How She Really Does It

A high school dropout. Pregnant at 18.

What's possible for this person? What can she accomplish in this economy? How can she provide for her daughter and herself as a single mom?

Alicia Rittenhouse is now a successful entrepreneur as a Tech Cheerleader + Digital Diva. She has built her business bootstrapping from the ground up while raising her daughter and being the sole provider.

Alicia teaches other entrepreneurs to use technology so they can build successful online businesses.

We discuss:

• how she went from making $10 an hour to $75,000 last year
• how she bootstrapped her business
• and ways for you to build your business using technology

• website
• facebook
• twitter

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Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard trained neuroanatomist. At 37 she experienced a stroke and since then has shared her insight with us.

In this interview we discuss

• how you can experience your right hemisphere
• how to stay out of your own way
• how your thoughts and feelings can affect your life
• why compassion is so important

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Ariane was very successful in our society's view – she went to the London School of Economics, earned her Stanford MBA, climbed the very tall corporate ladder at Times Warner running their $500 million digital-media venture fund. Then she left to start First30Days.com. She leapt.

Ariane has been here before discussing her journey leaping from corporate America to becoming an entrepreneur, author, and speaker. Today she returns to talk about Spritual Living in the Real World.

We discuss:

• living spiritually in the real world
• self-inquiry
• Ariane's journey

• book
• website
• facebook

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Adelaide and Amy are co-founders of In Good Company, a community business learning center and co-working space for woman entrepreneurs in Manhattan. They are also the co-authors of THE BIG ENOUGH COMPANY: CREATING A BUSINESS THAT WORKS FOR YOU.

We discuss:

• what women entrepreneurship is really like?
• women entrepreneurship and 2nd class?
• pitfalls of entrepreneurship
• how you know when you are successful
• two takeaways

• website
• facebook
• twitter
• book

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Amy Block Joy, Ph.D., Nutritional Sciences has worked for the University of California for more than thirty years. Amy was the director of a $14 million program for poor families. While at the UC Davis campus, Amy uncovered some embezzlement and that lead her down a road to becoming a whistleblower. Amy is here today to discuss her journey.

We discussed:

• her experience
• truth seeker's in an organization
• for those considering becoming a whistleblower what she recommends
• retaliation
• Two takeaways

• website
• book

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Elyse Resch is the co-author of Intuitive Eating. Intuitive Eating is about dropping the diet wars, and nurturing your body rather than starving it, which encourages a reconnection with your innate signals of hunger, fullness and taste preference and helps you find the weight you were meant to be.

Elyse is a child and adolescent obesity expert and has just finished writing a chapter about Children and Inuitive Eating for the 3rd edition of her book Intuitive Eating.

We discuss:

• Intuitive Eating
• What you can do if you have a child who eats past hunger.
• What you can do to help your child go back to being an Intuitive Eater.
• Children who are picky eaters
• The purpose of exercise and movement.
• If as a parent you have been doing it all wrong – NOW WHAT?
• Takeaways

• website
• book
• audiobook

Make Peace with Food.

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Ashley Merryman is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children. The central premise of the book is that modern society's most popular strategies for raising children are in fact backfiring because key points in the science of child development and behavior have been overlooked.

Listen as Ashley and I discuss:

• Praise
• Lying
• Sleep
• Takeaway – specific thing you can do as a parent with good results

Does your child lie? What do you do when your child lies?

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• book
• website
• twitter
• facebook

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Amy traded in her 6-figure salary as the youngest member of Howard University's executive team to become an accupuncturist 6 years ago. As a single mother with responsibilities her ephiphany had to be realistic to support herself and her son. Find out why Amy walked away from a well paying job and how she had the guts to do it.

• Why make job change – "career suicide"
• employee to entrepreneur – steps she took and what she recomends
• real job issues
• entrepreneurship in this economy
• The Takeaway – two things listeners can do

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Connect with Amy:

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Ariane de Bonvoisin author of the First 30 days: Your Guide to Any Change and her website www.first30days.com has information to help you change. Ariane is a change expert who has personally ived it to teach it. She had climbed a very tall successful ladder as a Stanford MBA grad working for Time in New York and controlled a $500 million digital media venture capital fund. Realizing she was not lined up with her inner wisdom, Ariane leapt to become an author and create an inspirational website to help people change in their own life. Listen as we discuss:

• Changing jobs in this economy
• Feelings
• Ask yourself how you are feeling each morning
• Where does that story come from
• Two takeaways

Follow Ariane on twitter

Find Ariane on facebook

Ariane's website

Ariane's book

After listening to Ariane and Koren. How do you feel about change?

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Ariane s journey & how to handle change in this economy

Change how to make changes

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Personal finance expert Alice Wood modeled a money saving program around the tenets of Weight Watchers and saved $12,000 the first year she and her husband used the plan. Now her plan, aptly titled Wealth Watchers, is the largest personal finance program in the workforce, with Visa and McDonald's using the very same program with their employees! Alice shares her accessible plan for financial independence in WEALTH WATCHERS: A SIMPLE PROGRAM TO HELP YOU SPEND LESS AND SAVE MORE. Listen as we discuss:

• her journey from attorney to personal finance expert
• importance of financial literacy
• Wealth Watchers program
• The Takeaway – two things listeners can do

Find Alice on facebook

Alice's website

After listening to Alice do you know your number? Have you tracked your spending? Let me know how it works for you.

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