Tatjana Luethi
I didn't really know what to expect other than what I had read on the Women's
Small Business Expo web site http://www.womenssmallbusinessexpo.com and what Linda Hollander, the founder, had conveyed to me during my first women networking event in Beverly Hills about two months ago. In short, it was phenomenal! I'm glad I attended the 3-day seminar in Palms Springs, CA at the end of April 2004. First, I really didn't think I was going to go given the fact that most of my time and money were dedicated to my company, which I officially registered about 4 months ago. In fact, because my business was just born, it actually made sense for me to attend.
It was my first business seminar ever. So far, I've mainly seen and heard from my husband how he thinks business should be done, but I have a complete different view. Consequently, you really can't discuss your visions with someone who doesn't share your approach on how to do business. As a result you start doubting yourself after a while, right? You start doubting yourself because you don't know any more than what lies within the barriers of your daily environment. You can't really know anything different unless you get to taste a glimpse what lies beyond those barriers. No one is going to break those barriers for you. You have to do it yourself. So I did.
There were approximately 10 speakers present, talking about strategies in marketing, power networking, risk taking, financing, success, internet, media approaches, and getting your product on the market. The overall feel of this 3- day seminar surprised me. I expected some boring lectures on business, but instead the speakers had filled the room with an unspeakable energy and vibe. 200 women were captured by the words of extremely motivated and inspirational speakers. It was unbelievable!
I profited the most from the Women's Small Business Expo to see how other women think, feel, talk and go about business. I was so happy to see that in fact my attitude and approach to business wasn't that far off from other successful women. In truth, I'm rather proud of myself considering how quickly
Of all nations the English undoubtedly proved hitherto that they had the most business here. Yet I am not sure but I have most sympathy with that spirit of adventure which distinguished the French and Spaniards of those days, and made them especially the explorers of the American Continent,—which so early carried the former to the Great Lakes and the Mississippi on the north, and the latter to the same river in the south. It was long before our frontiers reached their settlements in the West. So far as inland discovery was concerned, the adventurous spirit of the English was that of sailors who land but for a day, and their enterprise the enterprise of traders.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
I had built my own firm and product while others were still talking about what they were going to do. My doubts had all of a sudden disappeared, and were replaced with confidence and heightened self-esteem, motivation and the urge to move on. I met a group of people who shared my vision, a group of women who thought like I did.
In summary, I would definitely recommend Linda Hollander's Women's Small
Business Expo if you need a touch of confidence, motivation and inspiration on a level that encompasses the mind, body and spirit. You are not only setting up amazing business relationships, but you will also find friendship.
Part of the seminar was to create a success team with people who you connected with over these three days. You will talk to your success team on a weekly bases to support each other in reaching everyone's business goal and get to the next level. As we all know so well, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
It was a fantastic experience and it took me a whole day to settle back into reality after four days in Palms Springs amongst all these amazing women I had met during that venture. Thank you, Linda, for having arranged this fabulous event and gathered such a great group of people. You allowed me to go beyond my daily environment and get a glimpse into a whole other world...the world of women in business
About the author:
Oh Doris Lessing, my dear—your Anna is wrong about orgasms. They are no proof of love—any more than that other Anna’s fall under the wheels of that Russian train was a proof of love. It’s all female shenanigans, cultural mishegoss, conditioning, brainwashing, male mythologizing. What does a woman want? She wants what she has been told she ought to want. Anna Wulf wants orgasm, Anna Karenina, death. Orgasm is no proof of anything. Orgasm is proof of orgasm. Someday every woman will have orgasms—like every family has color TV—and we can all get on with the real business of life.
—Erica Jong (b. 1942)
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