Marcus:  Thanks so much for your comment and support. I feel the same way. And yes we do have a handful of work to do. But first, women need to come together like the men…and we need to stick together, like the men. But I have faith that we will wake up and realize the power that we do have and seize it. I’ll quote one of my fave quotes from the Dalai Lama, that I have posted here before:

 ”The future well being of our planet rests in the empowered hands and compassionate hearts of its women!”

Zen Lill: I wish I could say that I read her blog all of the time, but I go there as much as I can and take a peek. Danielle is so inspiring; she is just a chic that rocks. How cool that you got in on her Birthday Firestarter Special. I wish I had jumped in on that. I just discovered it the other day…thinking about doing it myself. Let me know how it goes – there has been nothing but rave reviews. 

Readers:  I decided to write about Danielle LaPorte today because she is one girl who takes life by the balls, ignites the fire, and blazes trails. If you need a firestarter to jump start your business, I suggest you check out her new digital book, and let Danielle help you light your fire and start blazin’ some trails. Even though I have not ordered her book, yet, :) I highly recommend it. 

Talk about a girl who has got it going – this girl does. Danielle is amazing. I am so inspired by her that I can sometimes get lost on her website as I click through and through learning so much about her, what she does, what she’s done for others.  

Here’s a little something to whet your appetite:

So…are you curious yet? If so, read on….

THE FIRE STARTER SESSIONS is: an e-book meets video transmission of acumen and love. You: are likely sitting on an empire of content, product, services, and prosperity that needs a spark — or blow torch — to take it to the next level. You: want to rock your revenue streams and do meaningful things in the world. You: want to do it as soon as possible.

Sincerity. Intelligence. Generosity.

In the last year alone, I’ve worked with 462+ entrepreneurs (my 1-on-1 Fire Starter consults are $500 and booked six weeks in advance.) For CEOs, coaches, artists, retailers, bestselling authors — from site design to big dreams — my strategies combine passion with pragmatism to get to fulfillment and cash. Someone once called me The High Priestess of Practicality. Yes! Divine inspiration works best with common sense.

Seriously useful.

Each chapter is it’s own “Fire Starter Session” of multimedia components. It’s great to work on these with a group – and there’s a guide for that in the book.

There are 19 actual Sessions, about 13 videos + 22 worksheets!

Some of the Sessions are: 
: True Strengths + The Metrics of Ease
: Branding: Clarifying the Diamond of You
: Products + Services: Making Stuff That Feels Good to Make 
: Money: More is More, Enough is Plenty
: Web Design + Traffic: Your Virtual Real-Estate
: Stamina + Losses
: Time + Fear Management
: Visioning: Authentic Dreaming
: Collaboration: Supporting Characters

Click here to view the full 
Table of Contents!

Lived experience.

There have been many times in the highs and lows of my entrepreneurial journey that I just wanted someone who’d been around the block to tell me what the hell to do. I knew full well that the final call was mine to make. But when you’re trying to make art and payroll, it’s such a relief to get your advice straight up, with a side of empathy. 

And that’s how you’ll get it in THE FIRE STARTER SESSIONS: results-driven inspiration.

You’ll get my deep and detailed knowledge from helping hundreds of entrepreneurs lift their companies to new levels, and the flops and victories of my own businesses: strategizing dozens of successful publicity campaigns, driving traffic to multiple websites, striking deals with publishers, raising capital, selling white papers to the Pentagon, building teams, creating viable intellectual property - succeeding, failing, and succeeding again. And I’ve done as much time in ashrams and self-help workshops, as I have in boardrooms and start-ups, so my worldview is…shall we say, progressively pragmatic.

In addition to getting my kinda smarts, I’m including interviews with some A-league marketing strategists, pro-bloggers, branding strategists, and creativity coaches. Help-full.

Light a fire under your aspirations.

Worksheets that help you draw conclusions, quick videos with motivational punch, connections to current thinkers, how-to’s, and frank wisdom – THE FIRE STARTER SESSIONS is packed with inspiration that you will put to use. In short: this works.

Follow your instincts. You know…be even more amazing then you already are. Anything is possible.

So…Readers, what do you think? Pretty incredible eh? I say go for it and light that fire. I’m sure it’s well worth the $150 price tag. And hey, if you buy her book 5 bucks will go to The Acumen Fund or Women for Women International

Disclaimer: No, I am not getting a kickback from writing about Danielle and her awesome, inspiring, seriously useful book. It is such a pleasure for me to feature her today. Like I said, this girl rocks, and I want her to be on my team. Huh…guess I just convinced myself to buy the book. :) How about you?

Peace out….enjoy this beeeautiful day!!

xoxo

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Even though the saying ‘Women Rule’ has been overused, the world hasn’t quite grasped the meaning. 

I stumbled upon this quote from the Dalai Lama, when I was perusing Danielle Laporte’s Blog. Danielle had the good fortune of meeting with the Dalai Lama last year, amongst a small group of people, where they were so fortunate to ‘chat’ with him for about an hour.

I think His Holiness has quite a grasp on women.

“And you see, it does not matter whether you are Buddhist or Christian.” he went on. “Compassion lives in heart, beyond religion. Even me, Buddhist, I can say, you do not need Buddhism, just the compassion of the heart.”

“Women know this,” he went on. “Because, peace, peace is implicit in women. You put boys together, they make war. You put women together, they make peace.”

C’mon girls. It’s our time. Let’s band together like the boys okay? 

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Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my ‘loyal’(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

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Okay, so picture this: You are a woman, an American woman in the military, fighting for your country in Afghanistan. You can picture this…Women in the military…No big deal right? Women are over there just like the men…doing what they signed up to do.

A man decides he wants to have a little fun, play around, you know…’hook up’. No big deal. A woman decides to do the same. Again, no big deal right? Ah…but wait, what if the woman accidently gets pregnant, or worse what if she gets raped, or gang raped, and then she discovers she is pregnant? Check out this stat:

According to NPR, “In 2003, a survey of female veterans found that 30 percent said they were raped in the military. A 2004 study of veterans who were seeking help for post-traumatic stress disorder found that 71 percent of the women said they were sexually assaulted or raped while serving. And a 1995 study of female veterans of the Gulf and earlier wars, found that 90 percent had been sexually harassed.”

And with this many women getting raped, some are going to get pregnant. Getting raped in the military by the men that you are serving with is a big deal in itself, not to mention how horrific. I mean, where is the camaraderie? But then to have to endure the discovery that you are pregnant, stuck overseas, and can’t get the care that you need even in a military hospital and even if you pay for it…now that should be criminal.

Right now, women who serve in the military in places like Afghanistan have nowhere to turn if they face an unintended pregnancy because of an abortion ban. Women in the military unfortunately get the raw end of the deal, and it’s time for it to end.

I received this letter from NARAL Pro-Choice America. You can help end the ban.

Dear Michelle,

We are just a few steps shy of ending a ban on military women’s ability to use their own money to access abortion.

Anti-choice politicians are digging in to keep the ban in place. One senator from Mississippi even called on his anti-choice colleagues to prepare for a big fight.¹

Readers: Why there was ever a ban to begin with is just mens’ way of, once again, trying to control women. Amazing that the men in the military can rape women in the military and the women can’t even get an abortion in the military hospital. In my opinion, not only should this ban be stopped, but women shouldn’t have to pay for an abortion out of their own pockets when it is the men in the military who are the perpetrators. But hey, if that is the only way for a military woman to be able to get an abortion, then we need to support this campaign to end the ban. Can you please write a letter? Thanks.

Zen Lill: I got your media photo but was out all day with a client. I hope that the event went well! So..did you all do nails for the 8 hours and break the record?

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my ‘loyal’(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

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Hey Zen Lill: Thanks for informing us of your charity event today. I perused the website that you linked, and realized that this isn’t the first time that I have heard about Pepsi’s program to fund great ideas. I love the concept and I wish the event much success. Since you are helping with the event, I thought maybe I could help generate some votes by blogging about it.

Readers: In case you aren’t familiar with what Zen Lill and I are talking about. It’s called the Pepsi Refresh Project. Pepsi gives away $1,300,000 each month to fund great ideas. I am encouraging you to read the blurb below, and check out DKMS. This is a campaign whose goal is to save the lives of Leukemia patients by registering new bone marrow donors. However it takes money to register new donors.

DKMS is asking for the $250K grant which will pay for 4,000 new donor registrations. And basically to get the grant they need people to vote for their cause. The top two campaigns, the ones with the most votes, will get the grants. Simple, but they need votes. Right now the campaign is ranked #130. Not bad, but they need a lot more votes to slide into the #1 or even the #2 spot.

How about a little help?

Do you think saving lives is a good reason to vote for DKMS? Who wouldn’t? I certainly do. If you do too,  then go to the website and vote.  And like ZL said, “…if you’re near Hollywood and Franklin stop in for some fun…if you’re so inclined, save a life, might be the best thing you ever do with yours.” So go and vote and perhaps even become a bone marrow donor. You just might be the one they call when a life needs to be saved. How cool would that be?

New Sally Hansen campaign to benefit DKMS

THE POWER TO SAVE A LIFE IS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS
WITH THE SALLY HANSEN “COLOR THAT CARES” CAMPAIGN BENEFITING DKMS

Color for a cause. It’s not every day you get the opportunity to help save a life when you get a manicure. But with Sally Hansen and DKMS lifesaving is at your fingertips. To help draw attention to the DKMS mission to save lives by recruiting donors, the world’s largest bone marrow center is partnering with Sally Hansen to kick off a mulit-city “Color That Cares” campaign.

For the culmination of the campaign, DKMS and Sally Hansen are hosting an event in Los Angeles at Hollywood and Highland on June 10th, where the nail authority will attempt to break the Guinness World Record for most manicures done in a day and Actress TK will be on hand to help launch the initiative. The Color that Cares program will be offering complimentary manicures featuring the new Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure and encouraging visitors to register as donors for DKMS. Fans unable to make it to Los Angeles can get involved online by uploading digital photos of their own Sally Hansen manicures to the Sally Hansen Facebook page to benefit DKMS.

To raise awareness about the Color That Cares program, Sally Hansen and DKMS are debuting a print advertising campaign this April, highlighting the crucial cause that the program benefits. Proceeds from the sales of Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure will support DKMS as well, raising further awareness—and funds—for the cause.

Help Now by Donating $

My disclaimer: No, I am not getting free manicures for a year. (Darn)

Thank you. :)

Peace & Love: ‘Live it, Give it”

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my ‘loyal’(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

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I was just saying to Doug a few weeks ago that I think grocery stores should no longer have bags (plastic or paper) available at the counter when the cashier rings up your purchases. If someone forgets to bring a bag when they go shopping, there will be containers of used bags available for free, or they can buy a reusable eco friendly bag (some are so cool) that the store sells, so that they will have something to pack their goods in. I say bag the bag. We’re using too many trees and our world is littered with plastic bags.

Here’s The 10 Second Plastic Bag Lesson: I found this printed on the side of the box of the only plastic bags I use: BioBag, the certified biodegradable compostable plastic bag.

• Regular Polyethylene-based plastic bags can take over 100 years to degrade and are not compostable.
• Less than 2% of all plastic bags ever get recycled.
• Plastic bags litter our streets, backwoods and waterways.
• Studies indicate that 100,000 marine animals and 2 million birds die every year from ingesting and being caught up in plastic debris. (And we thought the BP spill was bad enough. Why isn’t this on the news everyday?!)
• Some manufacturers are blending additives to polyethylene to produce ‘degradable’ bags. Unfortunately this process fragments the bags into pieces of plastic debris that do not meet the ASTM D6400 standard for compostable plastic.

Now here are some facts about BioBag:

BioBag is proud to be the best selling brand of 100% biodegradable and certified compostable bags made from the material, Mater-Bi. We are also proud to be the first “bag from corn” to achieve national distribution of retail products through natural food stores across the country.

Recently, the city of San Francisco selected BioBag to promote their residential food waste collection program. The city is sending 100,000 rolls of BioBags to residents within the county to help educate consumers on the importance of diverting food and other biodegradable waste from entering landfills. San Francisco residents can now purchase additional supplies at over 100 outlets in the bay area. BioBag is proud to be a partner in this important effort.

We have listed below facts and data regarding BioBag products:

BioBags are designed to be composted and returned naturally back to the earth. If BioBags are placed in an “open” or “turned” landfill they will decompose at a rate similar to other biodegradable materials in the same setting. If BioBags are placed in an anaerobic (air-locked) landfill and deprived of oxygen and the existence of the micro-organisms that “eat” naturally biodegradable materials, their ability to decompose will be severely restricted. This is true of all biodegradable materials placed in this setting, including paper, yard waste and food waste.

As a consumer, you should be quite suspicious of any manufacturer making claims that their products will biodegrade quickly in an air-locked landfill.

Then the other day Doug e-mailed me to tell me that there’s a new law that Arnold Schwarzenegger is planning on signing that will ban plastic bags from being given away in grocery stores. Recycled paper bags will still be available but they will have to pay $.05 each – Hey I like that. It’s a good start and a long time coming if you ask me.

Here’s an article I found:

Remember how ten or twenty years ago, a trip to the grocery store always concluded with the same question: “Paper or plastic?” That question has largely been answered, as grocers now default to plastic about 80 percent of the time. Those plastic bags are cheap, convenient — and an environmental menace. At best, they mar the landscape, lending an aimless, trashy vibe to urban streets. Far more disturbingly, they clog our landfills, use up nonrenewable resources such as petroleum, and kill wildlife both on land and in water, according to the Earth Resource Foundation.

Some communities and even entire countries are attempting to kick the plastic bag habit by taxing them, encouraging citizens to switch to reusable shopping bags. The state of California may be next, according to the L.A. Times. Bill AB 1998 would take things a bit farther than a simple tax, however — it would enforce an outright ban. Customers who forget to bring reusable bags to the store would have the option to pay a minimum of 5 cents apiece for recycled paper bags.

The bill passed in the California State Assembly last Wednesday. If the Senate votes similarly, the new law would go into effect in 2012. Californians’ reactions are, perhaps predictably, mixed. Republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger called it “a great victory for our environment” and promised to sign it into law when it crosses his desk. Some of his Republican colleagues, however, worry that the new law creates undue financial burden during an already rough economy. “This is not the time to be putting a financial burden on families,” Assemblyman Ted Gaines, R-Granite Bay, told the L.A. Times.

Store-goers’ reactions vary as much as the politicians’ do. “It’s a hassle. I don’t want to carry my own bag all the time with me. I go into the store randomly, and I don’t like to pay extra for a bag,” said Sacramento shopper Brett Akacin when asked his opinion on the bill. But another Sacramento resident, Ashley Smith, expressed more openness to the idea because, as she put it, “It’s good to do things that are good for the environment.

Readers: When I read the first paragraph stating that 80% of the people who go grocery shopping opt for the plastic bag, my mouth dropped. But then I realized that most people unfortunately are still shopping at Safeway, Vons or whatever else is comparable in their town. And Plastic is the bag. Part of the reason I don’t shop those stores is mostly because they don’t carry the food I like, but I am appalled when I see plastic bag after plastic bag filled with food, being carried out. Don’t people realize or care about the amount of plastic that is being used?

I shop at Trader Joes, Whole Foods or Berkeley Bowl, and most people who shop there rarely take a paper bag; they are bringing their own reusable.  In fact I don’t even know if you can still get plastic at those stores. But I have to say, I am lucky that I live the Bay Area so I have access to grocery stores that care and make an effort to educate their patrons. I refuse to shop in stores that aren’t doing something sustainable. And even the ones I mentioned above, I feel can do more.

Still, I shop where I shop, and pay a little bit more. But I know it’s better for all. I don’t care how broke I am, I will skimp where I need to in other areas of my life, but I am not going to skimp when it comes to my health or the animals and the environment. And like the saying goes, “You can pay for it now or you can pay for it later at the doctor’s office.” I opt for now, knowing I am not only treating myself well, but my choices are better for the animals and the environment. I got a little off subject but I just had to throw that in.

So…back to banning the bag…

And then to read that some people think it is a hassle. “I don’t want to carry my bag all of the time.” Oh boo hoo -please, spare me the drama and laziness. Keep the bags in your trunk and carry one in when you go shopping. How difficult is that? Isn’t saving our environment worth a little hassle? Once you forget it a few times and you have to run back to your car, believe me you’ll learn quick enough. Just make it a habit like bringing your purse or your wallet. Easy and hassle-free.

What’dya say…Let’s bag the bag and ban it! You know I’m all for it…country wide. And if you live in California, ‘Arnie’ doesn’t need any urging to sign this ban. As stated in the article above, he’s in favor of it and promises to sign it. I think victory is in the bag. Pun intended. :)

Oh, my disclaimer: No, I am not getting any free Biobags (I wish!), nor any perks from any of the stores mentioned above. However, I do believe in these products, and I do love shopping at those grocery stores, so it is my pleasure to toot a bit about them.

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Zen Lill: My pleasure. I know you’re with me on this one.

Hey Norma and Harry: Thanks for voting!

Peacin’ out sans plastic…

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my ‘loyal’(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

Gratefully your blog host,

michelle

Aka BABE: We all know what this means by now :)

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