| A LETTER FROM THE
CEO & Founder
October brings a change to the season, and this month the topic is Harvesting Your Business. What are some activities that you do to harvest and grow your business? For Femfessionals, it's our community outreach and constant methods of connecting more and more women. What about you?
This month, not only do we focus on our business but also the activities and awareness surrounding Breast Cancer and its impact on the women in our communities. Please take part in the "Pink" October events such as the Komen Race for the Cure and Strut Your Stuff {a local Miami event}. Be sure to send us the photos of your activities so we can post them in your local FEM Around Town Album! Pink Rocks and so do you!
We are thrilled to introduce you to our FemCity Houston President, Michelle Stephenson, a survivor and an advocate on raising awareness and funds for Breast Cancer. We are excited to have Michelle on our growing team. In addition, please join us in welcoming our FemCity San Francisco President Kate Blake and FemCity NYC President Stephanie Matteras. We are honored to have 3 new fabulous Presidents to add to our team! Please visit our website to learn more about them. We are also looking to launch FemCity Providence, FemCity Las Vegas and FemCity Chicago very soon. {yes, FEMS, we are on a roll!}
Please take time this month to promote the business women in your community. I personally try to spend every dollar {that needs to be spent} on purchases at women-owned businesses. It makes a direct impact on our local communities.
As always, we look forward to seeing you at our next Femfessionals Connection Lunch. May your month be filled with much prosperity and joy.
Femfessionally yours,
Violette Sproul | Founder & CEO
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Harvest your business this season through branding with Femfessionals
Enjoy $50 off website ads!
Email Michelle for the details: michelle@femfessionals.com
{Michelle Quirk, Director of Sales}
Femfessionals is hiring 4 more Ad Reps. Please email resumes to careers@femfessionals.com
BREAST CANCER AWARENESS EVENTS ::
Please visit your FemCity Calendar for a list of Breast Cancer events in your neighborhood. If you have an event, post it on our Calendar!
Do you want to post all your events on our social calendar? Have your business profile listed in our Pink Pages? Get endorsed by Femfessional Members? Post promotions on our Sharing Post & Facebook Wall? Be a Featured Fem? Receive discounts on events and services? Receive invites to Femfessional Members-only events...and connect with your FemCity's most ambitious women? Then you must become a part of Femfessionals. Join Now!
{Membership is now $100}
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Femfessionals is a proud sponsor of the US Women's Rowing Team
100% of the proceeds go directly to the US Women's Rowing Team. Please join us in support and purchase a calendar.
{They make a femfabulous gift!}
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Register Now::
NOVEMBER 18TH
FemCity Ft. Lauderdale celebrates Ft. Lauderdale's Bicentennial & honors 100 women. In addition, we celebrate the 1st Femfessionals scholarship!
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Get Ready to Kick Up your Heels and 'Strut your Stuff for Cancer' at The Falls!
Join The Falls, Cancer Support Community Greater Miami, La Liga Contra el Cancer, and the Sandy B. Muller Breast Cancer Foundation in our fight against cancer. Participants will 'strut' around The Falls then enjoy a fabulous fashion experience along with a chic cocktail hour sponsored by Brugal Rum and Rex Goliath Wines. Tamara G., co-host of the COAST 97.3 FM morning show, will emcee the celebration of hope on the runway featuring "well-heeled" cancer survivors and those angels who have helped them recover. Presented by Baptist Health Breast Center and Williamson Cadillac.
Visit the charity website of your choice to register online for only $25:
www.cancersupportcommunitymiami.org; www.laligacontraelcancer.org; www.sandybmullerbreastcancerfoundation.org.
To learn more about our Fems, please visit our Pink Pages Business Directory. |
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The Harvest of Business :: brought to you by our featured October Fabulous Femfessional Members
"I juggle working, being a Mom of 3, and being a wife so I know the importance of good time management! But I also know an integral role in success is networking and meeting other people. Femfessionals is a great way to grow your business - and yourself - so I am very happy to be a part of this elite group."
Kellie Gaglioti | Joseph Anthony Retreat Salon & Spa | FemCity Philadelphia
"Through Femfessionals I am able to connect with like-minded professional women. We are goal oriented, task driven, result  producing, multi-tasking machines! The women I am connecting with at FemCity events are also inspired by the opportunity to help others along their road to success - who wouldn't want to be a part of that? By attending events I am able to network with women who are helping me to grow interest and awareness about Simplicity."
Anne Steppe | Simplicity Organizers | FemCity Ft. Charlotte
"Through Femfessionals I am able to build strong long term relationships with like-minded Femfessionistas, who share my values around ethics, compassion, dependability....and nice shoes."
Trine Anderson | Ameriprise Financials | FemCity Boca Raton
"In my business as a medical billing advocate, I pride myself in finding innovative solutions to difficult problems faced by  consumers and businesses challenged by the high cost of healthcare. I have learned that business grows through building relationships and I look forward to the opportunities that FemCity Charleston is going to provide for me to meet new friends, learn new lessons and grow my business by helping others grow theirs."
Robin Giangrande | RG Advocates | FemCity Charleston
"When choosing a realtor, it really comes down to working with a hardworking and likeable professional. Being that Femfessionals brands itself in such way--catering to hardworking and likeable women--, it makes harvesting my real estate company, Beckett.DeBianchi, within the organization that much easier."
Samantha DeBianchi | Beckett DeBianchi | FemCity Ft. Lauderdale
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PLEASE JOIN US in welcoming our new FemCity Presidents  I have participated in many professional women's organizations and what made Femfessionals stand apart from the others was the focus on building strong, lasting relationships, not just exchanging business cards or promoting products and services. I was also very impressed by the warm, friendly and positive attitudes of the Femfessionals founders and corporate team. They had me at "hello."
Michelle Stephenson | President | FemCity Houston
"Femfessionals provides an opportunity for women from diverse  backgrounds to converge and ultimately create synergies that will have a profound impact on the NYC community and larger marketplace."
Stephanie Mattera | President | FemCity NYC
"The Femfessional platform is gaining traction nationwide. Women are joining FemCity communities online, gathering for local events and finding creative ways to educate and empower their fellow women. This is exciting stuff and I am thrilled to lead this effort in San Francisco."
Kate Blake | President | FemCity San Francisco
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Women-Led Startups Are The Key to New Job Creation ::
by E. B. Boyd for FastCompany.com 
So says a new paper from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. "If we're looking for an answer to jobs," Kauffman vice president Lesa Mitchell tells us, "it's right in front of our face.
The country is in a recession, and Washington is tangling over how to create new jobs, but, according to a new paper from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, there's a fairly simple potential source of them sitting right under our noses. Women start high-growth companies, like those in high tech, at lower rates than men do, Kauffman-supported research has found. But the reason for this is systemic, rather than due to women's innate capacity for entrepreneurialism, says the paper, titled "Overcoming the Gender Gap: Women Entrepreneurs as Economic Drivers.
{click here to read more}
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Be sure to be a part of these fantastic
Femfessionals events coming up this month.
A great way to kick off your weekend!
See you...
FemCity Philadelphia October Connection Lunch
ON : Friday, October 21st
AT: Azie on Main
FemCity Miami October Connection Lunch
ON : Friday, October 21st
AT: Peacock Cafe {In Coconut Grove
GUEST SPEAKER: Simone Filipinni | Consul General of the Netherlands & Former Dutch Ambassador in Macedonia
TOPIC : Reach High, Get Far : Can one woman make a difference?
FemCity Raleigh Launch Event
ON: Thursday, October 27th
AT: Mahler Gallery
TOPIC: Spend an evening filled with connections, conversations and cocktails and celebrate the launch of FemCity Raleigh
FemCity Charleston October Connection Lunch
ON: Friday, October 28th
AT: Wasabi {Daniel Island}
GUEST SPEAKER: Dr. Leigh Spicer, M.D
DISCUSSING: Take Care of Yourself, Take Care of Your Business
FemCity Twin Cities Official Launch Event
ON: Friday, October 28th
AT: Woman's Club of Minneapolis
GUEST SPEAKER: Barbara Hensley, Founder & CEO of Hope Chest for Breast Cancer
TOPIC: Overcoming Obstacles
Femfessionals & Private Brunch with Donald & Lisa Pliner
ON: Saturday, November 5th
AT: Donald Pliner @ Aventura
Enjoy a private brunch with Donald & Lisa Pliner with 100% of event proceeds to benefit Femfessionals MBA Scholarship in partnership with Nova University.
{Invite to Follow}
Femfessionals Century of Excellence Luncheon with City of Ft. Lauderdale's Centennial Celebration
ON: Friday, November 18th
AT: Hilton Marina
Join us as we honor 100 women who have been amazing historical icons in our community; yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Save the Date :: FemCity Miami & Saks Fifth Avenue Holiday Event
ON: Thursday, December 15th
AT: Saks Fifth Avenue @ Dadeland
{Invites to follow}
COMING SOON : FemCity San Francisco Launch Event, FemCity NYC Launch Event, FemCity Raleigh Connection Lunch, FemCity Atlanta Launch Event, FemCity Boston Official Launch Event, FemCity Providence Official Launch Event {Invites to follow}
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CHARLOTTE ::
{Want to see more photos from this event? Click here}
Are you a leader in your community, a natural connector, philanthropic and business savvy? Send us your resume to start a FemCity Chapter: careers@femfessionals.com
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