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Learn the secrets to have your business, body, and mind all working together ...

Do you ever feel like you are missing a crucial piece for gaining the momentum you want in your business — but you aren’t sure what it is?

Are you working really hard and wondering how you will EVER be able to carve out the time you need to take care of yourself?

Do you ever wonder how other women juggle all the balls that we seem to have up in the air?

Could you use more energy, sales, positivity or mojo? 

Do you want to always have joy in your business?

Guess what?

One of the biggest challenges women entrepreneurs face is maintaining a working balance between so many important priorities.

The truth: your body, your mindset, and your business are all intimately related (YOU are your most valuable business asset after all!). ALL the pieces are important, and when the balance gets out of whack, none of the parts operate as effectively and as incredibly or with as much joy as they should.

My friends Dr. Melissa McCreery and Therese Skelly GET IT and they’ve put together the perfect event for busy women entrepreneurs. The best thing is, you can attend it for free!  These women have put together the Body Mind and Business Breakthrough Telesummit.

This event has kicked off this week but there is still time to jump in! You’ll have the unique opportunity to learn from some of the top experts in the areas of health and wellness, mindset and mental strategy, and business breakthroughs—experts like Alexis Martin Neely, JJ Virgin, Suzanne Falter-Barns and Stephanie McWilliams. These speakers know their stuff and I am so honored to be one of them!

CLICK HERE to check out the line up of speakers and grab your seat! Making your body, mind and business work together doesn't have to be a secret any longer!

EN-Joy

Laura

DARE to Live Your Dreams, Passions & Indulgences

This can be the year you take your Joyful Business to the NEXT LEVEL!

Join me and Francine Allaire, Founder of The Daring Woman™ and The Daring Woman™ Global Alliance for a Free, Yet Priceless Teleseminar.

What You Need to Breakthrough to the Next Revenue Level
in Your Passion-Based Business!

Tuesday April 20th, 2010
5:00pm Pacific / 8:00pm Eastern

You’re a passion-based entrepreneur, which means you’ve created a business you love, that feeds your soul, fuels your passion, and gives life to your purpose.

And for that business to be viable – to *really* make a differenceitand you need to be profitable. What most entrepreneurs don’t understand is that there are revenue plateaus. You reach a certain level. You stay at that level.

At any level you can’t keep doing the same things you’ve been doing and expect to double your sales results. TThere are only so many hours in the day.

During this information-rich session, you will learn the essentials to breakthrough to the next revenue level in your passion-based business." with Laura's sentence below: "During this information-rich call, Francine Allaire will interview *yours truly* as I share with you the essentials you need for you to breakthrough to the next revenue level in your passion-based business.

This event is NOT to BE MISSED! Easy, FREE Registration yet priceless information. Don't worry if you can't make the call live, there will be a recording. But you must register first!

For more information or to register:
http://www.thedaringwoman.com/teleseminar/laurawest.htm

FORMAT: Simulcast! (Attend via Phone or Webcast - It's Your Choice!)

I’m giving a Special Bonus Gift to The Daring Woman Success Circle Members – SECRETS TO A SUCCESSFUL JOYFUL BUSINESS AUDIO GIFT PACKAGE which includes:

* Immediate Access to my 3 Favorite Teleclasses Audio Recordings (not available to the general public)

**The Key to Thriving in Any Economy- Isn’t What You Think!

*** My 5 Most Powerful Law of Attraction Strategies to Help You Create the 6 Figure Business of Your Dreams

**** What You Need to Know about Money, Marketing and Spirituality

Get access to My Special Bonus Gift by joining The Daring Woman Success Circle for only $57.00 for an entire year. Plus you’ll have access to a complete audio library of 40+ Interviews with Success Experts and Special Bonus Gifts from other Success Experts just like me valued at over $1,000.00.

For more information or to Join The Daring Woman Success Circle click here:
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Don’t let your busy schedule prevent you from joining us on Tuesday April 20th at 5:00pm Pacific / 8:00pm Eastern.

I hope to “see you” on the call. Francine and I invite you to Take on THE DARE together.

EN-Joy,

Laura

Invite in the Voice for What's Next in YOUR Business!!

I just got back a couple of days ago from my own personal creative retreat on St. Simons Island at an amazingly beautiful hotel. As soon as I walked in the door of the hotel room, my DNA shifted, ideas were buzzing, and new possibilities opened up! It’s amazing what ocean and a beautiful environment does for you and for getting out of your normal, habitual routine. I felt myself being the Business Goddess Millionairess!

Business Goddess Millionairess?

Yes - to me that metaphor is about being so filled with abundance and possibilities where I know - I can feel - I can do anything.

Now that I'm back home, I am full of confidence and a sense of purposeful expression. I have been in a place of asking for what’s next in my business – not just from an idea place, but from a soul-nourishing place. I really feel myself finally opening up and feeling excited about what’s possible. Getting out of your familiar environment and routine really helps, especially when it's beautiful.

Here’s where I stayed AND where my upcoming NEW retreat is also being held: www.OceanLodgessi.com. It’s truly amazing, beautiful and inspiring at every turn!

I would love for you to be here with me at the For the Love and Soul of Your Business retreat coming up in April. This retreat is for six women entrepreneurs only, and I already have one spot taken out of the six. I am so excited about the potential that these six amazing, heart-centered, passionate female entrepreneurs will create with me at the For the Love and Soul of Your Business retreat.

I’m envisioning and setting the intention that these six seasoned women opening to the voice of what’s next in their businesses.

Imagine getting clear about what’s next. Stepping into your soul’s purpose in a big way with grace, ease and life nourishing prosperity! You will be supported and inspired to create what’s next for you here with me, these kindred spirits, and this delicious location. I know I was - and still am, even back in my "normal," everyday environment.

To find out all the juicy details and to apply for one of the five spots left (one is actually already taken - and I'm just announcing it to the public today!), visit www.joyfulbusiness.com/deepretreat.

Breathing deeply... feeling expansive and grounded - and wishing that for you!

En-Joy

Laura
 
PS: When was the last time you fell in love with your business? Remember it again. Join me at the For the Love and Soul of Your Business intimate retreat.

Tap Into Your Personal Power and Transform Your Life and Business Tele-Summit

If you've been following me in my articles, on Facebook, and on Twitter, you know that I feel we all have unique gifts and passions - and that it's those gifts and passions that allow us to do our great work in the world, and to truly make a difference.

Wilma Allan of Community Soul is holding a tele-summit called Tap Into Your Personal Power and Transform Your Life and Business. Isn't that what we all want? And because I'm co-sponsoring this tele-summit, you are able to attend as my special "VIP" guest FREE of charge.

This special arrangement gives you access to a carefully selected panel of some of the world’s most successful online women entrepreneurs as they share their closely guarded secrets to their own success including me! I spoke today and Wilma Allen will be interviewing the specially selected panel to talk about exactly how they have overcome obstacles, kept life and business on track, sometimes against all odds, and how they have tapped into their own personal power to achieve and maintain that success.

According to Wilma, it really doesn't matter what business you're in. She believes that if you have a passion and you adopt the right mindset, you can become successful. Achieving success is all linked to how effectively you are able to tap into and harness the phenomenal power that we do all have inside us. And this will all become much clearer when you listen to these unique women and what they will be sharing with you on this tele-summit. Only then you will begin to understand how you can also do this for yourself!

Register below and save the date for the kick off interview with Lisa Sasevich! Lisa talks to Wilma Allan about why she wanted to put together this free event for YOU.

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To claim your VIP invitation, click this link:
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--->> Here’s What You'll Discover When You Join This Unique Tele-summit and Listen to These Exceptional Women<<---

  • How to make CONSISTENT, ON-DEMAND TRANSFORMATIONS in your life, no matter what stage you are at now, regardless of what’s gone before

  • How to take a NEW LOOK AT FAILURES and how that can transform HOW you achieve

  • You will learn how to really UNDERSTAND PERSISTENCE and what it can do for you and your business

  • All the things you DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT TAKING DECISIONS and how that will open doors you didn’t know were there

  • How to DISCOVER YOUR ‘BURNING DESIRE’ and why you need one

If you’re wondering whether this is really possible, or whether harnessing personal power is a rare gift given only to a select few, that’s exactly why you should register for this tele-summit. As you listen to these 16 exceptional women, you’ll realize that they started out, quite possibly where you are now, and that you also have that same unlimited power. Then you will begin to understand how you can tap into that power, too!

As my VIP guest, you can register for this tele-summit, schedule your favorite calls into your week and benefit from the wisdom shared in these fascinating interviews.

Below is a brief glimpse of what you can expect to hear from these extraordinary women:

  • Their own personal stories that have shaped their success

  • What has been a stumbling block for them and how they overcame those obstacles

  • The key factors that they believe have ensured their success

  • What it is that drives them and how they have harnessed that

  • And each of these women will reveal to you how they have taken life-changing decisions that have moved them to the levels of success they now enjoy

  • And much, much, much more!!

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If you are one of the dedicated minority who REALLY want to learn from those who have already been where you are now, treat yourself to the benefit of the accumulated wisdom that is being offered to you and register now for this tele-summit.

And remember, because I'm co-sponsoring this tele-summit, you can attend as my special "VIP" guest at no charge!

Grab your FREE access to this unique tele-summit which will reveal how you can tap into AND harness the phenomenal power that is inside you, and THEN transform your life and business...

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En-Joy,

Laura

Inspiration for Today’s Woman

As I think about what my purpose and passion in life is, I find that I'm really stepping into the role of leading women to their most fulfilling, authentic, successful lives and businesses. I want to see what's possible for women entrepreneurs.

So when I get asked to participate in a movement for women to lead inspired lives, I sit up and take notice.

I'm excited to partner with Aspire Magazine and offer their subscribers some really great bonuses to help them live an inspired life.

Aspire_Logo-no_tag Imagine receiving tips, tools and inspiration to live a deeper, more authentic, balanced and inspired life. Couple this with the shared wisdom from some of the biggest names involved in the conscious thought movement and you have the premiere inspirational magazine for women – Aspire Magazine.

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Don’t Miss It: SpiritRICH Business Teleseries!

Laura_West_leopard The world is shifting, and there's a different way to do business than what we've been taught or modeled.

Traditional business has been built around a model of "get it done & get it done quick." It very much requires a lot of masculine action-oriented energies and strengths. That has served us well in the past, but now, especially for women (and honestly, for men too), it’s time for business to change.

It's the idea that both the feminine and masculine energies have a place - and should have a place - in business and life. That your business is one nourishing part of your life, not an energy-drainer or all-consuming. You want a business that is an outlet for your passion, a business that helps you change the world or makes it better in some way. And your business should provide you with financial success so you can continue to do your world-changing work.

MPj04373920000[1] As women, we can't continue with the current way of being in business. As women, we can't continue to drain our energy trying to do it like someone else who doesn't understand our natural strengths, our individual rhythms and our lifestyle priorities.

It's a brand-new way of doing business--and there aren't many models out there and certainly not a map of how to go about running such a business.

That's what the SpiritRICH™ Business Teleseries is all about. I want to help women entrepreneurs understand that they can grow their business to wildly successful heights while at the same time honoring their whole lives –whether it’s children, parents, travel, hobbies, vibrant health or (and) life purpose.

Join me for three calls (while they can all be listened to individually, they'll be the most powerful when you join us for all three):

  • Thursday, November 5: The 5 Shifts Happening in the World For Women Entrepreneurs – and Why YOU Need to Know About Them to Be Successful!
  • Thursday, November 12: The 7 Traps that Keep Women Entrepreneurs From Authentic Success
  • Thursday, November 19: What You Need to Know To Market Yourself Like a Business Goddess

*All calls are 3:00 – 4:00 eastern

The first call is tomorrow on those very shifts in business. If you want to be successful in your business, you have to know what these shifts are all about! Join me as I encourage you to think differently about how you run your business, and how you show up in your business.

Click to read more and to sign up now!

I look forward to having you on the first call tomorrow!

En-JOY!

Laura
 
PS: Be part of the movement - sign up for the SpiritRICH™ Business Teleseries now!

Joyful Business Podcast #23: Becoming the Complete Entreprenuer

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Here is the latest episode of the Joyful Business Podcast featuring interviews with some of the most talented and joyful entrepreneurs on the Internet. Each interview is full of nuggets of wisdom about how being joyful and mindful in your business brings you the success you deserve. You'll find tips, stories, and real life ideas for keeping the joy, passion and creativity alive.

Join us every two weeks in Cafe Entrepreneur for a new interview.

KathleengageIn episode #23, we talk to "Street-Smarts" Marketer, Kathleen Gage, who is the CEO and founder of Turning Point, Inc. and Maxwell Publishing, as well as a bestselling author, keynote speaker, and an internationally recognized Internet marketing and publicity expert for speakers, trainers and authors. She enjoys working with spiritually minded entrepreneurs who want to learn how to package their expertise and knowledge into money making products and service, while using their spirituality to enhance their business and to complete their lives.

Through Kathleen's success, she has found that as long as she makes living in a state of gratitude the cornerstone of everything she does, then things will work out better on the whole - no matter what the circumstances are around her. She has taken time to work on gratitude daily through small spiritual rituals, and suggests ways we can do this as well.  As we take the time to work on this aspect of our lives, we will find that we feel more complete, and we will be able to enjoy our work, our business, and our lives more completely!

Listen Now: 

If you enjoy this Joyful Business Podcast then you'll love our bi-weekly newsletter, Creating Your Joyful Business, filled with resources and how-to's for creating a financially successful business while honoring your lifestyle, your relationships and your creative expression!  Subscribe at: www.JoyfulBusiness.com  and receive your Free Business Attraction Success Kit!

Enjoy!

Laura

Joyful Business Podcast #22: When Nothing Goes As Planned...

Don't miss another episode - subscribe today and be the first to know when a new podcast comes out  - Join our "Creating Your Joyful Business" newsletter - http://www.joyfulbusiness.com/subscribe.html

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Here is the latest episode of the Joyful Business Podcast featuring interviews with some of the most talented and joyful entrepreneurs on the Internet. Each interview is full of nuggets of wisdom about how being joyful and mindful in your business brings you the success you deserve. You'll find tips, stories, and real life ideas for keeping the joy, passion and creativity alive.

Join us every two weeks in Cafe Entrepreneur for a new interview.

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In episode #22 Jeanna Gabellini visits with us about her passion for using the laws of attraction to get you what you want.  Jeanna is a prosperity coach, and is the founder of MASTERPEACE Coaching and Training.  In 1998, she was one of the first coaches in the world -- and the youngest -- to receive the designation of Master Certified Coach by the International Coach Federation. She has developed teleclasses, workshops and seminars on ways to implement the laws of attraction into her client's business.  Jeanna also co-authored the book, "Life Lessons on Mastering the Law of Attraction."

Jeanna has so many stories to share of how the laws of attraction have influenced her life.  She has learned that in order for you to reach your goals, sometimes you have to let go of time lines and just let things be manifested when it is the right time for them to come.  Listen in to hear her amazing story, and be ready to jot down her golden nuggets on how to keep positive even when it seems that nothing is going how you planned.  For our listeners, she has also graciously offered a free gift!  Go to: www.masterpeacemarketing.com/giveaway.htm.

Listen Now: 

If you enjoy this Joyful Business Podcast then you'll love our bi-weekly newsletter, Creating Your Joyful Business, filled with resources and how-to's for creating a financially successful business while honoring your lifestyle, your relationships and your creative expression!  Subscribe at: www.JoyfulBusiness.com  and receive your Free Business Attraction Success Kit!

Enjoy!

Laura

Create YOUR Vision in 2009 With Ladies Who Launch and The Center for Joyful Business

Join me tomorrow at Ladies Who Launch in Atlanta!

Traci Long who is very involved with the growth of Ladies Who Launch, and one of my Platinum Clients, has invited me to speak to her special group of creative entrepreneurs!

DATE: Wednesday, January 7th 2009                                                Traci_laura_at_lwl_holiday_close_up
TIME: 5:30-8:00pm
WHERE: Smyrna Community Center
Room #1 200 Village Green Cir SE
200 Village Green Cir SE
Smyrna, GA 30080
Please RSVP  www.ladieswholaunch.eventbrite.com

I'll be presenting a special workshop to help you create your Vision Story for your business.  It's very powerful and transformative.  You will start putting your dreams into action that night!

  • Especially as women – we talk and share in stories. We connect to each other with our dreams, our wisdom, and our ideas in stories. We share our love, our messages and our connection in them.
  • Imagine you have the magic wand….you are looking back over your year and you have created it exactly as you would like it. No rules, barriers or obstacles.
  • It’s easier to imagine the success and then look back at it instead of trying to create the steps from where you are.
  • Your mind doesn’t really know the difference between reality and imagination – your body will react the same.
  • Law of Attraction is always working – like Law of Gravity. We attract what we put our attention on. Creating a story gets our whole self involved and engaged. It’s very powerful.
  • No matter where you are in your story – it’s perfect. Lots of details, very little details – we are all at different stages. Bullet points or sentences; pen or pencil…don’t worry about getting it perfect. Let go of should around your business.
  • BIG – looks different for each of us.

Join us and Create what BIG looks like for you in 2009!!!!

See you tomorrow!

What do we have in common with Oprah? Our love and belief in Vision Boards!

Yesterday I spent the day with two amazing coaches. They are colleagues and dear friends. We got together, along with my husband, Marc, for a day of creating vision boards representing our businesses, lives and the dreams we are stepping into.

Not only did we create amazing and uniquely different boards, but Marc also videotaped the process for my first video about "Creating Vision Boards to Manifest Anything in Your Business." Fun and practical!

Image001It was a very powerful day! Here's a picture of me, Beverly of Embrace Your Gifts and Soar, and Beth from Aligned Leadership, taking a break and having lunch in the warm sun in between ripping out pictures, cutting and pasting.

As you can see from below these Vision Boards are creative, alive and engaging! They are also very magical. Once you have something - a project, a client, a business dream, a way of being in the world - once it's on your Vision Board you've begun the attraction energy for drawing it to you.

Click here to see our vision boards:  Vision Board Photo #1; Vision Board Photo #2

I know how powerful it is to create a Vision Board for your dream.  It brings it to life!  Gives it energy!  Especially when you look at it each day, claim it, talk to it and share it with others.  In fact, Oprah believes in the power of Vision Boards too. Check out her spontaneous call in to a Chicago radio show on election day.  After about 5 minutes of the interview she says that she created a Vision Board for Obama becoming president - complete with the picture of the dress she will wear to the inaugural ball! 

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You know the extra special part about this vision day? Beverly and Beth have both enrolled in my new program, Attraction Marketing and Money Mindset . I am honored by the caliber of passionate business owners signing up for this year-long community experience. In sharing their Vision Boards, it was clear why they signed up. They are each stepping into something BIG in 2009 and starting right now! They were very clear about their commitment to their BIG JUICY VISION.

In talking with Beth and Beverly about their commitment to the program, they both said they were doing it together, and it was as if they are overlooking this big lake and they are holding hands on the bridge. They know they are ready to jump in and it's both exciting and scary! They are so glad they are not doing it alone!

If you are ready to join Beverly and Beth - and me - in holding hands and jumping into your BIG JUICY VISION then come and join us! Check out my new program at http://www.joyfulbusiness.com/ammmp.

The program includes an in-person Attraction in Action Retreat where you'll meet Beth and Beverly and more amazingly creative and committed entrepreneurs, two monthly teleseminars on Money Magic and Joyful Business Strategies, Virtual Creative Retreats, Mastermind Groups and so much more! I've purposely included everything to help you with your marketing systems, marketing attraction and most importantly your money and marketing mindset!

Be sure to sign up quickly! 5 spots are SOLD OUT already! The next 5 people to sign up get two special bonuses: the first is the exclusive video for the "How to Create a Vision Board to Manifest Anything You Want in Your Business!" and the 2nd bonus is my brand new "Favorite Joyful Business Success Strategy" CD's and transcripts - a must for your success library!

Here's the link to sign up: http://www.JoyfulBusiness.com/ammmp

I hope you'll join us - it's an amazingly powerful group. I can't wait to be celebrating 2009!

If you have any questions please email or give me a call.

PS: My husband Marc was the videographer and worked on his own Vision Board because he, too,Marcs_vision_board_2  is stepping into his BIG JUICY VISION! His first step is that he is working with me on this program! See his Vision Board here and read about him in the special Bonus section on the web page! ;)

En-JOY!

Laura

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Laura Howard West

Laura Howard West is a certified professional coach, writer, speaker and the President and Chief Creative Officer of The Center for Joyful Business. She is the creator of The Joyful Business Guide™, a business attraction system blending law of attraction principles with smart business designed for solo-entrepreneurs and business owners.

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