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Pan Mass Challenge
Thanks for Your Support
For 13 years, I have been riding the Pan Mass Challenge (PMC).
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I'm on the Stem Cell Cyclists Team and we fund Dr. Corey Cutler who is making stem cells a life-saving tool for blood cancer patients.
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I ride from Wellesley to Provincetown, which is 165 miles and have to raise a minimum of $4200.
There are 16 people on our team and we all ride because we have lost someone to cancer.
My dad, Victor Marko, died of lung cancer and my good friend Peg Britt, died of breast cancer. This year my buddy, Glenn Kaplus, passed away.
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For the past 4 years we have had a Pedal Partner, Declan Rourke, a 6-year-old who is surviving a very rare brain cancer. He is my step-daughter's nephew and part of my family.
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This year he did his own kids PMC, and rode his bike for an hour. His challenges have made him strong and he is now fundraising, riding and making his contribution.
He and his dad were featured speakers at the Friday Night Opening Ceremonies for the PMC, where he reminded a room full of adults why they ride.
We are always on a ride of sorts. I can see the challenges in front of me and the ones I have successfully met.
Why do I ride? I think I do it because I can-I am healthy, I like to make a difference, and every time I pass a sign that says, my daughter, son, wife, husband, or I am alive because of you, I cry.
I realize that I can make a difference-maybe everything I do makes a difference. Whether I believe it does or it doesn't, I am right. I choose to believe in the power of positive intention and constructive action.
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The head of Dana Farber always says in his talk to the PMC that when they write the book about how we ended cancer; the PMC will be in Chapter 1.
I have almost completed another year of training, riding, and fundraising. What will be my challenges for next year? How will I meet them? If I need any inspiration, I will just picture Declan riding that bike.
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Chief Dream Officer Training
led by Nancy Cantor
October 31st
10:00 am-4:30 pm
Clarify your pupose and vision; create goals and actions, learn to disarm your private saboteur, and put together a community networking plan that will support you in fulfilling your dreams.
CDO Training is included in Dream Factory Community membership.
REGISTER NOW!
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Graduate
Chief Dream Officer Training
led by Nancy Cantor
Sept. 26
6:30pm - 10:00pm
We just invented a new Graduate CDO Training that is designed for Dream Factory members who have already completed the CDO Training.
Graduate CDO Training includes a new Dream Creation Process which allows for a greater insight into how to create a more powerful relationship to our dreams so they can be realized.
Graduate CDO Training is included in Dream Factory Community Renewal Membership.
"That was great! It helped to re-set my thinking and reminded me that my reality shouldn't create my thinking, but that my thinking creates my reality."
Peggy; participant in last training.
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Rochester, VT
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Welcome to the September Dream Factory News!!
It has been a great month at the Dream Factory Community.
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We started with a pool party and barbecue at Amy Parker's hilltop horse farm. The amazing view inspired Ellen Keiter to create a new card from the pool view.
I rode in the PMC and spent the first weekend biking to
P-town.
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Then a group of us who bid on a Maine trip at the AlliancExchange silent auction, were off on a trip to Carol Madsen's Maine house as a reward. We had a blast. We even found Charlie, the dragonfly, and nursed him back to health.
Jo Crawford from Web of Benefit, helped us focus on our dreams at the Dream Factory Luncheon.
Thanks to the generosity of Mary Carol, Deb Strafuss and Ellen Keiter, the poles for my tepee are now prepared and ready for raising.
And goddess Victoria Haffer, invoked our inner goddesses at our Ladies Night Out at Yoga at the Ashram.
Best,
Nancy Cantor
Founder of the Dream Factory Community
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Medway Dream Factory Luncheon
September 13th Featured Speaker
Amy Parker
KidZafe
"Keep Your Kids Safe Online" |
Join us at the Dream Factory Community Luncheon on September 13th at the Solstice Healing Arts in Medway, for a fascinating look at keeping your children safe from digital dangers.
Amy's Story
Kids today are digital natives, they know the language, the customs and the lay of the land. Their parents are digital immigrants. How can an immigrant teach the native how to act and behave in this new land? As an internet business owner Amy Parker realized parents were clueless when she heard an intelligent and very internet savvy father tell his story of his son who got into a very dangerous online situation and how he created a free parental intelligent system to help make the job of parenting a little easier.
The statistics are shocking to say the least..... 33% of kids are cyberbullied and most don't tell a parent, 20% of teens ADMIT to sending a naked picture of themselves, 69% of kids talk to strangers online and of those, 63% have been asked to meet offline. After hearing these facts Amy knew she wanted to get involved by volunteering to give workshops to educate and empower parents and continuing the father's mission, which then began her mission of WeProtectKidz.com.
Through the Dream Factory Community, Amy has collaborated with fellow member, Judy Giovangelo to bring the KidZafe system to BenSpeaks.org as a way to reach out and help parents. Through Amy's travel business, she and Judy created a group cruise, www.BenSpeaksCruise.com which has brought together several amazing woman from across the country who will make you cry, make you laugh and enlighten your lives.
Dream Factory members are urged to bring one guest to this luncheon....someone who has an 8-16 year old child. Every parent will receive a gift, a free lifelong subscription to our parental intelligent system which will notify parents if anything suspicious, dangerous, or illegal is happening in their child's digital world. This free service also helps parents protect their child's online reputation. In addition, one lucky guest/parent--and the Dream Factory member who invited them--will win a 3 day/ 2 night getaway certificate.
 About Amy
Amy Parker, a lifelong resident of Holden, MA, a wife and a mom to two children (ages 22 and 29). Amy is a home-based travel agent, an e-commerce business owner, as well as a graphic & web designer. In her spare time she volunteers to do Keeping Kids Safe: An Internet and Mobile Safety Workshops™ to help parents protect their children from cyberbullying, sexting and online predators.
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Framingham Dream Factory Luncheon
September 22nd Featured Speaker
Maria Salomão-Schmidt
ButterflyMoms and Brick House Realty
"Igniting Your Biggest Dreams" |
Join us at the Dream Factory Community Luncheon on September 22nd at the Bella Costa Ristorante in Framingham, where MariaSalomão-Schmidt will show that unlocking your intuition will help you ignite your biggest dream.
Maria's Story
We spend the precious hours of our days trying to sort through the endless sea of our to-do lists. These lists are made from a combination of our goals, expectations, demands and shoulds. It's at this very point that we have the chance to create the lives of which we dream, or complete the life assignments others have chosen for us. Our families have taught us many things that we needed to survive, but most don't teach us what we need to also thrive!
One of the biggest innate gifts we have is the gift of intuition. It is our very own free, personal navigational system. When we listen to outside "voices" and negate our intuition, you start seeing an increase in certain behaviors like:
- sleeping less and less
- gaining/losing weight (usually gaining)
- feeling tired, sad, bored
- eating more sugar
- drinking more
- watching more television
We are a culture of people treating all these symptoms when the cause goes unnoticed. You already have the solution to your life's fulfillment, just now learn how to active it!
 Intuition is a gift with which you were born, just as your ability to think and love, are gifts. When people don't activate those precious gifts, one finds lives of unfulfilled potential. Intuition is one of the biggest gifts you have.
At the next Framingham Dream Factory Luncheon, you will be able learn more about how to activate one of the most precious buried "treasure", your intuition! This knowledge will give you the ability to start living your biggest dreams!
 Maria 's intention is to BE THE FIRE THAT IGNITES PEOPLE's SOULS so it is no wonder that she leaves a room full of light. So powerful is this light that it attracted The Oprah Winfrey Show to pick Maria to be one of Oprah's 10 Ultimate Viewers for the last three shows of her last season! In 2011 Maria co-authored her first book MOM ENTREPRENEUR EXTRAORDINAIRE. Maria currently uses her energy work and business background to run Brick House Realty, a Massachusetts-based real estate company she founded seven years ago whose mission is to "make the world a better place one home at a time".
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 First Annual Ruby Slippers Celebration
September 20th
Mass. Horticultural Society
Wellesley, Mass.
5:30pm - 8:00pm
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Put on your red slippers and help the MetroWest Women's Alliance celebrate an incredibly successful inaugural year with an evening of networking, fundraising, wine and gourmet appetizers.
Keynote Speaker Mina Samuels, author of Run Like a Girl, will address how the resources for empowerment are no further than your own backyard.
The MetroWest Women's Alliance provides grants to programs that support women and girls in MetroWest. Dream Factory Community member, Judy Giovangelo, who works to empower teenage girls, received one of their grants in 2011. Nancy Cantor, Founder of the Dream Factory Community, is proud to serve on the Steering Committee.
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Diva Toolbox Conference for Women
"This is NOT my hobby, this IS my business!"
October 20-22
Sheraton Colonial and Golf Resort
Wakefield, Mass. | | |
Join Nancy Cantor, Dream Factory Community Founder, and other well-known entrepreneurial speakers at the Diva Toolbox Conference for Women for three days of keynote presentations, concurrent educational workshops, exhibits, networking and meaningful interactions. Nancy will be speaking on Creating Results: The Power of Being a CDO.
This is a great opportunity to learn more about PR, Marketing and Social Media. Keynote speakers include:
- Peter Shankman, Founder of Help A Reporter Out, Author of two books: Can We Do That?! Outrageous PR Stunts That Work and Why Your Company Needs Them and Customer Service: New Rules for a Social-Enabled World speaking on The Near-Future World of One Screen
- Mike Michalowicz, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, speaking on What it Takes Grow Your Business
- Jeffery Tobias Halter, Best-selling author of Selling to Men, Selling to Women, Consultant, Author, Gender Strategist and President of YWomen
- Mimi Donaldson, speaker, author and leader, speaking on Necessary Roughness: New Rules for the Contact Sport of Business
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Upcoming Dream Factory Community Events
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WINNERS
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Janice Pronko, our newest Prosperity Circle Leader, won a Swarovski Crystal Necklace at the PMC Raffle.
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Katia Stiefel, Prosperity Circle Leader, earned her certification as a
Dream Factory Coach.
Nancy Cantor won a trip to Ecuador at the AlliancExchange. Want to join her? Room for one more on the trip. Oct 6th-17th.
Congratulations to everyone!
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The Dream Factory Community supports women in taking on their life, their work and their world. Please join us.
Sincerely,
Nancy Cantor
CDO of the Dream Factory Community |
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