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Light Your Fire

Posted by Michelle Moquin on 13th June 2010


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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 campaignsdriving traffic to multiple websites, striking deals with publishersraising 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

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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The Readers Have Spoken

Posted by Michelle Moquin on 5th June 2010


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Now it’s my turn.

Sonny: Well, I guess you got an eye full from my readers – They were certainly flapping their lips. – bet you wish you had kept your mouth(s) shut now. I say ‘mouths’ because you can’t fool me. I wouldn’t be surprised if you and ‘disappointed’ are the same person. In fact, I would bet on it. You are just a tad upset that I hit you where it hurts aren’t you? And now with all of the comments from my readers you probably just want to bury your head and hide. I guess it’s a good thing no one knows who you are so you can quietly disappear.

I’ll speak for myself as Zen Lill has already given her two. And FYI: I won’t be as gentle and accepting of your ‘points’ as ZL. Your points are not taken at all, and they are not accepted by me.

Pt1: Bragging about it “spoils any natural beauty that you have.”. I think Bert said it best, thank you, but I’ll add my two. If you’ve been reading my blog which I doubt you have, or you would know, my blog is rarely about me. And when I do speak about myself, I don’t brag about my beauty. Okay maybe a few times, but so what if I did? A fact is a fact as many of my readers have pointed out.

And another fact, besides posting a new picture now and then, which yes, I do enjoy doing, I prefer the attention to be off of myself and on the subject at hand which to me is way more important than a beautiful face. But, don’t misunderstand me, if my beauty is going to help get me where I want to go, if my beauty is going to inspire someone to take action in something that is important to me, then believe me I am going to put my pretty face out there along with the rest of my assets to get what I want. Don’t men do that too? The difference is, I’m going to use all that I have to get where I want to go without putting others down to get there.  Which brings me to your next point….

Pt2: Bragging about it “is an insult to women who may not have these equal physical attributes” (being boasterous is an unatractive quality no matter who it comes from because not all can make those same claims.) I think Ike made a great point, but I’ll add my two also.

If you’ve been reading my blog, which now I’m sure you haven’t, you would know that the last thing I would do is make any woman feel uncomfortable reading my blog. I am a girl’s girl. My goal is to uplift women….my goal is to empower women…my goal is to combat the criticism and cruelty and give women the courage to stand up for themselves and not take this kind of crap that men feed them daily. Yeah, there’s enough men out there putting women down as you and aka: ‘disappointed’ have just displayed.

I’ll say it again: Most men and women who read know that I am a girl’s girl through and through. In fact, men like you who try to keep women down, who know how much I promote and support women, have often called me a man hater more than a few times on my blog. I deal with it. They call me a man hater because I expose men and the atrocities that men do against women, against our planet….whatever. And I will continue to do so until women take their rightful place beside men, and if we have to leave the men behind, so be it.

Pt3: Bragging about it “says that women are mere eye candy (and we all know that a woman is much more than her physical appearance)” Who said that women are mere eye candy? I never did, and the women who read my blog would never think that I would ever think that about women. That is a fact. And in respect to me basing my worth on my looks: I won’t even take the time to address that ridiculous statement.

So…why not dis ‘disappointed’? He’s the one who chimed in only when I posted Zen Lill’s photo. She’s been commenting on my blog almost daily for two years and he only makes a comment when I post her picture, to tell her she’s not all that. Obviously he’s been reading her comments but he only responds and comments over the ‘physical appearance’.  Talk about someone who is only seeing ZL as mere eye candy. Oh yeah…but you can’t dis ‘disappointed’, you and ‘disappointed’ are one and the same aren’t you?  Obviously that is what you think. It goes without saying that I am aware that there is so much more to women than their physical appearance. Do you? I think I’ve made my point.

However, don’t get me wrong, do I recognize physical beauty when it is in front of me? You bet. I recognize all the amazing qualities that women embody. Whether we want to admit it or not women are considered second class even in this country. So, as I said above, if a woman wants to use all of her assets: brains, beauty, charm, and whatever else, to propel her to where she wants to be, I say go for it, and I support her 100%. Again, if you were an avid reader of my blog you would know that about me….you would know that is how I feel about women.

As far as saying that,  “good looking women (and you both are) are not rare”. I’ll just answer with, “Decent men (and you aren’t) are rare.”

My last point: I shine daily on my blog and it is not just because of my beauty, but from the readers that inspire me here every day. So go back into the archives and read, or stick around and read. You have no idea the type of girl I am. You’ll soon learn that your quick judgement of me and Zen Lill is way off, and you’ll be eating your word salad with fact free dressing. (I just had to use that again:)

So…Sonny aka, ‘disappointed’: I do have more to say to you. “Your ego got the best of you…your ego got bruised, and you’re taking it out on women. Typical of many men. Get over it. Women have to get over much worse things men say and do to women daily, and we have a lot more to endure than just a bruised ego. “

Doug: I love your poem – can’t wait to hear the words when you put it to music.

Linda: Right on.

D.C. Al: You said it better than I did.

Cybil, Julia, Ellen, Lois, Michelle, Regina, Barbara, Helena, Luisa, Marianne, Ito, Sua, Eileen, Dorrie, Noreen, Fredia, Marlene, Fala, Dung, Zela, and all the other girls that possibly tried to get in a ‘brag’ but couldn’t: I love it! – You are all beautiful in so many ways – keep bragging the facts!

PS I would love to say more about the other topics but I must go eat…I’ll address the other comments tomorrow. Thanks.

Peace out…

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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International Women’s Day

Posted by Michelle Moquin on 9th March 2010


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International Women’s Day was yesterday. I’m embarrassed, being that I am such a supporter of women, that I didn’t realize this special day until yesterday after I posted my blog. My apologies to all of the women out there.

It seems that I get so caught up in the abuse and second class treatment of women, by men (not all men), that I neglected to step back and take a break, realize this special day, and honor those same women that I speak about and support. But I will say, one day isn’t enough…not even close.

I found this article that I wanted to share with you:

Admit it or not but we are living in a paternalistic society where males rule over females. Some communities have women seen as less people than men with less rights and privileges.

However, in celebration of the International Womens Day 2010, all men are set to give recognitions to all women in the world for their outstanding contributions in every aspect of the society from politics and business to fashion world.

International Womens Day is an annual celebration which is very similar to Mother’s Day celebration. Men are seen giving gifts, admirations, and flowers to their mothers, girlfriends, wives, sisters, daughters, nieces, and to all women in the world.

In celebration of International Womens Day 2010 in the US, President Barack Obama delivered a speech at theInternational Womens Day reception highlighting several contributions of women in the history of America despite the existing inequalities between men and women including statistics that show “how women just earn 77 cents for every dollar men make; how one in four women is the victim of domestic violence at some point in her life; how women are more than half the population, but make up only 17 percent of the seats in Congress, and less than 3 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs.”

In addition, he also mentioned one of the very first law that he signed which was pro women – the Ledbetter Bill – which gave equal salaries for those women who can do the same work as men do.

Men and women are created equal by God. We are all human beings which deserves respect. Often we value women less than men because of the paternalistic nature of the society but through this International Womens Day 2010 celebration, people are (sic) ought to recognize that men need women and that they should be given equal rights and priorities in this world.

I have issue with the second sentence in the first paragraph: “Some communities have women seen as less people than men with less rights and privileges.” Helloo…wake up. ’Some communities have women seen‘? Like the second class treatment of women is some small community issue?  And how are women seen as less than men? As if it is an opinion and not a fact. Women aren’t ‘seen’ as less people than men, they are treated that way!

How about saying: “Some countries treat women as less people than men with less rights and privileges.” Now that is a fact, and if we want to be totally truthful, you would say, “Countries treat women as less people than men with less rights and privileges.”  Because I don’t know of any country that treats women as equals in every way to men. Do you? If you do, blog me.

I also have issue with the last paragraph, especially with the sentence “Often we value women less than men because of the paternalistic nature of the society…”

paternalism |p??t?rnl?iz?m|nounthe policy or practice on the part of people in positions of authority of restricting the freedom and responsibilities of those subordinate to them in the subordinates’ supposed best interest : the arrogance and paternalism that underlies cradle-to-grave employment contracts.

That sentence is so matter of fact. How easily one can describe a  woman’s place in society in one simple sentence, as if it’s no big deal that women are treated and considered this way. Let’s give women a day…give them a day where we can recognize, revere and respect them- just a day though.

‘Paternalistic’ may be our present society but is it the ‘nature’ of the society? Is it inevitable, unavoidable? No, this was and is a grand creation, scheme if you will, well thought out, by men. There is nothing ‘natural’ about women being labeled in our society as ‘subordinates’ to men…there is nothing ‘natural’ about men ‘restricting our freedom and responsibilities’…there is nothing ‘natural’ about a man deciding a woman’s fate by claiming that he is acting ‘supposedly’ out of her ‘best interest’.  We all know that our best interest is not considered at all, otherwise men would heed our needs. Men, not all, think mostly of themselves, and revere and respect mostly other men.

Ok…stop me before I get off on men, on a day (more than one:) that I want to revere women.

Let me just add, that I actually have issue with the entire article. Even in an article honoring women the individual can’t tell it like it truly is. The revealing part is this article was written by a woman. Just where is the passion in the support and admiration for her sisters?

Here’s a story that not only gives us  a perfect example of men treating a woman as a ‘subordinate’ and ‘restricting’ her ‘responsibilities’ and ‘freedom’ to learn, but more importantly of women supporting women. This story is about a woman who didn’t give up because of the encouragement and support of another woman.

Sometimes, if we’re very fortunate, we meet the one person who will forever change the course of our lives. Working in the Planning Unit of the Ministry of Education in Malawi I met mine.

I met Nwanganga Shields, a Nigerian woman who was heading the World Bank team that was working on the Education and Health programmes in Malawi. I could not believe that this African woman had so much power; every time she sent a message that she was bringing her team to Malawi everybody in the Ministry was running around preparing for her visit.

She requested that I work for her, and with every meeting she gave me more challenging work–including me in the studies and giving me more responsibilities on the ground.

One day she said to me, “If you are doing this work without training then you need to go to graduate school.” She found a place for me at the George Washington University at the School of Education. The battle now was to convince the men in the Ministry to let me go.

She noticed that when we had meetings, I was always sent to go and inform the kitchen to bring the tea. One day as I stood up in the meeting she asked me why I was going to call for the tea when I needed to contribute to the meeting. She said this is the last time you are doing tea duty, you have a degree and you are going to graduate school. She asked the meeting if anybody had an objection, everybody was quiet. She said she would take it as agreement since nobody had objected. Nwanganga is an African woman and she knew that there was no agreement, the men around the table were just shocked and stunned.

After she left, I was called and informed that I would not be going to graduate school at the George Washington University — I was devastated. I believed I wanted an American education because I wanted to be like Nwanganga Shields, fearless, confident, knowledgeable and proud to be African. In all the time I knew Nwanganga, and even though she was married to an Irishman, I had never seen her put on western clothes! She was so proud to be African, even though her views and attitude were completely western.

I was so crushed to be calling Nwanganga to tell her that I would not be taking my place at George Washington as planned. I should have known this fearless, determined woman would not be stopped. Nwanganga immediately sent me to the British Airways office where she had a ticket to America waiting for me.

It took a month after I arrived, but she managed to convince the Ministry to allow me to start school. She helped me find a place to stay, she got me a tutor to learn even basic skills like keyboarding, and she got me a job at the World Bank so that I could continue to work on research projects.

Every time I was homesick or discouraged she would invite me to her house and cook me African food and remind me that it was important that I succeed for the sake of other Malawian women who had never been given the same opportunity because of the assumption that they couldn’t do it.

She not only inspired me to strive to be like her, she inspired me to fight to open doors for other women.

If this one woman had not made that decision to fight so that I could go to graduate school I would have never left Malawi. I owe that one woman my education. Because of her I have educated my own children, and because of her my daughters do not think they might go to graduate school, they know they will. And because of this woman, every time a woman tells me that she wants to do something and there is a stumbling block in front of her, I start looking for solutions right away.

Nwanganga showed me that you should stop at nothing to open a door for a fellow woman. My way of saying thank you to her is helping other women the way she helped me. I took the job as Head of Raising Malawi Academy for Girls because it gives me the opportunity to do for hundreds of girls what Nwanganga did for me.

What an opportunity, to be able to say thank you to Nwanganga over and over again.

I hope that one day, when Raising Malawi Academy for Girls is open she will come to Malawi and speak to the girls in the school and give them the same inspirational talks she gave to me.

To women: I recognize you. I revere you. I respect you. I love you.

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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What Mood Are You In?

Posted by Michelle Moquin on 11th November 2009

This is all I’ve got for today….

“My husband being unhappy with my mood swings, bought me a mood ring the other day so he would be able to monitor my moods. We’ve discovered that when I’m in a good mood it turns green. When I’m in a bad mood, it leaves a big red mark on his fucking forehead. Maybe next time he’ll buy me a diamond.”

Hahhaa! Someone sent me this and it was so appropriate for the ‘mood’ I’m in today. I don’t but I bet some of you women feel this way though :)

Readers: Catch you all tomorrow where I assure you I’ll have more to say. Blog me if you wish.

Gratefully your blog host,

michelle

Aka BABE: Your Bad Ass Bitch Editor

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Let’s Start This Day Laughing, Shall We?

Posted by Michelle Moquin on 5th November 2009

Oh….I am in a humorous mood this morning. Time to lighten up and laugh a little. This girls got it going good this morning and I am going to ride it all day. Ya know what I mean?

No topic this morning…just a little chitchat with my readers to break up the monotony of all of the heaviness lately. Don’t ya just need to distant yourself for awhile and laugh a little? I believe one should laugh at least a few times a day. Crack yourself up – I do all the time. And when I’m not laughing at myself, I’m laughing at others….in a good way of course, and hopefully they’re laughing with me.

Not laughing enough in your day? Well, start here this morning. I found a few things to help you break out into some laughter. Keep reading and you’ll come across them :)

Anna:  I love traveling, and I hope one day soon I can fly to meet you. I have no problem sleeping on flights, and no problem with long flights. I use to fly to Indo a few times a year for work and although I was flying business class, which to me was so delicious, being able to totally recline would be the ultimate way to fly….besides having my own craft of course.

Now if we’re talking about my ship, there is  no comparison. Let me just brag a little… My ship is so huge, more than 1000 earths could fit in it. So if you want leg room and a place to recline and relax, I have beaches – because if I’m going anywhere, I have to be near a beach. And mountains? oh yeah…from Mt Tamalpais to the Himalayas. My ship has the best of everything.  Sound good? Want to join me?

In fact peeps, we may all be on my ship now and you would never even know it. Can you wrap your mind around that one? :)

Joyce: I have no idea – All I can say is they are stupid, and not paying attention to the facts. Here’s a little video I found that’ll get you laughing – just goes to show you how stupid people can really be. I think you’ll like it.

They are not always blond

Kushka, and Nawzad: You’re both welcome. I wish that I could do more. I wish that Madaline could do more, but sometimes, we humans need to be left to handle the situations ourselves. Nawzad, Madaline is not reachable by my readers any other way but through my blog. Feel free to say something to her here. She does check in to read, even if she is not able to respond. Hang in there – You girls Rock.

Ah…Scott: You caught me on a good day; I just couldn’t wait to get to you. Thank you for the compliment. So….let’s see….’Meddling’ huh? When men stop meddling with women, I will stop meddling in their lives. And not until then. ‘Bitch’: That I am, and proud of it! Call me a bitch any day of the week….and that’s Bad Ass Bitch to you.

But as far as me interfering in your family business, don’t shoot the messenger. Just because Wendy reads my blog, got inspired, and finally decided to woman up, and not to put up with your shit, don’t blame me. You’re the one who was/is cheating. Maybe you should’ve thought about your wife with your big head, before you thought with your little head and pulled down your pants. My blog just gave her the boldness she needed to bail out.

So…tell me…did you answer her question? Please share with me and my readers, just why Wendy should put up with your shit. I would love to hear your lame excuses. And by the way, you are threatening the wrong girl – I have peeps in the form of one bad-assed super-girl and a clan of chicks that are always ready and itching to kick a little ass.  I would be the wrong girl to fuck with – got my drift?

As far as me being a ball buster – you bet. When men think with the little head instead of the big one, where do you think their brains are? But don’t get me wrong. I love balls; they are the co-pilots on my favorite ride.

Now… be a good boy, and go run off and be with your little girlfriend, until she gets tired of your shit too.

Oh…and this one’s for you.

So...Wendy: How goes it? No need to thank me. It is my pleasure. I don’t know what I said that sparked your split, but whatever I said, I’m glad that it gave you the courage to do what you felt you needed to do. Hold you head high…..More power to you Babe, from this B.A.B.E. :) Hey, did you like the video I posted? Funny huh?

Ruth: I have no problem with family matters being discussed on my blog, so please, no need to ask for forgiveness.  As you can see, your little mother/daughter chat is pretty mild compared to some of the stuff that happens here. I am not judging; just pointing out that the stories that are printed here are about as wild, and intimate, and revealing as one can get. No worries. I love having you both here.

BTK: So that’s what the acronym stands for. I like it.

Wow. I can’t believe The Huff didn’t approve your comment. That surprise and disappoints me. In fact that is just BS. I would send Ariana a letter of complaint. And yes, if you need to drive your point home by printing it twice then do so.

Speaking of Billy: How are you doing? This ones for you.  ”He often broke into song, because he couldn’t find the key.” I hope that you are still reading and you’re doing okay. Peace Billy boy :)

Zen Lill: ‘Unwanted children tea’? You’ve got to be kidding me? Just the name itself made me crack up.  Please tell me more – this I’ve got to hear :)

JC: Love it – Reminds me of the saying: “One must be careful of what they ask for, as they just may get it.

Hey Robert: Are you still reading? It feels like it has been a long time.

What about you Helena? Miss your presence here too.

Well Readers: I’ve started my day laughing. I hope that at the very least, I got a chuckle out of you. If not, go find something that makes you break out. It’ll feel sooo good.

Peace, Love & Laughter: “Live it, Give it, and Do it!”

Gratefully your blog host,

michelle

Aka BABE: Your Bad Ass Bitch Editor

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