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Find Out How ‘Expressing Gratitude’ Empowers You!
Did you know that expressing gratitude can actually turn any negative energy you are feeling into positive energy? There is a universal Law of Gratitude that is a powerful force for shifting your energy to bring you more of what you want in your life and less of what you don’t want. By acknowledging how grateful you feel for what you already have right now in your life, you are ‘Allowing’ more good things into your life.
About Dana Smithers:
Dana J. Smithers is on a mission to inspire and empower women entrepreneurs around the world. As a Certified Law of Attraction Trainer she teaches you how to use LOA tools to build a business by working on your limiting beliefs. As a Certified Sacred Gifts Guide she helps you discover what makes you feel on purpose and fulfilled. As an Emotion Code practitioner Dana knows how to release your trapped negative emotions that have built up over the years and are now holding you back from moving forward.

OWBN Tuesday, November 21 5:30pm
Quality Resort Bayside
Register: www.owbn.ca

Building lasting, genuine connections is good for business.

Many small business owners don't want to network because they think it's about shoving your business card in someone's hand and boasting about what you do. In fact, networking is actually about getting to know people whom you can help and who can help you.

This jam-packed workshop has been expanded to 2.5 hours to give you a variety of tools and techniques to help you effectively and efficiently build, leverage and influence your network.

Workshop outline:

The importance, and different places to network

• Examples of the importance, purpose and format of various types of networking, and benefits you can expect

The Zone

• 4 Zones
• Non-verbal communication
• Creating a natural and engaging conversation, 1-2-1 and in a larger group

Elements to a Great Intro

• Meeting and greeting at a business networking event – approaching complete strangers and introducing yourself
• Breaking the ice and initiating conversation

 How to achieve maximum benefits while practicing ‘netiquette’

• Have a plan
• Business cards
• Be the Host
• Leave gracefully

Building relationships – follow-up and follow-through

• Developing a contact strategy with different types and levels of contact
• CASL compliant re: emails/newsletters etc.
• Coffee is good for business

Link to Event Registration:

https://connect-workshop-parksville.eventbrite.com.

Business is built on connections and relationships – not just texts, emails or a phone call. Inviting someone for coffee can create new opportunities. If you do it right, the benefits can outweigh the ‘extra time’ it will take out of your day. Leave it up to chance, and all you’ll get is another debit on your coffee card.

Here’s what you’ll learn by attending:

• 3 Reasons why Coffee Meetings are good for business.
• The difference between “Instant”, “Decaf” and “Fully-leaded” Coffee Meetings
• 5 Points to keep your Coffee Meetings casual but controllable.
• How to leverage your meetings to acquire clients, referrals and ultimately grow your business.

This engaging and high energy session will provide you with specific tools and words to be able to “brew” your business. Implement this knowledge to set yourself apart from other ‘coffee dates’, make the most of your valuable time and get people talking about you and your business.

About Cathy Kusel:

Cathy’s passion and dedication to helping entrepreneurs succeed also extends to her current position as Sales Expert at Small Business BC, her involvement with the Womens’ Enterprise Centre, Futurepreneurs, Junior Achievement, and her community. Her purpose is to help you STAND UP and STAND OUT in your business.  In addition to coaching clients in her private practice, Cathy is also the founder of The Connected Woman Association, an organization supporting entrepreneurial women that encompasses many industries, levels of experience and diverse backgrounds that allows women to go “Beyond the Business Card”® to build strong personal connections resulting in even stronger business alliances.

Kick off the Fall Season at our September Ice Breaker

It's always a great event and not to be missed!

Members and Guests will have have extra Networking time to re-connect after the Summer break.

The evening will include a fun networking game, 50/50 draw (proceeds go to Haven House), prizes, a delicious meal and  most important... Meeting other amazing women - what could be better?!

Teaser:  Who sings in the shower?

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OWBN Members 

Pay for all 10 meetings then you won't have to worry about signing in each month.

Pay $300 for the 10 meetings - included in that is the Little Black Dress Christmas Party (for $30 instead of $45)

OWBN Potluck Summer Social

Tuesday, July 18

5:30 p.m.

At Elaine DeRooy's

(to get the address please email info@owbn.ca)

Bring a friend, Bring your partner...

Come out and enjoy a fun evening with the ladies of OWBN.

It is potluck, so bring shareable food, your lawn chairs, your beverage of choice, your glass, your paper plates and cutlery.

Not a member? That's okay you are welcome to come and join us.

Come and have some fun and see the other side of the OWBN Women.

The Belly Dance lessons are a bonus!

OWBN Website Training for Members

Unsure how to use the new OWBN website or frustrated at trying to get in to it?

Join me on Tuesday, July 11 7:00 p.m. online as I walk you through how to access and use the new OWBN website.

To get the link to join the webinar, please email info@owbn.ca

Please note this is online, so you can join from your home, work, wherever you have internet service.

Glenna

Another Great Memory.

It's that time of year to
celebrate another
amazing year for OWBN.
We have a great evening planned, with lots of fun and prizes to be won. Oh yeah, and we'll be doing elections that night as well. We have an amazing group of women who have put their names forward. If you're interested in being a part of this dynamic board, please get your names in asap.

Reminder: Pay your annual OWBN membership (pay online, the link is in the drop down menu under member) at the same time you purchase your ticket for this meeting. On the night of June 20th, we will make a draw for someone who has prepaid and has come to the meeting to get next year's membership for free.

Wise Women, Carolyn Redl and Betty Price, share their journeys of stepping outside the norm for women.

Both women belong to the CFUW - Canadian Federation of University Women. A group of women committed to and actively promoting equality, education and opportunities for girls and women.

Carolyn Redl - Professor, Author, Speaker

She started her first business in a time when all you had to do was put up a poster to find clients (1960). Started getting her university degree in '58 and got her Phd in 1991. A professor of English and Creative Writing, she taught at several Alberta and BC Universities.

A wonderfully insightful woman, who will share tips that she has learned along the way.

Betty Price - Midwife, Nurse, Hospital Adminstrator

She emigrated to Canada three times. She is a registered nurse and certified midwife. On emigrating to Canada she found midwifery was illegal. She took a job as the Head Nurse on maternity in the hospital in Port Alberni with the express direction to “bring it into this century”. She took a position as Manager of Professional Programs at Mission Hospital. It meant travelling back and fro on the ferry each weekend for 15 years. She became a hospital administrator.  Along the way she completed an undergraduate degree in Nursing then a Master’s Degree in Educational Administration. When midwifery became legal she implemented the program for Fraser Health Authority.

Come and hear about her inspiring journey and how she overcame the hurdles she encountered.

Julie Atkinson - That was then and this is now!

Does this sound like you?

• Allowed yourself to dream big

• See great opportunities for yourself

• Want to change something in your life

• Ready to take a risk

Then before you know it, the days turn into months, then years go by, time passes on and you are still in the same place and still holding on to those dreams and desires.

Julie will share with you that You can make changes in your life and change doesn’t need to be difficult.

You will leave with a new awareness of the process for removing limiting beliefs that hold you back and move from that was then to this is now.

Please review  OWBN Cancellation Policy

Cut off for registration is midnight April 16th.  Please indicate dietary restrictions in the comments section.

Julie Atkinson has made it her life’s work to hold up a mirror to your inner beauty.  She assists woman to understand and see that they are infinitely relevant.

Women need to be reminded that they matter in the world.  For over 25 years Julie has nursed many patients inflicted with burns, cancers, trauma reconstruction and self inflicted wounds to name a few.  In the plastic and cosmetic industry Julie advocates for woman to help them understand and realize their beauty lies within and informs her patients on realistic outcomes.

Drawing on her life’s story of sexual abuse, addictions, poverty and shame, she shares with women how she took that pain and suffering and turned her life around to joy and happiness.

Her signature mastermind program Bust Your Own Beliefs inspires and motivates women to bust through their beliefs and breakthrough to unleash their true potential.

There are many successes in Julie’s life and the three she is most proud of are here two beautiful daughters and her loving relationship with her husband Terry and her siblings for having the courage to carry on.

Her most recent recognitions, are two awards one from  eWomen Network, “Lift as You Climb” and the other from yoUnlimited, “ Mentoring and Leadership”  These two awards are a reminder of not too long ago one women mentored Julie to be everything she could be and now Julie continues to pay it forward mentoring women to know they matter in this world and they have a voice.

THINK OPPOSITE is a simple tool that we can use every day to improve the way we approach ideas and people.

If you don’t question what you believe in, then what is the point of believing in it?

This is the core of what THINK OPPOSITE is about. It’s about suspending your belief long enough to consider an opposite perspective so that you can proceed with clarity. When we allow ourselves to think the opposite of what we believe we can then consider all other possibilities in between. This is important because it builds trust, communication and connection in our businesses, our lives and the world.

We spend so much time in our echo-chambers surrounding ourselves with people who think just like us that we lose sight of other people and other possible ways of thinking. We are dangerously polarized in a world that is craving connection.

Alison Donaghey instigates new ways of thinking.  A thought strategist, speaker, radio host and author, Alison challenges business owners to suspend their beliefs, think the opposite and proceed with clarity.  She creates space and strategy for business owners to question the status quo which leads to improvements not only in their business, but in the world.

Please review  OWBN Cancellation Policy

Cut off for registration is midnight March 19th.  Please indicate dietary restrictions in the comments section.