Women Drive Business Success

Authors of “Womenomics: Write Your Own Rules for Success.

Claire Shipman and Katty Kay wrote an interesting article in the May 21, 2009 issue of Business Week, called “How Women are Redefining Work and Success.” In this article they discuss how women are changing the future of organizations and how they operate by working how they prefer to work. This is a radical change from the top-down corporate directive approach to work that most women have built their corporate careers under. The authors say that the most important component driving the future of work is that women are finally understood to be good for business. Three studies, including one by Catalyst, a leading advocacy group for women in the workplace, found that the more senior women at a company, the more money it makes. Read this article: http://tinyurl.com/luhfhg.

What's Your Bold Move?

At our Magic Party summer retreat last July, Magic Faculty member Alexandria Hilton led us through an entire day of how to make our dreams come true and then followed it up with a teleclass for those interested in going deeper and into action. Both programs were remarkable and, even though I think everything we do is pretty remarkable, these two programs changed my life in a good way. I know from emails I have received that I am not alone and many of the women have already created remarkable results themselves.

We began by identifying a dream and then standing up to declare it out loud.

I decided to go for broke and figuring I had nothing to lose somehow squeaked out that I wanted to be the next Oprah with a syndicated TV show focused on helping viewers heal their bodies, minds, and spirits and bring a little magic into their lives.

Aside from all the reasons I knew this was a stupid, ridiculous and very far fetched dream, I somehow found myself taking some small but wicked courageous steps over the next few months. The first thing I did was sign up for an acting class. I figured if I was ever going to be on TV, I should probably have some idea of what might be required.

Since I have absolutely no acting, television, or media experience, acting class seemed like a good place to start. Until I walked into the room on the first day, that is, and almost passed out from fear. Seriously! No kidding! Yup, me, the sometimes daring chick, who has been in front of corporate groups for 20 plus years, way out of her comfort zone and scared to death!

The experience turned out much better than I thought once I got over the initial panic. My teacher Daena Giardella, www.daenagiardella.com said I have potential and that’s good enough for me. I just completed her 5 week improv class and found out I really like this acting thing and look forward to doing more of it.

But here is my really big news. Thanks to Jackie Bell, www.NaturalBell.com who inspired me by starting her own local cable TV show and Anna Huckabee Tull www.customcraftedsongs.com for introducing me to Szifra Birke, who let me sit in on her taping of her local cable show called ShrinkRap, I, yes that would be me, the girl who dreams big and then wonders what the heck she was thinking, taped my first show; Wake Up with Wendy; Discover the Magic of YOU!. this week on local cable television.

OK, so it’s just local cable and not syndicated television, but I figure everyone starts somewhere. I am proud, excited and, after viewing the shoot; realize I have LOTS and TONS of room for improvement. My producer says it’s great to have things to work on to improve yourself, otherwise you get bored. I cannot even fathom the idea of being bored.

The show is about helping viewers bring a little more magic into their lives through finding, expanding, and using their gifts and talents to make a bigger difference in the world. I am finding it can be fun being a beginner if I can control my inner critic.

Every dream starts with a single step; just one crazy single bold move. Being a beginner can be loads of fun. Just think, as a beginner you have no bad habits to have to break.

I know many of you have dreams. I know many of you are working on your dreams. Please do share by sending an email to info@themagicparties.com and we will post them in next month’s newsletter.

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Social Media tool especially Twitter

I have been using Facebook, LinkedIn and now Twitter for quite a few months. It surely can be time consuming but so is all marketing. I would put this kind of marketing into the "second degree" bucket, like a newsletter or e-brochure. It's a little removed and usually don't know whether anyone is even interested or to what degree in what you have to say. I don't think the jury is still out whether these social media tools are here to stay; they are. Now we just have to figure out how to use them to suit our needs and purposes. Mike Stelzner wrote this interesting Social Media Marketing Industry Report. It's free. Click here to read. http://cli.gs/QYEpY2 #smreport

Saturday's Women's Circle

We had a really great Women's Circle at Melanie's yesterday. Kate, our new Magic Faculty member, facilitated our afternoon. The topic was Wisdom of the Heart. I know the topic kind of sounds a bit generic but we had an amazing time as Kate taught us how to talk to our minds, hearts and our Divine selves. The best part was posing a question we each had been struggling with in our lives and learning how to hear the real answer instead of the voice of worry and struggle. Man, I can't wait to apply this technique on an ongoing basis. Kate and I are going to talk about whether we can somehow teach her technique on our television show. This is something everyone will just love.