Thursday, April 30, 2009 Sharon Jones
Sharon Jones is the owner of Guardian Pet Sitters®, a professional in-home pet sitting company that provides service in Dallas TX and surrounding communities. After spending 18 years in corporate America, Sharon started Guardian Pet Sitters® out of her love for animals. It was her own experience with her Shih Tzu “Precious” when she traveled while working in corporate America that gave her the idea for the business. Guardian Pet Sitters® was started in 1992, currently has 28 associates and offers a variety of services from visits to overnights. Sharon’s ambition is helping people enjoy their pets by helping owners keep them safe, healthy and happy. Sharon has a passion to help pet owners with their pets through education and enjoys writing articles or doing seminars that teach about pet care. This puts her degree in Education and her love of animals together. Sharon has taught classes on “How to start a Professional Pet Sitting business” and “A-1 Customer Service”. One of her mottos is “To be successful in business it is all about the customers and your associates”. Sharon is involved with ABWA, Ewomen and several local chambers. She served on the board of the National Association of Professional Pet Sitters from 1996-1999. You can contact Sharon at 972-625-5272 or email her at sharon@guardianpetsitters.com . Visit the website at www.guardianpetsitters.com where you can sign up for our newsletter “Pet Tracks”. You can also catch her blog at txgps.wordpress.com.
Thursday, April 30, 2009 Barb Girson
Thursday, April 30, 2009 Ann Guyer
Ann Guyer is an entrepreneur and lifelong artist. Her company PCS List & Information Technologies has been providing marketing lists for publishers, universities, non-profits, recruiters, accrediting organizations and institutions for over 30 years. She is active in the arts as a painter and patron, involved in national political causes, and serves on various boards and volunteer initiatives. Her marketing newsletters are focused on a realistic expectation and practical approach to using transactional and characteristic data to forward brand and successfully achieve selling objectives. When not promoting her business you can find her on her skis or bicycle with friends and adult daughters. Her website is www.pcslist.com and she would love to talk with you about your business. 1-800-532-LIST(5478)
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 Margalit Ward
Margalit Ward is an ICF Certified Empowerment Coach. She is the Founder of Creative Coaching where she combines her background in Counseling & Spiritual Psychology with her business and marketing experience to support her clients in creating success and discovering the blocks that my keep them stuck. She is also the Co-Founder of Get Up Girl Coaching that specializes in women’s coaching groups, workshops, and retreats. They provide programs throughout the year to empower the personal and professional lives of women.
Margalit has four years of formal training in Counseling Psychology from the University of Santa Monica, and has completed six years of study in Spiritual Science Doctoral program at Peace Theological Seminary in Los Angeles. As a successful entrepreneur, Margalit started and grew two successful graphic design and publishing companies, and later a flourishing freelance design and marketing business. Margalit enjoys art, hiking, gardening and spending time with her family. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, son and adorable puppy Kira.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 Shannon Bindler
Shannon Bindler is an ICF Certified Life Coach with a specialization in Health and Wellness and the Co-Founder of Get Up Girl, Women's Coaching. She received a Bachelors Degree in Communication from Lewis and Clark and was
Life Style editor for LA based Yogi Times Magazine. She is currently obtaining a Masters Degree in Spiritual Psychology with an emphasis in Consciousness, Health, and Healing from the University of Santa Monica. Shannon is the founder of Orangelife Coaching and Co-Founder of Get Up Girl Coaching that specializes in womens coaching groups, workshops, and retreats. Shannon provides an on-going partnership that empowers her clients to create change, bring balance, and achieve personal success. Shannon is currently publishing a coaching workbook/planner called Your Time Is Now with her coaching partner.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 Erica A Brooks
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 Charrise McCrorey
Charrise McCrorey is a certified business coach, and creator of a unique coaching program called Full Out & Fearless. Charrise has dedicated her coaching practice to the exploration of fear, and has effectively helped people understand the ways in which fear stops them from living the life of their dreams.
Charrise uses a multitude of resources in order to customize her approach with clients. She is committed to meeting a person where they are, and to providing a safe and loving place from which people grow and flourish. She is action oriented, and uses humor and intuitiveness to shape the course of her work with clients.
Charrise is a published author and inspirational speaker, living in Indiana. Through technology, she has built a thriving global coaching practice. Contact her at info@fulloutandfearless.com, or visit www.fulloutandfearless.com for more information.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 H. Stein
Monday, April 27, 2009 Shann Vander Leek
Unconventional, spirited and delightfully curious, Shann Vander Leek is a fresh new voice in the arena of mindfulness and extreme self care. Shann is the founder of True Balance Life Coaching and is a Certified Life Coach and Registered Yoga Instructor. Shann inspires women in transition to set big goals, achieve extraordinary results and create balance in their lives through personal coaching, yoga and creative expression. Sign up for our Life Balance Newsletter and claim your free special report: Clobbering Overwhelm. www.truebalancelifecoaching.com
Friday, April 24, 2009 Barbara Hartsook
Thursday, April 23, 2009 Kellie DAndrea
Kellie DAndrea is CEO of Kellie D'Andrea & Associates, a company devoted to empowering motivated entrepreneurs to reach their goals and to build a business that yields results by providing them the tools for success. Kellie works with entrepreneurs on ways to maximize their business profits by teaching them techniques to BLAST their profits to new heights using on-line and off-line strategies to build the business of their dreams. She publishes the award-winning "Marketing Edge" weekly ezine with tips on gaining the competitive edge. If you're ready to jump-start your marketing, make more money, and have more fun in your small business, get your FREE tips now at www.KellieDandrea.com
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 Gail Mitchell Emilsson
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 Jane Morrison
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 Michelle Davies 
Michelle Davies was born in Bristol, England and has 2 daughters Evie and Lily - with another on the way! Michelle has an honors degree in IT and Electronics with a Post Grad Certificate in teaching and after a successful career in IT moved with her family to the USA in April 2005 where she moved into the interactive world of web development and soon forged a position as Managing Director of the Orlando arm of the Global digital agency Lightmaker where the client list included; JK Rowling, BMW USA, Ripley's Entertainment, Manchester United, Nickelodeon, EA, Warner Brothers and M Night Shyamalan. Michelle left Lightmaker in November 2007 to start her own company called Big Belly Creative to allow her to spend more time at home with her family, She lives in Celebration Florida. Michelle can be contacted at: Michelle@bigbellycreative.com
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 Donna Biasi
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 Amie Konwinski
Amie Konwinski is a Marketing and Communications Consultant who specializes in business development, marketing, and public relations. Catering to small-to-medium sized businesses, Amie offers a range of services including: Development and implementation of business and marketing plans, franchising, Website development, product and service documentation, SOPs, employee manuals, eNewletters, and press releases. Amie’s diverse background includes 14 years experience in management and computer engineering, with the United States Navy and Sterling Software, and 4 years as a Sales and Marketing Manager in the ECM and Publishing industries. She has a degree in Communications, from the University of Nebraska, is a decorated Chief Petty Officer in the US Navy, and a wife and mother of five daughters. To learn more about Amie or Konwinski Consulting, please visit www.AmieKonwinski.com
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 Joan Jesion
Trained as a teacher, the arrival of her family led Joan Jesion to embrace direct selling. She taught clients about educational toys for eight years and cooking solutions for nine. Soon she realized, she achieved more satisfaction, supporting her team to achieve their goals so she enrolled in coach training in 2004. Passionate about coaching individuals, to really understand who they are and what it is, they really want, she branded her business Just Love Your Life Now! She offers one-one coaching, workshops and coaching groups. She speaks in the areas of balance and boundaries in working from a home office, adding more fun and joy to every day of your life, and loving yourself. Loving her work but feeling a bit isolated in her home office, she was thrilled to receive an e-mail inviting her to look at a new business model for coaches with Compass. While maintaining her private practice, Joan is proud to be part of this growing international personal development company that offers affordable coaching for women. When women come together, share their common goals and obstacles with the support of a coach, it is powerful! Not only is Compass improving the lives of women through coaching but is also providing a business building opportunity. Joan just loves her life now! www.JustLoveYourLifeNow.com
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 Gail Eddy
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 Otto Thav
Sunday, April 19, 2009 Sonja Watt
Sonja Watt as been working in the natural health movement for over 6 years, and has over 15 years of experience in the field of nutrition, health, personal & child development. She is the author of a children's book (more books are coming) and her articles are read by hundreds of people every month, in her online newsletters. She also started and organizes raw food family retreats which are well-known in Germany where she is from. If you want to take part in one of those fun filled events please click here. To learn more about Sonja visit www.rawfunfamily.com
Sunday, April 19, 2009 Jo-Ann Fair
Thursday, April 16, 2009 Cathy Puett Miller
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Judit Price
Judit Price, MS, CDFI, IJCTC, CCM, CPRW is an employment and career transition consultant, coach and personal brand specialist. in private practice with over 30 years experience. She holds a Masters Degree in counseling and is a Masters level certified career guidance professional, Certified Professional Resume Writer, Career Development Facilitator Instructor, International Job and Career Coach a Certified Career Master. She counsels individuals in career direction and job search strategies from entry and mid level professionals to senior level management. She consults for various organizations in the greater Boston area, and leads workshops and training seminars for other trainers in employment and world of work related topics. Learn more at: www.careercampaign.com
Monday, April 13, 2009 Gini Graham Scott
Gini Graham Scott, Ph.D., J.D., is a nationally known writer, consultant, speaker, and seminar/workshop leader, specializing in business and work relationships and in professional and personal development. She writes books about social trends, popular culture, lifestyles, and criminal justice. She is founder and director of Changemakers and Creative Communications & Research, and has published over 50 books on diverse subjects. Her latest books on business relationships and professional development include: WANT IT, SEE IT, GET IT; ENJOY! 101 LITTLE WAYS TO ADD FUN TO YOUR WORK EVERYDAY and DISAGREEMENTS, DISPUTES AND ALL OUT WAR.
Scott has received national media exposure for her books (including appearances on Good Morning America, Oprah, Montel Williams, CNN, and the O'Reilly Factor). Her Website is at www.workwithgini.com.
Monday, April 6, 2009 Victoria Poller
Ms. “V” (Victoria Thomas Poller) – The ‘Dear Abby’ of the Christian circuit. She has a target audience that includes everyone. Her main objective is to answer questions and give advice from a Christian perspective, to all nationalities. If you’re male, female, young, or more mature - Ms. “V” will touch subjects that may not come across the pulpit. You may have had the subject matter on your mind, yet she will give a reply that is Bible based and down to earth (scripture and verses included). Learn more at www.victoriapoller.com
Sunday, April 5, 2009 Kim Duke
Friday, April 3, 2009 Kathy Doan
Kathy Doan has spent the last decade in the banking industry, and is currently Assistant Vice President for Wells Fargo’s Regional Banking Human Resources, where she is responsible for HR data and analytics. She currently serves as the Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for Asian Community Mental Health Services based in Oakland and sits on the Board of Directors for Pacific Environment based in San Francisco. Kathy is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR). She has a B.A. in Mathematics, a B.S. in Statistics, and an M.S. in Financial Engineering.
Her passion towards the environment and animal rights prompted Kathy to become a vegetarian. Although living with asthma, Kathy completed 3 full marathons in 3 consecutive months in 3 states in 2008, and one of her goals is to complete a full marathon in all 50 states.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009 Gael Chiarella Alba
Founder of The Yokibics® Institute for Personal Development, Gael Chiarella Alba is President of The Yokibics Productions Company Inc. whose mission is "dedicated to healing body, mind and spirit through the spoken word." Divisions of the Institute include The School for Spiritual Warriors, a mentoring vehicle for the practice of higher consciousness, and the pioneering Yokibics Mindbody Fitness Program listed throughout the 90’s among “The Nations Top Ten.” Today the Yokibics Productions Company is dedicated to healing programs such as My Fearless Flyer and Cancer Care. Using the principles of Yokibics, Gael successfully moved past her own early fears to become a mountaineer who has reached the summit of many of the highest US peaks, and an advanced SCUBA explorer entering the caverns and wrecks of the ocean floor.
No matter our age or experience, Yo - ki - bics invite us to yoke, or harness, the powers of mind body and spirit; to extend our chi energy with focused attention, and bam!...to act with all the powers at our command in the direction of our choice. This is the success formula for all creation. You can visit Gael at www.yokibics.com or go to http://gaelsyokibics.blogspot.com/ and add your comments. Namaste!
Tuesday, March 31, 2009 Wendy Timmons
Wendy Timmons is a professional home stager and co-owner of The Real Estate Stagers,
located in Temecula, CA. Her passion and mission in life is to educate
as many home sellers and Realtors as possible of the benefits of
staging their properties. Staging is preparing a home for sale. It is
merchandising the home, highlighting it's strengths and architectural
features, while creating warmth and appeal.Staging can be anything from
de-cluttering, rearranging the existing furnishings, adding
accessories, to completely refurnishing/ accessorizing the entire
home. Buyers tend to gravitate towards the listings that look good
and are in move-in condition. Staging creates a welcoming atmosphere
that buyers can emotionally connect to and feel at home. Whatever
degree of staging you do, can make a significant difference in how
quickly and for how much a home sells. Learn more at: TheRealEstateStagers.com
Tuesday, March 31, 2009 Linda Waters
After
20 years working in a corporate environment, Linda transformed her
career and her life by creating Back to Business LLC, a firm dedicated
to helping moms return to the world of work. Her passion and mission is
to “un-stick” fabulous women and help them devise strategies to move
forward with confidence in their own unique strengths and talents. She
is adept at helping women market themselves strategically in order to
get the jobs and lives they want.
Her business has since grown to
provide career direction and effective job search strategies to
college-aged students as well. An accomplished business leader and
presenter, Linda co- hosts a local TV show called “You’re Hired”, and
speaks regularly to academic, professional and corporate audiences on
career-related topics.
Linda has recently been names the recipient of her region’s 2009 Athena Award. Learn more at: www.backtobusiness.org
Tuesday, March 31, 2009 Joy Turner
Monday, March 30, 2009 Francine Allaire
Saturday, March 28, 2009 Marie Denee 
Marie
Denee has been in retail for about 11 years, supporting herself through
college, working in various retail stores as a stylist, fashion expert,
or assistant manager. While working in retail, she noticed that there
were not many options for her, a proud size 14+. And by options, she
means the Contemporary, high fashioned, impeccably fitting, high
quality fits that work for her and all of her curves! Fast forward to
her post graduate days in college and her intro to store management.
Here she learned about the inner workings of retail and how choices are
made to clothe the modern day fashionista. She dedicated her MBA to
research what was available and who was available in the Plus Size
industry to hear OUR plea. Thus, The Curvy Fashionista was born. After
she finished her MBA, she set out to share with all the
Curvy.Confident.Chic. Fashionistas that we CAN don the latest and
greatest of trends, fashions and styles that are made with US in mind!
A site where women 12+ can come to research, gawk, share, relate, love,
and laugh, The Curvy Fashionista celebrates all things "Curvy" for the
Fashionista in all of us. Learn more at: www.thecurvyfashionista-mariedenee.com
Saturday, March 28, 2009 Chris Vasiliadis
Chris
Vasiliadis had a wake-up-call to her wellness in late 2005, when she
was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis: a chronic disease of the central
nervous system. That diagnosis spurred Chris into action to make many
lifestyle changes. These changes ultimately led to her improved health
and a career as a Certified Wellness Coach. . Through her business,
Priority Wellness, she helps individuals make their wellness a priority
and make habit changes to master their well-being. Working over the
phone, with a special interest in sole proprietors and small business
owners, clients come to Chris when they know they’re not eating right,
exercising enough or consistently, and/or not managing stress well.
Along with her client work, Chris writes and speaks on a variety of
wellness topics including handling today’s stressors, present moment
living, managing energy and mindful wellness. For more information on
Chris and her business, including her free newsletter, visit www.prioritywellness.com.
Friday, March 20, 2009 Stephanie Bennett Vogt
Stephanie
Bennett Vogt's journey of self-discovery began, as she puts it, "with
clearing out a single drawer." In 1996 she quit a successful
twenty-year teaching career and devoted a decade to the study of
clutter and its effects on people, twice certifying with two of the
world's experts in a more-intuitive branch of feng shui called Space Clearing. In 2001 she founded SpaceClear,
a private teaching and consulting practice, which is dedicated to
bringing homes and their occupants back into balance. Stephanie writes
and speaks widely on topics of home tending, self-care, simplifying,
mindfulness, and the divine feminine and is the author of the
award-winning book Your Spacious Self: Clear Your Clutter and Discover Who You Are. To learn more about Stephanie, her book, and her free online programs, please visit: www.spaceclear.com.
Friday, March 20, 2009 Barbara Wayman
Friday, March 20, 2009 Herb Pearce
Herb
Pearce, M.Ed., has been teaching the Enneagram Personality Typing
System, as well as the Myers-Briggs for 18 years. He has been a
therapist and relationship coach for 30 years. His speciality is
working with personality differences and conflict and finding new ways
to bridge those differences to create more understanding, harmony and
pizzazz in relationships. He specializes in working with couples,
families, and parent/child healing. Herb is the author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Power of the Enneagram
and he's led 2000 Enneagram workshops. He leads team building and sales
trainings for companies and organizations and presents and leads
Enneagram and Personality Types workshops for groups, schools,
colleges, growth centers and churches. www.herbpearce.com, herb@herbpearce.com, 781 648 3737.
Thursday, March 19, 2009 Mary McManus
Mary
McManus contracted paralytic polio in one of the last polio epidemics
in 1959, at the age of 5. Through her steadfast faith and courage and
the help of a dedicated physiatrist and loving physical therapist, she
was able to walk again. She worked for over 25 years as a dedicated
social worker helping her patients to heal their lives. After being
diagnosed with post polio syndrome in December, 2006, at Spaulding
Rehab's International Rehab Center for Polio, Mary realized that God
was calling her to find a new path in her life. What had once been a
hobby for Mary, writing poetry to commemorate special occasions in the
lives of friends and family, now became a passion and she used poetry
to inspire her body to heal. She created her own company, New World
Greetings, customized poetry for all occasions. You can see samples of
her amazing work by visiting www.newworldgreetings.com. Mary is the author of the book New World Greetings: Inspirational Poetry and Musings for a New World and generously donates 20% of the proceeds to Spaulding Rehab. Her book is available for purchase through her website www.newworldgreetings.com. On April 20, 2009, Mary along with her husband Tom and daughter Ruth Anne will be running the Boston Marathon.
Thursday, March 19, 2009 Linda Saggau
Thursday, March 19, 2009 Jill Ann Bromwich
Saturday, March 14, 2009 Susan Swanson
Susan
Swanson, LCSW is the Executive Director and Founder of The Stepfamily
Center in Beverly Hills, California. She is a noted authority on issues
involving step, blended, and remarried families and has spent over 15
years working with couples. She is licensed therapist and has attained
Board Certified Diplomate status in her field. She was recently awarded
Cambridge’s Distinguished Outstanding VIP of the year award. To learn
more about Susan and The Stepfamily Center, visit stepfamilycenter.com.
Thursday, March 12, 2009 Douglas Penta MD
Monday, March 9, 2009 Marc Warnke
Friday, March 6, 2009 Deborah Crespo
Deborah
Crespo is a Registered Dietitian, Nutrition Coach, and the founder and
CEO of P.H.A.B. Nutrition, Inc. in Savannah, GA. She works with clients
who want to stop trying, and start living a full, abundant life.
Deborah guides her clients on the journey that allows them to increase
their awareness, develop healthy habits, and implement real life
strategies to reach personal balance, wellness and the enjoyment of
food. She shares this philosophy as a speaker, coach and in her book, Health & Wellness Style:
The Smart Woman’s Guide to Balance Wellness and the Enjoyment of Food.
Learn more about Deborah and connecting to her programs at www.HealthandWellnessStyle.com and www.phabnutrition.com.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009 DeLores Pressley
DeLores Pressley, Motivational Speaker, Founder and Principal of the BornSuccessful Institute
and DeLores Pressley Worldwide, brings an impressive blend of personal
and professional experience to her presentations that allow her to
connect with her audience, inspiring and energizing them to take their
confidence and success to the next level. Having spent 27 years
teaching elementary school students, DeLores knows a thing or two about
inspiring others to achieve their potential. During her teaching
tenure, she also founded a successful modeling agency for plus-sized
women. The experience helped her find the confidence she needed to
succeed and served as a foundational experience for BornSuccessful.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009 Amie Konwinski
Amie
Konwinski is a Marketing and Communications Consultant who specializes
in business development, marketing, and public relations. Catering to
small-to-medium sized businesses, Amie offers a range of services
including: Development and implementation of business and marketing
plans, franchising, Website development, product and service
documentation, SOPs, employee manuals, eNewletters, and press releases.
Amie’s diverse background includes 14 years experience in management
and computer engineering, with the United States Navy and Sterling
Software, and 4 years as a Sales and Marketing Manager in the ECM and
Publishing industries. She has a degree in Communications, from the
University of Nebraska, is a decorated Chief Petty Officer in the US
Navy, and is a wife and mother of five daughters. Learn more about Amie
Konwinski's services by visiting www.AmieKonwinski.com
Monday, March 2, 2009 Karen Post, a.k.a. The Branding Diva®
Karen
also known as the Branding Diva® is an international authority on
branding/marketing matters. She authored several books including: Brain Tattoos, Creating UNIQUE BRANDS that Stick in Your Customers’ Minds. She is also CEO of www.oddpodz.com,
an online social community for creative-minded professionals and
businesses. Oddpodz provides learning, networking and ideas for growing
businesses and advancing careers. Oddpodz is also home to FREE BIZ
FINDZ, a dedicated section where the best free tools and resources are
posted and reviewed. Karen has been a contributor to Fast Company
magazine and featured in national and international media outlets
including: Entrepreneur magazine, China CEO, The New York Times, The New York Post, The Boston Globe, The Houston Chronicle, Adweek,
Business Journals throughout the United States; and featured on
broadcast venues including National Public Radio, Bloomberg Radio and
TV, CBS’s Early Show in New York; as well as Fox, ABC, NBC, and CBS
local/regional programming. She has addressed thousands of business
people in the United States and abroad, earned standing ovations, and
even shared the stage with Magic Johnson, Marlo Thomas; and Mark
Burnett, producer of “Donald Trump’s The Apprentice” and many other
successful television shows
Monday, March 2, 2009 Michele Christensen
Sunday, March 1, 2009 B.M. Garrett
Sunday, March 1, 2009 Lenore Miller
Sunday, March 1, 2009 Tina Koral
Sunday, March 1, 2009 Liz Copeland
Liz
Copeland is creator of the Food & Joy Coaching Process, taking you
from a place of fear, lack or deprivation around food to a place of joy
and abundance. Liz loves food, likes eating and passionately believes
that weight loss or healthy eating should not be about deprivation. At
some stage in our lives our bodies knew how to be healthy and our cells
knew what nutrients they needed. But our emotional needs make us choose
foods that are unsuitable – this makes us feel bad and the guilt makes
us eat even more! Although trained in biochemistry and nutrition, it
was Liz’s own emotional journey to healthy eating that enabled her to
blend her knowledge and experience to create a coaching process that
can free you from fear around food. Visit www.foodandjoy.com where you can get access to her newsletter No more rabbit food – weight loss tips for people who love food and find out more about the Food & Joy Coaching Process.
Tuesday, February 23, 2009 Dainaz Sohrab Ilalva
Tuesday, February 23, 2009 Jenn Givler
Jenn
Givler is an Online Business Building Guide. She teaches holistic and
creative business owners how to use web sites, SEO, social media, and
mindful internet marketing activities to build an online presence. Jenn
can help you understand all of these online tools, determine which are
right for you, help you use them effectively, and create a strategy
that helps you expand your work in the world.
Jenn has a degree in Public Relations, and has experience creating
marketing materials for large and small companies. She is also an
Aromatherapist, and a Reiki Master, and before teaching marketing, she
owned a healing business where she did Reiki treatments and creating
aromatherapeutic toiletry products. On her web site, you can find many
resources including her blog, and her free report: The Essentials of Building
an Online Business. http://CreateAThrivingBusiness.com
Tuesday, February 23, 2009 Kathy Hadley
Tuesday, February 23, 2009 Diana Bourgeois
Tuesday, February 23, 2009 Y Renee Lewis
Y.
Renee Lewis has more than 20 years experience helping emerging
companies succeed. She has expertise in professional services including
high-tech, elearning, pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. Today,
Ms. Lewis is the president and chief executive officer of the Pensare
Group, an organization focused on helping entrepreneur’s achieve
results through company alignment and development of high performance
teams. She shares her “survival” techniques with others who can use
them to their advantage to get to the end objective sooner. She
collected her results-oriented entrepreneurial skills playing key roles
(CEO, COO, CTO, CIO, VP Product Development and VP Consulting Services)
in seven different start-ups. She has also served in senior-level
positions in organizations like Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Bell
Atlantic (now Verizon) and Wellspring Resources (now Citi-Street) where
she had direct responsibility for getting large, data-oriented systems
to market. She is a requested speaker on topics related to getting
things done, particularly through others. She speaks internationally
for women entrepreneurs.
Tuesday, February 23, 2009 Chris Cobb
Chris
Cobb recently retired after 25 years in the financial services
industry. She has embarked on a new career in Internet and Affiliate
marketing. Her latest project, www.Pain-In-The-Tax.com
was launched in January 2009. In August 2008, Chris and her partners in
Lighthouse Capital Management were acquired by a large investment
advisory firm. She was charged with overseeing compliance, trading,
portfolio accounting as well as working directly with many of the
firm's clients. Prior to joining Lighthouse in 1994, Chris and her
partner ran a local CPA firm which specialized in tax planning and
preparation. Outside of career activities, Chris loves to travel to
just about anywhere. Favorite travel places are Italy and Las Vegas.
She also enjoys helping out with her sister's eBay store (www.rollingtstores.com) and keeping up with her nieces and nephew.
Tuesday, February 23, 2009 Penina S. Finger
Tuesday, February 17, 2009 Jessica Cares
Tuesday, February 17, 2009 Kerri Salls
Kerri
Salls is a business advisor who helps clients work on their business,
not just in their business. She assists successful businesses with a
burning desire to take their business to the next level of success and
are willing to invest their time and money in that pursuit. As a
strategist, Kerri enhances decision making, increases focus and
improves performance of progressive leaders as they realize their
vision and vocation. www.breakthrough-enterprise.com.
978.692.5258. Kerri has an MBA in International Marketing and
Operations Management from Boston University, sits on the Board of
Directors for the Middlesex West Chamber of Commerce and is the
Sponsorship Chair for the Women’s Economic Summit.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009 Robin Gray, RN
Robin
Gray is a registered nurse on a mission to teach women the secret
epidemic, that doctor related breast cancer misdiagnosis is common! She
is passionate about her calling, as she is a seven year young breast
cancer survivor of a seventeen month breast cancer misdiagnosis from
respected and experienced physicians. Since her misdiagnosis, she has
researched why physicians commonly misdiagnose breast cancer and has
recently published a book about her research and experiences, called BREAST LUMP WHAT LIES BENEATH.
Robin believes the book will help increase the awareness of the common
place of doctor-related breast cancer misdiagnosis in women, especially
younger ones, and will guide women in how to obtain the correct breast
diagnosis. Additionally, Robin believes her story will encourage those
who have already suffered a misdiagnosis or cancer diagnosis. You may
visit her new educational website,
with life-saving information about breast lumps and emotional healing
information for a misdiagnosis or cancer diagnosis. A percentage of the
proceeds from her book will go to the Young Survival Coalition.
Monday, February 16, 2009 Meredith Liepelt
Meredith Liepelt, President of Rich Life Marketing,
is an award client attraction expert, speaker, author and entrepreneur.
She works with business owners to help them creatively and effectively
attract ideal clients quickly. New subscribers to Smart Marketing,
Meredith’s bi-weekly enewsletter, receive a free e-course where she
teaches her proprietary Marketing for a Truly Rich Life Formula™. Learn
more about Rich Life Marketing at: richlifemarketing.com
Monday, February 16, 2009 Joanie Winberg
As the Founder of the National Association of Divorce for Women and Children,
Joanie's passion is to help women during and after divorce to be the
best they can be as well as become role models for their children and
community. The 24/7 Resource Center, was created not only because of
the lack of support and guidance Joanie experienced after her divorce,
but for the many women who experience the same challenges. Joanie is
also the Divorce Specialist for the National Association of Baby Boomer
Women. Joanie became a successful business owner of a True Value
Hardware store at the age of twenty five. After eighteen years in the
retail arena, she embarked on a professional career as a speaker,
author, business/personal coach specializing in divorce, Certified
Behavior Specialist, and a Certified Laughter Leader. Joanie speaks
around the country and her diverse clientele is in the retail, health
care, non-profit sector, and education industries. She is also the
author of Rising to the Top, A Guide to Self Development.
Monday, February 16, 2009 David West
David
West, owner of Meadowview Construction and Meadowview Custom Cabinetry,
has been living in the world of home renovations for almost 20 years.
The staff at Meadowview is carefully chosen to cater to the needs of
its special clientele and with their tagline being "Best Behaved Boys
in Construction" there is a lot of pressure to maintain the company
values that were developed back in 1996. An architectural background
has allowed David to understand what goes on in the design process
ensuring that there is a smoother relationship between the builder,
home owner and architect. Meadowview's custom cabinetry division caters
to builders and architects and brings a remodeling perspective to the
table that is rarely seen with other cabinet makers. Whether it is a
small bathroom that needs remodeling or a new home that needs a great
builder, Meadowview is poised to handle the project with sincerity and
respect.
David can be contacted by phone at 978-887-2587 or online at www.meadowviewconstruction.com
Saturday, February 14, 2009 Kathy Esper
Saturday, February 14, 2009 Catherine A. Bernard
Cathy
Bernard has 13 years of experience in the insurance/financial services
industry and is the President of the National Association of Women
Business Owners Boston Chapter (NAWBO). Cathy is also a Steering
Committee Member for 2009 Women’s Economic Summit in MA and is a member
of The National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors. She
specializes in working with individuals and business owners to find
clarity and peace of mind in the areas of risk management, investment/
retirement planning and income replacement. Utilizing a team of
professionals, she provides a unique full service and integrated needs
analysis system. Cathy can help create a strategy that furnishes
clients with constructive ideas for reaching their financial goals. She
can be reached at: Bernard.Cathy@principal.com
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 Lauren Mackler
Lauren
is a renowned coach, speaker, and popular radio and TV talk-show guest.
Over the past 25 years, she has been a psychotherapist, workshop
facilitator, corporate consultant, coach, and a leading authority in
the areas of personal transformation, relationships, and professional
performance. She is a fellow author of Speaking of Success with Jack Canfield and Stephen Covey and author of Solemate: Master the Art of Aloneness & Transform Your Life.
In 2001, she founded Lauren Mackler & Associates, integrating her
diverse experience to create coaching programs, workshops, and training
programs that help people unleash their greatest potential in their
personal lives, careers, relationships, and organizations. Visit her
Website at www.laurenmackler.com.
Monday, February 9, 2009 Brenda Stanton
Brenda
Stanton owns and operates her own life-style business where she
coaches, leads, and inspires women with Big Visions to step into their
greatness with grace, dignity, confidence and courage. Brenda’s mission
is to show women how to truly claim their worth and reveal: that they
are more than enough just as they are today – and it is because of this
Truth that they can experience, and have, everything they desire and
deserve in life and work. To learn more about Brenda and her
Transformative, Life-Style programs visit her at www.brendastanton.com or contact her via email at: brenda@brendastanton.com
Monday, February 9, 2009 Cidnee Stephen
Cidnee
Stephen is a high energy and accomplished marketing professional. Born
to market, she showed her creative side at a very young age when she
started marketing greeting cards and good ol’ lemonade in elementary
school. To anyone that knew her, it was no surprise then that she chose
marketing as her focus at University over 20 years ago. Having worked
in Canada and Europe, Cidnee has called Calgary her home since the late
1990’s. She started Strategies for Success in 1999. Since then she has
worked with thousands of entrepreneurs and small businesses to build
sound marketing systems that get results! Cidnee is a sought after
speaker and consultant on the elements of small business marketing. She
speaks regularly in Calgary, as well as at national conferences and
corporate functions. She also has written articles for magazines and
corporate newsletters sharing her savvy marketing tips. She publishes
the Marketing Excel-erator and will be launching her new book in 2009 "If You Aren't Getting the Business, You Don't Deserve It". Learn more at: http://www.strategiesforsuccess.ca/
Sunday, February 8, 2009 Aimee Berrent
Aimee
has extensive experience in the jewelry business. She was born in New
York City, where her Father and Grandfather had a Jewelry store, on
Madison Avenue. Her family then moved to Connecticut. She took courses
in diamonds, diamond grading, color stones, color stone grading,
pearls, restringing, and appraisals from the Geological Institute of
America (GIA) in Santa Monica, California, and became a graduate
gemologist.
Over the past 20 years, Aimee has worked in every facet of the jewelry
field including:
• planning and implementing merchandise presentations for national
chain accounts • developing training seminars in diamond and pearl
jewelry • acquiring diamonds, colored stones, pearls, and gold jewelry
• developing databases for tracking jewelry repairs • supervising
goldsmiths and other staff. In continuing education courses, she has
learned more about diamond grading and advanced diamond grading. Aimee has also taken a GIA/AGS seminar in diamond cut grading .
She has lived in the Boston area since 1995, and have been appraising customer’s jewelry and estate pieces. Aimee can be contacted at phone # 617-304-0174 or at www.ambappraisal.com
Sunday, February 8, 2009 Rhonda Livingston
Rhonda L. Livingston resides on the South Shore of Massachusetts. She received her B.A. in Business Management with a minor in communications from Curry College and in 2008 completed her MBA. During her MBA program, Rhonda was appointed: Project Director of the MBA Global Capstone consulting project for Weymouth Bank’s “Strategic Initiatives and Competitive Analysis for 21st Century Community Bank”. Rhonda is very actively involved in several charities where she has served on their board of directors or helped behind the scenes to set up non-profits. Rhonda also founded her own charity event I Used My Heart (IUMH). IUMH is a win-win-win socially responsible charitable activity that takes donated books and recycles them by selling them at reasonable prices to those who need them and then donates proceeds to charity. By using established and reputable business partners, and a simple approach to cataloging, Rhonda has taken in more than 300 donated books and sold them at a reasonable price to students. The proceeds from the sales enabled her to make an impact in South Eastern Massachusetts by donating charitable organizations. To learn more about Rhonda or IUMH, please visit http://www.linkedin.com/in/rhondazammitlivingston or http://shops.half.ebay.com/iumh_W0QQmZbooks.
Monday, February 2, 2009 Tricia Greaves
Having lost 50 lbs. through identifying and addressing the underlying causes of her emotional eating, Tricia Greaves created www.HealYourHunger.com an online resource which offers hope and healing for emotional eaters worldwide. Tricia is also the Executive Director of The Greaves Foundation (www.TheGreavesFoundation.org) a non-profit offering a true solution for those with nowhere else to turn for help with eating disorders, obesity and addictions. Tricia’s mission is to show people around the world how they can heal their hunger and end the vicious cycle of emotional eating.
Tricia is a certified coach and an internationally known speaker offering workshops and teleclasses on the topic of emotional eating and healthy weight loss. She is also the contributing author of 101 Great Ways to Improve Your Health and the popular Thank God I book series in which she writes a chapter called, “Thank God I Was Fat.” To learn more and to register for your free “HYH Jump-Start Kit,” visit www.HealYourHunger.com.
Monday, February 2, 2009 Meghan Gehan
Sunday, February 1, 2009 Julie Gershon
Julie Gershon is a Managing Partner of Unique Benefits Group, LLC and an employee benefits, group security, and identity theft specialist with Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc. (Independent Associate). Over the past ten years, she has been offering pre-paid legal plans and identity theft monitoring and restoration plans to individuals, families, and companies nationwide as an employee benefit. Due to the rapidly growing crime of identity theft, and the subsequent lack of knowledge that most people have about their exposure to identity theft, she has become very involved in educating consumers through Identity Theft Awareness Seminars. She has presented her seminar to dozens of companies and social organizations throughout New England. Ms. Gershon is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate with a B.A. in Legal Studies and a Minor in Criminal Justice Studies from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Julie has worked in the legal industry for over 18 years. She can be reached at 978-658-4235 (direct) or 800-320-3220. E-mail: gershons3j@cs.com; Website: www.onlyonemeonline.com
Thursday, January 29, 2009 Laura Rocha
Laura Rocha is Owner/Partner of EFTS Inc. Est. April of 2003.
We offer great rates for Credit Card Processing – Gift Card Programs – Check Conversion – NSF – Point of Sales Equipment and more. We educate our clients before they sign up to work with us. Our biggest asset to our clients is the customer support once they are set up. We don’t disappear once they are set up! All our clients have our cell phone numbers. Although we can set someone up anywhere in the US, the majority of our clients are local to MA, NH and VT.
I am also an Assistant Director for BNI MASS – Teaching Word of Mouth Networking and Business By Referral since 2004. My role is to help members get the most out of word of mouth networking by visiting chapters and doing motivational presentations monthly on an array of topics as well as teach a 3 hour New Member Success Program every month. I love teaching people how to Network more effectively and how to build relationship not just a potential client list.
I am on the Board of Directors at the Greater Lowell Chamber of Commerce. And I am the Marketing Consultant for a local community theater group, Actors Inc. Contact Laura Rocha for more information at: lrocha@eftscredit.com
Monday, January 26, 2009 Nancy Jueger
Nancy Jaeger is founder and CEO of USABride.com, one of the web’s oldest and mostly highly-trafficked sites specializing in wedding fashion accessories. In 1996, Nancy created a content website with over 200 articles (www.USABride.com), which was all about weddings and wedding planning for brides seeking advice. Recognizing the need in the marketplace for bridal accessories, Nancy founded her first online e-commerce bridal accessories online site –www.Bridalfashionmall.com Starting slowly with an inventory of only 10 tiaras, jewelry sets and 3 veils, Jaeger managed everything herself – designing the store front, programming the ecommerce site, taking photos, answering the phones, packing orders and even steaming veils in her shower – all with her young daughter by her side! In 2005, she launched her 2nd e-commerce site (www.shopforbridal.com) and added bridesmaid dresses, destination wedding dresses, attendant gifts, favors, ceremony and reception items. Nancy hasn't stopped as she continues to refine and assess the need in the market. In 2008, she launched her third e-commerce site www.USABrideWeddings.com. This new site focuses on a Couture Collection of bridal accessories, along with a brand new Beach Collection, perfect for the destination bride.
Monday, January 26, 2009 Patricia Samuels
Thursday, January 22, 2009 Erin Albert
Dr. Erin Albert is a business owner, writer, assistant professor, and student. She owns two companies (Pharm, LLC and Yuspie, LLC), and is an assistant professor and the director of the Ribordy Center for Community Practice at Butler University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. She has developed and written several books, her most recent being: The Life Science Lawyer (2009). A pharmacist, Albert holds BS in Pharmacy, a MBA in Marketing, a Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD), and began her study of law (JD) in fall, 2008. Her writing site is: www.erinalbert.com
Thursday, January 22, 2009 Beth Schneider
Beth Schneider, President and CEO of Process Prodigy is a highly sought after, internationally known systems expert. Beth works with small business owners, showing them how to streamline their business so they can work less, make more money and create Outrageously Effective Systems in their own business. Her client list reads like a who’s who of the small business world. Her clients have seen remarkable growth, increasing productivity by as much as 600% and revenues by as much as 250%. Beth has had the privilege of being invited to partner on projects with world class entrepreneur, Michael Gerber who is touted as the world’s #1 small business guru and is best known as the author of the E-myth Revisited. She is the featured systems expert in Michael Port’s bestselling book Beyond Booked Solid and you’ll find her chapter Lions and Tigers and Process … Oh My in the book “Inspiration to Realization”. See more at: www.processprodigy.com
Monday, January 19, 2009 Liz Silva
Monday, January 5, 2009 Sally Shields 
Sally Shields is an award-winning pianist,
composer, speaker, author and radio personality. A frequent contributor to various magazines, Shields has been featured in Star, Obvious, My Day, Girlfriendz,
For the Bride, AOL Living Home, MomLogic.com,
and many others. Endorsed by Dr. Laura Schlessinger and Martha Stewart, she is a repeat guest on the nationally syndicated The Daily Buzz with her #1 Amazon.com bestseller, THE DAUGHTER-IN-LAW RULES: 101 Surefire Ways to Manage (and Make Friends with) Your Mother-in-Law!
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