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DFC MONTHLY PROGRAMS
Women in Business Lunch
Sales Secrets and Building Relationships w/Susana Brown
Nancy Cantor will get a live makeover by this sales and jewelry expert!
Thursday, May 13th - 12 to 2pm
Aegean Restaurant
257 Cochituate Road, Framingham MA
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Chief Dream Officer Training w/ Nancy Cantor
May 26th, 10am to 4:30pm
Location: Shepherd & Goldstein; 1671 Worcester Rd, Suite 303, Framingham, MA 01701
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Prosperity Circles
Get the ongoing support you need to LIVE YOUR DREAMS!These are growing in popularity among members and are almost full!
Contact a Prosperity Circle Leader in your area for more info on meeting dates and times and REGISTER NOW!
Joonu Coste - Worcester
Julia Dollinger - Franklin
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Greetings!
Welco  me to the Dream Factory!
This past week, I was at the Dream Big!! Conference for the Dream Factory Community.
We had a wonderful group of women on Thursday and Friday. Everyone on Thursday got to be inspired by inspirational speaker, Pat Rainville, and then, in the lush environment of the Red Tent, created by DFC member, Oceana and her wonderful helpers, people got to share their thoughts and dreams. Then women got to ask for what they needed and received it as they supported each other in many ways.
What difference did that make?
Then on Friday, many talented women offered workshops in Health, Feng Shui, Nia, Entrepreneurship, Joy, Divine Connection, Writing, and Shifting Beliefs; led by Tracy Harrison, Christine Conway, Donna McGurk, Bonnie Wallace, Carla Cataldo, Cheryl Perreault, Marlene Campbell, Marianne Hennigan and Pat Rainville.
As we participated, new vistas opened and ideas began to emerge. We wrote letters to our future selves to remind us of our Dreams and commitments. We bid on donated items that brought in money for scholarships to support kids getting an education in the reinforests of Ecuador.
What difference did that make?
In this one precious life, we touch many people and they touch us. Know that that makes a difference.
How do you want to make a difference?
Best,Nancy CantorCDO of the Dream Factory |
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Nothing Happens Until Somebody Sells Something! | |
 Susana Brown
Independent Representative, Silpada Jewelry Designs
People often connote the pushy, loud, obnoxious, fast-talking salespeople that we see on TV with all salespeople. Of course this doesn't apply to everyone, yet many business people tend to shy away from sales because they feel uncomfortable about it.
Thank goodness for trust-filled relationships where sales people get to know their customers and learn their likes and dislikes. Relationship-building salespeople can best be described as honest, caring, supportive, and sharing common interests.
My name is Susana Brown. For the past 30 years, I've sold both products and services, such as newspaper advertising space, custom metal fabrication services and sterling silver jewelry. I've learned how relationship-building sales have enabled me to live a happy, honest and balanced life.
The longer I work in sales, the more I realize that formal sales experience is not required because it's all about building relationships. We're always selling, whether it is in business or in our personal lives. Having a positive attitude about sales allows you to have success in life. Success is not an accident. Success is a process of regularly "doing the right things" until you get good at them.
- Get excited about what you're doing. Share your excitement with others!
- Stretch your comfort zone. Make cold calls, because behind every closed door is the possibility of a new friend!
- Be consistent. Make 5 contacts every business day = 25 contacts every week = 100 contacts every month = a growing business!
- Be enthusiastic. Do not prejudge how your prospects will react.
- Probe deeper if someone says "No", it doesn't always mean never.
- Ask for referrals. Everyone knows someone who would be interested in what you're selling.
- Be patient. Today's prospects are tomorrow's business. The contacts you make and the relationships you build today will become the customers of tomorrow and provide you with income, weeks or months from now.
Come to the Women in Business Luncheon to hear more about my approach to sales and building a relationship-based business.
The other element we will focus on is how you look when you make your sales call. Part of my business is dressing people for success, helping them look the part; look successful and look like someone from whom people would like to buy something.
Thursday, May 13th; 12-2pm Aegean Restaurant 257 Cochituate Rd, Framingham MA Click Here To Register
Come see a live make-over of Nancy Cantor to see how she can accessorize better to look like a million bucks!!!
Remember, you only have one chance to make a first impression!
Susana Brown is an Independent Representative, Silpada Designs, sterling silver jewelry, belts, watches. She was President, Greystone Engineering Corporation - Metal fare collection products for the transit industry, Vice President, E.C. Hilliard Corporation - Precision metal fabrication services and Advertising Representative, The Christian Science Monitor newspaper. |
| Thank You from Alliance Exchange for a Successful Silent Auction! Funding Raised for 3 Students! | | Dear DFC Members and Friends:
The Dream Big 2010 Conference is over. We have all returned home. And I, for one, am marveling at the benefits I received having spent over 24 hours with 50 wonderful women. What is front and center in my mind is my gratitude. I am floating in this aura of gratefulness. I am grateful for the life I have, for my family and friends, for the Dream Factory Community, for Alliance Exchange and its Board of Directors, volunteers, partners and donors. I wanted to share that because that is where so many of you come into the picture.
A huge "thank you" to all of you. Those who
* donated a product and/or a service to the Silent Auction,
* played in the Raffle,
* bid on the Silent Auction items
* provided moral support
* came to the conference
* have supported AlliancExchange, our work and me personally over the years
You probably know that the Alliance for Cultural & Economic Exchange was the nonprofit sponsor of this year's DFC conference. As such, we ran the Silent Auction and Raffle and have designated the Rainforest Scholars Program as the recipient of the funds raised.
So, how did we do? We raised more than $1600. Hooray!!!
Last year monies raised were used to support two Rainforest Scholars, Yalic Zandy, 13 years old, and Elsa Maricela, a 23-year-old mother of two who decided to return to school after losing her husband in a traffic accident. The funds raised this year will continue to support Yalic and Elsa Maricela, but will be expanded to include another child as well as other educational programs in the Rainforest of Ecuador.
AlliancExchange is expanding the reach of the Rainforest Scholars Program as one outcome of our Journey to Ecuador in January. Over the next couple of months new applicants will enter the program. From among these, a third scholar will be chosen for support by the Dream Factory Community. We will keep you posted.
Again, thank you all so much for your interest and support.
I am so grateful to have you in my life.
Warmest regards,
Carol
 Carol Madsen
President
Alliance for Cultural & Economic Exchange, Inc.
617-628-9297
www.alliancexchange.org
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Big Dreams!!
| | What We are Creating From The Dream Big!! Conference
I am full of joy as the founder of a privately funded center for emotionally disturbed kids... helping them to transition to independent living.
I am enjoying my tepee and creating a sense of continuity and love.
The Voices Radio Show is expanding the health of the last green valley.
I live in my Sun Lake home and community
I will open a Theme Park which will help children be open to creative possibilities.
I am in a relationship which supports and sources me.
All children in the rain forest have a high school education.
Our loving health and wealth partnership FLOURISHES... annual income becomes monthly income.
I am the bridge between business and healing, spreading the light, being the light, and so it is.
I am living in blissful joy!
I am expanding the DFC reach and supporting more and more people - We are all living our dreams.
I am fully nurtured and supported in all my relationships. I am in love with life and it is in love with me.
Provocative television ads inspiring people to ask their doctor if "heavy metal toxicity testing is right for you". Healing everywhere!
To know what my dreams are.
I am teaching at Harmonious and Abundant Living Academy.
Create a communal house for women so we can nurture, support and help each other as we age.
I have created a beautiful retail store that offers products that are earth friendly, fair trade with a dash of fun!!
Exceptional health and well being - VITALITY!
I will have my DREAM wedding!
I am easily speaking Spanish and I love the life I live while touching other women and their hearts.
I am joyful and living my dreams helping humanity live more sustainably on Earth!
Recognize and be grateful for the joy in my life.
I am having an amazing time with the Alliance Exchange on the next trip to Ecuador.
I am living in a beautiful home and in a loving relationship.
To bring Hands and Feet across America speaking in middle schools, high schools, and colleges to empower our youth to be the change they want to see.
Poem Created in Cheryl Perreault's Workshop
By Nicolette Blanco
It is seeping, oozing, sometimes streaming from a place that I knew but with which I am no longer familiar.
I lived there once.
The trail back is overgrown, winding; at times invisible.
Yet it is calling.
So I strap on my machete and gently cut through.
Clearing space by small space an ever changing view to an unknown destination.
Nicolette | |
Dream Big!! by Cheryl Perreault
| | Poem composed for the Dream Big 2010 Conference
"Sweet dreams" they sing when you are a baby
safe in someone's arms or nestled snug in your crib.
"Have good dreams" they say
when you are a child, afraid of the nightmares,
not wanting to sleep, asking for a second story in your bed.
"Follow your dreams" you are told with a handshake
when you are at the crossroad after graduation day.
It's a cavalcade of grand wishes and you are not sure
how to use them, but you take their hands as you go
and steer yourself forward into the future unknowing.
"Happy Dreams Forever" they say when you
go off and get married."
May your dreams come true"
they tell you as you land your first job.
And then it seems that you and dreams
are left out on of the circle of later well wishes
that flow as ritual to the young of our world.
You're at midlife, you've been though so much living
you've had a miracle or a trauma or a lifechange
or you are approaching the golden years of older age.
You now have the potential to do so much more.
To walk strong finally and embrace
all that you have come to know
and use the compassion that you have culled and grown.
But nobody is telling you about dreams.
Well my sister, I am telling you.
I am getting up on my chair .
I am climbing the tallest tree in my yard.
I am posting a billboard in your honor.
I am parachuting out of the sky .
And I am shouting to you
and whomever else there who can hear me
that you are amazing for living this incredible life,
the good times, the bad times
how you have managed to weave it all together
into a beautiful tapestry
with your special gifts and your talents
and mostly in being the one and only woman
that you are....who is beautifully
charging forward into this life
unafraid to take it on.
So I am shouting
"DREAM BIG. DREAM VERY BIG" my sister,
hold onto your hat and reach for the sky
and enjoy the path as it leads to your destination...
open your eyes and your heart and your mind
and embrace it all now... every coming moment
as you dream very big
for this one day... for this one life.
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 With a background in psychology, Cheryl Perreault is writer, poet and spoken word artist who performs poetic storytelling from her writings. She currently hosts and co-produces a monty poetry and music venue at HCAM TV Studio known as Wake up and Smell the Poetry which is aired on HCAM cable television in Hopkinton www.hcam.tv. In addition, she co-facilitates the Women's art Forum in Hopkinton with Geri Holland and is a columnist and free-lance writer for local news sources. Cheryl also works as a hospice volunteer/memoir writer for U-Mass Memorial and has worked as a part-time instructor for Northeastern University where she has taught courses in introductory topics of psychology, developmental psychology, senior seminar in psychology and the psychology of women. Visit www.cherylperreault.com for more info.
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Natural Wellness Seminar
May 6, 2010 from 7:15pm to 8:30pm
Location: Mezzo Design Lofts, 30 Caldwell Street, Charlestown, MA
Phone: (508) 333-2814,
Organized By: Lynne Thomson, LynneThomson00@aol.com
Join us on Thursday May 6 for a Natural Wellness Seminar designed by Dr. Sheryl Duchess, N.D. and presented by Roxanne Cahill, RN. Learn how you can take charge of your health and wellness now!
Resume Writing and Cover Letters
May 11 9 AM to 11AM
Location: Hudson Public Library, 3 Washington St, Hudson, MA.
This is the Hudson Job Seekers Group facilitated by Cindy Filipe tel. 978-562-9728 978-562-9728 978-562-9728 978-562-9728 . Nancy Dube will be talking about resume writing and cover letters. This is a weekly group, geared toward people who are unemployed. They have a variety of speakers and welcome new members. For more info go to www.dubeconsulting.com or email Nancy directly.
Cover Letters and Job Applications
May 19 2PM-3:30PM
Locatin: JV Fletcher Library, 50 Main St., Westford
This is a Job Seekers Group but this one is facilitated by Wendy Gloyd. Her tel. 978-430-4365 978-430-4365 978-430-4365 978-430-4365 . Nancy Dube will be talking about targeted cover letters and job applications. This is a weekly group geared toward people who are unemployed. They also have a variety of speakers and welcome new members. For more info go to www.dubeconsulting.com or email Nancy directly.
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FREE Recordings Now Available!
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Create a Context for Success - A SUCCESS!
Thanks to our contributors - Nancy Dube, Tracy Harrison, Judy Giovangelo and our organizer, Joonu Coste - we had an incredibly successful and inspiration-packed teleconference.
Click here for a full description of the conference.
The conference recordings are now available!
Please email Joonu Coste for the recordings in mp3 format and the visuals. We're looking forward to building on this format for a 2nd teleconference in the fall.
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| MetroWest Chamber Women's Initiative Awards Dinner | |
WomAnnualen's Initiative Annual Dinner
Nancy Cantor, Candy O'Terry,
Robin Lorenzen, Jacy Cardoso
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May 11th;
5:30-8:30pm
Event Description: Awards, Scholarships, Shopping and LOTS of fun!
Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center
1657 Worcester Rd.,
Framingham, MA 01701
Chamber Members: $75
Non-Members: $85
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