Did you Ever Plan a Big Party….

and get caught in the fear that no one would show up??

Well it’s been a wyld summer here – I’ve been really working quite a bit on the 6 Figure Speakers Summit – my team has done an amazing job of putting together all the stuff that needed to happen behind the scenes for an event like this and we’re down to the final day before the event is supposed to start.  I have attracted over 100 Divine Partners to help me promote the event and for some reason – up until now – there has been VERY LITTLE RESPONSE in the market.

Now part of this may be attributable to the fact that Mercury has been in retrograde for the last 3 weeks or so – making communications of all sorts challenging.  Part of it may be that I just don’t know how to do this sort of thing (having never done one of these before) and perhaps I’ve gone about it in all the wrong ways.  Part of it may be the nature of the beast and the nature of the times – whereby everybody decides on this sort of thing at the last minute and I’m just being asked by the Universe to be PATIENT.

I’ve got to share with you that I’ve had second thoughts more than once as I’ve moved through this process.  “Are we going to have enough time? Are we doing this, that or the other thing the right way? even Should we cancel? ”  I’ve gone through a big rollercoaster of emotion about it too – an event like this takes a lot of creative thinking, planning, meeting, strategizing, juggling, bugging of people, organizing and executing – it looks like it’s a piece of cake from the outside but behind the scenes things can get quite hairy at times.

I’m also someone who likes to do things well.  I enjoy creating beauty, I enjoy sharing wisdom, and I like making sure that the I’ve done all that I can to create successful and transformational experiences for people.   When I got the idea for this I knew it would be big – I knew it would stretch me – I knew that I was taking a risk.  I also knew that this would be an amazing learning experience – for myself, for the people who HAVE chosen to join us by enrolling in the event and for my team who have been simply brilliant at working with me on this (kudos to BSETC – especially Melissa Sullivan my project manager who has done more jumping through hoops while also providing moral support to me than you can imagine).

There has also been an investment – not just of the hours involved to create something like this – but also in money.  Not all of us are skilled in all aspects of online – virtual entrepreneurship – there’s NO way I could have created this without spending quite a bit – not just for my behind the scenes team but also with MaryPat Kavanaugh of Strategic Results Marketing who has been managing my JV (speaker) partnership agreements.  MaryPat has been a huge player in helping this event to come to fruition, she’s a real pro at creating positive and powerful relationships and then managing them with the greatest of ease and grace when things don’t go exactly as agreed.   She’s been like a rock through the whole summer – and this while moving through a lot of her own personal transformation as her marriage has dissolved during this time as well.

The other investment that I made was in what one of my mentors Nancy Marmolejo (who was with me in the dreamtime last night by the way) would call “Social Capital”  – I called upon all of the relationships that I’ve built with the professionals and experts that I gathered together to present at this event.  I asked them to come and share their brilliance and they all said “of course” – basing their agreements I’m sure in part on the expectation that there would be a sizeable gathering of people to receive their combined wisdom – our goal of 500 – or more!

I also believe that this event has GREAT value to offer – I myself have invested well over 6 figures for training amongst many of the leaders who I’ve gathered to present at this event  – they are the cream of the crop and will be bringing their all to the party for sure – because they are all PROS.  I wanted to give back to them for helping me to make the radical changes in my life and business that needed to happen in order for me to have a business that was not only serving but serving successfully and sustainably.  I believe that my time, my investment of energy is valuable too – and this event is making that statement because I AM charging an enrollment fee for it – and one that I think is quite reasonable given the caliber of the folks who are lined up to speak and the interactive nature of the  live forum.  To get 20 of the top conscious entrepreneurs who are speaking today gathered together in one event for only $10 each – $200.00 is a bargain!

Now what…. The doors are opening for the event tomorrow at 4 PM.  I’ve made the decision that I’m going to show up – whole heartedly and perform to the best of my ability – even if we didn’t make our audacious goal of 500 attendees – even though at this point in the game we haven’t even come close to that.

Because that’s what you do when you are committed to your dreams. You show up.  You do your best.  You learn your lessons. You have the best time you can.  You look at what your next steps are. You remember that the relationships you create have value.  You remember not to judge yourself or anyone else harshly.  You have compassion.  You accept what is.  You harvest every nugget of wisdom you can.  You share that freely with the world.

Oh and one more thing…. You BELIEVE in Miracles!  There is still time for this event to come together in a big way – tomorrow night at 4 PM is the Opening Ceremonies call with my Platinum Mastermind Mentor Lisa Sasevich.  Visit the info/sales page for this event to find out more about how you can join us at www.6figurespeakerssummit.com
Would love to have you join us….. The Only thing Missing at the moment is YOU!

Love and infinite blessings of light,

Amethyst

Is it Time for The SPOTLIGHT to be On YOUR Business?

Last week I hosted another preview call for my 6 Figures Speakers Summit! I’m REALLY excited about it the event and things are starting to heat up around here….

During our 2nd Preview Call in the series, “Questions, Conversations and Cash – Asking the Big Questions about the Big Conversations that create Big Money” I announced the unveiling of our big Video Contest!

This is YOUR chance to ask YOUR big questions!  We are going to choose 20 contestants to be in the spotlight for a hotseat with one of your  favorite speakers to discuss your biggest question about the conversations that you need to be able to have in order to create and manifest your own 6 Figure Success  in business!

You can apply for your chance by going here http://www.marketerschoice.com/app/?af=1217023&u=http://6figurespeakerssummit.com/videocontest !

Also, go to http://www.youtube.com/user/6figurespeakers to see what other hot seat applicants are saying in their videos! Dont miss your chance to go one-on-one with your favorite speaker, signup now! http://www.marketerschoice.com/app/?af=1217023&u=http://6figurespeakerssummit.com/videocontest

Also, if you missed the 1st or 2nd preview call, you can go here to signup and you will receive the recordings of both calls! http://www.marketerschoice.com/app/?af=1217023&u=http://6figurespeakerssummit.com/previewcall

We can’t wait to see your VIDEOS!!

You Better KNOW Who Your Friends Are on Facebook – Even if They are HORSES!

I’ve had an interesting week on Facebook this week – (Mercury Retrograde – I do love the little and large challenges you throw into the mix to see just how relaxed I can stay!) - early in the week  I was kicked off because someone on the other side of the country is helping me with the social media campaign for my 6 Figure Speakers Summit (http://www.budurl.com/6figspk) and Facebook didn’t like that – oh no – not at all – so because the system saw this “foreign” IP as a security threat to my account it shut the account down. The VA had to contact me to get my birthday – but that wasn’t enough – later that day when I logged in I couldn’t. I had to go through this interesting security check which required me to identify several of my friends – now the friend pictures ARE NOT their profile pictures – and they gave me sometimes one or sometimes two pictures – I had to id a certain number within a certain sequence of being presented these pix. I was fine until I came upon a picture of someone in black and white from the 50’s – GOD knows who it was and wasn’t sharing with me at the moment. So I got blocked and had to wait a couple of hours to try again….. Try again I did and thankfully was able to id several – enough that FB let me in.

Then yesterday I got blocked AGAIN – this time ostensibly because I had unleashed some sort of a virus into my account – by opening a video – however when I went to the security check – this time I was asked to virus scan my computer and there was NOTHING wrong on my end. Even though I virus scanned and checked the little box confirming that I STILL couldn’t get in. So I’ve waited overnight until this morning to try once more.

Hey there friend - How's the grazing today?

This morning I got through the virus thing but then had to once more do the Identify your friends picture thing. You need to be able to id 5 of 7 of your friends – now I have close to 4000 so there’s a whole bunch of friends for fb to choose from…… This morning 2 of the 7 were – the black and white picture from the 50’s again and get this one – a picture of a HORSE – no lie – there was a picture of a horse – twice on the page and I had a list of like 7 names to choose from that would be the friend that was the HORSE. Thank GOD I could id 5 of the 7 because if I not I’d still be wandering outside facebook not even being able to look in……

Hey Patrick - Break A Leg!

The moral of this story is – KNOW YOUR FRIENDS – not just their profile pics but actually WHO They are and the sorts of things they are interested in – One of the pic selections I got happened to be 2 different shots of one of my friends (and a SPEAKER on my 6 Figure Speakers Summit (http://www.budurl.com/6figspk) Patrick Combs. So the pictures didn’t actually SHOW Patrick’s face AT all – one picture was of a bunch of people on a stage with MASKS ON!! The other picture – thankfully was a shot of a POSTER for Patrick’s One Man show – Man 1 Bank Zero. Thank God I didn’t get a sheep or cow or goat or something instead of the poster!

The second moral of the story is this: If you are promoting, launching, marketing some big event like I am right now (The 6 Figure Speakers Summit) – you better have friends who can get into Facebook to help you promote it – which is why I simultaneously launched my Divine Partners Program (http://www.budurl.com/6figaff) and have over 100 affiliates promoting the event and that you better NOT put all your eggs in one promotional basket – which is why I’m holding THREE Preview calls – (we already had call one – if you want the recording go to http://www.budurl.com/6figpc1 – our second is TODAY August 26 at 11 AM  – http://www.budurl.com/6figpc2) and it’s also why I’m doing blog posts, sending out tweets, and posting in other places like Linked-In and am using a variety of media including video which is being distributed to over a hundred video outlets so that I am not depending on Facebook to be the sole marketing engine for my launch!

The third moral of the story is this: If things go sideways it’s an opportunity!! An opportunity for you to take a deep breath, trust, another deep breath, trust, another deep breath, trust and then see where you CAN do something. Wallowing in what you are NOT able to do serves no one – getting yourself together, centered, clear, calm, relaxed, balanced and present will allow you to see the opportunity and capitalize upon what you CAN do. Like this morning – I’m celebrating that I CAN get in to facebook because I DO Know who my friends are – and I can also SHARE this wisdom with YOU!!

Thanks for reading!! Let’s get to know each other EVEN better…..

Love and light, Amethyst

PS: Who are you friend with a HORSE???

PPS:  Spirit Always gives us SOMETHING to work with – even when things seem dire!!

Getting Perspective

I’ve been back  for over a month now from Lisa Sasevich’s Speak to Sell Bootcamp and let me tell you what – I’ve received some pretty powerful shifts in awareness from being there. 

Not only did I discover that I needed to do my OWN WORK of shifting energy to get UNSTUCK from my own resistance to applying the teachings that Lisa so Masterfully conveys and models consistently every time I have the opportunity to witness her delivering her blessing, but I also was invited to “SEE” where I am now in relationship to where I was a year ago!

One of the things that Lisa invited us to do was to create a bio for speaking – and in the crafting of that bio she encouraged us to be both authentic and unabashedly promote ourselves so that we can in fact be SEEN as the EXPERTS that we ARE!

The beauty of this little exercise for me was that I actually was able to recognize and realize that I have done A LOT of great stuff in the last year.  I was able to SEE just how many wonderful people that I have shared the stage with and to recognize that I’m actually UP THERE WITH THEM – and not still down in the audience wishing, hoping and visioning!  I actually got to SEE that I have moved – Powerfully so – into my own vision!

When I sat down to review the past year I discovered much to my surprise and delight that I have “shared the stage” with some of the biggest experts in both the conscious entrepreneurship and internet based marketing arena as well as in the alternative healing and consciousness raising new thought arena.  When I took a look at the list I had to stop and catch my breath for a minute and say WOW!  I mean REALLY – WOW! (check out the list below!)

As someone who believes fully in the joy being in the journey I think that sometimes we get caught up in the mechanics of the journey part and might miss those all important stopping points along the path that allow us to celebrate our accomplishments, to rest, to restore our energy for the next leg, and to reconnect with either our original vision or with Spirit to check in to see if the vision has been updated and upgraded.

Thanks Lisa for helping me to Get Perspective – as one who SEES myself I often am in the position with my clients to help them to reveal those things within their own business where they are either stuck or hung up thinking that they can’t change, let go or move onto a new venture or playing field.  Part of what I help my clients with is teaching them to keep SCORE in their business.  I use my signature SCORE System which is taught in the Core Path Intensive to lead them through a variety of Power Point Practices that not only help to clear the fear but that they can also integrate into their own routines so that when another paralyzing challenge comes along they have the tools in their tool box to at least begin the process of handling any fears that may arise.  Keeping SCORE is the way that we can determine whether or not we are succeeding against the goals that we have set for ourselves both at the physical and the spiritual levels.  Because the SCORE system is both deeply intuitive as well as highly structured my clients are able to achieve astonishing results and enjoy their own Spiritual Energized Entrepreneurial Success.

This fall I‘m planning a big tele-event which you’ll be hearing more about shortly – If you are stuck in the conversations or communications aspects of any area of your business this event is packed with powerful mentors and teachers that will be delivering outstanding training and coaching as well as offering opportunities to go deeper with them.   Be sure to look in the blog for more details as the summer wanes.

After my event is concluded, I do intend to take on new clients again for another Energy Journey through the Core Path Intensive – which is delivered in a small group format – I am very choosy about who I work with – my clients must be invested in every way in their desire to be of service through their own work and so I have a very thorough vetting process to ensure not only a high degree of success but also a high caliber of peers with whom to share the journey.  I have found in my own journey that when you aspire to something it’s important to seek out those mentors and peer groups that will grow you rather than be content to leave you sitting in your comfort zone of “everything’s fine” mediocrity.  I welcome your application if this type of group work is of interest and if you feel you are ready to take your game and your business to the next level.  Please fill out the application HERE and one of our team members will contact you to initiate the vetting process.

Here’s the list of some of the peeps (there’s a few more that I haven’t yet recorded in a spreadsheet!):

Dr. Bernie Siegel
Robert Scheinfield
Jack Allis
Anita Pathik Law
Christine Kloser
Christian Pankhurst
Guy Finley
Marcia Weider
Robin Rose
Eva Gregory
Marcia Bench
Tamara Kleinberg
Jean Adrienne
Deb Scott
Elizabeth Barbour
Jennifer Urezzio
Lissa Boles
Lucia Rene’
Kari Joys
Charlene Proctor
Barbara Joye Ratcliffe
Marcia Martin
Michelle Casto
Barbara Galbrunson
Kathy Jo Slusher-Haas
Karen Russo
Doreen Agostino
Jackie Lapin
Andrea Costantine
Dr. Peter Rogers
Lorraine Cohen
Ken Foster
Lori Leyden
Dr. Rick Moss
Ken Robinson
Amirah Hall
Joanne Macko
Chaney Wiener
Beca Lewis
Rev. Joan Newcomb
Molly Luffy
Maya McLaughlin
Peggy McColl
Christie Sheldon
Diane Brandon
Kimberly Marooney
Catherine VanWetter
John Welshons
Amoda Maa Jeevan
Rev. Anne Muelleman
Iris Benrubi
Linda Howe
Doug De Vito
Richard Mekdeci
Leesa Barnes
Dave Dee
Max Simon
Vrinda Normand
Andrea Hess
Mark Silver
Mary Kay Morgan
Darius Barazandeh
Jeneth Blackert
Baeth Davis
Sue Painter
Nancy Marmolejo
Elizabeth Marshall
Suzanne Falter-Barns Jeffrey Van Dyk
Wilma Allan
Bernadette Doyle
Paula Gardner
Jenny Flintoft
Lisa Sasevich
Karen Knowler
Kelly O’Neil
Lisa Turner
Milana Leshinsky
Alexis Martin Neely
Biana Babinsky
Nicky Pattinson
Laura West
Jane Kenyon
Edwene Gaines
Michael Sasevich
Natasha Abudarham
Helen Kim
David Neagle
Kevin Nations
Richard White
Patricia Wilson
Michele PW
Wendy Howard
Hannah McNamara
Julie Ann Turner
Ellyce Killoran
Maria Simone
Patrick Combs
Caroline Sutherland
Kim Kirmmse
Marcia Reynolds
Tuck Self
Suzanne Holman
Susun Weed
Carla Brown
Kerrie O’Conner
Elizabeth Hilts
Sark
Raphael Cushnir
Gary Kehoe
Dr. Eric Honing
Rosalyn Adams
Pamela Tames & Marcellas Reynolds
David Wolfe
Tim Wedrosky
LeLa Bryan
Carole Cross
Dyan Garris
Jen Irishu
Christy Whitman
Victoria Moran
Dr. Rita Louise
Marie Whelan
Constance Arnold
Elizabeth Grant
Sarah Maria
Nan Akasha
Michelle Prince
Monique Chapman
Dr. Toni Lamotta
Debra Berndt
Tracy Boyce
Rhoberta Shaler PHD
Karen Luniw
Jeanna Gabellini
Heather Picken
Biba F. Pedron
Mary Rivas
Jennifer McLean
John Beaulieu
Jonathan Goldman
Steven Halpern
Mark Romero
John Morgan
Jodi Hume
Allison Maslan
Lou Bortone
Stacy Karacostas
Alton Jamison
Ric Morgan
Beverly D. Flaxington
Lisa Nicole Bell
Erin Blaskie
Michael Margolis
Kara Brackney
John Tinghitella
Scout Wilkins
Dr. Kirk Prine
Donny Lobree
Lisa Cherney
Chellie Campbell
Adara An D’Rianna
Lauren Miller
Tamir Qadree
Robert Butwin
Arthur Schwartz
Cyrus Kaslef
Wade Hinderks
Joe Kasper
Jayne Mosfitt
Tish Froutnam
David Nettles
Amy Lynn Frost
Jeanette Joy
Andrea Lee