Women Entrepreneurs
PDF Workshop Showcase: Terri Ingraham
All week I’ll be featuring the work of participants in the first two sessions of The PDF Workshop. The PDF Workshop is a digital course that teaches women entrepreneurs how to write, design, and produce their own PDF documents (e-books, worksheets, cookbooks, and more).
PDF Workshops Showcase #1: Terri Ingraham
Glow Closet Makeover
Glow Closet Makeover written and designed by TERRI INGRAHAM of Sugar Free Glow in iWork Pages. Terri used her brand logo, colors, and fonts to create an awesome 32-page PDF freebie for her website launch.
Ready to take your PDFs up a notch? Join now!
You + The PDF Workshop = beautiful PDFs. Group session begins Feb. 6th.
Watch for these upcoming showcases:
Monday: Alara Castell
Tuesday: Cathy Sykora
Thursday: Rebecca Mullen
Friday: Megan Flatt
Saturday: Erin Kurup
Sunday: Amy Scott
YOU!
I’m very proud of their work and commitment to learning these publishing skills for their businesses. Be sure to check back in tomorrow to see another showcase.
I Help Women
I don’t wake up every morning thinking about branding or design or websites.
I wake up thinking about you, I think about my clients, I think about the ladies taking my workshops, I think about moms trying to stay sane while building businesses and raising their kids. I think about the questions you are going to ask me about your business and how I can give the best answer to those questions.
I think about how to get you to see yourself as the wonderful creative person that you are.
I think about how to help you get the courage you need to take the steps you need to take in your business.
For so long I was really striving to figure out how to explain that what I like to do best is help women.
I kept asking myself …
Is giving someone a kind word or lifting someone up when I see that they need it, good enough. Is it worth it? Does that connection with just one person make a difference in the world? Or does it need to be bigger? Is helping women create their businesses big enough? What is the “something bigger” that I’m supposed to be doing?
But in the last year I’ve realized that it doesn’t matter what I’m doing. I could be creating websites, designing magazines, teaching workshops, or cooking dinner, and this is serving women with the skills I have now.
I’m going to grow. I’m going to keep coming into my own and I don’t know exactly what that looks like. I only know that at the core, whatever it is that I’m doing will be of service to women. It might be through philanthropy, it might be through the book I’m writing, it might simply be me being the best mom I can be to my kids.
I’ve quit worrying about what the big work is and when I’ll get to it. This is the big work.
If you ask for help I’ll do what I can with the skills I have now, as the woman I am today. I will give you my time, my energy, my brain in the form of workshops and consulting and encouragement of all kinds.
Helping women is what I was put on this earth to do.
As Sarah Yost would say it’s my holy work, my sacred work.
So what is your holy work, your sacred work and how can I help you do more of that?
9 Holiday Gifts for Women by Women
I love getting to know online business ladies who are product makers, crafters, creators, artists, writers. Every day they are putting in the hard work and time it takes to see their ideas come to life. They are making books, clothing, jewelry, workshops, and more … just for you (and me!).
I asked my maker friends to tell me about their creations, to show me what they’ve been busy putting out in the world this year. I hope you are inspired to check out their work this holiday season and then go on and create those things that are in your heart.
1. Wake Up Sugar Scrub from My Vintage Body Spa by Alyssa Middleton: Natural, organic and fair trade ingredients to pamper and treat all us busy entrepreneurs!
2. Purple Leaves, Red Cherries by Tania Elfersy and Andrea Katzman. An award-winning gift book for new moms and mothers of young children.
3. White Dangle Chandeliers from Christine Marie Studio by Christine Thatcher. Bold bohemian jewelry.
4. Fear*less Photography retreats with Catherine Just.
5. The Busy Parent’s Guide to Photosanity by Alethea Fitzpatrick. Start capturing the fleeting moments of your children’s lives in brilliant photos.
6. Republic of Freedom Cards for the Non-conformist by Heather Thorkelson. Six different designs.
7. Celadon Collection from Tranquility Tuesdays by Charlene Lewang. Personally sourced Chinese tea and handmade teaware.
8. Peace, Love and Gratitude Yoga Mat from Widsom Mats by Jamie Kanner. Eco-friendly, non-toxic yoga mats with peaceful quotes.
9. Batik Yoga Pants in Blue on Blue from Batikwalla by Victoria Dresdner.