Calm the Chaos

Calm the Chaos/ RevelEleven

RevelEleven is a unique blend of inspiration and information, community and conversation, friendship and focus. RevelEleven events are an opportunity to listen to outstanding women speakers and support and challenge each other to be the best we can be. They also host retreats in Seattle, Roslyn and across the globe.

Since March, Joanie + Monica have hosted more than 70 virtual events, pivoting from in person events due to the pandemic. Drawing women from all over the world, topics have included everything from The Art of Breathing and Finding Self Worth to Gardens that nurture and yoga classes

What You'll Learn

• How did Joanie and Monica create the group RevelEleven
• What do their guests and members bring to their in person and virtual community
• What type of speakers have they had in the past
• Discussion about their destination retreats and the benefits
• What's next on the horizon for RevelEleven
• How do they both Calm the Chaos in their lives!

Resources

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Connect with Deborah here

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Calm the Chaos/Victoria Lane

Victoria Lane was born and raised in Syracuse, NY, where she is currently employed by Syracuse University as a book designer at SU Press. Until she was about 35 or so, she spent every summer at my family's summer home on Otisco Lake, where she developed a love of fishing and creating art work. Victoria loves to fish and paint (mostly painting trout and other freshwater fish; go figure). She is also a calligrapher and has done commissions for wedding invitations, certificates, poetry, etc. She finds it most enjoyable and rewarding. Right now Victoria is looking forward to retirement in about 6 mos. when she hopes to be able to do some travelling; both domestic and international. Of course that is all very much up in the air at this point. Victoria maintains a positive outlook and also looks forward to more volunteer work with Casting for Recovery. She has a daughter and sister whom she loves dearly and tries to spend as much time with as possible. Victoria is looking forward to retirement as a new chapter in my life.

What You'll Learn

• Victoria shares how she discovered her passions and turned them into her purpose!
• Her journey to calligraphy and how she maintains her side hustle creating beautiful works of art!
• Victoria's journey to Casting for Recovery!
• How Victoria was thrown into the deep end and faced her fears of public speaking during a retreat
• How you can contribute to Casting for Recovery!
• What Victoria has learned about herself through her volunteer work.
• How did Victoria set herself up for retirement
• How does Victoria Calm the Chaos in her life!
• Victoria's challenge for the listeners

Connect with Victoria here

Connect with Deborah for Coaching here

The mid life Quiz here

Goal and Execute Challenge Link here

Calm the Chaos, Cara Downey

Cara Downey is a once-therapist turned museum archivist. She is the founder of Freagh Cottage Residency for Artists + Writers, a creative residency located on the west coast of Ireland. She is also a co-founding editor at Empty House Press, a small magazine focusing on home, place, and memory. She recently relocated to the wilds of Maryland's Eastern Shore, where she works at a small museum by the ocean attempting to read 100-year-old handwriting.

What You'll Learn

• Cara's journey from mental health therapist to where she is at today working at the museum, her online publication and managing her cottage in Ireland for creatives!
• What prompted Cara to make her home available?
• Cara shares about Freagh Cottage and what makes it unique
• The collaboration with her friend on Empty House Press
• How Cara Calms the Chaos in her own life
• What's next on the horizon for Cara and Freagh Cottage

Resources

Connect with Cara and Freagh Cottage here

Empty House Press here

Connect with Deborah for Coaching here

Take the Midlife Quiz and see if you are ready for your next chapter here

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Emma Smreker, is 30 years old and lives in Oklahoma City, OK. She is a high school French teacher, and has been teaching for 7 years. She has been speaking/learning French for 18+/- years, and is a total Francophile. She has lived in Amiens, France for a year and worked as an English Teaching Assistant. Emma created her instagram account @inusedbooks in February of 2018 because of her love of used books and the treasures she found inside them.

What You'll Learn

• How finding one receipt in a used book changed her journey
• How she shares her curiosity for uncovering the untold stories surrounding her finds in used books
• How each find is it's unique treasure
• Her passion has helped to reunite people with their items
• We are all connected to people more than we realize
• If you find something that brings you joy then embrace it and allow it into your life!
• Emma shares a couple of stories of her memorable finds
• Don't let moments of self doubt ruin your journey of self discovery

Resources

Connect with Emma here on Instagram

Connect with Emma here on Facebook

Connect with Deborah for Coaching here

The mid life Quiz here

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Calm the Chaos/Wendy Zanders

Wendy Zanders is a Professional Home Organizer and Your Declutter Coach who is passionate about helping families Collect Memories and Experiences, NOT Things. An underperformer in grade school due to undiagnosed attention deficit disorder (ADD), Wendy worked hard and surpassed the expectations of everyone around her. Early in her career, she found that she had a knack for systems and organizing, but found herself living in a totally disorganized home after several episodes of depression. She helps overwhelmed families and special needs families get organized by helping them identify what has created the disorder in their lives, and by helping them create systems so they can get back in control of their possessions and homes. Wendy also works with families like herself that are struggling with ADD, depression, PTSD and anxiety.

What You'll Learn

• Wendy's observation of her gifts in the military and how she translated those to her full time career!
• How Wendy trusted herself to take the leap into a new career and leave the military behind.
• Why she wrote book: From Brokenness to Strength
• How Wendy serves her community through her Focus Time with Wendy
• Wendy's advice: Don't wait for the approval of others! Do YOU!!
• What does success look like for you?
• How does Wendy Calm the Chaos in her life
• What's next for Wendy and her declutter coaching community!

Resources

Connect with Wendy Zanders here

Connect with Deborah for Coaching here

The mid life Quiz here

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Calm the Chaos/Deborah Voll, Life Coach

Deborah Voll is a certified professional life coach for women in midlife who are seeking their life purpose and passion! From her own experience, Deborah believes that once women calm the chaos in their lives, they'll have more time and energy to focus on what really matters! As the creator and producer of her own Calm the Chaos weekly podcast, she discusses a variety of exciting life-changing topics with experts who share tips for living a life of happiness and passion. Through her eight-week one-on-one coaching program, Deborah safely creates a space for women to come alive with the clarity of how to achieve the meaningful moments they want for their best years ahead. She feels just as fulfilled as her clients do when they crush their goals with the help of her results-oriented workbook "Find Your Purpose and Passion." Deborah loves living in Redmond, Washington, where she raised her two adult children and found her own midlife purpose when she certified as a professional life coach, proving it's never too late to find your new passion in life! Read more about Deborah at www.deborahvoll.com where you can sign up for her weekly newsletter and take a free quiz to discover how ready you are to start your next chapter!

What You'll Learn

Deborah shares

• Tips and Ideas for How to Calm the Chaos this Holiday Season!

By going to the link below and accessing the worksheet you will be able to gain clarity on what's most important for you during these weeks and alleviate the common burden of stress while remembering how to stay grounded in your reason for the season!

Resources

Get your WORKSHEET here

Connect with Deborah for Coaching here

The mid life Quiz here

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Calm the Chaos/ Mary Beth Mannino

Mary Beth "MB" Mannino is a former PR + advertising sales professional turned Certified Breathwork Facilitator, Meditation Teacher and Holistic Health and Wellness Coach. With her relatable and down-to-earth nature, MB's mission is make health, wellness and mindfulness accessible to everyone so that you can feel comfortable and confident advocating for your own wellbeing.

Whether she's leading and guiding others through powerful self-healing modalities or sharing her insights on the latest in health and wellness, MB leaves you feeling lighter, brighter and reconnected.

She lives in Metro Detroit with her husband, Steve, their Corgi Cooper and their soon-to-be first child, arriving in January 2021.

What You'll Learn

• Mary Beth's journey from corporate burnout to breathwork and meditation
• How to look past people pleasing and step into your own truth
• It's never too late to start your journey!
• Your path only needs to make sense to you.
• How every emotional experience or response that we have in our bodies has a corresponding breath pattern.
• Breathwork allows us to thrive!
• Your "why" on a meditation practice
• Hints on how to start with daily meditation
• How you can work with Mary Beth on her website
• Breathwork exercise
• Mary Beth leads us through a meditation at the end of the podcast!

Resources

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Amber Fife lives on 4 wooded acres in South Jersey with her professor husband and home schools her 4 children. With degrees in math and art, Amber found photography the marriage of the two.

After a decade of being in business and moving across the country, Amber felt something was missing, and she wanted to not feel crippled by anxiety. Her healing began in 2016 as she returned to her artistic roots and made time for creating on a regular basis.

Finding so much success in her own life, Amber began Women Create Weekly in 2018, a blog and online membership to help women find themselves again through art. She enjoys running both businesses and finding life balance on a daily basis.

What You'll Learn

• Amber's journey thru photography and her weekly community Women Create Weekly
• How to trust your journey, be open to possibilities and let your light shine!
• What does each week look like for the women in the Community? What are they working on and how can you participate?
• What type of benefits has Amber seen from women who participate in the platform?
• What's the most rewarding part of Amber's journey
• How does Amber calm the chaos in her own life

Resources

Connect with Amber here for Women Create Weekly

Connect with Deborah for coaching here

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Calm the Chaos/ Mitzi Beach

Interior designer, author, speaker, and 50+Marketing & Lifestyle Specialist. Author of new book "Design SMARTS. Design Hounds top 100 influencers, 2018, member of High Point Style Spotters and High Point Market Design Bloggers Tour. Quoted in Wall Street Journal, Aging in Place trends plus article in Women's Health Magazine July/August 2019

What You'll Learn

• Mitzi's journey with interior design to incorporating "lifesizing" for women in midlife
• What is lifesizing and why should you care!
• Your 50's prepare us for what our life will be like in our 60's and 70's.
• Find people who appreciate your gifts and talents. You have choices!
• Why Mitzi started her private Facebook group
• Ten Reasons to Downsize Now!
• Life Lessons and advice to women in midlife
• Mitzi's challenge to the listener

Resources

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Calm the Chaos/Dr. Pepper Schwartz

Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington, Award from the American Sociological Assoc. for Public Understanding of Sociology; On Air Relationship expert for Married at First Sight since it's inception,

50 academic articles and 25 books, two New York Times Best Sellers, ( The Normal Bar: the surprising secrets of happy couples and American Couples : Money , Work and Sex). Latest books: Dating over 50 for Dummies, Snap Strategies ( with Dr, Lana Staheli) Past President, the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. Previous: Glamour Magazine columnist and AARP columnist and also Love, sexuality and relationship ambassador for over a decade,

Appearances on the Today Show, Good Morning America, 20/20 CBS morning show, Oprah, etc. Married to Frederick Kaseburg, two children and three grandchildren. Lives on horse farm outside of Seattle with a lot of animals.

What You'll Learn

• What is the impact of a healthy sex life
• Is sex necessary for a good marriage?
• Does any research show that as we age our hormones dictate the desire for pleasure?
• How does our sexual relationship change as we move past sixty years young!
• How have people's relationships and intimacy changed due to COVID lockdowns
• How does Dr. Schwartz Calm the Chaos in her life?
• What is Dr. Schwartz's challenge for all of the listeners

Resources

Connect with Dr. Pepper Schwartz here

Connect with Deborah for Coaching here

The mid life Quiz here

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