The teacher of the earth science class was lecturing on map reading.
After explaining about latitude, longitude, degrees and minutes the teacher asked, "Suppose I asked you to meet me for lunch at 23 degrees, 4 minutes north latitude and 45 degrees, 15 minutes east longitude...?"
After a confused silence, a voice volunteered, "I guess you'd be eating alone."
Melanie Corpstein, CEO of Adorable Originals was featured as a guest in the August 6th episode of the CNBC show, "The Next Big Idea" starring Donny Deutsch. Melanie was featured in the "No Experience Necessary" episode in which people who had NO experience became CEOs of their own multi-million dollar businesses.
Sarah Lee Marks, The Car Lady, has been featured on KVVU Fox 5 as the car buying expert for women. (By the way, she made this connection at a MIBN event).
Kudos to Cheryl Lynn Coppola! She has earned a convertible Mercedes Benz from her extraordinary work with Cookie Lee Jewelry.
Mirassou Winery is offering a $50,000 grant to women business owners through their "Dreams Come True with Mirassou" program. Deadline for entry is in October.
Cecelia McCloy, President and CEO of Integrated Science Solutions, Inc. (ISSi), has been appointed to a three-year term on the National Women's Business Council. The National Women's Business Council is a bi-partisan Federal government council that serves as an independent source of advice and counsel to women business owners. The Council's mission is to promote bold initiatives, policies, and programs designed to support women's business enterprises at all stages of development in the public and private sector market-places. Members of the Council are prominent women business owners and leaders of women's business organizations.
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This months gift - EXECUTIVE MOM SUCCESS PACKAGE - Includes:
Identify your ultimate target media and then find smaller media that will support your major targeted media outlets.
For example, if your book promotion and book publicity strategy includes Bloomberg TV, CNN, FOX News Channel, MSNBC or other major national news shows then pitch the local/regional business, news or talk shows first. Your goal is to attain a track record of successful media interviews in your area of expertise. Your target media likes to see that you have significant media experience. Once you have landed several TV shows, create a three-minute video resume that is edited and features your "best" moments. We find that the media makes their minds up very fast when viewing a video resume. They can spot a great guest or a "boring" or inexperienced guest very quickly. Lead with high-energy music and action! You want the viewer to feel excited just watching your video! You want them to be thinking "ratings, ratings, ratings"!
Save as much as 30 Minutes a Day with this One Tip
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Want to save time in the morning and avoid the time consuming process of deciding what to wear every morning?
Once a week, put together 5 outfits for the work week. Make sure you have all components and accessories clean, repaired, or back from cleaners. Then each day, select the one that makes you feel the best for that day!
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Make Failure Work for You
Punam Mathur, SVP of Corporate Diversity and Community Relations spoke recently at an luncheon for Moms In Business Network, and her speech touch the hearts of many. Here is just one of the many valuable insights she gave the audience.
"I realized from my experience that in anything in life, you MUST experience failure along with success. Failure is an integral part of success and they must equally co-exist. After realizing that, I realized I wasn't a failure, I was just experiencing a normal part of the success process. After that, I made a choice to go out in a blaze of glory and fail the best way I could - by communicating I was failing, and to fail with integrity. I vowed to fail like no one had ever done before!"
If you got the opportunity to speak first about your business then please give the same opportunity to the person who asked all those questions. Even if the individual is not a potential client, remember she makes an average of 46 personal contacts a day, and she'll either talk about you positively or negatively. What do you want her saying about you?
Carolyn Gable proves that dreams can be achieved: from waitress to CEO; as a single mother parenting seven children ages 8 to 32; and, as the founder of the "Expect A Miracle" Foundation, a visionary foundation serving the needs of single parents and their children.
Carolyn Gable is President and CEO of New Age Transportation, Distribution & Warehousing Inc., a multi-million dollar enterprise based in Lake Zurich, Illinois.
Ms. Gable has been featured in national magazines for her outstanding story of overcoming personal hardship to finding enormous success. She has now chronicled her story in her new book "Everything I Know as a CEO, I Learned as a Waitress".
She has received the regional Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the service category, the Women of Achievement Entrepreneur Award from the YWCA of Lake County and most recently received a National Luminary Award presented by The Mothers In Business Network and the International Association of Working Mothers.
Carolyn founded the "Expect A Miracle" Foundation which helps working single parents pay for their children's extracurricular activities. Since 2001, her foundation has helped parents send their children on school trips, purchase equipment for sports, and pay fees for extra-curricular activities. Carolyn is very active in the foundation and personally works very hard to positively impact the lives of single working mothers daily.
Did You Know?
Carolyn Gable proves that dreams can be achieved: from waitress to CEO; as a single mother parenting seven children ages 8 to 32; and, as the founder of the "Expect A Miracle" Foundation, a visionary foundation serving the needs of single parents and their children.
