Celebrating Our Life-Changing New Books and Courses
Saturday, February 11, 2023
Recordings Below
11:05 am Eastern Saturday, February 11, 2023
Never Stop Believing in Magic: Why Every Scanner Needs a Daybook
In this mini-workshop, we explore how a Daybook can be an incredibly helpful tool for recalibrating our inner compass and resetting our internal “joy circuit”—that entirely-individualized programming chip that is actually meant to be driving our life ship. Despite what today’s countless influencers, life coaches and thought leaders say to the contrary, there is no-one else who can give us exactly the right map for the unique life course that we have been sent here to chart. We can, however, choose to learn the basic navigational principles that can protect us from being hopelessly blown off course by the expectations and preferences of others. A Daybook provides an unrestricted and welcoming space for us to clarify our thoughts, feelings and desires as the first important step to taking back the wheel as the captain of our own ship. We can then joyfully ride the waves of our natural personality and energy flow preferences instead of constantly being tossed every which way in a vast ocean of competing alternatives and diametically-opposed systems of belief.
Speaker: Simone Lee Duxbury, Certified Deep Ocean Coach and Neurodiversity Advocate
Simone can be contacted at: freetobeme@diaz.training
Or you can visit her website at www.simoneleeduxbury.com
Check out Simone’s new book, Never Stop Believing in Magic: An Unlined and Colourful Ideas Notebook/Writing Journal/Daybook for Exploring the Adventure Playground of Your Mind
11:30 am Eastern Saturday, February 11, 2023
Inspire Your Best Self: a Mini Workshop Connecting Your Head to Your Heart
“I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”
—Shakespeare, As You Like It
You’ll like it here at the Telesummit—this place where we will be connected to fresh perspectives, fun ideas, and interesting people. We are all becoming the next version of our best selves each day. But sometimes there are bumps in the road on our journey and we need to spend time listening to our heart and to some illuminating and inspirational words to help us through the rough spots. Join me in this mini workshop where you’ll have plenty of opportunity to speak as you travel the path from your head to your heart through quotations and reflections.
I was inspired by Shakespeare’s words to call my book I Like This Heart Space: Quotations & Reflections to Inspire Your Best Self. Opening your mind and heart to great quotations and reflections on them can inspire you to become your best self.
This workshop and my new book are both places where I know you’ll find inspiration and encouragement that comes from the heart.
Speaker: Suzi Larkin, M.A. Award-winning speaker, Self-Expression Coach, author, singer, director, playwright, homeschool educator, theatre nerd, self-care encourager
Suzi Larkin, M.A., is passionate about helping people to express themselves. She also cares deeply about helping people find the peace and confidence that a practice of self-care helps to create. A firm believer in stretching yourself and nurturing your strengths, Suzi coached the Penn State Speech Team students to achieve their goals while also teaching Public Speaking and Oral Interpretation of Literature.
An award-winning speaker, Suzi speaks and conducts workshops on Self-Expression, Self-Care, Readers Theatre, and Presentation Skills. She writes and directs plays and acts in shows with the local community theatre which she helped to start in 2008. An inclusive view of education led Suzi to homeschool her two daughters and she encouraged their participation in theatre, singing, and speaking as they grew. Suzi studied Psychology and Speech Communication at the University of Minnesota and earned her Master’s degree in Speech Communication from Penn State. Between her workshops and her work in community theatre, she continues to provide opportunities for anyone wishing to explore self-discovery and self-expression onstage or off.
Website: suzilarkin.com
Email: suzilarkin@icloud.com
Check out Suzi’s new book, I Like This Heart Space: Quotations & Reflections to Inspire Your Best Self and her earlier book, Gentle & Kind: A Nurture & Stretch Self-Care Journal
12:05 pm Eastern Saturday, February 11, 2023
Living Your Dreams Today!
We all have life dreams of what we want, of what could be, or of who we hope to become. And we think of those as happening “someday.”
But the truth is that a dream is not an end goal. It is a process, and it always starts today.
Your journey of self-fulfillment requires these two key components:
- Knowing your underlying motives, and
- Building everyday experiences that satisfy those needs.
Join Cathryn and see how you can use these to reframe how you think about your dreams. Learn how to clarify your core desires and identify what you really want, and also discover how your needs are being met in your life right now.
Speaker: Cathryn Zeleny, author of 151 Gentle Nudges, motivational speaker, AVisionaryZ workshop instructor, creativity coach, artist, eclectic lifestyle enthusiast
S. Cathryn Zeleny is an acclaimed speaker and workshop facilitator, an author and award-winning artist. For 35 years, she has provided creative development guidance for artists and quilters, and also conducted seminars on communication and self-fulfillment for organizations, schools, and community forums. She holds an interdisciplinary BA in Art and an MA in Psychology specializing in life design and alternative methods for career planning.
Cathryn advocates purposeful choice and creative problem-solving for everyone who is on the path to their dreams. Her holistic approach to personal growth is illustrated by using analogies from the art world and from the experiences of her eclectic lifestyle.
Cathryn Zeleny is the author of two books: 151 Gentle Nudges to help Revive Your Life’s Dreams and Thinking With A Bigger Box: A Personal Growth Workshop.
For workshop information, visit her website: AvisionaryZ.com
You may also contact her via email: cathy@avisionaryz.com
Check out Cathryn’s new book, 151 Gentle Nudges to Help Revive Your Life’s Dreams
12:30 pm Eastern Saturday, February 11, 2023
A Journey To An Organized You: What Is Your Home’s Theme?
[Description to be added]Speaker: Kandy M. Sartori, CPO®, Organizing Consultant and Life Coach, “An Organized Life Is A HAPPY LIFE!”®
Kandy M. Sartori is a Certified Professional Organizer, serial entrepreneur, author, coach, and Creative Guide. She has over 20+ years working in Fortune 500 companies in positions ranging from Administrative Assistant, Fire/Theft Team Leader, Tax Branch Manager, Financial Advisor to Bookkeeper. She started her first business in 2009 as an organizing and cleaning business. Over the years, she has developed systems that really help her clients stay organized and streamlined. She works with her clients to feel into their well being. She takes a holistic approach and understands the flow of energy in our lives. Everything and everyone is connected, on every level.
She holds a BA in Business Administration and several certificates in a variety of areas, as a true scanner would. Kandy also worked as part of an organizing crew on A&E’s popular TV series, HOARDERS. She has also trekked to Mt. Everest’s Base Camp, ran the Athens Marathon, and recently took up strength training and hoping to participate in the Arnold Schwarzenegger 5k Pump and Run at the 2023 Arnolds Sports Festival.
Kandy’s motto is, “An Organized Life is a Happy Life™”.
Website: kandysartori.com
Check out Kandy’s new book, A Journey to an Organized You: A Step-by-Step Guide to Your Organized Home, Primary Bedroom
1:05 pm Eastern Saturday, February 11, 2023
10 Lessons I’ve Learned from Successful Starters
Podcast host Patrice Jenkins shares lessons she has learned from interviewing successful people and asking them how they got started. What were their first steps? Where did they find courage to start? What did the very beginning look like? When we learn the first steps, we learn how to bridge the gap between our dreams and what we want to accomplish.
Speaker: Patrice Jenkins, Ph.D. is an organizational psychologist, author, and Founder of Day One Dreams
Patrice Jenkins, Ph.D., is an organizational psychologist, consultant, speaker and host of Day One Dreams Podcast. She is the author of two books, it’s still good: Dreams Don’t Have Expiration Dates and What Will I Do All Day? Wisdom to Get You Over Retirement and On With Living! Her online course, A Guide to Take the Weirdness Out of Retirement is available at Udemy.com.
Website: PatriceJenkins.com
Check out Patrice’s latest book, it’s still good: Dreams Don’t Have Expiration Dates
1:30 pm Eastern Saturday, February 11, 2023
Meet Me in Cleveland, Go for Your Dream
Tammy is organizing our first ever in-person gathering, a lot like Barbara’s Big Cheap Weekend, where you can gather with other Sher fans with big dreams and get lots of support through the exercises (Barbara’s exercises) that Tammy will guide you through. But this one will take place in budget-minded but still lots of fun Cleveland. Come hear about it and ask her all your questions.
Remember when Barbara Sher would do in-person retreats and workshops? Tammy Garver was there for some of the best of them. And she did it despite having a very tight budget thanks to her job in social work. She knows you want to get a lot for your hard-earned money.
Tammy was Barbara’s righthand gal for her last Telesummit with us in 2020. She is also a WriteSpeak graduate and an experienced workshop leader. For several years now, Tammy is the Barbara Sher Book Club Guide you’ve all come to love. In person, she’s even more caring and enthusiastic. You won’t want to miss this gathering if you are ready to live a life you love.
This jolly gathering (to borrow one of Barbara Sher’s favorite adjectives) begins on the evening of Friday, April 28 and ends midday on Sunday, April 30. Make new friends. Make new plans. Get going on your dreams. You can register now at BarbarasClub.com/april2023. And yes, you can get all the free bonuses if you submit your receipt.
Speaker: Tammy Garver, MS, Barbara Sher Book Club Guide, Personal Development Teacher, Speaker, and Certified Professional Life Coach
Tammy Garver is a self-help aficionado and certified Personal Coach and Instructor. Her mission is to help women improve their quality of life, especially those who have “been to hell and back.” When human beings experience trauma or extreme life challenges, it is not uncommon for them to feel “less than” in some way. Tammy is passionate about helping humans step out of the darkness and remembering their light, where they are always “good enough” just as they are.
In 2007, she launched Creating Success Stories with a goal of giving women who face poverty, or a myriad of challenging situations, the tools and support that foster a better life experience, one choice at a time. Tammy is a speaker who has led several groups in local low-income areas by supporting women’s ascension out of poverty through programs developed by herself and others. She enjoys writing and is the author of Balance, a journal to support men and women in gaining balance in all areas of life by combining the tools needed to identify respective definitions of success. By sharing timeless principles, scientific research and life-coaching strategies, Tammy makes the practice of gaining authentic success accessible and relevant to everyone. Tammy said farewell to her social work ““good enough job”” in 2022 to pursue her dream of providing workshops, writing, and private coaching sessions with individuals and groups to support their well-being and living their best lives now.
Website: Creating Success Stories
2:05 pm Eastern Saturday, February 11, 2023
Words and Thoughts are Powerful: How to Control Your Thoughts
Any one who has had a serious disease knows how fearful thoughts can take over your life. They can paralyze you and keep you from being able to function. Learning to harness fearful thoughts is a skill anyone can develop. In this workshop, author, Jimanne Hayes, will give you a fun and easy way to get those fearful thoughts under control.
Speaker: Jimanne Hayes, B.A. in Education/Speech and Voice Therapy and a six-year cancer survivor
Jimanne Hayes, B.A. in Education/Speech and Voice Therapy, is a six-year survivor of breast cancer and throat cancer from HPV. Why We Get Cancer documents her own healing process. Ms. Hayes is an international speaker and facilitates retreats for cancer survivors demonstrating how to release hidden anger and how to work through forgiveness issues. She lives in Monterey County, California with the most supportive and loving husband on the planet. Empty-nesters, they have four adult children, two grandchildren, and regularly feed Chonk—the fattest and furriest hummingbird on the West Coast.
Jimanne can be reached at facebook.com/jimannehayes
Email: info@jimannehayes.com
Check out Jimanne’s new book, Why We Get Cancer: How to Heal the Hidden Anger that Feeds It
2:30 pm Eastern Saturday, February 11, 2023
Living Mindfully: Walking through your day in a mindful way. How small steps give you great benefits.
If “a real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment” (Jon Kabat-Zinn), then knowing how to make those moments count is essential.
Living Mindfully will take you on a journey. We will look at small steps in your life that can move you closer to being mindful while benefiting you greatly.
Speaker: Antonieta Edwards Kashimbiri, a career educator, a proud scanner, and a lover of many things, a Mindfulness Meditation advocate and author
Antonieta Edwards Kashimbiri is a career educator, a proud scanner, and a lover of many things, a Mindfulness Meditation advocate and author. She is the creator of Mindful Reflections: Patterns, a series of mindfulness guided journals. In these, reflection, self-appreciation, gratitude, and creativity through therapeutic coloring come together to shape your mindfulness journey.
Antonieta is an avid reader and quote collector, who enjoys vintage shopping and people watching. She gives back to her community by volunteering and sharing resources. She lives in Los Angeles, California, and is looking forward to all the adventures that this new phase of her life will bring.
Website: mindfulreflectionspatterns.com
Email: Kajirusgifts@gmail.com
Check out Antonietta’s most recent book, Mindful Reflections: Patterns of Hope, a Journal for Reflection, Growth, Relaxation
3:05 pm Eastern Saturday, February 11, 2023
Why Your Inner Critic is Your New BFF
This is a short dip into the age-old issue of how we often beat ourselves up listening to the negative thinking that can challenge us daily. We’ll talk about how we can deal with these “ANTS” (Automatic Negative Thoughts) coined by Dr. Daniel Amen, MD. You’ll get some on-the-spot how-tos to tame the beast, and befriend that part of you we’ve all learned to love to hate. No more! Befriending is the key. I’ll show you how.
Speaker: Joy Leccese, Certified Master Professional Coach, former psychotherapist, financial advisor; currently a TBI caregiver (Traumatic Brain Injury) and parent of two amazing adults who are rockin’ it!
Joy Leccese is a plucky, leading-edge baby boomer (meaning she’s older than most of you reading this). A Yankee at heart, hailing from western New York State, she is a transformational life coach, specializing in teaching and using tools of mindfulness and insight meditation for personal transformation.
She guides her clients from stuck to unstuck, from trauma to triumph; from places they’ve been moored for too long, to where they want to go, but never had the nerve to try. Joy helps people find that gutsy person within, and create a fuller, more joyful life by design, not default, with empowering results.
Joy is the proud mom of two adult children, who are the loves of her life. Her own journey from trauma to triumph fuels her passion for helping others to overcome their sometimes overwhelming stories and traumas in life. Having a son with TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) she walks the walk and understands what’s behind our storylines.
Gaining new insights into internal dialogues that trip you up, and strategies for helping you dismantle old beliefs that no longer serve you, are just two of the powerful means of transforming your own life.
Website: www.thegutsywomancoach.com
Email: thegutsywomancoach@gmail.com
Check out Joy’s March online workshop, The Gutsy Woman Coach presents: Three Steps to Making Peace with your Inner Critic
3:30 pm Eastern Saturday, February 11, 2023
Myths of the Job Search…and How to Overcome Them
This is an interactive, 30-minute session where participants have the opportunity share their biggest concerns about the job market and impediments they’ve experienced. Learn some tips & tricks to not only survive, but thrive through the process of finding and winning your next role.
Speaker: Patty Bavuso, organizational effectiveness and executive leadership coach; learn to apply design thinking and agile software process to accelerate your job search
Patty’s first leadership role was as Head Mouse in the local production of The Nutcracker when her father was stationed at Travis Airforce Base.
After comprehensive “primary research” across industries including film making, art selling, and organic farming, Patty found her sea legs at the intersection of creativity and technology in the world of startups.
She’s navigated the ups & downs of Silicon Valley for more than 20 years including tours of duty at Pixar and serving the most famous clients in the Valley from Genentech to Intel to Twitter.
Patty’s found her passion and superpower in helping people find and excel in the work they desire, especially those who may have been invisible or undervalued in their career.
Patty attended Barnard College, Columbia University, parlaying her degree in Political Science and Art History into the thesis: Not for Profit Funding for the Arts.
Don’t miss Patty’s mini-workshop, 7 myths of the Job Search and How to Bust Them.
Check out Patty’s upcoming online workshop, Accelerate your Job Search: Build 3 tools to get hired in 30 days
4:05 pm Eastern Saturday, February 11, 2023
The Tomato and the Rose: Creatively Generating Ideas
We can all benefit from the practice of generating new ideas. We use them to solve problems and to give ourselves new choices. We need them in order to change our habit patterns and become more productive, confident, and self-sufficient.
- Where do these new ideas really come from?
- Why you need to generate many different ideas?
- How do you create the unique ideas that solve your unique problems?
Get these questions answered today! Join Cathryn and learn the benefits of her approach to creating ideas whenever you need them.
Problem-solving is a necessary skill, a purposeful one, and the crucial step in that process is generating new ideas.
Speaker: Cathryn Zeleny, author of Thinking with a Bigger Box, motivational speaker, AVisionaryZ workshop instructor, creativity coach, artist, eclectic lifestyle enthusiast
S. Cathryn Zeleny is an acclaimed speaker and workshop facilitator, an author and award-winning artist. For 35 years, she has provided creative development guidance for artists and quilters, and also conducted seminars on communication and self-fulfillment for organizations, schools, and community forums. She holds an interdisciplinary BA in Art and an MA in Psychology specializing in life design and alternative methods for career planning.
Cathryn advocates purposeful choice and creative problem-solving for everyone who is on the path to their dreams. Her holistic approach to personal growth is illustrated by using analogies from the art world and from the experiences of her eclectic lifestyle.
Cathryn Zeleny is the author of two books: 151 Gentle Nudges to help Revive Your Life’s Dreams and Thinking With A Bigger Box: A Personal Growth Workshop.
For workshop information, visit her website: AvisionaryZ.com
You may also contact her via email: cathy@avisionaryz.com
Check out Cathryn’s new book, 151 Gentle Nudges to Help Revive Your Life’s Dreams