Dear Creator and Big Thinker,

Ready to become part of one of the most important movements in 2010?

Join myself and hundreds of beautiful souls on November 2 – 4, 2010 in Los Angeles, California

(Make sure you check out the PS in this email to see who is already committed to becoming part of the Smart Women Change the World Movement this Fall!)

Why Us and Why Now?

I am sure by now, you have heard the Dalai Lama’s quote about the western woman and our mission. No? He said, “The world will be saved by the western woman.”

And I personally believe  it will be the “entrepreneurial” western woman that saves the world!

I know, it is a bold statement for sure.  But bold statements lead to bold action and to much needed positive change.

To make sure you are ready to do your part in saving the world, I am hosting what will be a life-changing magical 3 day event this Fall!

The Smart Women’s Business Conference and Expo is designed to empower and encourage growth from within—which is exactly what our world needs right now.

Join me and over 300 other women and men as we reconstruct what it means to live on purpose, live in passion, and live profitably.

Hurry and Register today before we are sold out: http://www.smartwomenevent.com

The Agenda

PreConference VIP Party
Starting at 6 pm on November 1 (night before event starts), over 100 VIP guests will network and enjoy cocktails!  Not sure if you are a VIP guest, email us info@smartwomeninstitute.com

During Day 1 you will learn about the Most Powerful Business Models that exist in the world today!

•Learn the most important biz models for the fastest growth of your business online and offline
•Learn key strategies that position you and your company for the highest payoff
•Learn how to structure your biz so you can make more and work less
•Learn how to create boundaries and structure your company processes for more balance and freedom
•Learn how to brand your company website so that your visitors want to stay and play

Smart Women of the Year Award Ceremony

At the end of Day One: Enjoy a beautiful awards ceremony where we will honor three sensational and successful women with a Smart Women of the Year Award.   All three women (Rhonda Britten, Kris Carr, and Amyilya Antonetti) created companies that are of service to the world and create positive change in the world each day!

All three have previously been featured on Oprah for their life-changing work and we are excited to have them each come and inspire you with their acceptance speeches!

During Day 2 you will learn about the Most Powerful Mindsets you should have on your Entrepreneurial journey!

•Learn how to think like and act like a CEO so you can leverage the highest ROI on all of your future joint venture partnerships
•Learn the core behaviors of visionaries and why and how these behaviors allow you to adapt to A New Way of Being that invites even more high-level success
•Learn how to structure your Product and Service Funnel for strategic long-term growth
•Learn multiple marketing strategies and completely map out your core marketing campaigns for 2011 before you leave event
•Learn how to plan the “Big Picture” and understand the micro processes
•Arm yourself with knowledge on “Equity” and future “Exit Strategies”

During Day 3 you will learn about the Most Powerful Behaviors you should have to Attract Health and Wealth Into Your Life and Business!

•Learn how to use the powerful “why” question in your business and in your life
•Learn how to tame the high-energy entrepreneur into a focused and graceful leader
•Learn how to leverage a top notch business image that allows you to graciously lead with purpose
•Learn how to build and empower a virtual and local teams that allow you to run your global company from your home office or an outside office
•Learn how to integrate Marketing 2.0 with traditional marketing methods that increase your profits faster!

PLUS, you will enjoy these amazing breakin sessions from our faculty, some of the most inspiring and successful speakers in the world!

Hurry and Register today before we are sold out: http://www.smartwomenevent.com

The BreakIn Sessions

Illuminating Beauty™ – Become the Best You Can
and Live a Beautiful Life Inside and Out with Tamara Gold

Real transformation and success starts with knowing who you are, right now in the moment.  Beauty starts on the inside and it affects all areas of your life. If you truly desire to become the best you can and live a beautiful life, you’ll want to start here. Learn beauty and style secrets that create superstars and how they grab your attention and become magnetic. You’ll walk away with insider tips and inspirational insights to help you look at yourself, your life and your business in a whole new…  beautiful way.  It’s not just about the makeup. Illuminating your beauty is key to your success.

You will learn:

•How makeup relates to your life on every level as Tamara shares her “Makeup Metaphor”™
•How we’ve been conditioned by the media and what that means to the entrepreneur or leader stepping into a new or existing business.
•The key essential steps that will make you look like a superstar in your industry
•A new understanding about your style expression in everything you do.

Million Dollar PR Secrets for Every Budget: How to Leverage Strategic Public Relations for Business Growth with Stacey Johnes and Regina Novickis

Every business has a story worth telling. The media will gladly cover that story when you frame it in the right context.  PR is still the best free vehicle to market your business to a large audience…  up to millions of people at one time once you are seen in national media.  And it’s not just about fame for fame’s sake. Once you get that story, you’ll gain valuable attention for your business, driving more clients, deals and ultimately, profits! We’ll teach you what you can do immediately to get media attention (including radio, television, print and online); and how to leverage your media coverage to skyrocket your profits.

You will learn:

•Three easy steps on how to secure television, radio, print and online media coverage immediately
•Strategies implemented by million dollar business owners to leverage their PR coverage for business growth
•How even the smallest budget can begin to generate coverage for big profits

How to Say ‘No!’ to Info-crap, Embrace the Cutting Edge and Leap to the Head of the Pack with Andrea J. Lee, CEO of The Wealthy Thought Leader

Are you tired of putting all your effort into marketing something you sweated to create, and producing nothing but a tiny little output like 5 sales? Add insult to injury you get 2 returns and less than nothing to show? Join Andrea J. Lee and discover how to cut through the noise in an overwhelmed market and dominate your category with ideas that turn into real cash quickly.

You will learn:

•How to innovative in a profitable way, simply.
•Ways to expand your reach and impact by building a following that comes to you, instead of pushy, in-your-face tactics to build your list.
•How implementing a 10% innovation to something you already have can create 6-figure results with almost no cost.
•The secret to being seen as the go-to innovator and leader in your market, un-catchable by your competition.
•And, most important, how to get the confidence to put your stake in the ground, bypass the traffic jam in your market and reap wealth from your thought leadership.
•In a world where there’s too much information, you must ensure your content is the best it can be. Your market thirsts for you to lead them in the way only you can! Let’s make sure we give you exactly that.

The Money Map to Freedom: Building a Sustainable
Business Around Who You Really Are With Grace,
Ease and Harmony with Alexis Martin Neely

A 6-step Money Map framework for choosing the right business model for you based on who you are, how you serve, the people you serve and the lifestyle you want to have and how to build this business on a solid foundation that ensures grace, ease and harmony in your life.

You will learn:

•How to Build Your Own Authentic Business Model Based Around Who You Really Are, the People You Serve and the Life You Want to Have (So You Can Finally Stop Following the Leader and Become the Leader You Know You Are)
•The Three Principles of Powerful Feminine Leadership That Will Allow Us to Make the Choice to Stop Doing Business Like Men and Begin to Experience Grace, Ease and Harmony in Our Businesses
•Why the Open-Hearted Agreement Documentation Process Is the Secret Key to Happiness In Your Business Life (and How You Can Save Buckets of Money, Grief and Heartache by Learning to Create Your Own Agreements Instead of Hiring a Lawyer)

Get Empowered To Become Financially Free!
with Linda Jones

How to improve your financial situation, take control of your money, have more confidence, and get on the path to financial freedom.
You will learn:

•The steps she followed to become a millionaire at age 38
•The best money engine right to grow money now
•How most millionaires and billionaires on the Forbes 400 Richest made their money
•What to look for in a mentor
•What’s Good Debt and Bad Debt
•The one thing that is the foundation of all wealth
•How to have a wealthy mindset
•How to turn your inner wealth picture into reality
•How to bridge the gap from where you are to where you want to be in business
•Why using debt for education is ok

PLUS SO MUCH MORE!!!

The Location

The Smart Women’s Business Conference and Expo will be held in Los Angeles, California at the beautiful Sheraton Gateway. The Sheraton Gateway offers complimentary shuttle service to and from the Los Angeles International Airport.  And as a benefit of being a registered attendee of our conference, we have secured a special room rate of $109 (plus taxes).

***Special Bring A Big Thinking Friend Offer***

We wouldn’t be creating a movement if we didn’t make it easy for you to spread the word about this amazing event and truly create more positive change for those people you know and love and want to help uplevel too.

So during the month of September, you can bring a BIG THINKING friend completely free on two conditions:

1) This friend should also be an entrepreneur or have an interest in entrepreneurship so they can truly understand and support you.

2) They are able to hold space for you to think bigger for yourself and for the world… “No negative energy allowed”

If your friend passes *the test*, then you can invite them to accompany you to this life changing event.

All you need to do is write their name and email in the comments section at checkout when you register at http://www.smartwomenevent.com/register-now

That’s All You Need To Do…

Our team will take care of everything else and contact them to fill in a online registration form to officially register.

Hurry and Register today before we are sold out: http://www.smartwomenevent.com

See you in a few months!

Love Sheri
CEO of Smart Women’s Institute of Entrepreneurial Learning

PS

By the way, want to see the names of the amazing women and men already registerd for this event and committed to being part of this amazing movement? All of whom you will meet during November 2 – 4!

Sheri McConnell, Rhonda Britten, Kris Carr, Amyilya Antonetti, Alexis Martin Neely, Tamara Gold, Stacey Johnes & Regina Novickis, Andrea J. Lee, Linda P. Jones, Daria Boissonnas, Carrie Jacobs, Linda Rivero, Kiva Leatherman, Patricia Selmo, Ruth Reiner, Karen Wilson, Mark Satterfield, Beth Schneider, Linda Sivertson, Elaine & Phil McConnell, Chelsea Moser, Ciara Daykin, Simon Daykin, Lindsay Miller, Melanie Benson Strick, Nisha Jackson, Ivy Singletary, Kirin Christianson, Elenie Tsarhopoulous, Shelley Riutta, Kate Karans, Lisa Smith, Teresa Roebuck, Kelly Emmerson, Wendy Dahl, Bennett Cohen, Diane Cunningham, Lora Sasiela, Beverly Bergman, Blair Wagner, Rebecca Reese, Barbara Saunders, Sandra Baptist, Julia McCutchen, Larissa Parks, Sherry Borsheim, Laurie Knight, Consuelo Meux, Tammy Kniffin, Carla Stokes, Karen Hilgefort, Camille Gaines, Daphne Houston, Brenda Rivas, Maria Cornelio, Katherine C.H.E., Michelle Nightengale, Tina Forsyth, Cindy Greenway, Michelle Hanisch, Kim Morris, Donna Duffy, Maureen Wielansky, Rebecca Franklin, Ana Mercedes Kranzlin, Shauna Harper, Angela Khouth, Laura Cross, Sandra Parker, Cheryl Heller, Amanda Graybill, Terri Park, Michelle Norman, Alyette Keldie, Alison Rothwell, Karen Knowler, Laynita Ward-Cichy, Denise Haney, Carmen Coker, Geanine Thompson, Sholon La Bar, Camille Gaines, Jeanna Lynch, Maria Packwood, Mariah Allen, Denise Haney, Lisa Goodwin, Mae Robertson, Karen Ritchie, and many many more registering each and every day!

Hurry and Register today before we are sold out: http://www.smartwomenevent.com

PSS
Do you want to feature your biz in front of these amazing women and men?

Make sure you check out our Sponsors and Exhibitors page at http://www.smartwomenevent.com/sponsors-exhibitors

Here are just some of the exhibitors that have already signed on to network with you!

- Vervante
- Audio Acrobat
- Women’s Radio
- International Assn of Online Business Managers
- Global Institute of Awakening
- BooJee Beads
- Wise Workshops
- Global Action Network of Entrepreneurial Women
- Global Institute of Wealth for Women
- Thought Partners International
- Global Institute of Visionary Executives
- And many more!

Answers in the Dark by Sheri McConnell
Excerpted from Smart Women Know Their Why at www.smartwomenwhy.com

“Sometimes you have to let go over everything to trust that which you cannot see.”

—Unknown

Faith is a big part of living a successful life and being a successful entrepreneur. My secret is deciding to have faith in myself more than any type of external force. Notice I said the word “decision” because that’s where it starts. My journey has taught me to always intuitively know which direction to head next and when I look to find answers outside of myself, I always end up off the path a bit. It took me until I was well into my thirties to be able to trust others because of not having established trust in any form whatsoever during my childhood. For me, I had to have my own family and connect with the love I had for them, to be able to trust myself and others.

The deeper reason it’s important to be able to trust is because your heart must be full and complete in order to bring out the passion and joy for yourself and others in your life. The feeling of trust will penetrate the walls surrounding a broken heart, the pain from being alone or feeling alone. Like you, others have been in the dark and are searching for what you now know to be true. They are searching to believe in themselves in the darkest moments of their being. This is trust at its core.

Let’s talk about a few ways to learn to trust yourself, to empower you to live the life of your dreams – which could mean grow a wildly profitable business, having a huge family, authoring a series of books, or traveling the world and meeting exciting people. Shoot, your dream life could include all of these! Mine does!

Trust in Balance

If you’re moving in “auto-pilot” the heart will not shine and the days will cast heaviness in the center of your body. Balance will provide the base of being grounded to the truth. Believe in the love you have for yourself and you will come from the deepest parts of your soul.

The fastest way to develop a trusting relationship with balance is to connect with nature. This will bring the balance between work, family, love, and life. In this connection you will build the foundation to hold you up in any storm. Each day, work on getting out and seeing the beauty of nature around you. This will help make the connection stronger and remind you of just how small we are in the universe. The more you bring in nature and hold the thought of each molecule and atom circling in your path, the more balanced you will become.

I live in San Antonio, Texas. We’re blessed here with nine annual months of beautiful weather, enabling me to connect with nature more often than many. If you live in a more extreme weather climate, do whatever you can to create the sounds and smells of the outdoors in your home during the cold winter months.

Trust in You

True power will emerge when you’re engaged in being of service. All you have to do is trust that the power is given to you to serve and that if you serve, the world is abundant. This doesn’t mean when running a business, you don’t charge for products and services. You can’t produce quality products and services and effectively help your customers if there isn’t an exchange of money. Trusting in your own power to lead others through your products and services is the inner structure that allows the new ideas and the new beginnings to come forth.

Trust in Energy

The innocence of childhood energy is what we tap into when we are at our center. Remember the feeling of being with oneself and having no cares or even a negative thought to speak of?

This energy still exists within you. Trust yourself to bring this calmness into your thinking when you’re taking on the biggest obstacles and conflicts. Tapping into this energy will help you to reduce stress and become heart centered. This constant energy, felt by others, enables them to rejoice in the knowledge that this power is also within them. And knowing about this energy will help you break the barriers of negative energy in any room.

Our truest sense of self comes from trusting in our energy and the energy signals we get from others. Your goal is to have no barriers or boundaries where energy is concerned. To be with the energy of each moment. In the present moment, there’s no fear, no doubt. Only you in your power, experiencing all of life’s joys presented to you each day.

Stuck in Your Journey?

Many people get stuck in their journey. They relive the worst parts of it over and over, in an unloving way. This vicious circle of disappointment in self, circles them right back around to the same negative starting place. I’ve been there and I get it.

Instead of getting stuck on your journey, take the mistakes you made and will make and love yourself as if you were a child who is learning. Even as adults, in some areas of growth we are only children and we must be gentle with ourselves to thrive and grow through the journey. What I know to be true is we’re all searching for a place of belonging and validation. You can create this for others by being a leader who spreads passion and love.

Your journey is a gift because it provides the wisdom you will need to go out and create positive change in the world. Your goal is to learn from your past and do better as soon as you know better. Be strong and have courage to change. Trust me, I know how hard it is to move past comfortable dysfunctional patterns. But the rewards of doing so allow you to stand outside yourself and get a good look at who you have been and where you are now. What surfaces is love. And then you can shine this love for others… because, you see, without the journey, you would not have this gift.

Because of my journey (see chapter one), I was able to survive the darkness and can now shine a light for others who are now in the shadows of darkness themselves. They need help from someone who has been there and who has conquered the fear of internal and external chaos. I do this by casting light on dark situations and allowing my words to fill the gap between doubt and love. I invite you to find your passions (your gifts) and cast light for others too.

Want To Use This Article In Your Ezine or Website? You have my permission, as long as you include this complete blurb with it: Sheri McConnell is the CEO of Sheri McConnell Companies, Inc. and the president and founder of two global organizations, the Smart Women’s Institute of Entrepreneurial Learning (formerly the National Assn of Women Writers-2001) and the Global Institute of Associations-GIA. You can visit Sheri, access her free article archive, and grab lots of free stuff at http://www.smartwomeninstitute.com or http://www.giaconnect.com. Sheri lives in San Antonio, Texas with her husband, their four children, a weenie dog, and three hermit crabs.

Three Ways To Redirect Your Ego So You Can Create Positive Change in The World by Sheri McConnell

I grew a lot this year. My bottom line grew 398% and projections are to hit 2.6 million in 2010. But more importantly, on a personal level, I really stepped into my power to create positive change for others. I played a bigger game this year and guess what my results were proportional. But the real reason I know I was able to really rock it this year was because I learned how to redirect my ego and focus on the positive change I am creating in the world. I realized at a deep level that my work is not about me and that I am supposed to use my “stories” to inspire others. And because I got out of my way even more this year, I learned how to think and plan with the realization that we are certainly “all one”.  This realization led my husband and I to come up with the idea during our anniversary dinner to start Smart Women Foundation this month. Below are three ways you can also redirect your ego so you can create positive change for your clients, friends, and family.  And because I realize I am a “student” first and foremost, I also included “ego wisdom” from some of my wonderful friends and followers on Facebook and Twitter. Enjoy!

1. Focus On Positive Results Not The Negative People

When we are focused on the positive results, the actual positive change we can create in the world, our ego has no choice but to go neutral. And since we are operating from awareness outside of our own needs and worries, we are able to let go of negative people and situations much easier. There are many ways to focus on positive results and center your body and mind so the ego becomes neutral. I love the Matrix movies on so many levels. The journey that the main character Neo takes to let go of his ego and focus on the results (the positive change that only he can create, his destiny if you will) is such a great example of what power is in each of us. The Matrix Trilogy comes full circle too when at the end Neo steps into his full power and knows his true purpose. But the journey along the way was full of negativity and downright danger. To deal with the negativity and to foresee danger, he would find his center through meditation and going within for the answers. And did I mention the soundtrack is really cool too!

Jenny Fenig, one of my Twitter followers gave this advice for redirecting ego: Practice yoga; give more, expect less; think of the ego as when you Edge God Out.

And one of my 2009 Mastermind members,  Janice Campbell says that she brackets her day with gratitude to redirect ego. She shared, “There’s nothing more centering than the reality that you have so much to be grateful for. It shifts your focus outward and makes sharing inevitable.”

2. Don’t Worry About Consequences If You Are In Integrity With Your Actions

I have learned that sometimes we have to let go of everything to trust those things which we can’t see. I remember when I was going through my divorce, I felt like all I had was integrity. I didn’t have a penny to feed us, but I had the knowing that I was doing the right thing. I was married to a man with a huge Catholic family and I was all alone. My mom was an orphan and I was an only child and I barely new my dad since I had just met him a few years earlier. Anyway as I stood strong through a 9 month battle to keep my two girls under three at the time, I literally had no one. Both of my parents were not healthy enough mentally or physically to deal with the situation so I moved forward knowing I was doing the right thing even though it felt like I must be wrong because my now ex-husband had 20 people in court with him each and every time we had to go. I would get on the stand each time, shaking, looking into 20 pairs of eyes and then I would begin to speak the truth.

That was the year I learned about integrity and going within to become a strong person. The consequences of my actions to leave an abusive marriage could have cost me my children…  but I knew I was in integrity with my actions and I wasn’t about to let my children grow up in a similar situation my mother had put me in over and over again as she remarried many times during my childhood.

That was 13 years ago and because I took those brave steps in my twenties I gave my children such an amazing life.

In retrospect I am so glad I was all alone, because I was able to let my ego go to work for me and to get my body and mind through a very hard point in my life. Nothing in business or life sense has compared to that year as you could imagine. I think I owe my success to the growth that happened during that year.

In business and in life, I have personally always felt like doing what I knew to be the right thing was way more important than any of the consequences of those actions. I don’t think I could do this without being able to get clear and redirect my ego along the way. In a way, my husband and his family who were trying to take my beautiful children from me because of their egos, allowed me to find my higher self that year. Thank goodness that “truth” eventually surfaces and those who act from integrity move forward in a more peaceful way.

Facebook friend, Kelle Eli and “consciousness” expert, said, “It’s not about squishing the ego, it’s about redirecting it to work FOR the spirit, not contrary to it. So long as you have the concept of one must dominate the other, you will forever attract conflict.”

Alexis Martin Neely, my beautiful 2009 Mastermind buddy says that, “It’s all about awareness. Be aware when you are operating out of fear, grasping, and scarcity. Recognize it’s the ego, thank it for trying to help and decide to operate from your higher self.”

3. Talk About Ideas Not People

“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.” –Eleanor Roosevelt

I heard this quote on a teleseminar a while back. I think it was by the intuitive soul, Beath Davis. And I really resonate with the message of it. I think sometimes we go on autopilot and just aren’t aware of how we are letting our ego drive our behaviors and our lives. I have always steered clear of gossip and yes, I have ended up being the “loner” sometimes because of this. I felt so good when I heard the quote because this was exactly how I have been living my life for at least the last ten years (I am 39) and now I know why. I have a “great big mind”!  And I never really realized why I don’t care for the discussion of politics or current events more than a mention.

One the most aware coaches I know, Christine Kane shared with me that “Lots of times we think the ego is the part of us that wants to play big. I have found that the ego doesn’t necessarily love that playing big stuff as much as it loves the attention-getting-make-me-look-good stuff.”   She says, “I find that my ego (god bless her!) gets all stuck in the puffy stuff when my soul (god bless her, too!) isn’t worried about looking good.  AWARENESS is what brings the clarity to know which motivation is driving us.”

I think Eleanor’s quote is so powerful because it brings to question our awareness of how we are creating our lives and our results one behavior at a time.

Want To Use This Article In Your Ezine or Website?You have my permission, as long as you include this complete blurb with it: Sheri McConnell is the CEO of Sheri McConnell Companies, Inc. and the president and founder of two national organizations, the National Association of Women Writers-NAWW and the Global Institute of Associations-GIA. You can visit Sheri, access her free article archive, and find out more about all four of her companies at www.sherimcconnell.com. Sheri lives in San Antonio, Texas with her husband, their four children, a weenie dog, and two cats.