Bluebird Sisterhood

2011-06-29T10:26:00.001-07:00

The Feeding and Funding Mission Begins! Day 2

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Hi, I am Kim Power Stilson and today I continue the Power Mom Food Fund eFoods Global quest and hope that my daily log will help other mom's take this bold step. I like staying home with my kids and I like feeding them too. Can I do both? If I can share a food message while staying at home and help other moms do the same then I will have done something worthwhile with my life! I am excited about this journey!

“There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting.”

Today I got online and took the Food Freedom Tour

Wow, I learned something and I was impressed! I ordered the eFoods Global Essentials Pack! It has 400 servings for my family at around 88 cents per serving. WE can try almost everything eFoods has to offer and see what we like! I am excited to have my family try it! Feeding it to them and seeing if they like it will be the real test!

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2011-06-29T10:21:00.001-07:00

New news about Power Mom Kim here!

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Stilson brings over 17 years of media experience while working from home and has a reputation of sharing her voice to address and help mothers with family concerns; eFoods Global’s concept of saving, and sharing food plays a significant role for mothers and gives them an opportunity to feed and fund their families

Midvale, UT (PRWeb) June 22, 2011—Kim Power Stilson, a nationally known mompreneuer, has endorsed eFoods Global, the nation’s category creator in premium-quality food products, as the premiere financial and preparedness opportunity for women around the world. Stilson represents millions of women who struggle to help support their families but who can now use the eFoods Global concept to keep them funded and fed.
Support the Power Mom Food Fund Freedom Tour here!
As a wife of a policeman, mother of three, and eMedia strategist for 17 years, Stilson knows that balancing work, being a good mother, and feeding her family is a time and financial struggle.

“The values of eFoods Global—serve, save, share—is geared to moms who can use our model to pay for their families’ food every single day,” said Brad Stewart, President of eFoods Global. “Kim knows how tough it is to make sure her family is fed. eFoods Global makes it easy; our premium-quality food products are ready-to-eat, convenient, and savable over time. Kim believes in eFoods, and she believes in the power of moms.”
Support the Power Mom Food Fund Freedom Tour here!
Over the last 8 years on the radio, Stilson has met many people with marvelous solutions, yet eFoods Global was the first solution that made brilliant sense for her family’s dinner table and pocketbook.

“The peace of mind that comes from knowing your family is well fed is priceless to mothers like me who also have to help support their families financially,” Stilson commented. “eFoods Global offers a way to help moms share healthy meals and secure their families’ personal freedom in the current and coming economic climate. Now I can focus on feeding and funding my family from the kitchen. I love the eFoods offering.”

Kim believes family meals are made in the kitchen with the family! See this cute 2 minute or less recipie made for family by family on Health Wealth & Everything Else! Global eMedia talk show hosted by Kim and her co-host Sonny Olsen!

Stilson is the host of the Health, Wealth & Everything Else! global talk show and is the author of eMedia for Your Business: 5-Step Training Series. With the eFoods Global opportunity, Stilson started the Power Mom Food Fund, a foundational group for moms whose goal is to feed and fund their families from their kitchens.

To learn more about Kim Power Stilson, visit www.kimpowerstilson.com

2011-06-29T10:15:00.001-07:00

The Power Mom Feeding and Funding Mission Begins from the Kitchen . . .

“Let us do our duty in our shop or kitchen; in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depended on our bravery, strength, and skill.” Theodore Parker

My name is Kim Power Stilson. I am going to wage battle for my family in the kitchen. I am not a good cook but I like to have family dinners round the table. I am married to a policeman, and although he is very handsome I find it hard to feed and fund our family on his salary. Don't get me wrong, we're happy to have his salary but for me after having worked for 17 years to help support our family working out of the home, I am now, for the first time ever, going to try something different! I am going try staying at home to work, with my kids, and support my family from the kitchen!

Support the Power Mom Food Fund Freedom Tour here!

Now having always worked I have not had time to cook. In fact, I do most of our cooking from a slow cooker. (You may have heard of my 2 minute or less recipes which in fact are fast and really quite good, see tab for your copy.) So after recent changes in my life (see my last post) I have decided it to make my focus to share healthy ways to help moms feed and fund their families in all economic circumstances from the kitchen.

Today I am starting the Power Mom Food Fund. My goal is to feed and fund my family and other families from home by sharing ways to (as my good friend Donna Root always says) keep everyone eating and sleeping indoors. From kitchen to kitchen, I hope to share the food news to other moms!

Learn more about preparing to feed your family and take the Freedom Tour here!

By trade I am an eMedia Strategist, I host the "
Health Wealth & Everything Else!"
radio show and have written several guides. For more about me
www.kimpowerstilson.com"

I have been successful yet I feel like it is time I make a difference by proving that serving, saving and sharing mission of the eFoods Global company. I am choosing them because I like what they do, I like their mission and it seems like a great time to focus on finding a solution for moms and families like me who struggle a little to keep their families funded and fed. Can a business mom who has never really spent more than a few minutes in the kitchen do this? I am going to do everything I can and with my families help I hope we shall be successful!

Harry Truman said,

“If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.”

Well, I'll take that challenge!

Before I order eFoods Global meals for my family to serve, share and save! (I like the ring of that!) I need to check them out! Tomorrow I go to the eFoods Global Warehouse in Salt Lake City, Utah!

For your family's "free meals" (shipping only) take the Power Mom Food Fund at www.kimpowerstilson.com

Feeding and Funding families from the Kitchen!! Power Mom, Kim Power Stilson

Talk About ?Recognizing Trauma Symptoms in Children? on ?Healing Talk? radio show

2010-12-08T08:12:00.001-08:00

Talk About “Recognizing Trauma Symptoms in Children” on “Healing Talk” radio show.
This week’s Talk Radio Topic is “Recognizing Trauma Symptoms in Children” on Planetary Streams Talk Radio
Salem, UT – December 8, 2010 – Planetary Streams Talk Radio Network today announced that Diana Hoffman, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Trauma Recovery Specialist, and host of “Healing Talk” radio show, will be discussing “Recognizing Trauma Symptoms in Children.” Healing Talk broadcasts locally every Wednesday on Utah’s KSTAR 1400 AM and globally throughout the following week, starting on Saturday at 11 a.m. Mountain Time on Planetary Streams Talk Radio Network, and Web Campus World Wide Talk Radio.
According to Diana Hoffman, LPC, Trauma Recovery Specialist, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Mind/Body Healing Coach, and owner of Salem Counseling Center, Children are frequently impacted by trauma. The Ace Studies indicate that over 50 percent of today’s adults have unresolved trauma from their childhood. And today’s children have an even higher rate of trauma than the previous generation. Current estimates suggest that 33 percent for girls and 20 percent of boys experience sexual abuse trauma. Fifty percent of children experience divorce. In addition, trauma symptoms and trauma freeze states are often seen in children who have experienced medical procedures and surgeries, accidents, death of a family member or pet, disasters, witnessing violence, physical or emotional abuse, bullying or gang terrorization, and other stressors.
Unresolved trauma directly impacts the brain stem, the lower brain structures, and the limbic system of the brain. These effects do not just go away with time. If not resolved, they can have a serious long-term impact. This is demonstrated by the ACE studies, which show that unresolved childhood trauma impacts adult health problems, relationship problems and addictions 50 years after the trauma occurred.
Children experiencing trauma freeze states may seem lethargic. They are likely to be unable to concentrate or focus, and are frequently misdiagnosed as having attention deficit disorder. They are likely to have anger outbursts that seem unrelated to the present, or are too intense to be explained by current events. Children with trauma may be easily overstressed, and when stressed their blood pressure can drop suddenly, producing paleness, sweating, or even fainting. Trauma freeze states are closely tied to shock, can be medically dangerous, and can occur suddenly without physical injury. Understanding trauma freeze states and trauma symptoms is essential for teachers, parents, coaches, health care providers, and anyone who works with children.
Join us on December 8 as we discuss the signs that indicate trauma states in children, and learn more about how to resolve them. This program will broadcast live on KSTAR 1400 AM in Utah and Salt Lake Valley. It will stream daily on internet radio starting Saturday, December 11 on Web Campus World Wide Radio, Planetary Streams Talk Radio, and Shoutcast. Click on the link to the left to connect or to view the internet radio schedule.
About “Healing Talk” Radio Show: The “Healing Talk” Radio Show explores the best of current research and resources for healing mind, body and relationships, and for building a bridge between the conscious and subconscious mind. Hosted by Diana Hoffman, LPC, Trauma Recovery Specialist, Clinical Hypnotherapist and owner of Salem Counseling Center in Salem,Utah. Listen LIVE every Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. on KSTAR 1400 AM. Listen to internet replay every Saturday at 11 a.m. Mountain Time with the previous week’s show repeating daily at 11 am on www.planetarystreams.com and www.wcww.com. Contact: healingtalkradio@gmail.com. or visit the website, www.dianahoffman.com or the radio blog, http://ping.fm/IKB2E

Talk about Recognizing Trauma Symptons in Children this week on Healing Talk Radio Show

2010-12-08T08:05:00.001-08:00

Talk About “Recognizing Trauma Symptoms in Children” on “Healing Talk” radio show.
This week’s Talk Radio Topic is “Recognizing Trauma Symptoms in Children” on Planetary Streams Talk Radio.

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Salem, UT – December 8, 2010 – Planetary Streams Talk Radio Network today announced that Diana Hoffman, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Trauma Recovery Specialist, and host of “Healing Talk” radio show, will be discussing “Recognizing Trauma Symptoms in Children.” Healing Talk broadcasts locally every Wednesday on Utah’s KSTAR 1400 AM and globally throughout the following week, starting on Saturday at 11 a.m. Mountain Time on Planetary Streams Talk Radio Network, and Web Campus World Wide Talk Radio.

According to Diana Hoffman, LPC, Trauma Recovery Specialist, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Mind/Body Healing Coach, and owner of Salem Counseling Center, Children are frequently impacted by trauma. The Ace Studies indicate that over 50 percent of today’s adults have unresolved trauma from their childhood. And today’s children have an even higher rate of trauma than the previous generation. Current estimates suggest that 33 percent for girls and 20 percent of boys experience sexual abuse trauma. Fifty percent of children experience divorce. In addition, trauma symptoms and trauma freeze states are often seen in children who have experienced medical procedures and surgeries, accidents, death of a family member or pet, disasters, witnessing violence, physical or emotional abuse, bullying or gang terrorization, and other stressors.

Unresolved trauma directly impacts the brain stem, the lower brain structures, and the limbic system of the brain. These effects do not just go away with time. If not resolved, they can have a serious long-term impact. This is demonstrated by the ACE studies, which show that unresolved childhood trauma impacts adult health problems, relationship problems and addictions 50 years after the trauma occurred.

Children experiencing trauma freeze states may seem lethargic. They are likely to be unable to concentrate or focus, and are frequently misdiagnosed as having attention deficit disorder. They are likely to have anger outbursts that seem unrelated to the present, or are too intense to be explained by current events. Children with trauma may be easily overstressed, and when stressed their blood pressure can drop suddenly, producing paleness, sweating, or even fainting. Trauma freeze states are closely tied to shock, can be medically dangerous, and can occur suddenly without physical injury. Understanding trauma freeze states and trauma symptoms is essential for teachers, parents, coaches, health care providers, and anyone who works with children.

Join us on December 8 as we discuss the signs that indicate trauma states in children, and learn more about how to resolve them. This program will broadcast live on KSTAR 1400 AM in Utah and Salt Lake Valley. It will stream daily on internet radio starting Saturday, December 11 on Web Campus World Wide Radio, Planetary Streams Talk Radio, and Shoutcast. Click on the link to the left to connect or to view the internet radio schedule.

About “Healing Talk” Radio Show: The “Healing Talk” Radio Show explores the best of current research and resources for healing mind, body and relationships, and for building a bridge between the conscious and subconscious mind. Hosted by Diana Hoffman, LPC, Trauma Recovery Specialist, Clinical Hypnotherapist and owner of Salem Counseling Center in Salem,Utah. Listen LIVE every Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. on KSTAR 1400 AM. Listen to internet replay every Saturday at 11 a.m. Mountain Time with the previous week’s show repeating daily at 11 am on www.planetarystreams.com and www.wcww.com. Contact: healingtalkradio@gmail.com. or visit the website, www.dianahoffman.com or the radio blog, http://ping.fm/hbbPP

Timely Updates on 2010 Tax Changes & Winter Skin Care Tips on the ?What Gets Under Your Skin?? Talk Radio Show This Week

2010-12-08T07:39:00.001-08:00

Timely Updates on 2010 Tax Changes & Winter Skin Care Tips on the “What Gets Under Your Skin?” Talk Radio Show This Week

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Christine Heathman Interviews Mark D. Whittaker of Hawkins, Cloward & Simister

Salt Lake City, UT – December 8, 2010 – Christine Heathman, LMT, ME, Industry Innovator, Educator, and CEO and Founder of GlyMed Plus®, today announced Mark D. Whittaker, CPA, QPFC, of Hawkins Cloward & Simister will join her to discuss 2010 tax changes on the “What Gets Under Your Skin?” talk radio show this week. The show which covers topics from skin care to consumer issues, broadcasts Live at Noon Mountain Time on Utah radio station KSTAR 1400 AM and replays daily at Noon on select Internet syndication sites available at www.christineheathman.com.

According to Christine Heathman, Mark D. Whittaker, CPA, QPFC, is a credentialed personal and business financial planning professional who proactively helps businesses and individuals navigate the murky waters of tax planning, preparation and negotiation.

“Don’t let 2010 tax worries or winter weather get under your skin this holiday season,” said Christine Heathman, founder of GlyMed Plus and weekly host of “What Gets Under Your Skin?” on KSTAR 1400 AM. “Listen to my interview with Mark Whittaker to learn straight-forward tax strategies that will help you survive the tax season. Mark is uniquely suited for a discussion on 2010 tax updates because he draws from his vast experience in accounting, securities, insurance, retirement planning and investments. You also won’t want to miss my professional skin care advice on keeping your skin healthy and beautiful this winter season.”

Christine Heathman will share winter skin care solutions and the latest professional offerings at local spas this holiday season. Listeners are invited to visit Christine’s website, www.glymedplus.com to find a spa that offers exclusive GlyMed Plus holiday facial treatments.

Christine Heathman’s mission is to share the true science behind what ages your skin and provide solutions to listeners by putting them in control of their own skin age management with the help of skin care professionals. Christine’s talk radio show, “What Gets Under Your Skin?” broadcasts Live at Noon Mountain Time on Utah radio station KSTAR 1400 AM and replays daily at Noon and 1 p.m. on select Internet syndication sites available by clicking the radio tab at www.christineheathman.com.

About Mark D. Whittaker:
Mark D. Whittaker, CPA, QPFC, is a credentialed personal and business financial planning professional with the firm of Hawkins Cloward & Simister, Orem, Utah. As a certified public accountant (CPA) and Qualified Pension Financial Consultant (QPFC), Mr. Whittaker proactively helps businesses and individuals with tax planning, preparation and negotiation. To provide the best service to clients, he holds licenses in securities, insurance and investment products, as well as a Retirement Planning Specialist Certificate from the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania. For more information or to schedule a personal appearance or consultation with Mr. Whittaker, please contact Allene Anderson at 801.224.1900 or contact@mycpa.com.

About Christine Heathman:
Christine Heathman is the skin age management expert who has helped shaped American Skin Care to what it is known as today. Christine hosts “What Gets Under Your Skin?” Syndicated talk radio show and has appeared as a guest expert on The Doctors, at the 2010 Emmy Awards Luxury Celebrity Lounge and on The Balancing Act on the Lifetime TV Channel. Christine Heathman is the innovator behind GlyMed Plus Advanced Aesthetics and its skin care products, which are used in spas & medical clinics all over the world. To find a professional spa near you please visit www.glymedplus.com. To find out more about Christine Heathman and her skin science message, please visit www.christineheathman.com.

2010-11-19T12:37:00.001-08:00

Skin Care & Safety Tips for Pets during the Holidays on “What Gets Under Your Skin?” Radio
Christine Heathman Talks Helpful Holiday Pet Care with Dr. Jay Ipsen of the Payson Family Pet Hospital

Spanish Fork, UT – November 2010 – Christine Heathman, LMT, ME, Industry Innovator, Educator, and CEO and Founder of GlyMed Plus® and Pugsley’s Choice natural pet care products, today announced that Dr. Jay Ipsen of the Payson Family Pet Hospital will join her to talk about holiday pet care on the “What Gets Under Your Skin?” talk radio show this week. The show broadcasts Live at Noon Mountain Time on Utah radio station KSTAR 1400 AM and replays daily at Noon on select Internet syndication sites through November 24th at www.christineheathman.com.
According to Christine Heathman, with five French Bull Dogs of her own, she knows that holidays can be a stressful time for family pets. Keeping pets warm during the winter months and safe from unhealthy foods and uncomfortable situations will be the focus of her show this week.

“Poor treatment of family pets during the holiday season is one of those things that get under my skin,” said Christine Heathman. “I trust Dr. Jay Ipsen and his highly trained and competent health care team to provide the best possible veterinary care for my family pets. Listen to hear Dr. Ipsen’s advice for keeping your family pets safe and happy through the holiday season and learn about healthy pet skin care with Pugsley’s Choice, natural pet care products.”

Listeners to this week’s show are offered a free copy of “Pugsley’s Book for Healthy, Happy Dogs” by calling 1-800-676-9667. Pugsley's Choice, a trademark product of VIP Equine, offers natural skin care products for pets that are uniquely formulated to promote a healthy skin and coat. Aromatically scented, these botanically based products are safe alternatives for the lasting health of both pet and owner. The philosophy behind Pugsley’s Choice is that if you cannot put the product on yourself, you should not be using it on your pet. You can purchase Pugsley's Choice products at the Payson Family Pet Hospital. For more information, please visit www.yourvip.com and www.pugsleys-choice.com.

Christine Heathman’s mission is to share the true science behind what ages your skin and provide solutions to listeners by putting them in control of their own skin age management with the help of skin care professionals. Christine’s talk radio show, “What Gets Under Your Skin?” broadcasts Live at Noon Mountain Time on Utah radio station KSTAR 1400 AM and replays daily at Noon and 1 p.m. on select Internet syndication sites available by clicking the radio tab at www.christineheathman.com.

About Payson Family Pet Hospital:
Payson Family Pet Hospital is a full service small animal veterinary hospital that has been established in Payson, Utah since 1997. Their services and facilities are designed to provide the best quality health care to variety of small animal companions for our clients. Dr. Jay Ipsen is the owner of Payson Family Pet Hospital. He established this clinic in 1997. He graduated from Washington State University in 1992. For further information please visit www.paysonfamilypethospital.com.

About Christine Heathman:
Christine Heathman is the skin age management expert who has helped shaped American Skin Care to what it is known as today. Christine hosts “What Gets Under Your Skin?” Syndicated talk radio show and has appeared as a guest expert on The Doctors, at the 2010 Emmy Awards Luxury Celebrity Lounge and on The Balancing Act on the Lifetime TV Channel. Christine Heathman is the innovator behind GlyMed Plus Advanced Aesthetics and its skin care products, which are used in spas & medical clinics all over the world. To find a professional spa near you, please visit www.glymedplus.com. To find out more about Christine Heathman and her skin science message, please visit www.christineheathman.com. Listeners are offered a free copy of “Pugsley’s Book for Healthy, Happy Dogs” by calling 1-800-676-9667.

Cotton Candy, Mobile Pizza & Specialty Wedding Films Featured on eMedia Revolution Talk Show

2010-11-03T20:59:00.001-07:00

Candy Clouds Company, Provo Creative & Surefire Pizza Interviewed by Hosts Kim Power Stilson & Carla Russell on Planetary Streams Talk Radio Network, Web Campus Worldwide and KSTAR 1400 AM This Week!

Provo, UT â€“ November 2010 â€“ Planetary Streams Talk Radio Network today announced that Matthew Case of the Candy Clouds Company, Pete Hansen of Provo Creative and the Whiteheadâ€™s founders of Surefire Pizza were interviewed LIVE on KSTAR 1400 AM and Planetary Streams Talk Radio Network, during the eMedia Revolution talk show on Tuesday from 11:00 to 1:00 pm by hosts Kim Power Stilson and feature host Carla Russell. Listen to the LIVE stream on www.planetarystreams.com or www.WcWW.com through November 13th.

According to eMedia Revolution hosts, Kim Power Stilson and Carla Russell, they talked with each entrepreneur featured about their business specialty and then discussed ways to promote their business better with eMedia.

â€œIt was great to meet the entrepreneurs on the show today and hear their unique business stories,â€ said Kim Power Stilson, author of the â€œAre you ready for the eMedia Revolution?â€ and KSTAR & Planetary Streams talk show host. â€œMobile pizza delivered in Italian ovens with Surefire Pizza, or new ways to share your love story with Provo Creative, and even delicious diversity for weddings and events catered with cotton candy, are all messages that can all be delivered faster, greener and easier with eMedia.â€

To contact the guests on this show to inquire about their services please contact them or visit their eMedia sites.

Candy Clouds Company, Matthew Case at candycloudscompany@gmail.com or visit the eMedia TV interview at www.planetarystreams.com

Provo Creative, Pete Hansen at pete@provocreative.com or www.provocreative.com or visit the eMedia TV interview at www.planetarystreams.com

Surefire Pizza, Jeffrey Whitehead at Jeffrey@surefirepizza.com or www.surefirepizza.com or visit the eMedia TV interview at www.planetarystreams.com

The â€œeMedia Revolutionâ€ talk radio show invites business owners to take back their power and duplicate their efforts by learning to use eMedia tools to easily grow their businesses online! The show theme is â€œTake Back Your Power! Duplicate Yourself! Work faster, greener and easier with eMedia!â€ Hosted by eMedia strategist, Internet talk radio pioneer and author Kim Power Stilson, listeners will meet business owners who talk about eMedia tools, ideas and success stories. Listen on KSTAR 1400 AM Radio or Planetary Streams Talk Network or Web Campus World Wide.

About eMedia Revolution Talk Radio Show:
Tuesdays & Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Mountain Time! Take back your Power! Duplicate Yourself! Work faster, greener and easier with eMedia! Join eMedia Strategist, â€œAre you ready for the eMedia Revolution?â€ author and Host Kim Power Stilson as she talks with guests who share their eMedia savvy and online business success stories. Carla Russell is the â€œMagnetic Givingâ€ feature host. eMedia Revolution broadcasts Tuesdays & Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Mountain Time and is syndicated to KSTAR 1400 AM, Planetary Streams Talk Radio Network, Web Campus World Wide, and other Internet Talk Radio Networks. To listen online, daily, please visit, www.powestrategies.TV, www.planetarystreams.com and www.WcWW.com.

About Kim Power Stilson:
Author of the â€œeMedia Revolutionâ€ and the â€œeMedia in a Boxâ€ Boot Camp for Your Business 5-Step Training Series, Kim Power Stilson, is an eMedia Strategist who has helped thousands of small business owners share their message s online. As a pioneer of Internet Talk Radio, she and Tom Egan founded Web Campus World Wide. Kim divides her time between her home in Utah and her family home in County Waterford, Ireland. Power Strategies is an eMedia & PR company which offers the â€˜eMedia in a Boxâ€ Boot Camp, please visit www.powerstrategies.TV and WcWW.com. eMail kim@powerstrategies.TV or Skype: Kim.Power.Stilson.

About Carla Russell:
Host of â€œeMedia Revolutionâ€™s Magnetic Givingâ€ talk radio show, Carla Russell is a champion of generous giving practices in successful businesses. Carla spent 8 years in the semi-conductor industry, won awards as a Karate instructor and even tried her hand at plumbing. Carla speaks, teaches and instructs the â€œeMedia in a Boxâ€ Boot Camp for Your Business 5-Step Training Series for Web Campus World Wide. As the mother of 4 girls and very young grandmother, Carla loves the hearts of people and believes the key to everyoneâ€™s happiness is service. eMail carlarussell88@yahoo.com or Skype: Carla.Russell88 Please visit www.powerstrategies.TV and , WcWW.com and www.planetarystreams.com.

2010-11-03T20:57:00.001-07:00

Cotton Candy, Mobile Pizza & Specialty Wedding Films Featured on eMedia Revolution Talk Show
Candy Clouds Company, Provo Creative & Surefire Pizza Interviewed by Hosts Kim Power Stilson & Carla Russell on Planetary Streams Talk Radio Network, Web Campus Worldwide and KSTAR 1400 AM This Week!

Provo, UT â€“ November 2, 2010 â€“ Planetary Streams Talk Radio Network today announced that Matthew Case of the Candy Clouds Company, Pete Hansen of Provo Creative and the Whiteheadâ€™s founders of Surefire Pizza were interviewed LIVE on KSTAR 1400 AM and Planetary Streams Talk Radio Network, during the eMedia Revolution talk show on Tuesday from 11:00 to 1:00 pm by hosts Kim Power Stilson and feature host Carla Russell. Listen to the LIVE stream on www.planetarystreams.com or www.WcWW.com through November 13th.
According to eMedia Revolution hosts, Kim Power Stilson and Carla Russell, they talked with each entrepreneur featured about their business specialty and then discussed ways to promote their business better with eMedia.
â€œIt was great to meet the entrepreneurs on the show today and hear their unique business stories,â€ said Kim Power Stilson, author of the â€œAre you ready for the eMedia Revolution?â€ and KSTAR & Planetary Streams talk show host. â€œMobile pizza delivered in Italian ovens with Surefire Pizza, or new ways to share your love story with Provo Creative, and even delicious diversity for weddings and events catered with cotton candy, are all messages that can all be delivered faster, greener and easier with eMedia.â€
To contact the guests on this show to inquire about their services please contact them or visit their eMedia sites.
Candy Clouds Company, Matthew Case at candycloudscompany@gmail.com or visit the eMedia TV interview at www.planetarystreams.com
Provo Creative, Pete Hansen at pete@provocreative.com or www.provocreative.com or visit the eMedia TV interview at www.planetarystreams.com
Surefire Pizza, Jeffrey Whitehead at Jeffrey@surefirepizza.com or www.surefirepizza.com or visit the eMedia TV interview at www.planetarystreams.com
The â€œeMedia Revolutionâ€ talk radio show invites business owners to take back their power and duplicate their efforts by learning to use eMedia tools to easily grow their businesses online! The show theme is â€œTake Back Your Power! Duplicate Yourself! Work faster, greener and easier with eMedia!â€ Hosted by eMedia strategist, Internet talk radio pioneer and author Kim Power Stilson, listeners will meet business owners who talk about eMedia tools, ideas and success stories. Listen on KSTAR 1400 AM Radio or Planetary Streams Talk Network or Web Campus World Wide.
About eMedia Revolution Talk Radio Show:
Tuesdays & Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Mountain Time! Take back your Power! Duplicate Yourself! Work faster, greener and easier with eMedia! Join eMedia Strategist, â€œAre you ready for the eMedia Revolution?â€ author and Host Kim Power Stilson as she talks with guests who share their eMedia savvy and online business success stories. Carla Russell is the â€œMagnetic Givingâ€ feature host. eMedia Revolution broadcasts Tuesdays & Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Mountain Time and is syndicated to KSTAR 1400 AM, Planetary Streams Talk Radio Network, Web Campus World Wide, and other Internet Talk Radio Networks. To listen online, daily, please visit, www.powestrategies.TV, www.planetarystreams.com and www.WcWW.com.
About Kim Power Stilson:
Author of the â€œeMedia Revolutionâ€ and the â€œeMedia in a Boxâ€ Boot Camp for Your Business 5-Step Training Series, Kim Power Stilson, is an eMedia Strategist who has helped thousands of small business owners share their message s online. As a pioneer of Internet Talk Radio, she and Tom Egan founded Web Campus World Wide. Kim divides her time between her home in Utah and her family home in County Waterford, Ireland. Power Strategies is an eMedia & PR company which offers the â€˜eMedia in a Boxâ€ Boot Camp, please visit www.powerstrategies.TV and WcWW.com. eMail kim@powerstrategies.TV or Skype: Kim.Power.Stilson.
About Carla Russell:
Host of â€œeMedia Revolutionâ€™s Magnetic Givingâ€ talk radio show, Carla Russell is a champion of generous giving practices in successful businesses. Carla spent 8 years in the semi-conductor industry, won awards as a Karate instructor and even tried her hand at plumbing. Carla speaks, teaches and instructs the â€œeMedia in a Boxâ€ Boot Camp for Your Business 5-Step Training Series for Web Campus World Wide. As the mother of 4 girls and very young grandmother, Carla loves the hearts of people and believes the key to everyoneâ€™s happiness is service. eMail carlarussell88@yahoo.com or Skype: Carla.Russell88 Please visit www.powerstrategies.TV and , WcWW.com and www.planetarystreams.com.

Fund Raising for Autism and the ?It?s Okay to Play? Autism Resources International Inaugural Event on ?What Gets Under Your Skin??

2010-10-01T19:10:00.001-07:00

Spanish Fork, UT â€“ September 30, 2010 â€“ Christine Heathman, LMT, ME, Author, Industry Innovator, Educator, and CEO and Founder of GlyMed PlusÂ®, today announced that Aaron DeLand, the co-founder of Autism Resources International will join her to discuss their fund raiser for families of children with autism on the â€œWhat Gets Under Your Skin?â€ talk radio show which broadcasts Live at Noon Mountain Time on Utah radio station KSTAR 1400 AM and replays daily at Noon on select Internet syndication sites available at www.christineheathman.com. The â€œItâ€™s Okay to Playâ€ Inaugural Fund Raising event is happening on September 30th at the G2 Gallery in Venice, CA to raise funds to help families of children with autism.
Autism is a general term to describe a group of complex developmental brain disorders that affect 1 in every 110 children today. Charitable efforts to help families with Autism are important to talk host Christine Heathman and many of her radio listeners. â€œWhat Gets Under Your Skin?â€ regularly features organizations and their teams who work hard to make the world a better place. This week, previous guest Aaron DeLand returns to the â€œWhat Gets Under Your Skin?â€ talk radio show to discuss Autism and the September 30th fundraiser for the Autism Resources International Organization.
â€œAutism Resources International helps parents take a creative role in helping their children with autism,â€ said Christine Heathman. â€œI hope listeners who are interested will support the â€œItâ€™s Okay to Playâ€ Inaugural Event Fund Raiser to aid Autism Resources International mission of cultivating growth by creating relationships between children with autism and their families. Please listen for more details on how you can help spread the word for this great cause.â€
Christine Heathmanâ€™s mission is to share the true science behind what ages your skin and provide solutions to listeners by putting them in control of their own skin age management with the help of skin care professionals. Christineâ€™s talk radio show, â€œWhat Gets Under Your Skin?â€ broadcasts Live at Noon Mountain Time on Utah radio station KSTAR 1400 AM and replays daily at Noon and 1 p.m. on select Internet syndication sites available by clicking the radio tab at www.christineheathman.com.

Autism Resources International Inaugural ?It?s Okay to Play? Fund Raiser Event Endorsed by Christine Heathman & GlyMed Plus

2010-09-24T20:11:00.001-07:00

September 30th Art Auction Fund Raiser at G2 Gallery in Venice to Help Families of Children with Autism

Venice Beach, CA â€“ September 25, 2010 â€“ Christine Heathman, LMT, ME, Author, Industry Innovator, Educator, and CEO and Founder of GlyMed Plus Â®, today announced her support of the of Autism Resources Internationalâ€™s â€œItâ€™s Okay to Playâ€ Inaugural Event on September 30th at the G2 Gallery in Venice, CA to raise funds to help families of children with autism.

Autism Resources Internationalâ€™s â€œItâ€™s Okay to Playâ€ Inaugural Event on Thursday, September 30th will be held at the G2 Gallery, 1503 Abbot Kinney Blvd in Venice, CA from 6:30-10:30 p.m. The art and musical evening will feature a guest appearance by Autism: The Musical, as well as, a silent auction by artists on the autism spectrum and an array of services donated by sponsors and families. Christine Heathman and GlyMed Plus are donating a basket with a select array of professional skin care products recently featured in the 2010 Emmy Awards Celebrity Lounge and on Christineâ€™s September 20th interview on Lifetime TVâ€™s The Balancing Act.

Christine Heathman is an avid supporter of organizations that are close to her heart and it is her honor to support great organizations like Autism Resources International and their mission of cultivating growth by creating relationships between children with autism and their families.

â€œThe autism prevalence rate among children is one in 110 according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Now, more than ever, the need to raise awareness for autism is imperative,â€ said Christine Heathman. â€œCome help us celebrate the inaugural event for Autism Resources International and the families of children with autism. Make sure to join in the silent auction and your chance to bid on the Emmy Awards and Lifetime TV featured GlyMed Plus products.â€

According to Aaron Deland, co-founder of Autism Resources International, their organization is dedicated to helping families plan, implement and sustain â€œbest-fitâ€ treatments for their children.

â€œBy creating relationships with professionals in the autism community and understanding what is available and what each childâ€™s individual needs are, we can help parents sift through the endless information and create child-specific programs saving precious hours, countless dollars and giving families more time to spend with their children,â€ said Aaron DeLand, co-founder of Autism Resources International.

About Autism resources International:
Autism Resources International is dedicated to helping families plan, implement, and sustain â€œbest-fitâ€ treatments for their children. Aaron DeLand co-founded the non-profit organization Autism Resources International in 2010 after seeing the need for more funding resources for parents, advocates and researchers. For more information on the upcoming fundraising event and how you can get involved please visit www.autismresourcesintl.org

About Christine Heathman:
Christine Heathman is the skin age management expert who has helped shaped American Skin Care to what it is known as today. Christine hosts â€œWhat Gets Under Your Skin?â€ Syndicated talk radio show and appears as a guest expert on The Doctors, at the 2010 Emmy Awards Luxury Celebrity Lounge and on The Balancing Act on the Lifetime TV Channel. Christine Heathman is the innovator behind GlyMed Plus Advanced Aesthetics and its skin care products, which are used in spas & medical clinics all over the world. GlyMed PlusÂ® professional skin care products were highlighted in the 2010 Emmy Awards Celebrity Lounge, to find a professional spa near you please visit www.glymedplus.com. To find out more about Christine Heathman and her skin science message please visit www.christineheathman.com.

Lifetime TV & Celebrity Favorite JAMAH Handbags on Christine Heathman's "What Gets Under Your Skin?" Talk Radio Show

2010-09-07T14:51:00.001-07:00

Listen LIVE to hear!

Christine Heathman Talks About Her Lifetime TV Interview & Celebrity Favorite JAMAH Handbags Today on the â€œWhat Gets Under Your Skin?â€ Radio Show
Celebrity Handbag Designer and Founder of In True Fashion, Nancy Gale, joins Christine Heathman

Los Angeles, CA & Spanish Fork, UT â€“ September 8, 2010 â€“ Christine Heathman, LMT, ME, Industry Innovator, Educator, and CEO and Founder of GlyMed Plus Â®, announced that today, on the â€œWhat Gets Under Your Skin?â€ radio show, she will talk about her interview experience with the hosts of Lifetime TVâ€™s â€œThe Balancing Actâ€, which airs Friday, September 10th 7:00am (ET/PT). Christine will also introduce celebrity handbag designer, Nancy Gale, founder of JAMAH and In True Fashion.
Christine will share all the exciting details of her Lifetime TVâ€™s â€œThe Balancing Actâ€ experience, where she discusses the science behind professional skin care and introduces professional GlyMed Plus products. (For more information about the GlyMed Plus products offered for a limited time exclusively to Lifetime viewers, please visit www.christineheathman.com.)
Next, Christine interviews Nancy Gale about the mission behind JAMAHâ€™s In True Fashion, a program which builds self-esteem and work ethic in American youth.

â€œJAMAH handbags are not only elegant, sophisticated, and luxurious, they also bring to life a much-needed resource for building better futures in our community,â€ said Christine Heathman. â€œI am honored to have celebrity designer Nancy Gale share her mission with â€˜What Gets Under Your Skin?â€™ listeners.â€
Christine Heathmanâ€™s mission is to share the true science behind what ages your skin and provide solutions to listeners by putting them in control of their own skin age management with the help of skin care professionals. Christineâ€™s talk radio show, â€œWhat Gets Under Your Skin?â€ broadcasts Live at Noon Mountain Time on Utah radio station KSTAR 1400 AM and replays daily at Noon and 1 p.m. on select Internet syndication sites available by clicking the radio tab at www.christineheathman.com.
About JAMAH & Nancy Gale:
Designer and owner of JAMAH Handbags, Nancy Gale, takes trendsetting to another level with â€˜timeless-with-a-twistâ€™ designs that combine style and the knowledge of what is truly fashionable on the inside, with products that are "Made in the USA.". Epitomizing fashion that lasts a lifetime, JAMAH's original collection includes handbags, men's bags, accessories and home pieces. JAMAH's motto, 'be who you are,' embraces the philosophy that beauty is found both inside and out. An advocate of entrepreneurship, Nancy believes small business is vital to our economy. Through her own experience of owning a business, Nancy is dedicated to bringing to light the human experience of the impassioned endeavor. Nancy strives to inspire small business owners to never give up and to keep pursuing the road to prosperity and to keep the dream alive. Please visit www.jamah.com
About Christine Heathman:
Christine Heathman is the skin age management expert who has helped shaped American Skin Care to what it is known as today. Christine hosts â€œWhat Gets Under Your Skin?â€ Syndicated talk radio show and appears as a guest expert on The Doctors, at the 2010 Emmy Awards Luxury Gift Lounge and on The Balancing Act on the Lifetime TV Channel. Christine Heathman is the innovator behind GlyMed Plus Advanced Aesthetics and its skin care products, which are used in spas & medical clinics all over the world. GlyMed PlusÂ® professional skin care products were highlighted in the 2010 Emmy Awards Celebrity Lounge, to find a professional spa near you please visit www.glymedplus.com. To find out more about Christine Heathman and her skin science message please visit www.christineheathman.com.

Christine Heathman on Lifetime TV Friday!

2010-09-07T14:49:00.001-07:00

Lifetime TVâ€™s â€œThe Balancing Actâ€ To Feature Christine Heathmanâ€™s Skin Science Message This Friday!

Skin Age Management Expert Selected to Share Her Skin Science Message with Millions of Lifetime TV Viewers

Spanish Fork, UT â€“ September 7, 2010 â€“ Christine Heathman, CEO and Founder of GlyMed PlusÂ®, today announced that her interview on Lifetime TVâ€™s â€œThe Balancing Actâ€ will air on September 10th at 7:00 a.m. (ET/PT).

Christine Heathman, LMT, ME, â€œLegendâ€ in American Aesthetics, Industry Innovator, with over 20 years of skin age management was invited by producers of Lifetime TVâ€™s â€œThe Balancing Actâ€ to fly out to their Pompano Beach, Florida studios to share her skin science message with Lifetime viewers.

The Balancing Act is AmericaÂ´s only one hour morning show thatÂ´s about women, for women, and trusted by women. Celebrating life and all there is to accomplish, The Balancing Act inspires and empowers with entertaining and educational showsâ€“which helps place women in the best position to achieve success in every area of their lives.

"Women are craving a morning show that really speaks to their issues," say Michael Moss, Executive VP of Production for The Balancing Act. "They want a show thatÂ´s fun, without a lot of fluff-- they need real advice that will help them and their families every day."

According to host Christine Heathman, as a professional educator in the aesthetics field who travels the world teaching skin care professionals, and sells her exclusive GlyMed Plus products to select spas all over the globe, she agrees.

â€œI am pleased that the â€œThe Balancing Actâ€ is so in touch with their viewers that they turn to recognized and experienced skin care professionals to address womens skin and age management questions,â€ said Christine Heathman, skin age management expert. â€œWomen are realizing that instead of relying on mass media commercials, they can turn to skin care professionals for the knowledge and recommendations they each need for their unique skin care concerns.â€

Christine Heathmanâ€™s interview on â€œThe Balancing Actâ€ TV show will air on Lifetime Television at 7:00am (ET/PT) on September 10, 2010. â€œThe Balancing Actâ€ inspires and empowers with entertaining and educational segments, placing women in the best position to achieve success in every area of their lives. During Christine Heathmanâ€™s interview she will be offering viewers of Lifetime TVâ€™s â€œThe Balancing Actâ€ a limited time special, please visit www.christineheathman.com for more details.

About Christine Heathman:
Christine Heathman is the skin age management expert who has helped shaped American Skin Care to what it is known as today. Christine hosts â€œWhat Gets Under Your Skin?â€ Syndicated talk radio show and appears as a guest expert on The Doctors, at the 2010 Emmy Awards Luxury Gift Lounge and on The Balancing Act on the Lifetime TV Channel. Christine Heathman is the innovator behind GlyMed Plus Advanced Aesthetics and its skin care products, which are used in spas & medical clinics all over the world. GlyMed Plus professional skin care products were highlighted in the 2010 Emmy Awards Gift Lounge, to find a GlyMed Plus approved professional spa near you, please visit www.glymedplus.com. To find out more about Christine Heathman and her skin science message please visit www.christineheathman.com.

About The Balancing Act:
The TV show airs on Lifetime Television at 7:00am (ET/PT) - and is Americaâ€™s premier morning show thatâ€™s about women, for women, and trusted by women. Celebrating life and all there is to accomplish, The Balancing Act inspires and empowers with entertaining and educational segments, placing women in the best position to achieve success in every area of their lives. For information or to view a show, visit www.TheBalancingAct.com. Contact: Limor Windt, limor@o2mediainc.com, 954- 691-1102.

Read the Emmy Awards News about Christine Heathman!

2010-08-24T15:16:00.001-07:00

Christine Heathman and GlyMed PlusÂ® Invited to the 2010 Emmy Awards Luxury Gifting Lounge
Skin Age Management Expert Invited to Share Skin Science Message with Emmy Award Attendees

Spanish Fork, UT â€“ August 24, 2010 â€“ Christine Heathman, LMT, ME, â€œLegendâ€ in American Aesthetics, Industry Innovator, and CEO and Founder of GlyMed Plus â„¢, today announced her acceptance of an invitation for GlyMed Plus to be highlighted in the 2010 Emmy Award Luxury Gifting Lounge, presented by GBK on August 27th and 28th at the SLS Luxury Collection Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.

According to host Christine Heathman, after 20 years of educating skin care professionals in the aesthetics field, she has noticed that more consumers are now interested in the science of effective skin care. Christine has recently returned from an interview with Lifetime TVâ€™s â€œThe Balancing Actâ€ (which will air September) where she was asked to discuss the science of skin age management for Lifetime viewers who are tired of the barrage of advertiser claims, and want real solutions.

Christine is very pleased to also accept the invitation to participate in the 2010 Emmy Awards Luxury Gifting Lounge with GBK Productions. She is excited to share premium GlyMed Plus products and her skin age management message with Emmy Award nominees and presenters.

â€œIt is a wonderful honor to be attending the 2010 Emmy Awards to meet the nominees and to represent GlyMed Plus,â€ said Christine Heathman. â€œThe most exciting part is that consumers are realizing the secret of youthful looking skin doesnâ€™t just belong to the stars; everyone can enjoy flawless, younger acting skin by learning about the benefits of professional skin care treatments and effective age management.â€

The 2010 Emmy Awards Luxury Gifting Lounge presented by GBK Productions will be held Friday August 27th and Saturday August 28th at the SLS Hotel located at 465 South La Cinega Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 310-247-0400. This event is an invitation only gathering and will be held prior to the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday August 29th at the Nokia Theater.

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences presents the Primetime EmmyÂ® Awards as a salute to excellence in national primetime programming, with top honors presented at the annual Creative Arts gala and Primetime Awards telecast.

About Christine Heathman:
Christine Heathman is the skin age management expert who has helped shaped American Skin Care to what it is known as today. Christine hosts â€œWhat Gets Under Your Skin?â€ syndicated talk radio show and appears as a guest expert on The Doctors, and The Balancing Act on the Lifetime TV Channel. Christine Heathman is the innovator behind GlyMed Plus Advanced Aesthetics and its skin care products, which are used in spas & medical clinics all over the world. Christine Heathman and featured GlyMed Plus products will be highlighted in the 2010 Emmy Awards Gift Lounge. Please visitwww.christineheathman.com.

I like this new online classified sales site!

2010-08-16T07:54:00.001-07:00

Prodideo.com Breaks New Ground with the Release of their New Classified/Presentation site

Morristown, New Jersey -- Jeff Thomson and Geoff Ray, Co-Founders of PRODIDEO.COM announced today the official launch of their new online classified/presentation platform site â€“ Prodideo.com.

According to Jeff Thomson, Prodideo Co-founder, classified sellers can now support their ads with videos and PDF do, along with traditional digital images and text.

â€œProdideo.com combines â€˜the best content options on the planetâ€™ for presenting products and services as well as offline tools to make classified presentations more effective than traditional options.â€ said Jeff Thomson, Prodideo Co-founder.

According to Geoff Ray, Prodideo Co-founder, in addition to having the ability to post traditional types of classified ads like for sale/help wanted/business opportunities, etc. Prodideo.com offers its users unique, groundbreaking opportunities for individuals seeking communication solutions online.

â€œJob-seekers, home sellers, politicians, store owners, inventors and families with motor vehicles, or other odds and ends to sell can now increase their chances of success with Prodideo features like video, high resolution images, downloadable PDF documents, matching on and offline signs, flyers and posters,â€ said Geoff Ray. Prodideo Co-founder. â€œProdideo combines all the traditional resources classified sales users expect and then adds some online features that could expedite sales success.â€

According to Geoff Ray, Prodideo.com content options are a great start, but in todayâ€™s fast paced world it makes sense to grab peopleâ€™s attention offline and direct them to the content of your online ad.

â€œAs people become more accustomed to using smart phones, the combination of on and offline advertising on Prodideo.com will enable people to see what they want, find out all of the relevant information about it, and potentially buy it on the spot,â€ said Geoff Ray, Prodideo.com.

Prodideo.com includes a choice of either a removable bumper sticker or a magnet with every motor vehicle ad, and a lawn sign with every real estate ad to direct potential buyers straight to your listing.

â€œThe goal of PRODIDEO.COM is to provide users with a site that offers the best platform for their ads as well as a mix of unique sales tools they can use to maximize the potential of their product or service,â€ said Jeff Thomson. â€œPeople can easily combine their offline signs, business literature, online visual postings and Prodideo Ad # with their existing social media presence. The possibilities are endless with Prodideo.com.â€

Jeff Thomson and Geoff Ray encourage you to check out AD# 335 on Prodideo.com for a presentation regarding this new service. Please help us let the world know about Prodideo.com.

About PRODIDEO.COM:
Based in New Jersey and founded by entrepreneurs and Rutgers graduates, Jeff Thomson and Geoff Ray, Prodideo.com, (prodideo â€“ product/video) is a new classified/presentation platform site, which delivers the best options for selling or presenting your products and ideas to online buyers. For details please contact Jeff Thomson or Geoff Ray at contactus@prodideo.com or 877-452-8013.

2010-08-03T15:11:00.001-07:00

Starting August 11th!

Talk Radio with 5 new shows hosted by women with solutions that may help your day!

Have something to talk about? Join the discussion with the Fabulous Five talk radio show hosts LIVE on the new Wednesday line-up from 10-3 pm on KSTAR 1400 AM!

10-11 a.m. A Healer In Every Home Live like you never lived before and learn to health yourself with Laura Jacobs, renowned natural health expert and founder of â€œA Healer in Every Homeâ€ global campaign. Contact: ahealerineveryhome@gmail.com

11-12 p.m. Hypnotic Health Diana Hoffman, Licensed Professional Counselor and Clinical Hypnotherapist, invites listeners to explore the relationship between emotional well-being and physical healing. Contact: salemcounseling@gmail.com

12-1 p.m. What Gets Under Your Skin? Join â€œLegendâ€ Medical Master Aesthetician and skin age management expert, Christine Heathman, and her weekly guests as they discuss the outrageous skin care claims and sales ploys shared by todayâ€™s advertisers. Visit www.christineheathman.com

1-2 p.m. Healthy! Wealthy! How? Kim Power Stilson, eMedia strategist and author of the "Ten Buck Solution for 21st Century Success" talks with guests who share their success stories. Features host Debbie Cluff.
Contact: Kim@wcww.com

2-3 p.m. Glenda the Good Nurse Glenda Christiaens, PhD invites listeners to explore integrative healing options with interesting guests who discuss current issues in healing and wellness. Contact: lendathegoodnurse@gmail.com

Listen Utah County Locally! Every Wednesday at NOON on KSTAR 1400 AM.

Listen Globally! Listen Daily at 12 NOON and 12 Midnight on the following syndicate sites:
Planetary Streams Talk Radio Network â€” www.planetarystreams.com
Web Campus World Wide Talk Radio Network â€” www.WcWW.com
SHOUTcast Radio Network â€” www.shoutcast.com
To add your business to the discussion contact: Debbie@wcww.com or Carla@Wcww.com

Talk Radio Shows Sponsored by: GlyMed Plus, Inc.,Herbs for Health in Pleasant Grove, Power Strategies, Inc., Salem Counseling

24 Hours to Zero Down Marketing

2010-07-08T11:22:00.001-07:00

â€œPlan your work for today and every day, then work your planâ€ Margaret Thatcher

I believe there are three simple components you need to have to enjoy a successful business. Successful means sales, lots of them. Following those three steps makes the difference between why some people work out of their garage or dining room and end up being a successful â€œmillion billionaireâ€ while others invest millions of dollars and a lot of time only to lose their own house? The difference is strategy. Having a strategy and applying it.
The 3 Success Components are:
1. Passion or belief -- This translates to a product or service.
2. Strategy -- a plan for marketing and selling your products
3. Action -- implementing the strategy with actions that return sales
Many of us already have a product or service. Most aspiring businesses know their passions well but donâ€™t know how to build a strategy that markets their products effectively enough to sell. I am sharing with you now the success-proven strategy that has helped every client who only had the first Success Step become successful by creating and applying a plan that sells. Most clients, before they met me had thrown money away in spaghetti marketing efforts that had not resulted in sales. (Spaghetti Marketing is the slang term used to describe the random spending of marketing dollars in an unorganized, unplanned way, comes from where one might "throw spaghetti against the wall to see if it sticks!" Webopedia, May 2009) Thatâ€™s the kind of marketing you used to do, not any more, with 24DM you are getting an organized marketing strategy specifically tailored for your business.
You may be one of those who say â€œI donâ€™t have the money for marketing!â€ and that may be because people sour of spending money on spaghetti marketing that doesnâ€™t work. Even if you really donâ€™t have any funds, you need to market so that you can sell your product and make money or you really will never have any additional revenue. The great news is that these days, thanks to the Internet and World Wide Web and their respective technology offerings, everyone has the opportunity to avail themselves of free resources.
Even without money there is an expensive resource every business owner has equal access to. Time is one resource we all get FREE and we get to control. I can hear you all shouting â€œTime! I donâ€™t have any time! With being the accountant, the president, the client relations, the production manager and the financier in my business, how would I have any time?â€ It all depends where you allot your time. Are you busy chasing efforts that donâ€™t result in sales? When you have a strategy you know exactly where to spend your time. That time will result in sales. Sales equal money and with money you can outsource and have more time. If you are short on resources you need to use your time wisely.
To all of you, I know, believe me I know. I was right there complaining about time right until I almost lost all of it on an autumn day in Manhattan. Remember the glass shattering story at the beginning of this training? Believe it or not, time or not, I can help you create a strategy that will help you promote your business in 24 Hours and with zero down.
I can cross strategic marketing efforts including, cost-effective Social & eMedia Strategy, off of my â€œTo doâ€ list every day. Now you will be doing this as well. Believe me there is enough money in the pie for all of us to be very, very, very successful and all we need is everything we were doing and this additional 24 hours. It will take 24 hours to create a strategy a workable plan and it will take 24 hours a month thereafter to apply it.
Before you start there are the two disclaimers: (Yes, you can stop reading if you donâ€™t fit into the below.)
1. Your product or service must be legitimate.
2. Your product or service must have or add value.
First, what do I mean by legitimate? You canâ€™t do â€œ24 Hours to Zero Down Marketingâ€ (24ZDM) and be successful if you have a vaporware for a product or service, a fake gadget or gizmo. People, customers, your friends donâ€™t like being swindled and they will never give you another chance if you do that. 24ZDM doesnâ€™t thrive in that type of situation and neither will your business.
Second, your product or service must have value, value to someone, value to society. For example, letâ€™s take a test. Yes or no? Does a â€œDog Tongue Scraperâ€ add value? YES. Yes, to the people who are always kissing their dogs and want their pups to have good oral hygiene. As odd as it sounds it has value to a consumer group, a narrow consumer group, yet it does have value.
If you have a product that has value to anyone anywhere then congratulations you are set and now you should, can and will start to create your marketing strategy with 24ZDM!
Read the strategy guide and follow the directions for the hourly tasks designed to create a marketing strategy with all the necessary components from messaging to social media within 24 Hours. You can do all the assignments at once in a 24 hour spree or you can break up the process for your convenience. 24 Hours may seem incredibly dramatic, but the sooner you laser-focus your time on efforts that result in sales the better. (Whatâ€™s your dream? Thinking about owning a castle in Ireland keeps me motivated). You can do two days of 12 hours. You can do 4 days of six hours.

In his book â€œThink and Grow Richâ€ Napoleon Hill wrote,

â€œThe most intelligent man [person] living cannot succeed in accumulating money â€“ nor in any other undertaking â€“ without plans that are practicable and workable.â€

Can you spare 24 hours to create a plan that will help your business succeed?

Five French Bull Dogs and Skin Expert Launches Skin Care Line for Dogs

2010-03-26T14:07:00.001-07:00

Christine Heathman, Founder of Glymed Plus Institute of Skin Science, Announces Pugsley’s Choice, a Skin Care Line She Created Specifically for Dog Lovers.

Orlando, FL – March 27th 2010 – Today, Christine Heathman, an avid animal lover and 30-year skin care industry and age management expert, today announced, the official re-release of her Pugsley’s Choice pet product line in correlation of the Global Pet Expo, March 25-27th in Orlando, FL.

Pugsley’s Choice, named after one of five of Christine’s beloved French Bulldogs, is a line of natural, eco-friendly products that aid dogs in preventing and resolving major skin problems in dogs.

According to Christine Heathman, founder of Glymed Plus Institute of Skin Science was searching for natural products for her pets when she decided to create a sister company which produced the products she needed for her own dogs.

“The PH of a canine’s skin is a neutral 7 to 7.4 while human skin is more acidic at 5.5 to 6.8. Any product manufactured for humans is too acidic and will cause irritation and flaking of your dog’s skin,” said Christine Heathman. “Some caustic chemicals pet owners unknowingly use on their dogs could cause illness and even death. I created Pugsley’s Choice so I could trust the products I use when bathing and caring for the skin of my family of pups.”

Christine Heathman coupled her decades of human skin care knowledge with expert assistance in developing natural pet formulas to create Pugsley’s Choice products which include FUR-ESH Super conditioning pet shampoo, FUR-EE Detangler and Glosser, STOP BUG-GIN’ ME! Flea and Tick Repellant and SNIFF-IT Odor Eradicator.

“My dogs are into everything and I needed to know I was bathing them in something that would nourish their skin, repels dirt, remove odor, provide shine and last to the next bath to help keep them healthy,” said Heathman. “Pugsley’s Choice Shampoo has naturally based organic conditioners that create the perfect PH for pet skin and hair and additionally include Cactus flower extract which has been used in American Indian cultures to heal minor burns, bites and scrapes. It does exactly what I need it too; it is affordable and gives me peace of mind.”

All Pugsley’s Choice products have the balance of both natural and bio-engineered preservative ingredients to prevent formula degradation. Without these safe and substantiated components, the products would require refrigeration. It is important to remember that all Pugsley’s Choice products are formulated to be safe to use around any two or four-legged, warm-blooded animals, including the new born.

For a full brochure on the products and for more information please visit www.pugsleys-choice.com.

"Pot of Gold for Taylor" Fund Raiser to help Taylor McKean fight for her life!

2010-03-10T16:25:00.001-08:00

Here is the update on the "Pot of Gold for Taylor" Fund Raiser to help Taylor McKean fight for her life!

We have a date, Friday April 2nd from 7-9 pm.

Thanks to Christine Heathman of GlymedPlus the Central Bank account for the donation of funds will be ready tomorrow.

Thanks to Vic, owner of Ottavio's we have a food and a location. His home in Provo is central for a casual Italian dinner among donating friends. He will cook the food but we need to raise funds for ingredients as well as table ware and decorations.

Thanks to Geoffrey Power we have an accordion player to entertain us that night as well as special guest appearance of David Ryan from Waterford Ireland to play and crone on the guitar.

Thanks to Sean Loree we will have full media and press coverage. He will write the invite press release and I will write the advisory for that day and the follow up news release.

What we need:

Flyer/ invitation to the event in eform. I can have it printed as well to hang round people's offices.
People to invite and RSVP Attendees
Dessert -- suggestions?
Tableware and decorations -- suggestions?
Gifts for Raffle -- Christine has found some lovely products.

2010-03-05T11:27:00.001-08:00

See our Hollywood news!!

For Every Home and Kardashian Sisters Candle Support Haitian Relief at an Academy Awards Event
For Every Home provides the new KARDASHIAN Birthday Cake candle at GBK's Oscars Gift Lounge and Fund Raiser for Haitian Relief Efforts this Weekend at the W Hotel in Hollywood.

Hollywood, CA – March 5, 2010 – Today, Paul and Becky J. Anderson, For Every Home founders, announced For Every Home’s sponsorship and contribution of the first candle in their new line of KARDASHIAN Candles to the GBK Production Oscars Gift Lounge and Haitian Relief Fund Raiser this weekend at the W Hotel in Hollywood.

For Every Home was pleased to sponsor fund-raising efforts by providing the first candle in their sister company, For Every Body and it’s new line of Kardashian candles manufactured exclusively for Kim, Khloe, and Kourtney Kardashian.

“We are pleased to provide our new candles for For Every Home and GBK production’s efforts to raise money for Haiti at the Oscars,” said Khloe Kardashian. "Our new Birthday Cake candle is absolutely to die for and it makes your house smell amazing."

The first candle in the Kardashian series, now available for purchase online, is the Birthday Cake scented candle, it is soy-based wax, eco friendly, burns for 60 hours providing an unmatched fragrance value for any home, comes complete with the For Every Body Signature birthday sprinkle topping, and is priced competitively for sale online at $14. www.foreverybody.com/kardashian/

According to Becky J. Anderson, founder of the innovative fashion fragrance business with a mission to empower women to build a profitable and rewarding home-based business, she is pleased For Every Home could share its products to raise funds in such a trend-setting and glamorous occasion as the Oscars.
“The Academy Awards are watched by millions and a favorite of women everywhere. It’s a fun venue for our innovative fashion fragrance company that represents women and their home-based businesses in sharing fashion forward products,” said Becky J. Anderson. “Sharing the new KARDASHIAN Candle line and our For Every Home candles at such a glamorous event, and for such a good cause, is an honor.”

In 2007, Paul and Becky J. Anderson founded For Every Home to help make a difference in women's lives. As the successful founder of a multi-million dollar company, For Every Body, Becky is using over fifteen years of experience to give women the tools they need to make their business successful. Becky watches trends closely to make sure everything offered is something women will love to have in their homes. For more information please visit www.foreveryhome.net
GBK Productions is a Special Events & Fundraising company that is dedicated to giving high quality, tailor-made service to its individual clients. GBK Productions is well known for integrating the Entertainment & Non-Profit industries to create unique and memorable high-profile National & International Events that maximize its clients fundraising efforts. For more information please contact Jolie Jankowitz at Jolie@gbkproductions.com and www.gbkproductions.com

For media information please visit, www.foreveryhome.net or contact: Kim Power Stilson at 801-615-0035 or kim.stilson@foreverybody.com or Evelyn Call at 801-368-7795.

I am craving Daffodils and Tulips today! Bring on Spring!

2010-02-10T09:08:00.001-08:00

"The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size."
- Gertrude S. Wister

Blog title...Kardashian Sisters Celebrate New For Every Body Candle Line with Birthday Cake

2010-02-10T08:35:00.003-08:00

Kim, Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian launch the first of their new For Every Body Candle Line with the release of the KARDASHIAN Birthday Cake Candle by for Every Body

Los Angeles, CA & Salt Lake City, UT – February 10, 2010-- Today, Becky J. Anderson, Founder of For Every Body, announced the launch of the first candle in their new line of Kardashian candles manufactured exclusively for Kim, Khloe, and Kourtney Kardashian. The first candle now available for purchase online is the Birthday Cake scented candle, it is soy-based wax, eco friendly, burns for 60 hours providing an unmatched fragrance value for any home, comes complete with the For Every Body Signature birthday sprinkle topping, and is priced competitively for sale online at $14.

"Our new Birthday Cake candle is absolutely to die for and it will leave your house smelling amazing," said Khloe Kardashian. “To check the first in our new series of candle and see a preview of the gorgeous box sets we have coming please look here Kardashian Candles by For Every Body."

For Every Body, the nation’s largest woman-owned candle manufacturing company and their design staff have coordinated personally with Kim, Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian and their teams, to design the packaging and choose the scents for the new line of KARDASHIAN candles. The first release in the new KARDASHIAN line of candles and gel sprays is the Birthday Cake Candle, which is available online at www.foreverybody.com for $14. The next release will be available this spring, for a preview, please see www.foreverybody.com/kardashian.

“For Every Body soy is pleased to launch our eco-friendly, soy-blend candles in our highly fragrant scents exclusive to the Kardashian sisters for their new candle line,” said Becky Anderson, founder of For Every Body. “To start we hope everyone enjoys the delicious birthday cake scent which will be a sure favorite with any family!”

For more information about the KARDASHIAN candles, or for media product samples or reseller information please contact Kim Power Stilson at kim.stilson@foreverybody.com or Jill Fritzo or Noelle Keshishian at www.pmkhbh.com.

About For Every Body:
For Every Body, North America’s largest woman-owned candle manufacturing company was founded in 1995, in Lindon, Utah, as a retailer of bath and body products by Becky J. Anderson and her daughters. Their one-of-a kind soy-based candles are produced at the large Geneva Road facility in Utah and then sold to major retailers across the country. Additionally, the company offers home décor items and scrapbook supplies. For Every Home, www.foreveryhome.net, is a sister-company and caters to home party business owners around the globe. For more information, please visit www.foreverybody.com or for media assistance please contact, Kim Power Stilson at kim.stilson@foreverybody.com or call 801-615-0035.

2010-02-10T08:35:00.001-08:00

Kardashian Sisters Celebrate New For Every Body Candle Line with Birthday Cake! See our good news at www.foreverybody.com/kardashian/

Rare Swiss Apple Weapon Against Aging in New Cell Science� Stem Cell Power Serum

2010-01-28T13:58:00.001-08:00

Age Management expert, Christine Heathman Shares Rare Apple Skin Repair Technology in her new Cell Science® Stem Cell Power Serum Products by GlyMed Plus Institute of Skin Science.

Rancho Mirage, CA -- January 28, 2010 – Christine Heathman, LMT, ME, Author, Industry Innovator, Educator, and CEO and Founder of GlyMed Plus Institute of Skin Science™, today announced the launch of her Cell Science® Stem Cell Power Serum which gives skin the long-term ability to protect the longevity of cells, combat chronological aging, and gives cells the ability to act younger.

Christine Heathman, a well-recognized 30-year skin care industry, and age management expert says that her new Cell Science® Stem Cell Power Serum features PhytoCellTec™ Malus Domestica Fruit Cell Culture. Malus Domestica is a revolutionary phyto-technology that helps protect skin stem cells based on the science of botanical wound healing and uses the tissue culture of the rare Swiss Uttwiler Spatlauber apple to help the plant build fresh tissue post-injury.

According to Christine Heathman she says the concept is as simple as comparing apples to apples by putting a regular apple on the counter with the rare Uttwiler Spatlauber apple. A regular apple will decay but the rare apple will last months longer. Simply said, if you compare a plant cell with a human skin cell you will find that they are almost identical. Christine says that this means the ingredient in the rare apple has been proven to aid cell level repair in plants and in humans.

“The apple ingredient called Malus Domestica has been implemented into a topical ingredient which increases the efficacy of cells and is rich in plant substances, proteins and long-living cells which delay wrinkles, ageing and boost the longevity of skin cells,” said Christine Heathman, GlyMed Plus Institute of Skin Science™. “These stem cells and their science is a landmark breakthrough for age management experts who have shown by various experiments and studies that it has the power to delay and repair wrinkles on 100% of test subjects.”

The GlyMed Plus Institute of Skin Science founder agrees that nothing stops ageing but insists you can manage aging by giving your skin cells the advantage of preservation and massive research shows that the use of the Stem Cell botanical gives you younger acting cells and leads to healthier cells reproduction in your body.

“Our new Cell Science® Stem Cell Power Serum uses the rare apple or PhytoCellTec™ Malus Domestica Fruit Cell Culture ingredient along with other botanical ingredients to give skin care users the advantage of the stem cell,” said Christine Heathman. “DNA plays a critical role our skins ability to rejuvenate and the stem cell research substantiates that the rare apple ingredient is a weapon to protect and repair injured cells. This ingredient targets the cells that help other cells grow. When you give the skin cells help the end result for the facial skin and neck is fantastic!”

For a full brochure on the products and for more information please visit www.glymedplus.com.

About GlyMed Plus Institute of Skin Science™:
GlyMed Plus Institute of Skin Science, headquartered in Spanish Fork, Utah offers exclusive product and information resources for estheticians, physicians and spa professionals seeking a smart, scientific approach to regenerating the skin of their patients and clients. GlyMed’s approach is refreshing: pure science, real information, and not overblown with the promises. GlyMed Plus® offers multi-faceted professional-only skin care systems with a complete range of natural and medically effective progressive formulas in over 98 products. The GlyMed Plus Institute of Skin Science™, unsurpassed in the most advanced esthetic courses for Skin of Color, Acne, Peeling, Advanced Peeling, Pigmentation, Menopausal Skin, Rosacea, Corrective Makeup, and Ultrasound Skin Care. For more information please visit: www.glymedplus.com. For eMedia questions, please contact: Kim Power Stilson, Power Strategies Agency at kim@powerstrategies.TV or 801-615-0035.

Online Classified Sales Website Set to Offer Visual Confidence to Global Buyers & Sellers

2010-01-28T13:56:00.001-08:00

Prodideo.com offers visual confidence for online classified sales transactions, soon to launch by partners Thomson and Ray.

Weehawken, New Jersey, January 27, 2010 (PRWEB) -- Jeff Thomson and Geoff Ray, today announced the pre-launch of their new classified online product/video sales site – Prodideo.com.

Prodideo.com is an innovative new classified product video sales service Website which offers global solutions for buyers and sellers looking to sell their wares on online. Prodideo.com offers technology that will allow buyers and sellers to search for tangible products like antiques, appliances, electronics, baby gear, and real estate to services like business opportunities, freelance talent, business opportunities and vacation home swaps. The site offers services which include a range of online and offline marketing services to assist sellers in reaching local and global buyers.

According to Jeff Thomson, Prodideo founder, he and partner, Geoff Ray, started building Prodideo as a solution to their own frustration with online classified sales sites. They saw the pictures, read the text descriptions yet before committing to spending a large sum of money they wanted to know it worked. A video of the product was the only solution.

“Online Classified sales are a global revolution with many people selling new, used and refurbished items to each other online,” said Jeff Thomson, Prodideo founder. “Prodidieo offers the visual confidence buyers need to buy items online. In turn, buyer confidence provides better results for sellers.”

According to Geoff Ray, Prodideo co-founder, they felt it also was important to combine local sales tools with globally visual online technology to provide a comprehensive classified sales solution.

“List your motorcycle on Prodideo.com and we send you signage to post on the vehicle that provides directions to a link to the online video showing your motorcycle in action. We provide complete classified sales support items to assist with real estate, boats, motor vehicles,” says Geoff Ray. “Prodideo’s goal is to provide visual confidence in all forms to online and offline classified buyers and sellers.”

Prodideo is set to launch its online classified sales service to buyers and sellers Spring 2010.
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About Prodideo.com:
Based in New Jersey and founded by entrepreneurs and Rutgers graduates, Jeff Thomson and Geoff Ray, Prodideo.com, (prodideo – product/video) is a new classified sales product video service site, which delivers more sales features connection options to online buyers and sellers. Prodideo.com is positioned to become offer the next generation of online classified service and is set for launch in Spring 2010. For details prior to Spring 2010 launch please visit www.Prodideo.com. For eMedia information please contact Kim Power Stilson of Power Strategies, 801-615-0035 or Kim@powerstrategies.TV.

2010-01-21T08:30:00.001-08:00

Here's some good news for all you baby boomers out there!

Gung Ho Grandma and Home-Party Business Success Celebrated at For Every Home Rally in Memphis

For Every Home Celebrates National Business Builder, Barbara Williams and Others Who Dream to Create Their Own Success, During Conference and Rally at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis January 28th & 29th.

Memphis, TN – January 21, 2010 – Today, Paul and Becky Anderson, For Every Home founders, announced that top consultant and grandmother, Barbara Williams, will be honored at their annual Leadership Conference and Rally to be held January 28-29th at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, TN.
Barbara Williams, from Blytheville, Arkansas is the first person in the continental U.S. to reach the lofty position of Unit Director. Barbara has accomplished this as a post-retirement career and leads, guides and directs a team of home-based business owners in sharing the message of For Every Home products which included soy-based, eco-friendly, candles and gel sprays and home décor. For Every Home is a home-party business with a mission to empower women to build a profitable and rewarding home-based business while cultivating opportunities to celebrate the moments, memories, and milestones of home.
According to Jake Mulder, For Every Home Director of Business Development, although the annual For Every Home Leadership Conference will be training and celebration for those who have already started their business, the rally following will be a great opportunity for those looking for opportunities to increase their income or begin a home-based business, to learn more about the For Every Home team and take advantage of special promotional offers that will be shared with those interested in pursuing their own career.
“For Every Home, launched less than 2 years ago, is one of the fastest-growing Home-Party businesses in the country,” said Jake Mulder. “The opportunity and our products seem to attract people who are driven to generate an income for their families. Our most successful like meeting other people through fun and educational home parties and then encouraging those with the same drive to do the same. The results, as Barbara Williams has seen, are nothing short of spectacular.”
In 2007, Becky J. Anderson founded For Every Home to help make a difference in women's lives. As the successful founder of a multi-million dollar company, she is using over fifteen years of experience to give women the tools they need to make their business successful. All of the products at For Every Home are created by Becky and her team. She watches trends closely to make sure everything offered is something women will love to have in their homes.

Becky and Paul Anderson will be the keynote speakers at the For Every Home rally, which is open to the public, on January 29th at 6:30 p.m. at the Peabody Hotel. Professional attire is suggested.

For more information please visit, www.foreveryhome.net or contact: Kim Power Stilson at 801-615-0035 or Evelyn Call at 801-368-7795.

Candle Company Recycles 117 tons of Garbage, Wins Award

2010-01-14T11:44:00.001-08:00

For Every Body’s 52% Recycling Rate Merits Top 10 Award

For Every Body Chosen as Top Ten Utah County Recycler and 2009 Green Team Excellence Award for 52% Recycling Recovery Rate

Lindon, UT – January 14th, 2010 – Paul Anderson, CEO of For Every Body, today was pleased to announce being awarded the “2009 Green Team Excellence Award” for the company’s recycling and redirecting garbage efforts, by Dunn Recycling.

According to Paul Anderson, CEO of the nation’s largest woman-owned candle manufacturer, in 2009 For Every Body recycled and reused 117 tons of garbage totaling an approximately 52% recovery rate of the total trash volume.

“For Every Body recycles wax, rebuilds old pallets, sorts garbage and sells scrap all in the effort to be conscious of the company’s impact on the environment,” said Paul Anderson. “It is imperative that large manufacturers be mindful of the waste it produces. Landfills are filling up at an alarming rate in this country and by recycling we can alleviate some of the overburden on the environment.”

According to Pat Dunn, owner of Dunn Recycling, the “2009 Green Team Excellence Award” is given to companies that are committed to recycling and diverting trash from the landfill.

“To put things in perspective, most companies strive for 20% to 30% recycle rates,” said Pat Dunn, of Dunn Recycling. “For Every Body’s recovery rate of 52% (in their first year) puts them at the top 10% of recyclers in Utah County. For Every Body is really committed to being green.”

For more information about For Every Body please contact Kim Power Stilson at kim.stilson@foreverybody.com.

About For Every Body
For Every Body, North America’s largest woman-owned candle manufacturing company was founded in 1995, in Lindon, Utah, as a retailer of bath and body products by Becky Anderson and her daughters. Their one-of-a kind soy-based candles are produced at the large Geneva Road facility in Utah and then sold to major retailers across the country. Additionally, the company offers home décor items and scrapbook supplies. For Every Home, www.foreveryhome.net, is a sister-company and caters to home party business owners around the globe. For more information, please visit www.foreverybody.com or for media assistance please contact, Kim Power Stilson at kim.stilson@foreverybody.com or call 801-615-0035
About Dunn Recycling
Dunn Recycling was established to assist the communities of Utah in their recycling efforts. We process Recycling for commercial haulers, large cities and counties to return the materials back to the manufactures to be made into new products. Dunn Recycling has three locations; Orem, Lindon, and Heber, Utah. For more information please contact, Pat Dunn at 801-221-9001
Pat@dunnutah.com and visit www.dunnrecycling.com.

For Every Body on KUTV!

2010-01-12T10:15:00.001-08:00

Thanks to Mary and the Noon News team at channel 2 for this great segment on our candles! for http://ping.fm/oE65x

For Every Body in the Utah News!

2010-01-12T10:14:00.001-08:00

Thanks to Amanda Chamberlain great post in . . .
In Utah This Week | Events schedule, photos, dining, nightlife, bands and more!
dev.inthisweek.com

2010-01-08T20:31:00.001-08:00

Here is the project I have been working on with For Every Body and the KARDASHIAN sisters! Fun to see this go so viral! http://ping.fm/1xOko

2010-01-07T07:40:00.001-08:00

Here is some great news for Web Campus World Wide and Dave Ryan in Ireland! The photo is from his pub, The Thatch, in County Waterford! See here: http://ping.fm/grWSn

2009-12-30T16:08:00.001-08:00

And here they are again! Go Jeff and Geoff! http://ping.fm/3dNhh

2009-12-30T16:06:00.001-08:00

These guys, Jeff Thomson and Geoff Ray are on to something! http://ping.fm/jNQeY

Kardashian Sisters Sign Exclusive Agreement with For Every Body

2009-12-29T13:51:00.001-08:00

Here is some good news for a woman and her daughters who started their candle company less than 15 years ago in a little apple orchard in Utah!

Kardashian Sisters Sign Exclusive Agreement with For Every Body to Produce DASH Candles

The Kardashian Group chooses For Every Body, the largest woman-owned, soy-based, candle manufacturer in U.S., to produce their New DASH Candle and Gel Spray Line

Los Angeles, CA & Salt Lake City, UT – December 29, 2009 -- Today, Becky Anderson, Founder of For Every Body, announced the signing of an agreement with the Kardashian group to be the exclusive manufacturers of their new DASH line of candles and gel sprays.

For Every Body, the nation’s largest minority-owned candle manufacturing company and their design staff have coordinated personally with Kim, Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian and their teams, to design the packaging and choose the scents for their new line of DASH candles. The Kardashian and For Every Body the relationship began with a phone call from People Magazine after Kim Kardashian chose For Every Body’s “Birthday Cake” as her favorite candle scent. Although the People interview never went to print, introductions were made and a partnership was born.

"Our new DASH line of candles are designed and produced exclusively with each of our favorite scents in mind by For Every Body," said Kim Kardashian. “They smell fabulous; we know everyone will love them!"

Kardashian line will be eco-friendly soy-based candles complete with For Every Body signature specialty toppers. As well as selling in the DASH retail store, the DASH candle and gel spray lines will be offered to department and retail stores such as Target, Macy’s and Nordstrom.

“For Every Body is pleased to be the sole candle manufacturers for the Kardashian DASH candles and gel sprays,” said Becky Anderson, founder of For Every Body. “Soon you will be able to purchase Kim, Khloe and Kourtney’s favorite DASH candles at a quality retail store near you.”

For more information about the DASH candles please contact Kim Power Stilson at kim.stilson@foreverybody.com or Jill Fritzo or Noelle Keshishian at www.pmkhbh.com.

About For Every Body
For Every Body, North America’s largest minority-owned candle manufacturing company was founded in 1995, in Lindon, Utah, as a retailer of bath and body products by Becky Anderson and her daughters. Their one-of-a kind soy-based candles are produced at the large Geneva Road facility in Utah and then sold to major retailers across the country. Additionally, the company offers home décor items and scrapbook supplies. For Every Home, www.foreveryhome.net, is a sister-company and caters to home party business owners around the globe. For more information, please visit www.foreverybody.com or for media assistance please contact, Kim Power Stilson at kim.stilson@foreverybody.com or call 801-615-0035.

Good Holiday News from For Every Body!

2009-12-29T13:49:00.001-08:00

We are proud of the For Every Body team featured in this link . . . on ksl.com.
http://ping.fm/GFluq

Merry Christmas For Every Body
For Every Body Employees Gather Christmas Eve Dinner for Local Widows and Single Mothers and all those who have no local family for the Holiday.

Lindon, UT – December 22, 2009 -- Today, Becky Anderson, working mother and founder of the nation’s largest minority-owned candle manufacturing company is pleased to share a story of good will and Christmas cheer.

According to Becky Anderson, this week an employee of hers was saying that she and her three kids had no plans for Christmas Eve and that the employee’s nine-year-old-son said he wondered if there were other people who also had nowhere to go for the holiday. The mother (who wishes to remain anonymous) asked around and found that there were 29 widows and several single mothers’ in the local area who also had no local friends or family or plans to spend Christmas Eve in any particular way. It was at that point that the mom and her children decided to invite all those without plans into their home for Christmas Eve dinner.

As word spread of the holiday efforts, more and more people joined in to suggest people who may need a place to go for Christmas Eve dinner and the numbers are still growing. Already neighbors and friends are donating food for the Christmas Eve dinner and loaning chairs and tables for the Christmas Eve event which seems to be growing.

According to Becky Anderson, when her other employees heard about the idea of sharing Christmas Eve Dinner with widows and single moms they decided gifts were needed too. Several For Every Body employees offered to donate their own Christmas Bonus Gift Cards to the cause and For Every Body donated the rest.

“People love to give and during the holidays we often join in on organized efforts to help the poor and needy, but often we forget about the others who are doing okay yet just need a little company at Christmas time,” said Becky Anderson. “I love that one person’s solution to their lack of holiday plans was creating a party for others in the same situation. No one should be alone on the holidays, look around you find those who don’t have family or friends around, and invite them into your home for the holidays. I doubt there is a better way to celebrate than by opening up our doors and our hearts during Christmas.”

According to For Every Body employee who has been helping organize efforts and wrap the donated gifts from For Every Body for the Christmas Eve party, Evelyn Call, says that as word is spreading more and more people are joining in to help.

“If you know of someone who would like to join the Christmas Eve dinner or if you would like to donate to the dinner, please contact us. We hope to spread a little Christmas company to those who might be alone on Christmas Eve.”

To offer assistance, or for media assistance, please contact Kim Stilson at 801-615-0035

The year 1806 and my Christmas Spirit today!

2009-12-23T07:21:00.001-08:00

I memorized the following poem by William Wordsworth when I was in high school. A couple of times over the years as I have gotten a little consumed with Christmas shopping or keeping up with the Joneses, this poem will pop into my head. Yesterday as I worked a full day, picked up a few last minute gifts and then baked 3 batches of cookies,made 5 Christmas casseroles and ended the day by running a load of laundry . . . there it was again! This poem, written in 1806, is as relevant if not more so, for us today. I was too tired to care too much last night, but this morning at the crack of dawn (literally) I rose up early to have a moment to just be, to just breathe, to remember who I am, what my goals are, what I love about my life . . . it felt so good. Now I feel a little more centered and as I return with a less hurried and more thankful heart to the work that is necessary for the season . . . I feel alive and well and filled with the spirit we all want to have for the holidays! If you like . . . please read and enjoy . . .

THE world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not.--Great God! I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.

William Wordsworth, 1806

2009-12-23T07:08:00.001-08:00

A Christmas candle is a lovely thing. It makes no noise at all. But softly gives itself away. ~Eva Logue

2009-12-18T14:32:00.003-08:00

Back by popular demand! The best brownies! During the holidays, my sister Evelyn Power (yes the name sounds old but she is young and beautiful) makes THE BEST brownies. We all line up to eat them. My kids think they are magic . . . the disappear quickly! Calorie rich but worth it!

Since I won't get to see her or her family over the holidays I am making the brownies for a family party -- Chad's side, yea, Chad has a side now -- so thought I would share the magic with those of you who would like to enjoy a POWER family tradition! Cheers!

Evelyn Power's CHOCOLATE CARAMEL BROWNIES

1 pkg. Kraft caramels1
(8 oz.) can of evaporated milk
3/4 stick butter
1 pkg. German chocolate cake mix
1 c. chopped pecans
1 c. chocolate chips
Melt one package of Kraft caramels and 2/3 cup of evaporated milk. In a mixing bowl melt 3/4 stick of butter. Add German chocolate cake mix, 1 cup of chopped pecans and 1/3 cup of evaporated milk. Mix into a batter.Spread half of the batter in a greased and floured pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 8 minutes. Pour melted caramel over batter (after baked). Sprinkle 1 cup of chocolate chips on top and sprinkle the other half of the batter. Bake at 350 degrees for 18-20 minutes.

2009-12-18T14:32:00.001-08:00

Back by popular demand . . .
THE BEST brownies. We all line up to eat them. My kids think they are magic . . . the disappear quickly! Calorie rich but worth it!

Since I won't get to see her or her family over the holidays I am making the brownies for a family party -- Chad's side, yea, Chad has a side now -- so thought I would share the magic with those of you who would like to enjoy a POWER family tradition! Cheers!

Evelyn Power's CHOCOLATE CARAMEL BROWNIES

1 pkg. Kraft caramels1
(8 oz.) can of evaporated milk
3/4 stick butter
1 pkg. German chocolate cake mix
1 c. chopped pecans
1 c. chocolate chips
Melt one package of Kraft caramels and 2/3 cup of evaporated milk. In a mixing bowl melt 3/4 stick of butter. Add German chocolate cake mix, 1 cup of chopped pecans and 1/3 cup of evaporated milk. Mix into a batter.Spread half of the batter in a greased and floured pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 8 minutes. Pour melted caramel over batter (after baked). Sprinkle 1 cup of chocolate chips on top and sprinkle the other half of the batter. Bake at 350 degrees for 18-20 minutes.

Way to Go David Ryan!

2009-12-18T14:26:00.001-08:00

The Thatch Pub Owner Dave Ryan Takes his Pub Online and Hosts New Radio Show with Web Campus World Wide

Waterford City, Ireland & Spanish Fork, UT, USA – December 18, 2009 – Web Campus World Wide co-founder Tom Egan and Kim Power Stilson today announced the selection of David Ryan as a new talk show host addition to their team.
David J. Ryan, a self-made entrepreneur and graduate of the University of Aberdeen in Scotland and soon the Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT), who focuses his time on his thriving business and commercial development projects. He owns The Thatch a pub at the edge of beautiful Waterford, Ireland found that he needed to do more to attract business using his Website and online tools. He took the eMedia Survival Series from Web Campus World Wide. The eMedia Survival Series is a 5 Step online course that teaches small business owners how to market, sell, connect and compete online.

"I had been struggling to get my Website ready to attract travel customers across the globe to my little pub in Ireland,” said David Ryan of The Thatch Pub. “I took the entire 5 Steps of the eMedia Survival Series and it changed the way I did business offline in the pub and online with my site and strategic promotions.”
According to David Ryan, if you think you are too busy to learn a skill that will help increase customers, build sales and align your business than you will never succeed. He says it did not take much time or much effort to learn what he didn't know about marketing online.
“It was terrific for my business and for my ability to engage and retain help. I can't do it all myself even now but I know what needs to be done and how to hire the appropriate help. I am a lifetime fan of Web Campus World Wide’s 5-Step eMedia Survival Series!"
Dave’s success was such that he was invited to join the Web Campus World Wide Talk Radio Network as a weekly talk radio host on “21st Century Success” radio show. You can listen to his shows on www.WcWW.com. You can visit Dave Ryan at The Thatch Pub most weeknights where they play live music and serve excellent fare. When not coaching or on the radio, you’ll find Dave, with his own guitar and mandolin, playing round the fireplace. Visit in person or visit virtually at www.thethatchpub.com.
Guests are booked by date with a producer, and call in via phone or Skype. For interview requests, please contact chad@WcWW.com .

Congratulations Bonnie Conrad!

2009-12-18T14:25:00.001-08:00

Award-Winning American Woman Artist, Bonnie Conrad, Exhibits at Impressions Fine Art Studio During Gallery Walk in St. George, Utah

This painting called, The Lady and her Mare. Bonnie Conrad, best known for her Western and Women Image Art, will be featured in a St. George Art Walk this December.
St. George, UT & Woodland Hills, UTAH – December 3, 2009 – Nationally known local artist Bonnie Conrad of Windance Fine Art, today announced, her upcoming Art Reception at Impressions Fine Art, during the Gallery Walk December 11th -26th at 189 North Main Street, St. George, Utah.
A graduate of Brigham Young University, now a resident of Woodland Hills, UT, Conrad's oil painting is distinct in its passion for color, its celebration of light and its somewhat impressionistic approach. Bonnie is the recipient of several prestigious art awards and has been invited to join several organizations including American Women Artists.
According to Bonnie Conrad, mother of six and grandmother to several, her work is motivated by color -- the fascinating play between complements, the mysterious subtleties of gray tones and the endless possibilities for mood. Conrad is deeply concerned that her work should always lift the human spirit. Her summary is
“I want the art enthusiast to hear the drumbeat and feel the excitement radiating from a dancing Indian child; to re-live a tender moment between a mother and her offspring or to taste the dust and feel the sun on their face as they view a western ranch scene,” said Conrad. "I want the world to be a finer, lighter, brighter place for my having painted here."
For more information or to view her online collection, please visit www.bonnieconrad.com or for media information please contact Kim Power Stilson, 801-615-0035.

2009-12-14T14:06:00.001-08:00

Barbara Williams Becomes the First For Every Home Consultant in the Continental U.S. to Reach Unit Director
After 35 years working for someone else, Barbara Williams Reaches Success with her own For Every Home Business
Blytheville, AR– December 10, 2009 – Becky Anderson, today announced that Barbara Williams, wife of Danny, mother to two, grandmother to 5, is the first of their For Every Home Consultants in the continental U.S. to reach Unit Director Status.

According to Barbara, after 35 years working in the school system and corporate world, she started her home party business because she fell in love with the product. Barbara states that she likes the fact that For Every Home considers their consultants' opinions.

“The founders of For Every Home, Becky and Paul Anderson, ask for our opinions and consider our input,” said Barbara. “I like being treated like that and I knew other women would too. My business is based on women, their ideas, their influence, their efforts and that is why I, and others like me, are so successful!”

It all started because Barbara felt she had a contribution to make and wasn’t being fulfilled in her then position. She had purchased a “sugar cookie” candle from sister company, For Every Body, and loved it so much she wondered if there was a way to make a business selling them. When she called For Every Body, she found they were starting a home party business and she waited anxiously to be a part of For Every Home's launch. Barbara became a consultant and built her new business after work hours. Two years later, she has a home business she is proud of, has won several trips to Cancun, Mexico and Salt Lake City as well as various other gifts and has met many wonderful people.

“I love being a consultant with For Every Home because it supports other women with great ideas and shares wonderful products at a great price,” says Williams. “I never thought I would be a savvy business owner yet I am very thankful to be a part of this growing company. I absolutely believe that we have the best product, know that Becky & Paul Anderson and the For Every Home staff are the best you could find anywhere. What's not to love?”

In 2007, Becky Anderson founded For Every Home to help make a difference in women's lives. As the successful founder of a multi-million dollar company, she is using over fifteen years of experience to give women the tools they need to make their business successful. All of the products at For Every Home are created by Becky and her team. She watches trends closely to make sure everything offered is something women will love to have in their homes. At For Every Home, business and fun begin at home. Join the family!

For more information please visit, www.foreveryhome.net/barbarawilliams http://ping.fm/20p8K or please contact: Kim Power Stilson at 801-615-0035.

Good News For Every Home!

2009-12-14T14:03:00.001-08:00

Barbara Williams Becomes the First For Every Home Consultant in the Continental U.S. to Reach Unit Director
After 35 years working for someone else, Barbara Williams Reaches Success with her own For Every Home Business
Blytheville, AR– December 10, 2009 – Becky Anderson, today announced that Barbara Williams, wife of Danny, mother to two, grandmother to 5, is the first of their For Every Home Consultants in the continental U.S. to reach Unit Director Status.

According to Barbara, after 35 years working in the school system and corporate world, she started her home party business because she fell in love with the product. Barbara states that she likes the fact that For Every Home considers their consultants' opinions.

“The founders of For Every Home, Becky and Paul Anderson, ask for our opinions and consider our input,” said Barbara. “I like being treated like that and I knew other women would too. My business is based on women, their ideas, their influence, their efforts and that is why I, and others like me, are so successful!”

It all started because Barbara felt she had a contribution to make and wasn’t being fulfilled in her then position. She had purchased a “sugar cookie” candle from sister company, For Every Body, and loved it so much she wondered if there was a way to make a business selling them. When she called For Every Body, she found they were starting a home party business and she waited anxiously to be a part of For Every Home's launch. Barbara became a consultant and built her new business after work hours. Two years later, she has a home business she is proud of, has won several trips to Cancun, Mexico and Salt Lake City as well as various other gifts and has met many wonderful people.

“I love being a consultant with For Every Home because it supports other women with great ideas and shares wonderful products at a great price,” says Williams. “I never thought I would be a savvy business owner yet I am very thankful to be a part of this growing company. I absolutely believe that we have the best product, know that Becky & Paul Anderson and the For Every Home staff are the best you could find anywhere. What's not to love?”

In 2007, Becky Anderson founded For Every Home to help make a difference in women's lives. As the successful founder of a multi-million dollar company, she is using over fifteen years of experience to give women the tools they need to make their business successful. All of the products at For Every Home are created by Becky and her team. She watches trends closely to make sure everything offered is something women will love to have in their homes. At For Every Home, business and fun begin at home. Join the family!

For more information please visit, www.foreveryhome.net/barbarawilliams http://ping.fm/O9Apc or please contact: Kim Power Stilson at 801-615-0035.

See Jane Smith Score on For Every Body Shopping Spree!

2009-12-10T15:24:00.001-08:00

For Every Body Fills BYU Student Shopping List, 15 gifts for under $75

Jane Smith Awarded “Recession-Proof Giving For Every Body” Final Shopping Spree

Utah County, UTAH – December 11, 2009 –For Every Body Founder, Becky Anderson, announced that the third “Recession-Proof Giving For Every Body” shopping spree was given today to Brigham Young University student, Jane Smith.
According to Jane Smith -- 20, BYU student, hometowns Hong Kong and Toronto, Canada -- when she arrived at the new For Every Body University mall outlet store with a shopping list -- that included her many brothers and sisters -- she had doubts as to whether a candle and home décor store offered gifts that she would be proud to give her family on her student budget. She accepted the “Recession-Proof Giving For Every Body” challenge and found the For Every Body Holiday store in the University Mall had more than enough choices for her spree.

“The selection at the For Every Body made shopping easy and the prices were good. I don’t like to spend a lot of money but I do like quality gifts. The total of my purchases would have been $75 and I am ready for Christmas,” said Jane Smith. “The candles and warmers were a lot less expensive than other company’s candles and just as nice too.”

The spree is the final of three sprees to be by For Every Body to celebrate the “Recession-Proof Giving For Every Body” initiative to help local Utah shoppers this holiday season.
According to Jane Smith, she is excited about the selection of gifts options offered for low prices at both the For Every Body outlet stores in the University Mall and in the Geneva road store in Lindon.
The 15 Gifts, chosen by Jane Smith for her parents, siblings, and roommates are listed by person and age (with anonymity respected to holiday gift receivers) and include For Every Body pricing and retail pricing comparisons, see below:
Gift #1 (Dad Age 50’s) – flat candle warmer and one caramel cake candle
Closest Popular Retail: $43.00
For Every Body Outlet Total: $5 for warmer and $2 candle
With $1 gift wrap = $8

Gift #2 (Mother, Age 40’s) – Wreath Home decor
Closest Popular Retail: $29.99
For Every Body Outlet Total: $14.99
With $1 gift wrap = $15.99

Gifts #3-7 (Roommates) – 11oz designer candles in guava, pear, mango & peach
Closest Popular Retail: $10.00
For Every Body Outlet Total: $2 each
With $.50 gift wrap = $2.50 per gift
Gift #8 (Sister) – Twilight scented candle trio – Bella, Jacob & Edwards scents.
Closest Popular Retail: $37.00
For Every Body Outlet Total: $9
With $1 gift wrap = $10

Gift #9 (Brother-in-law) – flat candle warmer and candle
Closest Popular Retail: $43.00
For Every Body Outlet Total: $5 for warmer and $2 caramel cake candle
With $1 gift wrap = $8
Gift #10 (Sister) – home décor candle holder with 4-pak pumpkin spice votives
Closest Popular Retail Price: $25.00
For Every Body Outlet Total: $3 & $2
With $1 gift wrap = $6

Gift #11 (Brother) – Glazed Donut Candle
Closest Popular Retail: $43.00
For Every Body Outlet Total: $5 for warmer and $2 caramel cake candle
With $1 gift wrap = $8

Gift #12 (Sister, Age 19) – Holiday home décor
Closest Popular Retail Price: $25.00
For Every Body Outlet Total: $9.99
With $1 gift wrap = $10.99
Gifts #13-15 (Friends) – votive holders and votives
Closet Popular Retail Price: $6
For Every Body Outlet Total: .50 cents each
With gift wrap = $1.50

Recession-Proof Giving For Every Body offers up to 75% off on their soy-based specialty topper candles in customer favorite fragrances -- Sugar Cookie, Pumpkin Pie, Holiday Pine, Gingerbread and more – and on candle accessories like warmers as well as everything from Halloween to Christmas home décor items and gifts. Prices start at .10 cents with all candles under $9 while supplies last. Please visit either the new For Every Body holiday location in the University Mall in Orem or the For Every Body Geneva road outlet in Lindon. For more information about new store or about For Every Body products, please call (801)443-1961.
About For Every Body
For Every Body was founded in 1995, in Lindon, Utah as a retailer of bath and body products by Becky Anderson and her daughters. In 2000, the company began producing soy-based candles with industry-unique specialty toppers as an addition to the bath and body line. The one-of-a kind candles are produced at the Geneva Road facility in Lindon and then sold to major retailers across the country. The excess candle inventory is sold at the Lindon located outlet store on Geneva road and at the holiday University Mall location for up to 75% off retail price. Additionally, the company offers home décor items and scrapbook supplies as a way to fulfill the company’s mission to “offer something for every season, occasion and event.” For more information please visit, www.foreverybody.com or please contact: 801-377-2494.

For Immediate Release
December 11, 2009
Contact: Kim Power Stilson
Kim.Stilson@foreverybody.com
(801)-443-1961

Good news for Grandma!!!

2009-12-10T15:19:00.001-08:00

Grandmother Becomes First in U.S. to Reach Unit Director with the For Every Home Company
After 35 years working for someone else, Barbara Williams Reaches Success with her own For Every Home Business
Blytheville, AR– December 10, 2009 – Becky Anderson, today announced that Barbara Williams, wife of Danny, mother to two, grandmother to 5, is the first of their For Every Home Consultants in the U.S. to reach Unit Director Status.

According to Barbara, after 35 years working in the school system and corporate world, she started her home party business because she fell in love with the product. Barbara states that she likes the fact that For Every Home considers their consultants' opinions.

“The founders of For Every Home, Becky and Paul Anderson, ask for our opinions and consider our input,” said Barbara. “I like being treated like that and I knew other women would too. My business is based on women, their ideas, their influence, their efforts and that is why I, and others like me, are so successful!”

It all started because Barbara felt she had a contribution to make and wasn’t being fulfilled in her then position. She had purchased a “sugar cookie” candle from sister company, For Every Body, and loved it so much she wondered if there was a way to make a business selling them. When she called For Every Body, she found they were starting a home party business and she waited anxiously to be a part of For Every Home's launch. Barbara became a consultant and built her new business after work hours. Two years later, she has a home business she is proud of, has won several trips to Cancun, Mexico and Salt Lake City as well as various other gifts and has met many wonderful people.

“I love being a consultant with For Every Home because it supports other women with great ideas and shares wonderful products at a great price,” says Williams. “I never thought I would be a savvy business owner yet I am very thankful to be a part of this growing company. I absolutely believe that we have the best product, know that Becky & Paul Anderson and the For Every Home staff are the best you could find anywhere. What's not to love?”

In 2007, Becky Anderson founded For Every Home to help make a difference in women's lives. As the successful founder of a multi-million dollar company, she is using over fifteen years of experience to give women the tools they need to make their business successful. All of the products at For Every Home are created by Becky and her team. She watches trends closely to make sure everything offered is something women will love to have in their homes. At For Every Home, business and fun begin at home. Join the family!

For more information please visit, www.foreveryhome.net/barbarawilliams http://ping.fm/wTLtf or please contact: Kim Power Stilson at 801-615-0035. Media Contact: Kim Power Stilson
Kim.Stilson@foreverybody.com
(801)-615-0035

Women in Technology Have Big Hearts

2009-12-07T13:34:00.003-08:00

This is a great blog post by Becky Anderson of For Every Body . . . I work for her but I think she rocks! :) She really gets what it takes to be a mom and a savvy business woman and she still has a big heart! ;)

I received this great email from Kim Kim Chiu, Assistant Director of Career & Technical Education at Utah Valley University! They asked for a donation of 30 bottles of our yummy smelling For Every Body lotion and candles for their gift bags for young mothers and we are only too happy to help because they are doing some great things for the community. You may read this, like I did, and want to help too!

The holidays can be tough for people at any time but if you are a struggling young mother with a baby to care for the world can sometimes be a pretty cold place. As a mom and grandmother and the owner of For Every Body and For Every Home, I applaude the efforts the Women in Technology Organization is making! Good for them! And, good for you if you can share a little Christmas Cheer to help their project!

Women in Technology Christmas Project

On Friday, December 11, 2009, UVU’s Women in Technology student organization and UVU staff members will be spreading some Christmas cheer at the Legacy High School in Springville. The Legacy program helps young mothers graduate from High School in a supportive environment and provides daycare services within the facility. We will be providing lunch for the students and will distribute presents for the mothers and their babies. In addition to these presents, we will help out with much needed formula and diapers for the high school to use in the nursery.

This is the second year that the UVU Women in Technology has helped with donations for the Legacy High School. Our goal is not only to help out with monetary necessities but expose the girls to opportunities to improve their situation. We emphasize the importance of post-secondary education and provide information on different programs that can help them should they decide to go to college.
Many of these girls think college is beyond their reach, so we start talking about the one and two-year programs which is easier for them to envision. It is our hope that we can inspire them to move forward and become self-sufficient with the right kind of training.

Call Kim Chiu if you want to help too!

Kim Chiu
Assistant Director
Career & Technical Education
Utah Valley University
801-863-8563

2009-12-07T13:34:00.001-08:00

I received this great email from Kim Kim Chiu, Assistant Director of Career & Technical Education at Utah Valley University! They asked for a donation of 30 bottles of our yummy smelling For Every Body lotion and candles for their gift bags for young mothers and we are only too happy to help because they are doing some great things for the community. You may read this, like I did, and want to help too!

The holidays can be tough for people at any time but if you are a struggling young mother with a baby to care for the world can sometimes be a pretty cold place. As a mom and grandmother and the owner of For Every Body and For Every Home, I applaud the efforts the Women in Technology Organization is making! Good for them! And, good for you if you can share a little Christmas Cheer to help their project!

Women in Technology Christmas Project

On Friday, December 11, 2009, UVU’s Women in Technology student organization and UVU staff members will be spreading some Christmas cheer at the Legacy High School in Springville. The Legacy program helps young mothers graduate from High School in a supportive environment and provides daycare services within the facility. We will be providing lunch for the students and will distribute presents for the mothers and their babies. In addition to these presents, we will help out with much needed formula and diapers for the high school to use in the nursery.

This is the second year that the UVU Women in Technology has helped with donations for the Legacy High School. Our goal is not only to help out with monetary necessities but expose the girls to opportunities to improve their situation. We emphasize the importance of post-secondary education and provide information on different programs that can help them should they decide to go to college.
Many of these girls think college is beyond their reach, so we start talking about the one and two-year programs which is easier for them to envision. It is our hope that we can inspire them to move forward and become self-sufficient with the right kind of training.

Call Kim Chiu if you want to help too!

Kim Chiu
Assistant Director
Career & Technical Education
Utah Valley University
801-863-8563

Scrumptious Cranberry Salsa!

2009-12-04T16:11:00.001-08:00

This is so good and so healthy and refreshing . . . my lovely neighbor Elaine shared this at a neighborhood emergency preparedness meeting and it was such a hit I took it over to my family's Thanksgiving Dinner! It was a hit there too! It is easy to make and truly yummy -- don't let the cranberry and the salsa in the same title scare you!!! :) Kim Power Stilson

My neighbor Elaine's daughter Paige's Cranberry Salsa

1 (12 oz.) pkg fresh cranberries

1 med jalapeno without the seeds

4-5 green onions

1-2 Tbsp fresh Cilantro

1/4 tsp Cumin

Dash of Garlic

3/4 cup of sugar

Put all ingredients (except sugar) in food processor. Process until mixture in coarsely chopped. Stir in Sugar. Store in fridge over night to allow flavors to blend. Spoon over a brick of cream cheese and server with crackers and tortilla chips.

Fun News about For Every Home!

2009-12-04T11:11:00.000-08:00

For Every Home Unveils 2010 Convention Website
For Every Home 2010 Convention to be held in Chicago Attendance Details Now Available at www.convention.foreveryhome.net

Chicago, IL & Lindon, UT – December 4, 2009 – Today Becky Anderson, For Every Home Home Party Founder, announced the release of For Every Home’s Convention 2010 Website – www.convention.foreveryhome.net.

According to the For Every Home team, the new Website shares details of the 2010 For Every Home Convention to inspire for Every Home consultants to attend the annual business building event in Chicago, Illinois at the beautiful Sax Hotel, July 30th and 31st. Photos and details are now easily viewable on the new website www.convention.foreveryhome.net.

According to Shannon Barrowman, For Every Home’s Director of Tech & IT Services, she set up the new Website to meet the needs of the Every Home consultants as attending the convention is one of the most important investments they can make each year in their home businesses.

“Convention 2010 will not only provide valuable training and information which you can’t get anywhere else, it is an amazing opportunity to mingle and get the answers you need to help take your business to the next level,” said Barrowman. “For Every Home’s Convention Website www.convention.foreveryhome.net shares all the information you will need to make your plans.”

According to Becky Anderson, founder, there is something unparalleled about the atmosphere at Convention.

“When For Every Home consultants gather we share ideas and motivate each other,” said Becky Anderson. “Those who attend Convention leave energized by the things they learn, the tools they are given, and the assurance of having spent time with other like-minded, success-oriented people. The Website shares the details but attending is where all the energy happens.”

To find out more about For Every Home Convention 2010 please visit the new Website at www.convention.foreveryhome.net. To find out more about how you can become a For Every Home party consultant, please visit www.foreveryhome.net.

About For Every Home
In 2007, Becky Anderson founded For Every Home to help make a difference in women's lives. As the successful founder of a multi-million dollar company, For Every Body, she is using over fifteen years of experience to give women the tools they need to make their business successful. Becky Anderson watches trends closely to make sure everything For Every Home offers is something women will love to have in their homes. At For Every Home, business and fun begin at home. Join the family! For more information please visit, www.foreveryhome.net.

Hell is not in your contact list

2009-06-22T10:23:00.001-07:00

I sat down to pick up a conversation on Skype and typed in the words . . . Hel . . . when Skype kindly informed me that 'Hell' was not in my contact list. I can't tell you how enormously relieved I was to be told that and how kind of Skype to let me know!

I started thinking about how appropriate that message was this morning. I have worked so hard at being good lately – not yelling at the kids, not loosing faith, serving others in need although suffering myself, watching my 11 month old niece even while I had a million other things to do, holding tight to my dreams, focusing on my kids when they talk to me and Listening, yes, listening, and ignoring rude people.

The very latter has been tough this weekend . . . let me start explaining by asking you if I told you we had a garage sale? We sold all sorts of things – valuable, once valuable to us, and oddly valuable to others. In anticipation of our trek to Southern California for Law school, we sold things we loved that we knew from experience would be difficult to move. In my bedroom, which is very large with high ceilings and a wall of windows, my oasis, my office, my haven, I have a very fancy entertainment center too big to move with us into a home, without the same kind of space, which undoubtedly we won't get in California. I brought people inside from the drive who expressed interest in buying furniture which is only 2 years old and in lovely condition. Some of the people I brought into my room actually made comments – yes, in front of me – about how I had decorated the room. It was as they were in RC Willey or some fancy furniture store and felt compelled to criticize. They said things while pointing to my bedroom furniture and window seats piled full of pillows – which were not on sale – like, "I wouldn't pay $2 for that!" "I don't like the color . . . .(of my bedspread? Who asked you?) "This rug doesn't go with the room!" "I couldn't sleep with all those windows!" "I wouldn't put that in MY house" "This is to fancy for me!" One lady who came into my home grunted in distaste as I showed her what we were offering in our front room. When she wanted to know what else I had, so I mentioned the entertainment center in my room, with obvious reluctance to show her into my room. She bowled her way in, practically shouted that she couldn't use that, "didn't I know she only had 8 foot ceilings in her basement?!" and then stomped her feet like a child before fleeing the premise as if I had let loose poison gas (no, I hadn't) and that was one of the nicer experiences I had!

Okay, lest you think I am a slob . . . (I am not, well at least NOT when I know people will be coming into my room!!!) . . . you need to know that my room is perfectly lovely to me and the fact that I am not a designer doesn't in any way excuse the thoughtless comments of people coming in to look at one piece of furniture for sale in my room. I mean isn't it bad enough that people offered .0001 cents on the dollar for my lovely things spread out on the drive? I did expect that but to come into my home and see furniture that I had obviously chosen and cared for and critique it in front of me like they were at a home show and I was a real estate agent and they were going to show how much they didn't like it before they made an offer?

By the end of Day 1 of our 2-day garage sale, I was thinking awfully unkind things about my fellow man.

Now I must add here that with all this we had some amazingly nice people – people who paid full price knowing they were getting a good deal. People who helped us through the process – like Chad's kind "NEW" parents who brought their camper down, parked in the driveway for few days, and helped us do everything for the sale AND weeded our front drive, made dinner, and fixed our screens so I have a lovely fly-less breeze in our house. There were those kind folks who came in to chat, buy a few books for the cause, and kindly remark that they would miss us if we moved. In spite of the goodness I did receive from those few, I am human, and felt invaded, violated and hurt by the thoughtless remarks of people, people who by the way came in made their comments in my home AND . . . incidentally, did not buy a thing!

A few days have passed, remnants of the garage sale packed into the garage for the next one (I know what could we be thinking?!), during which I won't be inviting people into my home without tying gags to their mouths.

Honestly it has been weirdly difficult! I can't walk into my room without remembering those strangers who critiqued my haven. I feel invaded and somehow less comfortable! So, obviously my thoughts are not kind and most surely not get me into Heaven! So, you can see why I would be relieved to know that 'hell' is not in my contact list. So, today, since Skype has chosen to forgive me, and give me a second chance, perhaps I should follow suite, and forgive and forget! I forgive you rude garage sales attendees who critiqued my haven and didn't buy a thing! I forgive you but please don't come back! There, done, gone forgotten! I wonder how Skype executives would feel about the new service they have provided?

Getting your kids to do chores without complaint

2009-06-17T13:44:00.001-07:00

Just as school got out this year I threatened the usual daily list of chores for each summer day. The rule last year was "You do your list and you are free!" The list which I posted in the usual place – on the refrigerator door – outlined daily chores that had to be done before the TV or any other electronic devices were used. I thought it a great idea but my kids talked all year about how mean I had been the last summer, how hard they had worked and how I had not had to do anything.

What I remember about last summer was slightly different. I remember being a drill sergeant every morning and well I admit it yelling a lot! Shouting at them to . . . get out of bed, turn off the TV, and the endless have you cleaned the bathroom yet? We have a big house with a lot of bathrooms – a necessary curse that they need to be cleaned. I also remember, yes I am weak, giving in mid -summer because I was tired of yelling and working so hard to get the kids to do their chores. This summer, not feeling creative enough to try something different I planned to try the same thing. Make a hefty list and be the Sheriff of electronics til each list was complete. The Sunday before the first week of summer break we had a family meeting to discuss "the plans" for the summer.

Before I even launched into the usual plan for No electronics til chores are done I was met with solid opposition. My oldest, 15, said, "Mom, we are old enough to know what chores need to be done, we don't need lists. We can do them ourselves." My 12 and 9 year-olds chimed in and even my husband (who hates when I yell and likes to be the good guy) agreed. "Summers are meant to be fun . . . let's just give them a general list and let them govern their own time," said my husband, who I am entirely sure must have been brainwashed by one of them. They all nodded in unison and said they would be so adept at doing their chores I wouldn't have to yell or lift a finger!

What could I do? Without an in-home drill sergeant or a whip, I was outvoted out numbered. So, quite dubiously I said, "Okay, we will try it for two weeks. I will expect you do all your chores before you ask to do anything, be driven anywhere, or engage in any electronics other than basic electrical uses such as lighting and home-cleaning appliances." They all rolled their eyes so I shut my mouth. I was tempted by their magical words . . . sleeping in . . . everything done without raising my voice . . . .that truly would be remarkable way to enjoy the summer.

Ha! Would you like to know what happened during the last two weeks?

Day one went well, dishes done and then on the morning of day 2 I noticed that my son's dirty socks had spread from his room throughout the house, by day 5 I had found one in the pantry between the flour and pasta. By day 6 a lovely black Mold had grown in the corner of one of our showers. By day 7 the TV was running 24/7 and their electronics were strewn across the house – one game was on while they were playing another! By day 8, all the basic dishes in the house had disappeared and a pile of pans were "soaking" in the sink and there was a pile, window high in the laundry room covering the floor in a big hairy mound. By day 9 there was giant mud prints all over the floors, including up and around the mountain of laundry. By day 10, we had driven 56 times, 8 trips in one day, and with each trip "mentioned" that the chores were not done. I heard every promise and excuse in the book from my kids and my husband whose "good guy" reputation was on the line and never shouted once. By day 13 the weeds had grown to five feet, the lawn which hadn't been mowed was competing to match its height and to cap it off two kittens complete with kitty litter appeared in my garage!

On Sunday, at the beginning of week 3, I held a family meeting. I listened patiently for one moment as they extolled their virtuous accomplishments during the two weeks -- My son mastered all of the basic levels on Nintendo DS, McKall had read 5 books and written 3 short stories (which by the way were mixed with Merrick's socks on the floor), Maddy had had 12 sleepovers away from home so she at least had not dirtied her share of dishes and had kept her room clean.

I took a cleansing breath, decided that they were right and I had enjoyed not yelling, and then I calmly banned all use of any electronic equipment for one week, told them they were doing the cooking and started waking them at 7 am to start with the weeds. And, looking at my husband with a sweet smile, I said, "Since summers are meant to be fun, that ban includes you too!"

It is day 3 of the ban and so far this is what has happened. My kitchen floors are mopped, the dishes we could find are clean and in the cupboards, the laundry diminished to a normal size, dogs washed, bathrooms scrubbed, garage cleaned, kitties hidden perhaps where the dishes were, weeding commenced. Yesterday my son asked me if he was old enough to use the vacuum and proceeded to clean the front room. He said he was having friends over and didn't want them to think we had a messy house.

Since I banned all electronics my kids friends have had to actually come over to talk to them in person, they've played basketball in the drive, and talked. I have heard laughter and jokes and lots of complaints about the mean mom who banned electronics. We have eaten our meals together and talked over our meal uninterrupted by video beeps, phone tons and text buzzes. Bored to tears without TV, we even went to the park for our family night, fashioned fishing poles and walked across the grass! Right now as I write my kids are baking cookies and finishing up the dishes from lunch. They have are asking friends over – did you know home phones aren't electronic? And, they are getting ready for their grandparents to come and visit – a welcome relief amidst the great ban. The best thing . . . I have not heard one real complaint about doing chores – their focus seems to be on the loss of power . . .

Last night Maddy had a few friends over and as they were helping her do her dishes I asked them if they thought I was a mean mom for making them work and banning electronics. One of the 17 year olds guys said, "Hey, if it works why not?" I decided I liked that kid and he was right. I hadn't yelled, shouted or been mean – all I had to do was ban electronics! In one week, they get electronics back IF and WHEN chores are done and only then. I will let you know how it goes, yet in the meantime, I do believe the secret to getting your kids to do chores without complaint is turning off the electricity! It may be noisier around the house than it is when they are quietly clicking away yet everyone including me are happier! By the way, does anyone need some kittens?

My Dad just gave me $20 bucks

2009-05-29T08:29:00.001-07:00

I was sitting at my desk which sits in front of a huge paned window. The window looks out across my back garden. From my desk I can see the through 30 or so trees up into the snow covered mountain peaks reaching for patches of blue sky.

It is a rule in my house that if Mom, me, with her back to the door, is seen furiously typing away or conferencing on Skype, she is NOT to be disturbed. Sometimes as I type, face toward my lap top, sun streaming in, I feel as if I am truly in my own world, the words flow through my fingers on to the keyboard and it is those moments, lost in lap top reverie that my family knows not to interupt. Even so, I can always feel when someone has come up behind me hoping for a break in the conversation or the keys.

I usually know by instinct, who they are and what they may want. Remember the old saying "Mom has eyes in the back of her head?" my kids think I do. I let them think this though I can just tell by the shuffle of feet who it is that has entered from behind threatening to interrupt the flow of my work. I hate to be distracted when on a roll and will sadly often snap out, "Ask your father!" before they get within 3 feet of my chair. Some days they get a little closer and actually place a written note in front of me. One, from my daughter, was simply written, "Sleep over?, Kiersten's, her parents will be home! Check if Yes!" As her note left out an option for a no, I checked. Approval more so, for her positive and respectful approach, rather really than the plan.

On this day I was so immersed in work that I did not sense or notice anyone beside me and when he spoke I was startled. My Dad lives in our basement apartment and often pops in during the day to check on happenings. Usually I am too busy typing away to pay him much notice. Often he will speak at me from the hall and if I don't answer he gets the message that I am on a deadline and not to be disturbed.

Today was different, he said, "Working away?" and as that was obvious I felt both irritated and annoyed to be interrupted. Usually I ignore anyone who breaks the rule but for some reason on that day I gave in and partially turned round to see what he wanted, and when I did, he handed me $20 bucks.

Now I don't know about anyone else but having my father hand me $20 bucks hasn't happened in years. Suddenly, I was 16 again, hoping for the car keys and a little spending money.

Back then it was a tradition to go to Thrifty's for ice cream. Thrifty's was at the edge of an outdoor mall where I lived in California. Cones were a quarter and sometimes there were cute guys hanging around. Now Thrifty's was only a mile or so away and in our pre-driving days had been content to walk. Yet now 16, some of us had our licenses and we felt we could not be seen walking, it was only fitting for us to drive!

Yet to drive required the privilege of keys. So we would call around to see who could get money and car keys out of their Father for an ice cream run. Each of us would hang up the phone and cautiously risk the wrath of Dad to ask for the keys and a few bucks. The person first victorious would ring the rest of us.

My father was an unpredictably tempered man and I would stall hoping for the phone to ring before I had to actually ask him. At my house we had one car, so keys were tough to get, but money was even tougher. My dad was an entrepreneur, molded by his hard-fought youth in the post war days of England, and cars and money were not something you availed yourself of lightly! So, with lead feet, I rarely made it to ask my father when with relief I would hear the phone ring. Usually, it would be Kathy, happily sharing that she had the keys and the money and the money as well. (Her family had two kids to our six kids and they had 2 cars as well.) Victorious, we would hop in to her parent's huge van for 2 minute ride to get ice cream. Later that year we also took ice cream jaunts to the unapproved hour distance of the beach, but that is a different story, one with another ending.

With that history in mind you can understand why I asked "What's this for?" about the unexpected gift of $20. My Dad said, "Just a little walking around money."

Now my dad knows as well as I do, that aside from a weekly jaunt to the radio studio for my show and Sunday attendance at church, that I have become a hermit. I injured my knee in October and that injury and writing my "eMPowerment Series" books, there are 7 of them (finally available on www.powerstrategies.TV and www.WcWW.com), has left me glued to my desk the last many months. Pretty much my life revolves around my laptop and whatever can interrupt me from behind it.

I don't why but I then did something I never do when someone interrupts me, and I turned completely around from my desk to talk with my father. I don't know if it was the $20 bucks or the shock of it. Pleased he had my full attention, he told me he hadn't been feeling well, pain on his side and then a welt on his leg, and I suddenly saw him for his age and his place in his life. He was no longer the dad of my 16^th year, vibrant and edgy, but a more softened version with worries. He talked for a while, patted my on the shoulder (something he rarely does, the British are not renowned for their displays of affection) and said he was off!

Rather mystified at the encounter, I thanked him for the $20 bucks and turned back to my computer before he was gone. After he left, I didn't get any work done. I sat with my hand on my chin and thought about life. How rapidly life moves. How my father had aged. How the years had passed since I had worried about interrupting him to ask for the hallowed funds and keys. 20 some odd years later , why had he just handed me $20 bucks?

Lost in thought, a short time later, I sensed my husband come up behind me. He was hesitant I think because without a call going or the keys tapping, he wondered if I was truly interruptible. He had never seen me just sitting at my desk before. I had a lot to do that day but I don't think I had moved at all since my Dad had come in.

My husband cleared his throat, and said from behind me that he was going to pick up my daughter in town and he would be back. My husband, who has his desk on the other side of the house, is unlike me and will jump at any excuse to leave it. He has become the errand runner, the kid-picker upper, the driver, by his anxious-to-get-away-from-the-desk own choice. It works well for us!

Chad used to not getting an answer if I am busy, yet not wanting to interrupt me, yet perhaps worried about my stillness, jiggled his keys and then asked from behind me if I needed anything.

I suddenly turned from my desk, stood up and said, "I am going with you!" which shocked him! Then I added the ice water to his shock and said, "Let's go get ice cream!! My dad just gave me $20 bucks!"

How to eat with a knife and fork while sitting!

2009-05-27T10:09:00.001-07:00

About a year ago, I opened the utensil drawer to find a spoon. I noticed we had hordes of spoons and not one fork. Mystified I looked in the dishwasher and then the other obvious place, the sink, and could not find one solitary fork. Not one! I asked out loud, "Where are all the forks?" and my, then 11-year-old daughter, answered, "We don't have any, we don't use them anyway!" Her comment and that search process made me think. Where had all the forks gone? How could we have lived this long without forks and why would my daughter say we don't use them? Why hadn't I noticed their disappearance sooner? I started to think about our Utensil usage – not that I had time but I do love a good mystery, so I couldn't help myself. Sure we use spoons daily . . . cereal in the morning and ice cream at night. How about knifes? I use knifes to spread the jam on the toast I had out the door as the door to catch the school bus. I use knifes to make the sandwiches that I pack in their lunches for school. Four sandwiches every day like clock work . . . 1 knife for to spread the peanut butter, one knife for the jam, one knife for the honey – heaven forbid any of those items touch before they reach the bread – and one for the mayonnaise. Yes, I use a lot of those knifes every day. I opened the drawer . . . brimming with knifes. Still now forks! What could have happened to the forks? Do forks become extint with lack of use? I had a wild thought and then ran for the hutch where I keep my so-so nice and so-so matching set of utensils for the fancy dinners, you know the wedding gift sets, the ones I was so sure I would use each Sunday for family dinner. I opened that drawer, everything was there, forks included, and for now felt safe that the mystery hadn't reached the hutch. Still, I wondered, where the forks were.

I told my husband about the mystery and he seemed to agree with my daughter. "We don't use them so why worry?" Still he could tell by the look on my face that something more serious and sinister was afoot. "What kind of family doesn't use forks?" I shouted much to emphatically for the loss of forks. Suddenly the mystery seemed some kind of heathen sin, so my husband, unable to escape, walked me through it. "We just don't use forks because we never formally sit down to eat! Think about it. We eat while running out the door, while driving in our car, while in a meeting, while typing at our desk. The fork has been replaced by our hands. We eat with our hands! We don't need forks!" He held up his hands and turned to walk away with that Mystery solved kind of air that husbands get when they have found a solution and no more words are necessary. "What mystery solved? Now that I realize we live like heathens, I still don't know where the forks are! If we don't use them then where have they gone?" The day was busy and the my continued drama unnoticed so I changed the subject and went to work . . . eating my toast and drove. I could not help but think of the situation. I was raised in a home where manners were important. We ate a the family table, with napkins in our laps, with our mouths firmly closed as we chewed and we didn't really even speak unless spoken too. We ate together with full utensils while sitting still. I remember bouncing my legs under the table and getting a fork poke in the arm for my efforts. "Sit still while you eat!" growled my father more than once to me or my 5 siblings. Forks where used for dual purposes then, eating and stabbing, I still have a tiny scar, but that is another story.

I went to work, asked a few people how often they sat round a table to eat with a knife and fork and I got enough blank stares to realize this mystery may be an epidemic. I stopped myself from asking them if their forks had disappeared as well, no need to give any extra reason for thinking I was a little crazy. Still the issue haunted me and I decided I would insist we would eat dinner as a family, forks, knifes, plates and napkins at the table . Well life got busy, I worked late, my husband picked up pizza and still determined to keep my goal I called everyone into the dining room – even my son, with a piece of pizza in each hand in front of the TV – responded with worried looks on their faces. I announced we would sit down and eat with utensils at the table that night and every night and this is the response I got . . . in this order. "What are utensils?" "No one eats pizza at a table?" "Why are you doing this to us?" "Is this the fork thing again?" that from my husband. "We don't have any forks!" this from the same daughter. I made them all sit down, passed out the napkins from Little Caesar's pizza, thankfully they sent those, and then remembered a box of plastic forks from the last camping trip and passed those out round the table. The looked at me like I was insanse, really I even felt a bit deflated then, I mean who really does eat pizza with a fork and knife anymore? (I did as a kid!) Still I was determined.

The next night I made spaghetti, almost triumphantly daring anyone to question the use of fork with the long stringy pasta. We sat down to dinner, again with the plastic forks, and I made them put napkins in their laps, had them say a blessing on the food (something we always did when I was a kid) and sat down for a nice knife and fork dinner. What happened I realized their manners were atrocious – all of them even my husband! The slurping, the fork waving for enunciation while my oldest daughter talked about the math teacher she hates, the dropped pasta . . . not in the napkin on the floor . . . it was awful. I told them that when I was a child my father would have poked me with a fork had I displayed such manners and they said – again in order, "That would be child abuse mom, they won't let you do that now!" this from my oldest. "Did you defend yourself with a knife?" this from Clone Wars-loving son. "We don't have any forks?" you know who said that. "Is this the fork thing again? " you know who said that too.

It has now been a year . . . as a family we sit down to eat with a knife and fork at least 4 times a week. Teaching them to eat with a knife and fork while sitting was a painful labor of love. The good news is that my children's manners have improved enough that I can safely invite my father over and not fear a stabbing. Food still flies occasionally when I fork is wave emphatically during our great family discussions. I no longer allow them to eat while standing and we rarely eat in our cars. I have found we gravitate to the table. I still don't know where my forks went . . . my new mother-in-law; Grandma Cheryl brought us a bag of forks she found at a garage sale last week. Everyone was excited! The fork section in the drawer was overflowing for the first time in years! Funny though, last night we sat down to dinner, a rice and bean concoction, and I realized we needed utensils, I asked my now 12-year-old to them. She called from the kitchen, "We are out of forks? Will spoons work?"

Today Leave us our Dignity

2009-03-24T15:54:00.001-07:00

I was talking to my brother the other day, one of the three I have, and he was telling me that in this New Economy he has had to find employment in another state because the jobs that are available here are going to the "less" qualified. I asked him what he meant and he told me that he has applied to jobs, jobs that he is well qualified for and jobs that in the past he used to get, and has been beaten out by those who the company could get for less money and who would be grateful for the pay the offered.

The job market being flooded gives businesses ample choice for their pick of employees and most are opting to pick "less qualified" so they don't have to pay the price of the "well qualified." Yet his family is still at their home because moving to the other state would be too expensive and plus you never know these days how long a job will last. Worse still my brother said that he has also applied to jobs he was obviously over qualified and usually over dressed for when he has gone to an interview and been told that if he really needed the job (and yes he did) he would need to sign an 18 months contract to stay there – 18 months for a $12-$15 an hour job.

Now for those of you professional executives faced with the same New Economy job market, you know of what my brother shares. My brother, who would do anything to support his family, when finding he could not even get the entry level jobs, decided he had had enough. He says he would have stocked shelves at night to pay the family's bills, but only until something better came along. Why would someone ask someone of his professional caliber to sign away his life or 18 months of it stocking shelves? As my brother said, "you can do anything you need to do as long as you have hope that things get better. Signing away that hope even for 18 months skewers someone into a life without hope and dreams. Anyone doing what they have to do rather than what their passion dictates is already suffering enough.

My brother said the last job he tried for in his state was a mid-level marketing position with already low pay. He asked the hiring manager about the pay scale and she said, "We can get anyone we want to do this job for us now and at any pay!" The job it seems had an application pile of over 270 people. They skipped over my brother, who would have done wonders for that company, even at that pay scale, and hired someone just a year or two out of college. My brother told the hiring manager that she should hire him, he would gladly accept the pay and work hard for it. He wanted he told her to work in his industry, to do what he loved to do!" The hiring manager choose one of the less qualified, less experienced candidates and paid them well. Her comment being, "we know we will keep him! You can go get a job doing anything til something better or more suited to your background comes along!" His retort was, "That's just the point, what you are offering is all there is! I can work here for less money than I have ever made but be happy or stock shelves on a contract 18 months at $10 an hour"

My brother's comment was, "Geez at least leave me my dignity!"

I think he has a point. Perhaps they aren't many jobs, perhaps we need to accept less pay for the ones there are, but please at least leave us our dignity! No one with a love or passion for his career is jobless by choice! We are all willing to humble ourselves and work harder and longer for less but please don't strip us of the last vestiges of who we are and what we stand for to stock shelves. Please leave us our dignity!

My brother found a job down south somewhere selling. He travels for 18 days of every month away from home. He has taken a cut in pay, he works harder for less and away from his family, but he is doing well, very well, because he has his dignity! 1 Victory for us! J Perhaps we will see more!

And speaking of the worry of it all . . .

There are two days in every week about which we should not worry, two days which should be kept from fear and apprehension.

One of these days is Yesterday with its mistakes and cares, its faults and blunders, its aches and pains. Yesterday has passed forever beyond our control. All the money in the world cannot bring back yesterday. We cannot erase a single word we said. Yesterday is gone.

The other day we should not worry about is Tomorrow with its possible adversities, its burdens, its large promise, and poor performance. Tomorrow is also beyond our immediate control.

Tomorrow's sun will rise, either n splendor or behind a mask of clouds – but it will rise. Until it does , we have no stake in Tomorrow, for it is yet unborn.

This leaves only one day – Today. Any person can fight the battles of just one day. It is only when you and I add the burdens of those two awful eternities – Yesterday and Tomorrow – that we break down.

It is not the experience of Today that drives us mad – it is the remorse or bitterness for something which happened Yesterday and the dread of what will happen Tomorrow!

McKall Won her Basketball Championship Game!

2009-03-11T16:56:00.001-07:00

12 year olds battling it out for first place on the basketball court! Very exciting and McKall's team won! Yay! could not be prouder of her! Photos will follow!

Triumph is alive in Small Business! Share their stories

2009-03-11T16:52:00.001-07:00

on my Talk Radio show at www.wcww.com and www.powerstrategies.TV! You will love what you hear!

24 Hour Internet Talk Radio Marathon Celebrates Small Business Marketing Survival Series with Messages from Small Business Owners!Blog title...

2009-02-25T19:33:00.001-08:00

During a 24 Hour Talk Radio Marathon to introduce the “24 Hours to Zero Down Marketing”, Part 1 of the Small Business Marketing Survival Series by Kim Power Stilson, she and co-host, Tom Egan will share the messages of 50 small business owners.

Tom Egan and Kim Power Stilson, hosts of the new Web Campus World Wide (WcWW) talk radio show devoted to sharing 21st Century tools with small business owners who want to market and sell online will talk for 24 hours (2 days at 12 hours a day) as a launch for “24 Hours to Zero Down Marketing and what it can do to teach small business owners a strategy in 24 Hours as part of her Small Business Marketing Survival Series!

They will interview small business owners 12 hours straight for 2 days in a row! Thursday and Friday, February 26th and 27th! You can join them by listening on www.planetarystreams.com.

Tresia Korich: Style Inn Motion
Suzette Caplin, Becky Cox: doTERRA Essential Wellness
Brandon Allen: Build Your Soul
Bob Craghaed: Intrinsic Motivators
Brad and Jillian Jensen
Roger Preble: People Skills In A Box
Darren Schmidt, Krust Buster
Caroline Updike: Feeling Fabulous
Jacqueline Edwards | Business Solutions Analyst
Shahar Boyayan: Buzz Boost
Carolla Blackham: Mainspring Day Spa
Donna: Busy BEEVAS
Vince Blackham: Primary Affect
Pam Robinson: Institute of Healing
Veronica Chapman: ProDigital Photos
Jana Dahl: ITEX
Rand Bateman:BATEMAN IP LAW GROUP
Lawrence Law: Advnatage Credit
Carroll King Schuller
Nate Stockard
Michael Andrews: a Robert Workman company
Bryan Bliss: Netmentor
Alex Bigney's Talking to Tesla
Jeremy Albrecht: Info Genix
Sally Witzky
Jerrilynn B. Thomas

The 24 Talk Radio Marathon is focused on giving Small Business Owners a chance to learn 21st Century tools so they can successfully market and sell.

“Business owners are interested learning how to sell their services online with tools like social media and Internet marketing,” said Kim Power Stilson. “So we decided to launch the new Small Business Marketing Survival Series with the premiere Social Media tool, Internet talk radio!”

This Small Business Marketing Survival Series is available online on www.powerstratgies.TV and the Web Campus World Wide online education site, wcww.com.

“Once you have a plan, a strategy and you know what you need to do then you run out of excuses to not take the time to market and sell,” said Kim Power Stilson. “With each marketing effort company owners gain a little more success. With consistent efforts like even 24 hours a month focused on marketing, they will see real results in the areas of increased name awareness and sales.”

24 Hours to Zero Down Marketing Part 1 of the Small Business Marketing Survival Series is offered online as, a robust video, audio, Internet, Web, Social Media & Marketing certified education course on Web Campus World Wide.

For Free Media trial contact: Anne Roberts at chad@powerstrategies.TV or 801-691-4588.
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About Kim Power Stilson:
Founder of Power Strategies, Inc., Kim Power Stilson, is the author of 24 Hours to Zero Down Marketing and the Small Business Survival Series.
Her professional marketing background includes over 17 years experience and a proven track record of success. She has created marketing positioning campaigns based on her own copyrighted Make, Bake, Shake, Rake & Fresh marketing strategy to build name awareness and speed up the sales process hundreds of companies delivering award-winning campaigns to national and international audiences for at 60% savings over costs, with an 140% increase in name awareness and delivering ordered sales of $50 million plus.
About Tom Egan:
Co-host with Kim Power Stilson on the new Web Campus World Wide talk radio show devoted to sharing 21st Cnetury tools with small business owners who want to market and sell online. Tom Egan is an eCommerce Multi Channel Leader with 16 years of Internet and eCommerce experience in the areas of Internet marketing and distribution using current technology, with an extensive background in the underlying technology as a consultant to diverse hospitality, computer system, telecommunications, military, and industrial organizations, with extensive

About Power Strategies, Inc:
Power Strategies is a Social Media, PR, Web & Internet Marketing Strategies Company providing Education, Marketing Consultation and Public Relations Services to women and family owned businesses and corporations in the United States and Ireland. www.powerstrategies.TV

Happy Single Awareness Day

2009-02-14T09:41:00.001-08:00

Or at least that is what my single daughter calls it! wWowowowowo!

We can lean on friends!

2009-02-13T08:49:00.001-08:00

Last night I needed a solution to a tough problem. I thought of a friend I “used to know” someone I hadn’t talked to in a while, someone I knew who might help me find a solution. I looked for her in my phone address book and texted a note to her, “Is this you?” meaning I hoped it was the right friend. She texted, “yep it’s me!” and I shared my problem with her though we hadn’t talked in months. The next morning she texted back the solution to my problem, not just advice, but the entire solution. I was amazed! Grateful! I asked (as our polite moms taught us) what I could do for her and she texted, “Kim that is what friends are for! If we don’t have friends to lean on during these tough times we won’t make it, we won’t survive. I am happy to help!”
She then went on to share how tough things have been for her, her husband laid off and a failed business partnership. I asked what I could do for her and she said, “If I think of anything I will let you know!”
Now here is something important to note the solution she had provided for me was within her line of work, something she could charge for, and she did let me know that if I needed more than that she would charge me but she was happy to do what she did for me, gratis, for a friend this time, for free. “Why would you do that?” I asked. She said, it was simple didn’t take much time and she knew I needed help. If I needed more she would send rates, but again she was happy to help and (get this) glad I called or well texted.
I thought about her this morning, a friend I “used to know” was there for me, when I needed her, to support me without a price. I wondered if I was that kind of friend and I hoped so. I think her text words are so accurate now, perhaps, more than ever before in recent history with all the bad things happening around us. “If we don’t have each other to lean on how do we survive?”
I love her words, she is right. We need each other. Thanks to Social Media and the Internet and Web we can reconnect with old friends. We can talk like we used to when we met in the halls or at the store and say, “how are you?” “How’s work?” “cheer up” “I know someone who could help you with that!” in ways that were constricted by geography only a few years before. Now I can see what my “used to know” best friend from high school is having for lunch just be reading her Facebook wall. Thanks to Social Media we are all in contact again.
So, today, after that great experience with my friend, I want to make sure I am that kind of friend too. Whether you “used to know” me or whether we talk daily, I want you to know I am here if you need a friend to lean on. Whether you need a new recipe, advice on raising giant dogs, or a little marketing and advertising help! Here is what I can do to help, if you ever want or need it. Obviously, I do Social Media and marketing along with a weekly talk radio show about business. I once had a friend interview on the show, no cost to her, and she sold 12 of her quilt making kits. Maybe not a lot of sales, and I surely can’t promise, but it helped her pay that month’s bills. So, if you need a little extra help marketing, I can help in this way . . . I can share advice, I can give you Free advertising or interview you on my talk radio show, I can edit or write if you need a quick hand, you can lean on me, first time free.
Perhaps you don’t need that kind of help? I don’t have many other talents, certainly not singing, but I can put together tasty, inexpensive Crockpot meals or desserts in 2 minutes or less. I am a good listener. I may know someone who needs someone like you to hire. I may not be able to give you a solution but I probably know someone who can. In those ways and any other you may be able to think of, like my “used to know” friend, am happy to help! Now having written that I am going to challenge you, as a good friend would, to share your talents, if you want and if you can! What can you do to ease another’s burden? If we don’t have each other to lean on, how do we survive? It’s just a thought I came up with this morning, and it is up to you!
Either way, I want you to know I care, you can text me anytime and ask “Is this you?” and you can be sure of reaching a friend you “used to know” who loves you still and will help if she can!

If we don’t have each other to lean on, how do we survive?

2009-02-13T08:46:00.001-08:00

Last night I needed a solution to a tough problem. I thought of a friend I "used to know" someone I hadn't talked to in a while, someone I knew who might help me find a solution. I looked for her in my phone address book and texted a note to her, "Is this you?" meaning I hoped it was the right friend. She texted, "yep it's me!" and I shared my problem with her though we hadn't talked in months. The next morning she texted back the solution to my problem, not just advice, but the entire solution. I was amazed! Grateful! I asked (as our polite moms taught us) what I could do for her and she texted, "Kim that is what friends are for! If we don't have friends to lean on during these tough times we won't make it, we won't survive. I am happy to help!"

She then went on to share how tough things have been for her, her husband laid off and a failed business partnership. I asked what I could do for her and she said, "If I think of anything I will let you know!"

Now here is something important to note the solution she had provided for me was within her line of work, something she could charge for, and she did let me know that if I needed more than that she would charge me but she was happy to do what she did for me, gratis, for a friend this time, for free. "Why would you do that?" I asked. She said, it was simple didn't take much time and she knew I needed help. If I needed more she would send rates, but again she was happy to help and (get this) glad I called or well texted.

I thought about her this morning, a friend I "used to know" was there for me, when I needed her, to support me without a price. I wondered if I was that kind of friend and I hoped so. I think her text words are so accurate now, perhaps, more than ever before in recent history with all the bad things happening around us. "If we don't have each other to lean on how do we survive?"

I love her words, she is right. We need each other. Thanks to Social Media and the Internet and Web we can reconnect with old friends. We can talk like we used to when we met in the halls or at the store and say, "how are you?" "How's work?" "cheer up" "I know someone who could help you with that!" in ways that were constricted by geography only a few years before. Now I can see what my "used to know" best friend from high school is having for lunch just be reading her Facebook wall. Thanks to Social Media we are all in contact again.

So, today, after that great experience with my friend, I want to make sure I am that kind of friend too. Whether you "used to know" me or whether we talk daily, I want you to know I am here if you need a friend to lean on. Whether you need a new recipe, advice on raising giant dogs, or a little marketing and advertising help! Here is what I can do to help, if you ever want or need it. Obviously, I do Social Media and marketing along with a weekly talk radio show about business. I once had a friend interview on the show, no cost to her, and she sold 12 of her quilt making kits. Maybe not a lot of sales, and I surely can't promise, but it helped her pay that month's bills. So, if you need a little extra help marketing, I can help in this way . . . I can share advice, I can give you Free advertising or interview you on my talk radio show, I can edit or write if you need a quick hand, you can lean on me, first time free.

Perhaps you don't need that kind of help? I don't have many other talents, certainly not singing, but I can put together tasty, inexpensive Crockpot meals or desserts in 2 minutes or less. I am a good listener. I may know someone who needs someone like you to hire. I may not be able to give you a solution but I probably know someone who can. In those ways and any other you may be able to think of, like my "used to know" friend, am happy to help! Now having written that I am going to challenge you, as a good friend would, to share your talents, if you want and if you can! What can you do to ease another's burden? If we don't have each other to lean on, how do we survive? It's just a thought I came up with this morning, and it is up to you!

Either way, I want you to know I care, you can text me anytime and ask "Is this you?" and you can be sure of reaching a friend you "used to know" who loves you still and will help if she can!

The Dawn Before the Storm

2009-02-07T07:15:00.001-08:00

It is Saturday morning . . . the sky is that whitish back shade that let's you know the day is coming. My husband has left to take the LSAT . . . for the second time . . . and the kids and the dogs and my brother and his wife and baby are all still blessedly asleep. The house is quiet. The mountain hovering over our neighborhood of houses on the hill is motionless waiting to watch the bustle of the day. I am calm. There is no phone, no instant messaging, no emails. Only the written voices and posted faces of friends and colleagues on Facebook to distract me if I wanted to dive into social company at this early hour. I choose instead, for now, to write. Lately I have been in the school of hard knocks. It has been a period of time that has containted death , destruction and almost every trial in between. A period of time I have not been able to title til last night when my husband suggested that we were in some sort of training ground, not ulike a college education process . . . thuse the school of hard knocks came to my mind as a perfect title. A way to put a name of the un understandable fates that have plagued me. I won't bore you with the details of loosing loved ones, businesses, pain, and suffering, you have those details of your own. Maybe not in the time frame of the last few years but you have had them. And I am sure as you have struggled you have struggled with the faith to believe that there is and end. I have daily gotten out of bed, prayed for that day to bring a solution, a light, a reminder of miracles and still the suffering continues. On some days hope will spring in the form of a friends suggestion, a song on the radio, a positive opportunity, a hand out of love, and then some days there is nothing but the trudge through hours. People say, "look on the bright side" "the glass is half full" "there is a silver lining" and "the hour is only darkest before dawn." I hear this and I believe it was for them and others in this world, but I still wrestle with the hope that it applies to me. Does the Lord grow tired of listening to pleas? Did they call the line just before me? I guess I worried about that til we came up with the title for our period of duress. the school of hard knocks. If your life is almost unbearable and things for now are out of control and hard to understand then I suggest doing what I have done. I am pretending I am enrolled in a course, in my case a hefty college course. My education includes experience learning to turn grief, loss, scarcity, lonliness, sadness, rejection, being squased, effort resulting in nothing, hurtfulness of others, effort returning exhaustion and nothing else, pain (yes, all of that) into the title of education. Yes, I am experiencing a world class education from which I will graduate someday . . . soon I hope. As I go through the school of hard knocks I only advance each course as I do my homework, complete my assisgnments and pass the test. I learn what I learn and then advance. Each course is a hardship which I must live through and overcome. I must learn something and apply it to my life. My attitude as I go along affects the outcome of my grade, like the citizenship grades of the past. If I handle myself with good grace my grade is better. Some of my classes have lasted longer than a semester and some of my classes I have had to repeat. Obviously not learning the first time what I needed to learned I was flunked and sent through course D of hard knocks again. Some courses I aced immediately, painful or not I recognized the subject lesson and passed the test. Now as I write this the pink shades of dawn have stretched out over the sky turning it from whitish to pale blue and I see why so many people find the dawn worth waiting for. It is lovely. Lovely like graduation day from the school of hard knocks. Now, if you like me worried that that school of hard knocks was a life long education, never fear, it is not. Just like the series of educations you receive through life it comes in a time period which has a beginning and an end. Think of elementary school, high school . . . it seemed to go on forever but when you had learned what you were meant to you graduated, triumphed and gloriously went on to the next phase of your education or your life. The school of hard knocks come to those who need pass through a deep education before going on the next stage of their life. Unlike a college education you don't get to choose when you take it, the school of hard knocks enrolls you when it's time. Sometimes this education starts simply and almsot without notice and then sometimes you are enrolled into the toughest classes, like calculus was a nightmare for me, immediately. I was enrolled in the school of hard knocks a few years ago, the first lessons were loss and death. (Yes I started with the tough classes. I guess someone thought I needed to get those classes out of the way.) And I have gone on to take others in love, life, busimess, pain and stress. A few of my classes have been fun, like the elective classes you get to choose. I have learned sharing, art, and even scuba. Yet now somehow I feel my education is nearing completion. I don't know how I know but something inside me, like the beginnings of the dawn outside, tells me that this round of education in the school of hard knocks is nearly complete. I will graduate soon (I hope) to experience a time of joy, success, advancement. After school comes the application process, learning what I have applied and proving my teachers right or wrong about whether or not I was ready to graduate. When I graduate from the school of hard knocks there won't be a cap and gown, pomp and circumstance, no ceremony. I will know I have graduated when bit by bit I can breath again, when success comes my way and allows for relaxation from worry, and rooom for overflowing joy. Remember the heavy class loads of each semester in school and the relief that comes with passing the final test in each class? Now compare that to the real final relief of graduating! Leaving the education behind. When I graduated from high school I knew I had college ahead, but to finally be done with the series of lessons learned and some of the teachers was an incredibly freeing feeling. Sure I would miss the friends I made there, but I didn't have to leave them, I could take them with me as I carried off my diploma! Graduating finally from the school of hard knocks doesn't mean there aren't other education series' ahead of you. It just means you passed this one. It means you learned what you had to learn in that part of your life enough to graduate and move on! Like the dawn after a very dark hour, you realize again that all is right with the world and that you have the tools to live well with. You have the education that showed you that you could survive the experiences. You now can move on. You have graduated. If I have learned anything from the school of hard knocks I have learned to appreciate abundance. The abundance of opportunities to smile with you kids every day to the abundance of real financial freedom to the abundance of dawns that keep coming, morning after morning, enrolled in school or not. When I graduate I will let you know, because I am going to throw a really really big party! Kim Power Stilson

Successful Business tells story on Kim's radio show at NOON mountain

2009-02-06T08:10:00.001-08:00

Tifie’s Robert Workman and First-time home buying expert Pam Montero on Power Strategies Social Media Radio

February 6, 2009 –The Internet & Provo, UT– Social media talk radio host, Kim Power Stilson, announced today that she will be interviewing Tifie Humanitarian founder Robert Workman and first-time home buyer expert Pam Montero today on “Power Strategies -- Talk with the best about how to boost your business to a better bottom line!” at 12:00 p.m. mountain and 7 p.m. in Ireland. (Log on and listen live at www.planetarystreams.com or www.myexpertsolution.com. To enjoy repeat Internet streaming casts throughout next week, see show schedule.)

Power Strategies’ first guest, Robert Workman, is nationally recognized for both his business and humanitarian endeavors. Robert began his career with a small business that is now the nationally recognized corporation, Provo Craft and Novelty, Inc. In 2007, he formed the Tifie Humanitarian, a non-profit organization. Tifie operates in the Democratic Republic of Congo to help individuals form jobs in their own areas, ensuring a brighter future by eradicating poverty and creating thriving trade and commerce. The organization believes in lifting up the human spirit by supporting institutions such as orphanages, renovating and building schools, sponsoring youth activities, and encouraging other programs designed to strengthen the family and the community.

The second guest on today’s show, Pam Montero, with 25 years of customer services experience, is a real estate agent that specializes in finding single family residences, townhomes, condos for first time homebuyers. Today she will talk about the newest opportunities for first-time home buyers and their essential place in our new economy.

Power Strategies Talk Radio Show features the successes and challenges of small business owners, it was first aired in 2002 on KSTAR 1400 AM and has grown to include syndication to Internet radio. Re-launched in 2008, our Power Strategies Show will be broadcast to syndicate stations, re-streamed on the Internet and archived. Listenership is based on live and repeat archived, syndicated and re-streamed. Log on and listen at www.planetarystreams.com and www.myexpertsolution.com. Check their Website schedules or listen LIVE every Friday 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time and 7-9 p.m. in Ireland. To be a guest please contact kim@powerstrategies.TV. To see show information visit www.powerstrategies.TV or visit syndication sites at www.planetarystreams.com or myexpertsolution.com.

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About Tifie Humanitarian: Tifie Humanitarian is a non-profit organization formed on the idea that all individuals deserve the opportunity to provide for themselves and their families. Our organization consists of people working together to create hope for a more prosperous future by teaching and providing the resources needed to enable long-term enterprises. For more information, please visit www.tifie.org or contact, tifiehumanitarian@tifie.org.

About Pam Montero: Pam has been a real estate agent for seven years. She loves working with first time home buyers. They are always so eager to learn the home buying process and excited about achieving the American dream. She strives to develop ongoing relationships with my clients. Originally from Houston, Texas Pam moved to Utah in 1996. Before venturing into real estate, Pam worked for Continental Airlines for almost 14 years starting out in reservations and on to various customer service positions. Pam also worked as a trainer, team leader, gate agent and ticket counter agent. In 2002, she got her real estate license and in 2004, she jumped into real estate full time after leaving Continental. Pam says she never regretted it!

About Kim Power Stilson: Kim Power Stilson has helped over 50,000 small and women-owned businesses promote their products and services online. Recognized as a pioneer of Internet Talk Radio and online social communications and marketing for women, Kim Power Stilson speaks as an expert to universities and associations about her award-winning Make, Bake, Shake, Rake & Fresh© a duplicatable marketing formula that now has delivered 60% savings over costs, with an 140% increase in name awareness and delivering ordered sales of over $150 million to global clients. The talk radio host for seven years of the Healthy Wealthy Wow (terrestrial and Internet syndicated) Kim is the new Internet talk radio, host of “Fresh Success radio!” on Planetary Streams (Log on and listen at www.planetarystreams.com) and “Power Strategies . . . Market your business to better bottom line!” talk radio show on the global expert aggregator, MyExpertSolution.com. For more information please visit, www.powerstrategies.TV or contact kim@powerstrategies.TV.

Kim interviews Robert Workman and Pam Montero on Radio today

2009-02-06T07:56:00.001-08:00

Tifie's Robert Workman and First-time home buying expert Pam Montero on Power Strategies Social Media Radio

February 6, 2009 –The Internet & Provo, UT– Social media talk radio host, Kim Power Stilson, announced today that she will be interviewing Tifie Humanitarian founder Robert Workman and first-time home buyer expert Pam Montero today on "Power Strategies -- Talk with the best about how to boost your business to a better bottom line!" at 12:00 p.m. mountain and 7 p.m. in Ireland. (Log on and listen live at www.planetarystreams.com or www.myexpertsolution.com. To enjoy repeat Internet streaming casts throughout next week, see show schedule.)

Power Strategies' first guest, Robert Workman, is nationally recognized for both his business and humanitarian endeavors. Robert began his career with a small business that is now the nationally recognized corporation, Provo Craft and Novelty, Inc. In 2007, he formed the Tifie Humanitarian, a non-profit organization. Tifie operates in the Democratic Republic of Congo to help individuals form jobs in their own areas, ensuring a brighter future by eradicating poverty and creating thriving trade and commerce. The organization believes in lifting up the human spirit by supporting institutions such as orphanages, renovating and building schools, sponsoring youth activities, and encouraging other programs designed to strengthen the family and the community.

The second guest on today's show, Pam Montero, with 25 years of customer services experience, is a real estate agent that specializes in finding single family residences, townhomes, condos for first time homebuyers. Today she will talk about the newest opportunities for first-time home buyers and their essential place in our new economy.

Power Strategies Talk Radio Show features the successes and challenges of small business owners, it was first aired in 2002 on KSTAR 1400 AM and has grown to include syndication to Internet radio. Re-launched in 2008, our Power Strategies Show will be broadcast to syndicate stations, re-streamed on the Internet and archived. Listenership is based on live and repeat archived, syndicated and re-streamed. Log on and listen at www.planetarystreams.com and www.myexpertsolution.com. Check their Website schedules or listen LIVE every Friday 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time and 7-9 p.m. in Ireland. To be a guest please contact kim@powerstrategies.TV. To see show information visit www.powerstrategies.TV or visit syndication sites at www.planetarystreams.com or myexpertsolution.com.

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About Tifie Humanitarian: Tifie Humanitarian is a non-profit organization formed on the idea that all individuals deserve the opportunity to provide for themselves and their families. Our organization consists of people working together to create hope for a more prosperous future by teaching and providing the resources needed to enable long-term enterprises. For more information, please visit www.tifie.org or contact, tifiehumanitarian@tifie.org.

About Pam Montero: Pam has been a real estate agent for seven years. She loves working with first time home buyers. They are always so eager to learn the home buying process and excited about achieving the American dream. She strives to develop ongoing relationships with my clients. Originally from Houston, Texas Pam moved to Utah in 1996. Before venturing into real estate, Pam worked for Continental Airlines for almost 14 years starting out in reservations and on to various customer service positions. Pam also worked as a trainer, team leader, gate agent and ticket counter agent. In 2002, she got her real estate license and in 2004, she jumped into real estate full time after leaving Continental. Pam says she never regretted it!

About Kim Power Stilson: Kim Power Stilson has helped over 50,000 small and women-owned businesses promote their products and services online. Recognized as a pioneer of Internet Talk Radio and online social communications and marketing for women, Kim Power Stilson speaks as an expert to universities and associations about her award-winning Make, Bake, Shake, Rake & Fresh© a duplicatable marketing formula that now has delivered 60% savings over costs, with an 140% increase in name awareness and delivering ordered sales of over $150 million to global clients. The talk radio host for seven years of the Healthy Wealthy Wow (terrestrial and Internet syndicated) Kim is the new Internet talk radio, host of "Fresh Success radio!" on Planetary Streams (Log on and listen at www.planetarystreams.com) and "Power Strategies . . . Market your business to better bottom line!" talk radio show on the global expert aggregator, MyExpertSolution.com. For more information please visit, www.powerstrategies.TV or contact kim@powerstrategies.TV.

Great article on Small Business Social Media Marketing

2009-01-29T07:53:00.001-08:00

Here is a great article for small business owners who have questions about Social Media Marketing! I love that my Small Business Marketing Surival Series provides a solution! A less expensive and more complete solution at that! http://ping.fm/hgopZ

Spherion & Power Strategies to offer Social Media Survival Solutions to Small Businesses

2009-01-28T08:26:00.001-08:00

Good news for Power Strategies! Locally-owned, Spherion and Power Strategies, Inc., have partnered to offer a Small Business Marketing Survival Series to businesses who need a reknewed and updated focus on marketing to build sales volume.

Spherion, a staffing and recruiting solutions company, has experienced the results of economic downturn like many businesses. Ron Zarbock, the owner of the Wasatch front franchise, suggests that creating sales that get people back to work is the obvious path to success. The key to that success is finding new, effective and inexpensive ways to market and promote what businesses are selling. Ron wanted to help his business and the businesses he services succeed.

“I knew I needed to really get online, engage in social media marketing and learn about Internet and Web promotions. The Small Business Marketing Survival Series 5-part, 7 volume series covers everything thing I know about strategically marketing and promoting my staffing services,” said Zarbock. “I found the Small Business Marketing Survival Series to fit every need as a manger of several small businesses and a non-profit organization,”

The Small Business Marketing Survival Series, caters directly to business owners, unlike more expensive and technical offerings available. The Survival Series features the award-winning “24 Hours to Zero Down Marketing” 24 hour step by step small business marketing strategy builder and workbook and offers four more guides which cover Internet, Web and Online social communications information, advice and suggestions to apply to their business. It comes with 7 physical guides, and online video and audio trainings. Hiring someone like the author, Kim Power Stilson, (named “Social Media Marketer of the Year 2008”, by an online education company) to come in to do this personally for your company would cost $15,000, she offers her Small Business Marketing Survival Series for $599, with an additional discount for business organizations like the Provo Orem and Salt Lake City Chambers.

“More than ever before in the history of the world this is the time for small businesses to grow, flourish and become the big businesses of the future. Online marketing & advertising has leveled the playing field,” said Kim Power Stilson. “Why let the big-budget companies take the advantage when all you need to sell, market, connect and compete online is now available for just a few hours of your time and a few dollars from your budget. While others may be looking down, take this opportunity reach up and grab the stars!”

Recognized as a pioneer of Internet Talk Radio and online social communications and marketing for women, Kim Power Stilson has helped over 50,000 small and women-owned businesses promote their products and services online. She writes for national magazines, and speaks as an expert to universities and associations about her award-winning Make, Bake, Shake, Rake & Fresh, a duplicatable marketing formula that has delivered 60% savings over costs, with an 140% increase in name awareness and delivering ordered sales of over $150 million to global clients.
To learn more about the Social Media Marketing training series she offers please visit, www.powerstrategies.TV.
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About Power Strategies, Inc:
Power Strategies offers a Small Business Marekting Survival guide that gives business owners step by step guide to strategic marketing, Social Media, PR, Web & Internet Marketing Strategies. Power Strategies provides Education, Marketing Consultation and Public Relations Services to family-owned non-profit and women-owned businesses and corporations in the United States and Ireland. Feel free to contact Kim Power Stilson at kim@powerstrategies.TV.

About Spherion:
Locally own by Utah son Ron Zarbock, Spherion is committed to recruiting and staffing excellence, Spherion® provides integrated staffing solutions to meet the evolving needs and priorities of companies and job candidates.
Offering the flexibility of temporary, temp-to-hire and direct-hire positions, as either full or part time jobs, Spherion has placed millions of talented people in a multitude of jobs spanning every industry. From administrative/clerical, light industrial and contact center talent to seasoned professionals in accounting and finance, technology, engineering and manufacturing, legal, sales and marketing and human resources, Spherion efficiently and effectively delivers the right people for all employment opportunities.
The Company’s broad-based experience in recruiting is founded on an in-depth understanding of the workforce trends and the issues that drive performance. Spherion combines its unique expertise and knowledge with a commitment to service excellence to deliver optimal workforce solutions that exceed expectations and integrate seamlessly within any organization.

Contact:
Kim Stilson
Power Strategies, Inc
801-691-4588
kim@powerstrategies.TV
http://www.powerstrategies.TV

Irish president Obama

2009-01-23T16:46:00.001-08:00

At the request of a good friend the following Irish news!

President of the United States Barack O'bama's great-great-great grandfather, Falmouth Kearney, emigrated

from Moneygall to New York City at the age of 19 in 1850 and eventually resettled in Tipton County, Indiana.

Kearney's father had been the village shoemaker, then a wealthy skilled trade.

And now for the SONG...Crank up your speakers.

http://www.oneeyedparrot.org/obama.html

New York and 60 stories of falling glass

2009-01-21T11:47:00.003-08:00

I had no idea my life could end that day. It was autumn in New York, I had been there for 10 days and had spent practically every daylight hour holed up in my hotel room working for the army of clients I was representing there. I was making a lot of money but I was exhausted and I missed my family. Finally after completing my projects I had 6 hours to kill before I had to leave to catch my plane. I planned to spend those hours outside in the sun. The weather was perfect “autumn in Manhattan’-- crisp, colorful and brisk. I set off for Bryant Park, a slice of peace behind the New York Public Library, and walking from 59th I headed down 6th Avenue. A vendor beguiled me to buy a purse and then I picked up a banana at the next. This was more like it, I could finally relax, breathe even. As I stepped into a crosswalk with several other New Yorkers I heard a large resounding crack and looked up. Way up above us was what looked like be a giant piece of cardboard wafting down. I barely had time to think about why a large piece of cardboard would float down from the top of a huge skyscraper when a voice shouted in my head, “Run!” Still looking up I realized it wasn’t cardboard but a city-block-sized piece of glass falling from the building to our right and it was huge enough to crush all of us. (more later)

2009-01-21T11:47:00.001-08:00

60 stories of falling glass

2009-01-21T11:42:00.001-08:00

Today we made the final changes on the Small Business Marketing Survival Series “24 Hours to Zero Down Marketing” and the “Do it yourself Marketing & Social Media Strategy Series” training. Internet, Web and Online Social Media Communications Education for people who want to market, sell, connect, and compete online!

Before I can do one more thing I need to share the story of the day I decided to put all I know about marketing on to paper, or computer. What was it that urged me to immediately focus? 60 stories of falling glass! I want to share a life-changing story so you know why I think learning to use marketing and social media to promote your business is essential. It’s the reason I wrote this Small Business Marketing Survival Series.
I had no idea my life could end that day. It was autumn in New York, I had been there for 10 days and had spent practically every daylight hour holed up in my hotel room working for the army of clients I was representing there. I was making a lot of money but I was exhausted and I missed my family. Finally after completing my projects I had 6 hours to kill before I had to leave to catch my plane. I planned to spend those hours outside in the sun. The weather was perfect “autumn in Manhattan’-- crisp, colorful and brisk. I set off for Bryant Park, a slice of peace behind the New York Public Library, and walking from 59th I headed down 6th Avenue. A vendor beguiled me to buy a purse and then I picked up a banana at the next. This was more like it, I could finally relax, breathe even. As I stepped into a crosswalk with several other New Yorkers I heard a large resounding crack and looked up. Way up above us was what looked like be a giant piece of cardboard wafting down. I barely had time to think about why a large piece of cardboard would float down from the top of a huge skyscraper when a voice shouted in my head, “Run!” Still looking up I realized it wasn’t cardboard but a city-block-sized piece of glass falling from the building to our right and it was huge enough to crush all of us. (more later)

Sentimental over Facebook

2009-01-13T13:05:00.001-08:00

how wonderful it is to reconnect with old friends and chat with them in quick snippets almost like you are running into them in the halls of university or workplaces from the past! Facebook warms my heart and reminds me of all the good people I have know! Okay a little mushy still the way I feel is the way I feel!!

The first tip for Online Marketing Survival in 2009

2009-01-12T13:06:00.001-08:00

Marketing equals sales!

To sell you need customers, to reach customers you need marketing. Marketing can be expensive. Expenses are often cut when sales dip. To keep selling you need to keep marketing but it needs to be affordable. Traditional marketing in the form of print, direct mail, TV and radio ads are enormously costly and are not producing the desired returns. This is a serious problem that will affect every business which needs to keep marketing if they want to keep selling. The good news is that now more than ever before in the history of the world there are marketing options that are more affordable and effective thanks to the Internet, the Web and online social communications. So, if you want to survive in 2009 and definitely beyond, you'll want to make a note of some of these simple online marketing survival strategies.
First, learn to do it yourself! If you are going to survive in the new marketing industry you will need to learn how to implement online marketing and use the many tools the Internet offers. There are thousands of companies and website that offer their services but do you know what you are looking for? Do you know which marketing tools are best for your company? Before you hire anyone or buy anything, know what to expect by taking an affordable online marketing training that will give you an overview and help you build a marketing strategy that will work for your company. Visit www.powerstrategies.TV for Internet, Web and online social communications training series. Take the 5-part audio, video and downloadable guide training that will give you a crash course on marketing survival and have you strategically selling online. Get your FREE Small Business Marketing Survival Terms just for taking the time to visit.
Additionally, while building your company marketing strategy learn how listening and buying online in the same location makes Internet talk radio the perfect venue to advertise any online product. Learn to make your product and website dynamic and give it validation. Messages couched in an informative third-party validation style, easily familiar to listeners used to receiving content from a network aggregator like NBC or FOX, makes listeners comfortable and open to the host’s message.
This is just the tip of the iceberg on how you can survive in online marketing. Honestly, if your company is going to survive in 2009 you will need to learn about the latest online marketing trends and implement them. Remember, education is the first step to effective marketing and selling online!

Bluebirds sell

2009-01-12T13:04:00.001-08:00

Marketing equals sales!

The first tip for Online Marketing Survival in 2009

To sell you need customers, to reach customers you need marketing. Marketing can be expensive. Expenses are often cut when sales dip. To keep selling you need to keep marketing but it needs to be affordable. Traditional marketing in the form of print, direct mail, TV and radio ads are enormously costly and are not producing the desired returns. This is a serious problem that will affect every business which needs to keep marketing if they want to keep selling. The good news is that now more than ever before in the history of the world there are marketing options that are more affordable and effective thanks to the Internet, the Web and online social communications. So, if you want to survive in 2009 and definitely beyond, you'll want to make a note of some of these simple online marketing survival strategies.

First, learn to do it yourself! If you are going to survive in the new marketing industry you will need to learn how to implement online marketing and use the many tools the Internet offers. There are thousands of companies and website that offer their services but do you know what you are looking for? Do you know which marketing tools are best for your company? Before you hire anyone or buy anything, know what to expect by taking an affordable online marketing training that will give you an overview and help you build a marketing strategy that will work for your company. Visit www.powerstrategies.TV for Internet, Web and online social communications training series. Take the 5-part audio, video and downloadable guide training that will give you a crash course on marketing survival and have you strategically selling online. Get your FREE Small Business Marketing Survival Terms just for taking the time to visit.

Additionally, while building your company marketing strategy learn how listening and buying online in the same location makes Internet talk radio the perfect venue to advertise any online product. Learn to make your product and website dynamic and give it validation. Messages couched in an informative third-party validation style, easily familiar to listeners used to receiving content from a network aggregator like NBC or FOX, makes listeners comfortable and open to the host's message.

This is just the tip of the iceberg on how you can survive in online marketing. Honestly, if your company is going to survive in 2009 you will need to learn about the latest online marketing trends and implement them. Remember, education is the first step to effective marketing and selling online!

Bluebird shares Personal insights

2008-08-08T07:58:00.001-07:00

This is what they are writing about me. Living with me day in and day out as I do I wonder what happened to all the bits about me working really really hard to achieve the success I have or about the times I had to make up a birthday party in 2 minutes so my kids didn't know I had been working til the last minute and forgotten to do what I should . . . but instead of disappointing them I made them the best birthday ever, seemed planned and all . . . I think they should include those successes as well! Anyway, let me know what you think!!

About Kim Power Stilson:

Kim Power Stilson has helped over 50,000 small and women-owned businesses promote their products and services online. As an award-winning pioneer of Internet Talk Radio and a social media and Internet marketing strategist, she has authored several marketing guides, is a weekly talk radio host, and founder of Power Strategies, Inc. A dual citizen, Kim divides her time between California, Utah & Ireland. She has 4 dogs, 3 kids, 2 birds and a cat. Her husband is a very patient man.

Her Marketing Success:

With a degree in communication, Kim worked in Japan, New York, California until offered an executive position in Utah to get Robert F. Bennett elected to the United States Senate. After an unbelievable campaign success, Kim successfully promoted technology companies around the globe until she discovered that processes in the short-time line of a political campaign combined with marketing strategy created a business application that delivered marketing and sales results faster and on drastically reduced budget. Kim created Make, Bake, Shake, Rake & Fresh© a duplicatable marketing strategy that now has delivered time-cutting and award-winning campaigns to national and international audiences for at 60% savings over costs, with an 140% increase in name awareness and delivering ordered sales of over $150 million.

Kim founded Power Strategies, Inc., and designed a laser target marketing strategy to help companies reach the world's largest consumer group, women. She pioneered one of the first Internet Talk Radio Networks and has since helped over 120,000 people share their messages online. Now a proclaimed Social Media, PR, Web & Internet Marketing Strategies Company providing Education, Marketing Consultation and Public Relations Services since 2000, Power Stilson just made her MBSR&F strategy openly available to the public through her new book "24 Hours to Zero Down Marketing."

Her Shared Wealth:

Kim Power Stilson is the author of "24 Hours to Zero Down Marketing"
Strategy Guide and Workbook and "Get Online and . . . Blog, Ping, Pod, Stream, Bookmark, Blast, Release, Wiki, Widget, Web, Link, Avatar, Tag & Twitter! What is it and how do I do it?" An Education Guide to the Internet, the World Wide Web and Online Social Media Communications! And this fall, "Women Buy Everything".
Kim is the co-author of the new guide, "Putting a face and voice on your Website = Dollars! A profitable guide to Internet Radio & TV Advertising" and instigator of The 24 Challenge, a $1 per strategic marketing tip monthly service with 200% success guarantee. www.powerstratgies.TV.

Her radio shows:

The host for seven years of the Healthy Wealthy Wow (terrestrial and Internet syndicated) on the Grapevine Talk Radio Network, Kim is the new Internet talk radio, host of "Fresh Success radio!" on Planetary Streams (Log on and listen at www.planetarystreams.com) and "Power Strategies . . . Market your business to better bottom line!" talk radio show on the resource aggregator , MyExpertSolution.com.

Her Loves:

Kim is the founder of the Bluebird Sisterhood and sits on the board of The Foundation House. January 2008 she decided to give up the executive 80 hour work week at the office in favor of working from home to be near her kids. She says that believe it or not, there is a lot of money to be made while having a balanced life.

Kim loves to watercolor, play tennis, snow ski, write, and be near the sea. A dual citizen, Kim divides her time between California, Utah & Ireland. She really does have 4 dogs, 3 kids, 2 birds and a cat. Her husband is a very patient man, a former cop, founder of Planetary Streams, Inc. and a pilot who flys of the house every chance he gets!

About Power Strategies, Inc:

Power Strategies is a Social Media, PR, Web & Internet Marketing Strategies Company providing Education, Marketing Consultation and Public Relations Services to women and family owned businesses and corporations in the United States and Ireland. Please visit at www.PowerStrategies.TV and feel free to contact Kim Power Stilson at kim@powerstrategies.TV.

Bluebird ponders success and failure

2008-08-05T06:45:00.001-07:00

What makes the difference between a successful business and one that you pour years, your money, your soul and your family's soul into only to become another business failure statistic in 2-5 years? Why do some people work like we do, out of the garage, basement or dining room, and end up a "million billionaires", while you end up losing your house?

Why? My company had its shining moments, we had a good product/service and, in fact, the first four or so years showed we were headed for success. So, what happened? As much as I hate to ask why and less like to face the answers, I discovered the answer, the secret, the key to success while face down in the mud.

It was the day after we had to close the business and my world was dark. Winter was turning slowly to spring and by that I mean the 8 foot wall of grey ice next to our driveway was finally beginning to melt. I had read every "power of positive thinking" book out there and some twice while trying to convince myself that there was a silver lining. I kept asking myself why I had failed. All comparisons to Edison's 6,000+ light bulb tries failed to cheer me up. I was supposed to be successful. I had watched others succeed and had confidentially joked with them that I would invite them to my castle in Ireland someday. Now, my hopes for someday seemed to be "never-ever day." What had I missed? The answer would not come and the pain of failure was sharp making it difficult to even breathe.

I did what a lot of people do when they need to think. I decided to go for a walk. After all, I had no business to claim my time and nothing else to do. I walked along seeing the beauty of the mountains forcing myself to be grateful. Look at the positive side; I said to myself, finally after years of working 70 hours a week now at least I had time to take a walk.

Suddenly, as if the world dropped off in front of my feet I fell, face down into a pool of post-thaw snow mud. I just lied there in the mud and wondered why I should get up. When I was finished feeling sorry for myself and grieving my lost business I suddenly knew why I had failed. It hit me right there in the mud exactly what the one strategy of success we had neglected which had caused the lack of success, the failure. It was embarrassing. We had a good product/service but it all had come down not doing this one thing. I had gotten so busy that I had forgotten, put off, not placed the importance into "marketing" my product/service. How many years had I wasted in doing the efforts of business only to find at the end that my product/service was worthless when not sold into the hands of consumers? If consumers did not know about my product then I wasn't selling and if my product wasn't selling than I did not have a business. Like me, I thought, as I started extricating myself from the tear and snow laden mud, with no business.

How I fell In Love!

2008-07-07T13:05:00.000-07:00

I am guest blogging for Kim today- Hope you Enjoy!

-Debbie

I have to say that I have never really been impressed by dogs. Growing up, the oldest of 10, we have a fair share of animals running in and out of the house. Most of them came to their doom when my dad (Seeing that all 10 of his children were not responsible and/or selfish) would find some place for them to go (we still wonder if he really took the baby hamsters to the Chinese Restaurant down the street). So with this mentality I never bonded with dogs and thought they were just big mess makers (Especially when you tried to step in a backyard of a dog owners house. I remember last year when our neighbors got a dog and my 4 year old stepped in the dog poop, walked into our house, and then stepped on my expensive oriental area rug smearing the mess everywhere). So dogs just put a bad taste in my mouth...

That is until I met Sam, he is an Irish wolfhound and I have to confess, I think I have fallen in love. He is a giant dog, just huge, and I met him last week. He just came right up to me and bowed at my feet... then he started to lick my toes. He is SO tall that my Emma, who is 2, can walk right under him. He has such a good personality and I can see now how people can fall in love with their animals. I don't own him, just think about him and his long tongue and stingy hair. There are also these adorable Irish Wolfhound babies, that I think I am going to have to have. There is a runt with a way-ward eye, oh my, all my will was holding me back from scooping up that puppy and taking it home right away. I am such a sucker for adorable animals! We did eventually have to leave my new found loves, so I went home and looked everything I could up on the internet. I have already mapped areas out in my backyard to see if we could get one… and the odds are for us!

Now my entire aspect of dogs has changed. I think I have always secretly been a dog person waiting for the right dog to show me what I have been missing. So to all those anti-dog bloggers beware, if you every meet Sam or his nephews you are in trouble of falling in love.

Bluebird Daughter Returns!

2008-06-30T11:21:00.001-07:00

One week away from me and our nest and I hurried up to Trefoil Ranch to pick up my little Girl Scout daughter Saturday morning. I was so excited to see her, I had missed her. The house was quiet with one of the girls missing and there was way less fighting with her 8-year-old brother. When I arrived, I waited in a long car line with other anxious parents. It was a beautiful summer morning and the air was wonderful – well, except for the smoker guy standing by his car in front of me!) Anyway, I finally reach the camp, spot my daughter and shout hello and reach out to grab her for a hug. She tolerates the hug, says a limp "hi Mom" and then proceeds to tearfully say goodbye to hundreds of friends with nicknames like bubble gum, peanut and solar galaxy. She is not even excited to see me and in fact misses camp almost the entire drive home evidenced by her not speaking to me and her answering in one syllable! (til she was hungry and asked me to stop for her bite of "real" food in a week!) So, very fun! I guessed she has crossed into teenager-hood with her older sister . . . nary to return until they have families of their own and need me to babysit! Ah well, anyone have any suggestions? My heart is so sad?

Bluebird son takes her camping!

2008-06-23T18:32:00.001-07:00

and lives to tell about it! 14 hours alone at our camping site with my son last week. I promised myself I would focus on him -- no cell phone, no computer, no one and nothing but him. I decided to do everything and anything he asked of me. At home this usually includes a ride to his friend's house, pudding and lunch! At camping, alone in the wilderness (with our fully outfitted trailer) it included the following hair raising and not for 40 year old women activities!

Climbing a log across a 20 foot raging creek! (okay not so raging but deep!)

hiking up and sliding down through overgrown bushes, spider and possibly snake infested "Dirt Hill"

Building a cross bow from tree branches

Making a fire and eating a hot dog (okay, turkey dog, but still!)

playing tic tac toe with branches in the dirt

watching the path of some very odd looking bugs

a dip into the creek when crossing the branch for the 5th time

mud-caked shoes, pants, crevices

At hour 14 when my husband and other kids had not yet returned to the trailer, I finally asked my son if we could do one thing Mommy wanted to do and he said yes.

So I asked if I could take a 20 minute nap, in the trailer, without the bugs, and he said okay but that he would be "bored."

I woke up a half an hour later to find my dirt covered son sound asleep next to me, dirty clothes, shoes, cross bow and all on the trailer bed. He slept for another hour while I watched him amazed that he was more tired than I . . .

and then we each had a Jello pudding snack.

Bluebirds know something we didn’t know before!

2008-06-17T13:01:00.001-07:00

Today, after a week of trauma, puppy deaths, kids out for summer, on and on, I accomplished something I am proud of. Many of my friends, my family, my clients needed to know something they didn't know, and I helped them with that. The news is below, but I am so happy to have accomplished something grand despite all the demands and tools life takes of us. I hope this Internet, Web and Online Social Communications Guide will help people successfully compete online. I know it helped me, and I know I needed to know what I did not!

The world is out there filled with people who like to define us as humans, I can only really attempt to define myself. I needed to know this and know I know what I know but there is more to learn, more to know, more to come. I hope someone out there agrees but you know it does not really matter. As long as I am happy and those I care about our happy.

To the ten friends so far who have learned something, and love it, thank you! This is a landmark day for me, one I hope my kids, my dogs, birds, cats, siblings and friends will smile about. Kim Power Stilson

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Blog? Ping? Pod?

Kim Power Stilson, A mom with 4 dogs, 3 kids, 2 birds and a cat

& Debbie Cluff, a zany little lady from Pasadena help Momprenuers

Unlock the mystery to the Internet, the Web and Social Media Tools with Power Strategies Education!

June 17, 2008, 2008— Pasadena, CA & Salt Lake City, UT – Kim Power Stilson and Debbie Cluff partner with Planetary Streams and today announce the release of:

Get online and Blog, Ping, Pod, Stream, Bookmark, Blast, Release,

Wiki, Widget, Web, Link, Avatar, Tag & Twitter!

What is it and how do I do it?

An Education Guide to the Internet, the World Wide Web

and Online Social Media Communications!

This guide is available online and in a social media education training package on www.planetarystreams.com and www.powerstrategies.TV.

Two work-at-home moms, both with hectic lives, decided life would be easier if they figured out how to succeed online like the Pro-bloggers and other online businesses. They made two discoveries. First, there was a lot they did not know, like what is a Wiki and Twitter. Second, they realized it wasn't as intimidating as it sounded. They shared the information with their friends and other entrepreneurs who all insisted they needed it all down in a guidebook. So, Kim collaborated with Debbie to research, write and present: Get online and Blog, Ping, Pod, Stream, Bookmark, Blast, Release, Wiki, Widget, Web, Link, Avatar, Tag & Twitter! What is it and how do I do it? An Education Guide to the Internet, the World Wide Web and Online Social Media Communications!

According to Kim Power Stilson, marketing strategist, the guide combined with her new 24 Hours to Zero Down Marketing Strategy Guide & Workbook is the culmination of 17 years of hard work, marketing while raising kids, dogs, etc. She believes the Internet and World Wide Web are a tremendous convenience for working moms, single parents and small businesses.

"Life online is easier! I'm positive they invented the Internet and World Wide Web for busy women," says Kim. "Everything I need to do, purchase, sell and find is all online! How convenient is that? I wanted everyone to know how to use the offerings and tool available online!"

According to Debbie Cluff, mother of three and master educator, founder of Links for Learning, having an online tutoring business inspired her to help women and parents find a comfortable way to use online tools to their advantage. She sees that working, playing and learning online brings convenience and success and most moms, parents and people need that benefit.

"We could totally see us on the Ellen Show helping all the women in the world learn how to blog, ping, pod, etc., and we loved the idea of women using this knowledge to get better jobs, work from home, and succeed online," said Debbie. "As an educator I thought it would be fun to teach something everyone wants and needs to learn!"

The Guide, Get online and Blog, Ping, Pod, Stream, Bookmark, Blast, Release, Wiki, Widget, Web, Link, Avatar, Tag & Twitter! What is it and how do I do it? An Education Guide to the Internet, the World Wide Web and Online Social Media Communications! is offered in an online PDF version, as well as, a robust video, audio, Internet, Web, Social Media & Marketing certified education course. (Prices range from $240 - $2400 with certification. Huge Discounts for women, single parents and small businesses. Get your guide at www.planetarystreams.com and www.powerstrategies.TV) For Free Media trial contact: Jack Brian or Anne Roberts Jack@powerstrategies.TV or anne@powerstrategies.com or 801-473-9174.

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About Kim Power Stilson:

Founder of Power Strategies, Inc., Kim Power Stilson, is the author of Women Buy Everything (Fall 2008) 24 Hours to Zero Down Marketing Strategy Guide and Workbook and Get online Blog, Ping, Pod, Stream, Bookmark, Blast, Release, Wiki, Widget, Web, Link, Avatar, Tag and Twitter! What is it and how do I do it?

Kim is the weekly Internet talk radio host of "My Best Friends are Dogs and Bloggers" and "Women Buy Everything" radio shows on Planetary Streams (Log on and listen at www.planetarystreams.com ) and the founder of the Bluebird Sisterhood. She really does have 4 dogs, 3 kids, 2 birds and 1 cat and a very patient husband. She loves to watercolor, play tennis, snow ski and be near the sea. She divides her time between California, Utah & Ireland. She blogs at www.bluebirdsisterhood.blogspot.com & www.twitter.com, www.mybestfriendsaredogsandbloggers.wordpress.com.

About Debbie Cluff:

Debbie Cluff is the CEO of Links for Learning, Online Coaching and Instant Homework Help. She was born and raised in South Pasadena, California, USA. Debbie has taught in both the home and the classroom and has her Masters in Reading and Writing at the Elementary School Level. She is a reading specialist and an author. She has written over a dozen articles for online publications and has been a contributing author to such online companies as, earticle.com and ezine.com. Her first book 7 Easy Ways to Help Your Student Succeed: How Ordinary Parents can Make Extraordinary Students, can be purchased or downloaded free directly from her website, www.links-for-learning.com.

Debbie hosts two weekly talk radio shows on Planetary Streams called "The Debbie Cluff Show" and "Women Buy Everything" you can listen by logging on to www.planetarystreams.com.

Debbie loves to read any books. Her favorite books are anything by Mary Higgins Clark and Jane Austin. Debbie resides in South Pasadena, California with her husband and three children. She would LOVE to hear from you and your personal educational stories, please contact her directly at debbie@links-for-learning.com.

ABOUT PLANETARY STREAMS:

Planetary Streams International, a Social Media Communications Company, provides internet Radio & TV communications solutions for companies and individuals around the globe. Launched February 2008 to meet the growing demands of audio and visual delivery on the internet, PSI operates globally from the "Broadcast Barn" in Woodland Hills using proprietary technology connects to deliver marketing messages from individuals and companies. Please visit www.planetarystreams.com, or call Chad Stilson at chad@planetarystreams.com or contact Jack at 801-473-9174.

Bluebird Sister Markets in 24 Hours!

2008-06-12T18:35:00.001-07:00

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Kim Power Stilson Launches 24 Hours to Zero Down Marketing Strategy Guide for Companies Who Want to Succeed!

June 13, 2008, 2008—Salt Lake City, UT & Dunmore East, Ireland – Kim Power Stilson, announced today, the release of her new marketing strategy training guide and workbook, 24 Hours to Zero Down Marketing Strategy Guide and Workbook. This guide is available online and in a social media education training package on www.powerstratgies.TV.

As soon as they found out she had her own marketing company, people would ask Kim for suggestions on how to spread the word about their product/services. Based on a success-proven strategy, Make, Bake, Shake, Rake & Fresh, created with 17 years of marketing success, Kim would suggest first creating a strategy or plan based on goals and then applying regular efforts to achieve name awareness and sales success.

Most small companies could not afford her or other marketing professionals consultation fees ($30,000 strategy creation fee and monthly service fee $5 -10,000 per month) but they still needed the help and she wanted to assist them because she believes that marketing or not marketing a product/service makes the difference between success and failure. She was inspired to write this step-by-step guide and which gave the power back to the company owners with marketing knowledge at a budget-

worthy cost.

"Once you have a plan, a strategy and you know what you need to do then you run out of excuses to not take the time to market and sell," said Kim Power Stilson. "With each marketing effort company owners gain a little more success. With consistent efforts like even 24 hours a month focused on marketing, they will see real results in the areas of increased name awareness and sales."

According to Kim Power Stilson, this is a great strategy guide for business owners and employees who want to impress their boss by helping their company increase their chances for sales. "You may have a great product but if consumers don't know about it they can't buy it," said Power Stilson. "Online and traditional Marketing is an essential component to business success. Entrepreneurs and small business sometimes overlook marketing because they don't have the resources to hire someone and most don't have the time to do it themselves. Now they can be doing effective marketing in just 24 Hours for a fraction of the cost."

To make marketing affordable, Power Strategies offers a "Monthly Marketing Service – 24 Hours" style to help companies keep marketing once they have a strategy. The service includes Live chat, Social Media, Internet, PR 2.0 and Web 3.0 & Marketing instruction, tips, templates & advice from Social Media & Marketing Strategist Kim Power Stilson. (Prices range from $240 per month to a discounted cost for women, small-business owners and single parents of $24 per month.)

24 Hours to Zero Down Marketing Strategy Guide & Workbook is offered in an online PDF version, as well as, a robust video, audio, Internet, Web, Social Media & Marketing certified education course. (Prices range from $240 - $2400 with certification.) For Free Media trial contact: Jack Brian or Anne Roberts Jack@powerstrategies.TV or anne@powerstrategies.com or 801-473-9174.

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About Kim Power Stilson:

Founder of Power Strategies, Inc., Kim Power Stilson, is the author of Women Buy Everything (Fall 2008) 24 Hours to Zero Down Marketing Strategy Guide and Workbook and Get online
Blog, Ping, Pod, Stream, Bookmark, Blast, Release, Wiki, Widget, Web, Link, Avatar, Tag and Twitter! What is it and how do I do it?

Kim is the weekly Internet talk radio host of "My Best Friends are Dogs and Bloggers" and "Women Buy Everything" radio shows on Planetary Streams (Log on and listen at www.planetarystreams.com ) and the founder of the Bluebird Sisterhood. She really does have 4 dogs, 3 kids, 2 birds and 1 cat and a very patient husband. She loves to watercolor, play tennis, snow ski and be near the sea. She divides her time between California, Utah & Ireland. She blogs at www.bluebirdsisterhood.blogspot.com & www.twitter.com, www.mybestfriendsaredogsandbloggers.wordpress.com.

Her professional marketing background includes over 17 years experience and a proven track record of success. She has created marketing positioning campaigns based on her own copyrighted Make, Bake, Shake, Rake & Fresh marketing strategy to build name awareness and speed up the sales process hundreds of companies delivering award-winning campaigns to national and international audiences for at 60% savings over costs, with an 140% increase in name awareness and delivering ordered sales of $50 million plus.

About Power Strategies, Inc:

About the Power Strategies Education Courses:

The "Power Strategies Internet, Web and Social Media & Marketing Strategy Education" includes 24 education sessions, 3 education courses, 32 learning components and one 24-hour workbook all Online to get you certified and marketing at your own pace in 24 hours to 24 weeks:

Internet, Web & Social Media Training -- Learn Social Media, Internet and Web tools like Blog, Ping, Pod, Stream, Bookmark, Blast, Release, Wiki, Widget, Web, Link, Avatar, Tag & Twitter! Includes EBook, Audio / Video training.
Marketing Strategy –Create and implement a traditional, Internet and Web marketing strategy for you, your company, and your products/services. Includes 24ZDM guide and workbook along with Audio / Video training.
Education Sessions – 24 Internet, Web and Social Media personal LIVE 15 minute educations sessions (powered by Links-for-Learning.com) online at your convenience. Ask questions and get answers from a "live" marketing coach.

*Certification in "Power Strategies Internet, Web and Social Media & Marketing Strategy Education" through this robust online course will give you the ability to create a traditional and Internet marketing strategy and the understanding to communicate on the Web with social media tools. Graduate from this course with Certification in Social Media, Internet Marketing and Marketing Strategy.

Women, Single Parent and / or Small Business Owner Subsidized Discount Price - $2400* Corporate Price - $10,000*

BONUS WITH EDUCATION PURCHASE: Monthly Marketing Service - 24 Hour Style
24 hours each month with Includes: Live chat, Social Media, Internet, PR 2.0 and Web 3.0 & Marketing instruction, tips, templates & advice from Social Media & Marketing Strategist Kim Power Stilson.

See Bluebird Irish wolfhound Puppies

2008-06-06T09:02:00.001-07:00

See our 8 beautiful Irish Wolfhound Puppies and their lovely mom Daisy at www.planetarystreams.com. Look under Snack TV "How to" Love your puppies! My kids are there too, how fun! Kim Power Stilson

Bluebird Learning the Essential

2008-06-05T08:59:00.001-07:00

The Internet and World Wide Web give us so many opportunities to communicate and connect to people previously unreachable at all ends of the earth. Communication on the Internet and World Wide Web is essential in everything we do from the social aspects to promoting a successful business. Why would anyone ever put off learning something so essential just because it's new and unknown? Even more than the knowing how to use the microwave, which I feel was fairly essential to eating regularly in college, 'getting the hang of" the Internet and the World Wide Web gives amazing, informative, and lucrative opportunities for those who embrace it.

Most of us are not educated in how to use the Online World to our personal and professional advantage. People who are able to successfully navigate online will not easily give away the secrets to how this is done. Yet, I have always felt the first step in becoming a great, is to gain education in all areas of what you want to achieve. In order to connect to the online world, you are going to have to educate yourself, as Debbie would say, in the 5 W's which are Who, Where, What, When, and Why of this Internet and World Wide Web.

This guide was written from the perspective of a journey of how my grandma and I would have figured out this together. It's not technical and it may not be perfectly accurate yet because I wanted to learn enough to successful on the Internet and World Wide Web and leave the blank stares behind me forever, it works. So, even though I can't build a website I do know what to ask for and expect when I contract with someone to build one for me. I don't know as much as a "Problogger" (a professional blogger who makes money through the site he/she blogs) but I can talk intelligently with one. Probloggers seem to have the world by a string, but I have not read a Problogger yet who could have out blogged my grandma had she been around to blog today.

Kim Power Stilson as seen on www.powerstrategies.TV and www.planetarystreams.com

Bluebird Sister loves Social Media

2008-06-02T16:48:00.001-07:00

I could blame being an overwhelmed hard-working mother of 4 dogs, 3 kids, 2 birds and a cat for one of the reasons I wasn't up on terms like Social Media, Live Web, and Widgets but there are a few women with the same description above perhaps with a few less pets who make millions of dollars every year knowing all the above. That's right millions.

The Internet and the World Wide Web are not some deep dark mysterious secret that you need a key or a brilliant brain to unlock, though some of the articles you have seen may seem to be written in another language, it's simply a lot of new information and new information when you already have a lot on your plate can be overwhelming.

If you secretly wonder what a blog is then you are not alone. My good friend Kristen Lamb, co-founder of Planetary Streams International, a Social Media and Marketing company likes to say, "You don't know what you don't know!" Like my grandma and the microwave, her grandma and the TV and me and my iPod, we won't know until we ask for help. People brave enough to admit they have no idea what a blog or ping or any of the above in the title are the ones who get to reap the rewards.

I wanted the answers and needed the resources so I started asking questions. I discovered that some people understood it all and some understood it very little. The ones who knew it all often lacked the patience or the time to explain in a way I could understand. Overall, I gave and got more blank stares than an entire class room of Algebra students before I finally just decided to figure it out myself. That's when I decided to talk to the best teacher I know, Debbie Cluff. She is truly a "zany" little lady and a master educator, born and raised in Pasadena, California, who seems to have a knack for turning the complex into an elementary

Bluebird Puppies are Here!

2008-05-30T08:21:00.001-07:00

Since 3 or so this morning we have been having Irish Wolfhound puppies every 45 minutes! Wow, Mom, Daisy is doing fine and all puppies seem healthy. What a way to begin summer vacation! I will post photos on the www.planetarystreams.com Snack TV section as soon as I can get them posted. J Kim Power Stilson

Bluebird Having Puppies

2008-05-29T09:09:00.001-07:00

My sweet Irish Wolfhound Daisy (mate of Lucky who passed away in April) is having puppies! I am so excited! I will post video on www.planetarystreams.com under Snack TV "How to Have puppies" soon – very soon! Thanks for all your support and pray for us—kim power stilson

Bluebirds Friends Have Great News

2008-05-29T09:01:00.001-07:00

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Utah Internet Education Companies Partner with Social Communications Company to Give People Access to World's Experts from One Location on the Web

May 29, 2008—Salt Lake City, UT – Planetary Streams International Announces Partnership with founders of CareerStep.com and GrowthClimate.com to Extend new company "My Expert Solution.com" to People through Social Media Tools. New offering will bring jobs to local area and affordable audio and visual relationship resources solutions to people across the globe.

MyExpertSolutions.com is a site which allows users to submit a question and get an expert response within 24 hours in the areas of relationships, health, finance, education and more. Nationally recognized online education and communication experts have come together to provide MyExpertSolutions.com, including; award-winning founders of CareerStep.com Andrea and Gene Anaya; GrowthClimate founders, nationally acknowledged author, therapist, Dr. Kevin Skinner and author and radio host, Kristen Lamb and for social media tools, CEO of Planetary Streams, social communications strategist, Chad Stilson.

MyExpertSolution.com will allow access to the world's experts through an online offering launching July 2008 in Utah, August 1^st nationally and September 1^st in Europe.

Andrea Anaya and Gene Anaya, founders of Careerstep.com, a leading , the nation's leading medical transcription and online training, Ernst & Young Regional finalists 2007 and the fastest growing companies in Utah, are proud to partner with Planetary Streams, a Social Media Communications Company, to give My ExpertSolution.com and its experts a face and voice on the Internet.

"I think it's a fabulous idea to give people online tools and an opportunity for building better relationships and lives," said Andrea Anaya. "MyExpertSolution.com is pleased to partner with Planetary Streams to offer these solutions."

According to Kristen Lamb, newly appointed CEO My Expert Solutions, they have partnered with Planetary Streams because of their ability to quickly resonate to the online masses in the most-cost effective manner.

"We needed to offer a connection between experts and those who need their advice and we chose Planetary Streams because of their ability to extend our message in a powerful way across the Internet," said Lamb. "Their social media tools will allow our experts to have a face and voice in countries across the world."

Planetary Streams is pleased to power My Expert Solution's social communications offerings including radio, TV and blogging.

"MyExpertSolution.com will be an invaluable resource to individuals who need answers quickly and sharing via the Internet and its myriad of communications tools is a smart delivery match. There is so much information on the World Wide Web that having one place to visit for answers from the world's experts will be crucial to users."

News contact: Kim Power www.powerstrategies.TV or 801-473-9174.

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ABOUT MY EXPERT SOLUTIONS:

MyExpertSolutions.com is your resource for answers with assembled experts ready online to help you when you need answers. Users can submit their question about anything from education, finance, health and relationships and experts in those fields will share an online answer in 24 hours. MyExpertSolutions.com will be nationally available online at www.myexpertsolutions.com in August 2008. For more information please contact Kristen at 801-420-5812.

ABOUT CAREERSTEP:

Career Step is the nation's leading provider of online medical transcription and medical coding training. Career Step enjoys a tremendous market advantage in the industry by virtue of its reputation as an innovative, competency-based training company. Career Step is committed to seeing each enrolling student graduate and successfully transition to a rewarding career. Career Step has been in business for over fifteen years and is headquartered in Springville, Utah.

Each year, for the past seven years, Career Step has been recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in the state of Utah by the Mountain West Capital Network. Career Step was additionally the 335th fastest growing privately-held business in the country, according to Inc. Magazine. www.careerstep.com

ABOUT GROWTHCLIMATE:

GrowthClimate is a leader in online relationship education offering training to 125,000+ individuals, couples, families and businesses across the world. GrowthClimate® assists individuals who have lost connection with their instincts teaching them how to turn them back on again. A national research study done in our public schools found that "creativity in children is largely destroyed by the second grade." More accurately said, in a world where children become fearful, their creativity is diverted toward survival rather than growth. Reconnect children and adults with their instincts, and their inborn creativity turns back on! Give them understanding of their world, and the power to not only survive it, but also to change it. Creative genius makes individuals tremendous contributors to families, businesses, and to any group or organization of which they are a part. www.growthclimate.com.

ABOUT PLANETARY STREAMS:

World Wide Web flying by?

2008-05-23T09:18:00.001-07:00

I remember when my parents brought home one of the first microwaves on our block. My grandmother came over and asked me to show her how to "get the hang of it" so she could tell all her friends. She said it was a mystery to her but she was determined to be the first of her friends to have one. Having survived the great depression my grandma was not the kind to be afraid of anything but I could tell she was a little wary of the big black box capable of melting down plastic bowls in seconds. As I was showing her what to do she told me she had showed her own grandmother how to work her TV. We laughed while we burnt a cheese sandwich to a crisp. Years later when I had to ask my kids to help me download a James Taylor song onto the iPod I received for Christmas I realized I was losing ground. My kids laughed at me for not knowing how to download and it made me feel better to smirk at them for not knowing who James Taylor was. Smirking was not enough, I felt like the world, indeed the World Wide Web was passing me by. More from me on www.powerstrategies.TV and www.planetarystreams.com

Bluebirds hoping for heat!

2008-05-15T20:55:00.001-07:00

Tired of squawking about the snow! It's supposed to be 90 degrees this week! No more snow for us!

No Dishwasher for Bluebird

2008-05-15T09:51:00.001-07:00

Okay, just when you think you don't have enough time to do all you have to do . . . your dishwasher breaks down. Seriously, not good timing. The kids shoved all the dishes in and broke off a part of our ancient albeit deluxe dishwasher and "wa la" we are pioneers doing dishes by hand. You watch next week I will do a Planetary Visions "How To" Snack TV on doing the dishes by hand. I'd forgotten! Oh well!

Snowing on Bluebirds in May!

2008-05-12T08:36:00.001-07:00

Unbelievable. I put my winter clothes away for the third time and "ta do" like magic it snows. I woke up to see my fresh green leave and budding lilacs drooping over with almost an inch of heavy white icey frosting. SNOW! I checked my calendar? It's May! To get my kids off to school I had to dig through the storage boxes for the usual boots and gloves. Nice! Will I ever get to enjoy the Iris or the Lilacs I usually see in April – will they skip blooming all together and shrivel in summer's heat? Okay, I know I am complaining but really! Snow?!?!?!?

Bluebird Returns to the Sea!

2008-05-09T09:47:00.001-07:00

Today I am officially committed to moving back home to California. I belong near the sea and if for now that can't be the pretty little seaside village of Dunmore East I will at least see the Pacific Ocean every morning when I wake up! This I promise, whether or not my teenage daughter's life will be over if we move J

Bluebird Triumphs 24 Zero Down Marketing is Done!

2008-05-06T06:50:00.001-07:00

Over one thousand people have asked me to give them advice on marketing. Many are paying clients, most people who see me, like they see any neighborhood lawyer or policeman, are strapped for cash and just want some quick advice to get them going so they can make some money so they can hire professionals. I always feel happy to help but frustrated that I can't do more. Well, now I can. I have taken my 17+ years of award-winning experience and turned it into a strategy guide to help people create their own marketing plan to get their companies marketing! It's called "24 Hours to Zero Down Marketing" and you guessed it, it takes 24 hours and may I say . . . it is a really comprehensive and positive plan. I just turned it over to the editors last night and soon it will be available on my Website at www.kpowerstrategies.com. I am thinking of charging what it is worth, what I would charge my clients, yet then giving a discount those family-owned businesses that need a little help! My way of sharing the wealth! I am very very very excited about this and as well spring is in the air! Soon I will be moving to California, by the beach no less, no more long hard winters for me (or for my skin!) Life is lovely!

Bluebirds friend Steve tells joke!

2008-04-29T22:31:00.001-07:00

A married couple in their early 60s was celebrating

their 40th wedding anniversary in a quiet, romantic little restaurant.

Suddenly, a tiny yet beautiful fairy appeared on their table.

She said, "For being such an exemplary married couple and for being

loving to each other for all this time, I will grant you each a wish."

The wife answered,

"Oh, I want to travel around the world with my darling husband."

The fairy waved her magic wand and - poof! - two tickets

for the Queen Mary II appeared in her hands.

The husband thought for a moment: "Well, this is all

very romantic, but an opportunity like this will never come again.

I'm sorry my love, but my wish is to have a wife 30

years younger than me."

The wife, and the fairy, were deeply disappointed, but a wish is a wish.

So the fairy waved her magic wand and poof!...the

husband became 92 years old.

The moral of this story: Men who are ungrateful pigs should remember

fairies are female.....

Bluebird Mom wants Auto Wash Clothes

2008-04-26T09:04:00.001-07:00

They've invented everything else you can think of to help us keep our homes clean! Great cleaning implements from Dyson to Swifter! Yet in the laundry department they are still selling the same old Tide and Downey. Sure there is bleach and no bleach and safe bleach and the Downey now has an array of scents, scents only dreamed of by exhausted laundry doers years ago, but does Lilac scent really help us? Why can't someone invent "auto wash" clothes. Or better yet, kids dirty clothes tossed on the floor disintegrate after 4 or 5 days, just in time for the weekend when I have to do laundry. Laundry makes my house messy. Clothes, dirty clothes piled in baskets in the bedrooms and in the laundry room. For Heaven's sake my house was spotless last week after we took all our spring c leaning and regular wash to the local Splish Splash laundrymat! Now we have a little dust – have a swifter for that – and loads of clothes. I'm all for Green Day, I take 2 minute shorter showers, I even used melted snow to water my four dogs, come on, a little help here. I don't want to do laundry today! My kids don't want to it either – I make them though! (Is it obvious that its not working!) Someone please come up with an idea. Auto Wash clothes! You spill and stain gone – automatically. You sweat and sweat gone – automatically. You skin your knee and hole gone – automatically. My son plays Army man and crawls through the mud – head to toe mud gone – automatically. Great idea, huh! Now please someone get to work.

Bluebird Battle Blunders

2008-04-25T12:14:00.001-07:00

I had an interesting exchange with Wendy Piersall today. I made a comment on her article, "10 Social Media Blunders" (see link below) and I guess it wasn't so much that the exchange was interesting as the thoughts I had surrounding it were. You see, I don't think I am alone in my feeling of isolation upon really entering the bloggers world. Blogging gives the Web a voice, I like that but like all things you read you can read into them further and farther than you would ever want. I read through comments, discussions and posts and think, "Who are these people and how are they so brilliant?" also I think, why are they so rude about rules I know nothing about? " I have not been banned or shunned but you can tell reading their written voices that if you don't have the right words and phrases, much less know what they mean, you are on the outside of the bloggers social circle. Feels like high school but then again I have yet to meet the Emily Post of the WWW. However, as close as you can come from what I have seen is Wendy Piersall. I like her, I like how she writes, you feel like she cares. She is like the prom queen in highschool, the good kind, who smiles and leads her fellow classmates to social safety. I know Wendy may not like being compared to a high school prom queen, she is gorgeous from her photos and all, but come on she is a multi-tasking social media entrepreneur, who cares if she has a crown? Anyway, undaunted I continue to figure out this whole social media thing, if only to champion those flitting around on the outside like the little Robin Red Breast that taps on my window every morning. I'm not kidding about this . . . she (or he, how do you tell?) sits on the ledge outside my window and hassince the spring thaw started (no end in site after yesterday's snow storm) and taps. Even my dogs, which I have one less of since Lucky, but you've already read that) have quit barking so used to her daily ritual they've become. Perhaps, she has a message for me, being on the outside and all, perhaps a living analogy. Perhaps I've been online too long!

Bluebird gets her soul back

2008-04-25T08:52:00.001-07:00

It's been rough, I admit it! There is a phrase in Napoleon Hill's book, "Think and Grow Rich" which says, "If you have even been discouraged, if you have had difficulties to surmount which took the very soul out of you, if you have tried and failed, if you were ever handicapped by illness or physical affliction . . . this use of the Carnegie formula may prove to be an oasis in the Desert of Lost Hope for which you have been searching."

The book goes on from there and it is good and I do suggest you read it again. The last time I read it was 11 years ago. Yet what hit me today was the "took the very soul out of you." That is exactly how I felt and as I read the word resonated with me, the very soul had been ripped out of me by unkind and in my opinion unethical colleagues and I let them do it. They should not have wanted to but there is no accounting for people, you just never know. So, here I was walking around hollow, shell-like, soulless. Perhaps that comes from extreme duress; perhaps you have felt it too.

Why are people, especially women so ruthless? I can understand a woman protecting her child or her family, I have 4 dogs, 2 birds and 1 cat and when I thought my neighbor ran over my cat you should have seen me. But why in the normal non -life threatening scheme of things to women have to be so unkind, so set for the kill?

The Bluebird Sisterhood was formed out of what was left in my hollow heart. A commitment a pact if you will for women to put ruthless behavior aside, take down the claws, turn their hearts to kindness. I was not blameless. I have done and said some pretty ruthless things in my life, okay, maybe not ruthless yet definitely unkind. It still amazes me that some of my former friends had it in them to be so petty, to dramatically crazy awful. On the grand side, once I committed I got my own soul back. What other people do to me should not affect how I feel myself. There are several books written on the subject, right? So, we all know this. As Abe Lincoln said, "Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." Yet with women it seems somehow different. If we are unhappy we take people down. Taking people down, as was done to me, is pretty hard on the soul. Pretty hard. In fact, devastating. So somehow having a pact with other women not to allow a repeat performance cheered me and somehow promising not to engage in one myself restored my soul. No one can take my determination to commitment away from me again. No one will have my soul again.

Bluebird being monitored by men

2008-04-24T07:07:00.001-07:00

Hey everyone we will be discussing this on our Bluebird Sisterhood Internet radio show at 11 EST time at www.planetarystreams.com on Planetary Talk Radio. We got the big wig executive who sent this around to call and give the man's perspective! Let me know what you think!

WORDS WOMEN USE

(1)Fine:This is the word women use to end an argument when they are right and you need to shut up.

(2) Five Minutes:If she is getting dressed, this means a half an hour. Five minutes is only five minutes if you have just been given five more minutes to watch the game before helping around the house.

(3)Nothing:This is the calm before the storm. This means something, and you should be on your toes. Arguments that begin with nothing usually end in fine.

(4)Go Ahead:This is a dare, not permission. Don't Do It!

( 5)Loud Sigh:This is actually a word, but is a non-verbal statement often misunderstood by men. A loud sigh means she thinks you are an idiot and wonders why she is wasting her time standing here and arguing with you about nothing. (Refer back to # 3 for the meaning of nothing.)

(6)That's Okay:This is one of the most dangerous statements a women can make to a man. That's okay means she wants to think long and hard before deciding how and when you will pay for your mistake.

(7)Thanks:A woman is thanking you, do not question, or Faint. Just say you're welcome. (I want to add in a clause here - This is true, unless she says 'Thanks a lot' - that is PURE sarcasm and she is not thanking you at all. DO NOT say 'you're welcome' ... that will bring on a 'whatever').

(8)Whatever:Is a women's way of saying *#*# YOU! !

(9)Don't worry about it, I got it:Another dangerous statement, meaning this is something that a woman has told a man to do several times, but is now doing it herself. This will later result in a man asking 'What's wrong?' For the woman's response refer to # 3.

Bluebird Makes Death Star

2008-04-23T11:03:00.001-07:00

Sometimes I have nothing to write but the absolute grim truth. Grim being the operative word. We were invited to Kristen Lambs huge Star Wars party and asked to bring "out of this world" food. My kids wanted to bring a Death Star cake. Thank you! I made two Bundt cakes, sent my husband to the store for black food coloring and figured it would be just that easy. Still today, three or so days later, my fingers and nails are a nice shade of black and "No, Kerrie, I didn't finally get hip and invest in black nail polish!" So, lopped the cakes together with hordes of blackish grey frosting and realized like a really good engineer that the Bundt cake, not unlike a Death Star, was hollow. I filled it with chocolate chips – to represent Storm Troopers – and proceeded to frost the less than concave sphere. What happens to chocolate chips when surrounded by warm Bundt cake? You guessed it the Storm Troopers melted! Morale of story, "What am I doing building a Death Star anyway? I'm just a few days away from launching my new marketing strategy guide, "24 Hours to Zero Down Marketing" and I have better things to do with my black fingers! J Ah well, kids loved it and it will wash off someday!

Bluebird is soaring!

2008-04-19T07:48:00.001-07:00

Almost finished with my "24 Hours to Zero Down Marketing" strategy guide. Imagine I finished the last of it with kids in the house during spring break! I have sent it by a few people and the love it! I really hope it helps small businesses and entrepreneurs quickly put together a viable strategy that allows them the focus on marketing that every business needs. I threw in a little about getting TV and Radio for their website of course from Planetary Streams. KPower Strategies is my company, Planetary Streams is my best "friendeses" company – my best girlfriend and her husband and my best husband own it and well it provides as awesome resource for website communication!-Happy Day for me! Love checking major items off of my "To Do" list. This has been on that list quite a while. People have been asking for it for years. Well here you go . . . look for it to be up on ready on the May 1!

Bluebird sings on Technorati!

2008-04-17T16:35:00.001-07:00

How cool am I? I now have a blog on Technorati! See Wendy Piersall you'll make believers of us yet! <a href="http://technorati.com/faves?sub=addfavbtn&add=http://kpowerstrategies.blogspot.com"><img src="http://static.technorati.com/pix/fave/btn-fave2.png" alt="Add to Technorati Favorites" /></a>

Bluebird wants out of the mud!

2008-04-17T15:31:00.001-07:00

It was the day after we had to close the business and blatant reality was dark. Winter was turning slowly to spring and by that I mean the 8 foot wall of grey ice next to our driveway was finally melting. I had read every power of positive thinking book out there and some twice while trying to convince myself that there was a silver lining. I kept asking myself why I had failed. All comparisons to Edison's 8,000 light bulb tries failed to cheer me up. I was supposed to be successful. I had watched others succeed and had confidentially joked with them that I would invite them to my castle in Ireland someday. Now, someday seemed to be never ever day. What had I missed? The answer would not come and the reality of failure was painful. I decided to go for a walk. After all I had no business to claim my time and nothing else to do. I was walking along taking in the beauty of the mountains trying to feel something, and looking at the positive side that I at least had time to take a walk finally, when as if pushed hard from behind I fell into the post-snow thaw mud. I just laid there wondering why I should get up. I laid there face down stuck in the mud and cried and cried. When I was finished feeling sorry for myself and grieving my lost business I suddenly knew, I knew why I had failed. I knew the one strategy of success we had neglected which had caused the failure and it was embarrassing. We had a good product/service but it all had come down not doing this one thing. I had gotten so busy that I had forgotten, put off, not placed the importance into "marketing" my product/service. How many years had I wasted in doing the efforts of business only to find at the end that my product/service was worthless when not sold into the hands of consumers? If consumers did not know about my product then I wasn't selling and if my product wasn't selling than I did not have a business. Like, I thought, as I started extricating myself from the tear and snow laden mud, me, no business.

What an idiot I am, I thought as I sat up. I have years of award-winning marketing experience and I, the self-professed marketing guru even failed. What about my colleagues who had less knowledge and experience? I thought of my many entrepreneur friends and the advice I had given them. Had I followed that same advice myself? And, why hadn't I? No money and no time for marketing popped into my head before I could stop it. I knew better! Aside from being mud-caked I was embarrassed and mad. And right there in the mud it hit me. I knew exactly what we could have done right. I knew exactly how I could have been a million billionaire. And I knew exactly what I should have shared and shown by example to my entrepreneur friends. Really it was like that, startling and immediate, like sun rays filling my mud soaked soul. I got up, hobbled home, threw my clothes in the rubbish (I could because I knew now that I would be a success and could buy new clothes) and sat down and wrote an outline. Why not? I had the answer to make any company rich and successful. I wrote it, I applied it and within one week I was bringing in money again and selling my new business product/service. I was making money because my product/service was in the hands of customers. When it worked and worked fast and well, I decided I needed to make up for the bad example I had been and share this plan with my entrepreneur friends. I followed this very same plan below, written from my muddy notes. Here it is unbelievably simple and powerfully effective and something any entrepreneur with a product/service can do.

Now here is where you probably are thinking, "I don't have the money for marketing!" and I am going to shout back, "Yes, you do!" and even more painfully "Yes, I did!" I did have enough money for marketing, we all do, in my case I just did not take the time.

Time is one resource we all get FREE and we get to control. I can hear you all shouting now. "Time! I don't have any time! With being the accountant, the president, the client relations, the production manager and the financier in my business, how would I have any time?" Some of you are shouting and you have a staff! Staffs take a lot of time, I know, I know. And, it gets crazy loud here from female entrepreneurs, "Aside from my business, I have a family to love, organize, focus on, feed!"

To all of you, I know, I know, believe me I know. Remember I was the failure in the mud. I was right there with you as oddly trite as this may read I am going to keep you from falling in the mud!

From here, despite your shouting, what you are going to read will help you and your business succeed. It will help you in 24 hours and it will take 24 hours. Already I have applied what I have known learned and experienced in two months since my business closed. In my new business venture I am already as successful as I was after a few years and now am ready to be one of those million billionaire success stories and so will you. Believe me there is enough money in the pie for all of us to be very, very, very successful and all we need is everything we were doing and this additional 24 hours.

The key I recognized while in the mud is based on time and effort not money. You just need 24 hours this week or whenever you are ready to start. (Do it sooner than later please, mud is so uncomfortable!) Can you spare 24 hours to make your business a success? All of you are nodding your heads skeptically. Could 24 hours really make a difference? YES it can it will and it doesn't matter how you divide it up but you need to commit to take 24 hours out of your schedule this week to FOCUS on marketing, focus on 24 hours to Zero Down Marketing. You can break it up for your convenience though stopping life for 24 hours to do this seems incredibly dramatic, I think the sooner the better. That castle in Ireland is waiting!. You can do two days of 12 hours. You can do 4 days of six hours. But you will need 24 and not a minute less to start your "24 hours to Zero Down Marketing" process for your company.