The Game Changer

This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. Chicke Fitzgerald interviews Barbara Weaver Smith. The original live interview was 3/21/14.

Riding the Whale: Adapt Your Sales Strategies to Close Big Deals, is Volume III in The Whale Hunters Wisdom series by Barbara Weaver Smith and The Whale Hunters.

Based on Hunting, the second stage of The Whale Hunters three-stage process, this 92-page eBook presents strategies and tactics to develop a sales process that can help you land bigger deals with bigger customers.

More than a simple business development strategy, whale hunting focuses on creating a disciplined sales culture in your company that allows you to optimize your ability to land and harvest whales. This dramatic shift in thinking and practice precipitates explosive growth of your company’s revenues and market position.

Barbara's website is thewhalehunters.com/

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This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. Chicke Fitzgerald interviews Jane Jenkins Herlong. The original live interview was 3/14/14

Bury Me with My Pearls is a real-life, roller-coaster ride of laughter, tears, and stomach-churning truths by a professional speaker, humorist, and singer who, as Miss South Carolina, represented her state in the Miss America pageant and has been singing, speaking, and writing ever since. Incorporating the analogy of pearls, this book uses humor and spiritual principles to bravely address difficult issues many in her audiences encounter within changing roles, self-actualization, and families.

From the tomato fields of her native Johns Island, South Carolina all the way to runway of the Miss America Pageant, Jane's contagious optimism helps audiences learn how to handle difficult life situations with a sense of humor and grace.

Jane's story of overcoming being labeled Dyslexic and other challenges give audiences a recipe for balancing their own personal journey with humor and hope through folksy wisdom-Southern style.

For more information visit her web site: www.janeherlong.com and check out Jane's funny YouTube Channel! http://www.youtube.com/user/janeherl

To purchase her book click HERE

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This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. Chicke Fitzgerald interviews Karen Hough. The original live interview was 3/07/14.

One reason public speaking is such a nightmare for so many people is that they think they have to be “perfect.” They drive themselves crazy trying to conform to all sorts of handed-down rules that tie them up in knots and put their audiences to sleep. Karen Hough says you can throw out those rules, relax, be yourself, make “mistakes,” and connect with your audience much more effectively than the guy with the impeccable PowerPoint slides.

 

  Hough has used her unique presentation approach to take the anxiety out of one of the greatest fears in business. Her book debunks over a dozen myths about presentations to make them more fun and natural for everybody.

Karen Hough (Huff) is the Founder & CEO of ImprovEdge (Improv- Edge), and the author of “The Improvisation Edge: Secrets to Building Trust and Radical Collaboration at Work.”

Karen’s first life was as a professional improviser and actor. She trained with Chicago’s Second City, did over 100 theatrical productions, was featured in radio, TV and film. She lived a second life as a successful executive in IT for network engineering start-ups. She finally became an entrepreneur.

Karen's website is Karen's website is http://www.improvedge.com

To order Karen's book click HERE

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This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. Chicke Fitzgerald interviews Annette Hogan. The original live interview was 2/07/14

Annette Hogan is one of the founding board members of the Executive Girlfriends Group and currently serves as Managing Director, ONBOARD.COM. The last time we interviewed Annette on EGG Live, she was the head of Marketing for Kennedy Space Center Visitors Complex. Annette will share her career journey and talk about reinvention of yourself as you go.

Annette is a proven, innovative, global travel industry expert specializing in performance based sales and marketing, distribution and multi-channel

business transformation. She has industry wide recognized expertise in building strategies for core businesses, start-ups, M&As, expansions, and mature organizations with a goal of capturing/maintaining competitive advantage and profitability. She has held senior positions reporting directly to the top leadership with industry icons such as Sabre, Amadeus, Delaware North Companies, and Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd. She is lauded for leadership skills, and as a strategist with excellent communication and talent management practices, successful in driving aggressive growth, increased revenue and profit. Annette is trilingual and multicultural and has a passion for fitness.

Annette’s website is https://www.onboard.com/

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This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. Chicke Fitzgerald interviews Michelle Phillips. The original live interview was 1/31/14

Throughout her career as a top celebrity make-up artist, Michelle's job was to create the illusion of perfection for the camera. Like so many other women, she strived for that same perfection in her personal life.

However, after two decades in the business, Michelle realized that we live in a society whose obsession with perfection meant that women were never allowed to feel good enough. Youth was prized over wisdom. Looks mattered more than character. And having the perfect life was more important than enjoying it.

Michelle has created a unique and proven process that has radically and wonderfully transformed thousands of lives. Her clients, readers and workshop attendees world-wide have gone from couch potatoes to marathoners, broken relationship to more fulfilling ones, and are achieving greater success on their terms. By empowering women to live confidently and radiate that confidence to the world, this process creates a life and a look that is ageless and unique to every woman.

To order her book click HERE

Michelle’s website is www.michellephillips.com

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This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. Chicke Fitzgerald interviews Libby Gill. The original live interview was 1/24/14

Capture the Mindshare and the Market Share Will Follow reveals how strong branding creates awareness, provides authentic value, motivates others to act, and builds long-term customer loyalty based on trust and respect.

Author Libby Gill helps businesses define and articulate their unique brand promise by exploring case studies and client success stories to help readers master the Six Core Mindshare Methods, including concepts to Clarify, Commit, Collaborate, Connect, Communicate, and Contribute. Readers will see their relationships deepen, opportunities expand, and careers flourish as they learn to differentiate themselves in a competitive environment by promising and delivering massive value.

To order her book click HERE

Libby’s website is http://libbygill.com/

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careers flourish as they learn to differentiate themselves in a competitive environment by promising and delivering massive value.

This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. Chicke Fitzgerald interviews Pamela Slim. The original live interview was 1/10/14. In our first call for 2014, it is my pleasure to welcome seasoned coach and writer, Pamela Slim. We will be talking about her new book.

Body of Work - Finding the Thread That Ties Your Story Together

These days it’s increasingly rare to have a stable career in any field. More and more of us are blending big company jobs, startup gigs, freelance work, and volunteer side projects. We take chances to expand our knowledge, capabilities, and experience. But how do we make sense of that kind of career—and explain it?

Pamela Slim, the acclaimed author of Escape from Cubicle Nation, gives us the tools to have meaningful careers in this new world of work. She shows how to find the connections among diverse accomplishments, sell your story, and continually reinvent and relaunch your brand.

To order her book click HERE

Pamela’s website is www.escapefromcubiclenation.com

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This interview with John David Mann was originally recorded in February of 2009 shortly after the book The Go-Giver was published. 

The Go-Giver is a “little story about a powerful business idea” that took the business world by storm with its message: that shifting our focus from getting to giving is the simplest, most fulfilling and most effective path to success in business and in life.

Rapidly going from national bestseller to global phenomenon, The Go-Giver soon gained a devoted following in its original English and in more than sixteen foreign-language editions. From schools, churches and hospitals to law firms and information technology companies, individuals and groups around the world have applied the book’s Five Laws of Stratospheric Success to their organizations and businesses, relationships and personal lives.

http://www.thegogiver.com/

This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. Chicke Fitzgerald interviews Jan Yager. The original live interview was 6/21/13.

This is the e-book version of the 2nd edition of FRIENDSHIFTS: THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP AND HOW IT SHAPES OUR LIVES by sociologist, friendship expert, and coach Jan Yager, Ph.D.

The book is based on the author’s doctoral thesis and additional original research consisting of surveys and interviews. "Friendshifts" is a word  Dr. Yager coined to denote how sometimes  our friendships  may shift throughout our lives, and even how we define a friend. Fortunately, in some instances, lifelong friendship does happen. FRIENDSHIFTS explores what you can do to help a friendship to last. Even with the most enduring friendships, there may be an ending because of death. The examples, anecdotes, quotes, and studies cited throughout the book reinforce the notion that the right friends will help you to get ahead or to be happy in life, and even to live a longer life; the wrong friends can sabotage you or even get you hurt or killed.

Dr. Jan Yager, who has a Ph.D. in sociology, is author of more than twenty-five highly-acclaimed and award-winning books.

She is regularly interviewed on programs including The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Today Show, Good Morning, America, The View, CBS News' & the Sunday Morning Show.

 Porter’s website is http://www.drjanyager.com/

To order her book click HERE

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This on demand audio series is a part of the Executive Girlfriends Group Vignette Series. Chicke Fitzgerald interviews Porter Gale. The original live interview was 6/14/13.

Networking doesn’t have to be that frenzied old-school game of calendars packed with stuffy power lunches and sterile evenings at community business gatherings. We’ve entered a new era, one in which shifting cultural values and the explosion of digital technology enable us to network in vastly more efficient, more focused, and more enjoyable ways.

Your Network Is Your Net Worth is both a primer and a storybook, an entertaining, straightforward guide filled with revealing case studies, hands-on advice, and innovative strategies for building your network.

Gale shares the inspiring stories of so many others who live by this networking model: a military wife who connects with social media communities while her husband is deployed overseas, a young woman blogger battling leukemia, a dyslexic politician who wins elections by telling stories, and the CEO of a Major League Baseball team who once made a phone call that changed the course of his life.

Porter Gale is an internationally known public speaker, networker, and entrepreneur with more than twenty years of experience working in marketing, advertising, and independent filmmaking. From 2007 to 2011, Porter was Vice President of Marketing at Virgin America. She is also a blogger for AdAge and The Huffington Post.

Porter’s website is http://www.portergale.com/

To order her book click HERE

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