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President's Corner
What a jammed agenda we have for the next month!
Hold onto your hats!
Our October meeting will be
include the election of the WBO board along with a
great speaker.
We have several board positions
we
need to have filled: vice president, program
chair-sponsors, secretary and special events
coordinator.
If any
of these positions are of interest to you we'd LOVE
to have you! Please e-mail
me to let me know what catches your eye. My e-
mail is mary@bakeshopweddingcakes.com. I can
assure you that serving on the WBO
board is fairly low time commitment, and very
exciting and rewarding.
In October we also have our annual dinner. This
dinner will prove to be extra special with a speaker
guarenteed to inspire and impress. We also have
special guests attending and a chance to see and be
seen at the booth expo. What a great way to
network. The first 70 guests who register
for the dinner will also receive a free copy of the
speaker's book! What a
fantastic eveing this will be! Don't miss it.
Lastly, the fall wine tour will provide to be a fun
and relaxing
break from the everyday and an additional
networking opportunity that can't
be beat. Details of these events are included later in
the newsletter. See you there!
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Strategies for Dealing with Difficult
People
Presented by Asya Raines
Banker,
Economist, Author of Asya's Laws
Asya, as a child of the 1960s Soviet Union, not
only tells a compelling story, but also distills her
experiences into "laws" that make you smile and
ponder.
Though much of her book deals with
life, love, and disappointment her talk to WBO
members dealt with dealing with difficult people as
well as friends and business colleagues.
- Always be in the process of building, maintaining,
and keeping the relationships you have
- In the case of conflict: use the weapons of
Patience and Courtesy
- Keep business savvy and respect as key
ingredients in all business
situations, especially with difficult people
- Walk away when emotions are really strong; wait
until you have control over yourself.
- You need to maintain control and maintain self-
esteem
- If you want to change someone else, change
yourself first
Asya read excerpts of her book, Asya's Laws:
Lessons in Love Lost and Found. Asya's laws
tell us not to ignore our instincts. Asya's laws tell us
to listen to others and then do things our own
way.
Along with Asya laws are pertinent quotes that
illustrate her
experiences on life, friendship and success, such as:
Security is mostly a
superstition....
Life
is either a daring adventure or nothing.
-- Helen Keller
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| Upcoming WBO Events |
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Monthly Meeting, Tuesday, October 3,
2006
Speaker: Chris Holman, Small Business
Advocate for the Michigan Economic Development
Corporation
Topic: Doing Business in Michigan during
Challenging Times
Chris Holman is a Lansing-
area radio
personality, host of Business Today with Chris
Holman on WILX-TV, The Chris Holman
Morning Show
on WILS AM radio and publisher of The Greater
Lansing Business Monthly for the past 18 years.
In
April of 2006, Chris was appointed to serve as
Michigan's Small Business Advocate with the
Michigan Economic Development Corporation.
He will help raise our awareness of the wealth of
resources and assistance upon which Michigan
entrepreneurs can call, including help with state and
federal contracting.
 Fall
Wine Tour with Majestic Coach, Sunday, October 8, 2006
Visit with friends and enjoy our luxurious limosine coach as we travel
to the local SE Michigan vineyards- Lone Oak, St.
Julian, Cherry Creek, and Sandhill Crane.
Cost is
$25
per person. Come, enjoy the colors, company, and
taste the wines!
Annual Awards Dinner and Expo,
October 24, 2006
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WBO's NANCY RAY AWARD is given to
support entrepreneurial women who are starting their
own businesses. WBO has provided a downloadable
application for this award. So, if you qualify, please
apply! Criteria:
- You must be open for business
- You must be predominantely (51% or more) a
women owned business
- You must submit a Nancy Ray Founders Award
Application
- You must submit a copy of your Business
Plan
Your completed application, along with your business
plan, should be sent to Nancy Ray Founders Award,
WBO, PO Box 1936, Ann Arbor, MI 48106. Deadline:
October 8, 2006.
The recipient of the award will
receive one year's membership in WBO of
Southeastern Michigan. The
award will be presented at our Annual Awards Dinner
and Expo, this
year on Tuesday, October 24th.
You do not have to be a current member to
apply.
WBO ANNUAL DINNER AND EXPO
Sign up for a booth to display
and sell your products or services.
The 4x4' Booths are only $22 extra for members and
$30 extra for non-members.
A FREE copy of the
book, The Woman's Advantage, by keynote
speaker Mary Candando will be given to the first
70 people who sign up for
the dinner. So sign up now!
WINE TOUR OF MICHIGAN'S SOUTHERN WINE
COUNTRY
Sunday, Oct 8, 2006
Join the Laura Girbach and other WBO Members on an exciting Majestic Coach
tour!
Michigan has become home to some of the finest
vineyards in the industry.
The Majestic Coach wine tour begins
at Lone Oak Winery, nestled among the hills of lower
Michigan's Jackson County; from there we travel to
Parma and St Julian, an outlet that serves 37
different wines
produced at thier wineries on the west coast of
Michigan; on to Cherry Creek Cellars making wine for
over 100 years; and lastly to Sandhill Crane
Vineyards, a small-scale, family-owned vineyard and
winery in rural Jackson County featuring estate-
bottled wines.
Meet at Lake Forest Golf Course
Time: 12:00 to 6:00pm
Cost: $25 each (payable to WBO)
Pop, bottled water and ice are
provided
Wine tasting is free.
www.mymajesticcoach.com for
more information.
THE WBO NEWSLETTER CAN FEATURE YOUR
BUSINESS
For $25 you can be a featured business in the
WBO Newsletter. Not only can you get in print, but
your article and links to your site will remain for even
longer in the WBO newletter archives-- support
increased search engine visibility for your site. So
contact Hillary Handwerger at
hhandwerger@ix.netcom.com to tell me which month
DID WE MENTION THE FREE BOOKS?
Be among the first 70 to sign up for the WBO Annual
Dinner, and receive your free copy of The
Woman's Advantage.
NEW BOARD MEMBERS NEEDED
This is a great opportunity to become an integral
part of this organization and make a real impact on
the women members as well as adding to your
leadership experience. We have several board
positions we need to
have filled: - vice president
- secretary
- program
chair to recruit meeting sponsors
- special events
coordinator
E-mail Mary Rasmussen at
mary@bakeshopweddingcakes.com if
you are interested in having any of these positions.
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| Spread the Word – Mary Stevens, Life Cycles |
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Life Cycles: Helping you and those you
love with life’s changes
Remember how excited you were as a kid when your
birthday was coming–or how you did the countdown
to favorite holidays? There was the time of
anticipation and planning, the event itself, then
the “getting used to” such as giving away some of
your old toys to make room for the new–and perhaps
taking on new responsibilities as well. Life
Cycles
counsels, educates and honors that sequence of
preparing for, experiencing, and adapting to change
as we negotiate life’s stages throughout the life
span. Life Cycles’ mission is to assist individuals,
couples and families in moving through life’s
predictable, and sudden, changes in as useful and
meaningful manner as possible.
Mary Stevens, MSW, the
founder of Life Cycles, is a
clinical social worker with over 25 years of
experience. She has created teaching and training
programs over the course of her career and is firm in
her belief (supported by research!) that the
transition times in our lives are the times we are
most receptive to healing old wounds and growing
into our greater potential–though also those times
we are most vulnerable to the stresses that the
change creates. For example, a planned childbirth is
an exciting and happy time in most couples’ lives.
However, the joyful anticipation is often
accompanied by concerns about being a good parent
or loss of free time. Once the baby is born, the
mother experiences unexpected emotional shifts and
the marital relationship is challenged in ways beyond
sleep deprivation. Most couples move through this
period satisfactorily, but a significant percentage of
couples seeking marital therapy point to this time as
the beginning of their marital stress.
Life Cycles meets the
needs of those in life transitions in a variety of
ways. Counseling is
provided on an individual, couple or family basis.
Family meetings are particularly helpful when an
elderly family member’s needs require increased family
involvement. Premarital, parenting, even
grandparenting workshops are available. Managing
the early years of retirement groups are soon to be
underway. Services to the elderly also include
guardianship and care coordination. And, of course,
ceremonies. Life Cycles’ staff is able to perform legal
marriages–and to assist couples in creating their own
personalized service. Ceremonies for the entire life
cycle are available–from baby naming and home
dedications to memorial services. For more
information, please contact Mary at 734 794 9989 or
www.lifecycles.biz
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| Business Challenge |
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There are a series of NAWBO meetings
coming in the next few months. The challenge this
month is to pick and attend one of these meetings to
increase your network.
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| New Members, Please welcome... |
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No new members this month.
Note: If your listing is not in the WBO
Member
Directory on our website, or there are changes to
the listing that need to be made,
please contact Hillary Handwerger or Lisa Hudy with
your newest information.
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| 2006 Member Discounts |
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TLCI, Website Design, Development,
Consulting, SEO, Marketing, 12% off, 662-0154
Healing in Motion, JB Myofascial
Release, 25% off,
913-4816
Helping Hands Computer Solutions, Computer
and Business Support, 10% off, 995-6875
Contours Express, Women's Fitness, $100
off, 761-8663
Cafe Marie of Ann Arbor, Breakfast/Lunch
Cafe, 20% off, 662-2272
Ann Arbor Diet Center, Personalized Weight
Loss Services, 10% off, 327-2800
University Bank, Banking/Insurance, 1 year
free membership, 741-5858
AFFILIATE OF
NAWBO
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WBO members meet monthly, on the first Tuesday
of the month at Lake Forest Golf Course.
Please join us. Meetings start at 6:00.
Find out more....
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