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Smart With Us!
OPEN
TO PUBLIC!
SPECIAL
INVITATION:
Idea
Lab Call
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Brainstorming Marketing
Ideas for
your
Business
In 2008!
Wednesday,
November
14
7:00-8:00pm
EST
Want
a sneak
peak
into the
Idea
Lab...?
Here's
your
invitation:
THIS
CALL
WILL BE
OPEN TO
THE
PUBLIC!
The Idea
Lab is
one of
the many
benefits
of Smart
Women's
Café
membership.
Not a
member
yet?
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here to
learn
about
all the
benefits
of Café
membership!
Café
Chat!
Taking the
Plunge: Career
Transition
Special
interview with
Therese Peace
Thursday, November
15
1:00-2:00pm EST
FR'EE for Café
members!
Café Chat is one
of the many
benefits
included in your
Smart Women's
Café membership.
Upcoming Café
Chats include:
- November 26,
2007 ~ Perfect
Packaging: The
New You Inside &
Out - Part I
With Jill Jordan
(*This call
is open to the
public...see
below!)
- December 3,
2007 ~ Getting
From Here to
There: From
Goals Through
Execution
With Sherry Day
- December 4,
2007 ~
Public Speaking
Tips to Center
Yourself
And Reduce
Speaking Anxiety
Special
interview with
Donna Marie
Not a member
yet?
Click here
for more information
on the Smart Women's
Café and what it can
do for you!
Unlock
The Secret to
Marketing Yourself
with Authenticity
and Ease (Teleclass)
Presented by Beth
Woodward
Tuesday, November 20
7:00-8:00pm EST
No Fee
Click here for more
information and to
register!
Public Café Chat
Perfect
Packaging: The
New You Inside &
Out - Part I
Presented by
Jill Jordan
Monday, November
26
1:00-2:00 P.M.
EST
No fee
This Café Chat
is open to the
public, so you
can get a taste
of what happens
in our Smart
Women's Café.
Please come and
join us!
Click here to
register for
this call!
Your Real Story:
The Secret to
Profitable
Customer
Connections (Teleclass)
Presented by
Gail Z. Martin
Tuesday,
December 11
1:30 P.M. EST
No fee
Click here for
more information
and to register!
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Are You
or Could You
Become a
Caregiver?
November
has been named
National Family
Caregivers Month
which is a time
to thank,
support, educate
and celebrate
more than 50
million family
caregivers
across the
country
currently
providing an
estimated $306
billion in
"free"
caregiving
services.
- The typical
family caregiver
is a
46-year-old
woman
caring for her
widowed mother
who does not
live with her.
She is married
and works
outside the
home.
If you think
about it, each of us
is either currently
a caregiver or care
receiver...or we
will become a
caregiver or care
receiver at some
point in our lives.
Have you
considered how
this has or may
affect your life
emotionally,
physically or
financially? To
help you and
your loved ones
through this
process, we have
created
The Designated
Daughter
Community right
here at Smart
Women's Coaching.
Today we are
featuring a few
of our new
Charter
Contributing
Experts:
-
Danielle Mayoras
- Center for
Elder Law
- Tina
Rowley
- Home Instead
-
Elaine Simpson
- Senior Options
and Services
-
Laura Eliason
- Genworth Long
Term Care
Please enjoy
these articles and
podcast featuring
our caregiving
experts and
remember; the key to
planning is starting
early!
All of us at
Smart Women's
Coaching wish
you and your
loved ones a
wonderful
Thanksgiving
holiday and
thank you for
support!
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Organizing and
Planning is Vital in
Long Distance Care
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 By
Elaine M. Simpson,
Founder/Owner of
Senior Options and
Services, LLC
Smart Women's
Café
Contributing
Expert
As a
long distance
caregiver, you
will need to
possess and
understand
critical
information
involving your
parent's
personal,
medical,
financial, and
legal records.
Collecting this
information is
difficult and
time consuming.
If you have ever
tried to gather
and organize
your own
personal
information, you
know what a
chore it can be.
Gathering and
organizing this
information from
far away can
seem even more
challenging.
Maintaining
up-to-date
information
about your
parent's health
and medical
care, as well as
finances, home
ownership, and
other legal
issues, lets you
get a handle on
what is going on
and allows you
to respond
quickly if there
is a crisis.
Once you
have gathered
all the
information,
Elaine
founded Senior
Options and
Solutions, LLC
after 22 years
of working
primarily with
seniors during
housing
transitions. So
often the stress
associated with
transitioning an
aging loved one
is overwhelming
and can tear a
family apart.
Elaine believes
in offering
knowledge,
options,
guidance and
comfort to
minimize the
stress and to
ensure a smooth
transition.
Providing
resources,
assistance and
services to our
client during
their lifestyle
transition is
our mission.
We've always
enjoyed working
with seniors and
believe in
providing
attentive and
individualized
care to create a
present and a
future that is
comfortable,
safe and secure
for our aging
population.
Click here to
visit her
website.
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Café Chat - Elder
Law: Going
Gray...It's Not All
Black and White! |
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Attorney and
Contributing Expert,
Danielle Mayoras
(55 minutes)
In honor of
National Family
Caregivers
Month, we are
happy to share
with you this
week's Café
Chat, with
Attorney and
Elder Law
Expert, Danielle
Mayoras.
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Long Term Care
Awareness Week a
Great Time to Seek
Advice and Plan |
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By Laura Eliason,
CLTC, Genworth Long
Term Care
Smart Women's
Café
Contributing
Expert
The week of
November
5-11 has been
declared Long
Term Care
Awareness Week
by the American
Association of
Long Term Care
Insurance. On a
related note,
November is
National Family
Caregivers
Month. But once
care giving
services are
needed, it is
probably too
late to purchase
long term care
insurance. This
insurance is one
of the most
important ways
to plan for
possible future
care.
Many Americans
may need long
term care at
some point in
their lives.
Since
Medicare and
health insurance
cover very
little long term
care,
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Letters from
Africa |
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 Peggi
Tabor Letter #26
Dear Family and
Friends,
Things are
rather somber
just now in
Menkhoaneng.
We've had an
event that has
shocked and
disturbed
everyone. A
week ago Sunday
a so-far
unidentified
group of vandals
set fire to our
beautiful
Cultural Village
and it burnt to
the ground.
The primary
suspects are a
group of boys
from an
initiation
school high in
the mountains
behind the
village. These
initiation
schools are
controversial in
so many ways.
On the one hand,
they preserve
many aspects of
ancient Basotho
culture. The
boys learn the
traditional
roles and
responsibilities
of men. The
experience
inspires a love
of their culture
and gives many
of them a
membership into
an exclusive
society that
they cherish -
perhaps a bit
like what the
masons of our
culture must
experience.
What goes on at
these schools is
very secret. We
all know that
the boys are
circumcised on
about the third
day and learn
things about
herding animals,
sex, warfare
(i.e. fighting
with sticks and
spears) and lots
of traditional
songs and dances
which only the
initiated are
ever allowed to
perform. On the
negative side
this is often an
opportunity for
the rampant
spread of AIDS.
Sangomas often
use the same
razor on each
boy. The
sangoma who
accompanied the
boys from our
village, a good
friend of mine,
took over 100
new blades - a
gift from the
American Friends
of Menkhoaneng.
I've heard that
this is very
tough training
with powerful
male bonding and
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In Closing...
 I
want to share this
touching story with
you about my mother.
As many of you know,
my step father
passed away on my
birthday, October
24, 2006. At that
time my mom was
diagnosed with
dementia and is now
living 10 minutes
away at Sunrise
Assisted Living.
Since they will not
allow her to have
her oil paints in
her room, I invited
her to begin
painting at our home
Sundays after
lunch. It's been a
month now and not
only has she
completed two
paintings...but I
just finished mine
as well! I haven't
painted for 20
years.
This time
together has been so
wonderful for both
of us. I
am finally making
time for the one
activity that gives
me so much joy and
best of all my mom
and I are now
enjoying time
together! I still
remember the words
she whispered to me
when I dropped her
off after our first
session together, "I
thought I had
forgotten how to
paint." She forgets
a lot nowadays...but
she has not lost the
touch for her
painting. I don't
know how long we
have together, but I
am so thankful for
this gift.
Warmly,
Katana
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