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MORNING WORKSHOPS Choose one of three to attend
Master Your Inner CEO: Learn to Use Your Innate Intuition to Save Time, Save Money and Attract More Ideal Clients - Susan Rueppel, Ph.D. BERG HALL
Successful business people know that utilizing their intuition provides a powerful business advantage.
In this interactive session you will learn:
• Strategies for quickly & easily accessing optimal business decisions with confidence
• Top intuition tips for saving time & money with confidence & ease
• How to recognize your Inner CEO – your intuition - to gain vision, clarity & focus
Susan Rueppel, Chief Intuition Officer helps women use intuition to accelerate their business. She is an internationally known Business Intuition expert, speaker and trainer. Susan’s gift is her ability to artfully blend her well-honed intuition with her business acumen from 30 years in Corporate America. She assists clients in expanding their vision and gaining clarity, focus and confidence - by providing specific strategies and a prioritized path forward. She provides intuitive answers for tangible re$ults in business. Susan works by phone and in person at her Midtown Sacramento, California office offering intuitive consultations, mentoring and training. www.ChiefIntuitionOfficer.com
Technology: Letting Go of Fear and Embracing Freedom - Miranda Palmer THEATER ROOM
Does technology
feel like something that is tying you down, holding you back, or making you mad? Technology was supposed to make things better! Come and join this fun presentation where Technology Coach Miranda Palmer from ZynnyMe.com will help you shift your whole outlook on how technology can help improve your life and your business. She will share will examples of how real small business owners are using technology to save time, save money, and get more business. She will speak in down to earth terms that real people can understand, and break the myths of technology to allow you to finally get your business where it deserves to be! She believes "if it doesn't save you time, save you money, or make your life better- what is the point?"
Miranda Palmer is a helper, healer who runs a thriving business of her own. She began helping other people navigate technology landmines when she saw how many people were being held back by their beliefs about technology or didn't have access to good, down to earth information. Her goal is to empower small business owners to have a profitable business that allows time for living and loving life!
Turning “Life’s Little Lessons” into a "Powerfully Profitable Payday”!!! - Linda Schindler CEDAR COURT LOUNGE
"Stuff" happens...and we can either let it have a negative effect on every aspect of our lives, or we can learn from it and grow stronger. When we look to find the lesson (and the humor) in such everyday events, amazing things begin to happen! This in-depth and fun workshop will have you laughing-out-loud as you learn skills that will empower you toward a more fulfilling life and successful business.
You’ll learn simple techniques and acquire skills that will dramatically transform both your personal and professional life! You’ll laugh, you’ll learn, and you’ll achieve more than you ever thought possible!
Linda Schindler is a wife, a mother, and a successful businesswoman who has built a 3.6 million dollar annual direct sales business while working from home. She has been conducting humorous and informative presentations for more than 20 years, and although she has an impressive list of corporate clients ranging from Disney to the Crystal Cathedral, her passion lies in helping women realize their full potential.
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AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS Choose one of three to attend
Funding Your Business & SBA-Guaranteed Loans - Kay Mardon, Small Business Administration THEATER ROOM
Without access
to capital, you cannot start or grow your business beyond where you are.
The U.S. Small Business Administration has assisted millions of small businesses like yours across the nation in getting the necessary financing through its loan guarantee program. Please join our workshop and learn how to take advantage of the SBA-guaranteed loan programs to meet your financing needs. You will leave with a good understanding of the SBA’s flagship loan products and know how to obtain SBA-guaranteed loans to start and grow your business.
Kay is the Women’s Business Ownership Representative for the U.S. Small Business Administration, Fresno office, serving 15 counties in Central California. She also serves as Lender Relations Specialist and International Trade Representative. Since joining the SBA in 1993, Kay has actively advocated and promoted the interests of the small business community and economic development of the region. She has conducted numerous workshops on various topics including SBA loan programs and writing a business plan, and trained many lenders on the SBA loan products. Prior to joining the SBA, Kay worked for a major international consulting firm and exporters in Korea. She was a small business owner herself, providing services to college students in Michigan. Kay studied Business Administration in her undergraduate study and earned her Master’s Degree in Finance from CSU, Fresno. www.sba.gov
Personal Peace for Today's Active Woman - Mary Witt, Heart 2 Heart CEDAR COURT LOUNGE
(Pragito Dove is not able to make the conference as planned. In her place, Mary Witt will be conducting this afternoon's workshop. Some of you will remember Mary from workshops in previous years. We are happy to welcome her back.)
Practical stress reduction techniques for busy women to use anytime and anywhere.
Mary is a certified clinical hypnotherapist, a intuitive spiritual guide and angel therapy practitioner, a minister of holistic healing and reiki master. She facilitates attuning your energy to assist in self-healing and provides an array of therapies to bring healing and spiritual awareness. She is a member of the International Hyponotherapy Federation and a founding member of the Awakenings Institute.
Mary teaches classes in Meditation, Spiritual Awareness, Self-hypnosis, and Stress Management at The Journey Center in Shingle Springs. Her websites are www.marywitt.com and www.angelicwisdomreadings.com
Present with Confidence - Deborah Baker, Lisa Mazza & Carole Richard, representing Toastmasters BERG HALL
Three professional women, with years of presentation experience, will share tips and tricks to help you to deliver business presentations effectively and with confidence.
For nearly a century, Toastmasters International has been helping women and men of every background, education level and economic standing develop the competency they need to become effective communicators and inspired leaders. Click here for more information on Toastmasters and speaking resources.
Deborah Baker began as an accountant with Grimbleby Coleman CPA firm in 2005. As a member of the firm audit team, most of her time is dedicated to reviewing financial statement projects and corporate tax engagements. As a client service manager she enjoys having a working relationship with business owners where she can assist them with their accounting processes and teach them to track their financial information better. Prior to her experience as a CPA, Deborah had a background in banking. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from CSU Stanislaus with a bachelors’ degrees in Computer Information Systems and Business Administration.
Deborah joined Toastmasters as a means of improving her communication skills and confidence. She had a fear of public speaking that was affecting her career. In three years of attending Toastmasters, she has conquered her fear. She is currently the Toastmasters Division F Governor, overseeing several clubs in the Central Valley.
Lisa Mazza believes that everything worth doing is difficult the first time, and she loves challenges. She spends her time consulting, developing new ways of doing things and helping others to develop their strengths. She’s been with Grimbleby Coleman CPAs for 15 years working in accounting and auditing, training, technology and business consulting. Here she has been able to use her consulting skills, and her flexibility has been stretched so much, they call her Gumby.
Now she is helping clients to understand, improve and secure their accounting systems. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from CSU Stanislaus with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. She’s been a member of Toastmasters for 11 years.
Carole Richard joined UC Merced in 2010 as Director of Development for the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and the Arts. Formerly, she was the first Fund Development Director at Community Hospice in Modesto and worked with the organization to raise $4.1M to build the Alexander Cohen Hospice House. She also helped create the Community Hospice Foundation in 2001. Prior to this, Carole had a background in higher education. She was Executive Director of Resource Development for the Yosemite Community College District, and served as Director of Grant Development. Carole came to her fundraising positions after working as a legislative advocate and Vice Chancellor for California Community Colleges; she was also a lobbyist for the California School Boards Association.
Carole has a bachelor’s degree with high honors in Political Science from UC Santa Barbara and a law degree from Western State University College of Law in Fullerton. She is a member of the Modesto Rotary and Samaritan Village (Hughson) Toastmasters.