THANK you!
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To celebrate the publication of What I Know Now About Success,
I recruited 50 women to host a
Letters To My Younger Self Party during the weekend of April 30th to May 2nd.
These fantastic LTMYS Party Hosts each invited 10 friends, opened a
LTMYS Party Kit from
me,
and led their friends through the steps of writing their own letters to their younger selves.
Then: they read them aloud
to each other.
Reviews are still coming in but here are early comments:
"Wow, major success with the LTMYS Party! Everyone loved it."
"Each letter was amazing. It created quite a bond among the women who attended my party."
"The best part was getting to know eight other women on a more intimate level."
Party Hosts: Thank you from the bottom of my heart!
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Looking Forward To:
LTMYS Workshop at Jarvie Commonweal (NYC)
Speaking at a Microsoft retreat (Annapolis)
J & J's Women's Leadership Initiative (Malvern, PA)
NovelTeas (Red Bank, NJ)
see more here....
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Women Helping Women
I contribute 20 percent of my royalties from What I Know Now and
If I'd Known Then to Girls Inc., a terrific not-for-profit
that inspires girls to be "strong, smart and bold."
For What I Know Now About Success, I plan to split my 20 percent contribution between Girls Inc. and
Woman for Woman International, whose leader, Zainab Salbi, I got to know while working on If I'd Known Then.
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What I Know Now About Success
is here!
Hello Everyone,
We often hear about networking, credentials and finding a mentor when we're instructed on how to be successful.
I won't knock those practical tips. But one of the most
interesting insights I gleaned from working with women like Soledad O'Brien, Suze Orman, Diane von Furstenberg, Paula Deen, Trish McEvoy, Kate Spade and Bobbi Brown on their letters to their younger selves is that success begins internally, as an act of imagination. Not pie-in-the-sky imagination. Not artistic genius imagination. A simple picture in your head about what is possible for you--tied tightly to what you truly care about.
"How wide a frame can you put around your future?" is the way Cathie Black, President of Hearst Magazines puts it.
"Success is being coherent with who you are," says fashion icon Diane von Furstenberg.
"Ultimately your success will be rooted in your heart, not in your brain," says Lisa Stone, Co-Founder of BlogHer.
By opening up about a time in their lives when they were struggling or failing, the thirty-three CFOs, CEOs, entrepreneurs, TV personalities, actresses and designers in What I Know Now About Success teach us about the most fundamental elements of success. I salute them for being willing to share some of their hard-won wisdom.
Best of success to you,
Ellyn
What I Know Now Enterprises espraggs@aol.com www.letterstomyyoungerself.com
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You Can Help Create a Bestseller
(If You Want To)
As only seems appropriate for a book about success...
I'm hoping to make the book a huge success!
If you'd like to help me, here's what you can do:
1. Buy early and often!
Just kidding, but not completely. If
you do plan to buy What I Know Now About Success for yourself or as a
graduation, Mother's Day or birthday gift, you'll help the book's track record
immensely by purchasing sooner rather than later. Go to Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or your favorite independent book seller. (Chicklet Books in Princeton
will carry autographed copies.)
2. If you like what you read, please write a review on
Barnes and Noble or Amazon. Which letters did you like best? What do you wish you'd known about success when you were younger?
3. Post a link to my website, www.letterstomyyoungerself.com (or to the book's page on Amazon or Barnes and Noble) on your Facebook or
LinkedIn pages. Or Tweet the publication news to your followers.
4. Comment on my blog posts. I'm a lapsed blogger trying to
mend my ways and I could definitely use encouragement.
5. Contact me if you know of any women's
organizations which would be interested in having me speak or conduct a LTMYS
Seminar or LTMYS Workshop.
Thanks for your help.
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The Good News So Far
I'm so grateful to Stacy Morrison, the recently departed editor of Redbook (and author of Falling Apart in One Piece; One Optimist's Journey Through The Hell of Divorce) for this lovely item about WIKN About Success.
Thanks also to Larry King Live, which invited me to post on the show's blog. Check it out if you have a moment.
Look for the book in Papyrus stores and, starting in the fall, a special gift edition in Hallmark stores. We have our fingers crossed that Anthropologie, which carried What I Know Now and If I'd Known Then, will decide to stock WIKN About Success as well.
Tomorrow, (after treating my pearly whites to a Crest White Strips application) I'll head into New York to tape a Job Club (ABC News NOW) segment with Tory Johnson, CEO of Women For Hire and a contributor to Good Morning America.
And on May 24th, I'll be taped in NYC for Better TV, a syndicated women's show.
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