Your Fortune and your Future are in your Follow Up
People who do business seriously stand out from those who are ‘playing’ business, by following up and following through. According to Sandra Yancey, founder of the largest women’s network in North America, only 5% of people actually follow up when they say they will,...
Understanding Business Fundamentals
There are a hundred and one tools and techniques that are used in marketing and business development. Some work better than others, but most, if not all, forget the fundamentals. Before a market will buy from you they must: 1. Know you 2. Trust you 3. Like you These...
Are you growing your Business with Intention?
I was inspired to write this post after reading an article about John Mackey, co-founder and co-CEO of Whole Foods Market, in which he talks about conscious leadership, the role of leaders in organizations and the emerging paradigm of conscious capitalism. I saw him...
Thinking Consciously about your Audience and Business
Guest post provided by: Sandra Garcia, Conscious Public Relations, Inc. Do you know why you are communicating something? It’s been a year and four months since I came up with the idea of “Conscious PR.” I had gone through a very interesting personal journey in 2011 in...
Maybe what you are Resisting, is what you need to Do Most
Resistance is nothing more than fear. In my experience, the more fear I have about doing something in particular, the more I know and feel deep down inside that it’s probably a really important step that I need to take in order to grow personally, professionally – or...
Business (and Life) Success Tips from Top Executives
The Vancouver Board of Trade’s Women’s Leadership Circle recently hosted a leader speaker series at which over 100 women and men attended to hear three panelists; high-profile executive leaders in financial services, sports and retail. They each shared their sage...
Living and Working in a Zone-inspired Life
We’ve all heard the saying of being in ‘the zone’ or ‘in a state of flow’ – that mental, physical and psychological place that we go to instinctively when we are doing what we love. When we reach that place of total focus, we are in sync with ourselves (in the...
The Do’s and Don’ts of Surviving Change with Grace
Let’s face it. Being in life means to be in a state of constant change. That’s just the nature of life on this earth. Many people don’t like the idea of change because it creates emotional insecurity and instability. It sparks a sense of doubt, a fear of the unknown,...
The Biggest Barrier to Growing your Business is YOU! Tame the Mind Monkey.
Our own mind monkey is something we cannot escape. And if we let it reign, it can be the single factor that destroys our hope, limits the possibility and squashes the opportunity for starting, developing and growing our own business. I was inspired to write this post...
Without Hope, there is No Magic: a Tale about a Woman in Business
I had the privilege of attending a powerful day of connection, inspiration and womanly wisdom at a recent eWomenNetwork Success Summit in Vancouver. Sandra Yancey, founder and CEO of the network is the woman at the helm of this now multiple 7-figure organization; an...