Dream Factory is Coming to You
It going to get easier and easier to Live your
Dreams. Why? Because the leadership of the
Dream Factory Community is expanding and they are
focused on bring the Dream factory to you.
Participating in the newly-designed Breakthrough
in Leadership Group are:
- Joonu Coste
- Penny Dickson
- Anne Borow-Lawrence
- Maria Piedra
- Oceana LeBlanc
Each one brings a richness of experience and
interests to their leadership.
Joonu Coste has just been selected as part
of the Top 40 under 40 by the Worcester
Business Journal. She has a varied background,
such as; having graduated from Cornell,
working for the EPA., studying yoga,
having a young family, running a local non-
profit, and being a financial planner. She
will be opening the satellite community in
Blackstone Valley.
Penny Dickson has a background in
Interior Design, but her love of the outdoors
has inspired her to launch, Women's Wilderness
Retreats. Having had several successful trips,
she now has the testimonials to fill the rest of her
scheduled events. She is leading a Prosperity
Circle in the Hudson/Bolton area.
Anne Borow-Lawrence, MS is a seasoned
professional having worked in HR, management,
retail and counseling. She has a unique skill-set
that combines a varied range of business
knowledge and psychology. She knows what
you need to do and how to work with you so you will do
it. Anne is part of a Dream Factory team in the
Franklin/Wrentham area.
Maria Piedra is joining the
Franklin/Wrentham Team. After a successful
career running a chain of her own toy stores, she is
supporting people in the Medway area find homes
of their dreams. We appreciate her depth of
business knowledge and true interest in
helping others.
Oceana will be working with Joonu ito
build a Blackstone Valley Dream Factory
Community. She is healer who has been running
Red Tents for the past several years, so she
brings a wealth of skills in healing and facilitation
which have earned her a loyal following.
There will be Introduction to the Dream Factory in
Franklin on October 21st and the CDO
Training will be in Blackstone Valley on October 28th.
We sincerely hope that our expansion makes
participating in the Dream Factory Community
easier for you.
Contact us for more information.
Join the Dream Factory Community
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Greetings!
Welcome to the October
Newsletter for
the Dream Factory, a community of
women
entrepreneurs who are committed to living
their personal and professional dreams.
We will introduce you to ideas and
opportunities that
will
support you in taking on your life, your
work, and
your world.
October is a good time to embrace change.
We offer opportunities that will empower you to
make the changes that will help you grow and expand
yourself and your business.
Featured this month at the October 8th
Women in
Business Luncheon is Financial Advisor,
Leah Alvanos. At
the luncheon she will share some ideas on How
to Maximize Your Financial Potential.
Want to find out more about the Dream Factory
Community? There will be an Introduction on
October 21st, 7-9pm at Julia Dollinger's, 9C
Hawthorne Villiage in Franklin. Call Anne
Borow for more info: 508-954-8362.
On Wednesday, October 28th, 10:00am-
4:30pm, at the Blackstone Valley Chamber in
Whitinsville,
we are
featuring our famous CDO Training. Recent
participants said: I am inspired, I got to
express my hopes and dreams, and it was
very helpful in providing a focus and direction.
Please join us for any and all events. We specialize in
providing connections, opportunities, rejuvenation,
and education.
Hope to see you soon.
Dream Factory Leadership Team
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Maximizing Your Financial Potential
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When Leah Alvanos was 10 years
old, she found herself in her local bank
requesting a meeting with the "man in charge of
making money grow".
As the daughter of a first-generation Greek immigrant,
she knew that her mom could do better and make
more with the money she had.
Fast-forward to the present, and meet Leah who
will
tell us about her experiences as the owner of a chain
of
salons, a real estate investor, and a single
woman who has made it independently in the
financial world.
Some of her credentials include:
- Appointed to the office of business development
by the Mayor of Boston.
- Member of the Board of Boston Five Cents
Savings Bank
- National Leadership Award and Honorary
Chairman of the Massachusetts Business Advisory
Council.
Leah says, "My passion for business,
independence, and financial literacy has never
waned. I am dedicated to helping women and
families achieve financial security through education".
Don't miss this luncheon! October 8th, 12-2,
at the Aegean Restaurant, 257 Cochituate Rd,
Framingham.
Come find out how to Maximize your Financial
Potential
and why our Dream Factory members
excel in life and in business.
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Business Development Forum
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If you are out to grow your business, besides
the
Dream Factory Community, there several
organizations that can help you.
One is the MetroWest Chamber's Women's
Initiative.
Its mission is "to bring together women of various
backgrounds to develop leadership and generate
initiatives that will impact the quality of life in
MetroWest".
This initiative provides support to individual
women as
well as women business owners.
On November 3rd there is an event
designed to
educate and heighten awareness among women
about the various resources available to help
their
businesses get started, grow and succeed.
There will be a panel of experts:
- Jennifer Lane, Certified Financial
Planner/Compass
- John Fossett, SBA specialist/SBA loans
- John Fioriti, State Office of Minority and
Women (SOMWBA)
- Ivette Olmeda, The Center for Women and
Enterprise (CWE)
- Paula Camara, Small Business
Development Center, Clark University
Please attend this extraordinary event on
November 3rd, 11:45-2:00pm, at the
Crowne Plaza in
Natick.
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Being a Chief Dream Officer Is For Everyone
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The stars that you see are an indication of
what happens to people who take the CDO Training.
Would you like to:
- shine a little brighter?
- be clearer on your direction and action-plan?
- know what to do when you lose your way?
- create a community of support to facilitate the
journey?
Everyone who joins the Dream Factory
Community for
women entrepreneurs gets to participate in this
training, but did you know that it can be delivered in
private
coaching sessions, as a telecourse, and as a
corporate training?
Lately, men, corporate executives and a
professional
organization for administrative assistants have
benefited from the CDO principles.
Want to shine? Participate in our next
CDO Training on October 28th, 10am-
4:30pm which includes membership in the
Dream Factory Community or contact us so
we can
bring it to you and your organization.
Great for fostering teamwork based on a greater
purpose and vision.
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Prosperity Circle Participant Is Quoted in the Globe
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Some of our members, meet monthly in Prosperity
Circles to support one another in being
centered,
accountable and more business-savvy.
Each group is led by a member who is trained
monthly to support their circle. Recently, a
Prosperity
Circle member was recognized in the Globe for
the
work she is doing to educate children in
Bellingham
regarding finances.
They wrote: Katia Stiefel, a financial services
professional with the insurance company, New York
Life, will work with parents, in determining how much
of their allowance children should save versus how
much they spend.
"A lot of adults don't even understand the concept
of
saving for the long term, so if you can teach your kids
to do it, then they can do it as adults,'' Stiefel said.
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Empowered Girls
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Self-esteem is all about how much we feel valued,
loved, accepted, and thought well of by others -
and
how much we value, love, and accept ourselves.
Pre-teen girls are especially susceptible to
experience
low self-esteem, when peer pressure, body
image,
and the media bombard them with unrealistic
expectations.
Empowered Girls provides tools for girls ages 8 to
13
and their mothers (or other adult female mentor)
to
help open communications, build trust, and foster
positive self images.
Join the movement to empower the next
generation of
women!
Empowered Girls is the brainchild of
entrepreneur
Joanna Meiseles. Joanna is the founder of
Snip-its, a
franchised chain of hair salons and party venues
focused on children ages one through nine.
After 15 years building her company, Joanna is
now
broadening her focus to writing, speaking, and
teaching about self-esteem issues in girls.
She grew up in Beverly Hills, CA, attended
Duke
University, and now resides in Wayland, MA
with her
husband Brad and four children.
We are very excited to be offering a FREE
workshop led by Joanna on October 18th, 2:15-
4:45pm at the Downtown Framingham
Library. We can only take 4-8 mother-daughter
pairs, so register quickly if you would like to attend.
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