2nd & 4th Tuesday of each month

5:30 PM to 6:30 PM (PST)

March 23, 2010

Your Money Personality and Self-Employment

Mikelann Valterra, Women's Earning Institute

Mikelann Valterra is the founding director of the Women's Earning Institute and is passionately devoted to helping women earn at their potential. She is also the author of Why Women Earn Less: How to Make What You're Really Worth. She's a nationally sought after expert on women's work, money and earning issues. For over a decade, Mikelann has empowered women to overcome self-sabotaging beliefs about wealth, transform their relationship to money, and unlock their earning potential.

April 13, 2010

Power of Vision Using Dream Boards

Melissa Wadsworth, Creator of Dream Board Magic! How to Create and Use Dream Boards for the Life of Your Dreams

Melissa Wadsworth is a self-help author, inspirational speaker, and personal potential coach specializing in intuitive dream boards. Melissa teaches creative personal-growth processes that help people go from blocked to brilliant, and to transform from a feeling of being “less than” to feeling radiantly renewed and free.

April 27, 2010

So You Want to be an Entrepreneur

Sunny Kobe Cook, author of Common Things, Uncommon Ways

Sunny Kobe Cook began her career as a secretary and gained popularity with the company she founded in 1991, Sleep Country USA. She served both as CEO and Company spokesperson in both radio and television advertisements for many years. During that time, she was named Inc. Magazine's Northwest Woman Entrepreneur of the Year along with numerous other business and corporate good citizen awards. She was featured on the cover of Washington CEO magazine when her company was the first retailer to ever be recognized as "Best Place to Work."

May 11, 2010

Give Your Elevator Speech a Lift

Lorraine Howell, Media Skills Training

Lorraine Howell started Media Skills Training in 1998 after 12 years as a television news and talk show producer in the San Francisco Bay Area. She coaches top executives and professionals on how to be more effective speakers for speeches, presentations, and media interviews. Lorraine is a specialist in message development, presentation skills, and media interview preparation. Her book Give Your Elevator Speech a Lift! is a step-by-step guide through her proven process for creating a winning elevator speech. As the Senior Segment Producer on the top rated news show “Mornings on 2" at KTVU, the Fox affiliate in Oakland, she specialized in booking exclusive, live interviews with top names in the news, public figures and celebrities.

May 25, 2010

Developing a Spending & Debt Reduction Plan

The key to developing financial stability is creating a budget and sticking to it. Becky House will share the various methods you can use to create a personalized spending plan to help you reduce your debt and help you to feel financially stable.

Becky House, American Financial Solutions

Becky House is the Quality Assurance and Education Manager for North Seattle Community College Foundation dba American Financial Solutions. She has over fifteen years of experience in training and education development with non-profit organizations. Within the last ten years, Becky has specialized in developing and presenting financial education throughout the greater Puget Sound area. She presents classes for community resource agencies, for private employers at local colleges and universities such as the University ff Washington Law School and the University of Puget Sound. She currently serves as the vice chair of the Asset Building Coalition of Kitsap County and is the secretary for the Kitsap Housing Coalition. In June of this year she was honored by Governor Gregoire for her work on financial education.

www.myfinancialgoals.org

June 8, 2010

Creating a Healthy Financial Life

Marcia Brixey will share tips and ideas on how to get in touch with your spending; get out of credit card debt and get clear about your credit report and score.

Marcia Brixey, Money Wise Women

Marcia Brixey is the author of The Money Therapist: A Woman’s Guide to Creating a Healthy Financial Life. She’s also the Founder and President of Money Wise Women, a non-profit organization dedicated to educating and empowering women to live financially healthy. The organization hosts Money Wi$e Women Conferences and the Money Wi$e Women Get Smart Teleseminar Series. Ms. Brixey has been a speaker at numerous women’s conferences throughout the United States. She’s a former columnist for The Kitsap Sun newspaper. Marcia has been a guest on Northwest Afternoon, View from the Bay, Good Day Sacramento and About the Money. Her print media appearances include Quick and Simple, Woman’s World, Redbook, Reader’s Digest, Seattle Woman Magazine, and US News and World Report.

June 22, 2010

Organizing Your Financial Records

Organizing your financial records provides you with a sense of freedom and accomplishment. Learn some simple steps you can take to organize your financial records. You’ll also learn what records to keep and which records you should toss. Once you’re organized, you’ll be ready to determine your net worth.

Stacey Anderson, Organized Innovations

Stacey Anderson is a Professional Organizer, speaker and author. As founder of Organized Innovations she has tackled almost every dis-organized situation out there. Her book Get Organized : Get Revitalized is chalk full of quick, easy to implement tips for those struggling with getting started. Stacey is an active member of the National Association of Professional Organizers and is currently on the Seattle Chapter board. She has been a guest expert on local radio and has been featured in many local newspapers.

www.organizedinnovations.com

July 6, 2010

Building a Financially Healthy Business

Learn how to really start your own business, including the do's and don'ts; the 5 "c's" of credit and the business plan. You'll also learn the tools and techniques to use to make your business your legacy. Determine if your business is "bankable" by understanding the balance sheet, income/loss statement and the cash flow. Understand why strategic planning is critical to a financially healthy business and how your bank can be your partner.

Stacey Powell, Creating Answers

Stacey Powell is President of Creating Answers in Sacramento, CA. Her unique blend of experience stems from her years as a small business owner, program evaluator for service organizations, not-for-profit administrator and auditor for a big four accounting firm.

July 20, 2010

Using Social Media to Build Your Business

Do you understand social media and how to use it? Jennifer Fong will discuss the differences between social media for personal and business use, how to get started with social media, and social media tools to consider using for your business.

Jennifer Fong

Jennifer Fong is a social media speaker and consultant who teaches direct selling companies and individual direct sellers how to use social media effectively as a business building tool. A former direct sales company CEO, Jennifer built her company from the ground up, and understands what it takes to build, lead, and train a team, as well as the underlying principles of any direct selling business: network, sell, and recruit. She combines her expertise in direct sales with her passion for social media marketing to provide direct sellers with the knowledge they need to put social media to work for their businesses in a strategic and profitable way.

http://jenfongspeaks.com

August 3, 2010

The Practical Aspects of Divorce

• Gain insight and learn answers to the “how, what, where, when, why” questions of divorce.
• Decrease legal expenses while increasing your knowledge of the divorce process and how it will affect you - today and years down the road.
• Get an accurate picture of not only your divorce but your life after divorce.
• Address your financial issues and accept the importance of knowing about the money in your life.
• Deal with all the issues and create a realistic settlement that is fair to all parties but will not lessen your quality of life.

Jamie Thomas, Divorce Network

Jamie Thomas learned the process of “divorce recovery” first hand by not only living through it but by recognizing that merely surviving divorce is not enough. She found when going through her own (second) divorce after a twelve year marriage that many aspects of the process were left unexplained. Although she worked with a good attorney, information she had expected to get from her lawyer was not forthcoming. The reason, she discovered, is that many problems and situations which have to be dealt with during the process of a divorce do not fall into the realm of legal help. Therein lies the reason for establishing a business which “fills in the gaps”. Jamie teaches women what they will need to know during their divorce on a general, elementary though very broad level - a kind of Divorce 101. Jamie founded the Divorce Network in 1996.

www.divorce-network.com

August 17, 2010

Email Writing That Counts

Do you stare at the screen trying to get organized and get writing? Do you write emails that you later cringe at? Do you waste too much time responding to emails? Dr. Julie Miller will provide invaluable tips and techniques that save organization and writing time both on the sending and receiving end of this essential business communication tool.

Dr. Julie Miller, Business Writing That Counts!

Dr. Julie Miller is a business writing expert, author, speaker, and trainer. She earned her doctorate in Educational Leadership at Seattle University and her undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Southern California. Dr. Miller regularly gives keynote speeches to organizations and associations nationally. She was awarded the 2008 Women Business Owners (WBO)Excellence Award and the Helen Thayer, Woman of the Year Award in 2001. Julie was also voted Volunteer of the Year Award twice for her work with the YMCA.

www.businesswritingthatcounts.com

We'll be posting information on future topics and speakers as the dates get closer.