I flew to California last week to be featured in a documentary on women who’ve become highly successful by taking their businesses online. It was a fun adventure, with hair, makeup, and a close to 3-hour interview in my suite at the Ritz Carlton. Director and producer of the film, Kim Doyal, was great to work with. In fact, I was really touched that she was literally moved to tears by some of the concepts I was sharing on film about our duty as entrepreneurs to get our message out there in a big way. It’s tentatively titled Women In Business 2.0. Can’t wait for you to see it. I’ll let you know when it’s out.
While in Los Angeles, I hosted a Coaching Intensive in my suite, where a small handful of yummy entrepreneurs joined me in-person for a full day so I could tweak and transform their businesses for profitability, get clarity on their marketing message and positioning in the marketplace. In fact, for ALL of them, I actually took over and mapped out their marketing plans for them (they made me autograph the flip charts of each of their plans!), including their programs, packages and rates, proprietary systems and signature talks. We laughed a lot, made full use of the flip chart, and even made one ‘tough cookie’ tear up and lose her breath when I changed her business right in front of her eyes in about 2 minutes, including a new domain name, and plan for easily making $120,000 in her first year in business. (We shot some videos afterwards of them sharing their experience with me so you can feel like you were there with us. I’ll be posting them on the Coaching Intensive site in the next few days.) These are so fun for me, and create such great results so quickly, that I’ll be hosting another one soon on the East Coast. Watch here for upcoming dates.
What an absolutely wonderful weekend we had! Friday was my 40th birthday, and we had all kinds of festivities planned for the weekend. I flew in my dad from Paris, hired a fabulous event planner to create something truly magical for me and my 35 close friends and family that came into Connecticut from around the country and abroad. I also hired a professional photographer to capture each and every moment of the celebration (including the surprise finale at my home that no one expected) and I’ll post some pictures on Facebook and Twitter this coming week, so you can feel like you were with us too. 😉
But mostly, I was really excited to be turning 40, so much so that I couldn’t sleep Thursday night. I know that it doesn’t seem like a milestone MOST people use the word “excited” about, but I have my own personal philosophy about life. Whereby some others are afraid of growing “older”, I feel that perhaps it’s because they haven’t necessarily CONSCIOUSLY created the life they wanted yet. One of the things I’ve been very deliberate about is crafting a life that I love, right down to what I do for a living, the kinds of clients I have, my income, my family, where I live, where I work, and what I do in my personal time. I’ve made up my mind that I don’t wake up in the morning to be mediocre, and that I want to live life like I mean it. And so everything I’ve set my mind to so far, I’ve taken a no-excuses approach to achieve, and the best is yet to come.
Making the most of each moment! That’s what my theme for the summer has been, and the kids seem to be doing the same. I’d never heard of ‘Paper Plate Awards’ before this week, and it was fun to see specifically how my kids were being celebrated for their uniqueness, in fact I learned something new about both of them. My son received the “Singing Sensation” award for constantly singing “I like to move it, move it” and my daughter won “The Wonderball Woman” award, for winning every time she plays Wonderball. Who knew!? (Notice my little Oliver in the middle, wondering what’s going on. Too cute!)
The last stop on my national “Millionaire Entrepreneur Mindset Secrets Tour” was yesterday in Atlanta, and let me tell you, it was an absolutely amazing night, a HUGE success. People drove in from North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama and further, took the train from Washington, road tripped with friends and flew in from all corners of the country for it. And they all left with breakthroughs, the tools and inspiration to play a much bigger game in their business. THANK YOU Atlanta, for making me feel so welcomed, and mostly for making the commitment to step up your Mindset with me to make a meaningful difference in the world, and get handsomely rewarded for adding so much more value to your clients. And for those who made a commitment to no longer wake up in the morning to be mediocre, I can’t wait to see you at my Mindset Retreat in Miami this September! Woohooo!
Last weekend was possibly one of the best weekends of my life! Friday night started with a bang having our traditional Friday Night Pizza At The Beach with our friends and their children (the kids play on the large swing set or by the ocean, while we watch on, talking, sipping wine and chilling out watching the sun go down.) Saturday was a glorious day at the beach with the kids, before our good friends arrived from New York for the annual Clam Bake at the club. Imagine the dock filled with blue and white checkered tables, a Key West band going, having a rum punch by the water, followed by 3 pound lobsters, steamers, shrimp, New England clam chowder, and late evening fireworks over the water. It was heaven!
The next day, we had our annual 4th of July parade and potluck brunch at the beach, before heading out for a day at the pool with the children and our guests. We hosted a group of friends for an alfresco dinner at home, and repeated it all the next day. I was seriously blissed out the entire weekend! All I kept thinking to myself was, “Is it really possible for one person to take in so much abundance and love at the same time?” I guess the answer was, Yes. I am so grateful for my life, to get to serve from my heart in a big way and I am grateful for you too. I hope you had a great weekend too!
Well, my stomach muscles were SORE, still, as I wrote this Friday! Our very first Winners Academy Gold Mastermind Retreat was an over-the-top, AMAZING success! 60 of our Gold members flew in from all around the world to work with us privately this past week for two info-packed and fun-filled days of learning and business-growth, laughing, dancing and supporting each other to multiplying their businesses quickly this year. We showed them how to literally find money–where they thought there was none–in their business, one even signed on a new client within minutes of implementing the suggestions I gave her, with 9 more to go. It was magical.
I surprised them all by inviting Yulia, the famous belly dancer, to join us and teach us how the secrets to mastering belly dancing apply directly to building your business. She danced exotically, while balancing a sword on her head and hips, then taught us all how to do it. Hysterical! The Gold retreat was the perfect balance of learning, laser coaching, Q&A, marketing hot-seats, business building exercises, worksheets and masterminding, along with dancing, laughing, fun, even a session of “the Electric Slide” and a cocktail party. (Derek begged me NOT to show you the picture of him attempting to belly dance on stage with Yulia, with a shimmery sarong around his neck. I agreed, but it was definitely a sight to see. You should have been there!)
“Just as it is you, and only you, who can take you from where you are to where you want to go in your life, it is you and only you that’s gotten you to where you currently are. You are responsible for your current situation (whether you like hearing this or not) because of the beliefs you have about yourself and the world, because of the habits you have and most importantly because of the actions you take — or didn’t take. This is good news, because it also means that you can change your life and everything in your life on a dime.”
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“Not many marketing professionals out there will talk to you about ‘walking your talk’. But if your own image doesn’t portray what you teach, you’re not going to attract a lot of clients fast. To have your image fit what you do, you must live your message fully. This is just as important as your marketing message.”
To find out how you can learn all the steps to “walk your talk” in your business (and get a sneak of my new office) – visit www.clientattraction.com/officetour
Your capability of achieving really big things is WAY beyond your capacity to imagine them. That being said, you need to do a series of things to set yourself up for something BIG in your life:
1. Prepare – set yourself up, do what it takes to prepare for a miracle
2. Make your wishes known – be super clear about what you want and know that things are being rearranged for you behind the scenes, without you even knowing it
3. Believe – realize that Spirit, the Universe, God (whatever you call it) will always dream a bigger dream for you than you can dream for yourself
4. Surrender – release control. When an opportunity that is so out of the ordinary falls in your lap, surrender the control and say YES
5. Follow the next right thing – Just take action on the next opportunity that feels right when it shows up. Put the fear aside and just do it, with courage.
“Everyone you know knows at least ONE person who is your ideal client. That means it’s YOUR job to continuously educate your environment on what you’re up to and who you work with.”
When I was first starting out trying to close the sale as an solo-entrepreneur, I would offer only one rate and the offer was basically “this is what I charge, take it or leave it.” So people would either take it or leave it.
Then I realized that clients work in a different way. Many people like options (I do too). They don’t want to be “forced” into taking something that doesn’t suit them. They want the option of small, medium or large.
