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Kent Healy was the guest on Sept. 9 where he discussed his latest book, The Success Principles for Teens, which was co-authored with Chicken Soup for the Soul’s Jack Canfield.  Parents should tune in to learn how to help your children succeed and to help them get from where they are to where they want to be.
 

 
About Kent Healy:
Kent Healy started out as a teen entrepreneur and has since become a successful business owner in his 20s.  Kent started his first business at 15 but soon realized that he was not learning important life skills in school. This is when he began researching the science of success.  By age 17, he partnered with his brother to publish the book, “Cool Stuff” They Should Teach In School.  Since its publication, he started the company, Cool Stuff Media, and has written 6 books, including The Success Principles for Teens with internationally recognized Chicken Soup for the Soul co-creator, Jack Canfield.  Kent is a highly requested guest lecturer at schools across the nation and is currently a columnist for several newspapers. Visit www.kenthealy.com.

 
 

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Travel addict and expert, Beth Whitman, was the guest on Aug. 4, where she shared tips from her book, Wanderlust and Lipstick:  The Essential Guide for Women Traveling Solo.  This unique guidebook addresses the most common fears of would-be solo travelers and dispels the accompanying angst by providing practical advice to get beyond the usual excuses. In addition to this guidance, she inspires women to dream big and provides them with the tools and insider tips of the trade to make those dreams a reality. 
 
About Beth Whitman:
Beth Whitman is the founder and editor of Wanderlust and Lipstick, travel blogger for the Seattle Post Intelligencer, and women’s travel columnist for Transitions Abroad.  For more than 22 years, she has been traveling the globe as a contemporary Wanderer: combining her love for travel with volunteer work, adventure trips, travel writing and business. She has backpacked through Nepal and hiked the Himalayan foothills in Bhutan; ridden a motorcycle solo from Seattle to Panama; worked with orphans in Vietnam through various volunteer programs; driven the AlCan Highway to Alaska; and maneuvered the back roads of France’s Dijon region in a rental car. For more information, visit www.wanderlustandlipstick.com.
 

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Elisabeth Fayt, author of the book, Paving it Forward: 120 Pre-Paves That Will Put You In The Passing Lane, was the guest on July 21.  Her book teaches the powerful process of pre-paving, which uses thoughts and intentions to pre-pave a new road to the best possible day and life.  In tough economic times, it is easy to get caught up in the whirlwind of negativity. This is when it is more important than ever to pay close attention to the road you are paving.   Listen as she shares powerful advice to help you pre-pave the road to your dreams.
 
About Elisabeth Fayt:
Elisabeth Fayt is an international speaker, owner of RnR Wellness, and author of the new book Paving it Forward. One of the featured speakers in the movie The Opus, Elisabeth is both a prominent abundance expert and a successful business woman. Find out more about Elisabeth at www.ElisabethFayt.com.

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Recent economic times have brought fear into our minds and bodies — into our lives. The voice of fear whimpers that you’ve got to put your dreams and even your health on hold until “things get better.” But that’s a big fat lie!  Jennifer Louden was the guest on July 14 , where she shared tips to decrease fear and increase courage.  She also talked about her latest book, The Life Organizer: A Woman’s Guide to a Mindful Year, which is a unique book that offers a simple, practical process to find solutions to your life's daily challenges and to make decisions based on what matters most to you.  

About Jennifer Louden:
Jennifer Louden is the bestselling author of The Women’s Comfort Book and four other books selling over 765,000 copies worldwide. She has appeared on Oprah, CNN, Later Today, was a columnist for Martha Stewart’s Body & Soul Magazine, hosted a radio show on Sirius, and released her Life Organizing system through her most recent book: The Life Organizer: A Woman’s Guide to a Mindful Year. For more information visit: www.jenniferlouden.com or www.thelifeorganizer.com. Click here for information about the Comfort Cafe or click here for information about her upcoming events.

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Do you dream of learning a foreign language as if it were your own?  Self-made linguist, Susanna Zaraysky, was the guest on July 7, where she shared tips from her new book, Language is Music.  This book is focused on making learning foreign languages fun, easy and affordable for anyone with a desire to communicate effectively with people around the world.

About Susanna Zaraysky:
Born with a sight disability, Susanna Zaraysky, developed a hypersensitivity to sound and learned to listen to language as she would music.  She has what you might call “an ear” for languages, having used music to successfully learn English, Russian, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Serbo-Croatian—all with excellent accents.  Susanna has lived in nine countries and has traveled to over fifty countries.  She is passionate about sharing her experience and belief that no matter one’s economic status or past language learning experience, anyone can be multilingual and see the world. For more information visit www.createyourworldbooks.com.

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Do you dream of traveling the world, but you’re on a tight budget?  Budget traveling expert, Susanna Zaraysky, was the guest on July 7, where she shared tips from her new book, Travel Happy, Budget Low: 190 Money Saving Tips to See the World.  This book informs you how to travel economically in planes, trains and buses, how to find inexpensive meals and hotels, and also covers topics on frequent flyer mile tricks, health/safety, expenditures, packing, passports/visas, preparation, customs and more.


About Susanna Zaraysky:
Susanna Zaraysky grew up in California in a low-income Soviet immigrant family.  With determination and a bit of creativeness, she has traveled to over fifty countries, lived in nine countries and speaks seven languages.  Susanna is passionate about sharing her experience and belief that no matter one’s economic status, anyone can see the world. For more information visit www.createyourworldbooks.com.

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If you’re well prepared, traveling with your kids can be a fun-filled, transformational experience for the whole family.  Michelle Duffy, co-author of the book, Wanderlust and lipstick: Traveling with Kids, was the guest on June 26.  She shared tips and secrets from her book including: proven packing tips and advice for dealing with kid gear, creative ideas for grand adventures with your kids, suggestions for dealing with your child’s emotional needs while traveling, and more. 

About Michelle Duffy:
Michelle Duffy is a native of Ireland who lives in Seattle with her Irish husband and two sons. She regularly travels around the world with her family and writes about her adventures on the WanderMom travel blog (www.WanderMom.com).

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Tap into Your Daydreams for Ideas and Motivation

By Guest Blogger----Amy Fries ©

Daydreams are not just wishful thinking —they are your nursery for ideas and your best mental state for tackling complex problems. Visionaries of every sort from Einstein to Walt Disney credit daydreams as the source of their moments of insight, and some of the most innovative companies in the world feature programs that give key employees the time and space to think creatively, i.e. daydream—Google offers a 20% program, 3M has a 15% program, and Gore & Associates (Gore-Tex, etc.) features “dabble time.”

While many of us can see the relationship between daydreaming and creativity in the arts and even science, we’ve been slower to come around to its usefulness in business. Say the word “visionary” however, and we understand how having a vision—a mental image or plan—can help someone start a breakthrough company or service. Well, a “vision” is just an upscale word for “daydream,” and “visionary” an upscale word for “daydreamer.”

Yes, I know. All the work and focus must follow to have an idea come to fruition. I am not against focusing in any way, shape, or form. But the original idea and the motivation to fulfill that idea are birthed in a daydreaming state, and we do our most creative problem solving when our mind wanders.

Why Daydreaming Is Your Most Creative State of Mind

• Recent studies using brain scans show that when daydreaming, we are using the most complex regions of the brain, tapping into stores of knowledge and experience unavailable when focused on only one thing.

• While daydreaming, we can envision—we can see things, people, and events in our mind’s eye. This enables you able to see the big picture, something you’re unable to do when locked in the tunnel vision of focus.

• The daydreaming mind is completely uncensored, which gives you the freedom to explore a wide, and sometimes wild, variety of options without an internal critic hovering.

• You are able to free-associate when daydreaming, making seemingly random connections, which in turn enable you to come up with creative solutions. I’m sure you’ve had the experience when you’re struggling to remember a name or word and you can’t get it despite focusing on it, but suddenly it will come back to you when you’re doing something off-task like taking out the garbage. That’s free association at work. In fact, the ability to make new and inventive associations, as we do in daydreaming state, is so valuable to creativity and to problem solving that computer scientists are incorporating the ability into software programs.

How to Jump Start Your Own Imagination
• First notice your daydreams and try to figure out your style and patterns. Take the quiz via the “link” section on my website www.DaydreamsAtWork.com or use the many questions and exercises in the book.
• Give yourself permission to daydream. The idea that daydreaming is wasteful or shameful is an old-school idea. Daydreaming is your most creative, visionary state of mind.
• Make the time and space to daydream. Don’t get so bogged down in your things-to-do list that you don’t have time for your thoughts to just wander.
• Explore your daydreams. If you can make some part of your daydreams happen, give it a try.  For example you can travel to some place you always daydreamed about. You could volunteer for a job that always sparked your curiosity. Use your daydreams to help give you direction.
• Use prompts like music, reading, traveling, or new experiences to spark new daydreams. Even daydreams can get stuck in a rut!

Author bio:  Amy Fries’s new book Daydreams at Work: Wake Up Your Creative Powers (Capital Books, 2009) shows you how to tap into your daydreams for ideas, energy, solutions, and motivation for both work and life. It’s filled with thought-provoking questions and exercises, and includes discussion guides geared for both book clubs and business groups. Amy is a respected writer and editor whose articles have been published in a variety of newspapers, magazines, and trade publications. In addition, Amy has written over 40 articles for AchieveSolutions.net and has taught writing and literature at George Mason University. To read more about the book or to contact Amy, visit her website: www.DaydreamsAtWork.com

As a Motivational Speaker, my goal is to inspire audiences to follow and achieve their dreams.  I have heard thousands of dream list ideas, from extravagant adventures of flying into outer space to simple   dreams of planting a vegetable garden.  But the one dream list item that comes up in every audience and is by far the most popular—Travel. 

In the audience, I often find hopeless Moms who put off their travel dreams because they have children and families.  They figure it’s too difficult to travel with children, too hard to plan and prepare for the trip, or that it’s just too expensive for the entire family to travel together.

For all you Moms out there who can relate, read the book, Wanderlust and lipstick:  Traveling with Kids by Leslie Forsberg and Michelle Duffy.  This practical guide will give you everything you need to set off on your own exciting family journeys.

The book is easy to read and well organized, with sections on trip planning, packing, saving money, getting around, health and safety, and dealing with your child’s emotional needs.  It’s sprinkled with hot tips that can save you time, money and create smooth travels.  I also enjoyed reading some of the 40 women traveler stories.  Not only does the book dish great advice, it also lists other useful books and over 200 websites to check out.

Thousands of Moms have successfully traveled with their kids and families, and you can too.  So stop putting off your travel dreams, and get out there to make your dreams come true! 

For more information, visit http://wanderlustandlipstick.com/books/traveling-with-kids/.

Amy Fries was the guest on June 9th, where she talked about her new book, Daydreams at Work:  Wake Up Your Creative Powers.  This book shows you why daydreaming is literally your most creative state of mind; reveals the valuable & productive role daydreams play in your life and work; and gives you suggestions for tapping into your own daydreams for ideas, energy, and motivation. For example, find out why Google and 3M give their employees the time and space to daydream and how that has helped them become two of the most innovative companies in the world.

About Amy Fries:
Amy Fries is a respected lifestyle and workplace writer and editor whose articles, essays, and stories have been published in a variety of newspapers, including the Washington Post, as well as in magazines, trade publications, and literary journals. In addition, Amy has written numerous articles on health and wellness for the website, AchieveSolutions.net. An enthusiastic and unrepentant daydreamer, Amy began her research into daydreaming and creativity while working on her masters in writing at Johns Hopkins University. She has also taught literature and writing at George Mason University and continues her work as an editor helping other authors develop their dreams and ideas. She will be signing at the year’s Book Expo America in New York City and later at the Sacred Circle Bookstore in Alexandria, Virginia, and Breathe Bookstore in Baltimore, Maryland. Read more about Daydreams at Work at www.DaydreamsAtWork.com.

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