Guest Bloggers

Our February 2010 Guest Blogger is Nancy Leport.
Certified PeopleMap Trainer
Certified Life Coach
Seminar Leader and Trainer
Spiritual Director and Retreat Leader

Please enjoy her post: No matter what we expect from the future, we can choose to embrace what it brings.

After serving in the professional ministry for 13 years, I felt a call away from parish work but wasn’t sure what I was being called to! Working with a life coach, I discovered a fresh perspective that combined my passion for research, learning and presentations with my passion for teaching and training.

Pursuing a new avenue in ministry took me to Boston College where I received a Post Master's Certificate in the Practice of Spirituality in 2004. By incorporating what I knew with what I had learned, my business of designing workshops and retreats began.

In working with congregations to meet their needs, a pattern emerged that pointed out the need for coaching within congregations. This discovery led me to seek out certification as a life coach. The Institute for Life Coach Training certified me as a life coach in 2007 just one year after receiving my certification as an Interim Pastor from the Presbyterian Church USA.

As I looked for new ways to work with people to develop and improve their communication and leadership skills, I discovered Dr. E. Michael Lillibridge, the developer of the PeopleMap™. In 2008, I became a certified PeopleMap™ trainer under the direction of Dr. Lillibridge. (www.peoplemap.org). In my work as a life, church and corporate coach and trainer I have seen how valuable this assessment tool is and how quickly people have been able to apply it to their lives with GREAT results.

All this training and experience provides me with great satisfaction and joy and allows me to bring a wide range or experiences to my clients.

Nancy's website is located at: www.nancyleport.com

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Our March 2010 Guest Blogger is Elizabeth Lombardo, PhD, MS, PT.

Please enjoy her post: An Even Happier You.

Elizabeth Lombardo is a clinical psychologist, physical therapist and author of the bestselling book “A Happy You: Your Ultimate Prescription for Happiness.” A dynamic presenter, she helps people around the world have less stress and more happiness, regardless what is going on in their lives. Elizabeth had been interviewed and featured by some of today’s top media outlets including CNN, Newsweek, MSNBC, NPR, Glamour, Self, Elle, Redbook and Woman’s Day.

To learn more about Elizabeth and how to truly have more happiness in your life, visit www.AHappyYou.com.

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Our April 2010 Guest Blogger is Ken Bossone,
President of the World Positive Thinkers Club

Please enjoy his post: Positive Thinkers Are Happy and Have a Great Sense of Humor.

Seven time award winner, Parent to Parent Adding Wisdom Award/2008 Business Book of the Year…Why Positive Thinkers Have the Power…To be published in China in 2010…Now available in E-Book form in 75 countries. Faculty member: Internet Masters Program/ Radio personality/ 1st Degree Black Belt/ April 1962 Army soldier of the Month. Financial-Business consultant.

Ken's website can be found at: www.worldpositivethinkersclub.com.

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Our May 2010 Guest Blogger is Dr. Timothy Sharp,
Executive Coach & Consultant, Facilitator & Speaker
Twitter: @drhappy

Please enjoy his post: Making Changes for True Happiness.

Prof. Timothy Sharp (aka Dr. Happy – www.drhappy.com.au) is a clinical, coaching and academic psychologist. Prof. Sharp is also a bestselling author of several books, including “The Happiness Handbook”, “100 Ways to Happiness” and “100 Ways to Happy Children”; he’s also a highly respected corporate consultant and speaker. He has built an award winning clinical psychology practice and he is the founder and Chief Happiness Officer of The Happiness Institute (www.thehappinessinstitute.com), an organisation that delivers positive psychology services, including consulting and coaching, to individuals and organisations.

Visit The Happiness Institute at: www.thehappinessinstitute.com.

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Our June 2010 Guest Blogger is Kelly Rae Roberts,
Artist, Author, and Possibilitarian
Twitter: @kellyraeroberts

Please enjoy her post: Whispers.

Kelly is the author of Taking Flight: Inspiration + Techniques to Give Your Creative Spirit Wings, a popular arts + craft book that encompasses all aspects of what it means to live the creative life. Her work has been featured in a variety of mixed media books by her peers and she’s had several articles published in various magazines, including Cloth Paper Scissors, Somerset Life, Somerset Studios, and Memory Makers. Much of her artwork is licensed and can be seen in stores nationwide on a variety of products, including cards, journals, magnets, decorative wall art, and more. In addition to painting, licensing her work, and writing, Kelly is passionate about teaching others how they too can find their creative wings with her inspiring lectures and workshops that are held all over the world.

In essence, she is an artist, social worker and all around lover of life and people who seeks to express a sense of vitality and connectedness in her paintings and writings. Having spent most of her life in the company of women, her pieces grow out of the kindred support she has felt from many of them throughout her life. She is unendingly grateful for the spirits of these women who walk with her, in flesh or in paint, on her incredible journey into art, love and life. Kelly currently lives in Seattle with her outdoorsy husband John and their airplane-eared dog Bella.

Visit Kelly Rae Roberts at: http://kellyraeroberts.com.

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Our July 2010 Guest Blogger is Sarah Cook,
Founder of Raising CEO Kids
Twitter: @RaisingCEOKids

Please enjoy her post: Happiness Can Be Found Everyday of the Week When We Filter Our Life Through a Grateful Heart

Sarah Cook, is the Founder & CEO of Raising CEO Kids and Personal and Corporate Image Consultant. She is an in-demand speaker, business and parenting coach, and soon-to-be author. Sarah has been married for nearly 17 years and she and her husband are the parents of three young entrepreneurs.

Visit Sarah Cook online at: http://RaisingCEOKids.com or connect with her at http://Twitter.com/RaisingCEOKids

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Our August 2010 Guest Blogger will be Writer David Stone,
Filosofer of Happiness and The World's Happiest Man
Twitter: @Crane13

David writes: Public biographies, like resumes, are always works of some deception. They emphasize the positives, successes and wins, leaving out the dull, the colorless, aggravating and boring. This bio will not break that trend.

As a resolute autodidact, my education has been a process of distilling life experiences, which I've concluded is all we are here to do anyway. Learn to distill well. My work has included stints in the sale of shoes, sporting goods, insurance, training for disabled adults, janitorial services, hard goods and services produced by work centers for the disabled, as well as hardware, software and technology consulting. Along the way, I have been a draft counselor, peace activist, maintenance mechanic, stationary engineer, operations manager, print broker, nonprofit marketing director, and customer relations specialist. My writing career has included gags, news features, art reviews, numerous blogs, novels (The Garden of What Was and Was Not and Traveling Without A Passport) many unpublished poems and my nonfiction book, A Million Different Things: Meditations of The World's Happiest Man. Along with my wife, a photographer and digital artist, I am putting the final polish on a new co-authored work, Travels With George: Paris, which is about a pair of cats that smuggle their way into a European vacation.

If variety is the spice of life, I'd qualify as a finalist in a chili contest vocationally. I am currently working on a blog series, published on Facebook and Hub.Pages, that features interviews with The World's Happiest Man and am mulling a full length, Adventures with The Filosofer of Happiness. I am committed to injecting humor into what has become overly serious discussions, humor being one certain indicator of happiness.

Visit David Stone at: http://www.davidstone-writer.com.

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Our September 2010 Guest Blogger will be Justin Popovic,
Success Coach & Online Trainer
Twitter: @justin_popovic

Justin Popovic is a success coach and online trainer. He runs a personal development video blog at http://www.igniteyouressence.com and a website coaching and training program http://wpbizengine.com. He left the corporate world after 7 years in 2008 to pursue his dream of building a successful business and becoming a personal development speaker. This dream was so important to him because it gave him an opportunity to demonstrate through his actions, that anything is possible with enough self belief and persistence. As a husband and father, Justin now has full control of his time and although he works extremely hard to build his business, he has the freedom to be involved in all of the exciting things happening as his sons grow up.

Visit Justin's websites: http://www.igniteyouressence.com and http://wpbizengine.com.

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Our October 2010 Guest Blogger will be Wes Hopper,
Founder of DailyGratitude.com
Twitter: @weshopper

Wes Hopper is an electrical engineer and former corporate marketing manager that walked away from his career in midstream to go find something he was passionate about. After several career trials he was introduced to the material of Bob Proctor, and liked it so much that he got trained by Bob to teach it. What he learned about himself from that experience was the power of purpose! His purpose is to make a difference in the world by helping others to do what they love and make a difference in their world.

His DailyGratitude.com site gives away a free ebook that has been translated into six other languages by readers, and he publishes a short weekday newsletter that is read in over 100 countries. On CreateSuccessSeminars.com he continues to offer Bob Proctor books and programs. On You-Can-Have-It.com he blogs about recurring patterns in relationships and how to end the destructive ones. And since you can't take all the engineer out of him, he blogs about modern science and spirituality at MonisticIdealism.com. The only family member that understands him is his best friend, partner and wife, Sandra, a Unity minister.

Visit Wes Hopper's website and download his free ebook: http://www.DailyGratitude.com.

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