Today we present Topic #5 of the Brilliance-Based Blog Panel series, where some of my favorite Brilliance-Based Businesswomen come together monthly to share their perspectives on topics near and dear to the hearts and minds of women entrepreneurs.  I welcome you to add to the dialogue by commenting below on today’s topic.

As Brilliance-Based Businesswomen, What’s your vision for 2012? We asked the connect2 Brilliance-Based Blog Panel to respond: 

Stefanie Frank - Initiative Based Writing

 In 2012 I see myself making  at least $100,000 in revenue in my business, training for and racing two 70.3 triathlons, and having fun by taking plenty of down time, seizing wonderful unexpected opportunities, and spending time with people who support me.

I’ve started to artfully tie who I am and everything I do in 2012 to this vision.

Top priorities tied to this vision are:

• Putting myself in places where ideal clients are, and when the time is right, asking for the business
• Training 7-14 hours a week in swim/bike/run/strength
• Eating well and often
• Sleeping well and plenty
• Spending selfless time with people who support me
• Serving my clients to the best of my ability and beyond
• Showing up and racing at Ironman Boise 70.3 in June and a fall 70.3 race TBD

Woven throughout the vision are my values:

• Health
• Relationships
• Wealth
• Joy
• Ease

And anchoring all of it is my 2012 theme: Consistency.

Because there is no secret to business building, gaining fitness or speed, or truly being there for clients, friends and family other than consistency.

Jennifer Urezzio - Know Soul’s Language

For the last couple of weeks, I have been guiding members of my community to their visions of 2012.  Each time we sit down and conduct the visioning exercise, I hear “but there are no details in this vision”.  Your big vision for the year won’t normally be filled with details.  It’s the big, big vision.  Here is mine:

To forward the movement for individuals to create a conscious connection with their Soul.  This includes inviting more community members and having a bigger presence in the spotlight.  My big vision also includes more love and community in my personal life as well. 

From this big vision, I then work with my Soul and the Divine to create each step that brings that vision more into my reality.  Happy New Year!

Christine Silvey - Empowered You

My big vision for 2012 is to touch the lives of 1 million “over-thinking” women and men and support them to move away from the head as their only source of intelligence and instead recognize that being fully connected with our head and our heart is what gives us access to the life our Souls desire.

2012 is the year for all humans to truly step into universal flow and create NOW what they desire and is important to them. In order to do that we must do the clearing work to liberate ourselves from the inner barriers that would thwart the magic and create unnecessary suffering.

We can no longer rely on our mental processing alone to sustain us as a human race. It is imperative that we learn to Think With Our Heart, because only our hearts contain the intelligence to operate authentically, expressing our truth with a voice of love and integrity. It’s time to bring the healing out of hiding on a global scale!

Bryn Johnson – Bryn Johnson Consulting

When I think about the word “vision”, I prefer to consider the verb – meaning “to imagine” – rather than the noun meaning “faculty of sight”.

I love the idea of imagining. Even a little daydreaming.

Have you tried that?  Daydreaming about 2012? Setting a time, sitting in a comfy chair and daydreaming about what your year will look like?

As someone who teaches planning and engages clients in business planning activities every day, I will tell you there is power in stepping away from the plan to just imagine.

What happens for me is that this time allows for ideas to pop in my head that I would not have thought of or considered if I had been working from a template on a plan. My mind needs the space and time to wander.

Give it a try. See what shows up and then incorporate those ideas back into that fabulous plan. Here’s to an amazing 2012!

Do you have a clear vision for your 2012?  Beginning with the end in mind is crucial to achieving your Unique Definition of Success!  If this post has resonated with you, this is your moment to take one small step toward propelling your growth by up-leveling your vision: take one minute now to visit BBBSalon.com or email us to arrange a brief one-on-one chat. You’ll feel an inner shift immediately. 

Stefanie Frank is an entrepreneur and triathlete who lives, works and trains in southern Nevada, USA.  She supports entrepreneurs and small business owners to write clear, influential, inspiring marketing that not only gets bottom line results but is aligned with each client’s big vision of why she’s in business.  Stef writes awesome content for private clients and has created an affordable high level “do it yourself” writing and content marketing program for creative, forward thinking entrepreneurs who believe in the power of great writing to help effect change in the world.  Visit Stef at http://initiativebasedwriting.com.

Jennifer Urezzio is the spiritual director and founder of Know Soul’s Language – away to create a conscious connection with your Soul.  She guides leaders and healers to create a more conscious deeper relationship with themselves and the Divine.  Download Jennifer’s free report 5 Days to a More Powerful Life with Soul Language at http://www.knowsoulslanguage.net/?page_id=1360.

Christine Silvey is a highly sought-after Master Coach, Transformation Leader, Spiritual Mentor, Healer, Speaker, Trainer and forthcoming author with specialties in evolving consciousness, leadership and communication effectiveness, business building mastery, and transcending psycho-emotional-energetic dynamics.

For over 10 years, Christine has guided men and women from around the globe to GET OUT OF YOUR HEAD AND INTO YOUR LIFE™. Through her highly effective coaching programs, Christine can guide YOU to transcend the Thinking Mind and open to a New Way of Being in the world.  To learn more about Christine, and how she can assist you with deep change ~ profound results™, visit http://www.empoweredyou.com.scending psycho-emotional-energetic dynamics.

Bryn Johnson spent 20 years in Corporate America as a passionate leader of high-performing teams and endless multi-million dollar projects.  ONE of her many secrets for success?  Her ability to take complicated, often impossibly overwhelming information, and to quickly make it simple and fun.  She is now bringing that same passion for planning and collaboration, along with her laser-focused implementation strategies, to her clients and broader online community.  Visit Bryn at http://www.brynjohnson.com.

Most successful entrepreneurs can tell you the exact minute that they realized their potential for success. Linda Hunt, The Small Business Money Mentor and owner of The Money Conversation™, felt that moment in the back of a taxi!  That’s where her accounting, bookkeeping and business consulting services to the small business community began – helping the limo service through their business challenges. See below to learn how Linda has since expanded her Brilliance-Based Business with joy and ease.

Briefly, what are the highlights of your career story?

My career as an entrepreneur began quite by accident. I had been working in the corporate section for over 10 years and for the last 5 of those years I had been traveling 95% of the time.  During my travels I had gotten to know the owners of the limo company who drove me back and forth to the airport pretty well. They were having challenges in their business and I fell in love with helping them work through those challenges and seeing the positive impact they had in their lives. Tired and burnt out from traveling so much, one day I had what Michael Gerber refers to as an “entrepreneurial seizure” and I quit my corporate job!

That is the day I became an entrepreneur. The first generation of my business was to provide accounting, bookkeeping and business consulting services to the small business community. I absolutely loved helping business owner transform their creative ideas into recurring revenue streams and create a solution that serves the greater good. 

In the second generation of my business, I began working with other freelance accounting professionals to help them to become profitable and of greater service to the businesses they service. In the third generation of my business, I am expanding that work to all heart-centric entrepreneurs.

As best as you currently understand it, what are you here to do?  Who are you here to serve?  What difference do you make for your clients? 

I am here to help people heal their relationship with money so they can make decisions from a place of empowerment for themselves and their family. 

A lot of times, we use money as our go-to excuse, “I can’t. I don’t have the money.” It’s the one we pull out of our back pocket. It’s the one that keeps us safe and playing small. It’s the one excuse we use that we think, “No one can challenge me if I say I don’t have the money.”

Here’s the thing, whenever we are experiencing a challenge around money, it’s never about the money. I help my clients break down those barriers and heal their relationship with money by providing them quick-start solutions that make them profitable. In my experience working with small businesses, they are creative thinkers who have lots of great ideas that they struggle leveraging into cash and recurring revenue streams. 

The difference I make for my clients is I transform those creative ideas into recurring revenue streams that are in perfect alignment with who they are.

How do you define “success” for yourself? 

This is a great question! Success for me is a feeling. A feeling of my heart soaring and results from knowing I’ve empowered someone to look at themselves in a different way. My work enables me to help someone heal their “money conversation” by creating awareness of how their internal thoughts are affecting their business and their life. Then I help them to strengthen their money muscle with practical tools to help change that thought/behavior. Success for me is hearing the excitement in their voice and seeing the light in their eyes.

What changes have you made or experienced in your life and business that have enabled you to experience more ease? 

Taking time daily to be still, check-in with myself and listen.

What would you love your next breakthrough to be?

Removing limiting thinking – My theme for 2012 is Limitless!

What brings you joy?  

Simple things:  walking in nature, good food, my dogs, family, friends.  Life brings me joy.

As a successful Brilliance-Based Businesswoman, what’s the best piece of advice you have for other aspiring and active Brilliance-Based Businesswomen out there? 

If it doesn’t feel right, don’t do it.  Trust your intuition – it’s your internal GPS!

What’s the best way for others to learn more about what you do?

To obtain your copy of ”The 9 Money Mistakes Most Heart-Centered Entrepreneur’s Make (…and How You Can Avoid Them!)” visit www.themoneyconversation.com.  Or to get in touch directly, email me at linda.hunt@sumsolutions.com.

Piña Madera is a dear family friend (since our oldest children were born 9+ years ago!) and an incredibly talented woman. Because I feel so fortunate to have her in my life, I want to introduce you to the Brilliance-Based Business she and her husband Michael run together.

Briefly, what are the highlights of your career story?

My mom is from Mexico, so I was raised bilingual from the beginning of my life.  And my relationship with music began really early.  I was playing piano at age 6.  In high school, I taught a preschool music class.  So music education also has been been part of my life for a long time. 

When I went off to college, I stopped doing music for a while.  I became a writer with a creative writing degree from Brown.  Immediately following college I had a really hard year in publishing, after which I ran screaming from New York City to take a job teaching inner city kids in Lynn, Massachusetts.  I loved, loved, loved teaching.  I continued to teach after school hours – teaching piano privately, writing curriculum, and training teachers. Eventually I ran the Upward Bound program in Lynn. 

The inner city kids I worked with included a lot of Latin families.  It was really satisfying for me to use my Spanish to work with immigrants – empowering and a lot of fun. So for grad school I wanted to get close to the Mexican border. I earned a Master’s in Literature at University of New Mexico. I loved living in Albuquerque.  I used my Spanish teaching a music enrichment program to elementary kids after school.  My interests in music, Spanish and education continued to thrive as I fed them little by little.

When I later moved back to Boston, married my husband Michael, and started a family, it was time for us to decide what to do about language with our children.   It was hard for us, even though Michael speaks Spanish, to switch to Spanish all the time during our interactions in front of the kids.  So we started writing little tunes about things we did every day like brushing our teeth and crossing the street.  We were surprised about how quickly the kids started singing them back to us, and we realized that we had a cool way to do it.

My passion – my Brilliance! – led us here.  We started teaching Mommy and Me classes and recording a few songs.  We saw we had something people super-liked that was effective in teaching language. Since then I’ve done a ton of learning and research about language acuqision for kids.  I’ve made it my mission to become an expert in that area.

Chatting with a neighbor one day, another neighbor pulled up in her car, unrolled her window to let me say hello to her 3 year old son… and one of my Spanish songs was BLARING from the CD player.  The child was thrilled to see me and was singing along.  My creative work had brought learning, fun, joy, and Spanish into their lives, just as intended!  That felt pretty good.

As best as you currently understand it, what are you here to do?  Who are you here to serve?  What difference do you make for your clients?

I am here to bring lightness, joy, and to help families meaningfully engage with one another.  Music, and my songs are a wonderful way to do that, and I’m excited that it has that effect. Our Mommy-&-Me-style classes, based on songs I wrote with my husband, help young people (18 months to 6 years) learn Spanish. 

We hope to bring language into homes everywhere—families singing, moving, and laughing as they belt out our award-winning songs about brushing teeth, washing hands, and setting the table…IN SPANISH!  Families that learn together…laugh together…or something like that!

We also sell our CDs, book and learning aids on Amazon and at our own Sing-A-Lingo website.

How do you define “success” for yourself?

Dictating how I spend my time, allowing time for creative endeavors, having the freedom to raise my family and spend time with them, providing guidance, love and necessities for my family.  Being honest, living frugally, and helping others.

What changes have you made or experienced in your life and business that have enabled you to experience more ease?

Creating schedules and systems brings me ease.  Unbelievable what a handful of alarms on the iPhone can do for keeping me on track and relaxed.

What would you love your next breakthrough to be?

I’m eager to get our next product out, a DVD that promises to be really silly and fun, and will hopefully be of interest to the many who have already purchased our first products.  Get them dancing and re-singing the songs they know so well.

What brings you joy?

Laughter.  Pure and simple.

As a successful Brilliance-Based Businesswoman, what’s the best piece of advice you have for other aspiring and active Brilliance-Based Businesswomen out there?

Follow your bliss, and keep the faith.  Like Steve Jobs said (paraphrasing badly)—it will all make sense at some point…the path of following the things you love will bring you to where you’re supposed to be.

What’s the best way for others to learn more about what you do?

pmadera@singalingo.com or www.singalingo.com.  For free downloads of 2 of our songs in Spanish or English:

• http://www.singalingo.com/songbookenglish
• http://www.singalingo.com/songbookspanish
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