A special thank you to Val Low who is one of our facilitators with the Grand Connection. She has a brilliant podcast called Focus and Freedom and she had me on her show. She provides her clients with her own signature Focus & Freedom™ Method and Planner that supports entrepreneurs to have an opportunity to experience more focus, time and freedom. Val loves nothing better than showing entrepreneurs how to calm the overwhelm and distractions with focus and efficiency strategies and tools that enable them to have the freedom to do the things that make the most of their business and life. Visit Val’s Website: https://vallow.me

FOCUS & FREEDOM PODCAST: Val Low & Carolyn Cooper-McOuatt

LIVING ABOVE THE LINE

My interview with Val focused on inspiring people to make the decision to Live Above the Line. We too often either bounce below the line or meet the top of our comfort zone, which is the line. I shared how we can make the choice to stretch our comfort zone farther and farther with a sense of wonder, having an open mind, clear purpose and a plan to take action towards a positive future.

Our own Carolyn Cooper-McOuatt is speaking at Vancouver Business Network’s Virtual Event.

Come and join her on Tuesday evening, November 10, 2020 and learn how to transform your business with a well-crafted brilliant business plan. You will discover how it is the superpower tool to support your business growth and the means to become prepared, systematic and meaningful to maximize your potential. Each element of the plan builds on the other and links together cohesively. It’s vital to document your value, mission, marketing, operations and your financial health. To be clear on where you are going, grounded and confident in the process and cultivate a mindset of prosperity.

To soar in the twenty-first century, marketing needs a twenty-first century approach; and that approach is, in a word, Agile.

We had a great event last Friday with our expert speaker Jim Ewel. He shared that now is the time to fix your marketing efforts and discover the unique trends available with agile marketing. It is now a necessity in our current market to go from surviving to thriving in our post COVID world.

Traditional marketing is broken and we need to learn how to make marketing as effective as possible.

We we thrilled to with these three great networking organizations:

• The Connected Woman – Cathy Kuzel – Vancouver, BC, Canada
• Farah Networking – Farah Hussain – Scotland
• BizSocial Networking – Brian Morrison – UK

We all built better virtual networking skills and formed new business relationships as we listened and learned from our presenters and moved around from room to room. We all had an opportunity to meet new potential collaborators and customers and practice our introductions with the intention to connect, create and collaborate.

Our Sept 25 Grand Connection was very valuable!

Mike Wolf shared with us how to work smarter and not harder in business. Like most people he started out broke not really knowing how to build a business and that he did not have a clue.

Since then, he has participated in a lot of entrepreneurial ventures. He said there is an evolution and there’s never really a finish line. He recommends to just keep going and keep making it better as you evolve!

Mike figured it all out of necessity – how to have balance and go from being a workaholic to playaholic and now to do the things that he loves.

Michelle shared her deep passion for podcasting, the global trending podcasting landscape and how podcasts amplify your influence.

She told us that we are in the golden age of podcasting with tons of room for growth.

No other platform even compares to podcasting in regard to time spent.

Facebook – 18.2 seconds
YouTube – 4 minutes 20 seconds
Instagram – 26 seconds
PODCAST AUDIO/VIDEO – 20 minutes!

The Grand Connection Community is having a contest for our members. Winners will those who invite the most NEW guests who attend our meeting August 14!  A group of winners will have the opportunity to spend 90 minutes with Hilary DeCesare in a small group MASTERMIND DEEP DIVE experiencing the ReLaunch Method for Business (valued at $1000).

The ReLaunch method provides tools for change and supports you to get back to relaunching your revenue.  

Our last event was a lot of fun. We did two rounds of real-time-connections followed by our expert speaker Terilee Harrison who shared her wisdom on growing your business through virtual networking. She kindly got up at 2:00 AM her time in Singapore to meet our community.

Terilee shared the tips on how to network like a Rockstar!

It was a extraordinary event July 17th with Judy Carter. Her formula for creating a memorable 60 sec pitch was well received and we have all been practicing. This will be so useful for our rounds of real-time connections.

If you missed this talk, it is saved in the facebook group. Also the handout is in the comments. Judy generously offered our group one year access to her online message of your program. Details for this is also in the group.