Recently I interviewed Susan Urquhart Brown, author of The Accidental Entrepreneur about what it takes to be a success in the wild entrepreneurial world. Her message resonates with that of many of the Experts I have interviewed on Just for Women. There is just no escape. We are the creators of or world, our experience, our success, our failure. We are the authors of it all whether we want to take the responsibility for ourselves or not.

Suffering comes from relinquishing this responsibility to others and not stepping up and into our lives as the master creator. If we really take a look, it seems as though we perpetually unconsciously think we are somehow going to get what we want by chance, by avoiding taking action or waiting for someone else to do it. It is funny when we actually look into our complaints and issues - more often than not, we can see many places where we can take responsibility for the condition of a situation.

Everyday is filled with millions of moments where we can choose happiness, action, love, to give attention, to offer a smile, to extend a hand or a kind word. There is no one else who can do that for us. The amazing power we have to make up, change, and set our own MINDS on what we are going to do is one of the greatest gifts of being human! Let’s use the power of our minds to create success from the inside, out!
Tune into this great interview with Susan Urquhart Brown and be re-inspired to take action toward having the life and career of your dreams - you know, the one you REALLY want to have! : )

Like most entrepreneurial types these days, I don’t really have an office. I see massage clients in space I rent with a collective of healers. I see coaching clients in my apartment living room or we talk on the phone. As for doing deep thinking kind of work and getting my creative Groove on, I am at a loss to find a location that is calm, supportive and friendly.
I can no longer be at home. First off, I live in a gorgeous studio apartment with my partner, which is great but it is not enough SPACE for two. Second, I either start cleaning, eating or pruning the garden instead of digging to my newsletter, blog or interview preparation! It never fails! At first I thought I was the only one who suffered from “Workathomeitis” and the inevitable suck of the surroundings to distract one from their all important work in the world.  Not the case - whew!

Today I am sitting in a cafe called Ritual Roasters on Valencia in the Mission neighborhood of San Francisco. An Awesome place to get a great cup of coffee, espresso or a tasty pastry and sit among other hip, focused entrepreneurs blasting out their creative juices into the world like full, ripe Vermont blueberries dancing atop a slice of velvety New York cheesecake.

But therein lies the problem. As the music overhead RAGES on (some kind of crazy drum and guitar rift at 9:52am), I realize my choices are extremely limited when it comes to finding a place where I can connect and get energized by the energy of my fellow non-corporate comrades without being lured by the seductive fingers of highly acidic coffee and sugary pastry that serves to do little more than fill my body with ingredients that provide little-to-no nutritional value.
So I found this AMAZING company that creates office space for people like me who are in dire need of a healthy, calm, supportive “office” environment! They are called Sandbox Suites and they provide the kind of community and space my heart, body and mind have been aching for! I hope for all you entrepreneurs you have spaces like this in your neck of the woods! For now, I will listen to Coldplay, “Green Eyes” and drink chai and grace the world with my little piece of love offering. Ah, I love the internet. And Chris Martin. And…

Drs. Janae and Barry Weinhold - Pioneers in the Conscious Evolution of how we can Return to Love…

Have you ever wondered why you keep repeating the same patterns relationship after relationship?

Are you tired of being frustrated with your partner and ready to look at what is REALLY going on?

Well, I know women are dealing with these kinds of issues (because I do too!) and I wanted some serious insight into how we can have more fun, love and intimacy for ourselves and in our lives - especially our intimate relationships.

Recently, I interviewed Janae Weinhold, Ph.D about her fascinating book (she wrote with her husband Dr. Barry Weinhold), Flight from Intimacy. Ladies, if there is one book you read this year on your journey to self-empowerment, have this be it.

This book is an in-depth, comprehensive guide to becoming aware of the unconscious behaviors you may be exhibiting in your life (and with your intimate partner - agghh!) that serve to destroy intimacy, keep you safe, confused and struggling.

The questionnaires and charts in this book alone, will open you up to a whole new world of awareness that when you look at it, you might not believe that behaviors you thought were “normal” are really behaviors that were learned at a very young age to survive and really no longer serve.

You will awaken to that fact that if we did not go through the natural processes of bonding and separation before, during and after birth properly, we are most likely trying to get these needs met unconsciously as adults. Herein lies many of the answers to the questions that might plague us in our intimate relationships!

So in honor of Father’s Day, I am writing about awareness of what our relationships with our fathers are and were like and how we can heal from them, if they were not healthy. For me, my relationship with my father was not very healthy until I took it upon myself to heal old wounds with him when I was in my 20’s. He did the Landmark Forum which altered his life and his approach to how he related to me and the rest of the family. Although he is no longer alive, I am so glad I got the opportunity to heal rifts with him before he passed on.

In reading Flight from Intimacy, I got to really look at unconscious behaviors I have assumed as an adult that directly related to not getting what I needed as a infant from my parents. This is not an excuse to now resent or disparage my parents, but rather a way to have compassion that they were doing the best they could at the time and now it is time for me to give Myself what I need to be whole.
I am happy that I can look back on my years with my father and focus on the one’s where we shared, loved and supported one another even though the childhood years were very different. If you have strife with your father or the men in your life, it is time to forgive and heal. In unity with millions of other women, we must take the lead to heal our wounds and thus promote peace on the planet. Peace, of course, comes from within, and this interview will give you a big leg-up in how to take the first steps.
Please tune in to this deeply mind expanding interview! Enjoy!