Cynthia Walker, a NJ Give ‘n Take and Own Your Power veteran, has been apart of our family from the beginning. We are happy to help her get the word out about her newest endeavor she started six months ago called Start Out Fresh Intervention Alliance-S.O.F.I.A. S.O.F.I.A will offer supportive services and resources for those who want to flee unsafe living conditions.
Main service/product: To provide temporary housing, advocacy and supportive services to people who are in urgent need.
How long in business?: We are only in Phase 1 and need to raise funds to complete our 503c3 status and start up funds.
Any interesting fact(s) you can share about your industry? Most people are afraid to ask for help in their situations and we want them to know that S.O.F.I.A. is here to help guide them to a better life.
How do you stay motivated? Knowing that I can help change a person’s life!
Biggest pet peeve in business? Waiting for a call back from a vital resource.
What’s a bold move you took that turned your business around? By taking on the responsibility to help Women and Children of Domestic Violence.
One thing that you would change if you could?
To make changes to the Domestic Violence Laws. Visit http://www.monicapaul.org
What’s your favorite area on www.ownyourpower.ning.com? Networking, I have made so many new close friends and business associates in the Give ‘N Take Network and Own Your Power Community. True friends that I can depend on and I do the same for them.
What’s a unique talent that you have that might surprise us? Goddess Body/Belly Dancing, something I took on two months ago. LOL
It’s sadly time for your last meal on earth…what would it be? Crabcakes, Corn Salsa, Mashed potatoes and salad.
Have you used Social Networking to gain new contacts/business? If so, what have been any results? Yes, of course I love exchanging information and getting to know someone new. The results have been awesome, especially knowing that I have also gained a close lifetime friend.
If you could do it all over again, what is the biggest mistake you’d avoid next time around? Spending more time with my daughter. I was always too busy with business. I am happy to say that we have a newfound love for each other and have developed a very close relationship.
Most exciting moment that you got your time to shine? Chairperson Ebony Fashion Fair 2006, Newark NJ. It was one of the highlights and a goal I set in my life.
What was your last barter and what was if for? Flyers designed and printed for the S.O.F.I.A. event from The Printer Place and he received a bottle of cognac.
What’s in your cd player/ipod right now? Mary J Blige~ My Life
If you could have superpowers, what would you want? To be able to produce a pill that mends a broken heart.
Website (s): http://www.supportsofia.org
Add Cynthia as a friend on our network!
Cynthia Walker, cwalker@supportsofia.org – 973 652 8193
During a time when entrepreneurs across the country are in search of a survival guide during this economic challenge, Own Your Power Communications & C&G Enterprises is proud to offer an unbeatable registration special to their first Own Your Power Biz Conference in NY, allowing attendees to save over 50 % on registration for the event. We are only looking for those who want to TAKE ACTION NOW and STOP talking about their dreams and start LIVING their dreams!!!!
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WHAT: Own Your Power Biz Conference (OYPBC). Business and personal development workshops designed to broaden vision and bring clarity–for your businesses future! The focus is Reinventing Your Business from the Inside Out! The highly anticipated gathering of the minds will include strategic management forums on topics such as Reinventing Your Business in 90 Days with Andrew Morrison, 7 Ultimate Systems To Have Your Business Run With or Without with Simone Kelly-Brown, How to Become a Social Media Superstar panel, and Listening To Your Business breakout sessions with over six experts and much more. For more information on the conference or to register, visit www.ownyourpower.biz/conference/
WHERE: St. John’s University – Queens Campus, 8000 Utopia Parkway, Jamaica, NY 11429. The Queen’s campus is located within easy reach of all the boroughs, allowing attendees convenient traveler access. It is accessible by all public transportation (trains and buses).
Free parking for guests is available entering through Gate 1.
WHEN: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2009 – Time: 9:00am-7:00pm
Due to last year’s high energy at our Miami event, the amazing testimonials and breakthroughs, seats are expected to go quickly. Register today and don’t deny yourself this unforgettable experience!
Registration for the conference can be completed by visiting www.ownyourpower.biz/conference.
**Take advantage of the pre-registration fee of $49 especially if you are serious about starting or improving your business.
Regular registration fee of $99 begins on August 21st .
Our vendor row will include amazing products & services from various women entrepreneurs.
This year’s sponsors include Interactive One, Macy’s, Fuze Beverages, Entrepreneur Magazine, The Bloom Effect, Thinkking Media, E-Boost, Puzzle Marketing & Media, Biba4Network.com and MahoganyButterfly.com, just to name a few.
Check out this article from Own Your Power Member, Kimberlee Cusumano. Like me, she’s a Reiki Master Teacher and we enjoy sharing it with others. Some people may have never heard of Reiki or they just think it sounds a bit “out there”. Oh and to clarify, it’s not massage either 
I for one didn’t ‘GET’ it until I actually had it done to me many years ago and then I became very interested in learn more after my results. Learn more here in this article and if you are in South Florida and would like a session with me, learn more about how I can possibly help you too! I love it!
CURIOUS? -HOW DOES THIS “REIKI” WORK?
Shifting energy? Bringing harmony, balancing and healing at many levels to your life? Searching for an understanding?
Spirit is energy and energy is spirit. Energy is in all things and makes up all things. All illness is spiritual, which is to say that all illness is energetic in nature.
Dis-ease is due to an individual’s misalignment with the power of the spiritual energy, which is in them and which is all around them. By realigning yourself to be in harmony with the spiritual force, the life-force, which makes up the entire universe- your physical, emotional, and even spiritual ailments will disappear.
All energy comes from a higher source. All energy is the higher source. We don’t create it; we just tap into it. You may call energy ‘divine,’ or you may call it ‘eternal.’ They are synonyms or labels. The name you give the energy is your choice, which I respect and encourage. We do not and cannot create energy. That is the domain of the higher source.
Reiki when practiced simply uses that energy given to you and helps you direct it toward your well-being. A Reiki Practitioner or Reiki Master is not the source. Reiki teaches you to tap in to the essence of life’s creative force promoting harmony, balance and healing to your self as a whole.
Many people, including clients and students recognize that their inner needs aren’t being met. They’re itching for change, but they don’t know how to get there. Those who have come for energetic balancing find that their feelings of well-being return; they have much more energy, they think more clearly, and their emotions are calmer, more centered and more loving. It is like the domino effect, next thing they recognize is they are feeling physically better, sleeping better and their personal relationships improve because of it…. When we change, our environment seems to improve too!
Remove the negative energy, starting with negative thoughts, and you are on your way to a life that will no longer feel filtered through chaos. It is like removing a virus from your computer…. It allows systems to work properly, as they are intended.
Imbalances emerge when you cut yourself off from the higher self, which is your true self. When you are cut off, you act against your own higher instincts, interests and motivations. The more freely the life-force flows in you, the better you are able to perform the tasks you came here to perform.
You can experience enhanced well-being on every level if you remove subtle-energy blockages that impede your natural ability to keep yourself in top condition. You are able to experience this physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Through Reiki Treatments (to yourself or with others) you are able to remove negative frequencies from your energetic field. This means different things to different people of course. To one person it may mean a better night’s sleep, to another it may be clearer thinking and so forth….
So how does this relate to Dis-eases? I don’t claim it cures all Dis-ease, that, in part, is up to you. My experiences have proven to me that it does in fact promote healing! It seems that when the body’s energetic potential is unleashed through the removal of negative frequencies, or vibrations, subtle-energy flows and the body seems stronger, more able to use its own inner wisdom, its own immune capabilities, to fight off Dis-ease.
Another common question I often get is, “Should I see my Doctor?” I would never tell you not to see your Doctor. I am sharing with you information to promote and shift your thoughts and energetic bodies to bring harmony, balance and healing to your life.
Know that you have within you, all you need to shift your life to be happy, joyful, well and balanced. I look forward to sharing with you and hearing from you.
Sharing with Love n Lite,
Kimberlee Cusumano, RMT
http://thesecretofreiki.com/
Looking to spice up your love life? Well, this Own Your Power member has just the thing for you…or shall I say, a WHOLE bag of tricks to help you out. LOL For the last two and half years she’s been the founder of Pure Romance by Nirvana. They specialize in adult toys. Now take a few moments and learn a bit about why she loves what she does!
Any interesting fact you can share about your industry? The Adult Toy party business is one of the fastest growing home-based businesses in the industry.
Most popular problem you help people solve? Many women come to the parties and are not sure how to open the discussion with their husbands/boyfriends regarding sex toys. I have helped many of them open that discussion topic, at times I have spoken to the husbands as well.
How do you stay motivated? My bills are a PERFECT motivating factor.
Biggest pet peeve in business? Anytime my host or guests are late for a party…I purposely tell my hosts to tell everyone the party will start 30 minutes earlier then we intend to start and people are still late to every party! It makes me think that they do not believe my time is valuable, and if I have another party booked for later that same day or evening, it throws off my entire day.
What’s a bold move you took that turned your business around? I received some advice from a very successful consultant to start walking up to random women, out shopping, and ask them if they want to host a party. This was very out of character for me but one day I was in Target and just decided to do it…I booked 3 parties that day that resullted in over $2000 in sales!
One thing that you would change if you could? I’m not too happy with economy downturn…let’s make that go away 
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What’s your favorite area on www.ownyourpower.ning.com? (networking, barter, success stories, etc..) I enjoy reading the forum discussions.
What’s a unique talent that you have that might surprise us? People are always surprised by what a good cook I am, I guess something about me says “bad cook”.
You know the expression, you can’t take it with you…well, if you could, what would ‘it’ be? All my New Edition CDs, I love them and I think they would make the after-life a lot happier.
It’s sadly time for your last meal on earth…what would it be? Cheese Grits, bacon, egs over medium, fried green tomatoes, white toast and a big glass of chocolate milk.
If you could do it all over again, what is the biggest mistake you’d avoid next time around? Taking a break from my business, when I relocated to Atlanta, six months ago, I did not jump right into promoting my business. I decided to take a small break and now I feel like I am running behind, but thankfully things are starting to pick up.
What’s in your cd player/ipod right now? Amy Winehouse, Frank (her first CD).
If you could have superpowers, what would you want? I would love to know what men are thinking, I think there’s a lot more going on in there than we even think.
Get in touch with Nirvana!
Add her as a friend on our network.
Contact me to book Atlanta Area parties or to start your own Pure Romance business at PRbyNirvana@gmail.com or 770.598.8454
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f you’ve just done a big spring cleaning or you are about to, you’re probably thinking about (or kicking yourself for) how much clutter has built up since your last major clean. What is all this stuff and how does it get into your home? Are you hanging on to things to keep them out of the landfill or because they enrich or serve your life in some way?
Recycling is not better than reducing
Recycling is one of the green movement’s major contributions to mainstream living. And it’s an important one, but it can go too far when it’s not brought into balance with one of the other environmental 3Rs: reducing.
Right now I’m looking at one parenting magazine that has instructions for making “wallets” out of milk or juice cartons, toy animals from soda bottles, puppets out of plastic spoons, seedling trays out of pizza boxes, a baseball bat from a foam pool noodle and I could go on.
Turning unnecessary purchases into useless clutter is not green
Part of me really applauds the emphasis here on entertaining kids by recycling old items into new items. But these tips are not standing alone. Not by a long shot.
Everywhere you turn it seems you can find tips on how to recycle — everything from turning snowboards into benches, yoga mats into gardening knee pads, checkbook wallets into coupon organizers, fabric softeners into shoe fresheners, CDs into coasters and shower caps into purse makeup kits. Add to that green products that encourage us to make bird feeders or bookmarks or collages out of their packaging and you are just about drowning in clutter. Recycled clutter, yes, but still clutter.
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