Speaker:  Maralys  Wills                

 Date: Tuesday, September 28 , 2010

 Time: 6:30 pm

 

Maralys will share her author's journey through the publishing world--from the 129 rejections she received before she  ever sold anything, to the long struggle to publish the book of her heart--14 years after the first draft!

She  will discuss the different requirements for different genres--how she  learned, the hard way, that writing for men is DIFFERENT than writing for women--that men don't speak or think like women--and this after she raised five boys and a husband. With humor she  will talk about writing for the romance market--and how the bar is often lowered to accommodate those writers. 

About our speaker Maralys Wills

Maralys Wills’ twelve published books span several genres and publishers.  Her fiction works include four romance novels published by Harlequin and Silhouette, and a techno-thriller about airplane sabotage.  The N.Y. Times called SCATTERPATH “exciting, down-to-the-wire stuff . . . her cockpit sequences all but put the reader at the controls.”

 

            Among her non-fictions is MANBIRDS: HANG GLIDERS & HANG GLIDING (Prentice-Hall), a party game book (Price/ Stern/Sloan), and her family story about hang gliding champions, HIGHER THAN EAGLES (Longstreet Press).  Sadly, the Wills family lost two sons to the sport, and Wills’ account of those years--initially exhilarating, then tragic--earned her high marks in Publisher’s Weekly and Kirkus.  HIGHER THAN EAGLES  garnered  five movie options, including from Disney. 

 

            Wills’ book on addiction, SAVE MY SON, is the result of years of trauma with an addicted son.  Research in four states proved that other locales do offer real solutions.   

 

            Her recent, light-hearted memoir, A CIRCUS WITHOUT ELEPHANTS, earned a national award from Writer’s Digest.  In 2008, Stephens Press published the sequel, A CLOWN IN THE TRUNK, (an Indie award winner), and in 2009, her writing book, DAMN THE REJECTIONS, FULL SPEED AHEAD, which won two national awards.   

 

            Wills is the mother of six children--five boys and a girl.  Her husband is a lawyer.  She studied at Stanford and UCLA, earning a B.A. and a teaching credential.  She once helped her sons run a hang gliding manufacturing business, but after the family tragedies she went home to write books. 

 

            For the past 22 years, Wills has taught college novel-writing, and in 2000 was voted “Teacher of the Year.”  In addition to frequent speaking engagements, she has given numerous writing seminars---at UCLA, UC Riverside, UCI, Orange Coast College, Cerritos College, and at writers’ conferences across the country.  She is a past president of the Orange County Chapter of Romance Writers of America.      

 

Don't miss this dynamic presentation, you will leave with tips that you can immediately use to have your business soar to greatness. 

  

 

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 Topic: Seven Deadly Sins of Business

Speaker: Kathleen Ronald

Date: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 

 

 

About the Speaker, Kathleen Ronald

“the Queen of Business Networking,” is an unparalleled networker, an internationally renowned speaker-trainer, and the founder of Speaktacular. Kathleen has more than 25 years of experience providing custom, inspirational keynotes and training seminars to Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, and professional associations. Author of the soon-to-be-released Networking Bible, Queen Kathleen excels at helping people shed the cookie-cutter approach to prospecting and develop personal, authentic strategies that “build their net worth by building their network.” 

“You network computers, but you connect with people,” Kathleen asserts. With a lifelong reputation for uniting people and building communities, she has founded two successful groups, Fortune 10/10 (a women’s investment group) and WOW (Women of Wealth) Ventures, and co-founded WIN (Women in Networking).

Thousands of people who are high-tech, low-tech, or no-tech-at-all have reaped the powerful benefits of Kathleen’s Speaktacular presentations. Her audiences consistently rank her number one at conferences and conventions. With an electrifying, comedic style all her own, she delivers empowering programs that not only motivate but also produce bottom-line results.

First-year revenue increases of 20 to 50% are typical for companies and solopreneurs who hire Kathleen as a culture-change consultant to redefine their ideas of what is possible.

Passionately involved in many communities, Kathleen gives of herself generously, often taking on volunteer roles, charitable work, and corporate board positions. She recently served as vice president for the Silicon Valley chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners.

A dynamo on and offstage, a highly sought-after business consultant, a marketing whiz, a record-breaking sales champion—and a recent cancer victor—Kathleen tells it like it is, with unabashed conviction and contagious enthusiasm.

For more information on this incredible presenter go to www.speaktacular.com  

 

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Topic: “5 Key Secrets to Entrepreneurial Wealth: How to Get More Clients, Make More Money and Work Less Hours”

Speaker: Hazel Palachi

Date:   Tuesday November 23,  2010 at 6:30 pm

How often have you said or heard “I’m  doing everything and I still don’t create the success or earn the money I want? Other people do so why can’t I?

This presentation is about money consciousness and how it affects the success we bring into our business and lives. You will leave with mindset shifts and tools you can use immediately to increase tour business success.

You will learn:

            The most crucial mindset shift needed to understand how to easily create success.

            The #1 one thing to focus on to get HUGE results.

            How not understanding your relationship with money can hold you back

The Action  YOU need to take to put you closer to financial wealth AND last but not lease how to train your mind so that attracting and keeping money is a no brainer.

About our Speaker Hazel Palachi  

 Hazel Palachi was born and educated in the UK to an upper middle class family, Hazel Palache was never taught that she could have dreams or achieve anything she wanted.  She knows what it’s like to lack confidence, think she wasn’t good enough and that money and achievement was for other people.   

In her journey of discovery, Hazel has worn many hats.  Becoming a successful entrepreneur from a relatively young age, Hazel became unstoppable.

She spent many years researching, studying and learning how to change her thinking process and to use the Laws of the Universe so that they worked for instead of against her. 

Hazel learned how to take all the limiting beliefs and obstacles and turn them into positive, powerful thinking that has allowed her to create and attract, joy, success, wealth and happiness in her life.   She showed those who didn’t believe, that anything is possible.

When she was 40, Hazel finally realized that her real purpose and passion in life was to teach people how to get out of their own way by changing their thinking so they too could transform their lives.

She has spent the last 25 years empowering individuals to produce outstanding results, personally and professionally.  There is no such thing in her universe as “I can’t or “what if.”    She lives her beliefs and truly thinks that wealth, success and happiness is the birthright of everyone. 

Hazel feels that one of the most important gifts she brings to clients and audiences, in addition to all her training, (see below) is her vast and varied life experiences, all of which have given her a great sense of humor and the ability to have humility, compassion and empathy. 

Hazel says, “although it has often been filled with challenges, my life is really astonishing and I am grateful for every single minute.”  

To make sure she doesn’t rest on her laurels, Hazel is constantly challenges herself with new discoveries.   For example, in her 50’s having been diagnosed with an auto-immune disorder and battling pain, she decided that the Doctors were not correct.

She wasn’t giving in to this.   She decided to enter a 3 day, 60 mile walk to raise money for cancer research.  Having personally raised thousands of dollars, in hellish cold and
rain, very joyously, she crossed the finish line successfully.  

At 58 she closed her private practice as a family counselor, received her coaching certification and started a new business called Mind Mastery Coaching.    At the age of 63 she started a new phase of her company calling it "Say Yes to You Coaching.

One of her biggest achievements has been to write her book which went to #1 on Amazon in 2007 at the age of 65.   “The Astonishing Power of You.”  Simple Steps to Creating an Extra-ordinary Life.

Hazel's motto is: "You are never too old, it's never too late and you can achieve absolutely anything with the right tools and actions.

When you are with Hazel you feel not only her warmth but it comes across loudly and clearly that she is passionate and excited about everyone being able to achieve anything and everything they want in life. 

 Don't miss this dynamic presentation, you will leave with tips that you can immediately use to have your business soar to greatness. 

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Dec 2010 Holiday party and $10.00 gift exchange