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Open Office Hours
Drop by and chat during Open Office Hours ~ Tuesday, October 18
You & Me together for casual conversation about your big ideas for your business.
We all have big ideas circling around in our heads. These ideas really start to take shape when we talk about them with someone else. I’m inviting you to come move that idea of yours forward one tiny step. Chat about it for a few minutes with me. Give it wings.
Tuesday, October 18th
9 a.m. – 7 p.m. Eastern
8 a.m. – 6 p.m. Central
7 a.m. – 5 p.m. Mountain
6 a.m. – 4 p.m. Pacific
You’ll find me on Skype: jewelsbranch
Send me a chat message to let me know you want to talk and I’ll ring you up.
What can we talk about?
Past open office hour participants and I have chatted about: ebooks, branding, what it’s like to be a mom and an entrepreneur, the magazine process, websites, where to find their right people, opt-ins, logos, mailing lists, twitter, facebook, how scary it is to put ourselves out in the world knowing that there are trolls and my fear of grizzly bears.
You get the idea. It really is about having a conversation, making a connection.
Would love to see YOU there.
Have a question about open office hours? Email me.
Read MoreWomen Branching Out: Sarah Wagner Yost
Life Coach Sarah Wagner Yost talks about working and thriving in your heart-based business alongside all kinds of shiny objects and distractions.
Shiny Object Project School
Starts October 20, 2011
Sarah’s Shiny Object Project School is an online course with coaching options to help you quit running in circles and get your stuff done. You can take the course by yourself or with a partner and add on supplemental email and/or one-on-one coaching. Details here.
Shiny Object School
Shiny Object School offers free resources including: Shiny Object Syndrome (S.O.S) Rescue Mission, Accountability Day, and Call Your Life Coach to help you finishing projects and ship them.
Sarah Wagner Yost is a Martha Beck Certified Life Coach. She was a massage therapist for 13 years, is a Shambhava School of Yoga certified yoga and meditation teacher.
Read MoreWhat a Cow Means
The Girl Effect: Sanchita and What a Cow Means
“Given the chance, girls are uniquely capable of investing in their communities and making their lives, and the lives of their brothers, sisters and communities, better. This is the ripple effect that happens when girls are given the support to realise their full potential. This is the Girl Effect.” – Girl Effect
Please watch this short video about Sanchita who lives in Bangladesh.
Like Sanchita, I was a girl with a cow. My cow’s name was Ginger. She was a brown-eyed Hereford with a large upside down heart on the side of her neck.
My dad let me pick her out myself. He wanted me to know what it was like to be responsible and take care of animals.
As much time as I put in on the family farm, summers spent staring down long rows of hay bales, hours hoeing corn and stacking wood, springs watching for Ginger’s newest calf, I knew this was not all my life would be.
When I turned 19 and headed off the college, Ginger would be sold and the money would go toward a portion of my tuition bill.
For me Ginger meant I was one step closer to being the first person on my father’s side of the family to graduate from college.
For Sanchita a $60 cow means milk to be sold to provide for her family, pay for her brother’s education and save for her future.
For a minute just stop and think about what a cow means to you. Think about that last burger you ate, think about that leather jacket in your closet and think about the absurdity of Where’s the Beef?
One cow, one single cow can change the trajectory of a girl’s life.