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Karma: Do you believe?
I retired from corporate to launch my own executive and leader coaching business in 2006. I am very grateful for the fact that within 3 months my business exceeded six-figures and grew to mid-six figures by year three. How all that happened is what I share and teach coaches in my Coaching for Corporate Business Blueprint and Business Building programs. What I have NOT shared till now is what that success enabled me to do and how that has come back to me in my life.
During my third year in business I began to fully appreciate the concept that the more revenue I make, the more I can give. With the support of my husband, I took a big chunk of my revenues that year and donated it to a cause I had only just become aware of - a program that provides free breast cancer screening and diagnostics for women with no medical insurance or financial means. The program is called "Buy a Mom a Mammogram".
The organization behind this program is A Silver Lining Foundation. The person behind the foundation is Dr. Sandy Goldberg who I had just had the pleasure to get to know in the way that we coaches get to know people - heart to heart, soul to soul. Dr. Sandy is a breast cancer survivor herself and since has committed her life to equal access to quality and timely cancer screening and diagnosis. Please click here to learn more about her great programs: www.asilverliningfoundation.org.
I had been touched by breast cancer once in my family with my closest cousin years before, once when I lost my best girlfriend and our son's godmother in 2000 and about a year after I began my involvement with A Silver Lining Foundation when my current closest girlfriend was diagnosed. The statistics are that one in three women will be diagnosed with this disease in their lifetime. So when I got the call with my diagnosis on Friday, the 13th of May this year my reaction was not "why me" but rather "why not me".
My doctor warned me that there are few days as dark as the one where you are told you have cancer. My husband and I went through that darkness together for days before we were ready to tell our family, weeks before we told friends and even then we waited till we had a good sense of my prognosis before we told our teenage son. My surgery was on June 22nd and my sisters were with me one week later for the moment when the darkness was lifted by the news from my surgeon.
In a few consecutive beautiful moments she confirmed not only was I
now cancer free, but that I would not require either chemo or radiation treatments, and I could start a five-year drug therapy that would reduce my risk of reoccurrence back to that of the normal population. You see my cancer was found at Stage 0. In my annual mammogram.
When I informed Dr. Sandy that I was now not only one of her biggest supporters, but also a poster story for her "Buy a Mom a Mammogram" program her response was this:
Do I believe in karma? Absolutely!
And even more so in gratitude. I am so very grateful for the opportunity to continue to try to make a difference with my life and my love and to support others to do the same. I will continue to boldly DARE coaches to build their successful businesses too for as I well know - the more we make, the more we can give and there are many causes needing our help.
(Quantum DARE is the name of the model that I use in my Coaching for Corporate and Organizations 8-Week Business Building Boot Camp! Check out the "Giveaway for Coaches" Event below for a free copy of the mp3 recordings and materials for Session #1 and a coupon for $100 off the full 8-sessions to only $199! Event ends September 14th.)
"Fantastic!
There is an old saying that you reap what you sow. And your love and support of our ladies in need circled back to you."
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