On Saturday January 29th, Missoula Businesswomen’s Network will host their annual MBN Busineswomen’s Symposium. I’m especially looking forward to this year’s event for a couple of reasons. I was privileged to meet and hear featured speaker Nan Gardetto last year when she presented her keynote speech at the 2010 Women in Business Conference held at Big Sky Resort last June. Just days before Nan was scheduled to fly to Montana, tornado warnings sounded. Determined to keep her commitment, Nan grabbed her conference clothes, airline ticket and speech notes before taking cover in her tornado shelter. [Read more...]
Coping Humor
February 6, 2010 By 2 Comments
Community Medical Center hosted their second Voices of Hope Cancer Education Summit this week. My personal interest in attending this event was because I wanted to listen to the cancer survivor stories to learn about their coping strategies. Both women shared how they used humor to deal with awkward moments, wore goofy hats to cover their bald heads, and joked about how they were going to pay their outrageous bills. Both women offered this advice, “When someone asks you if they can do something to help you, say yes. Let people help you.”
Joni Rodgers, best selling author of “bald in the land of big hair,” shared how her cancer experience led her to write two novels and how she became a best selling author, even before she wrote her memoir. [Read more...]
Never give up or lose hope!
February 2, 2010 By 15 Comments
February 1st shines brilliant with hopeful anticipation, not just for this year, but for this new decade! It seems impossible that less than one month ago, January 4th to be exact, my outlook for the new year appeared dismal and my spirit disconsolate.
Here’s what I learned: Sometimes when we are in a tough place, we don’t really know how tough of a place it is until after we’ve moved past it.
Unforeseen health complications, ripple effects of my brain injury, were forcing me once again to make major life-style adjustments. It was all too familiar, like history was “starting” to repeat itself.
I pouted. I cried. Then I laughed, [Read more...]
