Take five to do this exercise!

When we find what our "thing" is as well as the most vibrant and authentic way to
communicate it, we move into in a state of more consistent flow, celebration and joy.

What are you celebrating these days? Is it a birthday, an anni, a rocking business month or just a great night's sleep you want to scream from the mountain tops? Or if you're a true city girl ~ from the rooftops? No matter how small or large you may think this "thing" is, celebrating it in whatever way you're comfortable with is also celebrating you ~ both are important.

What important phone call did you make? What important decision have you made around the pricing of your offerings? How many lines did you write of that book proposal (some days I simply celebrate opening a new word document and writing something as simple as three lines and saving it). My celebrating sometimes comes with a simple candle lighting, others it comes with a walk around the block and yet others it comes with booking myself and my men a trip.

Acknowledging yourself (celebrating the baby steps, crawl and leaps) are all an important piece of our success puzzle. What we focus on grows.

I spoke at an event last week where I made celebrating a big theme. It's top of mind for me, of course, because, as many of you know, I'm celebrating 12 years in business.

12 years!

I'm so excited and proud of all that the business (and the woman behind the business) has accomplished in supporting other female business owners in making happiness their business by creating their authentic brands. There's nothing better than seeing a women light up because we've hit on her genius and the expression of that genius!

The daring and dashing dozen have been grand. Life has been grand. It's been 12 years that have taken me to live abroad twice (once for four years and the other for two), to a handful of US cities (four to be exact), that's gifted me with a son (born in Holland!) and a dozen years that, all in, continues to bring me much joy today.

These 12 years have been the best of my life. Let me take a moment with that sentence actually…

These 12 years have been the best of my life.

(that was me celebrating)

Recently, as you know, I've been celebrating this awesome anniversary with my brand tour. It's been a busy time filled with travel but being a modern-day gypsy with an international business, it's par for the course. Here are just a couple shots from my last stop in San Francisco:

The Clift Hotel, San Francisco

Bubbly to celebrate not only MGI but each of the

nine women and their accomplishments at the workshop…

I must say that another thing that's also continually brought me such flow is focus ~ a keen and clever way to *do* business. 🙂 You could also call it being on-purpose. Focus in my business, in my expression and in my to-do's everyday has brought me ENDLESS amounts of joy! (Trying to BE for everyone never brought me much fulfillment and offering "everything under the sun" also didn't do it).

The Fire in Focus

We can't move the needle if we don't have focus.

As women we have so many [too many] awesome ideas, stories, skills etc that play into our businesses and our success or our failure. Branding, then, is not only an exercise in self-expression but an exercise in focus!

An exercise in focus…

So before I continue planning my Portland, New Mexico and Canada stops (I have a wee bit to do), I want to leave you with two pieces that will not only help in creating your most haute (HOT) brand and profitable expression but get you on your way to celebrating all of that which will continue to go so right once you put this into place more consistently:

• What's your soul and sole focus in this business? (You can do "everything" and promote and market "everything" but it won't mean even half of what you want it to mean to your ideal party people). So, what is not only your genius skill that others will wildly raise their hand for (what will they invest in at the highest level?).

• After we delve deeper into your soul and sole focus, we then ask what your particular *brand* of self-expression around that focus is. What is it? In order to humanize the business we must first infuse it with human qualities. What are the top three human qualities that make you fabulously unique? Creating brand personality includes equal parts uniqueness in your market, making sure you’re being authentic to what it is that you stand for and creating an expression in both regards that really moves others to share what you've got (HAUTE BRAND FORMULA: unique + authentic + shareable (or wildly relevant) = one sizzling brand personality).

We *all* have an attractive, sustainable and authentic brand in us. What's yours? And can you allow even more focus, expression and celebration into your life to watch your business soar even more? To watch and feel yourself as a woman soar?

Until next time, ladies, strut your stuff on the catwalk of life as if you're the only couture creation, because, guess what?

You are.

Enjoy your business, enjoy your life!

p.s. Celebrate, you couture creation, you!

“In Love with Being Human”, post 2 of 12.

Ruins of Teotihuacan while growing in Mexico 2009-2011.

Today is my second post of 12 (celebrating 12 years in biz this week) sharing my story through entrepreneurship and book writing, especially as it pertains to life, motherhood, love, growth and gratitude.

I’m calling the series ‘In love with being human’, however, this particular musing is about leaving and coming home (the new MGI spotify soundtrack titled “Home” is below).

In love with being human…

A modern-day gypsy. Take it all away and she can re-build or re-make what once was there. True freedom. It’s not a million dollars but IS those million cells that know to their very core that they can come together to create exactly what was there in that last place or space in time or BETTER. (also the makings of a true entrepreneur, from what I’ve learned).

From that first chess move, heading to France by myself at 16 and living in the country (where my local family ate ‘le pigeon’ and persuaded me to eat it too), I was choosing the path…the path of leaving and returning home where in the very leaving and returning you self-realize. I wouldn’t know it until I was 27, almost 10 years later from that first leaving that this was my path in entrepreneurship, motherhood and wifedom as well.

In love with being human…

Similar to a take off and landing, up and down dog in yoga or the pulling up and down of a weight, every experience we say yes or no to builds and is building a muscle or, better yet, a muscle memory (memory is good). When I was 16 and 21, I wasn’t as conscious of this fact as I am today. But I said yes to leaving (and returning home) and it would change me forever. It would also also continue inspiring me to leave and return home hundreds times more since.

Now, looking back, of course, I see that I was putting in many of those 10,000 hours Gladwell talks about. Input of time. Greater output for you and others from the learning. I think that’s how it goes.

In love with being human…

My consciousness at 16 “all alone in the world” in France would teeter-totter between “I’m nervous” and “I love this!” to “I don’t like this being alone business (I feel so far away)” and “It’s kind of cool that no one knows me (as I smoked the cigarettes my Mom and Dad would have never approved of).”

Back and forth, just like my trips around the world each year, since that age, I would change my mind daily (or minute to minute) about how much I loved the experience of being anonymous. But what I didn’t know then is that although I felt far from everyone, I was growing the most important closer relationship with the one person that would be the biggest part of my success.

Even during the sticky times, I did also start to get an idea or feeling that anonymity was about re-learning and about learning for the first time how to design a life experience for my truth and tastes.

I mean let’s face it ~ we’re taught that being anonymous isn’t fun. Or that people need you. That you exist to help or support them. That being alone, well, is lonely and that you should want to be in community and dig connecting with others all the time.

But what I would learn throughout all the expat living experiences from 16-35 and beyond, with or without others joining me in them, was that the very thing that allowed me to create deep connections with others was disconnecting. That what allowed me to grow an appreciation of togetherness and building communities and businesses and books was separating. We all need to separate so we can best see how the pieces fit back together again.

I teach this dance to Nolan as best I can. We go from dancing together and sleeping next to each other when Josh is on a trip to sitting on different couches for long periods of time reading our own books, having our own thoughts and evening experiences. Of course it also comes from taking trips alone when each person comes home excited to share what they’ve seen, what new friends they’ve made, what they’ve learned and/or thought about the leaving and coming home…

This deep sense of anonymity in each place from France to Madrid (more on Spain below) and many more expatriate and extended travel experiences later, I would feel anonymity tear me “down” or, better yet, tear me open and build me back up again. It’s like play doh…the more you break it apart and put it back together to create something new, the more you want to keep playing the game; the more you want to feel yourself have the experience. Like in yoga, the very duality or journey between strength and flexibility is that which creates the transformation and also what keeps you coming back for more.

In love with being human…

That’s what was happening. But I didn’t know it then. And I’m grateful for it now.

The journey at 21 living and studying in Madrid would continue to introduce me to sweet anonymity once again. This time, however, it was more constant sweet sauce; less teeter-totter. I remember feeling better-equipped at realizing that I could create the woman I wanted to be vs. allowing anything to just be. Novel thought…you can create right now vs. allowing what you don’t want to lead or push you.

I didn’t know how to say it then but if I did, this is what it’d be…I could be, do or have anything I wanted emotionally just by being anonymous (definition for “the state which allows me to be more wholly me”). I began to understand that true growth and a subtle contentment (that lasts way longer than any yoga class or martini can give) comes when you are able to hear the space between the words.

Or just give yourself the space to really feel into the hell yes’s and hell no’s of your life (your holy, awesome ONE life).

What is it that I really wanted? What did I want to be, do and show? Who was I separate from it all and from everyone? The ages of 16 and 21 in the various countries shined a light on the answers and on a business years later, really, that would help others do the same. Find answers to similar questions. Then express them.

It was in Madrid when I remember officially falling in love with travel.

With the strength a young woman finds within.

With the lightness you feel when shedding past legacies or little voices that may have said “you should” or “you’re bound to live out x or y.”

Five years after that first experience of eating “le pigeon” when I didn’t know I was eating “le pigeon”, I knew.

In love with being human…

Over the last 12 years in business (and through two more expatriate experiences and being gone for several years), I’ve consciously searched out moments, trips, people, times and spaces that made me feel “alone.” Don’t tell the motherhood police, but “searching out” the experience of motherhood and becoming a mother was the whopper of all “alone” or anonymous experiences (more on that and Holland below). Unlike other trips, this was a trip I have made only once so far to the dismay of my large Latin family.

In love with being human…

I started my business at 27 and kept the leaving and returning home going. I left from San Francisco and Los Angeles and wouldn’t return until recently.

Sitting on a balcony in Mexico while on vacation, the eternal gypsy, turned to him and asked “What about moving overseas? Amsterdam, maybe? Looks like a great place…we could ride bikes to a from work and travel every weekend.”

So we did.

So I did.

The mantra/momtra: So I will…or is it I SO will?

I and we traveled every month to places like Cambodia, Thailand, Russia and Sweden while I worked from wherever we were. A life and a lifestyle it was.

Again, it was in that clearing and space of less noise that I could hear once again what it was that she wanted. Ten years after that first anonymous experience, I could now see that very anonymity helped my design business…research actually says that creativity grows when you live and travel overseas. A curious bit.

It was also in that space, that I grew that baby I mentioned earlier.

After four years, I came home from Holland with a baby boy and an even larger desire for my version of big business. And talk about the being the mother of your own re-invention. Those first two years of having a baby AND growing a business was a going and a coming that has also taught me about self and what she’s capable of.

This new “we” then moved to Mexico. I moved a business, a now four-year-old babe and a budding writing career. And I was always and in all ways grateful for all of it.

Grateful knowing I would know not a soul beyond my man and my little man…

Grateful knowing I would once again get lost in the city and also find my way…

Grateful knowing I would get lost in myself and find even more me of me to shape, shift, mold and share.

This time, the anonymity invited me to flow into writing my first book. Something I had wanted to do since I was a well-branded, emotional teenager. As I dove deeper into experiencing who I was in this capacity, I was using the same tool or filter. And it was through this new yet familiar anonymity and space to create another extension that I could extend more to my family; that I could be more of the wife and mother I wanted to be.

Now fully conscious of the ebb and flow, I saw how at every turn, we create what we want to be a part of (even when we don’t think we can or when we don't think we are). I was once again grateful; grateful specifically for what I had asked my husband a year or so earlier ~ “So, babe, what do you think about moving to Argentina or Mexico for a couple years? Have Nolan go even deeper into the language and all of us experience something new?”

I was grateful for his answer.

So we did.

Today, the leaving and coming home still continues and is simply part of the framework and way I create, both in family and in the branding business as well as Walking Momtra, helping women everyday get clear on their own identity in business and in life.

We grow in the uncomfortable times.

We grow in the process of birthing and growing our creativity and our beloved businesses that are a direct extension of us.

We may feel alone, maybe even anonymous the whole way, however, we connect to self in those moments.

Travel may not be your way but finding your version of anonymity that helps you reach for stars you were meant to reach…now that’s a coming home.

It’s a coming home to yourself.

And it’s this kind of coming home that makes you feel rich, in or out of business, in or out of a relationship, with or without a baby, with or without that perfect body or perfect relationship with your parents.

To want more of you first is to find what you’ve also been wanting in others.

So, in the end, which do I value most, the leaving or coming home?

I’m not sure. But I do know this ~ if you love whom you’ve found yourself to be when no one is watching and/or when it feels like the whole strange and foreign world is, you’re good.

To read the first "In Love with Being Human" post ~ https://michelleghilotti.com/blog/its-called-in-love-with-being-human/

For the new MGI "Home" playlist: Get Into iiT: Home, Fall '13

How to find your purpose (3 ways)

Someone asked me this question the other day on facebook “I have been sitting with a quote I saw of yours somewhere here in the land of FB – “Your purpose lies where your strengths, passions and vision overlap. This is truly powerful to me and I have been meditating on it since I read it. Any advice on gaining clarity? Questions I should ask myself?”

For a Business that Goes from Selling Once to Connecting for Life:

Here is my “quick” answer to all who are curious and/or searching for their purpose (and purpose statement). And definitely to all desiring more meaning and more meaningful clients in their lives and businesses.

Finding your purpose, similar to the process of creating a wildly successful business (BRAND) that means something to others, is an exercise in both focus and the “archaeological dig” on you (all things you).

The POP factor in a haute, authentic brand starts with getting into, what I like to call, your depth. Your purpose is how deep the river runs….and ideal clients love to feel this in your business.

To find your purpose is to find your unique depth; the depth that others will find to move them over and over again, too. THIS is the power of purpose and of branding from a place of depth and daring.

Your purpose is the first step or stage in the beautiful “branding” process. Though it’s a quick run-through, I trust it will help you.

Get clear on your purpose and let it lead you…

What’s all the fuss?

Most specifically, knowing your purpose is like knowing your last name or better yet, like knowing the star you were born under. It helps give a richness to your identity, it helps guide you and, overall, helps you stand taller in your quest to find the people, circumstances and opportunities that will support your growth. Knowing your purpose helps every piece of your life pie ~ your business, family life, your book-writing, your relationships, you name it.

Getting clear on your purpose helps you get clear on the voice and unique expression your business communication, tagline, programs, products and services (to name just a few) will have.

Getting clear on your purpose will help your mission’s message jump off the page and out of your mouth with zest and power because it will speak to the heart and soul of not only your business but of you…

What is “Purpose”?

Your purpose is what you are here to give to the world. This is and can be expressed throughout everything you do in your life. Your business is simply one avenue or expression of your life purpose.

HOW TO FIND YOUR PURPOSE (3 ways)

Purpose work, just as in the general branding process, comes from recognizing where the through-lines or themes lie between all your many ideas, skills, vision and passions. So, think of that as you work through these exercises. What are the through lines or themes you see throughout all your answers?

Play investigator / archaeologist and let the answers flow out of you without judgment. Again, what are the majority of the answers saying or pointing to for you? What’s your truth? What’s at the heart and soul of everything you do, say and show on a daily basis?

My hunch is you already know and now it’s just a matter of making some decisions so they can then guide you to make other connected, clear, uniquely charismatic and consistent decisions throughout the whole of your business and most definitely throughout your communication.

You may try any of these three ways (or a combination of the three) to come to more clarity around your purpose. And, at the end, you should have a pretty good idea of your purpose statement as well. Lastly, please remember that, although this is a quick drive-by version of what goes into purpose work, you already have everything you need inside of you to gain full clarity on this trés important piece. While many parts of the branding process are more of an “art”, where you need an observer, this element requires doing the dig and then, to make it short and sweet, being honest as to what feels right!

Meet the heart and soul of your movement below and allow it to inject even more unique depth into your movement (because, let’s face it, what you do is way more than just a business).

Allow these exercises to open things up for you, beautiful woman. And enjoy. In joy.

How to find your purpose (#1):

• Jot down your three top strengths, three top passions and the vision you have for your life. If you can, jot them down side by side, in column form, first.

See where the overlap between your answers is. What are the common themes you see in each area? (Yes, you may jot down what others say are your strengths just as long as you make sure that what you note are the “top” or most commonly ones noted). Thank you to Juicy Geniuses for the spark and idea of a venn diagram to further illustrate this method of finding your purpose:

Your purpose and purpose statements lies where your strengths, passions and vision overlap.

Given the insight and clarity above, take a stab at your purpose statement:

My purpose is to empower/support/guide/create/establish/bring ____________.

How to find your purpose (#2):

• Jot down what you want to see more of in the world or in other words what you feel is missing from it. If you had to name two things (or two feelings) you want to see more of in the world, what would they be?

We could also ask, what are you so passionate about you’d fight for it? What would you fight for SO much, in fact, that you’d consider leading the movement?

Yet another way to ask it is, if you could get a room of people together every week for the next year for a big dinner party and lead the conversation, what would the one main thing be that you’d want to discuss most every time? Just as with the first way to find your purpose, there’s great insight here on your purpose and therefore on what needs to be injected more of into your business offerings and most definitely into your brand.

Once you nail what the themes or through-lines are, you can start to play again by filling in the blank.

Given the insight and clarity above, take a stab at your purpose statement:

My purpose is to empower/support/guide/create/establish/bring ____________.

How to find your purpose (#3):

• Jot down what you’re most passionate about (one thing) and what your most favorite clients are most invested in?

You can gain a great amount of insight into your purpose by seeing where the intersection is between what you’re passionate about and what your (favorite) clients are most invested in.

Once again, once you nail what the themes or through-lines are, you can start to play by filling in the blank.

Given the insight and clarity above, take a stab at your purpose statement:

My purpose is to empower/support/guide/create/establish/bring ____________.

For all three ways above, feel free to either write down just the one purpose statement or at 2-3 options, it's whatever works to yield the best and most honest work.

If you can, start getting more and more specific (or, better said, even if it doesn’t feel “specific” (truth is, many purpose statements feel “general” to my clients), at least make it something that truly speaks or sings to you; something that has you saying “YES, that’s me, beautiful, rich, purpose-filled me”).

Do your purpose statements make you feel like that yet?

Another tip: After working through each of the three ways listed here to get clear on your purpose and purpose statement, feel free to take the best ONE statement from each section above and see what the themes and through lines are between each of those favorite purpose statements.

By doing this last comb-through (at least for purposes of this blog/first try), it should be easier to find your true purpose and statement that you’ll be able to use as new-found energy to drive your business forward (your movement!) forward.

A business with their WHY clear and intact is unstoppable. Purpose fused with passion equals profit of a totally different kind and caliber.

Once you have your final purpose statement or, at least, better clarity on your purpose, you can then begin to align your business to it…everything from your business model, to programs and services, to partnerships you create, opportunities you say yes to, your branding and daily business decisions.

It’s amazing the insight this process gives into who we are, what we stand for, what can be infused into our businesses and how and why people will care as well as what exactly will motivate them to invest in themselves through us.

Get clear on that purpose and more easily find not only your party people, as I like to say, but your passion as a woman and woman in business again. Again, let that purpose guide the awesome changes (tweaks?) to your business and to ignite your next growth spurt; your next quantum leap in helping your world in only the way you can…..

This purpose work is simply one part of a brand that attracts consistent and IDEAL business.

And it’s just one part of what we’ll be going into during my next branding workshop in your city.

In my Branding Tour to Brand YOU coming to San Francisco, Portland OR and Vancouver BC (and more soon), we’ll cover purpose work as well as all the necessary pieces that will yield the following for you by the time our four hours together are over:

• Your unique brand personality.

and

• Your brand plan for not only next few months but for the life of your business.

For more information on the eight spots available in each city, please click the link below and come join us if it resonates:

First four ladies that sign up will also receive a 20-minute session with me ($250 value):

www.michelleghilotti.com/boutique-branding-tour/

• San Francisco 9/27 at the Clift, 10-2pm

• Vancouver, BC 10/1 location and timeframe tbd

• Portland, OR 11/1 location and timeframe tbd

(more cities to come!)

Until next time or the next city, enjoy your business, enjoy your life!

It’s called “In Love with Being Human.”

My happiness and purpose lies in helping women in business find their authentic voice
through words, pictures and a FEELING they bring to everything they do.
My happiness lies in allowing that consistently for myself too.

Today I add: opening up in a poetic way to the list of how I enjoy my business and enjoy my life. Well, truth is, it's always been on the list but I'm simply stating it publicly to you today…

I enjoy my business and my life when I can be myself and share with no apologies…
I enjoy my business and my life when I can help women in business take that essence and let it (let her out) out as well…

With that said, I share this writing with you that I shared on my facebook page the other day in hopes you see any part of your authentic self waiting (yearning) to come out as well. Please leave comments below and let me know how it found you. Much love to your beautiful and un-cooked life and experiences because they help you create your haute, authentic brand.
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Today is my first post of 12 (celebrating 12 years in biz) sharing part of my story through entrepreneurship and book-writing, especially as it pertains to life, motherhood, love, growth and gratitude.

I have new projects cooking that have inspired this sharing and to be honest, losing my 22 year old brother three months ago has opened me up like nothing ever has before. If you've been following my posts, you probably already know that. I've been a writer from a young age but stopped for a bit…this loss has shoved me back into the craft. The craft that I feel helps others while it heals you.

So, as I find my way back, I've decided to share some 'In love with being human' writings as I write them.

In love with being human…

Sometimes in life you get (or create) a chance to do what you really want professionally. I've gotten to do that now for 12 years and I'm all about celebrating it today and all month, maybe even for the next six. [two words: branding tour]. My next natural thought is this one: Josh and Nolan have made it even more fun…and so much easier.

Which reminds me…when Nolan (8) doesn't want me to leave on a work trip, I've been known to start with "I understand…but you know how you love to play on the playground with your friends at school? (yes) And the feeling you get when you do it? (yes) Well, mama has her own playground. My playground is my business and the travel I do for that business is the play; it's really fun for me. Just like you, I do both my learning and my playing at the "school" called "my business." I don't love being away from you but what I do love is that I come back an even sillier, more fun and happy mama. Don't you think I come back sillier after my trips and with a lot more cool ideas and fun plans for us? (yes)." (two smiles & sometimes also one of those juicy human hugs)

It may be obvious that I love getting the chance every day to help women lean into their voice, their true authentic passions in business and through the expression of that business (if isn't…it really is, I love it). But what is maybe not so obvious is how my heart goes pitter-patter in the most unique way when I realize what Nolan sees and feels as I do my thing and as I take him along for the ride, sharing as much as I can as I do it. I also appreciate that he's able to feel the emotion of "I don't like this mama traveling thing one bit" in his body one minute and flows to "but I like seeing my mom happy" in the next.

I love when I asked him, "hey, Nolan, what's an entrepreneur??? Do you know?" and he swiftly answered "Someone who does branding."

I love that he understands what I do helping women with their "branding" and how he SOOO gets what Walking Momtra is all about at her core. I feel a poke on my waist/back/side often and love the gift I get when I turn to look at him: "I have a new Walking Momtra quote for you…"

I love that he sees me reading everything from Death and Dying to Lean In and that he asks me what they're about and I have time to tell him. I am grateful that he sees me cry. And that when he holds me I simply say "I miss Dino." He never says a word. He simply pats my back or kisses my lips.

I love having the opportunity to complete the human puzzle in moments like these and create a sense of equilibrium for both of us again in a new moment. This normally comes when I wipe my tears and start laughing with him realizing my mascara has run all over my face.

I even "love" that he recently HEARD me get 25 stitches in the bottom of my foot in a hotel room on vacation in Europe and that besides some crying (ouch) and some screaming (OUCH) through the biting of a hotel towel (hilarious), there was no unnecessary, additional drama around what happened or how I'd get around "Pain is human, suffering is optional,” a spiritual healer once told me. Anyhow, I called the front desk to ask about crutches ("stampelle" in Italian) and was ecstatic to get them. Legs! "Hey Nolie, I’m grateful for these crutches.” Gratitude makes it hurt less…

I especially love his honesty in telling me how both the mascara down the face thing and the crutches slash bandage on my foot thing are "really not stylish" and that I looked better before the accident. Funny stuff.

In love with being human…

I love that he sees how real REAL can be. How both crying and laughing are good for the soul and how they help us learn and let go. And that his mom is better for doing both, when she feels the need to. And that he can do the same…even though he's a boy.

Recently, I loved hearing him say "I wonder what I can do NEXT" after he nailed a presentation in front of industry peeps the other day. And I LOVE having the opportunity to tell him how nervous I still get doing certain new things in my life/business. I love sharing what I do to change the quality of the energy inside me in those moments. I love following it up with "And the good news, which probably doesn’t sound like good news is it never really, totally goes away. But that's a good thing…you know why? Because it means we're always learning and loving the embracing of new things and new people. Which is what life, school, business and a life worth having is about. So breathe whenever you feel scared. If it's at school, feel free to go into the restroom, close the stall door, take three to five breaths, feel the difference, then tackle whatever it is that you have to do or decide on." Breathing makes it hurt less…

'In love with being human' has brought me to one realization over and over again ~ > that it's all connected. What I say to Nolan, to clients, when I write, when I run, when I cry, when I travel, when I’m homebound with crutches, when I push through the fear, when I stand up for what I believe in or just stand in line to buy Nolan yogurt at Menchies.

Bottom line is that what you make the opportunity for in one part of life, helps lift up another part (Many times, it’s the very important part of you that is your child).

What we grow the opportunity for in our businesses gives way and contributes to greater goodness in our personal, spiritual and emotional lives. And, what we create honest space, learning, gratitude and love for in our personal lives yields purposeful work and great dividends in our businesses.

I love this connection and I love the many shades of the rainbow the human journey takes us to and through. And more than ever recently, I love the gratitude that fills me inside for Nolan being able to get an inside look at what a woman (women) can create inside and outside of herself (themselves) when she (they) allows all kinds of moods and moves in life and business to stretch her. Because just like the best yoga practice, the combination of it all eventually makes you way, way, way more flexible.

p.s. enjoy your business, (enjoy your sharing), enjoy your life…

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