Monthly Archives: June 2012

Why Customer Service Matters

How do you feel when you walk into a store and you’re completely ignored? Or worse, the employees are rude to you? We have the power to change that. Women buy 86% of all goods and services. We can choose where we do business and reward those who treat us well.

Barbara Khozam has made it her business to train others about customer service, has delivered over 1,100 presentations in 7 countries. But to reach out further, she has written the book, How Organizations Deliver BAD Customer Service (AND Strategies that Turn it Around). Her goal is to help business create a culture of service where people can’t wait to do business with you.
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Finding Your Life’s Purpose

If you feel incomplete and unfulfilled in your work or the way you’re living your life, you are not alone. How many of us feel certain that we are doing just what we are meant to do and using our talents to their full potential?

Baeth Davis faced that dilemma and in the process discovered that her purpose was to help others find theirs. She tells her complete story in this Conversation with Dr. Nancy. Continue reading

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Life after Near Death

What if you had the worst headache of your life and when you woke up, everything about your life had changed? Feeling lucky to still have a life at all, Maria Ross wrote the book, Rebooting My Brain: How a Freak Aneurysm Reframed My Life

In it, she announces some important little-known facts and tells her amazing story of surviving a ruptured brain aneurysm.

FACTS: 1 in 50 people in the U.S. have an un-ruptured brain aneurysm. Continue reading

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How Media Portrays Women and Why It Robs Us of Power

Have you become immune to the media images of young women in soft porn poses selling everything from lotion to underwear? If so, it’s time to wake up and notice the images being projected in front of men, women and children every day. Top media expert, Regina Kulik-Scully says everyone needs to vote with their wallets and their remotes. When you see something offensive, speak out. Advertisers are listening, reading blogs and scanning social media. Continue reading

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