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.
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.
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.
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.
Another Great Memory. 
Julie Atkinson - That was then and this is now!
