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The greatest marketing “tactic” is not a tactic, it’s real and takes being real.

The biggest gift and greatest branding/marketing "tactic" lies in the seamless connection between the you in life and the you in business…

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

The blurring of where YOU (the personal you) ends and the business begins or the business ends and YOU (the personal you) begins —> that's where we want to dance.

My invitation is to do just that, to blur the lines a little more. This is how we continue to create and build our most authentic brands AND where we awaken our greatest happiness, without apology.

Your fullness is waiting.

Internal riches await.

At MGI, we aim to support your fullness, your dance in the rain tendencies, your silliness, your bravery…your boldness. #creativeheroine

It's the expressions and businesses that come from visionaries and founders that don't hold back who they really are that not only inspire others but move them to be more fully expressed, to dance, be silly, be brave and bold.

Tell your visual, photographic story from this perspective.

Tell us and show us…

What you believe.

What you're passionate about.

What you're moved by.

What you envision for the world.

Where you're you taking your business turned movement.

Sharing of yourself is personally and lovingly professional. If you were waiting to hear any version of that or get permission in your business to be more of who you really are, then you have it.

PERMISSION GRANTED.

A little more each time goes a long way.

We so want to get to know you, the real you, more. It's so much more than know, like and trust too.

It's about human connection.

We want to see ourselves in you and through your sharing…

Share yourself in story (each day, more and more, without leaving anything out) and watch engagement, connection and business relationships shine like the sequin dress I'm wearing below.

Make happiness your business and express more of who you really are in 2015.

The greatest marketing tactic is not a tactic at all, it's real and takes being real.

You're invited to join a group of us from the MGI community in the private Creative Heroine facebook group where you can claim one creative endeavor (what I call "soul food") that will help you express more fully in your business and brand communication this year. See why here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1582874648592822/.

My soul food for the month and for the year is singing. I had my first lesson Saturday! I share more in the group, while also guiding and motivating the rest of the ladies to their soul food every day with new direction, inspiration or guidance:

Creative Heroine January Soul Food Challenge

We'd love to be real together and create joy through the sharing of our soul food 😉

Here's to your creativity, realness, wildness…here's to your FULLNESS.

Life is good,

p.s. Be wild + dance in the rain.

What it means to self-fish (+ my wish for our families)

I promised yesterday to share one of the other pieces I wrote while in the Caribbean and Miami.

I love that it's a little over a day to the beginning of the year too as I'm sharing this. It feels so right and so what I wish for all of us to create more of in the coming year: inner growth (that contributes to external growth), self-empowerment and more authentic transparency that connects.

Welcome to what it means to self-fish (+ my wish for our families).

Happy new year of life!

Through the good and tender tragic times of loss, true love is defined by finding new ways to be and bend together.

I've found that to bend in family, however, one must tend to the soil known as Self first.

The arms of our tree of life can break going for the embrace if we haven't yet embraced
the personal growth opportunity that comes when a new normal, gradually or rather abruptly, presents itself.

Enjoy soothing yourself. Swim in this selfish practice, madly and deeply. (I like the visual of self-fishing ~> fishing for the ultimate expression of the soul, for the healing of our hearts so we may love others, madly, deeply, and, as if by mere accident, aid in their healing too.)

I have found, especially after losing my 22-year-old brother Dino a year and a half ago, that everything around us works much better when we self-fish first.

Stay curious and ask lots and lots of questions to all parts of the genius inside you.

Make it your life's play to understand yet another (and another and another) corner of your brain [how and why he normally puts things together as he does], and another (and another and another) nook of your heart [the way she connects past wounds to the different emotions she’s currently feeling] and, with as little judgment as possible, decide how to chip away at what isn't in alignment with your ultimate vision of life, family, motherhood and of your loving leadership.

Picture taking mindful time to build a new wing off that section of your mind or heart…or, like a martini, straight up shake it up and evolve it.

Two, three or five percent will do. Next time, another two, three or five. Simple math says it all adds up to the ability of being observer rather than sufferer.

Keep going, keep saying yes to a life of love, of internal riches.

The more we do, the more energy we'll find to love, to forgive, yet a level deeper and live brighter than we thought possible, despite our heartbreak or brand of temporary loss.

Life is sweet. She has no problem waiting for us to finally sink our roots deeper into her tall, leggy truth, but, why wait:

~~> Happiness, the kind that sticks around, way longer than that yoga class, will always depend on you.

No one can/will make you happy. Others simply contribute to what's already there, so we want to make sure that reserve is close to full.

Meet the teachers and get the tools you need (that you don't even know you also *want*) to do the work before you're forced into it.

And the leggy truth continues, and you've heard it many times before, everything will continue to happen for us, not to us.

What will you learn about Self that you already knew or knew too little of?

Swim deep, do more: dissect your tendencies, hear what your habits are attempting to show you, understand the ways you show love and wish to be loved. Learn to love up on your patience and the act of letting go.

Survey it all, asking, do I wish to keep this as a part of who I am or do I desire to release it now?

And we can't forget to make a date with acceptance.

True growth can't make its way through to the gorgeous green leaves of your branches without it.

When we accept what's happened, no matter how excruciatingly difficult, we also accept ourselves as the raw, richly complex and imperfect beings we are. The dirt we grow up from holds the true fertile wisdom of self-love.

Acceptance has been most real (difficult) for me this year. Acceptance that Dino's not coming back and acceptance that, as a family, we've changed.

But everything changes, I whisper to myself, wiping wetness from my cheeks, everything.

My wish for all families as we head into 2015 (and, really, where I was meant to land with this sharing all along) is this:

I wish for you what I've wished for my beautiful family since that May day: let us not deal with change but heal with change. It's the only constant.

(((All my love and a New Year's hug)))

As I said at the beginning, happy new year of LIFE.

Life is good,

p.s. The Creative Heroine soul food challenge starts January 1st (but you can start anytime). Join the MGI community in our private Facebook group and get after that one thing that both excites us AND unnerves us. Come learn more, Creative Heroine. We would love to have you: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1582874648592822/

Caribbean PHOTO + Creative Challenge for MGI Community!

I hope you are enjoying the season of family, travel, of connected time with others, of giving…

Caribbean-inspired writing and challenge for you below…
(https://www.facebook.com/groups/1582874648592822/)

Let us not forget, however, as we head into 2015 that the last few days of 2014 are also a beautiful time to receive. Have you been receiving and/or gifting to yourself the last few weeks?

Do you have time planned just for you? To sit, ponder, plan…to soulfully reflect, plan and/or write, write, write to get all the genius from in there out on paper?

I hope you are taking time out to explore yet another level deeper of YOU. For me, that means more writing, ah the language of the soul.

Writing helps me get to know myself better ~ my truth, my desires…it's the very creativity that fuels everything in my life. My everyday, my motherhood, my business relationships, you name it.

And seeing as getting to know ourselves better is one of the main reasons crazy creativity, joy and success finds us it's an important daily creative practice.

Writing to me is digging or more, scratching the itch to really live life –> LIFE!

Writing is uncovering the gems, the genius.

Writing is working it all out before you’re ready.

I wrote a lot during my holiday in the Caribbean and in Miami and wanted to share a couple pieces with you. The first is below and another I’ll share the other piece tomorrow.

I hope they each inspire you to create what you most want to be a part of. And to come from a place of YES to authentic you, to your truth and ultimate creativity.

If you’re a closet writer, I hope that as we head into 2015 you’re inspired to not only write more but actually SHARE what you’ve written. You have so many beautiful stories and insight inside…tell us, share and show us the way, Creative Heroine.

The piece inspired by Caribbean waters…

Travel is my medicine.

Like yoga, travel is my medicine.

Like travel, spontaneity is my medicine.

Like spontaneity, poetry is my medicine.

Like poetry, kissing is my medicine.

Like kissing, curiosity is my medicine.

Like curiosity, running is my medicine.

Like running, adventure is my medicine.

Like adventure, music is my medicine.

Like music, dancing is my medicine.

Like dancing, transparency is my medicine.

Like transparency, passion is my medicine.

Like passion, love is my medicine.

Like love, the dare is my medicine.

Like the dare, the do is my medicine.

Like doing, creativity is my medicine.

Like creativity, the mountains are my medicine.

Like the mountains, the sea is my medicine.

Like the sea, diving deep within is my medicine.

Like diving deep within, the truth is my medicine.

Like the truth, I am my medicine.

The truth is I am my own best medicine.

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What's your truth? Your medicine? What makes you come alive? What motivates and inspires you to create what you most want to be a part of? Do you too feel that you're your own best medicine? How can 2015 be more of an empowered year for you?

Go for it.

Create the brand of woman you know yourself to be. Allow your creativity, that gorgeous and soulful inner voice, to highlight where to go and what daring "detours" to take.

I’m cheering you on! https://www.facebook.com/groups/1582874648592822/

Here’s to your soulful expression and wildly rich new year filled with creations that represent glorious, authentic you…

Share more with you tomorrow!

Life is good,

p.s. {JOIN THE CREATIVE CHALLENGE STARTING JANUARY 1^st, my gift to you!} If you’d like to join me (and the 30+ women already in the private group), we’ve set up a Creative Heroine soul food challenge to get after that one thing that both excites us AND unnerves us. For me –> singing lessons. You’ll hear about my journey as well as receive support and sisterhood around getting after your own soul food. What’s it going to be? Would love to have you, Creative Heroine: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1582874648592822/

[FREE TRAINING] Strategies to create the monthly income + weekly time off you so desire (Moms, you’ll love this)

On Friday, the 12th of December, I will be continuing the Creative Heroine conversation that I started in England a few weeks ago in a free master class created especially for you…for the moms and women of this collective who desire to work to REALLY live vs. live to work…

Join us Friday, 12th of December from 10-11:30am Pacific!

The Creative Heroine Master Class
Move from Problem to Solution in Your Business to Create
the Monthly Income & Weekly Time Off You Desire.

Grab your complimentary spot: www.michelleghilotti.com/creativeheroinemasterclass

If you're anything like me, you want freedom…more and more of it to enjoy travel,
to flirt a little more with life and to afford as many sweet and
quality moments, like the one above, with your children.

Here's some of what you'll learn in the Creative Heroine master class:

• How to reverse-engineer your success with one creative exercise.

• How to get clear on your money goal for the month

• The three things that you need to make the dream of being a mom AND a mogul work (i.e. make the monthly income you want and take the weekly time off you so desire).

• Three tips and strategies to earning more and affording more experiences for you and your family.

• Three tips and strategies to bend time so you have more of it to spend smelling the roses…

• The three-pointed path to productivity…

• What to do in the morning and evening to help grow your wealth and amount of time you feel you have every day…

• And, in true MGI form, more…I love surprises.

Hold your spot on the call or web lines for this
Friday, 12th of December 10-11:30am Pacific:
www.michelleghilotti.com/creativeheroinemasterclass

I hope to "see" you on the LIVE call (do show up LIVE if you can) and be able to share what I started in England a few weeks ago! Here's to the Creative Heroine in all of us that already knows how to creatively move from problem to solution in her business so she can really live her life.

Here's to creating what you want to be a part of!

Life is good,

p.s. See you on on the 12th of December (10:00-11:30am Pacific) to move from problem to solution in your business —-> make the monthly income you want and create the weekly time off you so desire: www.michelleghilotti.com/creativeheroinemasterclass. Share this link or mailer with a friend as an early holiday gift.

Stickers I gave out two weeks ago at my talk in England…