world’s most vexing and perplexing problems. She has worked for 15 years as an Organizational Development Coach and Consultant and consults to top leaders, teaching them a highly-productive alternative to traditional hierarchy. She also co-leads public and private retreats including the Inner Journey in Richmond, Va.
Her clients include executives from numerous fortune 100 organizations as well as high-performing men and women from other disciplines such as government, medicine, and law. She graduated from Presbyterian College with a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science in 1986 and lives in Chapel Hill, NC with her husband and daughter.
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