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Enewsletter Volume 3, Issue 6- June 3, 2009
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| Our Upcoming Meeting |
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Showcase Extravaganza
If you have not attended one yet June is your lucky month. Network with six ladies who are showcasing their businesses, giving gifts, and getting ideas and feedback from you. This is a high energy meeting, engaging and informative. Don't miss the opportunity to shop amongst your Network sisters, find out more about what it is they do and share with them what it is you do.
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Wednesday, June 17th, 5pm
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St. Charles Medical Center - Bend
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Networking: 5pm - 6pm
Dinner & Program: 6pm - 8pm
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Roasted strip loin, garlic and herb roasted Yukon potatoes, field lettuce with green beans and grapefruit vinaigretteRoasted strip loin, garlic and herb roasted Yukon potatoes, field lettuce with green beans and grapefruit vinaigrette ~ Vegetarians may add to their plate from the buffet, in addition to their vegetarian order.
~ Vegetarian Meals Are Available ONLY If Ordered In Advance
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| Register: |
Please make your dinner reservation no later than Thursday, June 11th, online at www.networkwomen.org.
Member price is $22 and non-members price is $27. A an additional $5 charge is automatically added to late registrations. Indicate regular or vegetarian meal.
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| Board Spotlight |
LIVE LONG & ENJOY LIFE: ENERGY HEALING
 Joan Dudley Interviewed by Kristina Bak
Kristina: Joan, we both work with healing energy. What does that mean to you?
Joan: When I think of what we do, I think of empowerment. When one gets in touch with one’s energy body and realizes that is our true nature, there’s hope for the ability to heal from physical, emotional and spiritual challenges. On one level it’s similar to when you “feel” the shift when you clean out a cluttered room, or move furniture around or add a light where there was none. To me, energy medicine works the same way---we clean out some areas, we move energy and we let in light.
Kristina: There are lots of different names for various forms of working with the energy body, like vibrational healing, qi gong, reiki…What do you call the protocol you follow, and how do you feel when you do this work?
Joan: In 2002 I read an article in the Modesto Bee about a chiropractor, Dr. Eric Pearl, who had given up a lucrative practice in Los Angeles to become a healer and teacher of energy medicine called Reconnective Healing©. I went to his book signing at Barnes and Noble that evening and found myself signing up for his training in San Francisco.
The very first day of training, when I was entrained with the Reconnective © energy, I immediately felt my hands come alive, and my eyes started fluttering. These were sensations I’d never felt before, and they remain with me to this day when I “turn on” the energy. I can’t explain it; I don’t try.
When I work on someone, I try not to judge what I’m doing and remain a conduit for the true source of the energy. I’m empathetic and feel my way around the soul, letting the energy guide me through the healing session. Visions and feelings usually come to me during this time.
Kristina: I know you practice at The Sol Center in Prineville. What typically brings clients to you?
Joan: I believe that people come to me for healing because we vibrate close to the same frequency. I rarely promote this facet of my work. I provide information about what I do; I offer a few sessions free each year; I trust that those who need my help will show up.
Kristina: I know there’s much more we could discuss here, Joan, but ultimately words can only begin to hint at the power of energy work. It isn’t something a person has to “believe in,” but it has to be experienced to appreciate its healing and transformational potential.
Joan: Yes, this area of my practice is truly sacred and very “real.” I’m humbled by it and feel the need to empower others to trust their intuition and love themselves. I feel this is a pure form of love and I respect it deeply.
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| President's Message |
 Dear Network Ladies,
This has been incredible 2 years for Network of Entrepreneurial Women, as well as for me personally.
I was supported by an extraordinary team of women, who not only showed up for the Board meetings but did an incredible amount of work away from those. They used their own strengths and those of their teams and crated energy and organization I am so proud to be a part of. You will learn about some of their accomplishments at our July meeting, and I know there are many more that we will not list. My gratitude for their hard work and commitment as well as support can not be described in words, so a heart felt thank you for all that you have done will have to summarize it all.
Although we will talk more about our goals and accomplishments at our July general membership meeting, here is an outline of those:
1. Increased professional and personal growth opportunities
2. Increased income
3. Increased membership
4. Development a strong Leadership Team
5. Increased community awareness and affiliations
By careful planning and defining specific and attainable goals and performance measurements, and having a leadership team willing to commit time and efforts to our cause our goals for the year were accomplished.
These past two years were incredible for me personally as well. My participation in the network’s Board allowed me to not only increase my income, but also to practice my leadership skills and learn new ones. NEW has helped me gain new friendships and learn more about balance and contribution. Thank you for all the learning and support you have provided to me.
I believe that we have fulfilled our mission of empowering women in business and in life and our vision of providing professional and personal growth opportunities to women in all level and stages of business, by operating through innovative, inclusive and fun programs in a non-competitive, gender specific, and high energy environment of support and compassion. I also believe that we have stayed true to the values we pledged to our members and the community: 1) Business sharing opportunities, 2) Relationship building; 3) Growth & learning; 4) Excellence in business and in life and 5) Compassion and support. This would have not happened without your feedback and encouragement. Thank you for always being honest and open minded about changes.
As you know, the power of this organization is in networking at the meetings and away from those. It is also important to give business to network sisters, as we have over and over witnessed that those who give and refer business to our network sisters are also the ones who receive business themselves. If you follow the system, you will succeed in this organization and beyond. Thank you for being a part of this incredible organization and for all that you bring to it. Anesa Moyer Cascade TecHome & Office, LLC
Thank you.
Anesa Moyer
Cascade TecHome & Office, LLC
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| 2009-2010 Board Ballot |
Here is the slate of nominees for the 2009-2010 board term
 President 2 year term
Robin Kendall - The Mortgage Professionals
Robin see’s this as a dynamic organization and she looks forward to continuing to guide it and grow it in the direction it is going.
 Vice President 1 year term
Heather J. Hepburn - Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt
Heather is looking forward to continuing to be an active member of NEW and supporting the growth of the organization.
 Treasurer 2 year term
Linda Wattles - Wattles Accounting and Tax Services
Linda is looking forward to supporting our organization using her strengths, expertise and passion.
 Secretary/Facilities 1 year term
Vicki Hunter - Mary Kay
Vicki is serving NEW because she loves this organization and is a believer in being an active member.
 Board Development completing second year of 2 year term
Karen Brannon - Farmers insurance
Karen is serving because this organization has done a lot for her and she believes in giving back.
 Membership co-chair 2 year term
Lisa Sloan - Waddell and Reed
Lisa is serving to have a more active role in NEW and to grow in personal development through the experience.
 Membership co-chair 2 year term
Dawn Unze - Mary Kay
Dawn is serving to be a contributor to NEW and to get more acquainted with our members. She has served this committee for the last year and desires to serve on our board.
 Programs 1 year term
Julie Muller - Peace of Mind
Julie desires to be involved in NEW, she loves this organization, the women and networking. With her organizational skill Julie is stepping into just the right position.
Newsletter 1 year term
Available position, Please call Kenna Cronen: Board Development - if you are interested. 541-420-3462
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 Showcase/POG 1 year term
Eileen Cobbs - Melaleuca
Eileen loves to interact with people, build relationships, and have fun. She is looking forward to the opportunity to grow personally and professionally while serving the women in NEW.
 Advertising 1 year term
Jami Garrett- Jami’s bookkeeping and systemizing services
Jami is serving in order to give back to NEW by using her gifts and welcoming the opportunity to step outside of her comfort zone and grow from it.
 Website co-chair 1 year term
Lynn Wenger – webprodigy.com
Lynn is serving in order to offer her website & development, systems administration and customer service skills to help NEW members benefit from using the Internet as a valuable marketing tool.
 Website co-chair 1 year term
Sandy Jones - Eagle Lady Multimedia
Sandy enjoys using her web and graphic design strengths to serve NEW, and would like to continue to serve on the board.
 Marketing completing second year of 2 year term
Andrea Larsen - Elure Marketing Group
Andrea had her Baby! She loves this organization and will continue for the next year of her term.
This board will be elected in: on June 17th at our next membership meeting. Must be present to vote!
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| Linden’s 7 Rules for Writing Just about Anything |
 By Linden Gross, CBN Feature Writer
Like it or not, our written words reflect upon us way longer than we would sometimes like. That’s especially true in business, where email communication has supplanted many a phone conversation.
As a writing coach, I work with people who love writing and those who dread it. Some of my clients are great with words but disasters when it comes to organizing their ideas. Others have tons to say if they could only bring themselves to sit down and write instead of sharpening their pencils down to stubs or revising their first page (or paragraph) until their erasers are mere nubs.
Whether you write for business or for pleasure, these seven simple rules will help.
1) Just start. Don’t worry about what you’re saying, how it sounds or whether you’ve said it before. Just get the words out. There will be plenty of time to prune, re-organize and edit later.
2) Whether you’re writing a business letter or a novel, create an outline so you know where you’re going—you have a much better chance of getting there that way.
Remember that each paragraph (or chapter) makes a single argument. And each paragraph (or chapter) needs to be linked one to the other.
Think of a train. The locomotive provides the power that pulls the whole thing along. That’s your lead paragraph (or chapter). Each car (or paragraph or chapter) has its own content, which is linked to the car before it and the car after it. Those links are called transitions. The caboose (or conclusion) wraps the whole thing up.
3) Opt for dynamic action verbs that make your text come alive instead of weak favorites like “to be” or “to have.”
Weak: There are many great deals out there.
Strong: Great deals abound.
Weak: The farmers were fearful that their crop would fail and their family would starve.
Strong: The farmers feared the potential failure of their crops. Their families would surely starve.
4) Avoid passive sentences in favor of more vigorous sentence construction:
Passive: This charming house will save you money.
Active: Save money and buy this charming house now.
Passive: My family’s history is long, extending back to 18th century Scotland.
Active: My family’s long history extends back to 18th century Scotland.
5) State your position as fact. Qualifiers (such as I think, I feel, I believe, it seems to me) just weaken your argument.
Qualified: We feel that this is the time to buy.
Strong: This is the time to buy.
Qualified: I believe that my family’s story typifies the immigrant experience.
Strong: My family’s story typifies the immigrant experience.
6) Go big on detail and texture when writing a story—whether short or long, fiction or non-fiction.
You want your reader to feel like a bug on the wall witnessing the experience you’re chronicling, so write in terms of all five senses: sight, sound, feel, smell, taste. Assume that our bug has the ability to read thoughts and pinpoint feelings, and include those as well.
7) Cut the fat. Tightening your writing by eliminating all those little filler words that don’t enhance meaning adds power to your text.
Wordy: She was thinking about all this as she wandered along the mountain trails when she stumbled on the hut.
Powerful: Lost in thought, she stumbled on the mountain hut.
Though it helps to consider these rules when working on your initial draft, they’ll mostly come into play during the editing phase. So put your inner editor on hold until then; otherwise you run the risk of criticism-induced writing paralysis (also known as writer’s block). You’ll have plenty of time to drag out your inner editor once you have a completed draft. Until then, just write!
Linden Gross is bestselling writer and successful writing coach who draws on her editing and writing background, as well as her love for teaching, when working with others. Linden not only empowers writers…she publishes them through Incubation Press—her on demand publishing company. For more information, please visit www.lindengross.com and www.incubationpress.com.
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