LifeMoxie! Women's Economic Power Day®

Seattle Series of Experts

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Join Seattle's Team Experts in a Teleconference each Friday at 12:00pm PST

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Call in phone number (US/Canada): 605-772-3200

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Seattle Series of Experts Calendar:

Awakening the Entrepreneur Within:  The Business Plan at Your Fingertips

If you’re ready to translate what you know and who you are into your own successful business, this interactive session will give you the inside scoop on the strategies, systems, and tools you need for planning your start up and keeping it on the path to success.  You’ll be given methods to differentiate your business and build a loyal client base, tips on how to maximize profitability, and information on how to merchandise your product offering.  Jump-start your business success by leveraging the experience of a seasoned entrepreness and self-professed “Startup Junkie” who’s been both wildly successful and failed miserably, and her Brand Evangelista partner who has been a “Startup Junkie” in the corporate world.

Basics for Buying a Real Estate Investment

You've seen the stories in the media about real estate in Puget Sound being the best "quick return on investment" anywhere! Are the stories true, and do you want to have a piece of that investment pie? Learn the basics on how to get started, how real estate fits into your lifetime plan, and see if it really does fit your personality to be a landlord! The six reasons why you should buy, the five advantages once you have purchased, and the definitions of GSI, GOI, NOI and Cash flow will be discussed.

Begin From a Place of Strength:  Discovering Your Personal SWOT

Come discover your Strengths and Opportunities as well as the Weakness and Threats which you face in an exercise known in business as a SWOT.  This is a great jumping off place when you are fired up about the future but not sure where to start.  If you can work from a place of strengths in your life and business, you generate more and more energy to continue on that path.  This will be an interactive to familiarize you with your own passions.  Bring F.I.R.E. - Focus Integrity Results and Excellence into your Economically Powerful Future!

Career Transitions:  Discovering Your Passion/Creating Your Purpose

Maybe you have recently gone through a pivotal shift in your life and you are wanting to redefine, reinvent or transform your career path.  Perhaps you are an aspiring mom-preneur?  Are you wanting to ramp-on to a new career as an empty nester?  Whatever your circumstances, transitions affecting your career may be frightening and at the same time exhilarating.  This skillshop will help you rediscover your passion, redesign your roadmap, redefine your purpose, and reach your destination!

Creating Presence:  Your Get-Anything-You-Want Image

Success dressing in many ways is style under pressure, that delicate balance between personal flair and professional clout.  Are you dressed for who you want to be?  Aligning our appearance with our personal and professional goals is powerful in moving our lives forward.  Join Style Evolution Expert Audrey Beaulac for some fun during this lively hour of self awareness.  Learn how to use body architecture, color and style personality to express yourself and start a wardrobe that works.  

Dare To Manage Your Debt

Credit presents a tantalizing array of options that were not available to our ancestors. The use of credit can make your finances flow smoothly—or keep you awake with nightmares! This interactive workshop will help enhance your credit awareness. Topics include: knowing the difference between good debt and bad debt, calculating your debt to income ratio, obtaining free credit reports, protecting your financial identity, developing a debt reduction plan and improving your FICO scores (and what they are and how they affect you).

Financial Independence:  A Six Step Strategy That Will Work for You

Everything in life involves having a strategy.  If your goal is financial independence, you have to know the building blocks and what it takes!  We were not taught this in school, nor did many of our parents know.  Now is the time, with all the changes in our world for you to know exactly what it takes, and have the proper tools to get you there!  Knowledge is power!

Funding Your Business:  Discovering the Options for Making Your Good Business Great

What does it take to be a wildly successful entrepreneur? Learn the experience, the skills, the steps and the determination. Get ready for the ride of your life – and IPO. What does it take? What are your options for funding? How does the ride end? All of this and more in an active and lively discussion.  You’ll learn about financing options, debt versus equity, outsourcing challenges and solutions and other tools to make your good business great.

Living a Life of Prosperity:  Inside and Outside

Marcia’s presentation will motivate you to live your passion. She’ll give you the steps to look inside yourself to determine what “lights your fire”. Then, you’ll learn the practical tips to create a strong financial foundation. Be prepared to leave the presentation ready to live your passion.

Making Money Grow on Trees:  The Essential Skills to Take on Investing

Take charge of your financial world and stop being fearful about investing.  In this interactive presentation Karen Rutledge will answer questions about mutual funds as well as other types of investments.  Learn what a mutual fund is, why so many people invest in them and much, much more!   

Positive Assertiveness:  Learning Tools for Effective Self-Advocacy

Get what you want in a manner that makes everyone a winner.  In this workshop you will learn to communicate calmly, clearly, and confidently, and gain the tools for effective self-advocacy.  Lani will guide you through the steps necessary to ensure that you deliver yourself in your best light.

Romance of Finance: 3 Secrets to Courting Financial Success! 

Money is a mystery, just like love, and the questions for success are pretty much the same: How do you attract it, keep it and make it grow?  Jenifer Madson unlocks the mystery with 3 keys to financial certainty and success: 

1.      See Success As Your Destiny

2.      Speak The Language Of Success

3.      Choose Your Associations Wisely  

By the end of our conversation, you will have the tools to create the financial relationship of your dreams!  

Running Your Own Business:  Managing Liabilities and Taxes

Running your own business requires you to understand many types of tax and legal issues.  It is important to know what your options are so you can make an educated decision that most suits your short and long-term goals.  This workshop is perfect for women who are interested in starting a business or who have already started a business and want to know how their business form will affect their taxes as well as their personal or company assets.  Learn how to proactively manage these aspects of your business and be prepared for the inevitable tax and legal issues that will come up along the way.

Savvy Networking - Face 2 Face Marketing Made Easy! 

You've probably heard the saying, "It's not what you know ... it's who you know".   With all things being equal, people do business with people they know, like, and trust.  Because of this, Zita wants you to know that it's actually "Who knows you" that really matters (and who remembers you!).  Self promotion is a grand thing when done properly and "top of mind awareness" is the ultimate goal.  It's how you get there that matters.  In this skill session, you'll learn how to connect keenly with a few new people using a structured approach.  The goal is quality not quantity.  Take the pressure off and turn the curiosity on.  You'll find meeting people is easier than you ever imagined!

Show Me the Money:  Negotiating for More of What you Deserve

Many professional women feel very uncomfortable negotiating, and avoid it when they can. When they hear the word "negotiate", they hear things like conflict, win-lose, confrontation etc. But negotiation is simply about trying to influence someone to do something or give you something you want. It's about learning how to effectively ask for things and take care of yourself. Mikelann Valterra will discuss the power of asking, basic negotiation techniques, gender differences in negotiating, and how to keep your bottom line always in sight.

Strategic Planning for Business Adventure: Learning from Women Who Have Been There

Lights! Camera! Action!  That's right....planning for a business adventure is a hands down, full production.  Join Olga Gribble, insurance agent-turned-award-winning-video producer, as she shares her experience on how she converted her mundane life into a dynamic fruitful life.  Topics that will be covered to take action in your new business adventure, rather "production" are...Preproduction Phase:  How to implement your passion in life!; Production Phase:  Delegate and build your professional team; Post Production: Polish Up and Plan for Box Office success!  

Sales Skills:  The Art of Selling Ice Cubes to Eskimos

'Chocolate, it's Not Just for Breakfast Anymore. Sweet Bites of Innovative Sales Advice' is a high-energy, motivational program designed to empower sales executives and small business owners to create lasting results and success in their quest for developing new business. Andrea Sittig-Rolf delivers an informative, entertaining, and inspiring workshop. Designed to be interactive, Andrea captivates her audience with a little help from some fun props, as well as, you guessed it…chocolate! Unlike anything you've ever seen, this breakout is truly an experience to remember!

Taking a Budget From Bad Word to Blessing

Budgets are one of the biggest challenges that people have in putting their financial lives together.  In our session, participants will achieve ‘Money Moxie’ by learning the three keys to effective budgeting:

*  What you think about a budget – finding a mindset that supports your success

*  What you say about a budget – transformational language that supports your success

*  What you do with a budget – alignment & actions to support your success

Participants will gain powerful strategies for forecasting their fabulous futures!

What's in the Way is the Way.  The 4 biggest leadership traps and how to avoid them.

You’re passionate. You’re powerful. You were born to be great. The question is: Are you living and leading that way? And if not, why not? The truth is that every single truly successful person has had moments when they’ve failed to turn their potential into performance; when they’ve allowed whatever stood in their way to stay in their way. How can you be sure that you don’t die with your song still inside you? Our favorite leadership diva will tell you everything you’ll need to know about how to lead with courage and grace and how to turn those obstacles into opportunities.

Your Elevator Speech:

Creating the First Impression to Launch a Lifetime Relationship

Every entrepreneur and business professional needs a clear, concise and engaging way to answer the most often asked question “What do you do?”  In this interactive hour you will learn how to craft your own elevator speech, using Lorraine Howell’s proven process.