It’s happening again and I couldn’t be more thrilled.
May I Be Frank is screening in Columbus again next week and we have some amazing sponsors. Please take a minute to check out the new people. Click on the returning sponsors too. Everyone of these people are fantastic and deserve the support of our community.
We have 10 sponsors from our community who we appreciate so very much.
What’s fantastic too, is that from the first screening we were put in touch with the Ohio State University School of Social Work. They are sponsoring the location this time around! We are at the beautiful Knowlton School of Architecture on OSU’s campus. The powers that be recognized that this movie is so compelling and valuable that we have their backing to bring it to the Columbus community.
Carrie Saba is a holistic health coach with her practice in Westerville but you’ll find her on the web meeting clients with Skype or telepone too. She is shiny and so compassionate. You simply need to know her. Sign up for her news letter and check her out on Facebook.
What’s amazing is how Carrie and I met. We were at a Dames Bond event and got to talking about food! Well Mary B. From Dames Bond is a sponsor too. Dames Bond is the premiere networking ground in Columbus, Ohio for women in business. If you have a business or know a woman who does, with question, make the connection to Dames Bond. They are on Facebook, naturally.
Ellen Seigel owns Heart Centered Healing. She offers services to individuals, families and couples through workshops, group, or one-on-one counseling. She offers an extensive variety of counseling to a range of people. There is so much that you simple must check out her website. We are so lucky to know Ellen. She comes with a wealth of knowledge and deep understanding of how to heal. Here’s her Facebook page, too.
Kara Hicks at Neuro Integration is full of energy and wisdom. Neuro Integration is primarily based on applied kinesiology which focuses on how the nervous system communicates with the body and the brain through an intricate blend of practices. She works with humans and our animal friends.
Vickie Gibbs is the proprietor of Radiant Living. She’s a Colon Hydro Therapist. Vickie comes highly recommended and is located in Canal Winchester. Colon hydro therapy plays quite a role in the movie. After you see MIBF you’re going to want to give Vickie a call. This is her Facebook link.
Returning to sponsor again because they were so inspired the first time are:
Amy Marzluff-She’s a Certified Holistic Health Coach and owns Craving Your Potential. She will guide you to find the food and lifestyle choices that best support you. She was our very first sponsor and she’s sponsoring again. Thanks Amy! On Facebook.
Catherine Rutter has Kitchen Prescriptions. She’s a personal chef and Registerd Dietitian who is well versed in all types of meal preparation that account for different needs from low calorie, vegan, gluten free, etc. from menus designed by registered dietitians with your particular focus at the forefront. She’ll be sampling goodies at one or both of the screenings. Here’s her Facebook link.
My life hasn’t been the same since I met this force of nature. Melissa Weaver is incredible. Her business is Melissa Muruguza Weaver,LMT . She is a skilled LMT who believes that massage is a major component to complete wellness. Of course she’s right! She does Trigger Point, Swedish, Prenatal, Stone and more. Like her on Facebook.
The Human Form Fitness Institute: Stephen & Michelle Ladd. Their approach is a holistic model addressing the triad of health: Physical/Mental/Bio-Chemical. They offer an in-depth holistic body analysis to determine the best fitness need for your unique body. From personal training to TRX and more. You’ll find them in Grandview in a beautiful and brightly lit studio.
Advanced Wellness Center with Dr. Walker and Dr. Peery. They are passionate about helping individuals to families, working men and women to college students, newborns to retirees, all whom are choosing to take control and responsibility for their own health and full expression of life. This is their Facebook page.
And then there are the two us, the local promoters and hosts:
Stephanie Estice is at Nourish Life. She’s not only a certified Health Counselor, she’s training this year to become a certified meditation facilitator. She’ll be adding those services to what she already offers very soon. Nourish Life is on Facebook and will be happy to get your “liked”.
Then there’s me. I work with small business owners to get them unstuck or help them grow in super strategic ways. I love fostering change and transformation. Here’s Actuate Strategies on Facebook. I’d appreciate it if you liked me too. Here’s my blog.
Please share these links. This is our community of people who see wellness holistically. They see the value of this movie and literally are putting their money and their names out there to bring it to Columbus.
I am lucky enough to meet some great people who are helping to Bring May I Be Frank to Columbus. This is wholly to tell you all about them and their businesses. Clink on some links and check them out.
Make connections, remember their names and recommend them to friends and clients.
Amy Marzluff-She’s a Certified Holistic Health Coach. She will guide you to find the food and lifestyle choices that best support you. Amy has been instrumental in setting the ball in motion to get MIBF to Columbus. She was our very first sponsor. Thanks Amy!
Eve Herman - She is a Licensed Massage Therapist. Crainosacral is her focus. Word on the street is you’ll feel crazy fantastic after some time under her hands. Check her out.
Cara and Mike have EI Fitness Do you know about Cross Fit? It’s an amazing workout where you strength train and keep your cardio revved at the same time. You’ll find them in Westerville or on Facebook. Like Them Please.
Catherine Rutter has Kitchen Prescriptions. She’s a personal chef who is well versed in all types of meal preparation that accounts for different needs from low calorie, vegan, gluten free, etc. from menus designed by registered dietitians with your particular focus at the forefront. I expect her food is delicious too!
Melissa Muruguza Weaver is a skilled LMT who believes like Frank and all the other very smart people we respect, that massage is a major component to complete wellness. She does Trigger Point, Swedish, Prenatal, Stone and more. Like her on Facebook.
Oh there are more. Our community is filled with some great people doing great things!
Kate Dixon owns Clean Tushy (dot) Com. She is a Colon Hydro Therapist. You’ll see in the movie, that’s a piece of the work Frank commits to. There aren’t many places in Columbus that do colon hydro therapy. You’ll find her up in Powell in one of the most peaceful relaxing offices I’ve stepped into in a very long time.
Dr. Mike Fritz is an Advance Applied Kinesiologist Chiropractor and you’ll find him at the Alternative Health Oasis. Dr. Mike has over 20 years experience of making people feel better. He and Kate share that very peaceful office I mentioned above. Really, it’s lovely.
V-Power Yoga is a fantastic place to get your yoga on. Julie Verhoff Pipes is the inspired owner. They are super centrally located, downtown and a couple stories up, in their toasty and comfy studio. They offer several classes with different skill levels. You can friend them on Facebook too.
Meet the Human Form Fitness Institute: Stephen & Michelle Ladd and Sam Visnic. Their approach is a holistic model addressing the triad of health: Physical/Mental/Bio-Chemical. You’ll find the in Grandview.
Paula Jurko at Footprints to Wellness will partner with you as you move toward optimum health on all levels: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual with a holistic approach. She uses The Body Talk System and Reiki. Like her on Facebook please.
Advanced Wellness Center with Dr. Walker and Dr. Peery. They are passionate about helping individuals to families, working men and women to college students, newborns to retirees, all whom are choosing to take control and responsibility for their own health and full expression of life. This is their Facebook page.
And then there are the two us, the event organizers:
Stephanie Estice is at Nourish Life. She’s a Certified Health Counselor working with clients using a holistic approach to health focusing on mind, body and spirit. Her warm and inviting office is in Clintonville. She is also the impetus for all of this. Her desire to see the movie lighted a fire beneath her-she emailed Gregg the filmmaker and now we are creating history. So a huge shout out to Stephanie about creating positive change! Nourish Life is on Facebook and will be happy to get your “liked”.
Then there’s me. I work with small business owners to get them unstuck or help the grow in super strategic ways. I love fostering change and transformation. Here’s Actuate Strategies on Facebook. I’d appreciate it if you liked me too. Here’s my blog.
Please share these links. This is our community of people who see wellness holistically. They see the value of this movie and literally are putting their money and their names out there to bring it here.
We are very proud and excited to be part of this community.
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In my day job I manage two different teams on two different campuses. One is long standing, I’ve been there for years, and the other is new. I’ve been working with the new folks for just over a year.
The new people are good folks but after scratching my head for 12 months, of preaching “respect” and “professionalism” I realized that we had different working understandings of what that means.
I’ve been thinking of compassion, like approaching folks with compassion in place of annoyance. It was said to me early in my career that I often have an implied, “you idiot” on the end of my instructions. That really doesn’t serve anyone well in the end, so I’ve tried to temper it.
Compassion helps.
So with compassion I am attempting to define behaviors that mean respect so that we are on the same page in understanding. I’m amazed.
I’ve talked about language and gossip. Next on the list is honesty…not that people blantently lie but I’d like people to give me honest, not hurtful, information.
So how do you define respect? What other examples should I add to my list for us to develop?
It’s January 19th and I’m just realizing it’s my friends birthday. I need to call him. He’s not on Face Book. How am I supposed to remember these things?
Actually, It’s 1-19-2011 and I’ve signed up to run a 5k on 2-27-2011.
I can’t run a mile yet. But I’m practicing every day.
I can run for two minutes. I can run for two minutes off and on over the course of 40 minutes. The goal is to link those two minutes up to make bigger sagments which will evenutally equal 3.2 miles.
This is part getting after a goal for the sake of having one and part getting fit. There come bragging rights that go along with running. I mean running for more of a reason to keep from getting hit by an oncoming car or to catch the bus.
Somewhere in this blog (oh how I should index) I stated before I lost weight there was a time that I crossed the street walking slowly, but as quickly as I was able. I thought if a car came careening toward me, I wouldn’t be able to get out its way; I would be smeared on the street and card hood.
That’s saying something. And not like “It’s a good day to die” kind of way. It makes me sad and it makes me happy.
Sad at how far out of touch a person can be with thier fitness and happy at how much it can improve with measured, regurlar attention.
When I think back to that day I’m amazed at how far I’ve come.
What amazes you about your own changes?
I’ve started three posts before this one got off the ground.
You can see it’s been a while since I’ve written. Something is stuck. I got to thinking what might you want to read? Then I thought what might I want to write?
Nothing was happening.
Then I realized I wanted to just be able to write.
Anything something, get the words out. But why? How am I going to do this while not getting super personal? Because you know, this is a blog. It is my voice but it’s also my business and there are lines.
I don’t want to get super personal with you. Don’t worry about me, I’ve got people for that. I want to give you value for your time and bemoaning my world here world doesn’t do that.
This is a blog, not a diary.
Actually I just talked with a client recently about lines. She wants a specifically different kind of relationship with her coworkers than the one she has. One where she’s perceived as the brilliant woman she is but she finds her peers treating her like a kid.
I asked if she behaved like a kid and guess what?
You don’t get to be histrionic then assume people will expect you to calm. You don’t get to be superficially mean about a person and expect you’ll be taken as sincere. There is a point where we don’t get it all.
But we can get what we want.
We get to be who we want to be in many ways simply by choosing what that is and working at crafting that message through words and behavior.
So me? I want to be professional with charisma and kindness.
What about you? How do you want your co-workers to see you? What can you do craft that message?
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Sometimes you need to reach for something that has a pretty slim chance of happening. I mean if you don’t nothing new can happen, right? I’m being epic.
I’m doing it. I’m actually putting together a video entry to be the Next Food Network Star (NFNS). I’m filling out the 11 page application and I’m sending it in.
The application is great, asking questions about training, but also about cooking point of view and food philosophy. You know I’m all about the food love, but I also want to help other people who’ve had weight loss surgery find peace in the kitchen. It took me a while to figure out how to do it. I tried to cut that piece of my life and it didn’t feel good; it didn’t work. I had to create a way to work my history to my advantage-and I did. Now I want to share that with other people.
I love my life in the kitchen. Personally and professionally and I love helping people succeed. That’s why you see this on the Actuate blog. Success, action, and a culmination of all that I am. Dudes, this feels so right.
While my relationship with food before WLS wasn’t entirely healthy, parts of it absolutely were. The parts about learning and experiencing other cultures; the parts where the science is cool. The parts where I shared with peoples’ joy by recognizing them with a cake or a dinner. I didn’t want to give up. I couldn’t give it up. But I could use my kitchen skills to make food that worked for me. That’s what I did.
I know why I want to have a show. I know what kinds of food I want to cook-nutritionally dense, full of flavor that supports WLS people and their families and I also know I’ve got skills enough to pull it off.
I’m smart, charismatic, I absolutely know food, I’m self possessed and I want to help other people be successful.
So bring it.
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“Where have you been?”
I also got a “What’s the matter with you?” recently. Mind you, I chastised the grown woman who asked me that question about that being an inappropriate greeting, but the truth of the matter something’s just not right.
I’m working on picking it apart and looking under the hood to get it all straightened out. I feel there’s a solution on the horizon, but as you can see my website sits here languishing. I am out of the loop just a bit.
However, I’m as committed to this coaching career as I have ever been. I met with a student from Franklin where I volunteer my coaching this week. I feel like I had an impact.
It underscored that what I bring to the table is valuable.
Are you seeing some doubt creep in my writing? Yeah me too. It’s a big part of what I’m feeling. So I’m fixing it. While I can’t make certification classes happen at this very moment, they are on the agenda. I got some books from library. I’m going to spend time working on my own curriculum.
I’m happy when I’m learning.
Also, I’m remembering (and researching) that everyone, E V E R Y O N E, has moments of feeling like they are undeserving of their role and title. Even Oprah, I am sure, has felt like an impostor.
Here’s to sucking up the muck and working through it because there is no way to success with out persistence.
And to quote a past president who doesn’t get much action in the history books,
“Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
30th president of US (1872 – 1933)
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This is brilliance which I forgot about until I hit the button in my reader.
Thanks Google Reader for always saving the good stuff for when I remember. Thanks Havi for being. You’ll find her stuff on personal ads here.
What’s a personal ad for your stuff you may ask?
You do a bit of asking here’s what I want, here’s how I want it to come to me and here’s what I commit to do to make it happen. The gravy part is checking in with yourself to see what you might be learning about how you deal with your stuff.
I’m struggling with my job situation.
I graduated a year ago with my MBA and certainly thought the job fairies where going to be begging me to come work for them. That’s not happening and I’m more than a little disappointed. However, I can’t let it keep me down, so I’m working on stuff. Here’s my personal ad to have a fulfilling and meaningful work-life, right now.
Here’s what I want: I want to love my 40+ hours a week I spend at work. I want to be powerfully moving toward my tangible goals. I want to positively impact the people with whom I contact.
Here’s how I want to receive it: I want it to flow with multiple purpose. I don’t want to work on one thing in isolation. I want my stuff to be layered and thick with meaning. I’d love it if working with Bob and Betty over there gave me something tangible over here. I’m not sure how it looks, but that’s okay.
Here’s what I’d rather not have: A list of shoulds and shame telling me that I should have different work or different goals. I don’t want other people’s renderings of what my work-life should be.
My commitment: My goals will be to take care of me and my family first, but also to provide growth and development to other people in my community.
What I’m noticing: It’s harder than I expected to lift the vale of shame I placed around me, I value stuff harshly and need to be more forgiving. My work is important and I can do it exceptionally well if I take responsibility for being accountable to it and the people I impact.
So what about you? What might you need to create a personal ad around? Got some stuff holding you back? Need some clarity? Are you a SWF searching for same? I shouldn’t type that, because you can’t find it here. But you know what I mean. If you were to do the exercise, what might you ask for?
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I’ve done it again. I’ve poked around thesaurus.com to find the word to express what it is when we are ready to grow.
As the title may tell, I couldn’t find just one word.
Yesterday I had the opportunity to talk about what it is that I do with Actuate. I wanted to tell the group that you use coaching when you want more from your time spent at work. Maybe you’re stuck and need to get unstuck or maybe you’re ready to grow.
I couldn’t find the right word for growing.
Expandate-Burstish-Growify
You know that place right before you get bigger. I notice it with my elementary school aged daughter. Just before she gets a size bigger she shows the signs of change. She a little awkward, vaguley uncomfortable, but happy to get away from where she is.
Maybe that’s not quite it, but when you are on a precipice, you sometimes need some hand holding or a push over the edge. With well laid plans the jump should be less frightening, but it’s still enough to catch your breath in your throat; to make your pulse raise.
But that’s where I, the coach, comes in. I hold your hand, or push, but I also help create the plans that make the jump a bit less scary.
So do you have words you like to play with?
Have you created something new out of a few left over words which is better then the individual parts? Share in the comments.
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I have quote on my wall that says “Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.” It’s a Japanese proverb.
I’m amazed at how much fear can hinder us. I’m more amazed at how it hides in insidious ways. I’m at a jumping point in a few areas of my life. I’ve been working toward these momentous things for years and now that they are about to blossom into something tangible and I’m terrified.
There I said it.
So here I am questioning my fear. Is it because the unknown is scary? Is it because my next ventures are ill advised and my subconscious is telling me to stop? Are there things I’ve not considered? Am I acting unwise? Or is it plain and simple-new stuff stinks? The old is indeed comfortable.
Regardless, going back to the proverb, my mind will dig me a pit a fear so deep I may never scale the walls and move forward. I like to examine my navel as much as the next person, but this is one of those times where pondering doesn’t equal clarity. It just makes things more murky.
So wish me luck. I’m jumping and I’ve turned off the doubt piece of my brain.
What do you to that helps you make decisions. Do you count on a feeling, rely on a well laid plan, or just suffer the consequences of saying “yes” without much angst?
