Interview with Caitiona Reed and Michele Benzamin-Miki

03/11/15 • 25 min

Caitriona Reed guides individuals to find their authentic personal power and vision, and mentors them to make it real in every aspect of their life. She has led workshops, trainings and retreats internationally for more than twenty-five years. She is a Master Trainer of Coaching NLP, Gestalt and Ericksonian Hypnosis. She has been authorized as a Zen teacher by renowned Zen Master and Nobel Prize Nominee, Thich Nhat Hanh. She is co-founder of Manzanita Village Retreat and Five Changes. Her experience as a ‘woman of transsexual experience’ has led her to the belief that the “big scary changes” we may be afraid to make in life – in our relationships, in our works and business – are in fact the keys to our authentic self-expression, spiritual and material abundance, creativity, and liberation. Michele Benzamin-Miki challenges her clients to come into the truth of who they are, helping them draw from their wealth of natural creativity, balancing vision with practical skills for deep transformation. She is a Master Trainer of Coaching NLP, Gestalt and Ericksonian Hypnosis and has led workshops, trainings, and retreats internationally for more than twenty-five years. She is also a visual and performance artist; and is one of the world’s highest ranking women in the martial disciplines of Aikido and Iaido Sword. She has taught meditation, mindfulness, creativity, and non-violence for organizations, schools, and within the prison system. She is co-founder of Manzanita Village Retreat and Five Changes. As someone of mixed Japanese and European heritage, she passionately believes that we can come into our beauty and power by thinking outside all the boxes that we have been squeezed into; and that authentic self-expression means integrating every aspect of your life.

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Barbara Chatzkel is the President of the New River Group. For more than thirty years she has been helping organizations improve and achieve excellence. She is an experienced Executive and Team Business Coach, specializing in organizational transition and change. She is also an expert trainer in the application of evidence-based research to correctional practice, strategic planning, team building, quality assessment, and effective organizational communication. Prior to forming the New River Group, Barbara retired from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in 2000 as the National Director of Quality. She led multiple reengineering teams for IRS that saved taxpayers millions of dollars and streamlined processing time from months to hours. She is also very active in the community as a Judge for the Southwest Alliance for Excellence (www.swae.org), Treasurer of the National Hospice Regatta Alliance (www.hospiceregattas.org), Phoenix Sister Cities Disabilities Awareness Committee member, and a graduate of Valley Leadership Class 35. She has recently been named one of the 2015 Top Ten Business Women by the American Business Women's Association (ABWA). Her interest in business body language has been longstanding. She developed her expertise through union negotiations, handling difficult personnel situations, facilitating hundreds of small and large meetings, and coaching business leaders and teams for more than 20 years. Barbara holds a B.A. in Political Science and an MPA. She studied for and passed her PMP as part of her rehab from brain surgery. Her new book, Business Body Language: Your Visual Business Card, will be available in print in Summer 2015. She may be reached at [email protected] or 623.680.0515.

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interview with Perry Marshall

Perry Marshall has launched two revolutions in sales and marketing. In Pay Per Click advertising, he pioneered many of today’s best practices and wrote the world’s best selling book on internet advertising, The Ultimate Guide to Google AdWords. He’s also driven the 80/20 Principle deeper than any other author, being the first to articulate 80/20 as a fractal law of nature. 80/20 is the central lever for nearly every profitable strategy in sales, marketing and business. His book 80/20 Sales & Marketing is required reading in many growing companies. Works also include the bestseller Ultimate Guide to Facebook Advertising (Entrepreneur Press, 2nd Edition 2014) and Industrial Ethernet (ISA, 2nd Edition). Perry Marshall’s work is referenced in dozens of influential marketing books like these (click the image for more) He is referenced in dozens of influential business books by authors like Jay Conrad Levinson, Mark Joyner, Joel Comm, Mari Smith and John Jantsch. He’s shared the stage with Barbara Corcoran, Brian Tracy and Les Brown, having consulted in over 300 industries. He’s one of the world’s most expensive and sought-after marketing consultants. Direct Marketing maverick Dan Kennedy says, “If you don’t know who Perry Marshall is — unforgivable. Perry’s an honest man in a field rife with charlatans.” Perry has a degree in electrical engineering and lives in Chicago. Contact Information: http://www.Sell8020.com Phone (312) 386-7459. Street Address 159 N. Marion St #295 Oak Park IL 60301 USA