How do you balance life, family, work and an entrepreneurial spirit? An opportunity for women to discover the power of their personal story for shaping a unique business. Women will learn to reflect on how life challenges can be shaped to empower their future and to envision a holistic lifestyle balancing self, family, career and community. Women interested in participating in this workshop should apply here: http://tinyurl.com/7t5js75

1. Agenda
• Introduction - 5
• 1st Icebreaker - 15
• Discussion - 10
• My Story - 35
• Q&A - 15
• Journal your Journey - 25
• Discussion - 15
• Ready.aim.inspire - 25
• Your story - 20
• Closing & Follow up - 15

2. Ice-breaker - Pairs Ask me about:
- my kids
- my trip to peru
- my financial status
• Ask me about:
• Something you are comfortable sharing (comfortable space)
• Something you are excited by (creative space)
• Something you are embarrassed about or feel uncomfortable sharing
(vulnerable space)
• Write your feedback on her back. 1 - 3 characteristics

3. There are three things extremely hard:
Steel, a Diamond & to know oneself.
- Ben Franklin

4. 4 - 16 - Early Imprints: The world teaches you!

5. Nature teaches more
smells, sounds, textures,
than she preaches. imagination

6. Identity - culture, religion, family

7. 17 - 24 - Choices: Explore, Rebel or Conform?

8. There are good ones
take your pick.
and bad ones..

9. Don't follow trends, start trends. You can do anything you set
- Frank Capra your mind to.

10. The greater danger for most of us lies
not in setting our aim too high and falling
short; but in setting our aim too low, and Pay your dues.
achieving our mark. - Michael Angelo

11. The opposite of courage in our society
One Model!
is not cowardice, it is conformity.

12. 25 - 30 - Destiny’s way: If you won’t do it, I will!

13. Grief should not be
prevented. Instead, it should Be Stoic!
be respected.

14. If you're going through hell,
keep going. Bounce Back.
- winston churchill

15. True health is only possible when we
understand the unity of our minds, False Optimism
emotions, spirits, and physical body.

16. It does not matter how slow you go..
so long as you do not stop. - Confucius

17. There are three things extremely hard: Steel, a Diamond & to know
oneself. - Ben Franklin

18. Doctors don’t know
Is this who I’ve become?
everything!

19. Reflection is looking in so you can look out with a
broader, bigger, and more accurate perspective. blessings & inspirations

20. post traumatic growth

21. Change the way you look at
things, and the things you Law of attraction
look at change.

22. 31 - 36 - Transformation

23. Try & Try again! oh those memes!

24. 1998 Sr. Manager
1999 Director
2000 Sr. Director
2001 Vice President
2002 Business Owner
Key Projects
2003 Chief Operating Officer
Global IP Network – $200m
5 Data Centers – $30m 2004
22 Product Portfolio - $20m
IT Infrastructure Build out - $4m
MENA Fin Svc Outsourcing Center - $2m
2005 Board Member
National ID project - $1m

25. We are here to awaken from the
2 realities
illusion of our separateness.

26. be the change you want
blessings & inspirations
to see in the world

27. 37 - 43 - Building a values-based business:

28. Movement building
Patience
takes time. - MC

29. !"#$%&‫و 32 إ&%0/ا .-,+ى ا( أ‬
Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a Law of attraction
matter of choice.

30. A generation which ignores
history has no past Reflective
— and no future - R Heinlein

31. ‫و @60?$>! =6/<;$ ً و 39$82 #76$ر./ا‬
Is there anyone so wise as to
learn by the experience of others? Engage
- Voltaire

32. doing what you love.. with those you love Fun

33. In nature Everywhere Collaborative

34. It is in giving that we receive. Challenges

35. As soon as u trust yourself, u will know how to live.
- Goethe Law of attraction

36. We will conserve what we love. We love what we understand.
We understand only what we are taught. Relevance

37. Life is a play...Shakespeare Patience

38. Miracles come in moments.
Resourceful
Be ready and willing.

39. ..A90B C0,03 DE. FG !> ‫و‬
It is in the contemplation of power that you manifest this power. Small is beautiful

40. The future belongs to those who
see possibilities before they a vision
become obvious.

41. Surgery #12

42. September: No Wheat No Dairy
Big thinking precedes great October: workshops
November: book
achievement. December: 10k

43. #run4life

44. This is who I AM 43

45. +Influencers
• Family Members (select)
• Nature
• Role Models (blessings & inspirations)
• Reflection : Journaling
• Openness to opportunity (believing in magic)
• Patience.. (sis in law story..)

46. Journal your Journey - Pairs
• Your Story - The characters who played a role, who became voices in your
head. Identify them, describe them (Role Model, motivator, challenger, judge)
• Draw your life timeline - Think of the phases, highs and lows of your life.
• The Villain - Think of a major character challenge, personify it as a villain.
Describe what it destroys. (shame, guilt, fear, hate, anger...)
• She Hero - Think of your aspiration.. answer the question: “if I am a superhero,
who would I be and what power would I have?”
• The MEMEs - is "an idea, behavior or style that spreads from person to person
within a culture.” Identify MEMEs that influence your views on Relationships,
Work, Success.

47. READY.AIM.INSPIRE - Group Exercise
• using your journal, weave your story.
• Ideas:
• Use a metaphor
• Use quotes
• Focus on a phase
• Mix it up..
• Leave an open ending...
• Present as a group or individual

48. Reinforcement - Group
• Bumper Sticker - Think about your experiences as members of the group and
sum up your thoughts on what you have gained from the workshop so far.
• Write these thoughts as they would be stated on a bumper sticker.

49. references
Health & Wellness women’s bodies women’s wisdom - Dr. Christian
Northrup
Making room Simplify your life
Intelligent Optimism Ode Magazine
Daily Inspiration Good Magazine, TEDTalks, Hay House Radio
Success TEDTalks: A gentler philosophy of success - Alain de
Botton
Nutrition The Omnivores’ Dilemma - M. Pollack
Economics Small is beautiful
Inspiration Emmanuel’s gift, The last child in the woods
Social Business TedTalks: Once upon a school - Dave Eggers
Inspiration
Female Inspiration TedTalks: Isabel Allende

50. Other Seminars & Workshops ..
Life Family Business Community
A holistic Self-reliant Your brand &
Service Models
approach children Social Media
Simple Stories of Social
abundance Enterprise
Building a business
with 3P Focus
Business Outreach
& Communication

52. Photo credits
• http://www.johnisley.com/group-therapy/
• Ali Bin Thaleth
• Joi Ito
• Craig Ballinger
• Tayeb Al Zait
• http://cultureisaweapon.blogspot.com/
• 2010/11/during-pleistocene-glaciers-processed.html
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