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Katy Kvalvik has been inspiring women and men all over the world to be empowered, lead their best lives, and achieve optimal, lasting results since 2009. The Founder and Head of Southwestern Empowerment, Katy is a graduate of UC Berkeley, certified executive coach, board-certified health counselor, certified trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, certified yoga instructor, and business mentor. After suffering two […]

Last week we learned more about triggers and how we can use neuro-associative programming to create triggers for positive actions. This week we’re diving deeper into emotional intelligence mastery and discussing power moves. What Are Power Moves? Another neuro-associative programing technique we can use to heighten our emotional intelligence abilities is the use of power moves. Power moves is all about […]

Scott H. Young rose to autodidact stardom when he learned MIT’s 4-year computer science curriculum in less than 12 months. Next, he taught himself four new languages in a year. Such extreme self-improvement projects may seem outside the realm of most of our capabilities, but Young believes that the principles and methods that he and other ultralearners employ are essential […]

Last week’s post “Selling in Streaks” started our conversation about emotional intelligence and neuro-associative programming techniques. This week, we’re discussing triggers. What are triggers? You can use triggers to program your mind and your emotions to be in a healthier, more attractive, more abundant emotional state. Because, in reality, we’re constantly being triggered by our environment. You smell a certain […]

Dr. Rhea Seddon is a woman of many firsts. One of only six women in her medical school class of 100, she was the first woman ever accepted to the surgery residency program at her university. In 1978, she was one of the first six women accepted into the Astronaut Corps, and when she married fellow astronaut Capt. Robert “Hoot” […]

Have you ever noticed how you can sometimes sell in streaks? For example, you might have gone all day long not really getting through many doors, not really selling many customers, and then all of a sudden, someone buys. You’re so excited that they bought that you run to the next house, call the next prospect, email the long-shot dream […]

For more than 25 years, Kathleen Kenehan Sarpy has enjoyed a diverse career in public relations and marketing, working with the world’s most recognizable brands, as well as driven start-ups and non-profits. With unrivaled energy and enthusiasm, Kathleen expertly connects people, events, and ideas to generate a meaningful and lasting impact. A former senior leader at the world’s leading PR […]

We’re lucky enough to live close to a park with a nice, family friendly bike path. The bike path ascends from Shelby Park up a hill almost to our backyard and it has provided us with so many teaching moments as parents. The Challenge The hill is tall. The hill is steep. It makes for a long and challenging bike […]

Considered a modern-day business “Renaissance Man,” Ira Blumenthal was the founder and president of CO-OPPORTUNITIES, Inc., an Atlanta-based consulting company that has counseled world-class clients such as Coca-Cola, Nestle, Kroger, McDonald’s, Harrah’s, American Airlines, Disney, United Artists, Marriott, Exxon, Walmart and others in areas related to “branding,” “strategic alliances,” “change management,” “reinvention,” and “business development.” Noteworthy, Ira has the proud […]

American conductor Roger Nierenberg is the creator of The Music Paradigm which has brought him to the podium of The London Philharmonic, The Residentie Orkest, The New Zealand Symphony, The National Symphony, the symphony orchestras of Pittsburgh, Atlanta, and Baltimore. He has collaborated with musicians from more than one hundred orchestras around the world. Nierenberg enjoyed long tenures as Music […]

Whether you’re learning a new sport, craft, or skill, you always go through four unique stages of learning. Stage 1 In the first stage our skill level is very low, but our motivation for learning is often very high. This is when we’re excited, but we’re stupid. We’re eager, but we don’t know what we don’t know. My son was […]